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

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!

I think Isis would claim responsibility for El Nino if they thought it would get them publicity. I'm not saying this isn't an Islamist attack, just that I wouldn't take their word for it. Yep. As in the classic Troubles-era joke about an RUC van crashing into a tree, and the IRA issuing a statement...

And in a beautiful display of timing PZ is anticipating the assassination of Caligula-Trump. Expect a knock on the door Professor. http://archive.is/Oi6ns Yeah, I saw that article he quotes earlier. The Roman Republic fell because (a) the state was too small to restrain powerful individuals with de...

It's not like a simple assassination can trigger a war... Probably why some people are panicking. At the time of writing, 'Franz Ferdinand' is trending :lol: In any case, the gunman is - as shown by the various videos surfacing - an Allahu Ackbar type, and his attack was apparently some kind of ret...

Well, who should I run into when out on my lunch but Jonathan Bell, my old school chum turned politician at the centre of the Renewable Heating scandal, leaving the city hall. He was very politicianly, smiling broadly and acting completely unruffled. He didn't immediately recognise me, it has been n...

Sister's post verified by the NY Post. http://nypost.com/2016/12/15/muslim-hate-crime-hoaxers-sister-blames-the-nypd/ Probably best to skip other news organization's interpretation of what her sister stated, and read it straight from the horse's mouth. https://i.sli.mg/bbkT0j.jpg https://i.sli.mg/R...

OK, watched the interview with my old school chum Beller (as he was known back then). They also interviewed Arlene Foster straight after. My takeaway from it all: The Renewable Heat Incentive was started in 2011 when Foster was minister at the Department for Trade and Investment (DETI), the departm...

OK, watched the interview with my old school chum Beller (as he was known back then). They also interviewed Arlene Foster straight after. My takeaway from it all: The Renewable Heat Incentive was started in 2011 when Foster was minister at the Department for Trade and Investment (DETI), the departme...

Waiting for the local news on BBC Northern Ireland to start. Bit of a flap on at the moment about an energy efficiency scheme called the "Renewable Heating Incentive", through which the local government paid businesses to convert to reneewable heating sources, but paid them according to how much fue...

oops, forgot: here's the link.

Cool. And in other news, they've reconstructed the face of Robert the Bruce based on a cast of his skull (and the belief that he may have suffered from leprosy). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/science/2016/12/08/RTB_angled_view_leprosy_with_helmet_auburn_eyes_RGB-1-xlarge_trans++kN5GVRA5QK9w...

The basics of it are this ~ In pagan religions there is no forgiveness so you are expected to act with honesty and honour. If you don't you will be shunned and your children will suffer the sins of the father. So reputation is everything. As not everybody can be a brave warrior, and not stealing fr...

Six weeks ago she landed in Israel for a 3 month stint. This was surprising because she is very pro-Palestinian. She wanted to open her prejudices to scrutiny... 4 weeks in she declared Israelis were horrible, rude people with guns and moved over to the West Bank. The Palestinians are "lovely, frie...

Interesting story from Ireland. There used to be a procedure called symphysiotomy, which involved cutting the cartilage of the pelvis, and another called pubiotomy, which involved sawing through the pubic bone, which were used in cases of obstructed labour, and were very painful and could on occasio...

Right wing false flag operations are REAL!

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Age of consent laws were, historically, difficult to follow and enforce: legal norms based on age were not, in general, common until the 19th century, because clear proof of exact age and precise date of birth were often unavailable.[6] Read the whole thing shitlords for context etc. etc. I can ver...

Not a child sacrifice/ pedophilia thing but really creepy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Constanzo "She gave birth to Adolfo at the age of 15". Bet that made her eyes water. It should be "At the age of 15 she gave birth to Adolfo". There's an Irish medieval text called Lebor Gabála Érenn, li...

Peezus: < A load of shite> Over 100 women in that march were hospitalized for injuries they received from harassing men.* But Shermer accepts Sommers’ claim that there is no patriarchy, women aren’t in any way oppressed? <A load more shite> PZ has convinced me. The patriarchy is real. The fact that...

You gotta love Wikipedia. Their article on Louis CK tells you what his real name is - Louis Székely. Székely is, I think, Hungarian. The average reader of Wikipedia probably doesn't know how to pronounce Hungarian. They don't tell you how to pronounce it. But they do, helpfully, tell you how to pron...

