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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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VickyCaramel wrote:
feathers wrote: Orbitters?
I think this one is a winner
And what of his tag? :rimshot:

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I don't know about a hashtag, but I am definitely staking my claim to the name "Ogvorbits" if I ever fancy some light trolling over there.

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ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:I don't know about a hashtag, but I am definitely staking my claim to the name "Ogvorbits" if I ever fancy some light trolling over there.
Ogvorbits: Social Justice Pedophile. "Available for christenings, proms and bar mitzvahs. No penis too small."

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ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:I don't know about a hashtag, but I am definitely staking my claim to the name "Ogvorbits" if I ever fancy some light trolling over there.
Ogvorbits: Social Justice Pedophile. "Available for christenings, proms and bar mitzvahs. No penis too small."

Do you say Pedophile like the English do or the way Americans say it.

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Orbiterds?

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Mothra's Dentist wrote:Orbiterds?
Put your ideas in the thread listed in my sig peeps!

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Also, because I feel particularly classy today:

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

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Gumby wrote:Also, because I feel particularly classy today:

[bimg]http://i.imgur.com/LWGEGFz.jpg[/bimg]
What is that derived from? Seeing the original will, I'm sure, increase my lolfactor...

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comhcinc wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:I don't know about a hashtag, but I am definitely staking my claim to the name "Ogvorbits" if I ever fancy some light trolling over there.
Ogvorbits: Social Justice Pedophile. "Available for christenings, proms and bar mitzvahs. No penis too small."

Do you say Pedophile like the English do or the way Americans say it.
Like Speedos.

Ogvorbits: A pedo in Speedos. "Not the hero we want, but the hero we need."

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Lsuoma wrote:
Gumby wrote:Also, because I feel particularly classy today:

[bimg]http://i.imgur.com/LWGEGFz.jpg[/bimg]
What is that derived from? Seeing the original will, I'm sure, increase my lolfactor...
The man ain't got no cultcha.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477051/

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Lsuoma wrote:
Gumby wrote:Also, because I feel particularly classy today:

[bimg]http://i.imgur.com/LWGEGFz.jpg[/bimg]
What is that derived from? Seeing the original will, I'm sure, increase my lolfactor...
The movie Norbit. One of Eddie Murphy's less than great films.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nJMvUL1n7TA/U ... dshare.jpg

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comhcinc wrote: The movie Norbit. One of Eddie Murphy's less than great films.
With a 3.9 out of 10 rating, how could I go wrong?

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Gumby wrote:
comhcinc wrote: The movie Norbit. One of Eddie Murphy's less than great films.
With a 3.9 out of 10 rating, how could I go wrong?
It has it's moments so that rating sounds about right to me.

[youtube]MmSZJ17ppEQ[/youtube]

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Lol I have a feeling that Norbit did well outside of the English speaking world based off of the fact that most of the clips on youtube have non English descriptions.

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jet_lagg wrote:I'm convinced the majority of commenters over there are deep cover pitizens, and nothing will change my mind about that.

Oh, and personally I liked "The Freethought Orbiters". Not concise enough for a hashtag, admittedly.
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Looking at the all new refurnished FTB, I noticed Myers has dropped the Dawkins.net from his listings.

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

http://i.imgur.com/s5QNJLl.jpg

According to Wayback Machine it was sometime last month just after the Dawkins video twitter posting .

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Take that Dawkins! You will never get those 5 impressions per month back! MUAAHAHAHAA

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fuzzy wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:I'm convinced the majority of commenters over there are deep cover pitizens, and nothing will change my mind about that.

Oh, and personally I liked "The Freethought Orbiters". Not concise enough for a hashtag, admittedly.
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If I ever gain a cult following I'm going to call them the Shatterlites.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ghostbusters/c ... stbusters/

That is a spoiler filled, badly written, spoiler written by a person who claims to have seen the new Ghostbusters. Read it if you want to but unless everyone agrees I won't be discussing it for people who are wanting to see this movie.

All I will say is if this is not a hoax it does sound awful.

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I was once a young naive fuckwit so I'm not without sympathy. Still.

