Periodic Table of Swearing

#23401

decius wrote:
cunt wrote: Oh fuck off, Brown is an entertainer who takes major pains to point out that he doesn't haven't any magic or "powers".
Not quite, cunt. For instance, he' s now claiming to be hurt for the suggestion that he used a stooge, which is the same as claiming that it is possible to send someone on an instant trance and induce permanent amnesia. That is a definite claim to a non-existing power.

Is he now? I'm going to watch the show first, but your claim that Brown has "a continuous history" of claiming to possess any powers is pure bullshit.

#23402

I think NLP advocates might make statements that are helpful or true in the same way that an alternative medicine practitioner might sooth your pain, but I still see that the whole is nonsense.

For instance, on the training I went to we were sorted into different 'kinds' of people - Visual, Audio-Visual, Kinaesthetic... we were told about left-brain/right-brain statements and kinds of people... you can tell the best kind of language to use judging by where your client's eyes go when they think... you can insert words into sentences to change their opinion on something (in a different way to just inserting a convincing argument or something like that), e.g. "by now..." makes them want to buy now. I suggest that all of that stuff is horseshite.

We even had to shut our eyes and imagine a 'buying circle' and they decorated this imaginary circle with some of the nonsense slogans they came up with. It felt a bit like a cult. I protested of course, and they seemed to get a bit pissed off at me by the end.

Same with Je... the camera company. I tried to provide some possible ways Brown might have faked that Pegg 'wanted' a leather jacket, but they weren't having any of it. "No, he did it by saying "BM or an X box"!". Well that showed me.

#23403

cunt wrote:
decius wrote:
cunt wrote: Oh fuck off, Brown is an entertainer who takes major pains to point out that he doesn't haven't any magic or "powers".
Not quite, cunt. For instance, he' s now claiming to be hurt for the suggestion that he used a stooge, which is the same as claiming that it is possible to send someone on an instant trance and induce permanent amnesia. That is a definite claim to a non-existing power.
Is he now? I'm going to watch the show first, but your claim that Brown has "a continuous history" of claiming to possess any powers is pure bullshit.

depends what you mean by powers - he certainly claims to possess skill which allows him to do the things he does

#23404

Reap wrote:Here's a pic of Al's "death cart" in case you haven't seen it.
http://www.reapsowradio.com/wp-content/ ... fdeath.jpg

And here is a new ReapSowradio podcast in case you needed it......sorry about the opening rant...not really.
http://www.reapsowradio.com/?p=31241

Disappointed. The smaller version of this image at Reap's, I thought the pink things were dildos.

#23405

All caught up (for now). Someone back a few pages was criticizing Alt bier. I know blaspheming is what we do, but that's pushing it. Alt Bier schmeckt. Es macht mich traurig, dass man hier in Amerika Alt nicht finden kann.

#23406

cunt wrote: Is he now? I'm going to watch the show first, but your claim that Brown has "a continuous history" of claiming to possess any powers is pure bullshit.

In the same form as here. He typically issues a disclaimer somewhere, stating that he has no psychic or special powers. Then he performs well-known mentalism tricks, which may or not require a stooge, all the while ascribing his success to NLP, or hypnosis, or mind-controlling techniques which do not exist.
He's been called out before, among others by Simon Singh.

#23407

There's an unintentional Uri Geller-ish element to Brown that I'm uncomfortable with. His entertainment is misleading non-skeptics (i.e. your average person off the street). In fact, an ex-housemate of mine who was a RationalWiki mod believed that Brown could cause you to think whatever he wanted!

The trouble is I don't see what Brown could do differently. To be more explicit about the actual trick he's using would ruin the entertainment. So it's a toss-up between education on the one hand and entertainment on the other.

#23408

He usually issues a disclaimer including the statement that no stooges have been used in the performance. If you're actually saying thats a lie then you shouldn't pussy-foot around it.

More to the point, if hypnosis were completely woo this would mean that every person ever put into a hypnotic state would have to had to have been stooges. Even the poor fuckers who just want to quit smoking.

#23409

Cunt, if you're going to watch it, pay attention at the bus scene. Then, should you want evidence that such things aren't possible, I'll provide it.

