The Refuge of the Toads

#45541

Wild Zontargs wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:

This link config doesn't work (copy link from IPad app)

[youtube]k2UN6wz8qE4[/youtube]

And now the embed doesn't work for IPads.

Yet again. I can't work like this. :?
We use the entire longform URL now:

[.youtube][./youtube]

[y.outube][/youtube]

Not sure I get the full link (YouTube.com) from the iPad app. :bjarte:

#45542

If everyone remembers this vid:

[youtube][/youtube]

I believe that the new social media site that was hinted at may be minds.com ie

https://www.minds.com/search?q=computing%20forever

#45543

Blimey, Nottinghamshire Police have just lost the plot re. "hate crime":-

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#45544

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#45545

I didn't mean to post that, just a test, but what the hell. :dance:

#45546

Speaking of hate crimes; in Edmonton Canada an incident occurred where some people in a car were frustrated by being held up by a cyclist so yelled at him to get off the road and called him a nigger (he was actually a muslim). Blogs have been written and there have been demands that the people in the car be charged with a hate crime.

#45547

Nnd likk;https://archive.is/emn8z :drool:

#45548

OK, sounds like we have a working solution for everyone, but one which has fucked previous posts. I'll update all prior posts via a SQL update later.

#45549

free thoughtpolice wrote:Speaking of hate crimes; in Edmonton Canada an incident occurred where some people in a car were frustrated by being held up by a cyclist so yelled at him to get off the road and called him a nigger (he was actually a muslim). Blogs have been written and there have been demands that the people in the car be charged with a hate crime.

A Steerscar named HateCrime.

#45550

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#45551

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#45552

[youtube]youtu.be/QI0RiqK3XJc?t=2m30s[/youtube]

#45553

Fuck it.

#45554

I have confidence the admins here know what they're doing.

#45555

Keating wrote:I have confidence the admins here know what they're doing.

BAHAHAHAHAHA

Sucker.

#45556

Keating wrote:I have confidence the admins here know what they're doing.

Lsuoma, probably:

I have in my hand a piece of code. My good friends, for the second time in our history, a Pit admin has returned from the SQL databases bringing peace with honour. I believe there will be working YouTube videos for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

#45557

CommanderTuvok wrote:"Feminists should end their distrust of science - Angela Saini

Crackpot theories on gender roles have long been used to keep women down. But new research, including a study on killer whales, is relevant to us and shouldn’t be dismissed"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ler-whales

:popcorn:

I'm amazed that the comments were full of "I don't know of any feminists who say that they distrust science" (and related). Don't they read the other authors there? Don't they have twitter (or worse, Tumblr)? Of course, perhaps some are really ignorant, but I do wonder how many of them have their head in the sand. A lot of criticism of Evolutionary Psychology as well, although the author of the piece does use some dubious (or even bullshit) science - the "evolutionary selected for post-menopausal lifespan" thing is a "wait, what?" moment.

#45558

free thoughtpolice wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Oggy wrote:
I have returned from the Pioneer Fire. When I arrived, it was a 3500 acre fire that was 35% contained. When I left, it was 55,000 acres and was 15% contained.
Well done, Oggy! Maybe stay home next time?
It just goes to show that the Intersectional Feminist Theory of using aviation fuel as fire retardant to fight forest fires isn't practical.

But water is so patriarchal!

#45559

King Crimson is soon to release a CD. Fripp still hasn't got tattoos or piercings :cry:
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#45560

FT: Was that the personnel they had in Victoria?

#45561

Wild Zontargs wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:

This link config doesn't work (copy link from IPad app)

[youtube]k2UN6wz8qE4[/youtube]

And now the embed doesn't work for IPads.

Yet again. I can't work like this. :?
We use the entire longform URL now:

[.youtube][./youtube]

[youtube][/youtube]

Once again I reflect that Jenneke by any objective standard is not beautiful at all, but by some je ne sais quoi she is one of the most desirable women in the world. Far more than any "super model" that I care to name for example.

Who knows what it is? Her obvious joie de vivre is no doubt part of it, but by no means the whole story. Not at all.

(The English language, not content with kidnapping words from other languages, steals whole phrases without any sense of shame.)

