Periodic Table of Swearing

[decius]

where are all the Limey cunts?.

Here i am, Gawd save the queenie, don'tcha Know pip pip & all that. Would i be TOTALLY out of order suggesting the occasional :naughty:DDOS on Mordor? I know it's "Upping the ante" a bit but just occasionally & for short periods we could be a REAL pain to them? :shhh:

bismarket:

Yes, I do think something like that would be out of order. There's absolutely no reason for us to behave like that, regardless of their idiocy we should hold ourselves to a higher standard and not resort to such actions. I certainly wouldn't want to participate on a site that organised things like that.

Absolutely. One thing is outing tea-lepathic Sauron's agents, completely another stooping to FTB's level.

Jokes aside, I'm with you 100% on this one.

[MrYellovich]

As far as I know, they only banned his anon account "Curious". I just checked their ban list and the thread which Matt started....

Dillahunty is banned
from
Resolution and moving forward on the Dillahunty incident
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1615

Matt Dillahunty may be allowed back, at some point, if and only if he apologizes, sincerely, for the damage he has done to our community, and makes good on trying to repair that damage.

by Flewellyn
also

I wish, personally, to apologize on behalf of the administrators and moderators, for not moving faster on this. We had hoped that we could come to some reconciliation with Dillahunty on the matter; but we see now that this was wrongheaded of us. It was also wrong for us to put public relations above the sanctity of safe space, by showing differential enforcement of the rules to a "big name".

by Flewellyn

Not a safe place for Matt at this tread
On the Dillahunty matter: your reactions
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1616

Actually, yes. Yes they fucking are. And when you end it by pulling the mask and hiding behind some goddamn experiment, you look like a complete fucking asshole.

by Setar

[real horrorshow]

Would i be TOTALLY out of order suggesting the occasional :naughty:DDOS on Mordor? I know it's "Upping the ante" a bit but just occasionally & for short periods we could be a REAL pain to them? :shhh:

What and hand the FCs a real legal complaint? No, I want them up and blogging, they are the best source of ammunition against themselves.

What?? Oolon a Maiar!? The same level as Sauron and the Balrogs (not to mention the wizards)? No way. Gollum, as was suggested previously, is sufficient for Oolon. A slimy creature famous for a dishonest yet obsequious personality? Soundls like Oolon to me.

I thought Phil Plait was Gollum? Anyway the earlier suggestion of Grima (Wormtongue) gets my vote. The supposed 'advisor' who is a shameless advocate of the enemy's agenda.

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

Now that, right there is a keeper. That's sig-worthy. Has anyone drawn the A+ers attention to that gem? The whole of Laden's attitude to females marks him as what the fainting damsels call a 'creeper'* Oh, and St Effy's willingness to nosh his scabby cock under any and all circumstances gives me the heaves.

*Why not 'creep'? It's the same as Merkins saying 'cheater' instead of 'cheat'. Grammar!

[real horrorshow]

At the risk of seeming inflammatory, I found the LOtR tomes so utterly tedious, boring, stupid, infantile, badly written, riddled with plot defects so as to be quite unreadable.

I agree, I enjoyed the films, but I can't read the books. Riddled with Edwardian public school nonsense towards women and the working class. Not to mention the total absence of logic.

Oolon and Udun sound a bit similar. So I just deduced he was... Oh, never mind!

Oolon

I saw it first. Me me, pay attention to meee!

[Jonathan]

As far as I know, they only banned his anon account "Curious". I just checked their ban list and the thread which Matt started....

Dillahunty is banned
from
Resolution and moving forward on the Dillahunty incident
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1615

Matt Dillahunty may be allowed back, at some point, if and only if he apologizes, sincerely, for the damage he has done to our community, and makes good on trying to repair that damage.

by Flewellyn
also

I wish, personally, to apologize on behalf of the administrators and moderators, for not moving faster on this. We had hoped that we could come to some reconciliation with Dillahunty on the matter; but we see now that this was wrongheaded of us. It was also wrong for us to put public relations above the sanctity of safe space, by showing differential enforcement of the rules to a "big name".

by Flewellyn

Not a safe place for Matt at this tread
On the Dillahunty matter: your reactions
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1616

Actually, yes. Yes they fucking are. And when you end it by pulling the mask and hiding behind some goddamn experiment, you look like a complete fucking asshole.

by Setar

I spent a few minutes perusing those threads. It is truly remarkable, the self-pitying attitude that so many people on there seem to have. One poster said "There isn't a single damn thing I could say that would even make it possible for Matt Dillahunty to understand what he did to me". He makes it sound as if Dillahunty set fire to his house and ran over his dog, rather than merely creating a second account on a forum. Ridiculous.

