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Re: The Refuge of the Toads

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Brive1987 wrote:Those are gold standard comments.
It's all about identity. That's all it is. EVER. It's also the way to end all irrational discussion, with an "I WIN!" button when dealing with any of these self obsessed absurdities.

I discovered this a few years ago, whenever one of these fucktoids announces you don't know what your talking about because you are not X, immeadiately reply with "I identify as X". It's the game over, atomic grade headfuck for any SJW.

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Za-zen wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Those are gold standard comments.
It's all about identity. That's all it is. EVER. It's also the way to end all irrational discussion, with an "I WIN!" button when dealing with any of these self obsessed absurdities.

I discovered this a few years ago, whenever one of these fucktoids announces you don't know what your talking about because you are not X, immeadiately reply with "I identify as X". It's the game over, atomic grade headfuck for any SJW.
Even better: "For the purposes of this argument, I identify as X". If they then question the argument-limiting clause, the correct response is "How dare you police my identity, shitlord", followed by blocking them.

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Kirbmarc wrote:Kate Smurthwaite questions Muscato's definition of "woman":

https://i.imgsafe.org/f593491.png
Where? That image gives me an error message (in Chrome): "i.imgsafe.org uses an unsupported protocol."

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Michael J wrote:I wonder if Danielle-Dave is a virgin. No Lesbian would want to sleep with him and sleeping with a Hetero female would be rape. Of course if he refused to sleep with another who is a male-presenting-male-who-identifies-as-a-woman he would be a shitlord.
If he did, I wonder how that would go down, so to speak.

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Day 2 Of The Economic Boycott of Service Dog On Behalf Of Trans Beings Who Need To Use The Bathroom...

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Steersman wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:Kate Smurthwaite questions Muscato's definition of "woman":

https://i.imgsafe.org/f593491.png
Where? That image gives me an error message (in Chrome): "i.imgsafe.org uses an unsupported protocol."
Now you can understand what it's like for us to converse with you.

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I told my Accountant the slymepit has been overrun with tedious talk about trans bathrooms. He said,

"Pretty sure gay dudes use the potty next to me all the time. ..."

Then he sorted it all out...

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Billie from Ockham wrote:
Dave wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:And then there is Dr Richard Carrier PhD and his love of polyunsaturated fats.
Does he love them more after he saturates them?
I believe that he's only gone so far as to say that he "doesn't mind" if someone else's saturation happens to end up on him.
... but only if this happens "in the course of events".

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Steersman wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:Kate Smurthwaite questions Muscato's definition of "woman":

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Where? That image gives me an error message (in Chrome): "i.imgsafe.org uses an unsupported protocol."
I uploaded it on TinyPic:

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Cunning Punt wrote:
Michael J wrote:I wonder if Danielle-Dave is a virgin. No Lesbian would want to sleep with him and sleeping with a Hetero female would be rape. Of course if he refused to sleep with another who is a male-presenting-male-who-identifies-as-a-woman he would be a shitlord.
If he did, I wonder how that would go down, so to speak.
I bet he's been drowning in pussy since he's declared himself to be a gay woman.

Think about it - hetero SJWs want nothing more than to smash the patriarchy by being able to call themselves lesbians, but they have been hamstrung until now by their preference for knob. Suddenly Fatcunto comes along and offers them PIV, which they can pretend is lezzer sex while gaining SJW brownie points. Everyone wins.

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Cunning Punt wrote:
Michael J wrote:I wonder if Danielle-Dave is a virgin. No Lesbian would want to sleep with him and sleeping with a Hetero female would be rape. Of course if he refused to sleep with another who is a male-presenting-male-who-identifies-as-a-woman he would be a shitlord.
If he did, I wonder how that would go down, so to speak.
Muscato's perfect partner would be another bearded 'lesbian' who would take him roughly from behind, just like other ladies do.

He'd have to be transphobic to refuse a lady-cock up the bumhole.

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dogen wrote:
Steersman wrote:Where? That image gives me an error message (in Chrome): "i.imgsafe.org uses an unsupported protocol."
Now you can understand what it's like for us to converse with you.
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Could Muscato become a target at Target? h/t to Caine
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Palestinian rapper is attacked by Columbia University SJW's because he rapped against the tradition of honor killings:
A strange thing happened to Nafar during a recent visit to the U.S. After he performed his song protesting “honor killings” at the Columbia University campus in New York, some anti-Zionist students attacked him for dealing with this topic — their reproach being that in this way, he promotes the Zionist view of Palestinians as barbaric primitives (adding that, if there are any honor killings, Israel is responsible for them because the Israeli occupation keeps Palestinians in primitive conditions and prevents their modernization). Here is Nafar’s dignified re-ply: “When you criticize me you criticize my own community in English to impress your radical professors. I sing in Arabic to protect the women in my own ‘hood.’”

