Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!

#30721

Tribble wrote: Battlestar re-boot:

Mini-series -- Amazing
Amazing after the first 10 minutes

Season 1 -- Amazing
Amazing

Season 2 -- Was getting the stretched feeling. Like they suddenly realized they had a hit and needed to keep the gravy train rolling
2.0 Still amazing, but too many subplots flying about. Kobol's potential was wasted.
2.5 Starting to drift. And no, the entire human race wouldn't act like caffeine-deprived Los Angelenos caught in a snow storm.

Season 3 -- Started falling apart badly as they got more into the God Bothering shit and woo.
Virtual plot lines that appear out of the quantum plot-foam, annihilate each other, then disappear. Some cool battles.

Razor (mini-series): Excellent filling-in of backstory

Season 4 -- Was, for the most part, pretty bad.
4.0 -- Moore & Eick realize, 'Oh crap. We should've laid out a complete story arc, instead of just pulling shocking plots twists out of our asses these past three seasons!'
4.5 -- Moore & Eick resolve, 'fuck the hopelessly tangled & contradictory plot lines -- let's just go all existential for a season and hope no one notices.'

Season 5 -- I only watched so I could complete the series knowing that it was the final series. The ending was entirely fucking lame.
Oh, so that's Earth.

#30722

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Tribble wrote: Battlestar re-boot:

Mini-series -- Amazing
Amazing after the first 10 minutes

Season 1 -- Amazing
Amazing

Season 2 -- Was getting the stretched feeling. Like they suddenly realized they had a hit and needed to keep the gravy train rolling
2.0 Still amazing, but too many subplots flying about. Kobol's potential was wasted.
2.5 Starting to drift. And no, the entire human race wouldn't act like caffeine-deprived Los Angelenos caught in a snow storm.

Season 3 -- Started falling apart badly as they got more into the God Bothering shit and woo.
Virtual plot lines that appear out of the quantum plot-foam, annihilate each other, then disappear. Some cool battles.

Razor (mini-series): Excellent filling-in of backstory

Season 4 -- Was, for the most part, pretty bad.
4.0 -- Moore & Eick realize, 'Oh crap. We should've laid out a complete story arc, instead of just pulling shocking plots twists out of our asses these past three seasons!'
4.5 -- Moore & Eick resolve, 'fuck the hopelessly tangled & contradictory plot lines -- let's just go all existential for a season and hope no one notices.'

Season 5 -- I only watched so I could complete the series knowing that it was the final series. The ending was entirely fucking lame.
Oh, so that's Earth.

I liked the end.

Earth is a classic Sci fi ending you damn dirty apes.

There was a Clarke or Asimov story or ten from my childhood that approach these implications from far future perspectives.

Eat a bowl of fuck

#30723

Have any of the Baboons written about those Yale freaks screaming abuse and intimidation about people who disagree with them, yet?

Dawkins has already put a brilliantly-placed boot in their bellies:

This is a war sensible humans need to win, folks!

#30724

Space: Above & Beyond

Now, that was a fucking great show!

#30725

Parody Accountant wrote:bla
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PA, whatever shoddy excuse of a browser/poster you're using almost consistently kills the starting quote. Do something! Killitwithfire! Buy a computer!

#30726

Fuck.

Thanks for telling me, feathers.

This app parses it's own syntax errors correctly, so it all looks good to me.

I'll switch back to laptop for pitting.

#30727

#30728

A Reason article about the Yale screaming SJWs.

Some braindead SJW wrote:“Then step down! If that is what you think about being a [inaudible] master, then you should step down. It is not about creating an intellectual space! It is not! Do you understand that? It’s about creating a home here! You are not doing that. You’re going against that.”

When you call a university "not an intellectual space" but "a home" your stay at that university is a waste of your parents' money.

Good luck with this attitude once you graduate. Try yelling at your boss that the office isn't a "working place" but "a home". See how well it goes.

(Who am I kidding, this person is never going to look for a job)

#30729

Baud2Bits shared a video from this interesting channel...

