Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!

[Ape+lust]

Always believe the victim accuser? Believe them for 2 years, then carry on as if you hadn't? Always believe, but sidle up to the predator anyway because you need him more than he needs you?

Help me out here Peez, your moral compass is pointing every which way but straight.

http://imgur.com/r39FAQW.png

[screwtape]

Jerry Coyne writes:

It’s not just college students who are afflicted with distorted thinking and identity-politics sensitivity, for at this very moment a prominent atheist blog network is falling apart, ripped asunder by internecine fights about Proper Thinking.

Part of this article On the hair-trigger sensitivity of today’s college students, and how to fix it

[Ape+lust]

Twenty?

Damn website is broken.

http://imgur.com/z5b2Koc.jpg

I am pages behind, but still wanted to post the first thing I thought of when seeing this shoop
http://cdn3.cdnme.se/cdn/7-2/1010119/im ... 766553.jpg
http://i5.ifrm.com/3489/21/upload/p355909.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/23 ... 107a07.jpg
https://images1.resources.foxtel.com.au ... a20ea4034d

Holy fuckballs! I've channeled a show I haven't seen? Is this woo or black tech? It's unnerving either way :lol:

That's wonderfully creepy. Thanks for the laffs, Honeywagon!

[Billie from Ockham]

Always believe the victim accuser? Believe them for 2 years, then carry on as if you hadn't? Always believe, but sidle up to the predator anyway because you need him more than he needs you?

Help me out here Peez, your moral compass is pointing every which way but straight.

http://imgur.com/r39FAQW.png

Are we sure that PZ Myers did not retract the second-hand accusation in the last two years? (Real question.)

[Sulman]

Y'all know I'm having a random few days.

https://i.imgur.com/sEbuvTs.png

Other links: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... all-wrong/

So I belong to the forum of a political writer who is quite left leaning but has always been willing to have a mostly open forum for political discussion. He's been awol a while as he writes his book but tonight someone on the forum brought up the bomb threat at SPJ airplay and the moderator shut down the thread with the following (slightly paraphrased. I don't want this site getting trolled).

"Stop. Just stop. Gamergate is a hate group, they are lying when they say it's about ethics in journalism, they harass women. Any more threads about this will be deleted and if I have to I'll start handing out bans."

This came out of completely nowhere, there have in the past been several heated discussions about SJWs and the like without any censorious nonsense. Some folk are working really hard at making sure no alternative narrative can even be discussed. It's as bad asthe seemingly hired goon who only every show up to complain when Israel is criticised by anyone.

That's pretty disappointing. But people seem to genuinely believe this stuff. It seems almost impossible to de-program the hardliners. I don't know what might help this person. You could probably easily drop into the #gamergate hashtag and ask for some women to come talk to your writer if that might help, or provide more links... but in the end, it's a religious kind of fanaticism that won't let them accept any other reality.

There is security in such a simplistic world view.

[Ape+lust]

Always believe the victim accuser? Believe them for 2 years, then carry on as if you hadn't? Always believe, but sidle up to the predator anyway because you need him more than he needs you?

Help me out here Peez, your moral compass is pointing every which way but straight.

http://imgur.com/r39FAQW.png

Are we sure that PZ Myers did not retract the second-hand accusation in the last two years? (Real question.)

No, I can only say I haven't seen him do it. Peez's accusation was one of three, the others being from Jen McCreight and Stephanie Zvan. They haven't retracted either. Ed Cara was the first with charges, but what he was alleging didn't amount to assault, just crude horndoggery.

If Thibeault knows of a retraction, he hasn't added it to his timeline.

[Billie from Ockham]

OK, thanks. My next question is best answered by someone who has insight into SJW thinking: does retweeting a comment by someone [that you have] accused of sexual assault count as a form of rape apology?

[Cnutella]

The Suey Park of yesterday was legitimately mentally deranged. There was no other explanation for the things she said and wrote. It was the full #SocJus on bath salts.
The Suey Park of today is taking her new pills, which (as someone stated aptly) works wonders for ppl with bipolar disorder. The intensity and quickness with which she unfucked herself can again not be satisfyingly explained otherwise.

i suspect Suey is as much a personality black hole as she ever was, and that any personality disorder she may have is still perking along as troublesomely as ever. Suey burned too many bridges on the SJW side and this combined with her binary "with me or against me" thought process (she has not been exactly nuanced towards either side), plus her desparate urge for continued attention implies that she's at least as reliable and stable as a UXB. I could be wrong but that's my best guess.

