Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Oh dear! When I wear my neck osthesis plus the fencing mask, I'm totally Lord Humongous!!!

[Kirbmarc]

Oh dear! When I wear my neck osthesis plus the fencing mask, I'm totally Lord Humongous!!!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/23 ... e28941.jpg

[CaughtUpLockedOut]

From what I've read on this forum, you don't need the mask or neck brace for that, Phil.

[Ape+lust]

Fury Road - the Good Ally Review

http://imgur.com/KCZFGfz.png

[Billie from Ockham]

Wow, I did not expect Anita Sarkeesian to advocate racial segregation.

McIntosh must be out of town, not guarding not keyboard.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Oh dear! When I wear my neck osthesis plus the fencing mask, I'm totally Lord Humongous!!!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/23 ... e28941.jpg

Not joking much:

http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo35 ... aqhzyx.jpg

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

From what I've read on this forum, you don't need the mask or neck brace for that, Phil.

Not really sure I should take this as a nice comment...

[Billie from Ockham]

It's not completely innocent. Back in 2009/2010 I was heavily into folk dancing.

And then the trampoline was invented in 2011, yes?

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Carrie Poppy tells it like it is (although she probably is immune to introspection):

It's staggering to think that this has never occurred to anyone before. She should write a book.

This, right on the heels of her discovery that animals like pigs display social behavior. Chick is a fucking genius.

[Clarence]

Fury Road - the Good Ally Review

http://imgur.com/KCZFGfz.png

While I don't personally care, and I've already pointed out is by FAR Red Pillers and a few PUA's that have problems with this movie, I do feel they have one really really big legitimate gripe IF what I have been hearing about the movie is true:

It's called Mad Max and not only is he not played by Mel Gibson (which you could get away with casting him, depending) but most importantly its NOT called "Chereze Theron". Supposedly SHE does most of the important stuff.

The other thing I've heard is that as brutal as the 'villain ' is, he's doing what is necessary for him and those under him to survive, and supposedly (warning SPOILERS though not much) by freeing the slaves, arguably people will start fighting over resources and dying again. If that's true, then perhaps killing the Patriarch wasn't such a good idea...

[KiwiInOz]

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Nick_Bate
Wow. Even ED are shocked by him. Even ED.

Holy fucking shit!

So he's in prison. I say we should also nuke the fucker from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Did you read his erotic story about his "wife" doing a big shit for him in a meadow?
Watch out, Greta! This stuff is beyond even your worst nightmares:

She squatted down in front of Nick, who was kneeling and leaning in to get a closer look at her anus. It slowly dilated as the feces pushed its way out. The suspense nearly killed him as the tip entered his view while emerging from her anus. The few seconds seemed like hours as the contents of her bowels slowly slid out from the lower opening of her alimentary canal, her anus widening more and more in the process. Once finally released, the feces dropped to the ground beneath her. Anna let out a sigh of relief and even shivered a bit from how wonderful it felt.
Nick was occupied with staring at the majesty that lay on the grass before him. He made keen observations on the size (quite large for such a slender girl) and consistency of the waste that his sweet angel had just excreted. He clenched it in his fist to examine it better. It was neither too firm nor too soft. No "corn-like chunks" were present. He was able to mold it as if it were silly putty. He was very impressed with what a fine job she had done. So impressed that he began masturbating with it still in his hand, using it as a lubricant. While trying to spread it all over his penis, he noticed his clearly irritated wife, impatiently waiting for him to fulfill his duties. Since they had no material possessions, the two had to come up with an alternative to toilet paper. Anna allowed Nick to cleanse her using his tongue, while Nick generally lets himself air-dry.

Bloody hell. It's egested, not excreted. What do they teach in scat porn lit class these days?

[CaughtUpLockedOut]

From what I've read on this forum, you don't need the mask or neck brace for that, Phil.

Not really sure I should take this as a nice comment...

I'm saying I am led to believe that you are amply equipped in the dangly area. It was meant as a compliment.

I see what you mean about the mask.

[Brive1987]

"Historical Throwback Monday"

I got a good laugh from re-reading MoFo's Shermer era chicken-gate. And the replies. Oh the replies.

I can't embed for some reason.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

From what I've read on this forum, you don't need the mask or neck brace for that, Phil.

