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... I'm going to call it Hoagy, after Sam Slade's idiot robot sidekick, who was also built from a kit, in Robo-Hunter in 2000AD... You might have to start vaping - I always thought of Hoagy as one half of a double-act. If they start selling vapes that speak with stereotypical "Cuban" accents, I mig...

I have been neglecting the Pit a bit lately. Been busy. Got a promotion at work and am learning how to manage staff. I'm either getting the hang of it, or they're running rings round me and I've no idea. Also, I have a new project. I'm building a guitar. Not from scratch, that's a bit ambitious. The...

I don't know much about Corbyn, and he sounds more than a bit more naive (especially in terms of foreign policy), but again you're right, he's nowhere near Stalin or Mao. No. On the other hand, John McDonnell, Corbyn's shadow chancellor and likely the man pulling his strings, is most definitely a c...

Also a "brazen it out" option, where if you fall foul of a rule you call "brazen it out" and roll the dice, and if your roll added to your oppression points is high enough you survive, but if you don't it's a feeding frenzy.

There needs to a be a "feeding frenzy", where if you get a particular roll or pull a particular card or whatever, then you fall foul of some new rule or something you did years ago comes to light, and all the other players eat you alive. And a "new rule" move, where something that was previously pol...

Quote Bork. Damn edit button.

I found the story.... 21731331_1808107589217239_4908211583036773874_n.jpg Seems this has been going on for a number of years, so why was it ignored for so long? There is definitely another side to the story which we can see in the comments section. I suspect Dan made two serious mistakes. Firstly he...

You're assuming they're being scrupulously honest about why they're conspiring to ruin someone.

https://twitter.com/hels/status/919945169386004480 I really can't see why I am supporting women by jerking off without porn. I don't have a twitter account, so can one of you ask her how that works? :cdc: Dr Richard Carrier PHD really is a feminist ally. He doesn't jack off to porn. He jacks off on...

'Tis a bit windy in Belfast. We all got sent home from work at midday, mainly because the buses and trains were all being stood down at 2 and they wanted to give us a fair chance at getting home. Got home, nothing seemed be happening, and I dozed off. Woken up by my neighbours' fences blowing down. ...

And another bit...

If I can do a bit of shameless shilling, here's a couple of friends of mine on Kickstarter trying to fund their computer game Jennifer Wilde , a rather nicely illustrated point-and-click thing set in 1920s Paris featuring a bratty art student and the ghost of Oscar Wilde... https://images.duckduckgo...

I abstained in the Brexit referendum. Not entirely deliberately. I was in Phil-land following the football when the vote was held, and I'd been too disorganised to organise a postal or proxy vote in time. But I was conflicted, and I'm still not sure how I would have voted if I'd been better organise...

Listening to Sam Harris and reading State Star Codex recently, the question occured to me: is meditation complete bollocks? I can buy that it is relaxing but the claims about letting go of the 'illusion' of the self and all that sounds like a bunch of tree hugging hippie crap to me. I just started ...

...Regarding her lack of comic chops, years of fanboys blowing smoke up her ass to the point she'd need to go on nicotine patches if they ever stopped has her convinced that she's a comedy genius. This string of sour put-downs probably had Rebecca chortling while she wrote it. It's awful. From 2007...

She's not even prepared to write "fuck"! Suppose you've got to give her credit for standing by her principles, not even allowing herself free speech.

"Bint" is a lovely word. Lovely, woody sort of word. Binnnnt.

Watched Dave Smalley's talk, and while he talks a fair amount of sense, the feeling of being seventeen in the Youth Fellowship group in the basement of Christian Fellowship Church, listening to a 23-year-old talking about how we need to behave so as not to put non-Christians off Christianity, was pr...

This popped up in my Arsebook feed: Submissions Open for “We Told You”, a Joss Whedon Zine (archive.is link) Bleating Heart Press is making a zine! We Told You is a 50-page zine about the problematic work and activism of writer, director and producer, Joss Whedon. When Whedon’s ex-wife Kai Cole wrot...

Peterson's Biblical lecture series also moved me further away from the "I hate Christians" phase. I haven't watched a single one. Are they really that interesting? As far a Christianity goes, keep in mind he isn't a theologian, doesn't go to church, and is in love with mythology. That may explain w...

