The Refuge of the Toads

#46021

sp0tlight wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:9000 eh?

I'm thinking of releasing a best of e-book.

If someone will pay me for both pages worth of work.
You need to do it properly:

1. FundMe
2. Patreon
3. Kickstarter
4. Not delivering shit

I guess I'd be underachieving, even for a SJW, if I just skipped to point 4.

#46022

Fuck me. :nin:

#46023

Shatterface wrote: I think the absurdity is the point. How better to demonstrate your SJW credentials than expressing a belief in something so clearly ridiculous?

Hey you might be right. They seem to be getting more and more ridiculous over the years, which may well be a sign they're trying to continually push the envelope. In order for them to stay relevant they have to find ever-more outlandish ways to be outraged.

#46024

katamari Damassi wrote:Trans woman implies that an injectible estrogen shortage is a conspiracy on the part of the FDA. Some refreshing pushback in the comments section. Surprising for the Guardian.

I see rational push back quite often in Guardian comment sections. Which tells me the Guardian is engaging in a lot of clickbaiting, because it's not as if they're actually reading and learning from logical refutations to the silliness of so many of their articles.

#46025

That has to be the best ninja ever.

#46026

"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.

#46027

http://www.autostraddle.com/we-messed-up-348709/

#46028

Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.

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#46029

Gumby wrote:
Shatterface wrote: I think the absurdity is the point. How better to demonstrate your SJW credentials than expressing a belief in something so clearly ridiculous?
Hey you might be right. They seem to be getting more and more ridiculous over the years, which may well be a sign they're trying to continually push the envelope. In order for them to stay relevant they have to find ever-more outlandish ways to be outraged.

I think there's definitely something to the idea that SJW culture demands expressions of belief in absurdities.

Acceptance of a well-evidenced claim doesn't demonstrate any ideological commitment because it can be dismissed as a pragmatic acceptance of fact; even your ideological foes can accept something for which the evidence is over-whelming.

SJWs demand a show of faith, and that requires the expression of belief in something unevidenced, or even contrary to the evidence.

#46030

sp0tlight wrote:Hmm, I just came with idea how to fix Universities chapter 9 problem. Make watching 12 Angry Men mandatory.

I believe you mean Title IX. Chapter 9 is for when a town or city goes bankrupt.

#46031

Ninja'd, of course

#46032

Steersman wrote:In any case, kind of curious about your views on Canada's recently ratified assisted dying bill. While it certainly seems a step in the right direction, it also seems to leave high and dry many of those for whom the scene in no longer worth the candle. Unfortunate that those people - a group which, potentially at least, includes all of us - will now have take that battle to the courts once again.

Sorry for a very long reply, but this is what I wrote at WEIT in February 2015:

Here’s my opinion, with some background first. I do hospital care as well as an office practice, and it commonly involves palliative care. I’ve known my patients in this rural and under-doctored area for up to thirty years and I’m not going to forsake them at the end. Assisted suicide has not been legal here, but now we have a Supreme Court ruling that gives us 12 months to figure what to do. In general, the emphasis in end of life care in Canada is much more humane than that which I read about in the US – quality of life prevails over quantity. We simply don’t do heroics on dying people, and it may be that’s because there is no financial incentive to do them (and perhaps even a disincentive as their extra costs are paid for in our taxes). Proper palliative care can diminish the need to think about assisted suicide, but of course it doesn’t eliminate it.
If we had passed legislation on assisted suicide before the Supreme Court was involved, we could have made judgements about who might qualify, given that beyond the straightforward case of the terminally ill, there are some difficult groups to consider:
1. There will be people who hate their lives, but who aren’t terminally ill. Should they qualify?
2. How about the depressed, especially those who have been resistant to treatment. They may be rational and simply feel it isn’t worthwhile.
3. Physically disabled people, perhaps in great pain or having dreadful quality of life, but with their life-expectancy undiminished?
4. Who shall speak for those unable to speak for themselves, but who suffer?
But now the Court has ruled that there is a right for all citizens with severe illness, disease and disability, and includes both physical and mental disorders in that ruling, to be assisted in ending their lives. So we have lost the opportunity to have a law that pre-screens the kind of illness and individual that might qualify. OK, that’s what the Supreme Court is for – and we will cope.
In other jurisdictions where these things have been enacted, it is generally left to a physician to prescribe a lethal dose of medication, and it is up to the patient to self-administer it. There is no expectation that a physician must do this on demand; they have the option to decline and allow some other doc to do it as a matter of conscience.
In the comments at WEIT the last time this was discussed, there was a good deal of ‘it’s about the patient, not about you’ directed at docs who raised even mild objections to being given this role, to the extent in one case of a thoughtful doc being told he needed to change career. Well, I’ve some sympathy with him/her, despite my long history of supporting assisted suicide, and my liberal exploitation of the ‘dual-effect’ of narcotics in the terminally ill. The first reason is that as a professional, I owe my patients something that is central to my job – my best opinion. I don’t do my job if I give people what they want, I only do it if I give them what my professional judgement says is right. I have to justify it to myself, which I assess by imagining all my colleagues looking over my shoulder and second-guessing me. If I think they would agree, I can go ahead. There is no such thing as just writing a prescription that somebody requests without some judgement being applied; anything else is an abnegation of duty. It’s not always popular, but it is the difference between seeking a professional opinion and hiring a tradesman. It’s nothing to do with arrogance, but is a basic expectation of fulfilling the duty of care and any licensing body would come down hard on a doctor who didn’t take it seriously. Consequently, I have to approach a lethal prescription the same way. This is a matter that should be up to the patient, but by involving a doctor you invoke his judgement. I’ll repeat that to be clear, this is a matter that should be the patient’s decision and not the doctor’s, but in asking a doctor provide assistance, you cannot help but get the doctor’s sense of ethics involved, and that will always involve an internal debate about whether this particular case is justified. Am I ready to take on that role – trying to write a lethal prescription whilst attempting to withhold my own judgement? I’m not sure yet, and it is something that ought not to be done without much thought. There’s something else too, and that is that I will carry another burden afterwards in that I would feel some responsibility for that death. We all have a metaphorical bag of bones that we drag around after ourselves, filled with our mistakes that we wish we could do over. None of us need to make it heavier than it is. Now it’s likely that 90% of requests wouldn’t trigger any difficult ethical decision, but even then I still get the burden of responsibility. At some point the bag of bones gets too heavy.
The second reason is a logistical one. I’m in a rural area. There isn’t another doctor always available to step in when the first doesn’t want to do it. There would also be the strong expectation (and a reasonable one) that a patient who has trusted me for thirty years would want me to be in on this very important matter. There would be pressure to conform, whatever my conscience said, or whether or not I agreed in that particular case (again, I know it’s not my decision, but you can’t get me involved without me having an opinion.) I’m already the only doctor in the area willing to be involved with abortions . Others keep their consciences clean by telling their patients to see me for this purpose, though how that is morally superior I’m not sure. I may have the reputation of being not only ‘the abortion doctor’, but also the one who is willing to ‘finish off’ patients? Doesn’t sound very nice.

So all in all, I am in favour of assisted suicide being available, and I’m probably more willing than most to include ‘rational suicides’ outside the traditional terminally ill applicants. I’m not sure we need to include a doctor in the process, beyond certifying that a patient has no hope of cure in the latter cases, and that the patient understands the nature and implications of his decision in the former. I’m sure I’m being influenced in this by a couple of factors. One was the decision made to withdraw fluids from my father after a devastating stroke. It’s common practice to treat big strokes palliatively when there seems no hope of any quality of life, and I don’t know how many times I have led a family through the decision making process. I never knew I would still be questioning myself as to whether I and my family had done the right thing 16 years later. The other thing is that it seems likely I now know how I shall die myself, having developed leukemia. Naturally I have been thinking on it a lot, but I’m still confused as to how I should proceed mentally. Yes, I would want the right to die, but I suspect decent palliative care will make the process comfortable enough that I don’t exercise that right. Complicated.
So to summarise: a good decision, and one I applaud as a patient, whilst having qualms as the physician expected to assist. It probably just means I have to think about it to the point where the doctor in me is on the same page as the patient in me. If I can be comfortable with a complete transfer of decision-making to the patient for an abortion, I can probably do it for this. I just need, say, 12 months or so…

We have failed to use those 12 months effectively, partly because Harper could see no votes in tackling it, and partly because Trudeau has been far too careful to protect us from ourselves. My current view is that this should be a personal decision available to all. The only medical component should be a quick exam to ascertain someone is in their right mind and understands the nature and consequences of the decision. Armed with a letter saying they do, they can then purchase the necessary drugs from a pharmacist. No moral dilemmas for doctors and all can pop off whenever they feel ready.

#46033

I think what I find most interesting about the ZachAttack doxing fiasco is this bit:

Rudderhouse and I decided that 12 hours was a good window for the sting because we estimated that by that time the anti-GamerGate trolls would have figured out that the dox were fake, but it would be too late and they would have already made a fool out of themselves by celebrating, sending me threats, and generally ceding all semblance of the high ground which they had claimed to hold since the beginning of GamerGate.

