Periodic Table of Swearing

[Jan Steen]

http://i.imgur.com/YK5yu.jpg

[Dick Strawkins]

I'm going through job offers right now and was wondering: is it just a French thing that for any job these days they ask for 2 to 5 years experience in the same domain?

If you only ever hire experienced workers, how the fuck do I even start getting some experience in x or y domain?!? Skydiving and music, although very cool to start conversations in pubs, are not exactly helping on my CV.

Kids, get a degree and accept to be threated like shit for a few years as an intern. I didn't, and now I have to drink instant coffee instead of my usual Italian blend.

Sorry for the rant, I'm just very exasperated right now.

Do you do any music teaching?
All the pianists/keyboard players I know give piano lessons to children as a way of making at least part of their income.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

no, no. The correct term is transparent - person of transparency. pale of any colour, is still colour.

Does that mean I'm a POT? Could I be a KETTLE* instead?

King Crimson Enthusiast, TiTies Loving European

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Do you do any music teaching?
All the pianists/keyboard players I know give piano lessons to children as a way of making at least part of their income.

I'm not allowed near children. Doctor's order, they give me panic attacks and rage fits.

But to be more serious, I don't read or write sheet music. I tried a few times to propose my services in what I would call "instinctive composition methodology", but it didn't catch on. Most parents want their kids to be Mozart, not Paul McCartney. Shame, because I had based my lessons on improving the students' musical ear.

[Reap]

Um ............atheism is turning out to be a guy thing......what do we do now??? Oh great Ophelia and PZ please guide us so that we don't use real logic or reason when addressing this issue


http://reapsowradio.com/graphics/atheistgender.jpg

[Steersman]

Michael J said: "Now they have gone after Shermer are there any famous skeptics left?"

Just waiting for them to posthumously attack The Hitch. Then there will be real trouble...

Radfems have gone after Hitch since he made those remarks about women not being funny. I'm shocked that the baboons haven't picked up on that and started hurling their feces at him.

BTW-I don't know what the context of Hitch's statement was since in their ragegasms the sisters of perpetual outrage never include it, but it does sound like a dumb thing to say.

So you have made a disparaging remark about something you have only heard about through the Baboons, and you have not even bothered to read it for yourself.

Good job "sceptic"

I should be commended for helping the severely disabled: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... hens200701

I guess you used up all of your day’s allotment of sentimentality in your quite glowing and commendable portrait of James Randi. But at least your reputation is now restored, although maybe that was part of your intent with this post …. ;-)

Although I’ll agree with your implied criticism – really not surprising, I think, if men and women – generally and statistically speaking – have developed different senses and sensibilities of one sort or another. Methinks that is entirely consistent with the criticisms of the criticisms of evolutionary psychology that has figured in recent discussions.

[Lapsang Souchong]

he gave me a box of Tam Tams,

Love the Tam Tams. I just polished off a of box onion flavored Tam Tams.

[Dick Strawkins]

Do you do any music teaching?
All the pianists/keyboard players I know give piano lessons to children as a way of making at least part of their income.

I'm not allowed near children. Doctor's order, they give me panic attacks and rage fits.

But to be more serious, I don't read or write sheet music. I tried a few times to propose my services in what I would call "instinctive composition methodology", but it didn't catch on. Most parents want their kids to be Mozart, not Paul McCartney. Shame, because I had based my lessons on improving the students' musical ear.

A couple of years ago I was in a similar position but managed to make a change.
I played guitar when I was a child and teenager but had stopped for years. My son was growing up, however, and I wanted to give him the opportunity to try some music and thought it was best if he learned to read music.
I bought a few books and was able to teach myself quite a lot - certainly enough to help him with his piano lessons.
I suspect that you would be able to learn enough music theory to be able to give children all they need in terms of music lessons, at least for the first few years of playing (high level classical piano tutoring, I think, requires a classically trained pianist).
The main things that parents are interested in for young children is to inspire their children into an enjoyment of the instrument - (and a couple of easy mozart or beethoven tunes to impress the kids granny.)
The one thing I did notice about learning music theory myself is that it gave me a much deeper appreciation of different types of music - particularly jazz with its modal structures and chord tones so there are definite reasons to learn a little theory for your own benefit rather than as a way to create a possible income source.

