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Everett belonged to a generation where you told a joke because you thought it would get a laugh rather than to signal your virtue.

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BTW, I am hoping that Oprah runs next. If Trump can be president why not Oprah? The possible entertainment values should be quite high. Especially if Hillary decides to contest.

Not everyone is a fan though: Oprah Shifts Blame For #MeToo Onto The General Public, Fails to Condemn Weinstein






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I suppose it is wrong of me to have so much fun but I can not help it. #SorryNotSorry

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VickyCaramel wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2018 5:14 am
Guest_7cbd4721 wrote: If it were up to me they'd have cut off her head, driven a stake through her cold black heart and weighed her corpse down with rocks inside a solid silver casket for good measure.

After her natural death of course, I'm not a monster.

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Well Mags the Milk Snatcher was deranged. Bringing copies of the Sun into cabinet meetings.WTF! She was rapidly turning into a complete fruitloop toward the end of her reign, rabiting on about cricket bats. I've always been of the opinion that 'great leaders' are made by happy coincidence between their peculiarities and prevailing circumstance. Mags was exactly the poison needed to shock Britain out of it's malaise. I think that Britain would have been fucked if someone like her hadn't come along. Circumstances changed and her pet solutions became less and less productive.

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Guest_7cbd4721 wrote: Having your health damaged as a child by her waiting lists will do that to a person...
Maggie's health reforms stopped the waiting lists and her policies have been pursued by every government ever since.

There seems to be a myth on the left that the NHS was a socialist idea, that it was created perfect and the conservatives have been trying to destroy it ever since in order to make money for their rich friends.

The truth is that the complete welfare system was created to make the country fit and productive and ready to defend the Empire against the Huns - it isn't the Left's baby and it was born retarded. It can never perfect, it can only ever be adequate, it is an endless pit and no amount of money can ever be enough. It has been a mess practically since its inception, and any attempt to reform it is always seen as attack on it.

Don't get me wrong, I am all for the state taking care of health, just as I am for them taking care of fires and locking up criminals. But the left needs to stop seeing the NHS as a sacred cow which would be fine if it only had a bit more money. It is a disaster area which could benefit from cuts in management, some privatization, some more competition and we could probably learn some lessons from what other western nations are doing. The left also has to stop pretending that the Tories want to privatize the whole thing and take us to an American style system.

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Tigzy wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote: Tip: when you're making David Duke happy, you have failed your job at fighting racism, and you should reconsider your choices.
TBH, I have a hard time caring about what David 'Wiggy' Duke thinks. It's impossible to take him seriously, on account of the fact that he looks like an alien trying to infiltrate the human race.

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This is what happens when you rely on those quack Nazi doctors for plastic surgery.

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#OprahKnew is Hillaryous

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Billie from Ockham wrote: #OprahKnew is Hillaryous
Isn't it just.
Marvellous.

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AndrewV69 wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:03 am
Steersman wrote:
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And why do you think "the alt-right is wrong even if those differences exist"? Maybe because, as I've argued, many on the alt-right think that those differences apply to ALL members of the different races? That, for instance, all whites are more intelligent than all blacks?
Browse Stormfron for for a couple of minutes and you will see that that can not possibly be true.
:-) Expect it would provide ample evidence of the pervasiveness of Dunning-Krueger ... Although that might be due less to innate differences in intelligence than simple biases, bigotry, and the failures of the education system.

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John D wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2018 8:34 am
He thinks girls are very adversely affected by the internet (especially constant use of smart phones and social networks) because they play out social status issues on-line.
For example, telling 14,000 people that you, like, totally don't want to talk about this awful thing a man did to you? Seriously, don't even ask. Clearly this is not something she wants to discuss.


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PZ has decided the next Mythcon will be even more fascist than the last.
http://archive.is/Sh31R
The sleazy bastards are trying to get black SJWs Sincere Kirabo and Alix Jules to debate a shitlord on the effects the social justice movement has had on the black community.
We are reaching out to see if you would want to be a speaker at Mythcon V. Our idea for your event would to be part of a discussion on “The effects of social justice activism in the African American community” [sic] This topic title is not final. The idea is to have you on stage with someone that would hold opposing views. We would have a moderator that would be present just to keep the conversation moving along.
It seems to me that fundamentalist religionists are more open to having debates about their ideas than the SJW community. It makes me wonder if their "faith" is so fragile it won't stand up to criticism.
Alix Jules turns down the invitation with classic woke speak rhetoric:
I will not negotiate my humanity. I will not play accomplice to interrogating the significance of Black liberation to indulge the white gaze.

