Mykeru, what a Cnut, eh? Discuss.

[Mykeru]

In related news

http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/free-r ... ickens.jpg

Friends of Melody Hensley stage an intervention.

[Lsuoma]

In related news

http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/free-r ... ickens.jpg

Friends of Melody Hensley stage an intervention.

If you can't keep white cock under control, where are you?

[Asphole]

Also, don't be this poster

[youtube]rI_PlOjRKoE[/youtube]

1. Don't use a "Sad Romance" as your background music, you manipulative fucker

2. No video is worth a minute and a half of your preaching. The people who would most benefit don't have the attention span.

3. Missed opportunity to use the Wilhelm scream

Furthermore, for drifters:

1. Don't drift, you stupid twats.

2. Seat belts are your friend, and you don't listen to your friends, do you?

3. Keep your arms in the vehicle at all times, especially when they are attached.

I LMAO. 5 Darwin award winners right there. 5 people who would be alive if not for a toxic mix of hubris and ignorance.

There is no difference, as far as I can tell, between Arabs and Midwestern Rednecks.

[Mykeru]

There is no difference, as far as I can tell, between Arabs and Midwestern Rednecks.

Here's one with a poor imitation of the Wilhelm scream.

[youtube]CcJ295G2To4[/youtube]

However, the parabolic Doppler Effect makes it unique

[Liesmith]

Return Of The Jedi is a fucking shit film BTW. I'm just throwing that out there coz it's on now. What a pile of utter, fucking shite. I can see the zips on the fucking Ewoks costumes for Christ's sake. How on Earth did this get famous?
How come Luke can use the bastard force to make C3-PO float on a fucking massive wooden throne but can't use it to undo a shitty ribbon tying his hands to a stick?
Pile of wank.

This is the most offensive thing I've ever read, and I am literally shaking with angryangrybadbadrage. Luke could use the Force to untie the ropes, but he chose not to, in order to avoid antagonizing the Ewoks. He understood Ewok culture, and engaged them in terms they could identify with. You need to sit down, shut up, fuck off, tune in, drop out, and listen. Maybe you should try to educate yourself on Ewok heritage and the history of Imperial oppression of aboriginal species before you try having an opinion again, cupcake.

I blacked out, what just happened?

[Steersman]

Twitter Temperance League starts off the New Year with a fresh roasting of Bora Zivkovic who crimed against women today by coming back onto twitter without asking their permission and without wearing his cilice.

[.tweet][/tweet]

https://twitter.com/seelix
http://i.imgur.com/jbhPOB4.jpg

Another example of why taking these loons seriously is fucking pointless. You can never win. Never. So don't play.

While I will certainly agree that the “lunatic fringe” – on just about any question – is apparently well-populated – the people you referred maybe being cases in point, although it might be moot – I also tend to think that, as the aphorism goes, “honest men and women may disagree”. And, no doubt, some of “them” think pretty much the same about some of “us”. Apropos of which, something from Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature:

Some debates are so entwined with people’s moral identity that one might despair that they can ever be resolved by reason and evidence. Social psychologists have found that with divisive moral issues, especially those on which liberals and conservatives disagree, all combatants are intuitively certain that they are correct and that their opponents have ugly ulterior motives. [pg 281; my emphasis]

Why I tend to be skeptical of “intuitive certainty” – of any stripe. However, while that is not to say that some – on each “side” – don’t have such “ugly ulterior motives”, I also tend to think that giving people the benefit of the doubt, that attempting resolution “by reason and evidence”, is more productive than a cynical stereotyping tarring everyone with a narrow brush.

[Steersman]

Return Of The Jedi is a fucking shit film BTW. I'm just throwing that out there coz it's on now. What a pile of utter, fucking shite. I can see the zips on the fucking Ewoks costumes for Christ's sake. How on Earth did this get famous?
How come Luke can use the bastard force to make C3-PO float on a fucking massive wooden throne but can't use it to undo a shitty ribbon tying his hands to a stick?
Pile of wank.

This is the most offensive thing I've ever read, and I am literally shaking with angryangrybadbadrage. Luke could use the Force to untie the ropes, but he chose not to, in order to avoid antagonizing the Ewoks. He understood Ewok culture, and engaged them in terms they could identify with. You need to sit down, shut up, fuck off, tune in, drop out, and listen. Maybe you should try to educate yourself on Ewok heritage and the history of Imperial oppression of aboriginal species before you try having an opinion again, cupcake.

I blacked out, what just happened?

SJL virus - very pernicious; you're fortunate to have escaped with a minor dose ....

[Steersman]

Here's to one year gone & another just beginning.

Doesn't that happen every day? In fact, doesn't it happen every hour? In fact,...