[sacha]

I see you the Party Rings and raise you:

uh oh biscuit pissing contest ahead

http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 250#p37232

we are so predictable at times...


since my everyday tea biscuits are from the Netherlands, I suppose I should also mention:

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[sacha]

When Sofie Peeters moved to Brussels for a film degree, she found herself confronted with a depressing problem almost every time she left her front door. Walking around her local neighbourhood, the mixed, working-class district of Anneessens, at any time of day she would be greeted with cat-calls, wolf-whistles and jeers of “slag” and “how much do you cost?”

That's a very interesting point, it's the first time I've heard of a documented case of cat-calls and wolf-whistles. That's got to be extremely annoying for Sofie or any other woman subjected to that.

I don't think fines are the answer, not because I don't think this kind of harassment should be stopped, but because it's a very strange psychological phenomenon that should be better understood.

What are these men expecting to get from that?.

A reaction. Specifically an angry one. It's reaction bait.

If you keep walking normally as if you did not hear them, they get bored.

Interestingly, the times I decided to turn around and smile, they immediately stopped, stood there, and smiled back, sometimes they waved. I waved back.

really it isn't difficult, getting furious and offended simply perpetuates the behaviour. It's no different than trolling to get a reaction.

[Dick Strawkins]

Um ............atheism is turning out to be a guy thing......what do we do now??? Oh great Ophelia and PZ please guide us so that we don't use real logic or reason when addressing this issue


http://reapsowradio.com/graphics/atheistgender.jpg

Facts have a well-known misogynistic bias.

[mutleyeng]

yikes... google plus was my safe zone.
Now they have brought out their new communities, Im coming into contact with these loonies for the first time.... I dont like it

[sacha]

What are these men expecting to get from that?.

A reaction. Specifically an angry one. It's reaction bait.

If you keep walking normally as if you did not hear them, they get bored.

Interestingly, the times I decided to turn around and smile, they immediately stopped, stood there, and smiled back, sometimes they waved. I waved back.

really it isn't difficult, getting furious and offended simply perpetuates the behaviour. It's no different than trolling to get a reaction.

let me make it clear, that continuing to walk as if you did not hear them, only works if you can do it convincingly. Your body language, facial expression, and walking pace has to match...
I've even been known to make a game of it, slowing down, "window shopping", stopping to read something posted...

apropos yet again:

If someone who means nothing to you is able to offend you with words (any of them), you really need to grow a thicker skin, and for those that make it clear they are offended by those words, they may as well stand still, and hand the ammunition to their attacker, and they deserve exactly what they get. I have no sympathy at all for those who announce what words and phrases will get to them. That is why the word cunt is so very delicious when used towards a woman from the US.

Don't give enemies your secrets, unless you want them used against you...

Children are unable to keep calm when someone is bothering them, especially when someone is teasing them. They make a big scene. Adults are should be able to refrain from making their feelings obvious. These people are not adults. Why is this such a difficult concept? The most effective weapon is simply not giving someone the reaction they expect. It completely throws them off, they become confused, and very soon they are extremely frustrated that their bullets are bouncing off. Once they realise their best attempts have no effect, rather quickly they give up and move on to an easier target. Without the desired reaction, it isn't worth the effort, and word gets around. Soon no one fucks with you. I knew this from the time I was quite young. I had it perfected when I was still a kid. It is incredibly empowering.

The interesting thing is that I can explain this a hundred times, and even try and teach someone how to do it convincingly, and the second they are confronted with a situation where someone is trying to get under their skin, they are simply unable to stop themselves from reacting. It absolutely amazes me.

[sacha]

Why would somebody with no connection to Scotland wear a kilt? Did you invent your own pretend tartan as well? You're not those weirdos who attend the North American highland games are you? They seem to have appropriated their culture from a Crawford's Tartan Shortbread tin. Wannabe teuchters, a very strange mob.
I think I might get married dressed as a cowboy or something.

hahaha!