However, not everything went according to plan. It was not, in fact, the anti-GamerGaters which discovered that the dox were fake. They had completely bought into the narrative Rudderhouse had fed them, and had ceased to check their own lust for revenge. They wanted the dox to be real. Instead, it was GamerGaters who — approximately 7 hours into the 12-hour window — analyzed the Japanese lettering in one of the Zachary photos. This led to the true source: a stock photo for a traveler’s WiFi advertisement. Zachary was a lie. Either Anti-GamerGate hadn’t thought to perform a search based on the Japanese words in the advertisement, or no one present in the dox chatroom could read Japanese. Ultimately, it was average, everyday GamerGaters that beat anti-GamerGate’s dox team to the punch and discovered Zachary’s true identity first. Ironic!

When it comes to SJWs, I really think their elite probably are the cleverest people in the room. So it's telling that average anti-SJWs with no aspirations of leadership or acclaim keep making fools of them with fairly basic fact-checking.

#46034

Shatterface wrote: I think there's definitely something to the idea that SJW culture demands expressions of belief in absurdities.

Acceptance of a well-evidenced claim doesn't demonstrate any ideological commitment because it can be dismissed as a pragmatic acceptance of fact; even your ideological foes can accept something for which the evidence is over-whelming.

SJWs demand a show of faith, and that requires the expression of belief in something unevidenced, or even contrary to the evidence.

That makes sense, given how many times we have noticed uncanny similarities between sjw-ism/rad-feminism and religion. I wonder, though, how aware these people are of the faith aspect of their belief system. With religionists like Christians, faith is centermost in their minds, it's the whole point. SJWs/fembots don't seem to be aware of their faith; rather, they seem to have successfully convinced themselves that they are using reason, skepticism and logic to arrive at their stated ideological positions - see the Atheism Plus creed for an example. I suppose that is just a defense mechanism they employ to steer their minds away from the uncomfortable thought that they are immersed in what is for all intents and purposes religious thinking. And maybe some of the bizarre, irrational and angry behavior they display is cognitive dissonance due to the conflict between their religious behavior and the veneer of rationality and skepticism they try to apply to it.

#46035

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:
I assumed that "taco" and "hot dog bun" were euphemisms. Then I clicked through. We cannot all die too soon, such that a new dominant life-form can emerge.
I must disagree. We just need a lot more chlorine in the gene pool. My dad always used to say "too many people, not enough leopards." It used to bother me that he said it loudly at my school functions.

So, he would have enjoyed Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday saying "I'll be your Panthera pardus"?

#46036

Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.

Translation : "oh fuck I've failed to live by the unreasonable exceptions I ascribe everyone else too, and now must bow and scrape to avoid the reprisals I prescribe for everyone else when they do exactly what I have done"

#46037

fuzzy wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.
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My mum had this song on a tape in the car in the 80s.
Day : made.

#46038

Original:

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#46039

I notice that Springsteen can actually pronounce "deuce" and not make it sound like "douche."

#46040

Sunder wrote:I notice that Springsteen can actually pronounce "deuce" and not make it sound like "douche."

I still think douche when I hear Brucey. I guess I hate New Jersey. :drool:

#46041

katamari Damassi wrote:Trans woman implies that an injectible estrogen shortage is a conspiracy on the part of the FDA. Some refreshing pushback in the comments section. Surprising for the Guardian.

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Your post reminds me of the deaf and blind community members who oppose technology that will cure deafness and blindness. Shouldn't some of the crazy people oppose HRT because it "fixes" a condition?

#46042

Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.

Is this thing basically a bigger Atheism + serving the greater SJW community? I've been reading you good folk's responses & the quotes. I haven't heard this kind of adorable silliness since the A+ forum went into it's death spiral. I got my hopes up for the Obit but it immediately became a darker, dimmer, FTB. Could this be the one to fill the void?

#46043

Oh, Meyers.

You are such a cunt.

Truly, I want to see Meyers creeping down the stairs at 3 in the morning, and be confronted by a cunt with a knife. Meyers not injured, but the burglar dies (as I wish upon them all) while driving away. Meyers, not knowing whether the guy is still in his house or not, phones the police...

"I'm sorry, Sir, but records indicate you are a pudgy little shitstain who doesn't like us. You apparently believe that we should decide which laws we enforce and which we don't. In this case, we have decided that we don't give a monkey's left ball about you or your property. Our advice is that you lock yourself in a windowless room with a gun, and block the underside of the door with whatever materials are at hand. This will stop your brain and blood leaking out and spoiling the surface of nearby floors when you do the right thing."

http://i.imgur.com/7hJYfG9.png

http://i.imgur.com/2Bj0GZU.png

#46044

I heard that song all through my early childhood & said "douche" as I sang along. Didn't know what a douche was, but I guess I heard the word on a commercial or something.

