If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

I imagine however Sesame Street decides to gender their monsters someone will be offended. Fitting in trans monsters would be a nightmare.

Fuck I've offended myself, I forgot the *

BTW, I have come to believe that Duck Dynasty is fake, and that the whole thing is a manufactured controversy.

There are photos of what the Duck Dynasty men looked like before the show - yuppies - and they all have advanced educations which would call into question the validity of their 'ignorant redneck' personas. Furthermore, from what I have been able to read, the show is heavily scripted, just like most of the top reality shows out there...

It's likely that Phil Robertson was simply in 'redneck character' mode when he gave that GQ interview. Scott Gurney, the creator of the show, once starred in an indie gay porn film...


http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/i ... 1387594928

http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/i ... 1387594929


http://www.duckdynastyfake.com/

http://radaronline.com/photos/duck-dyna ... to/590613/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/2 ... ag-Con-Job

Really? wrote:

ianfc wrote:Apparently Sesame Street has too many male monsters, so many they've had a masculinity crisis and the few female monsters are treated poorly. Alexandra from Skepchick's parenting blog Grounded Parents observes

But the thing that really and truly bugs me is that the female monsters are always dressed up. Male monsters just are, but female monsters are at the very least accessorized.

and

For all the good that it does, Sesame Street is reinforcing the concept that maleness is the norm and femaleness is the aberration. It is also teaching kids that women and girls are meant to be adorned and cannot just be.

http://groundedparents.com/2013/12/24/s ... et-so-bad/

Do the monsters even have genitals?!?!?!

Nope. In fact, I don't recall many cases of explicit gender assignment to the monsters. Big Bird may in fact be female, I can't remember. Even Snuffaluffagus lost the "Mr." prefix some time ago. There are gendered monsters, but just as many aren't.

Someone's projecting.

I miss the times when I could walk into a Kmart with a fag in my mouth, pick out a gun and ammo from the back wall and take it to the checkout.

Scented Nectar wrote:Here are all 9 small versions, but clicking them will take you to the original 1920x1080 versions (if I've done this correctly).

*beam*
Like you, ma'am, I like it when they get bigger.

All my gifts today, so far, have been emotional.
Positive ones even.
And I've enjoyed quite a few of them from various sources.
This has been the best xmas for me, the sentimental fool, in years.

I'll double down on the slightly delayed, goddamn solstice cheer.
Ooo-ee and goo-ee sappiness:
[youtube]XPm3CWvDmvc[/youtube]

ianfc wrote:I miss the times when I could walk into a Kmart with a fag in my mouth, pick out a gun and ammo from the back wall and take it to the checkout.

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

Eskarina wrote:Roastbeef and Yorkshire Pudding.

Bah Humbug to you all.

Lamb, green beans, herb roasted potatoes.

The most enormous Turkey I've ever seen. 5 hours to cook and no room in the oven for the the spuds and pumpkin ( separate convection oven for them), ham, 3 or 4 boats of gravy a mountain of stuffing followed by pudding with Icecream, cream and hard brandy sauce. Omg.

13 people gorged to perfection.

In contrast:

PZ is really getting into the Xmas spirit. He scoffs his "vegan dinner with mead".

Then enjoys some Xmas reading - a Popehat article on privilege which culminates in the plaintive cry of freshly minted university undergrad Trotskyists everywhere:

The system is not fixable because it is not broken. It is working, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to give the insiders their royal prerogatives, and to shove the regulations, the laws, and the debt up the asses of everyone else.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Merry Christmas.

Then he bemoans the use of a real tree in New York for Christmas - despite its wood being donated to charity.

By the time he gets around to the Catholics 'I don't want none of their stinking peace' - I really wouldn't put any credence on any of his views. Given its common mental source, I don't trust or sympathise with his Atheism anymore. Really I think Mykeru has a better handle on Dyatlov then PZ on his critical faculties. ;)

It appears he is leaving his daughter's actually on Christmas Day to fly home. I bet she drives him to the airport, just to make sure.

