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The fabulous Hayseed Dixie! Specially for Bhurzum:

Door could open outwards- no problem then

CommanderTuvok wrote: Every single feminist and SJW protestor I've seen, has always smirked when they have trashed some place up, or assaulted somebody, at a protest. That makes them assholes. Videos of them doing that get recirculated and they get called out on it and ridrculed for their scumbag a...

For me has to be Sarsour - thoroughly nasty bitch

shoutinghorse wrote: ↑ Jesus fucking wept :shock:

https://i.imgur.com/qbzi9Wp.png

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulo ... ina-jolie/

This has to be a joke or spoof? I can't see any Surgeon allowing anyone to do this.

None of the embedded tweets show up for me. There's just a perpetual "loading tweet" image. Having said that, twitters own shortened URL links don't work for me either. Maybe something to do with the new firefox quantum? I get the same, bowever clicking on link opens tweet. This is mobile only. New...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 26, 2017 2:01 pm
Just want to say a big thank you to everyone who stuck around while the Pit was running like shit. Glad it's fixed.

It seems to work a lot better and thank God/FT for the end of the double posting! :dance: :dance:

John D wrote:

This is hilarious! :clap: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

PZ replaced the Turkey with jollof rice and hot pepper soup, with naan on the side. I have no idea how authentically Nigerian they were, but they were delicious, especially the soup. Something about the base — onions, habeneros, and garlic — was particularly tasty. +1, would cook again. How very ed...

For me the point is once you be are refused a couple of time surely any advance has to come the from the person previously propositioned as otherwise (as seems to be happening here) I don't see how it is not harassment. Or am I being stupid? Taking so long to post preview have given up with results...

Creepy. Pathetic. Time to stop. http://i.imgur.com/qIcRgy1.jpg If cartomancer were hitting on a woman in this fashion people in the horde would call it sexual harassment. For me the point is once you be refused a couple of time surely any advance has to come the the person previously propositioned ...

Guest_d2e60302 wrote:
Well 404'd already
It's in google's cache atm. Search for quillette marcuse critical theory.

Still 404

Great article about Critical Theory entryism on Quillette: http://quillette.com/2017/11/21/mill-marcuse-creep-critical-theory/ I was in my daughter's school last week for a parent-teacher meeting. Most of the posters in her classroom were not education-focused, but instead about how bullying is bad...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Fuck!!! Fuckfuckfuckfuck!!!!!

Some cunt dropped my bike and destroyed the front shell. And that cunt wasn't me.

I presume they are paying for the replacement?

Lsuoma wrote:So fuck this Dreamhost shit - I'm going to migrate to an AWS host sometime soon. There'll likely be about half a day downtime, but I'll let you know in advance.

Thanks for the warning - really appreciate what you do

Bhurzum wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:What is "extreme pornography"?
http://i.imgur.com/YUSpXAU.jpg

;)

Phil in good disguise there :whistle:

Things appear to be kicking off in Saudi Arabia. The Crown Prince has ordered the arrest of several Royal family members including his son. Missiles have been launched from Yemen targeting Riyadh airport and the Lebanese Prime Minister has resigned whilst on a visit. Something afoot methinks. :? ht...

I don't know what's going on in Melody's largely empty head, but from what I've seen of her, she strikes me as a lazy, bad tempered, highly strung, manipulative, crybullying, drama-mongering pain in the arse, of a kind liable to go into major meltdowns when she doesn't get her way. Those are the qu...

I don't know what's going on in Melody's largely empty head, but from what I've seen of her, she strikes me as a lazy, bad tempered, highly strung, manipulative, crybullying, drama-mongering pain in the arse, of a kind liable to go into major meltdowns when she doesn't get her way. Those are the qu...

For some reason I received the following email - ni idea why and completely out of the blue. Looks like a complete waste of peoples energy and time to me. We are pleased to announce the creation of Women's & Gender Studies Research Network (WGSRN) with 17 eJournals focusing on major areas of schola...

For some reason I received the following email - ni idea why and completely out of the blue. Looks like a complete waste of peoples energy and time to me. We are pleased to announce the creation of Women's & Gender Studies Research Network (WGSRN) with 17 eJournals focusing on major areas of scholar...

