Tigzy wrote: I admit, there was some novelty in discovering a sweaty sock who liked Maggie Thatcher...
I don't believe you. At the moment there are twice as many Giant Pandas in Scotland as there are Tory MPs. Fact.
Tigzy wrote: I admit, there was some novelty in discovering a sweaty sock who liked Maggie Thatcher...
real horrorshow wrote:Technically, the 'biff' or 'biffin bridge' is not the twat but the perinium or 'barse'. So called because during (missionary position) intercourse the gentleman's balls biff against it. Benefits of a Classical education.Guest wrote:I saw that one, too. A real prize-winner! "Biff" was a new one for me, being an American.Tigzy wrote: I dunno why people complain about Youtube comments so much, when you can find gems of grotesque beauty such as this:
I bet her twat smells like crab. I dunno why she just looks the type to have a crabby biff.
They could indeed, and it would be ignored.By the way - moderators of Slymepit, the avatars of Badger3k and Tony Parsehole are making me feel unsafe and uncomfortable. Can you issue some sort of warning? :shock:
I swear, the first time I heard him blurt out, 'They should never have got rid of Maggie Thatcher', I feared that reality might collapse.bhoytony wrote:Tigzy wrote: I admit, there was some novelty in discovering a sweaty sock who liked Maggie Thatcher...
I don't believe you. At the moment there are twice as many Giant Pandas in Scotland as there are Tory MPs. Fact.
Just for the record, much has been said by Amy and others about her being harassed by a person or people wearing jewelry to mock her.Tigzy wrote:If your goal is angry visual digs at speakers, event sponsors (which I was) or other donors or visitors to your event, then maybe mocking a person’s product that is on display for purchase is indeed the environment you want to encourage.Enjoy your knock-off Gucci and Cubic Zirconium all you want but personally attack an attendee with mock-ups of her art while she sits in plain view at an an event in a direct attempt to belittler her?
Fuckin hilarious :lol: Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up.
Bullshit, tainted one. No amount of apologies would have worked. They launched a witch hunt, and they do not stop until the witch is drowned.oolon** wrote:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2012 ... in-vacula/
Seems pretty good to me - if Justin had apologised for the mistakes he admitted he made JT would stand up for him. Even apologising for *some* if he has justification for the others... Not quite the bow-and-scrape John Welch thinks is needed.
Quite frankly, now that it well known Amy is such a liar and manipulator of the facts, I am skeptical of everything she has ever said. That goes for most of the Baboons - I simply don't believe them when they talk about all the "threats" they have received. They use the cover of "threats" as an excuse to doc-drop, although in the case of Surly Amy, she never received any threat, only a counter DMCA.Guest wrote:Tigzy wrote:If anyone can show she mentioned this jewelry during TAM itself, my hypothesis is null. But I have tried to search with no luck. Twitter makes it hard to see older tweets, etc...
Have THREE internets, you cunt!bhoytony wrote:
I thought it was called the chin rest.
I prefer to call it an oolon - half way between a cunt and an arsehole.
That was to oolon , BTW...Lsuoma wrote:The address you registered with is the BT one.
I apologize, Lsuoma. Thought I had logged in at work but obviously didn't, and didn't notice until my after my message was posted.Lsuoma wrote: Not while you post as guest when a registered user is posting from the same IP, but you don't identify yourself as registered. That sort of behaviour is frowned upon: please stop.
And before we know it he'll be posting here and calling people cunts! I'd pay money to see that—not very much money, though, as, being a Yorkshireman, I'm a tight cunt (oo-er missus!).Dick Strawkins wrote:No, next step is a petition to have him removed as president of the Austin Atheists due to his disgraceful harrassment of A+ team and their safe spaces. :lol:John D wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHBwaa1_n0o
Matt Dillacunty is now demanding that the A+ moderators apologize to him! He swears and everything. Next volley is tossed by A+ and they will call Matt a misogynist!
