Periodic Table of Swearing

[codelette]

What? McBoob has a "happy army"? I thought it was Reed the one with those crazy tendencies.

Nope, it was McBoobie quite a while back, like maybe half a year ago. I can't find the article or picture any more. She may have taken it down after it got laughed at. She said she goes to them when she needs cheering up.

The picture showed, arranged in a semi-circle and facing her, a bunch of toys/dolls, creatures and characters, both fuzzy things and superheroes, short toys in front, and taller (Barbie sized) dolls and creatures in back. Maybe 30 or 40 in total. I mean what does she do? Talk to them? "I want to be like YOU someday, WonderWoman" or "you, my magical friends and creatures will hunt down and kill people I don't like in the following daydream...."

Arrgh! When I see an adult woman decorate her own place with stuffed animals and children's toy dolls, and there's no kids there as an excuse for it, I nearly run away screaming.

For real? Lol. Reed wrote basically the same reason to having a plethora of toys arranged in a similar config. Maybe the suffer from a contagious disease. Stupidity. Google for Screed and her "army of happy". Pretty sure there's a blog entry with pic and all.

[Scented Nectar]

What? McBoob has a "happy army"? I thought it was Reed the one with those crazy tendencies.

Nope, it was McBoobie quite a while back, like maybe half a year ago. I can't find the article or picture any more. She may have taken it down after it got laughed at. She said she goes to them when she needs cheering up.

The picture showed, arranged in a semi-circle and facing her, a bunch of toys/dolls, creatures and characters, both fuzzy things and superheroes, short toys in front, and taller (Barbie sized) dolls and creatures in back. Maybe 30 or 40 in total. I mean what does she do? Talk to them? "I want to be like YOU someday, WonderWoman" or "you, my magical friends and creatures will hunt down and kill people I don't like in the following daydream...."

Arrgh! When I see an adult woman decorate her own place with stuffed animals and children's toy dolls, and there's no kids there as an excuse for it, I nearly run away screaming.

For real? Lol. Reed wrote basically the same reason to having a plethora of toys arranged in a similar config. Maybe the suffer from a contagious disease. Stupidity. Google for Screed and her "army of happy". Pretty sure there's a blog entry with pic and all.

Oh shit, I hope I didn't get them mixed up. My memory is not the greatest, but I thought it was McWrong. I'll go google and look for it.

[bhoytony]

Oh shit, I hope I didn't get them mixed up. My memory is not the greatest, but I thought it was McWrong. I'll go google and look for it.

McWrong definitely had the Happy Army. Sounds like Natalie had one too. Maybe she likes to show how "girly" she is.

[Scented Nectar]

Holy crap! It was Natalie, not Jenny. Jenny was only the bookshelf one.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed ... 19th-hour/

My apologies Jenny, if you're reading this. The insane Happy Army was by Natalie!!!

[Scented Nectar]

Oh shit, I hope I didn't get them mixed up. My memory is not the greatest, but I thought it was McWrong. I'll go google and look for it.

McWrong definitely had the Happy Army. Sounds like Natalie had one too. Maybe she likes to show how "girly" she is.

What? You mean I don't have dementia yet as I thought? Jennygirl's Happy Army caught on and spread? Egads! Is Abbie working on a cure yet?

[Tony Parsehole]

The problem with mockery is that as they are all POE-ready, staying ahead of the curve of their own self-parody is a pain in the ass.

You're not kidding, although I did manage to advocate deliberately triggering someone with a seashell.

So many questions are raised from reading those screenshots.
Interloper is one funny mofo though. How the fuck is s/he allowed to post with that sig though?

[Saint N.]

More from Justicar on Dillahunty and A+theism.

[Tony Parsehole]

Just realised interloper is you Papillon. Well done!

[Rystefn]

I can't say too much about the toys. I have a literal army of toy soldiers on my desk.

[Tony Parsehole]

Same here. Lots of skaven.

[Rystefn]

Yeah, I can field a ten thousand point Skaven army if I wanted to. Maybe more, it's been a while since I added it all up.

[cunt]

Holy crap! It was Natalie, not Jenny. Jenny was only the bookshelf one.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed ... 19th-hour/

My apologies Jenny, if you're reading this. The insane Happy Army was by Natalie!!!

I just want to go over to it and swipe them all off with my forearm.

[papillon]

How the fuck is s/he allowed to post with that sig though?

I was surprised too, but surely even they can recognise a genuinely funny foot-in-mouth moment.
It was the grandiose way Fllewelyn delivered it that I loved.