And welcome back Pitchguest, fingers crossed for you da.

Peeking at Jerry's, it's a bit depressing how many people seem to honestly believe that the whole statue crisis can be defused by migrating them to museums. I have a hard time believing anyone who's given the subject more than a tenth of a second of thought honestly believes that will stop calls fo...

Asserting that one's "holy book" [ha!] is quite literally the last word of Gawd, and is "perfect and unchangeable" in every last jot and tittle, looks like a very different critter - of an entirely different phyla - from accepting that it is at best merely inspired by a deity of some sort. I have t...

Fuck me sideways. I just finished a several day long back and forth on FB that I thought was actually going somewhere. I was doing my best to explain why people might see antifa as more or less on par with neo-nazis, both being violent political groups flying the flags of regimes that murdered mill...

One thing I've only just discovered was that the spark for the whole thing was the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. I had always been under the impression that America had made a concerted effort after the Civil War not to demonise the south. Yes, the north won, and yes, slavery was a g...

Something I said back in November : It's more than that. Just the other week the entire online left talked itself into thinking that it was fine to use violence against Nazis. That's step one. Step two is convincing yourself that everyone you don't like is a Nazi. Then they're fair game. A parallel....

Also, no Chrome and no Google here for a very long time. Chrome is a spyware-corrupted copy of the open source browser Chromium, and the best end-user version of that is currently Vivaldi . I'll have to switch to that - I can't see embedded tweets on Brave. After I spend most of last night figuring...

Right. Back from a long weekend camping on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland, during which I got next to no sleep because it felt like it was only my weight that was keeping my wee tent from blowing all over the island. I'm too old to be sleeping on the ground. I've had enough time to catc...

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What beautiful art Danielle endorses!

So much MTF transgenderism does seem to come down to internalising ambient man-hate, doesn't it?

On the "nerd porn virtue signalling" topic, this seems relevant:

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The development of the BBC pay scandal has been... interesting. When the story broke, everybody at my office was talking about in terms of people being overpaid. "I can't believe Gary Lineker gets 2 million quid a year - there's any number of presenters who could do Match of the Day just as well but...

On another subject, anyone else here a fan of Jake Thackray? Singer-songwriter from Yorkshire in the 60s and 70s, very clever lyricist, lovely understated delivery. There's no rock and roll in him at all. He apparently idolised the French poet-singer Georges Brassens, right down to imitating the way...

I knew someone once in the Scouts organisation. One year after a Canukistan Jamboree he told me that there was a huge amount of fuss internally as there were reports from irate parents that some of the Girl Guides had returned home preggers. At least two if I recall correctly. I believe it was kept...

I wasn't planning on trying to fix it myself, I just hoped it might be an easy repair and I might be able to get it back by Saturday. That's not looking likely. I also appealed for advice on Arsebook, and have the names of two guys who specialise in this kind of thing, from two friends who are prob...

More footage of the new Doctor Who released!

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Paddy, from the very little I do know about guitar amps (particularly "proper" amps of the vacuum tube variety), they have some pretty serious juice stored up in the the capacitors and can deliver a potentially deadly shock even when not connected to a power source. Please get it looked at by someo...

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Photo posted properly this time. Damn you edit button, damn you to hell,

Anybody know anything about guitar amplifiers and how to fix them? The band has a gig on Saturday. The had a run-through this afternoon without our drummer, and we'll have a last-minute full-band run through on Wednesday evening. And this evening my amp decided to fall over and cough up blood. As I ...

As to mod vs classic Who - did anyone enjoy Neil Gaiman's writting efforts on Nu Who? The first one, yes; the second one, no. Even Gaiman doesn't seem to be happy about the second one. Yes, the first one was a lot of fun, the second one suffered from being about the Cybermen, and the Cybermen are c...

BBC just announced Jodie Whittaker as the new Dr Who, so the SJW pressure to have either a woman or POC pays off. You just know the pressure will just ramp up even more to have a POC next. Lol. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FPEJZtJwQM8/U0EfiyfxXTI/AAAAAAAAF94/ZeU0aNgH4tA/s1600/The-Smoke-Gallery-Cast-Tr...