[youtube]cXSYN9je6RU[/youtube]

He also has more in this direction.
[youtube]82YyMKmZW8A[/youtube]

#30730

franc wrote:
franc wrote:
comhcinc wrote:"haters gonna hate"
And morons launch multimedia bombs.

The 'tardbook generation. This is how the west gurgles and dies.
And I'd bet a testicle you did all that from a Mac.

Civilisation is over.

http://adventurewithoutend.com/wp-conte ... e-Wall.jpg

#30731

Did you fight ISIS? Sorry, you're not welcome in your alma mater.

Asad Khan, activities and events officer of UCL’s students’ union wrote:‘in every conflict there are two sides, and at UCLU we want to avoid taking sides in conflicts’.

We're progressives, so let's NOT take sides against people who killing women, feminists, progressives and LGBT people. There are two sides, you know.

wrote:‘a person speaking about their experiences fighting in Syria could lead to others going and fighting in the conflict’.

And we wouldn't want that, 'mright? Some precious ISIS snowflakes might be killed by some Evil Imperialist Whites, and that'd be terrible.

It's not the first time that idiotic student unions refuse to criticize ISIS. The dhimmis are doing their job.

#30732

The death threats are coming... wait... wait...
[youtube]xWizmHHbSgg[/youtube]

#30733

Kirbmarc wrote:A Reason article about the Yale screaming SJWs.

When you call a university "not an intellectual space" but "a home" your stay at that university is a waste of your parents' money.

Good luck with this attitude once you graduate. Try yelling at your boss that the office isn't a "working place" but "a home". See how well it goes.

Maybe that girl is inadvertently revealing the heart of the problem. Over the past 30 years or so, the expectation has taken root that "everybody should be able to complete a university education". And now a generation or two has grown up thinking that is their birthright, and it should preferably be a painless 4-year phase.

And, deliberately or not, the educational system has met them halfway. On the one hand, several institutions offering higher technical or vocational education in Europe (hogeschool, højskole) have been promoted to University. (Before that, where I come from you couldn't read theology on a university.) On the other hand, vague intellectual disciplines like gender studies have been comfortably nestling.

My suspicion is reinforced by what this Yale(!) student brawls, but also by reports like this and countless others on student coddling.

When the dumbing down of universities in the Netherlands took place, I think the official motivation was to "make our highschool/university naming system more recognisable abroad". My first task as a minister of education would be to distinguish the University as the summit of intellectual development again.

#30734

Tribble wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: Whereas with Star Wars, Lucas was so forward-thinking that no follow up has yet come close to the originals after nearly 40 years.
Lucas? Forward thinking?

:thud:

The first 2 1/2 Star Wars (i.e., "Episodes" 4 & 5, plus 6 less the toy commercials) worked because they were intentionally campy homages to old SF serials and SF clichés. The actors pulled it off by hamming it up. Trouble was, Lucas had always been serious about his story being a serious saga laden with serious philosophical meaning. When he got full control over the prequels, they stank worse than a stale fart in a hot-bunk on a small submarine trapped at the bottom of the ocean.

#30735

franc wrote:What the fuck is a red sticker you cunts?

Why are you talking to us?

#30736

The Thunderfag nazi skinhead army are stepping into war crimes territory! Just look at the junk mail this poor victim is getting. And she may be forced to dox King Crockoduck too!
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Oh, and in the comments it's revealed that Jenny McDermott gave a 5 star review of the restaurant she works in. Which explains why she deepsixed her Yelp account as soon as the shit hit the fan.

#30737

the video:
[youtube]GdvqtQi5KE0[/youtube]

#30738

So far, Bewildered Ape has escaped the doxxing, so far:
[youtube]8Cdw7UemeGc[/youtube]

#30739

Shatterface wrote:
There are, in general, three or four good Doctor Who stories a year, and three or four bad ones. That bollocks about the Moon last year was the worst ever. But as well as classics like Inferno, City of Death and pretty much the entire Philip Hinchcliffe era Old Who gave us dreck like Time Flight, Timelash and Arse of Inanity.