[Mykeru]

Having it out with some bozos at Rebecca Watson at HFA 2012 conference http://goo.gl/xxkGq and would like a link to Rebecca's hundreds and thousands of rape threats from the atheist community, including PROMINENT atheists.

I assume by now they would be archived on the internet and searchable by category.

Right?





Hello?

[cunt]

How the fuck is s/he allowed to post with that sig though?

I was surprised too, but surely even they can recognise a genuinely funny foot-in-mouth moment.
It was the grandiose way Fllewelyn delivered it that I loved.

Agreed. He actually went back to make that as grandiose as he could. His initial, less funny but more concise response was:

[JackRayner]

Had that "Rebecca Watson at HFA 2012 conference" video playing in the background. Eight minutes in and I thought "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"

I'm gonna go find some new music to listen to instead...

By the way, the lady that did the intro for her? Creeps me out. I think it's great and all that she started a non-religious alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous, [if 12-stepping does indeed work...] but every time I hear her speak it makes me wonder if she really is keeping sober. Also...she's got a bit of a, um, troubled history with the law here in Florida.

[Tony Parsehole]

How the fuck is s/he allowed to post with that sig though?

I was surprised too, but surely even they can recognise a genuinely funny foot-in-mouth moment.
It was the grandiose way Fllewelyn delivered it that I loved.

Agreed. He actually went back to make that as grandiose as he could. His initial, less funny but more concise response was:

In a way that single, solitary word, said with the finality of a tombstone falling into place over a grave, is even more laden with hubris than the replacement comment.

[Mykeru]

Had that "Rebecca Watson at HFA 2012 conference" video playing in the background. Eight minutes in and I thought "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"

I'm gonna go find some new music to listen to instead...

By the way, the lady that did the intro for her? Creeps me out. I think it's great and all that she started a non-religious alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous, [if 12-stepping does indeed work...] but every time I hear her speak it makes me wonder if she really is keeping sober. Also...she's got a bit of a, um, troubled history with the law here in Florida.

Check out The Orange Papers: http://www.orange-papers.org/. The short answer: Not only does Alcoholic's Anonymous's God/Not God program of learned helplessness and double think not work, but it's actually worse than doing nothing. More alcoholics get a grjip on their own. AA tends to fuck with recovery and when an AAer relapses, they do it hard.

Lady is a 12 stepper? The way she laid into me, makes sense.

[ReneeHendricks]

Had that "Rebecca Watson at HFA 2012 conference" video playing in the background. Eight minutes in and I thought "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"

I'm gonna go find some new music to listen to instead...

By the way, the lady that did the intro for her? Creeps me out. I think it's great and all that she started a non-religious alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous, [if 12-stepping does indeed work...] but every time I hear her speak it makes me wonder if she really is keeping sober. Also...she's got a bit of a, um, troubled history with the law here in Florida.

Threaded the vid, watched up until Rebecca took the podium and opened her mouth - suddenly, I was off watching My Drunk Kitchen. The later has more substance and real-life applications

[Guest]

Re: PZ's latest post, "They’re coming to get your kids…" - are there any other atheists out there who seriously have no problem with what these groups are doing? I mean, it's unfortunate that children may be indoctrinated, but if those running these groups are within their legal rights then I have no issue with it. It's atheism like this which is the reason I call myself "not religious" as opposed to an "atheist". I mean, what kind of sentence is, "Clearly, we need a better strategy for coping with these cultish freaks"? I find that just unpleasant, and more a reflection of the character of the person saying it than anything else.

I may be in the minority. It might also be due to the fact that I am surrounded by many religious people in my life, who even with views I consider flawed, are far kinder, caring and sincere than many of those who post over at FTB.

[codelette]

Had that "Rebecca Watson at HFA 2012 conference" video playing in the background. Eight minutes in and I thought "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"

I'm gonna go find some new music to listen to instead...

By the way, the lady that did the intro for her? Creeps me out. I think it's great and all that she started a non-religious alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous, [if 12-stepping does indeed work...] but every time I hear her speak it makes me wonder if she really is keeping sober. Also...she's got a bit of a, um, troubled history with the law here in Florida.

http://www.polksheriff.org/inq/pages/in ... 011-005068

no wonder she said Becksters her hero. Both are fraudsters. Lol

[cunt]

More alcoholics get a grjip on their own. AA tends to fuck with recovery and when an AAer relapses, they do it hard.

Did they randomly turn up to take blood or is this the result of a survey? The thing that frustrates me about anti-AA people is their inability to understand that alcoholics lie about their current alcohol intake.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/397922/kindness-of-homeless-stranger-gives-sock-drive-founder-drive-to-give-back/

Athlete's Foot's heaven...

