Periodic Table of Swearing

#5851

real horrorshow wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Obviously joking above, but for real, he's an ethical retard. Morally fucking corrupt. Where could we send him that wouldn't cause us to feel sorry for his new countryfolk?
Monaco, Bermuda, Dubai... Any of those places where the population consists of tax-dodging, robber-baron scumbags and their servants?

Hum, some of my best friends live in Monaco. As a mater of fact, I'm going to perform "Hometown Glory" by Adele for a friend's wedding on September 1st at the Monaco Cathedral.

#5852

Why has no one patetnted Dillacunty yet? Come on pitters!

#5853

bhoytony:

'm not saying there isn't any chance of danger in being trans, only that I fail to see how knowing her real name makes any impact. You don't know if she is early in the process. Maybe she just isn't very convincing after the process.

Exactly - I've no doubt either that transgendered individuals can be and are victims of abuse, harassment, prejudice, and violence. None of us has any idea where Reed is in the transitioning process, nor how far she intends to transition. She might be genderqueer, though her own description of "kicking the Y chromosome's ass" makes that seem unlikely. If a transgendered individual wishes to undergo sex reassignment surgery in the US, he or she must first have 12 months of continuous real life experience (RLE) in hir chosen gender identity, in the context of job, school, etc. RLE doesn't mean that ze has pass convincingly during that period, and ze can start hormone therapy during that period as well. It can be an issue (should not be a problem, except for prudish puritanical narrow-minded Merkins) at a workplace, because the transitioning individual will use restrooms according to hir chosen gender identity. This occurred at a university where I worked over a decade ago, when an individual who worked in a technology support department transitioned, and remained in that position throughout and after transitioning. IIRC, few if any women had a problem with this individual using the women's restrooms at work during the RLE period.

tl;dr - I don't understand how knowing Reed's real name affects the process either, particularly if she is recognizably transgendered to random passersby who don't know her. Of course many of the FTBers seem to be living in some mysterious counterculture economy well outside the usual Merkin definitions of job, workplace, self-employment, taxable income, and even undocumented immigrant worker.

#5854

Matt Pillockhunty?

#5855

Doormat Dillahunty?

#5856

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Why has no one patetnted Dillacunty yet? Come on pitters!

That idea I mentioned earlier that the Slyme Pitters struck me as more mature and having more life experience than the FTBers? Yeah, I'm rethinking that....

#5857

I've just spotted a mistake in Thunderf00t's response to the "hacking" scandal. He repeats part of the false narrative established by FTB after Laden was booted:

For instance they were quite happy to openly talk about Greg Ladens 'threats of violence'

No they were not. Justin Griffith revealed what happened, and it was ONLY THEN, that Laden got the boot. All we heard was that a lot of chatter was going on in the infamous backchannel before Justin spilled the beans. There was no indication they were going to get rid of Laden, and seeing the reaction of Laden, and the support of Black Svan, I got the distinct impression it was going to be covered up before Justin's 'The Pits' piece. They actually "victim blamed" Justin for making it public. But hey, I'm sure the Baboons would have made an announcement soon enough. :lol:

AFTER this was revealed, we got a lot of "well, Laden was a bit naughty, but TF was far worse, so we got rid of both of them at the same time". Then, instead of condemning Laden, a lot of the FfTB bloggers offered justifications for Laden's behaviour, especially Black Svan with that insane "Jeff" analogy. Oh, and she held a toast to him on the night Laden was booted.

#5858

Michael K Gray wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:I'm writing you off as an asshole
Late to the party?

Yeah, me too. He/she seems of the right mental age to be of the horde. Seems to be here not to discuss but score points of some kind, in a condescending way. I was going to figure out that way so I don't see everyman's posts, but I'd still see the responses, so I just ignore in the old fashioned way.

#5859

JAB wrote:
Michael K Gray wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:I'm writing you off as an asshole
Late to the party?

Yeah, me too. He/she seems of the right mental age to be of the horde. Seems to be here not to discuss but score points of some kind, in a condescending way. I was going to figure out that way so I don't see everyman's posts, but I'd still see the responses, so I just ignore in the old fashioned way.

You can make him a foe, then his posts will be collapsed, and you would get the option to expand them

#5860

Patrick wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Why has no one patetnted Dillacunty yet? Come on pitters!
That idea I mentioned earlier that the Slyme Pitters struck me as more mature and having more life experience than the FTBers? Yeah, I'm rethinking that....

