Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
My take is she is deliberately intellectually dishonest. I generally refrain from saying things like "it's too far gone" but having a productive dialogue with Ophelia would be surprising.

Your mileage may vary though.

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
LOL. Mate, did you arrive with the last raincloud? Where have you been for the past 2 years?
Speaking for myself I wouldn't even WANT to "come to terms" with somebody like Ophelia Benson.

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Huehuehue wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
My take is she is deliberately intellectually dishonest. I generally refrain from saying things like "it's too far gone" but having a productive dialogue with Ophelia would be surprising.

Your mileage may vary though.
It would be a major loss of comedy material, fer sure!

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Silly Tony. I thought we had already covered the fact that black people can't be racist. The open question is what happens if a Mexican/American raps? :think:


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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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jet_lagg wrote:
Dick Strawkins wrote:
These sort of articles should at least try to teach people something they didn't already know. The only new thing I learned from this one was the meaning of the word trebuchet - a medieval war catapult - and even then I had to google it myself, there was no explanation or link to an explanation and I'm guessing it is not a word that everyone knows.
You'd never heard of a trebuchet before? What kind of monsters were your parents??? Why, we were building those in our backyard and launching chunks of concrete at the neighbors by the time we were 12 :D

I recall a c. 1979 issue of Scientific American with a feature on a trebuchet built in the UK that lobbed a Cooper Mini.

That was back before SciAm turned into Newsweek.

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
My sentiment is that she's getting too old and senile. Nobody can go on forever and there's a time for retirement and stuff and for Ophelia that time was two years ago.

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
After Bjarte Foshaulg? She helped to kill comedy. OPHELIA YOU MONSTER!

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
We've always been at war with Eastasia

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Tony Parsehole wrote: LOL. Mate, did you arrive with the last raincloud?
You Europeans and your weird expressions ;)

Anyway, I've been ignoring it basically. It was surprisingly easy to do. I heard about A+ and liked the idea. I heard about slymepit and figured the accusations (trolls and sociopaths, they'll die off from boredom soon) were true. I honestly didn't care enough to check as I figured it was to be some short lived internet drama (which I couldn't give two shits about). Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.

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jet_lagg wrote:Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.
More like a lols engine.

But its main purpose is documenting the lies, dishonesty, evasion, hypocrisy, and rewriting of history that the FC(n), Skeptwats, A+Theist, Carrier Bag, La-Den, &c. ad nauseum, get up to. And that's GOOD LOLLIN'!

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Lsuoma wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.
More like a lols engine.

But its main purpose is documenting the lies, dishonesty, evasion, hypocrisy, and rewriting of history that the FC(n), Skeptwats, A+Theist, Carrier Bag, La-Den, &c. ad nauseum, get up to. And that's GOOD LOLLIN'!
The Bjarte comics are legendary. This is true.

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
Does Ophelia know that you're a contributor here? It seems to me that any terms would be fairly one-sided. Like the saying goes, "a leopard can't change it's spots." I'd personally need a little more info, any chance we could be privy to some of these communications?

Also, I've never seriously considered that you might be Carrier. Ool0n, though... :o

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jet_lagg wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: LOL. Mate, did you arrive with the last raincloud?
You Europeans and your weird expressions ;)

Anyway, I've been ignoring it basically. It was surprisingly easy to do. I heard about A+ and liked the idea. I heard about slymepit and figured the accusations (trolls and sociopaths, they'll die off from boredom soon) were true. I honestly didn't care enough to check as I figured it was to be some short lived internet drama (which I couldn't give two shits about). Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.
Aye. I love the drama though; I never used to but as it's went on this great divide has been the most internet fun I've had since...Well, since I found out that typing "soapy tits" into google would make loads of pictures magically appear.
I never want the rift to end.

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jet_lagg wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: LOL. Mate, did you arrive with the last raincloud?
You Europeans and your weird expressions ;)

Anyway, I've been ignoring it basically. It was surprisingly easy to do. I heard about A+ and liked the idea. I heard about slymepit and figured the accusations (trolls and sociopaths, they'll die off from boredom soon) were true. I honestly didn't care enough to check as I figured it was to be some short lived internet drama (which I couldn't give two shits about). Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.

