Jim the Pleb Made Me Do It

[Lsuoma]

Fucking AAAAAA+++++

Feels good, doesn't it! Level: over 9000.

[AbsurdWalls]

Fucking AAAAAA+++++

Feels good, doesn't it! Level: over 9000.

Yeah, I was very surprised. I think it might be a gear change for my disposition. Either that or I'm just drunk.

[Pitchguest]

PhD viva passed. No corrections.

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Feeling pretty good right now.

Fuckin' A, congrats! :clap:

But now if you'll excuse me, I have to watch that scene again.

[rayshul]

I can't remember if I mentioned here before that someone on my facebook wrote a long post explaining why discriminating against men can't be sexist because sexism is oppression + being fucking stupid and not understanding words or something like that. I want to crush this ridiculous stupidity but how the fuck do you do that? It's popping up everywhere.

[welch]

WTF? FTB seems to have put up DDOS protection from Cloud Flare.

Welch, have you been trying to post there again? :lol:

snerk. They wish.

[Zenspace]

And where is APPLES? I miss them.

Still here :) ... work is cutting into my Pit-time, but I've been lurking.

Thanks for checking in! :dance:

PZ is a dick.

Stay on target! :clap:

[welch]

Oh bless. Welsh thinks I'm a "libertarian". In the same way Setar thinks anyone not a maoist is a "libertarian".

No, I think you're a randolyte and, a shining idiot. perhaps the brightest shining idiot I've ever seen. People from around the world show you to their children and say "Child...that is and idiot. See what they are doing, and never ever do that, lest you be an idiot too."

Randolytes are *sometimes* libertarians, but not always. however, as you are an idiot, I'm unsurprised you would confuse the two.

[Spence]

In other news, NASA bring the patriarchy to Mars:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/24 ... enis_mars/

I bet Phil Plait had a hand in it!

[welch]

PhD viva passed. No corrections.

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg10 ... 6cfc56.gif

Feeling pretty good right now.

w00t!

[Zenspace]

And nannyish Home Seketerrys wot refuses well known activists entry to the UK on the basis of what they might say. Try burning a Koran in the UK. A visit from the police is guaranteed.

Try burning a US flag in the US. A visit from your neighbors, their relatives, the local newspaper, FOX news, random "Lone Wolf" types from Arizona with too many guns and too few brain cells, and the police is guaranteed.

Just choose your timing wisely: burn the flag on April 15th and you will be publicly applauded and granted instant hero status. :lol:

[Zenspace]

Another reflection of the bind he's in: His post from April 20 on "#radfem2013" has 115 comments. His post from April 20 on Coelacanth evolution (genome sequencing, phylogeny, fossils) has 12 comments (several of which are about how cute the drawings on the phylogenetic tree are).

That’s not just PZ, that's almost everyone in A/S/H. This forum was originally born, as you know, from extraordinarily lengthy comment threads about the (mis)application of feminism on ERV's generally uncontroversial science blog. Her threads on anti-science woo don't generate as much debate, because most of her readers are pro-science.

On my own minor blog any post about feminism reliably pulls a 5-10x comment boost over similarly detailed posts about anything else other than maybe gun control. I'm guessing that people must really love an ongoing controversy, unless it's couched in a structured dialogue. :mrgreen:

I see what you did there. :naughty:

[clownshoe]

Another reflection of the bind he's in: His post from April 20 on "#radfem2013" has 115 comments. His post from April 20 on Coelacanth evolution (genome sequencing, phylogeny, fossils) has 12 comments (several of which are about how cute the drawings on the phylogenetic tree are).

That’s not just PZ, that's almost everyone in A/S/H. This forum was originally born, as you know, from extraordinarily lengthy comment threads about the (mis)application of feminism on ERV's generally uncontroversial science blog. Her threads on anti-science woo don't generate as much debate, because most of her readers are pro-science.

On my own minor blog any post about feminism reliably pulls a 5-10x comment boost over similarly detailed posts about anything else other than maybe gun control. I'm guessing that people must really love an ongoing controversy, unless it's couched in a structured dialogue. :mrgreen:

I see what you did there. :naughty:

Indeed :naughty: and I think I'll take d4m10n to task for that on the next episode of my minor podcast

[Cunning Punt]

Don't oppress me with your "Season 3" privilege! I am only now watching Season 1. Any spoilers and I will fuck you up (make a YouTube video or something.) It's pretty awesome entertainment I must say.

[sacha]

Don't oppress me with your "Season 3" privilege! I am only now watching Season 1. Any spoilers and I will fuck you up (make a YouTube video or something.) It's pretty awesome entertainment I must say.

yeah! any spoilers and Cunning Punt will fuck you up!

