Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!

#44521

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:PDF
http://www.rfsu.se/Bildbank/Dokument/Me ... 015web.pdf

Lots of crappy drawings of genitalia (one entire section devoted to what FGM looks like), and persons lacking bodily symmetry privilege. Based on the booklet, Swedes are a dark-skinned race, with the minority fair-skinned population confined to wheelchairs. Heterosexuals are rare but tolerated in Sweden. Approximately half of all Swedes are trans*gender.

working link

#44522

CommanderTuvok wrote:Surely Charlotte Proudman has already torched her law career?

If you were looking for someone to represent you legally, you'd have to be insane, or ignorant of what she has done, to accept her representing you.

I bet her bosses wish they could quietly drop her.

She a barrister, so doesn't have any bosses. Barristers are all self-employed sole traders, although they often club together in "chambers" to share admin costs, and being part of Michael Mansfield's chambers will be good for business. Barristers are appointed by solicitors, and so long as there are enough solicitors prepared to give her work she'll be all right - and she specialises in family law, and I'm willing to bet there are plenty of family law solicitors of a similar mindset as her, who won't be at all put off by her antics.

This is what's so aggravating about feminists. They claim women are oppressed, but they act up the way they do precisely because they know there's no negative consequences to it, because women are not oppressed, they're protected. Which might be frustrating if you're independently-minded and want to stand or fail on your merits, but I think most people, if that kind of protection was available, would take advantage of it (for example, entrepreneurs set up businesses more readily because they are protected from financial ruin by limited liability). I think that's why fewer women reach the top in business or creative fields like comedy where you have to take risks or put in long hours to have a chance of making it. I think it's also why the increase in women doctors means a decrease in out-of-hours services on the NHS, and why an recent article in the Sunday Times pointing that out is being attacked as sexist and hurtful rather than as untrue.

#44523

Sarah Palin endorses Trump.
T'Pit called it!

#44524

jimthepleb wrote:Sarah Palin endorses Trump.
T'Pit called it!

:bjarte:

#44525

Suet Cardigan wrote:Petitioning Emma Watson:
Spend one week in a Calais migrant camp for feminism (without bodyguards)

In order to show how safe current migration is to Europe, particularly regarding the cause of feminism (I reject wholeheartedly the notion that North African and Middle Eastern migrants are unsafe, and rapists), Emma Watson should spend a week's holiday in a Calais migrant camp, without guards of course, to show how safe, and how pro feminism these migrants are.
https://www.change.org/p/emma-watson-sp ... r-feminism

She might actually get away with that, because she's a celebrity, so she may get an informal de-facto bodyguard.

Then again, once someone asks: "Who is she?" and someone else answers, "That witch from Harry Potter", oh dear, what a pity, never mind.

#44526

Bhurzum wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:Almost as homoerotic, too.
But not quite...

https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se ... istian.gif

I don't know why wrestling fans don't just watch gay porn and be done with it...

Methinks pro wrestling is to straight women what lesbian porn is to straight men.

#44527

Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061

#44528

Oglebart wrote:Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061

Nothing like having the Armed Response Unit about the house for improving your spelling.

#44529

feathers wrote:
Oglebart wrote:Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061
Nothing like having the Armed Response Unit about the house for improving your spelling.

Indeed, interesting variation on the carrot and stick approach

#44530

Calling armed police out to any spelling incident other than a misplaced apostrophe is totally disproportionate.

#44531

Moron Watch:

Pakistan 'blasphemy' boy 'doesn't regret cutting off hand'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35356052

#44532

More morons:

A militant gun attack has caused carnage at a university in north-west Pakistan, with at least 19 people dead and 50 injured

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35359072

Nothing to do with religion though.

#44533

Elyse is going to kick herself when she realizes she didn't think of this first.

https://www.rt.com/news/328195-activist ... th-africa/

#44534

Shatterface wrote:Calling armed police out to any spelling incident other than a misplaced apostrophe is totally disproportionate.

Your rite.

#44535

Fucking hell, I've just seen Sarah Palin shrieking her support for The Donald, "kick ISIS's ass" apparently.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide ... isis-video

#44536

I personally welcome Sarah Palin's return to the political fray -- fuck the h8rz!

http://drunkcyclist.com/wordpress/wp-co ... -palin.jpg

#44537

Shatterface wrote:Calling armed police out to any spelling incident other than a misplaced apostrophe is totally disproportionate.

