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

More new media...though I don't know who thought it was a good idea to have an American playing a Belgian - rather than someone from the UK. Ridiculous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwh09s7xLVg The better question is what does John Malkovitch - or Kenneth Branagh - bring to the role that David S...

Apple's iCloud has been censoring certain words for years, and there is a fun game going on among the few Apple fans left as to what words can be used. No indication whatsoever is given that you used a forbidden word, or didn't receive an e-mail containing one. It makes life interesting, and entert...

And finally some more fucked up shit. https://twitter.com/frbower/status/1079536481318752258?s=21 Reminds me of the assertion that "Palestine is exactly like the Warsaw Ghetto" that was circulated a few years back. People didn't much care for my pointing out that had this actually been the case Isr...

Theresa May is, indeed, a stupid woman, at least according to a lot of people on all sides of the political divide, and plausibly so, considering her track record as a Prime Minister so far. Corbyn and PJW agree on that. Will wonders never cease. She clearly uses Margaret Thatcher as a stylistic in...

Lighten up dumbass. You get your panties in a knot by my ridiculing self hating gay Lindsey Graham that has spent years opposing gay rights. As for bringing up the DS thing where you pointed out that Anglin calls even those not far from his own kin cucks and homos, that was the joke. If you don't l...

mordacious1 wrote: ↑
AndrewV69 wrote: ↑ I forgot to mention,

Phil is forbidden to be in the same room as a Laguiole knife much less touch one. Owning one is forbidden. Because we all know what will happen.
I don’t know, Four Finger Phil has kind of a ring to it.

Not on the fifth finger, he doesn't.

Am I the only one experiencing nauseousness over the Bush coverage? Nope. This burgeoning tendency to fetishize things in the US is disgusting. The Rude Pundit nails it: So, yeah, sure, you can thank Bush for some things he did that genuinely made the nation kinder and gentler, like the Americans w...

TheMudbrooker wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:21 pm
I fucking love Wisconsin......
https://www.weau.com/content/news/500516581.html

I'm more intrigued by the fact that the company makes bulletproof glassware. I hate to think there's a market for that.

So if you have used cannabis legally in the US you can be refused ownership of guns? https://www.kmbc.com/article/medical-marijuana-patients-federally-barred-from-buying-firearms/24935498 Apparently it's OK to be an alcoholic and own guns but not if you have ever used weed. According to an open let...

PZ Myers rant at ~41:00

SM1957 wrote: ↑ Rod Stewart's preferred pronoun is 'Sir'

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/09/sir-rod- ... w-8122872/'

The temptation to call him "Cocaine-up-the-butt Stewart" after that would be overwhelming.

Not for me to predict American politics but I have a feeling history will be made resulting in the Democrats seriously having to take a long hard look at themselves. (which of course they won't) I just can't see a 'Blue Wave' at all. Not after Kavanaugh and now the caravan. FWIW, I think the Dems w...

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ Forget the midterms .. Miss BumBum just got real. :drool:

Real? There's enough silicone on that stage to fill a good-sized transformer.

Sinead O'Connor doesn't want to mix with white people any more. https://i.imgur.com/Bbtq9R2.png https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sinead-oconnor-doesnt-want-mix-13543568?fbclid=IwAR3th1zRTr_kswl4SuB4h3tlEshcK7xuGihJ6ZVvycJrULyzgB7MyeQvajs A bit of unintended honesty about her own rather o...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ OK, Muddy, you may be right, but there's no way I'd want to jump Ol' Chetty's bones like I do with Angela's...

No interest in jumping Wooten's bones, either, but still...

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
BoxNDox wrote: ↑
I also dislike bad poetry. That's still not poetry.
It could be doggerel. Or a horse of a different colour.

More like what comes out of a horse.

John D wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 03, 2018 7:38 am

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ I hate poetry:

It is probably not poetry you hate.... it is probably that you hate bad poetry.

I also dislike bad poetry. That's still not poetry.

Jordan Peterson has written a new forward for a new edition of The Gulag Archipelago.

https://quillette.com/2018/11/01/the-gu ... -peterson/

Never stick your dick in crazy :twatson: https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/1052771893265104896 (Happy Birthday Becky) Are they on holiday in Scotland? https://twitter.com/UKMoments/status/1052880281957486597 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m3of0Syt7dU/UXptACafZsI/AAAAAAAAX2Q/j5x0rewMyuU/s1600/Apoc...

Tigzy wrote: ↑Paris Lees

Seek help.

