Periodic Table of Swearing

[bhoytony]

I was sent to work in Glasgow (kicking and screaming) in 1991, and ended up loving it.
The SubClub, the Barras market, the Liquor Shack, the Scotia? pub, the Neds and the ice-cream vans were all memorable, but wow, the square sausage, bacon and potato scone breakfast rolls from the place behind Princes Street were unbeatable.

The ice cream vans were something eh? They sold a bigger selection of items than Tesco's (and heroin).

[Al Stefanelli]

This is now a topic of discussion on my Facebook. Comments are flooding in, mostly against Rebecca's statement. Note, my FB page is a good representation of a cross-section of humanity.

http://www.alstefanelli.com/watsonrape.jpg

[Altair]

This is now a topic of discussion on my Facebook. Comments are flooding in, mostly against Rebecca's statement. Note, my FB page is a good representation of a cross-section of humanity.

http://www.alstefanelli.com/watsonrape.jpg

Andy Wulf makes a good point on your Facebook

Andy Wulf Drinking alcohol, and losing control of one's own faculties, is itself a choice. In my estimation, to make that choice is to preemptively take responsibility for any decisions that person might make that s/he may not have made if s/he were sober. The fact that many people don't treat the decision to intoxicate themselves with as much gravity as they should is, frankly, their problem.

[Steersman]

And going beyond that, am I the only one who's actually experienced rape being fucking fed up with those who haven't telling us what rape is and isn't?

No. I went to several legal classes to get a better idea as well, nice to know miss pissed, the twatson herself, needs no such education.

Consent, for a legally binding contract and consent to participate are different. 2 beers can make a contract null and void, it doesn't remove sufficient reason to believe the penetrated party is being penetrated willingly.

Twat mcCunt poop.

Oh well, that’s your privilege showing there – you need to take it into the shop and have it checked. Those who haven’t been raped clearly have the moral high-ground and their opinions have to carry the day. Although that means they have more privilege than you do – which only shows how seriously fucked the whole concept is – or at least its SJW application. Bunch of dickheads and ignorant cunts.

Reminds me of the aphorism, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But not their own facts.”

[Altair]

I have to wonder how is it possible for Rebecca's supporters to see this

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3289/cashos.png

and not realize she's just creating controversy for the sake of the cash?

[real horrorshow]

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.

I write a post referring to inventing your own pretend tartan and the fake Scottish shortbread tin culture and I have people lining up to educate me on the fact that these things are not actually authentic. Thanks for that guys, I had no idea. I now see that I have been living a lie and Scotland is not really like one big episode of the White Heather Club.

Oh do fuck off Tony you said:

Why would somebody with no connection to Scotland wear a kilt? Did you invent your own pretend tartan as well?

Implying very very hard that it's somehow more OK when Scots wear kilts and that there's such a thing as a non-pretend tartan. I said that it's no more bollocks for yanks to do it now than it was for jocks to do it 200 years ago.

"Scotland is not really like one big episode of The White Heather club"? Don't tell me, tell Visit Scotland whose front page currently looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/dug6e.jpg

[papillon]

The ice cream vans were something eh? They sold a bigger selection of items than Tesco's (and heroin).

Yeah,typical transaction.
"Gonnie gi us two bottles o' ginger an a bag o' skag big man?"
"Git tae fuck ya jakey wee ned"
"Aye, pish aff yesel"
"...Numpty"

[Parge]

I have to wonder how is it possible for Rebecca's supporters to see this

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/3289/cashos.png

and not realize she's just creating controversy for the sake of the cash?

Rebecca Watson is spam.

[Steersman]

Maybe somewhat unfortunate, depending on your point of view, that women’s “secondary sexual characteristics” are generally so obvious; maybe Ms. Lewis would like to see more men wearing codpieces – I expect Scented could work-up a line of SlymePit approved knitted versions for the next TAM – likely to provide “stiff” competition – depending on the models used, of course – for Amy’s schlock.

I don't knit. Wouldn't know how to with a gun to my head. Best I could do would be a needlepoint picture of an erect cock, I mean a codpiece, as my contribution to the ambience. Tastefully posed, of course.