#45562

Keating wrote:I have confidence the admins here know what they're doing.

I think I've located the problem.

http://s1.dmcdn.net/WkG7-/1280x720-uU4.jpg

#45563

I see videos where the full URL has been entered.

#45564

AndrewV69 wrote: Once again I reflect that Jenneke by any objective standard is not beautiful at all....

There's something seriously wrong with you, man.

#45565

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:I see videos where the full URL has been entered.

https://i.sli.mg/qMKEEX.jpg

#45566

The videos that do appear (to me, using Firefox on Windows 7 Enterprise) are much larger than before and the right-most 10% or so are missing.

But I'm still getting way more than I paid for on this site, so die woord ant fuck (or whatever).

#45567

free thoughtpolice wrote:FT: Was that the personnel they had in Victoria?

Looks like it - the logo on the drum was the same as the tour used.

#45568

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
AndrewV69 wrote: Once again I reflect that Jenneke by any objective standard is not beautiful at all....
There's something seriously wrong with you, man.

Same as you actually.

#45569

Scented Nectar wrote:
Steersman wrote: <snip>
Dang! And I too thought some part of my oeuvre might be immortalized. ;-) But have fun - do check in periodically with travelogues and tales of distant suns. :-)
I would love to immortalize you in NMS!!! You are one of my favourite people here. ...

Gosh, gee-willickers. Thanks. :-)

Scented Nectar wrote:I need some hints though. A sea filled planet would fit in good with your seafaring avatar, but that's all I can think of. Do you have any favourite weather conditions or colours or anything like that?

That would definitely be nice, although the "seafaring avatar" is a bit of a play on words relative to the science of cybernetics - my claim to fame and fortune such as it is:

The term cybernetics stems from κυβερνήτης (kybernētēs) "steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder". As with the ancient Greek pilot, independence of thought is important in cybernetics. Cybernetics is a broad field of study, but the essential goal of cybernetics is to understand and define the functions and processes of systems that have goals and that participate in circular, causal chains that move from action to sensing to comparison with desired goal, and again to action.

Haven't the foggiest idea how you might integrate some of those aspects into a "sea filled planet", but it might be kind of cool if you did so. Bit of an inside joke, kind of like "Rayshul's Perfection" planet, and the flower you were thinking of as an emblem for it. :-)

But, somewhat apropos of which, I had been reading On Stormy Seas - written, as it happens, by an old aquaintance - that described the voyages of discovery by Captain George Vancouver, and which you might be interested in. What was particularly fascinating, and which might be relevant to the exploration mode you seem to be favouring, was the sense of wonder at new territories that were never-before-seen by non-natives, and the process of naming them for friends, patrons, politicians, and regents.

#45570

Kirbmarc wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:Speaking of hate crimes; in Edmonton Canada an incident occurred where some people in a car were frustrated by being held up by a cyclist so yelled at him to get off the road and called him a nigger (he was actually a muslim). Blogs have been written and there have been demands that the people in the car be charged with a hate crime.
A Steerscar named HateCrime.

Novum Organum:

Therefore shoddy and inept application of words lays siege to the intellect in wondrous ways.

#45571

Kirbmarc wrote:
Malky wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:
I think that this is rather likely. It's also group thinking vs. individual thinking in general.

lack of friends and positive relationships in general, low self esteem, lack of social skills,
It it possible to have all of these issues (hi everyone at one point in my life) without having a wish to belong so I wonder why you settled on these?
Yes, it's possible to have these issues and not have a strong wish to belong, if you have a strong sense of individualism, or if you're on the autism spectrum. It's also possible to exercise just a little, eat quite a lot and not get fat, if you have a particular metabolism. But not exercising enough and eating more than you should are risk factors for obesity, just like lack of a social network, poor self esteem and no social skills are a risk factor for a strong need to belong.

A "wish to belong" is certainly a fairly common motivation, although, like most if not all motivations, it can, in both its surfeit and its dearth, have some pathological aspects. Friedrich Nietzsche:

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

#45572

AndrewV69 wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
AndrewV69 wrote: Once again I reflect that Jenneke by any objective standard is not beautiful at all....
There's something seriously wrong with you, man.
Same as you actually.