I usually advise against reading mentalism manuals, since the tricks are so mundane and dishonest that one will hardly be ever entertained again by such shows.

#23410

I'll bear it mind. Probably watch it tomorrow now.

#23411

franc wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:And a request - if you're quoting a post that has a YouTube link embedded in it, PLEASE REMOVE THE LINK FROM THE QUOTE!
Fucking hell, this is just basic consideration and spending an extra 20 seconds editing your post. Except when I say it, I'm a cranky cunt that hates everyone - which is technically true, but also means I'm joking and don't mean it. Or something. But nothing displays airhead, 'tardbook style peabrainedness more than quoting an entire comment, images video and all, only add "me too!" to the end of it. Stupid habit first entrenched in the '90s by the AOL and WebTV hordes, now normalised and idiots the web over think nothing of it. Fuck you. Edit with CONSIDERATION for your reader. Morons.

I confess to total dumbassery, having done this myself.

#23412

cunt wrote:He usually issues a disclaimer including the statement that no stooges have been used in the performance. If you're actually saying thats a lie then you shouldn't pussy-foot around it.

Well, in the particular case of his last show, for instance, that would be an arrant lie.

#23413

Doesn't he say he doesn't use camera tricks either? I'm pretty sure the lottery thing was a camera trick.

#23414

Mykeru wrote:
franc wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:And a request - if you're quoting a post that has a YouTube link embedded in it, PLEASE REMOVE THE LINK FROM THE QUOTE!
Fucking hell, this is just basic consideration and spending an extra 20 seconds editing your post. Except when I say it, I'm a cranky cunt that hates everyone - which is technically true, but also means I'm joking and don't mean it. Or something. But nothing displays airhead, 'tardbook style peabrainedness more than quoting an entire comment, images video and all, only add "me too!" to the end of it. Stupid habit first entrenched in the '90s by the AOL and WebTV hordes, now normalised and idiots the web over think nothing of it. Fuck you. Edit with CONSIDERATION for your reader. Morons.
I confess to total dumbassery, having done this myself.

It's a bad habit most folks succumb to eventually (because everyone else does it). It is hyper-irritating especially to folks who remember pre-browser text based internet. And the folks that whined about page load speeds - this is also the biggest contributing factor to the problem.

#23415

mordacious1 wrote:All caught up (for now). Someone back a few pages was criticizing Alt bier. I know blaspheming is what we do, but that's pushing it. Alt Bier schmeckt. Es macht mich traurig, dass man hier in Amerika Alt nicht finden kann.

Fine fine. Next time you are in Cologne go ahead and order an Alt instead of a KÃ¶lsch.

(I like an nice lager myself from time to time, but I favour a Guiness stout above all).

#23416

Notung wrote:Doesn't he say he doesn't use camera tricks either? I'm pretty sure the lottery thing was a camera trick.

Yes, that's the level.

#23417

mordacious1 wrote:All caught up (for now). Someone back a few pages was criticizing Alt bier. I know blaspheming is what we do, but that's pushing it. Alt Bier schmeckt. Es macht mich traurig, dass man hier in Amerika Alt nicht finden kann.

I hit enter before I added this:

If you drink a beer that comes out of a can in America you are taking your life into your hands. Imported bottle beer is your best bet.

#23418

Or as James Randi puts it.

#23419

Christ it's depressing watching Randi have to put up with such fuckwittery.

#23420

Segment with stooge exposed in 2007, although the show aired the following disclaimer: "This program fuses magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship. I achieve all the results you'll see through a varied mixture of those techniques. At no point are actors or stooges used in the show."

http://www.newfacestalent.co.uk/clients ... iguez&i=97

#23421

I just watched Apocalypse. I know what you mean by the "bus moment". (LOL) Just simply view it as entertainment.

#23422

decius wrote:Or as James Randi puts it.

that was interesting.
There is a very fine line he is riding. Darren certainly dosnt claim to be using super natural powers, but he then goes on to give explanations of how he does things that would actually be supernatural were it true.
I donno- i kinda think Randy is wrong to think its so ok.