Awww, come on! It was a joke! (and a rather smart, by schoolyard standards, pun). :D

#5861

Scented Nectar wrote:Well, Lousy Canuck has just broken all internet ethics on doxxing. He's published the private emails and IPs of many people here, as well as a certain unnamed weirdo (DB) who used to post here. I believe that may be illegal. Do they use wordpress software for their blog? Discus for their comments? What company hosts their domain? Those places all have TOS's. Maybe the tables should be turned and THEY be reported on. This one would be a legit one. Privacy is something that's taken seriously. This isn't just some namecalling. Those of you who are on the list should report it.

Only three things in this world are inevitable, taxes, death, and that every day the FfTBloggers will do a new act of dispicability.

They aren't even very good at it if the best they can get is email and IP

#5862

BarnOwl wrote: tl;dr - I don't understand how knowing Reed's real name affects the process either, particularly if she is recognizably transgendered to random passersby who don't know her. Of course many of the FTBers seem to be living in some mysterious counterculture economy well outside the usual Merkin definitions of job, workplace, self-employment, taxable income, and even undocumented immigrant worker.

I've been trying to work through this myself. The only thing I can come up with is "Natelie Reed" has been portraying "herself" as a woman in some areas of "her" life, and it might screw up social or professional contacts "she" has established. More of a lie exposed kind of thing. I don't see physical threats as being viable, for the same reasons stated upthread.

Yes, I know my quotation marks aren't very empathetic, but it's not from lack of caring about transgendered persons needing an identity they feel comfortable with. There are two sexes. The he's and the she's. If you have a penis, you're a he. If you have a vagina, you're a she. I'm not really concerned about chromosomes. If "Natelie Reed" has a vagina, as I'm not sure of this fact, then I'll be happy to refer to "her" without quotation marks.

#5863

I own up to dickcunty, dont know if i varied it to dillacunty, might have done, you usually know when its me if im doing some stupid play on words to reflect the stupidity of their message.

#5864

Za-zen wrote:I own up to dickcunty, dont know if i varied it to dillacunty, might have done, you usually know when its me if im doing some stupid play on words to reflect the stupidity of their message.

Dildocunty?

#5865

Ha no dildocunty is from somebody a notch ahead of me

#5866

Lsuoma wrote:
Za-zen wrote:I own up to dickcunty, dont know if i varied it to dillacunty, might have done, you usually know when its me if im doing some stupid play on words to reflect the stupidity of their message.
Dildocunty?

Yeah, I think 'dildo' should be in there somewhere, as I'm pretty sure Matt sometimes uses Martin Wagner as a strap-on.

#5867

disumbrationist wrote: Note too that supplements are not the kinds of things people who oppose alternative medicine generally care too much about, unless they're toxic and complicate normal treatment. The more troubling practices include things like homeopathy and vitamin megadoses, as well as anything that is supposed to replace a proven treatment for a serious illness (e.g. cancer quackery).

You (and others) are completely missing the point of integrative medicine. It is never, ever replacement therapy.

The point is to get patients into a treatment program that complements their own internal belief system in a safe and managed way. I guess you could think of it at as similar to harm reduction programs for heroin addicts.

What disturbs me about the dogmatic approach to skepticism displayed here is that I'm getting the impression that you (collectively) would prefer a patient be denied care vs. providing an integrative approach that includes non-traditional therapies.

Though you do have a point, in a way: companies will, in the end, sell people anything they are foolish enough to buy. One can imagine that if using reiki or homeopathy, like other forms of irrational behavior, manages to gain a foothold in a large segment of the population, unscrupulous doctors will increase their support of it; however, this will be due to market forces, not intellectual ones. The 'appeal to marketability' is just the 'appeal to popularity' fallacy in another guise.

Not all Doctors are scumbags. We (meaning the University of California) are trying to build bridges between the alt-med and conventional med communities. I think this something to be applauded.

#5868

Dilurk wrote:
Reminds me for some reason of the old Internet joke pulled years ago when someone had the domain name warez.org. They then set the A record of ftp.warez.org to 127.0.0.1 . There was one idiot who went so far as to threaten legal action, called the FBI (who laughed at him) because obviously ftp.warez.org was his own machine. He thought he had been cracked. True story.

There is a huge gulf between the technical and the non-technical of us.

http://www.bash.org/?search=127.0.0.1&sort=0&show=25

#5869

EveryMan wrote:
We (meaning the University of California) are trying to build bridges between the witch-doctors and conventional med communities. I think this something to be applauded.

Don't all applaud at once..

