Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
I saw Cindi Laupler open for The Kinks at Roseland. She sang - squawked more like - out of tune, squatted on top of an amp, did Girls Just Wanna Have Fun twice, rubbed her crotch during She-Bop, while her band played like shit. She got booed off the stage and flipped us off. Her wrestler pretend-keyboardist threw equipment at the audience.
The Kinks were sublime.
That reminds me of Henry Rollins comparing the 'artistry' (alright - stoned out sloppyness) of Macy Grey with the work-horse professionalism (for lack of a better term) of Kiss.
I can enjoy the 'outreness' on any performance - but after Amy Winehouse died - it did rather take the bloom of that rose.
I assume those are customers who demanded the manager come out and deliver a teaching moment, but were given chicken fries instead.
Can't fucking Burger King just as a few Rainbow Flags on their packaging? It is what every other fucking "woke" virtue-signalling company does these days.
I'm bridling at your endless puns, can we just colic a day with this horse nonsense?
Yeah, I don't see why you mustanger the happy couple.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 1:38 pm
by CommanderTuvok
Even if PZ and the rest of the Baboons don't lose financially in the end, I'm loving the MENTAL ANGUISH and FRUSTRATION they must be going through. HA HA HA. Wank time.
And I'm loving how AGGRIEVED Richard "White Lines" Carrier is.
PS - If you're reading this PZ, go and use a fucking blowtorch on your gentials. Go on, goooooo oooonnnnnnnn, you fuck.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 1:42 pm
by Tigzy
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: ↑
The Pit might owe a massive "thank you" to someone called Mario Quadracci.
Peez, if you're watching, I'm gonna do something really mean. I'm going to give you the headline you wish you had used:
Super Mario Bro
You're welcome. Fuck off.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:16 pm
by Service Dog
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:04 pm
by Ape+lust
Peez wrote:This is the report of our committee. It's short and frustrated.
So, somehow the FtBers made a report that shared Peez's salient characteristics :lol:
The Orbit had merely reported on the circumstances of his banning. I'm pretty sure they weren't about to embark on some vendetta.
HAH! In the world of perfect forms, Zvan IS the pure essence of "some vendetta." A year ago, Peez was moaning about his former blogmates hating him -- those would be the Orbiteers, fronted by alpha denunciator Zvan.
Peez wrote:He's going to be moderating a discussion between Richard Carrier, disgraced sexual harasser, and Sargon of Akkad, or Carl Swindon, whose infamy is well-known.
Carl Swindon. He doesn't know the name of the guy he's been shitting on for years.
And isn't calling Carrier a "sexual harasser" what got Peez into this mess in the first place?
Driftless wrote: ↑
Wanna bet? Who is ready to pony up?
Well I for one, am champing at the bit.
Obviously unbridled enthusiasm.
Hold your horses guys. Next thing you know you'll be changing horses in midstream.
Hay now, you're just gaskin for trouble. I will win, put you in your place, and show you who's the real stud at this.
I'm bridling at your endless puns, can we just colic a day with this horse nonsense?
Yeah. I'm knackered.
Surely we've done them all now. Wither next, with this?
We could continue to dally, or poll everyone to collect their opinion on extending this a bit. I tilt in favor, but a transition would not bust my chaps.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:20 pm
by Lsuoma
Saw this on the side of a truck today - maybe Carrierbag needs to try some of these...
Peez wrote:This is the report of our committee. It's short and frustrated.
So, somehow the FtBers made a report that shared Peez's salient characteristics :lol:
The Orbit had merely reported on the circumstances of his banning. I'm pretty sure they weren't about to embark on some vendetta.
HAH! In the world of perfect forms, Zvan IS the pure essence of "some vendetta." A year ago, Peez was moaning about his former blogmates hating him -- those would be the Orbiteers, fronted by alpha denunciator Zvan.
Peez wrote:He's going to be moderating a discussion between Richard Carrier, disgraced sexual harasser, and Sargon of Akkad, or Carl Swindon, whose infamy is well-known.
Carl Swindon. He doesn't know the name of the guy he's been shitting on for years.
