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

A fun read about how people try to re-define words and the sort of people who do that: http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-they-and-the-many-reasons-why-its-correct/ Seems familiar for some reason. I've always used the singular 'they'. It's a lot less clumsy than 'him or her' ...

I think to claim someone is voting against their interests is + ignorant + arrogant + presumptuous + condescending + possibly sexist and possibly racist I don't think I can say what anyone's interests are unless I know them very very well. I suspect I disagree with many people on what the best way ...

A fun read about how people try to re-define words and the sort of people who do that: http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2 ... s-correct/

Seems familiar for some reason.

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Which one of you bastards is Jim Rustleton @ Nugent's blog?

http://www.michaelnugent.com/2014/12/09 ... nt-page-1/

Jimmy Rustle*100?

\ not me

The weekly Michael Nugent post fix is here. http://www.michaelnugent.com/2014/12/09/pattern-continues-pz-myers-smear-rapists-theo-smear-fascism/ You know what is kind of interesting. pz is used to setting off his horde to continue his dirty work of smearing people for him. Here Nugent is specifical...

Service Dog wrote:U2 released a music video today, featuring my friend-- Chinese street artist DALeast-- now a resident of South Africa, painting my van in NYC, this summer. The song is a tribute to Joe Strummer:

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Sweet ride. Pretty good song + video too.

A pee-er reviewed study? \ I'll get me hat I'll get it for you. Just for the record, all was equal. Apart from the empty bottle of Frascati...or Pirini....Or Babycham "Because I'm not old enough" crap, whatever that stuff is called...in the ladies. Look, the litre bottle of whiskey, at least that's...

Re relative cleanliness of men's & women's bathrooms: my lived experience has been opposite from that previously expressed here by someone (sorry, forget who) who cleaned bathrooms as part of his work. Don't know how much might be regional or otherwise location-specific. Hmmm... most of the horror ...

First post to say, unless Service Dog is actually there, or just popped in to use the showers, it looks like specualtion the sign is only on the Gents. Yup. It is entirely possible they slapped it on some existing unisex family change room. I would love to be there so I could hold the door to the G...

He/she just smoke a shotgun and get it over with. They will never be happy and they will spread their misery, like an emotional ebola, where ever they go. Surely a wafer thin mint would do the trick. Fuck off, I'm full. Waffer thin. Melts in the mouth. While I'm at it, I notice a thing. All these p...

This must be Parsehole again, isn't it? :think: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2lna1aCIAIOb_X.png He/she just smoke a shotgun and get it over with. They will never be happy and they will spread their misery, like an emotional ebola, where ever they go. Surely a wafer thin mint would do the trick.

Tapir wrote:
Is it because I have a penis?

Yes. Check your ~~privelege~~ penis.

Good luck trying to get any mileage out of calling me a fucking orphan (you missed bastard by a few years). The thing is I have it behind me, and when your own parents die you will have the echoes of the mockery that you try to heap on me upon yourself. And yes you will remember and yes, in that re...

Good luck trying to get any mileage out of calling me a fucking orphan (you missed bastard by a few years). The thing is I have it behind me, and when your own parents die you will have the echoes of the mockery that you try to heap on me upon yourself. And yes you will remember and yes, in that re...

Listen, gobshite, I don't work in a fucking cushy little office like you. I've worked in mining and engineering most of my life, seen a lot of accidents and had workmates die.I've had a friend have his head splattered by a huge steel girder and stood next to another friend as his foot was severed a...

America lost a national treasure today. http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77 They said he died of complications from Alzheimer's disease, but has the show been in reruns for the last few years? It's been on reruns since 2012, yeah. Nice g...

Unless you're Tony Wilson, in which case carry on.

Nec_V20 wrote: 2009 being a metric means that I have been involved in this shit a lot longer than the rest of you.

Has it really been five years since I posted there?

Time flies.

Stop taking yourself so bloody seriously you prat.

bhoytony wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:"Outside" is a suicide reference.
More of a noble sacrifice, I'd say.

God bless Ogvorbis - we may never see his like again.

He'll find somewhere else to post his rape fantasies, I'm sure. Usenet, perhaps.

The baboons will miss the titillation, but their sacrifice will not go unmocked.

katamari Damassi wrote:Any Pitters play Ingress?

