The rules change according to circumstances. When it's a guy putting up 'it's okay to be white' stickers, it's deplorable. When it's a guy who photographed himself fucking a squid, it's well ....Really? wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:53 pmPZ is exactly like Trump in at least one respect. Any stance he takes, you can find an instance in the past in which he held the opposite opinion.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑— PZ Myers, 2018.01.23… he was previously found guilty of possessing child porn. He’s deplorable.
— PZ Myers, 2010.03.05… the guy had “indecent photos of children”… but it’s another situation where one man’s indecency is another man’s family photos of kids playing in the bathtub.
No self-reflection. No respect for the intelligence of his dopey Horde.
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But...but Michael is in charge of the good place. As a white hetero cismale, he MUST be the bad person. Not people who were literally judged on a scale to be bad people.katamari Damassi wrote: ↑ I don't know why this popped into my head, but it just occurred to me that on one of my favorite TV shows-The Good Place, the only white male character is literally a demon. I guess it shows that you can be socjus and still be good.
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Are you sure? I see some white males in the cast. They are not the major players. I don't know off the top of my head if their scenes were from before "The Good Place" or not... I don't really feel like rewatching all of those episodes just to make sure.katamari Damassi wrote: ↑ I don't know why this popped into my head, but it just occurred to me that on one of my favorite TV shows-The Good Place, the only white male character is literally a demon. I guess it shows that you can be socjus and still be good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5789214/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
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That said, if your premise is true, given that "The Good Place" turned out to really be hell, that would mean that all white males automatically go to heaven, and that hell is other minorities.
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No wonder you lefties are poor and resentful. You should spend less time reading fantasy fiction and more time reading basic business strategy.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:58 pmSomebody let me know when Vicky is done regurgitating whatever she heard at a get-rich-quick in America scam seminar or about our Tweeter-in-Chief and goes back to posting on sensible topics and Bigfoot.
I loves me some Bigfoot.
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I would reply, but I haven't seen your comment because I have every one of you on ignore. I just spend hours scrolling through the Pit to find my own comments, then I chuckle at their wit and scratch my chin at their eruditiness.
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Don't wanna get into too many spoilers...watch some more.deLurch wrote: ↑Are you sure? I see some white males in the cast. They are not the major players. I don't know off the top of my head if their scenes were from before "The Good Place" or not... I don't really feel like rewatching all of those episodes just to make sure.katamari Damassi wrote: ↑ I don't know why this popped into my head, but it just occurred to me that on one of my favorite TV shows-The Good Place, the only white male character is literally a demon. I guess it shows that you can be socjus and still be good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5789214/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509831/?ref_=tt_cl_t11
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4097479/?ref_=tt_cl_t7
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3774213/?ref_=tt_cl_t8
That said, if your premise is true, given that "The Good Place" turned out to really be hell, that would mean that all white males automatically go to heaven, and that hell is other minorities.
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The Good Place only has one main white male IIRC... although some pop up in minor recurring roles later.
I'm a fan of a few shows with what you could call a "diversity cast" - Brooklyn 99 lead is a gay black man, House of Lies is a black man with a black non binary genderqueer kid, Banshee had a fucking odd as shit cast with the "theivin' crew" being a white dude, an Eastern European chick, an asian transvestite and an old black bartended because why the fuck not. Also enjoying This Is Us with the main characters being a white guy, an obese woman and a black guy and they're triplets (why not).
People can do this and not make it suck, but then no one has anything to complain about, so they aren't big in the news for the SJW factor. It's only the shit ones that are contentious. See Wonderwoman.
I'm a fan of a few shows with what you could call a "diversity cast" - Brooklyn 99 lead is a gay black man, House of Lies is a black man with a black non binary genderqueer kid, Banshee had a fucking odd as shit cast with the "theivin' crew" being a white dude, an Eastern European chick, an asian transvestite and an old black bartended because why the fuck not. Also enjoying This Is Us with the main characters being a white guy, an obese woman and a black guy and they're triplets (why not).
