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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Altair wrote: I think it goes beyond being separated at birth.

Have you ever seen them in the same room?

Also, Reid is known as the ShoeBomber.
And the other guy is know as ThunderF00t. Thunder, as bombs, goes Boom!. And a f00t goes inside a shoe :shock:
Very devious way of hiding in plain sight!
By George I think you've got it! Shoebomber - Thunderf00t. One a religious fanatic, the other a sceptic. A plan so cunning I have no idea what it means!

Of course, seeing them in the same room together is impeded by Richard Reid currently residing in this room:

http://i.imgur.com/nwrk7.jpg

If we're going to pitch this to Hollywood, and make some real money, we need a better opponent than PeeZus. Also, a female love interest. Angelina Jolie is an atheist.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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CommanderTuvok wrote:So, Melody is requesting an intern. Is that paid/unpaid?

Internships give a huge advantage to middle class people, and discriminate against working class people. Melody really should CHECK HER PRIVILEGE.
Like we need to ask. At least she won't have to slightly raise the ticket prices for the wealthy white american males she constantly complains about.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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tfoot wrote:okay, so its over 48 hrs since I put the video up, ~50k views and a 95 % approval rating,

and yet this is greeted by complete silence from baboon central. That's unprecedented!

Do they realize that they have been damned by their own words and the best thing they can do is ignore it and hope no one sees their stupidity/ hypocrisy?

Or are they saving it up for some devastating ad hominim 'we must drive TF out of the community like a pariah' type shit? FYI the last time they plotted as a group to do that... where they all conspired to release their blogs at the same time to be as devastating as possible, it resulted in me losing ~300 out of 150 000 subscribers. Wow, that blogging network is soooo powerfully influential!
Interesting. It looks like they're employing a collective strategy to ignore you. Perhaps they hope that by not acknowledging you, the publicity will just quietly die away. But it's not working, given the huge amount of attention your video has received and the accolades it's getting. Their silence speaks volumes.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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real horrorshow wrote:A plan so cunning I have no idea what it means!
You just distilled the essence of Ophelia's paranoia into 11 words. Most impressive.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Well, after catching up on what's been going on this morning, about the only commentary suitable for it is to just facepalm.

In other news, was digging through youtube to see if I could find anything that might've been missed and discovered something surprising staring at me from the little list of my subscriptions. A tiny little orange background, man with a suit... skull for a head.

How long have I been subscribed to Mykeru and didn't recognize him on the forum?

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Post by Ape+lust »

CommanderTuvok wrote:So, Melody is requesting an intern. Is that paid/unpaid?
How does she even rate an intern? Does she need help tweeting? Sounds like a perk just to showcase her executive status.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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welch wrote:
Another point I'd like to make, and note: ONLY DO THIS IF YOU HAVE A LEGITIMATE TOPIC. (I *completely* get off the bus if you're talking about trolling a conference.) If you see a conference calling for speakers, AND you think you have a decent topic to talk about and might do a good job, submit. There's no better way to be able to alleviate the influence the dipshits have than creating your own. Again, don't do this just to be a tit. But if you have something topic appropriate to talk about, submit a session. If you're accepted, give a talk on your topic, do a good Q&A, and if you feel like it, submit again.

Demonstrate the difference between idiots like benson et al and good speakers by being one.
And it's the year for starting that. We've done our due diligence trying to accommodate the Potemkin Skeptics, trying to figure out what it is they want and how we can make their boo-boos better. This year is going to be, I think, total push-back.

I would like to see more topics in skepticism, but considering that a lot of the FTB/SCK loons would give talks on how to blog and use social media, for fuck's sake, so the bar isn't all that high. Hell, if Rebecca Watson can give keynote speeches on how people were mean to her on the internet, then I doubt there is a bar. Yes, I do realize that anyone who isn't one of the approved incestuous cool kids will be helf to a higher standard in keeping with P.Z. Meyers-level rampant hypocrisy, but might as well start poking away.

