You have dated some crappy bitches.James Caruthers wrote:[...]
I can tell you from experience that women are every bit as likely to go "ugh" when I pull out my copy of Alien as I am when some lady tries to force me to watch films about british people dying slowly after finding true love. [...]
This was an FTB/Skepchick party weekend.Tribble wrote:mikelf wrote:
Except, of course, that he is in Springfield, which is another 3.5 hours down the road.
Or Kansas City which might be a bit closer and would be on his way if he chose to make the 11hour drive. Hardly a tragedy to make that drive.
There is a difference, though: the Autons are guided by something intelligent:QuiteSo wrote:Scented Nectar wrote:http://www.scentednectar.com/slimepit/thanks.png
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2 ... utons3.jpg
Uncanny resemblance :o
Liar! That's not your face on a goat. THIS is your face on a goat:welch wrote:There. My face, photoshopped onto a goat. Not even a really good pic, and I'm not sober. So all and all a bad pic.bhoytony wrote:Right class, here is your homework for tonight.
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4869/0xl9.png
Since I have now had my face photoshopped onto a goat...
IT'S FUCKING SILLY! WHAT ARE YOU, 12? GROW THE FUCK UP YA WHINY BINT!
So, he's oolon, if oolon had any functioning braincells?Trophy wrote:Dick Strawkins wrote: First, who does Chas Stewart think he's fooling? - of course it's an elevatorgate joke.
I'll answer this. He's trolling and he's very good at it. I lolzed so many times reading his comments and the responses, specially the guy who just posts "Liar".
Well, that's the key to understanding the range of FTB fuck-head behavior, especially post-con whiny bitchiness:Dick Strawkins wrote:
This was an FTB/Skepchick party weekend.
It will probably take until wednesday before he can legally drive.
:obscene-drinkingdrunk:
You can also find normally not shown pics on google images by typing a search phrase such as 'pz myers site:flicker.com' into the google images search box.Dick Strawkins wrote:I just found a simple way to source photos for pitshopping purposes - so I thought I would spread the wealth.
Previously I'd just used google image search but I've now realized that there is a search function on flickr that picks out many images that you won't find on google.
Third movie was horrible imo. Fourth I somewhat enjoyed because it was so weird. Of course, the first two were awesome.codelette wrote:You have dated some crappy bitches.James Caruthers wrote:[...]
I can tell you from experience that women are every bit as likely to go "ugh" when I pull out my copy of Alien as I am when some lady tries to force me to watch films about british people dying slowly after finding true love. [...]
Signed,
A woman that not only loves Alien and Aliens but even the two other half-assed sequels.
Hmmmm, you've planted the seed. I give it a 75% chance of germinating sometime today. Google images has a great collection of bobbleheads whose heads can be erased and replaced. There's even an S&M one for Greta! :)AnonymousCowherd wrote:Your way is clear SN! I have the graphics skills of a marmelade rabbit. Less maybe.Scented Nectar wrote:If we put their heads on bobble-head dolls, Jen could add them to her "happy army" of toy characters! :)AnonymousCowherd wrote:
Mmm. Shiny, happy people.
And yet, not.
Welcome! Obligatory welcomeJoseph Porter, KCB wrote:Thank you.John Greg wrote:Joseph Porter, KCB, my opinion does not matter very much around here but, for what it's worth, I think you are going to prove to be a truly brilliant addition to the Pit. I am glad, glad I say, to have you on board.
But I should tell you, I lurked as a guest for some time before registering here, and you all shine very brightly. If I'm doing anything, I'm just reflecting what I've learned from the Pit.
Until recently, all I knew of Peezus was that he did some science blogging. I'd heard of Elevatorgate, but hadn't followed its sequalae. As I learned more of his empty-headed authoritarianism and the cultish vapidity of the A+ crowd ("Wah! Wah! Fake jewelry!") I was just aghast, wondering how this could come out of "skepticism".
So it's great to see here, people who see through Peezus's schtick, see A+ for the buncombe it is, and aren't afraid to say so. Thanks to all of you.