In tasteless news, we drove past this place in Bras D'Or this afternoon: lick-a-chick.jpg Just thought I'd share. Too bad John Baeder hasn't done an oil or watercolor of it - at least not that I can find. Like this one: https://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/D56812/john_baeder_tip_top_diner_d568...

The UK is a shitfestival that keeps on shitting itself. Looks to me like these soldiers engaged in partisan political activity while in uniform. If so, that would be a violation of DoD Directive 1344.10 in the US, which forbids engaging in such activity while in uniform. The penalties for that can ...

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑ Lindsay, Boghosian, and Pluckrose's hijinx are making it into Time and the Atlantic as Sokal squared,
This is the 21st century - do people read any more?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k

If the responses I see to emails and memos are any indication, no.

https://i.imgur.com/SB4gzvK.png For the last few days, I've been working in an office, right on the corner of of Broadway & Houston-- the center of the universe-- the 'zero' street of Manhattan's grid of numbered streets. I've been surrounded by desk-bound normy-girls and soyboys, none who bothered...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ Jesus is an Aussie
Why'd you choose such a backward time
In such a strange land?

Saw Ben Vereen perform it in 1971 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Still have the Playbill.

KiwiInOz wrote: ↑
InfraRedBucket wrote: ↑
Suet Cardigan wrote: ↑ NSFW is a hate word?
They're ok with motherfucker, that isn't on their list.
I see that cockwomble is ok, too.

Douchecanoe is also safe, at least for now.

Burt Reynolds now. I'll never watch Striptease the same way again. It you haven't already, you should read the book. Striptease the movie is OK, kinda sorta, but the book is funny in a way the movie should be but isn't. After years of covering Florida crime and corruption for the Miami Herald, nobo...

BoxnDox wrote: The obvious answer is that he could have resigned his commission in protest and gone to the media with his concerns. A little thing called the Holocaust put the kibosh on using the "I had to follow orders" line as an excuse. Dallaire did speak to the media after the killing started a...

Copper sulphate down the drain works. Not halal for septic tanks, unless used with great care. :geek: Can you toilet people (or "men" as Ophelia calls them) confirm that copper sulphate is safe and effective? Regular toilet, inside a house, no weird backwoods septic tanks or anything. How much and ...

The Truth About Hillary's "Illness" or in b4 Paul Joseph Watson There has been a lot of speculation about Hillary's health ever since the campaign when she stumbled, allegedly because of the flu. Many thoughtful observers have also noticed the grotesque faces she makes and her odd tics. Some observ...

And then Dallaire went on to become an embarrassment to every professional soldier everywhere. Things go wrong. Plans don't work out. What do you do?—anything, almost anything at all rather than fold up and claim to have PTSD if you want military historians to remember you with fondness. FFS, we tr...

"A Day in the Life - Caring for Transgender Patients in New York City"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/f ... le/2700375

Given what research is saying, more than a little cause for concern.

free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 31, 2018 7:27 pm
Excuse my typos. Probably gluten poisoning I'm getting from the beer I'm drinking. I need to switch to alcoholic beverages made from beef. :drool:

You could try Nem Chua and a side of water.

Ape+lust wrote: ↑ Candidate Wu shares Frank's man-cave with the audience.

https://imgur.com/jxd8h8I.jpg

The use of "Wu" and "man cave" in the same sentence made me throw in my mouth a little.

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Yes. I liked it, especially when it shifts from detective noir to sci-fi. I also liked the movie. The casting of Julia Ormand as Smilla was a bit odd, but it worked.

And also, this Myers blog post is the apex of worthless virtue-signalling (and I don't give a fuck if "virtue-signalling" is associated with the alt-whatever. It just perfectly defines what's going on here). Just because morons overuse a term it doesn't mean that the term is meaningless. In this ca...

I'm still struggling with the introduced concept of "niggers" performing a "chimp out". Sometimes I wake up with these fevered words being soundlessly repeated. Over and over. I don't know what this means. For your enlightenment: a chimp out is one or more persons of African persuasion becoming ang...

https://imgur.com/WGUj9CQ.jpg Who is who? I don't recognize any of those. Clockwise, from top left: Lauren Lane, head honcho of Skepticon. The one who aggressively pursued Carrier until he broke his vows of fidelity to his wife. She banned him from Skepticon and is now being sued for it. This lady ...

