Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Za-zen »

@Skepticstu found a gem, i remember it being mentioned here at a time, though can't remember what his supposed transgression against the ideologues was.

DrChristian, a tv personality in the Uk, and an MD is on the block list.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Tony Parsehole wrote:READ THIS YOU FUCKERS READ THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23533566

IT'S KICKING OFF NOW OOLON YOU CUNT!!

Well, maybe if they'd been actual journalists about this, they'd not be having this problem.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Satan »

Use the BBC formal complaints process instead of tweeting at Mason personally:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

He'll get in hotter water much faster if people make noise there.



Twitter is difficult to contact but they do have a known postal address, which might be the appropriate venue to complain about the blockbot's abuse of the twitter spam reporting system:

https://twitter.com/about/contact

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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katamari Damassi wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:That was a LOL, btw.
No worries. I took it in the spirit it was given.
After I made my post I was concerned that people might think I was fishing for complements.
Whaddya, fishing for insults now? It's 'compliments', fucktard!

(also a LOL)

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
Jan Steen wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:BBC are doing a story about the complaints received over the BlockBot.
I couldn't laugh harder.
Oolon, you are going to be exposed for the dishonest, lying cunt that we have always known you are and the only thing making me feel the slightest bit sorry for you is the fact that you have a wife and kid.
If oolon isn't a complete idiot and thinks about his family, he will pull the plug on the Block Bot and apologise profusely to everyone who was on it. And then lie awake at night, hoping that nobody will sue him.
Any sane person would have already shut the cunting thing down but this is Oolon we're talking about here.
I'm honestly surprised he hasn't said "LOOOOOOOL I TROLL U!" and acted as if it was all a big joke that's worked out exactly as planned.....Like the time he admitted downloading kiddy porn.
Even the BBC dips are admitting that the three tier bullshit is just that. Once you're on the bot list, no one is going to say "well, he's only a level three asshole, so he's probably not all that bad." Bullshit. Oh, and the fact that they are now starting to complain that "guilt by association is bad logic" i.e. "but you're LEVEL THREE! THAT'S NOT THE SAME!" is hilarious.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Tony Parsehole »

Satan wrote:Use the BBC formal complaints process instead of tweeting at Mason personally:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

He'll get in hotter water much faster if people make noise there.



Twitter is difficult to contact but they do have a known postal address, which might be the appropriate venue to complain about the blockbot's abuse of the twitter spam reporting system:

https://twitter.com/about/contact
Good one. I left my complaint this morning. Forgot to post linky here.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by welch »

Spence wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:READ THIS YOU FUCKERS READ THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23533566

IT'S KICKING OFF NOW OOLON YOU CUNT!!
Wow, that's more than I expected out of the BBC. When Phil Mason started blocking people who were bringing this problem to his attention, I thought they were just bunkering down to ride it out.

The one thing Mason seems to be nervous about was the possibility that being placed on level 3 was itself a form of harrassment, and he was promoting it. That is a different take to the straightforward defamation issue and an interesting angle.

I still think the BBC will use this to deflect criticism, but it raises an interesting possibility. If the BBC are distancing themselves from it, there is likely to be a good reason for it.

He also points out that he only looked at the level one list in any detail.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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bovarchist wrote:Just checked, and yup I'm on the blockbot. Does anybody know how to check what level I'm on? And what was the reporter's email, I'd like to add my voice to the mix.
http://www.theblockbot.com/?page_id=35 has the entire thing broken down by level.

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bovarchist wrote:Just checked, and yup I'm on the blockbot. Does anybody know how to check what level I'm on? And what was the reporter's email, I'd like to add my voice to the mix.
Previously his list on the website made no distinction. But now that he has seperated it out, you appear to be at level 2 if you twitter account is zenbabesque.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Angry_Drunk »

Aw how cute. Turd doesn't have my actual twitter account in his stupid list. He has my joke/test account that hasn't posted a non-test tweet since October 2011. Since I know you're lurking Turd, know that you are a failure at life.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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deLurch wrote:
bovarchist wrote:Just checked, and yup I'm on the blockbot. Does anybody know how to check what level I'm on? And what was the reporter's email, I'd like to add my voice to the mix.
Previously his list on the website made no distinction. But now that he has seperated it out, you appear to be at level 2 if you twitter account is zenbabesque.
Nope, it's impossiblebones, but that too is at level 2.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Angry_Drunk »

In all seriousness though, the fact that Turd has my fake account in his list just goes to prove the lie that he spins about how people get on that list. The only, and I mean only way that account could have been flagged is because Welch follows it.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Trophy »

welch wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:READ THIS YOU FUCKERS READ THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23533566

IT'S KICKING OFF NOW OOLON YOU CUNT!!

