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AndrewV69 wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: I'm all distracted with most of my gene results being in at 23andme. All the health stuff is in, but the ancestry stuff might take up to another week. Although it seems that enough has been looked so far that they can tell me I'm 2.5% Neanderthal, if anyone's interested. That gives me the giggles for some reason.
*wave*

Are any of the traits expressed such as the "long toe" (which I have)?
Hey, cousin caveman! :) I don't think any of my Neanderthal shows physically. I don't have the long toe, and I think my skull bone shape is normal. My score is only a little over the average which is 2.3%. Still though.

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Mykeru wrote:http://knitwitch.com/Weenie_Warmer_2.jpg

Ceci n'est pas un franque
Sock puppet, Mykeru. SOCK puppet!

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6NRNUhO4-7Y/T ... ews-54.jpg

"THIS JUST IN: OPHELIA BENSON STILL A CUNT"

(I've never used the word cunt so much since Ophelia banned everyone from using it. How does that work? Magnets?)

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KiwiInOz wrote:
Mykeru wrote:http://knitwitch.com/Weenie_Warmer_2.jpg

Ceci n'est pas un franque
Sock puppet, Mykeru. SOCK puppet!
Oooh...

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Cunt_0 ... 285328.jpg

You just can't tell by looking, you know.

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Scented Nectar wrote:
Here's most of what they say about it in the video:
"Atheism Plus raid ... The first report of today was sent to us by Dildo Faggins, and it is about raid on atheism webpage, atheism plus. Apparently their forums were at one point flooded with images of gore, shutterporn(shuttercorn? I can't make it out), I admit I had to google this one to want to know what it is, and with just generally pornagraphic material. This of course, led to some level of butthurt, and only selected people could post on their forum. Atheism plus was also attacked in form of Urban Dictionary definitionj, where atheism plus was defined almost as feminazi site. From our research, it seems that the attack wasn't led by a theist, but by another atheist, who are disagreeing with the owner of the site. The site owner apparently criticized atheists for being white males. I'm green male. Is that any better?"
Then he goes on about the urban dictionary ratings and other stuff.
I took a gander at it and I'm fairly certain the green guy said "shoto-porn", which would be anime/manga characters.

I love this place!

*gets more popcorn*

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rayshul wrote:
Steersman wrote: Although I don’t see that a case could be made for “fucking” – the word only seems to add emphasis, I would say that “idiot” is probably analogous. Particularly since PZ and Carrier, among others, have argued, although not particularly well or very credibly, that it qualifies as an insult towards an entire group, similar to their position on gendered insults.
Well I'm going to keep using idiot, so I guess that shows where I stand on these matters. That's the closest I could think of to cunt.
Yea, that seems reasonably analogous, although it’s not really gendered which seems to make things so much worse in the FTB/Skepchick lexicon – at least that was the argument that the Man Boobz regulars were peddling to me as to why “asshole” was acceptable but the gendered insults were not. But it also seems to be considered – at least over there – as “ableist” and such terms have likewise been anathematized.

But I really have to wonder about the increasing level of insults – and the related “piling-on”. If there isn’t an emotional response then it’s a waste of both time and effort, and if there is such a response then presumably they’re used in lieu of rational arguments and criticisms – neither stance being particularly credible. Maybe there’s some justification – sort of like the nuclear option – when rational debate has broken down, but I think it tends to be decidedly counterproductive – a pyrhric “victory” if it can be called that ….

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I am just going to leaave this here:

https://lh3.ggpht.com/-n784GwSG4sE/UIwR ... 591_n.jpeg

Problem?

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Hey Reap and Mykeru

Just found the time to listen to the podcast - great stuff, thanks.

Rebecca Watson, Baboons, naked.

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justinvacula wrote:
That’s just how it is. We were irresponsible enough to decide to be women, so there it is. We can write, or we can avoid constant harassment; we can’t do both. As Stewart said yesterday (and Stephanie quoted him): The real message is “being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility you get for being a woman cunt.”
Fixed it for Ophie, she'll like that.