Not sure that there really is any such "objective standard" for beauty - eye of the beholder and all that. But I would tend to agree with you as far as your conclusion about Jenneke herself is concerned - remarkable "spring-loaded" physique, and reasonably attractive, but not sure that she would qualify as "classically" beautiful.

#45573

Hat-trick and then some: "Woot! All your bases belong to me!" :-)

#45574

Jenneke ain't exactly a 'butterface', but I don't think most dudes, if shown a still picture of just her face, would call her beautiful.

#45575

NoGodsEver wrote:Jenneke ain't exactly a 'butterface', but I don't think most dudes, if shown a still picture of just her face, would call her beautiful.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK. Jenneke is hot for her body and for her face, but also because she is not a miserable, cat-obsessed feminist who has no interest in those who work hard. If I met her in a bar, she would have zero interest in dating me, but she would hang. Both of us would understand that there is zero chance I will ever see, feel, touch or sense her vagina, but she wouldn't treat me like a CHUD troll like BeckyBooze would.

This is the largest mistake of feminism. Straight dudes, by and large just want women who are reasonable and who aren't nagging psychos. Straight dudes, by and large, love and respect women as equals. But that is not enough, which is why I heard a story on NPR about a 40-year-old NPR correspondent who is whining/reporting about what it is like to be 40 and childless and unmarried. You made your choices, lady. You pushed men away. You don't get to cry in 2016 that the Ghostbusters movie taught you, who graduated high school in 1994, that you could be something.

Yes, I am annoyed at the moment.

#45576

Steersman wrote:Hat-trick and then some: "Woot! All your bases belong to me!" :-)

3 empty netters, you da man!

#45577

deLurch wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:I see videos where the full URL has been entered.
https://i.sli.mg/qMKEEX.jpg

I tried in vain to come up with a joke along that line.

#45578

I don't really know if Jenneke is beautiful or not, but I think we are all in agreement that she is pretty fat.

#45579

NoGodsEver wrote:Jenneke ain't exactly a 'butterface', but I don't think most dudes, if shown a still picture of just her face, would call her beautiful.

Damned cute will do just fine.

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#45580

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:Jenneke ain't exactly a 'butterface', but I don't think most dudes, if shown a still picture of just her face, would call her beautiful.
Damned cute will do just fine.

Michelle-Jenneke-4.jpg

michelle-jenneke-1.png

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'tis the "girl next door" feature and a bubbly, bright personality. As Hemingway might put it, she has heart.

#45581

free thoughtpolice wrote:Speaking of hate crimes; in Edmonton Canada an incident occurred where some people in a car were frustrated by being held up by a cyclist so yelled at him to get off the road and called him a nigger (he was actually a muslim). Blogs have been written and there have been demands that the people in the car be charged with a hate crime.

No sympathy with the individual(s) who did the shouting. Saying he or she was 'frustrated at being held up' is a pathetic weaselly excuse for what he did and I hope they get the book thrown at him within the limits of reasonable application of the law and due process of course. He is a shit.

Those in the car who did not shout are not guilty and should resist his attempt to try to generalise the guilt. The feeling of frustration at being held up may well have been shared. The shouting was done by an individual.

If you think that reasonable application of the law obliges us to accept 'frustration' as being a valid excuse for this, you're an idiot.

#45582

I fear 'frustration' might be a very valid excuse in the SJW world of 'feelz before realz'.

#45583

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I fear 'frustration' might be a very valid excuse in the SJW world of 'feelz before realz'.

From the horse's mouth - so to speak:

[Bashir Mohamed] says he took the matter to Edmonton Police, and says that has made him even more frustrated.

He says a police officer who contacted him told him the incident isn't a hate crime. Indeed, the officer also said, according to Mohamed, that if he is to press charges against the motorists that he, too, will face charges — linked to him taking the entire lane of the roadway. ....

#45584

Really? wrote:YOU TAKE THAT BACK. Jenneke is hot for her body and for her face, but also because she is not a miserable, cat-obsessed feminist who has no interest in those who work hard. If I met her in a bar, she would have zero interest in dating me, but she would hang.

It, on the other hand, would not hang for very long.

