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I read "The Flight of the Horse", and anything by Asimov which involved Susan Calvin. I can't forgive the movie people for "The Bicentennial Man" and "I, Robot" - I mean, I enjoyed the movies, but what did it have to do with the stories? "A.I." I was really into, until that last little bit. End on ...

I'd love to be all yay Dan, but I don't support all this word bannination. Boy though, that commentor needs a good wet shower, it's like they just splurted a social justice orgasm. UHHH UHHH UHHHH UHHH PRIVILEGEEEEEE. What I think will change the gender gap is MRAs. You tell men it's cool to look af...

Well, to me, it's essentially taking characters or settings created by someone else and turning them into a completely separate work. So Wide Sargasso Sea borrows the "mad wife" of Jane Eyre, and Flashman is the extended story of the bully kid from Tom Brown's School Days. 50 Shades of Grey was orig...

The Golden Flounce Award! AHAHAHHA! Who will be the winner this month? Will it be... PZ Myers, for requesting his membership to Rationalia be deleted because just flouncing wasn't good enough... Aquaria, for getting called on using the word "tard" and running off to hug her guns... Spokesgay, for fl...

OMGZ!?! :shock: How could I forget one of my all time favourites, whose work is almost unique in that it falls under the rarified umberella of what can be called sociological Sci-Fi, John Wyndham . Ooh. I just love his stuff. And, for the last year or so, I have been quite seriously pondering conta...

rayshul said: And like Gibson (Pattern Recognition I think was his best). Ooh! How could I forget Gibson. An almost neighbour -- I actually had dinner with him in 1980 at the Kettle of Fish (http://www.straight.com/article-353357/vancouver/kettle-fish-closes-after-serving-vancouver-diners-31-years)...

I admit I did like the game Bioshock, which isn't quite steampunk but it's certainly retro as all motherfuck. And didn't mind those books about those kids in a city of London that walks. Infernal devices? Those were pretty sweet. But they were nicely written, clear books without wank, so it was diff...

I have like a billion Dick books lying around. And like Gibson (Pattern Recognition I think was his best). Favourite scifi has to be Never Let Me Go... that one broke my brain. (Movie was also super.) But beyond that I don't read much scifi - I do write it though. William Gibson - though Neuromance...

I have like a billion Dick books lying around. And like Gibson (Pattern Recognition I think was his best). Favourite scifi has to be Never Let Me Go... that one broke my brain. (Movie was also super.) But beyond that I don't read much scifi - I do write it though. Re: self publishing, I did have a g...

Woah, shit got awesome while I slept! *eyerubs* Sweet letter, Dilurk. It's nice to know that these assholes scare other people, too. I've *never* posted on any of their blogs, never interacted with them on twitter, visited their blogs (without interacting!!) maybe 5-10 times in the past year... and ...

Also: I loved Hitchens so much.

justinvacula wrote:What does this even mean?

http://i.imgur.com/2cfvg.jpg

I believe that's referring to something Pappa said on an entirely different forum, completely unrelated to you or the Slimepit.

Welcome to the projected hivemind.

Ah okay, thanks for that insight. I do remember the recent case of someone saying "vagina" and it being a big deal in US politics... but then #vagina started trending in the US sooo... I've always felt like I've been getting mixed messages about US culture. Certain people seem to suggest that Americ...

Rayshul, I think that you are being unfair to Americans. I have lived in England, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America. Everyone criticises the Yanks for being insanely this or that, but they don't use any other countries as a measure. So: -Asians will say that Americans don't wash themselves eno...

By way, Sally, if you're reading... rape is a crime against MEN. You don't have to put in non-gender conforming there. MEN get raped. Gender conforming men, too, whatever the everloving fuck that means.

I want to ask people who are banning "offensive words" in their blogs what standard of offensive words they're talking about. I mean, are we starting the scale at vagina and ending at cunt? Where does misogynist used as an insult lie on the scale? What about gender-traitor? Is it possible to use th...

Ugh sorry for the double post, attacked by a baby.

I want to ask people who are banning "offensive words" in their blogs what standard of offensive words they're talking about. I mean, are we starting the scale at vagina and ending at cunt? Where does misogynist used as an insult lie on the scale? What about gender-traitor? Is it possible to use the...

I want to ask people who are banning "offensive words" in their blogs what standard of offensive words they're talking about. I mean, are we starting the scale at vagina and ending at cunt? Where does misogynist used as an insult lie on the scale? What about gender-traitor? Is it possible to use the...