#5870

Oh Lousy... your plane's ready. No, no, don't take off the blindfold. We haven't figured out where we're sending you yet. :)

Patrick, you seem to think we all promised you something. I'm like, huh? Who are you, and why are you expecting only G rated talk/humour?

#5871

Scented Nectar wrote:Well, Lousy Canuck has just broken all internet ethics on doxxing. He's published the private emails and IPs of many people here, as well as a certain unnamed weirdo (DB) who used to post here. I believe that may be illegal.

Well, you would believe wrong. At least here in America, as we have very little in the way of privacy rights.

Europe is way ahead of us in that regard, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_ ... unications

Doxxing is considered the height of skeeze, though. I will point out that the one (1) contact I got from getting doxxed by Laden was from a fellow victim of his that was sympathetic and offered support.

Now all I have to worry about is angry SlymePitters! :shock:

#5872

Guest wrote:
bhoytony wrote:Can someone please explain to me why revealing Screed's real name will result in murder? Is there something I've missed? It can't be just because she is trans. I mean according to her post about a bloke seeing her in the street and calling her disgusting, she's not a very convincing female and everyone she meets will know she was born a man without reading her name on the internet. Has she done something that could reasonably make her a target for a murderer? I just don't get it. Obviously if she doesn't want her name made public then it shouldn't be, but is there a reasonable chance it will put her in danger?
What gets me is the complaint about how this might impact employment prospects. If your employer is prejudiced against transsexuals then why the fucking hell would she want to be sitting there making them money?

If the comment above was correct - that she is is obvious that a man on the street can tell, then why does she think her employers wouldn't know?

#5873

EveryMan wrote: Now all I have to worry about is angry SlymePitters! :shock:

Though it's not really apt here to speak of the Slymepit in groupthink terms, I think it's fair to say that most of us might adhere to the principle of 'if it seems like something that Greg Laden would happily do, then it's very probably a shitty thing to do.'

Just as Aquinas held god to be the absolute moral standard of what is good, then so can Laden be held as the comparative standard of what is utterly snivelling, finky and shit.

#5874

AndrewV69 wrote:
sacha wrote: HAHA, and if one reads the article, it doesn't even back his "women are more emotionally intelligent" claim!
OK before this gets out of hand, everyone knows Simon Baron-Cohen right?

I do, as an aside he is Sascha Baron-Cohen's (Ali-G/Borat) cousin.

His work, while interesting, is still completely theoretical.

It's also probably wrong given some very recent research on the brains of autistic children that has come out of our University. There does appear to be some fundamental differences in the development of the autistic brain vs. a neurotypical one. So this looks more like a hardware than a software problem.

#5875

Scented Nectar wrote:Well, Lousy Canuck has just broken all internet ethics on doxxing. He's published the private emails and IPs of many people here, as well as a certain unnamed weirdo (DB) who used to post here. I believe that may be illegal. Do they use wordpress software for their blog? Discus for their comments? What company hosts their domain? Those places all have TOS's. Maybe the tables should be turned and THEY be reported on. This one would be a legit one. Privacy is something that's taken seriously. This isn't just some namecalling. Those of you who are on the list should report it.

Only three things in this world are inevitable, taxes, death, and that every day the FfTBloggers will do a new act of dispicability.

http://whois.domaintools.com/freethoughtblogs.com

"Ed" neglected to register with privacy enabled - Lists his address, real name and phone number - hosted by bluehost.com

#5876

Amphiox shows (his and FTB's) completely oblivious tunnel vision:

There is no skeptic community. Prior to elevatorgate there may have been an illusion that there was one, but that illusion was thoroughly dispelled right then and there.

There is no skeptic community.

There is a community of people who believe that women are human beings and should be treated with respect and consideration when they say things like â€œguys donâ€™t do thatâ€, and there is another community of people who apparently do not.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-428350

These people are so cloistered and so insulated from reality. Uh, hello, there's an entire skeptic community out there that's saying "lolwut" at that one.

#5877

EveryMan wrote:
disumbrationist wrote: Note too that supplements are not the kinds of things people who oppose alternative medicine generally care too much about, unless they're toxic and complicate normal treatment. The more troubling practices include things like homeopathy and vitamin megadoses, as well as anything that is supposed to replace a proven treatment for a serious illness (e.g. cancer quackery).
You (and others) are completely missing the point of integrative medicine. It is never, ever replacement therapy.

The point is to get patients into a treatment program that complements their own internal belief system in a safe and managed way. I guess you could think of it at as similar to harm reduction programs for heroin addicts.

