Periodic Table of Swearing

[rayshul]

My favourite science author is Oliver Sacks. Oddly I've found maths tv shows and QT shows much more enlightening than books... I like the visualisations as I'm a very high-level thinker.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Conveniently,

I don't have screen captures because we talked on the phone mostly.

fits both being a sockpuppet and the truth being told... *scratches freshly shaved chin*

Put the chin away, this is nothing more than a really fucking nasty internet hatespewer, in the Markuze vein. I know we all had a chuckle at Ophelia's "threats" about going to a conference, but this is one person I'd be hammering at the police about if I were the unfortunate target.

And you can take that to the (wank) bank.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

My personal favourite is Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth. It is indeed a thing of great beauty.

Re-reading it for the third time, but I'm also on Hitch 22, which I just received as an anticipated xmas present.

[JackRayner]

Help, what's the English term for the hat on the bottom left (the type of hat, not the camo pattern)? That's what I most commonly wear, that or the short brimmed 'fishing hat' type. (or should it be "anti-fish hat"?)

That would be a Boonie hat, or simply a jungle hat in Brit Mil speak.

Interesting. We called it both a boonie cover and a jungle cover in the [U.S.] Marines. :)

[Tigzy]

My favourite science author is Oliver Sacks. Oddly I've found maths tv shows and QT shows much more enlightening than books... I like the visualisations as I'm a very high-level thinker.

Oh yes! 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'. Fantastic book - though I do sometimes get the uncomfortable impression that he exploits his patients somewhat for material. I guess he puts it out there with their consent, though. In any case, it doesn't stop me from reading, nosey sod that I am. And I am fascinated by his idea that Hildegard of Bingen's ecstatic works were drawn from migraines, being prone to migraines with strong auras myself.

[Ape+lust]

Anyone who thinks hat wearing is the mark of uncool can step up and try to out-cool Tom Waits.

http://i.imgur.com/8onwu.jpg

[ReneeHendricks]

So... how many military/ex-military folk do we have here, anyway? Because it seems like kind of a lot to me...

Me - Gulf War - 39B (Automatic Test Equipment Operator/Maintainer - worked on circuit boards in Apache helicopters) and proud :)

[Rystefn]

Help, what's the English term for the hat on the bottom left (the type of hat, not the camo pattern)? That's what I most commonly wear, that or the short brimmed 'fishing hat' type. (or should it be "anti-fish hat"?)

That would be a Boonie hat, or simply a jungle hat in Brit Mil speak.

Interesting. We called it both a boonie cover and a jungle cover in the [U.S.] Marines. :)

That's because marines like to pretend that specialized vocabulary makes them specialists. :P

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

So... how many military/ex-military folk do we have here, anyway? Because it seems like kind of a lot to me...

Ex 11 Division Parachutiste, BOMAP (Base Opérationnelle Mobile Aéroporté), now renamed 1er RTP (Régiment du Train Parachutiste), Compagnie Technique, 3eme Section.

As mentioned earlier, I was a rigger.

I think I had some riggers in my unit in Iraq. The company that we formed into while deployed had a "landing support" platoon. Mostly, this meant that they were exiled to the flight line to help with incoming cargo, since we had little use for them on convoy operations. This one time though, their platoon commander nagged our CO until he gave them some skill-relevant work. They took a few tons [American for "tonnes"] of cargo and prepared them to be air dropped. [That's part of rigging, correct?] Since I was one of the few suckers in my company with a license for the Mk.48 [and all of the trailer variants] I was part of the group that got snatched up and told to go pick it up and take it to the flight line. Below is a picture of the cargo, with the landing support and heavy equipment Marines getting it ready to be picked up and loaded onto a C-130:

[snip image]

They sent the C-130 off, parachuted the cargo into one of our forward operating bases, and the mission was a success!.....and then they were never given the opportunity to do it again.

Our CO realized that all of the work that went into doing air drops was a waste when all it did was deliver the equivalent of two trucks' worth of supplies, at a time when our company was already sending 30+ vehicle convoys out on most days of the week! Like, why waste the effort that went into rigging the cargo, and put an expensive airplane and highly trained pilots [in comparison to us enlisted chumps and our dusty trucks*] at risk for two trucks' worth of cargo?

*Self-deprecation purely for the sake of humor. I don't look so lowly on my past profession...

Mostly, I was into personel rigging (first hemisperics, then ram wings for most of my service). I did pack a few materiel rigs and even was allowed to be drop master on a C 130 crate drop. We jumped from C 130 Hercules and C 160 Transall. I think the overall reasoning for air drops was terrain inacsessibility. Anyway, it was a fascinating job.