Let us hope he doesn't join ISI'S

#44538

Oglebart wrote:Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061

A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police.
The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house".

Obviously a 10 year old boy has very little clue as to what he is writing about. But is "terraced house" a common term in Britain? Because it sure as hell isn't a common term in the US. I would never expect a kid to say or write that here.

#44539

Shatterface wrote:Moron Watch:
Pakistan 'blasphemy' boy 'doesn't regret cutting off hand'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35356052

I am just curious if the boy's alternative was to be stoned or killed. In that case, a hand for a life might be a sensible decision.

#44540

feathers wrote:
Bhurzum wrote:
NoGodsEver wrote:Almost as homoerotic, too.
But not quite...

https://images.encyclopediadramatica.se ... istian.gif

I don't know why wrestling fans don't just watch gay porn and be done with it...
Methinks pro wrestling is to straight women what lesbian porn is to straight men.

Nah. There's not any explicit hardcore action. They don't even have their dicks out. And no sexual vibes, just play fighting and choreographed moves. Boring.

#44541

Dick Strawkins wrote:Elyse is going to kick herself when she realizes she didn't think of this first.
https://www.rt.com/news/328195-activist ... th-africa/

Well she gave us shots in the ambulance. And blogged & tweeted about it later.

#44542

deLurch wrote:
A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police.
The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house".
Obviously a 10 year old boy has very little clue as to what he is writing about. But is "terraced house" a common term in Britain? Because it sure as hell isn't a common term in the US. I would never expect a kid to say or write that here.

A terraced house is a common term in England.

#44543

deLurch wrote:
Oglebart wrote:Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061

A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police.
The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house".
Obviously a 10 year old boy has very little clue as to what he is writing about. But is "terraced house" a common term in Britain? Because it sure as hell isn't a common term in the US. I would never expect a kid to say or write that here.

Yeah. It's common. In both senses of the term.

(Disclaimer: I live in a terraced house.)

#44544

Søren Lilholt wrote:
deLurch wrote:
Oglebart wrote:Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061

A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police.
The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house".
Obviously a 10 year old boy has very little clue as to what he is writing about. But is "terraced house" a common term in Britain? Because it sure as hell isn't a common term in the US. I would never expect a kid to say or write that here.
Yeah. It's common. In both senses of the term.

(Disclaimer: I live in a terraced house.)

Me too. They are very common indeed.

I remember Jeremy Hardy making a joke about it when Bush was president and used to muddle his words - "I live in a terraced house, so I'm a bit worried".

For anyone unfamiliar with the term, these are terraced houses:

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/ ... 244cae.jpg

#44545

paddybrown wrote:For anyone unfamiliar with the term, these are terraced houses:

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/ ... 244cae.jpg

So it's a house with...out a terrace??

Ils sont fous, ces Anglais.

#44546

paddybrown wrote:
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, these are terraced houses:

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/ ... 244cae.jpg

Terraced suggests they have been acted upon.

In Australia the term is simply "terrace houses". And they have to have pretty iron work.

http://i.imgur.com/vUIACz1.jpg

#44547

In the US we call those Town Houses or Row Houses.

#44548

deLurch wrote:In the US we call those Town Houses or Row Houses.

We call them nests of jihadi extremists.

Well, it seems we do now....

#44549

Dick Strawkins wrote:Elyse is going to kick herself when she realizes she didn't think of this first.

"Everyone's all like, "Amber said she was sexually assaulted 3 times but now that number is 10!" Wanna know why? Because I was uninformed & deeply in denial. I had been in many situations that I knew were wrong but didn't know that they we're classified as rape or sexual assault until someone would inbox me and share their survival story and then I'd be like, "Omg, that happened to me, too!"

"Guys!!! I need help trying to contact Emma Sulkowizc. If anyone has her info or knows her personally, please have her reach out to me ASAP."

"I can't stand the world "alleged"-- it majorly feeds into rape culture, victimblaming and not supporting/believing survivors"

""They called my Instagram post a fraud, fake, and called me a liar, slut... And these are women who have survived the same thing as I have. I think something inside of them believes the lies of society that rape is the survivor's fault. Perhaps they feel that they were at fault when they were raped and are projecting that onto me...."

