Bleeding from the Bunghole

#32341

Scented Nectar wrote:It's a conspiracy. My camera lens and the sky's lighting dynamics are in on it too!

http://www.scentednectar.com/slimepit/00020-1.png

Beautiful!

http://www.scentednectar.com/slimepit/00020-6.png

Merry, happy, winter, vacation time thingy, Pitters! :)

I'm impressed, Scented, I thought you wouldn't be able to capture that winter wonderland feel with pictures, especially the way you described the sunlight creating xmas lights in the ice on the trees, but you managed it.

Also, equating the sunshine to goatse was hilarious and awful :D

#32342

dogen wrote:
another lurker wrote:Is it just me, or was it painful to read Alex Gabriel's wordy, convoluted life-story. For someone who apparently studied English at Oxford, he is talented at the 'look at me I am so pretentious and hard to read ie smarter than you' style of exposition. What's wrong with just speaking plainly????? (answered my own question; clear and concise writing lacks the much needed pretension).

Just wanted to bitch about it.
I'm more blown away by the hideous display of first-world privilege. He got one of the best educations in the world, with no-doubt significant financial support from the state, and all he can do is whine about seeing tossers dousing each other in champagne.

The hatred stirred in me by seeing one used as a water pistol is as incommunicable as our thriftiness back then, but prompts even now a hot, breathless nausea and impulse to lash out.
Fuck that shit, I spent my time getting hot and nauseous in college bars (70p for a pint of Strongbow!), at bops and at donner kebab vans.

To be fair to the guy the antics of the spawn of the privileged can be barf inducing. There's something about the profligacy and decadence exercised that seems more like a conscious way of demonstrating superiority than it is hedonism. Enjoying the fruits of privilege is understandable, but shenanigans as a way of signaling your status is something else especially when it's implied that membership of the club is inherited and closed to the rest of us. Even with a privileged education the likes of Ronnie Gabriel will be unlikely to have doors open up to them the way the silver spoonfed will and the champagne jinks are just another way of rubbing that in.

#32343

John Greg wrote:Steers said (http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 66#p152866):

Good post there John; particularly liked the closing shot at McEwan â€“ â€œone cracker short of a full communionâ€, indeed.
Thanks Steers. I do appreciate your saying so. I too quite like the communion jab.

I also feel that McEwan's only about an inch away from saying that because approximately half the human race is born with a dick, that too is rape culture. I mean most of the rest of her blather makes about the same kind of sense.

As to the other bits of Miri's post, I must admit to having not read them ... yet. I intend to, but not yet. These days, I've got to gird my loins to read longwinded TFB posts.

Hmm, I guess that's rapey isn't it. Ah well. So it goes.

There are people who DO say that, of course. And the thing is that from a root level, McEwan and them are saying the same things..it's just that McEwan doesn't take that one step (as it's a step too far and may be unacceptable to a good portion of her readership), but the roots are there, and if the echo chamber develops in such a way where it IS acceptable, she'll be there leading the charge.

It's why I say that the Neo-Fems are going to by and large embrace TERF-dom within the next few years...the roots (gender as absolute social construct) are there, it just needs the trigger to make it socially acceptable.

Actually speaking of that, I think that there's a difference between seeing gender as an social construct but that there's a lot of variance on the social conditions that make up gender and seeing this sort of absolute social construct that Neo-Fems use. I still think the former is wrong, (I'm a biology/social mix person) but it's probably mostly harmless. It's the belief in these all-powerful social constructs that's dangerous I think.

#32344

Lol, just me and Baidu [Spider], DaveDodo007, Google [Bot] and 9 guests, fuck the guests I own the slymepit and edit buttons for all and cheap economy Tesco white processed bread is the greatest. You can hammer a nail with a screwdriver and god exist via fine tuning. Israel rules or doesn't I'll get back to you on that.

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Ho and merry Christmas cuntfuckers.

:hankey:

#32345

Guest be gone, I want to talk to google bot

#32346

I authored a new piece about gambling, critical thinking, and decision-making posters here may enjoy.

Decision-making processes are paramount â€“ gambling and critical thinking

http://justinvacula.com/2013/12/24/deci ... -thinking/

--

Merry fucking Christmas.

