Bleeding from the Bunghole

[Gumby]

GUMBY

I hope you don't mind....

Hahahaha. Now Steersman is going to get all huffy again and accuse me of misusing my moderator privilege to change your avatar without your consent. AVATAR RAPE!!!!

[Service Dog]

http://i.imgur.com/osqNa4z.png

[Gumby]

So now the IT guy is going to instruct a construction worker on the nature of wood? As someone who has broken things as a career, not merely as a demo, I'm saying it is that easy. What you're seeing in that video is a carnie trick. Nothing more. End of. Period. Within four weeks, I'm ass deep in canning and winterizing right now, I will produce a video replicating that trick.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OD-YODMj0jc/U ... y+kong.gif

[Pitchguest]

It's OK everybody. Calm down. Ed was just posting an unattributed quote from "Cards Against Humanity", a game which allows the white-knights and pro-offense feminists of the internet to post hilariously misogynistic or otherwise vile comments without tarnishing their pious reputations or making them appear hypocritical when they denounce others for making similar comments but neglect to hide behind a "Cards Against Humanity" defence.

Rumour has it that Ed Brayton....Lures herds of cattle to his subterranean sex dungeon and fucks them one-by-one before eating them whole.

It's Ok. It's a quote from Cards Against Humanity. The whole point is to be horrible.

I'm going to adopt this tactic indefinitely, to be used pretty much whenever.

Rumour has it that Ophelia Benson ... was visited by Paranormal Investigators. They think her cunt might be haunted.

It's ok. It's a quote from Cards Against Humanity. The whole point is to be horrible.

[Tony Parsehole]

It's OK everybody. Calm down. Ed was just posting an unattributed quote from "Cards Against Humanity", a game which allows the white-knights and pro-offense feminists of the internet to post hilariously misogynistic or otherwise vile comments without tarnishing their pious reputations or making them appear hypocritical when they denounce others for making similar comments but neglect to hide behind a "Cards Against Humanity" defence.

Rumour has it that Ed Brayton....Lures herds of cattle to his subterranean sex dungeon and fucks them one-by-one before eating them whole.

It's Ok. It's a quote from Cards Against Humanity. The whole point is to be horrible.

I'm going to adopt this tactic indefinitely, to be used pretty much whenever.

Rumour has it that Ophelia Benson ... was visited by Paranormal Investigators. They think her cunt might be haunted.

It's ok. It's a quote from Cards Against Humanity. The whole point is to be horrible.

I have a feeling that "It's OK. It's a quote from Cards Against Humanity. The whole point is to be horrible" will catch on.

[deLurch]

It's from his Facebook. You can find the post here.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x17/ ... d6f0ac.png

So...yeah. False alarm. It's just Cards Against Humanity again. Their quoting of this game seems to catch a lot of you off guard. :think:

So let me get this straight.

1. You can make up and print your own Cards Against Humanity.
2. You can say anything you want.
3. You bear zero responsibility for anything stated in Cards Against Humanity, since it is just a game, even though you may or may not have made up some of the questions & answers yourself.
4. Tweeting or posting on facebook statements you think are damn funny, still bears no reflection on you, because, it is still just the game Cards Against Humanity, and the game forced you to find it hilarious, and forced you to share it on your social media outlet... you really have no choice in the matter.

I think I like the Cards Against Humanity rules. The Slymepit should make their own set.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_MainGame.pdf
http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_BlankWhiteCards.pdf
http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_BlankBlackCards.pdf

[Gumby]

The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar.

FFS, Poplar is a HARDWOOD, not a softwood.

Jesusfuckingchrist why are so many slymepitters so scientifically illiterate??

You made another dumbfuck mistake that could've been avoided by looking at wikipedia.

Poplar wood comes from the American tulip tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus

Erm...from the second Wiki link you provided:

The soft, fine-grained wood of tulip trees is known as "poplar" (short for "yellow poplar") in the U.S., but marketed abroad as "American tulipwood" or by other names. It is very widely used where a cheap, easy-to-work and stable wood is needed.

Stop. Just stop. Don't do that.

You. Just. Don't. Get. It.

Early Cuyler's whole raison d'être on this board is to angrily belittle others for their supposed lack of knowledge so that he can feel superior. By correcting him, you're othering him and throwing your Wiki privilege around by being a poplarsplaining woodogynist, or something.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... ac9396.png

[Tony Parsehole]

So let me get this straight.