#46045

Urinal deuce:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_80l23LO4P64/T ... 00/004.jpg

#46046

Easy J wrote:I heard that song all through my early childhood & said "douche" as I sang along. Didn't know what a douche was, but I guess I heard the word on a commercial or something.

I, too, was confused and put some effort into trying to figure it out. I knew that some women use these pads with sticky-tape on them, but could have sworn that those had some other name. A "douche" was one of those vinegar and water things that women use when ... at least as admitted to their mothers ... they just don't feel fresh. But then it hit me: lots of bottles have these safety seals on them. Maybe those need to be ripped off. Yeah. That must be it. Oh, and who cares? Casey Kasem is already introducing the next song in the countdown, anyway. Phew.

#46047

Billie from Ockham wrote:
Easy J wrote:I heard that song all through my early childhood & said "douche" as I sang along. Didn't know what a douche was, but I guess I heard the word on a commercial or something.
I, too, was confused and put some effort into trying to figure it out. I knew that some women use these pads with sticky-tape on them, but could have sworn that those had some other name. A "douche" was one of those vinegar and water things that women use when ... at least as admitted to their mothers ... they just don't feel fresh. But then it hit me: lots of bottles have these safety seals on them. Maybe those need to be ripped off. Yeah. That must be it. Oh, and who cares? Casey Kasem is already introducing the next song in the countdown, anyway. Phew.

Whatever they were, they were cool & cool dudes seemed to know what they were. They made an appearance in a Kiss song, too

"Baby, if you're feelin' good,
And baby if you're feelin' nice,
You know you're man is workin' hard,
He's worth a deuce!"

Would've made a great jingle for a Summers Eve commercial, with Gene Simmons as a pitchman.

#46048

https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1.kQpJVXX ... XFXXXQ.jpg

#46049

*douche, not deuce. Whatever, anteater. Die.

#46050

Another A+ level living stereotype appears on the BBC:

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#46051

DrokkIt wrote:
fuzzy wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.
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My mum had this song on a tape in the car in the 80s.
Day : made.

You triggered me. This song contains the word "douche". Next time, try a trigger warning !!!

#46052

Steersman wrote: But as a doctor, even as an erstwhile one, I would have thought you would have ready access to pharmacological solutions to that problem rather than having to rely on cruder and messier mechanical ones.

Dangling participle.

BLOCKED!

#46053

Dangling modifier, anyway.

#46054

Almost as dumb as the Salma Hayek racist taco:

Here we go again. Confessed rapist by SJW standards Amy Schumer has disowned and disavowed a writer/comedian who worked for her because he made such inflammatory comments as you should go to the police if you are raped. Instead of calling an "SJW lynch mob," call the cops.

Amy is so saddened and disappointed by his Facebook comments that were made in response to a comedian being accused in anonymous kangaroo comedian court.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... e-comments

Don't forget. Amy Schumer raped a drunk man. Amy Schumer is a rapist. Is she so outspoken about the Metzker comments because she knows people might remember she is a rapist. A rapist. A person who commited rape.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/why-are- ... pe-a-rape/

#46055

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:Oh, Meyers.

You are such a cunt.

Truly, I want to see Meyers creeping down the stairs at 3 in the morning, and be confronted by a cunt with a knife. Meyers not injured, but the burglar dies (as I wish upon them all) while driving away. Meyers, not knowing whether the guy is still in his house or not, phones the police...

"I'm sorry, Sir, but records indicate you are a pudgy little shitstain who doesn't like us. You apparently believe that we should decide which laws we enforce and which we don't. In this case, we have decided that we don't give a monkey's left ball about you or your property. Our advice is that you lock yourself in a windowless room with a gun, and block the underside of the door with whatever materials are at hand. This will stop your brain and blood leaking out and spoiling the surface of nearby floors when you do the right thing."

http://i.imgur.com/7hJYfG9.png

http://i.imgur.com/2Bj0GZU.png

That piece of shit Myers walks to work and to the one-screen movie theater and to the restaurant where he and his wife read books while waiting for their meals, right? He certainly doesn't drive a fucking car that requires gas or electricity that is the result of burned coal, oil or fissiled uranium, the waste from which must be stored somewhere there aren't many humans.

#46056

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:sniphttp://i.imgur.com/2Bj0GZU.png

Well, they must actually be white folks on them there horses, otherwise they would be shot dead according to FftB previous statements. Only reason them Oregon boys didn't get shot up was on account of their extreme whiteness.

#46057

Billie from Ockham wrote:
Easy J wrote:I heard that song all through my early childhood & said "douche" as I sang along. Didn't know what a douche was, but I guess I heard the word on a commercial or something.
I, too, was confused and put some effort into trying to figure it out. I knew that some women use these pads with sticky-tape on them, but could have sworn that those had some other name. A "douche" was one of those vinegar and water things that women use when ... at least as admitted to their mothers ... they just don't feel fresh. But then it hit me: lots of bottles have these safety seals on them. Maybe those need to be ripped off. Yeah. That must be it. Oh, and who cares? Casey Kasem is already introducing the next song in the countdown, anyway. Phew.