Not to mention the flagrant abuse of the word "privilege". The A+ers have misused that word so much that I can't read it without inwardly cringing. Apparently giving new posters the benefit of the doubt is an example of privilege.

:violin:

[BarnOwl]

At the risk of seeming inflammatory, I found the LOtR tomes so utterly tedious, boring, stupid, infantile, badly written, riddled with plot defects so as to be quite unreadable.
I actually paid good money for a professionally acted audio version, (famous british actors), but could not bear to listen to the lot the whole way through before summarily deleting the lot, in a mood of despair, disgust and shame.
And don't get me started on the embarrassingly infantile "songs" that litter this abortion of prose.

BLASPHEMY!!!11!!

To support my assertion that oolon = Gollum, I shall now quote from the LotR, chapter The Shadow of the Past.

MKG, you might want to skip over this post. Perhaps you skip over all my posts anyway. :mrgreen:

Gollum had good friends now, good friends and very strong. They would help him. Baggins would pay for it.

What he had been doing he would not say. He only wept and called us cruel, with many a gollum in his throat; and when we pressed him he whined and cringed, and rubbed his long hands, licking his fingers as if they pained him, as if he remembered some old torture. But I am afraid there is no possible doubt: he made his slow, sneaking way, step by step, mile by mile, south, down at last to the land of Mordor.

Mordor draws all wicked things, and the Dark Power was bending all its will to gather them there. The Ring of the Enemy would leave its mark, too, leave him open to the summons.

[Tristan]

... Holy crap. Between that Laden quote and Dillahunty's banning, I expect to have five pages of solid gold hilarity to read by the time I wake up.

[BarnOwl]

Dementia isn't pretty.

Ophelia Benson wrote:

Blah blah blah allegations blah blah blah you Amy Greg Laden blah blah blah doc drops toast violence email blah blah blah.

Duly noted. Plus I ate the pope, and Amy ate a puppy, and Greg ate a baby. Plus we put the bop in the bopshoobopshoobop. We did all the things. Whatever you say.

[url]ttp://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/10/politics-and-the-bloggish-language/#comment-297352[/url]

[Git]

Osama Laden has issues with sex...he has previously categorised consensual BDSM as rape (I kid thee not).

[decius]

At the risk of seeming inflammatory, I found the LOtR tomes so utterly tedious, boring, stupid, infantile, badly written, riddled with plot defects so as to be quite unreadable.

I agree, I enjoyed the films, but I can't read the books. Riddled with Edwardian public school nonsense towards women and the working class. Not to mention the total absence of logic.

You guys just came late to the party. Those shortcomings are apparent only to the mature reader.

[AnonymousCowherd]

OK, I've been drinking but. I just wan tot say I love oyu guys. no relly. really. fuck.

[Dick Strawkins]

Dementia isn't pretty.

Ophelia Benson wrote:

Blah blah blah allegations blah blah blah you Amy Greg Laden blah blah blah doc drops toast violence email blah blah blah.

Duly noted. Plus I ate the pope, and Amy ate a puppy, and Greg ate a baby. Plus we put the bop in the bopshoobopshoobop. We did all the things. Whatever you say.

[url]ttp://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/10/politics-and-the-bloggish-language/#comment-297352[/url]

I've spoken to someone who had personal dealings with her in the past year.
They said that Benson knows very well that people she supports are getting up to some nasty shit, but that she feels that she needs to stick up for those on her side because the opposition (meaning us!) are so much worse!

That explains her silence over Ladens blatant misogyny, harrassment and threats of violence.
He is on her side so she is forced to bite her tongue.
Mind you, the way she enthusiastically jumps into line with those dogpiling 'gender traitors' (a name that gained its currency from her own blog) I'm pretty sure she thinks those on the other side deserve everything they get and it's not so much biting her tongue as much as happily joining the mob.

[real horrorshow]

Dillahunty is banned
from
Resolution and moving forward on the Dillahunty incident
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1615

I especially enjoyed Flewellyns:

I want to stress something here! The policy of assuming good faith for new users, and trying to be welcoming to them, is required only for moderators and admins! We do not require or expect regular users to do this! We encourage those who feel up to welcoming people, to do so, and if you wish, and feel you have the necessary brainspoons, to assume good faith on the part of new posters, but we will not expect this of you, and we will not look down on anyone who doesn't feel up to it. Extending benefit of the doubt is a tiring thing, and if you aren't able, you are not at fault for that.

