The Refuge of the Toads

#70801

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: A good bike for a beginner, light and playful when needs be.

Anyone else get a feeling of inpending doom?

#70802

I'm putting you out of your misery

#70803

Oh look now I'm the pit killer

#70804

WITNESS ME

#70805

rayshul wrote:WITNESS ME

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

Guest_935516df · #70806

3rd attempt on trying to find the most pro-abortion T-shirt Watson could wear.

https://i.imgur.com/00Xcs3n.jpg

-Soylent

#70807

Steersman wrote:Wikipedia:
Miller became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations,[1] particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi.[2][3] The New York Times later determined that a number of stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate. ...
Kind of ironic that Miller is throwing stones at Manning when far more people died as a result, in part, of Miller's too hasty peddling of a hoax or fakenews created, intentionally or not, by the "Intelligence" Community.

YES THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THE JOKE IN METICULOUS DETAIL, STEERS. WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT YOU.

#70808

3rd time is a charm, nice.

#70809

feathers wrote:
Steersman wrote:Wikipedia:
Miller became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations,[1] particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi.[2][3] The New York Times later determined that a number of stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate. ...
Kind of ironic that Miller is throwing stones at Manning when far more people died as a result, in part, of Miller's too hasty peddling of a hoax or fakenews created, intentionally or not, by the "Intelligence" Community.
YES THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THE JOKE IN METICULOUS DETAIL, STEERS. WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT YOU.

This time I really needed him man...

#70810

rayshul wrote:Happy birthday Brive

I don't get the Judith Miller joke. -.-

I'm certain Steers can explain it.

#70811

Guest_935516df wrote:Maybe this is what she is looking for?
https://i.imgur.com/9Zg3Rrf.jpg

-Soylent

https://i.imgur.com/9Zg3Rrf.jpg

Now that must be meant as corn on the mills of the pro-lifers.

#70812

rayshul wrote:This time I really needed him man...

Well sure, the link to Ms Miller's WP is welcome, but there's absolutely no need to explicate why it is so ironic.

#70813

Brive1987 wrote:For when you look up "virtue signalling" in the dictionary.

http://i.imgur.com/5VNLfLW.jpg

She is lucky her parents apparently didn't have the option.

Long ago, National Lampoon put out a 1964 high school yearbook parody. I remember a picture of a twerp with a listing of clubs he belonged to. One of them was the Future Veterans of Foreign Wars.

I always got a smile out of that joke.

I never thought I'd see a try-hard doofus like that guy in real life.

http://imgur.com/oW3btbh.png

#70814

feathers wrote:
rayshul wrote:This time I really needed him man...
Well sure, the link to Ms Miller's WP is welcome, but there's absolutely no need to explicate why it is so ironic.

I'm drunk feathers and I need things explained very slowly to me with small words.

#70815

Shoop Watson an abortion t-shirt with a Down's syndrome kid on it. If you are pro-abortion, rather than simply pro-choice, it stands to reason you'd be especially pro-Downs abortion too right?

Or maybe a smiling Indian couple surrounded by boys, happy that they didnt have to burden themselves with a girl?

#70816

Guest_935516df wrote:3rd attempt on trying to find the most pro-abortion T-shirt Watson could wear.

https://i.imgur.com/00Xcs3n.jpg

-Soylent

Thanks. Dude needed a bucket of cold water to settle him down.

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

#70817

rayshul wrote:
feathers wrote:
rayshul wrote:This time I really needed him man...
Well sure, the link to Ms Miller's WP is welcome, but there's absolutely no need to explicate why it is so ironic.
I'm drunk feathers and I need things explained very slowly to me with small words.

My pleasure; happy to be of service, m'am. :-)

I thought that you might have missed my earlier comments, or that - horror of horrors! - you had me on ignore. But that it was worth the effort to sally forth, "once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more". So to speak. I find it rather amazing, the extent to which the key to understanding something can be an apparently trivial detail - like the primer in Contact, or the Rosetta Stone - and that repetition, particularly with rephrasing, frequently pays dividends.