#23423

bugger - meant Derran and Randi - its late ok

#23424

CommanderTuvok wrote:I just watched Apocalypse. I know what you mean by the "bus moment". (LOL) Just simply view it as entertainment.

Sure, but lots of people are taken in.

#23425

actually, meant Derren ....oh bollocks

#23426

My partners kids are 6 and 8.

Due to Teh Exes psycho religious nature, the kids have never gotten to go trick-or-treating.

My reaction:
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploa ... e-face.png

Instead of going behind Teh Exs back and letting them trick-or-treat, instead of ranting about the non-existance of gods/demons/ghosts and how only retards believe in that crap-- I suggested they dress up as 'nice' things (Princess=GOOD, Devil=BAD). Teh Ex suggested they take, *sigh*, Easter Baskets to collect the candy instead of skulls/pumpkins/etc.

Because Im a Halloween accommodationist, I got to take two kids trick-or-treating tonight for the first time.

My reaction:
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/ori ... /fyeah.jpg

#23427

ERV wrote:My partners kids are 6 and 8.

Due to Teh Exes psycho religious nature, the kids have never gotten to go trick-or-treating.

My reaction:
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploa ... e-face.png

Instead of going behind Teh Exs back and letting them trick-or-treat, instead of ranting about the non-existance of gods/demons/ghosts and how only retards believe in that crap-- I suggested they dress up as 'nice' things (Princess=GOOD, Devil=BAD). Teh Ex suggested they take, *sigh*, Easter Baskets to collect the candy instead of skulls/pumpkins/etc.

Because Im a Halloween accommodationist, I got to take two kids trick-or-treating tonight for the first time.

My reaction:
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/ori ... /fyeah.jpg

To be fair. Princesses and easter baskets are pretty scary things.

Oh, and have you lost weight or something? I hear that it comes from blogging too hard and not eating.

#23428

franc wrote:It is hyper-irritating especially to folks who remember pre-browser text based internet

I used PINE/KERMIT and was part of the Great Vertical Spamming of alt.religion.scientology by Scientologists in '95. I even had my personal cease and desist from Helena Kobrin for quoting OTVII material.

Good times, man.

#23429

KiwiInOz wrote:To be fair. Princesses and easter baskets are pretty scary things.

The other got to be a clown, which as everyone knows, are TOTALLY NOT SCARY.

Really I considered the whole thing win-win.

#23430

http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/up ... -clown.jpg

#23431

Oh, and when replying with quote please take the fucking images out too!

#23432

This playground counting song has been running through my head for the last few days: can anyone here supply any of the later verses?

Molly Vickers wets her knickers,
Georgie's father's big and black.
Cream on Sunday, milk on Monday,
i'm the cock of all the back.

I remember this from Delce Infants' School in Rochester, Kent, from around 1965-7.

#23433

Has the length of the thread anything to do with it? All in a sudden these complaints.

Trophy (guest) · #23434

Arya Stark wrote:@Lsuoma
Thanks for the correction ;)

Memory Hook:
There is a hole in the whole atheist movement, but it's not the Pit that it fits.

I know, that's not funny. But that's my under-privilege showing.
A Woman - not funny.
Germans - not funny.
Checkmate.

Welcome! And one of the funniest people I know is a German woman. Her sense of humor is so incredibly awesome.

#23435

Lsuoma wrote:Oh, and when replying with quote please take the fucking images out too!

You are such a demanding bitch sometimes.

#23436

decius wrote:Has the length of the thread anything to do with it? All in a sudden these complaints.

My MacBook Pro is in for repairs and I'm running on an old 2007 MacBook with only 2GB RAM. The threads with lots of YouTube embeds take fucking forever to load, and I get the spinning beachball for up to 2 minutes at a time while the fucker swaps.

Hence, 25-post paging, plus me bitching like Ophelia when someone asks a question.

#23437

jeeze, and here we were thinking you were being all compassionate over the problems of other users

#23438

Lsuoma wrote: My MacBook Pro is in for repairs and I'm running on an old 2007 MacBook with only 2GB RAM. The threads with lots of YouTube embeds take fucking forever to load, and I get the spinning beachball for up to 2 minutes at a time while the fucker swaps.