People can do this and not make it suck, but then no one has anything to complain about, so they aren't big in the news for the SJW factor. It's only the shit ones that are contentious. See Wonderwoman.
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Will any of us ever forget where we were when we heard the news?
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It’s a peculiar day when the Pit shows no interest in Stefanny destroying a Delta Force rapist with her murmured threat of bodily harm.
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PZ has unleashed a timely and compelling video which finally addresses intelligent design.
Thank god for the push back.
Thank god for the push back.
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Honey Badger Brigade Trial Update: Being sued for Defamation
I haven't posted here recently so I don't really know the point system that well, but this is a continuation of Mary Sue Trial by Allison herself so I think it should belong here.
The gist of the video is that because of the one tweet were Brian tweeted they won, the Mary Sue has taken that as an opportunity to sue for defamation, which the trial would be in February of next year.
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After being kicked out of the Expo on what clearly seem false grounds, and being pilloried at the Mary Sue, the Mary Sue is SLAPPING back and te HBB is being sued for defamation over a tweet saying "we won"
Looks like a SLAPP suit -- I am sure that this will finally be Popehat's breaking point and where he steps in to defend the Honey Badgers.
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Apparently just threatening that lawsuit.
The video shows a very saddened, depressed Typhon Blue. Very sorry to see that.
The video shows a very saddened, depressed Typhon Blue. Very sorry to see that.
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When I read this I had an involuntary shudder. But more akin to one you might have after seeing your grandparent’s soiled underwear.
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The name "Ogvorbis" is suddenly ringing in my ears......oh, and I'm sure some of PZ's sycophants are friendly with "Sarah Butts".Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:20 pm— PZ Myers, 2018.01.23… he was previously found guilty of possessing child porn. He’s deplorable.
— PZ Myers, 2010.03.05… the guy had “indecent photos of children”… but it’s another situation where one man’s indecency is another man’s family photos of kids playing in the bathtub.
The rancid hypocrite.
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Yet again i am having to wait in for the gasman to do a boiler service who hasn't showed up again, which is a repeat of last week when I stayed in and spent the day watching old cop shows from the late 1960s and 1970s. I was struck by how much diversity there was. One which stands out Ironside which has a woman, a black man and a boss who is differently-abled. The episode I watched also had a black coroner.katamari Damassi wrote: ↑ I don't know why this popped into my head, but it just occurred to me that on one of my favorite TV shows-The Good Place, the only white male character is literally a demon. I guess it shows that you can be socjus and still be good.
It is really sad that I should notice how much diversity there is in these shows because it wasn't something I noticed while watching these shows over the last three decades.
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Someone with the appropriate twitter embedding skills should post Brett Weinsteins latest thread about Evergreen College inviting a "constitutional lawyer" to explain how deplatforming is a powerfull weapon against nazis. (Which I now pronounce like Winston Churchill I will have you know).
"Some ideas, he argued, don't deserve protection."
"Some ideas, he argued, don't deserve protection."
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I love that they are pusing exactly that idea. I recently heard it stated as, "Some ideas have already lost the argument".Snapfingers wrote: ↑ Someone with the appropriate twitter embedding skills should post Brett Weinsteins latest thread about Evergreen College inviting a "constitutional lawyer" to explain how deplatforming is a powerfull weapon against nazis. (Which I now pronounce like Winston Churchill I will have you know).
"Some ideas, he argued, don't deserve protection."
The answer to this is obviously to demand that this is also applied to socialism and marxism.
I noticed that when my daughter went through school, the holocaust was shifted from the history class to the religious education class which I think a good thing because it left a little more time for British history -- for a while now, our education system had been leaving our kids with the impression that WWII was all about saving the Jews.
Now my son is going through the same school, there is a much greater emphasis on British history; I think this is one of the most important things the Conservatives have done while in office.