Here's a list of aircrafts I've jumped from, both in the army and as a civilian skydiving instructor:

Casa 212
Cesna 185
transall C 160
Hercules C 130
Twin Otter
Pilatus
Noratlas
Dakota
Casa mili (me rappel pas la nomenclature)
Skyvan
Écureuil
Dauphin

/brag

[Michael K Gray]

Michael K Gray, am I correct that you were a regular poster over at the Dawkins site (or am I confusing your name with some other poster)? I'm just wondering what's happened to the the regular posting of news, comments, etc. The feed in my Google Reader doesn't show any new posts since August.

Yes, I was posting on a semi-regular basis, now not.
Part of the reason is the complete lack of convenient feedback, coupled with the borked new software that they use.
No email notices of replies to my posts places an intolerable burden on checking for feedback.
That, and the paucity of quality material, (mainly the tedious parochial Fairclough(sp?) vids etc), the Noachian flooded excess of trivial US-centric meaningless political squabbles has made the site bland and pointless for me.

[windy]

That would be a Boonie hat, or simply a jungle hat in Brit Mil speak.

Ah, thanks! This will make gear shopping easier...

[JackRayner]

Help, what's the English term for the hat on the bottom left (the type of hat, not the camo pattern)? That's what I most commonly wear, that or the short brimmed 'fishing hat' type. (or should it be "anti-fish hat"?)

That would be a Boonie hat, or simply a jungle hat in Brit Mil speak.

Interesting. We called it both a boonie cover and a jungle cover in the [U.S.] Marines. :)

That's because marines like to pretend that specialized vocabulary makes them specialists. :P

My own opinion is that the jargon they force onto us in recruit training, and throughout our time in service, is part of indoctrination, to reinforce unit cohesion. Hahaha.

[Seriously, though... >_>]

[Rystefn]

Help, what's the English term for the hat on the bottom left (the type of hat, not the camo pattern)? That's what I most commonly wear, that or the short brimmed 'fishing hat' type. (or should it be "anti-fish hat"?)

That would be a Boonie hat, or simply a jungle hat in Brit Mil speak.

Interesting. We called it both a boonie cover and a jungle cover in the [U.S.] Marines. :)

That's because marines like to pretend that specialized vocabulary makes them specialists. :P

My own opinion is that the jargon they force onto us in recruit training, and throughout our time in service, is part of indoctrination, to reinforce unit cohesion. Hahaha.

[Seriously, though... >_>]

Indoctrination is right. The marines are practically a fucking cult... especially with that "there's no such thing as an ex-marine" stuff.

[Mykeru]

Indoctrination is right. The marines are practically a fucking cult... especially with that "there's no such thing as an ex-marine" stuff.

Or an ex-parrot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... Parrot.png

It's just resting.

[JackRayner]

Mostly, I was into personel rigging (first hemisperics, then ram wings for most of my service). I did pack a few materiel rigs and even was allowed to be drop master on a C 130 crate drop. We jumped from C 130 Hercules and C 160 Transall. I think the overall reasoning for air drops was terrain inacsessibility.

Of course.

Ironically enough, the FOB that the cargo was air dropped into was known for having the best chow hall [*sigh*, the little things] in our whole area of operations, which was odd because our home base was actually the air base that supplied them with their stuff. :think:

Anyway, it was a fascinating job.

Here's a list of aircrafts I've jumped from, both in the army and as a civilian skydiving instructor:

Casa 212
Cesna 185
transall C 160
Hercules C 130
Twin Otter
Pilatus
Noratlas
Dakota
Casa mili (me rappel pas la nomenclature)
Skyvan
Écureuil
Dauphin

/brag

Brag away. I remember there always being a bit of jealousy of Marines that had their "jump wings". In fact, one of the guys in my home unit got caught wearing some that he hadn't earned while out on leave, and he never heard the end of it. Upon his return, our company made him stand at the main entrance to our building in full military dress uniform, unearned jump wings included, to greet everyone who passed through. He found it so humiliating that he cried. :?

[Rystefn]

Yeah, they wouldn't let me go to jump school. My superiors hated my guts and actively blocked me from anything that could be considered "prestigious" in any way. Hell, I only even got flag detail once because some people consider it an honor.

[Inaction Man]

On any random board featuring US posters, it's amazingly common to have many members who are ex or current military. Just a sign of the size of the US military I guess.

Closest I got was the last Aussie draft for Vietnam (which never actually went, due to a change of government). I was gonna dodge it, but my old man put my papers in for me, figuring if I did get picked I could dodge it then...caused a bit of an argument that did.

I missed out on the lottery and was so chuffed I fell down two flights of stairs and mangled my ankle badly enough to be permanently unfit for service anyway. :lol:

/irony.

[acathode]

Yeah, it's a pretty bad situation. The state of science journalism generally sucks. Unfortunately, there aren't enough scientists who take up the job of popularizer; they're just too busy or don't have the knack (which is why the likes of William Lane Craig so often "wins" in debates with scientists). But the one thing we certainly don't need is a bunch of party girls who never heard of Hitchens before 2005, or paid money for What the Bleep Do We Know, or "discovered" feminism scant years ago lecturing knowledgeable adults about skepticism, science, or "parroting misogynistic thought."