[windy]

uh oh biscuit pissing contest ahead

http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 250#p37232

we are so predictable at times...

after that opening, I would have expected some soggy biscuit jokes.

[sacha]

Why would somebody with no connection to Scotland wear a kilt? Did you invent your own pretend tartan as well? You're not those weirdos who attend the North American highland games are you? They seem to have appropriated their culture from a Crawford's Tartan Shortbread tin. Wannabe teuchters, a very strange mob.
I think I might get married dressed as a cowboy or something.

Who has no connection to Scotland?

I think bhoytony is invoking the No True Scotsman fallacy.

hahahaha!!!!!

[sacha]

Want to start something about you have to be born in Scotlland to wear a kilt? You are in for a bovver mate.

ooh more kicking at the pit, are those pink boot like franc has for Ophie, or are they plaid?

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

A reaction. Specifically an angry one. It's reaction bait.

If you keep walking normally as if you did not hear them, they get bored.

Interestingly, the times I decided to turn around and smile, they immediately stopped, stood there, and smiled back, sometimes they waved. I waved back.

really it isn't difficult, getting furious and offended simply perpetuates the behaviour. It's no different than trolling to get a reaction.

And once again for emphasis: the men in the documentary are from North African/Middle Eastearn, and mostly muslim cultures.

And now, before anyone goes on and calls me racist/"islamophobic"(shame on skeptics for using that bullshit of a loaded word, BTW), I am very, VERY familiar with this kind of behaviour coming from such cultures. Why? Because I live, and have lived most of my life, in such Mediterranean cultures. You find the same behaviours in Spanish, South-French, Italian, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Greek...etc cultures. You have to talk loud. The louder you shout, the more you dominate any conversation, whether you're right or wrong. Same applies with stupid "virility show-offs". You have to cat-call, lest your (male) companions find you not manly enough, not to say "gay". Fuck knows I rant about USAians more than not, but when it comes to idiotic, medieval-style machismo, it's hard to beat any Mediterranean people.

I think I already mentioned something about being really pissy today...

[AnonymousCowherd]

One of the best articles on the subject i've ever read. it would of course, make the FTBwats and A+ fooles (SEE WHAT I DID THERE WITH THAT FUCKING EXTRA 'e'???) cry. But that's one reason I like it so. The other is that it's pretty dead on, esp. the relationship part:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-tru ... er-person/

That article is the most awesome fucking thing I ever saw on Cracked. I think that just about anyone can see a part of themselves in that. But for the moment, I'll paste this here since it reminds me of the way Ophelia et. al. trash anyone who does good work or merely disagrees with them (Shermer being just the latest example):

Just remember, they're only expressing their own fear, since trashing other people's work is another excuse to do nothing. "Why should I create anything when the things other people create suck? I would totally have written a novel by now, but I'm going to wait for something good, I don't want to write the next Twilight!" As long as they never produce anything, it will forever be perfect and beyond reproach.

:clap:

The only thing he doesn't get is that there are all kinds of "needs" and "demands" that just aren't reasonable or useful, but there is always someone who will try to fulfil them. If all you want to do is to stand around and whinge and get group hugs (e.g. when everyone "disappoints" you), someone will be happy to do that for you. As long as Mummy and Daddy chip in for your real needs, or the Belorussian government gives you travel expenses, there will always be enough cash to keep this kind of pointless mutual parasitism going.

Fortunately, the cultural offspring off such liaisons are sterile.

[sacha]

A reaction. Specifically an angry one. It's reaction bait.

If you keep walking normally as if you did not hear them, they get bored.

Interestingly, the times I decided to turn around and smile, they immediately stopped, stood there, and smiled back, sometimes they waved. I waved back.

really it isn't difficult, getting furious and offended simply perpetuates the behaviour. It's no different than trolling to get a reaction.

And once again for emphasis: the men in the documentary are from North African/Middle Eastearn, and mostly muslim cultures.