I'm with the "bah humbug to new year" brigade.

Anway, happy 5774. Or is that 2556? Or 5122? Or maybe 1435?

Bah.

Humbug.

Yeah, I originally had a similar comment about how it's just a meaningless cultural construct but then I decided not to harsh others' buzz. :mrgreen:

Yes, sort of meaningless in the sense that at any point in time it's one year later than it was a year ago.

However, I don't think it is in the sense that it's generally always useful to have a retrospective look at where we've been and where we've come from - a question of feedback [/paid political announcement] - as it may have some bearing on where we're going. And what better time to do that than when our counting system ticks over, particularly one tied to the changing of the seasons.

[deLurch]

Women in India are compelled to marry men they never meet.

And men in india are compelled to marry women they never meet. The arranged marriage kind of barrels down both sexes.

[deLurch]

She seems to be genuine. :think:

I wonder if it is simply an extension of their thought processes. The traditional reasoning that males cannot be raped by females is rationalised with much the same argument. Therefore when you have one of these sjws who dislike white women specifically, they extend the same argument to white women.

Charcoal Artiste only issued 2 tweets. I call Poe.

Ji-Hyun Kye tweeted almost 200 times but only over a 4 day period one the femism is for white women issue. An asian anime loving feminist boxer... I call Poe again.

[Tigzy]

Weeeeeeeell.......I'm biased towards Chubbs. He's a bit of a legend in Middlesbrough. Every fucker and his dog claims to personally know him. All I know is I used to buy drugs off his son. No word of a lie:

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local ... 22-3720065

The respected former greyhound racer, construction site supervisor and ex-doorman was jailed for 10 years at Teesside Crown Court.

During months of covert police surveillance, Stirling was repeatedly seen rummaging in a dung heap, putting in and taking out packages from the pile.

Reilly’s flat at Stillington Working Men’s Club was the site of an initial police raid in February last year.

Jesus. It's like what you'd get if Goodfellas had been directed by Ken Loach.

[AnonymousCowherd]

You misspelled cnut.

No, he's finally figured out to stop those tides.

[AnonymousCowherd]

Here's to one year gone & another just beginning.

Doesn't that happen every day? In fact, doesn't it happen every hour? In fact,...

I'm with the "bah humbug to new year" brigade.

Anway, happy 5774. Or is that 2556? Or 5122? Or maybe 1435?

Bah.

Humbug.

Yeah, I originally had a similar comment about how it's just a meaningless cultural construct but then I decided not to harsh others' buzz. :mrgreen:

Well, just to harsh another mellow (my own) - if there is no intrinsic "meaning" to anything, can't a "social construct" be one way of "acquiring meaning"? I know the SJWs want to claim that "social construct, therefore, no biology and everything can be changed just by my blogging about it", but that load of old tosh doesn't mean all social constructs are meaningless (not that you said that, of course). So what makes one social construct "meaningless" and another one, not so?

I might just have given myself a migraine.

[Mykeru]

Pro Tip: Move to a colder climate and the drifting take care of itself

[youtube]3IxroxDO8g8[/youtube]

Next up: Kitten videos. Because kittens are shitty drivers.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Happy fucking new year Pitters! (and good things to all).

[Tribble]

Twitter Temperance League starts off the New Year with a fresh roasting of Bora Zivkovic who crimed against women today by coming back onto twitter without asking their permission and without wearing his cilice.

https://twitter.com/seelix
http://i.imgur.com/jbhPOB4.jpg

I see they don't teach Alexander Pope and his Essay on Criticism anymore... Or if they did, they must of used their smart phones to cheat on the test and Google the answers.

Funny thing is, if it was one of their 'in-group' there'd be no kerfuffle. It'd be defended, minimized, shit-canned, memory-holed or just plain met with fucking HUGS and offers of babysitting or some such. I mean, there seems to be nothing so vile that they can't forgive and accept it, as longs as it's from the 'in-group' and nothing so trivial they can over-look if it's not from the in group.

[Southern]

Return Of The Jedi is a fucking shit film BTW. I'm just throwing that out there coz it's on now. What a pile of utter, fucking shite. I can see the zips on the fucking Ewoks costumes for Christ's sake. How on Earth did this get famous?
How come Luke can use the bastard force to make C3-PO float on a fucking massive wooden throne but can't use it to undo a shitty ribbon tying his hands to a stick?
Pile of wank.

I'm not a die-hard fan of Star Wars, so I can look at it with "neutral" eyes.

A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back are very good. They deserve the cult status they have, especially Empire. Good stuff.