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The Friendly Atheist Cranky LGBTQQIAA Crusader reads NPR article about Mississippi law (but not the law itself), dashes off umpteenth atheist LGBTQQIAA activism post:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... -in-place/

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What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that shitlords like Jon Haidt and Jordan Peterson are just using the research on the sex differences in the negative effects of social media to prevent girls from getting a smart-phone. Even more: it's a smoke-screen to stop you from realizing that both smart-phones and every well-known form of social media was invented by a person with a penis.

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Billie from Ockham wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:27 pm
And why do you think "the alt-right is wrong even if those differences exist"? Maybe because, as I've argued, many on the alt-right think that those differences apply to ALL members of the different races? That, for instance, all whites are more intelligent than all blacks?
And what is the best way to get someone to stop treating a person of a given sort as if all of their attributes were equal to (what they believe to be) the mean for a person of that sort?
Very good question, the question of the hour, the 64,000 dollar one, although, what with inflation and all, that's more like the 64 million dollar one.

But one might argue that that question is part and parcel of the crux of Damore's Manifesto, the one he nailed to Google's front door, and one that will hopefully get star billing during the forthcoming trial of the century:

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By Sam Bowman:

And the common element in both of those cases is the all too common inability to differentiate between individuals and groups, to a lack of comprehension about the admittedly counter-intuitive or obscure aspects of statistics - and that despite the effects of many, yours truly included, to clarify those. For instance, quite a good post over at Medium:
Understanding averages

One reason for the hostile reaction to the the now-notorious “Google Memo” is, I think, that it is very difficult to think about how group differences might apply to individuals. Statistical claims about groups almost always feel as if they relate to a general and universal effect applying to each individual within those groups.

The memo argued that “differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership”. If true, a hiring policy would be flawed if it assumed that a totally fair system would produce something close to a fifty/fifty balance of men and women at every level of the company. ...
But to more or less explicitly answer your question, issues like Google & Damore, and the discussion thereon, should, hopefully, help to illustrate those differences, and help reduce the tendency to judge and characterize individuals solely on the basis of the groups they're members of. Deeply problematic that "we" - mostly those on the Left, what with their promotion of the Blank Slate - refuse to consider that there are differences between groups, not least because those differences can have far-reaching effects - as the second paragraph of Bowman's article suggests and subsequently elaborates on.

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jet_lagg wrote:
John D wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2018 8:34 am
He thinks girls are very adversely affected by the internet (especially constant use of smart phones and social networks) because they play out social status issues on-line.
For example, telling 14,000 people that you, like, totally don't want to talk about this awful thing a man did to you? Seriously, don't even ask. Clearly this is not something she wants to discuss.

Ha, 'twas James Franco! And everything thought it was Ally's heroin addiction that led to her leaving the industry.

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jet_lagg wrote:
John D wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2018 8:34 am
He thinks girls are very adversely affected by the internet (especially constant use of smart phones and social networks) because they play out social status issues on-line.
For example, telling 14,000 people that you, like, totally don't want to talk about this awful thing a man did to you? Seriously, don't even ask. Clearly this is not something she wants to discuss.

Ha, 'twas James Franco! And everything thought it was Ally's heroin addiction that led to her leaving the industry.

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jet_lagg wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:27 pm
And why do you think "the alt-right is wrong even if those differences exist"? Maybe because, as I've argued, many on the alt-right think that those differences apply to ALL members of the different races? That, for instance, all whites are more intelligent than all blacks?
You catch a lot of shit re: racism, and I think you bring most of it on yourself. That said I know your position here and agree with it. There also needs to be an emphasis on what Drokkt and Kirbmarc are talking about. The time to be driving that kind of moral reasoning home is now, not after inconvenient data becomes common knowledge and it looks like we're desperately scrambling to move the goal posts.
I've got broad shoulders - and thick skin, although maybe I'm just obtuse ... ;-) But anything for the team. :-)

In any case, I generally think those accusations of racism are in fact predicated on the same misguided belief that simply pointing to differences in groups is manifest and egregious cases of both that and sexism and stereotyping in general.