Yes indeed, behaving like a decent human being, in our much-vaunted 'safe space', is so fatiguing. Feel free to be a cunt.

[Git]

At the risk of seeming inflammatory, I found the LOtR tomes so utterly tedious, boring, stupid, infantile, badly written, riddled with plot defects so as to be quite unreadable.
I actually paid good money for a professionally acted audio version, (famous british actors), but could not bear to listen to the lot the whole way through before summarily deleting the lot, in a mood of despair, disgust and shame.
And don't get me started on the embarrassingly infantile "songs" that litter this abortion of prose.

Fucking Heretic.

[AnonymousCowherd]

I think you guys are on the right track... I don't agree with you all unreservedly, but I'll be damned if this isn't a much healthier group dynamic than what exists at FTB/A+.

Lastly, cunt, you're one hilarious mother fucker. For that matter, all you cunts are, IMO, pretty awesome.

/australian

I citch you agreeing wiv me bruvver and i cut you stone fukkin ded. geddit?


BTW yer fekking shout. /weirdo

Cripes, the awful things people say...

[bismarket]

Your right, it was just an idea. It would be wrong & if anything should start messing up at their website, especially at really important times like when they were trying to organise some sort of campaign to oust someone from their job, something like a link breaking or not being able to do something harmful would result in them attributing the blame here. Your quite correct & if anyone with the skills needed to do this was contemplating such action, i too would advise against it :hand:

[AnonymousCowherd]

Boy I sure fucking love the language police arguments. Yep, they're so fucking useful. Glad we're rehashing all that lovely wank.





Meanwhile, in the real world...

I'm quite annoyed JV quit. I was actually close to angry while at work today, which I suppose I have no right to be. JV doesn't owe anyone anything and obviously he's doing the right thing by him. But fuck these people, really. Imagine if a group of religious people had campaigned to stop someone becoming a leader. Would anyone listen? This feels EXACTLY the same.

O I so agree. I recall throwing a small spanner in the works of a gang of four or more who wanted to use "chairperson" (like, that's sane) instead of chairman and I objected to the use of the clearly misogynistic "son" and offered "chairperdaughter" instead. Trolling started before the internet, you see.

In the same vein, if we are going to bollocks on about werdz then "atheist" is a temple of male privilege and should be a+she/ist. Otherwise, I'm being raped, just because I am so in tune with teh wimminz that I can feel their pain.

Since this was FORTY FUKKING YEARS AGO can we MOVE THE FUCK ON, PLIZ!

[decius]

Your right, it was just an idea. It would be wrong & if anything should start messing up at their website, especially at really important times like when they were trying to organise some sort of campaign to oust someone from their job, something like a link breaking or not being able to do something harmful would result in them attributing the blame here. Your quite correct & if anyone with the skills needed to do this was contemplating such action, i too would advise against it :hand:

Who are you?

You jump in without introduction and first thing you suggest we conspire to commit cybercrimes. When called out, you feign agreement while lacing your second post with further creepy innuendoes, agitprop style.

So who the fuck are you?

[AnonymousCowherd]

I've spoken to someone who had personal dealings with her in the past year.
They said that Benson knows very well that people she supports are getting up to some nasty shit, but that she feels that she needs to stick up for those on her side because the opposition (meaning us!) are so much worse!

That explains her silence over Ladens blatant misogyny, harrassment and threats of violence.
He is on her side so she is forced to bite her tongue.
Mind you, the way she enthusiastically jumps into line with those dogpiling 'gender traitors' (a name that gained its currency from her own blog) I'm pretty sure she thinks those on the other side deserve everything they get and it's not so much biting her tongue as much as happily joining the mob.

The whole point of rationalisation as a defense mechanism is that it knows no boundary, and is directed toward appearing rational. Job done.

[bismarket]

That's got to be Oolon again, typing shit so that he can run back his masters and whine about the nasty stuff those slymepitters are planning.
Just like they called Josh a faggot, eh Oolon?