1. You can make up and print your own Cards Against Humanity.
2. You can say anything you want.
3. You bear zero responsibility for anything stated in Cards Against Humanity, since it is just a game, even though you may or may not have made up some of the questions & answers yourself.
4. Tweeting or posting on facebook statements you think are damn funny, still bears no reflection on you, because, it is still just the game Cards Against Humanity, and the game forced you to find it hilarious, and forced you to share it on your social media outlet... you really have no choice in the matter.

I think I like the Cards Against Humanity rules. The Slymepit should make their own set.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_MainGame.pdf
http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_BlankWhiteCards.pdf
http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_BlankBlackCards.pdf

You've summed it up pretty well there mate.
I've never played the game but it seems to me it would only appeal to uptight, repressed twats with no sense of humour, who get to feel really mischevious and naughty saying things like "Pharoah Rathotep's tomb is rumored to be stuffed with.....Solid gold dildos" but, because they're only reading what's in front of them, get to do so guilt free.

It doesn't seem very entertaining or imaginative to me and posting the HILARIOUS results from your particular game on the internet seems beyond pointless. Big whoopy-Doo, you picked some cards and made a nonsensical statement. Here, have a chufty badge for being such a rapier wit.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Chufty-Badge-T-S ... BhBi0OgBGk~$(KGrHqIH-EYEsK,Fpl3dBLH(!jgM1w~~_35.JPG

[TedDahlberg]

So at work we're all supposed to do little work environment projects. Health, safety, that sort of thing. A colleague and I got assigned equality. So I did some googling and found a documentary I thought we might show and discuss, Lesson Plan. But I also thought it might be of interest to the Pit.

Couldn't find it on YouTube, but it's available here if you can live with Swedish subtitles (hopefully there's no regional restriction): http://urplay.se/Produkter/167545-Nar-l ... ev-Fuehrer

Basically it's about how a teacher in the sixties did an "experiment" that demonstrated how easy it is to create an in/outgroup dynamic, and how it is really difficult to resist going along with the group. Parts of it sounded, shall we say, familiar.

[Tony Parsehole]

*chortle*
*snigger*
Sorry, I'm just in the middle of a game of *hahaha* Monopoly and I literally cannot contain my uncontrollable laughter so I *guffaw* had to come on the internet and share the fact that I bought a hotel on Mayfair *chuckle* and my friend landed on it and had to pay me a lot of fake money.
Suffice to say it was amazingly funny and we all laughed lots and lots.
Stay tuned for more updates from a board game that you're not currently playing, but I am.

[Tribble]

Oh, and if you watch closely when he slaps the nail the rest of the way through, the board flexes quite a bit. A sound, solid board that size and length wouldn't.

I don't get any of that. I think it's probably legit, but with at least pertinent qualifier. The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar. Sound seems about right for that, too (slightly hollow ring). I used to be able to drive a 3" awl into a pine floor right up to the hilt in one shot - visit a sail loft, it is a pretty common thing. Granted, the awl has a grippable hande and a narrow shaft compared to those nails, but with mitts like that guy has, I wouldn't bet him that he couldn't actually do that as demonstrated in the video.[/quote]

And he has drilled pilot holes. You can see him targeting points.[/quote]

It looks like balsa surrounded by blue-fungus stained pine. But that's not entirely likely as balsa grows in the Americas and is pretty much limited to hobby sizes. But there are other trees in the mallow family and other lightweight woods, like basswood/linden (tilia), that perform in a similar fashion and grow in northern temperate climates and are readily available.

And there are even songs about love under the linden tree:


[youtube]0HR4hp_-kSI[/youtube]

[Tribble]

There's a lot of variance here. Given the entire vid, I doubt he's holding a plate.

The wood could be soft, and I don't think that takes anything away from anything. The fact that martial arts demos involve dry-ass pine boards, not green oak don't take anything away from them. As someone who's broken such things, along with bottles with my hands, even a demo that looks "easy", isn't. If he gets the nail tilted, it won't work real well, and even "soft" wood isn't that soft.

The real trick here is the velocity. It's like cutting a small branch with a ruler. If it's moving fast enough, it's definitely doable.

