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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
James Caruthers wrote:
The crux of the matter is how all people who are not white are depicted in the book. We never really get any outside perspective IIRC to imply these perspectives on those other races are not correct. In the logic of the book, it's perfectly reasonable to say black people are savages, violent, cannibals, barely domesticated, evil, dangerous and animalistic, because they are all of those things in the novel and not really anything else.
The animalistic, violent, dangerous savages in the story are black. The avaricious , violent, dangerous civilized men in the story are white. For Conrad, all of humanity is 'at heart' savage.

The lasting power of the story is its allegorical depiction of the natives as mankind's brutal, inner savage exposed naked, the journey up river as the gradual stripping of the vestments of civilization that cloak but do not alter that inner savagery. (Also perfectly captured in APOCALYPSE NOW by the progression from SNAFU to FUBAR of the US military in Vietnam.)

Your typical 15 year-old reader can completely grasp Conrad's allegory. So, it's no surprise your typical SJW can't. For, while the SJW is happy to depict the white colonialists as grasping and exploitative, SJW dogma demands the 'trope' of the 'Noble Savage'.
The narrative within a narrative structure means there's a parallel between the Congo and the Thames.

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Konrad_Cruze wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
Konrad_Cruze wrote:My preferred method for identifying colours

http://abload.de/img/citadel-new-paint-ran77kdi.jpg

So amy which one did you use I would say Casandora Yellow might produce the right colour
Holy misnaming, Batman! I don't see how even a very thin coat of that can produce a yellow. It's orange.
Hence people are not getting yellow ceramic jewellery. That and the crapsmanship.
I like that word "crapsmanship". :lol:

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katamari Damassi wrote: Holy fuck, the guy make Narcissus look like a cutter...
Damassi, it's lines like these that make me want to go totally gay. Gay for you.

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The Guardian's article
Men rarely catcall me any more. I hate that our culture makes me miss it
by Jessica Valenti
Has now been retitled
One perk of older age? Fewer catcalls
by Jessica Valenti
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Søren Lilholt wrote:On a related note - Apocalypse Now: was Marlon Brando taking the piss?

I say yes.
He hated the script and didn't think it made much sense. Weirdly enough, I think it's one of his best performances.

Mind you, I feel the same way about Harrison Ford in Bladerunner, which is another movie where one of the leads hated the script and blahblahblah, so maybe there's a pattern. Apparently, I like the performances where an actor doesn't understand his character's motivation and doesn't feel particularly invested in the movie.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Søren Lilholt wrote:On a related note - Apocalypse Now: was Marlon Brando taking the piss?

I say yes.
Apparently, Brando showed up on set, and stayed throughout the shoot, so completely trashed/stoned/dissociative that they just filmed him rambling and slurring and stumbling and nodding off, then performed a real tour de force in the editing room to splice together the snippets that were of any use.

He was also grossly overweight for a supposed gung-ho Ranger Colonel, so they filmed him primarily in chiaroscuro .
I had to look up the word, but that exactly describes what I don't like about some shows and movies. All contrasty and hard to see the whole picture (literally!).

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Guest wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote: Holy fuck, the guy make Narcissus look like a cutter...
Damassi, it's lines like these that make me want to go totally gay. Gay for you.
I wish I could take credit for that, but that belonged to someone else and was attributed to me through a quirk in the way quotes are blocked here.

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Lsuoma wrote:
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feathers wrote:Don't forget 'Average Sized Caucasian'.
IIRC, he only mentioned average length.
You think he has a choad?
If it was, he'd find some way to let everyone know. He could be average (and forgot to mention that part?), but he also could have a finger-dick or a pencil-dick. Who knows, other than his 'many' girlfriends, that is?

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Skep tickle wrote:

Here's the original: https://freeprideglasgow.wordpress.com/ ... -response/
... This is why, after much discussion, the trans and non binary caucus decided not to have drag acts perform at the event. ...