Dear Muslima,

:whistle:

#23439

mutleyeng wrote:jeeze, and here we were thinking you were being all compassionate over the problems of other users

Ditto. What a selfish cunt.

#23440

Trigger warning on the clown photos, please!

<--- scared of clowns

Stop oppressing me with your amused-by-clowns-privilege, OK???

#23441

KiwiInOz wrote:
Lsuoma wrote: My MacBook Pro is in for repairs and I'm running on an old 2007 MacBook with only 2GB RAM. The threads with lots of YouTube embeds take fucking forever to load, and I get the spinning beachball for up to 2 minutes at a time while the fucker swaps.
Dear Muslima,

:whistle:

I have a 2007 MacBook with 2GB RAM... :(

I just put 4 GB in my desktop and Im like 'OH MY GOD IS THIS THE FUTURE???'

Guest · #23442

Re: the poor girl who felt scarred by a guy saying "Joe Strummer" to her:

I used to walk around town with a Frank Zappa t-shirt on; always provoked interesting reactions. The best one I ever got - guy walking down the street sees my shirt, starts loudly yelling "I'm gonna ram it up your poop chute" - I can only imagine the years of therapy our special snowflake would require after a devastating ordeal like that.

#23443

Lsuoma wrote:
decius wrote:Has the length of the thread anything to do with it? All in a sudden these complaints.
My MacBook Pro is in for repairs and I'm running on an old 2007 MacBook with only 2GB RAM. The threads with lots of YouTube embeds take fucking forever to load, and I get the spinning beachball for up to 2 minutes at a time while the fucker swaps.

Hence, 25-post paging, plus me bitching like Ophelia when someone asks a question.

Flashblock you dummy. Indispensible widget. Chrime has one too. Replaces flash with a button you can click if you really want to see it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... lashblock/

#23444

Lsuoma wrote:
decius wrote:Has the length of the thread anything to do with it? All in a sudden these complaints.
My MacBook Pro is in for repairs and I'm running on an old 2007 MacBook with only 2GB RAM. The threads with lots of YouTube embeds take fucking forever to load, and I get the spinning beachball for up to 2 minutes at a time while the fucker swaps.

Hence, 25-post paging, plus me bitching like Ophelia when someone asks a question.

Really? Holy crap, man, my fucking phone loaded the 100-post pages, complete with videos and images embedded without any trouble.

#23445

Fuck you all in the ear, cunts!

My first computer I ever used was a Hitachi with a 12-bit word that drove an NMR machine at Horsted College, back in the Medway Towns, and the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1

#23446

Lsuoma wrote:Fuck you all in the ear, cunts!

My first computer I ever used was a Hitachi with a 12-bit word that drove an NMR machine at Horsted College, back in the Medway Towns, and the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1

http://www.lz95.net/msn/faculty/jclemen ... hg_clr.gif

#23447

Lsuoma wrote:Fuck you all in the ear, cunts!

My first computer I ever used was a Hitachi with a 12-bit word that drove an NMR machine at Horsted College, back in the Medway Towns, and the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1

My first computers only "disk" drive was a cassette tape. It had 4kb RAM.

#23448

Cheers for the sentiments of welcome and all proffered without a need for me to meekly prove myself worthy by waiting in silence till I have been sufficiently educated to be allowed to speak.

mordacious1 wrote:BTW, you probably just got yourself banned from 6 blogs, or at least are on the "watch list".

You might also have someone investigating your dox to find out who you are and how someone like Laden can do you the most harm (without leaving his trailer, of course).

A not unlikely situation given the heinous thought-crime I did so recently perpetrate, "alarum, alarum this one does not pay heed to the list of proscribed places, circulate his likeness so that we may know them.*"

The latter I'm not overly worried about though some do seem quite taken with that activity.

* - Not in the Biblical sense mind.

ReneeHendricks wrote:SSSSSSHHHHHHHHH! We're evil! We're all women hating fucknuts running around amok!

I know right? Yet here I am and I'm encountering a paucity of evilness and malign fuckwittery.

