Periodic Table of Swearing

[masakari2012]

Can't tell if this was shared already or not.....

Al Stefanelli of FTB on ReapSowRadio....

http://www.reapsowradio.com/?p=31218

[Lapsang Souchong]

I hope I don't get treated like Mabus for this, yet I enjoy it and I suspect others here will as well: the immortal Enrico Caruso.

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[Rystefn]

I'll drink to that.

I'll drink to drinking to that. ;)

On the subject of age - by the time I was McWrong's age, I had lived on multiple continents, seen more countries than the average American can name, been homeless, been stabbed in the neck, saw combat, got married, got divorced, worked security for an arms dealer, seen people die, slept in a jail cell, set a broken bone, and learned how to cook meat on fire. If she's still a child, that's on her head, it's got nothing to do with age.

[Michael K Gray]

I'll drink to that.

I'll drink to drinking to that. ;)

On the subject of age - by the time I was McWrong's age, I had lived on multiple continents, seen more countries than the average American can name, been homeless, been stabbed in the neck, saw combat, got married, got divorced, worked security for an arms dealer, seen people die, slept in a jail cell, set a broken bone, and learned how to cook meat on fire. If she's still a child, that's on her head, it's got nothing to do with age.

Luxury.
When I was 4 years old, I had to get up every morning, 10 hours before I went to bed, drink a cup of COLD poison, work at t' Mill 26 hours a day, (and pay t' owner for the privilege). Then when I got home, our dad would slice us in two wi' bread knife singing Hallelujah whilst dancing on our graves.
Tell that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you.

[franc]

For those of you asking, I'll speak to franc tonight. He was abducted by the circus when they came to town, was held against his will, and was forced to cook and clean for them, while they hurled abuse at him. He's free, but has been recovering the past few days. I'll see if I can coax him here.

Yeah, life becomes a John Waters film whenever family comes to town. If I wrote about it no one would believe it. I am relegated to status of cook, cleaner and dog that gets kicked for every minor fustration. The only place in the house with peace and quiet is also a wireless black spot. Simply can't keep up with what happens here, so haven't even tried. 3000 comments behind. Anything major to note other than Vacula lynching?

[drolrev0]

Poor Jen, she was such a social jurist when she was inside her pinky middle class/academic bubble. Now she's experiencing how crass and disgusting even the underprivileged can be, and she cannot handle the cold truth. Even her daddy had to stop playing golf to tend to her fragile state of mind. Go, you strong lady, you!

We love poor people, we just can't stand the way they smell.

[Michael K Gray]

Anything major to note other than Vacula lynching?

A trusted source has revealed that there is at least one stealth poe-plant acting as an A+ moderator, and having a jolly time seeing how ridiculous he can act without being spotted.
Bet the inmates are all afrenzy with more than their usual dose of paranoia.

[aweraw]

Anything major to note other than Vacula lynching?

A trusted source has revealed that there is at least one stealth poe-plant acting as an A+ moderator, and having a jolly time seeing how ridiculous he can act without being spotted.
Bet the inmates are all afrenzy with more than their usual dose of paranoia.

Don't forget Dillahunty's epic fall from grace...

[aweraw]

.. and of course Al Stefanelli has publicly refused to prostrate himself before the alter of A+.

Man, it's been a big week. I think my abs might be starting to ripple out for the first time in years, due to all the laughing.

[JackRayner]

Spent the last few hours drinking Jack & Coke and watching raven/crow documentaries and videos. I could think of much worse ways to spend a ...what is this, Wednesday? Yeah. I could think of much wosre ways to spend a Wednesday night! :mrgreen:

Since we're on the subject of intelligence [were we?] and other such psychological states, I want to say that ever since I've begun to observe the baboons, I've become extremely disinterested in theists. Like, I used to frequent the facebook fan pages and youtube video comments of well known atheists, and I would get into little debates with theists and non-believers on all sorts of subjects. But, there's just something about self-proclaimed "skeptics" acting like totally un-skeptical, irrational ideologues that attracts my attention that much more. It's incredible seeing people who are familiar with fallacious arguments actually using these in an attempt to defend their pet ideologies, and then pretending like they totally aren't. The level of compartmentalization going on, it's....it's just beautiful.

Also, I love you guys. *insert group-hug smiley*

[JackRayner]

Something that occupies my mind often is wondering how animals perceive cars. Like, I think about this a lot , and especially so when I'm driving with no one else in the car. Like those bastard, stuck up peacocks that live near me and love to cross the street at a leisurely pace when I'm trying to get someplace, or the dogs I see riding in cars. Anytime I see any animal-car interaction, the thought pops back into my head...

