The Refuge of the Toads

#23701

Steersman wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote:
Steersman wrote:
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In true pit form that monkey/ape appears to be beating a dead horse. :drool:
:lol: Not just dead, but decayed to nothing but bleached bones. But reminds me of an amusing cartoon (see! I have a sense of humour! ;-) ) I saw ages ago in a Playboy magazine. It showed a "walking" skeleton, literally, that was wearing sort of dreadlocks/ringlets than some women (one assumes) have a predilection for. And the caption was, "Bo Derek with absolutely nothing on at all" ... :rimshot:

You get 10 out of 10 for a Bo Derek joke.

#23702

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Alex writes the perfect obit...uary for his network:

Especially as someone who experienced abuse, part of what makes writing therapeutic for me is that my blog isn’t a dialogue—it’s a space devoted to my own voice. Round here, I’m talking.

I am forming the firm opinion that the Orbit will never have any impact or capacity to influence RL events.
They have no centre of gravity, SZvan not withstanding. No agenda, other than a wailing self flagellation. And no intellectual leader showing direction and purpose.

So I'm of a mind to leave them to their own devices with maybe an occasional lol check. Does anyone think they retain the potential for danger and the capacity for harm they had as PZ's war puppies?

#23703

comhcinc wrote:
ERV wrote: After I get this next paper submitted, Im going to email Shermer and see if he would be down for riding next year, maybe leading a 'skeptic' team. Recruit people at the next DragonCon skeptrack. Wanna take a selfie with a 'famous skeptic'? Volunteer or get your ass on a bike.
You can count me in if I can find a bike for a fat fuck like myself that I can afford.

This one has a lounge chair and a basket for fried chicken.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/imag ... ME1jQ4y8zR

Speaking of which, as Sunday dies in yesterday land, I will tabulate the weeks exercise activities.
I think people will find a resolve missing in even the most zealous ice afflicted SJW.

#23704

MarcusAu wrote: I think we could benefit from your input (or example / inspiration) in the other thread.

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=501&p=359335#p359335

Done!

<--- Middle-aged person who has to exercise a lot to avoid gaining weight (me, not Ghostbusters Richard Dawkins)

#23705

Brive1987 wrote:
comhcinc wrote:
ERV wrote: After I get this next paper submitted, Im going to email Shermer and see if he would be down for riding next year, maybe leading a 'skeptic' team. Recruit people at the next DragonCon skeptrack. Wanna take a selfie with a 'famous skeptic'? Volunteer or get your ass on a bike.
You can count me in if I can find a bike for a fat fuck like myself that I can afford.
This one has a lounge chair and a basket for fried chicken.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/imag ... ME1jQ4y8zR

I do have a little bit of dignity left. Why are you trying to take that away from me?

#23706

It's what I do.

#23707

Fair enough.

#23708

BarnOwl wrote:
MarcusAu wrote: I think we could benefit from your input (or example / inspiration) in the other thread.

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=501&p=359335#p359335
Done!

<--- Middle-aged person who has to exercise a lot to avoid gaining weight (me, not Ghostbusters Richard Dawkins)

Wow, I didn't realise avoiding weight gain was an option.

#23709

MarcusAu wrote:
BarnOwl wrote:
MarcusAu wrote: I think we could benefit from your input (or example / inspiration) in the other thread.

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=501&p=359335#p359335
Done!

<--- Middle-aged person who has to exercise a lot to avoid gaining weight (me, not Ghostbusters Richard Dawkins)
Wow, I didn't realise avoiding weight gain was an option.

It is, but it's not always fun. I'm afraid that losing significant weight is not an option for me any longer - fortunately I'm at a healthy weight, but then I keep thinking of my svelte younger self. :bjarte:

#23710

I would just be happy to see my feet again.

#23711

I agree with not blaming the Pit for John's death, but I wouldn't blame John either.

I never seriously thought about killing myself, but there was a time when I thought I could understand why a person might want to. For me, all the comfort I needed was the thought that I was going to die anyway some day. There was always a possibility that something might happen along the way that I wouldn't want to miss.

Years ago I was a volunteer at a refuge for runaway teenagers, and once a few of us were in a conversation with someone who said he wanted to kill himself. It had something to do with a feeling he kept having, and when he described it to us, we were all like "That sounds a lot like the way I feel sometimes." I know the hazards of saying "Oh yes, I understand," but in this case, when we told him that we had feelings like that sometimes too, it was a big relief to him. He really thought he was the only one in the world who ever felt that way.

I don't imagine there's only one reason why people want to kill themselves. There might be many very different reasons. For myself, when I thought I could understand why a person might want to, it was because I didn't see any possibility at all for any future I could look forward to.