However, even if WWII is covered in history class properly, even without ideological teachers inserting their bias, it is easy for impressionable minds to deduce that the Nazis were right-wing, right-wing=bad, therefore left-wing=good.
My daughter was actually taught huge amounts about the history of communism and the cold war, but it seems it might have spun to downplay the horror of it. I think it entirely justified to ensure the crimes which took place in communist countries are covered so that the subject is approached in the same way we cover the history of the Third Reich.
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I lol'd so hard I almost inked myself.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ zoidberg.jpg
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Good news and bad news on the laptop. The motherboard's fucked, so the laptop is scrap. But the hard drive is safe! Its contents are being transplanted onto an external hard drive, for onward transplantation onto the hard drive of my new desktop PC, which I will try not to break. And I swear on the lives of my niece and nephew, I will try to remember to back everything up from now on, until I forget.
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I recently shelled out for a new desktop PC myself...
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On a related note, it's as funny as fuck seeing modern antifa types claim the allied soldiers of WW2 as their own, on account of the fact that they fought nazism. I'm not sure how it applies as far as the other allied nations go, but as far as your typical British soldier was concerned, he was fighting Germans, not nazis, and his personal views about Jews were likely to have been not all that far removed from those of Hitler; amongst the general populace, the man was certainly admired in Britain for his 'tough stance on Johnny Yid' prior to the declaration of war. When the war came, the British populace at large felt they were fighting against a would-be conqueror, not a political ideology.VickyCaramel wrote: ↑ I noticed that when my daughter went through school, the holocaust was shifted from the history class to the religious education class which I think a good thing because it left a little more time for British history -- for a while now, our education system had been leaving our kids with the impression that WWII was all about saving the Jews.
My dear old grandad, nazi-fighter extraordinaire, thought the Germans were actually kind of okay, the Japs vile, and told his daughters that he didn't care what they brought home as long as it wasn't an Arab.
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Paddy, there's loads of back up progrs around, though Windows own I don't like. It wouldnt even detect my external USB drive. What fecking use is that for a back up program? There are free disk imaging progs for full system recovery but for key file folders you mostly use I recommendpaddybrown wrote: ↑ Good news and bad news on the laptop. The motherboard's fucked, so the laptop is scrap. But the hard drive is safe! Its contents are being transplanted onto an external hard drive, for onward transplantation onto the hard drive of my new desktop PC, which I will try not to break. And I swear on the lives of my niece and nephew, I will try to remember to back everything up from now on, until I forget.
the Free version of SyncBack
https://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/ ... e-hub.html
You can schedule it to copy all files, or to mirror folders (so if you delete/ add in source , it will only use the same space on the backup drive that the original takes up."Synchronising" the third option is abit trickier and I havent bothered with that.
You just need a external USB drive connected at the time the schedule is due to run (eg leave it in all the time and forget about it)
The main possible disadvantage to always having it physically connected is that potentially malware could infect the back up drive as well as the PC,
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I followed the rabbit trail Bret Weinstein's twitter feed to a retweet by Dave Rubin, and on to a column by Greg Gutfeld:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/ ... again.html
As much as I think the standards have slipped of late on university campuses (especially in the Social Sciences, and Arts) - I don't think that podcasts or even online learning is ready yet (if ever) to take up the slack.
People not just choosing what they want to hear and being forced to formulate their own thoughts in a written format - are part of a discipline that gives them a bit more than simply passively listening.
Time will tell, I guess...
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/ ... again.html
As much as I think the standards have slipped of late on university campuses (especially in the Social Sciences, and Arts) - I don't think that podcasts or even online learning is ready yet (if ever) to take up the slack.
People not just choosing what they want to hear and being forced to formulate their own thoughts in a written format - are part of a discipline that gives them a bit more than simply passively listening.
Time will tell, I guess...