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:lol: :clap: :lol:

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Yea... there is something wrong with me. This anti-Trump ad really makes me want to vote Trump.... hehe.

http://www.redpillphilosophy.com/2016/0 ... is-sexism/

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The Orbit gained a new blogger...

http://i.imgur.com/O3hQfQ8.jpg

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Brilliant, Jan, just brilliant.

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feathers wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
comhcinc wrote:Teslas are nice cars, but for what you get I think they are over priced. I have been in Cadillacs which cost less and are way nicer.
I caught a Tesla S taxi to Schipol airport when in Amsterdam last year. Very nice car. Lovely acceleration
Then you got the bill.
Yeah. Nah. We booked online and made the executive decision to treat ourselves.

Interestingly the car blew a tire on the cobbles/tram tracks as the driver was showing us the acceleration as we came out of our little street by the Amstel. So he had to call the Tesla van to come and fix it (they were surprised at a tyre blowing), and the company to send another Tesla out. Of course we said yes when the second driver asked if we wanted to see what it could do (on the highway this time).

:D

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Hmm. Always have a proxy on "the committee".

Life lesson #29

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Gumby wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:
piginthecity wrote:
quote="HoneyWagon"]Trying to catch up with all the pit posts.
Has anyone come up yet with a nice hashtag to honor "The Orbit" a la #ftbullies?
Since so many have moved...I think it will be needed./quote]

It's not very catchy but I propose #FFPZTB Standing, of course, for "Free From Pee Zee's Thoughts Blogs". I know that my suggestion is not properly thought through, but then again neither is the orbit.
Marcus Au has proposed "The Orbitches" which I think is excellent.
I don't like it. #FTBullies is perfect - it describes them to a tee without being sexist and therefore giving them an excuse to make it all about the hashtag and ignore whatever salient points are being tweeted. (I know they ignore points being made anyway, but why give them an excuse to scream about the hashtag as cover?) There's gotta be an equivalent perfect hashtag for the #Orbitards (too ableist?), but I suggest waiting to see what type of collective site personality emerges before settling on a permanent hashtag for them.
The Or-bots?

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She was much more than a talented performer with a sexy voice. I'm a lapsed member of Fanderson and it's generally accepted that there was a marked drop in quality in Gerry's Anderson's output after he and Sylvia split up.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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John D wrote:Yea... there is something wrong with me. This anti-Trump ad really makes me want to vote Trump.... hehe.

redpillphilosophy.com/2016/03/watch-feminists-go-on-full-attack-against-donald-trump-for-his-sexism/
[youtube]OkSRJSUY0vs[/youtube]
0:42 This is how Donald Trump talks about our
0:48 mothers our sisters our daughters. If you believe America deserves better
0:54 vote against Donald Trump.
0:57 Our Principles PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising
According to FactCheck, this is likely a GOP anti-Trump campaign.

factcheck.org/2016/03/our-principles-pac/
Political Leanings: Republican/Anti-Trump Super PAC

Spending Target: Unknown

Our Principles PAC was formed in January 2016 to thwart Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Its founder, Katie Packer, is a veteran Republican strategist who was the deputy campaign manager of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. She founded Burning Glass Consulting, a firm whose goal is to attract female voters, and is a founding partner of WWP Strategies, a political consulting and issue management firm based in Washington, D.C.

Our Principles PAC hired former Jeb Bush campaign spokesman Tim Miller as its communications adviser. Miller was previously executive director of America Rising, a Republican organization formed to conduct opposition research on Democrats. Jamie Jodoin, a political accounting specialist at Robert Watkins & Company, serves as the super PAC’s treasurer. Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and CEO Meg Whitman, who served as finance co-chair of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, has helped the super PAC with fundraising.

On Feb. 22, Packer released a memo outlining the PAC’s strategy “to prevent Donald Trump from hijacking our great Party.” As of March 8, the PAC had spent $4.4 million on independent expenditures, including TV ads, voter guides and mailers targeting Trump, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

As of Jan. 31, Our Principles PAC raised more than $3 million from individual donors, according to its February report filed with the Federal Election Commission. Almost all of its funding came from Marlene Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise, wife of billionaire T.D. Ameritrade founder J. Joe Ricketts, and mother of both Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and Todd Ricketts.