Michael K Gray wrote:I think I am in love!

Is it my laboured prose that has you a flutter or is it the kindred sentiment? Either way sir you do flatter me.

decius wrote:Brown has a continuous history of working with stooges...

Now as someone who has found Mr Brown's antics somewhat fascinating this nugget piques my interest, could you perhaps elaborate on this?

Now I saw the Youtube vid and the profile page you put up but they don't really demonstrate anything conclusively. For instance, there is an outside chance that the two women look remarkably similar but are not. However, a more plausible explanation may be that it is the actress but she is not there in any professional capacity. These people have private lives and thus it is not beyond the pale that her private life, and this Derren Brown stunt intersected by happenstance and not design. Given this possibility I'd be hard pressed to view this as an example of stoogery; is there anything more solid?

Rystefn wrote:Also, Irish accents are so much hotter than Scottish ones.

Oh faith and begorrah sure tis never been a truer word said of the brogue, well excepting some of those Jackeens known by the further epithet, 'skanger'. A fouler, nasally whine you'll likely not encounter, never mind their grating, simpleton colloquialisms..., like someone pissing in your ear only worse.

#23449

Lsuoma wrote:Fuck you all in the ear, cunts!

My first computer I ever used was a Hitachi with a 12-bit word that drove an NMR machine at Horsted College, back in the Medway Towns, and the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1

Sounds like a PDP-8

#23450

KiwiInOz wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:Fuck you all in the ear, cunts!

My first computer I ever used was a Hitachi with a 12-bit word that drove an NMR machine at Horsted College, back in the Medway Towns, and the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1
http://www.lz95.net/msn/faculty/jclemen ... hg_clr.gif

brilliant

oh sorry Lsuoma - I totally forgot to edit out the image :violin:

#23451

Lsuoma wrote:the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1

Wow. I bow down. Not even a monitor. There is an interesting article on the designer at the cesspit of lives. Worth reading the whole thing -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson

#23452

franc wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1
Wow. I bow down. Not even a monitor. There is an interesting article on the designer at the cesspit of lives. Worth reading the whole thing -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson

I met Sophie (as Roger - she wasn't TG then) a couple of times - my undergrad adviser, later my external PhD examiner was a close friend of her tutor, and we dined with them at Cambridge during a conference there.

#23453

Lsuoma wrote:I met Sophie (as Roger - she wasn't TG then) a couple of times - my undergrad adviser, later my external PhD examiner was a close friend of her tutor, and we dined with them at Cambridge during a conference there.

Fantastic. "Doing" instead of "whining".

#23454

Computer thread loading problems...pfft!

This morning I had a dream I was being chased by a giant wet vagina with arms and legs. The giant vagina had a cardboard cut out head of Ophelia gaffa taped to it.

As I'm pursued I'm squirted with slyme in an effort to slow me down. I out run this slymy terror and hide in a bin. Too easy...hide under a car...Nooooo tooo easy panic...splurt...frozen still. *switch scene* I'm bound to a fetid old loung crawling with rats and this slymy vagina is trying to force feed me a moldy wafer. I vomit. I'm smacked in the head by a labia or was it an arm. I dunno. I try to scream but no sound is coming out... I wake up.

I blame you fucktards for this

#23455

Sorry for the brief outage. Kernel conf issues on host. Should be fixed now.

#23456

Lsuoma wrote:Sorry for the brief outage. Kernel conf issues on host. Should be fixed now.

I blame the patriarchy.

#23457

BTW, anyone interested in a brief but entertaining vignette of the British home computing industry should seek out and watch "Micro Men." Highly recommended...

#23458

aweraw wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:Sorry for the brief outage. Kernel conf issues on host. Should be fixed now.
I blame the patriarchy.

It's a wonder anything gets done, given that it's responsible for everything.

#23459

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#23460

What'y'all bitching about?
Even the music video pages load fine for me.
(I guess that with 24G of RAM, 12 parallel Intel cores, an SSD drive and two high speed broadband lines, that shouldn't be surprising!)
When my customers complained about my software being a bit slow, I often advise them to just get a bigger spring in their pooter, rather than tinker with what works.