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Here's a nice podcast for ya Only about 30 min long to minimize your suffering. Check out the write-up on Atheist Revolution If you are so inclined too.

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[Dick Strawkins]

I sent Natalie some chump change. Not much, but enough for a meal. Maybe enough to improve her situation for another day. At the very least, I hope she appreciates the gesture.

Good for you, mate.

I noticed Peezus is getting annoyed that you've highlighted his lack of genuine decency.

[another lurker]

Intent isn't magic, after all.

Unless they're the one's speaking...then it's fucking unicorns.

I like fucking unicorns.
They have a handle at the front that you can hang on to.
And you BOTH have the horn.

[youtube]4MKYmCOl-DM[/youtube]

[Tony Parsehole]

PZ is demanding to know how much you donated to Natalie Reed in the comments of the "Lappy" post.

You can tell PZ is seething that Pitchguest brought up Natalie Reed's situation. It showed him up to be a two-faced arsehole who doesn't give a fuck about Natalie Reed or her plight and is only using her to score points. What a total cock's-eye.
Now he has been called on it he's pretending like he gave a fuck all along.

Good. Pitch made him help her, even though PZ's only doing it to save face.

Pitch owned PZ and he did it indirectly and politely. PZ must be bursting a forehead vein.

[cunt]

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Caine, Infuriated Invisible Pixel
24 January 2013 at 2:11 pm (UTC -6)
Well, I’m glad I got a little in before the revision. I can’t help out Avicenna, I don’t have enough to fund replacing my own recently dead laptop.

It’s infuriating that these howling toads have caused so much damage to people.

Damn, we got you to donate a buck or two to a potentially homeless person Caine. What's next? We're going to help a few kids with cleft palates? Is there no depths that we won't sink to?

[Scented Nectar]

While much of the encouraged fear is actually felt by them, some of it is actually cherished instead. Why? Victim cred. The more you are a victim, the more you are deserving of whatever you demand as compensation, the more sympathy you get from your 'sisters' too.

Looks like you just described Setar there, to a T. :clap:

Setar, always a victim even when brandishing a boxcutter blade. He's in Vancouver. No couch or floorspace to offer Natalie? Or maybe have her over for some nice meals every so often so that at least she's getting some food into her while homeless? No. Helping her very real needs would take time away from all his contrived victimhood (poor dear is oppressed because his hair is a bit long).

And PZ, can't he ask his Vancouver area readers to help her out with places to crash, etc? Hah! Yeah, right!

[Tony Parsehole]

Presumably he is vibrating frenziedly

Any excuse to post this:
[spoiler]http://i43.tinypic.com/5ajll3.jpg[/spoiler]

Ah, so that's where your sig came from...

Yeah. I dunno why but it seems poignant.

[Metalogic42]

While much of the encouraged fear is actually felt by them, some of it is actually cherished instead. Why? Victim cred. The more you are a victim, the more you are deserving of whatever you demand as compensation, the more sympathy you get from your 'sisters' too.

Looks like you just described Setar there, to a T. :clap:

Setar, always a victim even when brandishing a boxcutter blade. He's in Vancouver. No couch or floorspace to offer Natalie? Or maybe have her over for some nice meals every so often so that at least she's getting some food into her while homeless? No. Helping her very real needs would take time away from all his contrived victimhood (poor dear is oppressed because his hair is a bit long).

And PZ, can't he ask his Vancouver area readers to help her out with places to crash, etc? Hah! Yeah, right!

If I was in Natalie's position, I'd rather be homeless than stay with Setar. Just saying.

[Tigzy]

Yeah. I dunno why but it seems poignant.

I always found that massive, mobile robot snail with the women's tits on it to be very poignant as well.

The depth of emotion you can find in Viz is really surprising.

[Guest]

I'll do that in future, "heyyyyy chicky chicky, ya wanna ride in ma pimp mobile"

"skeppimp mobile"

[Gumby]

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... 71896c.jpg

X wants a new laptop. Y needs to stave off homelessness. Do the math, you fucking asshole.

Oh, and by the way, "shriek" is by your very own definition a gendered insult. Hypocrite.

[Scented Nectar]

I noticed a couple days ago, PZ wrote to tell his commentors that his old scienceblogs blog has some creationists hanging around and to go over there and pick on them. I think he's trying to route people back to the blog that used to make him money. Probably more money than at FTB, although I doubt he could ever get his views at scienceblogs back up to its former high counts.

[cunt]

It's self defined. A laptop for blogging is just as important as a roof. Only subjective OPINION tells us otherwise.

[welch]

Setar's Ideal World... (from the 'What is socialism and how would it work?' thread on A+)

in a socialist society your ability to live doesn't hinge on having a job. That's really a capitalist-society mentality, since everything is a competition. In a socialist society your basic needs are provided for regardless; your contribution is whatever you can do, be it a "Real Job" or something like art or music. Everyone contributes what they can, in whatever way they can; no contribution can be deemed more important than any other and no one should be derided for self-care either.