The decision was taken by transgender individuals who were uncomfortable with having drag performances at the event. It was felt that it would make some of those who were transgender or questioning their gender uncomfortable
That sounds reasonable....
Because in SJW Land, if something makes even one person even a wee bit uncomfortable , it must be banned. FTS.
Pride events can make homophobes and closeted gay people uncomfortable. Ban the whole thing!

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windy wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Because in SJW Land, if something makes even one person even a wee bit uncomfortable , it must be banned. FTS.
Pride events can make homophobes and closeted gay people uncomfortable. Ban the whole thing!
No, that's different.

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Skep tickle wrote: https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/status/622944394811936769
No, Brianna Wu, you were taking the word of one person who were there, while not taking the word of at least one other person who was also there: Tim Hunt. Your attempt to play the "don't blame me for believing people" card fails, mostly because it was completely predictable whether you'd believe the black woman or the white man.

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Karmakin wrote:And yeah, I don't like Pulp Fiction either. Think it's the worst of Tarantino's movies.
Probably because he wrote it, instead of stealing it.

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Matt C said:
Elsewhere, beyond the $20 mark, you're no longer buying quality of wine, you're paying for pretension.
HAHAHAHA! What pompous generalising nonesense. Yes, it is certainly sometimes the case that over $20 (presuming US, therefore 3-5 times higher in Canadian dollars) you're paying for pretention past a certain price point, but there is so much more involved in quality wine making, and there are so many more degrees of discrimination, taste/palate sensitivity, and so on, that your grand statement is nothing less than the pretension of the non-discrimating mushmouth or dry palate.
Cutesy or pompous names indicate vanity vinyards run by narcissist rich fucks who knew jack shit about making good wine.
Your know-it-allisms can be pretty funny in their expression of a general lack of a broad perspective. Sometimes cutesy names indicate savvy or knowledgeable marketting choices, marketting which is for the most part quite successful especially amongst the mushmouth crowd who are unable to distinguish between a $20 bottle of plonk, and a fine, aged, cultivated wine of discrimination, and those folks actually need cutesy names and animal pictures to inform their choice.
Animals on wine labels are popular now, as they make it easier for non-wine savvy folk to remember. Ergo, much swill is festooned with cutesy critters.
Mushnmouthers for teh win again! Yay!

Matt, just because you have a dry palate does not mean the entire world also does, nor does it mean that anyone who has a more discriminating palate (biologically and/or experientially speaking, not culturally educated/enhanced/skewed) is someone who is pretentious or pompous.

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I can't remember who said this, but here are three other suggested rules for wine (for straight men, it seems):
1) must not make her too drunk to legally consent
2) must put a smile on her face
3) must make her drunk enough to let me paint a smile on her face ... *

* ... he started mumbling and giggling at this point, so I didn't quite catch what he'd be using as paint

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Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.

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Brianna Wu is quite convincing and even occassionally charming when it suits her needs. However she never needed to come out into the gamergate controversy. Nothing was aimed at her and as far as I'm aware her connection to Zoe Quinn was tenuous at best. That she injected herself into the drama and sustained it for months with a concerted effort of trolling and pushing out a rape/harassment narrative speaks to her being in it for the notoriety. I think she is another Sarkeesian, a grifter with political convictions that will last as long as they are providing an income.
Others have suggested she may be a sociopath. I wouldn't be surprised.
Her game is shockingly shit too.

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free thoughtpolice wrote:Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.
They have that penciled in on their TO DO lists right after they sincerely apologize to Radford for the the whole Stollznow thing.

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Gawker Executive Editor Tommy Craggs, Editor-in-Chief Max Read Resign

Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning amid controversy surrounding an article the site posted then unpublished about Condé Nast’s CFO soliciting a gay porn star.

https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/g ... 201543956/

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free thoughtpolice wrote:Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.
Like the post Radford/Stollznow memos and mea culpas?
That's why the Brianna Wu thing is such a remarkable outlier.