Not really sure I should take this as a nice comment...

I'm saying I am led to believe that you are amply equipped in the dangly area. It was meant as a compliment.

I see what you mean about the mask.

You handsome bastard! :lol:

[Matt Cavanaugh]

We had cavemen, then Romans, then royalty, then people behading royalty, then François Hollande. Not so proud of my country at times.

l'Affaire Dreyfus was a hoot, though.

And the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Fucking smarmy, money-grubbing Huguenots totes had it coming.

[Kirbmarc]

We had cavemen, then Romans, then royalty, then people behading royalty, then François Hollande. Not so proud of my country at times.

l'Affaire Dreyfus was a hoot, though.

And the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Fucking smarmy, money-grubbing Huguenots totes had it coming.

So that's what the next Prager University videos will be about.

[BarnOwl]

Oh dear! When I wear my neck osthesis plus the fencing mask, I'm totally Lord Humongous!!!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/23 ... e28941.jpg

Not joking much:

http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo35 ... aqhzyx.jpg

Nice fencing mask - looks much better than the one I wore, back in the Cretaceous Period. Yes, I learned fencing at a Texas salle with an honest-to-Darwin former French Olympian (sabre) fencing master. He thought the women should only fence with a foil, grudgingly taught a few women modern pentathletes to fence epee (yes I know there's an accent but I can't remember were to put it), and believed that women who fenced sabre "weren't really women."

I ditched all the old rusty and smelly gear when I moved from New Orleans - most awkward stuff I've ever left in the alley for bulky trash pickup. Though it was New Orleans - I'm sure they've seen weirder. :D

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Turns out my current drummer is also a fencer. That's one thing he'll be doing right, at least.


*looks around. No he doesn't read here. Safe \o/*

[Ape+lust]

Fury Road - the Good Ally Review

http://imgur.com/KCZFGfz.png

While I don't personally care, and I've already pointed out is by FAR Red Pillers and a few PUA's that have problems with this movie, I do feel they have one really really big legitimate gripe IF what I have been hearing about the movie is true:

It's called Mad Max and not only is he not played by Mel Gibson (which you could get away with casting him, depending) but most importantly its NOT called "Chereze Theron". Supposedly SHE does most of the important stuff.

The other thing I've heard is that as brutal as the 'villain ' is, he's doing what is necessary for him and those under him to survive, and supposedly (warning SPOILERS though not much) by freeing the slaves, arguably people will start fighting over resources and dying again. If that's true, then perhaps killing the Patriarch wasn't such a good idea...

Well, I probably could care less than you about that :)

This is about a knob who wastes no opportunities to throw out signifiers that he's a Good Ally. Not even a night at an action flick.

http://imgur.com/wPmD27I.jpg

He should've just kept his mouth shut. Those side-eyes he's probably feeling are real.

http://imgur.com/BpUcBGo.png

https://archive.is/2I9IE

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Jurassic Park was a Feminist movie because someone said "clever girl".

Fuck that noise!

[Southern]

Oh dear. I take a brief vacation from the usual SJW bullshit to do something useful for a change, and when I come back... Sarkeesian is now advocating racial and gender segregation?

Remember people:

http://usp100la.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/ ... 840182.jpg

This was a waste of time. These silly coloured people got all wrong.

http://abhmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads ... -Accom.jpg

Now THIS is social justice. Segregation is good for you.

Signed,

http://ourstorian.files.wordpress.com/2 ... orever.jpg

McIntosh.

[KiwiInOz]

Turns out my current drummer is also a fencer. That's one thing he'll be doing right, at least.


*looks around. No he doesn't read here. Safe \o/*

It's an honest trade.

http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1391456557/115/9683115.jpg

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Forget it, I used Wikipedia. All fine. I still don't see the relation with fencing, but I suspect you do, so all fine.

DP sees things the rest of us do not. That is why s/h/it is such a Pit blessing.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

PZ writes about child molester Josh Duggar:

These guys have a major blindspot. In all their Christian whining, none of them expressed any compassion for the girls who were harmed, or recognized the importance of mutual consent, so they’re outraged that consenting adults might want to make a lifelong commitment to one another, and are just fine with children being violated, as long as the perpetrator apologizes.

https://archive.is/MqWy3

Haven't seen Oggie commenting lately. :think:

If it turns out that the Duggar boy was himself abused, then Meyers will ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO switch sides and forgive him. Plus, The Herd will ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO offer up their kids to Duggar Babysitting Service Inc.

