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by Tribble
Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:56 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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A little off topic - does anyone know if Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender has been throughly responded to, or is it currently the last word? I've just started reading it, and it's point seems to be that, while there are certainly sex differences, none of the neuroscience or evolutionary phycolog...
by Tribble
Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:39 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Honda Grom... 125cc of baby motard, $2999... [youtube]THJH1QPSNrw[/youtube] My last street bike -- 750cc Honda Interceptor (1983): http://www.2040-motos.com/_content/cars/images/36/50036/001.jpg I loved that bike, but some kid cut the corner on the highway and we had a head-on. So it that was it fo...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:51 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Any gear-heads know what the make and model of the bus in this video. (You can turn the sound off in you want since it's Euro-Dance.) [youtube]6Zbi0XmGtMw[/youtube] I really like it but haven't been able to find out what it was and I want to get one and restore it (if necessary). http://www.arca-bu...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:11 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Any gear-heads know what the make and model of the bus in this video. (You can turn the sound off in you want since it's Euro-Dance.)

[youtube]6Zbi0XmGtMw[/youtube]

I really like it but haven't been able to find out what it was and I want to get one and restore it (if necessary).
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:07 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Where is Steersman? He's usually dropping a few piles of shit into the conversation by now...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:03 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Lsuoma wrote: Wasn't Ol' Neccers a Mensarian?
No. He was a Fullofshitian.
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:21 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I was lucky. My English master was a very bright Cambridge PPE graduate who was more than willing to listen to and accommodate contrarians. I'm still friends with him on fb. My college English Literature professor was like that. We had a major, fundamental to the entire story, difference of opinion...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:18 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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It's a slow day at work. It's a slow day here. C'mon FfTB, or Skepchicks, do something funny. It is actually a moderately paced day for me. Plus I just found out something interest about my personal life. Any body wants to know I can share via pm, chat, what have you. Your dick is shorter than the ...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:17 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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When someone says "I"d fuck her", about E.Mo Anders, what I choose to hear them saying-- is "I've never read Anders' Skepchick post, the one where she recounts five of her rape accusations." http://skepchick.org/2013/08/when-i-didnt-consent-why-i-reported-why-i-didnt/ Five? I'm not going to read it...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:15 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Clarkson and Hammond packing fudge in Western Australia. Outrage ensues. News at 10. "Packing fudge" is homophobic? I get it as a reference to anal sex, but since when is that, in and of itself, homophobic? It used to be an insult against/indicating gay men. It's not exclusively that way anymore. B...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:06 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Because in SJW Land, if something makes even one person even a wee bit uncomfortable , it must be banned. FTS. Only if you posess one of the exclusive "right to be offended" identities. If one of your more attractive underage female students comes to your class in stripper heels, a fishnet dress an...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:05 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Skep tickle wrote:TW: Breitbart, hyperbolic headline

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/ ... -warriors/

Thank you for the link. Interesting observation at the end of the column.
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:55 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I don't get the attraction with Elyse. She seems so broken and full of spite. I couldn't shag anyone I disliked as intently as I dislike SJW's (of the more rabid type b4 Caruthers gets in a snit.) She's sort of interesting looking, but she has that sort of loony stare that just turns me off. Don't ...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:44 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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jimthepleb wrote:Com's got a boner for Mofo, leave him alone and let him fap.
Anyone play Hearthstone?
No. Deck-building games have too much 'Pay to Win' in them. I like games where you get the game, the playing field remains level, and you go head-to-head.
by Tribble
Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:31 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Views: 1618590