Sure, but unlike Jen this woman did something for the homeless.

Joke, bloody joke!

Do I have to put smileys everywhere?!?

[Tigzy]

Had that "Rebecca Watson at HFA 2012 conference" video playing in the background. Eight minutes in and I thought "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"

I'm gonna go find some new music to listen to instead...

By the way, the lady that did the intro for her? Creeps me out. I think it's great and all that she started a non-religious alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous, [if 12-stepping does indeed work...] but every time I hear her speak it makes me wonder if she really is keeping sober. Also...she's got a bit of a, um, troubled history with the law here in Florida.

http://www.polksheriff.org/inq/pages/in ... 011-005068

no wonder she said Becksters her hero. Both are fraudsters. Lol

In fairness to EllenBeth, the various charges she's been hauled up on look pretty trumped-up - especially as the people behind them are evangelical Xtians, and Lord knows how baboonish they can get: http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2011/07/was-ellenbeth-wachs-of-florida-arrested-for-being-an-atheist/

According to Reuters, Wachs first encountered Sheriff Judd in December, “when she filed several public-records requests to look into his decision to donate the Polk County jail’s basketball hoops and other equipment to local churches.” Wachs, a non-practicing lawyer, signed the request with the word “Esquire” after her name. That simple act caused Judd to dispatch what Wachs described as “about 20 paramilitary-garbed police” to arrest her on felony charges of illegally posing as a lawyer. Wach’s own attorney has said using “Esquire” doesn’t violate any bar rules.

And the other two arrests? One came in May, after Wachs allegedly tried to stop some neighbors from playing basketball outside her home by “moaning repeatedly in a sexual manner from an open window in her house, saying ‘Oh John,’ in a crescendo,” according to The New York Times. For that, officers arrested her on felony sex charges and conducted a search of her house, during which they took away a safe. The officers said they found marijuana in the safe, so they arrested Wachs a third time for marijuana possession. All three charges are still pending.

In a federal lawsuit filed against Polk County Sheriff Gracy Judd, who is an evangelical Christian,

Conservative religious leaders in Polk [County] say Wachs has it all wrong. Lynne Breidenbach, a Christian activist and media consultant for churches, says Wachs and other members of Atheists of Florida are the ones who are the cause of the ongoing problems. “This is a community of faith, and faith is very important to the people of Polk County, and if they (Wachs and other atheists) would like to live and work here as members of this community, they need to be more accommodating of us,” Breidenbach said.

[ReneeHendricks]

You know, disagreeing with people like Jennifer McCreight and Rebecca Watson is one thing. What this person - https://twitter.com/SammyBoal - is doing is quite another, fucking repugnant, and I hope he/she/it isn't hanging around here on The Slyme Pit. If he/she/it is, please speak up so I can ignore your vile crap now. Thanks

[Scented Nectar]

I just want to go over to it and swipe them all off with my forearm.

Uh oh, Happy Army can only fly in revenge daydreams. They will look better on the floor. Don't toddlers usually play with their toys and dolls on the floor anyways? They'll look less creepy there.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

You know, disagreeing with people like Jennifer McCreight and Rebecca Watson is one thing. What this person - https://twitter.com/SammyBoal - is doing is quite another, fucking repugnant, and I hope he/she/it isn't hanging around here on The Slyme Pit. If he/she/it is, please speak up so I can ignore your vile crap now. Thanks

Common internet troll (Webtrollus vulgaris), I'd say. Sure sounds bitter, or just plain idiotic.

[cunt]

I just want to go over to it and swipe them all off with my forearm.

Uh oh, Happy Army can only fly in revenge daydreams. They will look better on the floor. Don't toddlers usually play with their toys and dolls on the floor anyways? They'll look less creepy there.

Rather that than carefully arranged into the worlds most depressing trophy cabinet.

[Tigzy]

According to the Prune, Al Stefanelli has left FfTB! http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/10/metamorphoses-2/

[Tigzy]

Hmm. And Ophelia also wrote this:

Update: I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

I think Al's been Thunderf00ted for not toeing the party line.

[Scented Nectar]

You know, disagreeing with people like Jennifer McCreight and Rebecca Watson is one thing. What this person - https://twitter.com/SammyBoal - is doing is quite another, fucking repugnant, and I hope he/she/it isn't hanging around here on The Slyme Pit. If he/she/it is, please speak up so I can ignore your vile crap now. Thanks

I think it's a sock to make her disagreers look extra bullying, rapey, and stuff, so I just tweeted: "@SammyBoal @rebeccawatson @pzmyers Hey weirdo, why go after her for ridiculous stuff? I sense a sock made to make her disagreers look bad."