I think arguing about the wood type misses the point. Even doing it through half-inch balsa isn't as easy as he makes it look.

OMG, true that. The last karate tournament I fought in there was a guy (some semi-obscure Japanese style) who gave a demonstration on some 'dynamic tension' thing where his students would break boards (2x4's) across his ribs.

So it ended badly. He didn't get nice, kiln-dried white-wood but picked up some studs that were still half-green and, therefore, very springy. They broke his ribs. And not on the first hit. They hit him five or six times before they gave up as being unable to break the boards.

[justinvacula]

for those who may be interested...

I am live-tweeting the PA State Atheist/Humanist Conference today. Later tonight, at 8PM Eastern, is Brave Hero Radio reporting on the conference.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bravehero/ ... conference

[Service Dog]

The same feminists who discourage women from reporting rape to the police
have gathered at Skepchick to agree with one another that women cannot simply
tell a man "I'm not interested" to deflect unwanted romantic interest, but instead,
it's absolutely necessary for women to hide behind the protection of a man
and say "I have a boyfriend". Without invoking a man to protect her, the damsel's
consent doesn't matter, and she will definitely be too powerless to stand up for herself.
http://skepchick.org/2013/09/boyfriend/

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

[Zenspace]

The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar.

FFS, Poplar is a HARDWOOD, not a softwood.

Jesusfuckingchrist why are so many slymepitters so scientifically illiterate??

You made another dumbfuck mistake that could've been avoided by looking at wikipedia.

Poplar wood comes from the American tulip tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus

My, aren't we touchy! :o

Yes, poplar is technically a 'hardwood', but not all hardwoods are, in fact, hard. My comment, in the context of the discussion, referred to the physical properties of the wood, the scientific classification being irrelevant to the discussion. Poplar is a wood we see used a lot in construction because of certain characteristics, as follows, emphasis mine:

Workability: Very easy to work in almost all regards, one of Poplar’s only downsides is its softness. Due to its low density, Poplar can sometimes leave fuzzy surfaces and edges: especially during shaping or sanding. Sanding to finer grits of sandpaper may be necessary to obtain a smooth surface.

Source: http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-ide ... ds/poplar/

You can go sort out those bunched up panties now.

[JAB]

I wrote me a book too. Basically, I typed my username into the Slymepit search bar and collected every single one of my posts. Then I copy/pasted them into PDF and printed them out on about 10 sheets of A4 paper.
Writing a book? Piss easy.

Easier than that... skip the time consuming printing part by pulling up the calibre software and convert the pdf to epub format and you're done!

[Zenspace]

The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar.

FFS, Poplar is a HARDWOOD, not a softwood.

Jesusfuckingchrist why are so many slymepitters so scientifically illiterate??

You made another dumbfuck mistake that could've been avoided by looking at wikipedia.

Poplar wood comes from the American tulip tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus

YEAH! YOU JUST SHAT IN MOTHER NATURE'S CORNFLAKES! THERE'S NO WAY ANYONE COULD HAVE GOT YOUR POINT BECAUSE OF YOUR HORRIBLE, EVIL MISTAKE! HOW DARE YOU NOT KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING???? OMGWTFKHAAAAN

:lol:

Yeah. I posted my own response, but I probably should have read ahead first. Gotta love a massive overreaction that totally misses the actual point!

[another lurker]

Gumby wrote:

Stop. Just stop. Don't do that.

You. Just. Don't. Get. It.

Early Cuyler's whole raison d'être on this board is to angrily belittle others for their supposed lack of knowledge so that he can feel superior. By correcting him, you're othering him and throwing your Wiki privilege around by being a poplarsplaining woodogynist, or something.

:clap:

[Cunt of Personality]

Soft hardwood is harder than hard softwood.

Discuss.

[Tribble]

The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar.

FFS, Poplar is a HARDWOOD, not a softwood.

Jesusfuckingchrist why are so many slymepitters so scientifically illiterate??

You made another dumbfuck mistake that could've been avoided by looking at wikipedia.

Poplar wood comes from the American tulip tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus

Erm...from the second Wiki link you provided:

The soft, fine-grained wood of tulip trees is known as "poplar" (short for "yellow poplar") in the U.S., but marketed abroad as "American tulipwood" or by other names. It is very widely used where a cheap, easy-to-work and stable wood is needed.