Sorry Clarence, but that dame is poison, even when she's singing a song we like better.

[Billy The Hillbilly]

don't change :text-worthless:

[Billy The Hillbilly]

fukn rapist dirtbag

[Oglebart]

Ape+Lust

That is a BBC comedy sketch show called Little Britain, and those characters are called Lou and Andy, if you want to look it up. It was pretty funny when it started and sparked a load of catchphrases. Like most things though, they milked it dry and it ended up a bit crap.

[blitzem]

SN....just watched your curry video. Sounds delicious. Even though I knew about the difference between what everyone thinks is cinnamon and the Sri Lankan type (from an LCBO Food and Drink mag article) I haven't tried the real stuff yet. Do you find there is that noticeable a difference?

Hmm. Was going to post the link, but it seems you removed it?

I removed it and re-uploaded after fixing a ton of things I missed the first time around.

The curry powder is delicious. I use it in a lot of dishes. The true cinnamon tastes more like how the old cinnamon hearts used to taste. Maybe they still do, I don't know. It's been years since I've had them, but that's the flavour of true cinnamon. I'm not sure if they still taste the same these days. The cinnamon's hard to detect in the resulting curry powder, but it's essential to the overall taste. I've become a true cinnamon snob! :)

[youtube]zEykH4_QU8I[/youtube]

Ah, cinnamon hearts. Haven't had those in ages, but I loved them. Guess I will have to try out the SL stuff then, and your powder as I am a bit sick of the Loblaws No Name mix. Just been eating it for too long. Cheers.

[Parody Accountant]

:) Though I've always wondered how to parse that name; what is it alluding to? "D for m 10 n"? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

It's just ultra-hip (if you're a teen) leetspeak.

Thanks. Though I took a look at the article and I'm really no wiser as to what Damion's handle is supposed to be saying or alluding to. Ideas?

The steers bot is vulnerable to leet speak

[James Caruthers]

There are reasons to speculate that the hashtag that shall not be named might achieve a 'narrative switch' within the next few days.

I wonder how the hardliners will take it when the definitive "this is a harassment group" articles start hedging their language and moderating their tone...?

Insane SJWs Ian Miles Cheong and Suey Park have already "seen the light"...while maintaining their editorial post and asking for college bookings, respectively. If we want to see the future for GamerGate, let's look to what has happened in our own community. After constant FAIL, the lunatics turned on each other and the narrative has broken down. A writer for Slate (ew) inadvertently validated that Ophelia shouldn't have been attacked in the same manner she and FTB had been attacking people.

Remember Mad Men? This is rebranding. Suey Park needs to be able to sell racism against Asians, just like Ophelia needs to sell sexism. It's not going to end. It's just going to continue under different terms and definitions and with different figureheads.

These people are also now switching over from making a living off of SJWs to making a living off of GG and anti-SJW.

You gotta watch for this behavior. Basically, anyone who is trying to make a living off of political punditry has suspect motives and should be subjected to high levels of skepticism. Who knows why someone like Chong holds the political views he claims to hold now. Not everyone is a true believer and appealing to populism is a great way to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in the era of crowdfunding.

Clickbaiting anti-SJW punditry wouldn't really be any better than clickbaiting SJW punditry.

[James Caruthers]

(BTW: It's funny you mention the jews / Israel, bc their roguishness has been carefully established the same way by the Left for the last 30y (and let's not even talk about the 1950 years before that)).

"Bombing the Gaza Strip- those devilish rogues! Oh, Jew!" :P

Is it time for Zyklon Ben to show this forum the light once again?

[blitzem]

Mandatory Canadian.
[youtube]aAdtUDaBfRA[/youtube]

I go for the remake, personally. :mrgreen:

[youtube]BO9aD4mzSE8[/youtube]

[Parody Accountant]

Always believe the victim accuser? Believe them for 2 years, then carry on as if you hadn't? Always believe, but sidle up to the predator anyway because you need him more than he needs you?

Help me out here Peez, your moral compass is pointing every which way but straight.

http://imgur.com/r39FAQW.png

Wow.