[Tony Parsehole]

According to the Prune, Al Stefanelli has left FfTB! http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/10/metamorphoses-2/

Fuck me! He didn't last long but I can't say I blame him.
These poor people who gleefully accept a blogspot on FTB only to realise a minute after their first post what a ravening pack of inbred hyenas the commentariat are.

[ReneeHendricks]

Hmm. And Ophelia also wrote this:

Update: I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

I think Al's been Thunderf00ted for not toeing the party line.

I also read Ophelia says "new people" are joining FfTB soon and we'll "be thrilled", she promises. Yeah, I don't think so.

[Outwest]

Has anyone here commented on the Natalie Reed tweet yesterday that descibed how A+ was setup. It was to Rhys-Morgan.

[Tigzy]

Hmm. And Ophelia also wrote this:

Update: I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

I think Al's been Thunderf00ted for not toeing the party line.

I also read Ophelia says "new people" are joining FfTB soon and we'll "be thrilled", she promises. Yeah, I don't think so.

Though I confess, if Amanda Marcotte and a resurgent Greg Laden are amongst them, I will - to quote GirlWritesWhat - shit myself with joy.

For all the right reasons, of course.

[ReneeHendricks]

You know, disagreeing with people like Jennifer McCreight and Rebecca Watson is one thing. What this person - https://twitter.com/SammyBoal - is doing is quite another, fucking repugnant, and I hope he/she/it isn't hanging around here on The Slyme Pit. If he/she/it is, please speak up so I can ignore your vile crap now. Thanks

I think it's a sock to make her disagreers look extra bullying, rapey, and stuff, so I just tweeted: "@SammyBoal @rebeccawatson @pzmyers Hey weirdo, why go after her for ridiculous stuff? I sense a sock made to make her disagreers look bad."

Saw that tweet (and subsequent responses). I'm not sure what @SammyBoal/AshleyF is hoping to accomplish. Even those who don't like Rebecca Watson and/or Jennifer McCreight are seeing the account as a disgusting little troll. I will *never* understand people like that.

[BarnOwl]

Hmm. And Ophelia also wrote this:

Update: I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

I think Al's been Thunderf00ted for not toeing the party line.

Comment #7 from Ophelia's post:

Aratina Cage says:
October 11, 2012 at 1:16 pm
On closer look, perhaps it isn’t sockpuppets on that thread but just a slimepit troll infestation. Some of the nyms make me suspicious of it, though.

I'm having second thoughts about leaving my laptop behind when I travel next week. Who knows what I'll miss?

Naaaahhh ... I'll be reviewing grants 10+ hours each day, so no way I'll have the energy to keep up with all the DRAMA!11!!! anyway.

[JackRayner]

Check out The Orange Papers: http://www.orange-papers.org/. The short answer: Not only does Alcoholic's Anonymous's God/Not God program of learned helplessness and double think not work, but it's actually worse than doing nothing. More alcoholics get a grjip on their own. AA tends to fuck with recovery and when an AAer relapses, they do it hard.

What I remember from watching a Penn & Teller episode on the subject is that the success rate for all of these, and for people quitting on their own, is 5 percent. Seems pretty abysmal.

The thing that frustrates me about anti-AA people is their inability to understand that alcoholics lie about their current alcohol intake.

I'm a little confused by this, Cunt. What did you mean by this? Are you for AA-type programs?

[Tony Parsehole]

Hmm. And Ophelia also wrote this:

Update: I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

I think Al's been Thunderf00ted for not toeing the party line.

I also read Ophelia says "new people" are joining FfTB soon and we'll "be thrilled", she promises. Yeah, I don't think so.

Though I confess, if Amanda Marcotte and a resurgent Greg Laden are amongst them, I will - to quote GirlWritesWhat - shit myself with joy.

For all the right reasons, of course.

Not even going to bother addresing the implications of hiring such a rabid misandrist as Marcotte but if Laden was ever allowed back onto FTB then there is no need whatsoever to point out hypocrisy within the FTB ranks ever again. They simply do not have the shame to care.

[cunt]

I was wondering throughout that podcast why the guy was still at FTB. It couldn't be the money and he sounds alright.

[JackRayner]

Has anyone here commented on the Natalie Reed tweet yesterday that descibed how A+ was setup. It was to Rhys-Morgan.

Got a link to it? Just scrolled back to about Oct 6th on her page and did a Ctrl+F and the results turn to zero before I even enter the "s" in "@rhysmorgan"...

[cunt]

The thing that frustrates me about anti-AA people is their inability to understand that alcoholics lie about their current alcohol intake.