[youtube]Nd0C7ii9a8s[/youtube]

:hankey:

#32347

Happy Christmas Everyone!

It's been a little over 7 months since I joined the 'Pit, and I've loved every moment of it. My warm wishes go out to each and every one of you -- keep keeping it real, you Brave Heroes!

#32348

justinvacula wrote:I authored a new piece about gambling, critical thinking, and decision-making posters here may enjoy.

Decision-making processes are paramount â€“ gambling and critical thinking

http://justinvacula.com/2013/12/24/deci ... -thinking/

:hankey:

Interesting, but you seem to be unaware of some important statistical results. As you play longer and longer, the difference between the money gambled and the winnings earned will *grow*, not decrease. So, when you say

Perfect play with a .14% edge wonâ€™t necessarily lead to great profit in the short-term, but, over a long period of play, â€˜ups and downsâ€™ will eventually â€˜averageâ€™ and consistent gain will be had.

... well, that's only true across a large population of gamblers. For an individual gambler, there is an almost-even chance that they will be down, by an amount whose typical magnitude is sqrt(number of gambles)*(bet per gamble). When this magnitude approaches the amount of money you have in the bank, you have to stop gambling and the casino keeps it all. This is "gambler's ruin".

This is related to a big misconception about the 'law of averages'. If I toss an unbiased coin N times, then the difference between heads and tails will *not* decrease with N (contrary to popular belief) -- rather, it will grow as sqrt(N). It's only in relative terms -- i.e., as a fraction of number of tosses N -- that the difference between heads and tails will decrease.

#32349

TRIFECTA! I AM DWEEB, HEAR ME ROAR!

#32350

dogen wrote:TRIFECTA! I AM DWEEB, HEAR ME ROAR!

Wuss.

#32351

Merry Xmas all!

[youtube]86CoEOQscm8[/youtube]

#32352

Sneaking in with a last minute post before the big day tomorrow at the Christmas At Wise Acres Festival. Richard Simmons is catching a nap under the tree (holidays are so exhausting!) and will be playing Santa in the morning.

Thanks to all those who purchased a copy of my CD Walter Sings To Santa (featuring the perennial X-mas favorite I Saw Mommy Frenching Santa Claus).

Have a happy fucking Christmas and a happy fucking New Year everyone!

#32353

Walter Ego wrote:Richard Simmons is catching a nap under the tree (holidays are so exhausting!) and will be playing Santa in the morning.

Ritchie is in the box with the red ribbon. That's someone else sitting on my lap.

#32354

Walter Ego wrote:
Walter Ego wrote:Richard Simmons is catching a nap under the tree (holidays are so exhausting!) and will be playing Santa in the morning.
Ritchie is in the box with the red ribbon. That's someone else sitting on my lap.

Please don't tell me your cock is in Santa.

#32355

Gumby wrote:
dogen wrote:TRIFECTA! I AM DWEEB, HEAR ME ROAR!
Wuss.

h8rs gonna h8.

#32356

Oggie find his true vocation as Santa:

http://youarenotaphotographer.com/wp-co ... -santa.jpg

#32357

Wishing everyone in the Pyt a very happy holiday. I hope all is going well and that you and yours are healthy and happy. May you get what you wish for under your tree (if you do that), as long as it's not too creepy.

We just finished our Christmas eve meal (with a piece of meat that was competitive with our car payment and a couple of bottles of high altitude LujÃ¡n de Cuyo Malbec), yummy. Talk about privilege!

#32358

mordacious1 wrote:Wishing everyone in the Pyt a very happy holiday. I hope all is going well and that you and yours are healthy and happy. May you get what you wish for under your tree (if you do that), as long as it's not too creepy.

We just finished our Christmas eve meal (with a piece of meat that was competitive with our car payment and a couple of bottles of high altitude LujÃ¡n de Cuyo Malbec), yummy. Talk about privilege!

Hey I'm just finishing off a bottle of Malbec! By myself :cry:
Flying Spaghetti Monster bless us all, everyone.

#32359

http://youarenotaphotographer.com/wp-co ... -santa.jpg

Christ. What's that asshole from Duck Dynasty up to now?