:obscene-drinkingcheers:

#70818

Steersman wrote:I thought that you might have missed my earlier comments, or that - horror of horrors! - you had me on ignore. But that it was worth the effort to sally forth, "once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more". So to speak. I find it rather amazing, the extent to which the key to understanding something can be an apparently trivial detail - like the primer in Contact, or the Rosetta Stone - and that repetition, particularly with rephrasing, frequently pays dividends.

:obscene-drinkingcheers:

I feel like you'd be great as the sober companion to a group of drunks, actually.

As a note I only use ignore as a last resort for the truly worthless or frankly terrifyingly potentially illegal types. It's super rare I ever use it.

#70819

I've been wondering if it's possible to ignore oneself. I'm the only one I don't want to read.

#70820

Snapfingers wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: A good bike for a beginner, light and playful when needs be.
Anyone else get a feeling of inpending doom?

Is that when you swallow a burp and fart at the same time?

#70821

rayshul wrote:I feel like you'd be great as the sober companion to a group of drunks, actually.

Or he could be the reason you started drinking in the first place.

#70822

Brive1987 wrote:Thanks. Dude needed a bucket of cold water to settle him down.

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

HEE! :clap: :clap:

#70823

feathers wrote:
rayshul wrote:I feel like you'd be great as the sober companion to a group of drunks, actually.
Or he could be the reason you started drinking in the first place.

I think this is a true point but I'm not sure because - drunk

Guest_935516df · #70824

I still think my first attempt at Watson's pro-abortion T-shrit had more class.
-Soylent

#70825

"The Girl on the Train"

Give me back my last two days of leisure reading.

What a piece of shit. It needed a trigger warning.

Fuck fuck fuck.

#70826

Steersman wrote:
rayshul wrote:
I'm drunk feathers and I need things explained very slowly to me with small words.
My pleasure; happy to be of service, m'am. :-)

I thought that you might have missed my earlier comments, or that - horror of horrors! - you had me on ignore. But that it was worth the effort to sally forth, "once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more". So to speak. I find it rather amazing, the extent to which the key to understanding something can be an apparently trivial detail - like the primer in Contact, or the Rosetta Stone - and that repetition, particularly with rephrasing, frequently pays dividends.

:obscene-drinkingcheers:

I see the light - the scales have fallen from my eyes.

Thanks to Steers for taking his thumb off them.

By the way - didn't this Mrs Miller chick have a couple of hits in the 60s?

#70827

Brive1987 wrote:Thanks. Dude needed a bucket of cold water to settle him down.

I think Rebecca has you blocked. I don't see it unless I look at your twitter feed directly.

#70828

Ophelia's gotten wind of that outlier event coming up at Portland CFI. I guess the sting of being the witch in the hunt is wearing off, she's starting to bend back into Justice Warrior shape.

http://imgur.com/MgZZTf0.jpg

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/201 ... rrectness/

#70829

deLurch wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Thanks. Dude needed a bucket of cold water to settle him down.
I think Rebecca has you blocked. I don't see it unless I look at your twitter feed directly.

Oh Rebecca killed me Toni's ago. In fact sometime last year Stollie finally got around to blocking me despite the fact I only followed her and never tweeted at her.

My expectation is that it will appear on brainwise's feed given I was replying to his tweet.

#70830

How did "yonks" get changed to the nonsense "toni's"? WTF?

#70831

Has Zinnia Jones taken credit for Chelsea Manning's commutation yet?

#70832

Ape+lust wrote:Ophelia's gotten wind of that outlier event coming up at Portland CFI. I guess the sting of being the witch in the hunt is wearing off, she's starting to bend back into Justice Warrior shape.

http://imgur.com/MgZZTf0.jpg

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/201 ... rrectness/

"Isn't it more important to fight Trump using our proven failing tactics rather than spend time on useless things like reforming our side to get rid of internally divisive and unproductive issues and develop new tactics that could actually work?"

#70833

Brive1987 wrote:"The Girl on the Train"

Give me back my last two days of leisure reading.

What a piece of shit. It needed a trigger warning.