I can't seem to get youtube embed to work so follow the link.

#46058

Lsuoma wrote:Original:

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I didn't know Bill Cosby recorded that first. I did not know that.

#46059

Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.

Maybe she means 'blinded by my own whiteness' literally. I mean literally literally. What happened was that as she sat at her computer, the massive glare of the shining light reflected off her pale, melanin-free pasty hands caused her to screw up her eyes in order to protect her retinas from total burn-out and in her temporarily impaired, blurred vision, with all dots in front of it because of the glaring light, she failed to notice that lack of consent implied in the taco/bun sexual encounter by misreading the words.

#46060

Easy J wrote:Another A+ level living stereotype appears on the BBC:

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I couldn't watch much of this because it was really annoying how the presenter kept swigging his beer after every sentence.

It's like his have to talk on the video was some sort of unwarranted and annoying interruption to his drinking. This is some Rebecca Watson type shit. In fact, no, for all her faults Rebecca does seem to give beer the attention it deserves and notices the taste. This guy just uses it for punctuation.

Listen, Dude, The video is only seven minutes long. If you're thirsty have a drink before making it. If not, you can wait seven fucking minutes before having a well-earned drink. If you can't wait that long you can pause the video and have a drink off camera before continuing. You're not a fucking baby and you don't need your lips to be glued to some sort of liquid comfort every single microsecond when you're not talking !

#46061

piginthecity wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.
Maybe she means 'blinded by my own whiteness' literally. I mean literally literally. What happened was that as she sat at her computer, the massive glare of the shining light reflected off her pale, melanin-free pasty hands caused her to screw up her eyes in order to protect her retinas from total burn-out and in her temporarily impaired, blurred vision, with all dots in front of it because of the glaring light, she failed to notice that lack of consent implied in the taco/bun sexual encounter by misreading the words.

Here's the thing that is currently amusing me. Did you ever believe when you joined the slymepit that someday we would be discussing consent between a lesbian taco and a hot dog bun? Because I could not have predicted that.

#46062

piginthecity wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:"I want to personally apologize to every reader who was hurt by the Sausage Party review. I failed you as a senior editor of this website and I failed you as an ally. I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you. I offer you no justification. I was blinded by my own whiteness existing inside a system of white supremacy. I must do better. I will do better. "

This quote made my day. I think she should simply jump.
Maybe she means 'blinded by my own whiteness' literally. I mean literally literally. What happened was that as she sat at her computer, the massive glare of the shining light reflected off her pale, melanin-free pasty hands caused her to screw up her eyes in order to protect her retinas from total burn-out and in her temporarily impaired, blurred vision, with all dots in front of it because of the glaring light, she failed to notice that lack of consent implied in the taco/bun sexual encounter by misreading the words.

An evening which she likely wrapped up with a douche, which can cause a runner in the night.

#46063

piginthecity wrote:
Easy J wrote:Another A+ level living stereotype appears on the BBC:

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I couldn't watch much of this because it was really annoying how the presenter kept swigging his beer after every sentence.

It's like his have to talk on the video was some sort of unwarranted and annoying interruption to his drinking. This is some Rebecca Watson type shit. In fact, no, for all her faults Rebecca does seem to give beer the attention it deserves and notices the taste. This guy just uses it for punctuation.

Listen, Dude, The video is only seven minutes long. If you're thirsty have a drink before making it. If not, you can wait seven fucking minutes before having a well-earned drink. If you can't wait that long you can pause the video and have a drink off camera before continuing. You're not a fucking baby and you don't need your lips to be glued to some sort of liquid comfort every single microsecond when you're not talking !

Whine, whine, whine.
The fact that there is a Student Union President who basically IS an Orwell character SHOULD make everyone very disturbed. And unlike Becky Booze, I understand if this guy takes to the bottle to escape such horror. What's Becky's excuse?

#46064

Clarence wrote:
piginthecity wrote:
Easy J wrote:Another A+ level living stereotype appears on the BBC:

I couldn't watch much of this because it was really annoying how the presenter kept swigging his beer after every sentence.

It's like his have to talk on the video was some sort of unwarranted and annoying interruption to his drinking. This is some Rebecca Watson type shit. In fact, no, for all her faults Rebecca does seem to give beer the attention it deserves and notices the taste. This guy just uses it for punctuation.