Oh fuck they seriously got some of you lot paranoid havn't they? Here's my Twitter acc' go take a look at what i've been saying about this stuff since it started. Want me to PROVE it, i'll tweet a fuckin tweet for you if you like?☮

[bismarket]

Your right, it was just an idea. It would be wrong & if anything should start messing up at their website, especially at really important times like when they were trying to organise some sort of campaign to oust someone from their job, something like a link breaking or not being able to do something harmful would result in them attributing the blame here. Your quite correct & if anyone with the skills needed to do this was contemplating such action, i too would advise against it :hand:

Who are you?

You jump in without introduction and first thing you suggest we conspire to commit cybercrimes. When called out, you feign agreement while lacing your second post with further creepy innuendoes, agitprop style.

So who the fuck are you?

https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist
That's me. Shame they got you lot so scared, i loathe them but "Get" the skepticism, once burnt eh? Calm down, if i'm not welcome i'll not come back. I expected better that's all :think:

[AnonymousCowherd]

Australian? I had thought that most Australians were naturally impervious to radfem crazy...

Only the sick cunts and mad cunts are impervious. Unfortunately, there are still academics with strong feminist leanings which do their fair sure of telling male DV survivors and abused boys to shut it. Even some of the radfem hub members were australian....

Germaine Greer, anyone?

Did I hear you say "Beer anyone?" That'd be germane to this conversation.

I know this is likely a well worn track (ahem), but the egregious Harry Hutton deserves a nod;
http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com.au/20 ... ement.html

Click the link? You know you want to!

[Dick Strawkins]

Your right, it was just an idea. It would be wrong & if anything should start messing up at their website, especially at really important times like when they were trying to organise some sort of campaign to oust someone from their job, something like a link breaking or not being able to do something harmful would result in them attributing the blame here. Your quite correct & if anyone with the skills needed to do this was contemplating such action, i too would advise against it :hand:

Who are you?

You jump in without introduction and first thing you suggest we conspire to commit cybercrimes. When called out, you feign agreement while lacing your second post with further creepy innuendoes, agitprop style.

So who the fuck are you?

It's the sort of slimy dishonest tactic that oolon has been pulling recently.

Bismarket, if you are real, why the fuck did you just turn up here and suggest something that would get this board shut down?
That is going to make any group suspicious.

And if you are serious then fuck off.
Giving them a martyr complex is exactly what they want.

[bismarket]

That's got to be Oolon again, typing shit so that he can run back his masters and whine about the nasty stuff those slymepitters are planning.
Just like they called Josh a faggot, eh Oolon?

Oh fuck they seriously got some of you lot paranoid havn't they? Here's my Twitter acc' go take a look at what i've been saying about this stuff since it started. Want me to PROVE it, i'll tweet a fuckin tweet for you if you like?☮

https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Sorry, i forgot the link (durrrr). This hasn't been so good so far has it? I only give this place a pass because at least i don't see you lot trying to ruin anyones career &/or ability to raise a family. Maybe i DID make a mistake & didn't realise just how nervous some of you were but i did expect you to at least assume i was genuine but sadly, just like THEM it was "Go for him" time. Never mind, maybe we can start again? :think:

[AnonymousCowherd]

Your right, it was just an idea. It would be wrong & if anything should start messing up at their website, especially at really important times like when they were trying to organise some sort of campaign to oust someone from their job, something like a link breaking or not being able to do something harmful would result in them attributing the blame here. Your quite correct & if anyone with the skills needed to do this was contemplating such action, i too would advise against it :hand:

Who are you?

You jump in without introduction and first thing you suggest we conspire to commit cybercrimes. When called out, you feign agreement while lacing your second post with further creepy innuendoes, agitprop style.

So who the fuck are you?

https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist
That's me. Shame they got you lot so scared, i loathe them but "Get" the skepticism, once burnt eh? Calm down, if i'm not welcome i'll not come back. I expected better that's all :think:

We aren't "you lot". We are legion, no-one speaks for us. We are calm. Fight your corner, that's all we ask.

Ooh. Creepy, what?

[decius]

https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist
That's me. Shame they got you lot so scared, i loathe them but "Get" the skepticism, once burnt eh? Calm down, if i'm not welcome i'll not come back. I expected better that's all :think:

Since we lack psychic powers and you even use two different monikers, you got the order reversed - the introduction should have come first.

We all "expect better". That's precisely why that shit doesn't fly, here. Other than that, you're welcome to stay by me.

[bismarket]

https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist
That's me. Shame they got you lot so scared, i loathe them but "Get" the skepticism, once burnt eh? Calm down, if i'm not welcome i'll not come back. I expected better that's all :think:

Since we lack psychic powers and you even use two different monikers, you got the order reversed - the introduction should have come first.

