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My personal perspective on it, is that the reason why in the US election the Democrats lost (I'm more concerned with the House/Senate than the Presidency TBH), is because of how identity politics has changed how the Democrats campaign at a fundamental level. Much of it went away from ideas and more...

Happy International All Men Are Bastards Day! Ape, sorry to hear about your eye. For what it's worth, the same thing happened to a friend of mine a few years ago, and aside from lacking depth perception he was fine in no time, and it hasn't got in the way of him being a fantastic cartoonist. Fingers...

Haven' much to say about the rest of your comment, but I wanted to address this. The fact that "social circles perpetuate themselves" is precisely why quotas are bad. If you introduce a quota for female representation, it will be filled by women from the inner circle, reducing the possibility for a...

Quotas are useful, for we know from elites research that social circles perpetuate themselves (e.g. people recognize other people socialized the same way, and prefer them. Meritocracy is mythology for adults -- also why elites have their own fashionable sports, way to dress etc. which distinguishes...

The other thing I still need to understand better is the difference between A# and Bb, or better, the theoretical framework underneath it and why it matters. I know that they are identical on temperament instruments, like the piano. I also suspect that it also doesn't matter on instruments with fre...

I'm always amazed at how cold and offputting photoshoots for women's magazines can make beautiful women look. In this case it has nothing to do with the photoshoot, as far as I'm concerned. I don't find Watson to be a "beautiful woman" in general. Fair enough, à chacun son goût, as they probably ne...

Damwn! Watson (Emma) does absolutely nothing for me. I find her, to be frank, unattractive. Personal tastes and all that. And in that pic she looks like Joachim Phoenix with boobs. Not something I'd want to wank to. Well I agree I don't find Watson very attractive but I think Joaquin Phoenix with b...

I may have been quick to judgement on Kilstein - all part of getting the heady quick-fix rushof schadenfreud. I sort of agree with Kurt Metzger - as he was quoted above. Fortunately, my judgement did not involve any campaign to get anyone fired, or even to spread rumours - so no harm / no foul. I'm...

My band had to find a new bassist recently. The first guy who tried out for us was called Erik. Turned out he was looking for something that would pay a weekly wage, which we couldn't offer him. Maybe we've had a lucky escape? (Penultimate rehearsal tonight for our comeback gig on Friday. After our ...

paddybrown wrote:Interesting Youtuber I've recently come across: The Britisher.

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Or rather:

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Interesting Youtuber I've recently come across: The Britisher.

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Really? wrote: Do you think the Shives downfall will be accompanied with an arrest, or just being kicked out of his house?

It'll go something like this, I expect.

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So what's this Kilstein fellow supposed to have done? Or are we expected to believe without even having the chance to listen? Does it not dawn on male feminists that they could be next? They're only there on suffrance, as long as they're useful, and it doesn't take much to get excommunicated and cha...

I watched the Milo videos. I don't think he's advocating for pedophilia but talking specifically about his own experience. Which imho is creepy as fuck but there's a difference between the victim saying they aren't a victim and the perpetrator saying it. I remember watching Queer as Folk which had ...

Make it easy to have sex outside of marriage, change the laws so men have everything to lose by being married. Wonder why men no longer want to get married. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3513544/Bridesmaid-31-hanged-struggling-cope-seeing-friends-married-failed-partner.html Lol, feminism....

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Milo/Maher - amusing. Maher handled it well, telling liberals to stop taking the bait and pointing out his humour was no more cruel than Joan Rivers. But Milo got a few laughs and made a few points the audience responded to. He was out of his depth on the panel discussion bit though - clearly not us...

John D wrote: I was bitten by a duck once.

A radioactive duck? Do you now have duck powers?

Guest_84d94f98 wrote: > organisers

I think he means Union Organizers.

I think he means Obama. On right wing blogs like Instapundit, he's often referred to as a former "community organizer" in Chicago, with a very obvious "whatever that means" implication.

I see that Neil Gaiman has a new (well new in format if not subject matter) book out: http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/images/NorseMythology_Hardback_1473940163.jpg nb this is part of my continued effort to cross-pollinate the streams: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=512 In other nerd...

"Im no nazi but the rest seem accurate." Quoting a friend. I'm a Pitizen, I read a lot of political stuff, and I think I am at least within a month of keeping up with the latest memes. But where the fuck did this Nazi thing spring from? Who originated this association of Trump supporters with Nazis...

