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

What is the preferred nomenclature for someone who moved here as a minor and committed no other crime? Asking for a friend. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk Just calling a spade a spade isn't the same as wanting mass deportation. I'm very against it, especially as I have massive landsca...

Kiwi in Oz wrote: This is not pie in the sky, or magic porridge pot thinking. It is how the monetary system works in the UK, Australia, USA, Canada, NZ, Norway, etc. So, back to your original point. Labour would not have to borrow huge sums in order to fund its manifesto. There may be other politic...

Peterson is developing a dry wit that travels well. Even if you don't agree with him his delivery is infinitely preferable the snark or hysteria that counts as commentary elsewhere. Sounds like a good sales technique. However, there really needs to be some critical examination of the content of wha...

Kathy Griffin is a jester. She's SUPPOSED to transgress against the tyrant. So she was wrong to apologise. And if she wouldnt have posed with a bloody Obama or Hillary head, then she's bad at her job. Amanda Marcotte is right about Sgt. Pepper's. But she doesnt follow her thesis far enough: the nec...

https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/869565495120470016 “Sgt. Pepper’s,” you see, is the album that marked the shift in rock music away from the grubby fingers of the teenybopper crowd and into the hushed halls of Great Art. It was the transition album that turned rock from a debased music for pon...

There are considerable problems with both parties. Labour would be forced to either borrow HUGE sums or break it's manifesto commitments, Conservatives would bring back fox hunting, lift the ivory trade ban, bring in the dementia tax and break the internet. You are right when you say he's transitio...

Kirbmarc wrote:Speaking of stupid Guardian articles, here's a stunning defense of Joseph Stalin by Seamus Milne.

That is indeed an astonishing article. And it's 15 years old. And Seumas is now campaign manager for St. Jeremy Corbyn!

A chain of movie theaters (that's what you call them, right, not "cinemas" like normal people do) in Texas has decided to have women only screenings of the new Wonder Woman film. Because you can't do anything about women without saying "fuck you" to men, apparently. Eejits.

IRA: * Believes they are a legitimate belligerent entity engaged in armed resistance against an illegitimate military occupation; * Ideology is secular, based on the false belief that the 1921 Peace Treaty was invalid; * Goal is political, specific, with a one-time permanent resolution; * Strategy ...

I don't read enough of the Grauniad say for sure - but when Lindy West is writing an article the graph should place them on the extreme bottom left. So wouldn't the positions move around quite a bit depending on who is writing? Like bottoms following you around the rom Can anyone place Private Eye?...

I was listening to This American Life today, and it featured a story about a guy who was genuinely depressed about the Fermi Paradox. So I was wondering what people thought of the FP. What's the answer? 1 We're the only technologically advanced civilization in the Galaxy, or at least the first one-...

Wild Zontargs wrote:Which part of "Fascist Tit" was unclear?

Scunthorpe test:

strumpet
trumpet
overtrump
.trump
trump.
tr.ump
"trump"
trump
trump
-trump-

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Brive1987 wrote:"For one brief shining moment you were Camelot"

Now not so much.

Traditional female gender role: malicious gossip. Toxic femininity?

Oh, and only 17 days late:

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Pretty sure she's talking about her own children - the two new humans she mentions creating and sustaining with her own body in her not-at-all bonkers CV. Although interestingly enough, she has two CVs online - a "liberated CV" which is full of crazy shit about being denied recognition for survivin...

Right now my only students are very small irrational overly energetic humans Perhaps some day, she will be allowed to teach rational or even whole students. Maybe she's delusional and the students are imaginary. Pretty sure she's talking about her own children - the two new humans she mentions crea...

I think there's a general hostility to regimentation in the show. Good scientists, like the Doctor, are independent figures. Bad scientists tend to be bureaucrats surrounded by uniformed lackeys: not just explicitly evil figures like Davros but the general rule-bound functionaries that tend to get ...

Student who stabbed boyfriend may avoid jail as it would ‘damage her career’

Better headline: Pretty posh blonde studying at Oxford should suffer no consequences for stabbing bloke she picked up on Tinder, says idiot male judge.

Jerry Coyne has been called a white supremacist. Jerry Coyne . Let that sink in for a minute. Yep. Also apparently people like Razib Khan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali are also "white supremacist". Seems to me that the term "white supremacist" as used by the usual suspects, means people who will explore forb...