Pizzagate isn't just Satanic Sanic, it's fucking Bible Code. It's Nostradamus prophesies, it's Proctor and Gamble are Satanists, look at this logo on their products! What else could it possibly mean?

Hell, not only do I self-describe as being on the left, but I'm probably more lefty than I was ten years ago. The problem is, the Overton window has been moving left faster than I am, so I've been shoved right as far as the talking heads are concerned. Apparently, by caring about things like "obser...

re Gamergate - and this 'microcosm reflects the macrocosm' shit. I don't think that Gamergate swung the election in any way - and if anyone wants a true understanding as to why Trump won they should go and talk with the people that voted for him. (Most of whom would have no idea about Gamergate wha...

Did The Guardian just get Elfwicked? On one occasion I even, I am ashamed to admit, very diplomatically expressed negative sentiments on Islam to my wife. Nothing “overtly racist”, just some of the “innocuous” type of things the YouTubers had presented: “Islam isn’t compatible with western civilisa...

Laurie Penny doesn't know how to buy furniture.

It will accomplish butthurt. I feel it's pretty punk. Yes - one of the first punk lessons - is Fuck Nostalgia. The longevity of punk amuses me. It's a heritage industry now, and far older than the "dinosaurs" it was reacting against were when it started. It's 39 years since the release of Never Min...

Call me lacist racist but I just can't read "China's LingLong launches DingDong" out loud without laughing. You may recall that I'm in the process of moving house. I've (briefly) met most of my new neighbours, including a nice east Asian couple, who have (or have adopted) English names. But I'm ter...

This was a good article. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/ I still think voting Trump was unforgiveable, but you'd have to be retarded to think that everyone that did so was racist. I'm not even persuaded Trump is racist, dismal a person as he is in other respects. I d...

More, books, more... The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper) The Wierdstone of Brissingamin (sp?) Bill, the Galactic Hero & The Stainless Steel Rat (both by Harry Harrison) If you liked Anansi Boys (by Neil Gaiman) I think he referred to it as a 'Thorne Smith' novel in an interview- probably referring sp...

Elections are over, it's a done deal. Can everyone stop going on and on about that shit? Or maybe create a thread on another part of the forum? You don't have to, of course, but it would lighten the reading here. Yes, how true. I'd much rather read about what kinda road kill Comstink's brats are ea...

Just saw an ad for the Harry Potter prequel film thing "Fantastic Beasts" and at first glance thought it said "Fantastic Breasts".

Teal Dear has an interesting video about "oppression inflation" - how feminists keep printing banknotes of new forms of "oppression" which devalue the existing forms, and how things like vacuum cleaners and sex toys that were originally invented to make women's lives easier later become symbols of w...

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InfraRedBucket wrote:slightly Scottish conservative historian Niall Ferguson , who some may know is married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
I want to know how he can be slightly Scottish. What percentage is required?

The reference was to his accent, which only occasionally sounds Scottish.

I like Ferguson's take on Clinton vs Trump - he's used it in other appearances and interviews as well - as SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up) vs FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition).

Fuck. Im not even sure that his election is all that "Unprecedented." It isn't. The two precedents that I can think of for electing a populist of Trump's ilk are him getting nominated (against the wishes of his party) and someone like him winning sometime before. Well, he got nominated and populist...

My favorite car from my teenage years was a 75 Toyota Celica. The closest I ever got to a Firebird was a 75 Chevy Vega Rally edition with an exhaust leak. Most of my teenage years was spent driving an 87 Chevy Citation. Talk about privilege. We didn't even have 1987 Citations when I was a teenager....

Photos of workshops: Crowd shot of the "Ya'll fucking racist" speech https://twitter.com/RealSkepticon/status/797265311275880448 Look at the faces of those people. Dutifully taking their verbal whipping for daring to have such white privleadge. Sin! You may be saved, you may have repented and been ...

A couple of observations that have occurred to me about the election, that may or may not have had some bearing on the result. One, this is the first election of any sort I can remember where we didn't have the candidate on the right standing for global free trade and high finance and the candidate ...

A conversation with my 15 yo daughter escalated into her yelling and tears. I learnt something which should have been self evident. The "argument" came because my wife and I challenged her claim that Trump said ALL Mexicans were rapists. The young have a visceral basis for their views that doesn't ...

While I agree his last good album was The Future in 1992, I'm still sad that Laughing Len has left us. 2016, man.