Somebody tweet this to melby

[feathers]

Always believe the victim accuser? Believe them for 2 years, then carry on as if you hadn't? Always believe, but sidle up to the predator anyway because you need him more than he needs you?

Help me out here Peez, your moral compass is pointing every which way but straight.

http://imgur.com/r39FAQW.png

The problem is that the people PZ trusts are inherently untrustworthy.

[Shatterface]

Always believe the victim accuser? Believe them for 2 years, then carry on as if you hadn't? Always believe, but sidle up to the predator anyway because you need him more than he needs you?

Help me out here Peez, your moral compass is pointing every which way but straight.

http://imgur.com/r39FAQW.png

Are we sure that PZ Myers did not retract the second-hand accusation in the last two years? (Real question.)

An asshole who refuses to retract an accusation even after the 'victim' publicly retracts it? What do you think?

[Shatterface]

OK, thanks. My next question is best answered by someone who has insight into SJW thinking: does retweeting a comment by someone [that you have] accused of sexual assault count as a form of rape apology?

I'd have thought even following them was 'problematic'.

[Really?]

This is odd. Carrier's auction has changed again. You now have until October 31 to bid 100 dollars that would entitle you to buy him dinner on August 13.

https://www.secularbackstage.com/tools/ ... e/NacA53fq

[Ape+lust]

Ape+Lust

That is a BBC comedy sketch show called Little Britain, and those characters are called Lou and Andy, if you want to look it up. It was pretty funny when it started and sparked a load of catchphrases. Like most things though, they milked it dry and it ended up a bit crap.

S'funny, I'd once used Lucas' pic without knowing who he was. The Pit was casting leads for a Radford/Stollznow movie and a lot of high-caliber names were suggested. I paired Lucas and Weird Al Yankovic, figuring they'd be just as credible at a tenth of the cost.

Lucas was just a bald-head who came up often in Google searches.

Al though... Al was born to play the part:

http://imgur.com/UtSe38D.jpg

[Shatterface]

This is odd. Carrier's auction has changed again. You now have until October 31 to bid 100 dollars that would entitle you to buy him dinner on August 13.

https://www.secularbackstage.com/tools/ ... e/NacA53fq

I'd advise bidders to stick to the eBay tactic of only bidding in the last few minutes before the auction closes.

[Service Dog]

The problem is that the people PZ trusts are inherently untrustworthy.

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

[Oglebart]

This is odd. Carrier's auction has changed again. You now have until October 31 to bid 100 dollars that would entitle you to buy him dinner on August 13.

https://www.secularbackstage.com/tools/ ... e/NacA53fq

I'd advise bidders to stick to the eBay tactic of only bidding in the last few minutes before the auction closes.

I know we have talked about the SpunkHobbits vast ego before and maybe it's a bit boring now, but this is from the blurb on that hilariously desperate dinner auction

He is currently working on several upcoming projects, but also teaching affordable online courses in secular philosophy, history, and methodology at Partners for Secular Activism, and blogging and speaking about history, philosophy, feminism, and other moral causes, as well as his past in the military and his current life in polyamory.

It's a incredibly inventive way of describing his recent splatterings, particularly on Bensons blog. I don't know, he just makes me laugh.

[Skep tickle]

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/201 ... xperience/

Cherry-picking 2 lines from near the end:

The idea of choosing to be a man feels to me a bit like choosing to be Charles Windsor – like signing up to a whole lot of duty and responsibility you don’t particularly want. That thought has caused me to sympathize with men more, however odd that may sound.

[Shatterface]

Ape+Lust

That is a BBC comedy sketch show called Little Britain, and those characters are called Lou and Andy, if you want to look it up. It was pretty funny when it started and sparked a load of catchphrases. Like most things though, they milked it dry and it ended up a bit crap.

Matt Lucas plays an abusive parasite called Andy who poses as a disabled man; David Walliams is his gullible and overindulgent carer, Lou.

[youtube]uybePHfm9No[/youtube]

[Shatterface]

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/201 ... xperience/

Cherry-picking 2 lines from near the end:

The idea of choosing to be a man feels to me a bit like choosing to be Charles Windsor – like signing up to a whole lot of duty and responsibility you don’t particularly want. That thought has caused me to sympathize with men more, however odd that may sound.