Remember that analysis done a while back comparing Atheism Plus to The SlymePit that noted posters here tend to have disproportionate influence? Time to start cashing that shit in. We have a number of "famous on the internet" YouTubers here. In fact, I would recommend people link to The SlymePit on their video lowbars because, unlike the oh-so-important and talent-less SWJs, if anyone wants to interact with their favorite YouTuber, this is the place to do it. One of the remarkable things is the disparity between the high profile of people like Woolly Bumblebee and Thunderfoot and their lack of self-importance.

Oh, on my own front I have one that is now moving forward. I seem to have gone over the tipping point of using new software from "This sucks, I don't know how to do X like in the old program" to "Oh, this is actually better than the old program".

I was talking with Ikonographer on Skype and we noticed that Thunderf00t seems to have paid attention to some of the work other people have been doing and incorporated that into his video, notably the P.Z. Meyers "pick a card and fuck me" clip and the whole Melody Hensley incident. Which is great if true, as he presented a nice, concise, punch-in-the-face version. We seem to work on an open license with each other. That is, we've got no Amy Roth's whining about appropriation. There's no ownership here. We should be building on each others work. I mean, if someone found any of the stuff I've done useful, run with it, let's build on what each other are doing.

Most important, in the long term, is when we can transition from being the opposition to a bunch of idiots to just doing an end run around them, show that they aren't the faces of the atheist and skeptical movement, rather they are a perversion of it. To do that, as Welch says, we have to offer something other than opposition.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Post by Oneiros666 »

This may have been commented on earlier, but fuck it, I am drinking whisky and as such I become lazy:

What is the deal with these radical feminists all wearing these god-awful glasses? I mean, it's like they go out of their way in order to look as bitchy as possible..oh right.

Hensley:
http://i.imgur.com/aLG2D.png

Wiley:
http://i.imgur.com/DfY6M.png

Watson:
http://i.imgur.com/hHONw.png

La Pièce de résistance, Christina:
http://i.imgur.com/ptAzM.png

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mutleyeng wrote:
EdgePenguin wrote: Hmm, its changed. Who are you on there btw?

oh I'm a nobody, dont really produce content, but there is a very vibrant astronomy- planetary sciences community interest, which is what keeps my google plus interest alive... my nym being tim hem FWIW
I've just circled you. I used to run an Astrophysics Blog myself (I have an undergraduate degree in it), and am always on the lookout for more star-stuff.

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AchronTimeless wrote:Well, after catching up on what's been going on this morning, about the only commentary suitable for it is to just facepalm.

In other news, was digging through youtube to see if I could find anything that might've been missed and discovered something surprising staring at me from the little list of my subscriptions. A tiny little orange background, man with a suit... skull for a head.

How long have I been subscribed to Mykeru and didn't recognize him on the forum?
http://jasonlefkowitz.net/wp-content/up ... 3ran2l.jpg

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franc wrote:
AnonymousCowherd wrote:
comslave wrote:
I'll grant this isn't a scientific poll, but someone would need to explain to me the part of patriarchy theory that would keep female atheists from answering it.
Because "pie-chart" starts with the same first letter as *enis. FACT, not theory!
Because missy listens, and she's in the kitchen making me some pie.
And she can't take her iPhone in there with her?

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Dilurk wrote: I am on google+ with my other persona. For what it is worth I found it much quicker to find myself in a decent sized community than I am with twitter. Plus the 140 char limitation of twitter. Plus the quick to suspend nonsense of twitter. About all I can see twitter useful for now is pointing folks at blogs and g+ entries!
Yes, the problem with it was that you really had to work at finding people of interest to follow/interact with. If you wernt prepared to invest a few hours in that, it was going to be a lousy experience.
It still not perfect, but now communities does make it very easy to turn up there and get a decent feed going.
I even get to irritate Phil Plait every now n then, which has got to be good

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Post by jimthepleb »

Oneiros666 wrote:This may have been commented on earlier, but fuck it, I am drinking whisky and as such I become lazy:

What is the deal with these radical feminists all wearing these god-awful glasses? I mean, it's like they go out of their way in order to look as bitchy as possible..oh right.