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Ninja'd by Really. Really, Really that's really really rude!

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Pilfered from Sargon's "This Week in Stupid":

Taxpayers Spend $3.5 Million to Find Out Why Lesbians Are Fat

"A U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) study to understand why lesbians are fat has now cost taxpayers over $3.5 million to-date.

The study, “Sexual Orientation and Obesity: A Test of a Gendered Biopsychosocial Model,” seeks to determine why there is a disparity in the obesity rates between straight women and lesbian women and straight men and gay men."

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/taxpayers-con ... uurc3:10Cn

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Easy J wrote:Gawker Executive Editor Tommy Craggs, Editor-in-Chief Max Read Resign

Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning amid controversy surrounding an article the site posted then unpublished about Condé Nast’s CFO soliciting a gay porn star.

https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/g ... 201543956/
Ethics in our journalism? Yes please!

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free thoughtpolice wrote:Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.
They knew it was a joke some time back. They don't care. Their petty cause is all that matters. They do not give a toss who gets harmed in the process.

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jimthepleb wrote:
Easy J wrote:Gawker Executive Editor Tommy Craggs, Editor-in-Chief Max Read Resign

Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning amid controversy surrounding an article the site posted then unpublished about Condé Nast’s CFO soliciting a gay porn star.

https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/g ... 201543956/
Ethics in our journalism? Yes please!
But...but.. they believe in social justice, they said so!!!!!!! You don't think they were another bunch of sociopaths who fit easily into the SJW mold do you?

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jimthepleb wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.
Like the post Radford/Stollznow memos and mea culpas?
That's why the Brianna Wu thing is such a remarkable outlier.
It says something when Wu has more integrity than Myers and co.

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Our old pal Paul Mason from the BBC's Newsnight program which described us as 'The worst of the worst' has an interesting book review in the Guardian. The topic is the 'post-capitalist' and utopian society he sees us moving towards in this new information era. I find it amazing that the whole piece seems to be written without once considering the work of non-intellectuals (ie the working-class as per his definitions) and assumes that infrastructure just appears from the ether. At least I can't see where he thinks drain repairs and street sweeping come from.
He quotes Marx's thinking on how machinery will affect the proles (by which he means borgeious, bear with me) and redefines software as machinery and information as 'physical'.
Anyway it's a fairly long piece but it made me chuckle a few times.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/j ... are_btn_fb

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My brother was stationed in Germany while in the Army & managed to see a bit of Europe. He's out now & trying to produce films. We were talking yesterday at my grandfather's birthday celebration. I rambled on again about how I was saving most of my money to buy a home next year.

For the second time that I recall, he said something like "If I was single or in your position, I'd save up my money & move to Hungary. Your money will go a lot further there, the women are hot, & the quality of living is as good or better than what you're used to." It seemed a somewhat random divergence, which makes me think that he's thought enough about this to make it an easily triggered subject of discussion.

About a year ago I had a visit from David, an old friend I went to school with who is presently a mathematician teaching in a university in Hungary. We talked about a bit of everything that had happened in our lives but never got around to discussing Hungary in any depth. My brother's comments coupled with David's move made me wonder if this is somehow "a thing" that I'm just now being made aware of. Anyone have any relevant info or opinions about this?