Reminds me of the lackluster journalism surrounding the Nobel Prizes...

You'd think that here in Sweden, there would be some good coverage of the winners, seeing how the Nobel Prize is one of those things that actually is pretty damn cool about Sweden... but no, the real science winners get something like one article each in every paper (about how happy they are to win the prize), and then there's something like 3-4 paragraphs shortly explaining what groundbreaking discovery they actually got it for.
60-70% or so of the media coverage is about the literature winner, because that's the only thing the journalists actually understands. 10-20% of the coverage is about, and LOLing at, the Norwegians and the peace prize (depending on how hilarious it is this year... the EU, WTF?!), and then the real winners get to share what's remaining. Then, during the actual handing out of the prize, 90% of it is about what clothes the royalty are wearing, what they are eating, and who gets to sit next to who...

[Pitchguest]

Indoctrination is right. The marines are practically a fucking cult... especially with that "there's no such thing as an ex-marine" stuff.

Or an ex-parrot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... Parrot.png

It's just resting.

Pffft, I burst out laughing! Well played, sir, well played.

Also I'd like to say this whole thing with racist hats has me right buggered. Been snickering like mad.

[JackRayner]

My own opinion is that the jargon they force onto us in recruit training, and throughout our time in service, is part of indoctrination, to reinforce unit cohesion. Hahaha.

[Seriously, though... >_>]

Indoctrination is right. The marines are practically a fucking cult... especially with that "there's no such thing as an ex-marine" stuff.

Hahahaha. In my experience, a lot of it is done in jest, though we can be anal about things involving nomenclature... [I refer to myself as a "veteran" Marine, as you may have noticed. :whistle: ]

What I've found is the case, though, is that the former Marines/Marines that put up the hardest act are the ones that haven't done shit. Classic overcompensation. You have guys like another former Marines that goes to my school. Everything is Marines, Marines, Marines. Always talking about how the civilian world sucks and he wants to re-enlist, always posting pictures of himself in uniform on his Facebook, and still cutting his hair into a high-and-tight. His time out of the continent consisted of being stationed in Hawaii and Japan...

With me, you wouldn't be able to tell me apart from a skinny, long-haired hippie unless I took my shirt off. With new friends/acquaintances, many are surprised when they find out that I served after having known me for a while. I don't give too much of a shit. Like, I feel awkward when people thank me for my "service", because there wasn't much that was altruistic about my motivations for joining. [Wasn't for the benefits. Think...young and stupid.] I was motivated as fuck near the start though. But there's just something about being deployed that has a way of beating the idealism out of you, and things stop looking so black-or-white. I don't think that this is something that the average Marine will realize if they've only spent their time in garrison/training situations. Being made to sweat, and playing war with blank ammunition isn't the same as....eh. Let's just say that seeing that beautiful machine unravel when the rubber meets the road, and learning that "following your training" won't always yield the best results has a way of opening your eyes. I was pretty young though, so I don't beat myself up too much...

</Ranty fucking rant! Holy fuck> :?

[Ape+lust]

You'd think that here in Sweden, there would be some good coverage of the winners, seeing how the Nobel Prize is one of those things that actually is pretty damn cool about Sweden... but no, the real science winners get something like one article each in every paper (about how happy they are to win the prize), and then there's something like 3-4 paragraphs shortly explaining what groundbreaking discovery they actually got it for.
60-70% or so of the media coverage is about the literature winner, because that's the only thing the journalists actually understands. 10-20% of the coverage is about, and LOLing at, the Norwegians and the peace prize (depending on how hilarious it is this year... the EU, WTF?!), and then the real winners get to share what's remaining. Then, during the actual handing out of the prize, 90% of it is about what clothes the royalty are wearing, what they are eating, and who gets to sit next to who...

I'm sorry to hear that. US journalism is such a torrent of sensational banalities I have to hope that other places are diligently reporting on things that matter. It sucks watching the global creep of the Murdoch model.

[Rystefn]

My own opinion is that the jargon they force onto us in recruit training, and throughout our time in service, is part of indoctrination, to reinforce unit cohesion. Hahaha.

[Seriously, though... >_>]

Indoctrination is right. The marines are practically a fucking cult... especially with that "there's no such thing as an ex-marine" stuff.

Hahahaha. In my experience, a lot of it is done in jest, though we can be anal about things involving nomenclature... [I refer to myself as a "veteran" Marine, as you may have noticed. :whistle: ]

What I've found is the case, though, is that the former Marines/Marines that put up the hardest act are the ones that haven't done shit. Classic overcompensation. You have guys like another former Marines that goes to my school. Everything is Marines, Marines, Marines. Always talking about how the civilian world sucks and he wants to re-enlist, always posting pictures of himself in uniform on his Facebook, and still cutting his hair into a high-and-tight. His time out of the continent consisted of being stationed in Hawaii and Japan...