I'm a little confused by this, Cunt. What did you mean by this? Are you for AA-type programs?

I grew up with AA. I'm for anything that gets alcoholics together and talking through their experiences.

[Outwest]

Has anyone here commented on the Natalie Reed tweet yesterday that descibed how A+ was setup. It was to Rhys-Morgan.

Got a link to it? Just scrolled back to about Oct 6th on her page and did a Ctrl+F and the results turn to zero before I even enter the "s" in "@rhysmorgan"...

I've been looking for it myself. Actually, it was a Storify from elevatorgate, and he tweeted it yesterday afternoon (my time - MST). Basically Natalie said when they were discussing what was to become A+ they first thought of the name, then a logo, then - get this - MERCHANDISING.

Sounds like it was a CON for the weak minded. Just wanted to make some cash, not really do anything. Sell junk-o-ramics, etc. to the sops that would jump onboard.

[JackRayner]

Has anyone here commented on the Natalie Reed tweet yesterday that descibed how A+ was setup. It was to Rhys-Morgan.

Got a link to it? Just scrolled back to about Oct 6th on her page and did a Ctrl+F and the results turn to zero before I even enter the "s" in "@rhysmorgan"...

Oops. I had this really weird thing where I read "Natalie Reed" but searched for "Amanda Marcotte" on Twitter instead. I have no idea how the fuck that happened, but disregard my last.

[Tigzy]

Not even going to bother addresing the implications of hiring such a rabid misandrist as Marcotte but if Laden was ever allowed back onto FTB then there is no need whatsoever to point out hypocrisy within the FTB ranks ever again. They simply do not have the shame to care.

To be honest, that one of them might be Amanda Marcotte is more the truimph of hope over reason on my may part. It doesn't seem likely, given that she's already blogging with that Pandagon thing, but she does have a lot of fans on FfTB.

Laden though - yeah, I could see it happening. Steffy's been fighting his corner constantly - often backed up by Thimbledoo - and with such pals on the inside, as it were, Laden's return to FfTB is always a possibility. And in a lot of ways, I can FCers accepting Laden back into the fold for no other reason than to say a big 'Fuck you!' to their detractors.

[JackRayner]

Has anyone here commented on the Natalie Reed tweet yesterday that descibed how A+ was setup. It was to Rhys-Morgan.

Got a link to it? Just scrolled back to about Oct 6th on her page and did a Ctrl+F and the results turn to zero before I even enter the "s" in "@rhysmorgan"...

I've been looking for it myself. Actually, it was a Storify from elevatorgate, and he tweeted it yesterday afternoon (my time - MST). Basically Natalie said when they were discussing what was to become A+ they first thought of the name, then a logo, then - get this - MERCHANDISING.

Sounds like it was a CON for the weak minded. Just wanted to make some cash, not really do anything. Sell junk-o-ramics, etc. to the sops that would jump onboard.

Here it is. Easier to find when you're looking at the correct person's page.

http://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status ... 1536650240

[Ape+lust]

Hmm. And Ophelia also wrote this:

Update: I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

I think Al's been Thunderf00ted for not toeing the party line.

If he got the boot, their timing couldn't be lousier. He just got done explaining FtB isn't a hivemind and that it's really hard to get axed. Oops.

[Outwest]

Has anyone here commented on the Natalie Reed tweet yesterday that descibed how A+ was setup. It was to Rhys-Morgan.

Got a link to it? Just scrolled back to about Oct 6th on her page and did a Ctrl+F and the results turn to zero before I even enter the "s" in "@rhysmorgan"...

Oops. I had this really weird thing where I read "Natalie Reed" but searched for "Amanda Marcotte" on Twitter instead. I have no idea how the fuck that happened, but disregard my last.

Is it that "thing" you have for Mandy?

[acathode]

I may be in the minority. It might also be due to the fact that I am surrounded by many religious people in my life, who even with views I consider flawed, are far kinder, caring and sincere than many of those who post over at FTB.

Living in Sweden, the amount of religious people I have to deal with IRL is less than I can count on one hand, but I frequent some Swedish sites with religious sub-forums where you can meet real, Swedish religious people (and a whole lot of atheists dogpiling them).

There I regularly speak with creationists and Muslims who want to stone all homosexuals in Sweden... and those guys come of as saner and more civil than a lot of the FTB commentators, or at least that was one of my first though the time when I first visited the FTB blogs, during the thunderf00t drama.

Didn't really take a lot to see through the FTBers after that demonstration of hate towards anyone who didn't follow the party line.