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Mykeru wrote:Is that all the comments Ophelia and the FTB have made about me. Let's check. I don't want to miss anything.

1. Implying in some way I made a threat against Rebecca Watson. What threat? That claim is legally actionable. ....
Apart from wondering where you took your voice lessons to get it to “vibrate with rage”, it seems to me that it is rather much of a stretch to your apparent conclusion that Ophelia is saying or implying that you “made a threat against Rebecca Watson”. Considering those tweets of hers:
Ophelia Benson wrote:Whoever he is, he’s scary. His voice vibrates with rage throughout. He sounds an inch away from going postal.
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Yes. If R were in front of him – bam.
I would say that all she is saying is a hypothetical: “If R were in front of him [then] bam” – no different from franc’s infamous “if I were a woman then I’d kick you in the cunt”. Don’t go off the deep end in imputing more than is manifest in the statements – that’s FTB/Skepchick modus operandi if not paranoia ….

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http://i.imgur.com/BI9E8.jpg

Where is the bullying from FTB/A+ a commenter of mine wonders :o

Poor us, "stalking" FTB/A+ people by reading the information they make available!

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justinvacula wrote: *image*
Comment is here:
http://skepticink.com/justinvacula/2012 ... -695868617

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Al Stefanelli wrote:Holy fucking shit... I go away for a day and miss all the fun.
I went away and came back to "going postal" is "abusing mail privilege." Oh, how I've missed this place.

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real horrorshow wrote:
justinvacula wrote:
That’s just how it is. We were irresponsible enough to decide to be women, so there it is. We can write, or we can avoid constant harassment; we can’t do both. As Stewart said yesterday (and Stephanie quoted him): The real message is “being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility you get for being a woman cunt.”
Fixed it for Ophie, she'll like that.
"being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility criticism you get for being a woman wrong all the fucking time.

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http://i.imgur.com/n4vxk.jpg

Wow. Just wow.

So, apparently if Amy reveals private information to someone privately it is OK. Maybe? But what about the twitter account @HomerVacula which hinted at the address and name presumably provided in the counter-DMCA?

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Steersman wrote:
Mykeru wrote:Is that all the comments Ophelia and the FTB have made about me. Let's check. I don't want to miss anything.

1. Implying in some way I made a threat against Rebecca Watson. What threat? That claim is legally actionable. ....
Apart from wondering where you took your voice lessons to get it to “vibrate with rage”, it seems to me that it is rather much of a stretch to your apparent conclusion that Ophelia is saying or implying that you “made a threat against Rebecca Watson”. Considering those tweets of hers:
Ophelia Benson wrote:Whoever he is, he’s scary. His voice vibrates with rage throughout. He sounds an inch away from going postal.
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Yes. If R were in front of him – bam.
I would say that all she is saying is a hypothetical: “If R were in front of him [then] bam” – no different from franc’s infamous “if I were a woman then I’d kick you in the cunt”. Don’t go off the deep end in imputing more than is manifest in the statements – that’s FTB/Skepchick modus operandi if not paranoia ….
Bullshit. Franc, no matter how hard he wishes, will never be a woman. His statement, therefore, that if he were a woman he'd kick Ophelia in hers is an expression of no real world significance; it cannot come to pass. I could say "if I were an alien with power to do so, I would come to Earth and pull PZ Meyers's stupid beard out, one hair at a time". It is a fantasy threat.

What Ophelia hinted rather crudely at is that Mykeru would hit/shoot Becky Whatnot were he to find himself in front of her. That is an entirely possible situation and response, and is therefore an actionable libel/slander (whichever. whatever.).