I think now that if I knew that someone in my life was considering suicide, I would try to let them to know how important they are to me, and what a loss it would be for me if they died.

#23712

Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.

#23713

Charming.

#23714

Tigzy wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Wasting my time in a scrum with an ex-fundie plusser who conflates secularism with atheism. (& whose endless simpering over the athei-seculist movement not serving him the same Warm & Fuzzies of this old fundie church is quite annoying.)

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rivers/201 ... 2676991811

Going to the barn now to tackle real, instead of virtual, piles of shit.
Heh. Galen Broadarse. Probably not that much of an ex-fundie in reality - he simply swapped Jesus for Peezus. Frequently seen popping up in various comments sections across t'web simply to defend Peez to the hilt. Bit of a twat and extremely boring with it. How that dull fucker got a plush Patheos gig I'll never know.

Galen strikes me as the kind of fellow who burns his toast every single morning, but remains perplexed as how to avoid it.

#23715

http://i.imgur.com/3zwXNf5.jpg

#23716

comhcinc, Lsuoma, and anyone else who has a problem with me, please talk to me about it in my closet, or in PM if you would prefer.

#23717

MarcusAu wrote:
comhcinc wrote:It's about 30 degrees here. It's going to be a long hot summer.

...
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Must be psychic. I just knew there was going to be a 'Big Daddy' character played either by Burl Ives or his stand-in Orson Welles.

#23718

comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.

If he kills himself I hold you responsible.

Jim, please don't.

#23719

comhcinc wrote:I would just be happy to see my feet again.

Go squat on some Hindus or something.

#23720

MacGruberKnows wrote:
comhcinc wrote:I would just be happy to see my feet again.

Just don't, don't squat on Jim. You've squatted on him enough.

Jim, how are you holding up?

#23721

jimhabegger wrote:comhcinc, Lsuoma, and anyone else who has a problem with me, please talk to me about it in my closet, or in PM if you would prefer.

No. Fuck you. You are a fucking asshole. There are people here who really knew John, had conversations with him, and deeply cared about him and reached out and did where they could to help him.

They don't need you showing up with your bullshit. They don't need your approval of what they are doing and they certainly don't need your empty fucking words.

It's disrespectful and you fucking disgust me.

#23722

comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.

Take your own advice, wanker.

#23723

Oglebart wrote:
comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.
Take your own advice, wanker.

John was my friend. There are other people here that new him better than me but I had a lot of conversations with him last year. He helped me get with some stuff and I tried, and failed, to help him.

jim is some religious nut that talks to himself.

#23724

JackSkeptic wrote:So don't be a selfish bastard and top yourself or I'll be pretty pissed off.

There's a gay joke there for the taking but I can't summon the wit, so someone please take up the slack for me.

Also, thanks for the kind words, Jack.

#23725

All of my responses to anyone's posts about me will be in my closet.

#23726

Brive1987 wrote:.

Alex writes the perfect obit...uary for his network:

Especially as someone who experienced abuse, part of what makes writing therapeutic for me is that my blog isn’t a dialogue—it’s a space devoted to my own voice. Round here, I’m talking.
I am forming the firm opinion that the Orbit will never have any impact or capacity to influence RL events.
They have no centre of gravity, SZvan not withstanding. No agenda, other than a wailing self flagellation. And no intellectual leader showing direction and purpose.

So I'm of a mind to leave them to their own devices with maybe an occasional lol check. Does anyone think they retain the potential for danger and the capacity for harm they had as PZ's war puppies?

It's a bunch of twits who love to talk but hate to listen. I say peek inside once a while to see if they've started eating each other yet but otherwise not worth bothering.

I said it before but their primary audience is people who set up permanent camp in comment sections discussing how every article is actually about them, and that when they're no longer able to talk about themselves in the space below an article they'll stop bothering to even pretend to have read it and wander off someplace else. Closing comments means ditching their entire readership. The dumb fucks should really just save the hosting fees and spend a buck-fifty each on a notepad diary.

#23727

Here's a big fucking surprise. She hadn't updated the site since February.

Justice warrior lies to her own boosters for cash, video at 11.

http://imgur.com/nWl0Anz.jpg

#23728

Ape+lust wrote:Here's a big fucking surprise. She hadn't updated the site since February.

Justice warrior lies to her own boosters for cash, video at 11.

http://imgur.com/nWl0Anz.jpg

Oh gawd! Buy and use it to host the shops!

#23729

Ape+lust wrote:Here's a big fucking surprise. She hadn't updated the site since February.

Justice warrior lies to her own boosters for cash, video at 11.

http://imgur.com/nWl0Anz.jpg

I wonder what new project has captured her attention? :think:

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#23730

comhcinc wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:Here's a big fucking surprise. She hadn't updated the site since February.

