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

Ain't giving you the pleasure of a link to this piece of nonsense: Screen Shot 2019-03-29 at 4.14.56 PM.png But our Foreign Affairs minister rates neo-nazism and Islamophobia as the gravest threats? Presumably that can be backed up, and that, for example, more people die of Islamophobia than of Isla...

The latest attempt to discredit Jody Wilson-Raybould (the ex-Attorney General who refused to cave in to political pressure to avoid a prosecution of SNC-Lavalin , a giant Quebec engineering firm that has allegedly spent millions on bribes to win contracts in Africa) involves a semi-official leak, p...

Ah yes, the two Irish gays: Michael Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmichael. Back in the 90's, our new dept. boss fresh from the UK took us out to a brew pub and told that joke. Dead silence until I broke it with, 'good thing there are no gays or irishmen at the table!' (There were both if you count me...

Trudeau continues to reveal how shallow his ideals actually are. The latest attempt to discredit Jody Wilson-Raybould (the ex-Attorney General who refused to cave in to political pressure to avoid a prosecution of SNC-Lavalin , a giant Quebec engineering firm that has allegedly spent millions on bri...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:26 pm
Well, clearly you're nothing but a dreamer.

Like Rudy, I'm on a train to nowhere. Albeit one calling at Reading, Didcot, Swindon, Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads.

If anyone follows AFL, fuck you. Another of today's idiots - https://i.imgur.com/k8Fr8r7.jpg Yeah, but the Reds won. So knobs a dunkin. Crucially, north Americans are more likely to experience the cold kiss of toilet water because their toilets are not like European toilets. Large pools of water ju...

2003 Chevy Malibu here. Which - I've been informed at my recent maintenance check-up - has a problem with oil getting into the coolant, apparently a "fatal flaw" of the breed, which will require some $4 K to fix, and which doesn't seem at all justified. Curious though how that can happen, and why t...

Talking of old cars, my 1991 Miata costs me next to nothing obligatory, only the doodads I want to put on her. Like the replacement instrument cluster I'm trying to squeeze out of KG Works in Japan: Screen Shot 2019-03-23 at 3.12.20 PM.png The faceted instrument lights are orgasmic to someone who gr...

Acceleration intensifies... Needs more wibbly norks... Some of those safety belt placements are distinctly unsafe. Most are already carrying airbags anyway. Neither silicone nor saline are compressible, and there's a limit to how much latex can stretch. I've never seen it happen, but the results mi...

Acceleration intensifies... Needs more wibbly norks... Some of those safety belt placements are distinctly unsafe. Most are already carrying airbags anyway. Neither silicone nor saline are compressible, and there's a limit to how much latex can stretch. I've never seen it happen, but the results mi...

Update from PZ Good news for lawyers everywhere! We have managed to completely pay off our lawyer, Marc Randazza! The Carrier lawsuit is over, ending in victory for the side of goodness, he says, as he gazes out over the shambles of his finances. We paid him off, but all of us defendants together a...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Are we posting pix of hawt women politicians now?

Well, here's Madison Davis, the 27-yo mayor of Brisbane, CA:

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Damn! The Jackson family are selling Michael's outfits on eBay?

Careful what you say online, you Aussies:

Video demonetized and shadowbanned by YouTube after human review.

Did you know the entire Brexit debacle was brought about by uneducated, old, white men? Then you don't read the Globe & Mail! This article is behind a paywall, but if you click on the link, ignore the pop-up (do not close it with the 'x') and click on your browser's Reader view, then refresh, you wi...

The wretched events in Christchurch made me have a thought. It's pretty clear that many natives of desirable-residence countries are unhappy about the immigration policies of their governments, rightly or wrongly - it doesn't matter for this thought. It might not be immigration: it could be an issue...

As well as my brothers vast collection of "warbooks" (the Commando comics et al beloved by FT), I also read this kind of nonsense:

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Don't blame me, I was a kid and couldn't get enough to read.

That was a 747 in Afghanistan that had a load of military vehicles shift rearwards on take off. Bit silly to dub on the screaming piston engine effects. Mrs Screw is currently in Africa, having flown on a 737 Max 8 from Istanbul to Nairobi. Due tonight to take two more Max 8s to Cairo and thence to...

I don’t think that the vid is of the Ethiopian crash. The aircraft appears to have four engines. the Ethiopian plane was a 737 which has two wing mounted engines.chilling footage nonetheless. Been a while, how are you all doin’? That was a 747 in Afghanistan that had a load of military vehicles shi...