The nice thing about being the son, brother, nephew, cousin and grandson of timbermen is that you tend to pick up some stuff about wood. What makes a 'softwood' and a 'hardwood' isn't the 'obvious' thing that people think. In fact, it has nothing to do with the density of the wood.

It has to do with the method of the tree's reproduction. Angiosperms are 'hardwoods' and drop seeds with some sort of covering (like a fruit (orange) or a shell (walnut)). Gymnosperms are 'softwoods' and drop their seeds without a covering (though they may be in a cone which is not part of the seed, like a pine cone).

Angiosperms are almost always deciduous and tend have harder, denser wood. But not always. Gymnosperms tend to be evergreens and tend to have lighter, less dense wood. But not always. In timber, they just call them "evergreens" and 'deciduous.' (And some other colorful names like "peckerpole.")

So we get things like balsa wood, classified as a 'hardwood' when it's pretty much the softest and lightest wood commercially harvested. Something one could easly drive a screwdriver through. OTOH, we can get southern yellow pine (softwood) that can get as hard as oak after it's aged and all the pitch in it has hardened. Something that would require great force in order to drive a screwdriver through.

See, it's about the seeds. Not the wood. But, hey, it was a fun game!

[Tribble]

Because it's only sexist when someone else says it.

As we know, only nominally liberal (and some moderate) women can be caused to suffer misogyny because they're the 'right sort of women.' It's right there, in black and white, Page 62, in the 'Perpetual Victim Handbook' written by the Two Gloria's.

[Gumby]

The nice thing about being the son, brother, nephew, cousin and grandson of timbermen is that you tend to pick up some stuff about wood. What makes a 'softwood' and a 'hardwood' isn't the 'obvious' thing that people think. In fact, it has nothing to do with the density of the wood.

It has to do with the method of the tree's reproduction. Angiosperms are 'hardwoods' and drop seeds with some sort of covering (like a fruit (orange) or a shell (walnut)). Gymnosperms are 'softwoods' and drop their seeds without a covering (though they may be in a cone which is not part of the seed, like a pine cone).

Angiosperms are almost always deciduous and tend have harder, denser wood. But not always. Gymnosperms tend to be evergreens and tend to have lighter, less dense wood. But not always. In timber, they just call them "evergreens" and 'deciduous.' (And some other colorful names like "peckerpole.")

So we get things like balsa wood, classified as a 'hardwood' when it's pretty much the softest and lightest wood commercially harvested. Something one could easly drive a screwdriver through. OTOH, we can get southern yellow pine (softwood) that can get as hard as oak after it's aged and all the pitch in it has hardened. Something that would require great force in order to drive a screwdriver through.

See, it's about the seeds. Not the wood. But, hey, it was a fun game!

Who says you can't learn anything at the Pit? That was interesting, thanks.

So, poplar is called a "hardwood" because of its seeds, but the wood of the poplar is still soft and easy to work. So in a sense, everyone was getting it wrong to one degree or another. However, the important thing to remember is that Early Cuyler is still the Mall Ninja of Wikipedia.

[Bill the Cat]

Soft hardwood is harder than hard softwood.

Discuss.

http://viagra-faq.com/wp-content/upload ... aaaaaa.jpg

[Lsuoma]

The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar.

FFS, Poplar is a HARDWOOD, not a softwood.

Jesusfuckingchrist why are so many slymepitters so scientifically illiterate??

You made another dumbfuck mistake that could've been avoided by looking at wikipedia.

Poplar wood comes from the American tulip tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus

My! Someone has a tammy strop on, and no mistake!

[justinvacula]

JT's speech at this conference was very interesting. He says he is sorry for participating in drama, wants to move past it.

See my tweets from around 10AM to around now.

[Al Stefanelli]

In case you missed last night's show:

"The Petulant Goddess: Feminism, Humanism and Atheism"

We had as our guests Becky Garrison, EllenBeth Wachs, Matt Facciani & Jen August (along with lengthily call ins with Joe Zamecki, Paul Loebe and Robert Robinson), the link to the podcast is below.

This was a very intense show, as several of the guests and callers were victims of brutally violent rape, and offer their point of view of what is so wrong with places like Atheism+, the FC(n), the Block Bot, preventative measures with regard to personal safety, victim blaming, the PZ Myers/Shermer fiasco, etc.

