My condolences. My mother died this past March.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Thanks Abbie and Dick. I'm gathering more information. At least he didn't die alone. My aunt's husband was with him all night, and says he just went to sleep and was gone a bit afterward, quietly and without (much) pain.
Ultimate cause seems to be liver faillure due to his years of drinking and smoking. Quite sobering.
Funeral won't be possible before at least tuesday, so I will definitely miss it. My brother is likely to attend, so he'll "represent" me as well. My mother and my aunt can't make it either. Mother is stuck with a masterclass she has to give, and my aunt is in Nigeria until the end of the month (work related).
So since 2009: maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, maternal uncle, all gone.
So is Mo Green, Tataglia, Barzini, the heads of all the five families (sorry, watched that movie yesterday, and I need the humour right now).
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Sorry to hear that. My condolences as well.Walter Ego wrote:
My condolences. My mother died this past March.
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My condolences as well. Good luck to you.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:My uncle passed away last night. It sucks! Even more so as he was showing signs of improvement at the beginning of the week.
I'm leaving for some studio work on tuesday, so I will probably miss the funeral.
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My condolences Phil.
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No, I don't want to fuck around with suppressing them. Also, the 2 times I've been on the pill, it actually lowered my libido (defeating my purpose at the time). Also, it runs in my family to develop blood clots in the legs from the pill, something that's in the news again. Plus, my doctor told me that she won't put anyone over 35 on the pill.sacha wrote:have you tried oral contraceptives as menstruation suppression?Scented Nectar wrote:Why are you bad men making me wait so long for my menopause. I'm 50 now. Haven't I done my time under The Curse? Haven't I paid my dues to the Patriarchy as a Gender Traitor? I keep thinking 'hey, maybe that was my last period' and then another comes along and ruins my fun.AndrewV69 wrote:Oh FFS!
A paper at PLOS is blaming teh menz for female menopause. Just ONE MORE example THAT MEN ARE TO BLAME for everything that afflicts every woman in the world...
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/inf ... bi.1003092Here we use a stochastic, two-sex computational model implemented by computer simulation to show how male mating preference for younger females could lead to the accumulation of mutations deleterious to female fertility and thus produce a menopausal period.
Mind you, I wouldn't say no to one of those quickie laproscopic hysterectomies like reGreta had. Minus the fluevogs though.
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Condolences, Phil.
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Only know you from your posts Phil but I had a kind uncle so condolences
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Recommended reading:
Giving Feminism a Bad Name
It gives a big picture to the ideological differences and issues that are relevant when dealing with the unscientific other side of FTB, SkepChick & Co.
@Phil
That sucks, my condolences :(
Giving Feminism a Bad Name
It gives a big picture to the ideological differences and issues that are relevant when dealing with the unscientific other side of FTB, SkepChick & Co.
@Phil
That sucks, my condolences :(
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And I had some danmed fine aunties as well
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Bit pissed, damned = damn
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Aneris wrote:Recommended reading:
Giving Feminism a Bad Name
It gives a big picture to the ideological differences and issues that are relevant when dealing with the unscientific other side of FTB, SkepChick & Co.
Well, Barry, I read a little more from the philosopher J.B. Jovi, and it turns out that you're to blame.Barry X. Kuhle wrote:To paraphrase New Jersey philosopher J. B. Jovi, they give feminism a bad name.
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The above image shows tawny frogmouths in standard camo mode.
This is more the Monty Python 'How not to be seen' version.
@Phil, my sympathies.
Peter
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Tawny frogmouths are the weirdest little fuckers, I have to say. They cause lots of arguments when I'm in Australia where people are like, "Hey look at that frogmouth" and then the other person is like, "Naw it's a branch". "Naw it's a bird." "Seriously it's a branch, go up there and look." "Deffo a bird..." etc
And the more you look at them the more they act like they are a branch and not a bird.
And the more you look at them the more they act like they are a branch and not a bird.
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Perhaps it boils down to her grooming habits.Gumby wrote: I don't think of women as toilets, Ophie. But seeing as how you're the one who brought it up... why do you think of women as toilets?
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Aneris wrote:Recommended reading:
Giving Feminism a Bad Name
It gives a big picture to the ideological differences and issues that are relevant when dealing with the unscientific other side of FTB, SkepChick & Co.
MISOGYNIST!!!!!!Barry X. Khule wrote:As an evolutionary psychologist,
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Condolences, Phil.