"Instagram deleted the caption describing the rape AGAIN after I reposted it yesterday. This is evidence of a crime and Instagram obviously and openly supports rapists and rape culture by silencing survivors of sexual assault who speak up on social media. There are dozens of rape fetish pages, child porn pages, and pages that depict the enslavement of women but lo & behold a woman speaks up against these things and they silence her. I will not be silenced. This is only the beginning and I don't need @instagram to start a revolution because the revolution has already begun! {emojis} Follow me on Twitter"

"ambertheactivistI just added 19 new products to @thandashoppe {emoji} Grab yours while you can! "

"I urge you-- speak your truth! What people say is not important. You will get through this! So will I. So will the women Cosby raped. So will Emma Sulkovicz. So will the girl South Africa's president raped (he was acquitted--shocker!-- but I believe her). {emoji}"

"I've been vegan for a few months now in the name of boycotting sexual violence against animals. When I found out last November that cows are attached to "rape racks"- a device that forcibly impregnates them so they can give milk, I could no longer enjoy cheese and chocolate like I used to. {emoji}"

"Hey loves, I opened my online store @thandashoppe a couple weeks ago to spread healing through crystal therapy for survivors & to support @CreatingConsentCulture. Every crystal contains healing properties, many are listed on my page but feel free to research each gem yourself to find the one that works best for you. Since the #StopRapeEducate World Tour was cancelled, I lost $2,000 in plane tickets back to the U.S. Nevertheless, I've decided to continue my humanitarian work here on the African continent which is why I've opened @thandashoppe! {emoji} Treat yourself to a gift or buy something for someone else. Just know that your money is going to a worthy cause and your new jewelry will carry positive energy for years to come!"

"When ppl tell women how to dress. When ppl tell women to carry weapons. When ppl tell women to walk in pairs. When ppl tell women not to drink 'too much' When ppl tell women not to go out alone at night. {emoji} Why should we lose our freedom because some people refuse to control themselves? It's not OUR responsibility as females to do anything different. On the other hand, it's everyone's responsibility to shape a world where we can have these freedoms safely"

"Vegansexual-- A vegan who refuses to have sex with non-vegans."

#44550

Brive1987 wrote:
Terraced suggests they have been acted upon.

In Australia the term is simply "terrace houses". And they have to have pretty iron work.

http://i.imgur.com/vUIACz1.jpg

Wow! Those are absolutely gorgeous!

#44551

deLurch wrote:
I had not seen these comments by her when the issue first came out.

https://veuwer.com/i/3kcf.jpg

https://veuwer.com/i/3kcg.jpg

Sauce: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... d-web.html

On the issue of her career:
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/lon ... 44426.html

Charlotte Proudman is every stereotype of a radical feminists rolled into one person.

She was pissed off that the man who messages her on LinkedIn because he was older than her and she wasn't attracted to him. Instead of deleting the message and moving on she made it into a case because she sees herself as a pure paladin of womyn's rights sexually harassed by the ugly beast.

What the man did was a minor social faux pas (although Proudman probably wouldn't have minded if it was Hot Stuff or Oh La La who did it). You should probably be very professional on LinkedIn, since it isn't a dating site but a network for job opportunities. However if someone slips up slightly, like the man did, you shouldn't kick too much of a fuss. Delete the unwanted message, block the sender from your contacts if you must, and move on.

This isn't why Proudman acted though. She never mentioned lack of professionalism. She talked about "being sexualized against her will". Which basically translates to:

"He was gross and old, so he was creepy and disgusting. No womyn should ever be creeped out or disgusted by older, gross men"

When she wolf-wistles at sexy young things she's "liberating herself from the shackles of Patriarchy". She also knows she's attractive and might score with Hot Stuff or Oh La La if she wants to. Or at least she thinks she can.

Proudman is no different from everyone else. We all want to get approached and approach people we're attracted to. We all don't want to go out with people we're not attracted to.

Kind people turn down people they don't like gently, with some excuse. The slightly less kind but more pragmatic answer is to ignore the unwanted advances if you can (it's pretty easy to do it on a social network: delete the message and block the person).

Even people who for one reason or another feel anger at being proposed to by someone else usually simply reply in an angry way but they don't expose the deeed to the media.

Prodman, however, thinks that being a feminist makes her special. She thinks that a non-event in her life should matter to the world at large. She decided to turn her irritation into a national case.

The problem isn't with Proudman per se, but with the press who gave her a platform.

If we leave aside all the feminism ideology, the news was "Woman receives an unwanted message on a social network". Not exactly headline material. Unwanted messages are received by thousands and thousands of men and women worldwide. For all we know Hot Stuff and Oh La La were annoyed by Proudman's comments (although since they put pictures on a Facebook, a pretty relaxed and not dating averse social network, and she's young and attractive I actually doubt that).

