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Is the Oxford Dictionary Sexist? Why, yes. Yes it is. h/t @JacquesCuze Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:52 pm Meanwhile: Sexism row prompts Oxford Dictionaries to review language used in definitions Cited usages such as ‘rabid feminist’ to be reconsidered following Twitter storm http://www.theguardian.com/books/...

Brive1987 wrote:Whoever is looking after the orbit picked up on the interest pretty quickly for a work in progress site.

There's a setting at the back end of WordPress sites to specifically request that search engines exclude indexing the site which clearly wasn't enabled if it was found via Google search.

Not being a web programming guy, I just wonder, is there any other tech reason Lousy Cunt might have set up that test page? This sounds too good to be true and I'd hate to think we jumped the gun by proclaiming an exodus before all the evidence was in. But man oh man... If it is an exodus... and th...

TF spreads the word via Brive. Someone's got some 'splaining to do... https://twitter.com/thunderf00t/status/691573010285768705 Meanwhile: Sexism row prompts Oxford Dictionaries to review language used in definitions Cited usages such as ‘rabid feminist’ to be reconsidered following Twitter storm ht...

The Beeb wrote:
A man cleared of raping a woman has been ordered to give police 24 hours' notice before he has sex.

That could catch on on some campuses. But why not make it a generous 48 hrs to draw up and countersign (with witnesses), the Consent and Post-Coital Contract?

https://twitter.com/louisemensch/status/690316575300325376 That is beautiful. We have Jenneke as Pit mascot. Can we make Mensch our journalist mascot? I dunno about that. She may be an ally on some issues and made a good job of documenting the Tim Hunt affair but her journalistic instincts arent al...

From an Ftb ad. Who is this celeb that is getting ugly shamed? http://slymepit.com/phpbb/download/file.php?id=3569 whoisthis.JPG It's not anyone "famous", it's from a Lets laugh at pictures of Walmart shoppers site. Typical FTB clickbait pay per click advert dishonesty and hypocrisy.They must despe...

Can I just ooint out that FtB is not down to 2011 figures - it is well below them. Look at the graph again. The 2011 start point shows Quantcast measuring FtB from zero rapidly rising to normal levels as the software kicks in. FtB only started in 2011. So the base line needs to be moved slightly to...

Attitudes toward the natural philosopher in the early Roman Empire (100 B.C. to 313 A.D.) Isn't it supposed to be written "100 BC to AD 313"? Actually it should be BCE and CE. He wrote this thesis as recently as 2008 , yet apparently this Atheist "historian" still takes his era naming from someone ...

Spoiler, even......

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:http://i.imgur.com/iqpv0Wb.png

Still waiting, Meyers.

Spooler:

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ctopus_arm

The war on Christmas. http://i.imgur.com/M1koNxm.jpg Whatever you do, don't touch the Elf on the Shelf, Or you might get hauled into an office to recant. A seven-year-old girl in the US called police in a panic because she mistakenly touched her Elf on a Shelf. Isabelle LaPeruta from Old Bridge, Ne...

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Nobel laureate at centre of female scientists row to leave UK for Japan Tim Hunt, who made comments about female students falling for male superiors earlier this year, is moving due to professor wife’s new appointment He is moving because his wife, Professor Mary Collins, a prominent immunologist, ...

Spotted this in the latest Private Eye mag , which for non Brits is a satirical news mag in the Uk.
University Challenge being a long running TV quiz programme. Quite a few later to be be famous Brits appeared on it when they were students.

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

Nice comparison from @theotheratheist http://i.imgur.com/L0YD4UD.jpg Total bollocks. Not true at all. Current blog list as of today: Alethian Worldview Almost Diamonds Ashley F. Miller Biodork Black Skeptics Brute Reason Butterflies and Wheels Comradde PhysioProffe Consider the Tea Cosy Cristina Ra...

Following on from earlier discussion by others. I also lost the You Tube plug in for flash in Chrome on Android Nexus 7 for this forum so I downloaded Dolphin and suggested, and the activated the prompt for flash download but though I can download it. I cant install it. Yes, I have allowed non marke...

Tigzy wrote:
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How outrageous! Such embarrassing things should not be publicly revealed.
Myers is only adding to the shame.