And now, before anyone goes on and calls me racist/"islamophobic"(shame on skeptics for using that bullshit of a loaded word, BTW), I am very, VERY familiar with this kind of behaviour coming from such cultures. Why? Because I live, and have lived most of my life, in such Mediterranean cultures. You find the same behaviours in Spanish, South-French, Italian, Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Greek...etc cultures. You have to talk loud. The louder you shout, the more you dominate any conversation, whether you're right or wrong. Same applies with stupid "virility show-offs". You have to cat-call, lest your (male) companions find you not manly enough, not to say "gay". Fuck knows I rant about USAians more than not, but when it comes to idiotic, medieval-style machismo, it's hard to beat any Mediterranean people.

I think I already mentioned something about being really pissy today...

I thought the topic moved to catcalls and whistles in general, but regardless, the reason is the same. they want a reaction, "negative attention is better than no attention", and it's so obvious that they immediately gain respect for you, when you show them, you are not their puppet. They can't "make" someone react, but if you watch the women passing by the catcallers, you would think the men have a remote control that is their frequency.

[franc]

This is what's really happening...

http://www.terrorweekend.com/2012/07/ra ... eview.html

Original title: Reipu Zonbi: Lust of the Dead

Sounds like a typical hentai plot. {this is what I think of that shit. This is real japanese tits.}

Not that I ever watch any of that stuff, like, ever. :shifty:

I've just made my decision for "movie night".

Aye, so did I. Made my day. But no subs anywhere. Let me know if you find any. Just grabbed this too for a perfect double feature (again, no subs) -

http://horrorhomework.com/blog/wp-conte ... s_mb01.jpg

[SPACKlick]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... -rape.html

This makes me cringe, just thought I'd share.

Oh and the best biscuits...http://www.yardgallery.com/media/Malted ... rooch2.jpg

[franc]

http://img.youtube.com/vi/2W33p11MHCw/0.jpg

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/20 ... family.jpg

Hint: The other Charlie's angels.

[Lapsang Souchong]

Oh and the best biscuits...http://www.yardgallery.com/media/Malted ... rooch2.jpg

Hardtack. Nothing better fer chowder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack

[Lapsang Souchong]

[youtube]tznutDjIeVc[/youtube]

[Lapsang Souchong]

I've had the hardtack biscuits from this company and I thought they were pretty good. Great addition to a proper chowder.

http://stores.homestead.com/bentscookie ... l.bok?no=1

[real horrorshow]

Why would somebody with no connection to Scotland wear a kilt? Did you invent your own pretend tartan as well? You're not those weirdos who attend the North American highland games are you? They seem to have appropriated their culture from a Crawford's Tartan Shortbread tin. Wannabe teuchters, a very strange mob.
I think I might get married dressed as a cowboy or something.

At least 99% of the whole kilt and tartan business is tourist fiction. Walter Scott started it off with all the fakery for Fat Georgie's visit in 1822. It's still a major part of Scotland's biggest industry to this day. It's as "fake" or "wannabe" as it's always been, but no more.

[real horrorshow]

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

Good, now you can fuck off.

[welch]

Today's WTF tweet, courtesy of ElevatorGate

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/605/ballsfo.png

Well if they stopped arresting me, I would.

Guys are ALWAYS trying to do that. But the cops are all OMGINDECENTEXPOSURE. Fuckers

[Tigzy]

http://img.youtube.com/vi/2W33p11MHCw/0.jpg

I see she's got one of those fucking shrinky-dinks on - guess it's as much a marker as the Manson family 'X'; I imagine the social pressure in the Skepchick crowd to wear one must be pretty strong. 'You don't have to like $urly Amy's 'art' to be a proper skeptic - but it helps!'

Can't help likening those Surly-ramics to the heart plugs the Harkonnens wore in that Dune movie. They probably cap a valve of some sort, and I imagine unauthorise removal of the shrinky-dink would expose a vent in the collarbone, from which steam would issue with a piercing whistle as the SJW in question rapidly deflated into a pile of floppy skin.

[real horrorshow]

Oh, and if "cultural appropriation" of costume is bad, everyone who isn't English has to stop wearing suits. Sounds stupid? That's because it is stupid.