Return of the Jedi... yeah, I agree. It's better than the disgrace that is the new trilogy (especially the beginning, when Luke is kicking Jaba's ass), but the fucking Ewoks kill the movie. That, and the fact that the Empire installed the shield generators for the Death Star in a poorly-defended location. C'mon, Vader, that's so stupid, even Dark Helmet wouldn't do that.

[Tribble]

Modern North American libertarianism is pretty pro-government.

As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others. 

The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.

We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose.

Governments throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle, that the State has the right to dispose of the lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than our own grant to government the right to regulate the lives of individuals and seize the fruits of their labor without their consent.

Since governments, when instituted, must not violate individual rights, we oppose all interference by government in the areas of voluntary and contractual relations among individuals. People should not be forced to sacrifice their lives and property for the benefit of others. They should be left free by government to deal with one another as free traders; and the resultant economic system, the only one compatible with the protection of individual rights, is the free market.

http://www.lp.org/platform

Sounds pretty anti-government to me.

Anarcho-capitalists ... privilege corporations and for-profit businesses over governments and unions for no particularly good reason.

So yes, libertarians are anti-government, but pro-business. Please make up your mind.

Now ideologically, anarchism is utopian and impractical given human failures and overpopulation, but in practice, anarchism is really about recognizing the power of governments, corporations, unions, and individuals alike...."

So, anarchy now means "anti-power"? Last I checked (17 seconds ago), it meant this:

a : absence of government
b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority
c : a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government

It all boils down to "Kingdom of MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Oh, sure, they get their britches in an up-roar when you say it. Some will quietly oppose you and tell you a good story, others will rant and rave about how it's SLANDER, SLANDER I TELL YOU!!!

And, of course, most of them will tell you (or imply) that you're strawmanning Libertarianism and you don't have it right. Which means you'll never pin them down because it's like most other fringe 'isms' in that each actor on the stage has his/her own definition of the 'ism.' Which, at times, makes you realize not even the practitioners of the 'ism' have it down...

So I've given up because I've found debating Libertarianism is fruitless. If there are 100 Libertarians, you'll have 100 different ideologies and NONE of them will be the one you're debating...

But, in the end, I still say it's all about the "Kingdom of MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" in which they envision themselves master of their own 40-acres and "I Will do What I Want With It and You Can't Make Me! Because Property Rights!!!" That's why I laugh when Libertarians pretend they're in between 'liberals' and 'conservatives.' They're not even close and they're the ideological extreme opposite of socialists and, as far as I can see, it's more like this than their claims of splitting the difference:

Socialists --- Liberals --- Moderates --- Conservatives --- Libertarians

[Tribble]

Hat-tip to Roy Chubby Brown:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3671/1169 ... 722d_o.jpg

Thats' Skatje, his daughter.

[ROBOKiTTY]

Meet this wasteful, pretentious hipster: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/m ... ntire-year

[Tribble]

http://blatantblithe.files.wordpress.co ... walk-6.jpg

You have to admit, the logic is impeccable ...

Things that cause Electrocution:
[ ] Dropping my hairdryer in the tub
[ ] Touching both car battery terminals at the same time
[ ] Sticking a piece of metal into a socket
[x] Electricity


Things that cause your House to Burn Down:
[ ] Falling asleep with a lit cigarette
[ ] Plugging nine devices into one extension cord
[ ] Cooking meth
[x] Flames


Things that get you Mauled by Bears:
[ ] Smothering yourself in honey
[ ] Throwing rocks at the cubs
[ ] Staring them down
[x] Bears

OMG! That was so fucking funny I was cackling with laughter.

[Tribble]

Return Of The Jedi is a fucking shit film BTW. I'm just throwing that out there coz it's on now. What a pile of utter, fucking shite. I can see the zips on the fucking Ewoks costumes for Christ's sake. How on Earth did this get famous?
How come Luke can use the bastard force to make C3-PO float on a fucking massive wooden throne but can't use it to undo a shitty ribbon tying his hands to a stick?
Pile of wank.

Pretty much. The first one was cool because it was a special effects masterpiece in its day. The second was actually a decent movie. After that, yeah, they were pretty crappy and silly.

[Southern]

Twitter Temperance League starts off the New Year with a fresh roasting of Bora Zivkovic who crimed against women today by coming back onto twitter without asking their permission and without wearing his cilice.

https://twitter.com/seelix
http://i.imgur.com/jbhPOB4.jpg

I see they don't teach Alexander Pope and his Essay on Criticism anymore... Or if they did, they must of used their smart phones to cheat on the test and Google the answers.

Funny thing is, if it was one of their 'in-group' there'd be no kerfuffle. It'd be defended, minimized, shit-canned, memory-holed or just plain met with fucking HUGS and offers of babysitting or some such. I mean, there seems to be nothing so vile that they can't forgive and accept it, as longs as it's from the 'in-group' and nothing so trivial they can over-look if it's not from the in group.