Hensley:
http://i.imgur.com/aLG2D.png

Wiley:
http://i.imgur.com/DfY6M.png

Watson:
http://i.imgur.com/hHONw.png

La Pièce de résistance, Christina:
http://i.imgur.com/ptAzM.png

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Post by WoolyBumblebee »

HoneyWagon wrote:Hey. Any of you looking for work?


http://i.imgur.com/7LnTi.png
Doesn't she know slavery was abolished?

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Oneiros666 wrote:This may have been commented on earlier, but fuck it, I am drinking whisky and as such I become lazy:

What is the deal with these radical feminists all wearing these god-awful glasses? I mean, it's like they go out of their way in order to look as bitchy as possible..oh right.

Hensley:
http://i.imgur.com/aLG2D.png

Wiley:
http://i.imgur.com/DfY6M.png

Watson:
http://i.imgur.com/hHONw.png

La Pièce de résistance, Christina:
http://i.imgur.com/ptAzM.png
Thing is, with the exception of Sasha Wiley-Shaw, I don't see a lot of distortion through the lens, so they are either really low correction non-prescription or just clear lens accessories like this:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8072/8330 ... 5677_z.jpg

Fashionable nonsense.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Oneiros666 wrote:This may have been commented on earlier, but fuck it, I am drinking whisky and as such I become lazy:

What is the deal with these radical feminists all wearing these god-awful glasses? I mean, it's like they go out of their way in order to look as bitchy as possible..oh right.



http://i.imgur.com/ptAzM.png

AAAARGH!!!
My EYES!

I need pallette cleanser!

[youtube]gGN_W4VBZFo[/youtube]

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Mykeru wrote: Most important, in the long term, is when we can transition from being the opposition to a bunch of idiots to just doing an end run around them, show that they aren't the faces of the atheist and skeptical movement, rather they are a perversion of it. To do that, as Welch says, we have to offer something other than opposition.
Damn good point. The question is, how best to go about it?

Personally I've spent my time railing against the religious and have honed tactics to deal with their legions. Those don't work so well against self-important delusional A+ folks. Frankly, the whole reason I'm here is the religious folks seem to be doing more damage to themselves than I can possibly muster on my own so my time is better spent helping with an actual problem. To do that effectively, I need to learn how to deal with a different enemy, as that's what they've so readily painted themselves as.

Usually, I ignore the minutia of their claims and go straight for the throat of their sacred cow. With religion that works out simply. I don't argue what one particular bible verse or another says, I claim the whole book invalid. If it's the "word of god" you're going to have to prove your god first. Until then, you're just an asshole with opinions, and those we can deal with. I mean, sure, PZ is the William Lane Craig of atheism, but he's exponentially slimier on holding to a point and having real justification for it.

There's the crux of the issue though. If the only justification for their position is in their own head, then to attack that justification, you can only attack them. This leads to the inevitable "waaah, personal attacks!" that we've seen so far. Granted, it's a neat little package as far as making armor out of bullshit, but how do we crack it? There's got to be a way to come at this sideways.

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meh quote fuckup.
i dont internet so good
its the whole duck-faced, hipster, 'I'm so kooky' chic that's prevalent...

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Post by Al Stefanelli »

I'm in the process of creating an official WCOA Productions mirror of Thunderf00t's video "Why 'Feminism' is poisoning atheism."

I'll post it here when it's done.

