If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

John D said: ... hasn't anyone told these guys that sound does not travel through a vacuum? That's one of the reasons I quite liked Gravity . For, perhaps the first time, a movie did a first rate job of showing space stuff without sound (or flames/explosions), and still maintained the narrative tens...

Aneris said: First off, I still try to get a sense of what is good writing in English. Despite that I “feel it” (sometimes), it still remains elusive to me. I most often notice it when a phrase is different in a good way, but I don't yet understand what makes a body of texr, say, a paragraph or essa...

I think you'd have to go to British politics for a Chrétien... maybe Benny Hill?

:think:

Harper is sort of our George Bush -- both Bushes rolled into one with a touch of Pat Robertson. Going back, I guess Diefenbaker was our LBJ, Pearson our intelligent Eisenhower, Trudeau obviously our Kennedy. I guess Mulroney was sort of a weird mix of Reagen, Trump, and Billy Graham or something. Jo...

Andrew said: I am off to vote later on today and I am not optimistic for the near future. Given the choices for the PM slot we are so fucked no matter who gets in. Ya. I just got back from voting. It's very much one of those lesser of many evils kind of a thing. They're all fucked up for one reason...

Poor ol' LousyCanuck. He's just not smart enough to moderate or be at all involved in the kind of conversations he wants to, ahem, "shepherd".

I figure his brains fell out when his hair fell out and all due to too much hockey, cheddar cheese, and maple syrup.

Hmmm. I guess the Wild movie I saw, with Reese Witherspoon, was a different version. Perhaps the Canadian version, or summat?

That LousyCanuck thread is pretty funny, with Julian and Abbycadabra (or whatever the fuck s/h/it's nym is) showing exceptional levels of idiocy. I suppose any minute now Dr. Professor Hornbeck Tubeblower, who if memory serves has never had sex with a woman and therefore really doesn't know what wom...

HAHAHAHA dog puke! Wheeee!

Hi JC. :greetings-wavingyellow:

Yes, too much Elyse and Pixlee. But, well, you know, the Pit's a truly open house, so anyone who doesn't like it can just ignore until the phase is over. :whistle:

When did we do a musical?

?

The Hills Are Alive, With the Sound of Lsuoma?

Thanks WaxNapolean, -souylent shatterface fg9, dude person.

:)

Ape, that's not even a shoop, is it.

Karmakin said: I'll be honest, I don't like the discussion of that sort of stuff myself. To me, it feels...kinda cheap? I dunno. I don't like it. But I'll say one thing. I think that whole story really shows me one thing. Their culture is REALLY fucking messed up. I mean REALLY messed up. You know ...

This has got to be seen to be believed. Richard Cumshot Carrier, who has gone out of his way in the past to troll for dates on his blog, is now codemning someone for asking about dating him. On his blog. Tricky Sticky Dicky says: Last chance for fans & supporters! Want to secure a dinner conversatio...

Actually, yes, I am looking into the subsidized rent thing. It's complicated, and a long wait, and the rules vary, and vary, and vary, so keeping track is quite difficult, but it is an option.

It's all rather moot, SN, but yes, I might be elegible for the maximum OAS, depending on what my income is 6 years from now. The max is currently a whopping $546.00. That doesn't even cover my exceptionally low rent now, let alone 6 years from now. Better than nothing I suppose.

Hi Pitchy. I'm still here. Pit folk responded with flying colours and gave me some time to try and fix things up.

Ah dear.

Pixlee, Pixlee, Pixlee.

He makes me deeply uncomfortable. He's so fucked up, and so full of hate, both self-directed, and outwardly.

Nonetheless, ya, to some degree, I too feel sorry for the poor fucker.

I mean, the psychopath you walk past, and all that....

:whistle:

rayshul, Dave, SN, thanks for the advice and suggestions. I'll look into all of it; however, just so you know, the primary reason I'm looking into the College course is that I just do not have the self-discipline anymore to do an online or at-home course. Also, and more importantly, taking a course ...

Query About Keyboarding Courses I think with the money you wonderful folks donated I can afford to take one course at my local college -- my alma mater, Douglas college. And I am thinking pretty seriously about taking the introductory keyboarding course. Even though I've been a professional writer ...

Tigzy said: Good god! It's a wonder I got through that first paragraph without going into a diabetic coma. Seriously, if they could harness all that gush coming from Amy's grovelling, equities in high-fructose corn syrup production would plummet. My thoughts precisely. Plagiarizing shitlord! :hand:

Yes, I too am thumbs-up for franc's wee post on American Libertarians. Though I have encountered some not-US-based self-described Libertarians who also fit that particular bill.

Service Dog said:

I guess the next question is... did you ever think 'I wanna be like that'... and did ever you get-there?

Yes, and no, not really.

Do any of the names on that list do anything for ya?

Lou Reed, Sam Rockwell, Alan Ginsberg, David Byrne, David Bowie, Bruce Sterling, Woody Allen, Harry Belafonte, Handsome Dick Manitoba.

And I am a Fellini fan.

FTBer, Ally Fogg says to Oolon : I have to say that what you are advocating there is a prescription for the snake to eat its tail. You are happily accepting a situation which, if continued to its natural conclusion, is clearly a recipe for the extinction of the political and intellectual commons. Yo...

Tribs, which was 28%?

Aw, poor, poor, lonely, sad, old PZ: I still get lots of plain old US Mail — it’s almost always from a crank or religious apologists , so it’s kind of entertaining. I’m not a big fan of certified mail, though. That usually means someone is going to bluster and threaten to sue me for something. I got...

NoGodsEver said:

Well at least you spent the money on drugs. I thought maybe you'd waste it.

Nah, nah, nah, I spent it on Fluevogs.

...

Fluevogs.

...

Vodka.

...

Russian.

