You may recall a small brouha­ha among sci­ence fans some time back when the clowns in Insane Clown Posse released a video of a song declar­ing their hatred for “scientist[s], y’all moth­er­fuck­ers lying and get­ting me pissed.” The offense of sci­en­tists? Try­ing to answer bog-sim­ple ques­tions like “fuckin’ mag­nets, how do they work?”

When ICP did a show in San Fran­cis­co, folks from the Noise­bridge technology/hacking col­lec­tive took to the streets. They brought posters explain­ing sci­ence, lab­coats, and ICP-style face­paint. And by all accounts, they were well received by the assem­bled ICP fans (“Jug­ga­los”).

Things only went awry when the band heard about it. ICP front­man Vio­lent J twat that roadies:

Corp, Dougie & Sug­ar Slam ran those sci­en­tist haters off…

Noise­bridge’s web­site orga­niz­ing this event quotes Vio­lent J from a pre­vi­ous inter­view, explain­ing: “Us Jug­ga­los have deep imag­i­na­tions, and an awe­some sense of humor.” Not quite. 

Then again, that same inter­view about their views on sci­ence fol­lowed the com­ment about their awe­some sense of humor with the rec­om­men­da­tion that their crit­ics “have a dick for din­ner.” So maybe VJ has a dif­fer­ent sense of what’s funny.