Bannon is just the right wing version of the SJWs who piggybacked on Hillary ....a racial justice warrior? As I never tire of pointing out, "Social Justice" was the name of a hard-right newspaper in the US in the 1930s an 40s that published the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and speeches by Goebbe...

What's that CS Lewis quote about tyrants? Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may a...

This part is interesting: I would, however, like to start working toward capturing a fraction of the magic of David Bowie or Prince or any of the number of the queer genderfucking icons we lost last year. There are some extremely stylish shoes that need filling. You wish, Zoe, you wish. They have s...

It's very hard for past movies to rate given the development in film making - 2 second cuts, special effects, narrative thru action. Break that approach and you get panned for being "boring" like Batman vs Superman. So no. The exorcist hasn't aged well compared to modern options like (say) the Blai...

Couch, so sorry to hear about your brother. It's good you have your family around you. Take care of each other.

Zoe Quinn has decided she doesn't have a gender . She's not a girl, but she's not a boy either. Which is, let's face it, such a girl thing to do. Straight women with dyed hair and piercings hijack "queer", cis women with dyed hair and piercings hijack "trans", from the people who actually are those...

I've never seen Lena Dunham's TV show, "Girls", and I don't know if it has any artistic or entertainment value. But it would have to be astonishingly good to get her close to not having a net negative impact on the human race. She is odious. The way we think about historical atrocties like gladiator...

Latest news on the Renewable Heat Initiative scandal in Norn Iron. Last Friday a shed belonging to a road surfacing company in Fermanagh went up in flames . It contained 14 tonnes of woodchip and eight biomass boilers. Whether or not this is connected to the RHI scheme, which pays you £1.60 for ever...

Still on my honeymoon, now in St Thomas awaiting an emergency CT of my brain. Yesterday in St Kitts I had an episode of vertigo and was unable to locate my left arm-it took me several attempts to put my left hand into my pocket. I also had tingling all over my left side. The ship doctor thinks it w...

Hunt wrote:
paddybrown wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
Done ethically, payment is made upfront after a clear description of offered services and constraints.
Has this been shared yet?

Isn't that how it already works?

Have you ever got your deposit back?

Brive1987 wrote:
Hunt wrote:I just hope he's got his wallet on a chain.
Done ethically, payment is made upfront after a clear description of offered services and constraints.

Has this been shared yet?

Interesting. Shappi Khorsandi, a British comedian and author of Iranian extraction, had one of her books nominated on the long list for the Jhalak prize, an award for books by ethnic minority writers. She has withdrawn her book from consideration because "my novel is nothing to do with ethnic identi...

:lol: Caine is not happy with palefaces asking questions about her people's spiritual beliefs: http://archive.is/YF1AQ Brony, Social Justice Cenobite says January 6, 2017 at 3:33 pm @Caine Would you be willing to answer some questions about the Heyoka? Caine says January 6, 2017 at 3:57 pm Brony: “...

Spent most of today painting. The front bedroom is nearly done. Also, you know how every street has a spiteful old bat whose mission in life is to make everybody's life as miserable has (usually) hers? I found out who that is. Fortunately she's not an immediate neighbour. She caught up with me as I ...

Mmm, these crayons are tasty.

Nobody mentioned the Nigger Navy yet?

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Possibly the most embarrassing racist typo since the Australian cookbook that called for "salt and ground black people".

For Paddy, having reported on the N Irish heating scandal (and most of us Brits from the 70s should remember these characters). https://twitter.com/UlsterFryNI/status/816999770665402368 The Ulster Fry are usually pretty funny, I liked that one. Arlene Foster has been playing the misogyny card, most...

This video of leonard Cohen miming between two female backing singers is fucking hilarious for a man with such a reputation for gloominess.

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The girl you loved does not exist. She was an illusion, and the loss of that illusion is one of the most heartbreaking things there is. Don't try and appeal to her conscience. Trying to make a cruel woman feel guilty over how she's treated you is like trying to get your own back on Mike Tyson by cha...

One thing to add to Johnself's situation. I haven't been in a situation anywhere near as devastating as you have. But I've been in situations where I've had to realise that a person I believed I loved was not the person I thought she was, the person she'd spent some time convincing me she was. That'...

Jesus Johnself, that's horrible. What a cunt. Don't know what else to say.