We all like a good fool - the dessert, I mean. Sadly, making one with oranges can result in unexpected troubles:

So I watched an 18th century cooking channel. :o Don't judge.

On my way to Broadmoor one day, I was amazed to overtake a couple of Scorpions barreling down the M4. Never seen a tank on a motorway before (and haven't since, now I think about it).

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Atomic Awakening by James Mahaffey is a great book, and explains succinctly why nuclear is dead, and has been since before 3MI.

Come on, Vicky Caramel invented the thorium-molten salt reactor since then and everything has changed.

I should play this for my leftist daughter.... haha. She would scream at me and call me horrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQ7krp0TsU You might follow up with this one, if a little helpless laughter could retrieve the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6zGQrm2go Best line: "I've t...

screwtape wrote: ↑ I don't particularly care for this gentleman....

Pure snobbery and ignorance on my part. After looking into his background and activities, I have some sympathy for him. Wouldn't want to see him in charge of a country, but I'd be delighted to see him in parliament.

I don't particularly care for this gentleman, but he has a good point in this:

We shouldn't lose our heads over this, but, in the last five years, the number of women beheaded by British men in the U.K. is greater than the number of Britons beheaded by ISIS?

LInk provided by this article at Quillette.

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑
Armando Iannucci's BBC satirical comedy 'The Thick Of It' allegedly based the character Malcolm Tucker on Campbell.

(This was when the BBC still did comedy of course)

You might also nominate it in the tragedy category as well as the comedy. It was that good.

Ha! "Very liberally". Unintended, but juste.

I know Canada is boring (something I'm generally grateful for), and this doesn't have the cachet of added MiG-21 Fishbeds, but it seems my imagined screenplay of our Prime Minister's Office officials trying to browbeat the Attorney General into political interference with prosecutorial independence...

I know Canada is boring (something I'm generally grateful for), and this doesn't have the cachet of added MiG-21 Fishbeds, but it seems my imagined screenplay of our Prime Minister's Office officials trying to browbeat the Attorney General into political interference with prosecutorial independence ...

In the end - for Dr Who - the BBC own it - and if they completely fuck it up - there's not a whole lot I can do about it. After a while moaning seems pointless - and life's too short anyway. As far as favourite companions go - Leela always had a certain appeal. I can't think why, but as a teenager ...

Oh shit. You mean Trump was really fighting with bone spurs and all? Or you mean that a fighting metaphor meme is inappropriate because in real life Trump didn’t go to war? If so. Mind blown. I once read an article by a bemused journalist that had Trump showing her the lumps on his feet that were t...

Oh shit. You mean Trump was really fighting with bone spurs and all? Or you mean that a fighting metaphor meme is inappropriate because in real life Trump didn’t go to war? If so. Mind blown. I once read an article by a bemused journalist that had Trump showing her the lumps on his feet that were t...

I still think that there was a bit of noble savage and distrust of civilization being a strong theme. Of one thing I'm sure, is that all the old pulp writers have joined Lovecraft on the bonfire of modern sensibilities. Yes. I agree with you. The explanation for why the British nobility in the UK w...

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑
MarcusAu wrote: ↑ The Welsh and Cornish get no representation...
Both part of England .. We just let the taffs pretend they have a country.

Soft-hearted weak-kneed namby-pamby poofters need not apply to be Marcher Lords.

In any case, to kill the proverbial two birds, I thought that that was a nice thumbnail overview of yours of the SNC-Lavalin scandal; you may need to update it a bit, what with all of the Liberal Butts - so to speak - being thrown under the bus these days. Yes, quite a tangled web is unweaving. Why...

Case in point how watching youtube conspiracy nuts can make you stupider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneQv5rnqJc He can't pronounce prion. Although he is right that it is "only" a folded protein it is indeed a disease News reports haven't claimed that humans are getting infected by the prion d...

I've been treating one of my horses for cellulitis, but the x-rays just showed the fetlock joint is infected and the bone too which is degrading. A $15K procedure might clear the infection, but he'd still be crippled. I have to put him down. I've had him 9 years he's like family and the sweetest cr...

My there's some Bobby Dazzlers on the labour front bench. May I introduce you to Angela Rayner, the shadow secretary for edukayshun. And part time veggie apparently. :) https://i.imgur.com/zfj68d2.jpg My own dear wife has been a lacto-ovo-pisco-vegetarian since she was about 14, which was about 52 ...