Gods. Watching that clip, it's like coming full circle. The strawmen, the deliberate misinterpretations, HITLER, making a "safe space", DERAILING; all these things are dealt with in that *one* clip - and this was back in 2006. If even the Simpsons had their number back then, how the fuck did we land ourselves in this situation? :think:James Caruthers wrote:You got me. Downplaying the seriousness of a man asking a woman out forcoffeerapegenocide... I'm like a worse version of Hitler.
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YOU'RE LIKE A WORSE VERSION OF HITLER -Ophelia Benson, speaking about whoever she happens to not like today.
Senility is a hell of a drug.
Certainly unfollowing someone is not the sort of thing that should get a person fired, but we already know that certain folks in the community have such a tribal mindset that any such action would be an open declaration of war.
I'm Ophelia Benson BITCH!James Caruthers wrote:Senility is a hell of a drug.
When you're constantly getting free booze for nothing, I suppose your life can look awesome, if you're a drunkard. Until hangover settles in, that's it.ERV wrote:Hahaha!
Watson trying to convince herself shes not a loser: Yes, an utterly pointless existence is what most people strive for in life. 'Awesome'. lol.
I look forward to the day when the human race is sufficiently advanced to be able to construct an irony meter capable of withstanding statements such as Canuck's. I suspect we'll also be building Dyson Spheres by then.feralandproud wrote:How is it not obvious to more people that these guys are just trolls?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... more-13483
My favorite part:Certainly unfollowing someone is not the sort of thing that should get a person fired, but we already know that certain folks in the community have such a tribal mindset that any such action would be an open declaration of war.
She's like a real life version of Stewart Smalley...ERV wrote:Hahaha!
Watson trying to convince herself shes not a loser: Yes, an utterly pointless existence is what most people strive for in life. 'Awesome'. lol.
She saw a male dog's penis once, and now she has insomnia sometimes. And patriarchy. :Dcodelette wrote:BTW, what the cause of Hensley's PTSD? She ran out of rice powder?
A: :clap:Scented Nectar wrote:http://www.scentednectar.com/slimepit/b ... lehead.png
Not a bad observation, but coming from a religious propagandist like C.S. Lewis this is like Stalin expounding on human rights. There goes another irony meter.Sulman wrote:I was reminded of this C.S. Lewis quote that I think is rather fitting:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.â€
Joseph Porter, KCB wrote:Did you hear him, did you hear him?!welch wrote: I like your poetry. Would you like to come up to my room for some coffee?
Oh, the monster overbearing!
Don't go near him, don't go near him,
He is raping, he is raping!
My pain and my distress,
I find it is not easy to express ;
My amazement, my surprise,
You may learn from the expression of my eyes!
That proffer of evil sense
Is wholly indefensible.
Go, ribald, get you hence!
To your hotel room with celerity.
This is the consequence
Of ill-advised asperity
But if you repeat a lie often enough, doesn't it become the truth??ERV wrote: You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me).
Jesus christ.
only if you're driving slow. I lived in MO for a few years, well-aware of the Springfield - KC or STL drive times.mikelf wrote:Except, of course, that he is in Springfield, which is another 3.5 hours down the road.welch wrote:or the lazy fuck could just drive. St. Louis to MN. is not that fucking far. I've driven it before, multiple times.BarnOwl wrote: If missing lectures/labs due to flight cancellations or delays put my teaching contact hours under the required annual minimum, I'd be subject to having my salary cut by 10%, even if the travel was research- or education-related. The underlying reason doesn't matter. But then the priority in my university system is making sure that the football coaches can be paid millions of dollars each year plus bonuses, and they'll accomplish it by reducing salaries for educators, cancer researchers, surgeons, etc. and by demanding more work for the same pay. I think this is happening in a lot of places, unfortunately. Could be worse ... I could be an adjunct, instead of tenured.
Sir Joseph Porter KCB - Did you work for an Attorney's Firm as a lad???Joseph Porter, KCB wrote:Thank you.John Greg wrote:Joseph Porter, KCB, my opinion does not matter very much around here but, for what it's worth, I think you are going to prove to be a truly brilliant addition to the Pit. I am glad, glad I say, to have you on board.
But I should tell you, I lurked as a guest for some time before registering here, and you all shine very brightly. If I'm doing anything, I'm just reflecting what I've learned from the Pit.