Hmm. And Ophelia also wrote this:

Update: I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

I think Al's been Thunderf00ted for not toeing the party line.

No kidding.
FTB defintion of freethinking: YOU ARE FREE TO THINK, what we tell you.

[decius]

Watson is now spinning her own crap into a state of manifest confabulation.

For example, we learn that professor Dawkins "mocked me and suggested that I have no right to ask the men of our community to respect women".
Compare to "You may recall that I related an incident in which I was propositioned, and I said, 'Guys, don’t do that.' Really, that’s what I said. I didn’t call for an end to sex. I didn’t accuse the man in my story of rape. I didn’t say all men are monsters. I said, 'Guys, don’t do that.'".

The already questionable interpretation of an invitation for coffee as a sexual proposition has now morphed into "women being disrespected by men", which - contra her original defence - demonises propositions at large and, by extension, casual sex in the community (perhaps Watson will grant approval on a case-by-case basis).

Secondly, the blogger Elevatorgate gets tarred and feathered as an "harasser" for the heinous crime of mocking her Holy Cunt, since I couldn't find in his blog anything that could remotely be misconstrued as harassment. He is therefore banned from attending events, and Watson allegedly gets put under active protection by humanists turned bodyguards.

Watson probably is referring to, and lying about, Sacha when she mentions a "threatening woman" being prevented from attending an event, later on.

Then I just stopped listening because I can take only so much barefaced lying. However, the ease with which she bullshits entire audiences is simply astounding.

[Gumby]

Jesus fucking Christ these people are an orchestra of kazoos.

That is offensive, sir! Offensive! How dare you use the word Kazoo as an insult. Don't you know it's insensitive to the people who can't afford your expensive "real" instruments!

Sorry. My slide whistle privilege was showing. My bad.

All right, I now officially want to commit suicide.

[Gumby]

You want sad? Give it a few years and pay a visit to a 40-something Rebecca Watson holding court in some hotel bar.

[Scented Nectar]

You know, disagreeing with people like Jennifer McCreight and Rebecca Watson is one thing. What this person - https://twitter.com/SammyBoal - is doing is quite another, fucking repugnant, and I hope he/she/it isn't hanging around here on The Slyme Pit. If he/she/it is, please speak up so I can ignore your vile crap now. Thanks

I think it's a sock to make her disagreers look extra bullying, rapey, and stuff, so I just tweeted: "@SammyBoal @rebeccawatson @pzmyers Hey weirdo, why go after her for ridiculous stuff? I sense a sock made to make her disagreers look bad."

Saw that tweet (and subsequent responses). I'm not sure what @SammyBoal/AshleyF is hoping to accomplish. Even those who don't like Rebecca Watson and/or Jennifer McCreight are seeing the account as a disgusting little troll. I will *never* understand people like that.

I think it's a sock run by one of them in order to have rapey threats (and slurs against women's freedom of sexuality) to show people and go waaaa. Which of course would be intentionally conflated by them all as coming from the Slimepit. We don't tend to be rapey or against women's and men's equal freedom of sexuality. They want to think we are though.

[real horrorshow]

You know, disagreeing with people like Jennifer McCreight and Rebecca Watson is one thing. What this person - https://twitter.com/SammyBoal - is doing is quite another, fucking repugnant, and I hope he/she/it isn't hanging around here on The Slyme Pit. If he/she/it is, please speak up so I can ignore your vile crap now. Thanks

I think it's a sock to make her disagreers look extra bullying, rapey, and stuff, so I just tweeted: "@SammyBoal @rebeccawatson @pzmyers Hey weirdo, why go after her for ridiculous stuff? I sense a sock made to make her disagreers look bad."

Saw that tweet (and subsequent responses). I'm not sure what @SammyBoal/AshleyF is hoping to accomplish. Even those who don't like Rebecca Watson and/or Jennifer McCreight are seeing the account as a disgusting little troll. I will *never* understand people like that.

Well, it's all a relief to me. I was so very tempted to create a TwittleTwat account last night and Twunt/Twerp something to Jen, but I looked at that stuff, and now I'm over it.

[Tony Parsehole]

You want sad? Give it a few years and pay a visit to a 40-something Rebecca Watson holding court in some hotel bar.

[Tigzy]

That one reminds me more of Steffy Zvan.

"Greg, what the fuck did you two just do together...?"

[Saint N.]

