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I wasn't wearing my Panama when I took that picture, therefore, I cannot be racist. Besides, whachoo got against short, mixed, hairy bitches??Mykeru wrote:Racist.Al Stefanelli wrote: a Rat Terrier named Oreo
And more poignantly, who the fuck cares about what pronoun they prefer?ReneeHendricks wrote:
By simply *looking* at a person...how are we to know exactly what they prefer? It's mind-numbing.
Austin is a little liberal dot in the middle of Bibleland. The comparison to Bavaria is more than apt.Arya Stark wrote:Wow. That's wonderful. Nice to meet you... but Texas, that's a bit like moving to Bavaria, hm?
Could you give Dillahunty a smack on the back of his head for me? ;)
Yes, I work as a caretaker for mentally disabled people, currently for a secular institution, but most of them are either Catholic or Protestant, and they have a free pass on discriminating for religious reasons. Even if most of their money comes from taxpayers...zou3gou3 wrote:TRIGGER WARNING — GERMAN POLITICSArya Stark wrote:zou3gou3 wrote:@Arya Stark
You're from Düsseldorf?
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...
You have to pick your fights, and as long as I have to pay this ridiculous chruchtaxes to get or hold a job... that's at the moment more of a problem for me.
You must work in the kindergarten/healthcare industry.
Despite good news like the town of Königswinter telling the Catholics to fuck off out of the Kindergarten; as long as leading politicians such as Rösler, Göring-Eckardt, Kretschmann, Schavan or Beckstein are also church leaders (it doesn't matter which party they belong to), you're going to be shit upon.
P.S. I'm not from Düsseldorf. I'm a Brit living in the 3rd part of NRW (and how many Rheinländers know where that is?) :flags-wavegreatbritain:
I'd lay down big money that people - without knowing me whatsoever - couldn't take one look at me and say "oh, she's bisexual". So, that crap just drives me nuts.decius wrote:And more poignantly, who the fuck cares about what pronoun they prefer?ReneeHendricks wrote:
By simply *looking* at a person...how are we to know exactly what they prefer? It's mind-numbing.
I'm willing to bet that these are people with no distinction in life whatsoever. Probably no diploma, degree or even a job, so they create something artificially remarkable about their persona by imposing on others ludicrous demands. As if belonging to an ethnic group or, gasp, having a sexual orientation were some kind of life achievement or an academic title.
Cunts.
Okay, I hope Google Translate did this rightArya Stark wrote:
That's why they will never get anything done, this social justice A+warriors. Nothing, what so ever... the only thing they can is point with their fingers on other people. That's why humanism is the superior way to go. Unite for just causes, don't alienate. You need the feet and the voices of a lot of people to reach your goals. But I forgot, you haven't any despite declaring war on language.
You feminists can state all day long that your cause is equality. It isn't. It's in the name, you know. It's a "womens only" club... and in this case it is for whiny female victims and their male minions. Nobody gives a shit...
I wouldn't be here if it was not for my dad and my husband. They saved my life many times... and all you can do is declare them as Schrödinger's Rapist. That's disgusting. It makes me thick.
Bruce Gorthon you are a cunt.
Ophelia Benson, you too.
Because you don't care for people, you care only for you... *off to the loo puking*
German is such a sexy accent >swoon< unlike our boring Canuck accent eh?Arya Stark wrote:I have a hart time hearing German accent, accept some thick with dialect in it. But Scottish is just wonderful, sometimes hard to understand but this rolling R's... that gets me on the fainting couch. *bathing in cliché*ReneeHendricks wrote:Isn't that accent just *awesome*? I'm from Washington state - we have *no* accent here other than the occasional odd person who says "Warshington" instead of "Washington". Scottish and German accents just rock my world :DArya Stark wrote:And we share the love for Scottish accents *gg*
Sexist...Al Stefanelli wrote:I wasn't wearing my Panama when I took that picture, therefore, I cannot be racist. Besides, whachoo got against short, mixed, hairy bitches??Mykeru wrote:Racist.Al Stefanelli wrote: a Rat Terrier named Oreo
Michael K Gray wrote:How do you make a Maltese Cross?TheMan wrote:We can add Maltese* to the list too.
Someone should make a tongue twister about hat hating hattists and the difference between haters and hatters.Mykeru wrote:Sexist...Al Stefanelli wrote:I wasn't wearing my Panama when I took that picture, therefore, I cannot be racist. Besides, whachoo got against short, mixed, hairy bitches??Mykeru wrote:Racist.Al Stefanelli wrote: a Rat Terrier named Oreo
Hatist...uh...