We all "expect better". That's precisely why that shit doesn't fly, here. Other than that, you're welcome to stay by me.

OK thanx, i understand. I try to be careful myself & don't often participate in forums at all, but it was what they did to Vacula that was the last straw for me. I don't know if he's got a family to support but it seems so wrong that he's resigned due to them. I do have a habit of going off the deep end but this has gotten me so angry. Maybe i'll do a formal welcome post in a little while after lunch. OK? :)

[Dick Strawkins]

https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist
That's me. Shame they got you lot so scared, i loathe them but "Get" the skepticism, once burnt eh? Calm down, if i'm not welcome i'll not come back. I expected better that's all :think:

Since we lack psychic powers and you even use two different monikers, you got the order reversed - the introduction should have come first.

We all "expect better". That's precisely why that shit doesn't fly, here. Other than that, you're welcome to stay by me.

OK thanx, i understand. I try to be careful myself & don't often participate in forums at all, but it was what they did to Vacula that was the last straw for me. I don't know if he's got a family to support but it seems so wrong that he's resigned due to them. I do have a habit of going off the deep end but this has gotten me so angry. Maybe i'll do a formal welcome post in a little while after lunch. OK? :)

The whole point of this forum is to provide a record of the hypocrisy of the FTB/Skepchick mob. They constantly accuse us of planning various forms of illegal harrassment here but none of that has been shown to be true - leading to them attempting to plant evidence here themselves (yes ooolon, we know what you're doing)

We don't want to silence them - the more noise they make, the more people will see what petty fascists they really are.

[AnonymousCowherd]

http://skepticink.com/justinvacula/2012 ... r-america/

I resign my leadership position with Secular Coalition for America

Well, the A+ers have a winning strategy. I expect them to continue along this course for ANY detractors they have in the future.

for fuck's sake


tosser

+1
Too bloody nice JV. It's not a game. If SCA can't handle this kind of criticism, drop them like a flaming turd, they are NOT an effective advocacy group, no matter how high flown their stated aims are.

[Tigzy]

Fuck, there must be a lot of sad ladies out there, I hear that every time someone says the word cunt a woman's vagina falls out and runs away.

Oh fuck, I nearly pissed meself reading that. A billion internets to you. Sod it, that's gonna be my sig!

In other news - so Dolly Dillahunty has finally been given a full ban at A+ :lol: And didn't he say in his video earlier on that he hadn't been banned by the A+ peeps? :lol: Poor Matt - he's like FfTBs blundering comedy chump. The well-intentioned but dim guy who's in way over his head and just keeps fucking it up for himself. He reminds me of Otis from the Christopher Reeve Superman films. I can just see him waddling over to PZ with his pudgy hand raised, saying 'Mister Lew-thor! Mister Lew-Thor!' Poor sad little twerp. :lol:

[bismarket]

The whole point of this forum is to provide a record of the hypocrisy of the FTB/Skepchick mob. They constantly accuse us of planning various forms of illegal harrassment here but none of that has been shown to be true - leading to them attempting to plant evidence here themselves (yes ooolon, we know what you're doing)

We don't want to silence them - the more noise they make, the more people will see what petty fascists they really are.

Fair enough, my bad! :naughty:

[Dick Strawkins]

Fuck, there must be a lot of sad ladies out there, I hear that every time someone says the word cunt a woman's vagina falls out and runs away.

Oh fuck, I nearly pissed meself reading that. A billion internets to you. Sod it, that's gonna be my sig!

In other news - so Dolly Dillahunty has finally been given a full ban at A+ :lol: And didn't he say in his video earlier on that he hadn't been banned by the A+ peeps? :lol: Poor Matt - he's like FfTBs blundering comedy chump. The well-intentioned but dim guy who's in way over his head and just keeps fucking it up for himself. He reminds me of Otis from the Christopher Reeve Superman films. I can just see him waddling over to PZ with his pudgy hand raised, saying 'Mister Lew-thor! Mister Lew-Thor!' Poor sad little twerp. :lol:

I get the feeling that he knew very well that the A+ crowd are biased (because it's been clear since elevatorgate that the community has divided into the FTB supporters and everyone else and Dillahunty and his fellow conference gravy trainers know exactly which script to stick to.

On the other hand, I think he didn't realize that many of those given the task of running the A+ forum are certifiably insane!