There were terrible episodes of Star Trek: TOS but mainly in the third season. ST: TNG didn't have a good episodes until Season 4, meaning there were more bad episodes in the first 3 seasons than there were episodes of any quality in TOS.

I disagree. Though the show found its footing in Season 4, there were a few good episodes before then. Arsenal of Freedom was fun, and I kind of liked Skin of Evil. We all knew that Yar was going to be killed off, but I was shocked at how casually they did it in the first 5 minutes. She didn't get to die heroically by throwing herself on a grenade. She didn't a extended death scene wherein she tells everyone how much they meant to her before breathing her last. She died just like any TOS redshirt, and I applaud them for that.

#30740

comhcinc wrote:https://i.imgur.com/WLgod7E.jpg

Tauriq?

#30741

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Tribble wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: Whereas with Star Wars, Lucas was so forward-thinking that no follow up has yet come close to the originals after nearly 40 years.
Lucas? Forward thinking?

:thud:
The first 2 1/2 Star Wars (i.e., "Episodes" 4 & 5, plus 6 less the toy commercials) worked because they were intentionally campy homages to old SF serials and SF clichés. The actors pulled it off by hamming it up. Trouble was, Lucas had always been serious about his story being a serious saga laden with serious philosophical meaning. When he got full control over the prequels, they stank worse than a stale fart in a hot-bunk on a small submarine trapped at the bottom of the ocean.

I Lucas went off the rails when he got a hold of Joseph Campbell's books. Though for profound mythology, the movies do look an awful lot like toy commercials, and coincidentally Lucas had the merchandising rights.

#30742

As usual, it takes a former Islamist turned liberal campaigner, Maajid Nawaz, to lay it on the line with crystal clarity.

Naturally, SJWs find it tough to tackle Maajid, because he's a a MUSLIM, and being a Muslim ranks very high/low (whatever) on their privilege rank list. Opehlia "transphobe" Benson is a supporter of Nawaz. There are some "regressive left" wankers (Werleman, Greenwald, Lane, et al) who have attacked Maajid for being a "native informant" and "porch monkey", along with other "bigotry of low expectations" slurs. Most SJWs can't do that though, because they are aware of the racism/bigotry involved. I wonder what Benson thinks about that Yale student? She was briefly critical of Bahar Mustafa, but then went very quiet when the SJWs got behind the bigot. I notice the Baboons at FTB have largely avoided Bahar Mustafa. Perhaps even they realise how toxic she is.

#30743

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Space: Above & Beyond

Now, that was a fucking great show!

Ahead of its time. Post-Starship Troopers it might have been a hit.

#30744

Circa 1999, I remember getting a large coke from a KFC that was branded with Jar Jar Fucking Binks.

Haven't eaten there since.

#30745

I'm torn. I hate doxxing but Bewildered Ape has been a horrible little shit-stirrer and probably deserves it. Either way, what I think is immaterial because it seems BA's goose is cooked either way.

#30746

Billie from Ockham wrote:
Shatterface wrote:TV is getting top directors like Scorsese and Soderbergh, Oscar winning actors like John Voigt and Dustin Hoffman, etc. who all appreciate having 12 hours to tell a story beats the hell out of 2 1/2.
So what do we need to do in order to convince Peter Jackson to only make TV shows from now on?

No thanks. It would be like watching Dragonball Z - 150 episodes to finish one fight scene lasting 20 minutes of real time.

#30747

HoneyWagon wrote:I can't remember if I saw this here or elsewhere.
But it fascinates me.
I am sure it is their version of a joke...but I know some think it would be reasonable.

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What about discussing her documentary-making capabilities? I mean, it's not like this all looks like a weird obsession because she's cute AND open-minded about things, but it kinda is.

No?

Oh, ok then.

Nah, they're just giving grist to the position that's bound to arise next, that all male-bodied pre-teens should be given puberty-inhibiting hormones until or unless they promise to develop into an identity or role that is Acceptable.