Istist.
That's great. I particularly like how you've shopped Ophelia Benson at the back there.decius wrote:A little Caravaggio.
http://s8.postimage.org/4w4oz0r1x/Marty ... _small.jpg
Sorry, no Lowell George, no Little FeatMichael K Gray wrote: (Stamps little feat.)
I hope you're not of this guys who like to feed their females fat with Currywurst und Pommes... just because I should have written "sick" not "thick".Altair wrote:Okay, I hope Google Translate did this rightArya Stark wrote:
That's why they will never get anything done, this social justice A+warriors. Nothing, what so ever... the only thing they can is point with their fingers on other people. That's why humanism is the superior way to go. Unite for just causes, don't alienate. You need the feet and the voices of a lot of people to reach your goals. But I forgot, you haven't any despite declaring war on language.
You feminists can state all day long that your cause is equality. It isn't. It's in the name, you know. It's a "womens only" club... and in this case it is for whiny female victims and their male minions. Nobody gives a shit...
I wouldn't be here if it was not for my dad and my husband. They saved my life many times... and all you can do is declare them as Schrödinger's Rapist. That's disgusting. It makes me thick.
Bruce Gorthon you are a cunt.
Ophelia Benson, you too.
Because you don't care for people, you care only for you... *off to the loo puking*
Ich liebe dich, du bist die zweitbeste Sache in Deutschland nach Currywurst mit Pommes
LOLbhoytony wrote:
That's great. I particularly like how you've shopped Ophelia Benson at the back there.
When she was wee widdle, my daughter had a hard-to-break habit of referring to people she didn't know by the color of their shirt. Wearing a blue shirt? "Daddy, the blue lady..." A red one? "Daddy, the red lady..." In Walmart one day, "Daddy, look at the big black man..." I turned around and um, yeah. He was every inch of 7 feet tall. And amused, having just overheard the conversation about the blue lady's very pretty shoes.d4m10n wrote:My kids did that, too. Of course, pink is a profoundly pejorative term in subgenius subculture, so I made them stop.BarnOwl wrote:A friend's children refer to everyone as either "brown" or "pink," which seems quite reasonable to me.
Sorry, no Lowell George, no Little Featbhoytony wrote:Michael K Gray wrote: (Stamps little feat.)
I *llloooooove* a German accent. I spent 3 years there (then went for Oktoberfest back in 2001). My German, oddly enough, gets much better the more alcoholDilurk wrote:German is such a sexy accent >swoon< unlike our boring Canuck accent eh?Arya Stark wrote:I have a hart time hearing German accent, accept some thick with dialect in it. But Scottish is just wonderful, sometimes hard to understand but this rolling R's... that gets me on the fainting couch. *bathing in cliché*ReneeHendricks wrote:Isn't that accent just *awesome*? I'm from Washington state - we have *no* accent here other than the occasional odd person who says "Warshington" instead of "Washington". Scottish and German accents just rock my world :DArya Stark wrote:And we share the love for Scottish accents *gg*
Ich liebe dich, du bist die zweistbeste Sache in Deutschland nach Currywurst mit Pommes frites ( :D )Altair wrote:Okay, I hope Google Translate did this rightArya Stark wrote:
That's why they will never get anything done, this social justice A+warriors. Nothing, what so ever... the only thing they can is point with their fingers on other people. That's why humanism is the superior way to go. Unite for just causes, don't alienate. You need the feet and the voices of a lot of people to reach your goals. But I forgot, you haven't any despite declaring war on language.
You feminists can state all day long that your cause is equality. It isn't. It's in the name, you know. It's a "womens only" club... and in this case it is for whiny female victims and their male minions. Nobody gives a shit...
I wouldn't be here if it was not for my dad and my husband. They saved my life many times... and all you can do is declare them as Schrödinger's Rapist. That's disgusting. It makes me thick.
Bruce Gorthon you are a cunt.
Ophelia Benson, you too.
Because you don't care for people, you care only for you... *off to the loo puking*
Ich liebe dich, du bist die zweitbeste Sache in Deutschland nach Currywurst mit Pommes
Thanks for the info. That's one more bit of good I've heard about 8. I have 7 Pro on my notebook now and it's never given me any problems (I had awful blue screen of death problems with Vista). But when it's time to upgrade, I feel more comfortable with 8, especially given that it can be reverted to 7 and it's pretty inexpensive.Al Stefanelli wrote:I am using a mouse, as it is installed on my laptop. However, it is a mouse with a scroll wheel which is wonderfully integrated with the functionality of the tile interface. I was involved with Microsoft as a developer, an MCSE and a VAR from the mid-90's up until 2000, and I have to say, they've redeemed themselves with this - even from that horror known as WindowsME.Gumby wrote:Are you using a mouse or a touch-screen interface?Al Stefanelli wrote:Well, I upgraded from Windows 7, which I had no problems with, either. The whole OS is app based, runs very smoothly, very intuitive and is a very light client, comparatively. I think they've redeemed themselves with this. I have a Windows Phone, too, and everything is integrated between the two devices. Very convenient.