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John Greg wrote:Matt C said:
Elsewhere, beyond the $20 mark, you're no longer buying quality of wine, you're paying for pretension.
HAHAHAHA! What pompous generalising nonesense. Yes, it is certainly sometimes the case that over $20 (presuming US, therefore 3-5 times higher in Canadian dollars) you're paying for pretention past a certain price point, but there is so much more involved in quality wine making, and there are so many more degrees of discrimination, taste/palate sensitivity, and so on, that your grand statement is nothing less than the pretension of the non-discrimating mushmouth or dry palate.
Cutesy or pompous names indicate vanity vinyards run by narcissist rich fucks who knew jack shit about making good wine.
Your know-it-allisms can be pretty funny in their expression of a general lack of a broad perspective. Sometimes cutesy names indicate savvy or knowledgeable marketting choices, marketting which is for the most part quite successful especially amongst the mushmouth crowd who are unable to distinguish between a $20 bottle of plonk, and a fine, aged, cultivated wine of discrimination, and those folks actually need cutesy names and animal pictures to inform their choice.
Animals on wine labels are popular now, as they make it easier for non-wine savvy folk to remember. Ergo, much swill is festooned with cutesy critters.
Mushnmouthers for teh win again! Yay!

Matt, just because you have a dry palate does not mean the entire world also does, nor does it mean that anyone who has a more discriminating palate (biologically and/or experientially speaking, not culturally educated/enhanced/skewed) is someone who is pretentious or pompous.
Well then I'm a mushmouth too. Matt was only commenting on my 3 rules for buying wine. They've served me well and I stand by them. Besides, everyone knows that the connoisseurs are full of shit.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiebell/2 ... ive-wines/

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jimthepleb wrote:
Easy J wrote:Gawker Executive Editor Tommy Craggs, Editor-in-Chief Max Read Resign

Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning amid controversy surrounding an article the site posted then unpublished about Condé Nast’s CFO soliciting a gay porn star.
Ethics in our journalism? Yes please!
No ethics here: they quit because the story was pulled not because the story was shit.

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Easy J wrote:My brother was stationed in Germany while in the Army & managed to see a bit of Europe. He's out now & trying to produce films. We were talking yesterday at my grandfather's birthday celebration. I rambled on again about how I was saving most of my money to buy a home next year.

For the second time that I recall, he said something like "If I was single or in your position, I'd save up my money & move to Hungary. Your money will go a lot further there, the women are hot, & the quality of living is as good or better than what you're used to." It seemed a somewhat random divergence, which makes me think that he's thought enough about this to make it an easily triggered subject of discussion.

About a year ago I had a visit from David, an old friend I went to school with who is presently a mathematician teaching in a university in Hungary. We talked about a bit of everything that had happened in our lives but never got around to discussing Hungary in any depth. My brother's comments coupled with David's move made me wonder if this is somehow "a thing" that I'm just now being made aware of. Anyone have any relevant info or opinions about this?
Hungary Bulgaria and Poland are all popular with the guys I know who work abroad. You will earn a decent wage, housing costs about 10% of your pay packet (as opposed to 60% here in the UK) food is cheap and the social life is supposed to be amazing. The women are supposedly ALL incredibly hot but I've yet to hear any of these same guys NOT say that about their new homes. There is a series on BBC radio 4 in the next few weeks on exactly this topic, starting in Germany then Bulgaria I believe.

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Guest wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote: Holy fuck, the guy make Narcissus look like a cutter...
Damassi, it's lines like these that make me want to go totally gay. Gay for you.
Apart from the fact it was my line...

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John Greg wrote:Matt C said:
Elsewhere, beyond the $20 mark, you're no longer buying quality of wine, you're paying for pretension.
HAHAHAHA! What pompous generalising nonesense. Yes, it is certainly sometimes the case that over $20 (presuming US, therefore 3-5 times higher in Canadian dollars) you're paying for pretention past a certain price point, but there is so much more involved in quality wine making, and there are so many more degrees of discrimination, taste/palate sensitivity, and so on, that your grand statement is nothing less than the pretension of the non-discrimating mushmouth or dry palate.
Cutesy or pompous names indicate vanity vinyards run by narcissist rich fucks who knew jack shit about making good wine.
Your know-it-allisms can be pretty funny in their expression of a general lack of a broad perspective. Sometimes cutesy names indicate savvy or knowledgeable marketting choices, marketting which is for the most part quite successful especially amongst the mushmouth crowd who are unable to distinguish between a $20 bottle of plonk, and a fine, aged, cultivated wine of discrimination, and those folks actually need cutesy names and animal pictures to inform their choice.
Animals on wine labels are popular now, as they make it easier for non-wine savvy folk to remember. Ergo, much swill is festooned with cutesy critters.
Mushnmouthers for teh win again! Yay!