Listen, Dude, The video is only seven minutes long. If you're thirsty have a drink before making it. If not, you can wait seven fucking minutes before having a well-earned drink. If you can't wait that long you can pause the video and have a drink off camera before continuing. You're not a fucking baby and you don't need your lips to be glued to some sort of liquid comfort every single microsecond when you're not talking !
Whine, whine, whine.
The fact that there is a Student Union President who basically IS an Orwell character SHOULD make everyone very disturbed. And unlike Becky Booze, I understand if this guy takes to the bottle to escape such horror. What's Becky's excuse?

No. He shouldn't. Bottles are for storing beer until the time you drink it so it's fresh. He should be using a glass like everyone who actually likes drinking beer, as opposed to those who want you use it as some sort of statement does. I know it's all a massive extra amount of work and everything but you need to be able to get the aroma of the beer as you're drinking it and control how much goes into your mouth and at what speed. That way you can drink more at a time and have pauses between. Not just sloshing one mouthful at a time at 100 miles per hour into your mouth, so you have to keep doing this every 5 seconds.

#46065

And I haven't got my priorities wrong. Idiot student politicians will always come and go. Beer is beer.

#46066

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ...
Did you ever believe when you joined the slymepit that someday we would be discussing consent between a lesbian taco and a hot dog bun?
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No - by definition such sexual contact is always rape.

#46067

Really? wrote:Almost as dumb as the Salma Hayek racist taco:

Here we go again. Confessed rapist by SJW standards Amy Schumer has disowned and disavowed a writer/comedian who worked for her because he made such inflammatory comments as you should go to the police if you are raped. Instead of calling an "SJW lynch mob," call the cops.

Amy is so saddened and disappointed by his Facebook comments that were made in response to a comedian being accused in anonymous kangaroo comedian court.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/ ... e-comments

Don't forget. Amy Schumer raped a drunk man. Amy Schumer is a rapist. Is she so outspoken about the Metzker comments because she knows people might remember she is a rapist. A rapist. A person who commited rape.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/why-are- ... pe-a-rape/

Those of you with spotify may have noticed that they have recently started adding comedy albums (or maybe they added them ages ago and I just recently noticed!) but they have an Amy Schumer album from 2011 called 'Cutting' - basically a live recording of a standup show.
It is very Sarah Silverman-esque - apart from Schumer trying to play up on her slutty self-obsessed girl persona.
The thing is, the album comes from 2011 - you know, that time before SJW's took over.

She makes very prominent use of both rape jokes and various racist jokes throughout her set in a way that would provoke a career-destroying storm if someone who is not a feminist darling (in other words a celebrity woman who claims to be a feminist) did the same today.

In pure comedy terms the album is not that bad if you can try to forget her recent hypocrisy - it's comparable to Natasha Leggato in tone.
Playing a clueless, self obsessed jerk can be funny (in both make and female comedians)- it offers the possibility of saying nasty stuff that has an element of truth about it that wouldn't be otherwise spoken out loud.

#46068

White dyke rides da nigga

What could go wrong?

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#46070

Guestus Aurelius wrote:Dangling modifier, anyway.

Transphobic comment - BLOCKED!

#46071

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ...
Did you ever believe when you joined the slymepit that someday we would be discussing consent between a lesbian taco and a hot dog bun?
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This is why Shia Islam is a better organised faith than SJWism.

You ask the Ayatollah for a fatwa about lesbian tacos and he humbly and sincerely researches the topic according to Koranic faith (i.e. Says the first thing that comes in to his head) and then the matter is settled and all the lesser sheep stop worrying and just accept it.

In SJWism any idiot can raise a topic then everyone else has to chime in until the emotions generating from the resulting cacophony seem to be aligning in one rough direction. It's very inefficient.

#46072

katamari Damassi wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:
Easy J wrote:I heard that song all through my early childhood & said "douche" as I sang along. Didn't know what a douche was, but I guess I heard the word on a commercial or something.
I, too, was confused and put some effort into trying to figure it out. I knew that some women use these pads with sticky-tape on them, but could have sworn that those had some other name. A "douche" was one of those vinegar and water things that women use when ... at least as admitted to their mothers ... they just don't feel fresh. But then it hit me: lots of bottles have these safety seals on them. Maybe those need to be ripped off. Yeah. That must be it. Oh, and who cares? Casey Kasem is already introducing the next song in the countdown, anyway. Phew.
I can't seem to get youtube embed to work so follow the link.

I'm glad someone else remembered this show. I was going to post this as well. Just copy the whole URL now.

[youtube][/youtube]

#46073

Of course now I can't get the stupid linking to work.

Boy how I have been knocked down a peg.

#46074

Keating wrote:That has to be the best ninja ever.