Well, maybe if they'd been actual journalists about this, they'd not be having this problem.
One line still cracks me up though: "We looked at one technology that does that last night ...", gosh I can't stop laughing. It's so advanced it might as well be magic! :lol:

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by bovarchist »

Never mind, found it myself: paul.mason.01@bbc.co.uk

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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bovarchist wrote:Never mind, found it myself: paul.mason.01@bbc.co.uk
Given his skills to date, I would cc his editor. The same goes to skeptical as this guy evidently can't hear all of the nasty misogynistic women on twitter that he has blocked.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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welch wrote:
Spence wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:READ THIS YOU FUCKERS READ THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23533566

IT'S KICKING OFF NOW OOLON YOU CUNT!!
Wow, that's more than I expected out of the BBC. When Phil Mason started blocking people who were bringing this problem to his attention, I thought they were just bunkering down to ride it out.

The one thing Mason seems to be nervous about was the possibility that being placed on level 3 was itself a form of harrassment, and he was promoting it. That is a different take to the straightforward defamation issue and an interesting angle.

I still think the BBC will use this to deflect criticism, but it raises an interesting possibility. If the BBC are distancing themselves from it, there is likely to be a good reason for it.

He also points out that he only looked at the level one list in any detail.
Yeah Mason is covering his rear end as best he can at the moment. But it looks like he is willing to throw colon under the bus while doing it, which is fine by me. He has gone some way to admitting on TV that colon's block bot can be used as a form of harrassment, and in practice we know that it has been used to harrass women atheists and sceptics.

To those who are considering defamation suits. If you can find the original tweet where colon added you to the block bot, that is worth capturing and storing. Because he can't use the group libel defence for that specific tweet.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Spence wrote:

To those who are considering defamation suits. If you can find the original tweet where colon added you to the block bot, that is worth capturing and storing. Because he can't use the group libel defence for that specific tweet.
Sorry but using a group libel defense is weak. You can't say "the people on this list I have publicised are ...". You are naming them individually. You might get away with saying Scientology is horseshit, or Scientologists are wankers.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Aneris »

I found the Paul Mason likeable, he seemed to have an interest in bringing in some perspective. Good for him. I would also not put all blame on oolon either. He is the useful idiot there, while PZ Myers, Zvan, Watson et al laugh up their sleeves. It is a typical case where an ideology begins innocent enough and is then escalated by cheers of encouragement until several lines are crossed.

The issue was like that way before and it did not change substantially. Perhaps agitated by real trolls, harassers and the like (most charitable interpretation), the A+ Crowd around PZ Myers, Zvan, Watson and Co. increasingly began to see even small disagreement as stark opposition to their views. Any nuance went out of the window. On the their heyday, slightly disagreeing on their sites was almost seen as sending a personally written death threat to Rebecca Watson or being in league with rapists. It would make a good case study for the raise of the banality of evil (if you get the reference, no, I don't think it's over the top). Ironically, Oolon's three levels are, in comparison, almost an improvement.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by bovarchist »

Brief email sent:
Dear Mr. Mason

I understand you have already received several complaints from people who object to being lumped together with abusers and stalkers in your recent NewsNight story. I would like to add myself to their number.

My Twitter account is @impossiblebones, and to my surprise I find that I am also on the BlockBot. I say surprise, because until I heard about your story from friends, I'd never even heard of the BlockBot.