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Just a sign of how completely ineffective and silly PZ Myers has become. After months of calling everyone racist and sexist, his diatribe about an actual racist sounds pretty mild and boring. Theodore Beale is a "Not a good person, a really nasty, unstable, vicious wackaloon." But Russell Blackford is a "lying fucktard," so who really knows the difference anymore? Anyways, when you hate everyone around you, people stop caring about your opinions on who to hate.
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Shit. I'm sorry to hear about your uncle, Phil.
Also, Walter, I really hope everything sort itself out for you. Happy thoughts.
re: tawny frogmouths: well I'll be damned. But seriously, do they actually just stand like that all the time? Don't they get bored?
Also, Walter, I really hope everything sort itself out for you. Happy thoughts.
re: tawny frogmouths: well I'll be damned. But seriously, do they actually just stand like that all the time? Don't they get bored?
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Condolences, Phil.
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This is why calling people racist and sexist when their racism or sexism is highly questionable is a bad idea. It strips the word of it's meaning and power.EdwardGemmer wrote:Just a sign of how completely ineffective and silly PZ Myers has become. After months of calling everyone racist and sexist, his diatribe about an actual racist sounds pretty mild and boring. Theodore Beale is a "Not a good person, a really nasty, unstable, vicious wackaloon." But Russell Blackford is a "lying fucktard," so who really knows the difference anymore? Anyways, when you hate everyone around you, people stop caring about your opinions on who to hate.
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Total sense. Really? Tell us more about ourselves CoprOphilia.Gumby wrote: I don't think of women as toilets, Ophie. But seeing as how you're the one who brought it up... why do you think of women as toilets?
OB re-does Sartre - "Hell is smelly people."
Maybe she was a bed wetter. Nah - then she might have worked this out;
“Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!â€
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Yes, during the day they just stand like that. The ones in my photo had chosen an insanely low banksia branch, not the usual gum tree, fortunately the cats didn't spot them.Pitchguest wrote: re: tawny frogmouths: well I'll be damned. But seriously, do they actually just stand like that all the time? Don't they get bored?
As for the boredome, obviously each of the adults is solving the three-body problem. The youngster - *Derp*.
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Sorry. tl,dr;Submariner wrote:Jeremy Stangroom tweeted this link. After re-reading it he called it "chilling"
http://www.tu.ac.th/org/grad/master/pdf ... 5B1%5D.pdf
Well at least it's 30 years old (and looks, at a glance, rather out of date even then). The feminists and Marxists have thrashed this one to death for years and it only really faded when Marxism did, and feminism became something the local newspaper could report on without references to burning bras.
If the current crop of SJWs want to carry that load of intellectual baggage around with them, good luck to them. They can all sit in their "Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie" study groups (original German required to avoid cultural mis-interpretations of The Text created by the conditions of Patriarchy) and foam about arcane issues in the superstructure of capitalism until they schism into a million pieces with ice-picks at ten paces.
If only it would be interesting to watch. It wasn't the first couple of times it happened.
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Very sorry to hear about your uncle, Phil - my condolences.
Walter - I hope things get better for you very soon.
Walter - I hope things get better for you very soon.
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O hell.
Sorry for your loss Phil.
Sorry for your loss Phil.
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The "owl-like" part is in the Tawny Frogmouth's scientific name: Podargus strigoides. All of the Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, whippoorwills, etc.) are well-camouflaged and will remain motionless when threatened, though the Tawny Frogmouth is probably the best at mimicking tree branches. Darren Naish at Tetrapod Zoology has written several extensive posts about the Caprimulgiformes.sacha wrote:rayshul wrote:Looks like a tawny frogmouth... there used to be a bunch of the buggers in our gardenPitchguest wrote:That's a seriously cool photo.
But you're sure they're not eagles?