Fuck fuck fuck.

Sorry. I could've warned you.

#70834

Brive1987 wrote:How did "yonks" get changed to the nonsense "toni's"? WTF?

yanks

#70835

Must have been Russian hackers.

#70836

Steersman wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
Lsuoma wrote: Can someone explain?
I don't get it, either.

Oh, and happy birthday, Brive. Wifey and I are having a 50th year long celebration, because one day is far too short.
Wikipedia:
Miller became embroiled in controversy after her coverage of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion was discovered to have been based on the inaccurate information in the intelligence investigations,[1] particularly those stories that were based on sourcing from the now-disgraced Ahmed Chalabi.[2][3] The New York Times later determined that a number of stories she had written for the paper were inaccurate. ...
Kind of ironic that Miller is throwing stones at Manning when far more people died as a result, in part, of Miller's too hasty peddling of a hoax or fakenews created, intentionally or not, by the "Intelligence" Community.

I think the joke is probably her 2nd achievement from Wikipedia:

Miller was later involved in the Plame Affair, in which the status of Valerie Plame as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) became widely known. When asked to name her sources, Miller invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the Central Intelligence Agency leak and spent 85 days in jail protecting her source, Scooter Libby. Miller later was forced to resign from her job at the New York Times in November 2005. Later, she was a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. On December 29, 2010, numerous media outlets reported that she had signed on as a contributing writer to the conservative magazine Newsmax.

#70837

Ape+lust wrote:Ophelia's gotten wind of that outlier event coming up at Portland CFI. I guess the sting of being the witch in the hunt is wearing off, she's starting to bend back into Justice Warrior shape.

[.img]http://imgur.com/MgZZTf0.jpg[/img]

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/201 ... rrectness/

The Witch of the Web wrote:Yes, there are plenty of silly people on the left, as there always are. Yes, many of them get too worked up about things that aren’t all that important. No, the best people to talk about such things are not Christina Hoff Sommers and Peter Boghossian.

Also, don’t worries about college students demanding trigger warnings seem a little less urgent now as Donald “I hate political correctness” Trump slithers into the White House?

So we should give SJWs a free pass because Trump becomes president?

Should we also pardon all forthcoming PETA actions because of Trump? People parking their car in a handicap place?

#70838

Cancer claims its latest victim. My uncle. RIP. :(

#70839

feathers wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:Ophelia's gotten wind of that outlier event coming up at Portland CFI. I guess the sting of being the witch in the hunt is wearing off, she's starting to bend back into Justice Warrior shape.

[.img]http://imgur.com/MgZZTf0.jpg[/img]

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/201 ... rrectness/

The Witch of the Web wrote:Yes, there are plenty of silly people on the left, as there always are. Yes, many of them get too worked up about things that aren’t all that important. No, the best people to talk about such things are not Christina Hoff Sommers and Peter Boghossian.

Also, don’t worries about college students demanding trigger warnings seem a little less urgent now as Donald “I hate political correctness” Trump slithers into the White House?
So we should give SJWs a free pass because Trump becomes president?

Should we also pardon all forthcoming PETA actions because of Trump? People parking their car in a handicap place?

SJWs are part of the reason Trump is in the whitehouse. This is the time to stick the boot in.

Maybe Benson wants to give him a second term.

#70840

Brive1987 wrote:"The Girl on the Train"

Give me back my last two days of leisure reading.

What a piece of shit. It needed a trigger warning.

Fuck fuck fuck.

The name of the central character, Rachel Watson, was a bit unsettling for me.

#70841

Pitchguest wrote:Cancer claims its latest victim. My uncle. RIP. :(

Condolences Pitch.

#70842

Condolences, Pitchguest.

#70843

Nothing to be done about it. He hid the fact that he was sick for years until we found out just a few days ago when he nearly collapsed in his apartment. He was almost 70. It was inevitable sooner or later. Still, what a cunt of a disease. It's strange how quickly things can go from bad to worse, though. Met him just a week ago. He looked fine. He could speak just fine and he didn't seem to have any problems breathing (it was lung cancer). Then all of a sudden he's hospitalised, the next day one of his lung collapses and the day after that he's put in a respirator. And that was it.