[Spence]

I'm going through job offers right now and was wondering: is it just a French thing that for any job these days they ask for 2 to 5 years experience in the same domain?

If you only ever hire experienced workers, how the fuck do I even start getting some experience in x or y domain?!?

I'm not sure if this is a factor or not, but one of my friends (who is a True Scotsman, so must be right :) ) was telling me many young French people, just out of school/college/uni, were moving to the South of England (and London, in particular) because it was easier to get work there if you had little or no experience. He suggested - although I've never checked the figures to back this up, so may be hearsay - that unemployment amongst the youngest generation of workers in France was a real issue.

The hand-waving argument was that it is easier to get rid of people in the UK than it is in France, so companies are more willing to take a chance over here. I have no idea if that has any truth in it.

Although I suspect the problem is perhaps even more difficult for you being older and inexperienced as there would be no graduate / apprenticeship schemes tailored to you.

[Dilurk]

http://www.dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/ ... k-nutz.jpg

Oh yes http://www.trailertoys.com/bullballs.html
I always thought they were puerile. However.

http://www.bumperdumper.com/images/road8.jpg
from http://www.bumperdumper.com/
At least it is practical.

[real horrorshow]

I'm going through job offers right now and was wondering: is it just a French thing that for any job these days they ask for 2 to 5 years experience in the same domain?

Commonplace in the UK too. Along with companies abandoning paid apprenticeships/internships and then bitching that they can't find staff with the skills they need.

[real horrorshow]

*Full disclosure: I am a person of whiteness, compete with penis and latent homicidal tendencies.

Having given the matter a little more thought, I think the proper form should be Person of Paleness or PoP.

no, no. The correct term is transparent - person of transparency. pale of any colour, is still colour.

Well, in the past I have insisted that I too am a 'person of colour' on the grounds that I am not colourless or transparent. However, I can see the sheer ludicrousness being useful. Person of Transparency it is then. PoT should please Phil.

[KarlVonMox]

Um ............atheism is turning out to be a guy thing......what do we do now??? Oh great Ophelia and PZ please guide us so that we don't use real logic or reason when addressing this issue


http://reapsowradio.com/graphics/atheistgender.jpg

Facts have a well-known misogynistic bias.

Yes, what is their excuse going to be with that one? I'm dying to know what the rationalization will be for a gender disparity on an online census.

[Outwest]

I'm going through job offers right now and was wondering: is it just a French thing that for any job these days they ask for 2 to 5 years experience in the same domain?

If you only ever hire experienced workers, how the fuck do I even start getting some experience in x or y domain?!? Skydiving and music, although very cool to start conversations in pubs, are not exactly helping on my CV.

Kids, get a degree and accept to be threated like shit for a few years as an intern. I didn't, and now I have to drink instant coffee instead of my usual Italian blend.

Sorry for the rant, I'm just very exasperated right now.

It's pretty much that way in the US, that's why there are so many recent college graduates here that cannot find a position. It also has to do with expectations. Many young people I have been around expected to graduate and immediately secure a position in the mid-to-high 5 figures and of course have been dissapointed to see that, at best, depending on their transcript, and also previous work experience, that they might, just might get a job in the lower ($30K) range.

I recall seeing an interview during the OWS fiasco of a guy in NYC that was complaining that he quit a teaching position in NYC to return to graduate school and get his MFA, in puppeterring. And he was angry that with this MFA, he couldnt find a job and had an addition $30K to pay off. Expectations.

[real horrorshow]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... -rape.html

This makes me cringe, just thought I'd share.

“I’m not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something,” the judge said, according to documents released Thursday. “If someone doesn’t want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage in inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case.

This sounds familiar. Is this the new orthodoxy with the American Right? You can't be raped/get pregnant from rape unless you're sorta willing. Where are these ideas coming from?

[Mykeru]

Why would somebody with no connection to Scotland wear a kilt? Did you invent your own pretend tartan as well? You're not those weirdos who attend the North American highland games are you? They seem to have appropriated their culture from a Crawford's Tartan Shortbread tin. Wannabe teuchters, a very strange mob.
I think I might get married dressed as a cowboy or something.