I'd say Rayshul is spot on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tawny-frogmouth.jpg
plus they are "often mistaken for owls"
Here in South Texas, we have Common Nighthawks, Common Pauraques, Eastern Whip-poor-wills, and Chuck-will's-widows. I can hear all four species at one time or another, just being out in the backyard with the dogs. The Common Nighthawks I very frequently see at dusk. My old Labrador retriever once found an entire nighthawk wing during one of our walks (of course she picked it up and it was a struggle to get it away from her); I'm guessing that the bird swooped in front of a car while catching insects. Occasionally I've heard a Common Poorwill, but the range is typically further west.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chuck-wills-widow/id
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Nighthawk/id
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Yep, what many have said all along, "Cry Wolf". But when the ordinary macho sexist asshole usually won't read, much less come across Pharyngula or have any idea about sexism, or feminism, you have to create your foils. PZ Myers and his commentariat are a one trick pony. They need a contrast to show off how knowledgeable they are (yet it can't be too comlicated as then devil-in-the-details might burst the ingroup feeling). This kind of thing worked so well with creationists, even made Thunderf00t big, so that the baboons just had to adapt the concept. They painted themselves into a corner with it, where they are now stuck. I assume PZ and Co. will backpedal quite soon. Blog hits dwindle, influence wanes, many other groups and subcommunities are fairly pissed off by them (or ignore them).Tony Parsehole wrote:This is why calling people racist and sexist when their racism or sexism is highly questionable is a bad idea. It strips the word of it's meaning and power.EdwardGemmer wrote:Just a sign of how completely ineffective and silly PZ Myers has become. After months of calling everyone racist and sexist, his diatribe about an actual racist sounds pretty mild and boring. Theodore Beale is a "Not a good person, a really nasty, unstable, vicious wackaloon." But Russell Blackford is a "lying fucktard," so who really knows the difference anymore? Anyways, when you hate everyone around you, people stop caring about your opinions on who to hate.
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In a movie called Freeway, Keifer Sutherland asks Reese Witherspoon if, when she gives a blowjob, does she feel like a human urinal.
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Her answer?debaser71 wrote:In a movie called Freeway, Keifer Sutherland asks Reese Witherspoon if, when she gives a blowjob, does she feel like a human urinal.
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Behold, a 'reeeeeeeally ugly' horse.
http://zombieslash.com/wp-content/zombi ... 230353.jpg
Personally, though, it's one of the coolest photos I've ever seen. This was commissioned in 2006 to stand outside Denver International Airport, and the sculptor actually died when a large piece of the sculpture landed on top of his leg and ruptured an artery. Ouch.
http://zombieslash.com/wp-content/zombi ... 230353.jpg
Personally, though, it's one of the coolest photos I've ever seen. This was commissioned in 2006 to stand outside Denver International Airport, and the sculptor actually died when a large piece of the sculpture landed on top of his leg and ruptured an artery. Ouch.
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Her mouth was full, so she couldn't answer.Parody Accountant wrote:Her answer?debaser71 wrote:In a movie called Freeway, Keifer Sutherland asks Reese Witherspoon if, when she gives a blowjob, does she feel like a human urinal.
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Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Thanks Abbie and Dick. I'm gathering more information. At least he didn't die alone. My aunt's husband was with him all night, and says he just went to sleep and was gone a bit afterward, quietly and without (much) pain.
Ultimate cause seems to be liver faillure due to his years of drinking and smoking. Quite sobering.
Funeral won't be possible before at least tuesday, so I will definitely miss it. My brother is likely to attend, so he'll "represent" me as well. My mother and my aunt can't make it either. Mother is stuck with a masterclass she has to give, and my aunt is in Nigeria until the end of the month (work related).
So since 2009: maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, maternal uncle, all gone.
So is Mo Green, Tataglia, Barzini, the heads of all the five families (sorry, watched that movie yesterday, and I need the humour right now).
Condolences, Phil. Glad you were able to see him again.
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Condolences, Phil.
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Its colors and style are not dissimilar from the Denver Broncos football (American) team logo:Pitchguest wrote: Personally, though, it's one of the coolest photos I've ever seen. This was commissioned in 2006 to stand outside Denver International Airport, and the sculptor actually died when a large piece of the sculpture landed on top of his leg and ruptured an artery. Ouch.
http://nflview.com/nfl_thumb/378013.jpg
I think the horse's front legs are too long for the rest of its body. ::pedantic::
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"what kind of fuck questions are those?!" or something..I'm sure it's on you tube,Parody Accountant wrote:Her answer?debaser71 wrote:In a movie called Freeway, Keifer Sutherland asks Reese Witherspoon if, when she gives a blowjob, does she feel like a human urinal.
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Becky does like elevators!
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... ed9fb6.gif
I guess it's just coffee she doesn't like.
OK, so it's terrible. Chalk it up to my first attempt at editing an animated GIF.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... ed9fb6.gif
I guess it's just coffee she doesn't like.