I'd heard of Billingham though, or "oolon" as he's known on the Internet. And I have to say...he fits the description of "annoying troll" far more than I do. He seems to show up on every forum and message board imaginable, obnoxiously and aggressively sniping at anybody he doesn't agree with, often with extreme self-righteousness. Many in my personal circle have had their experiences with him, and the general view is that he's a rather odd duck...one who seems to literally divide the world into the "doctrinally pure", and "enemies of the party".

As for me, I don't believe I've personally exchanged more than ten messages with the man; and as far as abusiveness goes, my recollection is that I argued at the level he chose. It didn't take much more than those ten exchanges for me to conclude that he was not worth arguing with, and I've ignored him ever since. So you can imagine that it's surprising to find that this was enough for me to be added to his "list of abusers". As a Level 2 no less!

I'm sorry to say it, but you folks at the BBC got this wrong. I know many of the people on this list, even some of the dreaded Level 1's, and I'm afraid it does them a disservice to label them as...well, as anything really, other than people that Billingham doesn't like and doesn't want to hear from. The BlockBot is really nothing more than that; a way for Billingham and his friends to insulate themselves from people they don't agree with.

I hope that you will investigate further, and establish the truth of this for yourself.

Yours,
Steve Vanden-Eykel, non-womanhater, non-abuser, non-stalker, only mildly annoying
@impossiblebones

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Angry_Drunk wrote:In all seriousness though, the fact that Turd has my fake account in his list just goes to prove the lie that he spins about how people get on that list. The only, and I mean only way that account could have been flagged is because Welch follows it.

BAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

OMFG, that's beautiful. I'd forgotten about that one.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by free thoughtpolice »

Oolon comments on Svan's thread;

Ahem, the @hashspamkiller +1/2/3/4/5 would be one such implementation that uses the block list. Also explains why a lot of people made the “annoying” level. Retweeting ElevatorGATE and uberfeminist is no crime, except to reason, but it pisses me off when I’m trying to keep their crap off the spam killer. So apologies if you are on the L3 list due to that… Well I’m not that sorry actually as it only says you are “mostly just annoying” :-) Sue me!
See! Brave oolon doesn't mind remortgaging his house to pay for legal fees and settlement costs! I'm sure his wife completely supports him, after all she was stupid enough to marry him.

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This is truly beautiful to behold.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Phil_Giordana_FCD »

Jan Steen wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Yep, still going to sue him. And the BBC. My fucking real name is out there, as "abuser, misogynist, racist, homophobic". Not going to pass.
If I were in your place I would first send oolon a letter, demanding that your name be taken off the list immediately. If he doesn't comply with that request you are in a better position should you actually sue him.
Yes, that will be the first step. Letter already in the making. I believe they call it a "Cease and Desist" request. I'm just not the only one who has been named on that shit-list, so I will probably talk further with others concerned (we have an ongoing talk on FB already).

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Spence »

Wonky Donkey wrote:
Spence wrote:

To those who are considering defamation suits. If you can find the original tweet where colon added you to the block bot, that is worth capturing and storing. Because he can't use the group libel defence for that specific tweet.
Sorry but using a group libel defense is weak. You can't say "the people on this list I have publicised are ...". You are naming them individually. You might get away with saying Scientology is horseshit, or Scientologists are wankers.
The fact is that it is a defence. My opinion and your opinion on whether it is a "weak" defence is neither here nor there; only the judges opinion really matters here. And since we don't know that here and now, gathering evidence in advance that can counter such a line of defence might be considered a good strategy.

Just sayin'.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by decius »

welch wrote:
Angry_Drunk wrote:In all seriousness though, the fact that Turd has my fake account in his list just goes to prove the lie that he spins about how people get on that list. The only, and I mean only way that account could have been flagged is because Welch follows it.

BAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

OMFG, that's beautiful. I'd forgotten about that one.

Well, I can't really blame him from that. I was forced to block myself, after being followed by Welch.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Cunning Punt wrote:
Gefan wrote:
Steersman wrote: ...Somewhat along the same line, you might be interested in this post by Miri over on Brute Reason on the topic of “How Do I Get My Partner To Try Polyamory?” She certainly seems to get around, in more ways than one.
Steers, can you elaborate a bit on that last sentence? To me, it reads like disapproval of her personal lifestyle choices (I read the linked article and thought it sounded pretty reasonable).
Gefan just asked Steersman to "elaborate". Does everyone realize what a ground-breaking occasion this is?
:lol: And everyone lived to tell the tale too!

