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

Ellenbeth Wachs has signed the Skeptic Women pledge thingy. I have been one of the more hostile critics of EBW -- and indeed, she has said some really nasty stuff, i.e., Vacula the child raper . But I must say, like many others, her current critical thinking-based eye opener has given me much pause...

https://twitter.com/OpheliaBenson/status/345276151859642368 You mean like this? http://i.imgur.com/iE3zKQN.jpg I'm not sure why the pic above makes you think of toilets (ok, I can guess and I'd be right). All I think of when I look at that is that I'm generally all for chocolate covered blondes.

If Westeros really wanted to get its shit together it would be ruled by Tywin Lannister(completely amoral but the smartest character on the show) and by Olenna Tyrell(the second smartest character on the show). http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/3207/6yvz.png Emma Peel - she was hot Ah, Mrs. Peel. ...

How many "guests" are posting on this page? Come on, give some identity to yourself to avoid confusion. How hard can it be to make up a name or put a number after "guest" so we can follow an actual conversation. Even better, register with whatever name you make up, so you at least have the courtesy ...

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This is what happens when I get bored. Someone needs to take Twitter away from me.

Well, Oolon did try...

By the way, I've completely uninstalled and disabled all antivirus and firewall software in my computer because we should be telling people not to write viruses. Good for you. I leave my car unlocked, windows down and cash, sat-nav and mobile phone on the dashboard because we should teach people no...

Also his limitation, apparently, of "feminist" to apply only to women; at the end, apparently, a "feminist" is a woman who "believes that men and women are equal" even if she can accept them being treated unequally because women get treated worse than men and men dish it out anyway, and even if she...

The board meeting at which Ron Lindsayâ€™s behavior at Women in Secularism 2 will be one topic to be discussed is next week. If you are concerned about the direction CFI is taking, if you value it as an organization and want to see it improve, if you think Ron Lindsay has served the interests of CF...

Just for fun:

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Really, because I'd guess that $2k american is a significant portion of most peoples salaries. Compared to the cost of having the child and then raising it? People can find a way. Why is this even relevant, Abortion will not be re-illegalized. Any reversal would at most return the decision to the s...

Now I'm wondering how much back room knowledge pz has about the rest of fftbs. If he sees someone commenting on Ally's blog and thinks they're a shithead is he going to out them too?

Some people use anonymity to empower their ability to be a shithead. They snipe and sneer, they hide behind fake names, they use multiple sock puppets to generate the illusion that more people support their hatred, and also to prevent people from blocking them â€” they want to force you to read the...

"That's enough. Alert sent" The guard-dogs are patrolling the Pharyngula defences... http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/06/my-poor-children-didnt-reap-the-benefits-of-gay-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-631895 Heehee, I scrolled up to the article and it looks like pmz is taking lessons...

It was a simple, open-ended question. I honestly didn't expect so much hostility. I was aware when I asked it that her post looked hypocritical, but then there could have been another reason for the censoring, of which I was not aware, so I wasn't about to start making absolute judgments. And she d...

It was a simple, open-ended question. I honestly didn't expect so much hostility. I was aware when I asked it that her post looked hypocritical, but then there could have been another reason for the censoring, of which I was not aware, so I wasn't about to start making absolute judgments. And she d...

I am intrigued by the 4:00 a.m. post-Lindsay WIS morale meeting. Do we have any fly-on-the-wall speculation what was discussed, aside from trying to reassure, wrongly, I might add, Melody Hensley that she doesn't look like Foghorn Leghorn in drag? I would like to know if the 4am meeting started whe...

I am intrigued by the 4:00 a.m. post-Lindsay WIS morale meeting. Do we have any fly-on-the-wall speculation what was discussed, aside from trying to reassure, wrongly, I might add, Melody Hensley that she doesn't look like Foghorn Leghorn in drag? I would like to know if the 4am meeting started whe...

I don't mind Steffy having this discussion. It's now obvious that this was what was going to be happening as soon as they could talk themselves into it. Now they're making an obvious statement. Good on them for doing it out front (except that they likely did it in private first) I stopped going ther...

Why is it OK to mock people for having shit, anti-social personalities (or just for being stupid) yet it's terrible to mock them for being a fat bastard? They can't change who they are or what they're like but they can go on a diet and lose some lard if they are that bothered about it. Because peop...

So back to that 'running from tornadoes' thing? The whole 'tornadoes usually go north east?' The one on the ground now is turning south. Moving away from the place Jerry Coyne and I went for onion burgers... :( Stay safe. I would have thought a good argument against having everybody get in their ca...

Coincidence in time? I didnâ€™t say that. But these are his very first comments, and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of â€œSkep tickle.â€ Believe me, that is not normal. I read the comments more slowly and thoroughly and they just reek of fake. Iâ€™ve had some experience with fakes. I donâ€™t buy...