What disturbs me about the dogmatic approach to skepticism displayed here is that I'm getting the impression that you (collectively) would prefer a patient be denied care vs. providing an integrative approach that includes non-traditional therapies.

Though you do have a point, in a way: companies will, in the end, sell people anything they are foolish enough to buy. One can imagine that if using reiki or homeopathy, like other forms of irrational behavior, manages to gain a foothold in a large segment of the population, unscrupulous doctors will increase their support of it; however, this will be due to market forces, not intellectual ones. The 'appeal to marketability' is just the 'appeal to popularity' fallacy in another guise.
Not all Doctors are scumbags. We (meaning the University of California) are trying to build bridges between the alt-med and conventional med communities. I think this something to be applauded.

The problem is that is has been proven many times to do fuck all. If it is unethical and sometimes illegal to prescribe a placebo why does woo get a free pass? If it gets prescribed by conventional doctors it gives it an unearned legitimacy in the eyes of the general public.

#5878

Tigzy wrote: Though it's not really apt here to speak of the Slymepit in groupthink terms, I think it's fair to say that most of us might adhere to the principle of 'if it seems like something that Greg Laden would happily do, then it's very probably a shitty thing to do.'

Just as Aquinas held god to be the absolute moral standard of what is good, then so can Laden be held as the comparative standard of what is utterly snivelling, finky and shit.

Nothing I've posted here is considered even remotely controversial in the business world here in America. Woman are considered superior to men for management/executive roles due to a perceived superiority in emotional intelligence. This observation is based on my personal experience working at Fortune 500 companies and large Universities.

Now, if this is all a bunch of bullshit, please let me know. I'm absolutely willing to hear the counter-argument.

#5879

Badger3k wrote:
Guest wrote:
bhoytony wrote:Can someone please explain to me why revealing Screed's real name will result in murder? Is there something I've missed? It can't be just because she is trans. I mean according to her post about a bloke seeing her in the street and calling her disgusting, she's not a very convincing female and everyone she meets will know she was born a man without reading her name on the internet. Has she done something that could reasonably make her a target for a murderer? I just don't get it. Obviously if she doesn't want her name made public then it shouldn't be, but is there a reasonable chance it will put her in danger?
What gets me is the complaint about how this might impact employment prospects. If your employer is prejudiced against transsexuals then why the fucking hell would she want to be sitting there making them money?
If the comment above was correct - that she is is obvious that a man on the street can tell, then why does she think her employers wouldn't know?

Perhaps the main problem is not with employers, since there's no indication that Reed is occupotypical (not that she's different from most of the FTBers in that respect). I'm skeptical and cynical about most things I read on the interwebz. Indie yarn dyers have been known to fake their own deaths or feign catastrophic illness on Ravelry in attempts to get out of financial entanglements over fiber clubs and knitting workshops, FFS. Who knows what the truth is with Reed's situation ... probably most of her fellow FTBers don't even know.

#5880

Scented Nectar wrote:Oh Lousy... your plane's ready. No, no, don't take off the blindfold. We haven't figured out where we're sending you yet. :)

Patrick, you seem to think we all promised you something. I'm like, huh? Who are you, and why are you expecting only G rated talk/humour?

Clearly I need to work on my delivery.

I heard some scary guy around here doesn't like emoticons, so I didn't include the winking smiley in my comment.

#5881

Scented Nectar wrote:
My observation was that poorly-educated women might have a hard time differentiating their feelings from reality; hence the behavior of the skepchicks.
Do you also believe that poorly educated men have that same hard time?

Absolutely and unequivocally.

But given the rampant sexism in the form of affirmative action in the community, incompetent women seem be getting what is crudely referred to as a "pussy pass".

#5882

Skeeve wrote: I've been trying to work through this myself. The only thing I can come up with is "Natelie Reed" has been portraying "herself" as a woman in some areas of "her" life, and it might screw up social or professional contacts "she" has established. More of a lie exposed kind of thing. I don't see physical threats as being viable, for the same reasons stated upthread.

I would suggest the most likely scenario is that his/her family doesn't know about it.

#5883

Off (the current) topic, but since there are some other equestrians here ....

Stephen Colbert has political reasons for mocking dressage, and his segments on Olympic dressage are very funny (and I say this as a fan of the sport, as participant and spectator), but IMO there is untapped comedy gold in a couple of other sports.

Rhythmic gymnastics, anyone?

And BMX? Srsly? Might as well make Shetland pony Grand National an Olympic sport.