Ah, sorry about that chief. Not “a guy thing”, I guess. ;-)

Reminds me of seeing a documentary on the electronics industry many years ago which showed the partly manual, non-automatic, process of bonding the wires from the external pins of integrated circuits to the chip dice. Apparently the manufacturers tended to hire women for the job as they generally had greater manual dexterity in those types of detailed procedures. When one has a limited hiring budget and, say, 40% of women are likely to meet the dexterity requirements versus 20% for men it makes good economic sense to use gender as part of the prescreening criteria. Mother Nature is surely one sexist bitch.

But I’ve been interested in the processes of knitting and weaving for some time which I assume is somewhat related to needlepoint. My ex had a small weaving loom which looked rather intricate and the results looked intriguing so I’ve periodically wondered how one got from the mechanism to the finished result. And I’ve also wondered about the history of both as well – you probably know that the principles first elucidated with the Jacquard loom have figured substantially in the development of computers:

The Jacquard loom was the first machine to use punched cards to control a sequence of operations. Although it did no computation based on them, it is considered an important step in the history of computing hardware. The ability to change the pattern of the loom's weave by simply changing cards was an important conceptual precursor to the development of computer programming. Specifically, Charles Babbage planned to use cards to store programs in his Analytical Engine.

[bhoytony]

Oh do fuck off Tony you said:

Why would somebody with no connection to Scotland wear a kilt? Did you invent your own pretend tartan as well?

Implying very very hard that it's somehow more OK when Scots wear kilts and that there's such a thing as a non-pretend tartan. I said that it's no more bollocks for yanks to do it now than it was for jocks to do it 200 years ago.

I asked why anybody else would wear them, the only reason I can think of is because of some silly tradition, which would not include non-Scots. Please do tell me it's because they are super trendy. Non-pretend tartan does exist so do non-pretend Scots.

"Scotland is not really like one big episode of The White Heather club"? Don't tell me, tell Visit Scotland whose front page currently looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/dug6e.jpg

Yes and if you look at any English tourist site it will be full of pictures of Beefeaters etc. Does this mean that Scotland or England in any way resemble the silly images that attract tourists? Scotland is NOT like the White Heather Club

[Michael J]

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.

One thing I learned as a hirer and a hiree is to treat the job requirements as a wish list. I've gotten 2 or 3 jobs where I thought I was miles away from the requirements.

[bhoytony]

Oh and that picture is advertising the military tattoo, those are military uniforms they are wearing.

[Remick]

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.

One thing I learned as a hirer and a hiree is to treat the job requirements as a wish list. I've gotten 2 or 3 jobs where I thought I was miles away from the requirements.

This. Most Job postings are a wish list, and in very rare situations are they all required. Read the description of the Job, do you feel you can do this job? If so, look at the actual "requirements" and figure out which ones are actually required and see if you can match it.

[JackRayner]

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

The guys in my unit made of game of that sometime after "Waiting" released. Someone would just walk up to a group with their balls hanging out, and anyone that noticed and looked at them directly had to take a kick to the ass. Our camouflage uniforms have buttons instead of a zipper on the crotch, so it was easy to pull your balls out and then just set a button to hold them there.

Needless to say, that sort of shit would not fly anywhere else. :?

[Tigzy]

She is trolling here.
For someone who has a degree in communications you might think that she would be able to word her declaration in such a way that it is not so ambiguous as it first appears.

If you have sex with someone who is drunk, they are unable to consent and that is rape.

Could be worded:

If you have sex with someone who is so drunk they are unable to consent, that is rape.

To which very few people would have problems (although you might quibble over the word 'rape' which is generally reserved for forced penetrative sex rather than other forms of sex.)

But of course if she worded it like that she wouldn't get any bites and won't be able to squeal: "Misogynists! They are complaining that they can't get some poor woman blotto and then force themselves on her."

Seems to me that she now understands she's made an idiotic statement (after being called out on it N amount of times) and is now feverishly trying to make out she meant something else - as per her evopsych presentation - so, y'know, that people don't think she's a dummy, or anything.

I'm actually thinking of starting a twitter thing called 'Becky's Brainfarts', where I retweet the Blue Haired Glob's frequent eructations of teh stupid. Given the frequency of her derp moments however, I'd wonder if there'd be enough hours outside work for it...

[sacha]

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.

Yeah, look how far we have come

[welch]

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.

One thing I learned as a hirer and a hiree is to treat the job requirements as a wish list. I've gotten 2 or 3 jobs where I thought I was miles away from the requirements.