With me, you wouldn't be able to tell me apart from a skinny, long-haired hippie unless I took my shirt off. With new friends/acquaintances, many are surprised when they find out that I served after having known me for a while. I don't give too much of a shit. Like, I feel awkward when people thank me for my "service", because there wasn't much that was altruistic about my motivations for joining. [Wasn't for the benefits. Think...young and stupid.] I was motivated as fuck near the start though. But there's just something about being deployed that has a way of beating the idealism out of you, and things stop looking so black-or-white. I don't think that this is something that the average Marine will realize if they've only spent their time in garrison/training situations. Being made to sweat, and playing war with blank ammunition isn't the same as....eh. Let's just say that seeing that beautiful machine unravel when the rubber meets the road, and learning that "following your training" won't always yield the best results has a way of opening your eyes. I was pretty young though, so I don't beat myself up too much...

</Ranty fucking rant! Holy fuck> :?

It's cool. I know a lot of marines (friends and family), and I dog on the them pretty relentlessly... partly in jest, and partly because I'm an asshole. Of course, a lot of that is born of the fact that mostly they had jobs like "glorified weather man" and "truck refueler" and talk like they're big warriors to someone who actually served in combat arms. It lends itself to a lot of jabs.

[soldierwhy]

But there's just something about being deployed that has a way of beating the idealism out of you, and things stop looking so black-or-white.

After spending 3 years in Germany with the 'Cold War Warriors' I deployed to Northern Ireland, funny how those with the biggest war stories were the ones crying for their mommies when shit went down.

[BarnOwl]

Another fabulous example of her mindlessly repeating the stuff she overhears without actually understanding it. DERP!!!! IZA BE UH SKEPDUCK! HEEEERP! MONSANTO!!

:lol:

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

I'm not former military myself, but the USAF pretty much owns this city, and my backyard is probably a military aircraft spotter's dream. Don't ask me any specifics about all the aircraft that fly over, though - I think the big loud slow ones are C-5s or C-13s or summat. Have no idea what the shrieky fast triangular ones are. Some of them have propellers, but are much bigger than the one my great-uncle flew in WW2 (that was a P-51 Mustang). That's about all I know.

[Mykeru]

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

I was driving past a place that had a sign in the window "ORGANIC DRY CLEANERS"

Someone please explain that to me. Does it involve leeches?

[real horrorshow]

Another fabulous example of her mindlessly repeating the stuff she overhears without actually understanding it. DERP!!!! IZA BE UH SKEPDUCK! HEEEERP! MONSANTO!!

:lol:

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

Now you know that's not true. Rebecca prefers to consume French wine stolen from others in First Class.

[Mykeru]

Another fabulous example of her mindlessly repeating the stuff she overhears without actually understanding it. DERP!!!! IZA BE UH SKEPDUCK! HEEEERP! MONSANTO!!

:lol:

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

Now you know that's not true. Rebecca prefers to consume French wine stolen from others in First Class.

Come on now, it's not stealing if she gives it back, on their shoes.

[BarnOwl]

A friend of mine (retired physician) was ranting about "organic sea salt" at Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck). "How can it be organic? It's SALT!"

He makes an excellent point. :mrgreen:

[Mykeru]

Another fabulous example of her mindlessly repeating the stuff she overhears without actually understanding it. DERP!!!! IZA BE UH SKEPDUCK! HEEEERP! MONSANTO!!

:lol:

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

Now you know that's not true. Rebecca prefers to consume French wine stolen from others in First Class.

Come on now, it's not stealing if she gives it back, on their shoes.

Almost forgot:

http://www.ratemyvomit.com/images/ul/10 ... -1081.jpeg

HI PEEZ!

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

I was driving past a place that had a sign in the window "ORGANIC DRY CLEANERS"

Someone please explain that to me. Does it involve leeches?

Hello Mr Seinfeld. Here, have a slice of 2012:

http://www.google.com

[BarnOwl]

Another fabulous example of her mindlessly repeating the stuff she overhears without actually understanding it. DERP!!!! IZA BE UH SKEPDUCK! HEEEERP! MONSANTO!!

:lol:

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

Now you know that's not true. Rebecca prefers to consume French wine stolen from others in First Class.

Yeah, and that cupcake had organic vegan frosting, with sustainably harvested, wildcrafted sprinkles ....

[Al Stefanelli]

Then there's "Organic Medicine" or Homeopathy or a glass of water... Well, fuck that - right in the mouth. Here's what I think about Organic foods:

"I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal?" - Denis Leary

[Mykeru]

Dammit!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8189/8084 ... e23a_z.jpg

Sorry about that Peez, please continue fapping.