[bismarket]

In other news - so Dolly Dillahunty has finally been given a full ban at A+ :lol:
where did you find that? It was always my hope that Dillahunty would come to his senses.

[Tigzy]

@Bismarket. Welcome! Details of Dolly Dillahunty's Departure from A+ can be found in this post here: http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 700#p17337

[BarnOwl]

Saint N wrote:

Incidentally, other than creating a heavily moderated forum and suggesting that A+scribe thing for the hearing impaired (in the process of which they dogpiled on a commenter for asking an innocent question about first getting copyright permissions), what exactly have any of these people done to promote this whole social justice thing they keep talking about? I mean actual physical results, or at least a working blueprint for planned activism?

Not much. I stopped reading the forum a couple weeks ago, and the only Aplussers who had actually done anything for social justice were a few knitters/crocheters who had made scarves for young people who've "aged out" of foster care, or dog and cat blankets for animal shelters. I do those things myself, and I think they constitute a perfectly legitimate contribution to social justice activism. I got the impression that some of the Aplussers are pretty damaged and fragile individuals, and so crafting things for charity may be about as much engagement as they can handle emotionally. I give them a lot of credit for doing something, and they appear to be the only ones who are engaged with activism at any level. More power to them.

[AnonymousCowherd]

Fuck, there must be a lot of sad ladies out there, I hear that every time someone says the word cunt a woman's vagina falls out and runs away.

Oh fuck, I nearly pissed meself reading that. A billion internets to you. Sod it, that's gonna be my sig!

In other news - so Dolly Dillahunty has finally been given a full ban at A+ :lol: And didn't he say in his video earlier on that he hadn't been banned by the A+ peeps? :lol: Poor Matt - he's like FfTBs blundering comedy chump. The well-intentioned but dim guy who's in way over his head and just keeps fucking it up for himself. He reminds me of Otis from the Christopher Reeve Superman films. I can just see him waddling over to PZ with his pudgy hand raised, saying 'Mister Lew-thor! Mister Lew-Thor!' Poor sad little twerp. :lol:

That's the thing about the Dill. You think he might have been better but, as I predicted with nearly everyone else here, he just isn't.Why? Well, the internet is no place for diagnosis, is it?

Shit. I'll say it. Who needs whom more? The Fag or the Fag Hag?

Or the Fag Blag Hag. (Situationist black joke).

I am begining to hate these people for making me at least sound like I despise things I believe in. Arse-fucking-fuck-shit-licking-shit-holes!

[bismarket]

@Bismarket. Welcome! Details of Dolly Dillahunty's Departure from A+ can be found in this post here: http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... 700#p17337

Thanx! ;)

[AnonymousCowherd]

Not much. I stopped reading the forum a couple weeks ago, and the only Aplussers who had actually done anything for social justice were a few knitters/crocheters who had made scarves for young people who've "aged out" of foster care, or dog and cat blankets for animal shelters. I do those things myself, and I think they constitute a perfectly legitimate contribution to social justice activism. I got the impression that some of the Aplussers are pretty damaged and fragile individuals, and so crafting things for charity may be about as much engagement as they can handle emotionally. I give them a lot of credit for doing something, and they appear to be the only ones who are engaged with activism at any level. More power to them.

Agreed, Barn Owl.

The trouble is that such fragile individuals are exactly those who are the best target for the merchants/gurus/commissars whatever you want to call them. They want a "home" and will do what it takes to get one, including trying to rake anyone who threatens the comfy space they were promised. It's the old quandary of the revolutionary - put them against the wall, or make the wall out of them? Which is why I've always hated revolutionaries.

[Couch]

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

Now that, right there is a keeper. That's sig-worthy.

Your command-wish is my wish-commandment-ness.

[Tigzy]

Why do I have this impression of St. Effy hanging around Laden's arse with a bucket and a trowel?

[TedDahlberg]

I wish that JV and/or the SCA had more stamina.

That's what she said.


I'm sorry, but someone had to.


If I'm to be serious for a moment, it's a shame JV quit, but I can't really blame him if he simply didn't want to put up with all the crap. On the other hand, if the only reason was to make the criticism of the SCA to cease, then I have to say it was a bad political move. Oh well. There's a reason politics of any kind gives me hives.