Marlene Ricketts was a top contributor to Unintimidated PAC, a super PAC that supported Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s failed 2016 presidential bid. She also has been a major funder of the fiscally conservative Ending Spending Action Fund, which was founded by her husband, Joe, and is run by her son, Todd. And, in 2015, Ricketts also gave $10,000 each to super PACs backing the presidential campaigns of Bush and Christie, as well as former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

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John Greg wrote:Brilliant, Jan, just brilliant.
Thanks John.

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Shatterface wrote:
She was much more than a talented performer with a sexy voice. I'm a lapsed member of Fanderson and it's generally accepted that there was a marked drop in quality in Gerry's Anderson's output after he and Sylvia split up.
I hadn't realised how many of my childhood shows she had been involved in creating, including Joe 90 and Space 1999.

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The Orbit

when we are born we cry that we have come to this great stage of fools.

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Pz is of course Lear

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Kirbmarc wrote:The Orbit has already gone full Atheism Plus forum. (archive link).
Language shapes our perception and when we make disability an insult, when we make ability an insult, we are implying that there is something wrong with being that way. It adds to a system that treats people with disabilities as being less than human. In some cases people go so far as to imply that people with disabilities don’t have feelings or don’t feel pain. Moreover it creates a perceptions, a link between being disabled and being otherwise incompetent.
*snip dumb shit*
Ania has made an appearance here before - as a bit part in Caruthers fat-shaming obsession. Can't think why.

The following link is not safe for anyone with a delicate stomach: http://capitalnews.ca/world-stage/wp-co ... e-edit.jpg

She is a woman that got handed a shitty pair of diseases at aged 18, and has gone to make whinging about them her entire life's work. Yes, I know, walk a mile in a person's shoes before criticising. Even though Ania wouldn't walk a mile, much easier to beg on the internet for the Uber fare.

Fortunately I have walked in those shoes, and continue to, having also been handed the same auto-immune diseases plus another for good measure, Psoriasis + psoriatic arthritis + Crohns. And she can fuck off with her 'I'm disabled, donate to my patreon', I know many people with Crohns, who all somehow cope with their disease, have jobs, study, families. My arthritis is classed as severe because of the number of joints involved, yet I have never even thought about calling myself disabled. I still walk at least 3 km every day, it helps with the fatigue side of the diseases. I don't work, although not because of these diseases, but I do volunteer at a shelter for abused foreign domestic helpers here in HK. Ania goes to bed for days, and yells at doctors who won't give her the meds she wants when she wants them.

I read pages and pages of her blog once, in the hope of gaining some insight. The only insight I got was into the mind of a person completely self-centred and wrapped up in her own importance. In other words a millenial narcissist doing the only thing she is fit for, bitching on the internet. Because pointing out that using the word 'crazy' is ableist is so important to humanity. she's a perfect fit with The Orbit of course.

Here's a talk of her's about those nasty MRAs

[youtube]icHiDn6ruJ4[/youtube]

Here's a recent article full of whine, with a lovely video: http://capitalnews.ca/world-stage/2015/ ... alizaiton/

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Carrier is of course the jester, who Lear follows, destitute and insane.

I have to stop explaining my quips, but i thought this one may be to obscure for the pop culture freefromthoughtbrains who masturbate in social justice wankery, not to.

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Guest_0048cc29 wrote:
John D wrote:Yea... there is something wrong with me. This anti-Trump ad really makes me want to vote Trump.... hehe.

redpillphilosophy.com/2016/03/watch-feminists-go-on-full-attack-against-donald-trump-for-his-sexism/
[youtube]OkSRJSUY0vs[/youtube]
0:42 This is how Donald Trump talks about our
0:48 mothers our sisters our daughters. If you believe America deserves better
0:54 vote against Donald Trump.
0:57 Our Principles PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising
According to FactCheck, this is likely a GOP anti-Trump campaign.

factcheck.org/2016/03/our-principles-pac/
Political Leanings: Republican/Anti-Trump Super PAC

Spending Target: Unknown

Our Principles PAC was formed in January 2016 to thwart Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Its founder, Katie Packer, is a veteran Republican strategist who was the deputy campaign manager of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. She founded Burning Glass Consulting, a firm whose goal is to attract female voters, and is a founding partner of WWP Strategies, a political consulting and issue management firm based in Washington, D.C.