For me this video is a fairly accurate representation of the relationship of the FTB/A+ universe and the pit:

[youtube]_Hh4M4vipAo[/youtube]

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Lsuoma wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.
More like a lols engine.

But its main purpose is documenting the lies, dishonesty, evasion, hypocrisy, and rewriting of history that the FC(n), Skeptwats, A+Theist, Carrier Bag, La-Den, &c. ad nauseum, get up to. And that's GOOD LOLLIN'!
There are way too many laughs to give it all up.
I'm not just talking about the Photoshops, or Gefan's videos, or the quips and witty one-liners. I love the little things; like Caine trying to convince everybody she's a Native American and PZ Myers' over-hyped book being a collection of old blogposts. Things like that just make me very happy indeed.

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jet_lagg wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: LOL. Mate, did you arrive with the last raincloud?
You Europeans and your weird expressions ;)

Anyway, I've been ignoring it basically. It was surprisingly easy to do. I heard about A+ and liked the idea. I heard about slymepit and figured the accusations (trolls and sociopaths, they'll die off from boredom soon) were true. I honestly didn't care enough to check as I figured it was to be some short lived internet drama (which I couldn't give two shits about). Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.
It's because they're so deeply amusing in their willingness to take offence at just about anything; less amusing are the unsubtle attempts to use the platform as leverage for speaking gigs via coordinated takedowns of scepticism personalities, but that's another story.

A good sanity check is to go to A+ and FTB and read the comments. You can find people saying similar things in both places, but there are uncommon elements; there's little or no consensus here, it is very much an open forum. it would be true to say that the Slymepit is completely misrepresented by the critics, but the Slymepit certainly has the measure of those critics.

As for not caring enough to check, well, that's not true, is it? You're hardly the first to say it, but ultimately, you are here.

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If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.

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Lsuoma wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.
More like a lols engine.

But its main purpose is documenting the lies, dishonesty, evasion, hypocrisy, and rewriting of history that the FC(n), Skeptwats, A+Theist, Carrier Bag, La-Den, &c. ad nauseum, get up to. And that's GOOD LOLLIN'!
These are noble aims. Shouldn't someone let Damion know?

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
prediction: she would treat it precisely as honestly and it would be precisely as productive as zvan's involvement in http://atheistskepticdialogue.com/

someone else perhaps has her glory quote. i can only get so far as welch saying
because Zvan straight-up admitted what we already knew: she had no intention of actually trying to communicate. She just wanted to show the other side was intellectually dishonest.

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
Does Ophelia know that you're a contributor here? It seems to me that any terms would be fairly one-sided. Like the saying goes, "a leopard can't change it's spots." I'd personally need a little more info, any chance we could be privy to some of these communications?

Also, I've never seriously considered that you might be Carrier. Ool0n, though... :o
An avatar literally featuring a picture of a sock-puppet did make me laugh, whether there is anything to it or not.

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Tony Parsehole wrote: There are way too many laughs to give it all up.
A-fuckin-men to that.

I really love the idea that some right proper academics will give Myer's blog a try cos it was rated by a top scienticfic journal as being like one of the bestest science blogs like evah (way back in 2006, that is), and then finding Nerd of Redhead there...

Bestest recent laugh: Anthony 'Aw mom!' K's blog. Poor boy, he so desperately wanted to be the next Douglas Adams. :-D

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Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
Yeah, already done it. It was very bad judgement.

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Also, outside of sensible replies I could just write something like "Also, Tigzy's avatar. I mean, just look at it."

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Tony Parsehole wrote:Daaaayum. Then surely Crommunist singing "Don't look back in anger" is racist too?
Did he do a horizontal swap on the video material to look not so able bodied ?

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Sulman wrote:
feralandproud wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
Does Ophelia know that you're a contributor here? It seems to me that any terms would be fairly one-sided. Like the saying goes, "a leopard can't change it's spots." I'd personally need a little more info, any chance we could be privy to some of these communications?

Also, I've never seriously considered that you might be Carrier. Ool0n, though... :o
An avatar literally featuring a picture of a sock-puppet did make me laugh, whether there is anything to it or not.
Carrier would be too arrogant to deface an image of himself. It would be like a muslim extremist wiping his arse on the Koran.

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Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
Already did it, mate. Well worth it ,I have to say!