#32360

Just seen on twitter (retweeted by Jamila Bey):

I'm behind in the 'Pit (work has been sucking up all my time) - what's with the new emoticon of a hairy fish spitting on Bjarte?

#32361

Lsuoma wrote:Oggie find his true vocation as Santa:

http://youarenotaphotographer.com/wp-co ... -santa.jpg

That's just mean. :mrgreen:

Here Oggie, I feel your needs. Have one on me.

Merry Christmas mate.

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#32362

[youtube]P37xPiRz1sg[/youtube]

#32363

Merry Pitmas!

#32364

Skep tickle wrote:Just seen on twitter (retweeted by Jamila Bey):

I'm behind in the 'Pit (work has been sucking up all my time) - what's with the new emoticon of a hairy fish spitting on Bjarte?

http://5starcom.ca/blog/wp-content/uplo ... -horse.jpg

#32365

Merry Christmas from sunny Scotland.

All the best folks.

http://www.infognito.net/images/christmas-cheer.jpg

#32366

Bhurzum wrote:Merry Christmas from sunny Scotland.

All the best folks.

http://www.infognito.net/images/christmas-cheer.jpg

#32367

Came home for Xmas. The stockings were hung, the tree decorated and my traditional Xmas hat was waiting for me:

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Merry Xmas and go fuck yourselves.

#32368

mikelf wrote:[youtube]P37xPiRz1sg[/youtube]

I fucking HATE that bastard. Motherfucking rip-off douche bag. Rebuilt his shit-ass self and career by fucking people over. If he died in a fire, it be fucking karma.

#32369

Also, as my Grandmother died of Alzheimers, which sort of worked for her because she forgot she was an outrageously bigoted little old Italian lady, bless her heart, forever obsessed with what Those Jews were up to, began cooking ice cream at 3:00 am and hung around the "assisted living" place going around with a little old black lady who shared her mutual interest in dusting things, I feared the same fate was in store for my dad and that he, in fact, was going full-on Howard Hughes on us.

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However, I'm told that's just cooking oil in the jars. He was doing the Xmas eve baby-Jesus fish fry. Or, rather, shrimp, scallops and calamari. Because, dago seafood privilege.

However, karma will eventually catch up to my dad, due to his massive restaurant-grade stove privilege.

#32370

Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

#32371

Mykeru wrote:
However, karma will eventually catch up to my dad, due to his massive restaurant-grade stove privilege.

Those stoves are fucking gorgeous! As the one making the sammiches in the household, I can only dream of getting my hands on some of those.

Merry fucking somethingmas, Reverend!

#32372

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

Mhhh... Ashokan Farewell. Now I have to listen to some Civil War songs again.

#32373

zenbabe wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:It's a conspiracy. My camera lens and the sky's lighting dynamics are in on it too!

http://www.scentednectar.com/slimepit/00020-1.png
Beautiful!

http://www.scentednectar.com/slimepit/00020-6.png

Merry, happy, winter, vacation time thingy, Pitters! :)
I'm impressed, Scented, I thought you wouldn't be able to capture that winter wonderland feel with pictures, especially the way you described the sunlight creating xmas lights in the ice on the trees, but you managed it.

Also, equating the sunshine to goatse was hilarious and awful :D

Thanks! :) The sky was rather rude showing me its goatse like that, but I guess it turns out that the sun DOES shine out of its ass. :lol:

The bad side of the ice storm, is that there are still thousands in the area who are without power (storm took out some hydro lines). I'm lucky. I've had full electical, cable and internet during it, with no outages.

#32374

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

Beautiful...and haunting.

#32375

Mykeru wrote:Came home for Xmas. The stockings were hung, the tree decorated and my traditional Xmas hat was waiting for me:

IMG_20131224_171807_226.jpg
Merry Xmas and go fuck yourselves.

Has your heart grown three sizes this day?

http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o74 ... f149cd.jpg

#32376

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

fY9fG1CO9mI <--youtube.

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

Oh hurrah!!
:occasion-snowman:

Your gravelly voice seems ideally suited for olde tymee Life During Wartime kinds of documentaries.
.. And the sound quality is way better than the other ones, btw.
The whole thing was grand, of course, but my biggest laugh came during the 'eye witness' jab :D

#32377

Scented Nectar wrote:
zenbabe wrote: I'm impressed, Scented, I thought you wouldn't be able to capture that winter wonderland feel with pictures, especially the way you described the sunlight creating xmas lights in the ice on the trees, but you managed it.