Our Principles PAC hired former Jeb Bush campaign spokesman Tim Miller as its communications adviser. Miller was previously executive director of America Rising, a Republican organization formed to conduct opposition research on Democrats. Jamie Jodoin, a political accounting specialist at Robert Watkins & Company, serves as the super PAC’s treasurer. Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and CEO Meg Whitman, who served as finance co-chair of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, has helped the super PAC with fundraising.

On Feb. 22, Packer released a memo outlining the PAC’s strategy “to prevent Donald Trump from hijacking our great Party.” As of March 8, the PAC had spent $4.4 million on independent expenditures, including TV ads, voter guides and mailers targeting Trump, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

As of Jan. 31, Our Principles PAC raised more than $3 million from individual donors, according to its February report filed with the Federal Election Commission. Almost all of its funding came from Marlene Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise, wife of billionaire T.D. Ameritrade founder J. Joe Ricketts, and mother of both Republican Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and Todd Ricketts.

Marlene Ricketts was a top contributor to Unintimidated PAC, a super PAC that supported Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s failed 2016 presidential bid. She also has been a major funder of the fiscally conservative Ending Spending Action Fund, which was founded by her husband, Joe, and is run by her son, Todd. And, in 2015, Ricketts also gave $10,000 each to super PACs backing the presidential campaigns of Bush and Christie, as well as former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
"she had the height... she had the beauty...she was crazy.... but these are minor details!!!! haha. That's really funny. Especially when that woman says it with a straight face. haha. Really... this makes me want to vote for him.

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Serious question: how do you get that fat if you have Crohns? Doesn't it basically make the aftermath of eating a living hell? I think I could avoid eating that donut if I knew it would be shooting out of my ass like hot lava shortly after.

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NoGodsEver wrote:Serious question: how do you get that fat if you have Crohns? Doesn't it basically make the aftermath of eating a living hell? I think I could avoid eating that donut if I knew it would be shooting out of my ass like hot lava shortly after.
Your weight can fluctuate, going down during a flare-up for obvious reasons, and up when in remission. The drugs can play a part, corticosteroids like prednisone can cause weight gain and fluid retention. Of course, putting effort into keeping your weight under some sort of control requires more effort in these circumstances. But the effort is well worth it, given that this range of auto-immune diseases come with a much higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

Or you can just decide that it is your right to eat what you want, spend all day in bed and it is up to the doctors to sort it. I'll leave it you to decide which route Ania is taking.

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the crazy continues at The Orbit.

Greta is now apologising for a 6 year-old post in which she used the word 'stupid'.
I want to extend my apologies for using the word “stupid.” In 2010 I wasn’t aware of the problems with this language. I probably should have been, but I wasn’t. The piece also uses some other ableist language (“insanely rigid but impossibly contradictory”). If you want to understand more about why it’s ableist to use words like “stupid,” “insane,” “crazy,” “dumb,” and “idiot” as insults, please read the excellent piece on this by Ania Bula (my esteemed colleague here at The Orbit), Ableism Challenge. She explains it a lot better than I can.
:bjarte:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160317011 ... -language/

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HunnyBunny wrote:the crazy continues at The Orbit.

Greta is now apologising for a 6 year-old post in which she used the word 'stupid'.
I want to extend my apologies for using the word “stupid.” In 2010 I wasn’t aware of the problems with this language. I probably should have been, but I wasn’t. The piece also uses some other ableist language (“insanely rigid but impossibly contradictory”). If you want to understand more about why it’s ableist to use words like “stupid,” “insane,” “crazy,” “dumb,” and “idiot” as insults, please read the excellent piece on this by Ania Bula (my esteemed colleague here at The Orbit), Ableism Challenge. She explains it a lot better than I can.
:bjarte:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160317011 ... -language/
The real reason for the name The Orbit becomes clear. It's where your sides will be after reading this shit.

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NoGodsEver wrote:
HunnyBunny wrote:the crazy continues at The Orbit.