A bunch of white women complaining about something on twitter? What a shock.

[ROBOKiTTY]

Socialists --- Liberals --- Moderates --- Conservatives --- Libertarians

To be more nuanced, we should split the axes.

On individual rights:
Anarchists (aka European libertarians) > Socialists > Liberals > American Libertarians > (Conservatives == Social Justice Warriors) > Fascists

On economic equality:
Anarchists (aka European libertarians) > Socialists > Liberals > Social Justice Warriors > Conservatives > (Fascists == American Libertarians) > Anarcho-capitalists

[Tribble]

There is no difference, as far as I can tell, between Arabs and Midwestern Rednecks.

Here's one with a poor imitation of the Wilhelm scream.

[youtube]CcJ295G2To4[/youtube]

However, the parabolic Doppler Effect makes it unique

Don't these idiots understand 'seat-belts?' At least it takes care of the old 'get ejected for safety' argument I heard back in the '60s and '70s. Nothing like watching some idiot getting ejected 30 feet into the air and crashing down to his death/dismemberment to put a quash in that old canard...

[Tony Parsehole]

Hat-tip to Roy Chubby Brown:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3671/1169 ... 722d_o.jpg

Thats' Skatje, his daughter.

Deleted.

[Tony Parsehole]

Return Of The Jedi is a fucking shit film BTW. I'm just throwing that out there coz it's on now. What a pile of utter, fucking shite. I can see the zips on the fucking Ewoks costumes for Christ's sake. How on Earth did this get famous?
How come Luke can use the bastard force to make C3-PO float on a fucking massive wooden throne but can't use it to undo a shitty ribbon tying his hands to a stick?
Pile of wank.

Pretty much. The first one was cool because it was a special effects masterpiece in its day. The second was actually a decent movie. After that, yeah, they were pretty crappy and silly.

New Hope was OK. I reckon it would have been pretty epic when it first came out but I don't reckon it's aged well. At all.

[Tony Parsehole]

There is no difference, as far as I can tell, between Arabs and Midwestern Rednecks.

Here's one with a poor imitation of the Wilhelm scream.

[youtube]CcJ295G2To4[/youtube]

However, the parabolic Doppler Effect makes it unique

Only a Mario death sound effect could make this better. BRB

[Tony Parsehole]

[youtube]Kvtb6udWPtg[/youtube]
There we go.

[Southern]

Apparently, Franc is now alongside the Block Bot in the Great Heaven of Suspended Twitter Accounts.

[welch]

Return Of The Jedi is a fucking shit film BTW. I'm just throwing that out there coz it's on now. What a pile of utter, fucking shite. I can see the zips on the fucking Ewoks costumes for Christ's sake. How on Earth did this get famous?
How come Luke can use the bastard force to make C3-PO float on a fucking massive wooden throne but can't use it to undo a shitty ribbon tying his hands to a stick?
Pile of wank.

Pretty much. The first one was cool because it was a special effects masterpiece in its day. The second was actually a decent movie. After that, yeah, they were pretty crappy and silly.

New Hope was OK. I reckon it would have been pretty epic when it first came out but I don't reckon it's aged well. At all.

I was ten when I first saw it on its opening week. It was a lot of fun. Kind of forgot about it for a while until the toys hit and EVERYONE was talking about it. Kind of liked battlestar galactica better.

[Mykeru]

Meet this wasteful, pretentious hipster: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/m ... ntire-year

The rules were simple: Existence could eat anything sold at Starbucks or from a “Starbucks-inspired” store or brand, which include Roy Street Coffee, Tazo Tea, and Evolution Fresh.

Cheated. Right out of the gate.

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01 ... 590-17.jpg

Alan Greenspan in drag.

[Mykeru]

[youtube]Kvtb6udWPtg[/youtube]
There we go.

Ticket to hell punched.

Apparently, Franc is now alongside the Block Bot in the Great Heaven of Suspended Twitter Accounts.

But whyyyy?

[Tony Parsehole]

Meet this wasteful, pretentious hipster: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/m ... ntire-year

Oh, Icarus. Fly not too near the sun lest thy waxy wings should melt.

[Tony Parsehole]

I was ten when I first saw it on its opening week. It was a lot of fun. Kind of forgot about it for a while until the toys hit and EVERYONE was talking about it. Kind of liked battlestar galactica better.

I liked Terrahawks better.
Can we get a sci-fi nostalgia thread going?

[tina]

Maybe this will be the year the clown car figures it out and puts the rest of the structures of a cult in place to monetize their insanity properly. But maybe they just suck at being narcissists too, who knows?

PS. Happy New Year, cunts.