I'm also on season one

[Tony Parsehole]

PhD viva passed. No corrections.


Feeling pretty good right now.

Congratz!

[Tony Parsehole]

I can't remember if I mentioned here before that someone on my facebook wrote a long post explaining why discriminating against men can't be sexist because sexism is oppression + being fucking stupid and not understanding words or something like that. I want to crush this ridiculous stupidity but how the fuck do you do that? It's popping up everywhere.

Just keep on truckin'.....Whatever the hell that means.

[Tony Parsehole]

Any spoilers and I will fuck you up

Nobody tell Punt about the bit with the flying carpet and the basket of singing mangoes.

[Tony Parsehole]

Don't oppress me with your "Season 3" privilege! I am only now watching Season 1. Any spoilers and I will fuck you up (make a YouTube video or something.) It's pretty awesome entertainment I must say.

yeah! any spoilers and Cunning Punt will fuck you up!

I'm also on season one

Pfffff.....Season one?
I shit season 1.

Season 3 is only for hardXXXcore 2damaX playa's like me.

[John Greg]

Franc used to insist that Twisty Faster and IBlameThePatriarchy are full time POE.

Over the last couple of days, I've read some of that idiocy Twisty Faster posts, and I can only come to one conclusion ... well, two, sort of: either it is a POE, or Twisty Faster is yet another RadFem who is butt naked deeply demented and not living in the same corporeal universe that the rest of humanity lives in.

And, if PeeZus really thinks sh/i/t is for real and supports it, well, what can I say. That means PeeZus is not only dishonest and stupid, he is also butt naked deeply demented and not living in the same corporeal universe that the rest of humanity lives in.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

OK, you'd probably be lynched. But will it be an officially sanctioned lynching? Will the cops really be involved?

Yes and yes, depending upon where you did it and who you were.

Ye gods you are full of shit.

He's not just merely full of shit, he's really most sincerely full of shit.



Seriously, what the fuck? I've been through about 2/3 of the US and almost all of the western half extensively, and I can imagine maybe pissing someone off if you happen to live next door to some drunk-ass psycho pseudo-patriot who cries when the national anthem plays, but that's about it. Hell, a couple of years ago I trolled a Glenn Beck "Renew America" protest with about 60-70 people waving signs and yelling, yelling at them that they were a bunch of spoiled shits trying to feel important because they were too lazy to actually do anything- they didn't much like it, but it was all good fun, just like when I smiled and flipped off the anti-abortion protesters(on more than a couple occasions).

Our "loonies" are generally pretty weak sauce face-to-face, and depend on free speech as much as the sane folks. Not a lot of lynchings these days, and we were never too big on stoning or beheading. You may, once in a great while, come across the occasional small town tyrant cop or judge who thinks he can interpret the constitution on his own terms, but it's pretty rare and generally goes away if you make a fuss. Nobody gets "disappeared" over free speech.

Quit believing the hype, it's a pretty nice place overall.

Well I've read a Jack Reacher novel, and the poor guy can't sit down for a nice cup of coffee in America without some badarses getting all up in his grill and shit, trying to start a fight.

So I think we'll let others decide who's best qualified to speak on this matter.

[katamari Damassi]

Well I guess this was just a matter of time: http://blackgirldangerous.org/new-blog/ ... e-liberals

It's an African American feminist saying that she can't be bothered to feel sad about an eight year-old white boy being killed by the bombs at the Boston Marathon because of privilege. In her opinion not enough people cared enough about Trayvon Martin-never mind all of the hoodie demonstrations in support of justice for Martin, therefore why should she feel any empathy for white male children?

It reminds me of an incident when I was back in college. During the AIDS crisis there was a 12 year-old white boy hemophiliac named Ryan White, who was infected by HIV from contaminated blood products. He was kicked out of his school and treated like a pariah by his neighbors. His plight became a cause and he became an activist and spokesperson. He eventually died of the disease, and when that day came the student government of the college I was attending voted to send a message of sympathy and thanks to White's mother. Seems pretty noncontroversial doesn't it? Well the African Americans in the student government made a huge stink about it, calling the white members racist because they didn't send sympathy cards to the parents of all the black children who died of AIDS. When it was pointed out that Ryan was a well known AIDS victim who drew a lot of attention and sympathy to the cause, one of the protesters replied(and this is a direct quote)"Ryan White used his whiteness to become a celebrity."

[clownshoe]

Well I guess this was just a matter of time: http://blackgirldangerous.org/new-blog/ ... e-liberals

<snip for brevity>

She's trying to blame white liberals for "robbing me of part of my humanity".