This. Most Job postings are a wish list, and in very rare situations are they all required. Read the description of the Job, do you feel you can do this job? If so, look at the actual "requirements" and figure out which ones are actually required and see if you can match it.

they're a way for HR to roundfile the majority of resumes. The best advice i can give you is: never go through HR first. That way lies madness. Find people who know people. Network like a motherfucker. If you can get the hiring manager to give your resume to HR while saying "I'm interviewing them on tuesday", your chances of getting the gig go waaaaay up.

For example, i still don't have a college degree. Life happened. But, I have had a lot of jobs that "require" them. none of those came via HR.

[Guest]

Tigzy, that would be a full-time occupation. You know, like Greg Laden's trolling

[Scented Nectar]

Ok, so according to Twatson, I must be a rapist many times over. I myself can barely drink enough to get tipsy before getting very sick. I think I have that genetic 'flushing/sick' reaction. Not on the gene snp I've been tested for, but there is another snp that causes it too, so it must be that one.

Anywaaaays, I only try drinking once every few years. Usually I have to stop before even getting tipsy. I've never had a full on drunk or a hangover.

Soooooo, I've had quite a few sex partners that liked to drink on a regular basis. Nothing wobbly falling down drunk,much less passed out, they were just ordinary feeling good drunk. So did I rape these people? Anyone who says yes, like Watson, can fuck off. Funny how my 'victims' often returned for more. I didn't think that was something rape victims did.

In the name of maintaining the old Koss 1 in 4 bull, some will think those people were raped by me indeed. Oh wait, Koss, as part of her study with the hideous methodology only applied the drunk rule to female drinkers as victims. If we fix that mistake, and include men as victims too, the Koss study would show at least the same victim rates among men, I suspect, making it 1 in 2 people have been raped in college (maybe a couple of real rapes, but mostly thousands of consensual drunken sex get-togethers which is something college aged people are very fond of doing).

[sacha]

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 many times do you reckon Watson has had sex, sober?

[Tigzy]

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 many times do you reckon Watson has had sex, sober?

More to the point - how many times do you reckon someone has had sex with Watson sober?

[Outwest]

Seems to me that she now understands she's made an idiotic statement (after being called out on it N amount of times) and is now feverishly trying to make out she meant something else - as per her evopsych presentation - so, y'know, that people don't think she's a dummy, or anything.

I'm actually thinking of starting a twitter thing called 'Becky's Brainfarts', where I retweet the Blue Haired Glob's frequent eructations of teh stupid. Given the frequency of her derp moments however, I'd wonder if there'd be enough hours outside work for it...

That's what I said earler. Everytime she gets caught in some sort of outrageous statement, and gets called on it, she inevitably changes the meaning of what she was talking about. She's either stupid, and is incapable of precise communication, or just an attention-whoring fraud.

Based on recent events (the last couple of years), I believe it would be a full-time job to document "Becky's Brainfarts".

[sacha]

(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.

thank you, I appreciate that. If it got around, before you know it, men would think I like romance, and then I may have to put a bullet in my head.

[ReneeHendricks]

http://slymepit.com/staticimgs/rtwattweet.jpg

Really? Seriously? How drunk? Like, college party drunk? Like, meet someone at a bar whose had eleventy drinks and grabs your balls while your waiting for the bartender to give you your Guinness Stout? Where is the point where someone is too drunk to fuck? I would guess somewhere prior to passing out.

Using her logic, high schools, colleges, bars, nightclubs and just about anywhere else are chock-full-'o-rapists. Jesus fucking Christ in pink satin pumps, someone get a fucking octopus so we can do an octo-facepalm.

To what fucking end..?

Apparently, it's to the point where you ask her to have coffee while standing in an elevator:

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2 ... 5irqd5.png

[JackRayner]

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.

Just watched a fellow opine about several of these topics. Interesting coincidence. Even the lesbian rape thing. I haven't checked it out myself, but according to him it happens as often as male on female rape but it is often ignored.

With that point about lesbian rape in mind, and assuming that it is true, and with the fact that your average female cannot overpower your average male, the conclusion he makes about the relative rarity of female on male rape is sound: Most women don't because they cannot.

[ReneeHendricks]

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 many times do you reckon Watson has had sex, sober?

My best guess is zero.

[real horrorshow]

I asked why anybody else would wear them, the only reason I can think of is because of some silly tradition, which would not include non-Scots. Please do tell me it's because they are super trendy. Non-pretend tartan does exist so do non-pretend Scots.