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Sulman wrote:Also, outside of sensible replies I could just write something like "Also, Tigzy's avatar. I mean, just look at it."
Eh? It's just Nigel Tufnal out of Spinal Tap, that's all.

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Trebuchets are awesome

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Sulman wrote:
feralandproud wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
Does Ophelia know that you're a contributor here? It seems to me that any terms would be fairly one-sided. Like the saying goes, "a leopard can't change it's spots." I'd personally need a little more info, any chance we could be privy to some of these communications?

Also, I've never seriously considered that you might be Carrier. Ool0n, though... :o
An avatar literally featuring a picture of a sock-puppet did make me laugh, whether there is anything to it or not.
Mr/Ms Lagg has, I think, definitely come here with an as-yet-undisclosed mission.

S/h/it's avatar is a reference to me pointing out that s/h/it pasted in a link which pimped Carrier Bag's book to SOMEBODY.

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Lsuoma wrote: S/h/it's avatar is a reference to me pointing out that s/h/it pasted in a link which pimped Carrier Bag's book to SOMEBODY.
Badly phrased - what I meant was that clicking on the link would give 4-6% referral fees from Amazon to the person who owns the "support-carrier" associates tag. The fees would be awarded on all purchases made from the session using that link, for several hours.

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
http://verastic.com/site/wp-content/upl ... -Cream.jpg

http://www.snakepictures.co.uk/images/s ... re_113.jpg

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Pogsurf wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed.
More like a lols engine.

But its main purpose is documenting the lies, dishonesty, evasion, hypocrisy, and rewriting of history that the FC(n), Skeptwats, A+Theist, Carrier Bag, La-Den, &c. ad nauseum, get up to. And that's GOOD LOLLIN'!
These are noble aims. Shouldn't someone let Damion know?
Ol' Day-O is prolly working on a post about it right now. Cunt.

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Lsuoma wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
Already did it, mate. Well worth it ,I have to say!
Next time I sit down for some one-handed internet browsing I'll definitely be using that search term again.

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Tigzy wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: There are way too many laughs to give it all up.
A-fuckin-men to that.

I really love the idea that some right proper academics will give Myer's blog a try cos it was rated by a top scienticfic journal as being like one of the bestest science blogs like evah (way back in 2006, that is), and then finding Nerd of Redhead there...

Bestest recent laugh: Anthony 'Aw mom!' K's blog. Poor boy, he so desperately wanted to be the next Douglas Adams. :-D
The best laugh EVAH though is the entire A+ forum. Seriously, that place could have been created by history's greatest comic minds. Do you remember the Chernobyl exclusion zone thread? Or hug-gate?
Top, top LOLZ.

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
Tigzy wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: There are way too many laughs to give it all up.
A-fuckin-men to that.

I really love the idea that some right proper academics will give Myer's blog a try cos it was rated by a top scienticfic journal as being like one of the bestest science blogs like evah (way back in 2006, that is), and then finding Nerd of Redhead there...

Bestest recent laugh: Anthony 'Aw mom!' K's blog. Poor boy, he so desperately wanted to be the next Douglas Adams. :-D
The best laugh EVAH though is the entire A+ forum. Seriously, that place could have been created by history's greatest comic minds. Do you remember the Chernobyl exclusion zone thread? Or hug-gate?
Top, top LOLZ.
And the capricious mods one, don't forget that.

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Hug-gate was amazing. Too bad they could never top that.

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
Already did it, mate. Well worth it ,I have to say!
Next time I sit down for some one-handed internet browsing I'll definitely be using that search term again.
Wait, you didn't mean this one?
http://www.dailymotion.com/us?ff=1&urlb ... its_people

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
1) Define "semi-regular conversation." Do you comment on her blog? Exchange emails? Tweet? Gossip weekly over a cup of General Foods International Coffee? I had semi-regular conversation with Benson, too. I commented politely on her blog, then she blocked me;

2) Come to terms over what, exactly? Benson endorses the A+ agenda, which not only demands that all atheist endeavors include certain social justice causes, but also insists that all atheists accept their particular definition of feminism. A-plussers put forth a slew of PoMo constructs -- Patriarchy, Rape Culture, Gender Spectrum, Privilege, wittgensteinian Sprachspiele, etc. All are incompatible with skepticism, yet anyone who fails to accept them as givens is vilified.