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http://www.pressherald.com/2012/10/16/maine-kennebunk-johns-prostitution-zumba-wright-strong-alexis-police-clients-list/ There are names named (with their addresses!) in that article. Johns of the prostitute. And since it was a crime, they're automatically defined as 'public interest' individuals. ...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:00 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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[ Also, the others in LP's example are celebrities while this CEO is a nobody. Grant was arrested while hiring a hooker. Spritzer was a NY governor and former AG. That makes those stories newsworthy. I already responded once. Not going over the same ground again beyond to point out the original pos...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:57 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Not only am I using celebrities, I'm using even common guys incorporated by the highlighted comment the 'Johns list.' Guys like your plumber, perhaps. Or your mechanic. Or whatever. Like here: http://www.pressherald.com/2012/10/16/maine-kennebunk-johns-prostitution-zumba-wright-strong-alexis-police...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:45 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Also, the only reason anyone seems to think this article is reprehensible is because it outed the guy as a homosexual. Apparently the whole cheating thing is a-ok if you're a homo. It the article was about a guy cheating on his wife with a high class female hooker, it would be the usual gossip rag ...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:31 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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If it were only about the gossip part, it'd be pretty much the same shit that went on with all the others you named. However allegedly the porn star/escort tried to blackmail the wannabe john, so by publishing the story Gawker is arguably guilty of fostering blackmail. I"m not sure of the legal the...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:43 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Also, the only reason anyone seems to think this article is reprehensible is because it outed the guy as a homosexual. Apparently the whole cheating thing is a-ok if you're a homo. It the article was about a guy cheating on his wife with a high class female hooker, it would be the usual gossip rag ...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:53 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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by Tribble
Tue Jul 14, 2015 4:50 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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The Doubts of a "Social Justice Warrior" | The New York Post (yeah, I know, sorry) http://nypost.com/2015/07/13/doubts-of-a-social-justice-warrior/ The author is a 20 yr old Columbia University student Does anyone think this reads a bit odd? Only a couple of weeks ago author was ecstatic at being l...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 14, 2015 4:06 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I've never even heard of most women on that list. Were it not for Gamergate, I wouldn't know who Brianna Wu was either. I'm not even sure I agree with Rhianna Pratchett being on that list. Oh, and apparently #2 on her list didn't donate to her Patreon until AFTER the list was made. Right. Definitel...
by Tribble
Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:57 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Umm....this just seems odd, on several levels. 6 Women Whipping the Video Game Industry Into Shape | Playboy http://www.playboy.com/articles/6-women-whipping-video-game-industry-into-shape Kudos, though, for the clear edits & acknowledgement in that article that one of the 6 women donated (after be...
by Tribble
Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:29 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia up until 1962.... haha... so yeah... there is that. I have trouble understanding the human trafficking topic. When Oprah talks about it she implies it is basically the same as sex-slavery. But, trafficking really includes any illegal immigrants that pay to get smug...
by Tribble
Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:17 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Indeed, hence Andrew here shows once more that MRAs (I understand he assigns them himself to that camp, correct me if wrong) that MRAs are essentially social justice warriors, too. They just work opposite to that of 'classic SJWs' but are structurally similar, which should be unsurprising since the...
by Tribble
Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:15 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Ahhhh well she started it by throwing the phone. As for him hitting her? Well in his culture this is a reasonable, measured and proportional response to her abuse of the phone in response to her unjustified, unreasonable and intolerable cultural expectations that he must be selfish with his seed an...
by Tribble
Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:13 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia up until 1962.... haha... so yeah... there is that. I have trouble understanding the human trafficking topic. When Oprah talks about it she implies it is basically the same as sex-slavery. But, trafficking really includes any illegal immigrants that pay to get smug...
by Tribble
Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:57 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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" And after a week of hiding in my house, never once leaving except to run... because that is my coping mechanism... I went out. And in the 90 minutes that I was out of the house, I was so grotesquely objectified that I want to crawl out of my skin and never face the light of day. " http://www.elys...
by Tribble
Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:33 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Kirbmarc wrote:
Basically Andrea Dworkin's rules for sex were "anything, anyone, as long as it's not adult men fucking adult women".
That's probably fair, to a great extent, to say.
by Tribble
Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:59 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I'm a few pages behind, catching up... Saw this on the amazing mofo blog. http://www.elyseanders.com/blog/2015/7/10/when-tired-turns-into-exhaustion From there, my bold: Tupac Chopra 14 hours ago Remember that rape is often about power. So let's just say that someone is in fact too ugly to be raped...
by Tribble
Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:09 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I see you still haven't addressed my specific responses to your requests for right-wing, social engineering policies. I'll wait while you thumb through the collected works of Ayn Rand for the ideologically pure response. Actually, I'll help you "Child tax credits and tax breaks for marriage don't c...
by Tribble
Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:42 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I'll add that the request for specific policy proposals was wonderfully slippery because it glides you around all the bullying on so-called conservative media regarding people's choices of what beverage to drink, sport to watch, vehicle to drive. Much as leftists, and collectivists always assume th...
by Tribble
Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:40 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Gefan wrote:
And you accuse me of taking him too literally.