Yes, kilts at weddings is "some silly tradition". Just like the tradition of the bride wearing a big, daft overpriced white gown. It's only a few decades old, but it's become a tradition and it happens all over the world, even with non-Scots.

Also, yes kilts are 'super trendy':
http://i.imgur.com/wnjgq.png

Yes and if you look at any English tourist site it will be full of pictures of Beefeaters etc.

Yes probably, and it would probably be English people who'd made it that way. And while I might not care for it, I wouldn't be complaining about non-English people creating that image of England*.

Visit Scotland is run by Scots. The White Heather Club? More Scots. (And I'm willing to bet that if you're in The White Heather Club, your experience of Scotland is like the White Heather Club!) That shortbread tin image of Scotland is what Scots have been peddling to the rest of the world for centuries.

Get in touch with Visit Scotland and tell them you want to promote The Bhoytony Experience:

Breakfast rolls, square sausage, clootie dumpling, tablet, Caramel Wafers, mutton pies, fish suppers, Irn Bru, cream soda, Buckfast, stovies and lots of vodka

I'd sooner do that the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

*Just checked, Enjoy England is currently leading with Christmas breaks in Manchester.

[JackRayner]

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.

Ah, now I understand why these people made the Elevator Incident into such a huge problem.

Consider: it was 4am, on the way out from a bar at a conference, and this is Rebecca Watson we're talking about. Drunkenness may be considered a given. Then suppose she'd said yes, and gone to this man's room for hot coffee Rockstar style? Why, then it clearly would have been rape. Therefore the proposition - having rape as its goal - was attempted rape.

The only solution here is that we ban alcohol at all future conferences, to allow consent to be possible. Write that into the policies, organisers, or else you hate all women.

Nice reference there. :D

So Rebecca Watson raped Michael Shermer at TAM5?
:whistle:

WHAT?! Did that really go down? :lol:

[Waterkant]

Apparently, it's to the point where you ask her to have coffee while standing in an elevator:

Maybe the question for coffee came up to let her sober up a bit. He should have asked her to come up for a cold shower, would have saved everyone a lot of trouble, I guess.

[welch]

I have to say, I didn't know Watson was such an ardent follower of Dvorak.

[Angry_Drunk]

I have to say, I didn't know Watson was such an ardent follower of Dvorak.

You do realize that 90% of the people here are going to think you're talking about a keyboard?

[JackRayner]

Radfems have been defining rape downward until nearly everyone has been and has(by their definition)raped. Anything other than "enthusiastic consent" is rape. So, if you're not in the mood and your partner pesters you for sex and you acquiesce just to shut him/her up then that is the same as if someone on the street grabbed you and threw you into his van and fucked you at knife point.

Out of morbid curiosity, is there an official, party-line definition of "enthusiastic consent"?

If the person isn't screaming out "YES!" before sex, then I'm pretty sure it is a certified rape. That's why I always carry a knife. Few better ways to get enthusiastic consent. ;)

[bhoytony]

Yes, kilts at weddings is "some silly tradition". Just like the tradition of the bride wearing a big, daft overpriced white gown. It's only a few decades old, but it's become a tradition and it happens all over the world, even with non-Scots.

Also, yes kilts are 'super trendy':
http://i.imgur.com/wnjgq.png

Yes and if you look at any English tourist site it will be full of pictures of Beefeaters etc.

Yes probably, and it would probably be English people who'd made it that way. And while I might not care for it, I wouldn't be complaining about non-English people creating that image of England*.

Visit Scotland is run by Scots. The White Heather Club? More Scots. (And I'm willing to bet that if you're in The White Heather Club, your experience of Scotland is like the White Heather Club!) That shortbread tin image of Scotland is what Scots have been peddling to the rest of the world for centuries.

You seem to be arguing against a position I haven't stated. I know the tourist image was invented by Scots. I never said anywhere that it was created by non-Scots as you seem to imply with your non-English comment. I think it's fucking stupid, that's all.
I don't even know why I'm arguing about this, it was just a throwaway post and I don't even care all that much. I just think silly dressing up is fucking daft.
This is why I hate the internet, I always end up having stupid arguments about things I don't care about with people whose opinion I don't care about. Fuck me I had a fight about pushbikes not long ago, a subject I find incredibly boring.