PPS. Parsehole is right.

[tina]

Maybe this will be the year the clown car figures it out and puts the rest of the structures of a cult in place to monetize their insanity properly. But maybe they just suck at being narcissists too, who knows?

PS. Happy New Year, cunts.

PPS. Parsehole is right.

Myers needs to write how the alien octopussys contaminated humanity with sucker DNA which only a PZ meter can detect and an expensive course in de-inketization can cure. Bingo.

[Mykeru]

Can we get a sci-fi nostalgia thread going?

I was amazed that the original Blade Runner Deckard's gun recently (ie, in the past couple years) surfaced. For years people have been trying to figure out exactly what it looked like and reproductions involved a lot of guess-work. Not surprised it was auctioned off for 270K.

http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/file ... k=x-DKK5wi

http://www.markraats.com/Raats_Downloads/SK001.jpg

Where the hell was it all this time?

Also, wherever it was, couldn't they have rubbed it with a silicone cleaning cloth from time to time?

[John D]

A mere $100,000 can get you the original Flash Gordon rocket from the 1930s..... Just insert your own bottle rockets and make your own Flash Gordon film.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ORIGINAL-1 ... 0668324539

[zenbabe]

A couple pages of my old run-in write-up with The Straight Dope has been preserved on The Snark Science Society

List of notable flame-outs: http://cloudhelmut.4t.com/snarkarchive.html see "Rev Mykeru
Out on a rail" being back when I was still a $30 ordained minister in the Church of the SubGenius.

Two pages from my epic diatribe:

http://cloudhelmut.4t.com/rawlinks/rev7.html

http://cloudhelmut.4t.com/rawlinks/rev9.html

I bet the whole thing is on Wayback.

Is it?
That was fun to read, evidence that you've been quite the infuriatingly logical and compelling cunt for over a decade, at least.

I have it on my Seagate drive. In case the National Archives calls.

I did a furtive little dig on the Wayback machine. But I had to stop. I find it enormously difficult to read my old stuff, and read the fits and starts I had trying to get it all back together after my divorce. But I see where Melody Hensley can claim she "knew what I look like" being I briefly used an actual photo circa 2008, but at some point I just had to be honest with myself, that me isn't nearly as much fun as Mykeru. This is amusing, it shows my animousity towards Marcotte goes back at least that long: https://web.archive.org/web/20080828152 ... ykeru.com/

Ugh. Can you imagine the amount of time Laden and perhaps Hensley spend culling through those archives? It's creeepy, I tell you.

Would Amanda consider that level of creepiness to be the same as the level displayed by all the many many many many many men who accost her randomly when she's out in public?

What the hell is "pointedly" ignoring someone, who she assumes is hitting on her, as so so so so so many do, as opposed to just plain ordinary ignoring? Does her nose and razor sharp chin and Adam's Apple go higher in the air than usual? Does she huff and puff, when it's "pointed ignoring"? Her hubris is pretty stunning isn't it, why the hell does she think a bunch of random strangers care one whit about her or her actions?

You know what I imagine is that this guy was talking on his phone, and didn't even notice her at all. Not her as an unattractive woman, not as anything at all except the person to stand behind in line.

But she has her obsessions. Goddamn but she does.
She somehow believes that her "Pointed" ignoring is a devastating blow to his sense of self. :lol:
And then frets that he's now a victim of her "pointed ignoring"... :lol:
Amanda's own words (from Mykeru's wayback) "I’d suggest that the solution is that people who are talking on phones in public should actually talk on phones so we know what they’re doing, but then that seems awfully close to blaming the victim of pointed ignoring behavior."
:lol: :lol: :lol:
omg I can't stand it!

Not a member of my tribe, that one, thank fuck.

Anyway, your pic there is awfully moody, Mykeru.
Even, dare I say, a touch emo :D, though the fly helps to waylay that impression.
And your writing's definitely tightened up in the intervening years. There, it was a bit rambly.
Still good though. I enjoyed it.
I'd blotted the whole "flag pin" debacle of 2008, and that all must have been before Palin.
Man, I bet you had some epic rants about her.

[Really?]

Women in India are compelled to marry men they never meet.

And men in india are compelled to marry women they never meet. The arranged marriage kind of barrels down both sexes.

You're absolutely right. Because we live in a restrictive Patriarchy in which men are raised to hate women, I never thought of how my fellow dudes might feel about such a situation.

[Mykeru]

A mere $100,000 can get you the original Flash Gordon rocket from the 1930s..... Just insert your own bottle rockets and make your own Flash Gordon film.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ORIGINAL-1 ... 0668324539

Fishing line sold separately.

[Tribble]

Apparently, Franc is now alongside the Block Bot in the Great Heaven of Suspended Twitter Accounts.