Listen Here

[Dick Strawkins]

In case you missed last night's show:

"The Petulant Goddess: Feminism, Humanism and Atheism"

We had as our guests Becky Garrison, EllenBeth Wachs, Matt Facciani & Jen August (along with lengthily call ins with Joe Zamecki, Paul Loebe and Robert Robinson), the link to the podcast is below.

This was a very intense show, as several of the guests and callers were victims of brutally violent rape, and offer their point of view of what is so wrong with places like Atheism+, the FC(n), the Block Bot, preventative measures with regard to personal safety, victim blaming, the PZ Myers/Shermer fiasco, etc.

Listen Here

Excellent discussion Al, I've just finished listening to it. :clap:

[Service Dog]

MILD genital mutilation

Rebecca Watson, speaking at HFA 2012 Conference:

In 2010, I watched a youtube video in which an atheist claimed that male circumcision and female genital mutilation were almost exactly equivalent in terms of harm done.

I recorded a response video, in which I made it clear that I personally am against any and to all forms of non-medical genital mutilation, including male circumcision.

However, I wanted to clarify that female genital mutilation— as is performed on millions of girls— is much, much more invasive, more dangerous, and more debilitating than male circumcision.

How dare she speak on behalf of survivors, both male and female?!
She's overstepping the role of an 'ally' and making it All About Her!
She's a genital mutilation apologist. She's saying it's perfectly acceptable!

SHE ACTUALLY SAID THAT Rebecca Watson: Genital Mutilation's OK

http://i.imgur.com/R58yhVV.png

[deLurch]

Soft hardwood is harder than hard softwood.

Discuss.

http://viagra-faq.com/wp-content/upload ... aaaaaa.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KZiOv87.jpg

[deLurch]

JT's speech at this conference was very interesting. He says he is sorry for participating in drama, wants to move past it.
See my tweets from around 10AM to around now.

Interesting. Of course the question is how quickly will he throw you, the slymepit or Dawkins under the bus as the most vile kind of people just so he can make his next "controversial" point in a vein attempt to do so without being hated. Seriously, that shit is so transparent he has to see it too. He does it specifically to try and get in their good graces, when he issues a critic.

[Cunning Punt]

The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar.

FFS, Poplar is a HARDWOOD, not a softwood.

Jesusfuckingchrist why are so many slymepitters so scientifically illiterate??

You made another dumbfuck mistake that could've been avoided by looking at wikipedia.

Poplar wood comes from the American tulip tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus

Balsa is a hardwood too, what's your point?

You remind me of that pedantic person I heard the other day, in response to someone saying they had a daddy long legs in their bathroom, and they hated spiders, informing them that daddy long legs aren't spiders. Oh wait, that was me.

[deLurch]

I think I have finally figured Rebecca Watson out.

http://i.imgur.com/KZiOv87.jpg

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

[disumbrationist]

"It's OK. It's a quote from the Slymepit. The whole point is to be horrible."
There, that should do it.

[Parody Accountant]

The same feminists who discourage women from reporting rape to the police
have gathered at Skepchick to agree with one another that women cannot simply
tell a man "I'm not interested" to deflect unwanted romantic interest, but instead,
it's absolutely necessary for women to hide behind the protection of a man
and say "I have a boyfriend". Without invoking a man to protect her, the damsel's
consent doesn't matter, and she will definitely be too powerless to stand up for herself.
http://skepchick.org/2013/09/boyfriend/

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

[youtube]O0El9hSd4Es[/youtube]

[katamari Damassi]

[youtube]mu0mNepevv8[/youtube]

Bar.
Raised.
Mother.
Fuckers.

Oh! He's almost as hairy as me. Give him a couple of decades, he'll fill out.

Fucking savage, he doesn't even know how to use a screwdriver...

This guy could nail me anytime.

Was that TMI?

[katamari Damassi]

I think I have finally figured Rebecca Watson out.

http://i.imgur.com/KZiOv87.jpg

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

I LOL'ed.