So white liberals are turning her into a sociopath?
Stick with me on this: By that "logic", Carrier himself would be responsible for the very sociopathy that he falsely accuses Thunderfoot of. :lol:

;)

[nippletwister]

OK, you'd probably be lynched. But will it be an officially sanctioned lynching? Will the cops really be involved?

Yes and yes, depending upon where you did it and who you were.

Ye gods you are full of shit.

He's not just merely full of shit, he's really most sincerely full of shit.



Seriously, what the fuck? I've been through about 2/3 of the US and almost all of the western half extensively, and I can imagine maybe pissing someone off if you happen to live next door to some drunk-ass psycho pseudo-patriot who cries when the national anthem plays, but that's about it. Hell, a couple of years ago I trolled a Glenn Beck "Renew America" protest with about 60-70 people waving signs and yelling, yelling at them that they were a bunch of spoiled shits trying to feel important because they were too lazy to actually do anything- they didn't much like it, but it was all good fun, just like when I smiled and flipped off the anti-abortion protesters(on more than a couple occasions).

Our "loonies" are generally pretty weak sauce face-to-face, and depend on free speech as much as the sane folks. Not a lot of lynchings these days, and we were never too big on stoning or beheading. You may, once in a great while, come across the occasional small town tyrant cop or judge who thinks he can interpret the constitution on his own terms, but it's pretty rare and generally goes away if you make a fuss. Nobody gets "disappeared" over free speech.

Quit believing the hype, it's a pretty nice place overall.

Well I've read a Jack Reacher novel, and the poor guy can't sit down for a nice cup of coffee in America without some badarses getting all up in his grill and shit, trying to start a fight.

So I think we'll let others decide who's best qualified to speak on this matter.

So, just taking the piss then? Or was there a point?

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

He's not just merely full of shit, he's really most sincerely full of shit.



Seriously, what the fuck? I've been through about 2/3 of the US and almost all of the western half extensively, and I can imagine maybe pissing someone off if you happen to live next door to some drunk-ass psycho pseudo-patriot who cries when the national anthem plays, but that's about it. Hell, a couple of years ago I trolled a Glenn Beck "Renew America" protest with about 60-70 people waving signs and yelling, yelling at them that they were a bunch of spoiled shits trying to feel important because they were too lazy to actually do anything- they didn't much like it, but it was all good fun, just like when I smiled and flipped off the anti-abortion protesters(on more than a couple occasions).

Our "loonies" are generally pretty weak sauce face-to-face, and depend on free speech as much as the sane folks. Not a lot of lynchings these days, and we were never too big on stoning or beheading. You may, once in a great while, come across the occasional small town tyrant cop or judge who thinks he can interpret the constitution on his own terms, but it's pretty rare and generally goes away if you make a fuss. Nobody gets "disappeared" over free speech.

Quit believing the hype, it's a pretty nice place overall.

Well I've read a Jack Reacher novel, and the poor guy can't sit down for a nice cup of coffee in America without some badarses getting all up in his grill and shit, trying to start a fight.

So I think we'll let others decide who's best qualified to speak on this matter.

So, just taking the piss then? Or was there a point?

There was a point, which I made. You disagreed with it, and I made a humorous retort to your disagreealization. Who's going to be the bigger person and let this drop?

[Cunning Punt]

Any spoilers and I will fuck you up

Nobody tell Punt about the bit with the flying carpet and the basket of singing mangoes.

Right. It's a crown of gold for you.

[sacha]

Any spoilers and I will fuck you up

Nobody tell Punt about the bit with the flying carpet and the basket of singing mangoes.

Right. It's a crown of gold for you.

When I enjoy a series, I usually fly through episodes - sometimes 4 a day, however I'm watching with a friend, and therefore I am on his schedule... I must say all the doggie style is a splendid bonus

[nippletwister]

He's not just merely full of shit, he's really most sincerely full of shit.



Seriously, what the fuck? I've been through about 2/3 of the US and almost all of the western half extensively, and I can imagine maybe pissing someone off if you happen to live next door to some drunk-ass psycho pseudo-patriot who cries when the national anthem plays, but that's about it. Hell, a couple of years ago I trolled a Glenn Beck "Renew America" protest with about 60-70 people waving signs and yelling, yelling at them that they were a bunch of spoiled shits trying to feel important because they were too lazy to actually do anything- they didn't much like it, but it was all good fun, just like when I smiled and flipped off the anti-abortion protesters(on more than a couple occasions).

