Don't fucking try to kid me:Submariner wrote:
Redheads are definitely hawt.
http://hairstyles.thehairstyler.com/hai ... binson.jpg
Don't fucking try to kid me:Submariner wrote:
Redheads are definitely hawt.
Meh, not to piss in your cornflakes but it looked like a shitty sub-Bloom County even back in the "good" days.Pitchguest wrote:On a totally unrelated note, what used to be my favourite webcomic, Sinfest, has now jumped the shark. For some reason, Tatsuya Ishida got totally enamored with feminist concepts like "The Patriarchy" and decided he would implement into the comic, which turned every character into a bland black and white caricature of their former selves. He also introduced various Mary Sue entities, conveniently called "The Sisterhood" and now that's all he does anymore. Everything is about "The Patriarchy", everything is a tool of "The Patriarchy", he even made a Matrix parody where "The Patriarchy" is the Matrix and "The Sisterhood" is designed to set others free. It's total bullshit, from beginning to end. The forum, too, has become riddled with a fainting couch brigade that wouldn't be out of place in the A+ forum.
I used to be a regular there, read it every day. I haven't checked it for several weeks now. I tuned in a couple of days ago and this is what I see,
I'm going to be up in Redmond in a couple of weekends with my camera gear. Let me know if you want to go for a topless shoot...ReneeHendricks wrote:
That military shot was 24 years ago. So, close :) I like to think I'm still kinda hot for a 46 year old :D
http://e.asset.soup.io/asset/0947/1742_1544_450.jpegLsuoma wrote:Don't fucking try to kid me:Submariner wrote:
Redheads are definitely hawt.
http://hairstyles.thehairstyler.com/hai ... binson.jpg
Paden me!Dan wrote:Reap's Privilege?Reap wrote:Ok ...I need a title for my new blog. Any suggestions? If I do happen to pick one suggested by you then you win the honor of me never writing a harsh word about you, ever....unless you steal my car, or drink my last beer in the fridge. There are limits.
I wouldn't waste my time if I were you unless you are a fan of deliberately abstruse dry literary critique.AndrewV69 wrote:
I had to stop there and search my memory. Then I realized that no, indeed I can not recall much about Derrida except for some generalized ideas which do not translate well into English. So I did a search and came across this:
A READER'S GUIDE TO "PLATO'S PHARMACY"
http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/co ... rmacy.htmlSo now I am going to disappear for awhile. I skimmed enough to determine that it is interesting enough to read slowly and savor. Not sure if I should thank you or curse you at this point, my reading list is already a mountain and this has just skipped to the head of the line."Plato's Pharmacy," one of Derrida's most influential and amusing early essays, was first published in 1972 and translated into English in 1981. The English translation, which was done by Barbara Johnson, is available in Dissemination, a collection of Derrida's essays published by the University of Chicago Press.
What is "Plato's Pharmacy" about? Hoo boy. What is it not about? Perhaps the best way to answer that one is by saying that the essay offers a close--no, make that a very close--reading of the Phaedrus, a dialogue by Plato. One of Derrida's goals in this essay is to show that although Plato tries to construct a number of hard and fast distinctions--such as the distinction between philosophy and mythology--those distinctions are actually undermined by his own logic and rhetoric.
Seing how Tarja is (used to be? It's been a while since I last talked to her) as full of herself as Myers, you probably didn't miss much by not going backstage.ERV wrote:I got to see Nightwish here in OKC. Because its OKC, where most people have no idea who Nightwish are, it was at a very small venue, so I got to spend the night five feet away from them, comfortably (not front-row arena my any means). Because Partner works security, we knew the head security guy working that night-- he was going to get us backstage, but they didnt stick around after the show. He did get us a signed poster, though.Darth Cynic wrote:... mostly for Nightwish...
Better to put that on the old topic, don't you think?Lsuoma wrote:Split topic.
It's locked - people should guess, no?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Better to put that on the old topic, don't you think?Lsuoma wrote:Split topic.
Well, while catching up, I sometimes want to reply to an older post, only to see my answer disapear because by now the topic is locked. And since I am as dumb as fuck, it takes me a while to realise there's a new one. Maybe just put a parting word with a link to the new topic (like Abbie used to do at ERV)?Lsuoma wrote:It's locked - people should guess, no?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Better to put that on the old topic, don't you think?Lsuoma wrote:Split topic.
