If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Brive1987 wrote:Remember this classic doco on the Falkland campaign - made I think in 1987 when memories were fresh but blood had cooled?

You don't get this these days. Watching it again after maybe 25 or 30 years, specific scenes still seem so familiar.

It's a bit long - I'll save it for latter.

But if anyone wants the TLDR version:

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Brive1987 wrote:I'd have been happy with Anita apologising and promising to stay within the rules - and then being re-platformed.
No one had exclusion as an end in itself.

I agree that would have been an acceptable outcome. However technically Sargon did specifically state he wanted her bumped from her Saturday speech.

Would could guess that Sargon would have been OK with that, but since we are not mind readers, I think we have to settle with what he publicly stated.

Sargon does come across as a bit of a smug cunt at times.

However that does not contravene the Vidcon CoC and has not (yet) been made illegal. So, I guess I will just have to learn to live with it.

MarcusAu wrote:

Brive1987 wrote:Remember this classic doco on the Falkland campaign - made I think in 1987 when memories were fresh but blood had cooled?

You don't get this these days. Watching it again after maybe 25 or 30 years, specific scenes still seem so familiar.

It's a bit long - I'll save it for latter.

But if anyone wants the TLDR version:

[youtube.][/youtube]

You haven't seen it? :shock:

Well settle down on a quiet evening and watch it in one go.

Then have a drink to an appropriate sound track.

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MarcusAu wrote:I see that Stephen Fry has a new documentary out called 'Britain's Greatest Gay Buildings'

http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/tv/br ... 72171.html

They will probably not be including 'The Gerkin' even though the French have likened it to a suppository.

http://www.az.co.uk/images/imap/5/hires ... herkin.jpg

This is the old water tower in Ypsilanti Michigan. This is an old industrial town by Ann Arbor and home of my daughter's Alma Mater Eastern Michigan University.

John

I feel like I'm in some sort of fever dream.

The world is a crazy fucked up place - but you know - sometimes in a good way.

Haha... found this little photo.

Brive1987 wrote:
Then have a drink to an appropriate sound track.

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The tune reminded me of my dad's father (who I never knew as he was dead before I was born).

He served in the trenches of WWI and came home with a 'cat's whisker' scar from being shot through the face.

So I visit voat on a regular basis. A significant downside to voat is that there is a fair amount of overt racism that is so consistent, serious and regular that it would make Steersman proud.

But I have a huge suspicion. I suspect that many of the people that are complaining about (((them))), the (((jews))) and how (((they))) control everything about our world making it worse for everyone, are also the same people who laugh at "niggers" for blaming the white man for all of their whoahs.

So if you ever run across anyone complaining about (((jews))), see if you can side track them into a discussion about the latest example of a "nigger" blaming whitey for all their problems. Then point out that they blame the (((jews))) for everything. So what makes them any better than their "niggers." From my point of view, the white nationalists/separatists/nazis are the (((jew's))) "niggers."

What do they think of 'jiggers' or 'nykes' ?

Lsuoma wrote:Only in France. Thank goodness!
A well-known lifestyle blogger in France has been killed by an exploding whipped cream dispenser.

Whipped to death in France. Must be either muslims or marquis de Sade.

Save the planet Jeremy said, think of the pollution Jeremy said, think of the waste Jeremy said, think of the many not the few Jeremy said. .. "ooohh Jer e my Cooorbyn" .. "ooohh Jer e my Cooorbyn"

Glastonbury
http://i.imgur.com/ouifOby.png

A feminist writes a review of The Red Pill documentary:

https://areomagazine.com/2017/06/26/a-f ... -red-pill/

She's about 50% there in terms of willingness to accept reality.

I found this exchange with the author interesting. Apparently, choosing to give birth to a child is equivalent to dying several years earlier. Pluckrose also erases female MRAs.

That's funny - I'd just started to re-read the 2000AD / Megazine classic Al's Baby - just last night.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... s_Baby.jpg

Brive1987 wrote:Remember this classic doco on the Falkland campaign - made I think in 1987 when memories were fresh but blood had cooled?