Our "loonies" are generally pretty weak sauce face-to-face, and depend on free speech as much as the sane folks. Not a lot of lynchings these days, and we were never too big on stoning or beheading. You may, once in a great while, come across the occasional small town tyrant cop or judge who thinks he can interpret the constitution on his own terms, but it's pretty rare and generally goes away if you make a fuss. Nobody gets "disappeared" over free speech.

Quit believing the hype, it's a pretty nice place overall.

Well I've read a Jack Reacher novel, and the poor guy can't sit down for a nice cup of coffee in America without some badarses getting all up in his grill and shit, trying to start a fight.

So I think we'll let others decide who's best qualified to speak on this matter.

So, just taking the piss then? Or was there a point?

There was a point, which I made. You disagreed with it, and I made a humorous retort to your disagreealization. Who's going to be the bigger person and let this drop?

More than willing to let it drop, especially since I'm on my way out the door. But what I saw you make was an assertion, one which was at the very least, extremely overreaching and taking a conjecture, which might sort of match up to an occasional occurrence, as some kind of norm.

This isn't some "quit making fun of us 'Merkins" thing(especially as I have no idea where you're from), it's just that your assertion wasn't at all realistic as far as I can tell.

Peace! I don't mind others knocking around our shitheads for us, it certainly needs to be done.

[sacha]

PhD viva passed. No corrections.

Feeling pretty good right now.

well done

[franc]

Franc used to insist that Twisty Faster and IBlameThePatriarchy are full time POE.

Over the last couple of days, I've read some of that idiocy Twisty Faster posts, and I can only come to one conclusion ... well, two, sort of: either it is a POE, or Twisty Faster is yet another RadFem who is butt naked deeply demented and not living in the same corporeal universe that the rest of humanity lives in.

And, if PeeZus really thinks sh/i/t is for real and supports it, well, what can I say. That means PeeZus is not only dishonest and stupid, he is also butt naked deeply demented and not living in the same corporeal universe that the rest of humanity lives in.

Well, the very definition of POE is inability to tell. My very first impression of IBTP was that it was done by the same folks as Landover Baptist. But, the genuine loons (like Skeptifem) that link to IBTP... All I can say is the world is far stranger than any human brain can fully apprehend. I really don't know any more - whether real or POE, both assumptions are plausible.

[Karmakin]

Franc used to insist that Twisty Faster and IBlameThePatriarchy are full time POE.

Over the last couple of days, I've read some of that idiocy Twisty Faster posts, and I can only come to one conclusion ... well, two, sort of: either it is a POE, or Twisty Faster is yet another RadFem who is butt naked deeply demented and not living in the same corporeal universe that the rest of humanity lives in.

And, if PeeZus really thinks sh/i/t is for real and supports it, well, what can I say. That means PeeZus is not only dishonest and stupid, he is also butt naked deeply demented and not living in the same corporeal universe that the rest of humanity lives in.

Well, the very definition of POE is inability to tell. My very first impression of IBTP was that it was done by the same folks as Landover Baptist. But, the genuine loons (like Skeptifem) that link to IBTP... All I can say is the world is far stranger than any human brain can fully apprehend. I really don't know any more - whether real or POE, both assumptions are plausible.

I really don't think that Twisty is a POE (P.O.E...P.O.E...P.O.E...P.O.E is all I can think of...see below) as I remember when she first hit the scene, she was being pretty heavily promoted by Marcotte and McEwan (the big hitters in the field at the time, and this was before the Trigger-gate split between the two)..Marcotte at least at the time realized how crazy she was, but it was promoted as being real.

[youtube]fUs2_7SYAI8[/youtube]

[BarnOwl]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -nest.html

:)

Thanks for that!

A screech owl once landed on a high windowsill at my parents' house, during daylight. I think it was being mobbed by some other birds, and the windowsill was sheltered somewhat by a large pear tree. It seemed as if the owl was looking at us periodically through the window, sometimes with one eye open and one eye closed. You can hear a recording of the eerie sounds that screech owls make here (click on "Typical Voice"):

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/east ... ech-owl/id

[Percentage]

Yeah, Twisty is definitely real, although I do think she sometimes exaggerates for effect/the lulz/whatever. She also has a fixation on MRAs. And you know, I'm no fan of MRAs, but I've noticed that the feminists who seem unduly obsessed with that insignificant internet community are often the most self-righteous, obnoxious cunts out there. Marcotte comes to mind, too.

[Pitchguest]

Haha. Wow. So I just found out that the Swedish word for tea time or coffee break (fika) is slang in Italian for cunt.

All this time.