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

#46075

Gumby wrote: That makes sense, given how many times we have noticed uncanny similarities between sjw-ism/rad-feminism and religion. I wonder, though, how aware these people are of the faith aspect of their belief system. With religionists like Christians, faith is centermost in their minds, it's the whole point. SJWs/fembots don't seem to be aware of their faith; rather, they seem to have successfully convinced themselves that they are using reason, skepticism and logic to arrive at their stated ideological positions - see the Atheism Plus creed for an example. I suppose that is just a defense mechanism they employ to steer their minds away from the uncomfortable thought that they are immersed in what is for all intents and purposes religious thinking. And maybe some of the bizarre, irrational and angry behavior they display is cognitive dissonance due to the conflict between their religious behavior and the veneer of rationality and skepticism they try to apply to it.

Reason and logic are like a computer program: they work on the data you give them to work with. Garbage in, garbage out.

I think that many in the atheist/skeptic community underestimate the religious, the conspiracy theorists and the woo-peddlers. Many, if not most, of them are far from being stupid or irrational. Theology is actually a sophisticated, complex, fascinating subject. Apologetics can be written very well, and in a very persuasive way. Some conspiracy theories look plausible at first glance. And some woo-peddlers (not all of them, of course) can actually justify their woo of choice with some sophisticated reasoning.

It's all based on a majorly flawed assumption, though: the idea that the existence of a god or gods or the literal truth of the Bible or the Quran and the existence of woo or of the Evil Conspiracy is self-evident and obvious, and that reason and logic must simply justify and explain away all the problems which come with assuming the existence of a god or gods or of woo or of the Evil Conspiracy. Nothing can undermine the assumption that god or the gods or woo or the Conspiracy are real. If there are major problems with this assumption then it's because we are too limited to understand the mysteries of the mind of god or because woo is incompatible with testing or because The Man is just too damn good at its job, not because the assumption itself is flawed.

Science doesn't work that way. You test your assumptions and if they're revealed to be wrong after a series of tests you correct your hypothesis. Nothing is sacred in science (or better yet, nothing should be sacred in science): even the best, most coherent, most awe-inspiring conclusions can be wrong and need to be amended. Newton's work reached incredibly useful and accurate conclusions about the world, and it was considered the foundation of physics itself, but when data showed otherwise after some resistance the science community accepted that some of Newton's assumptions were wrong.

SJW philosophy is the result of a process which started as scientific but gradually degenerated into religion-woo. Some assumptions, which were originally only working hypothesis, gradually became unquestionable truths.

Standpoint theory, for example, is the assumption that the members of an "oppressed class" have a better intuitive understanding of society and of social dynamics then members of a "privileged class". This isn't simply a working hypothesis for SJWs, it's become an unquestionable truth. If an "oppressed person" tells you something you have to shut up and listen and check your privilege, because they have their lived experience and their lived experience can't be wrong. This is why you see SJWs saying that they were blinded by their whiteness or maleness or that trying to offer explanations that aren't in line with the "lived experience" of an "oppressed person" is "white/male/cis/hetero-splaining".

Another assumption which drives SJW philosophy and behavior is the idea of "normalization of aggression". SJWs believe that by assigning a negative connotation to a word or an expression or an idea which refers to a group of oppressed people, or by assigning a positive connotation to a word or an expression or ani idea which is perceived to exclude or even harm an oppressed group, you inevitably encourage discrimination and aggression towards the oppressed.

That's why people on the Orbit are trying to suppress the use of word which "normalize ableism". That's why they wanted to "ban bossy". That's why rape jokes are seen as a hate crime, and why dongle jokes are seen as a threat to women in STEM, or why using "slave" and "master" in computer science is a threat to POCs.

A third core assumption is the idea that everything in human society is a cultural and social construct, that there's no such thing as human nature or natural sexual dimorphism in human beings or natural differences between ethnic groups. That's why they hate evolutionary psychology so much. That's why they can believe that "man" and "woman" are social constructs.

If you think that those assumptions are the unquestionable truth then all SJW behavior, while it might look stupid and irrational to an external observer, is simply a perfectly logical and rational consequence of those "truths".

The problem is with those assumption, and better yet with the idea that those assumption are "The Truth" and cannot be questioned, just like the existence of god or of woo cannot be questioned. Any attempt at questioning standpoint theory or the normalization of aggression or the idea of a social construct is rejected as "hyper-skepticism" at best and as evil bigotry and prejudice at worst.

What you have written is very insightful and interesting, Gumby. If we look at conspiracy theorists, another group which is based on faith in some dogmas (like the existence of the conspiracy) but likes to portray itself as "true skepticism", we find many behaviors that look like the bizarre, irrational and angry behavior of the SJWs.