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Post by Ape+lust »

Mykeru wrote:Thing is, with the exception of Sasha Wiley-Shaw, I don't see a lot of distortion through the lens, so they are either really low correction non-prescription or just clear lens accessories like this:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8072/8330 ... 5677_z.jpg

Fashionable nonsense.
Hensley needs them to keep the Kabuki lacquer affixed to her head.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Post by Walter Ego »

Vintage (c. 1981) politically incorrect SCTV satire on feminist "consciousness raising" theater featuring Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara.

[youtube]Eg8EMWu6LCQ[/youtube]

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Post by welch »

Oneiros666 wrote:This may have been commented on earlier, but fuck it, I am drinking whisky and as such I become lazy:

What is the deal with these radical feminists all wearing these god-awful glasses? I mean, it's like they go out of their way in order to look as bitchy as possible..oh right.

Hensley:
http://i.imgur.com/aLG2D.png

Wiley:
http://i.imgur.com/DfY6M.png

Watson:
http://i.imgur.com/hHONw.png

La Pièce de résistance, Christina:
http://i.imgur.com/ptAzM.png

They're all fucking hipsters. It's not that hard to figure out.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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tfoot wrote:okay, so its over 48 hrs since I put the video up, ~50k views and a 95 % approval rating,


Or are they saving it up for some devastating ad hominim 'we must drive TF out of the community like a pariah' type shit? FYI the last time they plotted as a group to do that... where they all conspired to release their blogs at the same time to be as devastating as possible, it resulted in me losing ~300 out of 150 000 subscribers. Wow, that blogging network is soooo powerfully influential!

There's only one thing that matters in this debate: Analytics. The advertisers know on a minute by minute basis whether FTB traffic is going up or down. This is why I've been avoiding the site since this shitstorm started.

Although I'm not a censor. They're free to publish their batshit rantings, I'm free not to read it. What you people do is your own business.

But if enough people dump the site, their profit declines. Note: Unless Freezepage can disable tagging, I'm not sure that's going to stop ad revenue.

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From that link by RR84 to Greta's post:

[quote]And if anyone is still in any doubt about the campaign of harassment against feminist women on the Internet in general and in the atheosphere in particular…[quote]

If you're criticizing me, Ophe, RW, or BlackSvan, you're criticizing ALL feminist women...everywhere...throughout history. So guys, DDT (don't do that).

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AchronTimeless wrote:
Mykeru wrote: Most important, in the long term, is when we can transition from being the opposition to a bunch of idiots to just doing an end run around them, show that they aren't the faces of the atheist and skeptical movement, rather they are a perversion of it. To do that, as Welch says, we have to offer something other than opposition.
Damn good point. The question is, how best to go about it?
Well, as someone who has sat in enough meetings to realize that most of the time formulating a plan is just a means for people to talk at each other until everyone loses the will to live, I don't have a "plan". I didn't have one when I came across this schism and started doing stuff.

Just do stuff.

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Mirror of Thunderf00t's "Why 'Feminism' is poisoning atheism"

[youtube]bCY2Ng99WtY[/youtube]

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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franc wrote:
"I am on a vacation..."

From what? Dodging Japanese whaler harpoons?
She's on vacation from her vacation from reality, she went to imagination island

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Is it out of line to request that people stop reposting those fucking mugshots? I'm about to hurk up my cheese sandwich.

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cunt wrote:
Oneiros666 wrote:
cunt wrote:
Everyone should pay the same rate and imho this is fair as, again, 28 % of a million is more than 28 % of 100k.
Does everyone in Norway earn above 100k? Whats 28% out of the minimum wage?
Hi there :)

Um, no? Of course not everyone makes more than 100k. What's the point you are trying to make here? 28 % of 50k is less than 28 % of 100k. Again, I am for a flat tax rate.

We don't have minimum wage as the US does (you can, in theory, get paid 1 dollar a year, but the average income is about 75k dollars annually). We have lots of welfare support systems for those that have very limited income. Also, and I realise I should have pointed this out, there is a cut-off point at 'the bottom'. You can earn about 15k dollars tax-free before the 28 % kicks in.
So you can earn $16,000. The government takes out $280. Leaving you with $15720 or £9,722 in real money. The millionaire earner, gets $280,000 taken from their pay check, leaving them with a paltry $720,000 per year to play with.