[Mykeru]

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

I was driving past a place that had a sign in the window "ORGANIC DRY CLEANERS"

Someone please explain that to me. Does it involve leeches?

Hello Mr Seinfeld. Here, have a slice of 2012:

http://www.google.com

So, in other words, it really doesn't work?

[acathode]

I'm sorry to hear that. US journalism is such a torrent of sensational banalities I have to hope that other places are diligently reporting on things that matter. It sucks watching the global creep of the Murdoch model.

Ah, it's not Fox News-bad, though there are some concerns over the fact that the media is basically divided between two large corps, with our version of BBC in the middle.

I was mostly ranting about the lack of decent science journalism in our mainstream media, it's becomes so obvious when it's Nobel Prize-time when the literature prize get twice as much attention as the science prizes combined, even though it's the most boring out of all prizes, beaten maybe only be the economic prize (and that's not even a real Nobel Prize).

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Lots of lulz from people who pretend to be all ORGANIC NON-GMO!!Eleventy11!!, when they're clearly not at all selective about what they actually consume.

I was driving past a place that had a sign in the window "ORGANIC DRY CLEANERS"

Someone please explain that to me. Does it involve leeches?

Hello Mr Seinfeld. Here, have a slice of 2012:

http://www.google.com

So, in other words, it really doesn't work?

I'm sorry, I didn't fully get the "dry cleaning" bit, just read it as "regular old laundry". Mea bad. I blame the rage I was feeling at that moment from contemplating the scientific fact that Galileo's elevator raped Ophelia Benson while taking upskirt photos of Meyers and singing "Mammy".

[JackRayner]

Just saw this elsewhere and found it infinitely entertaining:

[youtube]SNtrkbgYgGs[/youtube]

I wonder how many of them went home and posted a video admonishing all guys not to do that. :mrgreen:

[Pinker]

For the Oliver Sacks fans, he has a new book coming out at the moment (next few weeks?), and he'll be giving a talk in Los Angeles on November 14. I'd love to attend one of his talks, but I'm on the wrong side of the world.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Meyers has a nice post up about Amanda Todd, and a disgusting post from some blogger which uses her suicide to promote some half-assed thought or other. His point: what kind of inhuman fuckup would consider using the death of a troubled girl to make a point?

Exhibit 1) Meyers's own recent post, in which a the murder of a woman is turned into some weird gag about octopuses:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... he-victim/

But worse, by a factor of "you sick fuck", is this from the Lousy Canuck.

Exhibit 2) Within 17 minutes of Meyers posting his opinion on the tragic story, along comes the catfish Canuck, slurping up the sunken remains of corpses in order to feed his pointless ego. Here are his opening words:

As I said over at my post...

Yes, his username does link to his own blog.

[rayshul]

That vomiting chick is pretty much how I feel when reading Zvan's exploits.

My favourite science author is Oliver Sacks. Oddly I've found maths tv shows and QT shows much more enlightening than books... I like the visualisations as I'm a very high-level thinker.

Oh yes! 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'. Fantastic book - though I do sometimes get the uncomfortable impression that he exploits his patients somewhat for material. I guess he puts it out there with their consent, though. In any case, it doesn't stop me from reading, nosey sod that I am. And I am fascinated by his idea that Hildegard of Bingen's ecstatic works were drawn from migraines, being prone to migraines with strong auras myself.

My favourite was the first I read - Island of the Colourblind. Fascinating shit where he goes to an island where a huge number of people are colourblind/light sensitive. It's a two-part thing, it also looks at people with lytigo botig on Guam which has some similarity to the encephalitis lethargica people he saw in Awakenings. Probably not the best known of his work so I like to mention it.

[Guest]

Let them try to figure out some of my stylin' headgear:

The respirator you have there looks more costume than practical.

My favourite hat is my Akubra Federation Deluxe:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8083 ... c19172.jpg
It comes with a pre WW2 style high open crown, so you can put your own 'bash' on it. Very comfy. Though they're a hell of a price these days!

If I want to offend Baboon types, I have my Afrika Korps cap:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8469/8083 ... 9a99_m.jpg

My Panama is showing it's age a bit, I may need to replace it by next spring.

Way cool cap. I recently finished an article describing the Brits Long Range Desert Groups action in Cyrenacia, and their assistance to LeClerc's actions in Libya. Nice cap. ... a lot of long family dribble, deleted.

[Soluis]

Submitted by Cousin It

Let them try to figure out some of my stylin' headgear:

The respirator you have there looks more costume than practical.

My favourite hat is my Akubra Federation Deluxe:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8083 ... c19172.jpg
It comes with a pre WW2 style high open crown, so you can put your own 'bash' on it. Very comfy. Though they're a hell of a price these days!