You don't get this these days. Watching it again after maybe 25 or 30 years, specific scenes still seem so familiar.

I thoroughly recommend '100 Days' by Sandy Woodward if you don't already have it in your library.

shoutinghorse wrote:Save the planet Jeremy said, think of the pollution Jeremy said, think of the waste Jeremy said, think of the many not the few Jeremy said. .. "ooohh Jer e my Cooorbyn" .. "ooohh Jer e my Cooorbyn"

Glastonbury
http://i.imgur.com/ouifOby.png

All that trash will get picked up. I worked as a trash picker for a few years; hard work but satisfying. Plus, you get to find all the drugs that people dropped the night before.

Really? wrote:A feminist writes a review of The Red Pill documentary:

https://areomagazine.com/2017/06/26/a-f ... -red-pill/

She's about 50% there in terms of willingness to accept reality.

I found this exchange with the author interesting. Apparently, choosing to give birth to a child is equivalent to dying several years earlier. Pluckrose also erases female MRAs.

Very sympathetic review IMO. She rejects the notion of equivalent domestic violence between men and women on evolutionary grounds. PZ no likey.

Someblackguy is hopeful about a new group hug between Laci and Sargon... and tears and shit. Interesting...
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Hunt wrote:

Really? wrote:A feminist writes a review of The Red Pill documentary:

https://areomagazine.com/2017/06/26/a-f ... -red-pill/

She's about 50% there in terms of willingness to accept reality.

I found this exchange with the author interesting. Apparently, choosing to give birth to a child is equivalent to dying several years earlier. Pluckrose also erases female MRAs.

Very sympathetic review IMO. She rejects the notion of equivalent domestic violence between men and women on evolutionary grounds. PZ no likey.

I don't know. The DV stats are what they are. Women initiate more nonreciprocated DV (because it's wrong to hit a girl) and are at least close to equal when it comes to DV. And yet, men have one DV shelter in the country and women have over 2,000. She seems to dismiss all of this.

She says:

"The film left me feeling that feminists and MRM activists should work together."

This has been the same line all along. Feminists say that patriarchy hurts everyone so we should all chip in, but "working together" means wearing a pussy hat and carrying your wife's purse while you march in favor of the 10,001st program to get girls interested in STEM.

The "we should be working together" thing is literally Big Red's argument. (And she was reading from Lindy West.)

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For fun:
http://az616578.vo.msecnd.net/files/201 ... 62978c.jpg
http://www.returnofkings.com/wp-content ... 390a8f.jpg

Really? wrote:

Ok, Pluckrose-- let's "go there"-- and adopt a "my body my choice" policy for all the things which kill men prematurely. Men will have sole say over taxation of our labor for dangerous jobs, for starters. We'll control the roads bridges & buildings we built, fruit of our farms, and all the IT.

deLurch wrote:So I visit voat on a regular basis. A significant downside to voat is that there is a fair amount of overt racism that is so consistent, serious and regular that it would make Steersman proud.

But I have a huge suspicion. I suspect that many of the people that are complaining about (((them))), the (((jews))) and how (((they))) control everything about our world making it worse for everyone, are also the same people who laugh at "niggers" for blaming the white man for all of their whoahs.

So if you ever run across anyone complaining about (((jews))), see if you can side track them into a discussion about the latest example of a "nigger" blaming whitey for all their problems. Then point out that they blame the (((jews))) for everything. So what makes them any better than their "niggers." From my point of view, the white nationalists/separatists/nazis are the (((jew's))) "niggers."

It's all retarded anyway. Instead of blaming ethnic groups people should focus on those who really get special privileges: corporate cronies. They can be jews, white, blacks, gay, straight, women, men, or transgender, but if they're rich and powerful, they have the one and only real privilege. At the end of the day money and connections are the only thing that influential people care about, everything else is a smokescreen for useful idiots.