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It is hard to get a handle on this seeing as most of us weren't alive at the time, coupled with the fact that what doesn't exist, isn't documented.Tigzy wrote: ↑On a related note, it's as funny as fuck seeing modern antifa types claim the allied soldiers of WW2 as their own, on account of the fact that they fought nazism. I'm not sure how it applies as far as the other allied nations go, but as far as your typical British soldier was concerned, he was fighting Germans, not nazis, and his personal views about Jews were likely to have been not all that far removed from those of Hitler; amongst the general populace, the man was certainly admired in Britain for his 'tough stance on Johnny Yid' prior to the declaration of war. When the war came, the British populace at large felt they were fighting against a would-be conqueror, not a political ideology.VickyCaramel wrote: ↑ I noticed that when my daughter went through school, the holocaust was shifted from the history class to the religious education class which I think a good thing because it left a little more time for British history -- for a while now, our education system had been leaving our kids with the impression that WWII was all about saving the Jews.
My dear old grandad, nazi-fighter extraordinaire, thought the Germans were actually kind of okay, the Japs vile, and told his daughters that he didn't care what they brought home as long as it wasn't an Arab.
But in the years AFTER the war, your window on the world was through radio, newspapers, (if you could be bothered) and going to the cinema where they would show news reels. There was no television let alone a History Channel (more accurately nicknamed The Hitler Channel). As far as I can tell, the holocaust and the persecution of the Jews didn't really form part of the 'consciousness' of the UK until the 1970s! Obviously people were aware it happened, but there was very little in mass-media to make the British public intimate with it. You start to get voyeuristic books about it as far back as the 1950s, but these fall into the same kind of category as books on John Christie and Jack the Ripper -- death porn which would only really been seen by people who were into that kind of thing. The ball seems to have started rolling with the Diary of Anne Frank being published in 1952, but there was no Sophie's Choice or Schindler's List.
To go off on a slight tangent, I have come across some pretty interesting stuff about the Battle of Cable Street over the years. No doubt you will have heard it framed as "the people of the East End" turning out to fight the Fascists, which of course in a fiction because they turned out and fought the police which IS the orthodox version. However if you come across some of the colourful characters on the Anti-Fascist side, which you might because many of them seem to be Communists, Unionists and Jewish Gangland figures, you soon start to get the impression that their stories of heroic resistance are at least exaggerated and probably bullshit. If you were a gangster in the 40s or 50s, you weren't anybody unless you had stabbed at least a couple of coppers in the fabled Battle of Cable Street.
On my travels I heard very few veterans say anything bad about the Germans, there seems to be quite a high degree of mutual respect. I have definitely heard more resentment against the Italians (and even Americans who many British troops considered more dangerous -- war never changes). And of course the Japanese seem to be universally hated. It would be interesting to know if the Americans feel the same about the Japs.
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Next you will be telling that Hitler was not involved in the riots at the time - when there is clear documented evidence to the contrary...
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You don't want to be fooled by the fake news published by Mainstream MuralsMarcusAu wrote: ↑ Next you will be telling that Hitler was not involved in the riots at the time - when there is clear documented evidence to the contrary...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOZ8DVM6Vzk
When the ACTUAL British Union of Fascists has a more accurate account than Steve Shives, you have to despair.
When the ACTUAL British Union of Fascists has a more accurate account than Steve Shives, you have to despair.
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Well, at least, the Left have ensured that the East End of London is now a safe space for Jews to live.VickyCaramel wrote: ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOZ8DVM6Vzk
When the ACTUAL British Union of Fascists has a more accurate account than Steve Shives, you have to despair.
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Paul Butler who worked on that mural was one of my tutors at art school, and another Desmond Rochfort came and gave a talkMarcusAu wrote: ↑ Next you will be telling that Hitler was not involved in the riots at the time - when there is clear documented evidence to the contrary...
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about it, and the Mexican muralists . It would have been not long after it was completed in the 80s.