And isn't calling Carrier a "sexual harasser" what got Peez into this mess in the first place?
Sargon is known as Carl of Swindon on the GamerGhazi Reddit:
The funniest part of the video is when Peezee says that there was nothing objectionable to Carrier using his blog to beg for sex, but he "raised an eyebrow" anyway, then goes on to try to play the part of the reasonable one by describing how he was concerned by Carrier "oversharing " of his semen fetish on Ophelia Benson's comments.
It's hilarious to see Mr. "Nothing beats a sea slug for that vulval feel" and "we'll do the sex thing later" trying to play the Victorian gentleman worried about the effect of Carrier's ejaculations. Doubly so because he ditched Ophie like a hot potato when the Big Transphobia Debate put him in a hot spot.
Also Myers tries to justify his dogpile onto Carrier by saying that the begging for sex and the semen games were, in retrospect, red flags. This is also incredibly funny if you like black humor, since you could easily make up a case for Myers having lots of "red flags" of his own (the "sea slug", defending bestiality in some circumstances, the Zoom post, the "mermaid dreams", etc.)
Carrier's LOL-suit for "money damages" is retarded (and yes, I am the one to talk, the guy who threatened Aneris with a lawsuit for calling me a Nazi...sometimes I'm retarded too, but at least I realize it BEFORE spending any money, or even actually calling any lawyer). But PeeZee's video is also a barrel of laughs.
I hope the trial is long, expensive and leaves all the parts looking like morons.
fuzzy wrote: ↑
Trump's a hero. If Hill had won, do you think the SJW problem would have dimmed down to a lesser threat? Do you really believe that?
You are a complete idiot. You think a rube who is in thrall to Moscow is a "Hero" to the US? No, he is a joke who is destroying our economy with a trade war, and making SJW positions more reasonable. He is fucking over farmers and the auto industry with his trade war, and he is rallying lots of people to the SJW cause by instituting a "zero tolerance" policy at the boarder. Sure, lots of people don't want people to cross our boarder illegaly. But trump managed to make this unpopular by implementing a policy that separates toddlers from their parents. He's a demented imbecile who poisons every anti-SJW position he touches, and you are no better than he is.
In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump’s response is a form of “creative destruction”. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions — from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear deal — as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to Washington.
I suppose I should mention that I am not impressed with all the "reports" that Trump is in bed with Russia when it looks like he is no more involved than anyone else, especially the "side" that is shrieking the most about it.
So much for my vow not to get involved in US politics.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:29 pm
by dog puke
Kirbmarc wrote: ↑
The funniest part of the video is when Peezee says....
........snip.........
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I hope the trial is long, expensive and leaves all the parts looking like morons.
I think we can be pretty sure the third of your three wishes has already come to pass.
fuzzy wrote: ↑
Trump's a hero. If Hill had won, do you think the SJW problem would have dimmed down to a lesser threat? Do you really believe that?
You are a complete idiot. You think a rube who is in thrall to Moscow is a "Hero" to the US? No, he is a joke who is destroying our economy with a trade war, and making SJW positions more reasonable. He is fucking over farmers and the auto industry with his trade war, and he is rallying lots of people to the SJW cause by instituting a "zero tolerance" policy at the boarder. Sure, lots of people don't want people to cross our boarder illegaly. But trump managed to make this unpopular by implementing a policy that separates toddlers from their parents. He's a demented imbecile who poisons every anti-SJW position he touches, and you are no better than he is.
In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump’s response is a form of “creative destruction”. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions — from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear deal — as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to Washington.
I suppose I should mention that I am not impressed with all the "reports" that Trump is in bed with Russia when it looks like he is no more involved than anyone else, especially the "side" that is shrieking the most about it.
So much for my vow not to get involved in US politics.
The thing is that the WTO, NAFTA and NATO were already parts of a world order which was very favorable to Washington. The WTO and NAFTA promote free trade that benefits American interests. NATO is a US-led alliance, which has intervened to support American interests (in Afghanistan and Iraq, for example). Trump's "creative destruction" looks less like a master plan and more like a mix of utter incompetence, sheer boredom and self-centered narcissism.