[Steersman]

http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/201 ... arted-fun/

That article, and the comments, include some of the dumbest fucking statements I've ever seen. And I've watched Kent Hovind videos. I had planned to pluck out a few choice quotes to comment on, but there's just too many; this post would be hundreds of pages long. It's like none of these people have ever left the house and talked to people in society, much less actually ever had any sex.

The issue of consent — or, more precisely, the idea that women are considered by both custom and law to abide in a persistent state of always having given consent — is the absolute crux, nub, hub, axis, polestar, and epicenter of women’s oppression.

Can anyone explain the above quote to me, please? I understand all the individual words but not the way she ties them together. Where is this place that women are by law in a persistent state of consent? Saudi Arabia?

Definitely some strange “logic” there. The nearest I can figure is that it is somewhat based on or similar to something some ancient philosopher said (never been able to find the exact source): “We want. But we don’t want that we should want.” But, apart from Twisty denying that women have “agency” – a supposed rallying cry of radfems all across the land, assuming that that perspective is the root of her argument then I would say she is deep into biological determinism – “biology is destiny” – and calling that “The Patriarchy”.

Really seems to me that there are a great many intrinsic flaws and contradictions in much of rad-fem dogma – sort of like the Trinity in many ways.

[Guest]

Barn Owl, here's a live owl cam of a screech owl... and her offfspring (not sure if the eggs have hatched yet... but the owl hoots all the time)

http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/re ... -annie.xml

[Steersman]

I can't remember if I mentioned here before that someone on my facebook wrote a long post explaining why discriminating against men can't be sexist because sexism is oppression + being fucking stupid and not understanding words or something like that. I want to crush this ridiculous stupidity but how the fuck do you do that? It's popping up everywhere.

I quite agree – rather too prevalent and problematic for comfort, and which justifes more than a little effort to combat it.

But as a further example of that from one of the prime sources of it, AtheismPlus, consider this blast from the past, something from their Glossary:

Misandry - hatred of or hostility towards men. Misandry is not reinforced systemically nor institutionally. (See also: Sexism)

Misogyny - hatred of or hostility towards women, often seen as contempt. Misogyny is reinforced systemically and institutionally. (See also: Sexism)

Sexism - discrimination or social prejudice against women. (Important - See also: -isms)

So, “discrimination or social prejudice against men” is simply not possible because, presumably, “misandry is not reinforced systematically or institutionally” whereas misogyny is. I think I “mispoke” – not glossary, but catechism …. Reminds me of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, who said in his “Rules for thinking with the Church”:

That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.

And somewhat apropos, in digging through my archives, I found this quote from Setar:

"Civility" is the cry of the oppressor who doesn't like it when the oppressed display how oppression is affecting them. We will not make this place more civil, thank you very much.

One really wonders whether there are a bunch of teeth missing on the gears in the mechanisms that passes for the brains or minds of people like Setar, Twisty Faster, and “Lovely”, the author of that “glossary”.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

He's not just merely full of shit, he's really most sincerely full of shit.



Seriously, what the fuck? I've been through about 2/3 of the US and almost all of the western half extensively, and I can imagine maybe pissing someone off if you happen to live next door to some drunk-ass psycho pseudo-patriot who cries when the national anthem plays, but that's about it. Hell, a couple of years ago I trolled a Glenn Beck "Renew America" protest with about 60-70 people waving signs and yelling, yelling at them that they were a bunch of spoiled shits trying to feel important because they were too lazy to actually do anything- they didn't much like it, but it was all good fun, just like when I smiled and flipped off the anti-abortion protesters(on more than a couple occasions).

Our "loonies" are generally pretty weak sauce face-to-face, and depend on free speech as much as the sane folks. Not a lot of lynchings these days, and we were never too big on stoning or beheading. You may, once in a great while, come across the occasional small town tyrant cop or judge who thinks he can interpret the constitution on his own terms, but it's pretty rare and generally goes away if you make a fuss. Nobody gets "disappeared" over free speech.

Quit believing the hype, it's a pretty nice place overall.

Well I've read a Jack Reacher novel, and the poor guy can't sit down for a nice cup of coffee in America without some badarses getting all up in his grill and shit, trying to start a fight.

So I think we'll let others decide who's best qualified to speak on this matter.

So, just taking the piss then? Or was there a point?

There was a point, which I made. You disagreed with it, and I made a humorous retort to your disagreealization. Who's going to be the bigger person and let this drop?

More than willing to let it drop, especially since I'm on my way out the door. But what I saw you make was an assertion, one which was at the very least, extremely overreaching and taking a conjecture, which might sort of match up to an occasional occurrence, as some kind of norm.

This isn't some "quit making fun of us 'Merkins" thing(especially as I have no idea where you're from), it's just that your assertion wasn't at all realistic as far as I can tell.