At least 99% of the whole kilt and tartan business is tourist fiction. Walter Scott started it off with all the fakery for Fat Georgie's visit in 1822. It's still a major part of Scotland's biggest industry to this day. It's as "fake" or "wannabe" as it's always been, but no more.

The pleated kilt was a bit of 19th century Victorian romanticism. Scots wore a "kilt" that was a single length of cloth worn much like a toga. They also wore pants. Although there were regional patterns, there never was a hard and fast "clan tartan", that was another later "Scotland Disneyland" invention.

[real horrorshow]

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/20 ... family.jpg

Hint: The other Charlie's angels.

Lucky they committed their crimes back in the 60s. These days it would all be blamed on 'patriarchal' Charlie and the poor 'exploited' little princesses would have got a few years in tennis jail. With radfems picketing the trial demanding they be let off entirely.

[Mykeru]

I see she's got one of those fucking shrinky-dinks on - guess it's as much a marker as the Manson family 'X'; I imagine the social pressure in the Skepchick crowd to wear one must be pretty strong. 'You don't have to like $urly Amy's 'art' to be a proper skeptic - but it helps!'

As part of my abandoning the term "atheist" as being non-too descriptive and taking on the mantle of Skeptic, I refer to these sort of assclowns as "Surly-Ramic Skeptics" as wearing the dog collar of their incestuous clique is far more important to them and their semi-lucrative cons, as being an actual fucking skeptic.

[ReneeHendricks]

I just read (and saw a vid) where the KKK is going to counter-protest the WBC in Newtown, Connecticut. Ok. I am now convinced that the end of the world is nigh.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

I just read (and saw a vid) where the KKK is going to counter-protest the WBC in Newtown, Connecticut. Ok. I am now convinced that the end of the world is nigh.

So, does this mean Laden is endorsing KKK? Hard to keep up, these days...

[real horrorshow]

Yes, what is their excuse going to be with that one? I'm dying to know what the rationalization will be for a gender disparity on an online census.

Patriarchy. Next.

[Tigzy]

I may have to re-think my position on likening Amy's Sorry-ramics to Shrinky Dinks, as it turns out that Shrinky-Dinks are actually quite useful to science: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/ ... uidics.asp

[real horrorshow]

I just read (and saw a vid) where the KKK is going to counter-protest the WBC in Newtown, Connecticut. Ok. I am now convinced that the end of the world is nigh.

So, does this mean Laden is endorsing KKK? Hard to keep up, these days...

Well, by Laden logic, if you disagree with him about anything you are in automatic agreement with anyone else he doesn't like. So yes.
However the KKK might think their public image would be tarnished if they associated with a man who looks like this:
TRIGGER WARNING! AWOOGA! AWOOGA!
http://i.imgur.com/JjrYgl.png

[ReneeHendricks]

Real Horrowshow - I should have heeded your warning. I've been put off my breakfast.

[Dick Strawkins]

http://i.imgur.com/0nMSY.jpg

[Dick Strawkins]

Things that look like Greg Laden?

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

[Dilurk]

Things that look like Greg Laden?

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

That one was a shark jumper.

[Outwest]

http://i.imgur.com/0nMSY.jpg

That is one scary looking dude. The one on the right.

[Za-zen]

Rebecca watson, has applied her indepth understanding of the nature of consent to determine, that having sex with someone who is drunk, is always rape.

How long must the skeptic movement endure the pontifications of such a simple minded buffoon, elevated to a podium by a collection of identity seeking problem havers. Perpetuated by conference organisers more interested in cliques than content.

Watson is the talis[wo]man for a subsect of people who identify as skeptics, who have no interest in skepticism other than it's a club they can claim to be a part of. Then you have the likes of Croft who hail her speeches as wonderous, until someone actually spells out just how much bullshit he swallowed and praised, while calling it toast and honey. And red faced attempts to salvage his own credibility with a scramble defence that has to by extension defend twatson. What would have been more comendable on his part was a reflection on the reality that he fell for the intoxication of the group hugs.

