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To call anything in the United States, a country of immigrants, 'cultural appropriation' is farcical. So, as a third generation Italian-American, whose great-grandfather was dumped off the boat and onto Ellis Island in 1895, am I supposed to be all outraged about the "cultural appropriation" of Cal...

Thanks for the link. I liked the comment 'Thereâ€™s people who actually canâ€™t function due to their mental illnesses, and you shit-wands have the nerve to call yourselves â€œdepressedâ€ or â€œOCDâ€ over menial everyday worries? Yâ€™all make me sick.' That's one of the things I despise most, the ...

Excellent video, Mykeru. Thanks for going to the trouble. I used to be a fairly avid viewer of Newsnight but not so much lately. I did have respect for them, but on this story they have fallen down badly. Failing to mention 'Atheism plus' when talking about the block bot is a glaring omission, and ...

Mykeru, I loved it. As I post here I must be a sociopath so I do not know of you need hugs. If you do, sod off. I mean big hugs.

Then the Shit Hit the Fan going the other way. Adria began receiving death/rape threats and Sengrid's servers were subjected to a DDS attack. So within a day of that happening she was fired, for the quite legitimate reason of being a shitty "developer evangelist". And that should have been the end ...

Benson had a massive fall out with one of the organizers at AI but that had happened already when Nugent did his incredible porn post. What he was thinking when he did that is beyond me. Which post of Nugent's was that? Lost the links ages ago, it was the blog post of Nugent's to that troll post on...

By the way, Nugent ground to halt at the request of Nugent, can't have someone making stuff up. Get angry if you want, but take it out on me, not others who were also involved and put a lot of effort into it when all you can do is snear. Yes I can snear . I'm not angry about that ridiculous, pathet...

By the way, Nugent ground to halt at the request of Nugent, can't have someone making stuff up. Get angry if you want, but take it out on me, not others who were also involved and put a lot of effort into it when all you can do is snear.

This is the last time I am going to state the same thing again. Gobshite writes that Hendrix NEVER hooked his thumb over the neck. I say that is bollocks and post several pictures of Hendrix playing with his thumb over the neck. Gobshite writes multiple posts twisting and dodging about advanced tec...

Show me where Hendrix always puts his thumb over the neck to rest. He does not, none of them do. I am going round in circles because I was clearly talking about muscle learning and bad habits. But it is not my problem, you recommend every beginner to hook his thumb as a fixed playing style (which b...

Show me where Hendrix always puts his thumb over the neck to rest. He does not, none of them do. I am going round in circles because I was clearly talking about muscle learning and bad habits. But it is not my problem, you recommend every beginner to hook his thumb as a fixed playing style (which b...

On the pass rates thing here's table from ACCA (Certified Accountant I think, UK). There is a lot of variation but an approximate 50% is not far off. Many companies sack staff ofter one fail and most two fails. I was also taking about the introduction course which is even more brutal so my 50% may h...

Show me where Hendrix always puts his thumb over the neck to rest. He does not, none of them do. I am going round in circles because I was clearly talking about muscle learning and bad habits. But it is not my problem, you recommend every beginner to hook his thumb as a fixed playing style (which b...

<snip> Ok, ok I'll bite. Please provide "evidence" that reasoned debate was more effective in turning the SJW tide than, say, the fall out from the self inflicted antics of PZ and Co post WiS2 -> grenade. <snip> It's the old arguing with creationists chestnut. In the case of the Nugent stuff, Steer...

<snip> Ok, ok I'll bite. Please provide "evidence" that reasoned debate was more effective in turning the SJW tide than, say, the fall out from the self inflicted antics of PZ and Co post WiS2 -> grenade. <snip> It's the old arguing with creationists chestnut. In the case of the Nugent stuff, Steer...

I know he did it I am not blind. I've done it myself on electric. But he did not do it to REST which is my DAMN POINT. Stop waffling on about advanced techniques when I was giving very basic advise to a total beginner. If that was your DAMN POINT why didn't you say so. I used to play the classical ...

Of course he would take it off as needed. I've never ever seen a guitarist who would play with their thumb over the neck all the time. It's only for playing notes on the bottom string so you can play certain chords. Some chords need a fretted note on the bottom E and open strings on the higher stri...

Steersman wrote: "Stuff" Steers, you didn't engage with my points except to say: "Evidence says I'm right. You, however are wrong." That may pass for debate on FtB, but this is the 'pit. ;) Ok, ok I'll bite. Please provide "evidence" that reasoned debate was more effective in turning the SJW tide t...

Oh, and by the way, my comment about a load of bollocks was aimed at him stating that Hendrix didn't play that way which is obviously not true. I was talking about more advanced techniques of course, which was my point. I was talking about bad habits that can be an issue later. Any idiot can play w...

..and he would take it off as needed. New players can get caught in the trap of doing it all the time, especially as you can get away with it for longer with the thinner neck of the electric over Acoustic. Bass players can get away with it as the notes are generally less onerous to play. When learn...

