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I've picked up quite a few skydiving friends who had had a fatal accident. Never pretty. I still remember to this day my first one, back in 1999. The sounds he made before being put in an artificial coma and finally passing away are still... haunting. That sucks, especially someone you know (and we...

That's the UK right? I have a friend of a friend who works on train stations and he said the same thing happened a few weeks (months?) ago. Could be the same incident. I think this sort of thing might happen more often than people realise. I remember a friend of mine getting the train back from wor...

Bwahaha. BBS, not html. What an idiot. That is all.

Dick Strawkins wrote:With some warning or description then there would be no problem with the post.

Oh please don't tell me slymepitters are whining about wanting trigger warnings.

<a href="https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Offended">Pussies</a>.

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Well, I'm not surprised the little bun is upset. First the giant dick in the sky jizzes on his face and then later squashes him. That's the fucking patriarchy for you.

I wonder how long that will last on youtube? :whistle:

Wow, pharyngula has become almost completely dysfunctional now. Every comment posted is parsed for possible offensiveness that could be caused to any group anywhere on the globe. And even if it isn't offensive, people will invent impure motives on the part of the poster. So now, even with a massivel...

No way you guyz, I think Setar is on to something, this time I'm sooper serial. Check this disgraceful whitewashing:

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Not Dick as well! Bloody hell, are there more Brits per head on here or is it just me...? I used to go to the Hobbit from time to time, we used to live in Eastleigh and some friends liked it. Small world. Surrounded by Slyme. Yeah, another Hants local here. Dustbubble used to live this way, too, bu...

I would agree with many of those who rate Phil Plait as a good science communicator - it's something he has clearly done extremely well at. But he is a shit scientist. His understanding of physics is abysmal. But for what he's doing he doesn't really need much understanding of science, he is a hub t...

Oh that thread on NSC's channel is hilarious. I couldn't resist saving these screencaps (my emphasis): Brayhorse1h.png Why, yes Ed. It is annoying and a common tactic of political ideologues to smear people with moderate views by associating them with opinions of extremists. Which is why I much pref...

(With apologies for dragging this up from way back, still trying to catch up after a period of being busy...) US electoral smackdown from McCreight: Obama isnâ€™t perfect, but heâ€™s the only option that supports equal civil rights for women, racial minorities, and LGBT individuals. And to me nothin...

There is indeed neurophysiological evidence for dimensional schizotypy, and while schizotypy is associated with vulnerability to schizophrenia it is also associated with higher scores on measures of creativity and right-brain activity. I have no problem with people observing correlations. No proble...

Thibideedooda: "I kinda sorta hang with the bad/cool kids in Anonymous." Oh my fucking Jebus! i can just imagine that whiny little shit "hanging" on /b/. He'd need hus mummy to tuck him up in bed and give him big hugs him for months afterward to help deal with his PTSD. lol - what is he? /b/ ethics...

Apologies, was not my intent to appear to be 'quote-mining'. Seems like that comment from Gooby was merely a response to your dismissal of psychometric testing. Which, as far as I am aware, are valid psychological research tools. Again, with the valid XYZ. I did not say they could be valid research...

You go ahead and imagine all you want, gooby. After all, your overactive imagination beats real evidence any day of the week, as you have already adeptly shown. That's a bit harsh Spence, a possible link between creativity and mental illness is a valid area for research. Creativity and Mental Illne...

Gotta say, on this one, MKG is pretty much spot on as usual. When someone starts waving around psychometric tests as "evidence", my bullshit meter asplodes in an array of beautiful colours. Then there was also direct neurophysiological evidence. Oh, bless your heart. (JCW: thanx for the pro-tip) An...

welch wrote:If the best objection you can come up with is who sponsored it? Really?

Yah, it's all those eeeevil corporations, being all corporation-y and stuff. If you're lucky, Becky will refer to Monsanto again.

Gotta say, on this one, MKG is pretty much spot on as usual. When someone starts waving around psychometric tests as "evidence", my bullshit meter asplodes in an array of beautiful colours. Probably something to do with all of that science schooling that I dun and went through, just prior to going c...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Spence wrote: Ta gueule, Monsieur Franchouillard :lol:
Mais va te faire foutre, connard! ;)

Ha ha. I think I would lose quite badly in a head-to-head with you using French insults. Although it could vastly improve my *useful* French vocab :think:

I see you're not familiar with the Canadian French language. Don't bother looking it up, just trust me. Sincerely, MaiforpeaceOff Psst. Go with Belgian. Nothing would surprise the French about how much the Belgians have distorted their language. I mean, what the hell is "nonante" supposed to be any...

Destroying a joke * 101: If you use "allez", second plural tense, then you have to use it for the follow-up. I won't even touch the subject of bad spelling (ok, I will: "droit", "gauche"). Allez tout droit, tournez Ã gauche! Or whatever... *this whole stuff was a pure accident. Couldn't remember w...