[TedDahlberg]

At the risk of seeming inflammatory, I found the LOtR tomes so utterly tedious, boring, stupid, infantile, badly written, riddled with plot defects so as to be quite unreadable.
I actually paid good money for a professionally acted audio version, (famous british actors), but could not bear to listen to the lot the whole way through before summarily deleting the lot, in a mood of despair, disgust and shame.
And don't get me started on the embarrassingly infantile "songs" that litter this abortion of prose.

Fucking Heretic.

I feel a schism coming on. Although, as someone else said, I think our dear MKG may have encountered LOtR too late. I have the same thing with Harry Potter. I've read (or listened to) five of the seven books, on the insistence of a friend. They're tolerable, but I can't bring myself to actually like them or care about them. To be fair I suspect I wouldn't like LOtR nearly as much if i re-read them now.

Also, while we're filling out our cast of characters, I hypothesise that ERV = Gandalf - beard. Arnie plays the part of Shadowfax.

[decius]

Cuntalf.

[Tony Parsehole]

At the risk of seeming inflammatory, I found the LOtR tomes so utterly tedious, boring, stupid, infantile, badly written, riddled with plot defects so as to be quite unreadable.
I actually paid good money for a professionally acted audio version, (famous british actors), but could not bear to listen to the lot the whole way through before summarily deleting the lot, in a mood of despair, disgust and shame.
And don't get me started on the embarrassingly infantile "songs" that litter this abortion of prose.

There are no words in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men to describe this OUTRAGE! (Treebeard lol)

[Tony Parsehole]

As far as I know, they only banned his anon account "Curious". I just checked their ban list and the thread which Matt started....

Dillahunty is banned
from
Resolution and moving forward on the Dillahunty incident
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1615

Matt Dillahunty may be allowed back, at some point, if and only if he apologizes, sincerely, for the damage he has done to our community, and makes good on trying to repair that damage.

by Flewellyn
also

I wish, personally, to apologize on behalf of the administrators and moderators, for not moving faster on this. We had hoped that we could come to some reconciliation with Dillahunty on the matter; but we see now that this was wrongheaded of us. It was also wrong for us to put public relations above the sanctity of safe space, by showing differential enforcement of the rules to a "big name".

by Flewellyn

Not a safe place for Matt at this tread
On the Dillahunty matter: your reactions
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1616

Actually, yes. Yes they fucking are. And when you end it by pulling the mask and hiding behind some goddamn experiment, you look like a complete fucking asshole.

by Setar

YES!!!! I guess somebody saw my top comment on the Dillahunty video asking why he still wasn't banned and followed through. At least, that's what I hope they did. This is going to be good.

[Lsuoma]

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[Tony Parsehole]

. One poster said "There isn't a single damn thing I could say that would even make it possible for Matt Dillahunty to understand what he did to me". He makes it sound as if Dillahunty set fire to his house and ran over his dog, rather than merely creating a second account on a forum. Ridiculous.

They overreact on everything. This is just another example of their hyperbolic nonsense. If you act like someone broke into your house on Christmas day and pissed on the kids at the slightest insult what the fuck have you got left when you are genuinely pissed off?

[Philip of Tealand]

I'm almost amazed at the situation with Mat, to see so much outrage and galactic sized amount of butt-hurt over what has happened.

MAAaaaaaaaaaaat How could you do this to us MAAAAAaat WAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! The pain you've inflicted on us all, we may never recover from this! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

WOE IS US, WOE I TELL YOU, THANKS TO YOU WE HAVE ALL THE WOE, IN ALL THE WORLD!

Like the rest of you, I'm tempted to see what Mat will do now he is beginning to experience a little of what disagreeing visitors to the FtB sites have to go through!

[sacha]

So you've heard that too? Thought it was just the weirdo's where I live.

Are you not confusing twat with Twit?

Nope. There are a number of people where I live, parents (but not me) included, who think a pregnant fish is called a twat.
BTW are pregnant fish called twits?

No, but it was a very popular schoolyard meme back in the 1960's.
As very few fish are vivaporous(sp?), it would be bullshit anyway.

twat and twit were originally thought to be pregnant goldfish and then it was shortened to just "fish".

viviparous

[Tony Parsehole]

Why do I have this impression of St. Effy hanging around Laden's arse with a bucket and a trowel?

Bucket and trowel? Drinking straw more like

[Lsuoma]

Welcome Tickle (can I call you Tickle?). I'm still waiting for this fiasco to unroll, but it's interesting to know you were (allegedly) the cause for Matt's foray.

Cheers!

Q: How can you tell if a girl is ticklish?
A: Give her a couple of test tickles.