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Søren Lilholt wrote:
Cunning Punt wrote:
Michael J wrote:I wonder if Danielle-Dave is a virgin. No Lesbian would want to sleep with him and sleeping with a Hetero female would be rape. Of course if he refused to sleep with another who is a male-presenting-male-who-identifies-as-a-woman he would be a shitlord.
If he did, I wonder how that would go down, so to speak.
I bet he's been drowning in pussy since he's declared himself to be a gay woman.

Think about it - hetero SJWs want nothing more than to smash the patriarchy by being able to call themselves lesbians, but they have been hamstrung until now by their preference for knob. Suddenly Fatcunto comes along and offers them PIV, which they can pretend is lezzer sex while gaining SJW brownie points. Everyone wins.
Christ on a bike, that's so crazy it could actually happen :idea:

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Oh dear.

Adam has totalled Becky's red mini. I fear it will be a dreary strap-on less month for him.
On the contrary, she'll retaliate by wrecking his purple starfish.
Could Adam be covering for Beck's DWI? Hm...

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The Rabid Puppies appear to have dominated the nomination process for 2016. Expect several thousand frothing-at-the-mouth articles before the week's end. Personally, I'm really hoping Space Raptor Butt Invasion by Hugo-nominated writer Chuck Tingle will take home the award for best short story.

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Can we award the first annual "Captain Redbeard Rum Award for Dogged Persistence In Defiance of Reality Whilst in a Minority of One". I don't think we need bother with the formality of a vote.


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Scandal in Canada...

"Nenshi Must Resign: Calgary mayor's Uber "sex criminal" sting scandal"
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Adam got "t-boned" into his drivers side door and according to Becky is 50% at fault.

I don't know about America, but here you give way to your right (drivers side) unless there is a mechanical reason not to (lights, stop sign ect) - or the RHS vehicle is at the terminus of a T intersection.

I'm struggling to see how Adam isn't either 90% wrong or 90% in the right. Ie he either had right of way or he didn't.

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Brive1987 wrote:Adam got "t-boned" into his drivers side door and according to Becky is 50% at fault.

I don't know about America, but here you give way to your right (drivers side) unless there is a mechanical reason not to (lights, stop sign ect) - or the RHS vehicle is at the terminus of a T intersection.

I'm struggling to see how Adam isn't either 90% wrong or 90% in the right. Ie he either had right of way or he didn't.
In a 'tie' at an intersection, vehicle to the right has right of way.

Hypothetically, Adam could share fault by entering intersection out of turn, the other driver fault for proceeding too fast.

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Post by Scented Nectar »

deLurch wrote:[youtube]dEWuAcMWDLY[/youtube]

Bonus points to anyone who can get Muscato to sing this at Karaoke.
Brive's new talking software! :D

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Had some emo driving a sissy car done that to me, I sure as hell would've been fixing to ram him with my Silverado.

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Post by Matt Cavanaugh »

Scented Nectar wrote:
deLurch wrote:[youtube]dEWuAcMWDLY[/youtube]

Bonus points to anyone who can get Muscato to sing this at Karaoke.
Brive's new talking software! :D
Muskrat's paean to Target.

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Brive1987 wrote:Adam got "t-boned" into his drivers side door and according to Becky is 50% at fault.

I don't know about America, but here you give way to your right (drivers side) unless there is a mechanical reason not to (lights, stop sign ect) - or the RHS vehicle is at the terminus of a T intersection.

I'm struggling to see how Adam isn't either 90% wrong or 90% in the right. Ie he either had right of way or he didn't.
I agree and so do the NHTSA stats. A huge majority of driver's-side T-bone accidents are due to one (and only one) of the two vehicles running a stop-sign or red-light. (Off-side T-bones are a mix of these and when a car turns left without a green arrow and is hit by a car going straight with a green light.) T-bones are almost never a 50/50 fault split. In fact, almost no accidents are 50/50 splits, even when they are written up that way by police.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Adam got "t-boned" into his drivers side door and according to Becky is 50% at fault.

I don't know about America, but here you give way to your right (drivers side) unless there is a mechanical reason not to (lights, stop sign ect) - or the RHS vehicle is at the terminus of a T intersection.

I'm struggling to see how Adam isn't either 90% wrong or 90% in the right. Ie he either had right of way or he didn't.
In a 'tie' at an intersection, vehicle to the right has right of way.

Hypothetically, Adam could share fault by entering intersection out of turn, the other driver fault for proceeding too fast.
If he entered out of turn I'd probably give points to the other driver.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Adam got "t-boned" into his drivers side door and according to Becky is 50% at fault.

