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free thoughtpolice wrote:Indiana? I hope she doesn't punish the puppy for spawning Mike Pence. :think:

"Indiana wants me..." As opposed to everyone else.

There's riding a bike fast and then there is riding on the Isle of Man :o [.youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNXCJt7K3Q[/youtube] Aye. Never been there myself but word is that the TT is a mutherfucker. Only the stone cold crazy fearless need show up. Or maybe single-minded, as with the like...

Thanks. A Doppler on my carotid was done and was clear. I've been taking 81mgs of aspirin daily for the last couple of years. I have a doctor appointment on the 26 so I hope to get whatever else I need done then. Any advice on what else I can do or should avoid until then? Just blue-haired skepckic...

Husband thinks I'm nuts, but I blame my episode on a bad deep tissue massage I had onboard. I don't think the woman is a licensed masseuse. I read about a woman who had a fatal stroke a day or so after getting an adjustment from a chiropractor. Neck 'adjustments' from chiropractors can tear the int...

Jerry Coyne has let us down a little with some muddled thinking. He took a photo of some sleeping homeless people in Chicago for this post . https://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/img_0505.jpg?w=602&h=452 Then he added this update: Screen Shot 2017-01-13 at 7.11.09 AM.png I'm asking ...

KiwiInOz wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:snip

http://imgur.com/1zVuYdQ.jpg
I never realised that she was a natural ginger.

But that prolapse looks pretty nasty.

Trump can not only talk out of his own ass, but other people's asses too. I'm impressed, and keeping my buttocks well clenched.

A source at the CIA has released an artists impression of one of Trump's Piss hookers seen leaving the hotel: http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh12/htsnyder/sasbody_v5_0604.jpg That's not the 'squatch involved. That one had a nazi armband, a turban, a hammer in one hand and a screwdriver in its t...

I see the US 3rd Armoured Brigade is headed for Poland where it will conduct exercises aimed at Russia. I believe this will end well. If it'll put your mind at rest, we've been doing that for years - google "Ulan eagle" for a wealth of info/images/videos. Of course, but in 1983 it nearly started WW...

Cnutella wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:And Peter Sarstedt has gone, too, my lovely.
Did he die alone in his bed?

You :nin: 'd me. Meanwhile, the subject of that song, Sophia Loren, lives on. 82, I just checked.

But a parting shot, something I've periodically wondered about, that I may post in that thread, to maybe throw the fox in amongst the chickens: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dda-0Q_XUhk[/youtube] I can't help wondering, if anti-feminist facts are red pill, and anti-BLM facts are black pi...

But not sure that I was saying "a dog with three legs is still a dog". My point, and that of Lincoln, was more akin to " functional theories of grammar ": The three legged dog thing is what I wished you had said, I gave you credit anyway; at the rate things are going you might be our dictator some ...

Jordan Peterson is in ill-health, & looks it. He's scheduled as a guest on Sam Harris's Waking Up podcast, & views it as a debate for-which he has been preparing, for years. Peterson posted an impassioned semi-coherent rant-- like James Joyce doing a wrestling promo for an Oxford debate It feels li...

Corsicans don't like to be invaded. ...by them stinkin' French! :D Ajaccio, where the protests occurred, was Napoleon's hometown, I believe. Most of us know it now for the violets used in scents that are grown there - the Trumper's version is quite nice. I'm experimenting with scents tonight, makin...

You poor bastard. Don't lose your temper when you have that talk; it can only harm things if she gets to say you were violent or threatening.

In England, the same is said of France. And rightly so. Let's face it, we're mostly cunts. Happy New Year everyone! An old idea to resurrect: in the glory days of alt.tasteless in the late 90's, Citizen Ted posited the existence of cuntspace , defined as any part of spacetime that had ever had a cu...

Brive1987 wrote:Christie has, ah, changed over the past three years.

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

I'd want to put those ~~memories~~ mammaries behind me too.

FTFY

Shatterface wrote:
ROBOKiTTY wrote:That's for them to decide, not for outsiders to go in and force on them. Besides, the overwhelmingly majority of Inuit are lactose-intolerant
Or 'milk bigots' as I prefer to call them.

Says the man who has never tried to milk a walrus!

So there were a couple of posts mocking the effort on some veterans' part to apologize to some natives over past wrongs. I suppose it's a meaningless gesture, but what's so wrong with that? The fact is natives in North America have been treated extremely shamefully, and not just in ancient times bu...

I want Prof. Commie to carry on spouting bad ideas, it helps others to know what kind of a person he is, and to form their informed opinion on him and on those who support him. I want his ideas to be challenged : I want people to be able to debate him, criticize him, mock him, satirize him, expose ...

rayshul wrote:
Also I'm #TeamOckham all the way at the moment...