If I want to offend Baboon types, I have my Afrika Korps cap:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8469/8083 ... 9a99_m.jpg

My Panama is showing it's age a bit, I may need to replace it by next spring.

Way cool cap. I recently finished an article describing the Brits Long Range Desert Groups action in Cyrenacia, and their assistance to LeClerc's actions in Libya. Nice cap. ... a lot of long family dribble, deleted.

[franc]

*That'll fox the 'boons

What a real sociopath in a hat looks like. Yes, this is real -

http://i.imgur.com/HE2ei.jpg

[welch]

My own opinion is that the jargon they force onto us in recruit training, and throughout our time in service, is part of indoctrination, to reinforce unit cohesion. Hahaha.

[Seriously, though... >_>]

Indoctrination is right. The marines are practically a fucking cult... especially with that "there's no such thing as an ex-marine" stuff.

Hahahaha. In my experience, a lot of it is done in jest, though we can be anal about things involving nomenclature... [I refer to myself as a "veteran" Marine, as you may have noticed. :whistle: ]

What I've found is the case, though, is that the former Marines/Marines that put up the hardest act are the ones that haven't done shit. Classic overcompensation. You have guys like another former Marines that goes to my school. Everything is Marines, Marines, Marines. Always talking about how the civilian world sucks and he wants to re-enlist, always posting pictures of himself in uniform on his Facebook, and still cutting his hair into a high-and-tight. His time out of the continent consisted of being stationed in Hawaii and Japan...

With me, you wouldn't be able to tell me apart from a skinny, long-haired hippie unless I took my shirt off. With new friends/acquaintances, many are surprised when they find out that I served after having known me for a while. I don't give too much of a shit. Like, I feel awkward when people thank me for my "service", because there wasn't much that was altruistic about my motivations for joining. [Wasn't for the benefits. Think...young and stupid.] I was motivated as fuck near the start though. But there's just something about being deployed that has a way of beating the idealism out of you, and things stop looking so black-or-white. I don't think that this is something that the average Marine will realize if they've only spent their time in garrison/training situations. Being made to sweat, and playing war with blank ammunition isn't the same as....eh. Let's just say that seeing that beautiful machine unravel when the rubber meets the road, and learning that "following your training" won't always yield the best results has a way of opening your eyes. I was pretty young though, so I don't beat myself up too much...

</Ranty fucking rant! Holy fuck> :?

It's cool. I know a lot of marines (friends and family), and I dog on the them pretty relentlessly... partly in jest, and partly because I'm an asshole. Of course, a lot of that is born of the fact that mostly they had jobs like "glorified weather man" and "truck refueler" and talk like they're big warriors to someone who actually served in combat arms. It lends itself to a lot of jabs.

Marines were so cute. We usually only got the AV-8B pilots and crew for airshows, but it was what you'd expect. They'd start in on the "oh, you're a buncha pussies, Air Force wussies" etc. Our response? Smile and say "So, how you like the TDY quarters?"

silence..."They're real nice".

"Yep, come on, lets have a beer"

(TDY housing on a marine / navy base typically sucked unless you were in the E-7 range or higher. For mid/low level enlisted, it was barracks and shared bathrooms, sign in/sign out, NO chance of getting laid at all. Air Force TDY housing was basically a 3-4 start hotel, nice made service, continental breakfast, etc. I had a good time at Edwards, would have had a better time, except one of the maids turned out to be what I now refer to as my "Jesus Girl" story."

[StyxMaker]

So... how many military/ex-military folk do we have here, anyway? Because it seems like kind of a lot to me...

Me - Gulf War - 39B (Automatic Test Equipment Operator/Maintainer - worked on circuit boards in Apache helicopters) and proud :)

The things I learn about you on different forums.

[JackRayner]

Marines were so cute. We usually only got the AV-8B pilots and crew for airshows, but it was what you'd expect. They'd start in on the "oh, you're a buncha pussies, Air Force wussies" etc. Our response? Smile and say "So, how you like the TDY quarters?"

silence..."They're real nice".

"Yep, come on, lets have a beer"

(TDY housing on a marine / navy base typically sucked unless you were in the E-7 range or higher. For mid/low level enlisted, it was barracks and shared bathrooms, sign in/sign out, NO chance of getting laid at all. Air Force TDY housing was basically a 3-4 start hotel, nice made service, continental breakfast, etc. I had a good time at Edwards, would have had a better time, except one of the maids turned out to be what I now refer to as my "Jesus Girl" story."

Yeah. Quality of life type stuff is shit for Marines. As for this;

For mid/low level enlisted, it was barracks and shared bathrooms, sign in/sign out, NO chance of getting laid at all.