The $280 for the poor sod low earner might be the difference between eating lunch on a thursday or not, while the $280,000 for the millionaire might mean they have to save up an extra year for that Bentley with the heated seats. Hey though, least it's fair.
28% of 16,000 is over 4,000. I don't know how you got 280.

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AchronTimeless wrote:
Mykeru wrote: Most important, in the long term, is when we can transition from being the opposition to a bunch of idiots to just doing an end run around them, show that they aren't the faces of the atheist and skeptical movement, rather they are a perversion of it. To do that, as Welch says, we have to offer something other than opposition.
Damn good point. The question is, how best to go about it?
Satire is quite an effective messaging tool. Much like how Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report rip a new one out of Fox News on a regular basis. The Slymepit already uses a lot of satire (Jan Steen's work, for instance). The use of satire can be used to thwart FTB/A+ memes, dogmas and newspeak.

It's interesting that FTB/A+ crowd seldom try to use satire against their critics. Sanctimonious Idealogies and political correctness don't mix well with humour, apparently.

Speaking of FTB memes, remember that bizarre A+ propaganda poster art showing women trying to charge up a hill, trying to block boulders thrown by misogynists at the top with umbrellas? If someone has the right artistic skills, I'd love to see a satirical re-framing of that poster. :P

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Tkmlac wrote:28% of 16,000 is over 4,000. I don't know how you got 280.
$15,000 exemption.

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cunt wrote:Brown has already done this.
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/claim-claim-2/
Cheers - that's a useful link.

Oh, it's already New Year here in the East. Happy New Year!

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Re: Periodic Table of Swearing

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Stretchycheese wrote:
AchronTimeless wrote:
Mykeru wrote: Most important, in the long term, is when we can transition from being the opposition to a bunch of idiots to just doing an end run around them, show that they aren't the faces of the atheist and skeptical movement, rather they are a perversion of it. To do that, as Welch says, we have to offer something other than opposition.
Damn good point. The question is, how best to go about it?
Satire is quite an effective messaging tool. Much like how Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report rip a new one out of Fox News on a regular basis. The Slymepit already uses a lot of satire (Jan Steen's work, for instance). The use of satire can be used to thwart FTB/A+ memes, dogmas and newspeak.

It's interesting that FTB/A+ crowd seldom try to use satire against their critics. Sanctimonious Idealogies and political correctness don't mix well with humour, apparently.

Speaking of FTB memes, remember that bizarre A+ propaganda poster art showing women trying to charge up a hill, trying to block boulders thrown by misogynists at the top with umbrellas? If someone has the right artistic skills, I'd love to see a satirical re-framing of that poster. :P
Hmm, I guess that's still a form of opposition. I guess the best I can say is use language such as "egalitarian" rather than "feminist".

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Ok I need everyone to list your TOP 5 jerk-face, moron, fuck-wad,A+ idiots or FTB assholes for my end of the year list. No need to give reasons why and if you think that more than 1 can fit in as number 1, thats ok. I'm not sure the best way to tally it. List it here unless it gets messy I guess? Or if you cant risk posting it here then hit me up on FB (Reap Paden) Polls close at 11:59pm pst Jan 1

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Mykeru wrote:
AchronTimeless wrote:
Mykeru wrote: Most important, in the long term, is when we can transition from being the opposition to a bunch of idiots to just doing an end run around them, show that they aren't the faces of the atheist and skeptical movement, rather they are a perversion of it. To do that, as Welch says, we have to offer something other than opposition.
Damn good point. The question is, how best to go about it?
Well, as someone who has sat in enough meetings to realize that most of the time formulating a plan is just a means for people to talk at each other until everyone loses the will to live, I don't have a "plan". I didn't have one when I came across this schism and started doing stuff.