[VAXherd]

The same feminists who discourage women from reporting rape to the police
have gathered at Skepchick to agree with one another that women cannot simply
tell a man "I'm not interested" to deflect unwanted romantic interest, but instead,
it's absolutely necessary for women to hide behind the protection of a man
and say "I have a boyfriend". Without invoking a man to protect her, the damsel's
consent doesn't matter, and she will definitely be too powerless to stand up for herself.
http://skepchick.org/2013/09/boyfriend/

[ img]http://i.imgur.com/JORjJiE.jpg[/img]

If you get Mrs. VAXherd riled about The Injustices She Experiences As A Woman, one of her big gotos is that back when she had to wait at bus stops at night, saying "I have a boyfriend" did not work. She repeatedly suffered the horrible fate of having to come right out and say "I'm not interested" and make it stick herself. The Horror!

[deLurch]

Fucking savage, he doesn't even know how to use a screwdriver...

This guy could nail me anytime.
Was that TMI?

I think we have identified the soft wood as katamari Damassi.

[deLurch]

I think I have finally figured Rebecca Watson out.

http://i.imgur.com/KZiOv87.jpg

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

I LOL'ed.

Perhaps there is a similar solution.

[Bill the Cat]

Soft hardwood is harder than hard softwood.

Discuss.

http://viagra-faq.com/wp-content/upload ... aaaaaa.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KZiOv87.jpg

http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac16 ... leach1.png

[BarnOwl]

From Shakesville last month:

I fear being denied medical care, being misdiagnosed, being refused by emergency crews, being told I must lose weight as a condition of care, because I am fat. I fear dying because of fat hatred.

This fear is part of the backdrop of my womanhood.

We had several anesthesiologists presenting information on the anatomy of the airway and demonstrating intubation for the students in lab earlier this month. It was mentioned by the senior physician amongst them that it's not uncommon to have a patient with a BMI of 70-80 (!) these days, and that alternative instruments have to be used for intubation in morbidly obese individuals. She was not showing fat hatred or advocating denial of care to fat people: it's a simple fact of anatomy - with that much fat over the shoulders, the neck can't be extended, and standard instruments can't be used to visualize the structures. There's more fat everywhere in the neck and face that restricts movement and obscures anatomy. The fact that instruments and procedures have been modified or developed to deal with obese patients in particular runs counter to the Shakesville "fear" of being denied medical care because of TEH FATNESS.

I fear dying because of fat hatred being morbidly obese is associated with serious health risks and premature death.

FTFY, Melissa.

[Scented Nectar]

I just skipped past about 10 pages. I can't catch up. I've been trying for days and days! Either I miss those 10 pages, or I'll be forever behind.

[Parody Accountant]

http://i.imgur.com/d22vWtx.png

I'm pretty sure this is a softwood.

To Taslima and to anybody holding a screwdriver... back the fuck off.

For a better look - like for scientific purposes - here's a video.

[youtube]zisNYyUvM1A[/youtube]

[BarnOwl]

This guy could nail me anytime.

Was that TMI?

No. I thought he was kinda hot myself.

[Cunning Punt]

The nice thing about being the son, brother, nephew, cousin and grandson of timbermen is that you tend to pick up some stuff about wood. What makes a 'softwood' and a 'hardwood' isn't the 'obvious' thing that people think. In fact, it has nothing to do with the density of the wood.

It has to do with the method of the tree's reproduction. Angiosperms are 'hardwoods' and drop seeds with some sort of covering (like a fruit (orange) or a shell (walnut)). Gymnosperms are 'softwoods' and drop their seeds without a covering (though they may be in a cone which is not part of the seed, like a pine cone).

Angiosperms are almost always deciduous and tend have harder, denser wood. But not always. Gymnosperms tend to be evergreens and tend to have lighter, less dense wood. But not always. In timber, they just call them "evergreens" and 'deciduous.' (And some other colorful names like "peckerpole.")

So we get things like balsa wood, classified as a 'hardwood' when it's pretty much the softest and lightest wood commercially harvested. Something one could easly drive a screwdriver through. OTOH, we can get southern yellow pine (softwood) that can get as hard as oak after it's aged and all the pitch in it has hardened. Something that would require great force in order to drive a screwdriver through.

See, it's about the seeds. Not the wood. But, hey, it was a fun game!

Who says you can't learn anything at the Pit? That was interesting, thanks.

So, poplar is called a "hardwood" because of its seeds, but the wood of the poplar is still soft and easy to work. So in a sense, everyone was getting it wrong to one degree or another. However, the important thing to remember is that Early Cuyler is still the Mall Ninja of Wikipedia.