And the odds of a Rayshul/VC lez fest just got long enough that only poor Steers would his money down.

Merry Xmas or whatever you call it to the pit - have a good time if possible although I know the year has not been great to all. Congrats to Phil on getting his death licence and to SD for getting back into what looks like steady work. Srewtape hope you have an especially good time. Thanks, man. I ...

The death of political correctness. I hope! http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/lawrence-solomon-2016-was-a-great-year-actually-it-heralds-a-return-to-the-old-normal Merry Xmas all! From that article: 2016 represents the final blow to true believers in global warming. Even before the overwhel...

Seems like the SPLC deserves its award even more than we knew:

http://nypost.com/2016/12/05/report-bur ... hite-kids/

Lsuoma wrote: My wife just bought me life membership in the HPLHS!

Funny how we choose things. Whenever my son needs to create an online profile name he uses Herbert West. Honestly not my fault in this case. I never laid a tentacle on him.

One thing I'm discovering in my current position administering housing grants is that there are houses in Fermanagh and Tyrone that are built of plastered mud. Mud is a perfectly feasible building material in very dry climates, but in Ireland? What, exactly, were they thinking? Belfast is only buil...

Congratulations, Paddy. At least houses there are made of real bricks. In Canada wood construction is the norm, and the wood frame house we built 28 years ago seems to be rotting around us. Two years ago the back had to be rebuilt because of carpenter ants. This year it looks like the front is rotti...

I was still in high school when Neal Stephenson wrote Cryptonomicon and had zero interest in academia. Have things always been this bad, or was Stephenson just some sort of prophet? ..... She went up to San Francisco and bought a few hundred dollars’ worth of pornography at a boîte that catered to ...

Paging Abbie http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-man-hiv-aids-medical-trial-breakthrough-cured-a7341801.html A 44-year-old British man may have become the first person in the world to be cured of HIV. Tests showed the virus had become undetectable in the blood of the previously H...

sp0tlight wrote:Also, I believe thunderfoot is real. Seen his scat all over the webs!!1

Actually, all those sightings were really Mykeru doing his prepper thing.

So yeah, I don't know all the details, but I wouldn't blame the epileptic here. I'm not blaming anyone, I just want to correlate my experience of Twitter videos, i.e. they never auto-played for me. If this is universal and not just me fucked around in settings years ago, he'd have to push play butt...

Someone was asking at work today why the left ball is smaller than the right ball on Amazon's biodome, so I told them that we employed an architect from Devizes. http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Amazon-BioDome-5-630x264.jpg Devizes was the home of the local lunatic asylum, an...

[quote="Kirbmarc"]More on healthcare in the US and why it's so expensive: ...SNIP.... When I was a medical student it was taught that care in the US was more expensive because of the need to track all expenses and bill for them. Every medical procedure has to pay for the time of billing clerks, acco...

To be fair, the Italians did win World War I and smash the Austrian Empire. It's in World War II that they really, really sucked. And it was largely because of shitty organization, shitty logistics and shitty material. Under a German general like Rommel Italian soldiers (the Afrika Corps was largel...

Holy shit. Has anyone taken a look at FTB recently? https://web.archive.org/web/20161212154719/http://freethoughtblogs.com/resist/2016/12/12/welcome-to-the-resistance/ Screen Shot 2016-12-12 at 18.08.24.png Paper, stone. Still miss the scissors. Both those hands happen to be male. Patriarchy!

Y'all are weird and lovely. Wish you'd stop hating me though. :cry: I don't think anybody here really hates you. I for one find your insight on Taiwanese politics fascinating. Just out of curiosity, has Trump's phone call with Tsai had any significant impact in Taiwanese media/politics? Many people...

The Obit would work better as a single blog roll where you could filter by author. So far there are 7 posts up for Dec from the 21 authors. A number of the posts are parish notes or adverts. The Orbit's promised "best of book" would be a hoot and their online convention obviously died in the womb. ...

So the Morris NorthStar is about to out PZ as a rapist in its next issue, and PZ blames "slymers, Michael Nugent and Mike Cernovich." http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/12/11/yay-im-on-the-professor-watch-list/ Feel free to Archive link this, I'm too lazy. I looked. It says nothing. The ho...

BTW, does anybody here still listening to Novella's Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast? It has been over a year for me. He lost me with his capitulation to the SJWs over Dawkins. Never have listened to it at all, but then again, I despise neurologists. In my day they existed merely to make esot...

Aneris - are you going to accept responsibility for this? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIo-17SIkws[/youtube] I've little to no sympathy for an alternate history of language (chosen tonguespeak history?), but I do have to say that I find the sound of anglo-saxon very pleasant. Nothing co...