Also, equating the sunshine to goatse was hilarious and awful :D
Thanks! :) The sky was rather rude showing me its goatse like that, but I guess it turns out that the sun DOES shine out of its ass. :lol:

Haha!
:goatse:
Well. Those were some of the most brilliant and sparkly pics of a goatse-ish sunshine I ever did see.
I want to save a few of them to use as a desktop. So pretty, and.. strange. Love 'em.

The bad side of the ice storm, is that there are still thousands in the area who are without power (storm took out some hydro lines). I'm lucky. I've had full electical, cable and internet during it, with no outages.

Glad of that, and I hope that continues to be the case, so you can make some strong coffee and keep on trying to be a crumudgeon about this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad holiday, particularly since your attempts to hate away the season of cheer backfire rather awesomely

#32378

mikelf wrote:
Mykeru wrote:Came home for Xmas. The stockings were hung, the tree decorated and my traditional Xmas hat was waiting for me:

IMG_20131224_171807_226.jpg
Merry Xmas and go fuck yourselves.
Has your heart grown three sizes this day?

http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o74 ... f149cd.jpg

:lol:

Love the jaunty angle of Mykeru's staring skull there.
Though Laden as .. was it Cindy LooHoo?... turns the stomach a bit. Just a bit.

#32379

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Mykeru wrote:
However, karma will eventually catch up to my dad, due to his massive restaurant-grade stove privilege.
Those stoves are fucking gorgeous! As the one making the sammiches in the household, I can only dream of getting my hands on some of those.

Merry fucking somethingmas, Reverend!

Here's some more stove porn for you to beat off to:

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zenbabe wrote:
mikelf wrote:
Has your heart grown three sizes this day?

http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o74 ... f149cd.jpg
:lol:

Love the jaunty angle of Mykeru's staring skull there.
Though Laden as .. was it Cindy LooHoo?... turns the stomach a bit. Just a bit.

Normally I try not to disparage children because, in SJW terms, damaging their self-esteem and giving them Twitter PTSD is worse than, say, actually raping them, but that kid is ugly and retarded looking. Although, no doubt, it will grow up to be large and muscular and kick ass on a regular basis.

#32380

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

Oh fuck! That is my best Xmas present this year! I am a bit of a Civil War buff (no... I do not dress up like a soldier in the Michigan 24th Volunteer Infantry... but I would like to if I had the time). That original poem is so touching it makes me cry every time I hear it. And that song is about the saddest thing I have ever heard. So... your brilliant overlay of one of the worlds worst tragedies with one of the worlds most over-blown tragedies is brilliant.

My family did Xmas yesterday since my oldest kid is going to spend Xams with her boyfriend's family. We got lots of new games and played a few together. Dixit is pretty good by the way. It is like Apples to Apples with artwork. We played Cards Against Humanity which is kind of funny. We had two really good laughs so it was worth it. My favorite combination was the name of a "superhero and sidekick"... Someone came up with "Satan" and "Firey Poop"... the clear winner. I tried some Advocatt which is Eggnog liqueur from Holland... yummy. I gave my wife a tablet and a new rechargeable vibrator. Even though she just had foot surgery we still squeezed in a quickie before getting up and opening presents. She is a good woman.

Snow is falling here in Detroit (we like to call it "The D" these days). Very pretty. Most people have their power back on after the big freezing rain storm.

God Bless Us, everyone!

#32381

Skimming my feed, Ophie has another "guest post" (I couldn't see it in my feed, just a few words and "read more" - sometimes it does that), but does anyone want to bet this is another copypasta of someone else, with no links to the original and no actual approval of the author?

#32382

Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.

What do I know, but I think these would be a big hit at skeptic conferences. Even if at a BOF session, poster board set up, or just a laptop bolted to a desk and left running.

#32383

Karla Porter and I recently appeared on a special Christmas episode of Dr. Tom Williamson's Skeptic Canary Show.