...with the delineation of Acceptable outcomes for those-who-were-initially-identified-as-male being the next line over which disagreement will occur, the being-on-the-wrong-side-of-which then becomes the latest Very Important Reason for wrong-idea-ed people to be shunned and called names.

And so it goes.

#30748

Tribble wrote:
Okay, I just got back up off the floor. Star Wars 'borrowed' (sometimes out right stole nearly word-for-word) from lots of sources. This includes:

Flash Gordon
Dersu Uzala
The Fighting Devil Dogs (Darth Vader)
The Phantom Empire (More Darth VAder)
The Hidden Fortress (much of the Star Wars main plot and some in the 'prequels' plus a lot of the cinematography)
Ben Hur (Pod racing)
The Searchers
Lawrence of Arabia (the 'prequels)
Lost Horizon (Yoda death scene, virtually shot-for-shot)
Asimov's Foundation series
Lord of the Rings (Moria, Gandalf at the Bridge, Obi-Wan against Darth Vader).
Arthurian mythos (Skywalker being Arthur)

Omitting Dune from that list is pretty egregious.

#30749

Cnutella wrote:I'm torn. I hate doxxing but Bewildered Ape has been a horrible little shit-stirrer and probably deserves it. Either way, what I think is immaterial because it seems BA's goose is cooked either way.

Reading the comments in his latest video, BA says that he suffers from mental illness and spent some time in the following institution:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risdon_Prison_Complex
Whether that is true, or just more performance art, who knows?

#30750

Please tell me the insanity in universities is ... going to stop soon?

I feel like I remember many stories where it's the universities that became authoritarian first and then it started spreading?

#30751

Tribble wrote:
Shatterface wrote:Doctor Who is always going to fail if you compare it with the best shows on TV.

There's nothing in the original show that compares with Edge of Darkness or The Singing Detective so I don't see the point of comparing it with Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad: the only difference is that it's now compared with US shows.

I liked the Battlestar reboot but that's pretty much one story with a single tone running through it. I can dip into my Doctor Who collection and pick out a self-contained comedy, a Hammer style horror, a war story, a Buddhist parable, etc. depending on my mood.

Battlestar doesn't have that repeatability for me.

Battlestar re-boot:

Mini-series -- Amazing
Season 1 -- Amazing
Season 2 -- Was getting the stretched feeling. Like they suddenly realized they had a hit and needed to keep the gravy train rolling
Season 3 -- Started falling apart badly as they got more into the God Bothering shit and woo.
Season 4 -- Was, for the most part, pretty bad.
Season 5 -- I only watched so I could complete the series knowing that it was the final series. The ending was entirely fucking lame.

I mostly agree with this.

(Possible spoilers ahead.)

There was riveting narrative continuity for the first season-and-a-half or so, and then partway through the second season—around the time we encounter that other surviving ship, IIRC—they did a few one-off episodes that showed interesting aspects of the spacefaring life but were almost entirely divorced from the main thrust of the show. Everything seemed to come to a sudden halt.

For me, it was never the same after that. I mean, it certainly wasn't all bad, and they did return to the kind of suspenseful continuous arcs that kept me at the edge of my seat throughout the first season. But I feel like maybe the writers overplayed parts of their hand too early, and then waited so long to reveal other parts that they A) were unable to maintain the gripping pacing they started with, and B) backed themselves into a storytelling corner that left them no means of tying everything together neatly. I think that's why the ending left me so disappointed: they'd already explained most of the show's mysteries in "logical" ways, but then they threw their hands up in the air and answered the deepest unresolved questions with "It's just magic!"

It's just magic?

Fuck you it's just magic!

The most compelling thing about your show was precisely that it was never just magic. You gave us extraordinary situation after extraordinary situation, reeling us in with new bizarre layers of depth, but always rewarding us with satisfying explanations that made sense within the fictional universe you created. In this way you brought us ever closer to the center of the narrative onion, but when we finally got there, it was fucking empty!

That final "it's just magic!" play made all the previous "logical" explanations seem entirely meaningless. That's my 2¢, anyway.