Group differences maybe be slight, but common factors, particularly if consistently applied over a long period of time, can have far-reaching effects - see "Galloping Gertie", the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge:



But refusing to face those facts just precludes, in general, being able to adequately deal with the problems they entail.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: The Friendly Atheist Cranky LGBTQQIAA Crusader reads NPR article about Mississippi law (but not the law itself), dashes off umpteenth atheist LGBTQQIAA activism post:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... -in-place/
It was a weak appeal (plus the issue will likely become moot when the Gay Cake (tm) decision comes out [as it were] this summer).

The concept of "standing" can be both confusing and very frustrating, but it has more positives than negatives, IMO.

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One of my ambitions is to deliberately set a bridge oscillating and 'surf' across it on a skateboard.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Love the new board header, but I have it from a reliable source that there are in fact 2^1600 genders.
:-) At least 2^1600.

But, given that there are, apparently, some 20,000 genes, each with one or more different alleles, that code for different proteins that may have phenotypic effects, all with different degrees of correlation with the gametes produced - i.e., with male & female - one might reasonably argue that there is a hyperastronomical number of genders.

Although I've never been able to track down any precise count of the number of alleles to be found in the human genome - despite some efforts to do so - that presumably provide an upper limit on the number of genders. Somewhat apropos of which, ICYMI, you might check out ALFRED (The ALlele FREquency Database) which has data on some 660k polymorphisms among various "races".

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Shatterface wrote: One of my ambitions is to deliberately set a bridge oscillating and 'surf' across it on a skateboard.
:lol: Might even be a market for bridges that can provide double-duty as a mode of transportation, and venue for entertainment ...

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I get the feeling my tweets are not for the faint of heart...
Mwuhahaha!

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Shatterface wrote: One of my ambitions is to deliberately set a bridge oscillating and 'surf' across it on a skateboard.

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The Google class action suit is a font of Lulz:
Google furnishes a large number of internal mailing lists catering to employees with alternative lifestyles, including furries, polygamy, transgenderism, and plurality3, for the purpose of discussing sexual topics. The only lifestyle that seems to not be openly discussed on Google’s internal forums is traditional heterosexual monogamy.

3 For instance, an employee who sexually identifies as “a yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin” and “an expansive ornate building” presented a talk entitled “Living as a Plural Being” at an internal company event.

[....]

Google thread in which someone specifically requested conservative parenting advice:
“If I had a child, I would teach him/her traditional gender roles and patriarchy from a very young age. That’s the hardest thing to fix later, and our degenerate society constantly pushes the wrong message.”

Google HR stated, “We did not find that this post, on its face, violated any of Google’s policies, but your choice of words could suggest that you were advocating for a system in which men work outside the home and women do not, or that you were advocating for rigid adherence to gender identity at birth. We trust that neither is what you intended to say. We are providing you with this feedback so that you can better understand how some Googlers interpreted your statements, and so that you are better equipped to ensure that Google is a place in which all Googlers are able to reach their full potential.” In other words, Google scolded the Google Employee for, among other things, believing that gender identity is set at birth biologically—a position held by the vast majority of the world’s populace that Google professes to serve.

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Bhurzum wrote: I get the feeling my tweets are not for the faint of heart...

[.tweet]https: //twitter.com/Bhurzum/status/950836339934720001[/tweet]

Mwuhahaha!
And you give me a hard time about graphic images! ;-)


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Billie from Ockham wrote: What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that shitlords like Jon Haidt and Jordan Peterson are just using the research on the sex differences in the negative effects of social media to prevent girls from getting a smart-phone. Even more: it's a smoke-screen to stop you from realizing that both smart-phones and every well-known form of social media was invented by a person with a penis.
Hedy Lamarr invented the smart phone. It is known.

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PZ not only celebrates locked in ideology ...

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Steve Bannon steps down from Breitbart News after comments critical of Donald Trump

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Steersman wrote: And you give me a hard time about graphic images! ;-)
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Sorry, chief, won't happen again.

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I'm famous - or at least I've enjoyed a significant fraction of my allotted 15 minutes of it; /ht Jeremy Stangroom (one assumes ...):




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This years Quizotron, whatever happened to making it a regular event?


