If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Might be time to split the thread again, sacha. In the meantime, anyone remember this: sbs3Y2HSoiw The Lathe of Heaven Damn, I should look for that. I saw part of the 2002 version on tv and had to stop watching because I loved the book by LeGuin too much (one of her few books not set in her Hainish...

Might be time to split the thread again, sacha. In the meantime, anyone remember this: sbs3Y2HSoiw The Lathe of Heaven Damn, I should look for that. I saw part of the 2002 version on tv and had to stop watching because I loved the book by LeGuin too much (one of her few books not set in her Hainish...

It's obvious from the revalations made by Strawkins, that he put into a nice graphic in post 15006, that PZ2013 would consider it obvious that PZ2006 is a slympitter. He should therefore shun himself, or at least his coblogger CC should ban him for his past crime.

So, we may finally have a bona-fide Neo-Nazi on the Pit? That would cause PZ to have such an orgasm, his screams of pleasure would echo through all the globe. So please DO NOT be a bona-fide Neo-Nazi. I don't want to hear that fatass's orgasmic chants. I for one could care less what PeeZuss Christ ...

*slinks away with head down and tail between legs*... Worry not, young Guest, it was a joke. Or rather, a parody, of a person called "Nerd of Redhead" on PZ Meyers's blog, who infests all threads with demands for "citations to the scientific literature" whenever any non-regular posts. Here, no one ...

Someone said the PZ and Ophie are the true voice of New Atheism on the Glenn Greenwald hit piece on Sam Harris which is full of pro-Islam trolls. http://discussion.guardian.co.uk/comment-permalink/22496214 They're not trolls. Vast chunks of the left are now hand-in-glove with Islam, especially the ...

Thankyou for your kind words everyone. Still a little verklempt when reading them. Part of the process.

Just a note to say how sad I am tonight. My feathered friend that serves as my avatar died in my hand tonight.

I hope all the mods at Atheism plus have their knives sharpened... Carrier's talk might send some fresh meat for them to slay. I think the new folks might be in for a surprise if they believed the talk.

Steph was trying to entrap Hunt -- PZ was obliquely (but not explicitly) referencing the 'Pit and Hunt called PZ out for comparing Lepine to 'Pitters specifically. So she's saying -- hey Hunt -- why'd you assume PZ was talking about the 'Pit - cuz it's true? She's being her usual ruthless, pragmati...

Another facebook post from Aunt Ophelia . 22 whole words. And. All. Of, them, her, own. When you read the post, you'll understand. And here's another one. They're all so smug when they fly down to Texas for a meeting. "Oh wow, there are literate, cultured people here ... and birds and bats." It's a...

I don't know how familiar any of you are with the youtube meme of puting different subtitles on a scene from the german movie Downfall, but the current situation suggests a perfect version, depending on how the next few days go re Nugent's initiative. Open scene in Hitler's (PZ's) warroom (backchann...

So PZ had the woman's "consent" to ask her for sex, repeatedly, after dragging her on stage? Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. That would mean he had discussed with her beforehand exactly what he was going to do and say and she agreed. Oh, and she must have been stone-cold sober when she agreed too else...

PeeZee will not debate anyone, or even make more than a drive-by comment for that matter, anywhere where he doesn't control the situation. Kind of like a kid in grade school who's willing to fight you, but only in his mom's living room, with mom, dad and two older brothers in attendance. What an as...

Southern wrote:
It's settled: exercise yourself naked. That should cut the bullshit levelof this non-issue in about [infinte x 5] %

But maybe guys should keep their dongles in a jock strap (thong for guys)

I don't expect it will be a great opportunity, but I didn't think engaging at Nugent's was going to be the wonderful entertainment it was, so I'm willing to give this a wait and see attitude. I'm not sure I'm the best person to join in on the comments but I may if it doesn't look too busy. I propose...

Tfoot's take on donglegate:

[youtube]KfDoIyI20z0[/youtube]

@ Wonderist: In high school (several geologic era's ago) I took a SF and Fantasy in Literature course and the required reading was "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin. A really interesting story with applications in the gender wars. Le Guin posits a race of neutrally gendered people (w...

EdwardGemmer wrote:I would say - judging feminism based on Melissa McEwan is like judging black people based on the homeless guy that stole your lawnmower.

I'm just wondering why a homeless guy would want my lawnmower.

... but then maybe I'm the only one old enough to remember Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. I think I read them in the 70s. Yep - that's pretty old! I wasn't even the proverbial twinkle in my father's eye for some of the seventies - and somewhat incapable of tackling Asimov for the rest of 'em. Sorry, ...

re: donglegate I don't mind that Adria tweeted as long as she didn't post the pic or identify the guys where they can't defend themselves. She can post her offense at meaningless jokes as much as she wants and we can just laugh. Who also should have mostly just laughed is the boss of the guy who mad...