She has red hair and she’s not a pouty poochy seductive type who lounges around with her hand in her hair posing for an ad for the local bordello.
While there may be wonderful reasons to palpate the breasts in one's vicinity, breast self-exam (BSE) for screening isn't one of them.mordacious1 wrote:I thought Renee was promoting breast exam self screening...which is a good thing btw.
...To date, 2 large randomized controlled trials, a quasi-randomized trial, a large cohort study and several case-control studies have failed to show a benefit for regular performance of BSE or BSE education, compared with no BSE. In contrast, there is good evidence of harm from BSE instruction, including significant increases in the number of physician visits for the evaluation of benign breast lesions and significantly higher rates of benign biopsy results. ... Because there is fair evidence of no benefit, and good evidence of harm, there is fair evidence to recommend that routine teaching of BSE be excluded from the periodic health examination of women...[up to age 70]...
[/quote]Skep tickle wrote: While there may be wonderful reasons to palpate the breasts in one's vicinity, breast self-exam (BSE) for screening isn't one of them.
Erm, Ok. I'll start now.Yes. Jeese, these questions really are easy!
Do you know where you are at the moment?Cunt Lady!!!
What day of the week is it?In the Slymepit torture chamber being kicked in the cunt!!
You've got to believe me doctor!
Who is the current president of the USA?Cuntday the second of Kicktober.
Have friends or acquaintances said to you that you are getting much more forgetful?Oh, Amanda Marcotte! Thought you could fool me you slymepitter!
Oh no! I just remembered. It's Nixon.
Has you memory interfered with your ability to take care of your chores around your house, or your job?I can't remember, you prick.
Do you remember my name?My cats do all of my housework, only the castrated ones of course, and I have the best job in the cunt. Sorry: world.
Where the hell is that damn Nurse!Erm, Doctor Francenstein?
I'm already a Guido douchebag, you can't have it both ways.I'll just note that "talking about your bike" is listed in the video as one of the symptoms of being a hipster douchebag.
Dybbuk Press â€@dybbukpress
@skepteaser "Good people" of DragonCon? Is that what you're calling people who give money to boy fuckers these days?
Of course, boycotting #DragonCon is ridiculous and irrational. Boyfucking is the staple of Western Civilization.
Oh so you guys are the mansplainers who want to pretend that the messenger is crazy.
TBH, I can't think of any good reason NOT to palpate the breasts in one's vicinity.[/quote]Lsuoma wrote:Skep tickle wrote: While there may be wonderful reasons to palpate the breasts in one's vicinity, breast self-exam (BSE) for screening isn't one of them.
If you put a media-bar on site it would be easier to share.clownshoe wrote:Our new Full Frontal Zealotry podcast is out: http://everdense.com/ffz/archives/163
In the latest gigglefest, we do an extremely cherry picked comparison of the A+ moderators to a random Christian forum.
[spoiler]The Christians win[/spoiler]
Thanks for the retweets and shares.
Myers' manboobs. Just sayin'!Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:TBH, I can't think of any good reason NOT to palpate the breasts in one's vicinity.Lsuoma wrote:Skep tickle wrote: While there may be wonderful reasons to palpate the breasts in one's vicinity, breast self-exam (BSE) for screening isn't one of them.
Glad you're enjoying it, and thanks for the retweets.decius wrote:If you put a media-bar on site it would be easier to share.clownshoe wrote:Our new Full Frontal Zealotry podcast is out: http://everdense.com/ffz/archives/163
In the latest gigglefest, we do an extremely cherry picked comparison of the A+ moderators to a random Christian forum.
[spoiler]The Christians win[/spoiler]
Thanks for the retweets and shares.
However, very entertaining and professionally-recorded show, and you guys are very funny. It's definitely one of my favourite podcasts.
A minor quibble, you could try and equalise the volume. The jingles are much louder than the recorded voices.
Actually, it's very noticeable in all episodes (especially through powerful loudspeakers, not so much with headphones).clownshoe wrote: Glad you're enjoying it, and thanks for the retweets.
I may have rushed the mix for the last episode too much, I'll turn them down next one.
What do you mean by media-bar?
See, when someone uses the term "partner", I tend to think of something like this:ERV wrote: I got to see Nightwish here in OKC. Because its OKC, where most people have no idea who Nightwish are, it was at a very small venue, so I got to spend the night five feet away from them, comfortably (not front-row arena my any means). Because Partner works security, we knew the head security guy working that night-- he was going to get us backstage, but they didnt stick around after the show. He did get us a signed poster, though.