I hate having to get up and get dressed and go to work. I want to stay home in my jammies and hang out on the internet all day. My contributions will be (1) my opinions on message boards, and (2) testing video games for bugs by playing them 12 hours at a time.

Where do I sign up? When do I get my first check?

Setar has confused "beinga socialist" with "being a six-year-old".

[Tony Parsehole]

Yeah. I dunno why but it seems poignant.

I always found that massive, mobile robot snail with the women's tits on it to be very poignant as well.

The depth of emotion you can find in Viz is really surprising.

So true.
I think the most moving strip was The Rotating Chin Men. Do you remember that one?
A description from Wikipedia

:Rotating Chin Men A gang of flying villains with jetpacks whose intention is to spoil Queen Elizabeth II's coronation by squirting spunk onto her via a pump squeeze mechanism linked to their revolving chins.

That my friend, is poetic.

[Gumby]

I noticed a couple days ago, PZ wrote to tell his commentors that his old scienceblogs blog has some creationists hanging around and to go over there and pick on them. I think he's trying to route people back to the blog that used to make him money. Probably more money than at FTB, although I doubt he could ever get his views at scienceblogs back up to its former high counts.

I remember he used to routinely get 130k or more views a day at sciblogs when he got really popular. The whole of FtB can't even match that.

[Tony Parsehole]

I was right! PZ is having a stroke over Pitchguest's indirect shaming of him. The meltdown is all the more beautiful as PZ tried to have a dig at Pitch by asking him "How much have YOU donated eh? eh? eh?"
This is just for PZ:
[youtube]X_mK0nrrsbI[/youtube]

[Trophy]

It's too fucking early in the morning to be reading this kind of crap.

Then learn to the read the context of the posts you are reply to. Because those examples don't prove that "women rape men with their vaginas nearly as often as men rape women with their penises." They are not even close.
And, in grand scheme of things, it's pretty damn unlikely for a man to be raped by a woman (and male minors don't count as "men"). It's almost a non-issue.

http://www.genderratic.com/p/836/manufa ... rable-men/

And associated links within.

Oh and another go fuck yourself for good measure.

Okay, I checked the link and the survey and I was wrong. Yes, in the past 12 months, the survey lists 1.1% of the sample (est. 1.26M men in total) as victims of "made to penetrate" with 80% of them commited by women. So I was very wrong. I really apologize.

And yes, it's equal to the percentage of women raped in the sample. So I guess I was the fucking moron, huh.

[Tony Parsehole]

[spoiler]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... 71896c.jpg

X wants a new laptop. Y needs to stave off homelessness. Do the math, you fucking asshole.

Oh, and by the way, "shriek" is by your very own definition a gendered insult. Hypocrite.[/spoiler]

Got a link for that Gumbington?

[Reap]

PZ is now linking to a skepchick article about the Secular Census (http://www.freezepage.com/1359044439TLMZOQWDIE), where they are very very happy about this:

]
Regardless of gender, all respondents who are or have been involved in the secular movement are asked: Have you ever felt unwelcome, discriminated against, or harmed in the secular movement? Women outnumber men 62%/34% in responding “Yes.” It is worth noting that women do not outnumber men when asked the same question about religious organizations with which they’ve been associated. It appears they are less comfortable in secular groups than in the churches they left.

Here's a link to the full article at the Secular Census site http://www.secularcensus.us/analysis/2013-01-23, where we find another quote (the first percent is women, the second is men)

Regardless of gender, all uninvolved respondents are asked: What are your reasons for not being involved in the secular movement? Check as many as apply. Women outnumber men in these responses:

70%/30% - Bad experience with group, person, or event
100%/0% - Can't get over my conditioning that religion is good and secularism is bad
67%/33% - Health issues
65%/35% - Lack of childcare

They are assuming that this means that women are being disproportionately harassed and abused by the secular community.

I don't see that as the only possibility. It is A possibility, of course, but there also other possibilities that should be addressed, like maybe "feeling" unwelcome, discriminated against or harmed doesn't equal to these thins happening. Everyone has different thresholds of offense and what might make someone feel unwelcome might not be very important for someone else. Or maybe men are less prone to leaving a movement because of a bad experience.

Using the same data, we could conclude that not being able to "get over my conditioning that religion is good and secularism is bad" is a girl-thing (apply your tongue to your cheek while reading this line).

To be honest I don't know how we could find an explanation to this data, but at least we have some tangible figures to talk about.

Also, not having childcare facilities at the WiS conference seems to go in direct contradiction with the data that indicates that 65% of uninvolved women are not in the secular movement because (at least in part) of the lack of childcare.

This is a good post.

But it's pretty simple.

" 70%/30% - Bad experience with group, person, or event"

does not imply a bad experience with a secular group, secular person, or secular event....For me, I don't like people in groups. I much prefer small gatherings.