Apology accepted. Have a cat treat!SkepticalCat wrote:
I apologize, Lsuoma. Thought I had logged in at work but obviously didn't, and didn't notice until my after my message was posted.
Wait, who said that lie? Justin clearly linked to the original comment so it is clear he did not claim you were the accuser. Perhaps someone, somewhere might have said it in a blog, but there is no link to provide evidence - you know, like Justin did. Or is "Lie number two" actually the straw man that Amy creates? But this is followed swiftly, by this little treat:Lie number two: I accused Justin of filing a counter DMCA to gain access to my address.
Amy linked to a screencap that included the fucking comment not two paragraphs previously. You know, the one in which Justin made it quite clear it wasn't Amy that made the claim. It has the commenter's handle in it. How difficult is this?Someone else made the claim that he wanted my address. I have no idea who.
You don't have to go to the trademark website. You can go to this site called "google". Type in surlyramics. You get about two pages of internet drama, and the trademark thing is now on page 3. It was probably on page 1 back when Justin looked for it, pre-drama.My address was on file with them. Justin had to go to the trademark website and search for me and or my business name to see if I indeed was telling the truth when I said Surly-Ramics was a registered trademark.
BWAHAHAHA. Amy has never heard of the "Streisand Effect". The irony of course is that it is popularly endorsed by pharyngulites. I wonder if the hypocrites at pharyngula would endorse it in this case?You see, when Justin filed his counter claim saying he had rights to my image and then bragged about it all over the internet, another copycat troll did the same. Someone else posted a WHOLE BUNCH of my photos and lied about me.
Dear Amy. The reason the lawyers wanted such a large retainer was a subtle hint to you that your case was hopeless. They didn't want to touch your case with a barge pole, and since brainless people who don't understand legal process don't usually factor in the possibility that they might lose, the lawyers wanted to be sure they were going to get paid for any work they did. That's why there was a $5,000 retainer.So the retainer alone would have been $5,000 and the court cases themselves would likely have been more. And if I won I would probably never even recover my court costs because I assume the type of people who spend all day harassing me online, don’t have any money.
Well, I've basically ignored him, but really, I know he hates Justin, but what a slimy cunt. There you go.aweraw wrote:Found this comment on Amy's recently linked article:
Yeah, all you women, we just want to find a more effective way to hate you. Especially Justin Vacula, apparently.
First you'd have to explain to me why 1) would not be an option, especially in a unmoderated forum, given that in my original reply to you I say, "the first [statement] is a personal choice whose restricts bar on no one else but the person who has self-selected to uphold it." There is no actual requirement on here for you or anyone else to use/not use any epithets whatsoever. But you can't externalize your personal discomfort onto others without expecting to get objections from people who have a different take (it's not rational to demand for others to just take offense on your behalf if they are not offended). As to why some people feel more comfortable with one epithet over another, different people have different reasons, and I refuse to generalize on something that has no one answer. I can only speak for myself, as I did when I told you,oolon** wrote:Saint N, First of all - saw you pointing me to this reply - I missed it so not trying to ignore you or Steersman who made some good points as well.Saint N. wrote: Let me give you two sentences:
1.) "I choose not to use certain words because I don't feel comfortable saying them."
2.) "You are not allowed to say certain words because I don't feel comfortable hearing them."
Can you spot the difference between these two statements? Because if you can't I don't see us having much of a fruitful conversation. Somebody setting themselves as the arbiter of their own diction (drawing the limits and boundaries to what they personally see as appropriate and inappropriate), is quite difference than somebody stipulating to another person a set list of acceptable and unacceptable words on the basis that if this list is not followed by the person one wishes to impose it on, this person is by definition of an indecent character.
You don't address why 1) is an option at all, why self select or censor? Where does the lack of comfort come from and why is it applied to some words over others? Just because an argument has been made that in a particular area the slur is not a slur? Is the internet not a world-wide medium or do you somehow only care if your 'tribe' are offended or find offence in your words? What percentage does it take for it to be accepted or not? Think confirmation bias might slip in for slimepitters seeking how accepted a particular word is? cf. Dick needing only one data point, Rebecca Watson, to confirm to him that 'twat' is ok. By that not-logic all words are ok as someone somewhere will find them inoffensive!