[Somewhat, since the topic did arise a little while ago] Off-topic vent: One of my friends got a job at a Whole Foods a little while ago and now every fucking thing I seen coming from her is about goddamn evil GMOs and how organic will save the fucking planet. The most hilarious part is that a mutu...

I find you get a better hit rate with the daily fail if you assume an article is false until proven otherwise.

(With preemptive apologies for length) Bonus: It's frustrating as I hate - HATE - Monsanto. Another fabulous example of her mindlessly repeating the stuff she overhears without actually understanding it. DERP!!!! IZA BE UH SKEPDUCK! HEEEERP! MONSANTO!! I know this is from days ago but I'm struggling...

Simply can't keep up with what happens here, so haven't even tried. 3000 comments behind. Anything major to note other than Vacula lynching? I'm only about 1000 comments behind after a busy few days and just trying to keep up with that is time consuming! My personal favourite from catching up with ...

I have been making the point that you don't care that groups of women will see it as misogynistic and justify that with anecdotal evidence as Spence admits to. Their offence at being demeaned (In their minds) is not of concern to you. Firstly: YOU first made the claim that cunt was considered misog...

I'm out of insults for your stupidity. Don't confuse your inability to follow a logical train of thought for other people's stupidity. I have been arguing on here and Dick et al have been saying "but..but... most people in the UK don't see cunt as misogynistic therefore it is not a misogynistic slu...

bhoytony wrote:I just don't think you can use the word true in that way when talking about slang. Whatever the words and conventions in use are, they are "true".

Answers.com has the best part of twenty different definitions of the word true. I just think we're on different definitions here. *shrugs*.

If that's the case, or if he's lived there in the recent past, then all his complaints over the meanings of "cunt" and "twat" are a sham. He already knows what they mean to non USA people. Not what they mean to *some* people in the UK or the rest of the world even! This is specifically what I repli...

There is no true rhyming slang. Like I said there are different conventions depending where you are. It is after all slang not RP English. Some slang uses the complete phrase, some doesn't. Just because they don't where you come from doesn't mean it is universal. I've never heard anybody refer to t...

Nice try at quotemining. :lol: She poses the question you've quoted and then answers it in complete contradiction to your views. It's unbelievable. In that article she goes through the exact same thought processes that we do at the slymepit and comes (unsurprisingly) to the same conclusion that we ...

Rhyming slang, although this one is not traditional cockney. In my neck of the woods it's usual "chicken oriental", as in "he's gone completely chicken oriental". Only in true rhyming slang, you don't use the second word, "he's gone completely chicken", the second word is supposed to be suggestive ...

Not Steve Wright, it's the awesome Simon Bates. He could have kept his show going for years just reading out those posts from the Large Moron Collider (love it). And coming up next it's the Golden Hour Simon Bates a bit before my time, although assuming my internets research is correct, it certainl...

bhoytony wrote: Oh. My. Fucking. God. They are fucking radio rental over there. Radio rental = mental? Rhyming slang, although this one is not traditional cockney. In my neck of the woods it's usual "chicken oriental", as in "he's gone completely chicken oriental". Only in true rhyming slang, you d...

Hehe Spence thinks that when he has 'won' an argument the loser needs to hide in a hole for all eternity and not sully his greatness with any more comments! No, I think I've "won" a debate when I present clear evidence that you were wrong, and you presented no evidence at all. Simples. Same as crea...

I seem to remember it as we went round and round and round on the previous thread with no one giving ground. It wasn't about "ground". It was about evidence. You claimed something was illegal when you had no knowledge of the legal process. I cited legal precedent and relevant judgements as evidence...

Oolon is certainly most dishonest about how s/he goes about arguing. For the record, Oolon is a "he". On FtB, he links his comments to his website: oolon.co.uk For the record, I don't care if oolon is a "he" or a "she", they will be treated equally by me irrespective of gender. I also don't care fo...

Oh. My. Fucking. God. They are fucking radio rental over there. I'll post my favourite bit, but you need to play this backing music while you read it. [youtube]C6ZDsUGiGqM[/youtube] You utter bastard. Why didn't you put trigger warnings on that video? I just suffered *bad* Steve Wright / James Whal...

that would mean Amy has LESS integrity than PCS. Is PCS Venomfangx's name? Or does it stand for creationists or something? I'm bad with acronyms sometimes. Yeah, my bad, I was throwing out references for the in-group clique. Not very slymepit of me, but I couldn't resist :whistle: [youtube]TIVRIyBG...