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Bhurzum wrote:
Steersman wrote: And you give me a hard time about graphic images! ;-)
[.img]https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/47720326.jpg[/img]

Sorry, chief, won't happen again.
:-) No problemo, carry on, 'tis the spirit of the times ... ;-) Even some merit in the modus operandi:




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"White Racism' class at Florida university will be guarded by police officers"
"A Florida professor teaching a "White Racism" course designed to show "the U.S. has been and remains a white supremacist society” will have his classroom guarded by two police officers as his students meet for the first time Tuesday, the university has revealed.

Ted Thornhill, an assistant professor of sociology at Florida Gulf Coast University, said out of an abundance of caution he sent campus police 46 pages of disturbing emails and voicemail messages he received after the class was announced, The News-Press of Fort Myers, Fla. reported.

"We have prepared for any possible distractions related to Tuesday's first class of the White Racism course, but we are expecting normal campus civility as our students engage in this and other courses at the spring semester's start," Susan Evans, FGCU's spokeswoman and chief of staff, told the newspaper.

Thornhill said none of the messages threatened violence or a disruption of the class, but some called him racial slurs. A few prospective students told the professor they had safety concerns."

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I find the fact that this story got the coverage it did more interesting than anything else. It looks a bit like deliberate attention-whoring & victim-mongering by the professor.

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Vice UK ... :lol: :clap: :doh:


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Gotta love the French. Go Catherine Deneuve (etc).

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shoutinghorse wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:41 pm
This years Quizotron, whatever happened to making it a regular event?

Why bother when she has a new meal ticket.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41y7L7BjDX0

The name "Skeptical community" is up for grabs again, but it's a fixer-upper.

I think I might stick with "Fortean" for the time being.
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Looks like FaithG’s twitter timeline has **gone** complete with mysterious message ......

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Steersman wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:27 pm
And why do you think "the alt-right is wrong even if those differences exist"? Maybe because, as I've argued, many on the alt-right think that those differences apply to ALL members of the different races? That, for instance, all whites are more intelligent than all blacks?
And what is the best way to get someone to stop treating a person of a given sort as if all of their attributes were equal to (what they believe to be) the mean for a person of that sort?
Very good question, the question of the hour, the 64,000 dollar one, although, what with inflation and all, that's more like the 64 million dollar one.

{snip}

But to more or less explicitly answer your question, issues like Google & Damore, and the discussion thereon, should, hopefully, help to illustrate those differences, and help reduce the tendency to judge and characterize individuals solely on the basis of the groups they're members of. Deeply problematic that "we" - mostly those on the Left, what with their promotion of the Blank Slate - refuse to consider that there are differences between groups, not least because those differences can have far-reaching effects - as the second paragraph of Bowman's article suggests and subsequently elaborates on.
Actually, the answer to my question is quite simple: talk to them.

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Brive1987 wrote: Looks like FaithG’s twitter timeline has **gone** complete with mysterious message ......


I believe the catch phrase is "Barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen."

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Brive1987 wrote: Looks like FaithG’s twitter timeline has **gone** complete with mysterious message ......

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Billie from Ockham wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:27 pm
And why do you think "the alt-right is wrong even if those differences exist"? Maybe because, as I've argued, many on the alt-right think that those differences apply to ALL members of the different races? That, for instance, all whites are more intelligent than all blacks?
And what is the best way to get someone to stop treating a person of a given sort as if all of their attributes were equal to (what they believe to be) the mean for a person of that sort?
Very good question, the question of the hour, the 64,000 dollar one, although, what with inflation and all, that's more like the 64 million dollar one.

{snip}

But to more or less explicitly answer your question, issues like Google & Damore, and the discussion thereon, should, hopefully, help to illustrate those differences, and help reduce the tendency to judge and characterize individuals solely on the basis of the groups they're members of. Deeply problematic that "we" - mostly those on the Left, what with their promotion of the Blank Slate - refuse to consider that there are differences between groups, not least because those differences can have far-reaching effects - as the second paragraph of Bowman's article suggests and subsequently elaborates on.
Actually, the answer to my question is quite simple: talk to them.
And what do you think that Medium post qualifies as?