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He's done quite a few videos on it, so that might be stuff he's covered already. I'm not sure. His previous channel had a ton of videos that he's now lost too (I guess he didn't save back ups). I mostly follow just his Russiagate stuff. Sometimes his other videos, but mostly just those. Luckily, he titles his videos with the topics pretty well. I like his videos, but they're usually long, and there's only 24 hours in each day! :DGuest_d2e60302 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:50 pmSo I watched both of them and the best I can say is I understand his argument, but I don't think that Stranahan proved his point. Mostly what I saw him doing was denying, but saying he has evidence and not showing me the evidence, hardly proves his point.Scented Nectar wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:34 amWell, see what you think AFTER you've heard his side too. Then you'll have both sides to work with. Here's a couple of recent ones he did on the topic:
"The New York Times SMEARED my Twin Falls reporting… but I’m FIGHTING BACK" - from Sep 26, 2017
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"Lee Stranahan LIVE — SHOCKING Prosecutorial Misconduct by Grant Loebs in Twin Falls / Chobani Story" - from Dec 15, 2017
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I've seen him do good stuff in the past, so I would like to lean in his direction, but I'm not getting that after those two videos. Perhaps I should watch his Periscope, too...
Here's his periscope url. https://www.pscp.tv/stranahan/ . I usually just wait until he uploads them to youtube so that I can listen at 1.25 speed.
One of his recent videos (yesterday or the day before) has a bunch of him screen sharing which is a better style than just talking about the various points. It had him actually going to the various bits of evidence instead of just saying "don't just believe me, go check it out for yourself". I think most people including myself are too lazy or busy to go checking a lot of things, so if he shows as much as possible right in the videos, that would improve things. When I have checked out his info though, it's been coming up legit. Like the Natalia Veselnitskaya testimony. Fascinating read, but I'd have never known that it existed without him mentioning it on his videos. I'd been going on for months and months all over the place saying: "She needs to be asked to testify" ad nauseum, and when she finally did, I nearly missed it, since no-one else was covering it.
His info is usually really good, but he does take a while to get to his points, and there's quite a few various points. Needs more visuals, like charts of connections and the screen capturing he's now started doing. Hopefully that's where he's starting to go with his videos. He said in one of them, that he's working on a chart that shows all the RussiaBrowderGate elements.
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The Japanese in WWII were pretty horrible. My dad piloted a landing craft at several island landings.... Iwo, Tarawa... and at least one other (can't remember the name).
The US soldiers used to take the Japanese to the US hospitals when they were captured and injured. The problem was that the Japanese would often keep a grenade on them and set it off once they got into the hospital building killing doctors and nurses and such. My dad told me "Yeah.... after that we just shot them all till they were dead."
I don't think my kids have the slightest idea about what the Japs were like in WWII. How they would enslave the Chinese and work them to death, use sex slaves from other countries.... etc. Young people think Manga is the only thing in Japanese history.... haha.
The US soldiers used to take the Japanese to the US hospitals when they were captured and injured. The problem was that the Japanese would often keep a grenade on them and set it off once they got into the hospital building killing doctors and nurses and such. My dad told me "Yeah.... after that we just shot them all till they were dead."
I don't think my kids have the slightest idea about what the Japs were like in WWII. How they would enslave the Chinese and work them to death, use sex slaves from other countries.... etc. Young people think Manga is the only thing in Japanese history.... haha.
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If you do start the Pratchett books, don't start with the first one (Colour of Magic). That's basically a pastiche/parody of the genre and the jokes aren't great. Start with Equal Rites or Mort.katamari Damassi wrote: ↑I've never read her fantasy. I don't read much fantasy because so much of it is the same. I only read the GRR Martin books because I got into the TV show. I've always wanted to read the Discworld books but can't seem to make myself start.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑I read The Wizard of Earthsea trilogy in nearly a single sitting when I was 11 and mom got it for me for Christmas.katamari Damassi wrote: ↑:(CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ Ursula LeGuin died.