Greta is now apologising for a 6 year-old post in which she used the word 'stupid'.
I want to extend my apologies for using the word “stupid.” In 2010 I wasn’t aware of the problems with this language. I probably should have been, but I wasn’t. The piece also uses some other ableist language (“insanely rigid but impossibly contradictory”). If you want to understand more about why it’s ableist to use words like “stupid,” “insane,” “crazy,” “dumb,” and “idiot” as insults, please read the excellent piece on this by Ania Bula (my esteemed colleague here at The Orbit), Ableism Challenge. She explains it a lot better than I can.
:bjarte:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160317011 ... -language/
The real reason for the name The Orbit becomes clear. It's where your sides will be after reading this shit.
Fun fact. Uranus has 27 moons.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Post by jet_lagg »

HunnyBunny wrote: Ania has made an appearance here before - as a bit part in Caruthers fat-shaming obsession. Can't think why.
Here, as in here on the pit? I give credit to anyone who actually posts here instead of camping out in their safe space and screaming about the bogeyman. So, if I understood that correctly, respect.
Fortunately I have walked in those shoes, and continue to, having also been handed the same auto-immune diseases plus another for good measure, Psoriasis + psoriatic arthritis + Crohns. And she can fuck off with her 'I'm disabled, donate to my patreon', I know many people with Crohns, who all somehow cope with their disease, have jobs, study, families. My arthritis is classed as severe because of the number of joints involved, yet I have never even thought about calling myself disabled. I still walk at least 3 km every day, it helps with the fatigue side of the diseases. <snip>
Your attitude vs hers illustrates a huge part of what separates, broadly speaking, people like "us" from people like "them". As a general rule, you don't advertise what's ailing you. It's simply not classy. You focus on what you're doing, what you've accomplished, and where you could do better. If someone else wants to point out you've overcome an obstacle nobody else had, accept the honor graciously. But this oppression Olympics bullshit is just that. Bullshit.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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jet_lagg wrote:
HunnyBunny wrote: Ania has made an appearance here before - as a bit part in Caruthers fat-shaming obsession. Can't think why.
Here, as in here on the pit? I give credit to anyone who actually posts here instead of camping out in their safe space and screaming about the bogeyman. So, if I understood that correctly, respect.
She means the person has been brought up as a topic of discussion before, by Carruthers.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Tigzy wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:I'm convinced the majority of commenters over there are deep cover pitizens, and nothing will change my mind about that.
TBH, I'm beginning to wonder the same about some of the bloggers there.



IXNAY! Will you guys SHADDUP already! FFS!

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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jet_lagg wrote:
HunnyBunny wrote: Ania has made an appearance here before - as a bit part in Caruthers fat-shaming obsession. Can't think why.
Here, as in here on the pit? I give credit to anyone who actually posts here instead of camping out in their safe space and screaming about the bogeyman. So, if I understood that correctly, respect.
Sorry, I meant her name has come up before, Caruthers used her as an example in his hatred of fat people.
jet_lagg wrote:Your attitude vs hers illustrates a huge part of what separates, broadly speaking, people like "us" from people like "them". As a general rule, you don't advertise what's ailing you. It's simply not classy. You focus on what you're doing, what you've accomplished, and where you could do better. If someone else wants to point out you've overcome an obstacle nobody else had, accept the honor graciously. But this oppression Olympics bullshit is just that. Bullshit.
Not only bullshit, but dangerous. Anyone newly diagnosed may come across Ania's blog while looking for info. And think that's it for life, reduced to an Ania who can do nothing but wallow in her own self-pity / importance. Ania claimed she was told on medical advice that she couldn't do her dreamed-of medical degree. So she did a degree in sexology instead :roll: .

Got Crohns, give up your dreams, your life is nothing but unbearable pain and nasty drug-withholding Doctors is her shtick. And the Orbit are giving her another platform to push out her lying, narcissistic, lazyass bullshit.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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If the orbit is not science or skepticism, but is instead tepid SJ - does it remain mission critical"? Or is it a peripheral and increasingly irrelevant lolz-fest like A+? I guess it requires watching, especially with Zvan's baleful presence. But still.