#30752

Service Dog wrote:
Tribble wrote:
Okay, I just got back up off the floor. Star Wars 'borrowed' (sometimes out right stole nearly word-for-word) from lots of sources. This includes:

Flash Gordon
Dersu Uzala
The Fighting Devil Dogs (Darth Vader)
The Phantom Empire (More Darth VAder)
The Hidden Fortress (much of the Star Wars main plot and some in the 'prequels' plus a lot of the cinematography)
Ben Hur (Pod racing)
The Searchers
Lawrence of Arabia (the 'prequels)
Lost Horizon (Yoda death scene, virtually shot-for-shot)
Asimov's Foundation series
Lord of the Rings (Moria, Gandalf at the Bridge, Obi-Wan against Darth Vader).
Arthurian mythos (Skywalker being Arthur)
Omitting Dune from that list is pretty egregious.

And the Wizard of Oz.

#30753

And The Birth of a Nation.

#30754

Cnutella wrote:I'm torn. I hate doxxing but Bewildered Ape has been a horrible little shit-stirrer and probably deserves it. Either way, what I think is immaterial because it seems BA's goose is cooked either way.

I hate doxxing too but I won't shed too many tears for that little shit-stirrer.
Yes, Bewildered Ape is well and truly fucked.
Agent of Doubt left enough clues so that it takes a matter of seconds to find out his identity and current workplace.
The thing that struck me is that it is apparent that Bewildered Ape is a pretty hardcore post modernist - which goes a long way towards explaining his animosity towards New Atheists who are (Myers and Benson excluded) anti post modernism.
I won't provide any details here (Pit rules and all) - anyway it's all going to come out in the near future, no doubt - Bewildered Ape has set himself up for the mother and father of all falls and many people are going to take extreme pleasure in fucking him into the ground (as PZ puts it).

#30755

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:And The Birth of a Nation.

And Triumph of the Will.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vU2aUan8eDA/T ... l-1935.jpg

#30756

Dick Strawkins wrote:
Cnutella wrote:I'm torn. I hate doxxing but Bewildered Ape has been a horrible little shit-stirrer and probably deserves it. Either way, what I think is immaterial because it seems BA's goose is cooked either way.
I hate doxxing too but I won't shed too many tears for that little shit-stirrer.
Yes, Bewildered Ape is well and truly fucked.
Agent of Doubt left enough clues so that it takes a matter of seconds to find out his identity and current workplace.
The thing that struck me is that it is apparent that Bewildered Ape is a pretty hardcore post modernist - which goes a long way towards explaining his animosity towards New Atheists who are (Myers and Benson excluded) anti post modernism.
I won't provide any details here (Pit rules and all) - anyway it's all going to come out in the near future, no doubt - Bewildered Ape has set himself up for the mother and father of all falls and many people are going to take extreme pleasure in fucking him into the ground (as PZ puts it).

Actions have consequences. Idiots like Myers and co fail to grasp that simple concept time and time again. The PoMo requirement to blame everyone else for your own failings is a fundamental flaw amongst many that they have (being required to lie all the time is the main one)

It's why SJW's will achieve nothing while causing hate and division. I'm only interested in mitigating the damage they do. Humans are not intellectually advanced enough not to fall for flawed beliefs so they will never go away. They are immune to logic and reason. They just need to be ridiculed and exposed when they try and harm others.

#30757

CommanderTuvok wrote:Circa 1999, I remember getting a large coke from a KFC that was branded with fucking Jar Fucking Jar Fucking Binks Fucker.

Haven't eaten there since.

FTFY

1980: my cat knocks my Burger King Darth Vader glass onto the floor.
2009: I see one on eBay going for $500.

#30758

This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

However, you've gotten quite a few facts wrong.

I have a 20 year old son. I've been an anarchist for almost 25 years.

I don't care if people use male or female pronouns.

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

I'm so glad I could clear that up.

Have a great day!

#30759

danah_gaz wrote:This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

Misogynist.