:think:

com, congrats.

I truly wish I had such good fortune.

Check PMs please.

C02 said: It's almost as though he has seen the ad revenue and realized "Shit! This shit ain't earning me shit. Time to bring back the old shit, and get those atheist shits clicking on my shit again,". Well, ya know, when a s/h/it shits s/h/it's sheets and and shovels its own shitty shit only to dis...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....

Pit folk are some of the finest folk I have ever encountered.

:shhh:

Man, oh, man, what a world. Carrier, rape honey, polyamory, intellectual artillery, and so on and so forth. FLOOSH. :think: I'm over my anonymous blowjob phase now. What an odd segue that was. Booze and loneliness inspired, I guess. Anyway, I've had more "girlfriends" than I can count -- so to speak...

SN said: If they were still playing in Toronto at that point, then they must not have played at The Edge or Larry's Hideaway. If they had, and I'd known about it, I'd have gone for sure. Those 2 clubs were walking distance from where I lived, plus I could always sneak in there. They didn't ask for I...

Well, jeez, but you warrant it. Your shoops are high, high quality. And usually very, very funny.

HAHAHAHA.

Cripes, but I am so, so glad to be a part of this royally, magnificently, profoundly wonderful diverse community.

:dance:

I love you all.

...

Platonically, of course.

...

You idiot fuckers keep me alive!

Literaly.

:hand: :oops:

More communique's coming later.

:shhh:

Fuck me, Ape, but that is sheer genius. Excellent.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but Polyamory is hardly new. It's called having fuck buddies. Why do they have to make it seem so damned complicated? Just say they like sex with more than one partner and that's it. Done.

:handgestures-thumbupleft:

Yes. It's a PoC. A panini of colour.

SN said:

Anyone remember The Battered Wives?

I do. When I was working at Mothers Sandwich Shoppe on College Street (sign still there; restaurant, long, long gone), I served them en masse a couple of times. I saw them at one or two gigs, but I cannot remember where. HAHAHA. Apropos.

SM12 said:

If they are taught in English lit courses, that is *definitely* cultural appropriation.

I was mislead in my English lit courses by claims that I would have a big fat trollop on my lap, and that there was plenty of Fanny as well.

True that! :whistle:

Sure it's readable. It's just challenging for our modern sensibilities. And they are both part of the English lit canon, and are taught in many high school and college English lit courses.

EDIT: This is a reply to SM12.

My pal, PA said: I actually brought up Harrison Bergeron in my 101 English pre req at a small university last week. I'm a bit older than the class by a decade - time from military. the assignment was to pick a favorite book. A lot of people somehow dislike this intensely. Only the foreign students g...

Jeezus fucksticks. What now from the bunch of dingbats?

Fishes!! Yay!!! Fishes!!!!

Hmm. Interesting. Ashley has this to say about our pal rayshul (http://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/2015/10/02/atheist-tribalism-poisons-everything/#comment-492450): I wouldn’t count Rayshul’s comments against the Slymepit, she takes it as a personal betrayal that I write for FtB because we wer...

Wow.

That's pretty much all I have to say on the Elyse/Banders/Pixlee insanity.

These people are bugfuck nuts, just totally doolally bugfuck nuts.

:think:

Maybe they should start a grounded parents blog.

I posted the following over at Ashley Miller's post about atheist hypocrisy etc: Ashley said: We need to talk about our tendency to think we are better than other people and better than religious people in particular. We need to talk about how we think that religion is the reason that bad things hap...

Sunder, Ape+Lust, what are you guys talking about? I'm lost.

Judging by the current "ahteism sucks" thread over at the PeeZus Party Palace for Clowns (http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/10/03/is-atheism-bankrupt/), it seems quite clear to me that what they've done, are doing, is redefining the words atheist/atheism, as used by anyone not them, to ref...

For my fellow Canadians, a petition: https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-tom-mulcair-elizabeth-may-cooperate-to-defeat-the-harper-conservatives-cherchez-%C3%A0-coop%C3%A9rer-pour-vaincre-stephen-harper?recruiter=7020811&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_resp...

So, Lord PeeZus of the Holey Clothes is, of course, railing on yet again about only only his atheism is the real ahteism while at the same time agreeing that atheist superiority is dangerous. :think: Snuh? Anyway, I know most folks here no longer go to FTB at all so as to avoid any sort of finanical...

Ophie has a short C&P piece on recovered memory. She appears to support the argument that recovered memories are false -- although she really does not make any firm conclusions. No comments so far, and I rather doubt that his name will come up, given the ideological in-grouping she endorses and enco...

Steers , if anyone wants to know specifics, I can reply to PM queries -- I said so in my first one or two request posts. Although, it should be noted that I stated in various posts that the received funds were earmarked to take care of overdue taxes, and a few months worth of essential monthly expe...

Woah! Say it ain't so, Tony P.

Anything we can do?

Hi gang. No changes from my update last week. So, while things have improved, for which I am very grateful to you folks, I am still not quite out of the proverbial woods. So, just in case, another repost. __________________ The John Greg PayPal Life Support System I am still running the PayPal accou...

Well, you know, I just do not understand how such patently, blatantly, emotoinally, and psychologically broken, damaged, and profoundly dishonest people gain so much ... I don't know, respect, following, whateverthefuck?.

Hell, I guess we're all just fucked.

Pfft.

Welchie, I am really, really, glad to see back here particitapating in our Marty Grass.

Seriosuly.

Jesus Fried Pickles. The world is just getting too fucking weird. Elyse, smash parties, supposed friends assisting her self-destruct, and SashaPixlee -- I mean really is that idiot even real?!? WTF? PeeZus becoming perhaps the most hypocritical and dishonest so-called authority on anything with the ...

Thanks, Phil. I think I missed that.

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