Threw the old man in a hole in the ground because we're not allowed to burn him because that's what catholics do and we are the one true orthodox faith and catholics are cunts and whatever they do is wrong. That fucking hole has cost $14,000 so far and that's not counting the idolaters monument whi...

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:45 pm
So there's a chance of oobleck then?

You keep your non-Newtonian fluids out of my non-Euclidean geometry and we'll get on just fine!

Keating wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:07 pm
I don't stick my dick in shit.

Breaking news: All Gay Guys Leave Australasia Looking For More Satisfying Lives.

But certainly something of a "mephitic" mess there in Twitter Support. Though I periodically wonder to what extent that is due more to imperfect algorithms than explicit bias - even if that bias may affect to some degree, intentionally or not, the development of those algorithms. Ran across a site ...

Something for the "Silly Bugger Games That Twitter Plays" annal; seems that one "James Watt" has been shadowbanned: <snip> https://shadowban.eu/CyberneticsFTW Correct. You done be shadowbanned. Hot off the press - seems I've been let out of the doghouse, been let off the "naughty step". Although fo...

I'd go with the entire media establishment going crazy, but that's just me... You may be a Ligurian, but you can very probably see an issue with our national news at the moment. 1. Giant Quebec construction company allegedly offers bribes to win contracts in Libya. 2. This is noticed, and is agains...

I daresay some of you good fellows have already seen this: The Confessions of a Male, Feminist Sex Addict. As the comment section quickly divines, it probably wasn't written by a man at all, but by a female trolling Quillette.

And a far, far better thing - a TERF fights back:

'Yeeeah it's him': Vancouver writer sues Twitter over its rule against misgendering trans people

Muslim rape gangs, FGM, Forced marriage, Record rises in Violent crime, Record illegal immigration, Islamic terror, Acid attack capital of Europe, Feral inner cities, Gang murders out of control in our capital. Priorities. :think: https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1095294013396127744 Meanw...

Plus, I got to chat with my favorite model, backstage. First time, since I worked on a show with her 2 years ago. Apparently, she's a big deal now. https://www.instagram.com/uglyworldwide/?hl=en Whiteface, blackface and orangeface... truly a modern woman*. *gender is fashion construct. Or maybe λ i...

Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys A bold and articulate reply. I hope those voices are heeded, but I doubt it. There really needs to be a new, international psychology board, based on science and as free from partisanship as possible. The APA is a festering dun...

I was idly toying with the Globe & Mail's webpage this morning, and spotted a Margaret Wente headline that looked interesting, but it had the little key icon under it that signifies subscribers only. That itself is curious, as the G&M has tried to rid itself of her as she doesn't align with their po...

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑
Sunder wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 07, 2019 2:21 pm
Coyne's got another one of his "I'm not biased or anything but the music I liked when I was 12 is objectively better than anything since" posts up.
Well..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII

Yeah, we all know it's been downhill since the Moody Blues quit.

Seems that Lauren Southern has understood there's more than one side to the European refugee crisis, but some of the comments are extremely upset with her about it:

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑
mordacious1 wrote: ↑ Here’s one way to stay warm in Philadelphia:

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So what flammable substance did he have on those jeans for them to set alight like that? .. Is crack cocaine flammable? :think:

You'd have to ask Richard Pryor.

Pretty hard to disagree with Peterson in this matter:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan ... ys-and-men

The second part of the IDW video turned out to be a different edit; there are a few segments in it that don't appear in the first. I looked around the channel, and it does seem to be reasonably thoughtful. I guess we have all had our fill of JBP, but I think there's some value in this documentary ab...

John D wrote: ↑
Keating wrote: ↑ Pretty interesting:

This was remarkably good.

There's a second part:

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ Medical question. Can a transwoman like Ethan be hysterical?
Probably even more so - as the uterus would have to being doing a serious wander.

EXCUSE ME! THAT'S "MA'AM" ..."SIR"! Ethan is a transman, and thus come kitted out with all essential organs for hysteria.

Lindsay Shepherd describes a hilarious complaint levelled against her by a hysterical transperson:

The complainant is quite a dish:

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Brive1987 wrote: ↑

Inti Illimani were exiled from Chile and I came across them in the early seventies doing concerts in London. It may all be Marxist revolutionary nonsense, but it is charming nonetheless:

Brive1987 wrote: ↑ Thank god we have the Palestinian-Egyptian-Australian perspective on the witch.

I'm trying to imagine a remake of Welcome to Woop Woop complete with SJWs correcting the wrongthink of the denizens.

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