Here's some more of that rape culture we keep hearing about . The BBC World Service reports that a woman in Tanzania pretended to be a man to get a job mining for tanzanite, and got away with it for about a year, but had to reveal her secret when she was accused of rape. I'm almost at the point wher...

We need more people like her. It's good to see that some SJWs are beginning to realize the truth about their movement. Laci Green seems to be headed in that direction as well, and we've had Ian Miles Cheong who also switched sides. Hopefully the ex-SJWs will be encouraged to speak out and will work...

Just been enjoying a bit of a glam rock binge on Youtube. It's hard to believe the 70s were real sometimes. I wish I'd been old enough to really appreciate Suzi Quatro. There's a couple good lists of glam and glam-punk artists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glam_rock_artists https://en.wiki...

Just been enjoying a bit of a glam rock binge on Youtube. It's hard to believe the 70s were real sometimes. I wish I'd been old enough to really appreciate Suzi Quatro. Hmm. Maybe Lynsey DePaul as well? But don't forget that you get The Bay City Rollers, Gary Glitter and the wretched Gilbert O'Sull...

Steve Shives isn't staying sane. I experience a shiver go up my spine when I think how far him and the missus might go with the stuffed animal routine. "No Stuffy no! Not the vibrator lubed with habanero oil!" [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-CN_SlflL0[/youtube] I've never been able to wa...

If we'd had the Pit in the 70s, I think Suzi would have been our Jenneke.

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Now I must take issue with this. As a Southerner, I can honestly say that many of us have been known to use extra strength balsamic viniagrette dressing on our lemon and rocket salads. Poofs.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/4d/6d/00/4d6d004f2b7dd3f0fa257bff0befb9c0.jpg [youtube]ht...

Just been enjoying a bit of a glam rock binge on Youtube. It's hard to believe the 70s were real sometimes. I wish I'd been old enough to really appreciate Suzi Quatro. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFBuYHldeY[/youtube] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfidTOTsLo[/youtube] [yout...

Bearing takes Steve Shives apart just by quoting him:

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Every time I'm exposed to Shives I wonder just how long it'll be before he has a complete mental breakdown. He's clearly not well.

Since I turned a back deck into chainsaw crap I will post shit I posted almost 4 years ago when the chainsaw wars were threatening to tear this board apart, because to to forget chainsaw history something or other is to repeat chainsaw history something or other: I said it once and I will say it ag...

Story-telling like? Sounds like creating a narrative to me. I recall Joseph Campbell's thoughts on Monomyth/The Hero's Journey (which have also been used to structure therapy or self-improvement courses). Campbell created an internally consistent theory - but I'm not so sure that all myths are the ...

rayshul wrote:I guess I should have seen it coming because he was short

Toxic masculinity strikes again.

An email just went round in work offering a six month secondment as a science education officer at Armagh Planetarium. Had a look at the job description, and this one amused me: Interacting with visitors and communicating the importance of astronomy and science accurately and enthusiastically while ...

The thing that concerns me about basic income is inflation. If everybody gets £1,000, doesn't that make £1,000 virtually worthless?

From Language Log:

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Meh, if made to choose, I'd vote fascists over communists every time. To this Australian, the Tory's are no fascists but the Labour Party is infested with communists. It really isn't infested with communists unless you completely conflate British Socialism (nhs etc) with communism. It's fine by me ...

Re: Anerisgate. Calling people Nazis is a dick move, and loses you the argument. Aneris, you need to stop digging and acknowledge that you shouldn't have done that. She didn't explicitly call people nazis but she did call them as "laying the pipes for neo-nazism" or "in service of neo-nazi agenda"....

Re: Anerisgate. Calling people Nazis is a dick move, and loses you the argument. Aneris, you need to stop digging and acknowledge that you shouldn't have done that.

MarcusAu wrote:I'm still disappointed with the casting of the Marvel Thor movies.

Brian Blessed would have been a much better Odin.

In fact the whole series would have been much improved if he had played every role.

That's true of nearly every film imaginable.

So Paddy - would you say that you have a greater appreciation of ' Dicks ' than others in the English speaking world might have? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RjEAAMXQO21RqpFs/s-l300.jpg https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Dicks-Garth-Ennis/1592910041 Or is it a step too far? I have no idea what someo...

So Paddy - would you say that you have a greater appreciation of ' Dicks ' than others in the English speaking world might have? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RjEAAMXQO21RqpFs/s-l300.jpg https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Dicks-Garth-Ennis/1592910041 Or is it a step too far? I have no idea what someo...