Most people ignore the unwanted message and move on, and most aren't really interested in other people's unwanted messages. Proudman was able to turn an incredibly mundane, boring event into the evidence that The Patriarchy inspires "gross old dudes" to message "pretty young womyn" like her (oh the humanity).

The newspapers which supported Proudman, however, read about this inane story and about Proudman's radical feminism and saw the clickbait potential from both feminists ready to chant "you go, girl!" at Proudman for putting the old creep in his place and angry old dudes (and trolls) ready to call Proudman a whore, a bitch, a cunt, etc. etc.

Proudman was glad of being offered a platform and of having the chance to rustle some jimmies and make herself known as a feminist martyr.

And so the least interesting "big feminist event" of the year was born. Radfems found a new heroine-victim of Patriarchy. Proudman collected all the insults and the trolling she received and built up the narrative of victimhood.

Meanwhile ISIS was executing thousands of women and crowds of migrants were assaulting women in public. But that was all the Patriarchy's fault and Proudman getting messages from Old and Frumpy instead of Hot Stuff and Oh La La was just as bad as all the dead Syrian women or the European women who were raped or groped.

#44552

dogen wrote:In an attempt to better edumacate myself, I'm reading Pinkers The Blank Slate. And something has me puzzled.

Pinker always refers to "primary sensory cortex" without any definite article. This had me stumped for a while, but then I noticed that specific sensory organs do get a definite article: "the visual cortex", "the auditory cortex", etc. Which makes me think that "primary sensory cortex" is being used in the plural.

But why, then, is it not written "primary sensory cortices" or "primary sensory cortexes"?

If Pinker really does write "primary visual cortex" (with an article) and "the visual cortex" (with an article), then he's being weird. Both are more typically written without an article. The only explanation that I can give for what Pinker is doing is this: he drops the article when referring to something that maps one-to-one to a single Brodmann area. Primary visual cortex Brodmann's Area 17; visual cortex includes 17 and a few others.

With that said, the Wikipedia entry for Brodmann areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area) is also inconsistent and actually used or omits articles in the opposite manner from Pinker. So my new guess is we're all just fucking with you.

#44553

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
Terraced suggests they have been acted upon.

In Australia the term is simply "terrace houses". And they have to have pretty iron work.

http://i.imgur.com/vUIACz1.jpg
Wow! Those are absolutely gorgeous!

:)

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

Its a bit of a thing in the inner city. Long skinny and with a rear courtyard. Google "paddington terrace".

Or buy one here: http://www.domain.com.au/11-norfolk-str ... 2012521521

Still nothing beats a Parisian Haussmann streetscape.

#44554

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Male Migrants Assaulting Women all Along the Immigration Trail

Many of the woman being assaulted are/were virgins. This is why the route from Greece to Calais is now being referred to as The Trail of Tears. Unfortunately, both Native Americans and people who don't get English homographs are upset by this label.

#44555

deLurch wrote:
Oglebart wrote:Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061

A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police.
The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house".
Obviously a 10 year old boy has very little clue as to what he is writing about. But is "terraced house" a common term in Britain? Because it sure as hell isn't a common term in the US. I would never expect a kid to say or write that here.

about as common as condo is in the US. Here, we would call them row houses.

#44556

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:
Terraced suggests they have been acted upon.

In Australia the term is simply "terrace houses". And they have to have pretty iron work.

http://i.imgur.com/vUIACz1.jpg
Wow! Those are absolutely gorgeous!

The Royal Crescent in Bath are also terraced houses.

http://www.bath.co.uk/wp-content/upload ... ent-21.jpg

as is this, in Harley St

http://www.parker-wilson.co.uk/wp-conte ... 24x768.jpg

#44557

Lsuoma wrote:as is this, in Harley St
http://www.parker-wilson.co.uk/wp-conte ... 24x768.jpg

Don't you need a separate external entrance for each home for them to county as terraced houses? I believe that is one of the defining features of a town house/row house.

#44558

I don't think Proudman's got what it takes to be a campus speaker though. She's anti-sexwork so she'd be no-platformed.

Also most feminists think sportswomen ought to be paid the same as men and she's in favour of sbolishing 'gender segregation' in sports which would mean women would have to compete with men. That would basically kill off most sports women's careers.