What duties and responsibilities magically attach themselves to those who transition? Motherhood?

[Shatterface]

This one's for Opie:

[youtube]4THO9-N--k4[/youtube]

[Skep tickle]

Re Billy The Hillbilly's attached photo above (doesn't appear in quote-reply):

Wearing heels to walk on dirt: :snooty:

(more likely to sink in grass or mud, tho?)

[Eskarina]

S'funny, I'd once used Lucas' pic without knowing who he was. The Pit was casting leads for a Radford/Stollznow movie and a lot of high-caliber names were suggested. I paired Lucas and Weird Al Yankovic, figuring they'd be just as credible at a tenth of the cost.

Lucas was just a bald-head who came up often in Google searches.

Al though... Al was born to play the part:

http://imgur.com/UtSe38D.jpg

Too funny.

I'd go for this: http://i.imgur.com/XpCccPr.jpg

[John Greg]

Tony Queer Shoop (with yet another new photo!! Value Added!!!) is poor-begging (well, actually, ETEV is poor-begging for him) over at En Tequila Es Verdad. It includes a rather pathetic story about difficulty paying a vet bill for a 15-year old cat.

Quote:

Tony, who’s one of the best writers I know on the subjects of racism, gun violence, queer topics, and comics, is going through one of those extended dry spells where he can’t find employment no matter how hard he tries. As if that weren’t enough, he just had an emergency with his 15 year-old kitty that resulted in a substantial vet bill. His kitty didn’t make it. So he’s got grief on top of joblessness and bills to worry about. If you read his blog, partake in the Pharyngula thread he and RQ curate, or follow him on Facebook, you know he’s working his ass off to bring us solid content every day. Unfortunately, blogging doesn’t pay the bills. Any of my readers who can spare some cash would be doing him a solid by dropping some coinage in his tip jar. Thank you so much for your help, my darlings!

(My emphasis.)

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaes ... f-you-can/

[jimthepleb]

This is odd. Carrier's auction has changed again. You now have until October 31 to bid 100 dollars that would entitle you to buy him dinner on August 13.

https://www.secularbackstage.com/tools/ ... e/NacA53fq

He's fucking magic that boy!

[John Greg]

LousyCanuck, has a new project:

Welcome to my new side-project: The Ethical Gamer. As a hardened Social Justice Warrior (Tank spec) who just hit Level 47, who also happens to be a person who spends an inordinate amount of time on video games and has purchased a large number of Humble Bundles leading to an expansive Steam library, I figured I might as well jam these two facets of my life together somehow. That somehow, as it turns out, is reviews of video games from a social justice perspective.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... ary-kings/

[John Greg]

The Peez attends his high school reunion, and remembers how perfect he and his life really were:

I know many people have horrible memories of their school years, and all too often public schools are nightmarish mills of cliques and bullying and ugly social oppression, but I was lucky. I was the wimpy nerd, I would have been the easy target for bullying, but it didn’t really happen, and I had friends among all the little petty in-groups — the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the AV weirdos, everyone — and they were always pretty porous and accepting. Dang it, I don’t have any good horror stories to tell from those years!

:think: ... :liar:

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... e-machine/

[ReneeHendricks]

The Peez attends his high school reunion, and remembers how perfect he and his life really were:

I know many people have horrible memories of their school years, and all too often public schools are nightmarish mills of cliques and bullying and ugly social oppression, but I was lucky. I was the wimpy nerd, I would have been the easy target for bullying, but it didn’t really happen, and I had friends among all the little petty in-groups — the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the AV weirdos, everyone — and they were always pretty porous and accepting. Dang it, I don’t have any good horror stories to tell from those years!

:think: ... :liar:

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... e-machine/

I knew something was off about yesterday - turns out PZ was just about a mile or so away from me. The weather was perfect for his arrival: grey, drizzly, and sticky.

[Ape+lust]

S'funny, I'd once used Lucas' pic without knowing who he was. The Pit was casting leads for a Radford/Stollznow movie and a lot of high-caliber names were suggested. I paired Lucas and Weird Al Yankovic, figuring they'd be just as credible at a tenth of the cost.

Lucas was just a bald-head who came up often in Google searches.

Al though... Al was born to play the part:

http://imgur.com/UtSe38D.jpg

Too funny.