Yet they describe it as such when they say this, "Have you ever felt unwelcome, discriminated against, or harmed in the secular movement?Women outnumber men 62%/34% in responding “Yes. "

Bolding by me.

They are misrepresenting their data. (For the record I did not click on the links provided so maybe there's something I am missing).

They give the data of women vs men but there is no data presented on the overall percentages. They do give examples like this-
And women are the only respondents to select these answers:
100%/0% - Unwanted advances by other participants
100%/0% - Not sure - I can't put my finger on it

Ok, so that could be one woman, or even half a woman, even if only her big toe was made to feel uncomfortable then the numbers would be the same as if 100 women had replied the same way. From my experience there is only one reason data is presented in this fashion, because the numbers don't support the desired result. If the numbers did support the belief that women are being unfairly harassed they need to give them so we can get an idea of what the scope of the problem is. Why are they even doing a census if they are going to present the results like this? What a waste of time. They won't be more 'transparent' until they reach 10,000 participants.

[welch]

I'll do that in future, "heyyyyy chicky chicky, ya wanna ride in ma pimp mobile"

"skeppimp mobile"

[Richard Dworkins]

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... 71896c.jpg

X wants a new laptop. Y needs to stave off homelessness. Do the math, you fucking asshole.

Oh, and by the way, "shriek" is by your very own definition a gendered insult. Hypocrite.

Yes it is ironic, the irony clearly being he describes the behaviours of himself and the entirety of the SJW mob. No one else is playing the oppression oneupmanship, people are pointing out that a homeless person who was apparently an ally is being ignored by them while they ask for money for luxuries.

What was that about for not checking one's privilege.

Unbelievable.

[Percentage]

I don't really even know what to think about the Natalie Reed situation. I guess I can't really blame PeeZus for holding her up as his next martyr because that was the strong implication in her goodbye post. But then she makes these nebulous claims about "many factors" and it's like, whatever.

She's just kind of an idiot. I don't even really mean that in a nasty way, just as a matter of fact. I followed her on Twitter once and had to unfollow her within a few days, because she was flooding my newsfeed with rambly stream-of-consciousness "theorizing". Her posts are so repetitively tedious that I want to think she's like, a postmodern troll. It's just weird that an intermittently-homeless person is so concerned with all this quibbling social justice horseshit.

[Mykeru]

[spoiler]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8195/8411 ... 13ea_o.jpg
Thank you.[/spoiler]

[another lurker]

The following comment was posed on a website to other members and the thread's subject was:

Birth Control 'Accident'?
Posted by purple_2009 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 4, 09 at 14:45

Okay, so I am about to make the biggest decision of my life and I need some honest advice from someone other than my family. I have been with my boyfriend for over 2 years, and we have been living together for over 6 months. I am 27 and he is 32. Things are going great but the whole idea of marriage scares me because my parents had a horrible marriage. To me, it just feels like I am legally binding myself to someone! Anyway, what is most important to me in LIFE is having children; I have wanted them for as long as I can remember. All of my friends are having kids and starting families. My boyfriend is not one to talk about his feelings, EVER, so other than the fact that we live together and things are going well, I have no idea where our relationship is going. I have tried bringing it up to him, but he is just not easy to talk to about these things, and I am always left feeling no better off about our future than I did before. I am SURE we will get married one day, but when??

I have always wanted to have kids by 28 and I know timeline’s get messed up, but this is too important. What I really want to do is go off the pill and get pregnant. We both have wonderful jobs and a house and are in a stable relationship and I know that he will love his baby, but I make a wonderful salary and could support the child on my own if I ever needed to. I want to do this so bad that I don’t know if I can turn back at this point. Accidents happen on the pill all the time, and who knows, it could end up happening anyway. He is just such a slow mover; I don’t think the kid conversation would even come up until I’m 30! I know 30 is young and TONS of people have kids at 30 and above, but I can’t give up my dream, and then what if we end up not working out anyway? Then I’m back to square one! I have one of those mothers who is just so outside the box and I love it. She knows our situation and can see that everything would be just fine. She thinks I should just go for it, but I also want an outside opinion. What do I do?

Read more here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/si ... 071.html?8

Women like this make me sick.

[Gumby]

[spoiler]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... 71896c.jpg

X wants a new laptop. Y needs to stave off homelessness. Do the math, you fucking asshole.

Oh, and by the way, "shriek" is by your very own definition a gendered insult. Hypocrite.[/spoiler]

Got a link for that Gumbington?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-544312

[cunt]

I noticed a couple days ago, PZ wrote to tell his commentors that his old scienceblogs blog has some creationists hanging around and to go over there and pick on them. I think he's trying to route people back to the blog that used to make him money. Probably more money than at FTB, although I doubt he could ever get his views at scienceblogs back up to its former high counts.

More like he realises how hard it is for his commentariat to have their asses handed to them. Go and pick on a weaker kid guys, that'll cheer you up.