#30760

danah_gaz wrote:This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

However, you've gotten quite a few facts wrong.

I have a 20 year old son. I've been an anarchist for almost 25 years.

I don't care if people use male or female pronouns.

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

I'm so glad I could clear that up.

Have a great day!

Hmm, clearly you couldn't care less eh? Vanity search was it?

#30761

danah_gaz wrote:This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

However, you've gotten quite a few facts wrong.

I have a 20 year old son. I've been an anarchist for almost 25 years.

I don't care if people use male or female pronouns.

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

I'm so glad I could clear that up.

Have a great day!

Way to reduce the entire gender to "crying like little girls" (your term).

Anyway, you have 17 followers on twitter. Nobody cares about you. I've never heard of you. Isn't that what you want? Nobody talking about you?

Seriously, what are you talking about with the gossip comment? I don't think we've ever mentioned you!? Am I missing something? You sound a bit unhinged. You're going to have to show your work.

#30762

danah_gaz wrote:This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

However, you've gotten quite a few facts wrong.

I have a 20 year old son. I've been an anarchist for almost 25 years.

I don't care if people use male or female pronouns.

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

I'm so glad I could clear that up.

Have a great day!

Way to reduce the entire gender to "crying like little girls" (your term).

Anyway, you have 17 followers on twitter. Nobody cares about you. I've never heard of you. Isn't that what you want? Nobody talking about you?

Seriously, what are you talking about with the gossip comment? I don't think we've ever mentioned you!? Am I missing something? You sound a bit unhinged. You're going to have to show your work.

#30763

Huh?

http://atheiststoday.com/images/dw_adams/danah_who.jpg

#30764

Dick Strawkins wrote:
Cnutella wrote:I'm torn. I hate doxxing but Bewildered Ape has been a horrible little shit-stirrer and probably deserves it. Either way, what I think is immaterial because it seems BA's goose is cooked either way.
I hate doxxing too but I won't shed too many tears for that little shit-stirrer.
Yes, Bewildered Ape is well and truly fucked.
Agent of Doubt left enough clues so that it takes a matter of seconds to find out his identity and current workplace.
The thing that struck me is that it is apparent that Bewildered Ape is a pretty hardcore post modernist - which goes a long way towards explaining his animosity towards New Atheists who are (Myers and Benson excluded) anti post modernism.
I won't provide any details here (Pit rules and all) - anyway it's all going to come out in the near future, no doubt - Bewildered Ape has set himself up for the mother and father of all falls and many people are going to take extreme pleasure in fucking him into the ground (as PZ puts it).

Strawz, I know you are a man of the details, so I need to tell you that Meyers only wanted the Gelato Guy fucked "to the ground", not "into" it. Someone here recently pointed out that we had rewritten history by changing that modifier.

#30765

Must have been a driveby troll, trying to kick up an ant mound. 1/10

Oh well.

#30766

Parody Accountant wrote:
danah_gaz wrote:This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

However, you've gotten quite a few facts wrong.

I have a 20 year old son. I've been an anarchist for almost 25 years.

I don't care if people use male or female pronouns.

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

I'm so glad I could clear that up.

Have a great day!
Way to reduce the entire gender to "crying like little girls" (your term).

Anyway, you have 17 followers on twitter. Nobody cares about you. I've never heard of you. Isn't that what you want? Nobody talking about you?

Seriously, what are you talking about with the gossip comment? I don't think we've ever mentioned you!? Am I missing something? You sound a bit unhinged. You're going to have to show your work.

Thank you. I thought I had missed something while I was laughing at Franc being upset.

#30767

danah_gaz wrote:This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

However, you've gotten quite a few facts wrong.

I have a 20 year old son. I've been an anarchist for almost 25 years.

I don't care if people use male or female pronouns.

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

I'm so glad I could clear that up.

Have a great day!

Welcome to the Slymepit! Unfortunately, now that you've registered and posted, many SJWs will wonder if you're among the many "rapists" PZ and others claim are in our midst. You are very brave to assume the mantle of "Slymepitter."