At least PZs was better than no presents Watson:

http://i.imgur.com/AhL4Wqw.jpg

And she shitted all over Alex's dumpster diving festivities:

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

Fucking privilege, PZ, how does that work?

http://i.imgur.com/HwcSmV9.jpg

Needs more strawberry before it could be a holy sign.

Scented Nectar wrote:Here are all 9 small versions, but clicking them will take you to the original 1920x1080 versions (if I've done this correctly).

<3 <3 <3

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

When nerd of redhead appeared, a bit of wee came out.

DownThunder wrote:

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[.youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

When nerd of redhead appeared, a bit of wee came out.

I did 14 shoops yesterday for that video. Thankfully, I already had most of the heads already decapitated and ready to go. But really Gefan, a bit more notice for part 2, OK? :lol:

Oh, and thanks Gefan for top billing! Unnecessary but flattering. I'm likely to get a Carrier-sized ego from seeing my name first.

Just got home from a day of traipsing around visiting family and gorging myself. Hope everyone else had as pleasant a day as I did.

Brive1987 wrote:The most enormous Turkey I've ever seen. 5 hours to cook and no room in the oven for the the spuds and pumpkin ( separate convection oven for them), ham, 3 or 4 boats of gravy a mountain of stuffing followed by pudding with Icecream, cream and hard brandy sauce. Omg.

13 people gorged to perfection.

In contrast:

PZ is really getting into the Xmas spirit. He scoffs his "vegan dinner with mead".

Then enjoys some Xmas reading - a Popehat article on privilege which culminates in the plaintive cry of freshly minted university undergrad Trotskyists everywhere:

The system is not fixable because it is not broken. It is working, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to give the insiders their royal prerogatives, and to shove the regulations, the laws, and the debt up the asses of everyone else.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Merry Christmas.

/quote]

Undergrad Trotskyist indeed.

All of the bigotry and self-harm aside, that's really where I part company with these people. There's nothing more to them than these simple platitudes and ideals.

Does he even know what "Burning it to the ground" would look like? I've been with liberal/progressive activists. You know, real ones The kind that could give you a point by point explanation of how much money single-payer health care would save or how much urban sprawl costs on a yearly basis (Hint: it's a lot).

I mean, I still could be as full of shit as all that. Maybe all my ideas are wrong. But at least I'M FULL OF SHIT. PZ and crew are filled with nothing but bluster and hot air.

There's very few ideas and to the ones that are there, there's little to nothing in the way of ethical, logical or intellectual consistency.

ianfc wrote:I miss the times when I could walk into a Kmart with a fag in my mouth, pick out a gun and ammo from the back wall and take it to the checkout.

Didn't that make your jaw hurt?

Karmakin wrote:

Brive1987 wrote:The most enormous Turkey I've ever seen. 5 hours to cook and no room in the oven for the the spuds and pumpkin ( separate convection oven for them), ham, 3 or 4 boats of gravy a mountain of stuffing followed by pudding with Icecream, cream and hard brandy sauce. Omg.

13 people gorged to perfection.

In contrast:

PZ is really getting into the Xmas spirit. He scoffs his "vegan dinner with mead".

Then enjoys some Xmas reading - a Popehat article on privilege which culminates in the plaintive cry of freshly minted university undergrad Trotskyists everywhere:

The system is not fixable because it is not broken. It is working, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to give the insiders their royal prerogatives, and to shove the regulations, the laws, and the debt up the asses of everyone else.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Merry Christmas.

/quote]

Undergrad Trotskyist indeed.

All of the bigotry and self-harm aside, that's really where I part company with these people. There's nothing more to them than these simple platitudes and ideals.

Does he even know what "Burning it to the ground" would look like? I've been with liberal/progressive activists. You know, real ones The kind that could give you a point by point explanation of how much money single-payer health care would save or how much urban sprawl costs on a yearly basis (Hint: it's a lot).

I mean, I still could be as full of shit as all that. Maybe all my ideas are wrong. But at least I'M FULL OF SHIT. PZ and crew are filled with nothing but bluster and hot air.

There's very few ideas and to the ones that are there, there's little to nothing in the way of ethical, logical or intellectual consistency.