Otherwise they'd be hypocrites.

:naughty: :snooty:

:think:

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Hey, Tuvok. I spotted you lurking just then! Come back here, you magnificent alien bastard!

[Ape+lust]

Oh dear. I take a brief vacation from the usual SJW bullshit to do something useful for a change, and when I come back... Sarkeesian is now advocating racial and gender segregation?

Remember people:

Now THIS is social justice. Segregation is good for you.

Signed,

http://imgur.com/Xo182aQ.jpg

McIntosh.

[Guest]

It's called Mad Max and not only is he not played by Mel Gibson (which you could get away with casting him, depending) but most importantly its NOT called "Chereze Theron". Supposedly SHE does most of the important stuff.

Co-writer/director George Miller was recently on The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith (via The Playlist) podcast, where he talked about Fury Road and its potential sequels. Here’s what he had to say:

We’ve got one screenplay [for the second film] and a novella [for the third]. It happened because with the delays [on 'Fury Road'], and writing all the backstories, they just expanded. [The second one] is called ‘The Wasteland.’ ‘Mad Max: The Wasteland.’

The fact that George Miller has already begun developing sequels to Fury Road isn’t really news. Indeed, we’ve known that was the case going back to 2010, when Miller said that two sequels were in the works – as a result of creating backstories for the characters in Fury Road – and that the second one would be titled ‘Furiosa’ after Charlize Theron’s character.

So the news here, then, is that the next film is (apparently) no longer titled Mad Max: Furiosa, but will instead be titled Mad Max: The Wasteland. Whether or not that means it’s an altogether new idea/film or the same idea/film with a new title is unclear, though one presumes there’s some connection. After all, Miller’s been a bit too busy making Fury Road to craft an all-new script for a follow-up.

For quite sometime, there was consideration to spinning off Jinx from Die Another Day into her own secret agent franchise:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jinx%20bond%20spinoff

Now, Die Another Day was a shitty movie with it's invisible car, even Roger Moore thought it sucked:

Roger Moore remarked, "I thought it just went too far – and that’s from me, the first Bond in space! Invisible cars and dodgy CGI footage? Please!

But had it been good, if DAD had been 85% Jinx and 15% Bond, would people have been right to complain it was a Jinx movie? (I think so.)

The other thing I've heard is that as brutal as the 'villain ' is, he's doing what is necessary for him and those under him to survive, and supposedly (warning SPOILERS though not much) by freeing the slaves, arguably people will start fighting over resources and dying again. If that's true, then perhaps killing the Patriarch wasn't such a good idea...

That's an ends justify the means argument that I dislike, but I dunno, many people now look back with some good reasons at Saddam Hussein's regime wistfully.

More interesting, is that in Laurie Penny's review:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lauriepenny/the ... e-feminist

“Mad Max” Is A Feminist Playbook For Surviving Dystopia
What might happen if women’s rights evaporate has been examined in nightmare detail. Mad Max: Fury Road offers a solution.

She writes of a detail I haven't seen anywhere else and so apart from her, no other feminist has brought up:

In Fury Road, the answer is the same. Furiosa’s initial plan is to take the Wives to “The Green Place,” where women live in safety and harmony. But when they get there, it’s a toxic swamp, peopled by a handful of badass biker grannies (presumably the last survivors of the Feminist Twitter Wars). There is no utopia here. It turns out that there is no “Green Place,” no safe space for Furiosa and her charges to retreat to, no magic world without men.

If I read Penny correctly, her review like so many others is of how Toxic Masculinity destroyed the world, and continues to destroy it, but hey look, the Matriarchy was pretty shitty too until Furiosa came along.

After that, Penny like all the others ignores the fucked up granny matriarchy, and gives feminists a pass that she won't give to the men.

Nux is as much a victim of Joe’s death cult as any woman. He is terminally ill, painfully ignorant of the world, and spends most of the film getting punched in the face by someone or other. He has the capacity for sacrifice and even sweetness, although this is not a world where romantic love can survive for long. Most of the characters in Fury Road have clear precedents in science fiction and fantasy. Nux is something rare: the redeemable feminist ally as hero.