The Block Bot was suspended?

[Really?]

Apparently, Franc is now alongside the Block Bot in the Great Heaven of Suspended Twitter Accounts.

The Block Bot was suspended?

Has been for a while, I think. Here's oolie talking about it: http://www.oolon.co.uk/?p=518

I'm guessing Twitter doesn't like people taking over the basic functions of Twitter.

[Mykeru]

Anyway, your pic there is awfully moody, Mykeru.
Even, dare I say, a touch emo :D, though the fly helps to waylay that impression.
And your writing's definitely tightened up in the intervening years. There, it was a bit rambly.
Still good though. I enjoyed it.
I'd blotted the whole "flag pin" debacle of 2008, and that all must have been before Palin.
Man, I bet you had some epic rants about her.

The picture is self-consciously pretentious, as are all "hand propping up chin" photos.

I rather miss having the ability to just fling out text diarrhea. Mostly because so much of what passes for writing these days is definitely a matter of quantity over quality. Making the effort to maintain economy of style, of saying the most with the least words, is a godawful pain in the ass because you can't plaster over gaps in thinking with wall-o-text. And that's exactly what's marketable.

Of course, then you have people like Benson, who are too lazy to create their own wall-o-text and instead have to lift it.

Thing about Marcotte is that she barely conceals the Skepchick tactic of complaining that, as she tells it, she's so desirable she just can't get a moment's rest from being hassled in public. That's only slightly more believable than Jen McCreight's transparently bullshit claim that she can't get on a bus without guys climbing over the seats to hit on her and, of course, the masturbating homeless. My guess is, they are just narcissists either misconstruing perfectly ordinary behavior from their self-centric point of view or, if that's not available, just making shit up so they can gather in a circle complaining to each other just how damn desirable they all are.

Sure, just for the sake of argument, if we accept the fact that you mutant hags are so damn sexy and in demand, can you shut the fuck up about it for a couple minutes?

[Mykeru]

Apparently, Franc is now alongside the Block Bot in the Great Heaven of Suspended Twitter Accounts.

The Block Bot was suspended?

Has been for a while, I think. Here's oolie talking about it: http://www.oolon.co.uk/?p=518

I'm guessing Twitter doesn't like people taking over the basic functions of Twitter.

What does that mean in the real world? Does it suddenly unblock people put on that blacklist, just suspend future blocking, but retain those blocks already in place, or mean fuck-all nothing?

[katamari Damassi]

Return Of The Jedi is a fucking shit film BTW. I'm just throwing that out there coz it's on now. What a pile of utter, fucking shite. I can see the zips on the fucking Ewoks costumes for Christ's sake. How on Earth did this get famous?
How come Luke can use the bastard force to make C3-PO float on a fucking massive wooden throne but can't use it to undo a shitty ribbon tying his hands to a stick?
Pile of wank.

I'm not a die-hard fan of Star Wars, so I can look at it with "neutral" eyes.

A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back are very good. They deserve the cult status they have, especially Empire. Good stuff.

Return of the Jedi... yeah, I agree. It's better than the disgrace that is the new trilogy (especially the beginning, when Luke is kicking Jaba's ass), but the fucking Ewoks kill the movie. That, and the fact that the Empire installed the shield generators for the Death Star in a poorly-defended location. C'mon, Vader, that's so stupid, even Dark Helmet wouldn't do that.

I refuse to call Star Wars, A New Hope. That wasn't the name it was filmed and first released as. That was Lucas revisionism. And yes the first two movies are good and then completely turn to shit with Jedi. Lucas was equally interested in marketing toys and Joseph Campbell style myth at that point rather than film making. Both were really bad influences. The original Star Wars was simply an homage to the serials of Lucas' youth-much like Indiana Jones was.
Incidentally, there were never any sequels planned. Star Wars was expected to flop. If you actually pay attention to what little plot there is, Star Wars is a complete movie. The rebels win and the empire is destroyed. Vader was kept alive to keep the door open for a sequel but there was never a planned story for it.

[Really?]

The Block Bot was suspended?

Has been for a while, I think. Here's oolie talking about it: http://www.oolon.co.uk/?p=518

I'm guessing Twitter doesn't like people taking over the basic functions of Twitter.

What does that mean in the real world? Does it suddenly unblock people put on that blacklist, just suspend future blocking, but retain those blocks already in place, or mean fuck-all nothing?

Honestly, I think Oolon is a double agent. Anyone who uses the Block Bot (or speaks favorably of it) is clearly a baby lunatic. "Lily Allen appropriated African American culture? Better block her so people aren't triggered!" Perhaps this was Oolon's plan all along: to make it easy for sane people to identify the real loonies.