[Gumby]

I don't really even know what to think about the Natalie Reed situation. I guess I can't really blame PeeZus for holding her up as his next martyr because that was the strong implication in her goodbye post. But then she makes these nebulous claims about "many factors" and it's like, whatever.

The thing is, she has said in her blog several times in the past that she is appalled by the atheist movement in general, and A+ in particular. She has stated that she is not comfortable with the way many on "her side" have conducted themselves. Look at her tweets in my post linked below (in the spoilered part) and she reiterates that dissatisfaction. PZ and others are hold her up as a martyr, yes, but it's very dishonest of them to do so, because they conveniently neglect to mention a major portion of Natalie's opinions in their rush to try to further tar and feather those who do not follow them.
http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 878#p54878

[VickyCaramel]

Oh I did know it was a joke, but at the same time it was "ragging", a little jousting. A challenge not to take offence. You must have known it was the kind of thing 'they' would take as misogyny. By playing along, I felt i got one up on you, but also backed you up in going along with the joke.

Don't take that the wrong way either Vicky, your posts have been good. I just wish people hadn't dogpiled Eucli for pretty much the exact same thing I did.

I didn't feel I did dog pile her. I had a little joke at her (with the mother thing), and I discussed the issue in a general sense. I have been reading her stuff for a while, I like her style.

Anyway, that is all over with.

[Gumby]

[spoiler]

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... 71896c.jpg

X wants a new laptop. Y needs to stave off homelessness. Do the math, you fucking asshole.

Oh, and by the way, "shriek" is by your very own definition a gendered insult. Hypocrite.

[/spoiler]
Yes it is ironic, the irony clearly being he describes the behaviours of himself and the entirety of the SJW mob. No one else is playing the oppression oneupmanship, people are pointing out that a homeless person who was apparently an ally is being ignored by them while they ask for money for luxuries.

What was that about for not checking one's privilege.

Unbelievable.

Ayup!

[bhoytony]

In case all the lurkers think this is becoming a haven of kind and caring human beings, I'd like to confirm their original suspicions. I have no intention of donating any money to Natalie Reed and there is no fucking way I would ever invite a stranger to live in my home. I can think of several hundred people off the top of my head who I think would be more in need of any help I could give, never mind some random stranger who seems to be a bit of an arsehole and lives in another country thousands of miles away.
I do admit I am a bit of a cunt, but at least I'm honest.

[Submariner]

Here's a video that compares A+ to being in the Navy.

"Atheism Plus would never float on a submarine"
[youtube]z2BEKFiriRA[/youtube]

Wow, that's one hoopy frood, who really knows where his towel is.

A fellow member of the Silent Service too.

[Mark Neil]

[spoiler]The following comment was posed on a website to other members and the thread's subject was:

Birth Control 'Accident'?
Posted by purple_2009 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 4, 09 at 14:45

Okay, so I am about to make the biggest decision of my life and I need some honest advice from someone other than my family. I have been with my boyfriend for over 2 years, and we have been living together for over 6 months. I am 27 and he is 32. Things are going great but the whole idea of marriage scares me because my parents had a horrible marriage. To me, it just feels like I am legally binding myself to someone! Anyway, what is most important to me in LIFE is having children; I have wanted them for as long as I can remember. All of my friends are having kids and starting families. My boyfriend is not one to talk about his feelings, EVER, so other than the fact that we live together and things are going well, I have no idea where our relationship is going. I have tried bringing it up to him, but he is just not easy to talk to about these things, and I am always left feeling no better off about our future than I did before. I am SURE we will get married one day, but when??

I have always wanted to have kids by 28 and I know timeline’s get messed up, but this is too important. What I really want to do is go off the pill and get pregnant. We both have wonderful jobs and a house and are in a stable relationship and I know that he will love his baby, but I make a wonderful salary and could support the child on my own if I ever needed to. I want to do this so bad that I don’t know if I can turn back at this point. Accidents happen on the pill all the time, and who knows, it could end up happening anyway. He is just such a slow mover; I don’t think the kid conversation would even come up until I’m 30! I know 30 is young and TONS of people have kids at 30 and above, but I can’t give up my dream, and then what if we end up not working out anyway? Then I’m back to square one! I have one of those mothers who is just so outside the box and I love it. She knows our situation and can see that everything would be just fine. She thinks I should just go for it, but I also want an outside opinion. What do I do?

Read more here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/si ... 071.html?8

Women like this make me sick.[/spoiler]

It's women like that that makes it so hard not to get angry when people start blaming (only) men for fatherlessness.

