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

Any thoughts from the UK people on David Cameron's comments about countering the "extremist narrative" by blocking access to certain web sites?

Bah... managed to fuck up the formatting. What goes between the youtube tags?

Dawkin's Strength is also his biggest weakness. He is the consummate Prof, who attempts to find valid issue in his objectors bile, and address it, he has always appeared to me to be in "teaching mode". Whereas the adversarial style of Hitchens would be to recognize the likes of Watson/Myers for wha...

Speaking of this: http://i.imgur.com/OMrKZM7.jpg Observe the bleat of this particular sheep: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/29/solid-condell/#comment-320053 Honestly, I was convinced you'd photoshopped that until I clicked the link. Strawkins is up there with the Daily Show research tea...

Also, Richard Carrier has been ejaculating fine praise over this article, bringing his intellectual artillery to bear on the matter by proclaiming that Alex has 'pwned' Condell. I've always found his writing strange when he praises some aspect of the FTB network. Not that I expect anyone here to ag...

Just skimmed Alex Gabriel's response to Pat Condell's "How Gay is Islam?" video. I'm not sure why this required so many words. Alex explains this is because Condell is just so wrong (which most people here seem to agree with). Although I didn't devote the proper amount of attention to the article, t...

As someone who drinks a lot . I tend to agree. I once heard someone say you weren't an alcoholic until you started waking up and regretting the things you did while drunk. I can honestly say that has never happened to me in my life. My parents? Alcoholics. They'd get pissed, start to scream at each...

BTW. Who is Cunt? I see from s/he/it's post count they were a regular at one time. They seem mighty miffed now though (trying very hard to convince the board that they don't care at all what goes on here, which makes one wonder why s/he/it's reading/posting). Though I do agree Parsehole's original B...

There's a lot of drunk shaming on here, check your sober privilege. Actually all this calling people alcoholics because they get drunk a lot reminds me of the amateur psychoanalysis of mental illnesses that goes on across the forums. When I was younger I uses to be a bit of a pisshead, in the pub e...

Tapir wrote:Fine shower Taslima's lot are.

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Fuck me sideways (against my will, literally, because then I'll apparently learn something). Please tell me that was taken out of context.

I saw a documentary on that a few years back. Kind of made me realise how lucky I am to have a job on the ground. I bet their wage packet is pretty nice though. That sounds like something up my alley. Heights simultaneously thrill and terrify me. Something about walking right up the the brink of ce...

Southern wrote:
"Being passionate" would require some form of strong emotional investment.

It would. And when people use exclamation points, or a very large font, it implies some sort of strong emotion. Kind of like what I said in the beginning.

No, bold and bigger fonts when your quote someone imply highlighting. THIS WOULD IMPLY STRONG EMOTIONS BY BOLDING THE TEXT BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING I'M WRITING!!!!11!ONE!!! I hope a fan of the emerit PhD Richard Carrier can spot this very simple difference between both uses. Right, and you highlight ...

Your overall point seems to be correct, and I actually like you being here, even if you were Carrier Himself (awesome avatar). That would be interesting, actually. Carrier is mainly ignorant about the context in which Atheism Plus takes place, which he decided to champion. And he went downhill when...

I don't feel passionately about this; if you want to insinuate that Dick The Intellectual Artillery is somewhat on the same level as Hitchens, suit yourself, I won't require a trigger warning about it or develop PSTD or shake with rage because of it. Things like exclamation points, bolded print, an...

ERV wrote:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Beautiful :lol:

Ladies and gentlefolks, the unthinkable has happened. I agree with something Richard Carrier said. In fact, it was brilliant. In point of fact, the entire post was succinct and punchy, like the best blog articles should be. Honestly, I don't see a lot of thoughts expressed here at the pit which Car...

Ladies and gentlefolks, the unthinkable has happened. I agree with something Richard Carrier said. In fact, it was brilliant. In point of fact, the entire post was succinct and punchy, like the best blog articles should be. Honestly, I don't see a lot of thoughts expressed here at the pit which Car...

The first time I was banned at the blog of the holy Peezus was for criticizing the way he threw around mental health diagnoses without any good reason except for hating the target of his untrained, unlicensed and rather inaccurate clinical skills (who happened to be Dennis Markuse) Whatever his act...

If the weather was remotely acceptable, my ass was outside. Would my first bike would count as a toy? (I still love rope swings btw, how sad is that!) "Rope swing" and "sad" do not belong in the same sentence. You never outgrow rope swings. They grow with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B36Lr0...

Hear, hear. The concept of social constructs gets drive too far sometimes. A brief survey of history proves that a lot of what modern westerners consider masculine is socially constructed. But I see a not insignificant number of people wanting to make the leap from some things being socially constr...