The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, two of the best sci-fi novels ever.
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An interesting thing to note is that Gutfeld is a Fox News guy. Here is a guy who listens to Sam Harris and is paid for his opinions on Fox. I used to listen to Fox only to yell at the stupidity coming out of the TV screen. I still do a fair bit of yelling at Fox, but now I find myself yelling at the PBS News Hour so much I find it unwatchable. Odd world. I still like Nova and American Experience, but PBS news has gone to shit.MarcusAu wrote: ↑ I followed the rabbit trail Bret Weinstein's twitter feed to a retweet by Dave Rubin, and on to a column by Greg Gutfeld:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/ ... again.html
As much as I think the standards have slipped of late on university campuses (especially in the Social Sciences, and Arts) - I don't think that podcasts or even online learning is ready yet (if ever) to take up the slack.
People not just choosing what they want to hear and being forced to formulate their own thoughts in a written format - are part of a discipline that gives them a bit more than simply passively listening.
Time will tell, I guess...
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You can buy an adapter kit to turn your old HD into an external, and thus have two backups. Or one for your porn.paddybrown wrote: ↑ Good news and bad news on the laptop. The motherboard's fucked, so the laptop is scrap. But the hard drive is safe! Its contents are being transplanted onto an external hard drive, for onward transplantation onto the hard drive of my new desktop PC, which I will try not to break. And I swear on the lives of my niece and nephew, I will try to remember to back everything up from now on, until I forget.
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Finished watching The Detectorists last night and I can't recommend this enough.
If you haven't seen it it's about a couple of metal detector enthusiasts played by Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones.
It passed me by at first because I assumed by the title it was a comedy about the police and although I enjoyed The Office I wasn't really in the mood for something I thought would rely on the same humour of embarrassment but I was wrong on both accounts.
The Detectorists is, for want of another word, lovely.
Crook, who wrote and directed it, treats what is largely dismissed as a nerdish hobby as something almost noble. There's a sense of history behind it, even, at more than one point, awe.
But it's funny and it's touching and I can't think of another series quite like it.
If you haven't seen it it's about a couple of metal detector enthusiasts played by Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones.
It passed me by at first because I assumed by the title it was a comedy about the police and although I enjoyed The Office I wasn't really in the mood for something I thought would rely on the same humour of embarrassment but I was wrong on both accounts.
The Detectorists is, for want of another word, lovely.
Crook, who wrote and directed it, treats what is largely dismissed as a nerdish hobby as something almost noble. There's a sense of history behind it, even, at more than one point, awe.
But it's funny and it's touching and I can't think of another series quite like it.
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So Shane McGowan makes his 60th but Mark E Smith doesnt make it to 61
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42811968
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42811968
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So I am slowly making my way through The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb where I came across this :
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I immediately recalled a recent "debate" had had a bit of a chuckle. Hope you guys are also amused?If you study Onassis’s life, which I spent part of my early adulthood doing, you would notice an interesting regularity: “work,” in the conventional sense, was not his thing. He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office. He was not just a dealmaker, which does not necessitate having an office, but he also ran a shipping empire, which requires day-to-day monitoring. Yet his main tool was a notebook, which contained all the information he needed. Onassis spent his life trying to socialize with the rich and famous, and to pursue (and collect) women. He generally woke up at noon. If he needed legal advice, he would summon his lawyers to some nightclub in Paris at two A.M. He was said to have an irresistible charm, which helped him take advantage of people.
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Why do you hate rich people Andrew?
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Does this guy ever sleep???
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Re the Japanese:
I had an odd interaction with a WW2 Pacific theater vet when I was in my teens. He & his son were boxing coaches, running the local boxing club I & my brother were part of. They looked & sounded a lot like Hank & his father from King of the Hill.