Shatterface wrote:Note to British readers: Iain M Banks's Culture novels are £2.99 each on Amazon at the moment.

Got them all in paperback (some also in hardback) but it's handy to have them digitally. There's probably somewhere I could get them online for free but that's not my thing.

Thanks for this

Shatterface wrote:If all the objections to Brexit I've seen, 'old people shouldn't vote' is easily the most objectionable.

If that is what I said I would agree but this is a strawman

So after being subjected to bitching and lecturing for months on end older folk have decided not to talk about it in front of the young 'uns. Well fuck me, I'd have never expected that. Well they don't want to talk about it because they are being lectured etc. - not happening in my family but becau...

I also think a point that is often overlooked here is the demographic of the actual referendum vote - the majority that voted Brexit are overwhelmingly in the older age groups and remain is overwhelmingly in the younger age groups. It seems insane to me that this demographic split can be used to de...

I also think a point that is often overlooked here is the demographic of the actual referendum vote - the majority that voted Brexit are overwhelmingly in the older age groups and remain is overwhelmingly in the younger age groups. It seems insane to me that this demographic split can be used to de...

No, over half the voters voted one way, less than half voted the other way, and the politicians interpreted the results the only possible way they could be interpreted. Some numbers are bigger than other numbers. That's not just a point of view. Yes, about half - my point is that the population is ...

More specifically, the label "glider" can be applied or not more or less categorically: an aircraft has an engine or it doesn't, and is therefore either not a glider or it is one - there really aren't any other possibilities. Lots of things clearly exist, apparently, in a continuous spectrum. But i...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I ONLY READ IT FOR THE ARTICLES!!!

Well here's a post about a couple of Playboy Articles I certainly read:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/hugh-hefn ... -and-chess

(Can't remember anything else in them though) :shhh:

Transgender research blocked because it is "politically incorrect" Bath Spa University 'blocks transgender research' From the section UK Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with A therapist says he is "astonished" by a university's decision to stop him studying people who dec...

oops sorry about double post

Did I mention the anniversary brunch in Monte Carlo? (It's a bit less glamour when I have to go through there everyday to drive Ali to work, but damn! That was excellent!) https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21764782_10155959612996165_7683400533476423123_n.jpg?oh=07e0047c943fb562a801cd623...

Did I mention the anniversary brunch in Monte Carlo? (It's a bit less glamour when I have to go through there everyday to drive Ali to work, but damn! That was excellent!) https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21764782_10155959612996165_7683400533476423123_n.jpg?oh=07e0047c943fb562a801cd623...

On a past or future to visit I must admit I find a future where iain M Banks Culture exists and I am part of it appealing - highly unlikely of course.

Is being called a ni**er now a pit kill?

Interesting article on depressi9n by Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/12/toward-a-predictive-theory-of-depression/ TOWARD A PREDICTIVE THEORY OF DEPRESSION POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 BY SCOTT ALEXANDER [Epistemic status: Total wild speculation] I. The predictive processing model ...

Having read some of the other tales on CD since the first post I can see where people are coming from. For me the biggest issue was getting over the feeling of worthlessness and the routine of the Monastery together with he non-judgemental approach of the Monks and other people I was with together w...

I think there is a significant difference between people just feeling down & out for a little bit, and people who are so continuously and deeply depressed that they cannot function. The former probably just boils down to learning & following some basic life skills instead of popping pills, and the ...

For the first time, more than half of people in the UK do not identify as religious, a survey suggests. Last year 53% of people described themselves as having "no religion", in a survey of 2,942 adults by the National Centre for Social Research. Among those aged between 18 and 25, the proportion was...

Ha ha ha. Even though I graduated high school, my parents are heterosexual, still alive, and still married, and I've never been called a dyke or a fag (two separate questions, mull over that for a moment), it's official*: adf2ddc7e59d7e26cad0a916466ebfee-14.jpg * h/t the Buzzfeed Institute of Highe...