[surreptitious57]

Setars Ideal World . . ( from the What is socialism and how would it work ? thread on A + )

in a socialist society your ability to live does not hinge on having a job. That's really a capitalist-society mentality, since everything is a competition. In a socialist society your basic needs are provided for regardless - your contribution is whatever you can do, be it a Real Job or something like art or music - Everyone contributes what they can, in whatever way they can; no contribution can be deemed more important than any other and no one should be derided for self care either

I hate having to get up and get dressed and go to work - I want to stay home in my jammies and hang out on the internet all day. My contributions will be ( 1 ) my opinions on message boards and ( 2 ) testing video games for bugs by playing them 12 hours at a time

You and Scented Nectar seriously crack me up man : it may not be fair but it sure is funny

[Submariner]

[spoiler]The following comment was posed on a website to other members and the thread's subject was:

Birth Control 'Accident'?
Posted by purple_2009 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 4, 09 at 14:45

Okay, so I am about to make the biggest decision of my life and I need some honest advice from someone other than my family. I have been with my boyfriend for over 2 years, and we have been living together for over 6 months. I am 27 and he is 32. Things are going great but the whole idea of marriage scares me because my parents had a horrible marriage. To me, it just feels like I am legally binding myself to someone! Anyway, what is most important to me in LIFE is having children; I have wanted them for as long as I can remember. All of my friends are having kids and starting families. My boyfriend is not one to talk about his feelings, EVER, so other than the fact that we live together and things are going well, I have no idea where our relationship is going. I have tried bringing it up to him, but he is just not easy to talk to about these things, and I am always left feeling no better off about our future than I did before. I am SURE we will get married one day, but when??

I have always wanted to have kids by 28 and I know timeline’s get messed up, but this is too important. What I really want to do is go off the pill and get pregnant. We both have wonderful jobs and a house and are in a stable relationship and I know that he will love his baby, but I make a wonderful salary and could support the child on my own if I ever needed to. I want to do this so bad that I don’t know if I can turn back at this point. Accidents happen on the pill all the time, and who knows, it could end up happening anyway. He is just such a slow mover; I don’t think the kid conversation would even come up until I’m 30! I know 30 is young and TONS of people have kids at 30 and above, but I can’t give up my dream, and then what if we end up not working out anyway? Then I’m back to square one! I have one of those mothers who is just so outside the box and I love it. She knows our situation and can see that everything would be just fine. She thinks I should just go for it, but I also want an outside opinion. What do I do?

Read more here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/si ... 071.html?8

Women like this make me sick.[/spoiler]

It's women like that that makes it so hard not to get angry when people start blaming (only) men for fatherlessness.

To the commenter's credit, they all advise her to not do it. Still, the fact she had to ASK....

[somedumbguy]

[spoiler]The following comment was posed on a website to other members and the thread's subject was:

Birth Control 'Accident'?
Posted by purple_2009 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 4, 09 at 14:45

Okay, so I am about to make the biggest decision of my life and I need some honest advice from someone other than my family. I have been with my boyfriend for over 2 years, and we have been living together for over 6 months. I am 27 and he is 32. Things are going great but the whole idea of marriage scares me because my parents had a horrible marriage. To me, it just feels like I am legally binding myself to someone! Anyway, what is most important to me in LIFE is having children; I have wanted them for as long as I can remember. All of my friends are having kids and starting families. My boyfriend is not one to talk about his feelings, EVER, so other than the fact that we live together and things are going well, I have no idea where our relationship is going. I have tried bringing it up to him, but he is just not easy to talk to about these things, and I am always left feeling no better off about our future than I did before. I am SURE we will get married one day, but when??

I have always wanted to have kids by 28 and I know timeline’s get messed up, but this is too important. What I really want to do is go off the pill and get pregnant. We both have wonderful jobs and a house and are in a stable relationship and I know that he will love his baby, but I make a wonderful salary and could support the child on my own if I ever needed to. I want to do this so bad that I don’t know if I can turn back at this point. Accidents happen on the pill all the time, and who knows, it could end up happening anyway. He is just such a slow mover; I don’t think the kid conversation would even come up until I’m 30! I know 30 is young and TONS of people have kids at 30 and above, but I can’t give up my dream, and then what if we end up not working out anyway? Then I’m back to square one! I have one of those mothers who is just so outside the box and I love it. She knows our situation and can see that everything would be just fine. She thinks I should just go for it, but I also want an outside opinion. What do I do?

Read more here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/si ... 071.html?8

Women like this make me sick.[/spoiler]

It's women like that that makes it so hard not to get angry when people start blaming (only) men for fatherlessness.

No, no, no. I have been assured PZ Myers and David Futrelle that women do not do this.

It's quite possible this "woman" is a disguised MRA daughter raper. The misogyny just reeks from his post. I have no doubt that this abusive troll has the entire Warren Farrell collection on his bookshelf.

[cunt]

In case all the lurkers think this is becoming a haven of kind and caring human beings, I'd like to confirm their original suspicions. I have no intention of donating any money to Natalie Reed and there is no fucking way I would ever invite a stranger to live in my home. I can think of several hundred people off the top of my head who I think would be more in need of any help I could give, never mind some random stranger who seems to be a bit of an arsehole and lives in another country thousands of miles away.
I do admit I am a bit of a cunt, but at least I'm honest.

This is true. I'm not going to donate to Natalie Reed. You should though, since you love her so much.