It's a cute ad. However, I'm not going to buy my nieces toys based on my political/social views. If they ask me for dolls, I get them dolls. Pink? Sure. They want Lego sets? The City ones? The impossibly girly ones? Ok. The other day they asked for a Xbox to play Minecraft. That game is crack for t...

The girls commercial was just a bit too... optimistic for my tastes. Then again, I've got a really low threshold for all things good in the universe. I struggle with depression (self-diagnosed, or course) and goddammit, If I'm miserable everyone else should be too :p Being more serious, it was a wel...

Therefore I can FLOOSH your entire post, you matriarchal stud-shaming fuck! Stop triggering me! I haven't even called a woman a cunt yet today, I can feel my balls becoming a mangina! [youtube]-aVLDiuNjvc[/youtube] I better go back to that Nice Guys forum and look at more posters of women kicking p...

2) FBI stats etc. simply do not support your contention of the existence of "hugely disproportional" rates of violence directed at blacks. Blacks are c. 8x more likely to commit violent crimes, and the vast majority of those are against other blacks. But that's not the same as what you imply. Hate ...

I find the new vogue for trans-rights to be baffling. Listening the the people rant, you'd get the impression that trans people represented the same portion of the population as gay people. Not that there isn't a place for individual preferences when it comes to what social justice issues you choose...

Without knowing more of the backlash I am sure the real bone of contention was the Einstein bobblehead raping the Curie bobblehead (the loosey-goosey SJW definition of "rape", anyway). But, I don't really care about the whole story since it's just another hysterical fembot manufactroversy. I do lik...

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Is that... is that supposed to be a redhead vagina? Normally I'm into that sort of thing, but that picture freaks me out.

Although, in some cases at least, it seems less a "fear of reading walls of text" as one of time - at least for me. With limited and rapidly diminishing amounts of that one tends, out of necessity, to assess which tome or essay is likely to give the "biggest bang for the buck". Reminds me of Balzac...

While I don't think we always need to write the way Steersman does all the time, it would be nice if more people learned how to do it, and used the skill when necessary. I also wish people would get over their fear of reading walls of text. I've discovered that a lot of people who look like the worl...

That was my impression as well, but browsing through a bit of her blog made me think she'd be more sophisticated with her humor, which made me think... I don't know actually. Maybe there's something deeper here that I'm missing? Skimming the first two entries of her blog, The Oreo Experience , is h...

[youtube]BGcgg3VDjkY[/youtube] Very, very dodgy video. So, I'm assuming, she's not one of Lily Allen's dancers at all but was making a very vague point on how the actual dancers must have felt after being shamefully exploited by Lily Allen. What was Lily Allen thinking? Hiring dancers to...Errr...D...

[quote="skep tickle] The noted humanist PZ Myers is scheduled to speak at the World Humanist Congress in August 2014 in Oxford. Speaker list here: http://whc2014.org.uk/speakers/ & bios are on another page. Besides Myers, Dawkins, & Nasrin, there's Pullman, Grayling, Epstein, and a bunch I don't kno...

To return to a previously-mentioned instance of PZ/SJW hypocrisy, this again: No. The dead man might have been the most evil creature on the planet, a terrible, awful person who would have spread more terror if heâ€™d lived, but letâ€™s not dehumanize people by calling them diseases and asking for ...

That's interesting. I've been permanently banned from the A+ forums. I haven't posted there (or even tried to log in) since my intial 7 day ban. I wonder if the mod changed their mind after the fact? Can you be permanently banned for activities outside the forum (like posting here)? Actually, that w...

How old is Mgtow, because I think I've found the preceding movement: [youtube]_fzuXQF_wIU[/youtube] I've been meaning to compliment you on your avatar choice, Kareem. I remember hearing Aaron McGruder had said in an interview it was the "best show on television" and thinking he was an arrogant bast...

I think the takeaway from all the graphics advice should be that web images (72 dpi) aren't really going to cut it unless you're planning on printing something really small. If we wanted to do it right, we could set up a dropbox for people to upload print resolution versions of their artwork.

Because Gervais is awesome. And because it would force Kim Jong Myers to wear a cold stone face all the way to the bathroom before giggling his ass off. http://i.imgur.com/ysvMnn1.jpg I hope next time she goes hunting she does the world a favour and blows her own stupid head off. Just looking at th...

We seem to generating a fine collection of 'pitshops' and so I wonder if we might put them to some good use. What do people think of the idea of creating an online store that sells T-shirts, mugs, USB sticks (ceramic pendants?) etc, with the best pitshop images on them, and then use the money gener...