But it was late – while I thought it a good question, or at least one that put me on the spot a bit, I didn’t have the time to do it justice. I promise to rectify that deficiency the next time the occasion presents itself. ;-)

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Post by Matt Cavanaugh »

katamari Damassi wrote:After I made my post I was concerned that people might think I was fishing for complements.
Well you're SOL on that from this lot, buckaroo.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Za-zen wrote:@Skepticstu found a gem, i remember it being mentioned here at a time, though can't remember what his supposed transgression against the ideologues was.

DrChristian, a tv personality in the Uk, and an MD is on the block list.
Yep, just seen that. Here's a typical tweet from the scumbag:

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Phil_Giordana_FCD »

Tony Parsehole wrote:READ THIS YOU FUCKERS READ THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23533566

IT'S KICKING OFF NOW OOLON YOU CUNT!!
Ok, still an "abuser". Well, that's gonna get funny.

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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dogen wrote:
deLurch wrote: He actually has a family... as in someone married him?
Well... 'married' as in his parents probably kidnapped some poor lass and heaved her down the cellar stairs...
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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Spence wrote:
Wonky Donkey wrote:
Sorry but using a group libel defense is weak. You can't say "the people on this list I have publicised are ...". You are naming them individually. You might get away with saying Scientology is horseshit, or Scientologists are wankers.
The fact is that it is a defence. My opinion and your opinion on whether it is a "weak" defence is neither here nor there; only the judges opinion really matters here.
It is a defence that would be hard to apply. Otherwise you could libel, so long as you were lazy.


list a:
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list a all raped children!

"Sorry m'lud, but you can't libel a group."

The calumny has already been applied to the list of names.

Ignoring for the moment it would be up to Oolon to prove his case that the libel was in fact true and not the other way around if you are going to speculate on weaknesses in potential cases brought against Oolon as some kind of locker room prep then the first point you'd need to address from the defense is that it took you so long to challenge it, why now. Of course, there is an argument there - going to the BBC gave it a legitimate platform and whilst it was used as a tool to self isolate a cult it was not injurious to your reputation.

Then you have to consider whether your anonymity was breached, whether there was any actual reputational damage to get an idea of the scale of the victory after costs you might get.

You can play armchair lawyer all day, which is why Oolon needs to go talk to a lawyer as soon as possible and those thinking of bringing claims to court rather than just threatening it and achieving an easier end goal should do the same. Then you have to divide the opinion you get of success by six at least because your lawyer gets paid no matter what.

Heck, we might as well all just shut up, because until a judge makes a ruling nothing we say means anything. Right? ;)
And since we don't know that here and now, gathering evidence in advance that can counter such a line of defence might be considered a good strategy.

Just sayin'.
That I agree with.

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Post by decius »

Spence knows his shit, but perhaps those whose nyms appeared briefly on screen, while the awesome feature of the failbot were being described, have a stronger case for libel.

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Post by decius »

Didn't Simon Singh get nearly bankrupted, just by having to defend himself in a libel case that was eventually dismissed?

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Steersman »

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote:READ THIS YOU FUCKERS READ THIS NOW!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23533566

IT'S KICKING OFF NOW OOLON YOU CUNT!!
Ok, still an "abuser". Well, that's gonna get funny.
From the Block-Bot page:
→ Level 2 blocking: these are the abusive subset of anti-feminists, MRAs, or all-round assholes who think nothing of tweeting their much loved photoshopped pictures, memes and other wonderful media directly into your timeline to get attention (Listen to Meee!!1!).
You an “abusive anti-feminist”? An “abusive MRA”? An “abusive asshole [given to] tweeting … photoshopped pictures”? I don’t see any other alternatives there.

Seems to me that those on level 2 have the best argument for libel.

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Post by dogen »

decius wrote:Didn't Simon Singh get nearly bankrupted, just by having to defend himself in a libel case that was eventually dismissed?
Yes, he did. He (quite rightly) commented that chiropractic is a load of bollocks, and got sued.