It's less 4-chess and more vomiting on the chessboard and claiming to have won because left the table.
Driftless wrote: ↑
Wanna bet? Who is ready to pony up?
Well I for one, am champing at the bit.
Obviously unbridled enthusiasm.
Hold your horses guys. Next thing you know you'll be changing horses in midstream.
Hay now, you're just gaskin for trouble. I will win, put you in your place, and show you who's the real stud at this.
I'm bridling at your endless puns, can we just colic a day with this horse nonsense?
Yeah. I'm knackered.
Definitely pasture best.
I canter bide neigh more. Time we all colt it quits and hit the hay.
I concur, it's time to render this thread finished before someone comes unglued.
How long are we to be saddled by your nagging comments? On the mane thread no less!
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 8:50 pm
by Lsuoma
Just walked away from an accident where the car was totaled. First time I've ever been in an accident bad enough for the funbags airbags to deploy.
It was amazing, the car nearly rolled, but we ended in a ditch which had a substantial amount of saplings on one side, and they acted as a spring to keep us upright, until we hit a largish tree. Then there was quick deceleration.
Beginning to feel a bit stiff, but no major ill effects, and the EMTs weren't immediately concerned.
Getting outside a couple of Jameson's, which is helping me relax.
Oh, and it looks like my lymphoma is in remission. :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 8:54 pm
by dog puke
Excellent news/result FT!
Time to buy a lottery ticket.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:09 pm
by Really?
Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Just walked away from an accident where the car was totaled. First time I've ever been in an accident bad enough for the funbags airbags to deploy.
It was amazing, the car nearly rolled, but we ended in a ditch which had a substantial amount of saplings on one side, and they acted as a spring to keep us upright, until we hit a largish tree. Then there was quick deceleration.
Beginning to feel a bit stiff, but no major ill effects, and the EMTs weren't immediately concerned.
Getting outside a couple of Jameson's, which is helping me relax.
Oh, and it looks like my lymphoma is in remission. :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:
FT dodges death and gets a clean bill of health the same day as a hilarious Carrier lawsuit update? Today rules!
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:00 pm
by Hunt
Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Just walked away from an accident where the car was totaled. First time I've ever been in an accident bad enough for the funbags airbags to deploy.
Thank Ho Chi Minh you're alright. Good thing your Stephanie Zvan deployed correctly.
But seriously, drink one for me.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:03 pm
by Hunt
If you'd been in a Tesla, you'd be toast.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:07 pm
by Bhurzum
Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Just walked away from an accident where the car was totaled. First time I've ever been in an accident bad enough for the funbags airbags to deploy.
It was amazing, the car nearly rolled, but we ended in a ditch which had a substantial amount of saplings on one side, and they acted as a spring to keep us upright, until we hit a largish tree. Then there was quick deceleration.
Beginning to feel a bit stiff, but no major ill effects, and the EMTs weren't immediately concerned.
Getting outside a couple of Jameson's, which is helping me relax.
Oh, and it looks like my lymphoma is in remission. :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:
Have you got an increasingly tatty portrait hanging in your attic?
Seriously though, great news on the clean bill of health and walking away from your first (and hopefully only) prang!
The thing is that the WTO, NAFTA and NATO were already parts of a world order which was very favorable to Washington. The WTO and NAFTA promote free trade that benefits American interests.
Depends on how you define American interests, because such a world order is definitely disproportionately favorable to Wall Street, but not to many laborers or many people in lower classes.
Which is not to say that the destruction of such will necessarily result in a good thing. And ...
Trump's "creative destruction" looks less like a master plan and more like a mix of utter incompetence, sheer boredom and self-centered narcissism.
... if Trump is in charge of any such renegotiation of NAFTA or the WTO or GATT, then it will almost certainly be worse for most of the US...