#5884

Patrick, ok, I misunderstood.

#5885

BarnOwl wrote:Off (the current) topic, but since there are some other equestrians here ....

Stephen Colbert has political reasons for mocking dressage, and his segments on Olympic dressage are very funny (and I say this as a fan of the sport, as participant and spectator), but IMO there is untapped comedy gold in a couple of other sports.

Rhythmic gymnastics, anyone?

And BMX? Srsly? Might as well make Shetland pony Grand National an Olympic sport.

"And now back to topless darts at Roehampton..."

Though, of course, Sky TV did in fact go as far as to screen this sport.

#5886

EveryMan wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Well, Lousy Canuck has just broken all internet ethics on doxxing. He's published the private emails and IPs of many people here, as well as a certain unnamed weirdo (DB) who used to post here. I believe that may be illegal.
Well, you would believe wrong. At least here in America, as we have very little in the way of privacy rights.

Why am I getting the feeling that you don't realize LC is in Canada? Or, are you saying that you are well versed in Cdn law?

And stop with the emotional intelligence crap. One minute you're saying women are slaves to their emotions to the point of pushing aside thinking until later. Then you try and hand out an opposite sounding consolation prize of "emotional intelligence"? What's that? Being intelligent in regards to one's emotions? Except that women can't because we don't think until after the emotion's done? Ooooh, I get it. You believe the overemotional, no-thinking-til-it's-done, is how things are, but are giving me a placebo compliment made of psychowoo called 'emotional intelligence'. Fuck off, Mr.Fakedoctor.

#5887

Scented Nectar wrote:Why am I getting the feeling that you don't realize LC is in Canada? Or, are you saying that you are well versed in Cdn law?

I stopped reading his posts some time ago, and I can't be arsed to go back and look now, but I have a distinct impression of him claiming to be expert in pretty much every subject anyone mentioned.

#5888

EveryMan wrote:
Tigzy wrote: Though it's not really apt here to speak of the Slymepit in groupthink terms, I think it's fair to say that most of us might adhere to the principle of 'if it seems like something that Greg Laden would happily do, then it's very probably a shitty thing to do.'

Just as Aquinas held god to be the absolute moral standard of what is good, then so can Laden be held as the comparative standard of what is utterly snivelling, finky and shit.
Nothing I've posted here is considered even remotely controversial in the business world here in America. Woman are considered superior to men for management/executive roles due to a perceived superiority in emotional intelligence. This observation is based on my personal experience working at Fortune 500 companies and large Universities.

Now, if this is all a bunch of bullshit, please let me know. I'm absolutely willing to hear the counter-argument.

???

It was but a lighthearted response to your concerns about doxxing. Not everyone here is out to challenge you, Everyman. Some of us honestly couldn't give a monkeys about women in management roles and emotional intelligence and all that.

#5889

Scented Nectar wrote:Why am I getting the feeling that you don't realize LC is in Canada? Or, are you saying that you are well versed in Cdn law?

It's pretty much the same in Canada, they are following our lead vs. the EU.

Companies like Google & Facebook are having a much more difficult time operating in the EU as their privacy laws break their business model.

And stop with the emotional intelligence crap. One minute you're saying women are slaves to their emotions to the point of pushing aside thinking until later. Then you try and hand out an opposite sounding consolation prize of "emotional intelligence"? What's that? Being intelligent in regards to one's emotions? Except that women can't because we don't think until after the emotion's done? Ooooh, I get it. You believe the overemotional, no-thinking-til-it's-done, is how things are, but are giving me a placebo compliment made of psychowoo called 'emotional intelligence'. Fuck off, Mr.Fakedoctor.

ProTip: If the topic is that women tend to be more emotional than men, don't get angry! And way to reinforce the patriarchy by implying that emotional intelligence is somehow "worse".

Again, maybe this is my privilege talking, but in contemporary American management culture women are considered superior leaders because of what I've been talking about:

The Results Are In: Women Are Better Leaders

Women Make Better Managers than Men

I have to ask, do you not know about this?

#5890

Lsuoma wrote: Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:53 am

BarnOwl wrote:Off (the current) topic, but since there are some other equestrians here ....

Stephen Colbert has political reasons for mocking dressage, and his segments on Olympic dressage are very funny (and I say this as a fan of the sport, as participant and spectator), but IMO there is untapped comedy gold in a couple of other sports.

Rhythmic gymnastics, anyone?