Yup! I think it was her second show in the US, last fall!Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:On the other hand, if it was Floor Jensen singing when you saw them, you've missed something. Sweet lady!ERV wrote:I got to see Nightwish here in OKC. Because its OKC, where most people have no idea who Nightwish are, it was at a very small venue, so I got to spend the night five feet away from them, comfortably (not front-row arena my any means). Because Partner works security, we knew the head security guy working that night-- he was going to get us backstage, but they didnt stick around after the show. He did get us a signed poster, though.Darth Cynic wrote:... mostly for Nightwish...
Thanks, Tony! Good to have multiple protestations from the 'Gulag that there is a world of difference between "threats" and "jokes." The fact that you folks think abear was serious about his complaint, as opposed to baiting y'all into admitting the hypocrisy, is particularly delicious.Tony the Dancing Telegram Queer Shoop wrote:Oh, that poor, oppressed abear. The dear was subjected to harsh criticism and a barroom brawl threat that ultimately was nothing more than a joke. I loved seeing him talk about lawyers and terrorist threats. How heavy is the head sporting a slymepit crown?
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3917Cipher wrote:I can't get on board with, really, anything about the LAPD. They murder mentally ill people and PoC for basically no reason and get away with it. So I get it. I get thinking that killing a fuckton of people might be the only way to change things at all, and I get thinking that things are intolerable as they are.
Just before he got told off for using a homophobic slur, one klatu attempted to chide PZ very slightly. He also doesn't seemto have got the memo that "their side" doesn't call Ye Pitters anything except "sexist",Yeah, I’m going to agree with the argument that the difference between 4Chan and the Slymepit is that 4Chan doesn’t attempt to argue that they aren’t 4Chan.
Caine pulls s/h/it into line and klatu bends over far enough to kiss s/h/it's own arse. Because dissent is fine, and they aren't a hive mind or something.Klatu
These people are neither sick nor kooks nor crazy, insane, demented, foolish, hysterical, nutty, rabid, feverish, blind, deaf, retarded or dim-witted.
However they are creepy, vile, scurrillous, misogynistic, rapey, abusive, bile-spewing, revoltingly hateful, butt-hurt bullies who act as the vanguard of the kyriarchy. Ableist jargon does no one a service.
And then commments that (underlining mine):On the other side Reap Paden, host of the Angry Atheist podcast, has been labeled a sexist and racist for having a heated disagreement with another prominent blogger. Those kinds of labels are not easily shaken off, in some circles, especially our own, they can ruin you without any evidence to support them.
Completely fails to mention that Reap was labelled "racist" as well as sexist, and that's arguably harder to shake off than "sexist". Of course, next to the monumental blindness of not noticing that PZ insinuated we were all mass murderers and Benson similarly insinuated we are "stochastic terrorists", Aunt K's slip is trivial*, but telling.I don’t see the issue in the second paragraph, though. Won’t anyone from the rational community who reads “Reap Paden is sexist†simply go to his podcasts and listen to, say, the one in which he calls Stephanie a cunt over and over, and easily conclude that Reap is one of the most progressive people ever and that he’s simply being smeared by the Free Thought Bullies who nobody listens to anyway?
Good job none of us said that, eh. But the image of Chris and the whole fat-arsed Minnesota mafia in the creepy clown car chasing some poor schmuck of a cliff (and being T-boned by Al's demon golf buggy), is too good to pass up.Though now I’m imagining a remake of the Python Skit where the condemned prisoner chooses his manner of execution, and selects being chased off a cliff by topless roller derby girls.
In the remake, me and a hundred of my fattest friends chase Georget off the cliff mounted on our scooters.
(Not that much work was needed to up the stoopid quotient on the Whored's wacky, ironic, monikers)Now be fair, they devoted at least a year to coming up with stupid twists on people’s names.
Dick Strawkins wrote:Ophelia almost has a point with her complaint but she goes and fucks up by using a hyperbolic slut-shaming comparison that would be instant proof of misogyny if used against someone she likes (cough...Rebecca?) who has ever made a photo with them looking 'seductive' or coy.
The girl in the photo doesn't look the way Ann is pictured in the story, but to describe the picture as someone posing for a 'bordello' advert is a rather informative rorscharch test of Ophelias attitude to sexuality.