If you google https://www.google.com/search?q=krugman+lie+of+nafta you'll come up with an interesting set of articles to read where Paul Krugman evolves from the early 90s as being a supporter of NAFTA, not for the economic benefits but for the foreign policy benefits, to being a NAFTA doubter who wants to make sure people know that NAFTA causes real problems for many in the middle class and elsewhere, to well, when Trump comes into play, being a NAFTA supporter (of sorts) again to own Trump.
it’s also true that much of the elite defense of globalization is basically dishonest: false claims of inevitability, scare tactics (protectionism causes depressions!), vastly exaggerated claims for the benefits of trade liberalization and the costs of protection, hand-waving away the large distributional effects that are what standard models actually predict. I hope, by the way, that I haven’t done any of that; I think I’ve always been clear that the gains from globalization aren’t all that (here’s a back-of-the-envelope on the gains from hyperglobalization — only part of which can be attributed to policy — that is less than 5 percent of world GDP over a generation); and I think I’ve never assumed away the income distribution effects.
Furthermore, as Mark Kleiman sagely observes, the conventional case for trade liberalization relies on the assertion that the government could redistribute income to ensure that everyone wins — but we now have an ideology utterly opposed to such redistribution in full control of one party, and with blocking power against anything but a minor move in that direction by the other.
So the elite case for ever-freer trade is largely a scam, which voters probably sense even if they don’t know exactly what form it’s taking.
Ripping up the trade agreements we already have would, again, be a mess, and I would say that Sanders is engaged in a bit of a scam himself in even hinting that he could do such a thing. Trump might actually do it, but only as part of a reign of destruction on many fronts.
But it is fair to say that the case for more trade agreements — including TPP, which hasn’t happened yet — is very, very weak. And if a progressive makes it to the White House, she should devote no political capital whatsoever to such things.
Congrats FT nice to have such good news :clap: :clap: :dance:
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 12:32 am
by Keating
Here's a real Nazi video:
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 1:14 am
by Brive1987
Faith Goldy is running for mayor. Pragmatic activism that transcends the crying game antics of the rest of us.
Generation Identity has just been found legally and formally (by the Austrian civic state) NOT to be a hate group. Which shits on Kirbs narrative. Shame. Let’s watch his goals posts sprout legs.
American growth and employment stats are rudely healthy. POW remains are being returned from Korea - showing that dialog remains positively active. And word is that Europe may be bending on the tariffs. But yeah. What a cunt. Just imagine if he worked a full week.
On the downside, the ridiculous claim that SJWism is of useful concern only within the AS community is made manifestly false:
Carl Benjamin absolutely nails the deflection that there is limited harm in police laziness:
Shatterface remains sadly incapable of performing as an HFA. But has at least now got his pillow-fort to scream from within.
Driftless wrote: ↑
Wanna bet? Who is ready to pony up?
Well I for one, am champing at the bit.
Obviously unbridled enthusiasm.
Hold your horses guys. Next thing you know you'll be changing horses in midstream.
Hay now, you're just gaskin for trouble. I will win, put you in your place, and show you who's the real stud at this.
I'm bridling at your endless puns, can we just colic a day with this horse nonsense?
Yeah. I'm knackered.
Surely we've done them all now. Wither next, with this?
We could continue to dally, or poll everyone to collect their opinion on extending this a bit. I tilt in favor, but a transition would not bust my chaps.
Yeah let's gee this up. I'm champing for the main event.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:07 am
by screwtape
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote: ↑
The Pit might owe a massive "thank you" to someone called Mario Quadracci.
At 8:00 min in - "Mr Carrier"! There's still one lonely neurone in Peezus' brain that has a sense of humour.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:23 am
by screwtape
Oh, having read on, congrats to the FT for his escape from both immediate and near-term annihilation. Such things change your appreciation of what you have. Enjoy yourself.
Re: Fuck off, Jamie!
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:30 am
by Shatterface
Britain's first official transgender student officer suspended over claims she posted explicit photographs of a person flashing in a train carriage and public park to her online blog
Britain's first official ‘transgender students’ officer’ has been suspended over allegations that she posted explicit photographs on an online blog.