It does seem that the normally bloated behemoth Microsoft is making an attempt to be forward-thinking with this OS. This is such a major change they're pretty much betting the farm on this. It's about time they finally realized that mobile devices are taking over and having a flexible cross-platform OS is the way to go. 'Course, I haven't tried it yet and don't know how far they go down that widespread-devices route, but at least MS is aware that they have to adapt in this market... which is vastly different than the arena they mostly defined since the MS-DOS years.
My laptop is hooked into the same system as my Windows Phone, and everything is pulled together on their new Outlook.com website. Integrated, as well, is Skype, and their SkyDrive wraps up a really nice package that allows me to access my shit from virtually anywhere.
I've seen the absolute worst of Microsoft, and in spite of the fact I made a shit ton of money off them in the 90's, I was ready to give up last year and just buy a Mac. When I heard the rumblings of this from my developer friends, I figured I'd give them one more shot. I am honestly glad I did.
Fuck, they even revamped Zune to the X-Box Music Pass, and thus have totally shit all over Spotify. Looks like Ballmer finally decided to take the company where his customers have been wanting to go for the last decade. Props to them, they did a good job on this. I won't say it's an Apple Killer, but it sure puts them in a viable market now.
OK. I can imagine it does slow it down. That music thread is unwatchable on my laptop.Lsuoma wrote: Request - please don't post music vids here: some folks have noticed that prefetching them from YouTube slows down page loading considerably. The music thread is here.
hehehe, I spent 3 days in Berlin earlier this year and I ate currywurst und Pommes every day. I'm the one who has to worry about getting thickArya Stark wrote: I hope you're not of this guys who like to feed their females fat with Currywurst und Pommes... just because I should have written "sick" not "thick".
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3528/3792 ... af7175.jpg
But Google Translate worked just fine, you naughty hyena ;)
I prefer this evil kitten to that one.ReneeHendricks wrote:OH MAN! Ok, I'm not a cat lover by any means (I barely allow my middle gal to own a cat...I do not take care of it - it's on her). But that is seriously the cutest kitten pic *EVAR*!Altair wrote:http://bit.ly/YoooJSReneeHendricks wrote:SSSSSSHHHHHHHHH! We're evil! We're all women hating fucknuts running around amok! Don't tell the FfTBers otherwise :DDarth Cynic wrote:This!? (snipped because I know you all can read)
Maybe it's regional. I was in Pirmasens - near Kaiserslautern. Always heard Pommes Frites.Rystefn wrote:When I lived there, most people just said Pommes (no frites).
For the record...I just orgasmed.Altair wrote:hehehe, I spent 3 days in Berlin earlier this year and I ate currywurst und Pommes every day. I'm the one who has to worry about getting thickArya Stark wrote: I hope you're not of this guys who like to feed their females fat with Currywurst und Pommes... just because I should have written "sick" not "thick".
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3528/3792 ... af7175.jpg
But Google Translate worked just fine, you naughty hyena ;)
:whistle:
I also found out that bitburger is a beer and not a hamburger, but I wasn't that dissapointed :dance:
I wish that was the case. I know someone who had to rejoin the church to get a job as a physiotherapist (and if you are in the church,you have to pay church tax.) Sadly, unions have no right to call for strikes in Caritas and Diakonie (the Catholic and Protestant charities.) Religious rights trump civil rights.decius wrote:They could never pull that stunt here in Berlin. In any case, in Germany it is illegal to strongarm workers into paying the tithe.
You may want to talk to someone about it. I surely would.
We're having the same thing in Sweden, where the genderless "hen" has been introduced (at least we only have on new word to keep track of, instead of thirty different zir, xir, xe, shit, etc) , and I've seen some people argue that since it's impossible to tell gender by a glance, then the neutral "hen" should be the default pronoun to use, for example, there's some feminist magazine that are replacing all gendered pronouns with the genderless one.ReneeHendricks wrote:Seriously. This shit is making my head hurt. Do *NORMAL* people expect me to walk up and automatically know what fucking new pronouns I should use and how I should perceive the person on front of me...as male, female, non-gender, trans-gender, whatever? I'm very into ensuring the same rights for all and do quite a bit for the LBTBQ crowd. But even my LGBTQ friends understand that you cannot tell the stance/gender/feeling/whatthefuckever of a person simply by looking at them. I need some fucking headache relief - ooo, whiskey.