Of course this can't be changed through the establishment of an authoritarian regime, which is merely a change in terms of elite, and anarchy/lack of hierarchy doesn't work. So what should people do? In part they need to accept that completely equality of outcome, or even "absolute fairness" with no special advantages due to money and/or connections and relationships, is a pipe dream. In part they need to work towards raising the standard living conditions of those who aren't privileged to a certain standard, where people can work and support themselves, have water, electricity, decent food, decent healthcare, decent job perspectives for their children, decent legal support in case they need it, and a legal and educational system focused on improving the life of the citizens, not on trying to win unwinnable "wars on drugs" or on making money for a few monopolists.

In order to do so you need to put limits to the power of corporate cronies who can corner a market through their connections and raise prices arbitrarily, limit the presence of corporations in politics, in the justice system, in education, etc. You don't need to destroy a free market to do this, you need to save the free market from those who, thanks to the size of their business or to their cronies within the system, can operate without ever being controlled or punished by the forces of the markets or by some others.

You don't need communism, you don't even need "socialism". You need a New(er) Deal, a series of anti-trust laws, of government initiatives that create jobs and elevate the standards of living to a decent minimum for everyone, or at least for the largest part of the population, and more and better protection of the individual rights of the citizens when they face the justice system.

Everything else is justice identity politics that people with a limited vision believe to while people who are better at gaming the system use to profit.

The only real privileges are money and connections. If you have them you're set, and the worst you have to endure, on average, are people being rude to you for no good reason due to prejudices against you, and you can probably deal with that quite well, what with lawsuits you can afford and fame you can exploit for sympathy.

If you don't have money and connections, no matter to which ethnic/social group you belong to, you're screwed. The less money and the less networks of relationships you belong to the worse your life is. If you're poor and socially isolated any talk of "privilege" goes out of the window.

dogen wrote:

shoutinghorse wrote:Save the planet Jeremy said, think of the pollution Jeremy said, think of the waste Jeremy said, think of the many not the few Jeremy said. .. "ooohh Jer e my Cooorbyn" .. "ooohh Jer e my Cooorbyn"

Glastonbury
http://i.imgur.com/ouifOby.png

All that trash will get picked up. I worked as a trash picker for a few years; hard work but satisfying. Plus, you get to find all the drugs that people dropped the night before.

Also it would be there regardless of a politician speaking.

Bhurzum wrote:

MarcusAu wrote:Oh and many of the tower blocks (including mine) have a single stairwell.

My cousin lives in a tower block - a festering stack of junkies, career dole scroungers and genetically challenged mutants. The locals have nicknamed the place "heroin heights" and it's a brave fucker who wanders into the stairwell after dark. A few weeks ago, as part of my increasingly strenuous rehab, I popped up for a visit to check up on her (she's one of those completely "off the radar" types who'd disappear for a year if you left her alone) and whilst having a cuppa in her living room, an old battered 3-seater sofa casually shot past the window (10th floor) on its trip to the car park below.

I've been begging her to move into my place rent-free until she sorts out better living quarters but she's having none of it.

Is it one of those that stinks of piss at the bottom of the stairwell.....? :cry:

deLurch wrote:
So if you ever run across anyone complaining about (((jews))), see if you can side track them into a discussion about the latest example of a "nigger" blaming whitey for all their problems. Then point out that they blame the (((jews))) for everything. So what makes them any better than their "niggers." From my point of view, the white nationalists/separatists/nazis are the (((jew's))) "niggers."

Not a bad analogy. Though the more intellectual segregationists just say that the white majority does oppress the black minority (they'll attempt to qualify it, but admit it happens), that this is an inevitable part of any diverse society, and it's yet another reason to establish ethnostates.

CommanderTuvok wrote:

Bhurzum wrote:

MarcusAu wrote:Oh and many of the tower blocks (including mine) have a single stairwell.

My cousin lives in a tower block - a festering stack of junkies, career dole scroungers and genetically challenged mutants. The locals have nicknamed the place "heroin heights" and it's a brave fucker who wanders into the stairwell after dark. A few weeks ago, as part of my increasingly strenuous rehab, I popped up for a visit to check up on her (she's one of those completely "off the radar" types who'd disappear for a year if you left her alone) and whilst having a cuppa in her living room, an old battered 3-seater sofa casually shot past the window (10th floor) on its trip to the car park below.