This, in Furiosa’s words, is a film about redemption. Not for everyone. The snarling, lurching patriarchs of this film probably need to die in flames, and Immortan Joe is the 1 percent in club makeup. In the end, we believe that the war boys, too, will be freed from slavery. Perhaps the real reason that this film has upset the neo-misogynists so very much is not just that it throws their Return of Kings fantasy into vivid, horrible relief, but that it offers the possibility of redemption for all of us.

Fury Road tells a simple, vital story, and it tells it in dazzling color with buckets of blood and bristling war trucks. The story is this: The liberation of women is the liberation of everyone, and there’s only one way to stay alive when the world burns. We must learn to survive each other, because we can’t survive without each other.

My take away would be the men were shit, the women were shit and the liberation of everyone must include liberating everyone. Penny prioritizes liberating women to liberate men. The usual feminist take on that is the men need to be sensitive as women are, take fewer risks as women do, not man spread, STFU and listen, squat to pee as women do, gossip and stab each other in the back on twitter.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Oh dear. I take a brief vacation from the usual SJW bullshit to do something useful for a change, and when I come back... Sarkeesian is now advocating racial and gender segregation?

Remember people:

Now THIS is social justice. Segregation is good for you.

Signed,

http://imgur.com/Xo182aQ.jpg

McIntosh.

Haha!

Please throw Meyers in there for shits and giggles. I just can't appreciate good Shoop anymore without the sweaty cunt.

[CaptainFluffyBunny]

Good to see you back, Southern.

[Karmakin]

Nice fencing mask - looks much better than the one I wore, back in the Cretaceous Period. Yes, I learned fencing at a Texas salle with an honest-to-Darwin former French Olympian (sabre) fencing master. He thought the women should only fence with a foil, grudgingly taught a few women modern pentathletes to fence epee (yes I know there's an accent but I can't remember were to put it), and believed that women who fenced sabre "weren't really women."

I ditched all the old rusty and smelly gear when I moved from New Orleans - most awkward stuff I've ever left in the alley for bulky trash pickup. Though it was New Orleans - I'm sure they've seen weirder. :D

I prefer foil, myself. I like the lightness of it. I really don't like sabre. Just never can get the hang of it, feels too awkward.

[comhcinc]

Jurassic Park was a Feminist movie because someone said "clever girl".

Fuck that noise!

Well it is about a bunch of oppressed females who rise up against their mostly male oppressors and free themselves.

[CaptainFluffyBunny]

Nice fencing mask - looks much better than the one I wore, back in the Cretaceous Period. Yes, I learned fencing at a Texas salle with an honest-to-Darwin former French Olympian (sabre) fencing master. He thought the women should only fence with a foil, grudgingly taught a few women modern pentathletes to fence epee (yes I know there's an accent but I can't remember were to put it), and believed that women who fenced sabre "weren't really women."

I ditched all the old rusty and smelly gear when I moved from New Orleans - most awkward stuff I've ever left in the alley for bulky trash pickup. Though it was New Orleans - I'm sure they've seen weirder. :D

I prefer foil, myself. I like the lightness of it. I really don't like sabre. Just never can get the hang of it, feels too awkward.

Sabre meself, although I enjoyed epee as well. The foil seemed insubstantial. Are all the pitizens former fencers?

[BarnOwl]

Nice fencing mask - looks much better than the one I wore, back in the Cretaceous Period. Yes, I learned fencing at a Texas salle with an honest-to-Darwin former French Olympian (sabre) fencing master. He thought the women should only fence with a foil, grudgingly taught a few women modern pentathletes to fence epee (yes I know there's an accent but I can't remember were to put it), and believed that women who fenced sabre "weren't really women."

I ditched all the old rusty and smelly gear when I moved from New Orleans - most awkward stuff I've ever left in the alley for bulky trash pickup. Though it was New Orleans - I'm sure they've seen weirder. :D

I prefer foil, myself. I like the lightness of it. I really don't like sabre. Just never can get the hang of it, feels too awkward.

I tried sabre once, just to go against the dominant paradigm of the salle - didn't care for it, too many bruises and little whip-marks, even with the heavy jacket. Of course later in life I took up polo, and learned what real bruises are.