Matt, just because you have a dry palate does not mean the entire world also does, nor does it mean that anyone who has a more discriminating palate (biologically and/or experientially speaking, not culturally educated/enhanced/skewed) is someone who is pretentious or pompous.
In one post, you managed to bust my chaps for being both a wine snob, and for picking on wine snobs. Why are you erasing my lived oenological experience?

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S'alright FT, I'll bum you if you like.

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Beer is the best Wine. Although communion wine is kickass.

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jimthepleb wrote:Brianna Wu is quite convincing

No, just no.

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jimthepleb wrote:Beer is the best Wine. Although communion wine is kickass.
Communion wine is vile, not to mention low-alcohol. I speak from experience as an ex altar boy.

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bhoytony wrote:
jimthepleb wrote:Beer is the best Wine. Although communion wine is kickass.
Communion wine is vile, not to mention low-alcohol. I speak from experience as an ex altar boy.
You were never 'nice' enough to Father Donal to get him to give you the good stuff.

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Scented Nectar wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: IIRC, he only mentioned average length.
You think he has a choad?
If it was, he'd find some way to let everyone know. He could be average (and forgot to mention that part?), but he also could have a finger-dick or a pencil-dick. Who knows, other than his 'many' girlfriends, that is?
Tru dat, Nectar. As big a narcissist as Carrier, PhD wouldn't neglect to include such details. He likely fails the toilet paper roll test with plenty of wiggle room. If he ever got with Taslima Nasreen, Stanley 'd have to mount an expedition to track him down.

At least Phil has provided x-rays to back up his boasts.

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Lsuoma wrote:
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katamari Damassi wrote: Holy fuck, the guy make Narcissus look like a cutter...
Damassi, it's lines like these that make me want to go totally gay. Gay for you.
Apart from the fact it was my line...

Everyone wants to be totally gay for you by default.

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As for wine. The best is the stuff that don't cost you nothing.

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JackSkeptic wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.
They knew it was a joke some time back. They don't care. Their petty cause is all that matters. They do not give a toss who gets harmed in the process.
Yes, one of the main thing with SJWs is that their Cause have become more important than people.

It's seldom been more clearly illustrated than when Patricia Hernandez wrote an article about how Max Temkin's (the Cards Against Humanity guy) response to being accused of rape was bad, because he spent to much time trying to defend himself instead of using the whole thing, him being called a rapist, as a opportunity to "take the discussion in a useful direction"...
Patricia Hernandez - A Different Way To Respond To A Rape Accusation wrote:A lot of the discussion I've seen about Temkin's post has been about whether he did or didn't rape his accuser. It's about who is telling the truth. That's important, of course, but that's not what this post is about. This post about how poorly Max Temkin responded to an accusation of rape, and about what I think his post could—perhaps should—have been about instead.

There is of course no right way to respond to being accused of raping someone. I don't fault Temkin for not getting something like this completely right. Still, he handles it badly. He spends too much time trying to defend himself—which I understand as an impulse, given the gravity of the situation—and not enough time contemplating the idea that he might've messed up. Or, more importantly than either of these, taking the discussion in a useful direction.
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I wish Temkin's post spent more time around the idea of consent—which he briefly touches upon in that paragraph I quoted. Because, let's face it, Temkin can't prove anything to us about an accusation that happened years ago. But he can use his platform to open up a dialogue about a subject that affects a ton of people—and doing so would be more useful for us as a public to engage in rather than to argue a He Said She Said situation.
It's hard to get more callous than that - he shouldn't have spent so much time trying to defend himself, he should've instead spent that time talking about feminism... that would have been "useful".