Jess Bradley, who was born male but refers to herself as a ‘nonbinary trans woman’, was the first person to be elected to the full-time paid role by the National Union of Students (NUS).
But she was suspended from her post last week while the NUS carries out an internal investigation into claims that she published pictures of male genitalia under the headline Exhibitionizm on her personal blog.
Shocking images on the site show an individual flashing while sitting in a train carriage, in a public park and at a bus stop.
Another photograph shows male genitals being exposed in an office close to a curved wooden desk that is strikingly similar to a picture of a work desk that Ms Bradley posted on her Facebook page.
When The Mail on Sunday set out the allegations in detail to the NUS, a spokesman confirmed Ms Bradley, 29, had been suspended from her post ‘pending an investigation’, adding: ‘The matters pertaining to the investigation are confidential to allow for a fair and impartial process. NUS will continue to support Jess, full time officers, staff and volunteers during this time.’
Ms Bradley declined to comment, but has instructed libel lawyers Carter Ruck.
The law firm sought to prevent the publication of the story on privacy grounds.
As part of its argument, it cited last week’s High Court ruling that the BBC had infringed on the privacy of Sir Cliff Richard by reporting a police raid on his home. Carter Ruck argued that, based on the judgment, a report on Ms Bradley’s suspension and the NUS investigation relating to it would be an infringement of her privacy.
Legal experts have warned that the High Court ruling on Sir Cliff could have serious implications for journalism in Britain. Gavin Millar QC, who led the BBC’s legal team, said: ‘The risk is a severe chilling effect on the freedom of the press in relation to reporting police investigations.’
Media law expert David Banks, who has worked as a consultant for Government departments and other public bodies, said: ‘It is worrying if the lawyers for people in these situations are trying to use the Cliff Richard case as a means of shutting down potentially legitimate press attention into matters of legitimate public interest. ‘The concern is that the Cliff Richard ruling is creating general rules about the rights to privacy because we anticipated it would create this chilling effect on stories that do deserve to be publicised.’
Ms Bradley was elected as the NUS transgender students’ officer at the Trans Students’ Conference in March last year and was reelected this year. The majority of the NUS’s £24 million annual income comes from selling discount cards to students and membership fees paid by student unions.
Full-time NUS officers are typically paid about £24,000 a year. Ms Bradley previously attracted controversy when she defended an attack by transgender activist Tara Wolf, who was born male, on a 60-year-old feminist campaigner in London’s Hyde Park last September.
Following the incident, Ms Bradley wrote online that Ms Wolf’s actions had been an act of ‘selfdefence’ caused by ‘anti-trans activists... riling up the trans community and provoking that trans person to take a swing at someone’.
Her comments sparked criticism from feminists on Twitter who accused her of ‘inciting violence against women’.
After the Mail on Sunday went to print, Ms Bradley issued the following statement:
I have currently been suspended from my role at NUS pending an investigation. Due to my contractual obligations to keep the nature and details of the investigation confidential, there are a number of things I would like to say but am currently not able to talk about without risking my job. I appreciate at this time there is a lot of speculation about my conduct and I am able to tell you that I am confident that none of my behaviour has been unlawful, and that I have not engaged in sexual activity with anyone, or in the view of anyone, without their consent. I intend to engage cooperatively with NUS’ investigation, and hope I should be in a position to talk about the situation in full to the communities that I am accountable to. This statement is all I am going to say on this matter until the NUS investigation is completed.
Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Just walked away from an accident where the car was totaled. First time I've ever been in an accident bad enough for the funbags airbags to deploy.
It was amazing, the car nearly rolled, but we ended in a ditch which had a substantial amount of saplings on one side, and they acted as a spring to keep us upright, until we hit a largish tree. Then there was quick deceleration.
Beginning to feel a bit stiff, but no major ill effects, and the EMTs weren't immediately concerned.
Getting outside a couple of Jameson's, which is helping me relax.
Oh, and it looks like my lymphoma is in remission. :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:
Congrats on walking away. I was in one of those, not that the airbag inflated but at least it deployed. Happily no one was in the passenger seat. Good news all around.