In other news: http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/30/rob-ford-scandal-captivates-americans-way-to-go-canada/ â€œAny time you have to hold a press conference and say: â€˜I donâ€™t smoke crackâ€™ â€” not a good day,â€ â€œTodayâ€ co-host Savannah Guthrie said of the showâ€™s report from Toronto. Well, ...

Oh good god. Funny how Mark Thomas has never commented here before yesterday. Funny how pompous he sounds. Funny how concerned he is about â€œSkep tickleâ€. Funny how he talks about taking the higher ground. Now what does that remind me ofâ€¦ Oh yes. â€œSkep tickle.â€ Good bye â€œMark Thomasâ€. ...

PZ Myers hasn't used a dictionary since age 15. http://i.imgur.com/EwA9EMr.png Heck, I don't know the meaning of the word 'meaning.' And if you have to look it up in a dictionary, well, you might as well admit... you've lost. My response to pmz would be that if your argument can be trashed by a dic...

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For fuck's sake...now she's cracked open the full-on smear campaign.

OB is just mad that Skep Tickle has written more words on B&W than OB has.

Second - my attitude may be affected by having to take my guy's dog into the vet to have her put to rest. The kicker? She had a massive tumor on the back of her tongue. Yeah. Cancer. Nearly in the same place as my guy. So, he's all ripped up about this. Having to see my guy cry is making my heart a...

Oh, and I didn't post that 'hastag' remark anywhere else but the Pit, so that's pretty much a confession from Nanny Phee that she does indeed peruse the Slymepit. Indeed. So let me say: Ophelia, kindly fuck off . There we are. Sorted. I disagree. I like to think that what makes the Pit different is...

Southern wrote:
FrankGrimes wrote:Jeez, I'm not sure you guys need to do anything any more. Enough rope....
We need franc to threaten her with a cunt kick again (if only we can do a fundraising to pay for that sex change).

So, a kickstarter, so to speak. :dance:

I love the bit at the end about how the board have to decide it. There's no way they could find him guilty as charged. The only thing 'at odds' with CFI's mission/civility pledge thingy was the North Korea bit. Which he's apologised for. It's perfect! that is brilliant. Basically he's saying "I'm n...

AndrewV69 - super cool pix! I would have been terrified! Huh! Why? These are only Black Bears and they used to be prey animals (based on the way they behave) so most of the time the wild ones are scared of you (well me anyway) unless you do something silly like run away, which tells them that you a...

comment i just left on lindsay's post: It is fascinating to me how many people continue to deny that women who are not in agreement with FTB/Skepchicks have been attacked, repeatedly for not agreeing. They deny that women from FTB/Skepchicks have attacked, viciously, women who dare disagree with th...

Btw-- The outing of Victor Ivanoff is still, in my book, the funniest thing these idiots have ever done. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/12/09/victor-ivanoff-is-a-slimy-stalker/ Just scanned through the comments now. Funnnnny shit. Makes me wonder what dead immigrant is about to be oute...

zenbabe wrote: Once the cunt knifing bit has its day in the sun of course.

Can we stop talking about episiotomy please.

As the WIS is winding down and the surlyramics are packed up, we can relax after having been glued to our computers all weekend in an orgy of attention to the firestorm that it was. Although *we* can now relax for a bit, can you imagine how focussed Michael Nugent must have been and now must continu...

So, Ron waits until he gets all the miscreants in one room on his turf and with him as the host to nail them? Sweet.

...It REALLY pisses me off that I can't get good Indian food over here... You still in Vegas, Lsuoma? No, I hired someone to take over from me - back in Pacific NW again, which I'm rather happy about. Well, a six hour drive was a bit of a reach anyway but Taste of Punjab in Sandy, Utah is amazing. ...

PZ Myers in: Harvesting Lies http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/15/i-think-we-call-that-an-own-goal/ An article in the Houston Chronicle blog, Female atheists fight for equality in freethought movement, goes out of its way to find some people who disagree with that sentiment. I donâ€™t ...

Re definitions of art... Here's a quote that I copied into my quote file years ago... attributed to Frank Zappa: The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively--because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Rea...

Yemmi, a blogger in love with the word Indulges in poetry quite absurd. Like bad haikus, but painfully long, Stuffed mostly with words that don't belong Like 'cum', in a poem inspired by sorrow and death That somehow leaves Yemmi short of her breath. She pants and she moans as the thought runs her ...