Until recently, all I knew of Peezus was that he did some science blogging. I'd heard of Elevatorgate, but hadn't followed its sequalae. As I learned more of his empty-headed authoritarianism and the cultish vapidity of the A+ crowd ("Wah! Wah! Fake jewelry!") I was just aghast, wondering how this could come out of "skepticism".
So it's great to see here, people who see through Peezus's schtick, see A+ for the buncombe it is, and aren't afraid to say so. Thanks to all of you.
FSU really pisses me off. Okay, yes, it's tallahassee, not a lot to do. But fuck me, there's a school with some actually interesting academic shit going on, and yet the only thing anyone cares about is the fucking football team.Tribble wrote:mordacious1 wrote:About football coaches' salaries:
The football programs are revenue generators for the school. No football coach gets paid more than the revenue generated from his program (this is not true for other sports, btw). Someone mentioned Ohio state, let's take that as an example. Urban Meyer (the HFC) makes about $4 million (on the high side, median salary $240,000), his program generates roughly $51 million for the school. He works at least 100 hours per week in a very stressful situation. If he doesn't win, he's gone...there's no job security. I think he's worth every penny. In fact, I think the university should pay the players too.
Because of Title IX you can't look at just football in a vacuum. The mere possession of a scholarship football program means the school has to manufacture the equivalent number of (close to zero revenue) scholarship women sports.
Ohio State (in 2008) took in $115 million in total revenue in its athletic program of which $38 million was from tickets and $15 million from TV. It's expenses were $114 million. Without the $27 million in booster donations, the program (on its own merits) would have lost $26 million.
http://espn.go.com/ncaa/revenue
Making the whole thing a gigantic, no-real-purpose hamster-wheel. Sure, you're running like crazy, but you're getting nowhere as you spend all the money to make the money. And in a grossly inefficient and exploitative way.
And that's a successful program (#3 in the US) in revenues. Most are not successful. Most are money losing dogs. Even Alabama, #1 in revenues, doesn't really make any money on athletics. They took in $123.7 million. They spent 123.4 million. $300K profit on $123.7 million in revenue? That 0.2% profit margin is just fucking amazing!!!! Watch out Wall Street!
You go further down the list, and UCLA lost just over $2 million, which they made up for by forcing the students to play an 'athletic fee' as part of their tuition. Which was rather benign to FSU's $6.5 million.
And it hasn't gotten better, it's gotten worse. At this point in time, according to the most recent NCAA study, only 23 Division I programs were profitable. There are at least 120 Division I programs.
So, as an industry, college sports is a money-losing dog. Even the best and biggest athletic departments are only marginally profitable.
I love that picture. It really brings out my eyes.TedDahlberg wrote:Liar! That's not your face on a goat. THIS is your face on a goat:welch wrote:There. My face, photoshopped onto a goat. Not even a really good pic, and I'm not sober. So all and all a bad pic.bhoytony wrote:Right class, here is your homework for tonight.
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4869/0xl9.png
Since I have now had my face photoshopped onto a goat...
IT'S FUCKING SILLY! WHAT ARE YOU, 12? GROW THE FUCK UP YA WHINY BINT!
http://i.imgur.com/cNlYI2E.jpg
It seems as though we're in partial agreement: the NFL and NBA should establish a minor league system that is more analogous to that of baseball. (And college football players are WAY better off than most minor league baseball players.) Remember, college athletes ARE making a free market decision. They have the right to work out at home for a year or two or three and wait until they are eligible for the draft in their sport. The athletes make the choice to attend college; it seems like we agree that these restrictions should be eliminated.mordacious1 wrote:The athletic department is part of the school. One of the schools I attended was Fresno State and at the time, their football coach got paid $1 million. But they paid for the entire athletic department. All the teams, including all the women's sports (lets face it, they bring in no revenue). They also provided the school with a first rate stadium, where all the track and field, soccer, PE classes, etc. did their thing. The basketball team paid for the gym. The stadium and the gym were also used for non-athletic events. Plus they paid for a pool that all students and staff could use.Really? wrote: <snipped>
These big schools make millions off their athletes and yes, they give them scholarships and degrees (although some of them can't even spell when they graduate). Many of these kids could make millions (and do) in the private sector for doing the same thing. The school is getting the best of this deal (woo hoo free dorm food!!). The dirty secret is, they (unlike their private sector counterparts) are never responsible for what may happen to the players. Yes, they will patch them up, but many of these kids suffer life-long serious injuries and the school cuts them lose. No disability, no insurance...maybe a degree (you lose that scholarship if you can't play). If the kid does make it big, then the school uses them to recruit more players. That's why many athletes skip college altogether, e.g. Kobe. They'd rather get paid for what they're doing. After Kobe's made his hundreds of millions, he can always return to school and get his degree (but why would he?).