I've been begging her to move into my place rent-free until she sorts out better living quarters but she's having none of it.

Is it one of those that stinks of piss at the bottom of the stairwell.....? :cry:

Are there any that don't?

My mum used to work as an EA to the management company of a luxury block in Kensington. Average apartment size was 2500 square feet over two or three floors. They had Iranians (this was pre-Khomeini), Saudis, Bahrainis etc., there, plus a couple of Jews. She once caught one of the daughters of an Iranian tenant laying a cable in front of the door of one of the front wheels' apartments.

OK, it turns out it was a US company - Arconic - that sold the cladding for some of the high rises in England. They are now ending sales worldwide. My guess is that their future is not looking very rosy right now...

Lsuoma wrote:

My mum used to work as an EA to the management company of a luxury block in Kensington. Average apartment size was 2500 square feet over two or three floors. They had Iranians (this was pre-Khomeini), Saudis, Bahrainis etc., there, plus a couple of Jews. She once caught one of the daughters of an Iranian tenant laying a cable in front of the door of one of the front wheels' apartments.

Easily done.

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Lsuoma wrote:OK, it turns out it was a US company - Arconic - that sold the cladding for some of the high rises in England. They are now ending sales worldwide. My guess is that their future is not looking very rosy right now...

And panels of the type used are banned for that use in Europe and the US. My guess, having lived in Britain, is that the contractors, councils, and anyone else involved turned a blind eye to skimping on costs, likely with a few bungs here and there.

Damning article (all round) from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brit ... SKBN19F05M

T. Dan Smith would have been proud...

MacGruberKnows wrote:Forgot to add: Pruitt-Igoe housing project, St. Louis.

Top it if you can.

http://www.pruittigoenow.org/before-and-after/

I lived a few miles away as a kid when it was being demolished. That was around the same time GM shut down the St. Louis plant. The 70's were bleak economically for the city.

Just heard Carrie Poppy on the radio...
Sort of an introduction to skepticism without mention of the skeptic community.

d4m10n wrote:Just heard Carrie Poppy on the radio...

Sort of an introduction to skepticism without mention of the skeptic community.

Did she accuse anyone of rape and remind everyone to encourage the authorities to punish the accused without an investigation?

CommanderTuvok wrote:
Is it one of those that stinks of piss at the bottom of the stairwell.....? :cry:

No - it stinks at every level.

"We" wuz kangs:

Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have decoded the genome of ancient Egyptians for the first time, with unexpected results.

Publishing its findings in Nature Communications, the study concluded that preserved remains found in Abusir-el Meleq, Middle Egypt, were closest genetic relatives of Neolithic and Bronze Age populations from the Near East, Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean Europeans.

Modern Egyptians, by comparison, share much more DNA with sub-Saharan populations.
The findings have turned years of theory on its head, causing Egyptologists to re-evaluate the region's history while unlocking new tools for scientists working in the field.

windy wrote:"We" wuz kangs:

Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have decoded the genome of ancient Egyptians for the first time, with unexpected results.

Publishing its findings in Nature Communications, the study concluded that preserved remains found in Abusir-el Meleq, Middle Egypt, were closest genetic relatives of Neolithic and Bronze Age populations from the Near East, Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean Europeans.

Modern Egyptians, by comparison, share much more DNA with sub-Saharan populations.
The findings have turned years of theory on its head, causing Egyptologists to re-evaluate the region's history while unlocking new tools for scientists working in the field.

Brother Malcolm X prophesied that colonial cave beast Europeans would try to deny that Black Africans founded Egypt and invented civilization.
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Published on Apr 17, 2013
Brother Malcolm said, similar to Marcus Garvey's quote, when the relics of an African civilization are unearth or discovered, it will be vehemently denied and refuted by racist European educators and scholars despite the enormous amount of evidence that proves otherwise. Brother Malcolm, in this dynamic discussion, breaks down the archeological wonders of Ancient Kemet and also the fact that these African people were master chemists. The relics of these Ancient people prove this. Brother Malcolm has always stressed the importance of Black Americans reconnecting to their African heritage.

windy wrote:"We" wuz kangs:

Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have decoded the genome of ancient Egyptians for the first time, with unexpected results.