I'd go for this: http://i.imgur.com/XpCccPr.jpg

Haha! Hey Baxter, heard Singing in the Rain lately?

And now, our squirmy baboon moment... when Peez advised his sexually abused friend not to drink semen volumizer:

http://imgur.com/6XPT6RW.png

[Skep tickle]

LousyCanuck, has a new project:

<snip>

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... ary-kings/

https://archive.is/EpMqe

The Peez attends his high school reunion...

<snip>

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... e-machine/

https://archive.is/sczmg

[Really?]

The Peez attends his high school reunion, and remembers how perfect he and his life really were:

I know many people have horrible memories of their school years, and all too often public schools are nightmarish mills of cliques and bullying and ugly social oppression, but I was lucky. I was the wimpy nerd, I would have been the easy target for bullying, but it didn’t really happen, and I had friends among all the little petty in-groups — the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the AV weirdos, everyone — and they were always pretty porous and accepting. Dang it, I don’t have any good horror stories to tell from those years!

:think: ... :liar:

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... e-machine/

But...hasn't PZ complained in the past about the people who fucked with him in high school? The jock dudes?

[InfraRedBucket]

Thanks. Though I took a look at the article and I'm really no wiser as to what Damion's handle is supposed to be saying or alluding to. Ideas?

It's sometimes used so as to prevent otherwise recognised brands or names appearing in search engine results. So the POTUS could post as B4rach 0b4ma. Myers as My3rZ ocould post a torrent to the latest W4lt Di5n3y blockbuster in a forum supposedly without a basic name search revealing your activities to the outside world.

[Parody Accountant]

LousyCanuck, has a new project:

Welcome to my new side-project: The Ethical Gamer. As a hardened Social Justice Warrior (Tank spec) who just hit Level 47, who also happens to be a person who spends an inordinate amount of time on video games and has purchased a large number of Humble Bundles leading to an expansive Steam library, I figured I might as well jam these two facets of my life together somehow. That somehow, as it turns out, is reviews of video games from a social justice perspective.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... ary-kings/

Ahahaha Ahahaha

[Parody Accountant]

LousyCanuck, has a new project:

<snip>

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... ary-kings/

https://archive.is/EpMqe

The Peez attends his high school reunion...

<snip>

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... e-machine/

https://archive.is/sczmg

Thanks!

[Ape+lust]

The Peez attends his high school reunion, and remembers how perfect he and his life really were:

I know many people have horrible memories of their school years, and all too often public schools are nightmarish mills of cliques and bullying and ugly social oppression, but I was lucky. I was the wimpy nerd, I would have been the easy target for bullying, but it didn’t really happen, and I had friends among all the little petty in-groups — the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the AV weirdos, everyone — and they were always pretty porous and accepting. Dang it, I don’t have any good horror stories to tell from those years!

:think: ... :liar:

Linky: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... e-machine/

No horror stories? Not even the likely cause of his bum knee? He's not usually this copacetic. If he's availing himself of Washington's legal weed, I applaud and encourage him to get baked more often.

Originally a comment by PZ Myers on That was before the money went into it.

It’s been this way since I was in high school.

Our football coach was a psychopath.

He took pride in his collection of paddle boards; every session of our gym class was accompanied by someone, or multiple someones, getting hacked for trivial infringements of his rules: you forgot your jock strap. You weren’t lined up with everyone right at the instant the bell rang. You came in last when running laps. If he was feeling punitive, the last ten kids would get wacked.

He was the football coach. He got away with it. Grading gym was easy, too: if you were varsity on one of the teams, you got an A; JV, a B; everyone else, a C.

Members of the football team were his favorites. He loved to set up games of dodgeball, where one side was the football squad, and everyone else was on the other. It was always that way — we’d have a day of basketball, and the teams were the football players vs. the “pussies”.

That’s how I got out of gym for one full year: playing basketball against the football assholes, and when I started scoring well (probably because as the unathletic guy on the other team, they kept ignoring me), one of them decided to take me out…by tackling me at the knees. In basketball. Completely wrecked my left knee, got to spend 6 months in a hip-to-ankle cast. The guy didn’t even get a rebuke.

We didn’t have any incidents of sexual violence, at least. The closest we came was that he liked to stroll around the showers and ask the football players about their sexual activities — details about the girls at school were always welcome.

