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

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑ What evidence do you have that Poole is not interested in truth?

His hat.

That's one great pile of Jung.

You might as well believe in alchemy.

Bhurzum wrote: ↑
katamari Damassi wrote: ↑Zinnia is going to have to up his game if he's going to compete with Yaniv.
Can you imagine them having a dick measuring contest?

;)

Sounds like the definition of a micro aggression.

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ Fuck you all. I for one am looking forward to the Black Widow movie next year.

Enjoy.

Anyone else watching The Mandalorian? Yes, I know, it's Star Wars/nerd porn but at least it has a good cast, is pretty diverse (can't believe I just said that) and so far, it has been pretty faithful to the SW universe. Oh, and unusual for me, I'm drooling like a hobo eating hot fries over Gina Car...

Bhurzum wrote: ↑
MarcusAu wrote: ↑It all went to pot once they took poetry out of the olympics.
That sounds like a rejected Monty Python sketch... ;)

You'd not be the first to make that comparison.

But as it is so often in life the truth turns out to be stranger than fiction.

The destruction of female sports is utterly vile. Oh I don't know - the separation of participants by gender, age, athletic ability, disability, species, or drug enhancement level seems to be largely a social construct. As is sporting activity in general. It all went to pot once they took poetry ou...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Sounds like MongPop is trying to expiate his guilt for pumping out a mong unit.

...and there is always doubt.

screwtape wrote: ↑
MarcusAu wrote: ↑ The London police identified it as a terrorist incident. Which seems to imply motive to me.
Baader-Meinhof Gang again, no doubt.

It could be one of those post-modern terrorist groups - in which case motive would not apply.

The London police identified it as a terrorist incident. Which seems to imply motive to me.

BBC - Culture - The 100 greatest films directed by women... Oh Mah Gawd. Talk about 'damning with faint praise'. What a weak list. Some of my favorite films are on there-- Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Paris Is Burning... hmm... they overlooked Penelope Spheris. No Cassie Jaye 'The Red Pill'!! haw!...

Keating wrote: ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... ht-brigade

Six hundred? Sounds like they are over charging.

Has anyone given much consideration to the case against reality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6CQCbk2ro It seems to be rehabilitating dualism. At around 30 minutes in Hoffman states that he does not believe that consciousness could develop from non-conscious elements. So it seems there is real ...

Thank you all.

Though maybe I should have started a separate thread for this.

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑They're multiplying.

Come on Kiwi - I was expecting a recommendation from Barry Crump, or Sam Hunt or (if you really must) Katherine Mansfiled.

I can't figure out why this was in my feed...

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

There is a school of thought that says that poetry needs to be read out loud to be fully appreciated... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDJwycpIfRQ 'The Mad Gardner's Song' or 'This Be The Verse' or 'The Hunting of the Snark' or even something by Robbie Burns (if Scotch doggerel qualifies) - are the...

I wasn't really thinking of that modern stuff.

So does anyone have a favourite poem?

I'm thinking of something off the beaten track - so probably not Kipling or 'The Ballard of Ned Kelly'.

If you have a link to a youtube recital of it, or an alternate downloadable audio file that would be good too.

Service Dog wrote: ↑ A shakedown is like a mugging: I threaten you to get something I want. It's kinda the opposite of bribery: I pay you get get something I want.

Reminds me of the old saw about the guy that was found innocent of all counts of blackmail, when he should have been tried for extortion.

I'm a connoisseur of cringe & Dave Silverman is a master chef, In that case - face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soh_IbDBke0 I haven't listened to the whole thing...yet (if ever) - but if you skip around a bit you will find some arguments against rehabilitati...

The underpinnings of the Anglo/Maori interaction differs markedly from that which occurred in Australia. There is a scale issue as well. If that's a reference to some form of some type of insidious invasive immigration - I'm assuming it's a deep one. I do recall an earlier iteration of 'cancel cult...

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. NZ moved on this some time ago and it has enriched the culture. Australia is a laggard in terms of assimilating indigenous culture into its psyche and it is poorer for it.

So you have acknowledged the 'Womble People' to reduce 'Bice' then.

Please escuse me if this is off the topic - but is this what the atheist 'community' has come to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7Ig_ejCAE

Cnut showed the futility of opposing the endless tides of...um...water I suppose. (Though he may have been doing one of those metaphorical things). In any case Churchill did not take his example to heart when proposing his own version of coastal activism. It would seem that the dichotomy has been de...

I thought this was an interesting counterpoint to the story told many times (and soon to be again in Scorsese's 'The Irishman'). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WQZ8SlzWgY Apparently things weren't quite as rosey as some portray, back in the days when the Kennedy's (and of course J. Edgar) were run...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:16 pm

Indeed - opinion is divided on the subject.

And on a similar note is anyone up to speed on what is happening with the Nick Fuentes (sp) vs Charlie Kirk spat? (or 'Groyper' insurgency or whatever they are calling it).

So about this movie...how does it compare?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CGbpbclYyQ

So...ah...Milo is still alive - and it looks like like there are various changes happening in the Alt-Right.

Oh, and Richard Spencer has an optics problem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cCS1cP69Wo

SM1957 wrote: ↑ The firefighters who told people to stay and burn to death are not Hitler. The person who said it is common sense to leave a burning building is Hitler.

How is that even possible?

Practice.