In this maelstrom of roosting chickens, let's not lose sight of the fact that the UK libel laws are in desperate need of reform.

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Post by zenbabe »

deLurch wrote:
bovarchist wrote:Just checked, and yup I'm on the blockbot. Does anybody know how to check what level I'm on? And what was the reporter's email, I'd like to add my voice to the mix.
Previously his list on the website made no distinction. But now that he has seperated it out, you appear to be at level 2 if you twitter account is zenbabesque.
^ that's me, btw. @zenbabesque.

Was wondering how people knew what level they were before he changed it.

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Post by Tony Parsehole »

another lurker wrote:This is truly beautiful to behold.
http://cdn2.planetminecraft.com/files/r ... 56_lrg.jpg

BTW, you can always tell when Oolon's hands are shaking in fear when he starts abusing "smileys".

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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Post by Spence »

@Wonky Donkey you make a fair case, and I would stress that all bets are off once you get into a courtroom, anything could happen - so either of our perspectives could well be right. People shouldn't take my advice too seriously, but any mitigation is worthwhile.

On twitter, I found I could search - including quotes - for "@The_Block_Bot #block" and it listed all of the recent blocks, but not anything much beyond a few months ago. Although I have The_Block_Bot on block so it wouldn't show any colon posted from the bot itself. For the most recent ones - e.g, a search for

"@The_Block_Bot #block" +fieryskulldiary

finds the tweet that was used to make that block. But I couldn't find many older ones from here :-( Do you know if colon has changed the method for adding names, or does twitter just not search back very far?

Mind you I thought Phil Mason might be interested in this little exchange. Sheds a bit of light on the type of person Bile-ingham is:

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Re: Shall Mr Vacula Make a Misstep in the Capital of Eire?

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welch wrote:
bovarchist wrote:Just checked, and yup I'm on the blockbot. Does anybody know how to check what level I'm on? And what was the reporter's email, I'd like to add my voice to the mix.
http://www.theblockbot.com/?page_id=35 has the entire thing broken down by level.
Wow. My twitter account, that I've made 11 tweets on and have barely touched in the 2 years I've had it, is on level 3. Presumably because I accidentally hit 'retweet' on something Blackford wrote about denouncing Myers. Clearly doesn't take much to be labelled as 'annoying' and blocked by a fair few people.

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Ape+lust wrote:
Wasn't this guy a talking head in Fallout 1?

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dogen wrote:
decius wrote:Didn't Simon Singh get nearly bankrupted, just by having to defend himself in a libel case that was eventually dismissed?
Yes, he did. He (quite rightly) commented that chiropractic is a load of bollocks, and got sued.

In this maelstrom of roosting chickens, let's not lose sight of the fact that the UK libel laws are in desperate need of reform.
They can reform into a marching brass band for all I care as long as they do it after Oolon's had his day in court.

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The truly astonishing thing about Oolon's latest and (thus far) greatest attempt at self-immolation is that, a few days prior to this The Pit was tearing itself apart and Lsuoma had even gone so far as to temporarily shut down the joint.
Zvan et al are slobbering all over the man who single-handedly revived and (to the extent that such athing is possible) unified the community of their worst enemies.
Yo, Stephalump! You appear to have lost the plot again.

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o/t * -- For those of you who just didn't get enough of the George Zimmerman controversy, an analysis of crime stats by race:

http://trueliberalnexus.wordpress.com/2 ... -and-lies/


* (is it even possible to be o/t on the Undead Thread?)

Now, back to our live coverage of oolon's self-immolation. hehe.

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Before:

http://www.oolon.co.uk/?page_id=69
Hello, I'm oolon, otherwise known as James Billingham. I live in Longparish in the UK, it's a lovely village in the Test Valley and I spend my days with my family playing tennis and messing about with computers when not arguing with people on the internet.
I also don't understand mod_rewrite and can't configure a database to save my life.