The more radical the proposal, the less work you will ever have to do to make it happen. Really. Let us compare the risk of real work in:

BURN IT ALL TO THE GROUND AND ON ITS ASHES, BUILD THE NEW UTOPIA

vs.

Let's create some partnerships with local companies, housing, and banks to help homeless folks not only get trained/employed, but also break the interlocking chains of problems that make hiring the homeless so problematic in our computerized patriot-act nation.

One of those will require a lot of fucking work across months, if not years. The other one is nothing but bullshit sloganeering. POSSIBLY a change to the background color on a social media avatar.

Of course tits like PeeZus are in favor of radical shit. There's no chance of ever having to implement it.

ianfc wrote:I miss the times when I could walk into a Kmart with a fag in my mouth, pick out a gun and ammo from the back wall and take it to the checkout.

As I already had a gun case at home, I declined to buy another one and I strolled down Yong St. openly carrying my newly acquired Remington 22.250 (in the safe carry position) from Canadian Tyre to my car parked three blocks away. No one freaked out or even looked twice at me.

But that was well over 30 years ago when the area looked like this:

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2011/08/20 ... nge1ED.jpg

Since Scented shared some really nice pics today I'll throw one in. Got a nice new toy for Xmas - a Canon PowerShot S50 HS camera - very high-powered point and shoot. This is the first pic, straight out of the box. My mother's cat. Not bad for bad indoor lighting conditions on full auto with flash turned off.

http://i.imgur.com/7aYvDwc.png

Fuck me, the PDF for this camera is 286 pages long. For a friggin' point-and-shoot.

SX50 HS, that is.

Whatevs.

Gumby, what a beautiful kitteh! I hope he got plenty of fuss!

(and the one in your profile pic, she's lovely too)

Yeah Gumby, your spaz is really pretty.

I am going to have to take some pix of my little fucker. I have some great pix of her on the modem, but I have to dig them out:(

Git wrote:Gumby, what a beautiful kitteh! I hope he got plenty of fuss!

(and the one in your profile pic, she's lovely too)

All cats in our family are spoiled beyond all reason so yeah he got plenty of fuss.

The one in my avatar is Stimpy, who I got to try to fill the void after Gumby passed a couple of years ago.

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

another lurker wrote:Yeah Gumby, your spaz is really pretty.

I am going to have to take some pix of my little fucker. I have some great pix of her on the modem, but I have to dig them out:(

Now that I have this kick-ass new camera, I'm going to be chasing Stimpy all over the house. Bwahahaha.

And the takeover of the Pit by our rightful furry masters is now complete!

Git wrote:And the takeover of the Pit by our rightful furry masters is now complete!

Fuckke yeah! All the Pitters who hate cattes can suckke it!

/physioproffe

Apropos my Chinese grocer greeting me with "merry Christmas" on boxing day. My impression ,Australian usage, is that this greeting is generally used only on Christmas day. I didn't want to lead him astray though. Any thoughts?

ianfc wrote:Apropos my Chinese grocer greeting me with "merry Christmas" on boxing day. My impression ,Australian usage, is that this greeting is generally used only on Christmas day. I didn't want to lead him astray though. Any thoughts?

There's 14 days of Christmas. Also, he may be living in a different time zone and your trying to appropriate his culture. You should be ashamed and submit to the Cult.

Git wrote:And the takeover of the Pit by our rightful furry masters is now complete!

:dance: :animals-cat:

Gumby wrote:

The one in my avatar is Stimpy, who I got to try to fill the void after Gumby passed a couple of years ago.

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

Stimpy must be a dalmatian cat!

Merry xmas everyone! :animals-cat:

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:And hey! Christmas came in at just the right time!

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) 25 Décembre 2013

Praised be Baby Jesus!

I have to post this between bouts of hysterical laughter.

A+ member "Exi5tentialist" thinks Atheism+ should be more inclusive towards theists, Muslims in particular.