I am curious tough, if he's really been kicked out, why Al hasn't directly mentioned it on his twitter yet (don't tell me Ophelia is setting up a Poe for us). Going on the more likely assumption it's all true, in the linked Ophelia post on Al I think this sentence leaves little doubt about the fact that Al was booted for voicing a dissenting opinion,

I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

If he didn't know it was going to be his final post on FtB, then I can only infer that the removal is a one-sided decision. By coming out and saying this Ophelia is pretty much further legitimizing the claim that FtB is a dogmatic hivemind that doesn't allow dissent (like we needed more convincing, amirite). But I suspect, a few weeks from now she'll deny ever having made the claim at all and accuse us of making it up (just like the TAM-nazi comparison, the parallel logic reference, the fact that she didn't oppose the labeling of Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, and Dennet as white supremacists on a panel she was a part of, etc etc etc).

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

That one reminds me more of Steffy Zvan.

"Greg, what the fuck did you two just do together...?"

"Calm down love, it was just a piece of sweetcorn."

[JackRayner]

Has anyone here commented on the Natalie Reed tweet yesterday that descibed how A+ was setup. It was to Rhys-Morgan.

Got a link to it? Just scrolled back to about Oct 6th on her page and did a Ctrl+F and the results turn to zero before I even enter the "s" in "@rhysmorgan"...

Oops. I had this really weird thing where I read "Natalie Reed" but searched for "Amanda Marcotte" on Twitter instead. I have no idea how the fuck that happened, but disregard my last.

Is it that "thing" you have for Mandy?

Hahahaha! Nah. [Doing a google image search confirms this.]

And actually, I hilariously did the same thing yesterday in response to a storify that EG posted about an exchange between Al and Natalie. Something along the lines of "I don't even know why he's bothering with that psychotic cunt", when the feminist I actually had in mind was Marcotte. The truth is that I have no idea who Natalie Reed is, though she certainly came across as a cunt in that storify.

[Tony Parsehole]

That one reminds me more of Steffy Zvan.

"Greg, what the fuck did you two just do together...?"

Steffy Zvan says :

That's the first and last time I'm licking your bald pate

[sacha]

- She's talking about a woman on a forum "dedicated to hating her" who was gonna attend a conference in San Fran. last year, anyone know who this is she's referring to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8gs-C53ic#t=1702s

That's me, I'll watch it now

[Tony Parsehole]

I am curious tough, if he's really been kicked out, why Al hasn't directly mentioned it on his twitter yet (don't tell me Ophelia is setting up a Poe for us). Going on the more likely assumption it's all true, in the linked Ophelia post on Al I think this sentence leaves little doubt about the fact that Al was booted for voicing a dissenting opinion,

I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

If he didn't know it was going to be his final post on FtB, then I can only infer that the removal is a one-sided decision. By coming out and saying this Ophelia is pretty much further legitimizing the claim that FtB is a dogmatic hivemind that doesn't allow dissent (like we needed more convincing, amirite). But I suspect, a few weeks from now she'll deny ever having made the claim at all and accuse us of making it up (just like the TAM-nazi comparison, the parallel logic reference, the fact that she didn't oppose the labeling of Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, and Dennet as white supremacists on a panel she was a part of, etc etc etc).

Good point. Looking at that quote it does seem like he was kicked off.
I hope he was. More fuel for the FTB pyre.

[Mykeru]

I mentioned that I come from a woman from a poor family, Hispanic and biracial (or as I say, half-nigger spic).

So, how does that half thing work? Is it right-side left side, from the waist down, or more or less evenly distributed?

Of course, due to statistical clumping, the last one is impossible.





Let's have a warm round of applause for our fearless keynote speaker.

[Tigzy]

That one reminds me more of Steffy Zvan.

"Greg, what the fuck did you two just do together...?"

"Calm down love, it was just a piece of sweetcorn."

I heard they're making their own version of Two Girls One Cup. Except with Laden involved, they're gonna call it Two Girls One Cup.

I am curious tough, if he's really been kicked out, why Al hasn't directly mentioned it on his twitter yet (don't tell me Ophelia is setting up a Poe for us). Going on the more likely assumption it's all true, in the linked Ophelia post on Al I think this sentence leaves little doubt about the fact that Al was booted for voicing a dissenting opinion,

I forgot to add Al’s farewell post (although he apparently didn’t think of it as such when he wrote it).

If he didn't know it was going to be his final post on FtB, then I can only infer that the removal is a one-sided decision. By coming out and saying this Ophelia is pretty much further legitimizing the claim that FtB is a dogmatic hivemind that doesn't allow dissent (like we needed more convincing, amirite). But I suspect, a few weeks from now she'll deny ever having made the claim at all and accuse us of making it up (just like the TAM-nazi comparison, the parallel logic reference, the fact that she didn't oppose the labeling of Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, and Dennet as white supremacists on a panel she was a part of, etc etc etc).