[sacha]

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.

If you want to jump off the most popular suicide destination in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gat ... e#Suicides) most popular suicide destination in the world, better hurry. The Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention net system is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

Being a cold-hearted cunt, I am completely against the addition. Years of scientific testing, and design, costing over 45 million dollars and another five million to complete.
Yeah, lets spend over fifty million dollars on a net, in order to save people who want to die. No better use for that money...
right now, the chance of surviving a jump off the bridge is less than 2%, unless one is stopped by security before they go over.

It will cost a fortune to retrieve people stuck in the net.

Why is the city, after all these years of the Golden Gate Bridge having the highest suicide rate of anywhere in the world, suddenly installing a prevention net?
Because of SJW pressure.

"The Golden Gate Bridge is a public health hazard; it doesn't have adequate safety barriers."

A public health hazard
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/25 ... e-20120525

remember the days when people were responsible for themselves, and the government was not involved?

mandatory cycle helmets, mandatory seat belts...

legislation prohibiting autonomy.

[Tony Parsehole]

I'm actually thinking of starting a twitter thing called 'Becky's Brainfarts', where I retweet the Blue Haired Glob's frequent eructations of teh stupid. Given the frequency of her derp moments however, I'd wonder if there'd be enough hours outside work for it...

There is already a Twitter account documenting Becky's brainfarts:

https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson

[JackRayner]

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.

If you want to jump off the most popular suicide destination in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gat ... e#Suicides) most popular suicide destination in the world, better hurry. The Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention net system is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

Being a cold-hearted cunt, I am completely against the addition. Years of scientific testing, and design, costing over 45 million dollars and another five million to complete. Yeah, lets spend over fifty million dollars on a net, in order to save people who want to die. No better use for that money... right now, the chance of surviving a jump off the bridge is less than 2%, unless one is stopped by security before they go over. It will cost a fortune to retrieve people stuck in the net.

Why is the city, after all these years of the Golden Gate Bridge having the highest suicide rate of anywhere in the world, suddenly installing a prevention net? Because of SJW pressure.

"The Golden Gate Bridge is a public health hazard; it doesn't have adequate safety barriers."

A public health hazard
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/25 ... e-20120525

remember the days when people were responsible for themselves, and the government was not involved?

mandatory cycle helmets, mandatory seat belts...

legislation prohibiting autonomy.

That's bullshit. I agree with you. A public health hazard would be if people were falling over my accident. But, hey, who knows? Maybe they'll finally invent the suicide booths seen in Futurama. :/

[Pitchguest]

Illuminata over at Black Skeptics responds to my post about how Sikivu is fucking insane and responds to it simply by adding,

Translation: my white male privilege disagrees with your facts, therefore you're wrong!

So I wrote this in response. Screenshotted and put here in case it gets memoryholed,

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2233/illuminatwat.jpg

Link to article and comment: http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskepti ... ment-10054

[Tigzy]

@Pitchguest

I'm betting that if Illuminata replies, she'll start squawking 'bitchez ain't shit! Bitchez ain't shit!' within two posts.

Seriously, she could fail a Turing test against a bot.

[Al Stefanelli]

http://slymepit.com/staticimgs/rtwattweet.jpg

Really? Seriously? How drunk? Like, college party drunk? Like, meet someone at a bar whose had eleventy drinks and grabs your balls while your waiting for the bartender to give you your Guinness Stout? Where is the point where someone is too drunk to fuck? I would guess somewhere prior to passing out.

Using her logic, high schools, colleges, bars, nightclubs and just about anywhere else are chock-full-'o-rapists. Jesus fucking Christ in pink satin pumps, someone get a fucking octopus so we can do an octo-facepalm.

To what fucking end..?

Apparently, it's to the point where you ask her to have coffee while standing in an elevator:

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2 ... 5irqd5.png

[youtube]h3Yrhv33Zb8[/youtube]

[Tigzy]

Oh, seems Sick-fu has done a Prune and deleted your post, Pitchguest.

[Pitchguest]

I've never understood the reason why, according to them, white men have more privilege than most. It is a completely fucking outdated statistic, yet they cling to it for their dear lives.

As if their very existence depended on it. Or just the controversy for blog hits. You never can tell with these people.