I don't know about America, but here you give way to your right (drivers side) unless there is a mechanical reason not to (lights, stop sign ect) - or the RHS vehicle is at the terminus of a T intersection.

I'm struggling to see how Adam isn't either 90% wrong or 90% in the right. Ie he either had right of way or he didn't.
In a 'tie' at an intersection, vehicle to the right has right of way.

Hypothetically, Adam could share fault by entering intersection out of turn, the other driver fault for proceeding too fast.
Good rule of thumb but not a law.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Oh dear.

Adam has totalled Becky's red mini. I fear it will be a dreary strap-on less month for him.
On the contrary, she'll retaliate by wrecking his purple starfish.
You have a purple asshole?

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Brive1987 wrote:Oh dear.

Adam has totalled Becky's red mini. I fear it will be a dreary strap-on less month for him.

Meanwhile Wato recovers from her loss in a haze of medicinal stress busting weed.

[youtube]aCjXTzK2jdM[/youtube]

Holy fuck. Full Convergence has been achieved. She truly-is The Onion's Jim Anchower:
Rappin' at-cha about his broke-down car.

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The best-worst case scenario for JG is that he has accommodation wars to fight and the Internet is an optional extra.

"I want to believe"

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Service Dog wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Oh dear.

Adam has totalled Becky's red mini. I fear it will be a dreary strap-on less month for him.

Meanwhile Wato recovers from her loss in a haze of medicinal stress busting weed.

[youtube]aCjXTzK2jdM[/youtube]

Holy fuck. Full Convergence has been achieved. She truly-is The Onion's Jim Anchower:
Rappin' at-cha about his broke-down car.

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Love it.
Oddly McEwen has always reminded me of Jean Teasdale.

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I didn't think she could top "jury selection"-- as a boring topic which all adults already know-about... but

"how insurance payment is assessed for a totaled car" did the trick.

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Brive1987 wrote: If he entered out of turn I'd probably give points to the other driver.
1) It's a given that Adam is a spineless, wet-rag of a douchebag, by virtue of him being The Skank's domestic thrall;

2) Spineless, wet-rag, douchebag thralls all drive like assholes, road-rage & assholishness being their only compensation for having had their testicles removed;

3) Said douchebag geldings are further enraged for having to drive the über-sissy putzmobiles foisted upon them by their dominatrixes, i.e., drab-colored mini-vans, light blue family sedans, mauve Ford Focusi, Cooper Minii (only cool if you're gay), Pruisi, etc.;

4) All this leads to a significant majority of traffic incidents being caused by neutered douchebags driving sissy vehicles. (Steve Shives is surely a menace to society behind the wheel);

5) The best & only response to dickhead driving by these dickless wonders is to aggressively attempt to ram, cut-off, block, blow past at high speed, casually meander into their lane, or slow to a crawl when being tailgated by them. Generally, this smacks them down to their proper omega male rung on the social totem pole and into docile, deferential driving patterns, at least until the next pegging at home.

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ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: You have a purple asshole?
How else does one get royally fucked?

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Service Dog wrote:I didn't think she could top "jury selection"-- as a boring topic which all adults already know-about... but

"how insurance payment is assessed for a totaled car" did the trick.

Having never been in an accident I don't know anything aboot that but I can think about 80 other things I can do that watch that.

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comhcinc wrote:
Service Dog wrote:I didn't think she could top "jury selection"-- as a boring topic which all adults already know-about... but

"how insurance payment is assessed for a totaled car" did the trick.

Having never been in an accident I don't know anything aboot that but I can think about 80 other things I can do that watch that.
Today's lesson: if the insured value is less than the cost of repairs ... you will get the insured value.

Tomorrow we will learn .......

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Nice that you're back.

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I'd searched earlier for news online about John Greg, nothing had turned up, but I'm sorry to report that on another try just now this bad, sad news turned up:

Obituary

Jesus. :cry:

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Brive1987 wrote:Nice that you're back.
For a bit. Thanks, Brive :)

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Skep tickle wrote:I'd searched earlier for news online about John Greg, nothing had turned up, but I'm sorry to report that on another try just now this bad, sad news turned up:

Obituary

Jesus. :cry:

I came across that early today but I keep it to myself. Not knowing for sure I was hoping for the best.

The fuckhead.

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It would be nice that if you are a friend of the pit to just check in and say hi and let us know you are okay.

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Skep tickle wrote:I'd searched earlier for news online about John Greg, nothing had turned up, but I'm sorry to report that on another try just now this bad, sad news turned up:

Obituary

Jesus. :cry:
Aw, John.

Fuck.

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Well, I know the past year or so has been uber-shitty for many on the 'pit'.

Now , it's struck me as well.