[Mykeru]

Honestly, I think Oolon is a double agent. Anyone who uses the Block Bot (or speaks favorably of it) is clearly a baby lunatic. "Lily Allen appropriated African American culture? Better block her so people aren't triggered!" Perhaps this was Oolon's plan all along: to make it easy for sane people to identify the real loonies.

I think all discussion of Oolon's possible motivations was put to rest by this surveillance footage:

[youtube]UVNHcob3oJg[/youtube]

[Sunder]

I'm not a die-hard fan of Star Wars, so I can look at it with "neutral" eyes.

A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back are very good. They deserve the cult status they have, especially Empire. Good stuff.

Return of the Jedi... yeah, I agree. It's better than the disgrace that is the new trilogy (especially the beginning, when Luke is kicking Jaba's ass), but the fucking Ewoks kill the movie. That, and the fact that the Empire installed the shield generators for the Death Star in a poorly-defended location. C'mon, Vader, that's so stupid, even Dark Helmet wouldn't do that.

Well first off, the shield generator thing was Palpatine's idea. It was bait to lure the rebels into a slaughter.

Of course he screwed up by giving them the location of a real shield generator rather than a decoy but maybe he's actually gone senile or something.

IMO the parts of Jedi that take place in the Emperor's throne room are classic. That's the real heart of the movie that makes fans embrace it even while they try to ignore the dwarves in teddy bear costumes.

Though if you're like me and think nothing's sacred you might enjoy watching The Editing Room take potshots at all three films.

[zenbabe]

Anyway, your pic there is awfully moody, Mykeru.
Even, dare I say, a touch emo :D, though the fly helps to waylay that impression.
And your writing's definitely tightened up in the intervening years. There, it was a bit rambly.
Still good though. I enjoyed it.
I'd blotted the whole "flag pin" debacle of 2008, and that all must have been before Palin.
Man, I bet you had some epic rants about her.

The picture is self-consciously pretentious, as are all "hand propping up chin" photos.

I'm relieved to hear it was intentionally .. dramatic.
Now I feel less bad for chuckling at it, and I know you aren't the victim of my pointed amusement.
Whew.

I rather miss having the ability to just fling out text diarrhea. Mostly because so much of what passes for writing these days is definitely a matter of quantity over quality. Making the effort to maintain economy of style, of saying the most with the least words, is a godawful pain in the ass because you can't plaster over gaps in thinking with wall-o-text. And that's exactly what's marketable.

Overwhelm the opponent with a tidal wave of nonsensically arranged word salads.
Hey, wasn't that Wonderbore's technique? I confess I only skimmed the details of that entire broohaha.

Your posts meandered into concentric circles to your point. They were good, you didn't drone, you stayed clear and lucid, and I followed along, but you're better now. When you write in similar girth today you're tighter about it.

Of course, then you have people like Benson, who are too lazy to create their own wall-o-text and instead have to lift it.

Thing about Marcotte is that she barely conceals the Skepchick tactic of complaining that, as she tells it, she's so desirable she just can't get a moment's rest from being hassled in public. That's only slightly more believable than Jen McCreight's transparently bullshit claim that she can't get on a bus without guys climbing over the seats to hit on her and, of course, the masturbating homeless. My guess is, they are just narcissists either misconstruing perfectly ordinary behavior from their self-centric point of view or, if that's not available, just making shit up so they can gather in a circle complaining to each other just how damn desirable they all are.

That's a "guess" like the theory of evolution is a "guess".

Sure, just for the sake of argument, if we accept the fact that you mutant hags are so damn sexy and in demand, can you shut the fuck up about it for a couple minutes?

:lol:
They'll never, ever ever shut up about it. Their own level of sexual appeal is extremely important, it's a tool that's far too effective for highlighting how awful straight men are, and also just so happens, accidentally of course, to elevate them to alpha status amongst all the other women who aren't hit on every second of every day. Funny that.

Anyway, I'm going to try that "pointed ignoring" technique today when I take my car in for repairs, and get a ride home from the mechanic, and he inevitably tries to rape me, because I'm quite hot and rapeable. Hopefully he won't be so crushed with my cold, pointed dismissal of his pathetic attempts to enact his rape fantasies that he still fixes my car quickly.

[Pitchguest]

Apparently, Franc is now alongside the Block Bot in the Great Heaven of Suspended Twitter Accounts.

The Block Bot was suspended?

Has been for a while, I think. Here's oolie talking about it: http://www.oolon.co.uk/?p=518

I'm guessing Twitter doesn't like people taking over the basic functions of Twitter.

The block bot did not report for spam? That's amazing, especially since he admitted it himself that it does.

The bot doesn’t “just block” it also flags for spam, why?