Sinister: A few years ago, A Voice For Men & other MRA sites reported a list of supposed forms of domestic abuse (used in Australia, if I recall correctly) which included "using logic" in arguments-- as abusive. (logic is a patriarchal social construct which prioritizes toxic male ways of thinking ...

MarcusAu wrote:
screwtape wrote:
New Pit schism: Nissen vs. Quonset copy. Datsun argument worth having.
You are a terrible human being.

Qonset is just an American Copy

Anyone here familiar with Fredrik DeBoer ? He is a left wing academic & writer on such topics as free speech, intersectionality and other related matters. I'm part-way though his interview on the ' So to Speak ' podcast - and am enjoying his analysis. https://soundcloud.com/so-to-speak-the-free-spe...

Shatterface wrote:Is everyone in customer services a total cunt or am I just unlucky in who picks up the phone?

Have you ever thought you're thinking about the wrong end of the phone here? :whistle:

In Blighty, a story about a Christian child (?) who was placed with conservative Muslim foster parents, is doing the rounds. http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/28/christian-girl-was-forced-into-foster-home-where-nobody-spoke-english-6883624/ Claims are that the parents speak Arabic in the main, leaving her...

Thanks for nothing, useless wankers. Hey, that was 12 minutes lag time. What do you think this is? Microsoft tech support? long enough now I think - what a way to pit kill! However again I have no problems Phil. I also have no idea why you do either given I struggle to post a youtube link perhaps t...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/dreamhost-takes-a-beating-after-hosting-racist-daily-stormer/ Showing my complete ignorance here but my pit access has been uninterrupted from UK. Why would only some people have an issue? After the Brexit and your newly-gained freedom, issues of hate spe...

Lsuoma wrote:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... y-stormer/

Showing my complete ignorance here but my pit access has been uninterrupted from UK. Why would only some people have an issue?

If only they'd shut up and listened to the Womyn - this wouldn't of happened:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41037826

I have a Buster Keaton box set on pre-order. One of the films is The General in which Keaton plays a man declared unfit to serve in the army but who wanted to fight for the Confederate side. He said at the time “It’s awful hard to make heroes out of the Yankees.” Birth of a Nation and Gone With the...

Only joined yesterday, and already I totally failed the wank challenge. Boy, this is a tough group. Ya gotta start slow, young padawan. Maybe start with a nice Michelle Jenneke gif... https://coedmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/michelle-jenneke-dance-before-race.gif?w=750 ...then a Shirley Man...

John D wrote:

Doesn't look at lot different from what happened in Baghdad when Hussein was toppled. Even includes the foot stamping. These people really annoy me - it seems that like Big Brother and The party only they decide what is history and what you can know.

Interesting post by Mano Singham:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/20 ... more-42963

Nithing in UK newa BOUT THIS.

Sarah Reed death: Mentally ill 'should not be assessed in prison' [/b] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40901814 Last year 22 women died in prison. Holloway, which was western Europe's biggest female-only prison, was closed last May after it was branded inadequate by inspectors. In 2016 ...

My parents had the first edition. I remember reading it in the 1980s without any pre knowledge and being shattered by the ending. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/OnTheBeach.jpg Never read this - so no The movie was good too. Despite the nagging feeling that the whole cast were going ...

Brive1987 wrote:My parents had the first edition. I remember reading it in the 1980s without any pre knowledge and being shattered by the ending.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... eBeach.jpg

Never read this - so no

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:Also nuking Oz probably wouldn't make it any weirder than it is now.
Nuking the entire world but Oz would make a good premise for a book.

Sort of been done in John Wyndham's The Chrysalids. Difference is that New Zealand is the survivor.

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:A triple. Picture my...fuckit.

You obviously wish they would do it more often :think:

Hoax paper publisked? Is this actually true?

https://www.livescience.com/59927-midi- ... rnals.html

Can't tell myself (plead ignorance here)

I've noticed over the last few pages that between all the Pit Art Masters, Parsehole awards and Best Post Evahs those of us who still have an edit button are a distinct and dwindling minority. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSO2cz2ozQ[/youtube] I'm holding out for a "Slymepit Lifetime of...

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