Enlightened FTW!

[URL] http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6081888[ /URL] Meanwhile, in Texas... That nearly happened to me! I was at a band night down the pub and this girl started hitting on me, but I wasn't interested. Went for a leak and next thing I knew she'd followed me in, planted a big sloppy kiss on my cheek a...

Check out the reviews: http://smile.amazon.com/ss/customer-reviews/B004F9QBE6/ Do you know these... Customer Reviews: Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel Creme 200 ml After having been told my danglies (American: "dingle-berries") looked like an elderly rastafarian I decided to take the plunge and buy so...

A new Nugent piece has just gone up: http://www.michaelnugent.com/2014/10/29/how-pz-myers-concocted-a-new-smear-when-challenged-about-his-previous-smears/ One thing I noticed about this whole exchange was when Nugent replied to latsot : "I always take you seriously." How can they fail to notice tha...

Tony Parsehole wrote:
strayling wrote:10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Skyrim Character
I didn't realise how much the Dovahkiin was being harassed until now.

Just make sure to always carry [a] mace.

10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Skyrim Character

I've got a microwave and I'm going to use it.

bhoytony wrote:I have to say the stove discussion is much more gripping than the, Who Has The Coolest Sleeping Bag one.

Cool means warm, right?

I posted this at another place and you lot can have sloppy seconds: This is part of the Mother of All Internet Hissy Fits. There are SJW atheists (Free Thought Blogs, for example) against dictionary atheists (e.g. Slymepit, Michael Nugent). There are feminist video bloggers (Anita Sarkeesian) agains...

I had duck once and it was way too greasy. I cooked octopus once, incorrectly I might add, as it tasted like salted rubber. Duck is delicious, and the Chinese are the masters at cooking it. If you are roasting a duck in the conventional European manner, then a heavy mirapoix of carrot celery and on...

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Probably not relevant at all. Don't mind me.

In other news, a woman gets doxxed and complains about it: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/trolls-will-always-win/ Her doxxer protests that it's no big deal and she deserved it anyway: https://weev.livejournal.com/409913.html The parallels are dizzying. weev is an asshole. Indeed. His self-justificati...

Will Watson still be welcomed on the SGU podcasts? Novella tries to avoid this sort of drama I know, but there are limits. I would love it if SGU made a public break with Twatson, but it will never happen. It wouldn't shock me is had Zoe Quinned at least one Novella, or she has dirt on one from the...

Please excuse the lack of quotes from those links. I'm amazed I even got them right from this device.

In other news, a woman gets doxxed and complains about it:

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/trolls-will-always-win/

Her doxxer protests that it's no big deal and she deserved it anyway:

https://weev.livejournal.com/409913.html

The parallels are dizzying.

Will Watson still be welcomed on the SGU podcasts? Novella tries to avoid this sort of drama I know, but there are limits.

Was anyone else moved by the way Rebecca came slashing at Skep? I didn't see anybody send up the FREE BEER signal. She came unbidden, ready to do or die by her friend. It's like her tender feelings were suddenly revealed in a selfless moment and... I'm sorry, I can't go on. Love stories always make...

1) Skeppers was doxxed before, Stephanie Zvan and Ophelia Benson did it last year. But this adds another dimension to it. Amazing to what they are capable when they see an opportunity. Also interesting how they have no apparent qualms with causing someone trouble. Note that Skep Ticke is Y-chromoso...

PZ just doxxed Skep Tickle in his "Turning over a rock" article. This is getting nasty.

No link because doxxing.

ERV wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:
Tribble wrote: I think the 'gamer' girls are probably all laughing their asses off and believe the only thing he 'dates' is his hand.
I don't think his hand enthusiastically consents.
WHY IS HIS HAND SO TINY???

And with a ring on that finger why is he dating anyone?

I haven't seen this little piece of awesome from Libby Anne's comment page posted here yet: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2014/09/do-they-care-about-women-or-simply-bashing-religion.html#comment-1605582533 Ok, it isn't little but it is a thing of beauty. Behgold Libby's devastating p...

I haven't seen this little piece of awesome from Libby Anne's comment page posted here yet: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2014/09/do-they-care-about-women-or-simply-bashing-religion.html#comment-1605582533 Ok, it isn't little but it is a thing of beauty. Behgold Libby's devastating po...