We haven't gotten that far in Colombia, but recently people have been using the symbol @ as both an a and an o.acathode wrote:We're having the same thing in Sweden, where the genderless "hen" has been introduced (at least we only have on new word to keep track of, instead of thirty different zir, xir, xe, shit, etc) , and I've seen some people argue that since it's impossible to tell gender by a glance, then the neutral "hen" should be the default pronoun to use, for example, there's some feminist magazine that are replacing all gendered pronouns with the genderless one.
Then again, those people aren't normal by most definitions. Most "normal" people are instead a bit pissed off that political ideologues are trying to artificially tamper with our language that way, to accommodate a rather extreme minority's view on gender, a view that the large public do not share.
No it's not!ReneeHendricks wrote:OH MAN! Ok, I'm not a cat lover by any means (I barely allow my middle gal to own a cat...I do not take care of it - it's on her). But that is seriously the cutest kitten pic *EVAR*!Altair wrote:http://bit.ly/YoooJSReneeHendricks wrote:SSSSSSHHHHHHHHH! We're evil! We're all women hating fucknuts running around amok! Don't tell the FfTBers otherwise :DDarth Cynic wrote:This!? (snipped because I know you all can read)
Yeah, I thought this place would be a bastion of evil too. Imagine my surprise when I found it was instead populated by people who were not only not evil, but are much better human beings than the pus-buckets who infest FtB and A+... by several orders of magnitude. It's amazing what you learn when you cast aside the propaganda and actually look for yourself.Darth Cynic wrote:This!?
This is the noxious Land of Hate from whence the most corrupted bearers of the banner 'atheist' doth spread their toxic blight upon the fair and decent folk of the civilised realms?
Tis a hatesite I had heard, a site of hate, a fastness of bullies, misogynists, rape culture apologists, all manner of lowly scum and their duped female - sorry it's womyn right? - thralls. A black pit that spews forth vile invective, harasses the innocent and conducts terrifying raids upon peaceable, unassuming people whilst giving succour to all the craven, hiding Wormtongues unmasked by the piercing intellect of these children of the light.
I had come here expecting some sort of amalgam of Mordor, the Warp, and Korriban all rolled into one, a twisted place of undistilled foulness made manifest with its pustulent inhabitants issuing a noisesome vomit from their crusted maws as they caper about. Yet the door was wide open and unguarded, quite the departure from the bastion of Atheism+ and it's serried ranks of guard captains jumping at every imagined sound, the sibilant murmur from within occasionally punctuated by yells of privilege checking or the excited discovery of a troll, or at least what was thought a troll.
So where is it, where's the hate, the bullying and all the other callous misdeeds that so upset your detractors? I've been reading for a spell and all I find thus far is a freedom with language, sometimes coarse humour, satire and commentary on those detractors. At what point did dissent become hate, did I miss that memo? Are these people liars or so detached from reality that mere disagreement and lampooning of their absurd pronouncements is transformed into stalking, bullying and all manner of sub-human evil if one were to take Richard 'Intellectual Artillery' Carrier's take. The main culprits for all that the ideologues shrink from are themselves.
The almost complete abrogation of reason by folks I would have previously assumed to know better is bad enough but the rank, endemic hypocrisy of these sanctimonious blowhards and the acolytes that gambol about worshipfully at their feet is simply incredible. Every alleged affront to humanity attributed to the Pit or sundry suppressive persons I've noted is done by them (FTB, Skepchic, A+ and supporters) eagerly and repeatedly. Only there have I seen entreaties to kill yourself, die in fire or be abused with hapless porcupines. Only there have I seen calls for shunning, that certain topics are a sacred doctrine beyond question, the troll card played as though it is the pinnacle of rational discourse and now this fucking check your privilege bullshit? Liars, bullies, authoritarians, raging buffoons, drama queens and sniveling delicate flowers, where did these contemptible fucking clowns and their endless dramas suddenly spring from.
Anyhoo, I'll not be beholden to or support their high handed prescriptions and ultimatums so I thought I'd raise my banner here and extend greetings from a blighted isle in Europe.