Anyway. Thanks, guys. :romance-grouphug:

#70844

Just finished The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber-you might know him from Under The Skin.

It's the story of a christian missionary on an alien planet. I recommend it. The story didn't go any of the ways I expected it to.

Slightly related topic; pretty much all of the sci-fi I've read assumes that advanced civilizations will be atheistic or at least secular, but what if we encounter an advanced species evangelical with a religion incomprehensible-or just plain silly-to us?

#70845

Brianna Wu's campaign ad: https://vimeo.com/199922977

#70846

rayshul wrote:WITNESS ME

MEDIOCRE!

#70847

Snapfingers wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: A good bike for a beginner, light and playful when needs be.
Anyone else get a feeling of inpending doom?

I've had 400kms on the bike so far, on most types of road (country, mountain, highway, speedway, city street, Monaco...) and am not dead yet. In my defense, my driving style is a mix of grandma and Steers. Careful at every moment, and stuck at an almost robotic level of adhesion to the speed limits.

That's what makes biking fun for me. Always in search of the next speed sign to adjust my driving. My favorite is a 30km/h zone switching directly to a 90. Gives pretty cool accelerations.

And I finally received my comfort saddle and top-case. Now it really feels more like a medium-sized tourer than an ass-rocket.

#70848

Pitchguest wrote:Cancer claims its latest victim. My uncle. RIP. :(

Sorry to hear that, Pitch. Cancer is one hell of a bitch. All my sympathies.

#70849

Pitchguest wrote:Cancer claims its latest victim. My uncle. RIP. :(

So sorry. Was this your dad's brother?

#70850

Brive1987 wrote:How did "yonks" get changed to the nonsense "toni's"? WTF?

Ah, I spent toni's trying to figure out what you meant...

#70851

Tigzy wrote:Brianna Wu's campaign ad: https://vimeo.com/199922977

Christ.

Is it just me, or does Brianna's voice sound... pitched up a bit? I've no idea what it usually sounds like, but the audio has that 'fluttery' sound you can get from pitching.

#70852

Tigzy wrote:Brianna Wu's campaign ad: https://vimeo.com/199922977

I'm Brianna Wu. Putting on some hose & heels to take the sportbike out for a meatspin.

#70853

Start by putting on a fucking helmet, ya cunt!

#70854

katamari Damassi wrote:Just finished The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber-you might know him from Under The Skin.

It's the story of a christian missionary on an alien planet. I recommend it. The story didn't go any of the ways I expected it to.

Slightly related topic; pretty much all of the sci-fi I've read assumes that advanced civilizations will be atheistic or at least secular, but what if we encounter an advanced species evangelical with a religion incomprehensible-or just plain silly-to us?

Did your copy identify as male or female?

http://nicholaskotar.com/wp-content/upl ... ERBACK.jpg

#70855

katamari Damassi wrote:Slightly related topic; pretty much all of the sci-fi I've read assumes that advanced civilizations will be atheistic or at least secular, but what if we encounter an advanced species evangelical with a religion incomprehensible-or just plain silly-to us?

You mean, Americans?

#70856

Hello? It wasn't that funny...

#70857

[youtube][/youtube]

The comments section of this video is a blazing landfill of salt, tears and shit-contaminated butt-lotion.

(the vid is pretty lulzy, too)

#70858

Service Dog wrote:
Tigzy wrote:Brianna Wu's campaign ad: https://vimeo.com/199922977

I'm Brianna Wu. Putting on some hose & heels to take the sportbike out for a meatspin.

She kept her horrifying visage out of the ad. That was smart. Why bring up gamer gate though? Does she think the people in her district know/care about something so inconsequential to their lives?

#70859

feathers wrote:Hello? It wasn't that funny...

I chuckled.

#70860

Pitchguest wrote:Cancer claims its latest victim. My uncle. RIP. :(

condolences - but be glad it was not drawn out, this can be terrible for both the one who dies and the family