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ReneeHendricks wrote:He sounds an inch away from going postal??? Does Ophelia Benson spend a lot of time around people who "go postal"? Is she a fucking expert? Oddly enough it's the ones who sound rational and completely in control and not scary at all that go the fuck off. Should I be worried that Ophie the Octogenarian will suddenly go off and start firing off rounds? Please. That woman needs to up her fucking meds, I swear.
Isn't the term 'go postal' all nasty and discriminatory and stuff? OK, once in a while someone at the local sorting office will express his frustrations with a 9mm, but is that any reason for the hard-working letter carriers of the US to be smeared by the use of this derogatory and shaming term? Opheliar may claim that it's an 'ambiguous colloquialism' or something but 'intent isn't magic'. (Hey, I'm getting the hang of this terminology, the way it lets you be right all the time!)

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Mykeru wrote:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6NRNUhO4-7Y/T ... ews-54.jpg

"THIS JUST IN: OPHELIA BENSON STILL A CUNT"

(I've never used the word cunt so much since Ophelia banned everyone from using it. How does that work? Magnets?)

Me too, oddly enough. Hell, my roommate doesn't pay attention to these things and she's started using it more than I have. And I normally only use it in writing. Weird.

Fucking cunts, how do they work? (Insane Fainting Couch Posse)

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justinvacula wrote:http://i.imgur.com/n4vxk.jpg

Wow. Just wow.

So, apparently if Amy reveals private information to someone privately it is OK. Maybe? But what about the twitter account @HomerVacula which hinted at the address and name presumably provided in the counter-DMCA?
That was apparently someone else, who just happened to get the information privately. Thus, Surly is free and clear of all guilt, since there was no way she made the information public. It was this other character. Now, they may have gotten the information from Surly, but since it was given privately, there is no problem for her. See?

(crap - my head hurts just trying to fathom the "logic")

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ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: I could say "if I were an alien with power to do so, I would come to Earth and pull PZ Meyers's stupid beard out, one hair at a time". It is a fantasy threat.
Now, I see your user pic. Sure look like an alien to me. Or is it just that you don't have the power to come to earth, just use your interociter to contact this message board?

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AndrewV69 wrote:I am just going to leaave this here:

https://lh3.ggpht.com/-n784GwSG4sE/UIwR ... 591_n.jpeg

Problem?
Wow, just wow. However I am hoping it is a poe. Upon searching her fb likes, she lists an anti-mgm page, so I think that her crazy feminist post is a parody.

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justinvacula wrote:http://i.imgur.com/BI9E8.jpg
If it is true that Benson is getting "hundreds of hits every day" from the Slyme Pit, shouldn't she really be sending us a thank you note (with maybe a fruit basket or something) for all the blog hits she's getting from us. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, Ophelia, and btw you're welcome :lol:

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Badger3k wrote:
Mykeru wrote:
"THIS JUST IN: OPHELIA BENSON STILL A CUNT"

(I've never used the word cunt so much since Ophelia banned everyone from using it. How does that work? Magnets?)

Me too, oddly enough. Hell, my roommate doesn't pay attention to these things and she's started using it more than I have. And I normally only use it in writing. Weird.

Fucking cunts, how do they work? (Insane Fainting Couch Posse)
It works like abstinence only sex education. I have looked at this - prior to this hysteria, there were zero uses on my blog. Now it's unavoidable if you are discussing the baboons. Same with rape jokes. There has similarly been a corresponding rise in the incidence and the number of people that make them/laugh at them - of both genders. Casual reading in fact leaves me with the impression that girls are more guilty than boys for the latter.

Mission accomplished Becky, Ophie et al.

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justinvacula wrote:
Dick Strawkins wrote:Mykerus, for Peezus sake, be careful with Ophelia.
When she's out for revenge there's no telling what she might do.
She'll go medieval on your ass! :shock:

http://i.imgur.com/zOvcF.jpg
Perhaps this will soon be on Ophelia's blog?
If it is Dick can DMCA her.

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Who is the brave soul prepared to wade through the shit at Butterlies and Squeals, then?

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Rystefn wrote:I'm not going to lie... I'm a franc sockpuppet.
No, I am Spar... franc!

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It is quite staggering to see the Baboons complaining that we respond to their tweets, blog posts, etc.