Also, a point about "the patriarchy" which I've thought about for quite some time, they claim it affects both women and men and that both women and men are responsible for perpetuating it. So why is the blame placed solely on one gender and not both? Isn't it effectively blaming the victim when they're saying a man's behaviour is due to the patriarchy, if the responsibility is mutual? And are the men they accuse willing instruments, or powerless victims?

++

I'm thinking that if I were a dark-skinned, asian hermaphrodite, I'd have covered all the bases. Then I could say whatever I want and no one would dare accuse me of "white male privilege" whatever that still means.

[Dilurk]

I'll just leave this here.

cuddle parties

[BarnOwl]

If I'm understanding the Twitter-stream correctly, Rebecca's ill-considered comments on what constitutes rape arose from a discussion about an episode of The Big Bang Theory, in which drunken Penny propositions her ex-boyfriend Leonard, who is sober, and they have sex. Leonard is the rapist in this scenario, because he should have rebuffed her advances.

That's right, Rebecca is drawing conclusions about the legal definitions of sexual assault, based on an episode of a sit-com about CalTech weenie-nerd physicists.

Rather like US politicians being outraged by TV character Murphy Brown's out-of-wedlock baby.

[Gumby]

I'll just leave this here.

cuddle parties

Ick.

[KiwiInOz]

The only way I can get my missus to wear the Spiderman Costume is when she is as pissed as a fart.

We may have more in common than you'd think...

What? You have to get Tony's missus drunk to get her to wear the Spiderman costume too?

[JackRayner]

I'll just leave this here.

cuddle parties

You can't take your clothes off? That doesn't sound like any type of party to me. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x17/ ... ferent.gif

[Pitchguest]

Oh, seems Sick-fu has done a Prune and deleted your post, Pitchguest.

Yep. Conversely she chose to keep Illuminata's imbecilic response, even though it's essentially an invitation to shit-slinging.

This is what FfTB is doing now; deleting posts that are even remotely dissenting to their views. Adam Lee on Big Think blog, David Futrelle on Manboobz, JT Eberhard on Patheos, does the same thing. I remember I wrote some scathing remarks to JT one time or another, can't remember which blog post it was. He did a Crommunist (or should that be Crommunist did a JT?) and edited my posts. I wrote on Manboobz saying he misrepresented The Amazing Atheist after Amanda Todd commited suicide, he not only deleted my posts, he said any posts that tried in any way to "defend" TAA (even if that was to make sure he wasn't misrepresented by Futrelle) wouldn't be allowed. Manboobz. I mock it. Lastly, most recently, Adam Lee deletes posts that are scathing towards him and puts most of the posters there in moderation. Idiots the lot of them. The Slymepit has more intellectual and journalistic integrity than either of these sites, bar none.

They can go fuck themselves. I mean that sincerely. Fucking morons.

[katamari Damassi]

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.

If you want to jump off the most popular suicide destination in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gat ... e#Suicides) most popular suicide destination in the world, better hurry. The Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention net system is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

Being a cold-hearted cunt, I am completely against the addition. Years of scientific testing, and design, costing over 45 million dollars and another five million to complete.
Yeah, lets spend over fifty million dollars on a net, in order to save people who want to die. No better use for that money...
right now, the chance of surviving a jump off the bridge is less than 2%, unless one is stopped by security before they go over.

It will cost a fortune to retrieve people stuck in the net.

Why is the city, after all these years of the Golden Gate Bridge having the highest suicide rate of anywhere in the world, suddenly installing a prevention net?
Because of SJW pressure.

"The Golden Gate Bridge is a public health hazard; it doesn't have adequate safety barriers."

A public health hazard
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/25 ... e-20120525

remember the days when people were responsible for themselves, and the government was not involved?

mandatory cycle helmets, mandatory seat belts...

legislation prohibiting autonomy.

I'm a big believe in personal autonomy but I make exceptions when one's stupid decisions effect the rest of us, so I'm for helmet laws. Too many cyclists end up as cripples and then the rest of society has to pay to take care of them because they wanted to look cool or feel the wind in their hair. And I say that as a former motorcyclist. Totally against the suicide net thing though.

[acathode]

Illuminata over at Black Skeptics responds to my post about how Sikivu is fucking insane and responds to it simply by adding,

Translation: my white male privilege disagrees with your facts, therefore you're wrong!