Publishing its findings in Nature Communications, the study concluded that preserved remains found in Abusir-el Meleq, Middle Egypt, were closest genetic relatives of Neolithic and Bronze Age populations from the Near East, Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean Europeans.

Modern Egyptians, by comparison, share much more DNA with sub-Saharan populations.
The findings have turned years of theory on its head, causing Egyptologists to re-evaluate the region's history while unlocking new tools for scientists working in the field.

The news was released a bit ago. Certain people are a bit salty over it, as you can see by reading the comment sections.
http://www.newsweek.com/egyptian-mummy- ... ope-617767

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/1571 ... -near-east
Denial and Egypt, not just a river.

Anita Sarkeesian issues statement.

Gaslighting, harassers, cybermob, trauma, patriarchal culture, seems to hit all major talking points. Pushes the Sargon being there was an act of intimidation & harassment. Anita will never stop fighting.

Dull as beans. Same old same old.

Lsuoma wrote: And panels of the type used are banned for that use in Europe and the US. My guess, having lived in Britain, is that the contractors, councils, and anyone else involved turned a blind eye to skimping on costs, likely with a few bungs here and there.

Damning article (all round) from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brit ... SKBN19F05M

T. Dan Smith would have been proud...

That article also says:

The UK uses a 'principles-based' approach to regulation which puts an onus on companies to operate safely, based on common understanding of risks and the technology available.

If true this is some high grade horseshit. Principles don't mean squat to people without any. But even if they did, "common understanding" in civil engineering is often wrong, as materials science is a lot more than simple physics writ large. And even when you know what you're doing and are trying to do things right, mistakes happen.

The article then attempts to justify this manure by contrasting it with what it claims is the US approach:

This differs to the highly specific 'rules-based' approach to regulation taken in the United States.

Supporters of the principles-based approach say it avoids the emergence of loopholes and means companies have to take account of new information on risks immediately, rather than wait for a new regulation to be drafted.

I can't speak for the US as a whole, but here in Los Angeles characterizing the approach to building safety as "highly specific 'rules-based'" is wildly inaccurate.

The main issue in LA is earthquakes, not fire. (In regards to fire, buildings above a certain size have been required to have multiple means of egress and active fire suppression - usually sprinklers - since 1974.) And when it comes to earthquakes, an accurate characterization of the requirements here would be, "trust nothing, verify everything".

Specifically, when you want to build pretty much anything more than a small one story house you're required to have sign-off from an independent structural engineer. Who is going is put your design into a structural simulation program to see how it actually "shakes out".

If the design is really novel you will probably be required to build a scale model and test it to destruction.

During construction of any substantial project samples will need to be taken and sent off to an independent lab for testing. Because vendors have been known to screw up and supply the wrong materials from time to time. One of the better-known firms that does this is Smith-Emery:

http://www.smithemery.com/

Huell Howser did a documentary piece on them after stumbling across their facility:

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windy wrote:"We" wuz kangs:

Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have decoded the genome of ancient Egyptians for the first time, with unexpected results.

Publishing its findings in Nature Communications, the study concluded that preserved remains found in Abusir-el Meleq, Middle Egypt, were closest genetic relatives of Neolithic and Bronze Age populations from the Near East, Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean Europeans.

Modern Egyptians, by comparison, share much more DNA with sub-Saharan populations.
The findings have turned years of theory on its head, causing Egyptologists to re-evaluate the region's history while unlocking new tools for scientists working in the field.

Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos.

:popcorn:

Bhurzum wrote:

:popcorn:

Anita Sarkeesian is the devil.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Anita Sarkeesian is the devil.

She's just a very naughty girl.

#32 Rat wrote:Anita Sarkeesian issues statement.