Justice warrior lies to her own boosters for cash, video at 11.

http://imgur.com/nWl0Anz.jpg

Oh gawd! Buy and use it to host the shops!

Great idea, but just the one, the Triggered meme.

It should have a dedicated site, like Lemon Party, Tubgirl, Goatse...

#23731

Ape+lust wrote:
comhcinc wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:Here's a big fucking surprise. She hadn't updated the site since February.

Justice warrior lies to her own boosters for cash, video at 11.

http://imgur.com/nWl0Anz.jpg

Oh gawd! Buy and use it to host the shops!
Great idea, but just the one, the Triggered meme.

It should have a dedicated site, like Lemon Party, Tubgirl, Goatse...

Lol that is fucking perfect.

#23732

comhcinc wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:Here's a big fucking surprise. She hadn't updated the site since February.

Justice warrior lies to her own boosters for cash, video at 11.

http://imgur.com/nWl0Anz.jpg

Oh gawd! Buy and use it to host the shops!

Anyone need an (almost) unused camera?

#23733

jimhabegger wrote:comhcinc, Lsuoma, and anyone else who has a problem with me, please talk to me about it in my closet, or in PM if you would prefer.

Ignore comhcinc, it's his time of the month. :whistle:

#23734

Oh fuck me -- my new huckleberry , Galen Broadass, is a secular minister!

http://centralillinoiscelebrant.com/about-galen/

You know, I was nice to him about a month or so ago, empathizing with his confusion & disillusionment at the athie-secu-skeppie-human movement not being a full-blown love-bombing, super-conformity cult like his baptist church upbring.

But seriously, these fundie apostates need to be placed in quarantine and given some sort of deprogramming before being let in. Or just ship them straight to PETA.

#23735

HunnyBunny wrote:
jimhabegger wrote:comhcinc, Lsuoma, and anyone else who has a problem with me, please talk to me about it in my closet, or in PM if you would prefer.
Ignore comhcinc, it's his time of the month. :whistle:

I wish he would ignore all of us, forever.

#23736

comhcinc wrote:
HunnyBunny wrote:
jimhabegger wrote:comhcinc, Lsuoma, and anyone else who has a problem with me, please talk to me about it in my closet, or in PM if you would prefer.
Ignore comhcinc, it's his time of the month. :whistle:

I wish he would ignore all of us, forever.

You are the Homer to his Ned.

#23737

MacGruberKnows wrote:You are the Homer to his Ned.

I am not that smart.

#23738

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Oh fuck me -- my new huckleberry , Galen Broadass, is a secular minister!

http://centralillinoiscelebrant.com/about-galen/

You know, I was nice to him about a month or so ago, empathizing with his confusion & disillusionment at the athie-secu-skeppie-human movement not being a full-blown love-bombing, super-conformity cult like his baptist church upbring.

But seriously, these fundie apostates need to be placed in quarantine and given some sort of deprogramming before being let in. Or just ship them straight to PETA.

Broadass is a wanabee PZ, basically a nasty little shit who thinks his morals are more important than people. He loves to block anyone that disagrees with him. Also had a thing with Michael Nugent last year.

#23739

comhcinc wrote:
HunnyBunny wrote:
jimhabegger wrote:comhcinc, Lsuoma, and anyone else who has a problem with me, please talk to me about it in my closet, or in PM if you would prefer.
Ignore comhcinc, it's his time of the month. :whistle:

I wish he would ignore all of us, forever.

Or maybe the Nihilists to Walter:

[youtube]7AEMiz6rcxc[/youtube]

#23740

https://sc11kw.files.wordpress.com/2014 ... heline.jpg

#23741

Please. Please someone buy the domain.

I'm at work and not in a position to ....

#23742

Oh. I see this is just a scare warning. She probably has a fortnight to get her shit together before they really can it.

#23743

comhcinc wrote:https://sc11kw.files.wordpress.com/2014 ... heline.jpg

Yeah, you're right. Nobody puts Walter in a closet. My bad.

#23744

Brive1987 wrote:Oh. I see this is just a scare warning. She probably has a fortnight to get her shit together before they really can it.

I am seeing this.

http://i.imgur.com/pKPkG3u.jpg

So next year.

#23745

Brive1987 wrote:Oh. I see this is just a scare warning. She probably has a fortnight to get her shit together before they really can it.

Yeah, I tried, but the domain has not been released.

#23746

Confirmation that Galen Broadass is an idiot and not to be taken seriously

#23747

Brive1987 wrote:Please. Please someone buy the domain.

I'm at work and not in a position to ....

Just registered twitterptsd.com, though.

#23748

MacGruberKnows, HunnyBunny, thanks. It does hurt, but I'm not in any kind of risk.