So if you are a white male facing down a rabid feminist, can't you just claim that you identify as a woman, and use your fat bearded lady status to catapult yourself to the top of the progressive stack? Given the postmodernist creed as I've come to know it, it should be perfectly acceptable to clai...

Italian PM resigns, This has to be a poe. https://twitter.com/heroinehavisham/status/805560748801986561 Do you remember when they used to say, "Italy has more elections than a Chinaman on his honeymoon". I think poe authors are well-enough informed to know that Mussolini came to power in 1922. But ...

Hmm... looking for some help in finding reliable scientifically sound information on some gluten sensitivity tests my sibling and her rugrat took. The official answer is easy: if your anti-tissue transglutaminase test is positive in the presence of a normal IgA level, you are probably gluten-intole...

Medicine is patriarchal white supremacy anyway. God, you make me feel...so good! Isn't there some herb or powdered animal part Muscatto can take to turn him into a lady? According to the alt-med types, black cohosh, evening primrose oil and soybeans will do everything you want, darling. For me, I'l...

Is there some reason Dave couldn't transition under Obama? Too busy or something? Literally no one has been able to transition under Obama. All those damn Republicans, dontcha know. Certainly not a friend of mine who has to live with roommates and works a low wage job parking cars. Who still manage...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:That's probably because a few new pornsites have been hitting high marks.

You know that means we all have to do our bit in hastening the downfall of FTB by visiting as many of them as possible as often as we can......

The very last clue I got in a cryptic crossword today was "Relevant language on the fourth of June." The answer was 'germane' and I got it simply because I had a lot of crossing words and already had every other letter. Yes, german = relevant, and german is a language, but the fourth of June part? I...

And also, welcome back, Vicky.

Here's an interesting read that's getting passed around: The World's Most Toxic Value System . This won't make sense until you read the linked article above. Does anyone else recognise the described sense of offended honour (sorry for the extra 'U')? I certainly recall a situation when I suddenly f...

Here's an interesting read that's getting passed around: The World's Most Toxic Value System . Ay ay ay! That perfectly sensible link includes the word 'screwtape'! I'll be fucked (please, oh, please! Forty years of monogamy has some disadvantages) if my 'nym is exposed and understood, as sideways ...

Clarence wrote: I really want to pat this girl on the head.

Trying a new strategy?

Even Orwell, writing in The Road to Wigan Pier, appeared mystified as to why the moonbat brigade should latch on to socialism as opposed to capitalism or fascism. My personal guess is that because a lot of of fringe types consider themselves as oppressed, then fringe types might well be drawn to a ...

What, if anything, is so terribly wrong with running things the way that Attlee started and which continued through both Labour and Conservative governments until Maggie (the most unpopular leader ever in the UK) decided that monetarism was the only true way? The only thing I can think of is that i...

CNN today: Screen Shot 2016-11-27 at 4.49.03 PM.png As I get older, I realise that the Attlee socialism I grew up with was pretty damn good for me. Government owned and ran the water supply, electricity, gas, sewerage, steel production, coal, railways, communications and probably even more than I ca...

Further silliness over l'affaire Galloway in the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/how-the-steven-galloway-scandal-sparked-a-canlit-civil-war/article33049536/ Students who haven't been able to write their thesis for over a year simply because they heard it happened,...

So this is a thing. http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/33815/1/vivienne-westwood-s-son-burns-first-part-of-punk-collection Because that will accomplish something. Pfffffffft Corré, the co-founder of Agent Provocateur, will use the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy In The...

I don't know if any of you are familiar with the author Margaret Atwood. She's an old-school feminist and I often don't agree with her, but she is taking the accusation-is-enough crowd to pieces on twitter. https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood/status/801914578355494913 https://twitter.com/MargaretAtw...

More, books, more... The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper) The Wierdstone of Brissingamin (sp?) Bill, the Galactic Hero & The Stainless Steel Rat (both by Harry Harrison) If you liked Anansi Boys (by Neil Gaiman) I think he referred to it as a 'Thorne Smith' novel in an interview- probably referring sp...

I agree that the Flashman books are excellent reads, and sneakily teach you a lots of history in between the rogering of fillies under the billiard table. They do get a bit formulaic, so no need to read them all. The funniest books I have ever read were those by Tom Sharpe. He started with two novel...

Does this mean is I identify my personal pronoun as "Sir", SJWs have to refer to me as "Sir", or they get locked up or fined or summat? Yes. If you simply believe that someone has discriminated against you, you can have them brought before the federal or provincial Human Rights Tribunal (as appropr...

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/799808168335409152 But the C-16 bill in question has been passed. https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/799806822278369280 November 18, 2016 – Ottawa, ON – Department of Justice Canada The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attor...

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