Just do stuff.
If you want to see different people speaking, apply to speak. If you want to have different POVs when talking about what happened at a conf., go to that conference and talk about it. It's really not that difficult, nor does it require coordinated action. If you see something you want changed, take the steps to change it.

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comslave wrote:
tfoot wrote:okay, so its over 48 hrs since I put the video up, ~50k views and a 95 % approval rating,


Or are they saving it up for some devastating ad hominim 'we must drive TF out of the community like a pariah' type shit? FYI the last time they plotted as a group to do that... where they all conspired to release their blogs at the same time to be as devastating as possible, it resulted in me losing ~300 out of 150 000 subscribers. Wow, that blogging network is soooo powerfully influential!

There's only one thing that matters in this debate: Analytics. The advertisers know on a minute by minute basis whether FTB traffic is going up or down. This is why I've been avoiding the site since this shitstorm started.

Although I'm not a censor. They're free to publish their batshit rantings, I'm free not to read it. What you people do is your own business.

But if enough people dump the site, their profit declines. Note: Unless Freezepage can disable tagging, I'm not sure that's going to stop ad revenue.
This. That is precisely the reason I never, ever knowingly click a link to an FtB page or anyone associated with them. I've removed all bookmarks and cleaned house. The pit has proven a far better place to keep an eye on them anyway. You guys seem to find all the meaty bits. :popcorn:

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I got picked on mercilessly for being "four-eyes" and now these dumbasses wear glasses to look "cool." Shouldn't they put some trigger warning up after all the pain I was put through?

BAN WEARING FAKE JEWEL-I MEAN GLASSES AT CONFERENCES!!!

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somedumbguy wrote:
justinvacula wrote:New post from Karla Porter:

http://karlaporter.com/relationship-man ... onferences

10 Thoughts on Inappropriate Sexual Behavior at Conferences
I am not sure who Karla Porter is, but she seems to know who Rebecca Watson and PZ Myers are.

http://i.imgur.com/6b1zd.jpg

Karla Porter on The Angry Atheist podcast She is cool

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Tkmlac wrote:I got picked on mercilessly for being "four-eyes" and now these dumbasses wear glasses to look "cool." Shouldn't they put some trigger warning up after all the pain I was put through?

BAN WEARING FAKE JEWEL-I MEAN GLASSES AT CONFERENCES!!!

AARGH! I just had a flashback.

Just for that, I'm throwing in one more pallette cleanser before I go to work to keep the feminists away.

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Re: the spec stylings of the Social Justice Amazons:

I dunno, I guess the 'Olive from On The Buses' look must be the current trend with that crowd.

http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article ... es%22+1969

'Gaw Blimey Stan, I don't fancy yours much!'

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Ape+lust wrote:
Mykeru wrote:Thing is, with the exception of Sasha Wiley-Shaw, I don't see a lot of distortion through the lens, so they are either really low correction non-prescription or just clear lens accessories like this:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8072/8330 ... 5677_z.jpg

Fashionable nonsense.
Hensley needs them to keep the Kabuki lacquer affixed to her head.
Yeah, way to be Beauty2K compliant, and support the Cosmetic Industrial Complex, Melody.

Bet she gets her nails done at a salon, too. Way to oppress the underclass with toxic substances.

/sinus headache

/grumpy

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Notung wrote:
cunt wrote:Brown has already done this.
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/claim-claim-2/
Cheers - that's a useful link.

Oh, it's already New Year here in the East. Happy New Year!
Happy new year mate. To be fair to Brown I think you should probably amend the post to reflect that he has gone to great efforts to criticise and debunk NLP. Which you'd have known if you'd read Tricks of the mind. It can probably wait till the 3rd though.

I might come over and fuck up some of your commenters but that can also wait for the 3rd.