FtB Mk1 was born from a crusaders desire to redress the SJ infractions of the A/S community. I just don't see that zeal anymore, Watson's pathological hatred of Dawkins aside. The SJites lost the TAM and JREF wars before these institutions winked into irrelevance for unrelated reasons. The Hensley/WiS axis of evil spluttered out. The scrub wars with Shermer, Radford, DJ, Harris and Dawkins flared and fizzled without regime change. Bizarro conferences like Skepticon are empty seat jokes and PZ and Watson are either marginalised or seeking new personas.

FtB "worked" when it had a New Atheist credibility bankroll tucked away, a group of in-sync self reinforcing bloggers who were engaged in the real world AS scene and an army of engaged readers to add weight to the phalanx.

Without that scaffold, I detect a certain boredom and lack of topics for the newbie writers. A lack of purpose and focus. I mean Caine has written about a bird, her lost meds, her car breaking down and how exciting this all is.

Decline and fall.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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HunnyBunny wrote: Ania has made an appearance here before - as a bit part in Caruthers fat-shaming obsession. Can't think why.

The following link is not safe for anyone with a delicate stomach: http://capitalnews.ca/world-stage/wp-co ... e-edit.jpg

She is a woman that got handed a shitty pair of diseases at aged 18, and has gone to make whinging about them her entire life's work. Yes, I know, walk a mile in a person's shoes before criticising. Even though Ania wouldn't walk a mile, much easier to beg on the internet for the Uber fare.

Fortunately I have walked in those shoes, and continue to, having also been handed the same auto-immune diseases plus another for good measure, Psoriasis + psoriatic arthritis + Crohns. And she can fuck off with her 'I'm disabled, donate to my patreon', I know many people with Crohns, who all somehow cope with their disease, have jobs, study, families. My arthritis is classed as severe because of the number of joints involved, yet I have never even thought about calling myself disabled. I still walk at least 3 km every day, it helps with the fatigue side of the diseases. I don't work, although not because of these diseases, but I do volunteer at a shelter for abused foreign domestic helpers here in HK. Ania goes to bed for days, and yells at doctors who won't give her the meds she wants when she wants them.

I read pages and pages of her blog once, in the hope of gaining some insight. The only insight I got was into the mind of a person completely self-centred and wrapped up in her own importance. In other words a millenial narcissist doing the only thing she is fit for, bitching on the internet. Because pointing out that using the word 'crazy' is ableist is so important to humanity. she's a perfect fit with The Orbit of course.

Here's a talk of her's about those nasty MRAs

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Here's a recent article full of whine, with a lovely video: http://capitalnews.ca/world-stage/2015/ ... alizaiton/
Apparently she and Alyssa live near me. I will be on the lookout and ready for action (i.e. make a quick getaway)