That cat manages to look both cute and evil at the same time, he/she/zir/zom deserves an Oscar.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Or maybe this one? (erase the ugly guy's face for better effect):
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo35 ... phil/8.jpg
Jebus, sleep well.zou3gou3 wrote:decius wrote:
I wish that was the case. I know someone who had to rejoin the church to get a job as a physiotherapist (and if you are in the church,you have to pay church tax.) Sadly, unions have no right to call for strikes in Caritas and Diakonie (the Catholic and Protestant charities.) Religious rights trump civil rights.
Up at 0300 hrs tomorrow, 'night all
Awww, how cute! Here's Gumby, as she looks these days.Mykeru wrote: Here's my dog Daisy, sitting up on my desk, the scamp:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/8142 ... 84e1_z.jpg
Cute kitty, but what's that horrifying lump coming out of its butt?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: Or maybe this one? (erase the ugly guy's face for better effect):
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo35 ... phil/8.jpg
And I counter with an easy version of "newfie"Lsuoma wrote:I bet you watch Rab C. Nesbitt with subtitles...Arya Stark wrote:I have a hart time hearing German accent, accept some thick with dialect in it. But Scottish is just wonderful, sometimes hard to understand but this rolling R's... that gets me on the fainting couch. *bathing in cliché*ReneeHendricks wrote:Isn't that accent just *awesome*? I'm from Washington state - we have *no* accent here other than the occasional odd person who says "Warshington" instead of "Washington". Scottish and German accents just rock my world :DArya Stark wrote:And we share the love for Scottish accents *gg*
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When the fuckwit mentality there assumes that I am "the mean one" in my family, and that somehow, my wife is a sweet, put upon saint, I just lauuuuugh. Because on my worst day, i'm incapable of inflicting the kind of mental and emotional trauma on people that she does by barely trying. I've had to beg her to really, stop showing me pictures of spiders, because yes, it makes me whine a lot, and that is fun, but I get tired of not being able to eat my food without inspecting it elebenty times every bite.ReneeHendricks wrote:This is why (and I'm not condoning this for the rest of the population) I put out there that while my address may be easily found, showing up on my doorstep thinking you can intimidate me in *any* fashion is probably not the smartest move considering my guy, myself, and my children are very into firearms. 'Nuff said.Mykeru wrote:Yeah, we've seen them do that, put it out there and let some freak do the work for them. I'm sure many of these nasty little tools have reserve minions for that purpose. I consider that to be simply reckless indifference and I would hold the "who, me?" party responsible.ReneeHendricks wrote:Exactly. I've had a fucking insane stalker from Canada look up my stuff and contact my loved ones, my guy, and some employers. I've since put in safeguards so these people aren't ever contacted again. People that think it's perfectly fine to put shit out there that many people won't purposely try to look for are nothing but disgusting pieces of shit. MHO.Mykeru wrote:Yeah. That's nice, muffin. However, all fun and games aside, people should pay attention to the following subjunctive if/then proposition.oolon, slimy turd wrote: Actually Aratina thought you both are socks of Hoggle -- I contended that was not very likely... Not d0x'ing just looking up publicly available information on the internet. Like both of you if I was that bothered about anonymity I would use a non-identifiable nym and install Tor. But just as it is my choice where I post my details -- or Surly Amy has hers posted -- I would NEVER post your details or Mykeru's here or anyone else's anywhere on the internet. Just to be clear, I know I'm a slimy turd but I need to be serious sometimes. That would look like a threat and while I'm happy to laugh I won't threaten... So sorry about that!
I don't give a shit what some loser moron tries with me. I will laugh at them. I don't take threats seriously. Fuck you.
However, my past experience is that the sort of fucktard doxer/impotent threatener will then try to expand their scope. My parents are in their 70s now. My father has high blood pressure and doesn't need a heart attack. My mother has diabetes and should avoid stress if she wants to keep her feet. And I have other friends and family who didn't sign up to be the target of some idiot internet hissy-fit.
So, we should casually adopt a rule-of-thumb, if someone targets friends and family, especially someone's elderly mother and father or enables someone else to do so, then then it should be within the rights of the aggrieved party to hunt that doxer/harasser down and stick an ice-pick into the base of their skull.