I don't actually censor by diction on account of not wanting to offend people. If there are words (whether casual niceties or profanities) I don't use it's more because they're not part of my everyday vocabulary rather than that I see them as 'bad'. (by not being part of my everyday vocabulary I mean that I would have to make a conscious effort to remind myself to use them just to make a point of using them, which would be a silly exercise IMO). But I don't police other people's word choice, nor do I jump to conclusion about their character based on the words they use.Personally, I care more about context in which words are used than words themselves. No word is inherently evil to me, I judge their benignity or maliciousness within the context that they're stated. If I can't derive any context I reserve judgement as a one should when insufficient data is available. You're more than welcome to abstain from using any words you choose to take issue with (for whatever reason you want), likewise no one else is obligated to agree with your reasons, or even consider your reasons as valid.
You'll have to be kind enough to point out how any of this relates to what I said to you. Remember when you're responding to me, you're not arguing with others here, you're arguing with me and the points I raise. Especially when I already made it a point to say, "Unlike at FtB, there is still no rule here forbidding any of these words either explicitly or implicitly, evident by the fact that we've said them now several times with no repercussions whatsoever." When my position is I don't care what words you use or don't use, you can't very well come out and claim that I'm concerned with not offending 'my tribe' (as you put it). The stance my 'tribe' has taken is that you can say whatever the hell you want here, but when people respond don't cry foul about it. The reason some people here point out the word choices of FtBers is that, unlike us, they have made it a point to care about other people's diction; they have a whole list of verboten words that if used by a person, in any situation, defines them as irredeemable immoral scumbags. Pointing out the humor when they fail to live up to the standard they demand of everyone else is not a bias, when our only standard is that censorship (y'know, the kind that's imposed on others) is antithetical to freethought.Just because an argument has been made that in a particular area the slur is not a slur? Is the internet not a world-wide medium or do you somehow only care if your 'tribe' are offended or find offence in your words? What percentage does it take for it to be accepted or not?
Far be it for me to speak for Dick (and he can jump in to scold me if I'm wrong), but his main point appears to be that you're not over at skepchick or FtB taking Watson to task over her usage of the word (why not?), when she is going around denouncing anyone who disagrees with her as a misogynist for saying 'twat'. Us pointing out her failure to live up to the standards she demands of others is not contradictory to the basic Slyme Pit MO, which is that words have no inherent moral value, and its immature to demand for anyone else to adopt your notion of what constitutes decent discoruse by fiat.Dick needing only one data point, Rebecca Watson, to confirm to him that 'twat' is ok.
Again, you're not arguing with my points to you here. But let me just say that I've already stating my perspective that words are not evil or bad, so yeah all words are ok, in and of themselves (see my earlier quote).By that not-logic all words are ok as someone somewhere will find them inoffensive!
Somebody being offended does not make the act of being offended automatically valid or reasonable (again, context is needed). The context you provide is somebody simply saying 'cunt' as being enough to warrant offense (at least that's what prominent FTBers are saying). I disagree with that. As its been said to you before (by many people), 'cunt' is not a slur in every situation. Just like dick is not a slur every situation. Just like 'fucker' and 'shit' are not slurs in every situation. Just like every single epithet is not a slur in every situation (yes, that includes 'faggot' and 'nigger'). You, personally, are welcome to feel put off and offended by anything you like, but you can't demand of others to either agree with your offense or to amend their behavior to accommodate your offense just on the basis that you're offended. This again goes back to the difference between sentences 1) and 2) I stated above. Some people will work to remedy whatever issues you happen to have, some people won't. However, on a forum that's not moderated it makes no sense to argue incessantly about how different people are using/not using different words, when you know full well that their is no external imperative forcing anyone to follow a preapproved list, and there are no penalties for saying/not saying (a) certain word(s).oolon** wrote:Rest of your comment brings in context, I am not saying it is irrelevant but I'm hoping we can assume that the person hearing the slurs we are discussing finds them extremely offensive in the context used.