Enjoy.

http://justinvacula.com/2013/12/25/skep ... s-special/

#32384

New from TheCriticalG, a short video:

"My Final Thoughts on Atheism+"

[youtube]qshONRgZUN8[/youtube]

#32385

Mykeru wrote:Also, as my Grandmother died of Alzheimers, which sort of worked for her because she forgot she was an outrageously bigoted little old Italian lady, bless her heart, forever obsessed with what Those Jews were up to, began cooking ice cream at 3:00 am and hung around the "assisted living" place going around with a little old black lady who shared her mutual interest in dusting things, I feared the same fate was in store for my dad and that he, in fact, was going full-on Howard Hughes on us.

IMG_20131225_070633_008.jpg
However, I'm told that's just cooking oil in the jars. He was doing the Xmas eve baby-Jesus fish fry. Or, rather, shrimp, scallops and calamari. Because, dago seafood privilege.

However, karma will eventually catch up to my dad, due to his massive restaurant-grade stove privilege.

Looks like jarate to me.

#32386

JacquesCuze wrote:
Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.
What do I know, but I think these would be a big hit at skeptic conferences. Even if at a BOF session, poster board set up, or just a laptop bolted to a desk and left running.

That's a fantastic idea. Interestingly, clicking "play" before a panel of wall-to-wall Gefan requires more planning than a Rebecca Watson talk and results in a deeper learning experience, too.

#32387

Really? wrote:
JacquesCuze wrote:
Gefan wrote:Happy Christmas, Pit!

From Gumby / Gefan co-productions...

[youtube]fY9fG1CO9mI[/youtube]

The first in a new six-part series. Part two may get uploaded by mid-January, after which exactly squat will get done until I finish traveling at the end of March.
What do I know, but I think these would be a big hit at skeptic conferences. Even if at a BOF session, poster board set up, or just a laptop bolted to a desk and left running.
That's a fantastic idea. Interestingly, clicking "play" before a panel of wall-to-wall Gefan requires more planning than a Rebecca Watson talk and results in a deeper learning experience, too.

Also, semi-seriously consider a kickstarter to fund an "educational series" documenting the schism and tropes that skeptic feminists use in their takeover. Use this video here as an example of what plan to create. Funds could also clearly go to the construction of a portable kiosk securely holding several tablets for use at conventions. Or for a kiosk with a large screen TV connected to a tablet.

#32388

Mykeru wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Mykeru wrote:
However, karma will eventually catch up to my dad, due to his massive restaurant-grade stove privilege.
Those stoves are fucking gorgeous! As the one making the sammiches in the household, I can only dream of getting my hands on some of those.

Merry fucking somethingmas, Reverend!
Here's some more stove porn for you to beat off to:

IMG_20131225_082504_075.jpg

Fap fap fap

#32389

JacquesCuze wrote:
Really? wrote:
JacquesCuze wrote:
What do I know, but I think these would be a big hit at skeptic conferences. Even if at a BOF session, poster board set up, or just a laptop bolted to a desk and left running.
That's a fantastic idea. Interestingly, clicking "play" before a panel of wall-to-wall Gefan requires more planning than a Rebecca Watson talk and results in a deeper learning experience, too.
Also, semi-seriously consider a kickstarter to fund an "educational series" documenting the schism and tropes that skeptic feminists use in their takeover. Use this video here as an example of what plan to create. Funds could also clearly go to the construction of a portable kiosk securely holding several tablets for use at conventions. Or for a kiosk with a large screen TV connected to a tablet.

Man, the looneys would shit their pants if this happened. They've made the mistake of alienating every conference one by one. They're boycotting TAM because JREF didn't kiss RW's ass. They're boycotting Dragon*Con because that conference had the gall to enforce its policies. Skepticon was the recent one, right? RW violated the conduct policy. And the AA conference is going to be popcorn time. Can PZ behave himself? Will anyone ask about the Shermer accusations (or the Oggie double standard)? Will DS enforce his own policy about not disrespecting religion...at an atheist gathering?

A real scholarly video series or presentation about the schism would be amazing. And so much was done via Internet commenting that you can trace a lot of the threads to their origins.