Peace! I don't mind others knocking around our shitheads for us, it certainly needs to be done.

I've said it before: I'm just the Pit's version of Nerd of Redhead. I bark at shadows, loud, like I'm a vicious rottweiler. But really I'm a terrier that got beaten too hard around the head too hard while young, so I'm both dumb and obnoxious.

Sometimes the shadow will be a burglar, but mostly it's a drunken friend just trying to get their key in the door.

In summary: I'm a cunt, but if I bark at everything, then maybe one time out of twenty I'll get it right and be thrown a nice beef bone.

[Steersman]

<snip>

More than willing to let it drop, especially since I'm on my way out the door. But what I saw you make was an assertion, one which was at the very least, extremely overreaching and taking a conjecture, which might sort of match up to an occasional occurrence, as some kind of norm.

This isn't some "quit making fun of us 'Merkins" thing(especially as I have no idea where you're from), it's just that your assertion wasn't at all realistic as far as I can tell.

Peace! I don't mind others knocking around our shitheads for us, it certainly needs to be done.

I've said it before: I'm just the Pit's version of Nerd of Redhead. I bark at shadows, loud, like I'm a vicious rottweiler. But really I'm a terrier that got beaten too hard around the head too hard while young, so I'm both dumb and obnoxious.

Sometimes the shadow will be a burglar, but mostly it's a drunken friend just trying to get their key in the door.

In summary: I'm a cunt, but if I bark at everything, then maybe one time out of twenty I'll get it right and be thrown a nice beef bone.

Sort of like a form of compensation, you mean? ;-)

I expect we all have a few of those neurotic type responses, many of which might be due to various traumatic or semi-traumatic experiences of our childhood. I remember my dad giving me a bit of a hard time as a kid because I forgot to lock the car door after getting something out of it late one night. Why I think I have somewhat of an OCD compulsion to be checking that doors and windows are locked.

But many people have written accounts, some more amusing than others, of those types of childhood experiences – Erma Bombeck’s Family: The Ties That Bind – and Gag, and Augusten Burroughs’ Running With Scissors for examples. I expect most of our families were somewhat “dysfunctional” in one way or another, some more so than others.

[Hunt]

PZ's foray into vlogging. Not bad for starters, but not exactly at Tfoot level of production quality. Now if we can only get him to turn on comments.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... riment-ok/

[Gefan]

...PIV=rape!...

Right you are then. Anal it is.
Solved the problem.

You're welcome.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

PhD viva passed. No corrections.


Feeling pretty good right now.

YEAH!!! Congrats'!

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Haha. Wow. So I just found out that the Swedish word for tea time or coffee break (fika) is slang in Italian for cunt.

All this time.

Actually, the Italian slang is "figa". A very cute word for the female genital is 'farfaletta', which means 'little butterfly'. Italian girls actually love it.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Haha. Wow. So I just found out that the Swedish word for tea time or coffee break (fika) is slang in Italian for cunt.

All this time.

Actually, the Italian slang is "figa". A very cute word for the female genital is 'farfaletta', which means 'little butterfly'. Italian girls actually love it.

Ok, sorry, my bad. I just checked with an Italian friend. You were correct, "fica" means "cunt". Figa means "pussy".

I shall be ashamed of myself, now. :oops:

[Dick Strawkins]

PZ's foray into vlogging. Not bad for starters, but not exactly at Tfoot level of production quality. Now if we can only get him to turn on comments.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... riment-ok/

It is weird seeing PZ getting back to the activity that made him famous - mocking creationists.
That sort of skepticism is pretty much aiming for the low-hanging fruit and seems at odds with the idea of Atheismplus which seemed to be, at least partly, an attempt to move on from this sort of ridiculing of religion.

I guess he's been told by his book publishers that he needs to create a youtube presence in his own right, rather than what is currently visible when you search for him - the pharyngula freakshowsgoogle hangouts.

[Tony Parsehole]

PZ's foray into vlogging. Not bad for starters, but not exactly at Tfoot level of production quality. Now if we can only get him to turn on comments.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... riment-ok/

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The perfect recipe for a YouTube failure.

[BarnOwl]

PZ's foray into vlogging. Not bad for starters, but not exactly at Tfoot level of production quality. Now if we can only get him to turn on comments.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... riment-ok/

It is weird seeing PZ getting back to the activity that made him famous - mocking creationists.
That sort of skepticism is pretty much aiming for the low-hanging fruit and seems at odds with the idea of Atheismplus which seemed to be, at least partly, an attempt to move on from this sort of ridiculing of religion.