Conspiracy theorists avoid discussing their ideas with "disinformation agents" (read: anyone who doesn't believe in their theories), they think that anyone who rejects their theory must be either part of the "sheeple" or an agent of the Evil Conspiracy, judge every behavior and event as a part of the conspiracy, no matter how trivial and easily explained by other factors, see patterns where there are none, and their ideas get increasingly more and more bizarre to explain away all the problems with their theory.

All of this why they get mad if you say that their belief in their conspiracy is based on faith.

On the other hand even religious people don't really base all of their thinking on faith. Many if not most of them think that the existence of their god is self-evident and obvious or that it's an established fact. They see "faith" as putting trust in their god's intentions (since their god/s work in "mysterious ways"), not as believing that their god/s exist. A "crisis of faith", in most cases, means no longer believing their god/s is good, not thinking that they don't exist. If someone starts doubting the existence of their god/s they're more likely to abandon their faith altogether.

I think that the same thing happens with SJWs. If they have a "crisis of faith" it's because they doubt that they'll be successful, not because they have some doubts about their assumptions. The moment they start to have doubts about their assumptions they're likely to abandon SJW ideology altogether.

#46076

piginthecity wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ...
Did you ever believe when you joined the slymepit that someday we would be discussing consent between a lesbian taco and a hot dog bun?
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This is why Shia Islam is a better organised faith than SJWism.

You ask the Ayatollah for a fatwa about lesbian tacos and he humbly and sincerely researches the topic according to Koranic faith (i.e. Says the first thing that comes in to his head) and then the matter is settled and all the lesser sheep stop worrying and just accept it.

In SJWism any idiot can raise a topic then everyone else has to chime in until the emotions generating from the resulting cacophony seem to be aligning in one rough direction. It's very inefficient.

SJWs are more like the Sunni, where anyone can be an imam.

#46077

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:Oh, Meyers.

You are such a cunt.

Truly, I want to see Meyers creeping down the stairs at 3 in the morning, and be confronted by a cunt with a knife. Meyers not injured, but the burglar dies (as I wish upon them all) while driving away. Meyers, not knowing whether the guy is still in his house or not, phones the police...

"I'm sorry, Sir, but records indicate you are a pudgy little shitstain who doesn't like us. You apparently believe that we should decide which laws we enforce and which we don't. In this case, we have decided that we don't give a monkey's left ball about you or your property. Our advice is that you lock yourself in a windowless room with a gun, and block the underside of the door with whatever materials are at hand. This will stop your brain and blood leaking out and spoiling the surface of nearby floors when you do the right thing."

http://i.imgur.com/7hJYfG9.png

http://i.imgur.com/2Bj0GZU.png

Let's make Meyer Great Again.

What he should have wrote was that while he of course supported the people's right to peaceful protest, pointing out this is how it's done BLM, they are being kinda wrong headed. Pipelines are the safest way to transport oil.

#46078

Thanks for the informative and thoughtful reply Kirbmarc. I think you should write the definitive "sane person's guide to understanding the regressive left". :)

#46079

Kirbmarc wrote: Conspiracy theorists avoid discussing their ideas with "disinformation agents" (read: anyone who doesn't believe in their theories), they think that anyone who rejects their theory must be either part of the "sheeple" or an agent of the Evil Conspiracy, judge every behavior and event as a part of the conspiracy, no matter how trivial and easily explained by other factors, see patterns where there are none, and their ideas get increasingly more and more bizarre to explain away all the problems with their theory.

All of this why they get mad if you say that their belief in their conspiracy is based on faith.

On the other hand even religious people don't really base all of their thinking on faith. Many if not most of them think that the existence of their god is self-evident and obvious or that it's an established fact. They see "faith" as putting trust in their god's intentions (since their god/s work in "mysterious ways"), not as believing that their god/s exist. A "crisis of faith", in most cases, means no longer believing their god/s is good, not thinking that they don't exist. If someone starts doubting the existence of their god/s they're more likely to abandon their faith altogether.

Great post Kirbmarc. I recently revisited some Sye Ten Bruggencate vids, with all his pre-supposition nonsense, and he does this " I don't do bible studies with atheists" I think was the phrase he used. I always thought that was to avoid discussng any logical cul-de -sacs from his magic book. Infuriating, pathetic and dishonest in equal measure I find.

#46080

Gumby wrote:
Shatterface wrote: I think the absurdity is the point. How better to demonstrate your SJW credentials than expressing a belief in something so clearly ridiculous?
Hey you might be right. They seem to be getting more and more ridiculous over the years, which may well be a sign they're trying to continually push the envelope. In order for them to stay relevant they have to find ever-more outlandish ways to be outraged.

SJW sceneries often remind me of real-life implementations of Monty Python or Douglas Adams. In the above case, that would be the 4 Yorkshiremen.