My brother & I were also in Karate & were off to the side playing at what must've been obvious Karate stuff with the other kids, doing kicks or whatever. The elder coach came over to us & started ranting at us, acting very agitated. I don't remember exactly what he said, but I clearly remember hearing the words "I saw what they did" repeated more than once. He really didn't like the Japanese & was offended as hell that we were doing Japanese stuff in his space. Kinda freaked us out.
I had an odd interaction with a WW2 Pacific theater vet when I was in my teens. He & his son were boxing coaches, running the local boxing club I & my brother were part of. They looked & sounded a lot like Hank & his father from King of the Hill.
My brother & I were also in Karate & were off to the side playing at what must've been obvious Karate stuff with the other kids, doing kicks or whatever. The elder coach came over to us & started ranting at us, acting very agitated. I don't remember exactly what he said, but I clearly remember hearing the words "I saw what they did" repeated more than once. He really didn't like the Japanese & was offended as hell that we were doing Japanese stuff in his space. Kinda freaked us out.
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Maher is a breath of fresh air. Gillibrand has gone full SJW, and I really hope she won't be nominated in the 2020 election.
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Probably my first experience of talking to a Far East Veteran was at my friend's wedding. Near the end of the evening her grandfather was absolutely bladdered and collared me at the bar and told me all the bad things the Japanese did. Not just in a matter or fact educational way, but with lots of profanity and bile. In his intoxicated state, he really got this off his chest.Easy J wrote: ↑ Re the Japanese:
I had an odd interaction with a WW2 Pacific theater vet when I was in my teens. He & his son were boxing coaches, running the local boxing club I & my brother were part of. They looked & sounded a lot like Hank & his father from King of the Hill.
My brother & I were also in Karate & were off to the side playing at what must've been obvious Karate stuff with the other kids, doing kicks or whatever. The elder coach came over to us & started ranting at us, acting very agitated. I don't remember exactly what he said, but I clearly remember hearing the words "I saw what they did" repeated more than once. He really didn't like the Japanese & was offended as hell that we were doing Japanese stuff in his space. Kinda freaked us out.
A while later I met him again and he apologized... but started off on another rant. During all this time he had never actually mentioned his experience of the war, and by the way he was talking you would imagine he had built the bridge over the river Kwai. It turned out he had spent the war servicing air conditioners hundreds of miles behind the front line and had never even seen a Jap let alone been tortured by one.
...I don't say this to diminish his service, they all had a part to play. But it seemed odd that he should hold onto so much resentment considering he wasn't directly connected to Japanese war crimes. I would have put it down to him being a bitter old man if it weren't for the fact that I met another veteran at the British Legion not long after who showed the same sort of anger when the subject came up.
I think what it is down to is that justice wasn't seen to be done. Few of those directly responsible ever faced trial, the Japanese government and Emperor were not punished, never took responsibility and never apologized. As far as they are concerned a crime was committed against their comrades, and then a great injustice was done to them. The Japs got away with it, I guess that can eat away at you for 50-60 years.
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I can understand the hatred for the Japanese. A lot of Brits of my generation hate the Argentinians for what they did in the Eighties. Fucking 'Hand of God' my arse.
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That looks like an old model B. Got one of the newer ones recently (v3), so much faster! Using it as a remote switch on my daughter's internet access.MarcusAu wrote: ↑ I recently shelled out for a new desktop PC myself...
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BPE nomination!Shatterface wrote: ↑ I can understand the hatred for the Japanese. A lot of Brits of my generation hate the Argentinians for what they did in the Eighties. Fucking 'Hand of God' my arse.
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"Wtf? ...ah!"Shatterface wrote: ↑ I can understand the hatred for the Japanese. A lot of Brits of my generation hate the Argentinians for what they did in the Eighties. Fucking 'Hand of God' my arse.
You got me.
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LaurenS continues her “nationalist tourism” cucking of Faith’s SA dream.