Fucking pervert and violent psychopath. I still seethe when I think of that jerk. He got his comeuppance, though: his son was a star quarterback in high school, and when he moved up to the University of Washington, his dad got promoted to a coaching position on that team. I think he also got another bump upwards when his son went pro. It’s a sport that really rewards the worst human beings.

Yeah, we had wrestling in our PE class too. Fortunately, we didn’t have to wrestle the football players — they were out of our weight class.

Instead, they’d match us limp-wristed weakling against one another, and then stand around making crude sexual remarks while we were thrashing around. Or worse, I’d get pitted against one of the little guys who really were on the wrestling team, a solid ball of muscle, and get slammed around for 30 seconds before getting pinned. That was always entertaining.

https://archive.is/1BwNE

[Aneris]

Thanks. Though I took a look at the article and I'm really no wiser as to what Damion's handle is supposed to be saying or alluding to. Ideas?

It's sometimes used so as to prevent otherwise recognised brands or names appearing in search engine results. So the POTUS could post as B4rach 0b4ma. Myers as My3rZ ocould post a torrent to the latest W4lt Di5n3y blockbuster in a forum supposedly without a basic name search revealing your activities to the outside world.

5733r5m4n 15 k1nd 0f cu73, 7ry1n6 70 f1nd 0u7 wh47 l3375p34k m34n5 4nd why p30pl3 4r3 u51n6 17. 1 6u355 1'll wr173 my n3x7 r3ply 70 h1m 0n 50m3 4rc4n3 70p1c 3n71r3ly 1n l337.

[Suet Cardigan]

S'funny, I'd once used Lucas' pic without knowing who he was. The Pit was casting leads for a Radford/Stollznow movie and a lot of high-caliber names were suggested. I paired Lucas and Weird Al Yankovic, figuring they'd be just as credible at a tenth of the cost.

Lucas was just a bald-head who came up often in Google searches.

Al though... Al was born to play the part:

http://imgur.com/UtSe38D.jpg

Too funny.

I'd go for this: http://i.imgur.com/XpCccPr.jpg

You've been ninja'd by over a year:

http://i.imgur.com/Tspw07c.jpg

viewtopic.php?p=174564#p174564

[Scented Nectar]

[ I've become a true cinnamon snob! :)

Knew it ! You only became an atheist because you love to cinnamon !

Sin-amen! Yep. Also because I never believed in gods, but that's just a minor detail. :)

[Eskarina]

You've been ninja'd by over a year:

http://i.imgur.com/Tspw07c.jpg

viewtopic.php?p=174564#p174564

I know. But it bears repeating. Or repeats bears. Or sumting.

[Malky]

Thanks. Though I took a look at the article and I'm really no wiser as to what Damion's handle is supposed to be saying or alluding to. Ideas?

It's sometimes used so as to prevent otherwise recognised brands or names appearing in search engine results. So the POTUS could post as B4rach 0b4ma. Myers as My3rZ ocould post a torrent to the latest W4lt Di5n3y blockbuster in a forum supposedly without a basic name search revealing your activities to the outside world.

5733r5m4n 15 k1nd 0f cu73, 7ry1n6 70 f1nd 0u7 wh47 l3375p34k m34n5 4nd why p30pl3 4r3 u51n6 17. 1 6u355 1'll wr173 my n3x7 r3ply 70 h1m 0n 50m3 4rc4n3 70p1c 3n71r3ly 1n l337.

This is surprisingly easy to read ;)

[Ape+lust]

Thanks. Though I took a look at the article and I'm really no wiser as to what Damion's handle is supposed to be saying or alluding to. Ideas?

It's sometimes used so as to prevent otherwise recognised brands or names appearing in search engine results. So the POTUS could post as B4rach 0b4ma. Myers as My3rZ ocould post a torrent to the latest W4lt Di5n3y blockbuster in a forum supposedly without a basic name search revealing your activities to the outside world.

5733r5m4n 15 k1nd 0f cu73, 7ry1n6 70 f1nd 0u7 wh47 l3375p34k m34n5 4nd why p30pl3 4r3 u51n6 17. 1 6u355 1'll wr173 my n3x7 r3ply 70 h1m 0n 50m3 4rc4n3 70p1c 3n71r3ly 1n l337.