I also have psoriasis with the arthritic component, although not as bad these days with the latter. Have you tried coconut oil? Works great on the itching, but don't get any on the non-scaly parts. Tends to burn a bit on regular skin.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Kirbmarc wrote:The Orbit has already gone full Atheism Plus forum. (archive link).
Language shapes our perception and when we make disability an insult, when we make ability an insult, we are implying that there is something wrong with being that way. It adds to a system that treats people with disabilities as being less than human. In some cases people go so far as to imply that people with disabilities don’t have feelings or don’t feel pain. Moreover it creates a perceptions, a link between being disabled and being otherwise incompetent.
The people hurt when you use ableist slurs are often not the targets of your insults, except when you are directing them on those who are in fact disabled, it is the people surrounding you who are influenced by the perception that you think cognitive ability is an indicator of worth. It doesn’t matter what your thoughts, or what you think your thoughts on the matter are, what matters is what others perceive your thoughts to be on the matter. If I can’t distinguish you from an ableist by your words, then you are being ableist. Even if you don’t mean to be.
This is a life and death matter. The cultural perception of my abilities directly impacts my ability to access care. The more people perpetuate this idea that disability equals incompetence, the harder it is to have doctors take me seriously when I say that something is wrong. The easier it is to excuse the horrible treatment of disabled children who are made to endure torturous treatments and have their bodily autonomy violated on a regular basis. The easier it is to ignore that 80% of people with disabilities will be sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. The easier it is to ignore that disabled children and even adults are murdered and abused by their caretakers. That people with disabilities are sterilized against their will, and that genocide against people with certain disabilities is given the clinical sounding name of eugenics. When you suggest eradicating people of a certain type by sterilizing those who fall in its category and aborting pregnancies that belong to that type, what else is it but genocide?
Stupid/Idiot/Retard: This one is difficult for a lot of people to grasp and is the one that most often generates hostile responses when called out. We know we shouldn’t call children stupid or that people in authority should avoid using the word “stupid” so as not to hurt their self-esteem. Often when people use the word, they mean someone who is uninformed, or who holds on to false ideas even when faced with evidence. If that’s what they mean, why is it harmful? Because regardless of what they mean, the fact is that the word stupid implies implicit cognitive ability.
Blind/Deaf/Lame/Autistic/Bi-Polar or any other impairment/condition as pejorative: I feel like this is should be self-explanatory, but when you use something like a condition that people actually experience as a pejorative you are making it clear that having that identity is negative. That there is something wrong with being blind, or being deaf, or lame, or autistic, or bi-polar, etc. We can argue until the cows come home about whether there is something inherently bad with any of those things, so I will just summarize with unless you are any of these things you don’t get to have an opinion on it, end of story, but ultimately that it irrelevant. Because ultimately regardless of whether there is something wrong with say, being autistic, the fact is that it translates into there being something wrong with being an autistic person. Hate of the thing becomes hatred of the person living with it. And this translates into dehumanization, devaluation, and death.
The text above is written at 12th grade level, according to https://readability-score.com/ - reflects well on the author's vocabulary, but is at level at which only 15% of US adults read. From 2004 (with other sites saying there's been no change since then):

http://i.imgur.com/5P8z8la.png?2
Xenu wrote:There is nothing more ableist than banning simple words in favour of words that may not be in a uneducated person's vocabulary.
Touché.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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HunnyBunny wrote:Here's a recent article full of whine, with a lovely video: capitalnews.ca/world-stage/2015/12/04/medical-marijuana-patients-buzz-anticipation-marijuana-legalizaiton/
Bula wrote:Each time Bula leaves the house, she has to ask herself whether it is safe to medicate where she’s going. Many times, the answer is no, causing her to stay home from social events. Bula needs to medicate constantly to keep her extreme pain at bay, which can be difficult when she tries to get out of the house to see friends.

“You can’t smoke on private property,” she said.

“I don’t know when I’m on private property or when I’m not,” said Bula.
For someone as obsessed about pot as she is, you would think she would have dove into edibles. She states that she avoids the edibles due to her digestion issues, but looking at her weight, it is difficult for me to buy the prospect that she can't eat her pot.

All said & done, Chrons disease seriously sucks, and I do buy into the use of pot to ease symptoms.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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HunnyBunny wrote:the crazy continues at The Orbit.

Greta is now apologising for a 6 year-old post in which she used the word 'stupid'.
I want to extend my apologies for using the word “stupid.” In 2010 I wasn’t aware of the problems with this language. I probably should have been, but I wasn’t.
What she should have said was 'I'm sorry for what I said, it was stupid of me. Oh, shit - done it again. I'm such a fucking mong sometimes. Derp.'

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Any bets for when they have their first internal civil war? It's bound to happen sooner than later. It's in their nature to eat each other eventually as they get more puritanical.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Skep tickle wrote: The text above is written at 12th grade level, according to https://readability-score.com/ - reflects well on the author's vocabulary, but is at level at which only 15% of US adults read. From 2004 (with other sites saying there's been no change since then):

http://i.imgur.com/5P8z8la.png?2
So 48% of US adults read at a fifth-grade or lower level? :o We are truly screwed.

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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Post by ConcentratedH2O, OM »

Brive1987 wrote:*snip*

Without that scaffold, I detect a certain boredom and lack of topics for the newbie writers. A lack of purpose and focus. I mean Caine has written about a bird, her lost meds, her car breaking down and how exciting this all is.
I reckon Cainaji was super pissed when she saw that her blog name ("Affinity") was not at the top of the alphabetical FfTB listing on Meyers's sidebar because someone else called theirs "A Trivial Knot", and the *space* between A and T pushed it above hers.

Yeah, she definitely dug up a few rat bones to curse that guy.

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