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Again, ont he subject of cars and animals, I'm @18:07 of this video, and they're going over how this lady's raven, "Loki", loves going for a ride in her car. The awesome part is a few seconds in. When she steps out to open the gate, the little bugger jumps down and turns the ignition off. :O

And a little further on, as she's driving down the road, Loki flies along side her. That's so cool.

[Rystefn]

I'll drink to that.

I'll drink to drinking to that. ;)

On the subject of age - by the time I was McWrong's age, I had lived on multiple continents, seen more countries than the average American can name, been homeless, been stabbed in the neck, saw combat, got married, got divorced, worked security for an arms dealer, seen people die, slept in a jail cell, set a broken bone, and learned how to cook meat on fire. If she's still a child, that's on her head, it's got nothing to do with age.

Luxury.
When I was 4 years old, I had to get up every morning, 10 hours before I went to bed, drink a cup of COLD poison, work at t' Mill 26 hours a day, (and pay t' owner for the privilege). Then when I got home, our dad would slice us in two wi' bread knife singing Hallelujah whilst dancing on our graves.
Tell that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you.

Yeah, well, when I wanted to take a shower, I had to walk ten miles to the hot springs, uphill both ways, through eight feet of snow, and carry it back in a five-gallon bucket with a hole in it. After the ten trips it took to get enough water, it had all gone cold, so I had to chop down a tree to get wood and build a fire to warm the water up... and then, most days, the gravity would go out, and the water would all fall up anyway.

[Butters]

This is tl;dr

This desire by people like Jen to be seen as helping those less fortunate, or even thinking one UNDERSTANDS what someone less fortunate or outside the mainstream is going through or thinks, reminds me of trying to help out at the local OCCUPY group in my town. While there were many homeless (homeless for all sorts of reasons), the main speakers and active types were 20 somethings thinking they "understand it all" and want to make a difference. Some slept on the campsite (and then would go to their classes or job) and then come back at night. They thought they were really understanding and speaking for the people who as soon as the camp was disbanded, would be on their on own on the streets again. But these “leaders” would be back in their parent's extra room or their own apartment/house that they kept the time of the OCCUPY camping. They could not understand what it is like to be the people they thought they were speaking for...they all had a safe place to stay regardless of what happened. Now not all were this delusional, but enough were.

Some people in the camp were homeless because they were addicted to drugs, so they would go into tents and steal in order to get drugs. As the leaders would never give someone to the cops, they wanted to try and fix this part of society themselves. But they were not qualified. I saw a guy still high on meth (and other things) surrounded by a large circle of people. He had their full attention, and they sought to calm him down (he was grabbed after he attacked a couple in their tent). Calming down is good. But they did not want to turn him over to any agency. They made him promise not to steal anymore...a guy high on meth... So the upshot was, the couple who did not feel safe because this person was allowed to stay in the camp and was not treated in anyway, so they left. And this continued on with other people until the camp was basically not safe. These people want to make a change, but they think they understand more than they do.

[TedDahlberg]

I've been a few pages behind on reading all week (you people are being prolific) so I don't know if anyone's shared this lately. A friend sent this to me last night and it would be morally reprehensible of me not to pass it on. She said she especially liked "thundercunt".

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[Butters]

I've been a few pages behind on reading all week (you people are being prolific) so I don't know if anyone's shared this lately. A friend sent this to me last night and it would be morally reprehensible of me not to pass it on. She said she especially liked "thundercunt".

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Some very useful insults in there. Can't use them right away, as the people I know who HATE the slymepit (but won't admit reading it) will know that I read it...but can't say it outloud.

[Pitchguest]

Yeah, I'll let others get franc up to speed. I'm just gonna post this real quick and go to bed, because I cannot not as I'd have trouble sleeping being so utterly flabbergasted at what I've just heard. (Hello privilege! By the way, Rystefn, I'm 24 years old and I lack so horribly in the life experience you have, I kind of feel bad. Could be worse, I guess. Could have done Boobquake. :dance: )

Anyway, I watched the Watson conference and once again, I was hit by the inanity of it all. These people willingly went there at 9 AM in the morning to see this insipid, vapid human being recount once more the threats she's received. (Even to make a lame joke about it, "If there's one thing my mother told me, never talk about your rape threats over dinner." :doh:) Once more she makes it personal, makes it only about herself, tell her audience about the severely interesting anecdote that she received an email which simply said "cunt." Ooh, ahh, Hitchens' ghost must be regretting that he never said something so riveting.

Deep in my thoughts, pondering what I'd have for breakfast in the morning in between the mantra "don't care, yeah, ok, fine, that's nice, yeah, don't care", she comes with this bombshell,

"... so at the time all these Skepchicks that were (JREF Convention) there instituted a buddy system in which we all travel together, or with a male escort (especially when returning to hotel rooms late at night *hint hint*)"

*record stops*

What the what and WHAT? A male escort? A fucking male escort? The fuck?