#44559

deLurch wrote:In the US we call those Town Houses or Row Houses.

"Town House" over here is an estate agent's term of art that means "slightly posher terrace".

#44560

IIRC, the term "town house" originally referred to a house owned by the kind of gentleman who spent most of his time at his country house, but needed somewhere to stay when he was in London.

#44561

Service Dog wrote:
Dick Strawkins wrote:Elyse is going to kick herself when she realizes she didn't think of this first.

"Everyone's all like, "Amber said she was sexually assaulted 3 times but now that number is 10!" Wanna know why? Because I was uninformed & deeply in denial. I had been in many situations that I knew were wrong but didn't know that they we're classified as rape or sexual assault until someone would inbox me and share their survival story and then I'd be like, "Omg, that happened to me, too!"

"Guys!!! I need help trying to contact Emma Sulkowizc. If anyone has her info or knows her personally, please have her reach out to me ASAP."

"I can't stand the world "alleged"-- it majorly feeds into rape culture, victimblaming and not supporting/believing survivors"

""They called my Instagram post a fraud, fake, and called me a liar, slut... And these are women who have survived the same thing as I have. I think something inside of them believes the lies of society that rape is the survivor's fault. Perhaps they feel that they were at fault when they were raped and are projecting that onto me...."

"Instagram deleted the caption describing the rape AGAIN after I reposted it yesterday. This is evidence of a crime and Instagram obviously and openly supports rapists and rape culture by silencing survivors of sexual assault who speak up on social media. There are dozens of rape fetish pages, child porn pages, and pages that depict the enslavement of women but lo & behold a woman speaks up against these things and they silence her. I will not be silenced. This is only the beginning and I don't need @instagram to start a revolution because the revolution has already begun! {emojis} Follow me on Twitter"

"ambertheactivistI just added 19 new products to @thandashoppe {emoji} Grab yours while you can! "

"I urge you-- speak your truth! What people say is not important. You will get through this! So will I. So will the women Cosby raped. So will Emma Sulkovicz. So will the girl South Africa's president raped (he was acquitted--shocker!-- but I believe her). {emoji}"

"I've been vegan for a few months now in the name of boycotting sexual violence against animals. When I found out last November that cows are attached to "rape racks"- a device that forcibly impregnates them so they can give milk, I could no longer enjoy cheese and chocolate like I used to. {emoji}"

"Hey loves, I opened my online store @thandashoppe a couple weeks ago to spread healing through crystal therapy for survivors & to support @CreatingConsentCulture. Every crystal contains healing properties, many are listed on my page but feel free to research each gem yourself to find the one that works best for you. Since the #StopRapeEducate World Tour was cancelled, I lost $2,000 in plane tickets back to the U.S. Nevertheless, I've decided to continue my humanitarian work here on the African continent which is why I've opened @thandashoppe! {emoji} Treat yourself to a gift or buy something for someone else. Just know that your money is going to a worthy cause and your new jewelry will carry positive energy for years to come!"

"When ppl tell women how to dress. When ppl tell women to carry weapons. When ppl tell women to walk in pairs. When ppl tell women not to drink 'too much' When ppl tell women not to go out alone at night. {emoji} Why should we lose our freedom because some people refuse to control themselves? It's not OUR responsibility as females to do anything different. On the other hand, it's everyone's responsibility to shape a world where we can have these freedoms safely"

"Vegansexual-- A vegan who refuses to have sex with non-vegans."

Every now and then some vegan shows up in Shakesville to talk about "rape tacks". They are immediately dog piled then banned. No one is going to tell these fat chicks they can't eat something. Also 90% have mysterious medical conditions that require them to eat meat and junk food(seriously. Only a minor exaggeration. Not hyperbole).

#44562

I live in a mid terrace in the countryside. So a rural townhouse?

#44563

Kirbmarc wrote:What the man did was a minor social faux pas (although Proudman probably wouldn't have minded if it was Hot Stuff or Oh La La who did it). You should probably be very professional on LinkedIn, since it isn't a dating site but a network for job opportunities. However if someone slips up slightly, like the man did, you shouldn't kick too much of a fuss. Delete the unwanted message, block the sender from your contacts if you must, and move on.