I am referring to the empty seats at Skepticon.

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#killallwhitemen row: charges dropped against student diversity officer Police confirm Bahar Mustafa will no longer face charges over sending a threatening and grossly offensive message A Crown Prosecution Service letter sent on 26 October told Mustafa: “The decision to discontinue these charges ha...

CuntajusRationality wrote:
Cnutella wrote:

If someone once poked me with their finger , does that count?

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Hemant is still grumbling about Jaclyn Glenn, this time pointing out some minor plagiarism of, of all people, Matt Dillahunty. You know, if you're so desperate for content you have to scrape the bottom of that particular barrel, you probably deserve a little public ridicule. In her latest video she...

Oh Noes! Someone on twitter wants to own the definition and use of the word "slave" lest they be offended, ever sensitive to such things The Guardian announces a "backlash" , now where's that "12 Years a Slave" review gone? Meryl Streep and co-stars attract backlash over Suffragette T-shirt slogan M...

These smash parties? Is this a "thing"? Did I miss the memo about this? Is it an American thing? (being from the UK)

Maybe these folks should contact the UN: [.youtube]LsKFsF2zpFM[/youtube] Richard Dawkins should also contact the UN: [youtube]-ZuowNcuGsc[/youtube] Remember as well that before her "boycott" of Dawkins post Muslima , RW was at a conference table (IIRC that very fateful Ireland one) along with RD gi...

Picasso in his Derpism period.

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

Søren Lilholt wrote:
CuntajusRationality wrote: http://i.imgur.com/K75iM2A.jpg
No it isn't.

This is Durer's print of a "Rhino" , pretty impressive considering that he had never seen a real rhino and only had a crude drawing made by another and verbal description to go by. She doesn't have that excuse.

http://i.imgur.com/7yheOrP.png

This is also worth watching if you havent seen it, quite some squirming on the sofa there

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https://twitter.com/ShaunyLong/status/645858640843423744 The relationship between Corbyn and Abbott was in the 1970s when she wouls have been a quite different physical creature, not unattractive to some eyes and not the overweight political bordering on racist hypocrite she became in later years. ...

Why is Crosby wearing a jumper depicting the 911 attacks years before they happened? Is there something else he'd like to confess to ? http://i.imgur.com/xffWygY.jpg As for sex dolls, some people have already invented their own uncannily life like versions, do you think they'll get arrested and then...

What I’m seeing is an incestuous reinforcement of assumptions, where reading between the lines becomes a statement of unimpeachable fact. It is a really good example of how people are translating one uncharitable reading of a comment about one thing into a whole string of ugly inferences about some...

http://i.imgur.com/czZbzTS.png where's that from? I cant find any Myers blog post in the last few days with anything near 279 comments? :? http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/06/23/the-hopeless-arrogance-of-milo-yiannopoulos/comment-page-1/#comment-970468 Thanks , goes back a bit further th...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Ape+lust wrote: http://imgur.com/MTsmWm2.jpg
Yeah, that Osama Svan-Laden cross is scary.

That KIm Dotcom has let himself go lately.

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:http://i.imgur.com/czZbzTS.png

where's that from? I cant find any Myers blog post in the last few days with anything near 279 comments? :?

rayshul wrote:I'm terribly sorry about Godfrey. Maybe he could go on holiday until his people need him again.

Or apply to go on FTB. I believe they are short of a few bloggers there now.

U R d4mn r1gh7 Talking of coded messages, maybe I am misremembering from another forum or site, but weren't there a series of revelations/anecdotes at one time of a sexual nature on FTB (or possibly in the comments) that were posted in code with a link to a translator site where they could copy and...

comhcinc wrote:I'm sad. Dick Carrier deleted my offer for a place to stay. He didn't even say anything. That's pretty damn rude.

You were lucky , even if he likes you, he usually withdraws at the last minute and messes up your schedule.

Thanks. Though I took a look at the article and I'm really no wiser as to what Damion's handle is supposed to be saying or alluding to. Ideas? It's sometimes used so as to prevent otherwise recognised brands or names appearing in search engine results. So the POTUS could post as B4rach 0b4ma. Myers...

"Mr Attlee is very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."