I can't believe my ears. Rebecca Watson said this. She and her Skepchick cohorts instituted a buddy system of either all of them travelling together (reasonable) or with MALE. ESCORTS. I ... what is this ... I don't even. :|

Moment(s) of Zen:



- Rebecca recounts the email correspondence of her and the one calling her simply a 'cunt'. Brilliant.

- Rebecca recalling the early days of Skepchick when she had a woman stalker.

- Rebecca is retelling how upset she were that her friends wouldn't take her words at face value. (The woman she's talking about is the aforementioned stalker who'd gotten acquainted with one of her friends.)

- Rebecca is smearing the men's right movement. Something for Mykeru to bite into.


- The above cited inanity. Seriously. Male escorts. What the fuck.

- She's been in talks with the FBI about her threats though as of that moment, no one has been arrested. Huh, one would think with the kind of threats she gets, it ... oh, nevermind. Bonus: A few seconds later she says this gem, "but I have friends and strangers alike who have never questioned my words when dealing with harassment" :doh: :doh: :doh:

- She's talking about a woman on a forum "dedicated to hating her" who was gonna attend a conference in San Fran. last year, anyone know who this is she's referring to?

- Rebecca speaks about how some her friend bloggers (e.g. Jen) have been "pushed out" by "bullies" and how they have been "winning", however "sadly for them, though, [she's] still here", with the bonus addition of admitting she's an attention whore.

For your mental health, I don't recommend watching it. I swear I lost precious IQ points just listening to it - and her incessant giggling every second sentence, Peezus christ.

[Tony Parsehole]

Anything major to note other than Vacula lynching?

Matt Dillahunty's anal rape by the vast majority of A+. But you probably knew that already.

[Skep tickle]

Could someone post the Cliff Notes version of what happened to ERV, & maybe a linkie or pointer to some more info somewhere?

Here are two links to Laden and Stuffy admitting to some of the nuisance complaints they made to Abbie's bloghost, and to the chair of her academic department, as revenge because 1) she lets people say bads words in her comment areas and 2) people can express negative opinions about FfTBers without being stopped. ...

Thanks! That's helpful background info. (Memo to Laden: in academic science, "professional misconduct" means something different than what you apparently think it means.)

Which reminds me: that screen shot a couple of pages back with mods & admins at Atheism+ forum included one person listed under what is apparently his real name, along with the website for University of Washington Genome Sciences, where a very quick search shows that someone with that same name is a postdoctoral fellow. It's Jen McCreight's department. (All of this is from what that A+ mod-of-few-posts chose as his username at the A+ forum, the web page he chose to link, and info JM has been public about.) Presumably noone has been using state resources for their personal internet activities related to atheism+, but even linking the department's web site seems IMO in poor form.

Speaking of Jen, I'm sorry to hear that she's battling depression. That sucks, royally.

But why would someone who stopped blogging because of the antagonistic comments she & her father were getting then continue to broadcast anything personal or potentially controversial, much less anything, to the twitterverse? I guess using social media to stay in touch or speak your mind may feel as natural as breathing (and as safe?) to some folks.

The reactions she's seeing to her #ugh tweet seem to really, really be getting to her. I hope she takes the advice she's currently getting from Sid Rodrigues via twitter, and unplugs - takes a break. Her last tweet said this*:

My haters don't give a fuck about the homeless or mentally ill. They just use them to promote their Male-Sexuality-Trumps-Everything agenda

That's a pretty deep hole to be down, to be taking criticism of one's statement so personally (and twisting it to fit into a mold).

It's also pretty amazing that apparently her supporters aren't grasping the disconnect here, so though it's been said above I'll help spell it out again for lurkers: she's the one who coined "We are…Atheists plus we care about social justice", but then she tweets "Apparently my day is going to start by walking by a homeless man masturbating in public #ugh". (A later tweet referenced the general situation of "someone watching me as they masturbate without my consent" but there's no mention in the first one that homeless guy acknowledged her existence much less used it to his advantage, so to speak.)

It's possible that the part she meant to emphasize as distasteful was someone "masturbating in public", but we've all found ourselves "walking by a homeless man", and that's the part that is so dissonant given the purported extra special interest A+ in "social justice" that other atheists are assumed not to "give a fuck about".

(Except it seems quite possible that "social justice" is one of those words, like "privilege", that turns out to have an extra special meaning that those with privilege aren't privileged to know.)