She has red hair and she’s not a pouty poochy seductive type who lounges around with her hand in her hair posing for an ad for the local bordello.
http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 6&start=25Xanthe wrote:I’d also like to take the opportunity to apologise to all present for using the word ‘morons’ in one of my posts above.
Using that particular word was ableist, and it would have been much better to substitute a much less stigmatised term like ‘fools’ in order to give the right impression (someone deliberately playing the fool), even if I have every reason to suspect from the miserable quality of their arguments that severe cognitive impairment could be a rational if oppressive judgement to make on these people. Again from the immaturity and paucity of their arguments, I also entertained the idea of labelling them juvenile or infantile since some of these fools seem to have the emotional and intellectual development of a twelve-year-old, which again apart from the fact that ageism labelling would be bad, is contradicted by reality since I know twelve-year-olds who would be offended by such a comparison.
Summary of that: splash damage from ableism or ageism is bad, and I’m again sorry for the ableism upthread.
Oh cool they're letting the older kids in to play now then?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Xanthe hangs out with twelve-years-olds. Noted.
Wow, that is totally screwed up. Almost thought that comic was poe at first and it was some sort of parody of radical feminism. It could have easily been a parody if one of the first captions said "put on these radfem dogmatist goggles!" It explains the basis for the FTB radfem labels like sister punisher, gender traitor, chill girl, or self hating women towards women who disagree with their dogmatism. It explains how they like to infantilize women and deny them their agency.For people who have the radical idea that women are people, some feminists tend to think that women are unable to think by themselves and spend their days in a brainwashed automatic state.I never read the comic before it jumped the shark, but it did help me realize Pharyngula had jumped the shark. I used to read it from time to time because of the articles about science and creationism, but I hadn't noticed what it had become until PZ posted the "Sisterhood part 7"
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4051 (the image is too big to embed)
That comic showed me the insane, paranoid and totally dogmatic nature of the "patriarchy" theory, and that's when I realized something was rotten in the state of skepticism.
PZ is an arrogant and boring mediocrity, though his arrogance is really just a side-effect of his failure to thrive in academia.I know you’re all tired of him, but NoelPlum99 is a sincere troll, so I’ll actually answer him, despite the fact that his sincerity is really just a side effect of self-absorption.
Wow - a commenting career amounting to an average of fewer than 2 comments per day over 4 months. Sounds like a really prolific and disruptive troll.Oh, yes. Why don’t I tolerate dissent, from a dissenter who posted here for over 4 months, making 168 comments. I have to say, this is a remarkably stupid question.
Interesting questions/comparisons.We can apply this to every site on the internet: why aren’t the comment threads at AVoiceForMen full of people aghast at the misogyny on display? Why aren’t 10% of the comments at RaptureReady people belittling the inanity of Bible prophecy?
LOLReasonable dissent is allowed, but the key word there is reasonable. So why aren’t there a bunch of reasonable people here disagreeing with the major premises of the blog (there is, of course, a great deal of disagreeing going on in the comments — NoelPlum99 has to have his blinders on to fail to see that — but it’s just not over fundamentals, like the value of science)? Because they can’t disagree reasonably.
Oops - PZ's forgetting to lissen to the wimminz again. Natalie Reed clearly said she didn't feel that she was driven off of FTB by trolls/harassers and asked people like PZ not to use her departure to serve their narrative. Oh well.In this case, I posted my regrets that Natalie Reed was leaving FtB, and also pointed out something that NoelPlum99 ought to find ironic: that the trolls and abusers are driving someone out of their own space.
Like ComradeBob and SteveOR? I believe it was only last week that you explicitly delayed banning ComradeBob because reasons. I assume you keep SteveOR around because he's ridiculous and pathetic and keeps SGBM distracted.I will, for instance, ban racists on sight, because their arguments are not in any way scientifically or ethically defensible, and in fact are simply odious and evil.
Whatever you say, Peez. Have fun storming the castle. :clap:There are no rational grounds, no context for reasonable dissent, for being anti-feminist, for instance, or denying that our culture is deeply patriarchal and sexist. ... Because really, how do you express “reasonable dissent†from the view that women are people, and that our society institutionalizes discrimination of all sorts?
Its a book cover model, not an actress. As soon as you start reading the book you find out the character is actually a red-headed 10-11 year old. So really, if you bought it because the cover had a blonde sex-pot with come-hither eyes, you got owned.Tigzy wrote:Re: Ophelia getting into a stew because the actress chosen to play Anne of Green Gables isn't a ginge.