I guess he's been told by his book publishers that he needs to create a youtube presence in his own right, rather than what is currently visible when you search for him - the pharyngula freakshowsgoogle hangouts.

I watched the Google hangout on "Atheism+environmentalism," which included a long tangent about terraforming other planets and sending cyborgs into space to represent humankind. It was mostly about whether atheism should include environmentalism, rather than about how atheists could address environmental issues. Whether is a philosophical question, whereas how is a more practical question, and I am far more interested in the latter. Had the conversation been about how, I would have liked to be part of it, but of course we know that's never going to happen.

I think that a Google hangout conversation (or several) about topics such as environmentalism would be a more interesting and productive way to have a dialogue involving opposing sides - I'm not advocating an insult-slinging video cage match, but I find the rules and moderation of Nugent's approach to be stifling and ultimately unproductive.

[Dick Strawkins]

PZ's foray into vlogging. Not bad for starters, but not exactly at Tfoot level of production quality. Now if we can only get him to turn on comments.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... riment-ok/

Comments and ratings disabled.
The perfect recipe for a YouTube failure.

I don't mind the comments being switched off. I much prefer that rather than selective deletion of those that criticize him.
PZ's big problem with being a video star is that his voice is so booooring in person. He comes across as a middle aged college professor from fuckknowswhere university. Whatever you think of his last couple of years as a SJW, he can still write. But, unfortunately for him, his off-the-cuff video appearances seem very
amateurish. He always seems like he's about...to ...fall .......aslee..................p.

[Dick Strawkins]

PZ's foray into vlogging. Not bad for starters, but not exactly at Tfoot level of production quality. Now if we can only get him to turn on comments.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... riment-ok/

It is weird seeing PZ getting back to the activity that made him famous - mocking creationists.
That sort of skepticism is pretty much aiming for the low-hanging fruit and seems at odds with the idea of Atheismplus which seemed to be, at least partly, an attempt to move on from this sort of ridiculing of religion.

I guess he's been told by his book publishers that he needs to create a youtube presence in his own right, rather than what is currently visible when you search for him - the pharyngula freakshowsgoogle hangouts.

I watched the Google hangout on "Atheism+environmentalism," which included a long tangent about terraforming other planets and sending cyborgs into space to represent humankind. It was mostly about whether atheism should include environmentalism, rather than about how atheists could address environmental issues. Whether is a philosophical question, whereas how is a more practical question, and I am far more interested in the latter. Had the conversation been about how, I would have liked to be part of it, but of course we know that's never going to happen.

I think that a Google hangout conversation (or several) about topics such as environmentalism would be a more interesting and productive way to have a dialogue involving opposing sides - I'm not advocating an insult-slinging video cage match, but I find the rules and moderation of Nugent's approach to be stifling and ultimately unproductive.

The dedicated 'Atheist Skeptic Dialogue' has been strangled to death by its structure and strict (and painfully slow) moderation. That said there is still some interesting interactions happening on Nugents main site.
http://www.michaelnugent.com/2013/04/16 ... e-process/

[Cunning Punt]

Any spoilers and I will fuck you up

Nobody tell Punt about the bit with the flying carpet and the basket of singing mangoes.

Right. It's a crown of gold for you.

When I enjoy a series, I usually fly through episodes - sometimes 4 a day, however I'm watching with a friend, and therefore I am on his schedule... I must say all the doggie style is a splendid bonus

Yes, plus it's a nice way for the family to bond.

[Dick Strawkins]

Any spoilers and I will fuck you up

Nobody tell Punt about the bit with the flying carpet and the basket of singing mangoes.

Right. It's a crown of gold for you.

When I enjoy a series, I usually fly through episodes - sometimes 4 a day, however I'm watching with a friend, and therefore I am on his schedule... I must say all the doggie style is a splendid bonus

Yes, plus it's a nice way for the family to bond.

If your family is like the Lannisters, I guess. :roll:

[Hunt]

I think that a Google hangout conversation (or several) about topics such as environmentalism would be a more interesting and productive way to have a dialogue involving opposing sides - I'm not advocating an insult-slinging video cage match, but I find the rules and moderation of Nugent's approach to be stifling and ultimately unproductive.

The closest thing that comes to that so far was the Google hangout with Myers, Concordance, Skeptical Heretic, and True Pooka. The trouble is that Myers is so uncomfortable with that type of format that all he does is blurt escalating ad homs until he's got his interlocutors in something like dumbfounded puzzlement.