After:
http://www.oolon.co.uk/?page_id=69
Error establishing a database connection

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Spence wrote: Mind you I thought Phil Mason might be interested in this little exchange. Sheds a bit of light on the type of person Bile-ingham is:
Jesus fuck. The plot thickens. Oolon put a well liked celebrity doctor on the block list, without his knowledge, for the crime of being boring, and then went on telly to claim the list was for blocking abusers and harassers.
Looks like Oolon is in for some sleepless nights. Maybe his lass should ban him from the internet.

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Tony Parsehole wrote:I can actually feel and taste the Schadenfreude in my mouth. It's rich and sweet like a toasted marshmallow.

Lsuoma, I cannot believe you are missing this.
I'm lurking, smiling quietly...

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If this is the guy,

https://twitter.com/spoolon

I believe I know him from nearly 9+ years ago.

Its a small world.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:o/t -- For those of you who just didn't get enough of the George Zimmerman controversy, an analysis of crime stats by race: http://trueliberalnexus.wordpress.com/2 ... -and-lies/
Is race-bating a pun or a typo?

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Gefan wrote:The truly astonishing thing about Oolon's latest and (thus far) greatest attempt at self-immolation is that, a few days prior to this The Pit was tearing itself apart and Lsuoma had even gone so far as to temporarily shut down the joint.
Zvan et al are slobbering all over the man who single-handedly revived and (to the extent that such athing is possible) unified the community of their worst enemies.
Yo, Stephalump! You appear to have lost the plot again.
Oolon is Doctor Manhattan! Sacrificing himself so we all get along!

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Tony Parsehole wrote: Oolon is Doctor Manhattan! Sacrificing himself so we all get along!
As long as we don't have to eat his body and drink his blood, I'm fine with it.

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Now he's directing Twitter folk to the A+ forum! Ye gods this is too good. The more people that see that place the better.

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Also, maybe Thunderf00t could weigh in on how he publicly forced PCS/VenomFangX to tear himself a new one...

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decius wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: Oolon is Doctor Manhattan! Sacrificing himself so we all get along!
As long as we don't have to eat his body and drink his blood, I'm fine with it.
We could use the grease in his hair to fry chips though.

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Love the new Pit Tagline. My thoughts exactly.

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Lsuoma wrote:Also, maybe Thunderf00t could weigh in on how he publicly forced PCS/VenomFangX to tear himself a new one...
You still on holiday mate?

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So apparently, this thread: http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=346

is being talked about in a few places. I noticed a link on Twitter condemning it as well as this status from Facebook:

http://atheiststoday.com/images/dw_adam ... kslyme.jpg

There are more comments, just couldn't be bothered to make another cap:

I post here and never knew this thread existed until I ran across the status update, yet I'm defending and supporting it. /shrug.

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
decius wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: Oolon is Doctor Manhattan! Sacrificing himself so we all get along!
As long as we don't have to eat his body and drink his blood, I'm fine with it.
We could use the grease in his hair to fry chips though.
Indeed; Oolon covers both definitions of the word oleaginous.

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welch wrote:
bovarchist wrote:Just checked, and yup I'm on the blockbot. Does anybody know how to check what level I'm on? And what was the reporter's email, I'd like to add my voice to the mix.
http://www.theblockbot.com/?page_id=35 has the entire thing broken down by level.
I think that Oolon would have a problem defending most of those on level 1. Thunderfoot? He may have sexist tendancies but he isn't what I call a serial harrasser or misogynist.

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Tony Parsehole wrote:
Spence wrote: Jesus fuck. The plot thickens. Oolon put a well liked celebrity doctor on the block list, without his knowledge, for the crime of being boring, and then went on telly to claim the list was for blocking abusers and harassers.
Looks like Oolon is in for some sleepless nights. Maybe his lass should ban him from the internet.
"Boring" has been used as an excuse quite often. Boring is code for either "I don't want to be sued for slandering you" or "My real reason is too weak or damaging to myself to want to have to justify it, but you are still on the fucking list."

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decius wrote:
Tony Parsehole wrote: Oolon is Doctor Manhattan! Sacrificing himself so we all get along!
As long as we don't have to eat his body and drink his blood, I'm fine with it.
Damn vegans ruin all of my fun.

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