Has the silly old bat never heard of hair dye?
Anyways - speaking of hot coppertops, how about Jamie Clayton?
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kC5MT2r5U8s/S ... on.jpg[img]
Admittedly, a bit of a late starter in attaining femalehood, but she sure made a fine job of it once she got there.
Interestingly, Jamie is an actress. Wonder what Pruney would have made of it if she had been chosen for the role.
"Yes, but Anne was never a ma- oh."
Actually...that could explain a lot as to why SteveoR is barely tolerated there. Peez has expressed some annoyance at SGBM's OCD thread-policing before; in which case, SteveOR serves as a good distraction. Kind of like a rubber bone to a leg-humping terrier.Apples wrote:Like ComradeBob and SteveOR? I believe it was only last week that you explicitly delayed banning ComradeBob because reasons. I assume you keep SteveOR around because he's ridiculous and pathetic and keeps SGBM distracted.I will, for instance, ban racists on sight, because their arguments are not in any way scientifically or ethically defensible, and in fact are simply odious and evil.
...and men are mostly like Skeletor?Because really, how do you express “reasonable dissent†from the view that women are people...
:doh:There are no rational grounds, no context for reasonable dissent, for being anti-feminist, for instance, or denying that our culture is deeply patriarchal and sexist. ... Because really, how do you express “reasonable dissent†from the view that women are people, and that our society institutionalizes discrimination of all sorts?
Read: They stick up for themselves and dispel the claims being made by the house trolls who continually attempt to put words in their mouths.And there was another obvious reason why some dissenters get banned: they are obtuse and don’t listen. There are regular commenters here who are similarly obstinate, but at least this is their space and they have voluntarily joined up with a group sharing similar views. If you’re a dissenter, holding a minority view, there’s an expectation that you’re actually here because you’re looking to learn about a different point of view (although, as I said above, usually you’re here about confrontation for confrontation’s sake). You’re getting dogpiled; there are 20 people telling you you’re wrong. Then what happens, typically?
Shit - missed that bit. From the fuss that's blown up over it, it seemed akin to froth the nerds worked up over the casting of Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor.cunt wrote: Its a book cover model, not an actress. As soon as you start reading the book you find out the character is actually a red-headed 10-11 year old. So really, if you bought it because the cover had a blonde sex-pot with come-hither eyes, you got owned.
I didn't like it at first either, but it grew on me. For instance, he used to make genius comics like these,Lsuoma wrote:Meh, not to piss in your cornflakes but it looked like a shitty sub-Bloom County even back in the "good" days.Pitchguest wrote:On a totally unrelated note, what used to be my favourite webcomic, Sinfest, has now jumped the shark. For some reason, Tatsuya Ishida got totally enamored with feminist concepts like "The Patriarchy" and decided he would implement into the comic, which turned every character into a bland black and white caricature of their former selves. He also introduced various Mary Sue entities, conveniently called "The Sisterhood" and now that's all he does anymore. Everything is about "The Patriarchy", everything is a tool of "The Patriarchy", he even made a Matrix parody where "The Patriarchy" is the Matrix and "The Sisterhood" is designed to set others free. It's total bullshit, from beginning to end. The forum, too, has become riddled with a fainting couch brigade that wouldn't be out of place in the A+ forum.
I used to be a regular there, read it every day. I haven't checked it for several weeks now. I tuned in a couple of days ago and this is what I see,
Lsuoma the Grouch.
Translation: They are banned because they won't be swayed by the illogical arguments of your commenters.And there was another obvious reason why some dissenters get banned: they are obtuse and don’t listen.
Translation: Dissenters are fine, as long as they hold 99.99% the exact same views as the rest of us.There are regular commenters here who are similarly obstinate, but at least this is their space and they have voluntarily joined up with a group sharing similar views.
Translation: Unless you're here to be converted, we're going to treat you like you're a troll here to cause trouble.If you’re a dissenter, holding a minority view, there’s an expectation that you’re actually here because you’re looking to learn about a different point of view (although, as I said above, usually you’re here about confrontation for confrontation’s sake).
Translation: If you don't agree with us 100%, the abuse from the stunted commentariat begins.You’re getting dogpiled; there are 20 people telling you you’re wrong.
They get banned for not joining the cult and kowtowing to the leader and his emotionally crippled followers.Then what happens, typically?
Wow, that makes me want to learn how to read!bhoytony wrote:http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7016 ... 392068.png