Oh hai guys, I just got woked by an article Vox that will surely blow the minds of all but the most progressive among you... And we all know that the Pit has no progressives. Apparently, calling people racist is a bad way to engage with them and might even .ake the.more resistent to your message. E...

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She looks like what would result if Becky and Zinnia created a child.

To me she looks like, if Zinnia was Pinocchio, what she'd look like when she became a real boy.

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I'd disagree with your thoughts that we should get rid of sky genies. We're now arse deep in the insanity of SJWs and fuck me but does these cunts need to find Jesus. I don't think now, after seeing Elevatorgate and all that has followed, that people are actually capable of making moral decisions w...

After the Laci Green rapprochement, TJ reaches out...

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Probably ancient, but I've only just stumbled across it. Somebody's selling this t-shirt on Redbubble:

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Pit Question: Has the refugee situation in Europe, and the Islamic inspired terrorist attacks in the US and other countries changed anyone's minds about how Israel handles middle eastern affairs, Palestine & the West Bank? Or have your opinions pretty much stayed the same? My basic position - that ...

A lot of what I do currently is IT support in an office full of people who can't re-size the columns in an Excel spreadsheet. Tell me about it. This month has been hell. Part of what I do is produce performance statistics by analysing raw data in Excel, using fairly simple functions like AutoFilter...

Employment aggravation. I've been working for my current employer since 2001 (I think I'm institutionalised). For all but about six months of that, I've been "acting up" - filling various higher grade posts on a temporary basis. But because of government pressure on recruitment and staff numbers non...

So Lindybeige put up a video on the subject of rhetoric, and an example he gave of why we'd benefit from having it taught today was a leaflet he received from the Remain campaign during the Brexit vote that by his estimate contained no useful information and did nothing to persuade. This got me thi...

Correct, Lsuoma. 'Le pays de la liberté' would be more salient. BUT, 'la terre' is also not completely wrong. When we use 'la terre', as in 'la terre de nos ancêtres', it means 'the land of our ancestors'. It still feels a bit weird when put the way Surly did. Does 'la liberté' really translate as ...

The Tory-DUP accommodation gives me an opportunity to post this classic Harry Enfield sketch...

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Now they are left in a very tenuous voting agreement (no formal coalition) with the DUP (who, for non-brits, are a fundamentalist religious group for Ireland full of creationists, commonly referred to as the Christian Taliban ) and this is already causing problems with the sizeable gay lobby within...

Can't the Tories ally themselves with the Lib-Dem instead? They've already done it under Cameron, and the Lib-Dem are nowhere nearly as "controversial" as the DUP. Sure, this would probably mean a compromise on the Sacred Hard Brexit and likely a Soft Brexit (leaving the EU, joining the EFTA, the s...

OK, Britainers, tell us true -- Diane Abbott is a mong, right? And I mean a literal mong: Downs, a retard. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3741280/diane-abbott-pulled-from-bbc-radio-interview-for-being-unwell-before-falling-for-prank-email-exposing-lies/ As far as I know, she doesn't have the excuse ...

[quote="Brive1987"]Yes. I had no choice. It was beyond my control.

The think I've always wondered is, if there is no free will, but people think there is, is there any point trying to convince them?

And every single border constituency in Norn Iron has gone to Sinn Fein. Paddy? With the exception of Sinn Fein in West Belfast, Northern Ireland is divided neatly into two contiguous zones - Sinn Fein in the south and west, DUP (plus independent unionist Lady Sylvia Hermon in North Down) in the no...

Also, what is it with young women and ridiculous inch-thick drawn-on eyebrows?

One day I may have lawn. And then I will insist you get off it.

Although I think a Jeremy Corbyn/John McDonnell government would turn the UK into a Venezuela-style basket case in five years, a continued Theresa May government isn't much more appealing. She has to have run the single worst election campaign that has ever been run in the whole history of election ...

Tommy's latest rant .. can't say I disagree with anything. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChjfFx_zLU[/youtube] Well, other than the fact that internment was a complete fucking disaster when it came to combating the IRA, and did more to radicalise nationalists than anything except Bloody ...

Suet Cardigan wrote:The SJW brigade is really turning on Laci Green for apostasy:

So this is all really about policing Laci's love life?

How very... progressive.

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