So I wrote this in response. Screenshotted and put here in case it gets memoryholed,

Link to article and comment: http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskepti ... ment-10054

Bit surprised that her post doesn't even have 20 comments, there can't be many people that pay her blog much attention? Since your original post went through, it doesn't seem like there are any kind of draconian pre-moderation...

Still, kudos to you for taking the time to respond to the FTBers and others, like Lee, on their own turf. Personally I just CBA spending time and energy with trying to have a proper discussion with anyone that has moderator powers and has shown to be dishonest enough to use them when their arguments fail. So I simply stay away from FTB, even though some of the stupid they post makes my fingers itch.

[JackRayner]

I'll just leave this here.

cuddle parties

You can't take your clothes off? That doesn't sound like any type of party to me. http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x17/ ... ferent.gif

Fuck me! No liquor, either!? :x

[katamari Damassi]

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.

I write a post referring to inventing your own pretend tartan and the fake Scottish shortbread tin culture and I have people lining up to educate me on the fact that these things are not actually authentic. Thanks for that guys, I had no idea. I now see that I have been living a lie and Scotland is not really like one big episode of the White Heather Club.

Oh do fuck off Tony you said:

Why would somebody with no connection to Scotland wear a kilt? Did you invent your own pretend tartan as well?

Implying very very hard that it's somehow more OK when Scots wear kilts and that there's such a thing as a non-pretend tartan. I said that it's no more bollocks for yanks to do it now than it was for jocks to do it 200 years ago.

"Scotland is not really like one big episode of The White Heather club"? Don't tell me, tell Visit Scotland whose front page currently looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/dug6e.jpg

I've never worn one, but I'm fascinated by kilts and always hoped they would come into style whether you were a Scott or not. I don't really care about the tartan patterns, it's just men in skirts kind of do it for me. But then I am a gay dude.

[Pitchguest]

Illuminata over at Black Skeptics responds to my post about how Sikivu is fucking insane and responds to it simply by adding,

Translation: my white male privilege disagrees with your facts, therefore you're wrong!

So I wrote this in response. Screenshotted and put here in case it gets memoryholed,

Link to article and comment: http://freethoughtblogs.com/blackskepti ... ment-10054

Bit surprised that her post doesn't even have 20 comments, there can't be many people that pay her blog much attention? Since your original post went through, it doesn't seem like there are any kind of draconian pre-moderation...

Still, kudos to you for taking the time to respond to the FTBers and others, like Lee, on their own turf. Personally I just CBA spending time and energy with trying to have a proper discussion with anyone that has moderator powers and has shown to be dishonest enough to use them when their arguments fail. So I simply stay away from FTB, even though some of the stupid they post makes my fingers itch.

Her lack of readership is probably the only reason why she can write the filth she does and not get called on it.

Honestly. I'm still stunned about it. "Violent masculinity at the heart of whiteness." Jesus fucking Christ.

[Jan Steen]

Oh, seems Sick-fu has done a Prune and deleted your post, Pitchguest.

Pitchguest clearly neglected to check his white male privilege. Sickifoo did the only thing she could do under the circumstances. You can't blame her. If you enter a mosque you take your shoes off; if you enter FTB you check your privilege. What was he thinking?

[CommanderTuvok]

Good to see Queen Bee getting called out over her silly comments again. Keep this up, folks.

The more PZ and Rebecca are discredited, the more the entire Baboon movement is discredited.

[CommanderTuvok]

By Baboons standards, PZ and Rebecca have now seemingly admitted they are racist, potential rapists, and now actual rapists.

Since Rebecca has probably had sex with someone who has had a couple of beers, that makers her a rapist!!!

Rapist Rebecca. It's the perfect fit.

[BarnOwl]

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p60 ... 218b45.png

[CommanderTuvok]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/ ... 120906.jpg

Who would have thought the Baboons would have had so many racists and rapists amongst them...

[welch]

I have to say, I didn't know Watson was such an ardent follower of Dvorak.

You do realize that 90% of the people here are going to think you're talking about a keyboard?

Oh, I know. That's the fun part.

[KiwiInOz]

I have to say, I didn't know Watson was such an ardent follower of Dvorak.

You do realize that 90% of the people here are going to think you're talking about a keyboard?

Oh, I know. That's the fun part.

I immediately thought of the composer. I am the 10%.

[papillon]

Who would have thought the Baboons would have had so many racists and rapists amongst them...

http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu11 ... 3493b6.jpg