These are the people who tear apart every single Richard Dawkins tweet to decide if he is being racist, sexist, or snarky, or summat. These are the people who befriend people on Facebook with the sole intention of taking screenshots of comments they don't "approve" of.

Fucking wankstain hypocrites.

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ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Steersman wrote:....
I would say that all she is saying is a hypothetical: “If R were in front of him [then] bam” – no different from franc’s infamous “if I were a woman then I’d kick you in the cunt”. Don’t go off the deep end in imputing more than is manifest in the statements – that’s FTB/Skepchick modus operandi if not paranoia ….
Bullshit. Franc, no matter how hard he wishes, will never be a woman. His statement, therefore, that if he were a woman he'd kick Ophelia in hers is an expression of no real world significance; it cannot come to pass. I could say "if I were an alien with power to do so, I would come to Earth and pull PZ Meyers's stupid beard out, one hair at a time". It is a fantasy threat.

What Ophelia hinted rather crudely at is that Mykeru would hit/shoot Becky Whatnot were he to find himself in front of her. That is an entirely possible situation and response, and is therefore an actionable libel/slander (whichever. whatever.).
I’ll concede there’s some difference in the degree of probability of the precursors – being a woman, being in the presence of “R”. But the latter case still looks to be hypothetical, suppositional or contingent, something that is emphasized by the subjunctive form of the verb “be”, i.e., “were”. And according to Wikipedia:
In grammar, the subjunctive mood (abbreviated sjv or sbjv) is a verb mood typically used in subordinate clauses to express various states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or action that has not yet occurred.
Looks to me to be rather a long distance from an assertion that an actual threat took place. But then again, I’m not a lawyer – how about you?

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CommanderTuvok wrote:It is quite staggering to see the Baboons complaining that we respond to their tweets, blog posts, etc.

These are the people who tear apart every single Richard Dawkins tweet to decide if he is being racist, sexist, or snarky, or summat. These are the people who befriend people on Facebook with the sole intention of taking screenshots of comments they don't "approve" of.

Fucking wankstain hypocrites.
Not to mention rummaging around private messages on 'tardbook looking for shit, as with Penn Jillette. Or fishing gynopodiatry out of a 5000 comment ERV thread. Truffle pigs I keep calling them. It's a precise analogy.

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Tkmlac wrote:
real horrorshow wrote:
justinvacula wrote:
That’s just how it is. We were irresponsible enough to decide to be women, so there it is. We can write, or we can avoid constant harassment; we can’t do both. As Stewart said yesterday (and Stephanie quoted him): The real message is “being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility you get for being a woman cunt.”
Fixed it for Ophie, she'll like that.
"being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility criticism you get for being a woman wrong all the fucking time.
You’ve read all of her posts and analyzed them in depth and have tons of citations that prove that she is wrong in every last statement she’s made? Do tell ….

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Steersman wrote:
Tkmlac wrote:
real horrorshow wrote:
justinvacula wrote:
That’s just how it is. We were irresponsible enough to decide to be women, so there it is. We can write, or we can avoid constant harassment; we can’t do both. As Stewart said yesterday (and Stephanie quoted him): The real message is “being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility you get for being a woman cunt.”
Fixed it for Ophie, she'll like that.
"being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility criticism you get for being a woman wrong all the fucking time.
You’ve read all of her posts and analyzed them in depth and have tons of citations that prove that she is wrong in every last statement she’s made? Do tell ….

It's hyperbowl, Steers me old china. Hyperbowl.

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KiwiInOz wrote:
Steersman wrote:
Tkmlac wrote:
real horrorshow wrote:
justinvacula wrote:That’s just how it is. We were irresponsible enough to decide to be women, so there it is. We can write, or we can avoid constant harassment; we can’t do both. As Stewart said yesterday (and Stephanie quoted him): The real message is “being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility you get for being a woman cunt.”
Fixed it for Ophie, she'll like that.
"being a woman does not entitle you to protection from the extra hostility criticism you get for being a woman wrong all the fucking time.
You’ve read all of her posts and analyzed them in depth and have tons of citations that prove that she is wrong in every last statement she’s made? Do tell ….
It's hyperbowl, Steers me old china. Hyperbowl.
Hyperbole is defined as exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. When the exaggeration becomes the norm it loses its impact. And because there’s no base-line to define what constitutes exaggeration it tends to suggest that the author is serious in their claims.