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5772
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5770
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5765


I can't imagine why theists wouldn't want to join Atheism+ :doh:

Karmakin wrote:

Brive1987 wrote:The most enormous Turkey I've ever seen. 5 hours to cook and no room in the oven for the the spuds and pumpkin ( separate convection oven for them), ham, 3 or 4 boats of gravy a mountain of stuffing followed by pudding with Icecream, cream and hard brandy sauce. Omg.

13 people gorged to perfection.

In contrast:

PZ is really getting into the Xmas spirit. He scoffs his "vegan dinner with mead".

Then enjoys some Xmas reading - a Popehat article on privilege which culminates in the plaintive cry of freshly minted university undergrad Trotskyists everywhere:

The system is not fixable because it is not broken. It is working, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to give the insiders their royal prerogatives, and to shove the regulations, the laws, and the debt up the asses of everyone else.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Burn it to the ground.

Merry Christmas.

/quote]

Undergrad Trotskyist indeed.

All of the bigotry and self-harm aside, that's really where I part company with these people. There's nothing more to them than these simple platitudes and ideals.

Does he even know what "Burning it to the ground" would look like? I've been with liberal/progressive activists. You know, real ones The kind that could give you a point by point explanation of how much money single-payer health care would save or how much urban sprawl costs on a yearly basis (Hint: it's a lot).

I mean, I still could be as full of shit as all that. Maybe all my ideas are wrong. But at least I'M FULL OF SHIT. PZ and crew are filled with nothing but bluster and hot air.

There's very few ideas and to the ones that are there, there's little to nothing in the way of ethical, logical or intellectual consistency.

Sometimes, while I'm drifting off to sleep, I fantasize about a Pitter pulling an Alan Sokal-type move on these fucks for at least a few weeks, if not longer.

AndrewV69 wrote:

ianfc wrote:I miss the times when I could walk into a Kmart with a fag in my mouth, pick out a gun and ammo from the back wall and take it to the checkout.

As I already had a gun case at home, I declined to buy another one and I strolled down Yong St. openly carrying my newly acquired Remington 22.250 (in the safe carry position) from Canadian Tyre to my car parked three blocks away. No one freaked out or even looked twice at me.

But that was well over 30 years ago when the area looked like this:

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2011/08/20 ... nge1ED.jpg

Suddenly I'm nostalgic for The Trouble With Tracy.

[/quote]That's a fantastic idea. Interestingly, clicking "play" before a panel of wall-to-wall Gefan requires more planning than a Rebecca Watson talk and results in a deeper learning experience, too.[/quote]

Also, semi-seriously consider a kickstarter to fund an "educational series" documenting the schism and tropes that skeptic feminists use in their takeover. Use this video here as an example of what plan to create. Funds could also clearly go to the construction of a portable kiosk securely holding several tablets for use at conventions. Or for a kiosk with a large screen TV connected to a tablet.[/quote]

Anyone considered a massive multi-part series on the entire A+/FTB phenomenon in minute detail modeled on Thunderf00t's "Why do people laugh at creationists"? There is way too much to cover in a single video & a lot of folks will never truly understand the disdain these characters are treated with if they've only taken in the drama's broad strokes. Getting to see the month-by-month antics of this group would make a nice permanent internet monument to all the hours spent documenting these exotic animals' behavior.

katamari Damassi wrote:

AndrewV69 wrote:

ianfc wrote:I miss the times when I could walk into a Kmart with a fag in my mouth, pick out a gun and ammo from the back wall and take it to the checkout.

As I already had a gun case at home, I declined to buy another one and I strolled down Yong St. openly carrying my newly acquired Remington 22.250 (in the safe carry position) from Canadian Tyre to my car parked three blocks away. No one freaked out or even looked twice at me.

But that was well over 30 years ago when the area looked like this:

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2011/08/20 ... nge1ED.jpg

Suddenly I'm nostalgic for The Trouble With Tracy.

When I was 15 me and a couple other guys use to walk a mile to the shooting range at RCMP station with our rifles, no one gave us a second look(1976). If kids did that today the swat team would be called out.

Bourne Skeptic wrote:I have to post this between bouts of hysterical laughter.

A+ member "Exi5tentialist" thinks Atheism+ should be more inclusive towards theists, Muslims in particular.