It's interesting to note that hardwoods evolved independently of softwoods. Softwoods date back to the Carboniferous period while hardwoods developed from flowering plants relatively recently - around the Jurassic period. Yet they both evolved wooden stems - trunks. If you examine the structure of their trunks they are actually quite a bit different, even though their properties for building etc are quite similar.

[deLurch]

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[Service Dog]

saying "I have a boyfriend" did not work....

In classic Skepchick kafkatrap fashion, the article wants it both ways.
If the guy doesn't accept "I have a boyfriend" as equal to "no", then he's sexist.
If the guy does accept "I have a boyfriend" as equal "no", then he's sexist:

The alternative? Lying in a way that those types of men understand. Men with such sexist views will be more likely to leave a woman alone, or at least not harm her, if she tells him that she’s “taken” by another man.

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[Dick Strawkins]

saying "I have a boyfriend" did not work....

In classic Skepchick kafkatrap fashion, the article wants it both ways.
If the guy doesn't accept "I have a boyfriend" as equal to "no", then he's sexist.
If the guy does accept "I have a boyfriend" as equal "no", then he's sexist:

The alternative? Lying in a way that those types of men understand. Men with such sexist views will be more likely to leave a woman alone, or at least not harm her, if she tells him that she’s “taken” by another man.

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It's like the old,"do you think I'm too ugly to rape?", question.

There's no correct answer.

Yes, you're too ugly to rape = misogynist !

No, you're not too ugly to rape = rapist!

[Tony Parsehole]

Soft hardwood is harder than hard softwood.

Discuss.

Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John...

[Tony Parsehole]

Love the new Pit Tagline. Love it.

[Kareem]

JT's speech at this conference was very interesting. He says he is sorry for participating in drama, wants to move past it.
See my tweets from around 10AM to around now.

Interesting. Of course the question is how quickly will he throw you, the slymepit or Dawkins under the bus as the most vile kind of people just so he can make his next "controversial" point in a vein attempt to do so without being hated. Seriously, that shit is so transparent he has to see it too. He does it specifically to try and get in their good graces, when he issues a critic.

If the Jen McCreight thing didn't make him open his eyes, I don't know what would. Not only did she make hitting on women into some kind of sin, but she brought it up as nothing but retaliation. It wasn't relevant, it wasn't even recent according to her own tweet. She used male sexuality to shame him and gave a Ron Lindsay apology afterwards.... but he's still latched on to them.
I honestly don't see how this benefits him. Even if female rights are important to him (like they are to most people in first world countries) but all they've done is cause a huge backlash against the very word feminism so they're not even good for that.

[ReneeHendricks]

After a week of dealing with my son's acute asthma attack and hospitals, I have given up all hope of catching up here :D I hope everyone is doing well and will assume the same idiocy from before is still occurring.

[Kareem]

After a week of dealing with my son's acute asthma attack and hospitals, I have given up all hope of catching up here :D I hope everyone is doing well and will assume the same idiocy from before is still occurring.

Hope he's alright.

[welch]

You really don't grasp the concept of a carnie trick, do you? This has as much to do with martial arts as a magician sawing his assistant in half has to do with surgery.

I appear to grasp it better than you grasp how martial artists do THEIR carnie tricks and you may be surprised at how much in common one has with the other.

Since you appear to be sensitive beavis, I'm not raining on your parade, I'm not shitting in your cornflakes. You're still pretty, and I haven't said you're either wrong, or stupid. What I have said, and read this carefully:

*even a carnie trick, blatant foolery, is harder to pull of smoothly than you appear to think. If that shit was so easy, no one would be impressed by penn & teller, because *anyone* could do it.*

The dude pulled it off smoothly, and THAT part is tricky.

Aww cupcake, you're still pretty too! Keep telling yourself how superior you are to us mere mortals and maybe someday, if you wish really hard, it'll be true.
While you're busy being a condecsending little prick, and read this part carefully: I'll be busy proving you wrong. Enjoy being in my stable of bitches along with cunt and Rystefn.

Oh look at you. Someone didn't bow to your superiority about all things carnie-trick related and now you're going to cry. Come, squirt a few for us all.