Rarely, only on #level1 and when #spam is added. Accounts set up to abuse people might get this treatment or fake ones so that when they contact users of the bot there is a chance they get suspended. Frankly it doesn’t work, not sure if Twitter ignore the API driven reports in their algorithm.

Rarely, on occasion, "only on #level1", does not mean "we do not report for spam", you slimy little shit.

So if Twitter's spam algorithm would be tripped by the mass blocks (and thereby the mass flags for spam) that occurs whenever someone signs up for the bot (which would affect the same accounts), and knowing that Twitter accounts are suspended when they're repeatedly flagged for spam and/or blocked, why is he surprised about its suspension? Moreover, why he does whine about it like it's some great injustice?

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... 89243e.png

Duuuuuuuuuurrrrr!!

[Gefan]

On the off chance someone here hasn't already heard this, here's a damn fine summary of how to approach more or less everything that George Lucas has done since 1980.

[youtube]LDCjIjsZp_Y[/youtube]

Actually, there are two flaws with the plan.

1. Only going back to the early nineties allows Lucas to still make "Howard The Duck" (without being subsequently stoned to death in public).
2. It doesn't cover Peter Jackson, who should have gotten the shovel treatment about two thirds of the way through the first "Lord of the Rings" movie.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Meet this wasteful, pretentious hipster: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/m ... ntire-year

Make it go away!

[Mykeru]

:lol:
They'll never, ever ever shut up about it. Their own level of sexual appeal is extremely important, it's a tool that's far too effective for highlighting how awful straight men are, and also just so happens, accidentally of course, to elevate them to alpha status amongst all the other women who aren't hit on every second of every day. Funny that.

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n239 ... sized3.png

"Stop objectifying me as a sex object and target of your lustful desires"

Anyway, I'm going to try that "pointed ignoring" technique today when I take my car in for repairs, and get a ride home from the mechanic, and he inevitably tries to rape me, because I'm quite hot and rapeable. Hopefully he won't be so crushed with my cold, pointed dismissal of his pathetic attempts to enact his rape fantasies that he still fixes my car quickly.

http://simplyjuliana.com/wp-content/upl ... tening.jpg

My dad used to do a thing he called "ignoring in person" when he didn't want to deal with us annoying, never shut the fuck up kids. He could become his own island. Apparently it's hereditary. I also practice staring at a spot two feet behind some natterer's head. And I don't need headphones.

[zenbabe]

[youtube]hEcjgJSqSRU[/youtube]

[Lsuoma]

Meet this wasteful, pretentious hipster: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/m ... ntire-year

Make it go away!

Why am I not surprised the pretentious twatbox lives in Seattle? Jesus H. Particular Christ on a Crutch - this city attracts all the fucking wierdos!

Yes, Feefles, McHorse, etc., I'm looking at you as prime exemplars: please just fuck off to Minnesota or the People's Lunatic Republic of Chernobyl, and leave us sane folks in peace. Pretty please?

[Mykeru]

On the off chance someone here hasn't already heard this, here's a damn fine summary of how to approach more or less everything that George Lucas has done since 1980.

[youtube]LDCjIjsZp_Y[/youtube]

Actually, there are two flaws with the plan.

1. Only going back to the early nineties allows Lucas to still make "Howard The Duck" (without being subsequently stoned to death in public).
2. It doesn't cover Peter Jackson, who should have gotten the shovel treatment about two thirds of the way through the first "Lord of the Rings" movie.

However, "You like Angelina Jolie, does she give you a big boner? Well, here's Jon Voight's ball-sack..." had me cackling and I don't even give a shit if it's Reductio ad absurdum.

He's right:

• Baby Vader
  
  Baby Fett
  
  Baby Death Star

It's fucking Star Wars Muppet babies.

[Mykeru]

Yes, Feefles, McHorse, etc., I'm looking at you as prime exemplars: please just fuck off to Minnesota or the People's Lunatic Republic of Chernobyl, and leave us sane folks in peace. Pretty please?

Here's hoping DC chickens migrate.

http://atheiststoday.com/blogs/elevator ... 222105.jpg


By the way, while I was GISing that I cam across some other Elevatorgate graphics like this:

http://atheiststoday.com/blogs/elevator ... 030934.jpg

And this:

http://wy3mg1xgify37n21x223cw7xl1.wpeng ... amanda.jpg

Yeah, keep telling us how you have to beat off the menz with a stick, you massively gruesome hose-beasts.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I still say it's all about the "Kingdom of MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" in which they envision themselves master of their own 40-acres and "I Will do What I Want With It and You Can't Make Me!

I've always suspected this is why so many libertarians don't believe in God. Not for any rational reason, but because they don't like anybody telling them what they can & can't do.