Every day, I am so glad that my parents taught me to not let people who don't count bother me. It was a hard lesson, but one of the best ones they managed to get through my skull. There's enough legitimate things to care and worry about in the world. Letting "1banghoes69lol" drive you fetal and crying because they called you a BAD WERD on teh internetz is literally the stupidest thing.ERV wrote: You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me).
Jesus christ.
Hey, be fair. Thousands of Americans are victimized each day. Some are killed and decapitated with their body put into a barrel of chemicals that will dissolve the evidence, some are tied to a bed and raped for hours and some are included in @ tweets without consent. We have big problems.ERV wrote: You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me).
Jesus christ.
So, all you women here on the Slymepit owe me how many blowjobs on demand since I joined the forum? Why I wasn't aware of such clause? Is it something you discuss on the secret forum? It is, isn't it? DAMN YOU FASCIST TIT!ReneeHendricks wrote:Ok, now I *really* want a Slymepitter t-shirt!
(from OB's "rage" post about a fucking picture)
Rubbish! I don't even like beer.Al Dente wrote:Wearing a slymepit t-shirt at Skepticon is saying “fuck you, women, I hate you unless you give me beer and blowjobs on demand because that’s all you’re good for!†Actually, even away from Skepticon a slymepit t-shirt is saying that.Yeah the tshirts were a dare but i also wanted to do it. I wanted to prove that one can be a self identified Slimepitter but still attend and enjoy a con like Skepticon.
Funny thing is, the Pit treats women as equal adults, to the point where gender is a complete non factor. We don't infantilize women or convince them they're helpless perpetual victims the way the FtB crowd does.ReneeHendricks wrote:Ok, now I *really* want a Slymepitter t-shirt!
(from OB's "rage" post about a fucking picture)
You can also get a big laugh of how stupid can people get while trying to insult you online, aka "the afternoon playing pub DotA fun weekend".ERV wrote: You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me).
Jesus christ.
She forgot to mention hangnails and bad perms.ERV wrote: You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me).
Jesus christ.
Yeah, it's really bizarre how easily people seem to get riled up over what is IMO pretty trivial. I've seen some people taking things too far into the range of what I'd consider harassment, but the slymepit itself is just like a rowdy sort of online pub. I keep wondering how people even find out what's being said here, unless they go looking.welch wrote:Every day, I am so glad that my parents taught me to not let people who don't count bother me. It was a hard lesson, but one of the best ones they managed to get through my skull. There's enough legitimate things to care and worry about in the world. Letting "1banghoes69lol" drive you fetal and crying because they called you a BAD WERD on teh internetz is literally the stupidest thing.ERV wrote: You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me).
Jesus christ.
Pro tip: walk away. It works. I cratered my linkedin profile, because some asshole consultant, and one of his friends (both of whom are older than I), started following me around in various forums just to call me, basically, a poopy-head because I have a more flexible definition of server environments than they do. (yes. it was that stupid.)
I thought "is LinkedIn actually of use to me any more?" As it turns out, no, it really wasn't. So I walked away from it, and, here's the important bit, haven't returned.
I have no idea what frick and frack are saying about me, nor do I care. They can say, really, whatever they wish. Free internet. But I don't have to put up with it. Had I felt linkedin a more worthwhile resource, I'd have stayed, and dealt with them more directly. But since it wasn't, why bother?
If someone is trying to cause you grief, and you let them, without even asking "is this worth putting up with", then what the fuck? You're just making yourself a damned target. Take a fucking break. It's not like the world won't survive without you.