And BMX? Srsly? Might as well make Shetland pony Grand National an Olympic sport.
"And now back to topless darts at Roehampton..."

Iâ€™m kind of looking forward to the day when topless â€“ and bottomless â€“ figure skating hits the big time; might be a little chilly for the performers but it might produce some compensatory warmth in the stands ....

#5891

Lsuoma wrote: I stopped reading his posts some time ago, and I can't be arsed to go back and look now, but I have a distinct impression of him claiming to be expert in pretty much every subject anyone mentioned.

I think you have me confused with this guy:

http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/search.ph ... 9&sr=posts

If we are talking about "hacking", that's been my full-time job for the last decade.

If we are talking about the JREF/TAM I used to go and have known of Rebecca and her hijinks since she first surfaced about eight years ago. In fact, my first impression of her was that she was the atheist equivalent to Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter. Which doesn't seem to be to far from the mark.

So I think if anything we have a bit of confirmation bias here:

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/new ... 593750.jpg

#5892

Tigzy wrote: ???

It was but a lighthearted response to your concerns about doxxing. Not everyone here is out to challenge you, Everyman. Some of us honestly couldn't give a monkeys about women in management roles and emotional intelligence and all that.

I guess I'm somewhat concerned at the level of hostility directed towards topics that are considered somewhat pedestrian in my world.

#5893

SteveW68 wrote:http://whois.domaintools.com/freethoughtblogs.com

"Ed" neglected to register with privacy enabled - Lists his address, real name and phone number - hosted by bluehost.com

You are a very bad man. I'd give you a stern lecture on ethics, if I could stop laughing.

On other matters:

Scented Nectar wrote:And stop with the emotional intelligence crap. One minute you're saying women are slaves to their emotions to the point of pushing aside thinking until later. Then you try and hand out an opposite sounding consolation prize of "emotional intelligence"? What's that? Being intelligent in regards to one's emotions? Except that women can't because we don't think until after the emotion's done? Ooooh, I get it. You believe the overemotional, no-thinking-til-it's-done, is how things are, but are giving me a placebo compliment made of psychowoo called 'emotional intelligence'. Fuck off, Mr.Fakedoctor.

I had a female boss once who prided herself on her "good 'emotional intelligence'". I got the blarney about this from her in my first week in the job. at the time I just filed it under "euphemism for lack of 'ordinary intelligence'". Which quickly proved to be true. She'd picked up the term during her - employer funded - degree in 'Communications'.

She spent all day every day in meetings - so you could never reach her - and once confided to me that, half the time, she didn't know why she was in them. I thought half was a poor estimate. We were supposed to have a fortnightly departmental meeting. Where she would convey news from Senior Management and hear what we underlings had to say. It became apparent that we underlings considered Senior Management to be about as in touch with reality as Marie-Antoinette, and kept pushing ideas of our own. So, she stopped having the meetings.

#5894

Steersman wrote:
Lsuoma wrote: Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:53 am

BarnOwl wrote:Off (the current) topic, but since there are some other equestrians here ....

Stephen Colbert has political reasons for mocking dressage, and his segments on Olympic dressage are very funny (and I say this as a fan of the sport, as participant and spectator), but IMO there is untapped comedy gold in a couple of other sports.

Rhythmic gymnastics, anyone?

And BMX? Srsly? Might as well make Shetland pony Grand National an Olympic sport.
"And now back to topless darts at Roehampton..."
Iâ€™m kind of looking forward to the day when topless â€“ and bottomless â€“ figure skating hits the big time; might be a little chilly for the performers but it might produce some compensatory warmth in the stands ....

men + bottomless + ice = objects appearing smaller than they actually are.

oh, you mean women! agreed: women + topless + ice = nice to look at

#5895

Realhorrorshow, if someone tells you that they have good 'emotional intelligence', run away very fast. :icon-eek:

#5896

Lsuoma wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Why am I getting the feeling that you don't realize LC is in Canada? Or, are you saying that you are well versed in Cdn law?
I stopped reading his posts some time ago, and I can't be arsed to go back and look now, but I have a distinct impression of him claiming to be expert in pretty much every subject anyone mentioned.

I'm giving up on him too. I'll still read his posts, but not likely reply to him. I won't 'foe' anyone, because I'd get too curious about what they're saying, but I don't have to reply. :)

Anyways, look at this babble he's written:

EveryMan wrote:ProTip: If the topic is that women tend to be more emotional than men, don't get angry! And way to reinforce the patriarchy by implying that emotional intelligence is somehow "worse".