One might argue that looks sort of like piling-on: one shot may be valid criticism; the same one from many people, particularly where there isn’t much credible justification for the shots in the first place, starts to look like bullying ….

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Steersman wrote:But I really have to wonder about the increasing level of insults – and the related “piling-on”. If there isn’t an emotional response then it’s a waste of both time and effort, and if there is such a response then presumably they’re used in lieu of rational arguments and criticisms – neither stance being particularly credible. Maybe there’s some justification – sort of like the nuclear option – when rational debate has broken down, but I think it tends to be decidedly counterproductive – a pyrhric “victory” if it can be called that ….
This is literally how I talk in the real world.

RESPEKT MAH CULTURE.

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Steersman wrote: Hyperbole is defined as exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. When the exaggeration becomes the norm it loses its impact. And because there’s no base-line to define what constitutes exaggeration it tends to suggest that the author is serious in their claims.

One might argue that looks sort of like piling-on: one shot may be valid criticism; the same one from many people, particularly where there isn’t much credible justification for the shots in the first place, starts to look like bullying ….
That might be true if you knew that tkmlac was prone to exaggeration, particularly about Ophelia et al. But, given that s/h/it has only made 7 posts to date on the SlymePit, I don't think that you have enough data to determine whether the author is serious in their claims.

Like me, they might just be pulling the one with bells on it.

(Of course tkmlac was piling on with the cool kids of the Pyt. He wants to get in with the chill girls)

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I've seriously never been to their blogs in the past year except by accident, I don't follow any of them on twitter or anything like that, I don't read their articles and the only person I've googled as far as I recall is an image of Ophelia (to find out if she was a college teenager, as I first assumed).

I'm going to go out on a limb and suspect I'm not the only person who never visits the blogs but likes the discussions of crazy fucking social justice shit that go on here.

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WBB: Rebecca Watson and The Rape Threat

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Really enjoyed that article by the way Justin - http://skepticink.com/justinvacula/2012 ... -part-two/

People expect the world to become a safe space for them all the time. Ugh. The smartest thing you can learn in life I've found is to know when to engage and when to step back and - if necessary - use a proxy to mediate. I have a list of people at work who I cannot work with - they are fine at their jobs but we have an overwhelming personality clash which means I am unwilling to interact with them in any way. You just work around these issues and don't force them, otherwise you wind up with a lot of mess.

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CommanderTuvok wrote:NO. I'M FRANC!!!
I'm franc & so's my wife

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AndrewV69 wrote:I am just going to leaave this here:

https://lh3.ggpht.com/-n784GwSG4sE/UIwR ... 591_n.jpeg

Problem?
Someone clearly overestimates the effect of circumcision.

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Jan Steen wrote:At Skepticon, PZ Myers is billed back to back with Rebecca Watson.
Urk.
The beast with two backs?
(Or did you mean "consecutively"?)

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KiwiInOz wrote:
Steersman wrote: Hyperbole is defined as exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. When the exaggeration becomes the norm it loses its impact. And because there’s no base-line to define what constitutes exaggeration it tends to suggest that the author is serious in their claims.

One might argue that looks sort of like piling-on: one shot may be valid criticism; the same one from many people, particularly where there isn’t much credible justification for the shots in the first place, starts to look like bullying ….
That might be true if you knew that tkmlac was prone to exaggeration, particularly about Ophelia et al. But, given that s/h/it has only made 7 posts to date on the SlymePit, I don't think that you have enough data to determine whether the author is serious in their claims.
I probably should have elaborated more – it was less a question of tkmlac’s comment itself and more a question of a last straw; less a question of the exaggeration in their post and more a question of the exaggeration in all or many of the previous related ones. Their post just happened to be provide the biggest and most recent target of opportunity.