And now I'm picturing a dedicated Atheism+ adherent volunteering at the soup kitchen in the U-district in Seattle, telling the homeless men "guys, don't do that"....and a schism forming between the social justice league and the homeless community... :shock:

[Mykeru]

I'll drink to that.

I'll drink to drinking to that. ;)

On the subject of age - by the time I was McWrong's age, I had lived on multiple continents, seen more countries than the average American can name, been homeless, been stabbed in the neck, saw combat, got married, got divorced, worked security for an arms dealer, seen people die, slept in a jail cell, set a broken bone, and learned how to cook meat on fire. If she's still a child, that's on her head, it's got nothing to do with age.

Luxury.
When I was 4 years old, I had to get up every morning, 10 hours before I went to bed, drink a cup of COLD poison, work at t' Mill 26 hours a day, (and pay t' owner for the privilege). Then when I got home, our dad would slice us in two wi' bread knife singing Hallelujah whilst dancing on our graves.
Tell that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you.

Yeah, well, when I wanted to take a shower, I had to walk ten miles to the hot springs, uphill both ways, through eight feet of snow, and carry it back in a five-gallon bucket with a hole in it. After the ten trips it took to get enough water, it had all gone cold, so I had to chop down a tree to get wood and build a fire to warm the water up... and then, most days, the gravity would go out, and the water would all fall up anyway.

You punk kids. When i was your age, we had none of this "free oxygen" in the atmosphere. We had to suck it out of the rocks.

[James Onen]

Hey I havent heard from James lately--

??

I'm alive and well. And still evil :twisted:.

[Spence]

Simply can't keep up with what happens here, so haven't even tried. 3000 comments behind. Anything major to note other than Vacula lynching?

I'm only about 1000 comments behind after a busy few days and just trying to keep up with that is time consuming!

My personal favourite from catching up with this week has to be Jen McWrong's confirmation that social justice does not extend to those nasty, filthy homeless people whose privilege stands head and shoulders above white middle class American females. (I'm paraphrasing here, but that's the message I got from Jen)

[Mykeru]

Yeah, I'll let others get franc up to speed. I'm just gonna post this real quick and go to bed, because I cannot not as I'd have trouble sleeping being so utterly flabbergasted at what I've just heard. (Hello privilege! By the way, Rystefn, I'm 24 years old and I lack so horribly in the life experience you have, I kind of feel bad. Could be worse, I guess. Could have done Boobquake. :dance: )

Anyway, I watched the Watson conference and once again, I was hit by the inanity of it all. These people willingly went there at 9 AM in the morning to see this insipid, vapid human being recount once more the threats she's received. (Even to make a lame joke about it, "If there's one thing my mother told me, never talk about your rape threats over dinner." :doh:) Once more she makes it personal, makes it only about herself, tell her audience about the severely interesting anecdote that she received an email which simply said "cunt." Ooh, ahh, Hitchens' ghost must be regretting that he never said something so riveting.

Deep in my thoughts, pondering what I'd have for breakfast in the morning in between the mantra "don't care, yeah, ok, fine, that's nice, yeah, don't care", she comes with this bombshell,

"... so at the time all these Skepchicks that were (JREF Convention) there instituted a buddy system in which we all travel together, or with a male escort (especially when returning to hotel rooms late at night *hint hint*)"

*record stops*

What the what and WHAT? A male escort? A fucking male escort? The fuck?

I can't believe my ears. Rebecca Watson said this. She and her Skepchick cohorts instituted a buddy system of either all of them travelling together (reasonable) or with MALE. ESCORTS. I ... what is this ... I don't even. :|

Moment(s) of Zen:



- Rebecca recounts the email correspondence of her and the one calling her simply a 'cunt'. Brilliant.

- Rebecca recalling the early days of Skepchick when she had a woman stalker.

- Rebecca is retelling how upset she were that her friends wouldn't take her words at face value. (The woman she's talking about is the aforementioned stalker who'd gotten acquainted with one of her friends.)

- Rebecca is smearing the men's right movement. Something for Mykeru to bite into.


- The above cited inanity. Seriously. Male escorts. What the fuck.

- She's been in talks with the FBI about her threats though as of that moment, no one has been arrested. Huh, one would think with the kind of threats she gets, it ... oh, nevermind. Bonus: A few seconds later she says this gem, "but I have friends and strangers alike who have never questioned my words when dealing with harassment" :doh: :doh: :doh:

- She's talking about a woman on a forum "dedicated to hating her" who was gonna attend a conference in San Fran. last year, anyone know who this is she's referring to?

- Rebecca speaks about how some her friend bloggers (e.g. Jen) have been "pushed out" by "bullies" and how they have been "winning", however "sadly for them, though, [she's] still here", with the bonus addition of admitting she's an attention whore.