You did mention it here first, but I had not read it yet.real horrorshow wrote:I already said that! I swear , it's like I'm the token chick at the meeting here!sacha wrote: Gollum is Phil Plait - so that one is already taken. Original ERV Slime Pit.
Oolon's so full of shit he sharts when he burps. "If he'd only apologize." Justin said the thing with amy's address was stupid and he shouldn't have done it. But that's not enough. Because if you see what the fuckwits at FTB put Justin Griffith through, no ONLY did he have to apologize for supporting Abbie's right to have an opinion, even if he didn't agree with it, he had to reject all the overtures he'd made towards actually talking with us, and start actively shitting on us. Then, and ONLY then had he "done enough to make up for his mistake"CommanderTuvok wrote:Bullshit, tainted one. No amount of apologies would have worked. They launched a witch hunt, and they do not stop until the witch is drowned.oolon** wrote:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2012 ... in-vacula/
Seems pretty good to me - if Justin had apologised for the mistakes he admitted he made JT would stand up for him. Even apologising for *some* if he has justification for the others... Not quite the bow-and-scrape John Welch thinks is needed.
BTW, perineum, what do you think of Surly Amy's doc-dropping? Will you resort to the standard Baboon rationalisation (ie Baboons reserve the right to doc drop if they feel like), or actually admit Amy was wrong to do it?
CommanderTuvok wrote:Oolon STILL can't bring himself to "address" Surly Amy's doc-drop of ElevatorGATE. Mind you, all of the Baboons are brushing that under the carpet.
Justin Griffith's experience would suggest you're full of shit. Per usual.oolon** wrote:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2012 ... in-vacula/
Seems pretty good to me - if Justin had apologised for the mistakes he admitted he made JT would stand up for him. Even apologising for *some* if he has justification for the others... Not quite the bow-and-scrape John Welch thinks is needed.
Tempting to think she only started supporting Secular Woman after they dissed JV, but the piece she made for them (for which she's donating half the proceeds) was posted on etsy 6 days ago, and other featured posts at Secular Woman right now include "A White Woman's Privilege" and "I am a Secular (Trans) Woman". If I were JV I might withdraw my endorsement of SW, but maybe he's taking the high road....please skip to the end to see some pendants I have been making to help fundraise for the fabulous fledging organization, Secular Woman. ...
One thing I have been doing is making necklaces to help raise money for the new organization, Secular Woman. They are doing travel grants to send women to SkeptiCon, a type of project I have headed in the past. I support their efforts to do the same. You can pick up a custom fundraiser necklace in my Etsy shop. 50% of the proceeds go to Secular Woman for their travel grants. I will likely continue to offer the necklaces after SKeptiCon to help support the SW team. I really like what they are doing. ...
I know you find it enjoyable when your disingenuous interpretations result in a defensive, or aggressive reaction.
Making an issue out of the use of the word "policing" as if you did not understand the context, is just another time you pretend to misunderstand, and then act as though you have discovered evidence of hypocrisy and wave your deliberate misrepresentation like a flag, in order to lure someone here to react.
Let's go back and have a look, shall we?By interacting here, you are able to be the centre of attention at FTB, and by being a regular there, you have a captive audience, in both places
The manufactured misunderstandings and accusations, and even the "polite" questions and commentary in your discussions here, are nothing but an over the top, contrived performance with the intent to antagonise, entice, and engage.
You love the game.