The complete indifference towards people and their lives, the only thing that they think of is the Cause... the truth really doesn't matter to these people, what matters is taking every fucking chance they see to spread the Cause - get outraged about anything or even nothing, as long as it spreads the Cause.

Even if mattress girl is a psycho and the Rolling Stones story completely bullshit it just doesn't matter much, it doesn't matter, was a chance to "Start discussion" or "Raise awareness", and if they have to crack some innocent eggs doing that, they don't really give a shit.

I'm not gonna call these fuckers IS-terrorist or Nazi camp-guards, but I will say that this sort of thinking - the firm belief in a Cause that is more important than people, and that the ends justify the means - is exactly the kind of thinking that made atrocities like that possible.

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jimthepleb wrote:
bhoytony wrote:
jimthepleb wrote:Beer is the best Wine. Although communion wine is kickass.
Communion wine is vile, not to mention low-alcohol. I speak from experience as an ex altar boy.
You were never 'nice' enough to Father Donal to get him to give you the good stuff.
This "wine" you tasted, did it smell like bleach?

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comhcinc wrote:As for wine. The best is the stuff that don't cost you nothing.
That's what I said. Communion wine.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:You think he has a choad?
If it was, he'd find some way to let everyone know. He could be average (and forgot to mention that part?), but he also could have a finger-dick or a pencil-dick. Who knows, other than his 'many' girlfriends, that is?
Tru dat, Nectar. As big a narcissist as Carrier, PhD wouldn't neglect to include such details. He likely fails the toilet paper roll test with plenty of wiggle room. If he ever got with Taslima Nasreen, Stanley 'd have to mount an expedition to track him down.

At least Phil has provided x-rays to back up his boasts.
The toilet paper roll test! :) I wish I'd heard of that one years ago. It must be even harder to test these days. I've noticed for a while now that the cheapskates who manufacture toilet paper these days use wider inner rolls, as well as winding the paper looser. Less looks like more that way.

I don't think he'll want a rescue from Taslima. His new viewpoint might cause him to get someone else's spunk on himself, and he doesn't mind that! :?

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bhoytony wrote:
jimthepleb wrote:Beer is the best Wine. Although communion wine is kickass.
Communion wine is vile, not to mention low-alcohol. I speak from experience as an ex altar boy.
Well, you probably got it from the flesh hose, right?

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Scented Nectar wrote: The toilet paper roll test! :)
I try that. It didn't fit ;)
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bhoytony wrote:
This "wine" you tasted, did it smell like bleach?
More sort of salty and thick....Father Donal is that you?

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comhcinc wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: The toilet paper roll test! :)
I try that. It didn't fit ;)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6 ... L1500_.jpg
I can get you a receipt roll tube com. Don't feel too bad.

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Shatterface as Guest wrote:The Guardian's article
Men rarely catcall me any more. I hate that our culture makes me miss it
by Jessica Valenti
Has now been retitled
One perk of older age? Fewer catcalls
by Jessica Valenti
Shatterface
Archive link is here

Not really surprised. The surprise is that it went up in the first place. Prior to that there were reports that she had written something about putting on tight jeans and makeup before leaving the house. That one was a surprise also.

Note: I do not read the Guardian any more and have not in ages. If there is no archive link it does not get read.

Remember that this is the big cheese of Feministing here, who made a career out of hating men and masculinity in general while at the same time ... I dunno something about her putting her tits on display or something.

The interwebs is a wonderful place some times, below is an article in which the odious creep Hugo Schwyzer goes on about another odious creep Jessica Valenti and her tits and links to a blogger who is really on her tits about her tits.

Jessica’s breasts and Bill Clinton: a lengthy reflection

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/a ... oto-Op.jpg

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A random find I liked. Murderous Stamp Collecting Artificial Intelligence

[youtube]tcdVC4e6EV4[/youtube]

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free thoughtpolice wrote:Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.
*snerk* Yeah.