They hate us for our blowjobs!Jan Steen wrote:Rubbish! I don't even like beer.Al Dente wrote:Wearing a slymepit t-shirt at Skepticon is saying “fuck you, women, I hate you unless you give me beer and blowjobs on demand because that’s all you’re good for!†Actually, even away from Skepticon a slymepit t-shirt is saying that.Yeah the tshirts were a dare but i also wanted to do it. I wanted to prove that one can be a self identified Slimepitter but still attend and enjoy a con like Skepticon.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-876824
Yep. The super secret "back channel" :DSouthern wrote:So, all you women here on the Slymepit owe me how many blowjobs on demand since I joined the forum? Why I wasn't aware of such clause? Is it something you discuss on the secret forum? It is, isn't it? DAMN YOU FASCIST TIT!ReneeHendricks wrote:Ok, now I *really* want a Slymepitter t-shirt!
(from OB's "rage" post about a fucking picture)
QFT.welch wrote:
If someone is trying to cause you grief, and you let them, without even asking "is this worth putting up with", then what the fuck? You're just making yourself a damned target.
I found out that I had PTSD like a decade after losing our roof to Hurricane Hugo. I still was push by my parents to get good grades, go to college and work hard. But then, my parents lost everything -including school friends- during a flash flood in 1960. They fucking lost everything! They lived like refugees a fucking year. When I was going thru my undiagnosed PTSD, they basically told me to wash my face and woman up.ERV wrote: You can get PTSD from sexual assault (serious), sexual harassment (serious), physically assault (serious), a life-threatening medical diagnoses (serious), online harassment (are you fucking kidding me).
Jesus christ.
The ironic thing is that the A+/FTB crowd treats women like incompetent babies who suffer irreparable psychological harm each time they see a Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial. We treat them like adults and consider their ideas as we would any man's.Matt Cavanaugh wrote:They hate us for our blowjobs!Jan Steen wrote:Rubbish! I don't even like beer.Al Dente wrote: Wearing a slymepit t-shirt at Skepticon is saying “fuck you, women, I hate you unless you give me beer and blowjobs on demand because that’s all you’re good for!†Actually, even away from Skepticon a slymepit t-shirt is saying that.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-876824
I lasted no more than 30 minutes into alien 3. I tried, I really tried. But it was incomprehensible. As if they'd found fragments of an Alien script at Qumran, then let a couple of teenage boys fill in the lacunae while riding the bus to school.Gumby wrote:Third movie was horrible imo. Fourth I somewhat enjoyed because it was so weird. Of course, the first two were awesome.codelette wrote:You have dated some crappy bitches.James Caruthers wrote:[...]
I can tell you from experience that women are every bit as likely to go "ugh" when I pull out my copy of Alien as I am when some lady tries to force me to watch films about british people dying slowly after finding true love. [...]
Signed,
A woman that not only loves Alien and Aliens but even the two other half-assed sequels.
That's like their raison d'etre. "Every woman is a strong, independent force of nature; unless we'll draw more attention/air time/ad revenue by being helpless victims!" It's just another(pretty much THE) core tenet of radical feminism they've co-opted for the portrait of victimization they're painting.The ironic thing is that the A+/FTB crowd treats women like incompetent babies who suffer irreparable psychological harm each time they see a Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial. We treat them like adults and consider their ideas as we would any man's.
We are talking about a 50-something year old who just spent a weekend trying to keep pace with the youngsters. He is surely long on hangover and short on sleep and bladder capacity. I can pretty much guarantee he couldn't do it in less than 14 hours.welch wrote:only if you're driving slow. I lived in MO for a few years, well-aware of the Springfield - KC or STL drive times.mikelf wrote:Except, of course, that he is in Springfield, which is another 3.5 hours down the road.welch wrote:
or the lazy fuck could just drive. St. Louis to MN. is not that fucking far. I've driven it before, multiple times.
The point is, if you really give a fuck, getting from MO - MN is not hard. From springfield, it's actually pretty easy, about ten hours at the speed limit.
Let's say, for example, that one of those toxic asshole atheists had said that a sexual assault survivor should get fucked sideways with a rusty knife... :violin: Ophelia would have been all over that shit, right?Dick Strawkins wrote:For those who have been following the online atheist debates over the past seven or eight years, the following comment from Ophelia Benson summarizes her position almost too well.
http://i.imgur.com/JmvRwTm.jpg
I always thought Damien would be on the scrawny side. His avatar does him no justice.