Bolded: When it's two to three to a room, you'll have to. No worse than living with roommates, and when you're forced to be this clean, it wasn't that bad.
Italicized: Not supposed to, anyhow. :whistle:

If I managed to hook up with a female KBR contractor while out in Iraq, [involved getting one of my buddies to hide and look after my otherwise-glued-to-my-body rifle while I, in civilian attire, 'snuck' into the contractor living area in the light of day to meet her inside of her 1-person trailer] then getting the rest of the guys to let you sneak a female in every now and then under the mutual agreement that you'll return the favor isn't much of a task... :shifty:

[JackRayner]

[W]ould have had a better time, except one of the maids turned out to be what I now refer to as my "Jesus Girl" story."

Have you already told it before?

[Skep tickle]

http://skepticink.com/avant-garde/2012/ ... -atheists/

(Original has 1-3 links in each line to support each claim, looks like mostly to or about FtB)

So far, the so called A+ movement has given me enough reasons to come to think of them as a godless Christian-like movement, or A†.

This the way I see it.

A†, we’re Athesits… but we behave like Christians:

• We engage into verbal abuse when someone criticizes ideas we hold sacred!
• We bully people who disagree with us (or our leaders) into silence, while we love to play the victim card!
• We abuse copyright laws in order to censor people who criticize us or our ‘values’!
• We self-righteously pride on valuing the truth above all, but we don’t mind lying in order to push our ideology!
• We’re more than willing to put other people’s jobs at jeopardy over differences of opinion and because they don’t fit our moral standards!
• We pride ourselves as freedom and inclusion lovers, but we’ll determine who’s a “pariah” and what the limits are on your not-so-free speech!
• We despise good, intelligent, honest, hard-working people, based on their gender, skin color and age!
• We hate it when people use statistics in order to justify racism (felonies are more likely to be comitted by Latinos – so it would be understandable if you change sidewalks, for example), but we have no problem with the whole Schrödinger’s Rapist concept! So no, stop pretending we’re relabeling Humanism, we are not – that would mean we apply presumption of innocence to every single human being, regardless of their sex!
• We’re right – just because! So we won’t settle or think someone else could have some good points that might even deserve consideration.
• We can’t stand doubt!
• We hate it when Christians equate Atheism to Communism… but we equate disagreement with mysoginy, MRAs (meaning chauvinistic pigs), and “rape apologists”.
• We hate it when Christians equate Atheism to Nazism… but we we equate the ‘New Atheist’ movement to ‘patriarchy’ and ‘white supremacism’ (even though, evidence points to the contrary).
• We don’t care if Christians cry because we criticize their beloved dogma, but we’ll close ranks when one of us cries because of a t-shirt she didn’t like.
• We patronize people who disagree with us – they just “don’t get it“.
• We’re all for sexual freedom… as long as it doesn’t “objectify” women. (We have no comments on lesbian self-masturbation when it involves thinking of other women.) When some women, by their own free will (figuratively speaking), let themselves be objectified, we deny them agency about their own choices! Who said that’s “objectifying”"? We know better what’s best for them, that’s just all!
• We’re pro-choice, unless, you know, women choose to use their bodies in ways we disapprove of (and for that matter, ways ayatollahs disapprove of as well! How often do we get to agree? We must be doing somethin’ right, right?).
• We, privileged Atheists, speak out against ‘privileges’ – just not about ours!
• We tell actual victims of sexual assault how they ought to feel!
• We hate it when creationists video-edit Richard Dawkins in order to make him look bad, but we’re more than happy to look the other way when one of our leaders deliberately ban commenters who argue calmly and reasonably while displaying trolls’ and loonies’ comments.
• We actually have convinced people that an inclusive and open movement, has always lacked diversity – but, how else were we supposed to sell our movement as inclusive?
• We say we hate faulty logic, but, by default, we think all and every one of the trolls we get are Atheists – New Atheists, to be precise.
• We despise people who underplays sex assault victims’ accounts… unless those victims are Richard Dawkins, of course.
• We tell Christians there’s no right to not be offended, while telling our own ranks TAM should ban people who ‘offended’ the feelings of one of us.
• We hate free market and unregulated economy (social justice, right?), but we have no saying about the monopoly of one of us selling painted rocks as jewelry. You have no right to pick up rocks, paint’em and sell them out – that business is already taken and we would like TAM to guarantee there won’t be competition!
• We say we hate “mansplaining”, but our male followers are more than free to tell their mothers how to be a woman. You see, you can “mansplain” if you’re on the right side.
• We avoid arguments, and instead resort to calling out name-calling… but it’s all metaphors and blogging-style, when we do it! Basically, your argument will be treated depending, not on it’s own merits, but on who you are!
• Even though Atheists are the most discriminated minority in the world, and Richard Dawkins has been the most outspoken Atheist for the last 40 years or more, we claim he doesn’t know what it is to be discriminated against!
• We won’t admit the New Atheism movement is a positive influence in society. If it’s not us, nothing good can come from it!
• We always think people are acting on bad faith, and we won’t wait to have enough evidence before labeling them.
• We will trash someone just for fun. Naaaah, I’m kidding: we can do that only when he posts information that was already public.
• Somehow, we managed to make every single unwanted sexual invitation to be the same as sexual harassment! Please, use both terms indistinctly!
• We hate people selectively! For example, we don’t stand Penn Jillette using the word ‘cunt’ as an insult, but we don’t care when Tim Minchin does it.
• We won’t stand homeless people masturbating in public. That’s something you ought to do in the privacy of your own home, you sick hobo!