And here he is before the election:

Somebody gets it.

("Jonathan Pie" is a satirical character - the off-camera rants of a news reporter)

I think part of the over reaction we are seeing from the regressive po-mo types is that this is for many of them, the first pres. election that they have lost. Coupled with a "she is a shoe in" conditioning from the MSN and we have melt down! I hadn't thought of that. Anyone old enough to vote in 2...

I must still be a liberal. I'm finding the humourless crybaby bad-loser behaviour of Clinton supporters more embarrassing than funny. Grow up, for god's sake.

Yes, you could imagine how much sympathy they'd have for the rest belt factory workers if the shoe was on the other foot. Zero. If they're white and voted for Trump they're The Enemy and don't deserve to live: they're stupid, evil, gross, etc. I have to say that I've been very disappointed in the A...

The trouble with being bilingual in html and bbcode is that you sometimes mix them up. Anyway, something I thought of. For a while we used to call buttoned-up young men who acted like their grandfathers " young fogeys ". I propose we start calling those feminists who make a scene at the slightest hi...

Interesting piece in the Guardian of all places - Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there , by Thomas Frank. His conclusion is: [blockquote] Put this question in slightly more general terms and you are confronting the single great mystery of 2016. The American white-col...

According to the BBC Trump is still five votes short, and it's not clear whether that's going by exit poll projections or actual declared results. (Do you guys even count the votes, or do you just go by what the media says the results are?) But apparently Clinton has called Trump to concede. This wi...

The next front in the social justice culture war will be the mandatory recognition of imaginary friends.

They're all "Cokes" here in Texas. A transplanted northerner I worked with years ago was headed to the breakroom & asked if I wanted a "pop". It took me a minute to figure it out & we ended up having a conversation about regional stuff like that. Around here pickups are "trucks", too. Proper trucks...

One from Bearing. TED, the people who are all about spreading ideas and starting conversations, have served him with a DMCA for doing a response video to a TED-X talk.

Cringe/facepalm/headdesk etc. I've been saying for a while, one of the reasons I'm aghast at the rise of identity politics is that I'm from Northern Ireland, where all politics is identity politics, and it's a clusterfuck of embarassing proportions. Case in point. Northern Ireland footballer Will Gr...

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paddybrown wrote:I'm reminded of this instalment of Scott Meyer's Basic Instructions
Holy fuck, BI is still going?! I read that back in 2006.

It's all reruns now. Still, when it's good it's bloody good.

I'm going to regret this. I have an expressed an opinion about gender matters on Facebook. One of my female friends shared this article from the Independent about how a trial of a male contraceptive drug was halted after a year because there were too many reported side effects, and that means men ar...

I have killed many critters over the years, large and small. Don't have it in me to kill a cat, like 'em better than people. And all of my cats are indoor cats with the use of a catio, an elevated deck. If they lure a bird up there, then it's Darwin time. Besides, I know better than to defy the wil...

Something I've started to notice recently. You know the way Youtube gives you a selection of videos it thinks you might be interested in on its home page, in categories? One of the categories they keep offering me is "animals", and most days there's a Bearing video in it.

Couple of 2016 examples of cuntishness that occur to me. Jenny McDermott's malicious made-up gossip that Armoured Skeptic and Shoeonhead's relationship started when she was underage Michael Rowlands cuts up audio from Bearing to make it sound like Bearing is ok with rape The CPS prosecuting Mark Pe...

SPLC has got my vote this year. Hands down. The SPLC definitely has to win. No other SJW cunt has done anything this surprisingly bad this year, with the possible exceptions of Steven Novella and his blackballing of Dawkins from NECSS, and Novella was forced to eat crow in public. The rest of them ...

Off to church this afternoon! Wedding rehearsal. My friend Fionnuala is singing at it and her regular guitar accompanist isn't available, so she's drafted me in. And I'm getting paid! I is a professional musician!

Reminds me of something that occurred to me a while back about the birth of the Roman Republic. ... Caesar was also a member of the "populares" who had the support of his legions and of the common folk. He was a follower of Catilina, another wannabe "strongman" who was accused of wanting to seize p...

So, how many more weeks of that shit US election circus before we can get back to 'normal'? You think things will be back to normal after this election? :think: Well considering this issue has been going on since the birth of democracy. Plato mentioned something similar in his book The Republic, we...

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