[Ape+lust]

JT's speech at this conference was very interesting. He says he is sorry for participating in drama, wants to move past it.
See my tweets from around 10AM to around now.

Interesting. Of course the question is how quickly will he throw you, the slymepit or Dawkins under the bus as the most vile kind of people just so he can make his next "controversial" point in a vein attempt to do so without being hated. Seriously, that shit is so transparent he has to see it too. He does it specifically to try and get in their good graces, when he issues a critic.

If the Jen McCreight thing didn't make him open his eyes, I don't know what would. Not only did she make hitting on women into some kind of sin, but she brought it up as nothing but retaliation. It wasn't relevant, it wasn't even recent according to her own tweet. She used male sexuality to shame him and gave a Ron Lindsay apology afterwards.... but he's still latched on to them.
I honestly don't see how this benefits him. Even if female rights are important to him (like they are to most people in first world countries) but all they've done is cause a huge backlash against the very word feminism so they're not even good for that.

It's a spectacle, innit? Grown-ass adults in Playskool dramas, spraying blame everywhere for things they do to themselves. They're going to save society, but can't save themselves from each other. And PZ chucked everyone worth knowing to run with these idjits.

[welch]

Aww cupcake, you're still pretty too! Keep telling yourself how superior you are to us mere mortals and maybe someday, if you wish really hard, it'll be true.
While you're busy being a condecsending little prick, and read this part carefully: I'll be busy proving you wrong. Enjoy being in my stable of bitches along with cunt and Rystefn.

Hmmm. I somewhat recall the last time this went around it wound up featuring 9" nails, block of wood, and a penis for a hammer?

What are you guys going to do now? A railroad spike, a tree trunk, and a nutsack for a hammer? :?

Meh. Even such stupid things as carnie tricks are hard to do well enough to fool people. Penn even talks about how much they practice simple card tricks. Shit, even if there's a starter hole, hitting it correctly with that arm motion the guy uses, when your margin for error is at most, a centimeter is not something most people are just going to walk up and do. A good fake takes time and skill and practice.

But, by calling something a "fake", one convinces oneself that it's not really hard, and that one could easily replicate it, but like Bart Simpson, they "just don't wanna".

Anyone who thinks it's dead easy, grab a board a roofing nail, a couple of supports and with no practice, replicate the video perfectly. I'll wait. I'm a patient guy.

[Ape+lust]

Lol, deLurch is on a roll :lol:

[Lsuoma]

Soft hardwood is harder than hard softwood.

Discuss.

Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John...

To sow once in the winter ploughing, and again in Lent
(Sowing with as many oxen, sowing with as many oxen)
As he shall have yoked in the plough!
Oh, yeah.

[TheMudbrooker]

I appear to grasp it better than you grasp how martial artists do THEIR carnie tricks and you may be surprised at how much in common one has with the other.

Since you appear to be sensitive beavis, I'm not raining on your parade, I'm not shitting in your cornflakes. You're still pretty, and I haven't said you're either wrong, or stupid. What I have said, and read this carefully:

*even a carnie trick, blatant foolery, is harder to pull of smoothly than you appear to think. If that shit was so easy, no one would be impressed by penn & teller, because *anyone* could do it.*

The dude pulled it off smoothly, and THAT part is tricky.

Aww cupcake, you're still pretty too! Keep telling yourself how superior you are to us mere mortals and maybe someday, if you wish really hard, it'll be true.
While you're busy being a condecsending little prick, and read this part carefully: I'll be busy proving you wrong. Enjoy being in my stable of bitches along with cunt and Rystefn.

Oh look at you. Someone didn't bow to your superiority about all things carnie-trick related and now you're going to cry. Come, squirt a few for us all.

Keep talking big Mark, it makes your humiliation that much more satisfying.

[Ape+lust]

After a week of dealing with my son's acute asthma attack and hospitals, I have given up all hope of catching up here :D I hope everyone is doing well and will assume the same idiocy from before is still occurring.

I once inhaled the fumes from an igniting matchhead because I was told it'd give me temporary asthma. Y'know, for getting out of class. I thought I'd bought it. For a minute that lasted an hour I couldn't draw more than a thimbleful of air and was seeing stars and rockets. It was one of the worst terrors ever and happily for me, an experience I'll never have again.

I hope your kid's doing alright.