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote: What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that shitlords like Jon Haidt and Jordan Peterson are just using the research on the sex differences in the negative effects of social media to prevent girls from getting a smart-phone. Even more: it's a smoke-screen to stop you from realizing that both smart-phones and every well-known form of social media was invented by a person with a penis.
Hedy Lamarr invented the smart phone. It is known.
At the risk of taking this too seriously ... the research to which Jon Haidt refers has shown that only smart-phones are associated with increases in depression and anxiety (esp. in girls). A plain (dumb?) mobile phone causes no problems. In fact, having a plain phone is associated with a slight decrease in anxiety in both the child and the parents.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
3 For instance, an employee who sexually identifies as “a yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin” and “an expansive ornate building” presented a talk entitled “Living as a Plural Being” at an internal company event.
If you can identify as a dragon or a building and still be taken seriously, why was Rachel Dolezal called a bigot for identifying as black woman? Isn't race just a social construct, so if you can get society to accept you, you're constructed in the "right" way?

Google should deal with this appalling erasure of a rich, vibrant tapestry of identity in a form and stern way.

#JusticeForWrongSkinInGoogle #TransRacialGooglers #TransPOCsAtGoogle

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deLurch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: Looks like FaithG’s twitter timeline has **gone** complete with mysterious message ......
https: //twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/950811824915705856

I believe the catch phrase is "Barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen."
:nin: - by seconds ...

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deLurch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: Looks like FaithG’s twitter timeline has **gone** complete with mysterious message ......


I believe the catch phrase is "Barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen."
Congratulations Brive. :bjarte:

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Steersman wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote: Actually, the answer to my question is quite simple: talk to them.
And what do you think that Medium post qualifies as?
I realize that what I'm about to say will come as a shock in the Internet Age, but writing and/or reading a post is not the same as talking to someone. Boards like this one come close (as long as real names are used), but nothing is the same as a face-to-face conversation.

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KiwiInOz wrote: Gotta love the French. Go Catherine Deneuve (etc).
Fun Fact: No secret that Ms Deneuve was admired by both sexes for her obvious charms - In 1990, A lesbian magazine decided to call itself "Deneuve" no doubt in homage.
However she, or her legal reps took action to get them to change the name of the mag, which five years after it first launched , then became "Curve".

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Kirbmarc wrote:
deLurch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote: Looks like FaithG’s twitter timeline has **gone** complete with mysterious message ......


I believe the catch phrase is "Barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen."
Congratulations Brive. :bjarte:
I was told it wouldn’t take if you did it standing up.

:twatson:

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I believe that it was the movie The Hunger that removed any doubts that I had about Deneuve's sexuality. But that was a while ago.

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InfraRedBucket wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote: Gotta love the French. Go Catherine Deneuve (etc).
Fun Fact: No secret that Ms Deneuve was admired by both sexes for her obvious charms - In 1990, A lesbian magazine decided to call itself "Deneuve" no doubt in homage.
However she, or her legal reps took action to get them to change the name of the mag, which five years after it first launched , then became "Curve".
She and the others signing the letter are definitely sex positive humanists.

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Sargon is going for a rematch. Lets hope he's better prepared this time.

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If a Google employee identified as, say, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront Gebäude in Fehrbelliner Platz, would Google embrace their panpluralsexuality, or punch them as a trans*nazi? Asking for a friend.

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I must have missed it by scrolling past, but it appears that The Atheist Conference (TAC) with Steve Shives has been canceled.


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Not sure if she really is a sane progressive, or if she's onto anything. Heartfelt rant though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjGMYaSLuk

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Time to switch into Dad mode.


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deLurch wrote: I must have missed it by scrolling past, but it appears that The Atheist Conference (TAC) with Steve Shives has been canceled.

PZ began his long slow strokes on this failure a few days ago.

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I feel like something got lost in the last thread switch.


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Billie from Ockham wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote: Actually, the answer to my question is quite simple: talk to them.
And what do you think that Medium post qualifies as?
I realize that what I'm about to say will come as a shock in the Internet Age, but writing and/or reading a post is not the same as talking to someone. Boards like this one come close (as long as real names are used), but nothing is the same as a face-to-face conversation.
Probably true.

Although that doesn't mean that "face-to-face conversations" are without their limitations and problematic aspects. Fer instance, not as easy to have recourse to pictures, to 8x12 photographs with circles & arrow and a paragraph on the back of each. And Twitter, and boards like this one, allow access to a larger audience as well as allowing some degree of interactivity; more bang for the buck, I expect.

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deLurch wrote: I feel like something got lost in the last thread switch.
Surf music would work well if it didn't have the voiceover.
It's better with the Yardbirds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tml3SUvdhBw

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deLurch wrote: I feel like something got lost in the last thread switch.

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