Quite right. Henceforth, I shall give him the same courtesy as I extend to Mabus.sacha wrote:Power, is the ability to ignore the one who demands your attention
Bolding mine. In the comments OB states:The satire’s breadth of coverage runs the gamut of contemporary controversy. I can think of no major issue in the whole absurd panoply of religious discourse which has escaped the penetrating eye of the anonymous Author of Jesus and Mo. Turning even-handedly to those who oppose contemporary religion, he accurately lampoons the bitchy infighting to which right-on progressives are unfortunately prone – shades of Monty Python and the Judean People’s Front
She didn't bitch about "bitchy", which is unusual for her.Author's a friend of mine. [struts proudly]
Some friend she is.mordacious1 wrote:Over at RD.net, they have the introduction, written by Richard Dawkins, to a new collection of Jesus and Mo comics:
http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles ... G-xCk3A9Ik
In the comments OB states:Author's a friend of mine. [struts proudly]
Spot on advice.sacha wrote:My Dearest Slime Pitters,
Power, is the ability to ignore the one who demands your attention.
A friend?mordacious1 wrote:Bolding mine. In the comments OB states:Author's a friend of mine. [struts proudly]
That's really despicable, what an irresponsible piece of shit. Is there a screen shot of this episode, with the author's name redacted of course? I seem to remember following a link from here to the cartoon in question and seeing replies from the Old Goat amongst the discussion.Dick Strawkins wrote:Some friend she is.mordacious1 wrote:Over at RD.net, they have the introduction, written by Richard Dawkins, to a new collection of Jesus and Mo comics:
http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles ... G-xCk3A9Ik
In the comments OB states:Author's a friend of mine. [struts proudly]
Does anyone remember the time that Jesus and Mo had that cartoon based on PZ, mansplainin' correct feminism to the barmaid? It was about a month after elevatorgate started.
Ophelia was so furious that she outed the J and M's authors name on Butterflies and Wheels.
(the name began with "D" -It's memory holed now and there's no way I'm going to repeat it here)
Outing someone like that, someone who is more than likely to be targeted for murder by Islamic fundamentalists, just because they make a joke you don't like, is hardly the action of a friend.
I've heard and seen taint used in reference to both the male and female perineum by fellow U.S. Americans. Actually, the last time I heard it was in reference to some press release about research that showed that the distance between a man's ballsack and asshole could be used to measure their level of fertility, a narrow distance pointing towards lesser fertility... :think:real horrorshow wrote:Quite so, indeed the terms may be used in a gender-specific manner. Since 'barse' derives from the male, being between balls and arse and 'taint' or 'tainter' from the female, as you say.Lsuoma wrote:Sometimes called the tainter, cause 'taint 'er cunt, and 'tain't 'er arsehole, either.real horrorshow wrote:
Technically, the 'biff' or 'biffin bridge' is not the twat but the perinium or 'barse'. So called because during (missionary position) intercourse the gentleman's balls biff against it. Benefits of a Classical education.
I have it on good authority that "barse" is the result of a euphemistic attempt at speaking the very common antipodean colloquialism: "Arse Backwards" in proximity of someone requiring a fainting couch.JackRayner wrote:real horrorshow wrote: Quite so, indeed the terms may be used in a gender-specific manner. Since 'barse' derives from the male, being between balls and arse and 'taint' or 'tainter' from the female, as you say.
Yes, I remember that very well. She's a sick piece of work, that one. Doing something like that can get someone killed (and I don't mean getting upset that someone warned you that you might want to take care at TAM, I mean stabbed, shot, beaten and sent to the Russian front).Some friend she is.
Does anyone remember the time that Jesus and Mo had that cartoon based on PZ, mansplainin' correct feminism to the barmaid? It was about a month after elevatorgate started.
Ophelia was so furious that she outed the J and M's authors name on Butterflies and Wheels.
At the time I thought it best not to draw attention to it (publicising the authors name could, after all, get him killed.)Guest wrote:That's really despicable, what an irresponsible piece of shit. Is there a screen shot of this episode, with the author's name redacted of course? I seem to remember following a link from here to the cartoon in question and seeing replies from the Old Goat amongst the discussion.Dick Strawkins wrote:Some friend she is.mordacious1 wrote:Over at RD.net, they have the introduction, written by Richard Dawkins, to a new collection of Jesus and Mo comics:
http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles ... G-xCk3A9Ik
In the comments OB states:Author's a friend of mine. [struts proudly]
Does anyone remember the time that Jesus and Mo had that cartoon based on PZ, mansplainin' correct feminism to the barmaid? It was about a month after elevatorgate started.