Does that seem reasonable to you?
i'm holding off until Turbine clears it for DDO.Gumby wrote:Thanks for the info. That's one more bit of good I've heard about 8. I have 7 Pro on my notebook now and it's never given me any problems (I had awful blue screen of death problems with Vista). But when it's time to upgrade, I feel more comfortable with 8, especially given that it can be reverted to 7 and it's pretty inexpensive.Al Stefanelli wrote:I am using a mouse, as it is installed on my laptop. However, it is a mouse with a scroll wheel which is wonderfully integrated with the functionality of the tile interface. I was involved with Microsoft as a developer, an MCSE and a VAR from the mid-90's up until 2000, and I have to say, they've redeemed themselves with this - even from that horror known as WindowsME.Gumby wrote:Are you using a mouse or a touch-screen interface?Al Stefanelli wrote:Well, I upgraded from Windows 7, which I had no problems with, either. The whole OS is app based, runs very smoothly, very intuitive and is a very light client, comparatively. I think they've redeemed themselves with this. I have a Windows Phone, too, and everything is integrated between the two devices. Very convenient.
It does seem that the normally bloated behemoth Microsoft is making an attempt to be forward-thinking with this OS. This is such a major change they're pretty much betting the farm on this. It's about time they finally realized that mobile devices are taking over and having a flexible cross-platform OS is the way to go. 'Course, I haven't tried it yet and don't know how far they go down that widespread-devices route, but at least MS is aware that they have to adapt in this market... which is vastly different than the arena they mostly defined since the MS-DOS years.
My laptop is hooked into the same system as my Windows Phone, and everything is pulled together on their new Outlook.com website. Integrated, as well, is Skype, and their SkyDrive wraps up a really nice package that allows me to access my shit from virtually anywhere.
I've seen the absolute worst of Microsoft, and in spite of the fact I made a shit ton of money off them in the 90's, I was ready to give up last year and just buy a Mac. When I heard the rumblings of this from my developer friends, I figured I'd give them one more shot. I am honestly glad I did.
Fuck, they even revamped Zune to the X-Box Music Pass, and thus have totally shit all over Spotify. Looks like Ballmer finally decided to take the company where his customers have been wanting to go for the last decade. Props to them, they did a good job on this. I won't say it's an Apple Killer, but it sure puts them in a viable market now.
As a female who has been stalked IRL I feel safer here than I would on the FtB. That tells you something.Darth Cynic wrote:This!?
This is the noxious Land of Hate from whence the most corrupted bearers of the banner 'atheist' doth spread their toxic blight upon the fair and decent folk of the civilised realms?
Tis a hatesite I had heard, a site of hate, a fastness of bullies, misogynists, rape culture apologists, all manner of lowly scum and their duped female - sorry it's womyn right? - thralls. A black pit that spews forth vile invective, harasses the innocent and conducts terrifying raids upon peaceable, unassuming people whilst giving succour to all the craven, hiding Wormtongues unmasked by the piercing intellect of these children of the light.
I had come here expecting some sort of amalgam of Mordor, the Warp, and Korriban all rolled into one, a twisted place of undistilled foulness made manifest with its pustulent inhabitants issuing a noisesome vomit from their crusted maws as they caper about. Yet the door was wide open and unguarded, quite the departure from the bastion of Atheism+ and it's serried ranks of guard captains jumping at every imagined sound, the sibilant murmur from within occasionally punctuated by yells of privilege checking or the excited discovery of a troll, or at least what was thought a troll.
So where is it, where's the hate, the bullying and all the other callous misdeeds that so upset your detractors? I've been reading for a spell and all I find thus far is a freedom with language, sometimes coarse humour, satire and commentary on those detractors. At what point did dissent become hate, did I miss that memo? Are these people liars or so detached from reality that mere disagreement and lampooning of their absurd pronouncements is transformed into stalking, bullying and all manner of sub-human evil if one were to take Richard 'Intellectual Artillery' Carrier's take. The main culprits for all that the ideologues shrink from are themselves.
The almost complete abrogation of reason by folks I would have previously assumed to know better is bad enough but the rank, endemic hypocrisy of these sanctimonious blowhards and the acolytes that gambol about worshipfully at their feet is simply incredible. Every alleged affront to humanity attributed to the Pit or sundry suppressive persons I've noted is done by them (FTB, Skepchic, A+ and supporters) eagerly and repeatedly. Only there have I seen entreaties to kill yourself, die in fire or be abused with hapless porcupines. Only there have I seen calls for shunning, that certain topics are a sacred doctrine beyond question, the troll card played as though it is the pinnacle of rational discourse and now this fucking check your privilege bullshit? Liars, bullies, authoritarians, raging buffoons, drama queens and sniveling delicate flowers, where did these contemptible fucking clowns and their endless dramas suddenly spring from.
Anyhoo, I'll not be beholden to or support their high handed prescriptions and ultimatums so I thought I'd raise my banner here and extend greetings from a blighted isle in Europe.