America promotes the fuck out of STEM. "Every child a coder" hangs from every board in my kid's schools. Every child that can and has the slightest interest in STEM is practically herded there. The humanities degrees are for people who couldn't cut it, they aren't luring any potential candidates aw...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: ↑Rap is shite.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ "powder room" FFS

The script for part of your dinner was published on Quillette yesterday:

https://quillette.com/2018/07/19/black- ... ealth-gap/

I have to say that Quillette continues to impress.

I keep hearing about sane tranwomen, but I've never met one nor does there seem to be any on the internet. I'm starting to think they're all hanging with Bigfoot. The ones I've met IRL have all been sane AFAICT. I worked with a transwoman for a number of years; no problems whatsoever. I do know one...

Question for the 'Pit. How many here were taught Aesop's Fables in school? What age were you? High school. Comparative Mythology. If memory serves, we didn't spend much time on the fables themselves; it was more a matter of looking at their evolution from an oral to written tradition. Note that my ...

Coyne is a bit of an intellectual lightweight. He is often guilty of pigeonholing people using a very low resolution template. *I'm* an intellectual lightweight. Coyne has to hold his urine for a day to make it to flyweight. There is a world of difference between Peterson and your standard Sophisti...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:17 am

Ape+lust wrote: ↑ WTF does that even mean, she "identifies" as a fat woman?
It means she calls herself "fat", but you can't just go around calling anyone who's 5' 5" and 280 lbs "fat".

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ There is no such thing as a California "Drawl".

Yeah, that too.

Shatterface wrote: ↑ high vibration nourishment

You'd think I'd learn not to do it at some point. I googled "high vibration nourishment" and now I haz a sad.

And when did "Head Chef" get verbed?

Sometimes I really hate being fucking Cassandra. Americans blame law-breaking parents, not Trump, for border separation Yep, called this one myself and got yelled at for it, although I didn't expect the swing to be quite this big. It's actually pretty fucking obvious when Haidt's moral foundations ...

I'm sure that the immigrants he has been shouting support for are very happy to have Meyers's support. Smashing the system, one margarita at a time. https://i.imgur.com/yifttDC.png Should white chefs sell burritos? A Portland food cart’s revealing controversy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fo...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:15 pm

Shatterface wrote: ↑ In a certain light he could be mistaken for a woman. That light being a laser pen in your eyes.
Okay, that one was worth putting up with you PMSing for the past two weeks.

My thoughts exactly.

Hey remember Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City? Me neither, but she's running for New York governor and has a trans son. https://i.imgur.com/8Irgb47.jpg Seeing this pic makes me reconsider my stand against forcible sterilization. As I recall, she played the lawyer - badly. Which of course means she...

screwtape wrote: ↑Jamieson's

If you haven't already, try Jamieson's Caskmates - it's finished in beer barrels. Around here it's available at Trader Joes and the price is usually reasonable.

Maybe, but given the sensitivity of the issue, at best this is willfully careless reporting or complete incompetence. ProTip - start developing a more sceptical attitude to the press. You'll be glad you did. Read Mencken/Winchell/Murrow/Lippmann, etc., and see why you should. AFAIK you can 't reall...

Apart from going an all-boys school, getting sacked from modelling for being a racist, then sacked from her position as LGBT advisor to Labour for being a homophobe, and never actually making a film, I can't imagine what the objection to Bergdorf can be. I'm sure she has lots of advice for other wo...

http://amp.fox2detroit.com/news/local-n ... ssion=true Hattey is accused of penetrating a dog with his penis and his hand. The attorney general's office says the acts did not occur on campus or with an animal owned by MSU. Officials say the dog, a Bassett hound, is safe and in the custody of Ingham...

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑
Thu May 31, 2018 8:38 pm
https://www.theonion.com/coffee-cultiva ... ssion=true
Onion is funny.

I liked this one even more:

https://www.theonion.com/desperate-star ... 1826200909

And it seems, well, pittier.
:cdc:

Spotted on the way to work. “Hope springs eternal” http://i.imgur.com/AEr5VLF.jpg Shaw could be a major twat at times, and with Saint Joan he's at his twattiest. Even at his twattiest, Shaw could write rings around around the current crop of "woke" authors and playwrights. And with plays like Pygma...

Goodness, I don't understand why people think that the UK might have some judges that aren't too sharp... DeSi5mnW4AAUSUa.jpeg https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/27/knives-sharp-filing-solution-soaring-violent-crime-judge-says/amp/ So....if I understand this judge correct...

An interesting take on Peterson by someone who knew him well. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2018/05/25/i-was-jordan-petersons-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-hes-dangerous.html The long knives come out. A rambling ad hominem, revealing that JBP is arrogant and believes in dream interpretation. I ...

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