Truth be told, I think what Myers has been trying to do recently, and I applaud his effort, is increase his conversational rhetorical skills, which despite being a lecturer, he's utterly inept at. As I recall, he even blew it at a creationist debate he attempted. It's possible that if he gets good enough at it, he'll be able to field real-time and open debates that might actually get somewhere. Just imagine how many issues might be resolved in a stroke if he and someone like Tfoot could get together and have a meaningful conversation. At his present skill level, however, the only thing that's going to happen is he's going to quickly feel boxed in and then he'll just start in with the insults as an escape mechanism.

Actually, he may not have it in him, so don't hold your breath.

[Tony Parsehole]

PZ's foray into vlogging. Not bad for starters, but not exactly at Tfoot level of production quality. Now if we can only get him to turn on comments.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... riment-ok/

Comments and ratings disabled.
The perfect recipe for a YouTube failure.

I don't mind the comments being switched off. I much prefer that rather than selective deletion of those that criticize him.
PZ's big problem with being a video star is that his voice is so booooring in person. He comes across as a middle aged college professor from fuckknowswhere university. Whatever you think of his last couple of years as a SJW, he can still write. But, unfortunately for him, his off-the-cuff video appearances seem very
amateurish. He always seems like he's about...to ...fall .......aslee..................p.

He's trying to get his trademark snark across in the video but doesn't realise that he actually has to, ya know, change the inflection of his voice now and then.

[Dick Strawkins]

Taslima is off again!
http://i.imgur.com/HFNO32R.png

[Submariner]

Taslima is off again!
http://i.imgur.com/HFNO32R.png

This is even more of a "threat" than almost anything on RW's page-o-hate. I expect the FC(n) to condemn Taslima any minute now....


yep, any minute.

[BarnOwl]

The dedicated 'Atheist Skeptic Dialogue' has been strangled to death by its structure and strict (and painfully slow) moderation. That said there is still some interesting interactions happening on Nugents main site.
http://www.michaelnugent.com/2013/04/16 ... e-process/

I read the last few comments, and yes, both Skep Sheik and Phil express the ideas about productive and interesting dialogue that I'd love to see implemented. A Google hangout with multiple participants from different backgrounds and with different opinions. If someone like Myers or Benson isn't comfortable with the format or disapproves of the other participants - too bad, leave them out. They have a voice in multiple different venues, so no loss and no injustice if they exclude themselves from a Google hangout.

In PZ's vlogging post, I find it interesting that he describes himself as "pinned down" in Morris this summer. He's going to DC for that Women in Secularism conference, and to Dublin as well, and probably other places ... so he's much less "pinned down" by work schedule than, for example, I am.

[Dave]

Haha. Wow. So I just found out that the Swedish word for tea time or coffee break (fika) is slang in Italian for cunt.

All this time.

So now we know what Italians do on their coffee breaks.

Maybe thats why they were all so sure coffee meant sex, Elevator Dude was Italian.

[Tony Parsehole]

BWAAAHAAHAAA! Taslima is the most dedicated and lulziest troll of all time!
That woman CANNOT be fucking serious.

[Southern]

Taslima is off again!
http://i.imgur.com/HFNO32R.png

Taslima is the new EWB.

[AnonymousCowherd]

http://i.imgur.com/TTayGcV.jpg

Small Brain Syndrome: The condition that compels Taslima Nasreen to overcompensate for her lack of intelligence by attempting to explain a complex issue in 140 characters.

Interesting, if a person with a small penis isn't a man(because it takes a big penis to be a man), then aren't they a victim rather than perp?

Well, at least Taslima has provided an acid test which should lay to rest the haunting spectre of Schrodinger's rapist.

Radfem: 'Greetings male. I desire to know if you are likely to rape me or not. To determine this, I need to see your genitals. Please shed your patriarchal not-skirt."

Male lowers his trousers and no doubt manly-skidded underpants. Radfem examines his pudenda.

Radfem response A: 'Ew - watch out, the robins are nesting at the moment. That's tiny. Stay away from me, rapist."

Radfem response B: 'Blimey, that's a wife-tamer and a half! Welcome, decent non-raping male. I would be happy to wander naked with you.'

Recently Taslima seems to have comecum down with "penis on brain" syndrome. Big penises, small penises...penis, penis, penis.

Here, this might help:

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Penis Envy: The condition that impels someone to overcompensate their lack of success by over-ascribing bad intentions to anyone who's penis is bigger than theirs.

[Tony Parsehole]

Internet threats are not only toothless they are also pitiful.
"I will soon kick your fucking ass"? Seriously, Taslima, you dense cunt? That's barrel-scrapingly pathetic. Are you going to track him down, travel to his home, accost him and attack him?
Didn't think so.
Just call him a shit-cock in future.