[TiBo]

Just came to realise that I have one of the whackiest conditions out there, tho 'chronical' - Exploding Head Syndrome.
Don't wish it on anyone, it's annoying when your brain harrasses you.

[BarnOwl]

Sabre meself, although I enjoyed epee as well. The foil seemed insubstantial. Are all the pitizens former fencers?

Would be amusing if there's an unusual number of pitizen former fencers. It's an oddball sport, at least in the US (for those of us who didn't attend private schools or military academies, at least).

[Ape+lust]

Haha!

Please throw Meyers in there for shits and giggles. I just can't appreciate good Shoop anymore without the sweaty cunt.

Fuck yeah, good idea!

http://imgur.com/CDmnMXA.jpg

[screwtape]

.....

The sneering at Ireland is coming mainly from people from countries with quasi-religious beliefs that all men are 'created' equal, that certain rights are 'self-evident' or 'inalienable' - just like they come from God.

They're not. Rights are demanded. Rights are fought for. Sometimes it's a matter of persuading the state to guarantee those rights because those rights are logically consistent with the constitution and sometimes it's the more radical matter of changing that constitution.

Shatterface

I think David Hume had something to say about deriving an ought from an is:

In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary ways of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when all of a sudden I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Haha!

Please throw Meyers in there for shits and giggles. I just can't appreciate good Shoop anymore without the sweaty cunt.

Fuck yeah, good idea!

http://imgur.com/CDmnMXA.jpg

:lol: :clap: :lol: :clap: :lol: :clap: :lol: :clap: :lol: :clap:

I...:lol: :clap: :lol: :clap: ...my words...:lol: :clap: :lol: :clap: :lol: :clap:

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

:?

Should...

:shock:

I'm not sure if...

:? :shock:

What does...

:shock: :? :shock:

http://i.imgur.com/gIfTMCC.png

[TiBo]

I don't know how you can laugh about this.
The US has an entire political party, 1 out of only 2 major ones, dedicated keep the negroe in a childlike state of dependence.
That's worse than segregation.

[Sunder]

There are two sources of rights.

The first is God. God created us all in his image and we are all equal before him. I don't think I find that persuasive.

The other is that rights exist because we accept they exist. Rights are a collective agreement. Without that agreement rights don't exist. Like money. If people stop believing in money it stops being money. Rights don't exist till we agree they exist and they cease to exist when we stop believing in them.

Which is why the rejection of certain rights on campuses is so worrying.

When rights began they belonged for the few. Rights expanded because more people demanded them and others were forced to concede to those demands. Sometimes the struggle was violent, sometimes legalistic, sometimes the result of philosophical debate.

There are no natural rights. It's simply false to say gay people already had the right to marry. In many countries they don't even have the right to life. Women in Ireland don't currently have the right to abortions. That right is still being fought for.

The sneering at Ireland is coming mainly from people from countries with quasi-religious beliefs that all men are 'created' equal, that certain rights are 'self-evident' or 'inalienable' - just like they come from God.

They're not. Rights are demanded. Rights are fought for. Sometimes it's a matter of persuading the state to guarantee those rights because those rights are logically consistent with the constitution and sometimes it's the more radical matter of changing that constitution.

Shatterface

This is my point when I say that the Irish shit seems to be turning people into unknowing libertarians.

[AndrewV69]

:?

Should...

:shock:

I'm not sure if...

:? :shock:

What does...

:shock: :? :shock:

http://i.imgur.com/gIfTMCC.png

Two words come to mind. Heritable traits. This article in the NY Times tries to explain, also see here (Psychology Encyclopedia).

Right now I do not have the spoons to track down the study(s) they mention but this should more or less give you an idea.

I suppose to head off a rant from someone, I should add that without actually knowing anything about the people I could be completely wrong and it may in fact have nothing to do with anything in this case.

However, I have noticed that some people, much more than others do appear to require much stricter policing to make them conform to certain social structures, and given the slightest opportunity will behave with a certain lack of self control that any 17 year old male will appreciate.

I have fond memories to this day of two sisters ... both of them, and they were fine with sharing.

[Skep tickle]

Just came to realise that I have one of the whackiest conditions out there, tho 'chronical' - Exploding Head Syndrome.
Don't wish it on anyone, it's annoying when your brain harrasses you.

