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

Ms. Daisy Cutter, [blah blah tediously "wacky" descriptor, blah blah]: Audley, most of them are coming from Ye Olde Pitte of Slyme, as usual. I’ve seen comments today to the effect that they coordinate trolling attacks. You lying cunts. You deceivers and deniers of truth. You despicable ballbags....

Like when Jen mentioned last year about the woman freaking out and running sobbing to the bathroom over the lame "weaker sex" joke. If anything like that causes you to flee sobbing, you have some serious problems that should really come before atheism/skepticism/feminism/anything socio-political. A...

cunt wrote: So thats around $1.80 per surly ramic. She charges $11. An 84% profit margin on every single piece. $9.20 every time.

Actually, she charges quite a bit more than $11 -- her "fundraiser" ones seem to be $20, and most of the rest are $18.

The following seems to be a common problem that the FfTBers face:

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TruthAndOblivion has a moving video calling out the FfTBers:
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brian_carnell ‏@brian_carnell And file lots of DMCA requests! RT @SurlyAmy Never let the voices of anger or misinformation stop you from spreading truth and humanism. Somebody in Twitter urging Surly Shamey to file more DMCAs. Shocking. I wonder if PZ wuld condone that type of behaviour? Reading ...

Guest wrote: I appreciate all of your efforts over here, but my first thought is that these stats stink.

Really? My thought is that those stats are amazingly good, especially since the FfTBers are studiously avoiding linking to us, or even mentioning where we've moved to.

Then during the last TAM, there was the "upskirt" guy that didn't take any upskirt pictures Yup, not only do the FTBullies seem to consistently accidentally forget to mention that the TAM security people determined at the time that the guy was entirely innocent, but it happens that you, yes, you , ...

Ashley Miller (which Grothe didn't categorize as sexual harassment) .... My initial opinion of DJ Grothe was formed by his response to Ashley Miller, though. She thought she had reported it, and he did not take her seriously. (Full disclosure: I fixed the spelling of his name in my quote above. Oop...

If Laden is indeed coming back I'd love to see PZ's video where he rationalizes bringing back a blogger who harasses people online, tries to get people fired from their jobs, sends them violent and threatening emails, and edits/deletes people's comments. He'll just deal with it the way that they de...

can you add your recommendation to the thread, please, changing the subject line to the name of the book?

Done. Thanks!

JAB and I recommend the book "The Authoritarians" by Bob Altemeyer: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
It can be downloaded free-of-charge.

The author is a psychology professor who has studied authoritarians. What he describes seems to me to be very similar to that of the Baboons.

According to skepchick's hosting service, their system status is normal, so it doesn't seem like a DDOS attack.

I second the suggestion of reading Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians" http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ : I also was thinking that it reminded me of the Baboon's behaviour. Altemeyer discusses at length the amazing hypocrisy that one sees in authoritarians as well as their lack of self-awareness -...

AND, PZ is now claiming that calling a woman a "gender traitor" means that one is dangerous! So much for all of his regulars who've called Abbie a "gender traitor", or worse! And what about Watson, who called Stef McGraw and Rose St. Clair "anti-woman" and similar things? Wouldn't she, too, be dange...

Err, yes, I was referring to sacha, and her amazing post: http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=73#p761 PZ telephoned the organizer of a skeptic's event that I am attending, and said that I wrote a post calling Becci a gender traitor, and that he feared for Rebeca's safety. How do I kno...

That would be a real shame. I would definitely miss your presence.

Me too!

And the fact that PZ tried to get you thrown out of a conference is yet another recommendation!

So, according to Stefunny, quoting the lyrics to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is proof that one is EVIL, but the fact that PZ's blog has a thing about making rape jokes about anyone they don't like is perfectly okay. After all, jokes about rape are perfectly good fun, but quoting the lyrics to a classi...

Is this where we post messages that have been "disappeared" from the FfTBs? If so, here's a comment that was erased from Benson's blog, at http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/07/how-to-oppose-the-use-of-any-kind-of-name-calling/ Apparently, mentioning that Laden made violet threats...

Just FYI, if you go to slymepit.com or www.slymepit.com, you get an error message. Probably both should redirect to the main page.