Yeah, I certainly take it back then. FARK is fucked same as so many others. FARK has it's own version of the Pit too, a site so vile it cannot be named. Go over there and link to (or even mention) banninnation.com, I dare ya! Aside: I'm also up in the top left of the country and looking for a C/C++...

another lurker wrote:If you read the Slymepit while drunk have you been raped?

Discuss.

No, you've click-raped the Slymepit.

Yeah, I certainly take it back then. FARK is fucked same as so many others. FARK has it's own version of the Pit too, a site so vile it cannot be named. Go over there and link to (or even mention) banninnation.com, I dare ya! Aside: I'm also up in the top left of the country and looking for a C/C++...

The take-away from this sorry affair has to be that blind credulity beats skepticism. Or if it doesn't, at least it saves time and effort.

Not my wittiest comment ever, but it makes the point.

Logged in:
http://imgur.com/0kmLTOx.png

Logged out:
http://imgur.com/GTgoWJZ.png

Do I win any oppression points?

That's not what shadowbanning is. Shadowbanning makes the poster's posts unseen by everyone but the poster s/h/itself. It's a sneaky way of forced shunning on a poster without the compliance of the people doing the shunning. And unlike banning them outright, it makes the poster waste time and effor...

Add my voice to the chorus of well-wishers. I hope you get well soon.

I suspect she's a bit tetchy because Poolon brought up the topic of age. For a person who's all over the internetz, all day every day, she's had a remarkable ability to suppress any obvious mention of her DOB. I think the best estimates are in the region of 13.7bn years. If you have a big enough te...

BlueShiftRhino wrote:
deLurch wrote:Yeah, I am expecting career bumps for all the women involved. Shitty thing to happen to them, but there is that silver lining.
bold added

Intended or not, that was absolutely hilarious.

Bolding fixed.

/Vyvyan/ I've never heard them called that before. /Vyvyan/

Reminds me of Traveler. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Traveler was an ancient SF-themed RPG where the entirety of the game consisted of generating your character. I suppose there might have been more to it than that in theory, but after 7 hours of character generation with no end in sight everyone...

sinister wrote:Oh jesus, Traveler the nerd simulator. What an excruciating game. That was the one where your character could die during creation right?

That's the one. The A+ers would (pretend to) love it.

The important questions are tackled early on in the process. AlexSeanchai wrote: Define 'gender-conforming'. I'd say a trans woman in high heels and pearls and a Cinderella gown is conforming to her gender quite well (if rather too formally for most situations). Not to her assigned-at-birth gender,...

You would be okay, there wasn't anything crazy in there. I've been temp banned from Fark for probably 50% of what I have posted. :o do maybe I'm not the best judge. YMMV Try linking to http://www.bannination.com/ and see what happens. I'm permanently shadowbanned on Fark just for replying to a post...

You would be okay, there wasn't anything crazy in there. I've been temp banned from Fark for probably 50% of what I have posted. :o do maybe I'm not the best judge. YMMV Try linking to http://www.bannination.com/ and see what happens. I'm permanently shadowbanned on Fark just for replying to a post...

Tony Parsehole wrote: I wish it was true but it's too good to be true.

Yeah, I think it originated on 4chan. But oh, how much fun it would be.

http://i.imgur.com/w0MeZc6.jpg

*snerk*

That's best thing about that stinging barb is the way she used a picture of Neptune by mistake. Or was it irony? Naah. Ha, nice catch. Thought there was something off about that pic, and am now quite embarrassed I missed it. Hello/fuck off, btw :) I can't take credit for spotting the mistake, that ...

... Employing all the wit and humour, for which she is famous. For example: 2. Where can I go to find an official detailed list of the goals of feminism? http://i.imgur.com/uQyn1Mj.jpg Sorry guys! He just makes it too easy. Oh, my sides! The mirth! That's best thing about that stinging barb is the ...

Another required reading for all new Slymepitters (again by James Kampala) would be this one: http://rationalugandan.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/letter-to-the-slime-pit/ Crommunist makes an appearance in the comments. James was an early slymepitter who sadly seems to have been absent for a long time. ...

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