Ophelia was so furious that she outed the J and M's authors name on Butterflies and Wheels.
(the name began with "D" -It's memory holed now and there's no way I'm going to repeat it here)
Outing someone like that, someone who is more than likely to be targeted for murder by Islamic fundamentalists, just because they make a joke you don't like, is hardly the action of a friend.
I don't remember this egregious episode.mordacious1 wrote:Dick Strawkins
Yes, I remember that very well. She's a sick piece of work, that one. Doing something like that can get someone killed (and I don't mean getting upset that someone warned you that you might want to take care at TAM, I mean stabbed, shot, beaten and sent to the Russian front).Some friend she is.
Does anyone remember the time that Jesus and Mo had that cartoon based on PZ, mansplainin' correct feminism to the barmaid? It was about a month after elevatorgate started.
Ophelia was so furious that she outed the J and M's authors name on Butterflies and Wheels.
"withOUT the cartoonist's consent", of course.Michael K Gray wrote:Can you prove that it happened with the cartoonist's consent?
Just to keep with the taint theme, anyone remember this from Mr. Show in 1998?JackRayner wrote:Dammit! This is what I get for attempting to have a life away from the internet. I've gotta go catch up with the new Dillahunty drama! :doh:
But first...
I've heard and seen taint used in reference to both the male and female perineum by fellow U.S. Americans. Actually, the last time I heard it was in reference to some press release about research that showed that the distance between a man's ballsack and asshole could be used to measure their level of fertility, a narrow distance pointing towards lesser fertility... :think:real horrorshow wrote:Quite so, indeed the terms may be used in a gender-specific manner. Since 'barse' derives from the male, being between balls and arse and 'taint' or 'tainter' from the female, as you say.Lsuoma wrote:Sometimes called the tainter, cause 'taint 'er cunt, and 'tain't 'er arsehole, either.real horrorshow wrote:
Technically, the 'biff' or 'biffin bridge' is not the twat but the perinium or 'barse'. So called because during (missionary position) intercourse the gentleman's balls biff against it. Benefits of a Classical education.
Catch the disparity there. Hemant, thanks for doing this necessary real life activism that makes the movement function, in addition to having an actual job; Greta...nice insights you got there. Oh, I know it wasn't meant to be funny but it's just hilarious and more telling than this person even meant for it to be :lol:I’m extraordinarily thankful to have people like Hemant spending so much of his time blogging AND being involved with Foundation Beyond Belief AND working as a teacher full-time. I’m so glad Greta Christina has poured herself into the movement and provides us with her insights.
Mate, despite the differences and insults you have my sympathy.oolon** wrote:
Is it a crime to be at my in-laws? They are both Methodist Ministers so I have to to something to avoid conversation...
I thought exactly the same thing. He's been caught pretending to misunderstand again. Got to hand it to the little git. He is a damn fine troll. Damn fine.Dick Strawkins wrote:Wait a second.
oolon has a btinternet email?
He lives in the UK?
If that's the case, or if he's lived there in the recent past, then all his complaints over the meanings of "cunt" and "twat" are a sham. He already knows what they mean to non USA people.
Which post in particular? You need top edit the Matt entry a little bit more very soon as it seems he made another video last night and seems to be getting more pissed off with A+. :popcorn:masakari2012 wrote:Tony Parsehole, when I woke up, I saw your post and edited our wiki.
http://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/Witch ... 16.2C_2012
I still have to catch up on all of the posts here since that time. Now going back into lurk-mode....
:lol: Nice! :clap:disumbrationist wrote:By the way, I looove Dillahunty's latest video. He describes his 'experiment' to demonstrate the sanity of the A+theism forums, but says that his experiment never went to completion.
Ha!