:lol:

Now I have to ask... Steersman, are you a long-time AOL user? :D

I can't think of another way you missed l337, which is about as old as the World Wide Web and was hard to avoid in the first decade.

[Scented Nectar]

The curry powder is delicious. I use it in a lot of dishes. The true cinnamon tastes more like how the old cinnamon hearts used to taste. Maybe they still do, I don't know. It's been years since I've had them, but that's the flavour of true cinnamon. I'm not sure if they still taste the same these days. The cinnamon's hard to detect in the resulting curry powder, but it's essential to the overall taste.

Fenugreek, turmeric: I love it when I google things I've never heard of and the of first ten links, nine are to alternative "health" food sites describing how they cure cancer and give you better boners, and the tenth to webmd which lists additional ways in which they bring you closer to death :mrgreen:

Actually, turmeric is kurkuma or koenjit, we used to steal import it from Indonesia.

All I know is that they taste good. Well, actually, since you mentioned webmd, I went and looked, so now I also know to stop eating turmeric for 2 weeks before any future surgeries. :)

[CaptainFluffyBunny]

Clickbaiting anti-SJW punditry wouldn't really be any better than clickbaiting SJW punditry.

Why? I don't mind somebody doing something and earning some money off of it. If people perceive value, what's the issue?

[Scented Nectar]

Ah, cinnamon hearts. Haven't had those in ages, but I loved them. Guess I will have to try out the SL stuff then, and your powder as I am a bit sick of the Loblaws No Name mix. Just been eating it for too long. Cheers.

If Loblaws means that you live in Canada, there's a store in Toronto that also does online mail orders in case you can't find the cinnamon or fenugreek. http://thespicetrader.ca/ They're pretty good. I just have one complaint. Their dried herbs aren't so great. Things like basil, thyme, and sage, had too many stems in them - that's a gum stabbing just waiting to happen. Their powdered curry spices are quite good though. I get all 5 ingredients from there. The curry powders in the stores have fillers like flour, and they use shit-quality spices. Smells good in the bag, but the flavour disappears in the food.

[John Greg]

Yes, we're fuckin evil all right. Now we're trading recipes and spice lore.

Fuckin foodylords! Check your herbal privelege!

[jimthepleb]

Ah, cinnamon hearts. Haven't had those in ages, but I loved them. Guess I will have to try out the SL stuff then, and your powder as I am a bit sick of the Loblaws No Name mix. Just been eating it for too long. Cheers.

If Loblaws means that you live in Canada, there's a store in Toronto that also does online mail orders in case you can't find the cinnamon or fenugreek. http://thespicetrader.ca/ They're pretty good. I just have one complaint. Their dried herbs aren't so great. Things like basil, thyme, and sage, had too many stems in them - that's a gum stabbing just waiting to happen. Their powdered curry spices are quite good though. I get all 5 ingredients from there. The curry powders in the stores have fillers like flour, and they use shit-quality spices. Smells good in the bag, but the flavour disappears in the food.

Dried basil is gopping. There is no excuse when you can grow it on all year round on a windowsill. Some of the smaller leaved varieties like Holy basil and the purple leaved varieties have enough flavour for a couple of leaves a dish to suffice.
Holy basil has a musky perfume and is not to everyone's taste.

[AndrewV69]

[Scented Nectar]

Yes, we're fuckin evil all right. Now we're trading recipes and spice lore.

Fuckin foodylords! Check your herbal privelege!

I'm only discussing it to demonstrate that I know my place in the kitchen, and because I want to show off how good a Stepford Wife I am. If I don't do that once in a while, the Patriarchy gets suspicious. Sharing recipes has got nothing at all to do with the happy, non-political, pleasures of food, or any desire to share the food and spread the joy around - that kind of thinking is just a front for my real agenda of cultural appropriation. :D

[CaptainFluffyBunny]

Yes, we're fuckin evil all right. Now we're trading recipes and spice lore.

Fuckin foodylords! Check your herbal privelege!

It all comes together. I got curious about kaffir limes (I use them for Thai curries snd satays) after seeing Andrew and others bandy the term about. Turns out they are "unbelievers" limes, and the term is offensive in some culinary circles.