Yes it is a secular one, but it's as far as I know the only one in my city, and I hold this job now, but what about tomorrow. They pay shit and have money problems. This whole system of protection of religious organizations has to change. It's a huge pile of hypocrisy, they don't care if you are a believer all they want is your money.decius wrote:Jebus, sleep well.zou3gou3 wrote:decius wrote:
I wish that was the case. I know someone who had to rejoin the church to get a job as a physiotherapist (and if you are in the church,you have to pay church tax.) Sadly, unions have no right to call for strikes in Caritas and Diakonie (the Catholic and Protestant charities.) Religious rights trump civil rights.
Up at 0300 hrs tomorrow, 'night all
I think religious organisations are free to discriminate as much as they please, unfortunately. But Arya said that hers is secular.
Seriously doubt we will change pronouns here anytime soon either, when I talked about people using gender-neutral pronouns as the default, ie. almost completely doing away with our "he" and "she", I'm talking about some rather extreme feminists that have little public support. (Feminism have actually been pushed back a lot here in Sweden the last decade or so, they've really lost a ton of support)Altair wrote:We haven't gotten that far in Colombia, but recently people have been using the symbol @ as both an a and an o.acathode wrote:We're having the same thing in Sweden, where the genderless "hen" has been introduced (at least we only have on new word to keep track of, instead of thirty different zir, xir, xe, shit, etc) , and I've seen some people argue that since it's impossible to tell gender by a glance, then the neutral "hen" should be the default pronoun to use, for example, there's some feminist magazine that are replacing all gendered pronouns with the genderless one.
Then again, those people aren't normal by most definitions. Most "normal" people are instead a bit pissed off that political ideologues are trying to artificially tamper with our language that way, to accommodate a rather extreme minority's view on gender, a view that the large public do not share.
Spanish has gendered words, for example "amigo" means male friend and "amiga" means female friend, so some people write "amig@" as a shortcut to mean friend of any gender.
I don't think we'll go so far as changing pronouns, but there have been some discussions about using the male gendered word as default, for example using the word "niños" which literally means "male children" to refer both to male and female children.
Perfect. I'll be ordering hats and T-shirts...Mykeru wrote:Al Stefanelli wrote:Mykeru wrote:Istist.
So, when you are drunk, Downfall Hitler parodies are completely ruined for you?ReneeHendricks wrote:I *llloooooove* a German accent. I spent 3 years there (then went for Oktoberfest back in 2001). My German, oddly enough, gets much better the more alcoholDilurk wrote:German is such a sexy accent >swoon< unlike our boring Canuck accent eh?Arya Stark wrote:I have a hart time hearing German accent, accept some thick with dialect in it. But Scottish is just wonderful, sometimes hard to understand but this rolling R's... that gets me on the fainting couch. *bathing in cliché*ReneeHendricks wrote:Isn't that accent just *awesome*? I'm from Washington state - we have *no* accent here other than the occasional odd person who says "Warshington" instead of "Washington". Scottish and German accents just rock my world :DArya Stark wrote:And we share the love for Scottish accents *gg*
Seriously doubt we will change pronouns here anytime soon either, when I talked about people using gender-neutral pronouns as the default, ie. almost completely doing away with our "he" and "she", I'm talking about some rather extreme feminists that have little public support. (Feminism have actually been pushed back a lot here in Sweden the last decade or so, they've really lost a ton of support)acathode wrote:
We haven't gotten that far in Colombia, but recently people have been using the symbol @ as both an a and an o.
Spanish has gendered words, for example "amigo" means male friend and "amiga" means female friend, so some people write "amig@" as a shortcut to mean friend of any gender.
I don't think we'll go so far as changing pronouns, but there have been some discussions about using the male gendered word as default, for example using the word "niños" which literally means "male children" to refer both to male and female children.
That's an interesting use for the word, I don't think we have something similar in Spanish, we usually go with the unoriginal "el/ella" (he/she).acathode wrote:
I think that the use of "hen" that is actually gaining any sort of support is for getting away from using our male pronoun as a unofficial default, for example it's kinda common to refer to a unknown person on a Internet forum as a he, even though you don't know it's a man you're talking about, it might very well be a she behind the anonymous username. As I said, it's a bit rude to call a women a "he", so "hen" fills a small but practical role.
It's a rather specific use for the word, and it's not the same use as the politically motivated queer ideologues want it to have. Funnily enough though, the most common situation where I've seen people use it so far is in religious discussions, where people are calling god a "hen" instead of the default he, no doubt to take a few cheap shots at the Christians and Muslims.