I do wonder if you are misgendering your son. How can you be sure that he or she identifies as a "son?" It's also possible that xir is female, but labels zheyerself a "son."

Thanks again for venturing outside the echo chamber! Here's hoping our time together leads to new understanding.

#30768

comhcinc wrote:
Parody Accountant wrote:
Way to reduce the entire gender to "crying like little girls" (your term).

Anyway, you have 17 followers on twitter. Nobody cares about you. I've never heard of you. Isn't that what you want? Nobody talking about you?

Seriously, what are you talking about with the gossip comment? I don't think we've ever mentioned you!? Am I missing something? You sound a bit unhinged. You're going to have to show your work.
Thank you. I thought I had missed something while I was laughing at Franc being upset.

Xir was mentioned in the context of comments at PharynguLite, formerly The Friendly Atheist. Xir name was misspelled, which made it hard to find the name in a search.

And also makes an interesting mystery out of how xir found the comments in the first place.

katamari Damassi wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Sunder wrote:Another TERF war at Hemant's:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... qus_thread

Hilariously, there's apparently an anti-TERF male feminist in the comments who has pissed the rest of the feminists off enough to start posting anti-male-feminist memes.
Dana gAz has got to be a troll. See how the manginas kow-tow before zir non-stop abuse!

The OP has nothing to do with atheism, btw. Hemant's Plusser-Light act won't keep him unsoiled, especially as he's allowing more & more strident guest posts like this one.
I don't think so Matt. I think she's a 20 year old tumblrista special snowflake. She identifies as male but wears pretty girl outfits to subvert patriarchy. In reality it's "look at me!" "Look at me!" And so she can throw a hissy fit when you use the obvious female pronouns.

search.php?keywords=gaz

#30769

So... was Dana a troll or not?

#30770

rayshul wrote:Please tell me the insanity in universities is ... going to stop soon?

I feel like I remember many stories where it's the universities that became authoritarian first and then it started spreading?

My prediction is that it's going to get much worse.

Early last week, my dept needed to decide on questions for student evaluations. We currently ask if the instructor showed a bias against women and if the instructor showed a bias against minorities. I suggested that we ask more neutral questions or, failing that, ask about bias against men and those who aren't minorities.

Not one person agreed with me. I expect to be removed from the committee before next semester.

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deLurch wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:TV isn't just the realm of shitty sitcoms and tedious procedural shows anymore. TV sci-fi has always suffered from lack of budget and other constraints. The best sci-fi series of the last few years was the remake of Battlestar Galactica, and it wasn't without its problems.
Which is why it kills me when you get shitty script writing on SciFi shows with a good budget, such as Defiance. All that money for sets, special effects, costumes and make up, yet the script writers are shitty.

Kirbmarc wrote:New Who isn't dreadful, but it's not top-notch entertaining, either. More of a mixed bag.
I think most of the major issues with Doctor Who boils down to a single fundamental issue. It is a TV show for kids. That is how it started out. And it has never really stretched that far from its roots. Everyone sees the enormous potential of the premise. But so long as it has to keep within the range of a kids SciFi program, it will never reach it. And that is why so much of the show's faults are handwaved away with Timey-Whiney-Wibbley-Wobbley. It is because it just doesn't matter that much for their target audience.

But the thing is, the original show wasn't like this. The new show is a confection made by people who don't know any science; aren't interested in science fiction in anything other than a superficial way, and are too embarrased to take the world of the show seriously. Nor do they credit the audience with any intelligence, or care about the messages they put out (think how appalling Father's Day was, for example - both intellectually and morally). So each episode ends up being lowest common denominator, soapy pomo crap rather than a credible ideas/plot driven drama (with very few notable exceptions).

The old series can be faulted on a hundred fronts, but it presented itself seriously, with skilful plotting and (yes) some actual science fiction in there from time to time.