[Skep tickle]

(that was linked in one of the replies in "Welcome Back, Old Friends and Welcome Aboard, New Friends!" at Al's wordpress site)

[Trophy]

Asking the Boal Twitter account for proof.... I won't hold my breath...

Don't waste your time. The profile photo was taken from a porn site. The troll is most likely a male.

http://www.goldcum.com/tgp/true-amateur-model-chole/

Oh damn! How do you do it? Please sir/madam! Teach me the secrets of google-fu!

[Trophy]

My favourite science author is Oliver Sacks. Oddly I've found maths tv shows and QT shows much more enlightening than books... I like the visualisations as I'm a very high-level thinker.

Wooo! Virtual high fives! I love his "The man who mistook his wife for a hat". The story about the Indian girl literally made me cry.

[Pinker]

It's funny to see PZ Myers talking about bullies, considering how many people view him as a bully.

[Ape+lust]

Oh damn! How do you do it? Please sir/madam! Teach me the secrets of google-fu!

Do you use Firefox? Get the Search for Image by Google extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... -by-image/

Then you can right-click any online image and select "Search Image on Google" and it'll return matches and similar pics. In this instance, the porn amateur is one of the first images it returns.

[Ape+lust]

I'll leave this for Abbie. It was on Reddit yesterday.

I was blasting my T-cells when suddenly.... GODZILLA!

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

[Trophy]

Oh damn! How do you do it? Please sir/madam! Teach me the secrets of google-fu!

Do you use Firefox? Get the Search for Image by Google extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... -by-image/

Then you can right-click any online image and select "Search Image on Google" and it'll return matches and similar pics. In this instance, the porn amateur is one of the first images it returns.

Nice! Thanks!

[Tony Parsehole]

Compared to the other sceptic sites, this one is definitely not US-centric. It seems that every second post is a reference to Viz. I sometimes wonder what the Septic Tanks make of it.

True. But why hasn't anybody mentioned the Modern parents yet? :think:

http://www.ybig.ie/forum/uploads/200910 ... 43_viz.jpg

[mordacious1]

Alright! Which one of you people lives in Virginia?


http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadget ... 9885956000

[Tony Parsehole]

http://greylining.com/2012/10/14/stefan ... -addendum/

New Franc goodness.

[Adam Coleman]

I'm going with the Samantha Boal character's story being true. Sure, the picture may have been taken from a porn site, but so what? If the profile was created for the sole purpose of trolling Rebecca Watson, as Samantha Boal claims, then a picture was needed to give the account a look of authenticity and that picture had to be pulled from somewhere. Whether it was pulled at random from Google Images or pulled from a porn site, it shouldn't really matter.

People have been asking Rebecca for the longest time to provide evidence of all the hate mail and rape threats that she allegedly gets, so perhaps she needed to create said evidence. I just find it odd that Rebecca, herself, is giving the Samantha Boal character so much press. Look at her Page o' Hate and you'll see a ton of Samantha Boal stuff on there.

Also, on Rebecca's nude calendar post ( http://skepchick.org/2012/09/please-sto ... calendars/ ), she made it a point to highlight and even provide a link to a negative comment made by Samanth Boal. And, from the look of it, Samantha Boal's comment is the only negative comment that she allowed. Rebecca seems to be giving Samantha Boal a lot of play and that seems very odd — considering everything else.

And on Rebecca's Skeptical Robot page on Facebook, there are two pictures that Samantha Boal posted that are making fun of Rebecca. They've been there since early September and still have not yet been removed, which is also odd. One of them is a picture mocking Rebecca for her blue hair. Samantha Boal also posted that same picture on scores of other pages all over Facebook and then, about a week later, Rebecca "coincidentally" came out with her Their Hates Makes Me Stronger T-shirt promotion (featuring the same blue hair that Samantha Boal was making fun of in the memes that she posted around Facebook). It looks, to me, like Rebecca set the whole thing up, i.e., having the Samantha Boal character create the "hate" and then coming out with the T-shirt in response.

Call me gullible if you want, but in light of the above (and on what else I know of Rebecca and how she operates), I'm going to take the Samantha Boal story at face value.

[Jan Steen]

I’m a white, cis gendered male who is well aware of his privil...

Oops, wrong forum.

Delurking anyway to say that you doing a good job here mocking the self righteous creeps who are trying to turn the atheist movement into a cult.