I'm willing to make common cause with practically anyone to further a single cause: christians on church-state separation; libertarians on civil liberties; conservatives and wiccans on animal welfare. But I cannot and will not ally with so-called 'atheists' who pervert the meaning of atheism, or with so-called 'skeptics' who reject the very principles of skepticism;

3) I concur with Hue3 and others that Benson is intellectually dishonest. She gives a talk at the Dublin WiSC claiming that abortion rights are just as bad in the US as in Eire. Getting or giving an abortion in Ireland will land you in prison, for chrissakes! Mostly, Benson just pulls stuff out of her ass, and avoids critique or ridicule by permitting none but her sycophantic followers to respond;

4) I, too, detect senile dementia in her words and actions. Lots of brain farts and confusion with reading comprehension. When she's not simply block-quoting other people's work without permission, her prose is often completely unintelligible;

5) She's a drama queen/attention whore who gets off on hearing insults about her. Not as bad as that slut for abuse, Stephanie "Story of O" Svan, but Benson is probably frothing while reading this (and yes, she's reading this);

6) She's a minor figure who's light is fading fast. She (co-)wrote, what, one obscure book ages ago? Her blog is a joke, with no reach beyond a small cadre of zealots. Her ever fewer speaking appearances are dull and factually-flawed, given before an insular, incestuous circle of con groupies.

In short, Benson neither shares any common ground with us, nor, if she did, would her sad personal & professional traits offer any value-add to our endeavors. But that's moot, as Benson herself refuses to engage us in debate or compromise on her radical demands. As I noted earlier, (viewtopic.php?f=28&t=373), her pattern of behavior mirrors that of a cult leader.

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Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
The best advice from the Slyme Pit... evar!

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An avatar literally featuring a picture of a sock-puppet did make me laugh, whether there is anything to it or not.
Mr/Ms Lagg has, I think, definitely come here with an as-yet-undisclosed mission.

S/h/it's avatar is a reference to me pointing out that s/h/it pasted in a link which pimped Carrier Bag's book to SOMEBODY.
It does seem like there's an agenda. From what I've observed, this whole "feud" is merely a case of hurt fee-fees on their part. If you can't stand to be mocked, ridiculed, etc, then don't make yourself such an easy fucking target. I think any "truce", especially one initiated by "this side" would just lead to a frog and scorpion type outcome.

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Trophy wrote:
Wait, you didn't mean this one?
http://www.dailymotion.com/us?ff=1&urlb ... its_people
Trophy. You just posted a link to a video that made me wince.

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Trophy wrote:
Wait, you didn't mean this one?
http://www.dailymotion.com/us?ff=1&urlb ... its_people
Poor Gary Coleman. Life must have been tougher than I though after Diff'rent Strokes.

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
Trophy wrote:
Wait, you didn't mean this one?
http://www.dailymotion.com/us?ff=1&urlb ... its_people
Trophy. You just posted a link to a video that made me wince.
I'm guessing no one-handed browsing for you tonight, heh!

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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John D wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
The best advice from the Slyme Pit... evar!
Now let me redress the balance by asking you to type in "red pancake"

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
Depends on what you mean by "We".

If you're talking about from the perspective of the SJW contingent, probably. They're never going to give up that tribalism. Ever. It's simply not going to happen...at least not until they get drummed out for some reason.

If you're talking about the general sentiment here? Sure it's possible to come to terms. They just have to acknowledge that disagreeing with them doesn't make someone a misogynist or whatever. I'd also like for them to realize that they're the Joe Lieberman of gender politics, but most importantly, drop the tribalistic bullshit and actually discuss the issues in a good faith fashion.

And when someone points out that something they said may, just may be sexist, for them to fucking get off their high horse and listen. In reality that's what started all this, is when they trashed several women for calling out their sexism.

As for Benson herself? As someone who was on the other side, I don't believe that the SJW mindset is "natural" for her. I think she's been strongly pushed into it. I still think it's only a matter of time before she says/does the wrong thing and gets drummed out for it.

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Trophy wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:
Trophy wrote:
Wait, you didn't mean this one?
http://www.dailymotion.com/us?ff=1&urlb ... its_people
Trophy. You just posted a link to a video that made me wince.
I'm guessing no one-handed browsing for you tonight, heh!
Pffff...I've "browsed" over worse videos.