I thought white handkerchiefs were a Christian thing or Jewish... not sure though. I think there's differences in how people manage their social media which could account for blocking/banning. I unfollow people (and block/ban) constantly because I use my twitter to collect articles that I'm interest...

Anyone playing the Secret World? Kinda a fun game for skeptics...

Very much liked this comment by AV on Thunderf00t's blog: I think what we see is the clash between second wave feminism and the third wave. The second wave was about freedom to choose your life and brake free of gender roles. Women consider themself strong, able to take care of themself and able to ...

I've a suggestion on the racism front. Why doesn't Greta look at all the people having their views dismissed and getting shat on for being white? Sorry, if I have to read another person dismissing someone for being a "white male" I'm going to kick something. Also, I remain amazed that PZ has made a ...

I think you're definitely seeing him at his best there, Justin. The kid is flipping right out on the twitterzzzz.

"So fuck you." - Baboon debate highlights.

At the end of the day, I do not believe these people are evil. They are just human with their flaws and I personally find it ridiculous that apparently nobody here finds anything that PZ writes interesting while two years ago you all found at least most of his writing interesting and funny. Come on...

I'm not sure... How many times did she use the word cunt in casual conversation? Not once. And ye shall know me by my cussing... Probably wasn't me then, I'm afraid. But given the size of Mauritius, I wouldn't put it past being a relative... there's a ridiculous amount of us in Australia. Much more...

Onen, Onan, Oops. :lol: Well, that was probably the worst mistake I could make with his name. My apologies. Last thing I wanted to say while I'm catching up on the thread... I'm not that sure about the heart-attack affecting PZ. After Elevatorgate I went back and read PZ's earlier posts, and I reall...

...I'm from Dodo-land ethnically... Are you from Mauritius? Yeup. I knew a girl from Mauritius, and she was utterly gorgeously scrumptious lithe and dark looking. An exotic blend of French, Indian, and others that I could not put my finger on. (She kept pushing my hand away.) To this day, I remembe...

Michael K Gray wrote:
rayshul wrote:...I'm from Dodo-land ethnically...
Are you from Mauritius?

Yeup.

KiwiInOz wrote:
StueNever wrote:Wait a minute dodos don't live in New Zealand!

I r confused. Welcome anyway!

Dodos, Kiwis. Same thing, just different. :lol:

Hey! I'm from Dodo-land ethnically, but currently live in Kiwi-land...

Super post, James Onan. And thank you ERV and Franc too :) I did fall out of the slimepit for ages - mainly because I realised I was spending my entire work days pressing REFRESH on ERV (and our internet is real slow 'round here) - and didn't realise exactly how crazy they got over Franc's posts. It...

I liked the inclusion of AHA. Politically very similar to Hitchens, I think... I'm a fan of both. But she, er, really was the only choice, she was practically a fifth horseman anyway. Was following Justin's twitter-ness and blog today at work. Find myself unsurprised at the way they reacted to your ...

I can't see merit in these fucking bleeding heart lefty "social justice" books. I just can't. Unless they contribute funds raised by sales to stop problems.

I'd be down with live chat.

I'm noticing a wide gap in thinking between women who work in male dominated fields and women who write social justice blogs. With a few exceptions, obviously.

I'd just like to remind anyone reading that it's not sexist or harrassing to poke fun at the secondary sexual characteristics of another person so long as the person is MALE. We are poking fun at PZ's primary sexual characteristics. Only those who complain about his beard, or vocal timbre are havin...

I'd just like to remind anyone reading that it's not sexist or harrassing to poke fun at the secondary sexual characteristics of another person so long as the person is MALE.

I am sorry for you young people today. I really am. It depends on where you work. I think I'm lucky in that respect - we're pretty casual, although not in the bawdy 70s hospital way. My female coworker had this expression when I attempted to explain Elevatorgate to her: :shock: Offices tend to take...

Question for the computer/internet savvy - is this possible? In the age of widespread social media, no trace of Holmes could be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter or anywhere on the Web. Either he never engaged or he scrubbed his trail. I seem to remember hearing on one of those public r...

Yeah, if you work with professional women with big boobs, you won't get through a week without someone complaining about their big boobs. And if one starts, others will gather around to share their stories. I've seen it happen. It's AWESOME. And there doesn't really seem to be a male alternative. Qu...

A little sidenote but geehigh on Thunderf00t refered to this comment on rationalia.com:

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 5#p1219213

Love it.

