If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

HelpingHand wrote: ↑ May I present the 2019 candidates for best novel

A likely story.

None of them look particularly book-ish to me. That's modern literary criticism for you I suppose, anything can be a text.

Perhaps my concerns are out-of-synch with the current zietgeist... And on that note may I recommend the following doc which I watched last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EXQgTDZs60 At the end of which Tony Hendra compared his time working for National Lampoon in 1970s New York with Hemmingw...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZWxddpTNNY The video speaks for itself, I suppose. Goldie gives her review of the trailer for the movie ' Hail Satan? ' using it a springboard for a call to action, or at least prayer. The life of a true believer seems to be full of endless forms of drama. For anyon...

Nah, the one you want to read is Jack Chalker. Maybe something from the Flux and Anchor series. And not Midnight at the Well of Souls - that one's actually a great book. Or perhaps something by John 'Gor' Norman. The thought occurred to me that even by the standards of the endless thread I managed ...

Do what thou wilt.

Because really.... science fiction is about fucking SCIENCE! It is in the god-damned name! SCIENCE FICTION. Men like science and machines and shit ten times more than women.... So... most of the good sci fi tends to be masculine. I always liked the classic big three - Asimov, Clark and Heinlein, as...

HA! is the one I was thinking of.

But I'm not really keeping track...and given the speed and general quality of his output - the world will have to look for moral instruction elsewhere.

He's just upset that essentially all of Heinlein's books remain in print and popular after all these years, and people will still be reading and enjoying Heinlein long after nothing remains of the current SJW spasm generally and PZ specifically but a bad smell. You forgot about his book... ...but t...

So...concerning free will... ...and the death penalty for people that kill... ...If I recall correctly (which I don't necessarily- see following wiki-link) - Charles Whitman - the Texas Tower shooter requested that an autopsy be performed on him after his death - to try and find the cause of his act...

“The sausage is a cunning bird
With feathers long and wavy;
It swims about the frying pan
And makes its nest in gravy”

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ Sometime I wonder if I am the only sane one in this sanatorium.

Best to check. Ask yourself for a second opinion.

Even less of a reason

Words: John Lennon (based on a 1971 Rolling Stone interview)
Sung by Tony Hendra (the manager in Spinal Tap).

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ "The same god who made you also made the rattlesnake"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDSLSk76WKo

All SJW public policy is grounded on the false concept that humans are, if not inherently good by nature, then at least tabula rasa thus ever malleable/redeemable. If this were so then it would be difficult, if not impossible for them to make generalisations on the basis of race. I think most of th...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: ↑ I agree with Jerry.

My opinion is in concordance with that of Phil.

Anyone been watching Pennyworth? It's a 1960s fever dream of London - purportedly giving backstory to the to the Wayne's reasonably well-known butler (though I suppose technically he could be considered more of a valet). A reasonably well done Micheal Caine impression at any rate. https://www.youtub...

screwtape wrote: ↑ Seems like the Children's Crusade to me.

I wouldn't want to be too quick to accept a comparison. Not before someone has at least a rough estimate for what the carbon footprint of the first one was.

Reminds me (and possibly you) of Melody...

...or does that strike a sour note.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ths8tdws7AA

Here we go - technically this is not about Trump - so it sort of belongs here...

https://twitter.com/hashtag/fakemelania?lang=en

Someone had to take over from George Lucas.

The El Paso shooter's manifesto was reported as the ramblings of a madman... which is literally true, but entirely misleading... as it omits the murderer's competent prose style, correct grammar, and professional editing. As well as his subject-matter, which didn't deviate far from mainstream discu...

Who's right?

And what's left?

https://arcdigital.media/yes-you-are-on ... 03e3f8dcde

No, I don't think he used a bayonet.

SM1957 wrote: ↑ 'My opinions on automation, immigration, and the rest predate Trump and his campaign for president. '

Amazing that the Left missed that out.

Didn't he also support gun control?

I dunno, I'm beginning to think he may not have been the most coherent of social commentators.

Combine anomie with a life lived online (where you can always find someone to reflect your opinions and doubts amplified tenfold), and you create a new diagnosis for which we don't yet have a name. Add access to weapons and you have a problem as well as a diagnosis. Looks like I inspired a Quillett...

Truly movie making is the most dangerous game.

They should make the damn film - people can either go or no go - just like with any other performance or art exhibition.

There's not much future for freedom of speech - if people are not prepared to say unpopular or even offensive things.

I suppose it's no Star Wars or what-have-you but I'm looking forward to at least one movie due out this year...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQ6tHK4yq8

Seems like they're getting the old band back together...

screwtape wrote: ↑ If anyone was brave enough to sit through that appalling video of Blaire White and Jessica Yaniv...

No - Different life choices I guess.