No no no. Matt, you walked into the Large Moron Collider, where particles of stupid and lazy are crashed into each other at relativistic speeds, creating new and exotic galaxies of fallacies and sanctimonious whining.
You grabbed the largest handle you could find.
"Don't worry," you said. "The bullshit flux is just a tad too high. I'll just make this tiny adjustment too show how robust the machine is."
A small black hole, built from compressed persecution complex, formed that day, swallowing you and your internet fame whole.
The experiment was a incredible success.
That was brilliant. I have the imagery stuck in my head.disumbrationist wrote:By the way, I looove Dillahunty's latest video. He describes his 'experiment' to demonstrate the sanity of the A+theism forums, but says that his experiment never went to completion.
Ha!
No no no. Matt, you walked into the Large Moron Collider, where particles of stupid and lazy are crashed into each other at relativistic speeds, creating new and exotic galaxies of fallacies and sanctimonious whining.
You grabbed the largest handle you could find.
"Don't worry," you said. "The bullshit flux is just a tad too high. I'll just make this tiny adjustment too show how robust the machine is."
A small black hole, built from compressed persecution complex, formed that day, swallowing you and your internet fame whole.
The experiment was a incredible success.
He does admit, in the latest clip, that they would have done nothing if he hadn't revealed his true (and oh so important) identity.JackRayner wrote::lol: Nice! :clap:disumbrationist wrote:By the way, I looove Dillahunty's latest video. He describes his 'experiment' to demonstrate the sanity of the A+theism forums, but says that his experiment never went to completion.
Ha!
No no no. Matt, you walked into the Large Moron Collider, where particles of stupid and lazy are crashed into each other at relativistic speeds, creating new and exotic galaxies of fallacies and sanctimonious whining.
You grabbed the largest handle you could find.
"Don't worry," you said. "The bullshit flux is just a tad too high. I'll just make this tiny adjustment too show how robust the machine is."
A small black hole, built from compressed persecution complex, formed that day, swallowing you and your internet fame whole.
The experiment was a incredible success.
I watched the whole thing and I'm hoping that Dillahunty sticks to his guns about demanding that the A+Theists apologize to him, and that the inmates running the asylum over at the forums stick to their as well.
I'm saddened that he still won't admit that his little experiment proves him wrong, but there's still hope for a greater shit storm!
Ugh I hate to point it out but I have no idea what this one is... I have seen the Rebecca 'doc drop' and was not impressed. I thought ElevatorGate was 'franc' Ivan the Terrible Ivanoff? I don't really keep up with all the details. But if you send me a link to the 'doc drop' then I'll give you my pronouncement as it seems to be so important I accept someone from FtBs-Skepchick *can* do something reprehensible. I know some here are so invested in their position that it seems like my 'side' think 'Peezus' and the others are all above reproach but really there is no slimewrongula so do you really think people are that bothered by all the controversy'? I'm personally sure PZ, Rebecca, Amy etc can be perfect shits at times - they are not that different from you and I?welch wrote:Of fucking course he won't. It's only bad when the others do it.CommanderTuvok wrote:Oolon STILL can't bring himself to "address" Surly Amy's doc-drop of ElevatorGATE. Mind you, all of the Baboons are brushing that under the carpet.
What a hypocritical cunt.
Cunt and the UK, nope it is not accepted as a non-sexist term. You try using it in the workplace and see what gets put down by HR on your dismissal letter[/quote]oolon** wrote:What a hypocritical cunt.
While in the UK, I've heard "cunt" used many times against males. And a non-trivial fraction of it by my own girlfriend.oolon** wrote:
Cunt and the UK, nope it is not accepted as a non-sexist term. You try using it in the workplace and see what gets put down by HR on your dismissal letter (My wife has worked in HR in private and public companies for over 10 yrs so I have real data). I had a similar conversation when I was a teenager, a friend thought that given a lot of our asian mates used 'paki' it was fine for him to talk about the 'paki shop' up the road. I didn't really convince him until we got nearer the shop and said 'ok if paki is fine then you use the word in earshot of the shop owners' ... He didn't.