Again, maybe this is my privilege talking, but in contemporary American management culture women are considered superior leaders because of what I've been talking about:

The Results Are In: Women Are Better Leaders

Women Make Better Managers than Men

I have to ask, do you not know about this?

Translation: don't get angry or it will magically disprove what you say blah blah emotional intelligence blah blah blah blah privilege blah blah patriarchy blah blah flatter CEO exec yum! how can you resist women managers? blah blah

How could I even think of a response to that if I wanted to? I'd have to wait until my amusement emotion stops. I can't start thinking until then. Can't even type until then. I'm getting my pet monkeys to help me with that.

#5897

Steersman wrote: Iâ€™m kind of looking forward to the day when topless â€“ and bottomless â€“ figure skating hits the big time; might be a little chilly for the performers but it might produce some compensatory warmth in the stands ....

But what about when a woman skater does the splits - and sticks to the ice?

#5898

Scented Nectar wrote:Realhorrorshow, if someone tells you that they have good 'emotional intelligence', run away very fast. :icon-eek:

Is that like going on a blind date with someone who "has a good personality"? :o

#5899

Scented Nectar wrote: Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:02 am

Well, Lousy Canuck has just broken all internet ethics on doxxing. He's published the private emails and IPs of many people here, as well as a certain unnamed weirdo (DB) who used to post here. I believe that may be illegal. Do they use wordpress software for their blog? Discus for their comments? What company hosts their domain? Those places all have TOS's. Maybe the tables should be turned and THEY be reported on. This one would be a legit one. Privacy is something that's taken seriously. This isn't just some namecalling. Those of you who are on the list should report it.

Only three things in this world are inevitable, taxes, death, and that every day the FfTBloggers will do a new act of dispicability.

I had argued earlier â€“ in error apparently; mea culpa â€“ that there were two different fields for contacting Jason â€“ Lousy Canuck â€“ Thibeault and that one of them â€“ the Contact response form â€“ explicitly indicated that he reserved the right to post e-mail and IP addresses.

However, on review it seems he himself states that the offending messages had been in his moderation queue and not in an e-mail Contact In-box so it would seem he seems to have â€œconflatedâ€ the two. In addition I note that the â€œoffendingâ€ posts look nothing like any rabid misogyny or a manifestation of verbal or physical threats. Really not cricket â€“ to say the least â€“ to do what he did ...

Emotional reaction does tend to cloud the brain â€“ regardless of oneâ€™s sex .... ;-)

#5900

Lsuoma wrote:
Steersman wrote: Iâ€™m kind of looking forward to the day when topless â€“ and bottomless â€“ figure skating hits the big time; might be a little chilly for the performers but it might produce some compensatory warmth in the stands ....
But what about when a woman skater does the splits - and sticks to the ice?

Slide her to a corner? :clap:

#5901

EveryMan wrote:
Tigzy wrote: ???

It was but a lighthearted response to your concerns about doxxing. Not everyone here is out to challenge you, Everyman. Some of us honestly couldn't give a monkeys about women in management roles and emotional intelligence and all that.
I guess I'm somewhat concerned at the level of hostility directed towards topics that are considered somewhat pedestrian in my world.

"my world" = USA
no need to say more...

#5902

Badger3k wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Realhorrorshow, if someone tells you that they have good 'emotional intelligence', run away very fast. :icon-eek:
Is that like going on a blind date with someone who "has a good personality"? :o

Yes. Run fast, very fast. :?

#5903

Lsuoma wrote:
Steersman wrote: Iâ€™m kind of looking forward to the day when topless â€“ and bottomless â€“ figure skating hits the big time; might be a little chilly for the performers but it might produce some compensatory warmth in the stands ....
But what about when a woman skater does the splits - and sticks to the ice?

:-)

Thanks for the image of them sending out the Zamboni in response ...

#5904

Scented Nectar wrote: Translation: don't get angry or it will magically disprove what you say blah blah emotional intelligence blah blah blah blah privilege blah blah patriarchy blah blah flatter CEO exec yum! how can you resist women managers? blah blah

If the point of the discussion is that some women tend to lapse into histrionics, then yes lapsing into histrionics does disprove an argument to the contrary. No magic involved. Thanks for playing, though.

You & Sacha remind me of one of my ex-girlfriends. I used to do play this game with her all the time...

Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: "No, I don't."
Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: "NO I DO NOT!"
Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: (screeching and beet red) "NO I DO NOT I'M NOT SHRILL I'M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT!!!"

Maybe the female brain lacks a receptor for detecting trolling behavior by immature males?