I hope this didn't come off as dismissive of your feedback. I certainly do appreciate it. But aside from self-censorship, I don't have enough specifics to know what changes I could make that would satisfy your 'bristling'. I welcome any further negative feedback, though, especially if it has someth...

Gefan wrote:
JAB wrote:I'll raise again with Monty Python, of course:
[youtube]EdzqTGmEcZE
Fold.
Well played, xir. :clap:

Of course there are 2 reasons this one is a win...

1. People lose their jobs here due to a silly over reaction,
2. Carol Cleveland

I'll raise again with Monty Python, of course:
[youtube]EdzqTGmEcZE[/youtube]

So "forking" has a sexual connotation?!

Who knew Yogi Berra had such a dirty mind: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"

We, (the US), don't give a squirt of piss about poor oppressed brown, yellow, or black people. We invaded afghanistan because of Bin Laden, and Iraq because of oil. The Kurds were naught but a minor PR bullet point in all that designed to sucker the people who think there's some kind of fucking ide...

We, (the US), don't give a squirt of piss about poor oppressed brown, yellow, or black people. We invaded afghanistan because of Bin Laden, and Iraq because of oil. The Kurds were naught but a minor PR bullet point in all that designed to sucker the people who think there's some kind of fucking ide...

rocko2466 wrote:
Jan Steen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/gaYAYWD.jpg
Steersman's a dick but I love him.

(Like I love dick.)

(Jk. I don't love dick, but I do love Steersman.)

But do you love fishsticks?

:whistle:

re the Minnesota concentration... So lousy canuck is moving there? Did he win the green card lottery or is he going to be an illegal? Maybe PZ thinks he can get him to cut his lawn. About 15 yeary ago my sister and her family moved to South Dakota to a town not far from Morris and of similar size. Q...

I don't get it. Nowhere in the article does it say the woman was homeless- is Dover Street a trailer park? A homeless shelter? While it's disgraceful that she was charged 5 years for the enrollment as well (especially in a country like the US, where education is sorely needed), it does seem the cas...

I don't get it. Nowhere in the article does it say the woman was homeless- is Dover Street a trailer park? A homeless shelter? While it's disgraceful that she was charged 5 years for the enrollment as well (especially in a country like the US, where education is sorely needed), it does seem the cas...

http://i.imgur.com/BEyIF9L.jpg (You didn't really think I could kill those adorable creatures?) Shooting the 'it was all a dream' trope a bit early, dontcha think? It's usually saved for when all of the good ideas are spent. What's next? A pirahana on water skis jumping a shark? Lol. Yeah, I had th...

Reap and I discussed whether Michael Nugent's first post was a set up for the Pit, specifically by targeting Justin who is always keen to engage, and is less suspicious that some. I wondered whether there was any discussion about this beforehand with Baboollies of any stripe. My gut (and it's a big...

Rereading the Ophie/Josh/et al tweets to Nugent and recalling the threads ... it occurs to me that what they were complaining about, and what Ophie was claiming was "destroying her," was really simply the fact that he was allowing a dialogue including the Pit Crew without moderation or banning. If ...

Just to make sure it's clear, "trophy wife" was a snark to an idiot creationist who claimed that PZ was paid a fortune as a professor and had a "trophy wife". PZ took that and made into a joke. He's using it ironically; *he* doesn't consider his wife to be a "trophy wife". Carry on..... But PZ is a...

Da fuq? http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/frequentists_vs_bayesians.png It means that strictly from probabilistic reasoning as presented, the sun has probably exploded, but the frequentist has neglected the prior probability of a sun going nova, which is vanishingly small. The Bayesian knows this, so bet...

Tigzy wrote:
Reap - t'would also be very cool of you could get Steersman on your show. I really wanna know if he talks like he writes. Be warned, he would likely generate massive sound files if that's the case.

Anyone think Reap would get a word in after the first question?

Hey Phil... I hear you're getting a bit of rain there. I hope you're on high ground. Keep dry!

You don't think it's "objective" when close to 90% of the hits for Abbie mentions something about RW or elevator gate? I guess you can lead a horse to water. Hey you started this by saying erv was obsessed with RW, but your search terms only show that others are obsessed with erv. Asshole. Erv post...