I think the non-youtubing bloggers have only just discovered the dmca as a way to silence others. They have no idea what fair use is, and obviously no idea at all that you have fought some well known (on yt anyways) dmca's. Venomfangx was hilarious when having to apologize on camera as part of the ...

oolon said 3. Say a female person is a c*nt in a context where that person is being disparaged then misogyny is a reasonable assumption. A citation for Dick and the Uk'ers who say 'no one' in the UK sees the word this way http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2003/10/taboo_for_who Did anyone else rea...

FYI, surly amy threatened to sue for for 100 000 dollars for using her image on FTBs (going back a month or two). ROFLMAO. Amy knows as much about the legal process as oolon does. The irony is that she probably made a bucket load of extra income following all the publicity. Far from costing her, I ...

Oolon is certainly most dishonest about how s/he goes about arguing. Whilst I am reluctant to agree with a separate thread, I would note that I pwned oolon in a debate on Thunderf00t's blog by pinning them down to one subject. Because thunderf00t's blog was threaded, replies were always associated w...

JT also makes the mistake of saying the A+forum is troll fatigued. Troll fatigued? They have 1853 users and have only banned 30, including Matt, for "trolling". hardly warrants fatigue. Lol, yeah, that's just slightly over one troll per moderator, isn't it? I think they are probably suffering moder...

Fucking hell I did not realise how stupid Surly Amy could be. She starts off by linking to a screencap of Justin's posting of her address. Well, there is some evidence retained for once. In that screencap, as a good skeptic, Justin himself included a copy of the original commenter who implied Justin...

Wow, so much going on difficult to keep up. The observation that atheism plus will soon be a forum of just moderators is hilarious. It suits them - they will just become a mindless group of little authoritarians, each having their own segment of power over something made completely worthless by thei...

Here is Green's absurd, propagandist hatchet job he spewed out for the rag The New Shitsman: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2011/07/richard-dawkins-chewing-gum Make of it what you will, but I'm fully in agreement with Struth: Green is a twat. Wow, okay, that is an astonishing a...

Oh good grief what a stupid typo.

~~I think DAG's Assange on this is fair~~

I think DAG's take on Assange is fair

I've referred to David Allen Green on this thread before, in the light of his fight against the many problems with UK libel laws and the illiberal application of same. I think his work in this area is generally very good and commendable. I'm aware of his criticism of Assange but I don't think I ment...

(Oh and I see oolon turns up for good measure, and continues to prove that he/she/it still hasn't grasped the primacy of objectivity in critical thinking) I quite like oolon for reasons I will not get into. I hope he continues to do his thing here and there. BTW, where is Justicar's sparring partne...

So let me get this straight. Gurdur, who did post on the original threads but has been largely quiet on this topic threads recently, is involved in a conference that Stefunny is also involved in, and their twitter streams cross. So Stefunny posts up an stroppy tweet and a blog post. I note in the bl...

Re: Watson on Galileo, her note on the video is not much better. "he wasn't executed, just condemned". Ermm, he was tried by the inquisition, found guilty of heresy, to avoid a more severe penalty he was forced to denounce his own opinion, and in doing so he got the lesser sentence of house arrest f...

This little shit has been manufacturing non-troversy for over a year. I am stoked to finally catch him in the act. He has been outed. Booyah! The weird thing is that Benson's post that you linked to ( here ) complains that the community has divided in a way that she didn't want to happen, and that ...

Scented Nectar wrote:
Spence wrote:
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And all this time I thought it had something to do with bacterias and gases. They must hire mice of varying sizes.

And where in the world is the best place to find cheesy bacteria?

(OMFG I can't believe I just said that. I feel sick now :puke-huge: )

ERV wrote:Me and scented keeping the spam at bay:
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It could be worse. At least the menz aren't trying to run the line. We'd only be worse.

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(With notpologies to drimble at b3ta. Hell, so many others have stolen this I figured one more time wouldn't matter)

(Yes you spotted a transcription error of a superfluous negative sign there.) OK:- it seems that the error function relies partly on one's definition of "near zero", and "<<". As these were not defined, I can assume them to be any reasonable interpretation thereof. Nor was the range of 'n' defined,...

Just to clarify. I'm using the term goal in the sense of a desired outcome not as an a necessarily achievable outcome. Of course it will probably never be 0%, but that is always the goal. Well, we had this discussion about rape stats etc. on the threads at ERV and I said something similar (that the...

...the function 1-(1-x)^n can be approximated by n*x if x is near zero and n << 1/x... Eh??? I'd put good money on that what you say is not true. I see no point in the shortcut since with computers the full calculation is easy enough to do. This is probability so 0<x<1 and n is an integer, the term...

In the case R=0.62% or 0.00062, the number is closer to 0.01232 or 1.23%. Sorry, typo. It's 0.0062. The calculation is correct. No, it's NOT correct, shit. It is actually closer to 12%, as steersman said. (11.7%) Final Answer. Adding graph to show my contrition. x = rape rate. If this isn't right t...

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