Well it is really stupid to blame the public for obeying orders from firefighters in what was probably a highly confusing and disorienting circumstance. I like Mogg, but he can display a high degree of detachment from mere mortals. He's definitely no common moggie. He probably also heard that the f...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Whole buncha Android users from a Huawei address. Blocked, and count will reduce soon.

Damn - I was hoping that the androids could give their unbiased opinion on whether the election of Donald Trump was a good or a bad thing.

I can think of previous politically partisan elections but not woke inducing ones. The car may have been gently accelerating for some time, but since 2016 the pedal has been stamped to the floor. Quite possibly powered by converging forces, but the counter neo-lib ground-swell and militant-lib fact...

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ I think that it is screwtape that you'll miss, not me. You'll probably miss me like you miss NEC v2.0.

I'll take what I can get.

Though Screwtape is OK too.

If anyone is looking for drama as an alternative to all the drama - I can recommend Dolomite...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZk03rXpVc

Also the full 1975 movie is on YouTube - or you might prefer 'The Irishman'

The question isn’t when did the culture war start. The issue is when and why did it accelerate into current form. So we just need to figure out when the speed of social change started to change over time. I'll put my money on the 1970s (based on 'Futureshock') or perhaps the Renaissance. I'm sure t...

4. Season 3 of 'The Crown' You must have been living under a rock to avoid spoilers for that one. Speaking of life disrupting events - my sister and nephew are visiting over xmas. But seriously all the best - I would miss you if you were not here - it's just not the same when other people ignore my...

The mythology seems a bit weird - introducing the Lilith character (and mother of monsters) references Jewish mythology - where previously they were keeping their distance from current religions. They borrow from mythology although it's mainly names only. The "mother of monsters" theme does sound f...

The question isn’t when did the culture war start. The issue is when and why did it accelerate into current form. So we just need to figure out when the speed of social change started to change over time. I'll put my money on the 1970s (based on 'Futureshock') or perhaps the Renaissance. I'm sure t...

Apologies for the misuse of 'weird'.

My guess would be that the trailer and cut scenes would be of that quality - but the game itself would have different graphics (if only to not be so distracting). Of course, who really knows - but I've heard that seeing as Diablo 3 was not a great success that they are looking back to Diablo 2 for i...

It's a chicken sandwich for crying out loud. But then again I haven't had Popeye's. I want to say first world problem, but stabbing over a sandwich does not seem to fit. Not the sort of thing I would do - but then I am what I am. Perhaps it would be better with Dijon mustard - if you are looking fo...

Since when did dismantling a seat of government become a bad idea?

In fact it' seems like just the the right time of year to celebrate such things.

screwtape wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 01, 2019 1:41 pm

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Even with crowd-sourcing I doubt he has as much money to hand as either Jarndyce or Jarndyce.
That's a bit Bleak.

House rules.

Well, I don't hold out much hope for David Silverman in any of his various lawsuits...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZhyTmKqGw

Even with crowd-sourcing I doubt he has as much money to hand as either Jarndyce or Jarndyce.

Must everyone involved in debating be so argumentative?

Maybe Louis Armstrong - though it seems a bit non-standard...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ku2BxK_BPA

I saw that earlier.

Prof seems to be arguing that he be judged on the content of his character - if the said contents are 'Black', 'Queer' and 'Christian'

He could also probably get points for being 'Healthy at Any Size'.

That's some intersectional alchemy all right.

Anyone know which is the best version of the Whiffenpoof song?

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ What kind of owl are you?

I'm a Snowy.

https://action.audubon.org/quiz/what-kind-owl-are-you

Wrong species.

Snowy is a dog.

I wonder how widespread this insanity is? Ubiquitous in one form or another. I recall my grandfather telling a story about being taught about solipsism in college philosophy. Now college students are taught by solipsists. I was once madly in love with a solipsist, but she didn’t even know I existed...

Scott's take on the collapse of New Atheism. PZ is mentioned a fair bit. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/ Good history. It seems to me that the original skeptic/atheist movement was generally apolitical. The people in the "movement" (if you could call i...

And if you don't want to be considered a 'New Atheist' - there are reasons to believe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYoOpBTMJYI ...you don't have to take his word for it - anyone can walk the high ridge of Shooter's Hill (of which London and it's history are a dream) in the dusty weird footstep...

A Quillette article defends polyamory. Every single comment so far is against it, save for the four comments made by the author, which take this form: Screen Shot 2019-10-29 at 10.14.25 PM.jpg I imagine that with more moving parts (so to speak) that polyamourous relationships are more susceptible t...

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 25, 2019 7:39 pm

Fuck 'em.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Mark is generally branded as the closest you can get these days to Mosley’s mob.

Mob perhaps - a little further down the drinking trough - I doubt he'll ever gain the level of notoriety to travel in Mitford circles.

I guess the content of the insane Nazis can cause pause for thought. Which, if you think about it, is a worry. https://twitter.com/markacollett/status/1187661612959838210?s=21 Insane Nazi? Well perhaps - Collett comes across as a standard-issue white separatist Bovver Boy to me. Alternate media com...

Currently in Harpers Ferry. Was touring the historical sites and though I haven't googled it yet, I'd be willing to bet that the modern view of John Brown is that he was a nazi, or all around garbage person with a white savior complex. I don't remember any of that from the song - but conventional w...

I wonder who runs it? Richard Sanderson or our own Commander? Any one of a list far longer than the current membership list. The tone is too civil for it to be those 2 so it must be some other obsessed misogynistic "kooks"and "fuckwits". No Comment. I don't mean I have anything to do with the site ...

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