#32390

justinvacula wrote:New from TheCriticalG, a short video:

"My Final Thoughts on Atheism+"

[bewtube]qshONRgZUN8[/bewtube]

I agree very much with him. The Social Justice League should be a wakeup call to atheists and skeptics that not believing in a deity does not endow us with superior rational minds. In the absence of religion, atheists can still cling onto plenty of unreason, simply because hjoomuns are only partially-rational beings. Even on the Pit, there are people who exhibit signs of what we like to call baboonery (but should probably simply be called flawed hjoomanity). Just laughing at the Social Justice League is not enough. We should see them as examples of how blind to reason hjoomuns can be and strive always to do better.

Transcend your inadequate hjoomanity. Embrace ROBOKiTTY, your cybridized Ovarloardâ„¢. :violin:

#32391

Mykeru wrote:Came home for Xmas. The stockings were hung,

Because Rape Culture.

#32392

My turkey dinner was so big it gave me PTSD. Damn you privilege!! Damn you to hell!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Christmas scumbags.

#32393

We had foie gras-stuffed fruits, foie gras sautÃ© in raspberry vinegar, foie gras-stuffed dried duck breasts, sautÃ© duck breasts and potatoes with garlic and parsley. Truffle cheese (smelled aweful, tasted delicious) and a "travel cake".

My mother is from the south west, foie gras land.

#32394

zenbabe wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
zenbabe wrote: I'm impressed, Scented, I thought you wouldn't be able to capture that winter wonderland feel with pictures, especially the way you described the sunlight creating xmas lights in the ice on the trees, but you managed it.

Also, equating the sunshine to goatse was hilarious and awful :D
Thanks! :) The sky was rather rude showing me its goatse like that, but I guess it turns out that the sun DOES shine out of its ass. :lol:
Haha!
:goatse:
Well. Those were some of the most brilliant and sparkly pics of a goatse-ish sunshine I ever did see.
I want to save a few of them to use as a desktop. So pretty, and.. strange. Love 'em.

I'll post a link to download the 1920x1080 originals in a little while. The copy's I showed here were resized to a third of the original sizes. Give me a few minutes or so to finish reading the pit and to upload them.

The bad side of the ice storm, is that there are still thousands in the area who are without power (storm took out some hydro lines). I'm lucky. I've had full electical, cable and internet during it, with no outages.
Glad of that, and I hope that continues to be the case, so you can make some strong coffee and keep on trying to be a crumudgeon about this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad holiday, particularly since your attempts to hate away the season of cheer backfire rather awesomely

I can't even imagine not having my strong freshly ground coffee in the morning. I hadn't thought of that. :( I must reluctantly set aside my grinchy bah humbug attempts.

Off to upload those pics... :)

#32395

And hey! Christmas came in at just the right time!

My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring
â€” Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) 25 DÃ©cembre 2013

#32396

Roastbeef and Yorkshire Pudding.

Bah Humbug to you all.

#32397

Egg rolls, Hot and Sour Soup, Kung Pao Chicken, Beef with Garlic Sauce, Broccoli with Garlic Sauce, and Hunan Duck.

#32398

#32399

Apparently Sesame Street has too many male monsters, so many they've had a masculinity crisis and the few female monsters are treated poorly. Alexandra from Skepchick's parenting blog Grounded Parents observes

But the thing that really and truly bugs me is that the female monsters are always dressed up. Male monsters just are, but female monsters are at the very least accessorized.

and

For all the good that it does, Sesame Street is reinforcing the concept that maleness is the norm and femaleness is the aberration. It is also teaching kids that women and girls are meant to be adorned and cannot just be.

http://groundedparents.com/2013/12/24/s ... et-so-bad/

#32400

ianfc wrote:Apparently Sesame Street has too many male monsters, so many they've had a masculinity crisis and the few female monsters are treated poorly. Alexandra from Skepchick's parenting blog Grounded Parents observes

But the thing that really and truly bugs me is that the female monsters are always dressed up. Male monsters just are, but female monsters are at the very least accessorized.
and
For all the good that it does, Sesame Street is reinforcing the concept that maleness is the norm and femaleness is the aberration. It is also teaching kids that women and girls are meant to be adorned and cannot just be.
http://groundedparents.com/2013/12/24/s ... et-so-bad/

Do the monsters even have genitals?!?!?!