Gaslighting, harassers, cybermob, trauma, patriarchal culture, seems to hit all major talking points. Pushes the Sargon being there was an act of intimidation & harassment. Anita will never stop fighting.

Dull as beans. Same old same old.

Be a faux victim for big bux and it's okay when a proper feminist does it. Did you know she has to fight everyday for her basic humanity? I did not know she lived in a Muslim country.

I think she is the gift that keeps on giving.

MarcusAu wrote:

deLurch wrote: Do you own a condo or do you rent it?

Condo? Who do you think I am Jack Tripper?

I'd call it a pied-à-terre - except I'm not French and can't quite manage that level of pretension. It's a flat (translation: apartment).

I own it.

Ouch! big service charge on your horizon. However I am surprised that anyone thought that the cladding would be anything but the cheap dangerous stuff as the UK building res allow this - Landlords and Builders always take the cheapest option if they can within the terms of the regs and contract. It would be foolish of them not to as they would be price undercut by heir rivals otherwise. The cause of this is the failure to keep the regs up to date for which HM Gov't must take the blame despit multiple warnings, but o put costs up for their donors is of course unaccepatable!

I thought Kablamadan was over. :think:

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:

#32 Rat wrote:Anita Sarkeesian issues statement.

Gaslighting, harassers, cybermob, trauma, patriarchal culture, seems to hit all major talking points. Pushes the Sargon being there was an act of intimidation & harassment. Anita will never stop fighting.

Dull as beans. Same old same old.

Be a faux victim for big bux and it's okay when a proper feminist does it. Did you know she has to fight everyday for her basic humanity? I did not know she lived in a Muslim country.

The first bit is a lie and the second is hilarious.

The companion of his who made that apology video I referenced earlier also tweeted that women are “powerful” enough to “deal with things like workplace harassment to rape.” As if power is in accepting a culture in which women are second-class citizens, in which misogyny and workplace harassment and rape are the norm. Fuck that. I’ll never settle for that. You’re damn right I’m powerful. After everything I’ve been put through by Carl and other men just like him, I’m still powerful enough to go out there and try to change it.

shoutinghorse wrote:

Lsuoma wrote:

My mum used to work as an EA to the management company of a luxury block in Kensington. Average apartment size was 2500 square feet over two or three floors. They had Iranians (this was pre-Khomeini), Saudis, Bahrainis etc., there, plus a couple of Jews. She once caught one of the daughters of an Iranian tenant laying a cable in front of the door of one of the front wheels' apartments.

Easily done.

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Yes, heard years ago when the Arab money etc started moving into the West End of London in the 70s.,
They were allegedly unused to, or perplexed by our traditional Western sanitation so breakfasts etc were found to be parked on the plush carpet of luxury flats and hotels.



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Suet Cardigan wrote:[.tweet][/tweet]

Now, now, let's not jump to conclusions - maybe the bus was just a lemon ...

Malky wrote:

MarcusAu wrote:

deLurch wrote: Do you own a condo or do you rent it?

Condo? Who do you think I am Jack Tripper?

I'd call it a pied-à-terre - except I'm not French and can't quite manage that level of pretension. It's a flat (translation: apartment).

I own it.

Ouch! big service charge on your horizon. However I am surprised that anyone thought that the cladding would be anything but the cheap dangerous stuff as the UK building res allow this - Landlords and Builders always take the cheapest option if they can within the terms of the regs and contract. It would be foolish of them not to as they would be price undercut by heir rivals otherwise. The cause of this is the failure to keep the regs up to date for which HM Gov't must take the blame despit multiple warnings, but o put costs up for their donors is of course unaccepatable!

What about fire insurance? Also, odd that insurers didn't come out and refuse to insure these buildings, especially as there has been past occurrences of these types of fires.
Can they wriggle out of responsibility if this is substandard or bypassing regs ( which I understand they were).

#32 Rat wrote:Anita Sarkeesian issues statement.

Gaslighting, harassers, cybermob, trauma, patriarchal culture, seems to hit all major talking points. Pushes the Sargon being there was an act of intimidation & harassment. Anita will never stop fighting.

Dull as beans. Same old same old.