There are all sorts of circumstances where you can play with race in casting, or include black people in historical contexts where they're incongruous. I though Stephen Black in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was a very good example of a black character in Regency London (better in the book, becaus...

I love the Bogie Man. The first storyline is great, anyway. Later ones have their moments but there's a bit of diminishing returns to the idea. The one follow-up that really worked was the one where Clunie went to American to rescue Dan Quayle from a kidnapping plot he'd imagined. But Clunie's utter...

So I'm a Doctor Who fan, and it's always had its tendency to political correctness. I rolled my eyes slightly on Saturday when the Doctor and Bill went back to London in 1814 and they made a point of claiming that the ethnic demographics back then were about the same as they are now. Yes there would...

Interesting post on Slate Star Codex about liberal media/institutions imagining they're unbiased driving conservatives to create explicitly biased media/institutions: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservative-the-eternal-struggle/ Good quotes include: My point is, just because a u...

Has anyone here seen the Auroia Borelias (sp). I'm watching American Gods - and am thinking of planning a trip to Reijeavik (sp). I have, from just outside Ballycastle on the north coast of Ireland, probably a about a year and half ago. My brother Alan is a bit of an astronomer and is a member of a...

Antifa have opened the door to political violence, and the right is responding in kind. This is why we desperately need the police to step in and arrest and punish those enacting violence. A few heads need to be put on pikes like they are doing in DC.[/quote] Indeed. Anyone who preaches violence sh...

Folks, Since we are all apparently turning into Nazis, but none of us are German besides Aneris, I say we nominate Aneris as the Pit Führer. We have to go with the one who has the most knowledge, experience and pure blood in these matters. https://imgoat.com/uploads/bf31c7ff06/14358.png Heil Aneris...

In other news, an artificial womb has been successfully trialled on fetal lambs.

I'm expecting an op-ed in the Guardian claiming that women are obsolete any day now...

Shared on my Facebook feed this morning: a petition for the BBC to sack political editor Laura Kuenssberg . Because she "has been guilty of flagrant political bias against Her Majesty's Opposition and its elected leader Jeremy Corbyn." The state of the modern left. Do they have any idea what they l...

Shared on my Facebook feed this morning: a petition for the BBC to sack political editor Laura Kuenssberg . Because she "has been guilty of flagrant political bias against Her Majesty's Opposition and its elected leader Jeremy Corbyn." The state of the modern left. Do they have any idea what they lo...

Lsuoma wrote:Leo Baxendale gone:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39730388

A legend. (I used to have one of his cartoons as my avatar here.) Salutes.

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Just looked up the Big five personality traits on Wikipedia. What the test site called "natural reactions" (my biggest score), Wikipedia calls "neuroticism".

I got:

Open to experience: 55
Conscientious: 10
Extraversion: 8
Agreeable: 24
Natural reactions: 87

Sye Ten's been banned from YouTube. Possibly for this:

Awesome, Paddy! You can sit on the roof in your underwear and eat popsicles on a hot day. Because you're the landlord :dance: Does moving into the new place resolve the situation with the too-loud guitar? It does indeed! My immediate neighbour lets a friend use her house to practice the trumpet in,...

Ape+lust wrote: If PZ were a squid, he'd be a virile beast. But alas, he has only 2 legs and lives in Morris, Minnesota.

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What does he use to masturbate with?

I have moved house! Finally. Seems like forever since I bought the place. I've painted it, I've had carpets laid, I've had central heating put in, and I've had a shower installed in the bathroom. And yesterday I hired a van from that nice Dutch gentleman Hertz van Rental, and moved most of my stuff ...

Kirbmarc wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Guess who said this:

I’m often asked, if, after years of critics trying desperately to refute [my book] (but failing), there is anything that’s been pointed out to me that I overlooked. Not really.
Richard "Spunky Monkey" Carrier?

That was surely a rhetorical question.

I have watched so few westerns that if I were to make a top ten it'd probably have to include Back to the Future Part 3.

Having said that, no love for High Noon?

Caine is posting sick-fuck photos of her pets [img]http://i.imgur.com/LXF1MG6.jpg/img] I am currently using traps to wage an unsuccessful war on a compatriot. I thought these bastards liked peanut butter? Tried this using a coke can and metal coat hanger wire a couple of years ago, just as effectiv...

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