#5905

EveryMan wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: Translation: don't get angry or it will magically disprove what you say blah blah emotional intelligence blah blah blah blah privilege blah blah patriarchy blah blah flatter CEO exec yum! how can you resist women managers? blah blah
If the point of the discussion is that some women tend to lapse into histrionics, then yes lapsing into histrionics does disprove an argument to the contrary. No magic involved. Thanks for playing, though.

You & Sacha remind me of one of my ex-girlfriends. I used to do play this game with her all the time...

Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: "No, I don't."
Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: "NO I DO NOT!"
Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: (screeching and beet red) "NO I DO NOT I'M NOT SHRILL I'M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT!!!"

Maybe the female brain lacks a receptor for detecting trolling behavior by immature males?

Not very sporting of you at all .... ;-)

#5906

real horrorshow wrote: I had a female boss once who prided herself on her "good 'emotional intelligence'". I got the blarney about this from her in my first week in the job. at the time I just filed it under "euphemism for lack of 'ordinary intelligence'". Which quickly proved to be true. She'd picked up the term during her - employer funded - degree in 'Communications'.

She spent all day every day in meetings - so you could never reach her - and once confided to me that, half the time, she didn't know why she was in them. I thought half was a poor estimate. We were supposed to have a fortnightly departmental meeting. Where she would convey news from Senior Management and hear what we underlings had to say. It became apparent that we underlings considered Senior Management to be about as in touch with reality as Marie-Antoinette, and kept pushing ideas of our own. So, she stopped having the meetings.

Every big organization I've been a part of has operated under this model. Every single one.

So, I'm completely open to the idea that this model is fundamentally flawed.

#5907

real horrorshow wrote:
SteveW68 wrote:http://whois.domaintools.com/freethoughtblogs.com

"Ed" neglected to register with privacy enabled - Lists his address, real name and phone number - hosted by bluehost.com

You are a very bad man. I'd give you a stern lecture on ethics, if I could stop laughing.

Publicly available information Sir! All there for the world to see.... :twisted:

#5908

Michael K Gray wrote:
Dilurk wrote:There is a huge gulf between the technical and the non-technical of us.
And vice-versa.
I am able to grasp said technicalities with the gay abandon that results from having built the machine.

ditto actually.

But.
And here is a BIG but.
(Settle down in the back row there.)
I quite simply do NOT understand those who are "non-technical"

I find it odd that people don't understand the basics.

#5909

Dammit! That last quoted post went completely FUBAR! This is what it should have looked like:

real horrorshow wrote:
SteveW68 wrote:http://whois.domaintools.com/freethoughtblogs.com

"Ed" neglected to register with privacy enabled - Lists his address, real name and phone number - hosted by bluehost.com
You are a very bad man. I'd give you a stern lecture on ethics, if I could stop laughing.

Publicly available information Sir! All there for the world to see.... :twisted:

#5910

EveryMan wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: Translation: don't get angry or it will magically disprove what you say blah blah emotional intelligence blah blah blah blah privilege blah blah patriarchy blah blah flatter CEO exec yum! how can you resist women managers? blah blah
If the point of the discussion is that some women tend to lapse into histrionics, then yes lapsing into histrionics does disprove an argument to the contrary. No magic involved. Thanks for playing, though.

You & Sacha remind me of one of my ex-girlfriends. I used to do play this game with her all the time...

Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: "No, I don't."
Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: "NO I DO NOT!"
Me: "Well, you do have a bit of a shrill tone at times."
Her: (screeching and beet red) "NO I DO NOT I'M NOT SHRILL I'M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT!!!"

Maybe the female brain lacks a receptor for detecting trolling behavior by immature males?

Sounds like YOU were over emotional, Everyman. That emotion being a combo of sneakiness jollies (setting her up to get mad so that you can call that 'shrill' where that wouldn't have otherwise happened), and the thrill of deceiving. They say it's quite a rush. In your example, the woman responded fairly reasonably considering the pest you were making of yourself and the nastiness of deceiving her. You may want to take a look at why women leave you. You're a nasty jerk. Who the fuck would want you, once you open your mouth and start speaking? I think I'll call you HeadGameGreg, since you remind me of someone with a similarly passive aggressive personality. Oh, and don't forget to copy and paste your last sentence quoted above. You'll probably want to present that as solid fact elsewhere, having read/wrote it here originally. It can even look like a pseudo-citation and fool some folks when you link to it here, or just repeat without even the fake cite to go with it. There ya go.