Sorry to hear you get this (but you have to admit it's been given a great name).

It's thought to be like a "sleep start" or "hypnic jerk" (jerking movement that happens at interface of sleep/wake, usually when a person is falling asleep, often associated with - or following - a brief sensation of falling) except that "exploding head syndrome" is a loud, sudden sound you hear inside your head, not a sudden movement you make.

And it has nothing to do with thyroid or eyebrows.

[Lsuoma]

I thought a hypnic jerk was a rub-a-tug-tug to relax you just before dropping off to sleep.

Oh, and:

[youtube]-hQr3qBOHWc[/youtube]

[TiBo]

Just came to realise that I have one of the whackiest conditions out there, tho 'chronical' - Exploding Head Syndrome.
Don't wish it on anyone, it's annoying when your brain harrasses you.

Sorry to hear you get this (but you have to admit it's been given a great name).

It's thought to be like a "sleep start" or "hypnic jerk" (jerking movement that happens at interface of sleep/wake, usually when a person is falling asleep, often associated with - or following - a brief sensation of falling) except that "exploding head syndrome" is a loud, sudden sound you hear inside your head, not a sudden movement you make.

And it has nothing to do with thyroid or eyebrows.

What makes it so irritating is that, only after so many incidents, you realise that it's actually your brain making shit up.

Before that, I always thought there had been ~some~ kind of sound somewhere that my brain had just misinterpreted, but no - the brain just comes up with really funny shit, like a huge pile of kitchen dishes crashing down on the floor; a really pleasant sound to begin with - but when your brain adds the information that the whole thing just happened in the bathroom, you realise something doesn't quite add up ^^ The first few times when it happens, you go looking, because the lord knows what could've happened, but you find nothing and return to bed. It's really irritating.

My personal favorite is the door bell imitation. My door bell is some ugly buzzing sound, and when you "hear it" buzzing in the middle of the night, as if the door bell was located right next to your bed, it is unsettling. Other stuff like shotgun sounds are trivial by comparison, because another part of the brain has immediately recognised its bogus nature before adrenalin release was commanded, so you can laugh and go on sleeping.

Never thought this was a thing until I read about it.

[Pitchguest]

Just came to realise that I have one of the whackiest conditions out there, tho 'chronical' - Exploding Head Syndrome.
Don't wish it on anyone, it's annoying when your brain harrasses you.

I was half expecting a video of Scanners.

But from what I can glean from the symptoms, I guess I have it too. I remember one time where I awoke with a start and I had this excessive ringing in my ear. I'd always thought it was tinnitus, because I reluctantly spent an evening during a school trip in a very loud disco bar and my ears were ringing for quite a while afterwards and it's been doing that since. I also remember at the time that when I got out of bed, my eyes totally glazed over. It got better as the ringing subsided. It only lasted for a few minutes but it was very uncomfortable.

For a name like "Exploding Head Syndrome", though, you'd expect something like this.

[youtube]YI3NoBeNwfk[/youtube]

[Shatterface as Guest]

Just came to realise that I have one of the whackiest conditions out there, tho 'chronical' - Exploding Head Syndrome.
Don't wish it on anyone, it's annoying when your brain harrasses you.

I get something similar only the 'noise' is someone shouting my name. It's kinda creepy.

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-28669-sc ... i-O2Jc.gif

Shatterface

[Shatterface as Guest]

Ninja'd

Shatterface

[free thoughtpolice]

Nice fencing mask - looks much better than the one I wore, back in the Cretaceous Period. Yes, I learned fencing at a Texas salle with an honest-to-Darwin former French Olympian (sabre) fencing master. He thought the women should only fence with a foil, grudgingly taught a few women modern pentathletes to fence epee (yes I know there's an accent but I can't remember were to put it), and believed that women who fenced sabre "weren't really women."

I ditched all the old rusty and smelly gear when I moved from New Orleans - most awkward stuff I've ever left in the alley for bulky trash pickup. Though it was New Orleans - I'm sure they've seen weirder. :D

I prefer foil, myself. I like the lightness of it. I really don't like sabre. Just never can get the hang of it, feels too awkward.

Sabre meself, although I enjoyed epee as well. The foil seemed insubstantial. Are all the pitizens former fencers?