...and thus the A+ forums became known as the LMC.disumbrationist wrote:No no no. Matt, you walked into the Large Moron Collider, where particles of stupid and lazy are crashed into each other at relativistic speeds, creating new and exotic galaxies of fallacies and sanctimonious whining.
Tony Parsehole wrote:http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... n-apology/
So it begins.... I'm surprised FTB aren't trying to sweep this under the carpet: It's JT missing Matt Dillahunty's point/experiment completely and saying Matt D should apologise. Points of note are that JT is beamoaning the fact that SkepTickle, who made the heinous mistake of questioning the A+ dogma (and being subsequently banned) is now "welcomed with open arms at the Slyme Pit" thus proving how evil we are that we would welcome a sceptic who occasionally asks questions.
JT also makes the mistake of saying the A+forum is troll fatigued. Troll fatigued? They have 1853 users and have only banned 30, including Matt, for "trolling". hardly warrants fatigue.*
I have only skimmed it so far as I can't be arsed going in depth at the minute.
*hat-tip to integralmath on Youtube
GENERAL – Useful new words and acronyms
Posted on October 5, 2012 by Ginkgo
I have been running across some really useful new words and I’d like to share them, spread them around, help them get a foothold in the language.
Narcissiverse - This refers to a somene’s personal delusional world, the only place where their fact-free assertions are true.
As in:
“Men cause all wars and women are the majority of victims!!!!â€
“Where, in your narcissiverse?â€
or:
“Women are all prostitutes who live to feed off of men!!!â€
“In your naricissiverse?â€
Just think how often you run into this kind of thing and how useful it will be to have a term for it.
HT: Volokh Conspiracy
Misangyny - Have you ever seen one of those endless circular debates “Oh, that only looks like misandry; it’s really misogyny…. Oh yeah right – the man has to register for the draft but the women feels excluded, so it’s misogyny! – oh waaaaah!†when really it’s both at once, even if not equally?
Well now someone has a brand new word to cover that. Use it. Spread it.
PDWG – Privilege Denying White Girl. Pronunced “pudwagâ€. That’s intentional.
This is someone who is quite willing to parade her moral clarity by declaring she fully acknowledges her white privilege but emphatically denies to a moral certainty that anything like female privilege exists. She is the exact analog to Privileging Denying Dude that denies the existence of male privilege. And she is a girl rather than a woman, whatever her age, because this eternal girlhood is both a function of toxic femininity in which in our society there is no functional difference between women and gitrsl, no passage from one estate to another, and also because this attitude can exist only in a thoroughly callow, sheltered and naive worldview.
Use it. Spread it.
I lived in England for a few years and never heard of instances where "cunt" was treated as some terrible gender specific insult.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:While in the UK, I've heard "cunt" used many times against males. And a non-trivial fraction of it by my own girlfriend.oolon** wrote:
Cunt and the UK, nope it is not accepted as a non-sexist term. You try using it in the workplace and see what gets put down by HR on your dismissal letter (My wife has worked in HR in private and public companies for over 10 yrs so I have real data). I had a similar conversation when I was a teenager, a friend thought that given a lot of our asian mates used 'paki' it was fine for him to talk about the 'paki shop' up the road. I didn't really convince him until we got nearer the shop and said 'ok if paki is fine then you use the word in earshot of the shop owners' ... He didn't.
As for your "Paki" anecdote, it's funny because my sister did (and still does) hold the belief her Pakistani friends don't mind being called that. She never believed me when I told her they confessed to me it was highly insulting. And now here I come back with culture and language: my girlfriend is Polish, and we used to travel a lot to Italy for my musical endeavours. The italian word for Polish is "Polack" (same as the actual Polish language name for "Polish"), a term considered very derogatory to Poles in French language, but colloquial (or vernacular, I don't know, the thing used by everybody) in Italian, and Polish.
In other words: YMMV