I'm honestly beginning to wonder if Al's even been told about his dismissal yet.

[acathode]

Secondly, the blogger Elevatorgate gets tarred and feathered as an "harasser" for the heinous crime of mocking her Holy Cunt, since I couldn't find in his blog anything that could remotely be misconstrued as harassment.

Actually, she accuses him of being a stalker, my transcription from 17:35:

and a few organization leaders have been fantastic, and I'll use this one as one example. I recently learned that another stalker of mine, a man who run a blog and a twitter account called ElevatorGate, lives in Florida not to far from here. I got in touch with the humanists and they listened to my concerns and they said, uhm, you know, we're going to keep you safe, we're not going to let this person in. I thought that that was an awesome response and the reason why I'm here. Also to pass some ... ah yes, can we get a round of applauds for how awesome it was.

In my book, a stalker is a whole lot more scarier than someone who just harass, with stalking there's a truckload of associations to real, physical danger to a person, and seriously creepy behavior. Pretty severe accusation to make, esp. when your friend DMCAd him to get hold of his personal details, and you then continue by apparently calling organizations and conferences to warn them of this "stalker". I think that could be called harassment and maybe even defamation/libel?

[Tony Parsehole]

I'm honestly beginning to wonder if Al's even been told about his dismissal yet.

I'm getting an image of him sitting down to write his next blog post and after he signs in to FTB tumbleweeds and discarded papers are fluttering across his screen.

[CommanderTuvok]

We now have the clear light of day shining on their "new" intimidation tactic. They doc-drop people's details on the basis that they "decide" that person is "harassing" them. They have a case for that new poster on Twitter, but Twatson says she doc-dropped elevatorGATE on the same basis. All elevatorGATE does is retweet their own comments. That is not harassment.

I simply don't believe them justifying doc-dropping on this basis. Should we "decide" to doc-drop Black Svan for her "harassment" of Justin Vacula? Should we doc-drop Greg Laden (inc. a photo of his trailer!) on the basis of harassment (note, no scare quotes) of Abbie, among others?

It is no wonder they keep the nature of these "threats" vague - because they use them to justify their doc-dropping and further their own narrative - as perfectly demonstrated by Twatson in that video.

[Ape+lust]

I'm getting an image of him sitting down to write his next blog post and after he signs in to FTB tumbleweeds and discarded papers are fluttering across his screen.

His REAL last post was put up just now.

[SteveW68]

Hot off the press:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/alstefanell ... ght-blogs/

Al's decision.

[decius]

Actually, she accuses him of being a stalker, my transcription from 17:35:

In my book, a stalker is a whole lot more scarier than someone who just harass, with stalking there's a truckload of associations to real, physical danger to a person, and seriously creepy behavior. Pretty severe accusation to make, esp. when your friend DMCAd him to get hold of his personal details, and you then continue by apparently calling organizations and conferences to warn them of this "stalker". I think that could be called harassment and maybe even defamation/libel?

My bad, sorry. Indeed, you're entirely correct.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Al says, in his "last post":

Yes, I’ve decided to leave Freethought Blogs. Now, before you go assuming there were pitchforks and torches involved, this was my decision. I am still going to be blogging, but instead of here, I have returned to my stand-alone blog, where I was before I came to Freethought Blogs and where many of you have followed me from. Everything that I have written here has been migrated over there (although I am still trying iron out image links), including your comments. So, please join me there, if you will.

(emphasis mine).

http://freethoughtblogs.com/alstefanell ... ght-blogs/

[Tigzy]

Hot off the press:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/alstefanell ... ght-blogs/

Al's decision.

Fuckin quick decision, by the looks of things!

[ERV]

I think that could be called harassment and maybe even defamation/libel?

Almost. 'Stalking' is a crime. You cannot say "Fred is a stalker" unless Fred has been found guilty in a criminal court of stalking. If Fred has been accused of stalking, you can say "Fred has been accused of stalking", whether he is guilty or not. Now he has to show damages. For instance, if he tries to register for a conference, and they say "You cannot come. You are a stalker." I think he can sue.

INALIJHASAWALOJS.


(I am not a lawyer I just had a stalker and watch a lot of judge shows)

[cunt]

Ophelia does not quote-mine. She merely "transcribes the high points" and weaves them into a deranged narrative far from the light of truth.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Hot off the press:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/alstefanell ... ght-blogs/

Al's decision.

Fuck! Faster then me!

Don't care, I would still consider Al alright if he was posting on FTB some more. There is something to be taken from his comment that generalizing a few fuckers' comments and actions to the whole of FTB is wrong.

Hence the FC5(6,7...) moniker.