You've yet to build one here. The whole country yearns for it . I'm betting on dirty looks as the next step, too. I went on a six week trip around the arctic with a few friends a couple of years ago, and while I went with the hotel and ship laundry services, my more enthusiastic friend did her washi...

Hello. As someone who knows Philip personally, I wanted to comment and say that it takes more than the petty bullshit FTB can muster to keep him down. I don't think even tranquillisers would do the job :lol: On another note I wanted to say that it was a nice thought, and I'm sure he would appreciat...

ERMAGERD my baby just stood up for the first time! Because the Slimepit totally wants to know that, hahaha. I know that colour blind study well, and arguments about it are why I'm a race traitor! I've always wanted to go to TAM (even if it's a million miles away) and it sounds like next year might b...

Like, it's not feminism that's the problem - it's this new social idea of difference that's sort of all over the place now. I've seen people bitch about trigger warnings on tumblr in other places I visit while I'm not slimeing it up, and similar kind of stuff and speech patters. And amongst publishi...

I am too sleepy and it's too late for me to go into it ... HAHA no that wasn't an impression...

But... I'm wondering if this new idea of everyone being special and diverse and triggery is the result of getting rid of the colour/gender blind stuff.

...Is anyone else uncomfortable about the money we're generating for them by continuing this drama? On one hand I'm like, WHY SO STUPID SRSLY, but on the other I'm like, man, we're bankrolling their expensive ass holidays. Nothing will put a dent in their ad revenue faster than their decline into a...

I think I'm relatively gender and colour blind - Elevatorgate is virtually the only thing that's made me scream FUCK I HAVE A VAGINA AND TODAY I WILL USE IT TO MAKE THE POINT THAT I IN NO WAY RESEMBLE YOU - and always liked that as an idea. Definitely dislike this new fangled label shit. I'm like, o...

I'm not down with the whole copying across entire posts - even if it shits 'em off. I mean, they wrote the shit, if I want to read it I should go there and look at it on their site, even if they wanna call me a gender traitor. In retrospect I shouldn't really think like that, it's not like they're a...

I can't believe the FtB are standing behind the horrible-harrassment story. Surely they should be blaming themselves for whipping Surly up so that she'd enter TAM being particularly susceptible to "perceived insults". This is what happens when you create a giant drama. You wind up fucking up your fr...

Holy shit you guys have been busy. And really, I want to reiterate something... This: https://p.twimg.com/AxpvJEsCMAEvwdx.jpg Is not equal to this: http://www.atheistunderworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Picture-1.png (mailed to her HOUSE ) Did you just Dear Muslima this??? AHAHAHHHAHAHAH

From commenter "ivycannon" on Thibeault's blog: I think you skepchick-type-feminists better start planning conventions amongst your own, because fewer and fewer people want the hassle of dealing with the endless whining, bullying, never-satisfied, enemy-making, back-patting, humorless, petty, privi...

So many times I've believed that an incredibly ridiculous event might make them wake up. I think T-shirtgate (we're calling it that, right?) is possibly the most ridiculous that's happened so far. That's a grown woman crying at a t-shirt. Was that the moment when victim feminism met second wave femi...

Holy shit, I was just reading FTBlahgs, clicked a link, and somehow wound up on FTBlogs. It took me to the comments to realise it wasn't the parody site.

Those dastardly communists, the British, want to make access to research publications free - http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/scientific-research-will-be-free-online-20120716-226aw.html - and not free market. About bloody time. Oh gosh that's awesome. I seem to get my science journalism fr...

franc wrote:
rayshul wrote:Bugger.
No quotes around links dummy. Use thy preview button. Your html powers mean nothing here. Look at this.

I hoped I could kinda sorta wing it fingers-crossed-like. Alas, it appears I've got to read the manual. Ta for the link, Franc.

franc wrote:via Sacha -
http://i.imgur.com/U3FtA.png

This twitter comment has had me scratching my head since it was first posted here. Was this part of a speech? What was it about?

Bugger.

Could only watch things happening on Twitter while at work. Agh!

Have to say that the "fauna" I most remember from living in Australia for about 15 years is this one...

IMO, Dr. Hall's action can be interpreted charitably (by non-residents of Baboonistan) as a demonstration of support for DJ, rather than an attack on Orwellia. But, hey, why be charitable when she can bend it in service of her victimhood narrative. Parallel logic! Seriously, when it comes to faux v...

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