Fucking hilarious.

I just gave you evidence, and you entirely predictably, moved the goalposts.

Fuck off.
lol. Yeah, I've run into that with him, too. It's pointless. No facts are going to penetrate that ideological fortress.
by Tribble
Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:54 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I'm a few pages behind, catching up... Saw this on the amazing mofo blog. http://www.elyseanders.com/blog/2015/7/10/when-tired-turns-into-exhaustion In that week, I have read no less than a hundred thousand comments about how I am a liar. 100,000 comments? In a previous post, she complained that sh...
by Tribble
Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:40 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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jet_lagg wrote:gay is my username in Archeage in case anyone here plays :D

Did for a while. But it wasn't my kind of MMO. Very pretty and the main story was good.
by Tribble
Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:05 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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One more piece in the i s Steersman really HJ Hornbeck puzzle. https://archive.is/5opI4 I think the Occam's Razor explanation here is that Steersman was influenced by Hornbeck's argument. They have interactions going back a while. If they are same, it's a very long and subtle game Hornbeck has been...
by Tribble
Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:23 am
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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The SJW's are so viscious and so easy to shoot down with even a smattering of evidence anyone of any political pursuasion who disagrees with them will look good every time. It just happens conservatives are making the loudest noise about them. SJW's are not progressives they are fascists, including...
by Tribble
Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:46 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Dick Strawkins wrote:
I think we can see the problem.
The solution seems straight-forward.

The only question is which tool to use:

Screwdriver or hammer?
With Phil? Better use a hammer...
by Tribble
Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:44 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Late to the party on this one, but I just ran across Cathy Young's The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild from 6/2015 which refers to a blip in the SJW world in fall 2014. It's a good general overview of some of the issues with SJW-ism, but especially interesting for its brief reca...
by Tribble
Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:38 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Lsuoma wrote:
rayshul wrote:It is fun that the new leaders of free thought and free speech are conservative.
SRSLY. I have seen more intelligent comment from breitbart this year than the whole of SJWdom.
I know, it's weird. But it is what it is...
by Tribble
Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:38 am
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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If Site wide changes were being made without the CEO knowing about them, then that doesn't make Pao look any better than if she instigated the changes. Also the main trigger was the sacking of a very popular WOMAN employee without any explanation. I think that Pao as a CEO made a ton of mistakes. E...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:00 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Hugh Glass: Near the forks of the Grand River in present-day Perkins County, in August 1823, while scouting ahead of his trading partners for game for the expedition's larder, Glass surprised a grizzly bear mother with her two cubs. Before he could fire his rifle, the bear charged, picked him up, an...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:54 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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"Witch-hunt" - wouldn't you think that the person pushed out of office being a woman would make use of the term more problematic and some blogger on the look out for things like this might put up a blog post objecting to the use of this work? (Or is "IOWWDI" such strong ju-ju that this gets a pass?...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:42 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Steers & comhcinc, how about putting each other on ignore - and then ignoring each other. If anyone thinks there are posts in which someone here has purposefully misquoted you, go ahead & click the report button on the first instance of the misquote and describe the issue. (No guarantees as to acti...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:28 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Becks and Oily are right about one thing, though, the slymepit is indeed doomed to die and the keys to its destruction are in the hands of it opponents. The Peez and his gang are going the way of AtheismPlus, and soon they'll have dwindled to nothing and, while the 'pit might carry on for a while, ...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:27 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Okay - here to help! HJ described performing a non-blinded, non-randomized trial to prove himself right test his hypothesis about the Slymepit. Hypothesis: “See, there are two main hypothesis [sic] of [sic] the SlymePit:” 1) “either they are a hate group targeting feminists and those interest...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:19 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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The relish with which Peez has been honking "Tim Hunt got what he deserved!" on Twitter has been a sorry spectacle. It did cause him to inadvertently blurt the truth, though: http://imgur.com/yPrXI8j.png Yeah, he can only dream of being a "ruined" Tim Hunt. Peez at his glorious best is a nightmare ...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:06 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Behold HJ Hornbeck's brilliant and terrifying plan. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I'm seriosuly considering just closing my account here and sending back my MRA card, because I'm not sure I will be able to withstand Hornbeck's devistating rhetorical tactics. Face it, it's either cut our l...
by Tribble
Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:14 am
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Pamala Gay being a douche. Steersman being a douche. Carrier being a spunk-douche. Myers being a douche. Benson being a douche. Svan being a douche. Then we have Michael Nugent & Atheist Ireland... Atheist Ireland asks Council of Europe to protect human rights in Irish schools with O’Keeffe ruling...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:34 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Is there a secret link at Elyse's post to all the death threats those 10,000s of haters left? Right now it looks like she yelled "show me how much your care!!" And the internet rolled over and went back to sleep. Does anyone care about Elyse? I thought we all agreed to stop bothering with her month...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:14 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Black people make up 12% of the US population, but Greta Christina seems to spend 2/3 of her time obsessing about them. she also lives in a city (SF) that is only 6% black, but 15% hispanic and 34% asian. WHY ARE THERE NO TV SHOWS WITH AN ALL-ASIAN CAST, GRETA, WHY? They'd be boring. They'd all wor...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:12 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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Because it's funnier than hell:

[youtube]5R4KJAGqd1Q[/youtube]
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:21 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I never did the kiai. Except for kata's where it's required or in breaking demonstrations when it's expected. Otherwise I never saw the point as it was, pretty much, a distraction and interrupted the flow you needed to maintain, in sparring, against a good opponent. I have no idea what this is abou...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:02 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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What is it about these Bayesians who think they're Hari Seldon? Apt reference. For those who don't know, Hari Seldon is the Foundation books' (Asimov) mathematician who can predict near and deep future events, with great specificity and accuracy. The idea was to account for all variables, including...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:02 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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What is it about these Bayesians who think they're Hari Seldon? Apt reference. For those who don't know, Hari Seldon is the Foundation books' (Asimov) mathematician who can predict near and deep future events, with great specificity and accuracy. The idea was to account for all variables, including...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:57 pm
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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I've never had statistics, but you got me curious: how on earth does the man apply it to put a number on the likelihood of a rape accusation being true? Why haven't the police figured this out, eh? It went like this: A. Odds of a false rape report: 2-8% to police (Lisak 2010). Let’s be charitable...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:56 am
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So 50 year old Marisa Tomei has been cast as Spider-Man's Aunt May and some fans (not me; I''m fine with it) are complaining she's too young - and SJWs are suddenly forgetting that there are too few roles for older women and criticising the fans because fans are shitlords and therefore always in th...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:51 am
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.... No, it isn't - certainly not against "dictionary feminism". In fact, being trolled just like anyone else on the internet would argue that equality is nigh - a cause for celebration! (Can't find it now, but there was a survey last year that found women tend to receive more sexually explicit com...
by Tribble
Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:40 am
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Topic: Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!
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[youtube]4JY9kjM1tRg[/youtube] I assume that the grunting/shrieking is like the kiai in some martial arts. It signifies an attacking move and is supposed to put the opponent off/focus the energy of the move. But in reality it means that you are a one-shot act. The time/focus used for a kiai should ...