[Altair]

(Great story about Sacha, Randi and TAM snipped)

If they go after Randi, it will be the Coup de grâce.

That's a good point, for many people, Randi is not a skeptic, he is skepticism.

Also, that was a very good story, thanks for sharing. For the sake of your reputation, if someone asks, I'll tell them it's physically impossible for you to be sentimental.

[Tony Parsehole]

Rebecca watson, has applied her indepth understanding of the nature of consent to determine, that having sex with someone who is drunk, is always rape.

What if both people are drunk as is usually the case in a one-night stand? Or is a woman guilty of taking advantage of a man if he is drunk and she is not?
Equal rights is a bitch isn't it?

Also, things that look like Greg Laden:

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/wp-content/i ... -place.jpg

John "just a whiff of gas, my dear" Christie.

[Tony Parsehole]

Well, The Richard Attenborough portrayal of Christie but we all knew that didn't we?

[Altair]

A reaction. Specifically an angry one. It's reaction bait.

If you keep walking normally as if you did not hear them, they get bored.

Interestingly, the times I decided to turn around and smile, they immediately stopped, stood there, and smiled back, sometimes they waved. I waved back.

really it isn't difficult, getting furious and offended simply perpetuates the behaviour. It's no different than trolling to get a reaction.

So you're saying we shouldn't feed the trolls? Pfft, no wonder you're a gender traitor :dance:

[JAB]

I'll just throw this down:

The guy who did the shooting was bright. He planned what he did. He was prepared with body armour.

So do we really thing taking away his guns would have stopped him?

We lost 168 in the Oklahoma City bombing because some less intelligent person figured out how to fill a truck with amonium nitrate. Most terrorist tend to use bombs. Europe has had it's fair share of bombs.

We also share a border with Mexico. Mexico will sell you anything you want. A gun ban here would be just another open market for them.

So all a gun ban would to is swap one weapon for a more dangerous one and we'd end up with a higher body count.

It may have stopped him. People who commit suicide (which he did) often get a "romantic" idea about it in a fantasy sort of way and obsess on it for a while and get very specific. If that method is or becomes unavailable, it stays a fantasy and they survive. Take the case where they put suicide nets on bridges that have attracted a lot of jumpers... everyone says that there are more bridges, or other methods etc, but when they put up the nets the actual total number of suicides drops in the community. We know this doesn't make sense, but when you look at the outcomes, it works. I think a lot of Americans have a very "romantic" idea about guns. The few people that combine this with a mental disorder and suicide ideation are the dangerous ones, I think. Obviously, if you treat the disorder you can avoid the outcome. Maybe you could reduce further deaths due to untreated disorders by limiting guns, or at least the ones that are most efficient at killing with great speed.

[Za-zen]

Rebecca watson, has applied her indepth understanding of the nature of consent to determine, that having sex with someone who is drunk, is always rape.

What if both people are drunk as is usually the case in a one-night stand? Or is a woman guilty of taking advantage of a man if he is drunk and she is not?
Equal rights is a bitch isn't it?

Also, things that look like Greg Laden:

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/wp-content/i ... -place.jpg

John "just a whiff of gas, my dear" Christie.

Tony don't be so stupid, if both parties are drunk in a mixed gender bonking session it is the patriachy, therefore rape. If it is two lesbians it could not possibly be rape, because it is girl love. If it is two men drunk and humping that's only rape on one parties part if they don't switch around. If they do switch then it's mutual rape.

[Dick Strawkins]

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

I still haven't managed to find an image of something creepier looking than Laden!

[SPACKlick]

Rape is a slightly screwed up legal thing all round.

Consent is invisible, and evidenceless. If you're drunk, you cannot give informed consent, if you're asleep or sleep deprived, or on some medications or a whole host of other situations, you cannot give informed consent. Informed consent, as a legal concept, differs wildly from the common understanding of consent to bonk.

I've been raped (fucked in my sleep having said "No, I'm too tired" and dozed off), but I've been perfectly willing to consent to surprise wake up sex and so on. The fuck do these people want? So much for sex positivity.