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Any idea how they estimate the male /female visitor ratio? How would they know? [youtube]T3wcxHiorJ4[/youtube] Transphobic! How can Alexa but so binary? How dare they exclude all those who are: Asexual Female to male trans man Female to male transgender man Female to male transsexual man F2M Gender...

Any idea how they estimate the male /female visitor ratio? How would they know?

didymos wrote: Because it is a drop. Lower number is a higher rank.

Ah. I see now, I thought it was number of visitors.

Xenu wrote:FTB Alexa ranking plumetting
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?o=lt&y=t ... tblogs.com

Why does the Y axis on Alexa graphs go in the wrong direction?
it reads like a "drop" from 22K to 30k? :?

Pogsurf wrote:How close are we to this happening?

Isn't it pretty much all he does already ?

How close are we to this happening? https://twitter.com/Shermertron/status/630514855657775104 Who else would host him, especially after his recent childish little footbullets over Patheos? Any Nerd Of Redhead sightings? Did PZ forget to let his dog back in? He turned up as comment 1 in this thread ...

Georgia now wants disciplinary action to be taken against the DJ, and for Blurred Lines to be banned from the club â€œbecause it triggers so many women and people assigned female who go thereâ€. Georgia added: â€œOr at least it should be announced before itâ€™s played from now on, so at least peop...

Can Myers revive the dying monster he created?

http://i.imgur.com/MgLyrKC.jpg?1

Just posting cause TapaTalk keeps sending me to page 1 of this thread and it seems you can't subscribe to a thread without posting in it, unless I've missed something. Tapatalk is complete shit now, and has been for a couple of years. Ok but even on the desktop version of this forum, I cant see any...

Just posting cause TapaTalk keeps sending me to page 1 of this thread and it seems you can't subscribe to a thread without posting in it, unless I've missed something.

They also frequently portray Europeans and "white" Americans as stereotypes: I think that the Japanese just don't give a shit about political correctness. Is this horrible? Maybe. Is this a huge issue? I don't think so. There's a certain cultural arrogance about expecting other countries to have ex...

Myers quotes NoR on civility. The irony meter explodes...again. Another big issue: civility. I have found over the years those who are most against incivility want to be able to discuss controversial topics in a Vulcan like manner, and dismiss the emotional responses. Which makes them incivilâ€¦. Ne...

Bhurzum wrote:
buttercup wrote:Surely this lot can come up with a few ideas....

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Moment of truth time - I didn't realise Godfrey was a Poe for about a month. Bwahahahaha. It took me awhile to do so myself. I do not remember how long though. it was the posted pics way back in Jan that clinched it. For the avoidance of any doubt, whoever it really is, GodfreyElfwick is taking the...

Talking of (former) heroes that Myers doesn't now need, a search on Pharyngula via FTB itself doesn't seem to be bring up his previous glowing endorsements of Pat Condell, only his criticisms, while remnants of one of his plugs for PC via R Dawkins does still remain on the old Scienceblogs version. ...

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/02/identity-politics-has-created-an-army-of-vicious-narcissists/ A reminder about how the world has gone mad when Peter Tatchell is being attacked by people who ought to be licking his boots (or anything else Tatchell would like them to lick) Tatchell h...

Anita Sarkeesian gets cameo role in TowerFall game
The controversial feminist critic will appear in an expansion pack to the successful indie archery game

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... rfall-game

From a link on the Gateway to Reason page.
Not phallic. No. Not phallic at all.

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"Baryton", from the greek prefix 'bary-' meaning 'heavy', and the word 'ton' meaning a thousand kilograms. :whistle: Whilst you are lucky enough to enjoy the privilege of having two cunts, the downside of that gift was evidently a decrease in spelling privilege. Baryton is not how he and his forebe...

http://seveninchesofyourtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Picard.jpg And I am so going to use and abuse that image. Keeper. And why does this guy never age: http://images.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/74afb6f4977ecc28dcee426d17445f41.jpg If there is one book I will ever buy and a...

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If we didn't know better, you'd almost think Absurd of DeadHead was trolling in a similar way with his brown nosing of Myers.

http://i.imgur.com/DNxn9aj.jpg

New Myers post on Nugent's blog

http://www.michaelnugent.com/2015/01/13 ... -pz-myers/

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