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comslave wrote:
Oneiros666 wrote:This may have been commented on earlier, but fuck it, I am drinking whisky and as such I become lazy:

What is the deal with these radical feminists all wearing these god-awful glasses? I mean, it's like they go out of their way in order to look as bitchy as possible..oh right.



http://i.imgur.com/ptAzM.png

AAAARGH!!!
My EYES!

I need pallette cleanser!
It's time Greta realised that's she's gone past po-mo "irony", and out the other side, to resemble an early-years Dame Edna. Dressing like a granny loses it's hipster cool once you're old enough to be one.

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Regarding PotentialProstitutes (PP).

PP is out an out extortion, and badly done, and yes, based on:

1) Anonymous sources
2) Shaming of women (mostly)
3) Unaccountable / No verification of claims of prostitution
4) No way to take photos or a page down (except for paying some amount of money)
5) PP does this to enrichen its owners through extortive payments.

PP is very bad. Should be shut down. Should be prosecuted.

Then there is ihollaback.org (HB)

Founded in 2010 or so, with much fanfare and applause from all the usual feminists and feminist sites, ihollaback.org, to fight against street harassment, encouraged anyone to send in anonymously cell phone photos of men harassing them on the street. The photos were presented publicly as well as descriptions of the behaviors of the men.

1) Anonymous sources
2) Shaming of men
3) Unaccountable / No verification of claims of harassment / easily gamed / no way - no form - no phone number to complain
4) No way to take photos or a page down, at all.
5) HB claims to do this for women, but the huge press fanfare and plaudits sure does a grrrl good on her resume and media presentation

Potential Prostitutes: loudly decried
iHollaback: You go girl!

When I have pointed this out at various websites, I have of course been told what I rapist I must be.

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Top 5 baboons:

1: pz for obvious reasons
2: rw for obvious reasons, 1 and 2 are pretty much interchangeable, but pz nicks it because his fuckwittery isn't as expected as the mediawhore
3: carrier for introducing himself as a baboon in such magnificent style.
4: Ophelia because, well because she is just plain fucking stupid and has to be on the list.
5: this has to go to tittywobble for the mutant child she birthed and then abandoned, her "i can't cope with reality" flounce and the wanker episode.

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dinkum wrote:Is it out of line to request that people stop reposting those fucking mugshots? I'm about to hurk up my cheese sandwich.
A valid point. Because we don't have any guidelines beyond the BB Code for Dummies thing. I'll post this here:

When quoting a long post and/or one with pics. embedded video etc. Only quote what you have to, to show what you're talking about. This helps with your loading time and reduces wear and tear on the scrolling finger.

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cunt wrote: I might come over and fuck up some of your commenters but that can also wait for the 3rd.
By the way, lurkers, that was a joke. Happy New Years to everyone on the pit.

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Ape+lust wrote:
Mykeru wrote:Thing is, with the exception of Sasha Wiley-Shaw, I don't see a lot of distortion through the lens, so they are either really low correction non-prescription or just clear lens accessories like this:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8072/8330 ... 5677_z.jpg

Fashionable nonsense.
Hensley needs them to keep the Kabuki lacquer affixed to her head.
Odd how all the ones who see potential rapists and misogynists everywhere all wear cheap ugly glasses ... I think MISOGINY, is was written on the inside of the lenses, as some sort of Chinese revenge for having to make all our iphones. It's the only thing that makes sense. :dance:

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Who the duck fot the 40,000 post?! All you assholes discussing stupid baboon shit, and you missed the really important stuff. Shit.

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real horrorshow wrote:
comslave wrote:
Oneiros666 wrote:This may have been commented on earlier, but fuck it, I am drinking whisky and as such I become lazy:

What is the deal with these radical feminists all wearing these god-awful glasses? I mean, it's like they go out of their way in order to look as bitchy as possible..oh right.



http://i.imgur.com/ptAzM.png

AAAARGH!!!
My EYES!