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5772
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5770
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5765


I can't imagine why theists wouldn't want to join Atheism+ :doh:

LOL. In the second link, someone named Amadan says:

You've been doing this over and over - flinging highly-charged words like "trigger" and "bully" and "harassment" around in an attempt to invoke forum rules to make people stop disagreeing with you or challenging your premises.

Isn't this pretty much the ONLY play in the SJL playbook?

Ask Ophie about how people HARASSING her via Twitter has TRIGGERED her into a six-week vacation to get away from the BULLYING.

If you keep saying things people disagree with, people will keep disagreeing with you. That's not harassment. That's you repeatedly seeking a result you're not getting, and thinking if you keep trying you will get it.

Oh, we agree with you. I just wish you agreed with yourself.

Dyatlov Pass Keeps its Secret

Finished the book, very good and detailed. Only weird bit was a lengthy discourse into the theory - which was then dismissed - of an insert by American special forces. I'd second Mykeru in recommending it for Xmas break reading. At $3.50 for a Kindle version, risk free investment.

I have to collate my markups. But immediate things I will be looking back at are:

Did the three who died on the slope make it to the fire (clothing + evidence of burning). This is pretty central to the narrative structure.

The conflicting medical views. It seems the original view was that the 4 people with major injuries would not be able to move with ease - and some would have been dead in less than 10 mins. Ie no time to get to the hide, as it took full bodied people longer in tests. Then another view was found that contradicted all this - ie head injuries and up-to 8 broken ribs were not a major impediment. Then a third modern review seemed to support the original conclusions ... grrr.

Review the tent evidence. I was disappointed this wasn't done more categorically. But from my initial reading I wasn't convinced there was physical evidence the structure had been hit with a force equivalent to a car at 60 km/h: no external initiated damage to fabric, inside contents apparently not a complete mess, no sign of ice or slab material surrounding the tent, tent still firmly anchored and at least one pole in place. In fact the book actively presents far more evidence against a slab attack then for - and this is not negated or addressed prior to them returning to their conclusion.

In short the tent's condition and remaining physical evidence is inconsistent with a decision to abandon footwear/supplies amidst what appears to have been a non panicked ordered retreat .....

The ice slab theory in the book is the most logical and requires the least amount of introduced assumptions. But the actual evidence simply isn't there. From first reading.

Anyway my next bout of fantasy involves this: http://welcome-ural.ru/tours/832/ Wife is not keen for some reason.

Bugger, just saw that the only survivor (Yuri Yudin) who left the group early died April this year.

If you haven't seen the Doctor Who Christmas Special today featuring the end of the 12th and the regeneration into the new, I wanted to point out that: (possible spoilers)

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

Bourne Skeptic wrote:I have to post this between bouts of hysterical laughter.

A+ member "Exi5tentialist" thinks Atheism+ should be more inclusive towards theists, Muslims in particular.

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I can't imagine why theists wouldn't want to join Atheism+ :doh:

Actually I'm pleasantly surprised that A+ers didn't take the bait on this one. I half expected them to agree and sympathize with the guy.

Git wrote:And the takeover of the Pit by our rightful furry masters is now complete!

thats only because of the pit's unrepentant sexism

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/20/w ... s-so-much/

Hunt wrote:

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

Beautiful...and haunting.

Bad comedy: Where the joke goes on and on and never actually gets funny. Good comedy: Like the Richard Carrier bit, where it goes on and on and just gets funnier and funnier as Carrier, as usual, performs auto-fellatio on himself leading to the total money shot of the two Carrier heads on the carte de viste photo.

God damn, I need a cigarette.

ianfc wrote:Apropos my Chinese grocer greeting me with "merry Christmas" on boxing day. My impression ,Australian usage, is that this greeting is generally used only on Christmas day. I didn't want to lead him astray though. Any thoughts?

Over here, people wish one another "Merry Christmas" (or "Good Yule" if we're to roughly translate) the weeks approaching Christmas and after. So I'd say it's fine.

JacquesCuze wrote:

Really? wrote:
That's a fantastic idea. Interestingly, clicking "play" before a panel of wall-to-wall Gefan requires more planning than a Rebecca Watson talk and results in a deeper learning experience, too.