[Scented Nectar]

I noticed a couple days ago, PZ wrote to tell his commentors that his old scienceblogs blog has some creationists hanging around and to go over there and pick on them. I think he's trying to route people back to the blog that used to make him money. Probably more money than at FTB, although I doubt he could ever get his views at scienceblogs back up to its former high counts.

I remember he used to routinely get 130k or more views a day at sciblogs when he got really popular. The whole of FtB can't even match that.

And now that he's become a feminist blogger instead of an atheist blogger, I doubt he'll ever see 130k-views/day again.

[bhoytony]

I think the most moving strip was The Rotating Chin Men. Do you remember that one?
A description from Wikipedia

:Rotating Chin Men A gang of flying villains with jetpacks whose intention is to spoil Queen Elizabeth II's coronation by squirting spunk onto her via a pump squeeze mechanism linked to their revolving chins.

That my friend, is poetic.

Who could forget the amazing Mickey's Monkey Spunk Moped. Mickey keeps running out of fuel for his bike and has to find the nearest zoo or circus in order to wank a monkey off, collect the spunk to fill the tank on his incredible moped and carry on his journey. One of the finest literary creations ever written.

There's even a baboon reference in this one

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[Git]

Setar's Ideal World... (from the 'What is socialism and how would it work?' thread on A+)

in a socialist society your ability to live doesn't hinge on having a job. That's really a capitalist-society mentality, since everything is a competition. In a socialist society your basic needs are provided for regardless; your contribution is whatever you can do, be it a "Real Job" or something like art or music. Everyone contributes what they can, in whatever way they can; no contribution can be deemed more important than any other and no one should be derided for self-care either.

I hate having to get up and get dressed and go to work. I want to stay home in my jammies and hang out on the internet all day. My contributions will be (1) my opinions on message boards, and (2) testing video games for bugs by playing them 12 hours at a time.

Where do I sign up? When do I get my first check?

Setar has confused "being a socialist" with "being a six-year-old".

Like most socialists then.

[Metalogic42]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

[bhoytony]

Setar has confused "being a socialist" with "being a six-year-old".

Like most socialists then.

Unlike your sophisticated and mature post then.

[Gumby]

In case all the lurkers think this is becoming a haven of kind and caring human beings, I'd like to confirm their original suspicions. I have no intention of donating any money to Natalie Reed and there is no fucking way I would ever invite a stranger to live in my home. I can think of several hundred people off the top of my head who I think would be more in need of any help I could give, never mind some random stranger who seems to be a bit of an arsehole and lives in another country thousands of miles away.
I do admit I am a bit of a cunt, but at least I'm honest.

I actually wouldn't mind throwing a few bucks her way, but I don't think Paypal allows anonymous donations. I am not willing to sacrifice anonymity in this instance.

So instead, I made a donation to the Lsuoma and the Pit (first time I have ever used Paypal), and next month I'll donate to Renee's Operation Slime Smile.

[Gumby]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

[another lurker]

[spoiler]The following comment was posed on a website to other members and the thread's subject was:

Birth Control 'Accident'?
Posted by purple_2009 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 4, 09 at 14:45

Okay, so I am about to make the biggest decision of my life and I need some honest advice from someone other than my family. I have been with my boyfriend for over 2 years, and we have been living together for over 6 months. I am 27 and he is 32. Things are going great but the whole idea of marriage scares me because my parents had a horrible marriage. To me, it just feels like I am legally binding myself to someone! Anyway, what is most important to me in LIFE is having children; I have wanted them for as long as I can remember. All of my friends are having kids and starting families. My boyfriend is not one to talk about his feelings, EVER, so other than the fact that we live together and things are going well, I have no idea where our relationship is going. I have tried bringing it up to him, but he is just not easy to talk to about these things, and I am always left feeling no better off about our future than I did before. I am SURE we will get married one day, but when??

I have always wanted to have kids by 28 and I know timeline’s get messed up, but this is too important. What I really want to do is go off the pill and get pregnant. We both have wonderful jobs and a house and are in a stable relationship and I know that he will love his baby, but I make a wonderful salary and could support the child on my own if I ever needed to. I want to do this so bad that I don’t know if I can turn back at this point. Accidents happen on the pill all the time, and who knows, it could end up happening anyway. He is just such a slow mover; I don’t think the kid conversation would even come up until I’m 30! I know 30 is young and TONS of people have kids at 30 and above, but I can’t give up my dream, and then what if we end up not working out anyway? Then I’m back to square one! I have one of those mothers who is just so outside the box and I love it. She knows our situation and can see that everything would be just fine. She thinks I should just go for it, but I also want an outside opinion. What do I do?

Read more here: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/si ... 071.html?8

Women like this make me sick.[/spoiler]

It's women like that that makes it so hard not to get angry when people start blaming (only) men for fatherlessness.

No, no, no. I have been assured PZ Myers and David Futrelle that women do not do this.