For your mental health, I don't recommend watching it. I swear I lost precious IQ points just listening to it - and her incessant giggling every second sentence, Peezus christ.

Ah, Rebecca Watson, who parlayed being the "girl on the internet" in the JREF forums into Skepchick International, where she didn't produce anything, just repeated the work of others while possessing a vagina, but even that was too much like work. So she embarked on the "make it up as you go" route of conflating her brand of mercenary feminism with skepticism so as to ride the gravy train. No facts needed, no evidence and the only thing that needs to be read is the comments of some trolls. And how to guarantee that she can stay on the conference circuit and drink until 4 am? Well, you see, men are bad. We need more women. And DJ Grothe making sure half the speakers were women wasn't good enough. Maybe not the right women. Because Rebecca likes paid speaking gigs and she knows some other approved women...

Fucking sociopath. She manipulates and the only thing that matters to her is the game of it all. And when questioned, the fire line of defense is pity. Right out of the playbook.

You know how you can tell what Rebecca wants you to think of her? Listen to what her harassers say in her stories. Elevator Guy "thinks she's interesting", because, you know she was speaking at that conference. Or the guy saying "show me that pretty smile"? Well, it appears Rebecca had some dental work done, crowns or veneers on her yellowed and uneven 2009 teeth. Now she wants you to notice her pretty smile. She is her own psychological road map.

And again on Dawkins? Nothing is more terrifying than Rebecca Watson using her stature as "big on the internet" to mercilessly pummel Richard Dawkins' ankles.

The MRA bullshit she spouts? More of her "The Eternal Male" as a bunch of scurrying rats crap. When she spouts her oddly sexualized stories of MRAs calling her a whore and needing to stop her "by any means necessary", perhaps a "cock in the mouth", it's hard to get angry. Rebecca pretty much projects being the Skeptic Industry's version of being the rape child of a Three Card Monte dealers and Snake Oil Salesman's. But yeah, the supposed "skeptics" in the audience oohing and ahhing...

Well, I said it before, when the dust settles the Watsons and Dillhauntys will have no credibility in the atheist and skeptic movement. At best, they will be part of a marginal splinter group. As the legitimate movement gains, it makes the purge of loons and assholes that couldn't be conducted anyway a done deal. Good.

[rayshul]

Hey I havent heard from James lately--

??

I'm alive and well. And still evil :twisted:.

Eeeeexcellent.

Now where's Steersman...

[rayshul]

Fucking sociopath. She manipulates and the only thing that matters to her is the game of it all. And when questioned, the fire line of defense is pity. Right out of the playbook.

You know how you can tell what Rebecca wants you to think of her? Listen to what her harassers say in her stories. Elevator Guy "thinks she's interesting", because, you know she was speaking at that conference. Or the guy saying "show me that pretty smile"? Well, it appears Rebecca had some dental work done, crowns or veneers on her yellowed and uneven 2009 teeth. Now she wants you to notice her pretty smile. She is her own psychological road map.

I think she hates herself and wants attention. Not sociopathic, just needy. Everyone I've met who likes to talk about how much people fancy them have crushingly low self-esteem. And perhaps she's aware it's getting a little sad that she's still calling herself a "chick" in her middlin' years.

[rayshul]

Oh, one last thing on the Foes solution, just a comment. It's a very brilliant way to filter what's read and to keep out people who you personally don't want to read, while letting everyone talk. I mean, this way the power is in the hands of the people, and there's no rule or single person in charge of who gets to read. It's all very individual and empowering to the users. So, yay Lsuoma, this is great. :)

[Mykeru]

Fucking sociopath. She manipulates and the only thing that matters to her is the game of it all. And when questioned, the fire line of defense is pity. Right out of the playbook.

You know how you can tell what Rebecca wants you to think of her? Listen to what her harassers say in her stories. Elevator Guy "thinks she's interesting", because, you know she was speaking at that conference. Or the guy saying "show me that pretty smile"? Well, it appears Rebecca had some dental work done, crowns or veneers on her yellowed and uneven 2009 teeth. Now she wants you to notice her pretty smile. She is her own psychological road map.

I think she hates herself and wants attention. Not sociopathic, just needy. Everyone I've met who likes to talk about how much people fancy them have crushingly low self-esteem. And perhaps she's aware it's getting a little sad that she's still calling herself a "chick" in her middlin' years.

You want sad? Give it a few years and pay a visit to a 40-something Rebecca Watson holding court in some hotel bar.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Catching up on the thread.

I have two black widows, one in the toilets and one in the bathroom. I also have a Daddy Long Leg in the bedroom, and until two days ago when we found him dead, a Gecko in the kitchen. Not many mosquitoes and roaches now (we used to be infested).