Somewhat related to that I happened to run across a post by Stef McGraw while following some of the ElevatorGate threads. She’s talking about Bill Maher’s “mock-umentary”, Religulous:
Stef McGraw wrote:While I won’t go too far into the details of the movie, I would just like to share one thought I kept having while watching: Bill Maher, in the words of Phil Plait, needs to be less of a dick.

It’s one thing to criticize or poke fun at religion, but it’s another to seemingly nit-pick unrelated characteristics of religious people and use them in making your case. One instance where Maher creates this straw man is when in the on-screen commentary, he makes fun of a word someone uses for the purpose of making the point that they are stupid. While this was funny when he did it to the Arkansas Senator, in the instance to which I’m referring, it was to someone for whom English was obviously not their first language. This, to me, is just “being a dick,” and doesn’t make any substantive point about religion.

He creates straw men again when he talks to gay muslims and makes them uncomfortable by talking about sex acts, when he makes up fake texts in the on-screen commentary that a muslim cleric is supposedly receiving, and in the documentary’s general style of intermittently cutting to funny clips during interviews.

Maher makes some good points, but when this movie is so laced with condescension and straw men, it loses a lot of its credibility. Being that I’m an atheist and I think this, I can only imagine what a theist or someone on the fence would think of his methods.
Mutatis mutandis ….
Like me, they might just be pulling the one with bells on it.
“One ringy-dingy. Two ringy-dingies. ….” [Martin & Rowan’s Laugh-In; Lily Tomlin] :-)
(Of course tkmlac was piling on with the cool kids of the Pyt. He wants to get in with the chill girls)
You mean, maybe sort of like … mob behaviour? ….

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TheMan wrote:
Rystefn wrote:I'm not going to lie... I'm a franc sockpuppet.
Liar! It's clear I am Franc's sock puppet....
I am NOT franc's sock-puppet¹.


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Chill girls have the best vaginas.

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Gumby wrote:OK, I admit it.
http://i46.tinypic.com/httvv5.jpg
A Wooly Bumblebee?

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rayshul wrote:
Steersman wrote:But I really have to wonder about the increasing level of insults – and the related “piling-on”. If there isn’t an emotional response then it’s a waste of both time and effort, and if there is such a response then presumably they’re used in lieu of rational arguments and criticisms – neither stance being particularly credible. Maybe there’s some justification – sort of like the nuclear option – when rational debate has broken down, but I think it tends to be decidedly counterproductive – a pyrhric “victory” if it can be called that ….
This is literally how I talk in the real world.
You mean your conversation is heavily laden with gratuitous racist and sexist and ableist insults? I certainly didn’t notice that – I think you might be incorrectly inferring that I thought so; my comments were general observations.
RESPEKT MAH CULTURE.
And even if your conversation was or is so laden, I sort of suspect that you modify it depending on the circumstances and who you’re talking to … "when in Rome …."

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Steersman wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
Steersman wrote:
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You mean, maybe sort of like … mob behaviour? ….
Actually, I agree with you. I don't go in for the personal focus of some of our colleagues on the personas of others.

But I will assert my dog given right to take the piss, as and when necessary.

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rayshul wrote:Chill girls have the best vaginas.
^^This^^

A thousand times this.

(Yes MKG, there is a time and place for everything, even ^^This^^)

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KiwiInOz wrote:
rayshul wrote:Chill girls have the best vaginas.
^^This^^
A thousand times this.
I dunno. In my day they were just called "frigid".

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Hey Phil. I know that you are watching. Have you ever thought of doing a tribute song to the Hartlepool Monkey, one of France's unsung heros?

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KiwiInOz wrote:
Steersman wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
Steersman wrote:
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You mean, maybe sort of like … mob behaviour? ….
Actually, I agree with you. I don't go in for the personal focus of some of our colleagues on the personas of others.
Agreed – that “personal focus” tends to be somewhat problematic – notably due to escalation – even if I’m not always able to restrain myself ….
But I will assert my dog given right to take the piss, as and when necessary.
Paraphrasing Voltaire, "I may not (readily) agree with you taking the piss out of something (particulary if I'm the target), but I will defend to the death your right to do so." More or less in any case ….