Not me. I tried it once but didn't inhale.

[Pitchguest]

Just came to realise that I have one of the whackiest conditions out there, tho 'chronical' - Exploding Head Syndrome.
Don't wish it on anyone, it's annoying when your brain harrasses you.

Sorry to hear you get this (but you have to admit it's been given a great name).

It's thought to be like a "sleep start" or "hypnic jerk" (jerking movement that happens at interface of sleep/wake, usually when a person is falling asleep, often associated with - or following - a brief sensation of falling) except that "exploding head syndrome" is a loud, sudden sound you hear inside your head, not a sudden movement you make.

And it has nothing to do with thyroid or eyebrows.

What makes it so irritating is that, only after so many incidents, you realise that it's actually your brain making shit up.

Before that, I always thought there had been ~some~ kind of sound somewhere that my brain had just misinterpreted, but no - the brain just comes up with really funny shit, like a huge pile of kitchen dishes crashing down on the floor; a really pleasant sound to begin with - but when your brain adds the information that the whole thing just happened in the bathroom, you realise something doesn't quite add up ^^ The first few times when it happens, you go looking, because the lord knows what could've happened, but you find nothing and return to bed. It's really irritating.

My personal favorite is the door bell imitation. My door bell is some ugly buzzing sound, and when you "hear it" buzzing in the middle of the night, as if the door bell was located right next to your bed, it is unsettling. Other stuff like shotgun sounds are trivial by comparison, because another part of the brain has immediately recognised its bogus nature before adrenalin release was commanded, so you can laugh and go on sleeping.

Never thought this was a thing until I read about it.

That sounds way worse than what I get. I only ever experience the loud ringing. Maybe it just is tinnitus after all.

[Brive1987]

Slate has pulled the Marcotte diatribe against Radford.

http://i.imgur.com/6c00C82.jpg

Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/201308072307 ... t_why.html

This is very good.

[fuzzy]

with apologies to TiBo
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/or ... 4389be.jpg

[Wild Zontargs]

What makes it so irritating is that, only after so many incidents, you realise that it's actually your brain making shit up.

Before that, I always thought there had been ~some~ kind of sound somewhere that my brain had just misinterpreted, but no - the brain just comes up with really funny shit, like a huge pile of kitchen dishes crashing down on the floor; a really pleasant sound to begin with - but when your brain adds the information that the whole thing just happened in the bathroom, you realise something doesn't quite add up ^^ The first few times when it happens, you go looking, because the lord knows what could've happened, but you find nothing and return to bed. It's really irritating.

My personal favorite is the door bell imitation. My door bell is some ugly buzzing sound, and when you "hear it" buzzing in the middle of the night, as if the door bell was located right next to your bed, it is unsettling. Other stuff like shotgun sounds are trivial by comparison, because another part of the brain has immediately recognised its bogus nature before adrenalin release was commanded, so you can laugh and go on sleeping.

Never thought this was a thing until I read about it.

Oh, hey. This is an actual thing. I just thought it was "fucking annoying inexplicably terrifying dreams". I had the phone/doorbell a lot as a kid. Now it's mostly the flash-bang kind. I hate suddenly waking up with my heart going fuck-off crazy, paranoid that something just happened.

[Ape+lust]

Slate has pulled the Marcotte diatribe against Radford.

http://i.imgur.com/6c00C82.jpg

Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/201308072307 ... t_why.html

This is very good.

They pulled that one around a month after publication. I think it was when Radford made it clear he was going to involve lawyers and not just get steamrollered.

It wasn't the first time Slate yanked one of her columns. I don't know why they use her to begin with, she's not in any sense a journalist. All she does is gather stuff from publicly available sources, arranges it to comply with a narrative, and fills the spaces with her characterizations. It's like they don't care she nullifies the years they've put into criticizing Fox News.

[Ape+lust]

It'd be nice if this catches on. Maybe in a few years people will be able to ask, "Did you go to a real university or a Fisher-Price university?"

Purdue adopts 'Chicago principles' to protect free speech

A new policy at Purdue University stresses its commitment to free speech regardless of how "unwelcome, disagreeable or even deeply offensive" the language is.

Trustees this month approved a policy modeled on free speech principles first approved by the University of Chicago in January. The move makes Purdue the first public university to adopt the measure, which also is in place at Princeton University.