Also, semi-seriously consider a kickstarter to fund an "educational series" documenting the schism and tropes that skeptic feminists use in their takeover. Use this video here as an example of what plan to create. Funds could also clearly go to the construction of a portable kiosk securely holding several tablets for use at conventions. Or for a kiosk with a large screen TV connected to a tablet.

A brilliant idea. I would love to see this happen: Coordinated effort through the "Slyme Foundation". Especially as we are far more talented and entertaining that those plodding FTB idiots.

Mostly, I would love to see the convoluted rationales for suppressing it at cons.

"Slyme Foundation" eh, I like that. It could even do some actual good.

.
I am not obsessed. I am not obsessed.

Here is a Dyatlov map I did:
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit? ... pNvQaTNZsA

The co-ords are from Mykeru via the book. Entered in this format to Google Maps: 61 44 39.3N 59 27 02.9E

If anyone gets obsessed enough to locate 41st Site and 2nd Northern let me know. The location for Vizhai is approx (it burnt down in 2010).

I'd like to also locate the two peaks they wanted to climb: Otorton and Oyka-Syahl.

http://i.imgur.com/c7xjDle.jpg

I am not obsessed. I am not obsessed.

garlic wrote:

Bourne Skeptic wrote:I have to post this between bouts of hysterical laughter.

A+ member "Exi5tentialist" thinks Atheism+ should be more inclusive towards theists, Muslims in particular.

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I can't imagine why theists wouldn't want to join Atheism+ :doh:

Actually I'm pleasantly surprised that A+ers didn't take the bait on this one. I half expected them to agree and sympathize with the guy.

I've noticed since Setar flounced due to his inherent racism posts sometimes come across as a bit more reasonable. I wouldn't be surprised if Setar turned out to be a troll as him and a few others guaranteed A+ would fail almost from day one and also made sure Carriers speech would come over as ignorant and hilariously bad.

I only wish they would drop that SJL terminology claptrap as they sound like young children trying to speak new words and getting it all wrong. Cute but potentially embarrassing.

They are heavily into personality politics of course so who you are matters, what you say does not. So this may simply be high school level power politics at play.

Cookie monster is a misogynist.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/ ... 5t4bde.jpg

http://lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/thefwor ... -terrible/

A bra that tells you when to stop eating. Yeah, it's kinda weird. But this product that I've never heard of makes a great excuse for a rant about fat shaming!!!

http://cdn.lawstreetmedia.com/wp-conten ... 20x412.jpg
The blogger refers to this person as having a "not a size two body." Yeah, and the ocean is not very dry. I understand that some people went too far insulting this lady, but I don't see what this picture has to do with the bra. Or what any of this rant has to do with the bra. Is her argument that Americans spend too much time exercising and trying to be thin? That's not what stats on obesity show.

A fat man is not a worthless man. A guy with a beer gut can still get promoted, get laid, and largely be left in peace.

Woman tells men what life is like as a man. Does she think fat men have an easier time getting laid than fat women? :lol:

This is a real thing. In our culture, fat men are regularly given a free pass. But fat women? They’re told that they should die. If that’s not a patriarchal lesson in lady obedience training, I don’t know what is.

This is why Microsoft designed a bra that would keep women from overeating, but failed to invent male-targeted boxer briefs to do the same thing. Because in 2013, a woman’s worth is still very much tied up in how skinny — and submissive — she is.

Well, guess what Microsoft? We’re over it. We’re not all a size two. Sometimes we’re going to reach for the brownies. And that’s OK. We don’t need your engineers to invent apps to mansplain away our will to eat.

Um, I don't think fat men get a free pass. Fat men just have this ability to ignore or avoid insulting assholes, something feminists never do. There are plenty of photos of fat guys that draw the same sorts of "die" comments. She also womansplained life as a fat man while accusing microsoft engineers of "mansplaining" to fat women. :P

ianfc wrote:http://www.wildlifeextra.com/resources/ ... g@body.JPG

Great pic - love it. Cats are stupid, selfish, and cruel. (I say that with a kitteh on my lap right now.) They are of course also fuzzy, soft, and purry, in compensation for their horrible qualities.