This isn't why Proudman acted though. She never mentioned lack of professionalism. She talked about "being sexualized against her will". Which basically translates to:

"He was gross and old, so he was creepy and disgusting. No womyn should ever be creeped out or disgusted by older, gross men"

When she wolf-wistles at sexy young things she's "liberating herself from the shackles of Patriarchy". She also knows she's attractive and might score with Hot Stuff or Oh La La if she wants to. Or at least she thinks she can.

Proudman is no different from everyone else. We all want to get approached and approach people we're attracted to. We all don't want to go out with people we're not attracted to.

This is essentially the same thing as Elevator-Gate. While we dont know what Elevator-man looked like, I dont think there is anyone here who doubts that had Becky-boo found Lil'Paul attractive, it would have never been an issue.

So heres the thing for me -- We arent psychic. At least Im not. I dont know how a woman is going to react before I make the comment. I can make a inferences and a reasonable guess, but like anyone else, Im sometimes wrong. Lacking telepathy, sometimes we are going to get it wrong.

Last night, I was handing out beer samples at a competition. This one youngish woman rather liked my beer and brought over a couple of guys she was with (turns out to be her brothers) to taste. Now part of this competition is a "peoples choice" award, so, Im in sales mode, smiling, making small talk, etc. I made a comment that I liked her hair style.* I didnt really mean anything by it. At best I was trying to get her to remember me, and by proxy, my beer, favorably when she voted later on. Perhaps I was trying to be nice in return for her recommending my beer to others. Had she been Charlotte Proudman, she would have complained to the event organizers** I suppose. Or perhaps I would have found my face all over twitter as patriarchy personified. As it turned out, despite my 15-20 years on her, this young lady apparently thought I was closer to ooo-lala than old and gross. She noticeably brightened when I made the comment and kept coming back to my table to talk. Which was pleasant as the event wound down and I would have been otherwise just standing there waiting on people to come to my table.

Pleasantries like this are an everyday part of human interaction. Most of the time, they are a small easy thing we do to make interactions with others more pleasant. Sometimes they are a feeler for something more. Sometimes they are taken as an expression of interest when they arent. But to vilify others for engaging in this sort of behavior simply makes life less pleasant for everyone.

Just occurred to me: Since she took my comment as an expression of interest when I didnt mean it that way, was she objectifying me? Should I blame the Matriarchy? Wheres my Patreon moolah?!?!?

* It was a lie. Her hairstyle didnt really do much for her, but it was different and I suspected took some effort, so I guessed she was proud of it. Does the fact that it was a lie make the comment more or less objectifying? Social Justice is hard!

** Im picturing Josh's reaction to this: "He complimented your hair? OK, Ill go have a talk with him right now, he clearly has no taste in women's hair styles."

#44564

Dave wrote:This is essentially the same thing as Elevator-Gate. While we don't know what Elevator-man looked like, or whether he even existed, ...

FTFY

#44565

Billie from Ockham wrote:
Dave wrote:This is essentially the same thing as Elevator-Gate. While we don't know what Elevator-man looked like, or whether he even existed, ...
FTFY

You really needed to read the rest of that sentence. :)

#44566

kirbmarc wrote:Prodman, however, thinks that being a feminist makes her special. She thinks that a non-event in her life should matter to the world at large. She decided to turn her irritation into a national case.

Proudman thinks she's special, which makes her a feminist. Furthering my theses that all SJWs are narcissists.

#44567

Just occurred to me that I know several women whose Facebook activity consists almost entirely of posting new profile pictures and getting showered with compliments on how gorgeous they are. The poor things, how do they stand it?

#44568

jimthepleb wrote:I live in a mid terrace in the countryside. So a rural townhouse?

I live alone in a shack in the woods. I write down all my grievances against the world in composition books.

#44569

Rape Racks must be a Merkin thing, we just fist the cows in a cow crush http://whrea.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/D ... sh~002.jpg
(a yoke to keep them in place for any and all medical treatment/foot trimming/AI etc) or if they are on cubicles in situ on their beds. On the whole pedigree cattle such as your black and white holstein/fresians would have their backs broken by the average pedigree modern bull. Those things are fucking huge. The one below is average sized. http://www.lic.co.nz/images/bulls/large/101097.jpg
'Muscle' bulls for beef production are another matter. They have a truncated myostatin gene which impedes natural muscle growth inhibition by my understanding. IANAVeterinarian.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73 ... af4680.jpg
We keep smaller Angus or Shorthorn bulls to mop up what we can't get in calf by artificial insemination.
Putting 600-odd cattle from tiny calves and heifers through to the bulls this last few weeks has been a great reintroduction to farming.