The "Chicago principles" arose from a string of events that tested universities' commitment to open discourse, according to a report by University of Chicago's Committee on Freedom of Expression. The group was formed in July 2014 after incidents in which students on campuses across the country tried to bar controversial commencement speakers.

Purdue's policy states that members of the university are free to criticize speakers but says they "may not obstruct or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject or even loathe."

Trustees Chairman Tom Spurgeon said the principles signal Purdue's commitment to free speech. "A university violates its special mission if it fails to protect free and open debate. No one can expect his views to be free from vigorous challenge, but all must feel completely safe in speaking out," he said in a university news release......

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

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[Lsuoma]

It'd be nice if this catches on. Maybe in a few years people will be able to ask, "Did you go to a real university or a Fisher-Price university?"

Purdue adopts 'Chicago principles' to protect free speech

A new policy at Purdue University stresses its commitment to free speech regardless of how "unwelcome, disagreeable or even deeply offensive" the language is.

Trustees this month approved a policy modeled on free speech principles first approved by the University of Chicago in January. The move makes Purdue the first public university to adopt the measure, which also is in place at Princeton University.

The "Chicago principles" arose from a string of events that tested universities' commitment to open discourse, according to a report by University of Chicago's Committee on Freedom of Expression. The group was formed in July 2014 after incidents in which students on campuses across the country tried to bar controversial commencement speakers.

Purdue's policy states that members of the university are free to criticize speakers but says they "may not obstruct or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject or even loathe."

Trustees Chairman Tom Spurgeon said the principles signal Purdue's commitment to free speech. "A university violates its special mission if it fails to protect free and open debate. No one can expect his views to be free from vigorous challenge, but all must feel completely safe in speaking out," he said in a university news release......

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

This is REALLY good news. It means that genuine freethinkers will be going to schools like Purdue and UChicago, and their reputations and achievements will start to be recognized. With a bit of luck, it will drive trendy PoMo academics out of big universities. Of course, with tenure, it'll take a generation to remove the infestation, but it'll be worth the wait if it happens...

[blitzem]

We don't get a great deal of news over here in Canuckistan, but it seems like his daughter is trying to move the party in a different direction. May end up being a nice change from Sarkozy and Hollande, or still no help there from her?

Thank God Dieu we have Stephen Harper here in Canuckistan to keep us pure.

Would you like some more tar sands Mister Prime Minister?

http://i.imgur.com/411woqG.jpg

That is simply disturbing, but I love it. You should email it to him, lmao.

Too bad Trudeau won't have enough to beat him, and we will be stuck with The Harper for a few more years.

[Ape+lust]

Marcotte, just 3 weeks ago:

One in 15 Students at a West Texas High School Has Chlamydia

...People often express shock when things like this happen, but having grown up in the area, this is literally the least surprising thing ever to me. The combination of a repressive culture and a small population where everyone is up in everyone else's business all the time makes it hard for people— especially teenagers—to take necessary precautions against disease transmission: getting tested, communicating openly with partners, obtaining condoms...blah, blah, blah, blahblahblah... blah....

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/20 ... _rate.html

It's not true. MySanAntonio article dated one day before Marcotte's:

State says only three chlamydia cases in entire county of West Texas high school

...Christine Mann, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a phone* interview Thursday that only three cases of chlamydia have been confirmed in the entire Crane County within the past few weeks and only eight cases since Jan. 1. Those numbers include all residents, not just students.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/ ... 240944.php

* The most basic tool in a reporter's box. I've never seen Marcotte use it.

https://crayfisher.wordpress.com/2015/0 ... ydia-hoax/

http://imgur.com/MevVOUM.jpg

[blitzem]

We don't get a great deal of news over here in Canuckistan, but it seems like his daughter is trying to move the party in a different direction. May end up being a nice change from Sarkozy and Hollande, or still no help there from her?

It's a very risky deal, and I think she, like most other players on the French political landscape, is an idiot with illusions of adequacy. It's always good to remember that most of them fuckers come from the same school (ENA), or are lawyers, and often shared the same benches. There's all that "I hate you and your politics" noise, but meanwhile they have dinners and drinks together, remembering the good old days. Sobering.

Nothing like a little cross-party cronyism, hmm?