I agree. Actually, I think WoW (and other MMO's) found the best solution to the clothing problem, via Transmutation type systems, where people could find the outfit that they WANTED to wear and use that independently of the stats, and it became a thing of personal expression. Options are the soluti...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that axis authoritarian/libertarian?? That would make Ceepolk a Libertarian?!?? Yeah - It wasn't clear whether it was the standard political axis quiz. All I know is that on the self-awareness scale she is an off-the-charts oblivious hypocrite and a walking exampl...

About the Anita Sarkeesian video: Now as for the content of the video itself, did she find some sexist attitudes in the videogaming medium and does she have a point about the over-use of women being kidnapped as a theme? Sure, but we all knew that already. I'm shocked, shocked at this sexism in the...

Josh and Ophelia are harassing Derek Walsh about "lies and character slurs" about Ophelia on one of Nugent's threads. I can't find what they're talking about, and neither can he. https://twitter.com/funkyderek/status/309749170967830528 Actually, he doesn't say he can't find lies, he says he can't f...

Slymepitter (words to the effect of): Fuck. These gender feminists are ruining the atheist / skeptic community / movement. I can't believe that dishonest bitch would deliberately misstate rape statistics and accuse all men of being potential rapists. I tried to politely raise the correct statistics...

Lsuoma wrote: No need - I jumped off a couple of our UK datacenters to locate them, and it all seems pretty clear to me.

He said he's from Hampshire on the Pit: search for oolon and hampshire.

Wow...I didn't even know the pit had data centres in the UK.

:o

I say leave it up but with black bands over the head with an explaination... that way face recognition software won't tag it with anything searchable. Then put the idiot on moderation.

Bhurzum wrote:
But yes, we could do with an official mascot/superhero.

We have a mascot... The Pyt Pit (whose real life identity is Arnie, but nobody recognizes him without the cape)

Double down sounds like a fast food combo upgrade. "Sir, will like to double down your order and get large fries and soda?" They changed their name to Ebb First then Flow, but this version of double down quick was when they still called themselves Hot Bitch Arsenal: [youtube]9e8KZu5QfOA[/youtube]

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
You have a Ukulele. Your argument is invalid!

[youtube]ibVnqxs5S-I[/youtube]

Amanda Marcotte is busy on Twitter relentlessly hammering home the notion that there are 32,000 pregnancies a year from rape in the US. It's not a completely unfounded statistic, but it comes from a 17-year-old study with a sample size of 4000, which estimated almost 700,000 rapes per year with a 5...

Welcome, DGS. This runs unthreaded into topics in the free flowing form it started in a comment thread at erv on scienceblogs long ago. It's not handy, but it fits the pub-like atmosphere of a free associated conversation. There are other topics somewhere in the forum, and I suppose some might occas...

"Punching holes in the states case" is not the same thing as poisoning the well. No, defense attorneys should not engage in victim blaming. There are rules of evidence, shaming the victim should not be allowed. The only questions should be, did xe consent? Was xe able to consent? Was consent withdr...

Just a quick observation on Eric's story. Is this story supposed to show us there's a rape culture? If there's a rape culture I would have expected the other dude having a smoke would have agreed with the asshole, and the bar owner would have shrugged his shoulders and mentioned that he was a regula...

congrats erv!

It would be amazing amazing if this gets things closer to a cure for aids.

but.
but
It would be fucking hilarious if it also accidently by fluke also cured cfs... I don't think I'd ever stop laughing if that happened.

So there's been some discussion of RW going on and I was wondering if anyone has a feeling for this week's events of the queen bee... Early this week she did that drive by on HH's blog and pretty mugh said that she wasn't going to come back to check responses because she had better things to do. The...

After pretty much catching up on 5 pages of stuff, I wanted to say hello to LadyChillax. Welcome to the den of iniquity. Where misogynists roam free and chill girls skip about scantily clothed (ok, that last bit was just wishful thinking on my part). You need to get back to work making us a blog ;)...

This one is for rayshul:

http://vimeo.com/22332904

(twin babies interacting)

Simon and Melody edited (and will promote) PZ's book. Humorously, they will promote through CFI. Because CFI is their own little club for circle-jerking with their friends. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/02/06/hey-theres-a-virtual-book-floating-on-the-verge-of-existence-here/comment-pa...

He Renee, I have an idea for your blog network. A blogless comment section. A few of them actually. Call one of them Fitzpharangula and let it be a place for unmoderated comments on whatever is going on at pharangula that day, and Fitzalmostdiamonds etc. A bit more focused than this place, maybe. W...

Not since ancient Egypt has there been a culture as obsessed with memorials and monuments. Every few miles on any American highway you'll come across make shift memorials for someone who died in an accident there, but at least those are at the location where the death occurred. Nearly every large A...

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