As you would expect from that place of integrity. Complete radio silence. What a surprise.

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Pitchguest wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:Now that there is evidence that the whole Tim Hunt thing was a joke I suppose we can expect that Ophie, PZ, and other FTBers that wrote articles will write a similar number of articles spread over the next few weeks apologizing for the unfair treatment they gave him.
*snerk* Yeah.

As you would expect from that place of integrity. Complete radio silence. What a surprise.

Even if he was innocent the experience was good for him.

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Matt C said:
In one post, you managed to bust my chaps for being both a wine snob, and for picking on wine snobs. Why are you erasing my lived oenological experience?
Because you erased my winoman pretentions and my vinous snobbery livid experience and now I can't even....

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I've just tested my latest batch of home-brew and this poem is the upshot:

First he triggers pit's festivities
by calling out his own proclivities.
Next he claims we've blown a gasket.
Where's the Fainting Couch ? I'm gaslit.

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Richard Carrier Phd. super stud wrote:

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The benevolent sexism of “won’t someone think of the poor cuckolded women whose identities will be crushed thereby” is a different kind of sexism than the Slymepit-style “oh shit no one better fuck my property I better keep my wife away from you” malevolent sexism. The latter is selfish and male dominant and acknowledges the existence of female libido but more explicitly treats women as property to be locked up and controlled. Whereas the former is a naive and misplaced altruism that leads to a perceived need to control men.
He's morphed into Rystefn Carrier. :bjarte:

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comhcinc wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: The toilet paper roll test! :)
I try that. It didn't fit ;)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6 ... L1500_.jpg
Your new name is Comhcinc the Choad! :D

Oh hang on, wait a minute, do you mean it was too big or too small to fit? :?

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Scented Nectar wrote:
comhcinc wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: The toilet paper roll test! :)
I try that. It didn't fit ;)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6 ... L1500_.jpg
Your new name is Comhcinc the Choad! :D

Oh hang on, wait a minute, do you mean it was too big or too small to fit? :?

Which every makes you happiest.

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Easy J wrote:Gawker Executive Editor Tommy Craggs, Editor-in-Chief Max Read Resign

Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning amid controversy surrounding an article the site posted then unpublished about Condé Nast’s CFO soliciting a gay porn star.

https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/g ... 201543956/
Is this something to do with Surly Amy's 'natural variability in the firing process' ?

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comhcinc wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
comhcinc wrote:I try that. It didn't fit ;)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6 ... L1500_.jpg
Your new name is Comhcinc the Choad! :D

Oh hang on, wait a minute, do you mean it was too big or too small to fit? :?

Which every makes you happiest.
These days every type gets a :bjarte: from me. Oh well, at least I have my memories. :cry:

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Sigh. Ophelia writes about a new workshop a school in Oxford has introduced called "Good Lad" (sounds incredibly patronising, doesn't it?) which objective is to teach specifically, and exclusively, male students, about “the scale of sexual harassment and violence aimed at female students” and "how they must stand up for women's rights." She's upset that someone on the Telegraph thinks this is indoctrinating boys in feminist ideology. Gee, I wonder where he got that idea.

Anyway, as usual she takes large snippets and adds her, er, "witty banter" or "wisdom" to go along with it.

On this particular one, she takes umbrage (among other things) at this paragraph:
The workshops are the latest in a mushrooming series of initiatives in which ideologically-driven activists are being invited into schools, driven by the belief that boys need to be re-educated to prevent them from becoming a threat to women.
For which she says this, completely unironically:
And? Boys shouldn’t be taught not to harass or attack girls?
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How does she even ... how do you respond to that? Apart from maybe ... no ... because, and this is the important part ...

THEY ALREADY KNOW THAT!

https://archive.is/GlL6p

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