A merry Pitmas to all, and may all your Christmas poos be devastating.

zenbabe wrote:

Scented Nectar wrote:Here are all 9 small versions, but clicking them will take you to the original 1920x1080 versions (if I've done this correctly).

*beam*
Like you, ma'am, I like it when they get bigger.

Heheh. :D

Bourne Skeptic wrote:I have to post this between bouts of hysterical laughter.

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http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5765


I can't imagine why theists wouldn't want to join Atheism+ :doh:

I commend "Exi5tentialist" for his trolling. Well done.

(And if he is not a man, fuck it. The pronoun stays. Case closed).

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:

Scented Nectar wrote:Here are all 9 small versions, but clicking them will take you to the original 1920x1080 versions (if I've done this correctly).

<3 <3 <3

Glad you like them. :)

Really? wrote: Isn't this pretty much the ONLY play in the SJL playbook?

Ask Ophie about how people HARASSING her via Twitter has TRIGGERED her into a six-week vacation to get away from the BULLYING.

That was Melody, not Ophie, IIRC.

Mykeru wrote:

JacquesCuze wrote:

Really? wrote:
That's a fantastic idea. Interestingly, clicking "play" before a panel of wall-to-wall Gefan requires more planning than a Rebecca Watson talk and results in a deeper learning experience, too.

Also, semi-seriously consider a kickstarter to fund an "educational series" documenting the schism and tropes that skeptic feminists use in their takeover. Use this video here as an example of what plan to create. Funds could also clearly go to the construction of a portable kiosk securely holding several tablets for use at conventions. Or for a kiosk with a large screen TV connected to a tablet.

A brilliant idea. I would love to see this happen: Coordinated effort through the "Slyme Foundation". Especially as we are far more talented and entertaining that those plodding FTB idiots.

Mostly, I would love to see the convoluted rationales for suppressing it at cons.

*misty eyed and goosebumpy with bliss at the thought*
If you guys make this happen it could be unspeakably awesome.
(course the child side wants to see the freak out before, during, and after)
(I'm not just a crayon-eater, I live in the peanut gallery)

Scented Nectar wrote:

zenbabe wrote:

Scented Nectar wrote:Here are all 9 small versions, but clicking them will take you to the original 1920x1080 versions (if I've done this correctly).

*beam*
Like you, ma'am, I like it when they get bigger.

Heheh. :D

Nudge nudge wink wink.
Say no more; say no more.

Sounds like the Slymepit is famous on Rawstory too. Since when did that website get taken over by SJWs?

James Caruthers wrote: Um, I don't think fat men get a free pass. Fat men just have this ability to ignore or avoid insulting assholes, something feminists never do. There are plenty of photos of fat guys that draw the same sorts of "die" comments. She also womansplained life as a fat man while accusing microsoft engineers of "mansplaining" to fat women. :P

To this I will only note the kernel of truth. For example in America, the vast.. vasssssst... majority of comedy programing features a fat homely man and a skinny wife. I can only conclude that somewhere, maybe it's a Hollywood suits thought cult, maybe it's actually the audience, or a terrible union of both, but there's a preponderance of influential belief that generally in society it's more ok for a guy to be a fat slob than a woman. Don't know that it's true, but the belief is definitely there.

Perhaps I'm watching the ads for those shows with an overly critical eye, but I don't think so. As my only evidence I will bring up Will and Grace, who once had a moment in their show where they sat on a couch to watch tv, and it was *click*, and they both said "fat guy skinny wife" robotically, in unison, then again *click* "fatguyskinnywife", and again about three or four times. Then shut off the tv :D

Anyway, once you see something like that and draw conclusions, it can be terribly tempting to start seeing it _everywhere_, to the point of absurdity (and hilarity). But that's exactly an SJW's addiction, they can't get enough of hysteria and drama.

They are just awful!

I'm resting up from the X-Mas revelries here at Wise Acres. I'll probably be napping until 2014.

Wake me up if anything interesting happens.