It's quite possible this "woman" is a disguised MRA daughter raper. The misogyny just reeks from his post. I have no doubt that this abusive troll has the entire Warren Farrell collection on his bookshelf.

I know of a woman who loves being pregnant - yet HATES the thought of raising her own kids. So she is off spending 10k on an ATV, drinking, partying, sleeping with random guys while her boyfriend (who isn't even the father of her two kids,) and her mother raise the children.

She is feeling all oppressed now b/c her parents have cut off the money. See, she also has a 30k $ truck. All the 'fun' is worth more to her than her kids. The two year old baby boy is going to grow up with developmental problems b/c he spends the majority of his days ALONE without any attention whatsoever.

I despise people like this, and I hate even more the folks who proclaim 'have as many babies as you like, who gives a fuck about their quality of life'. It's THIS sort of attitude that only encourages women like this to revel in the pregnancy, and then basically abandon their children once they are born.

[Metalogic42]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

I sent one tweet to Twatson, was that a mistake?

[Gumby]

And now that he's become a feminist blogger instead of an atheist blogger, I doubt he'll ever see 130k-views/day again.

Nope. No matter how much they ramp up the manufactured drama. PZ really ran headlong onto a skating rink filled with banana peels when he decided to switch from religion-basher to feminist prophet.

[fascination]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

I haven't found that to make much of a difference. They watch for any mention of their name. I don't use any profanity at all on Twitter or break the rules and yet I've been suspended several times. Everytime it was after i had tweeted something mildly critical of FTB or Skepchick. I've rarely been using Twitter anymore. I don't really like the platform. Maybe I'll give it another chance though.

[Gumby]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

I sent one tweet to Twatson, was that a mistake?

It could very well be. FtB/Skepchicks are all about silencing the opposition, and they routinely try to get accounts suspended. FTB commenter @Aratina even set up a #BlockSaturday hashtag, where she encourages her twitter buds to pre-emptively block @people she lists in tweets. If enough people block you (even if you've never tweeted them), Twitter's software automatically suspends your account when a certain threshold has been reached, and you have to appeal. These people really are despicable.

[Apples]

One of the regular and fairly prolific commenters over FTB and on Pharyngula in particular is Rodney Nelson. He was 'Tis Himself until Strange Gods Before Me nailed him for being an absolutely incorrigible plagiarist in his comments. He may have even been an OM (Order of the Molly - decorated Pharyngula super-commenter).

When "Rodney Nelson" recently showed up after 'Tis Himself disappeared, he lit into SGBM and aroused suspicion as being a potential sock. This was then confirmed by Xanthe, who, apparently as an A+ mod, had I believe compared IP addresses and confirmed the link. SGBM then found that Rodney Nelson had plagiarized Wikipedia in one of his first comments with the new nym.

Anyway, I'm just thinking about how much of a capital offense plagiarism is in academia and about the fact that PZ makes his students start blogs as homework assignments. Seems strange that, as far as I know, PZ never commented on 'Tis Himself's plagiarism and hasn't followed up on the Rodney Nelson situation. He's a good comrade, always toe-ing the A+ line, so there's that. And PZ kind of hates SGBM for being a thread-cop. But you'd think PZ, as an academic and "critical thinker," would still give a shit about a regular commenter's consistently cribbing shit in order to look smart.

Apologies for not providing links, but someone with good google-fu can scare up the incidents if they care.

[Metalogic42]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

I sent one tweet to Twatson, was that a mistake?

It could very well be. FtB/Skepchicks are all about silencing the opposition, and they routinely try to get accounts suspended. FTB commenter @Aratina even set up a #BlockSaturday hashtag, where she encourages her twitter buds to pre-emptively block @people she lists in tweets. If enough people block you (even if you've never tweeted them), Twitter's software automatically suspends your account when a certain threshold has been reached, and you have to appeal. These people really are despicable.

Sucks for them. I'm contesting this. I'm contesting this hard.

[Gumby]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

I haven't found that to make much of a difference. They watch for any mention of their name. I don't use any profanity at all on Twitter or break the rules and yet I've been suspended several times. Everytime it was after i had tweeted something mildly critical of FTB or Skepchick. I've rarely been using Twitter anymore. I don't really like the platform. Maybe I'll give it another chance though.

I slam FTB and A+ all the time on twitter, and I've never been suspended. Yet, anyway.

I agree about the Twitter platform. It really is a sucky way to communicate. Having a substantive discussion on twitter is like trying to play hopscotch on a checkerboard. However, it was fun taking part in hijacking the #atheismplus hashtag, and helping keep the #FTBullies hashtag after the Pharyngula crowd tried to hijack it. Stupid, but fun, because twitter for some unknown reason is very important to those imbeciles.

[VickyCaramel]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

I haven't found that to make much of a difference. They watch for any mention of their name. I don't use any profanity at all on Twitter or break the rules and yet I've been suspended several times. Everytime it was after i had tweeted something mildly critical of FTB or Skepchick. I've rarely been using Twitter anymore. I don't really like the platform. Maybe I'll give it another chance though.