In all seriousness, I feel *so* tempted to challenge Amphiox because I'm pretty sure that no such *culture* exists. In other words, there is no culture where gift giving is universally associated with social dominance. So probably by culture he/she means species of birds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

https://twitter.com/canislatrans/status/331577736017629185 I didn't want to do this, but it's time to doxx some people here. Picture of the weekly meeting of the Slymepit "Splinter Group" while they plan a terroristic action on WiS2, codenamed Elevatorgate Deux. "You wait here, and I bring the coff...

Bhurzum wrote:
jmpea81 wrote:PS: Hello!
Here is a picture of a hetero normative, white, male, privileged, rapist seal to welcome you to the pit.

http://i.imgur.com/d9Mcy.jpg

Now, fork orf!

:mrgreen:

Wouldn't that be phoque off?

So this happened today: My building has this back enclosed area-- we keep umbrellas and mops and whatever back there, and thats where the washer/dryer is. Me: *doing laundry* *flapflapflapflap* Me: *blink* *flapflapflapflap* Me: .... SUDDENLY, A BIRD! Me: *SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM* Bird: *flapflapflapf...

YMMV (Your mileage may Vacula). No fear, in just a few short weeks the SJW will find someone new at whom to blare their threat narrative clown horns. I'm betting on Mykeru, of course. Just out of curiosity, given the reasons behind this unfortunate round of Vaculation, who else have they tried to b...

justinvacula wrote:I respond to PZ and Ophelia making their agenda quite clear -

http://www.skepticink.com/justinvacula/ ... culaism-2/

I have the title to your first post conference blog post... Expelled, the Blog Post.

"Mark", (the true author s are unknown), could have been written in 350AD, and still match every bit of extant evidence that we have. I don't believe that date, but it is a possibility. That folk aim for around 70AD is nothing more than backward logic, combined with wishful thinking. (Start with a ...

Ok so now i'm using tapatalk... nicely painless

speaking about android apps, anyone using tapatalk on here? I went to the play store and there seem to be different versions... any advice? I'm using a galaxy s3.

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Up here in Canada we usually grow our canola (aka oil seed rape) on flatter ground than that.

Yeah, you folks aren't entertaining the lurker in me nearly enough lately. I mean, I can actually keep up and have a life.

I'm going to hang in there though and keep reading because I also see 2 looming opportunities for fun.... the conference in Dublin, and Justin's walk in the lion's den.

Hey erv... I was thinking of you and Arnie while I was watching this video of a couple packrafting with their pitbull. (I so want to try packraft backpacking like this, but the cost of trying it out is a bit high so it's going to take me a bit longer to talk myself into it) Anyway, I was enjoying th...

Ok, here Half Fish says that being a settler means that "Your blood relations DO NOT TRACE BACK to the first people on the land on which you live" now, from my limited knowledge of natural history, doesn't that include everybody who doesn't currently live in Africa? Wait... I'm from an African coun...

Maybe you could tell us how you would feel if Mexico, in order to help control the flow of guns to the criminal gangs that kill so many in Mexico, used drone strikes on gun shops in Arizona. Because the US doesn't just use drone strikes in countries they are in a war with, do they. I don't care for...

Yet, I still have to hear an objection to drone strikes which isn't purely emotional or informed by blanket pacifism, or by some other utopia which forgets that not all wars are unjustified or intrinsically immoral. Sometimes one has to read gems of journalism like this one, quote-mining for moral ...

PZ has a new post about Islamophobia. snip The cartoon is interesting, but I loved the comments, which, after a couple word substitutions, turn into evidence of the inability of some FTB commenters to see beyond their own ideology snip Fundamentalists, of whatever stripe, all basically think the sa...

Wow. The crappe that comes acrosse my feed - guess who? - Comrade shit-writer. His latest post - people walking on the sidewalk should walk in a straight line! Unless drunk or having a neurological disorder - the rest - fucke offe you damne meanderer! You know Ed is really desperate if he keeps tha...

Hey,
I don't know who this is, but Youtube recommended it, so I gave it a look:

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[ That reminds me of a request I wanted to make... hey Lsuoma, I don't know how much control you have on setup, but could we get the ability to use comic sans on fftb quotes? ARGH. No, please. Next, will we be growing a pot belly, a neckbeard and a penchant for dogmatism? Well, I have 2 out of 3 an...

OH MY GOD DISSERTATIONS ARE SO FUCKING ARCHAIC. Just make a powerpoint. Make sure you also use Comic Sans. You need to impress after all. That reminds me of a request I wanted to make... hey Lsuoma, I don't know how much control you have on setup, but could we get the ability to use comic sans on f...

Halfwit Geweint is at it again over at Crommie's: http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2013/04/10/in-bad-faith/ http://www.freezepage.com/1365622611NTDQKEDAFQ tl;dr: Dawkins is a filthy racist and the Fishface will scream at you if you disagree. I also wish Dawkins would pick a different go-to wo...

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