When I was a kid, we used to have very funny weirdos in the neighborhood. One was a lady that kept talking out loud to herself. Nowadays, I can't say if these are weirdos or just people with handfree sets on their cellphones. And then there's the Mtsery Man. A guy in his late 30's always dressed in an impeccable white tuxedo, wearing sunglasses at all hours, and collecting stuff from the litter bins down the street. He is sometimes accompained by an old, wizened lady who dresses like a bimbo. Completely harmless people.

My whole street was also a Mafia war turf, and it wasn't uncommon to find a corpse on the pavement in the morning. My favorite restaurant got arsoned 3 times too. Then the Mafia bosses got arrested, and the neighborhood switched to chavs for a while. These days it's mostly Eastern beggars during the day and prostitute (most of them Brazilian trans) at night.

[Git]

[quote="Gumby" Jesus fucking Christ these people are an orchestra of kazoos.

That is offensive, sir! Offensive! How dare you use the word Kazoo as an insult. Don't you know it's insensitive to the people who can't afford your expensive "real" instruments!

Sorry. My slide whistle privilege was showing. My bad.[/quote]

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[Git]

Like most of her ilk, she wouldn't know empathy nor a real social justice issue if they were fellating each other on her sofa.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

One internet to you Good Sir.

[decius]

I hope I don't get treated like Mabus for this, yet I enjoy it and I suspect others here will as well: the immortal Enrico Caruso.

The 1916 sound quality pretty much kills the enjoyment and makes it next to impossible to appreciate his considerable talent, which remains certified by all contemporary accounts. It's a bit like with old and expensive wine woo - it's the reputation and the name on the label which survive, not the actual experience.

[Couch]

I hope I don't get treated like Mabus for this, yet I enjoy it and I suspect others here will as well: the immortal Enrico Caruso.

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Brilliant. Perfection. Very evocative for me. My house growing up echoed to the sound of Caruso on old and scratchy 78rpm records. And I'm not that old, my parents were just really 'different'.

[decius]

Brilliant. Perfection.

We really can't infer that from the limited dynamic range afforded by "acoustic era" recordings. It's just plain physics - not enough information got preserved in shellac records (apart from the appalling noise-to-signal ratio). In other words, massive clipping occurred and if mistakes were made in the missing range, they wouldn't be noticeable.
Some advances were made after 1925, but it's only in the forties that sufficiently high-fidelity recordings appear.

[Ape+lust]

It's possible that the part she meant to emphasize as distasteful was someone "masturbating in public", but we've all found ourselves "walking by a homeless man", and that's the part that is so dissonant given the purported extra special interest A+ in "social justice" that other atheists are assumed not to "give a fuck about".

They want the identity of the marginalized, with the deference and indulgence that comes with it, so they can thow pity parties and soak up commiseration. What they're not interested in is solidarity with the marginalized. Y'know, the social justice bit.

Brats, the lot of them.

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

[Couch]

Brilliant. Perfection.

We really can't infer that from the limited dynamic range afforded by "acoustic era" recordings. It's just plain physics - not enough information got preserved in shellac records (apart from the appalling noise-to-signal ratio). In other words, massive clipping occurred and if mistakes were made in the missing range, they wouldn't be noticeable.
Some advances were made after 1925, but it's only in the forties that sufficiently high-fidelity recordings appear.

Jaysus. Where's the romance?

Agreed, though. One's unlikely to crack a hi-fi bit-rate stiffy (homeless or not) or moisty over pre-war recordings.

The awesomeness was a personal scratch of my nostalgic bone(r).

[decius]

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Jaysus. Where's the romance?

In the gutter, where it belongs.

BWAHHAHHAHAH

[Mykeru]

Dear Jen McCreight,

Please stop staring at our penis and slut-shaming our sexuality. We find your "Gaze" to be oppressive.

In solidarity,

The Homeless.

[animaculo]

When I began to climb there were very few women and the male climbers used to think that the women were not capable to climb like the males. They were a lot of sexist jokes, and sexists names for the female climbers.
With time a lot more women began to climb, a bunch of good female climbers appeared and that changed the perception. We showed them that we are capable and that we can do almost everything a man can do, even if we are less strong in average that the men. And it was without conversations of sexism in the climbing world, whining about men staring at the butts of the climbers, and asking for safe spaces to pee outdoors.

Jen McCreight, Rebecca Watson and the like are whining that they are oppressed because they are females, and at the same time they are not doing a single thing to prove that they are good at anything but whining. One Harriet Hall is worth one thousand skepchicks because she has proved that she is as good as any male doctor in the military. She can be a model for young girls who want to be doctors, she is an example of woman in a traditional male field, and she was here because of her hard work.