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I see now:
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katamari Damassi wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Sunder wrote:Another TERF war at Hemant's:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... qus_thread

Hilariously, there's apparently an anti-TERF male feminist in the comments who has pissed the rest of the feminists off enough to start posting anti-male-feminist memes.
Dana gAz has got to be a troll. See how the manginas kow-tow before zir non-stop abuse!

The OP has nothing to do with atheism, btw. Hemant's Plusser-Light act won't keep him unsoiled, especially as he's allowing more & more strident guest posts like this one.
I don't think so Matt. I think she's a 20 year old tumblrista special snowflake. She identifies as male but wears pretty girl outfits to subvert patriarchy. In reality it's "look at me!" "Look at me!" And so she can throw a hissy fit when you use the obvious female pronouns.

He likes to use "cupcake" when talking down to 'mra's'. Also, "words mean things". Something rings familiar.

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Suet Cardigan wrote:
Service Dog wrote:
Tribble wrote:
Okay, I just got back up off the floor. Star Wars 'borrowed' (sometimes out right stole nearly word-for-word) from lots of sources. This includes:

Flash Gordon
Dersu Uzala
The Fighting Devil Dogs (Darth Vader)
The Phantom Empire (More Darth VAder)
The Hidden Fortress (much of the Star Wars main plot and some in the 'prequels' plus a lot of the cinematography)
Ben Hur (Pod racing)
The Searchers
Lawrence of Arabia (the 'prequels)
Lost Horizon (Yoda death scene, virtually shot-for-shot)
Asimov's Foundation series
Lord of the Rings (Moria, Gandalf at the Bridge, Obi-Wan against Darth Vader).
Arthurian mythos (Skywalker being Arthur)
Omitting Dune from that list is pretty egregious.
And the Wizard of Oz.

Not to mention Jack Kirby's Fourth World. The comics in which, in the early seventies, the hero, the possessor of the "Astro-Force", was the son of the villain, a big guy with a bucket on his head called Darkseid.

But, I dunno, there's nothing new under the sun. Rip off a one or two things, that's being lazy. Rip off as many things as George Lucas did and synthesise it all into something rich and coherent and enduring, I think that's pretty clever.

Talking of which, did you see the Japanese trailer for the new Star Wars Film:

https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/20 ... ture41.png

We can add Apocalypse Now to the mix.

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(Which ripped off Heart of Darkness)

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rayshul wrote:So... was Dana a troll or not?

No, xe was an innocent humyn that we cyber microaggressed. :drool:

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free thoughtpolice wrote:
rayshul wrote:So... was Dana a troll or not?
No, xe was an innocent humyn that we cyber microaggressed. :drool:

I am still none the wiser. Technically though I suppose it's Hemant's problem, not ours?

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danah_gaz wrote:This is all quite precious. I'm tickled that a bunch of random people I couldn't care less about have decided to gossip about me like a bunch of teenage girls.

However, you've gotten quite a few facts wrong.

I have a 20 year old son. I've been an anarchist for almost 25 years.

I don't care if people use male or female pronouns.

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

I'm so glad I could clear that up.

Have a great day!

http://s24.postimg.org/9nqjtqmbl/image.jpg

(Not sure if anyone will get this joke but thought I'd have a go seeing as we've been talking Dr Who)

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paddybrown said:

Which ripped off Heart of Darkness

Well, hmmm, not really, as Coppola was pretty straight forward and up front about that being his inspiration. I think. Wasn't he?

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Some evening entertainment for you.
[youtube]T8T4S3JSXJw[/youtube]

Damn, we should make a "Peezus is a friend of mine" and how he teaches the proper use of porcupines and tentacles.

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danah_gaz said:

If you want to insist I have a "girl brain" or a "boy brain" you're going to have to show your work. What exactly is it about a brain that makes it a "boy brain" or a "girl brain"?

Hmm.

Do we support girl brain/boy brain distinctions around here? I thought we just supported girl biologies/boy biologies?

Oh, ya, welcome to the Pit, danah_gaz ... er, I mean the Den of Rape and Rape Apologists. You are now absorbed and, all according to Lord PeeZus, one of us, rapist and all.