I need pallette cleanser!
It's time Greta realised that's she's gone past po-mo "irony", and out the other side, to resemble an early-years Dame Edna. Dressing like a granny loses it's hipster cool once you're old enough to be one.
Keep it up guys. Each posting of these pics just makes my homosexuality stronger. And if there were a comment of the day award; Real Horror Show would get it for the above.

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Za-zen wrote:Who the duck fot the 40,000 post?! All you assholes discussing stupid baboon shit, and you missed the really important stuff. Shit.
Who's been posting here faster than bullets from Puff the Magic Fucking Dragon?

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Za-zen wrote:Who the duck fot the 40,000 post?! All you assholes discussing stupid baboon shit, and you missed the really important stuff. Shit.
Who do you think you are? Steersman? Look it up for yourself.

Peezus Christ!

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BarnOwl wrote:
Gumby wrote:Off to my mother's to see what the fuck is wrong with her TV. God forbid she should miss any reality TV shows :roll:
Hundreds of channels, and still nothing but crap on TV. How did that happen? /first world problems

I'm glad I didn't upgrade my Uverse so that I could get the Planet Green channel. Foolishly, I thought there would be programs about recycling, green homes, renewable energy, gardening, climate change, etc., but instead the offerings seem to be A Haunting and American Hot Rods. WTF?

Yeah, I gave up on Discovery and similar channels when shit like Cash Cab, Ancient Astronauts, ghost shows and the like started taking over. Unfortunately it's what the American TV audience wants. It really, really sucks. Yesterday Cosmos, today Real Housewives of New Jersey. :puke-huge:

I don't even have cable anymore, I ditched it two years ago. Why should I pay close to 80 bucks a month for 200 channels of drivel? Now I just stream what I want through Netflix for 8 bucks a month, and also have a largish Blu-Ray collection and over 700 documentaries on DVD. That's plenty. Added bonus, no commercials or political ads.

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tfoot wrote:okay, so its over 48 hrs since I put the video up, ~50k views and a 95 % approval rating,

and yet this is greeted by complete silence from baboon central. That's unprecedented!

Do they realize that they have been damned by their own words and the best thing they can do is ignore it and hope no one sees their stupidity/ hypocrisy?

Or are they saving it up for some devastating ad hominim 'we must drive TF out of the community like a pariah' type shit? FYI the last time they plotted as a group to do that... where they all conspired to release their blogs at the same time to be as devastating as possible, it resulted in me losing ~300 out of 150 000 subscribers. Wow, that blogging network is soooo powerfully influential!

Hmmm, kobolds, the one creature who everyone can laugh at without fear of reprisal!
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tfoot I would like to get you on the podcast.
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Top 5:

1- Steve Novella SGU, for not adressing any of the shit Rebecca does, and allowing such a spectacular non skeptic on the show.

2- Rebecca Watson. What a slug of human being.

3- PZ. For obvious reasons.

4- Ophie. Paranoid much?

5- Matt Dillahunty. Not being able to apply skepticism to his sacred cows.

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Za-zen wrote:Who the duck fot the 40,000 post?! All you assholes discussing stupid baboon shit, and you missed the really important stuff. Shit.
John Brown.

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Reap wrote:Ok I need everyone to list your TOP 5 jerk-face, moron, fuck-wad,A+ idiots or FTB assholes for my end of the year list. No need to give reasons why and if you think that more than 1 can fit in as number 1, thats ok. I'm not sure the best way to tally it. List it here unless it gets messy I guess? Or if you cant risk posting it here then hit me up on FB (Reap Paden) Polls close at 11:59pm pst Jan 1

Laden
Zvain
Beiber
ReGreta
Setar

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My Top 5:

1: Laden
2: PZ
3: Zvan
4: Thibeault
5: Ophelia

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Titty wobble has announced on twatter in response to our own demon, that she can't stand atheists anymore, even liberal ones! Lol.

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