And sorry for my English, I am not a native speaker and clearly I lack the language skills to participate in the debate, thank Good Maiforpeace is not a moderator here.

[Michael K Gray]

One Harriet Hall is worth one thousand skepchicks because she has proved that she is as good as any male doctor in the military.

Quite.
Watson is a pathological sociopathic narcissistic parasite, who could not give a tinker's cuss about anyone, (including herself, it seems).
Whereas Jen is a dysfunctional mental-infant in an adult body.

Watson quite wilfully deceives in order to get her next drink.
Whereas McCreight appears utterly blind to her infantile hypocrisy.

Neither of them are remotely able to emulate Dr. Hall for any longer than 30 seconds.
Harriet cannot serve as a rôle model to those two, nor most of the mentally damaged train-wrecks that inhabit FreefromThoughtBlogs, Skepchuncks, nor (especially) that multi-rubber-roomed asylum for the terminally paranoid and frighteningly deranged: A+Theism Fora.

[Lapsang Souchong]

Did McCreight ever post anything about the poor street guy who was viciously shot down by the Seattle PD, her current abode?

[Michael K Gray]

Did McCreight ever post anything about the poor street guy who was viciously shot down by the Seattle PD, her current abode?

I don't remember her mentioning it.
Perhaps she did report the hobo-wanker to the fuzz?

[codelette]

When I began to climb there were very few women and the male climbers used to think that the women were not capable to climb like the males. They were a lot of sexist jokes, and sexists names for the female climbers.
With time a lot more women began to climb, a bunch of good female climbers appeared and that changed the perception. We showed them that we are capable and that we can do almost everything a man can do, even if we are less strong in average that the men. And it was without conversations of sexism in the climbing world, whining about men staring at the butts of the climbers, and asking for safe spaces to pee outdoors.

Jen McCreight, Rebecca Watson and the like are whining that they are oppressed because they are females, and at the same time they are not doing a single thing to prove that they are good at anything but whining. One Harriet Hall is worth one thousand skepchicks because she has proved that she is as good as any male doctor in the military. She can be a model for young girls who want to be doctors, she is an example of woman in a traditional male field, and she was here because of her hard work.

And sorry for my English, I am not a native speaker and clearly I lack the language skills to participate in the debate, thank Good Maiforpeace is not a moderator here.

:clap:

Ironically enough, part of a conversation I had on one of the FTB forums brought to mention that I am an Engineer (EE). I believe it was skeptifem that called me on my privilege. I mentioned that I come from a woman from a poor family, Hispanic and biracial (or as I say, half-nigger spic). Later, I was told I was internalizing something.
Anywho, I get rage tears when bitches complain about the lack of females on STEM, but you ask them what is their field and they say "Gender Studies"...

[codelette]

I meant "I am a woman from a poor...". I'm also an ESL victim. More pity points for moi!

[Lsuoma]

So, yay Lsuoma, this is great. :)

/me bows

Glad to be of assistance. You noticed that as soon as oolon was asked to stop posting anonymously, so that people could foe the fucker he vanished, confirming - to me at least - that he really is nothing more than a troll.

Oh, and then the turd goes and whines at FfTB that it's a form of banning :doh:

[Michael K Gray]

...but you ask them what is their field and they say "Gender Studies"...

Gender means (exactly) genre, or category, and has zero to do with biological sex identity.
Do these folk know that?

[Lapsang Souchong]

.

Jaysus. Where's the romance?

In the gutter, where it belongs.

BWAHHAHHAHAH

I would tend to agree, it was mostly the cheap wine that led to my enthusiasm. I was well known in college for listening to music on a cheap cassette player. It was the notes that were important to me, not the equipment it was being played through. I suspect there is no small amount of woo when it comes to wine tasting and similar. I seem to recall a test involving Strads and whether anyone could tell the difference between those and modern day violins (as being superior). It didn't come out well for the Strads. I can't claim to a particularly sensitive palate or ears, but I likes what I likes.

[Michael K Gray]

I'm also an ESL victim.

Are you able to expand the "ESL" acronym for me, please?

[Lsuoma]

Perhaps she did report the hobo-wanker to the fuzz?

For her to do that, the incident would actually have to occurred. I remain sceptical that it ever did.

BTW, it might have been worse" McVictim might have had a stroke...

[SteveW68]

Dear Jen McCreight,
Please stop staring at our penis <snip>
The Homeless.

Just so you know - Just stole the above and tweeted it...

[Lsuoma]

I'm also an ESL victim.

Are you able to expand the "ESL" acronym for me, please?

English as a Second Language.

BTW, apropos of the gender studies comment, everyone should go and read "Higher Superstition" by Levitt and Gross - it gives a TON of insight into FfTB, A+Theism, etc., and shows why PeeNus can no longer legitimately claim to be a scientist.