I thought I was paranoid. Holy shit is that clumsy. Plenty of links to her donation page, though. What's the point of having a flock if you're not going to fleece it?

free thoughtpolice wrote: What about fire insurance? Also, odd that insurers didn't come out and refuse to insure these buildings, especially as there has been past occurrences of these types of fires.
Can they wriggle out of responsibility if this is substandard or bypassing regs ( which I understand they were).

It would be dangerous, I think, for insurance companies to be seen trying to wriggle out of paying for these building, at least until the government says it will step in and indemnify them (which it likely will, if the boards of the insurance companies are infested by buddies of the cabinet).

deLurch wrote:So I visit voat on a regular basis. A significant downside to voat is that there is a fair amount of overt racism that is so consistent, serious and regular that it would make Steersman proud.

But I have a huge suspicion. I suspect that many of the people that are complaining about (((them))), the (((jews))) and how (((they))) control everything about our world making it worse for everyone, are also the same people who laugh at "niggers" for blaming the white man for all of their whoahs.

So if you ever run across anyone complaining about (((jews))), see if you can side track them into a discussion about the latest example of a "nigger" blaming whitey for all their problems. Then point out that they blame the (((jews))) for everything. So what makes them any better than their "niggers." From my point of view, the white nationalists/separatists/nazis are the (((jew's))) "niggers."

Don't think you quite get my whole argument, my analogy, my "nigger-cunt hypothesis" (a link for those who wish to refresh their memories).

But that "white-nationalists/separtists/nazis" erroneously "blame the jews for everything" doesn't preclude the possibility that far too many blacks "blame the white man for all their whoahs". Or that far too many Muslims blame the West for theirs. One might suggest, as an article (Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science) in the New Atlantis put it some years ago, that a "tradition of belligerent self-pity" is a large part of the motivation of many in those groups:

And yet most criticism in the Muslim world is directed outward, at the West. This prejudice — what Fouad Ajami has called (referring to the Arab world) “a political tradition of belligerent self-pity” — is undoubtedly one of Islam’s biggest obstacles. It makes information that contradicts orthodox belief irrelevant, and it closes off debate about the nature and history of Islam.

Nothing like blaming others instead of taking some degree of responsibility for our own predicaments - no doubt some people get dealt shitty hands, but to coin a phrase, one has to play 'em or lay 'em down.

After the Laci Green rapprochement, TJ reaches out...

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A really stupid blogpost against ableist speech by that moron, Marxist Martin:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/barrierbre ... meachance/

I was at JFK in the late Eighties when some Indian woman was at the ticket counter with her wailing brat and she just dropped his trousers and he splatted piss & shit all over the counter and the floor. And she just kept on checking in without a moment's hesitation.

Malky wrote:

MarcusAu wrote:

deLurch wrote: Do you own a condo or do you rent it?

Condo? Who do you think I am Jack Tripper?

I'd call it a pied-à-terre - except I'm not French and can't quite manage that level of pretension. It's a flat (translation: apartment).

I own it.

Ouch! big service charge on your horizon. However I am surprised that anyone thought that the cladding would be anything but the cheap dangerous stuff as the UK building res allow this - Landlords and Builders always take the cheapest option if they can within the terms of the regs and contract. It would be foolish of them not to as they would be price undercut by heir rivals otherwise. The cause of this is the failure to keep the regs up to date for which HM Gov't must take the blame despit multiple warnings, but o put costs up for their donors is of course unaccepatable!

Usually when working on rented properties here, cheapest is the preferred option, particularly on bigger value items, like boilers for example. My home town, Exeter, has a big university and the way many properties are treated would make spending lots of money on quality fittings futile, less scrupulous landlords can extend that attitude into more essential works too.

#32 Rat wrote:Anita Sarkeesian issues statement.

Gaslighting, harassers, cybermob, trauma, patriarchal culture, seems to hit all major talking points. Pushes the Sargon being there was an act of intimidation & harassment. Anita will never stop fighting.

Dull as beans. Same old same old.

McIntosh got that written up pretty fast, fair play.