I used to play the classical guitar. My advice, to add to the others, is to get the best strings you can afford and to learn to tune by ear. after that it is just practice while trying not to reinforce bad habits by doing so (in the case of classical guitar, never put your thumb over the top of the...

Are you sure about this as I found the first year easy as most of the other biology students did, it was the case of getting everyone up to speed so they could move on from there. Why would any university (or department) want to lose 50% of their students? The second year on the other hand I had to...

Oh, and by the way, my comment about a load of bollocks was aimed at him stating that Hendrix didn't play that way which is obviously not true. I was talking about more advanced techniques of course, which was my point. I was talking about bad habits that can be an issue later. Any idiot can play w...

JackSkeptic said: (in the case of classical guitar, never put your thumb over the top of the neck as you see many electric guitarists do as this restricts hand movement, crucial when you get to higher levels..Jimi Hendrix never did this either) bhoytony said: A load of bollocks, Hendrix always play...

I used to play the classical guitar. My advice, to add to the others, is to get the best strings you can afford and to learn to tune by ear. after that it is just practice while trying not to reinforce bad habits by doing so (in the case of classical guitar, never put your thumb over the top of the...

[quote="bhoytony" I have choices of guitars. I have Morris acoustic my partner had hidden away since 1993. I'm using an old vintage archtop I've spent some money on recently getting it up to playability standard. It's fun to play. I've added a floating pickup and wired scratch guard so I can plug i...

For the most part, I like Ally Fogg. But his statement that Ronald McGabriel has written "an excellent blog" has me scratching my head. I mean, Ronald McGabriel is a terrible, terrible, writer, using mostly very questionable ideas and theories and concepts. And Fogg thinks it's excellent? /scritch ...

Yes, I've known quite a few people who were straight A and then completely drowned when they moved to university-level classes, be it in med school, biology or physics. The transition is hard and demands a lot of self involvement. When I started my studies the drop out rate in the first 6 months wa...

Having both taken biology at university and taught it at undergraduate and postgraduate level I don't see the issue there. University level biology is not the same as high school biology. You are expected to do a lot more reading yourself. Just because you got straight A's before is absolutely no g...

Teaching is a difficult, tedious, repetitive job. It is also highly rewarding if you can manage to keep your passion for both what you're teaching and for the achievments of your students. For all that I hate Myers' SJL bullshit, so far I have no reason to not respect him as a teacher. If he's stil...

As a secondary point to the idjit demanding the Irish provide the Saxons with boats, i'd like to point out, that if paddies were capable of building boats (that didn't sink ref; Titanic), there'd be nobody left on that fuckin I(re)land. When ST Paddy sent the snakes into the sea, the trade off was ...

Is Ireland an independent Catholic state? Did Al Qaeda achieve their aim of a pan-Arab theocracy? No. But those were their aims. Just because someone didn't fail utterly and completely, managed to accomplish "something" and got some "concessions", doesn't mean they achieved what they used the terro...

He was doing OK until he said that he was unaware of any terrorism campaign that has ever achieved its aims ... I think the IRA are pretty happy with the outcome of their terrorism (massive concessions by the British government, restructuring of the entire government of NI), and I'm fairly sure Al ...

With all this surley tossing over at Skepchick and A+, can someone clarify for me how the current mods at A+ came to be mods? Was it really the case that Horsey McHorse installed them when she created A+? When I asked this question the replies were a bit uncertain. It seems there were normal people...

...I haven't said anything because there's really nothing to happy, but StupidGate is just glorious. It's so funny watching them turn on each other, and even BeckyBint resorting to using Pit language like "Social Justice Warriors" and "pearl clutching". I'll concede that it's highly unlikely (if fo...

With all this surley tossing over at Skepchick and A+, can someone clarify for me how the current mods at A+ came to be mods? Was it really the case that Horsey McHorse installed them when she created A+? When I asked this question the replies were a bit uncertain. It seems there were normal people...

The use or perceived use of the wrong word can be problematic <snip> You Amy Roth are completely wrong on the use of the word poorly now As it has nothing to do with the poor. Also see Oxford English Dictionary </snip> My impression was that Amy was being facetious with that one, using an obviously...

My final note on the subject (ie subject flounce) - I strongly suspect RW's on meds largely because she's a dick - the controversy she courts and the lifestyle she chooses to lead. Weirdly enough I don't think she is a dick because she's on meds. Regardless the context and way she brought it up (fl...

PZ posts on an abhorrent anti euthanasia poster. Love the ? In the title. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/02/09/this-is-a-real-thing-2/ <SNIP> I cleaned my browser with CCleaner recently and when I clicked that link I got a white page that stated: "Checking your browser...." and somethi...

The fucker is playing them like a fiddle. And they're too needy and arrogant to see it. They don't want to. Oggie is as convenient for them as they are for him. By being forgiving of him, they create moral high ground for themselves. That's a mutually parasitic relationship. You beat me to it, they...