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Steersman wrote:
rayshul wrote:This is literally how I talk in the real world.
You mean your conversation is heavily laden with gratuitous racist and sexist and ableist insults? I certainly didn’t notice that – I think you might be incorrectly inferring that I thought so; my comments were general observations.
RESPEKT MAH CULTURE.
And even if your conversation was or is so laden, I sort of suspect that you modify it depending on the circumstances and who you’re talking to … "when in Rome …."
No. I'm saying this is LITERALLY how I talk. All the time. No, I don't modify.

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What some people say is horrifyingly offensive and riddled with insults is someone else's "inside voice".

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rayshul wrote:What some people say is horrifyingly offensive and riddled with insults is someone else's "inside voice".
That reminds me of the recorded message playing at high volume and frequency in the tomb of the popes under Vatican City - "Silenzio. This is a sacred space, blah blah blah".

Talk about needing an inside voice.

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rayshul wrote:Chill girls have the best vaginas.
I just happened to have a mouthful of ginger beef and rice when I read that.

Welp, not as if I do not know better. Got no one to blam but myself.

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KiwiInOz wrote:That reminds me of the recorded message playing at high volume and frequency in the tomb of the popes under Vatican City - "Silenzio. This is a sacred space, blah blah blah".
Naked hypocrisy from the RCC?
Surly knot?

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welch wrote:
CommanderTuvok wrote:NO. I'M FRANC!!!
I'm franc & so's my wife
I'M FRANCE!!!

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Can anyone fill in the details here.

I'm remembering the Surly Amy, Elevatorgate DMCA situation and have a question that keeps coming to mind.
OK, Amy DMCA'd the blogger 'Elevatorgate' for using some of her photos on her site - that is agreed.
He didn't find out about the claims for a week or so but when he did he counter-claimed.

I think this much is agreed by all.

The question is about what happened next.

As far as I can figure out, within one day of Elevatorgate's counterclaim a new twitter account was started ( @homervacula ) which clearly targeted two individuals, Justin Vacula and another individual who may be the real life identity of the anonymous Elevatorgate.

This is obviously doxxing.
But who doxxed him.

Surly Amy is an obvious suspect (she would have got his name as soon as he counter claimed)
But...
Surly Amy says she gave his name to a conference organizer - because she was worried about Elevatorgate being a physical threat to her if he turned up at that conference.

Well, if that is true (and let's assume it is true) it is interesting.

First it indicates that someone who was involved in organizing security to a skeptics conference is possibly guilty of doxxing - which is a form of harrassment in itself (isn't that the argument from Surly Amy herself about Justin Vacula's release of her own information?)

So who is the conference organizer who is guilty of doxxing.

Who exactly did Surly Amy inform about Elevatorgates real life identity?

There is a chain of individuals here, one of whom is guilty of doxxing and we all know doxxing is wrong, isn't it Amy?

And if the doxxer is involved in organizing conference security should we not be even more concerned?

If Amy really wants to do something about protecting people from harrassment then she should work to expose this abuse of the conference security system (I have no problem with Elevatorgate possibly being banned from the conference if evidence of harrassment is determined - but why should his name be publicly exposed, especially when it is linked to an unrelated individual, Justing Vacula, who is also being mocked.)

So, who is the conference security individual to whom Amy provided Elevatorgate's name? :?

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KiwiInOz wrote:Hey Phil. I know that you are watching. Have you ever thought of doing a tribute song to the Hartlepool Monkey, one of France's unsung heros?
LOL!

This story remind me of the Librarian in The Science of Discworld: The Globe, where he's passed as a Portuguese (and of course it works)...

Aaaaahhh, stereotypes.

BTW, I find the FC(n) attitude towards me has been less than charitable in the past. I can feel the Francophobia. Fucking xenophobes!

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