#45585

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:Jenneke ain't exactly a 'butterface', but I don't think most dudes, if shown a still picture of just her face, would call her beautiful.
Damned cute will do just fine.

Michelle-Jenneke-4.jpg

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Matt, I think 3 photos of Jenneke in a single post is about maximum. I also have work to do!

#45586

NoGodsEver wrote:Jenneke ain't exactly a 'butterface', but I don't think most dudes, if shown a still picture of just her face, would call her beautiful.

We respect her for or her mind, shitlord.

#45587

Shatterface wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:Jenneke ain't exactly a 'butterface', but I don't think most dudes, if shown a still picture of just her face, would call her beautiful.
We respect her for or her mind, shitlord.

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#45588

I don't find Jenneke physically attractive (personal tastes), but I have great admiration for her spirits.

#45589

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I don't find Jenneke physically attractive (personal tastes), but I have great admiration for her spirits.

Good, 'cause you'll be a married man soon and that's the end of all the gazing around!
or so I've been told

#45590

Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't check the menu...

#45591

To further check out youtube link postings (but mostly just because):

[youtube][/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnpY46lOTX4

#45592

http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_ ... 7GQeFR97IV

Hart shows how the elite (who are of course immune to the unwitting racism that the rest of us carry around) have pursued ‘zombie racism’ post-Macpherson, using zero tolerance policies to police language on the automatic assumption that the hidden problem of racism is getting worse.

Which is why monitors and drama groups end up in Essex schools lecturing children to watch out for racism that is not there, while teachers are obliged to tick boxes and record thousands of ordinary playground moments as racial incidents, pursuing a government policy based on ‘the assumption that children are conditioned, from birth, by the persistent racism of their parents’ generation’. And why we have witnessed a crusade against the ‘spectre’ of ‘hidden’ racism in football, based on the assumption that those ugly people who play and watch the beautiful game need to be re-educated.

The result of this new ‘racial correctness’, says Hart, has been to pigeonhole black and ethnic-minority people as perennial victims, and to demonise white people (especially the working-class ones) as unwitting but unreconstructed racists. Little wonder that official anti-racism has helped to exacerbate divisions rather than overcome them.

#45593

I like how the new Youtube embed shows up full-width rather than microscopic. Also, if you have Flash Control installed, it does finally show the still with the title (rather than a black box you have to click first to get to the title).

#45594

Haven't heard of Abdessamad Belhaj before, but he presents an interesting thesis:
http://www.migraciokutato.hu/en/2016/08 ... iberalism/

Migration is useful for the neo-liberal model of the borderless, minimal, global society, but is calamitous for the European citizens as a whole. The millions of migrants neoliberalism welcomes appear as a cheap work force; it believes that the expenses spent on them will pay back by lower salaries, etc.. In the meantime, European citizens get poorer since average wages are decreasing, and unemployment is on the rise. The logic of neoliberalism only looks at the profit it could get from Muslim migration. It does not want to see that Muslim migration has its own moral economy, and that this moral economy is a deadlock.

#45595

Not on my watch, buddy!

#45596

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Not on my watch, buddy!

Give us your position Phil.

Do you believe that French nationals should initiate closer relations with Polish citizens living in France?

#45597

MarcusAu wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Not on my watch, buddy!
Give us your position Phil.

43° 42′ 12.24″ N, 7° 15′ 58.68″ E

Aprox...

#45598

Doxed!

#45599

piginthecity wrote: No sympathy with the individual(s) who did the shouting. Saying he or she was 'frustrated at being held up' is a pathetic weaselly excuse for what he did and I hope they get the book thrown at him within the limits of reasonable application of the law and due process of course. He is a shit.

...and before you know it, calling somebody a "fat fuck" is a hate crime. Then it will be calling somebody a "retard" will be a hate crime".
Before you know it calling somebody a "shit" will get you landed in the gulag.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, words will never hurt me.

#45600

VickyCaramel wrote:
...and before you know it, calling somebody a "fat fuck" is a hate crime. Then it will be calling somebody a "retard" will be a hate crime".
Before you know it calling somebody a "shit" will get you landed in the gulag.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, words will never hurt me.

That's a nice sentiment - but could you state it in a less hurtful way?