[Scented Nectar]

Ah, cinnamon hearts. Haven't had those in ages, but I loved them. Guess I will have to try out the SL stuff then, and your powder as I am a bit sick of the Loblaws No Name mix. Just been eating it for too long. Cheers.

If Loblaws means that you live in Canada, there's a store in Toronto that also does online mail orders in case you can't find the cinnamon or fenugreek. http://thespicetrader.ca/ They're pretty good. I just have one complaint. Their dried herbs aren't so great. Things like basil, thyme, and sage, had too many stems in them - that's a gum stabbing just waiting to happen. Their powdered curry spices are quite good though. I get all 5 ingredients from there. The curry powders in the stores have fillers like flour, and they use shit-quality spices. Smells good in the bag, but the flavour disappears in the food.

Dried basil is gopping. There is no excuse when you can grow it on all year round on a windowsill. Some of the smaller leaved varieties like Holy basil and the purple leaved varieties have enough flavour for a couple of leaves a dish to suffice.
Holy basil has a musky perfume and is not to everyone's taste.

I'm not a fan of it. It's too clove-y. I should try growing the ordinary type, which is my favourite. I have a sunny window, and the fresh basil in the store always has blackened leaves. It doesn't have a long life after harvesting. Fresh picked would be great.

[BarnOwl]

Jerry Coyne writes:

It’s not just college students who are afflicted with distorted thinking and identity-politics sensitivity, for at this very moment a prominent atheist blog network is falling apart, ripped asunder by internecine fights about Proper Thinking.

Part of this article On the hair-trigger sensitivity of today’s college students, and how to fix it

The timing of the article in the Atlantic and of the discussion at WEIT is ironically amusing to me, in a week during which I got the SJW treatment from a student, and then later watched the same student let an older white male pass with a more egregious offense. I got called out on having the word "hysteria" in a slide describing conditions associated with olfactory hallucinations - it was a slide I'd inherited from a retired colleague, and I'd changed almost all of the lecture except that one list. But my bad, I should have removed the word earlier, so I said "it isn't politically correct," apologized, and removed the word for the lecture next year. Thusly Dr. BarnOwl, who includes narratives of the accomplishments and abilities of individuals with neurological disorders (Williams Syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries, TBI,etc.) in each of her lectures, was SJWed.

Enter elderly white male MD professor, who "entertains" our students for two hours each week on topics within his specialty. This guy deliberately says at least two insensitive and provocative things each week: an example is showing photos of an anencephalic fetus, and then saying "That's a no-brainer!" and laughing. Well, this week was infectious disease week, so he starts his presentation with a photo of puckered-up, lipstick-painted lips, and says "Be careful who you do." This was followed by several photos of attractive women making kissy faces. I was seated in the back of the lecture hall, and right in front of me was a row of 5 SJWs, including the student who called me out over "hysteria." One of them whispered "Did he just say that?" and then the whole lot of them erupts in whispers of "I can't believe he said that!" But did they call him out on it or even ask him about it? No. Why not? Because they're afraid? Because he's an MD? Because he's old? Who knows.

Typical SJW behavior, though - completely hypocritical and inconsistent. IOKWWDI.

[CaptainFluffyBunny]

Ah, cinnamon hearts. Haven't had those in ages, but I loved them. Guess I will have to try out the SL stuff then, and your powder as I am a bit sick of the Loblaws No Name mix. Just been eating it for too long. Cheers.

If Loblaws means that you live in Canada, there's a store in Toronto that also does online mail orders in case you can't find the cinnamon or fenugreek. http://thespicetrader.ca/ They're pretty good. I just have one complaint. Their dried herbs aren't so great. Things like basil, thyme, and sage, had too many stems in them - that's a gum stabbing just waiting to happen. Their powdered curry spices are quite good though. I get all 5 ingredients from there. The curry powders in the stores have fillers like flour, and they use shit-quality spices. Smells good in the bag, but the flavour disappears in the food.

Dried basil is gopping. There is no excuse when you can grow it on all year round on a windowsill. Some of the smaller leaved varieties like Holy basil and the purple leaved varieties have enough flavour for a couple of leaves a dish to suffice.
Holy basil has a musky perfume and is not to everyone's taste.

Dried basil has a place in pork rubs. HehHeh, "pork rub." But agree in general. I had three different types of basil growing, but a cat-related accident did in my Thai basil recently.