Though there are many videos based on similar premises - if that is what people are looking for...

Feral hogs run wild in America.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Can you imagine those retards trying to overthrow the system?

Well yes - I could well imagine them taking part in a 'go slow' - even if it wasn't officially organised.

I've exchanged a few texts this morning whilst roasting coffee beans with a schizophrenic in Ontario. He was a patient some years ago and he still phones and texts me. I don't mind, he's a lovely guy, a Pink Floyd fan, and he enjoys telling me that he prays for me. This can only be seen as a good t...

I understand the PTSD and other conditions can (or at least some say) be treated with MDMA or other psychotropics.

Anyone feel up for a dance party?

"Get off my lawn, and stop shaving your god-damn pubes"

As an aside, I became progressively more disturbed by the disappearance of pubic hair over the years. Our responses to secondary sexual characteristics are deeply instinctual, and I don't see why anyone would think it helpful to remove one of them so as to appear to be pre-pubertal. It's like choos...

I understand that people are trying to set up reserves, so that the native fauna displaced by severe deforestation have a chance to survive.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ ...That's two (or more) ladies of the night...

I hope you, Jessica, and Danielle enjoyed yourselves.

I'd recommend waxing over shaving, as shaving can cause ingrown hairs which later develop into quite painful pimples...or so I've heard...

Perhaps this would be better explained with a picture.

A lot of this criticism seems to be based on pure ignorance. Is there not one amougst us that has had their balls waxed? Exactly. Most men enjoy getting their genitals waxed by someone who doesn't know how to do it and doesn't have the right kind of wax. It either doesn't hurt or is good for you - ...

A lot of this criticism seems to be based on pure ignorance.

Is there not one amougst us that has had their balls waxed?

Monopoly usually ends in a lot of drama.

I can't be alone in thinking this.

Hunt wrote: ↑ There are 1680 grandmasters in the world today. 37 are women.

This all sounds rather progressively trans-friendly. Are there no grand mistresses?

All I'm looking for is a little light artisanal banning- rather than the mass-produced impersonal corporate sort.

All that hard work I put in to getting ignored in person - and someone can just automate it with a script.

Out-fucking-rageous.

In any case - please accept this link by way of consolation

https://view-comic.com/batman-scottish-connection-full/

No obvious connection that I can think of. Solway Firth is near the Scottish-English border. In the comics Hughie is from the small highland town of Auchterladle. Which looks like something off of a tin of shortbread they would sell to tourists. (Garth Ennis is not always the most subtle of writers).

One of the great contributions Scotland has made to world culture. I'm amazed that Frank Quitely (although quite frankly that may not be the name he was born with) - managed to make a fortune out of re-purposing this art style to portray Batman, Superman & the X-Men in American comics. The Greens.jp...

I'm doing the same. However, as they have white-washed (or Americanized - it amounts to the same thing) the identity of Wee Hughie from Scottish to American, there maybe something lost in translation going from comics to TV. No references to ' The Broons ' or ' Oor Wullie ' for one. And Karl Urban's...

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Anyone else watching "The Boys" on Amazon-prime?

It's in the cards...

Based on the comic series of the same name - so if they keep the ending, I'd be happy.

You don't hear it any more but a favorite disease of the past from sitting on something cold or wet was "a cold in the kidneys" - which was probably a UTI. Jonathan Meades tells a story of a family that claimed to have contracted syphilis from a towel. But this took place in or near Salisbury, so i...

RIP Paul Krassner

https://www.thenation.com/article/paul- ... prankster/

Without his work in the Realist magazine - we may never have discovered the truth about LBJ & JFK or the Disneyland Memorial Orgy

For anyone legitimately looking to get their balls waxed - there are places that provide such services.

Free the Neeps!

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ The haggis might be a problem ...

Those little buggers usually are.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ Yes, I'm currently playing host to Betty.

(Betty Swollocks)

Shove a couple of ice cubes in your sporran.

Anyone currently feeling the effects?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0GDQrK2jo

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Isn't the word "hobo" homeist? The PC term is "otherly residing".

'Bum' is non-gender specific - so it must be acceptable.

Here's a recent interview Nick Gillespie did with Regenade University impresario and self identified post-modernist (though to fair they both are) Thaddeus Russell.

Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:11 pm
And the Guinness ads.

Were they written by Brendan Behan ?

jugheadnaut wrote: ↑ He was also good in the HBO movie Fatherland, which has since been eclipsed as the definitive Nazi's-win-WW2 alternative history by Man in the High Castle.

I've never really been a fan of reality TV.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑R.I.P.

I enjoyed his work in all the usual chocies - Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Ladyhawk etc - but also latter efforts like 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'.

Ah well, 75 is not too bad - marginally better than the promised 3 Score & 10 anyway.

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