I lost my grandmother this January.
I didn't say anything about it here that I recall because I hardly ever bring my real life to social media (except for my opinions).
Plus, she was 93 and had been slowly dying since her accident and operation over the previous months. So it wasn't unexpected. She had a long life.

Now my mom has died. At 72, when most of the women on her side of the family at least hit 80. With no warning, no obvious physical health issues. The only consolation is that it seems to have happened in her bed, while she was sleeping.

So now I'm dealing with arranging a funeral for the first time in my life.

And while not as important to me as family, Prince and David Bowie died this year as probably 99 percent of you know. I know some people here have been struggling with lack of a job or personal illness and while I haven't said anything to ALL of you , I have read about and sympathized with each and every one.

2016 is turning out to be a really shitty year :(

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katamari Damassi wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Oh dear.

Adam has totalled Becky's red mini. I fear it will be a dreary strap-on less month for him.
On the contrary, she'll retaliate by wrecking his purple starfish.
Could Adam be covering for Beck's DWI? Hm...
I like the way you think.

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I had a great aunt who had an appointment booked in a Switzerland euthanasia clinic ten years ahead. When the time came, she was still mentally competent, but put all her affairs in order and went along anyway. She had decided that that was her last day of life and went through with it.

Was speaking to a young kid yesterday who had had a job in a nursing home. He said the one thing they didn't train you for was dealing with requests to die. "Good day Mrs Robinson, would you like the chicken or the fish?" "Just let me die." "Um…" Half a million dollars for an extra ten years in pretty horrendous conditions.

It isn't easy.

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Post by HunnyBunny »

Sorry Clarence, 2016 is indeed a shitty year.

And John, well fuck.

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Sorry to hear about your mom, Clarence.

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Post by Clarence »

Sorry for John Greg as well :(

Hope his family and loved ones are able to cop.
He brought his wit and humor here, he must have been popular 'out there'.

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I've had a chance to drive different model minis, and they're really not that pussy-ish, esp. the pre-2005/2006 S models that had the supercharger instead of the turbo. I drove an S Cooperworks model, 6MT. Almost no body roll, even when you pushed it, really solid mid-range acceleration, great visibility and build like a fucking tank:



and even when the Mini is totaled, it does a solid job of saving your ass: http://westseattleblog.com/2012/08/west ... d-on-35th/


Honestly, if I had the scratch, I'd have absolutely gotten a Cooperworks S. But I had Honda budget, so that's what i got.

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Skep tickle wrote:I'd searched earlier for news online about John Greg, nothing had turned up, but I'm sorry to report that on another try just now this bad, sad news turned up:

Obituary

Jesus. :cry:
Goddamnit

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Post by Clarence »

Thank you, Hunnybunny and Skeptickle.

I'll try to stay off here until I can come back and not infect anything with sadness.
I wish you guys and gals who cared for & knew John Greg the best, and I hope you can avoid any heartache of your own this year.

Don't worry about me. I'll be back when I can be my normal funny or sometimes obnoxious (hopefully more funny) self.

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Post by Ape+lust »

I'm sorry, Clarence. I hope you're holding it together okay.

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Skep tickle wrote:I'd searched earlier for news online about John Greg, nothing had turned up, but I'm sorry to report that on another try just now this bad, sad news turned up:

Obituary

Jesus. :cry:
Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Fuck.

Goodbye, mate. I hope you knew you had friends and you didn't die alone.

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Post by ERV »

Goddammit.

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Clarence wrote:Well, I know the past year or so has been uber-shitty for many on the 'pit'.

Now , it's struck me as well.

I lost my grandmother this January.
I didn't say anything about it here that I recall because I hardly ever bring my real life to social media (except for my opinions).
Plus, she was 93 and had been slowly dying since her accident and operation over the previous months. So it wasn't unexpected. She had a long life.

Now my mom has died. At 72, when most of the women on her side of the family at least hit 80. With no warning, no obvious physical health issues. The only consolation is that it seems to have happened in her bed, while she was sleeping.

So now I'm dealing with arranging a funeral for the first time in my life.

And while not as important to me as family, Prince and David Bowie died this year as probably 99 percent of you know. I know some people here have been struggling with lack of a job or personal illness and while I haven't said anything to ALL of you , I have read about and sympathized with each and every one.

2016 is turning out to be a really shitty year :(

Boo. I have dealt with the death of a parent. I here to help in anyway I can if you need it.

Sorry for your lose.

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Post by comhcinc »

So not to take away from people's mourning but I hey I have a job interview tomorrow. This has the potential of being something good.

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Post by dogen »

Fuck you John Greg, you has given me a sad.

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Post by Brive1987 »

Clarence that sucks big time. I know from experience that losing parents in their early 70s is tough.

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