[Michael K Gray]

It was the notes that were important to me, not the equipment it was being played through.

Exactly.
The sounds that you think that you "hear" in your head are ENTIRELY an elaborate reality simulation of imagining what the recording represents.
You do not "listen" to the raw waveform at all, but pick it apart, first by Fourier transform into frequency bands, (greatly aided by the cochleas), and then reverse engineer a scenario where these waveforms might most plausibly have been created and recorded.
So: when listening to a scratchy Berliner disc, or Edison cylinder, you work the other way around!
You simulate an audio scenario in your bonce, adjusting it until it plausibly matches the incoming waveform!
In other words, the music in your head is entirely your own simulated reality, acoustics, recording defects and all, that most closely matches the vibrations.

With that "in mind", one mentally reconstructs the room, Caruso standing next to piano or violinist, shouting into a flared horn, and thence to a recording needle, wow and flutter of the mechanism.
If one mentally subtracts the artefacts, one can hear Caruso singing clear as a bell in one's own audio simulator!

'Mazing thing, the bonce.

[real horrorshow]

And sorry for my English, I am not a native speaker and clearly I lack the language skills to participate in the debate, thank Good Maiforpeace is not a moderator here.

Yes, I was going to tell you off for your bad English, but I couldn't find any.

I [am] a woman from a poor family, Hispanic and biracial (or as I say, half-nigger spic).

Oh that's a beauty, that's a sig!

Anywho, I get rage tears when bitches complain about the lack of females on STEM, but you ask them what is their field and they say "Gender Studies"...

And that is an important issue. I saw something on one of those horrible MRA sites the other day, commenting on yet another campaign being launched to address the question: "Why aren't there more women in IT?" To which they offered the response: Because they don't want to be.

There's an even bigger 'shortage' of women in construction, mining, lumberjacking etc. The 'shortage' of women in the industrial accident statistics is breathtaking. Yet fembots aren't rushing to overthrow that aspect of the patriarchy.

So long as the Marcottes of the world can build a secure and well paid career on spouting shite, and the Watsons can stay on the conference booze-train, why bother with anything intellectually taxing or physically dangerous?

[Lsuoma]

So long as the Marcottes of the world can build a secure and well paid career on spouting shite, and the Watsons can stay on the conference booze-train, why bother with anything intellectually taxing or physically dangerous?

Again, see "Fashionable Nonsense" mentioned above. I believe that it was one of the main motivators for Sokal to pull his "Social Text" triumph...

[real horrorshow]

I'm also an ESL victim.

Are you able to expand the "ESL" acronym for me, please?

Bloody foreigners, comin' to our forums, an' can't even be bothered to learn our abbreviations!

BTW, apropos of the gender studies comment, everyone should go and read "Higher Superstition" by Levitt and Gross - it gives a TON of insight into FfTB, A+Theism, etc., and shows why PeeNus can no longer legitimately claim to be a scientist.

I've stuck that on my Amazon wish list. On the 'Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought' bit was - reasonably enough - Alan Sokal's book 'Fashionable Nonsense'. It's often struck me as (unintentionally) ironic that St. Effy subtitles her blog 'fighting fashionable nonsense'. No use trying to explain that to her of course.

[Michael K Gray]

There's an even bigger 'shortage' of women in construction, mining...

Interestingly, here in Oz, women are gaining a big foothold in remote mining operations, driving those ginormous Euclid dump trucks.
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/t ... _booth.jpg
Employers prefer them over young men for reasons that shouldn't surprise anyone.
The employers (and their actuaries) contend that female drivers are more reliable, don't thrash the vehicle, aren't as impulsive, much less likely to "show off", etc. But their actuaries encapsulate this with accident figures & costs. Females incur less of those, in big lumps.
And the wages are mind-boggling!!
So, come to Aussistraya youse chicks, and make your fortune in mining!

[Michael K Gray]

So, come to Aussistraya youse chicks, and make your fortune in mining!

(After you have managed the monumental struggle to the bank, of course.)

[Dilurk]

http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/397922/ ... give-back/

[codelette]

So, Watson said on that video that the person she contacted to help promote the calendars was Michael Shermer; isn't that the same guy who was accused recently of being a perv?

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/397922/ ... give-back/

Athlete's Foot's heaven...

[CommanderTuvok]

In that Queen Bee video, when referring to poeople who have had to leave their blog/community/home, etc. (lulz), did she mention how Justin Vacula was harassed and moved from his position?

Nope?

Thought not!

[CommanderTuvok]

BTW, her mention of Dawkins is simply to raise her own profile.

We sussed that one out ages ago.