#44570

Total asshole mode engaged!

Dave wrote:You really needed to read a whole bunch of implicit stuff into the rest of that sentence. :)

FTFY :whistle:

#44571

So Dave is a Booth babe?
Cool.

#44572

Billie from Ockham wrote:Total asshole mode engaged!

Dave wrote:You really needed to read a whole bunch of implicit stuff into the rest of that sentence. :)
FTFY :whistle:

Implicit stuff?

I thought my wild (but I hope humorous) speculation was fairly explicit. Most people dont doubt the existence of the Morris Masturbator.

#44573

jimthepleb wrote:So Dave is a Booth babe?
Cool.

Only cause I cant afford a real one.

#44574

Just swung by the A+ forums because I wanted some privacy... Oh boy, they didn't disappoint.

One Google bot, three guests. No members.

That forum is truly a corpse on the side of the road.

That gives me an idea...

#44575

deLurch wrote:
Oglebart wrote:Lol, islamaphobia spelling shocker, did Ahmed of suitcase bomb fame move to England?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35354061

A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police.
The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house".
Obviously a 10 year old boy has very little clue as to what he is writing about. But is "terraced house" a common term in Britain? Because it sure as hell isn't a common term in the US. I would never expect a kid to say or write that here.

I'm a bit late with the reply, but I myself live in an end-terrace, whereas an end-terrorist is one of these isn't it?

https://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com ... ssile1.jpg

#44576

Billie from Ockham wrote:
dogen wrote:In an attempt to better edumacate myself, I'm reading Pinkers The Blank Slate. And something has me puzzled.

Pinker always refers to "primary sensory cortex" without any definite article. This had me stumped for a while, but then I noticed that specific sensory organs do get a definite article: "the visual cortex", "the auditory cortex", etc. Which makes me think that "primary sensory cortex" is being used in the plural.

But why, then, is it not written "primary sensory cortices" or "primary sensory cortexes"?
If Pinker really does write "primary visual cortex" (with an article) and "the visual cortex" (with an article), then he's being weird. Both are more typically written without an article. The only explanation that I can give for what Pinker is doing is this: he drops the article when referring to something that maps one-to-one to a single Brodmann area. Primary visual cortex Brodmann's Area 17; visual cortex includes 17 and a few others.

With that said, the Wikipedia entry for Brodmann areas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area) is also inconsistent and actually used or omits articles in the opposite manner from Pinker. So my new guess is we're all just fucking with you.

Thanks!

#44577

I did an informal survey at lunch and it was close to evenly split, with about half saying that they never use an article and about half saying that they always use an article. But that wasn't the biggest surprise. The last guy said that he decides whether to use an article after trying the sentence both ways. He goes with the option that "reads" better in terms of internal cadence and such. Given that he is one of the best writers in the dept, no-one argued and we went back to talking about really important stuff, starting with Tripp Palin getting arrested (again).

#44578

With regards to femfrequency's latest video “Strategic Butt Coverings” I found some blog place that gave it a great review. So I commented in the discussion something like

Of course women have great asses. That's why women buy yoga pants by the millions and men not so much. Men don't have great asses. And that's why women take selfies of their great asses and post them all over the web, and again, men not so much. Who are the worst exploiters of women's great asses? Women with great asses are.

It got deleted. Apparently I was being an ass.

#44579

MacGruberKnows wrote:With regards to femfrequency's latest video “Strategic Butt Coverings” I found some blog place that gave it a great review. So I commented in the discussion something like

Of course women have great asses. That's why women buy yoga pants by the millions and men not so much. Men don't have great asses. And that's why women take selfies of their great asses and post them all over the web, and again, men not so much. Who are the worst exploiters of women's great asses? Women with great asses are.
It got deleted. Apparently I was being an ass.

A men's ass at that.

#44580

Austria becomes the first EU nation to set an upper limit to refugee admissions: no more than 37,000 in 2016, with a total of no more than 127,500 through 2019. (Equal to 1.5% of the Austrian population.)

http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti ... -wird.html

Österreich hat als erstes europäisches Land für die Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen eine Obergrenze gesetzt: In diesem Jahr sollen höchstens 37.500 Asylbewerber aufgenommen werden, bis Ende 2019 sollen es maximal 127.500 sein – 1,5 Prozent der österreichischen Bevölkerung.

And they're erecting a fence. The Merkel is disappointed in the Austrians, naturally.