#23749

comhcinc wrote:https://sc11kw.files.wordpress.com/2014 ... heline.jpg

Speaking of John Goodman, he was the fucking BOMB in 10 Cloverfield lane! Very convincing as a...well, I don't want to spoil it but his performance was excellent.

http://www.phase9.tv/wp-content/uploads ... ut-the.jpg

#23750

Bhurzum wrote: Speaking of John Goodman, he was the fucking BOMB in 10 Cloverfield lane! Very convincing as a...well, I don't want to spoil it but his performance was excellent.

He was the only thing that even sounded interesting in that movie.

I use discuss movies with the the director Dan Trachtenberg back when he was doing the "Totally Rad Show" on Revision3. Never really enjoyed his take on things.

#23751

comhcinc wrote:He was the only thing that even sounded interesting in that movie.

It's a fairly decent movie, not Earth shattering but an enjoyable enough way to spend an evening. Mind you, I loved "Cloverfield" and even though "10 Cloverfield lane" is a sequel (of sorts), it's a fairly different beast.

The ending though, that's where the movie falls apart. But hey, don't let me put you off - give it a go!

#23752

comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.

I care.

It would be nice if you stopped trying to speak for the pit. Put him on ignore and be done with it if he annoys you so much. As it stands I'm more irritated that every time I scroll past one of his posts I have to scroll past another one of yours declaring how irritated you were by said post.

#23753

Bhurzum wrote:
comhcinc wrote:He was the only thing that even sounded interesting in that movie.
It's a fairly decent movie, not Earth shattering but an enjoyable enough way to spend an evening. Mind you, I loved "Cloverfield" and even though "10 Cloverfield lane" is a sequel (of sorts), it's a fairly different beast.

The ending though, that's where the movie falls apart. But hey, don't let me put you off - give it a go!

See I didn't like Cloverfield, but I liked the idea of the film if that makes sense? Found footage films don't do it for me. They make me queasy. I will check it out through.

This is a slight serve but if you enjoy John Goodman the Amazon Prime show he is on is very good and smart.

#23754

jet_lagg wrote:
comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.
I care.

It would be nice if you stopped trying to speak for the pit. Put him on ignore and be done with it if he annoys you so much. As it stands I'm more irritated that every time I scroll past one of his posts I have to scroll past another one of yours declaring how irritated you were by said post.

You care? You actually care about this religious nut who talks to himself and refuses to answer questions when people attempted to engage him?

Jim is part of a cult and his purpose here is to convert people. Unless it happened behind the scenes he had zero to do with John. I am speaking for myself when I say I do not like him trying to use John's death as a way to endear himself to people. That is a level of emotional manipulation I can't stand.

So sorry if I am irritating to you. That wasn't meant to be snarky. I can understand people not liking it but I did stop engaging with him a while ago but I wouldn't feel right just letting this slide by.

#23755

comhcinc wrote:
ERV wrote: After I get this next paper submitted, Im going to email Shermer and see if he would be down for riding next year, maybe leading a 'skeptic' team. Recruit people at the next DragonCon skeptrack. Wanna take a selfie with a 'famous skeptic'? Volunteer or get your ass on a bike.
You can count me in if I can find a bike for a fat fuck like myself that I can afford.

I would likely contribute to a GoFundMe for a bike for you to participate, Com. Just putting it out there, dot dot dot. A pic of you hug-raping the Shermrapist would be worth the price of admission.

#23756

comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.

Why the hard-on for Jim, Com. Sh(e)it seems pretty harmless?

#23757

Couch wrote:
comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.
Why the hard-on for Jim, Com. Sh(e)it seems pretty harmless?

Caught up now and have read your comments, Com. I disagree and can't see the reasons why you get so worked up, let alone righteous and indignant, over an current of ex-fundie, or whatever he is or pretends he is, making a bit of a goop of himself and generally being socially awkward. Put him on ignore.

#23758

Couch wrote:
Couch wrote:
comhcinc wrote:Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this.
Why the hard-on for Jim, Com. Sh(e)it seems pretty harmless?
Caught up now and have read your comments, Com. I disagree and can't see the reasons why you get so worked up, let alone righteous and indignant, over an current of ex-fundie, or whatever he is or pretends he is, making a bit of a goop of himself and generally being socially awkward. Put him on ignore.

Exactly. In this forum he is:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/product ... rmless.jpg

#23759

I remember when, back in the day, my auto reply SMTP rule got into a conversation with someone else's auto reply. It got messy fast.

Don't know why I just thought of that. :think:

http://i.imgur.com/bhQq53c.jpg

#23760

Jim is ultimately a person. I'd probably PM or ignore him if I gave a damn. I mean it's not like he's old school FtB or anything.