OK, so it's terrible. Chalk it up to my first attempt at editing an animated GIF.
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Freakin' cabbage worms have eaten >50% of my kale and collards, and crapped all over much of the rest. :(
Where can I get some parasitic wasps?
Oh, yeah ...
Where can I get some parasitic wasps?
Oh, yeah ...
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So sorry, Phil :(Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:My uncle passed away last night. It sucks! Even more so as he was showing signs of improvement at the beginning of the week.
I'm leaving for some studio work on tuesday, so I will probably miss the funeral.
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Sorry Phil :\
If you're able to make it to EWTS somehow let me know.
If you're able to make it to EWTS somehow let me know.
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Sorry for your loss Phil.
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Walter - I hope things start looking up for you!
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When I'm sad do you know what cheers me up?
Thinking of women as toilets.
I'm just kidding. Of course I don't think of women as toilets.
Toilets are useful.
KIDDING!
Thinking of women as toilets.
I'm just kidding. Of course I don't think of women as toilets.
Toilets are useful.
KIDDING!
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Phil, I recently lost an aunt so I know how much suckage you're going through right now. My condolences.
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Fuck, am I stupid. Rookie mistakes... Much better version (yeah I know, no one cares) :lol:
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That is one detailed horse sculpture:Pitchguest wrote:Behold, a 'reeeeeeeally ugly' horse.
http://zombieslash.com/wp-content/zombi ... 230353.jpg
Personally, though, it's one of the coolest photos I've ever seen. This was commissioned in 2006 to stand outside Denver International Airport, and the sculptor actually died when a large piece of the sculpture landed on top of his leg and ruptured an artery. Ouch.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/image ... r05_04.jpg
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Thanks for that Gumby. Thanks for making me fap to a badly animated Rebecca Watson gif. You're a real mate....Gumby wrote:Fuck, am I stupid. Rookie mistakes... Much better version (yeah I know, no one cares) :lol:
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That blue horse is epic. I wish I had one in my garden. I would offer up a sacrifice to it each time the moon was full.
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You're welcome, Parsehole. Any time.
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That image + your sig = another joke, btwTony Parsehole wrote:
That is one detailed horse sculpture:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/image ... r05_04.jpg
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Condolences, Phil.
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I love the jargon on that link.AnonymousCowherd wrote:Sorry. tl,dr;Submariner wrote:Jeremy Stangroom tweeted this link. After re-reading it he called it "chilling"
http://www.tu.ac.th/org/grad/master/pdf ... 5B1%5D.pdf
Well at least it's 30 years old (and looks, at a glance, rather out of date even then). The feminists and Marxists have thrashed this one to death for years and it only really faded when Marxism did, and feminism became something the local newspaper could report on without references to burning bras.
If the current crop of SJWs want to carry that load of intellectual baggage around with them, good luck to them. They can all sit in their "Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie" study groups (original German required to avoid cultural mis-interpretations of The Text created by the conditions of Patriarchy) and foam about arcane issues in the superstructure of capitalism until they schism into a million pieces with ice-picks at ten paces.
If only it would be interesting to watch. It wasn't the first couple of times it happened.
When the Jim the Pleb subject line needs changing I suggest; "In the Cause of Phallocratic Domination"
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"Get Off Your High Horse"
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Haha. Nice one.Parody Accountant wrote:"Get Off Your High Horse"
http://i.imgur.com/oL4Qvut.jpg
This one is for the geeks:
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That horse should be the official Pit logo. I don't know why it just should.
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Archaon the Everchosen, very good!Tony Parsehole wrote: Haha. Nice one.
This one is for the geeks:
http://weknowmemes.com/generator/upload ... 555474.jpg
That horse should be the official Pit logo. I don't know why it just should.
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Condolences Phil. And belated ones to Walter. I hope things improve for both of you.
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My condolences and thoughts are with you, PhilPhil_Giordana_FCD wrote:My uncle passed away last night. It sucks! Even more so as he was showing signs of improvement at the beginning of the week.
I'm leaving for some studio work on tuesday, so I will probably miss the funeral.
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Round of applause.Jonathan wrote:Archaon the Everchosen, very good!Tony Parsehole wrote: Haha. Nice one.
This one is for the geeks:
http://weknowmemes.com/generator/upload ... 555474.jpg
That horse should be the official Pit logo. I don't know why it just should.
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Gumby, what do you use to animate gifs?
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Make animated gifs*