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
Trophy wrote:
Wait, you didn't mean this one?
http://www.dailymotion.com/us?ff=1&urlb ... its_people
Poor Gary Coleman. Life must have been tougher than I though after Diff'rent Strokes.
[youtube]-6ALzUGZsOQ[/youtube]

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Lsuoma wrote: And the capricious mods one, don't forget that.
Actually, you're spot on with that. When they were denying the existence of a secret back-channel? The Schadenfreude was immense.

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
John D wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
The best advice from the Slyme Pit... evar!
Now let me redress the balance by asking you to type in "red pancake"
Are we heading to "blue waffle" territory here?

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Karmakin wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
Depends on what you mean by "We".
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Opportunity for a Caine-triggering punchline:

Tonto: What do you mean, 'We?" paleface?

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Southern wrote:Hug-gate was amazing. Too bad they could never top that.
Dillahunty's "curious" experiment had the potential to top that but Matt's cognitive dissonance shitted it right up.

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Lsuoma wrote: Are we heading to "blue waffle" territory here?
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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
Southern wrote:Hug-gate was amazing. Too bad they could never top that.
Dillahunty's "curious" experiment had the potential to top that but Matt's cognitive dissonance shitted it right up.
Oh fuck - for some reason, that's just reminded of Greg Laden getting cross with someone on facebook, and threatening to block them...from someone else's FB page! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Tigzy wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:
Southern wrote:Hug-gate was amazing. Too bad they could never top that.
Dillahunty's "curious" experiment had the potential to top that but Matt's cognitive dissonance shitted it right up.
Oh fuck - for some reason, that's just reminded of Greg Laden getting cross with someone on facebook, and threatening to block them...from someone else's FB page! :lol: :lol: :lol:
That was a real cracker, no risk!

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
Whenever I'm feeling blue, I just type in "bunda".

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Lsuoma wrote:
Huehuehue wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?
My take is she is deliberately intellectually dishonest. I generally refrain from saying things like "it's too far gone" but having a productive dialogue with Ophelia would be surprising.

Your mileage may vary though.
It would be a major loss of comedy material, fer sure!
True dat.

Not being a SJW asshole I wouldn't even require a groveling apology and denunciation of former colleagues. She would gain my respect if she just went back to "fighting fashionable nonsense", stopped demagoging, stopped joining in witch hunts started by the usual suspects, and knocked off the drama mongering.

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:If anybody hasn't yet typed "soapy tits" into Google images I suggest you do so right now.
Whenever I'm feeling blue, I just type in "bunda".
What about Big Red's bunda? Does that give you a stalk-on?

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Tigzy said (http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 98#p140998):
... that's just reminded of Greg Laden getting cross with someone on facebook, and threatening to block them...from someone else's FB page!


That one was just blisteringly fucking funny. I still giggle-froth over that one.

The A+ threads I am only slightly familiar with -- enough to understand how they were funny. But, frankly, I found it kind of challenging to read through A+ threads because it really felt like being a sneaky voyeur at some kind of insane asylum, where even just watching those poor broken fuckers throwing their woven baskets at each other felt somehow abusive.

About trebuchets, I'm so fucking priveleged that I learned about trebuchets in some computer game ... maybe Age of Empires? I cannot remember which game, but it was over ten years ago.

And reconciling with Ophie? How do you reconcile with someone who is that deeply dishonest and literaly swimming a ten foot deep pool of cognitive dissonance?

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Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
In short, Benson neither shares any common ground with us, nor, if she did, would her sad personal & professional traits offer any value-add to our endeavors. But that's moot, as Benson herself refuses to engage us in debate or compromise on her radical demands. As I noted earlier, (viewtopic.php?f=28&t=373), her pattern of behavior mirrors that of a cult leader.
I disagree with comparing Ophie to a cult leader. She's more of a follower. I think most of the FC(n) concede Peezus as their leader. I think the Cowntess sees herself as a power behind the throne type. She strikes me as the most genuinely malevolent of the bunch-even more than Peezus. She stirs shit up for the pleasure of it, while Peez is doing it for blog hits and praise from his flock.
Thimbledick is just a toady, probably sees himself that way and is happy with his station.

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