(Deliberately sexist: fuck the FC(n)!)

[Za-zen]

Hyperbole is the fuel of parody. Thats what makes the ftbers aplussers impossible to parody anymore. They are so hyperbolic that parody doesnt do justice to the absolute crazy they spout. I realised this around the time of the freethoughtblagh parody site. I love satire and parody, the mergence and use of comedy to highlight the absurdity of reality.

The awakening i had was that a lot of freethoughtblaghs was as if it was mirroring freethought blogs. And in some instances the blagh was actually more sensilble than the blog.

You just can't reason with people who are not reasonable. Plussers ftbers are not reasonable. They are ideologues, the association of the term atheist stains the term.

[Lsuoma]

Ok, maybe we were sidetracked all along. "Oolon" sounds suspiciously like "Udun", as in "Flame of Udun". Oolon might be a Maiar, placing him at the same level as Saruman and Mithrandir. He may be his own master.

Fine, enough Tolkien for me. I guess I was triggered by that RPG talk.

That won't stop me from twatting the cunt if he deserves it...

What does that make me?

[Jonathan]

I'm almost amazed at the situation with Mat, to see so much outrage and galactic sized amount of butt-hurt over what has happened.

MAAaaaaaaaaaaat How could you do this to us MAAAAAaat WAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! The pain you've inflicted on us all, we may never recover from this! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

WOE IS US, WOE I TELL YOU, THANKS TO YOU WE HAVE ALL THE WOE, IN ALL THE WORLD!

Like the rest of you, I'm tempted to see what Mat will do now he is beginning to experience a little of what disagreeing visitors to the FtB sites have to go through!

The "reaction" thread over there is quite amusing. One poster is leaving the forum forever because of the special treatment Dillahunty was given by not being banned immediately for sock-puppeting. The word "privilege" was thrown around with reckless abandon. Plus "doubling down", a phrase that I now really dislike.

[Lsuoma]

At the risk of seeming inflammatory, I found the LOtR tomes so utterly tedious, boring, stupid, infantile, badly written, riddled with plot defects so as to be quite unreadable.

Enjoyed it phenomenally when 12, less so when 18, can't read the shit since I turned 30 (22 years ago), except maybe the Hobbit which is playful. Some of his best work is in the short stories like Leaf by Niggle and especially Farmer Giles of Ham. Those two, of course, are heavy allegories for post-WW2 Britain. FGoH is HILARIOUS!

[CommanderTuvok]

Lousy Shit confirms Surly Amy DID doc drop ElevatorGate's real name - which was then used to set up a parody Twitter account including his real name. Not only doc-dropping, but cyberstalking.

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Gotcha!

:dance:

[sacha]

What?? Oolon a Maiar!? The same level as Sauron and the Balrogs (not to mention the wizards)? No way. Gollum, as was suggested previously, is sufficient for Oolon. A slimy creature famous for a dishonest yet obsequious personality? Soundls like Oolon to me.

A Balrog is a Flame of Udun, a Maiar. But I'll concede the Gollum reference, untill proven otherwise by the accused.

I did say I'd stop that Tolkien stuff, didn't I? Oh, yes, I did. My bad...

Gollum is Phil Plait - so that one is already taken. Original ERV Slime Pit

Balrog is JSH

[The Pelagic Argosy]

Ok, maybe we were sidetracked all along. "Oolon" sounds suspiciously like "Udun", as in "Flame of Udun". Oolon might be a Maiar, placing him at the same level as Saruman and Mithrandir. He may be his own master.

Fine, enough Tolkien for me. I guess I was triggered by that RPG talk.

That won't stop me from twatting the cunt if he deserves it...

What does that make me?

Tom fucking Bombadil.

[Tony Parsehole]

Matt's atttitude towards "social justice" will only change if (when) he gets divorced from Lady Macbeth. He wants a quiet life and that means acting like a bellend to appease the missus. There is nothing Matt won't leap to defend so long as his wife believes it needs defending.


She's a Marcotte fan-girrl BTW. Speaks for itself.

[Lsuoma]

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

I suggest that we all now call baldicunt Grag instead of Greg - it's a contraction of "Get off the rag".

Awesome find, BTW.

And Grag, we know you lurk here (I know your ego wouldn't allow you NOT to (plus there are several Hahvahd alum IPs being used, so it's a fair assumption in any case)), so get used to it...

We could also use it as a verb - to grag is to issue an unwarranted, misogynistic and ranty insult.