Twitter is on the lookout for spammers. If it sees a new account getting blocked, it sees it as a signal.

[fascination]

In case all the lurkers think this is becoming a haven of kind and caring human beings, I'd like to confirm their original suspicions. I have no intention of donating any money to Natalie Reed and there is no fucking way I would ever invite a stranger to live in my home. I can think of several hundred people off the top of my head who I think would be more in need of any help I could give, never mind some random stranger who seems to be a bit of an arsehole and lives in another country thousands of miles away.
I do admit I am a bit of a cunt, but at least I'm honest.

I actually wouldn't mind throwing a few bucks her way, but I don't think Paypal allows anonymous donations. I am not willing to sacrifice anonymity in this instance.

So instead, I made a donation to the Lsuoma and the Pit (first time I have ever used Paypal), and next month I'll donate to Renee's Operation Slime Smile.

I think you can set up an anonymous email with Paypal. The donation will show up under the email address and not your name. Just don't use your regular email address. Maybe someone who takes donations would know for sure. Lsuoma?

[Gumby]

I just got suspended from Twitter for the second time in 24 hours, what the fuck is this shit?

Are you including the "@names" of FtBtards or Skepskanks in your tweets?

I sent one tweet to Twatson, was that a mistake?

It could very well be. FtB/Skepchicks are all about silencing the opposition, and they routinely try to get accounts suspended. FTB commenter @Aratina even set up a #BlockSaturday hashtag, where she encourages her twitter buds to pre-emptively block @people she lists in tweets. If enough people block you (even if you've never tweeted them), Twitter's software automatically suspends your account when a certain threshold has been reached, and you have to appeal. These people really are despicable.

Sucks for them. I'm contesting this. I'm contesting this hard.

I would tell twitter that there is a group of people who are trying to silence another group through mass-blocking, and encourage twitter admins to look at the content of your tweets. Mention the #BlockSaturday hashtag as well. You should be back on track soon enough.

[fascination]

Twitter is on the lookout for spammers. If it sees a new account getting blocked, it sees it as a signal.

My account was not new; it was several years old. I just hadn't used it very much.

[fascination]

Gumby, who are you on Twitter? (If you don't mind divulging that info)

[welch]

Setar's Ideal World... (from the 'What is socialism and how would it work?' thread on A+)

in a socialist society your ability to live doesn't hinge on having a job. That's really a capitalist-society mentality, since everything is a competition. In a socialist society your basic needs are provided for regardless; your contribution is whatever you can do, be it a "Real Job" or something like art or music. Everyone contributes what they can, in whatever way they can; no contribution can be deemed more important than any other and no one should be derided for self-care either.

I hate having to get up and get dressed and go to work. I want to stay home in my jammies and hang out on the internet all day. My contributions will be (1) my opinions on message boards, and (2) testing video games for bugs by playing them 12 hours at a time.

Where do I sign up? When do I get my first check?

Setar has confused "being a socialist" with "being a six-year-old".

Like most socialists then.

Bless your heart.


and here I thought your nickname was ironic, and not an accurate character description.

[Gumby]

In case all the lurkers think this is becoming a haven of kind and caring human beings, I'd like to confirm their original suspicions. I have no intention of donating any money to Natalie Reed and there is no fucking way I would ever invite a stranger to live in my home. I can think of several hundred people off the top of my head who I think would be more in need of any help I could give, never mind some random stranger who seems to be a bit of an arsehole and lives in another country thousands of miles away.
I do admit I am a bit of a cunt, but at least I'm honest.

I actually wouldn't mind throwing a few bucks her way, but I don't think Paypal allows anonymous donations. I am not willing to sacrifice anonymity in this instance.

So instead, I made a donation to the Lsuoma and the Pit (first time I have ever used Paypal), and next month I'll donate to Renee's Operation Slime Smile.

I think you can set up an anonymous email with Paypal. The donation will show up under the email address and not your name. Just don't use your regular email address. Maybe someone who takes donations would know for sure. Lsuoma?

Good idea. I'm ignorant about paypal, contributing to the pit was the first time I've ever used it. The email addy I use for my paypal acct is my real name. I don't care if Lsuoma knows my name, but I wouldn't want most people to know. Maybe if I change my email addy, it would make it truly anonymous. Interested in Lsuoma's knowledge of the subject, provided he hasn't taken my donation and used it as a down payment on a new pair of Fluevogs.

[KiwiInOz]

Don't take that the wrong way either Vicky, your posts have been good. I just wish people hadn't dogpiled Eucli for pretty much the exact same thing I did.

Agree on all your points. I enjoy Vicky's posts (and yeah, I love that avatar, but I guess I'm just a typical white cis ... male) and have enjoyed Eucli's posts after the initial diarrhea. The dogpile was a shame - people seemed to have their irony/piss taking meters turned off that day.