[youtube]dwaxWoJPUC0[/youtube]Mykeru wrote:ReneeHendricks wrote: ...So, when you are drunk, Downfall Hitler parodies are completely ruined for you?I *llloooooove* a German accent. I spent 3 years there (then went for Oktoberfest back in 2001). My German, oddly enough, gets much better the more alcohol
You have excelled and exceeded yourself with this neologism. I have just experienced my first neolorgasim.Michael K Gray wrote: xemasculated.
Yeah, usually, but remember, we are only 9 million people here, and we are have a rather extreme "early-adopters" kind of mentality. We actually already have an example of a rather extreme language reform that happened in Sweden around the 70s, when we changed the word we used for "you" in just a few years.decius wrote:Historically, most top-down attempts to manipulate languages have failed.
Well I'm not going to fly the few thousand miles from the UK to bother anyone - much more convenient to just post here. BTW I wouldn't post on anyone's personal blog who I thought had a problem with me - and I wouldn't send them tweets either as it could be threatening. I know Dilurk etc says s(he) is more scared of the FtBs lot than any Slymepitter - but surely you don't think any of them that even live in the US would actually turn up at your house?welch wrote: When the fuckwit mentality there assumes that I am "the mean one" in my family, and that somehow, my wife is a sweet, put upon saint, I just lauuuuugh. Because on my worst day, i'm incapable of inflicting the kind of mental and emotional trauma on people that she does by barely trying. I've had to beg her to really, stop showing me pictures of spiders, because yes, it makes me whine a lot, and that is fun, but I get tired of not being able to eat my food without inspecting it elebenty times every bite.
I'm loud, grumpy and profane. She is evil. It's one of the reasons I love her so. But yeah. Let one of these fuckwits show up and start talking shit about me to her. By the time I came home from work, I'd have to ask 'Honey, why is there piteous moaning coming from under the house? " and her reply would be "Someone from..."Free Thought Blogs" or "Atheism +" came by and was annoying. So now they live under the house and cry a lot."
"Oh. Well, can they keep it down?"
"I like it that loud"
"Very well then, what would you like for dinner?"
My son got lippy once. He got an hour tour through the worst forms of slash and shipping the internet has to offer. She wasn't near a computer at the time. I thought he was going to cry
Sigh. Am I awful for thinking we don't need to change or add to our already convoluted vocabulary?Altair wrote:We haven't gotten that far in Colombia, but recently people have been using the symbol @ as both an a and an o.acathode wrote:We're having the same thing in Sweden, where the genderless "hen" has been introduced (at least we only have on new word to keep track of, instead of thirty different zir, xir, xe, shit, etc) , and I've seen some people argue that since it's impossible to tell gender by a glance, then the neutral "hen" should be the default pronoun to use, for example, there's some feminist magazine that are replacing all gendered pronouns with the genderless one.
Then again, those people aren't normal by most definitions. Most "normal" people are instead a bit pissed off that political ideologues are trying to artificially tamper with our language that way, to accommodate a rather extreme minority's view on gender, a view that the large public do not share.
Spanish has gendered words, for example "amigo" means male friend and "amiga" means female friend, so some people write "amig@" as a shortcut to mean friend of any gender.
I don't think we'll go so far as changing pronouns, but there have been some discussions about using the male gendered word as default, for example using the word "niños" which literally means "male children" to refer both to male and female children.
That was an interesting read, thanks.acathode wrote: The difference though, is that this reform got broad public support,
Think Laden. Not actually turning up at Abbie's house, but definitely harrassing her department head. I don't think we (royal "we") are saying every and all FC(n) commenters are mental, but a few of them seem to be quite, let's say, unbalanced. You never know how far some people will go for a petty internet drama (Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, anyone?). Schrödinger's Harrasser, probably...There have been pretty much no incidents of people on the internet turning up at peoples houses with the intent of summary justice? Certainly not in the atheist-sceptic movement. Parallel with harassment here, none of the Skepchicks or FtBs feminist has ever had a real harassment incident as far as some here are concerned, but you are willing to convince yourselves that there really is an group of FtB'ers nuttier than squirrel poo and looking up your address so they can trick or treat you? I know its Halloween but I'm thinking PZ's hyperbole about this place being evil is getting to you...
*frosty look*Arya Stark wrote:Wow. That's wonderful. Nice to meet you... but Texas, that's a bit like moving to Bavaria, hm?AnimalAndy wrote:No way! I am from Düsseldorf too. I moved to Austin, TX in 2005. Small world indeed!zou3gou3 wrote:@Arya Stark
You're from Düsseldorf?
Could you give Dillahunty a smack on the back of his head for me? ;)