Ape+lust wrote:http://i.imgur.com/njfHU6t.png

Ape+Lust, you've answered the age old question. One that's troubled the minds of our best and brightest for generations. Well done :)

Non-sequitur: I never understood the Miley-hating that was in vogue a month or two ago. Apparently it's still going on: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/16/opinion/obeidallah-miley-fame/index.html Summary of this stupid op-ed: Because Miley Cyrus is addicted to fame, she will necessarily do one of the fo...

Southern wrote:
"Fair amount of time explaining" = an hour or so of footage parroting TV Tropes.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. What footage?

yep. And while I don't completely agree with her, she did help make some of my vague objections to the "strong woman" character more clear, and how it's sometimes used as a two-dimensional trope by shitty writers. I'm glad that she wrote it and that I was pointed at it. It's almost criminal to me t...

She was doing a lot more than just bitching about "strong woman" characters. She was doing an analysis of what those terms mean, and why our use of certain terms can give us insight into what's really going on. For example, she says it's notable (and I agree with her) that "strong" is used as a def...

Cameron & Scott were directing kick ass women years ago, and without a fuss. The other day I discovered a feminist complaining about "strong woman" characters on movies. There's seem to be a trend towards hating that type of character. I kid you not. She was doing a lot more than just bitching abou...

https://twitter.com/MelodyHensley/status/401573941862363136 You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me). Jesus christ. Every day, I am so gla...

Damn. Second fuckup on on the quoting in one night. Probably time to lay off the scotch...

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HAHAHA!! Are you serious? The little jungle fellas kicked your asses. Deal with it.

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No shit, Sherlock. It was a joke. ;)

Tony Parsehole wrote:
jet_lagg wrote: Also, our army can kick your army's ass.
Unless the army is from Vietnam.

:evil:

... fuck you

I never understood this brand of "army humor". Superior officer tell schmuck to do something useless/stupid/dangerous; schmuck complies and do so; "yuk yuk yuk look at that shmuck, he's so stupid!". Am I missing something? Schmuck had no choice but comply. This is just the standard military wanking...

Strictly speaking, I don't think the U.S. has a healthcare system. A "healthcare system" implies a system designed to deliver healthcare. The U.S. system is designed to deliver maximum possible profits to various special interests and factions of the ruling oligarchy (insurance companies, the docto...

I don't know how your batshit fucked up american healthcare system actually works, but Hensley managed to get her hands on pills that help with PTSD. I'd imagine that means she's been diagnosed by a doctor. Now listen here, cunt. If you took the time to learn anything about our healthcare system, y...

Lieutenants amirite? They were consistently the most chewed up people in they army. :snooty: It's still pretty much traditional to play jokes on, torture and humiliate subalterns. I'll give a couple of examples: 1) Whilst on duty as "orderly officer", one of our subbies (in full #1 service dress) w...

I once saw an E-5 in charge of a range exercise yank the rifle out of a lieutenant's hands (and of course it was a lieutenant) when he pointed the barrel at a group of soldiers during an exercise. It didn't matter that we'd only been issued blanks; if you point a firearm at someone, you assume it's...

Dammit, I wish we could just take this one out of context and claim it's an admission lol https://twitter.com/MelodyHensley/status/401576626913161216 I'ma leave this here too: Virtually any trauma, defined as an event that is life-threatening or that severely compromises the physical or emotional w...

Yes, nothing is cooler than dressing up as an elf and fighting with rubber swords. This is yet another of those times when I wonder what the fuck I am doing here amongst all you fucking weirdos. You're missing the point. It's not that all of geekdom is suddenly apex-cool. But rather, geekdom has ex...

Those, sir, are fighting words. Redheads are the only women worth your time. You can pursue other women, but eventually you will look at their hair, realize it is not red, and know that you have settled for less. Haha. I like that. Credit where credit is due: I stole most of that (the good parts) f...

Those, sir, are fighting words. Redheads are the only women worth your time. You can pursue other women, but eventually you will look at their hair, realize it is not red, and know that you have settled for less. Sorry but I have to point out what my father taught me at a very early age: All redhea...

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3679/10871285405_207a605a27_o.jpg I love the way Bjarte can't even get a 50/50 correct (for comedy value) and be a right tit. :D Any excuse to post pictures of the sexiest woman on the planet. And she's a ginge too. Who'd have thought it? Those, sir, are fighting words...

Never mind from a humanistic view, the man has no poetry in him if he doesnâ€™t ever wonder about who used to own it.

:lol:

That's what made them finally realize Cheney has no poetry in him? At little late to the party, aren't we?

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