Another angle. There are plenty of SJWs to laugh at. Hell the whole of FtB except for Myers. There are plenty of SJWs able to cause local pain in the arse afflictions. In aggregate they are a menace. There are only a couple of demented individuals who have the exposure and wherewith-all to actually...

Another angle. There are plenty of SJWs to laugh at. Hell the whole of FtB except for Myers. There are plenty of SJWs able to cause local pain in the arse afflictions. In aggregate they are a menace. There are only a couple of demented individuals who have the exposure and wherewith-all to actually...

Phil - I was addressing Jack's comment. Yours was A-OK by me, FWIW. Oh, ok, I was in a "me, me, me" frame of mind. Happens quite a lot on Friday mornings [citation needed] Even I knew he was addressing me, you damn narcissist. I'm the one that needs attention round here cos of..privilege or somethi...

Just to clarify above, I find some of the posts here very creepy. Who gives a toss about anyone's private life or the backgrounds in their videos or who someone was shagging and when and where? What happened to attack what the person says not the person? I thought we left that tactic to the FtB type...

Badger3k wrote:.... Her fifteen minutes should have been up long ago.

Every time someone makes any post about her she wins. She's a narcissist and feeds off the attention she gets and why people pay her any attention at all is beyond me. I find it really creepy.

It is becoming clearer and clearer that the SJL are the most racist, sexist, bigotted portion of the population, especially internet fuckers thinking they can change the world from the comfort of their mom's basement. Oh come on. We must have known that for a long time. Otherwise we would not have ...

Pitchguest wrote:Ahahahahaha, I had actually forgotten about the best part! The idiot news anchor actually asks, about the relics of volcanoes that exist on the moon, "Why aren't they erupting now?"

Nye's change of expression is *priceless.* :lol:

The tide goes in, the tide goes out, you can't explain that.

Thoughts on this? [youtube]86oaSefKZxc[/youtube] I think the cause is definitely worthy of support. I wouldn't, however, support a fantasist like Avicenna. Why pay for a hiking holiday in the Himalayas for Avicenna when you could simply pay the money directly to the charity in question? I think the...

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I was going to be an Archaeologist but I couldn't dig it. In other news, I find the Knox case supremely boring. The SJW's won't be over it because: 1. She's female (can't be against her) 2 She's American (parochial defines the SJW's mindset) 3. The victim is not American or a PoC (marginal that one)...

I'm speaking in abstract terms. Now I don't play EVE, as the kind of cutthroat laissez-faire PvP system simply does not appeal to me, but I think the general idea still works in its case. Time is an investment as much as money, so the difference can be abstracted away. If CCP Games hadn't designed ...

So apparently the recent EVE Online battle that resulted in the destruction of over 100 Titans cost more than the equivalent of $500,000 in damages. I think this should come as a wake-up call to society to assess whether it makes sense that so much productivity can be measured in an endeavour and b...

I've heard of many past rape victims who hate SJW feminists, and they claim that the hysterical overreaction to rape can harm the road to recovery for actual survivors of rape. By both constantly talking about rape (trivializing the meaning of the word by associating it with lesser crimes and even ...

I've been wandering the icy streets of Tromso wondering why Christianity took off in Scandinavia. They already had awesome gods and were a warrior race. What was the incentive? The Warrior race bit is a bit of an overstatement. Like many races they took land to settle but it was not always violent ...

So riddle me this. Let's assume that Mr. Myers was too chicken-shit to do this himself, but instead some impressionable college student who reads his blog heard his call and followed through. Would Myer's have any culpability in this matter? What if they cannot identify who did this? It has been a ...

I've been wandering the icy streets of Tromso wondering why Christianity took off in Scandinavia. They already had awesome gods and were a warrior race. What was the incentive? The Warrior race bit is a bit of an overstatement. Like many races they took land to settle but it was not always violent ...

Oh, bets on how long before Svan judges which way the wind is blowing and jumps on the band wagon? It will be a tedious self promoting blog pretending to consider all the options before it arrives at a pre-decided conclusion which, by an amazing coincidence, will fit in with the majority view. Stran...

The irony. They are the first to tell people they have no rights yet the first to demand rights for themselves and scream and cry like petulant children. How they hold both positions at once without their heads exploding is beyond me. According to PZM's own doctrine he is guilty, end of. Believe the...

I had pet rats when I was a teen. They would sit on my shoulder like a parrot. They were awesome. Then I had pet birds, and they would sit on my shoulder - like birds. I finally got a cat. She tries to sit on my shoulder when I am at the pc. I am happy with my 1 kitty. True story. I had a pair of r...

And some people â€œfeelâ€ that theyâ€™re Jesus or Napolean but we donâ€™t normally do more than humour them â€“ at best. â€œFeelingsâ€ are generally of some value â€“ even sometimes an overriding one â€“ but when theyâ€™re rather obviously contradicted by the facts then I think weâ€™re at least e...

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