Mornin' Pit! I celebrated new year for the first time in about ten years. My usual policy has been just to ignore it, treat it as a normal night and go to bed when I felt like it. This year I pushed the boat out and... went round to my brother's, at gravy chips and watched Match of the Day, Jools Ho...

Watching one of those talking heads clip shows the BBC do from time to time on Youtube - The Grumpy Guide to the 80s . Amusing enough, remembering Black Lace's "Agadoo" as possibly the worst thing that has ever happened, and Mrs Thatcher's "We have become a grandmother" bit. One laugh-out-loud momen...

Sorry Paddy, I just don't get the love for Cohen. Dylan is an amazing wordmaster with a pretty bad voice and I love him for both, but Cohen to me...I don't get a sense of either word or voice being anything but teeth-grindingly awful. He's an acquired taste, and he's probably not for everybody. Lik...

I think I'm Your Man is the point at which Cohen fully made the switch from vulnerable, soul-baring romantic to resigned, caustic cynic, and also learned to use his limited voice to its best advantage. Now listening to The Future, which is nearly as good. The title track is absolutely savage, and so...

I've been putting together a playlist of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs, mixed in with a few covers by other artists. Working through it chronologically, I've chosen two or three or four songs from each album (and none from Death of a Ladies' Man, the album he did with Phil Spector, which is proba...

Fuck's sake! Still 6 pages behind. Anything tasty other than that prof thing? There was Becky's $8,000 fine for parking in a disabled space, that was funny. In related entitlement news, cartoonist Danielle Corsetto of Girls With Slingshots is boasting/complaining about a video rental shop eight yea...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Fuck's sake! Still 6 pages behind.

Anything tasty other than that prof thing?

There was Becky's $8,000 fine for parking in a disabled space, that was funny.

I see the Democrats are still aggressively learning nothing. There's a "Michelle Obama for 2020" page that's being shared widely all over Arsebook. Yeah, lets have another candidate whose only recommendation for the job is being married to someone who previously did it. That'll dispel the feeling in...

S'pose everybody's seen Rogue One who's going to? My thoughts: Enjoyed it. More of a war film and less of a swashbuckler than the rest of the Star Wars series. Did a great job maintaining tension for long periods of time. Felicity Jones owns the screen, and the robot had some funny lines. None of th...

I would be surprised if it is not the case that what we are seeing is an increase in the frequency of reporting of deaths of celebrities, rather than an increase in the deaths of celebrities. There have now been at least 42 celebrity deaths in 2016. The previous record was 33 in 2012. A typical yea...

My thoughts on this twat at Drexel and his white genocide tweets. Partly it's about the limitations of Twitter - there's no room for context or nuance in 140 characters. Sargon should know this after Kristi Winters recently took one of his tweets out if context and pretended not to understand it was...

Some very strange person with too much time on his hands has made a video game called "Sargoy: Welcome to Cukkad", where you can play as Sargon, Shoeonhead, Armoured Skeptic or Harmful Opinions, and he's working on Chris Ray Gun.

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Is a cheesecake hard to make without a food processor? I'm thinking I can grind the biscuits with a mortar and pestle, but I'm not sure if I'm asking for trouble. Put the biscuits in a plastic bag and hit them with a rolling pin. But make sure there's little left in the bag, or else it ruptures. Fo...

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Hmm... Jar-Jar Myers. I wonder if we could get that name to stick.
Or PZ Binks? Hmm no, that sounds like a police officer from a British crime series.

Par-Zar Minks?

Forgot to mention, my brother house-sat for me yesterday while I was at work, so there'd be someone there to let the carpet-fitters in. They didn't actually arrive til I got home from work, but that's not the point. Simon bought himself a copy of the Guardian to occupy himself while he waited. I had...

Congratulations, Paddy. At least houses there are made of real bricks. In Canada wood construction is the norm, and the wood frame house we built 28 years ago seems to be rotting around us. Two years ago the back had to be rebuilt because of carpenter ants. This year it looks like the front is rott...

In other news, I'm inching ever closer to moving house! The new place has been technically mine for a couple of months, but it finally got central heating yesterday, and carpets today. Broadband goes in tomorrow, then just the bathroom, some minor electrics, and a lick of paint and it's all done! C...

In other news, I'm inching ever closer to moving house! The new place has been technically mine for a couple of months, but it finally got central heating yesterday, and carpets today. Broadband goes in tomorrow, then just the bathroom, some minor electrics, and a lick of paint and it's all done! G...

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