Anne Robinson has no soul, and is history, thank fuck!

[Pitchguest]

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... g-opinion/

So this is the blog post where Ophelia claims LIES, LIES, PANTS ON FLIES but for some reason she neglects to mention the user I was addressing, namely Ulysses, who brings up that old canard about Justin Vacula (the doxxing) - who proceeded to make unduly accusations about him and blah blah blah, the usual. But the only thing that stuck was the part where I added Ophelia as exposition, where she quite clearly called Girl Writes What a 'stupid bitch' (even though she later took it back and said she called *herself* a 'stupid bitch' - yeah, nice try. [Or was it 'just a joke'? *gigglesnort*]) And even if she weren't, she still used the word 'bitch' - an epithet she says she doesn't use. Oops.

I do not honestly believe Benson has spent so much time on FTB without reading that beloved phrase of theirs, 'intent isn't magic'.

Parallel logic.

In other news, I see Edwin Kagin has written a post about gun control and how guns aren't necessarily bad by proxy. He's being called the usual slurs, as punishment for not toeing the party line. I'm curious how long it takes for Brayton to finally kick him out. (But he doesn't kick anyone out for not going lockstep, perish the thought!) And he still doesn't moderate his blog, much to the chagrin of ... well ... the usual suspects.

[free thoughtpolice]

Justin V. is sponsored to go to the Women in Secularism by the Slymepit, Stef Svan is sending another SS, Sally Strange to the convention in Texas courtesy 'Almost Diamonds'.
Atheism plus should get their shit together and send Kassiane and Setar to the con in Ireland. And not just as observers either, I think those two could put by far the most interesting presentation in the conference.
A good possible is "why are gender queer and trans* people underrepresented at feminist conventions and fuck you for silencing us".

[Tigzy]

Meanwhile, over at Chris Clarke's 'I Pledge to be Uncivil' post, more than a few commentators are getting quite hissy over the fact that Finke appears to have closed comments, and they can't get a response in.

Blimey - you'd think Daniel was being uncivil, or something. :lol:

[Submariner]

The Ben Radford "Over It" blog post is illuminating to say the least. Agree with 98% of the feminist platform, but point out how the real numbers are bad enough, no need to use distorted ones and that dancing isn't really helping anyone suffering these abuses, and my God what a misogynist POS you are.

[free thoughtpolice]

Pitchguest said;
"In other news, I see Edwin Kagin has written a post about gun control and how guns aren't necessarily bad by proxy. He's being called the usual slurs, as punishment for not toeing the party line. I'm curious how long it takes for Brayton to finally kick him out. (But he doesn't kick anyone out for not going lockstep, perish the thought!) And he still doesn't moderate his blog, much to the chagrin of ... well ... the usual suspects."
I read the comments there and didn't see anything near the abuse that he has taken from past posts.
That could be because the most abusive of the Pharyngula crowd haven't noticed he's made the post yet.
I remember when Libby Anne put her blog on Ftb how Josh , Brownnoser and others went out of their way to hound her off the network. The same tactics haven't worked on Edwin and I don't think Ed Brayton cares about Edwin's lack of popularity. After all he's evidence that a non PC blogger is tolerated there, freedom of speech and thought etc.

[cunt]

Meanwhile, over at Chris Clarke's 'I Pledge to be Uncivil' post, more than a few commentators are getting quite hissy over the fact that Finke appears to have closed comments, and they can't get a response in.

Blimey - you'd think Daniel was being uncivil, or something. :lol:

365
Ophelia Benson
16 February 2013 at 1:45 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Aratina @ 362 – really. I posted a correction of that lie about me first thing yesterday morning, and it’s still sitting in moderation. Fincke is irresponsible to put out all that mildew-bait and then just go away for days. He’s leaving a fucking lie about me sit there uncorrected. Not “civil.”

:violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin: :violin:

[Submariner]

365
Ophelia Benson
16 February 2013 at 1:45 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Aratina @ 362 – really. I posted a correction of that lie about me first thing yesterday morning, and it’s still sitting in moderation. Fincke is irresponsible to put out all that mildew-bait and then just go away for days. He’s leaving a fucking lie about me sit there uncorrected. Not “civil.”

Is it wrong that I read this in Rocko's "dramatic reading "voice??

[cunt]

http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/p ... 2010-a.pdf

Thanks. This is well worth reading all the way through and bookmarking.

[Gumby]

Ha-haaa - Pruney's seething, because - of all things - she wanted to counter what Pitchguest and Tuvok said about her on Finke's Civility Pledge post, and is pissed off because her post has been left in moderation.

Fincke’s “civility” has resulted in mildew people posting lies about me in his comments, which are still sitting there uncontradicted because Fincke has wandered off somewhere, and new comments are held in moderation. I posted a correction yesterday morning – some 30 hours ago – and it still hasn’t appeared. Civil? Not so much.

Doesn't she just hate it when other people play her by her own rules? :lol:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... g-opinion/
http://www.freezepage.com/1361051856GQYLZLTMNW

That's EXACTLY what Ophelia Benson does to others on her blog, and she's crying about it when it happens to her. What a cunt.

http://www.coldwinterknights.net/images ... yMeter.gif

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... in-Gif.gif

[cunt]

I wonder if she knows she's doing it. If it could be just be extreme case of cognitive dissonance. The only other possibility is that she's actually trying to give people a brain haemorrhage.

[Pitchguest]

The Ben Radford "Over It" blog post is illuminating to say the least. Agree with 98% of the feminist platform, but point out how the real numbers are bad enough, no need to use distorted ones and that dancing isn't really helping anyone suffering these abuses, and my God what a misogynist POS you are.

What makes me both laugh and cry about the whole thing is that while Ben's "poem" might seem forced, it's supposed to mirror Ensler's "poem."

For instance, PZ Myers' gripe with Ben is that he can't "be over rape" - oh, you mean like in Ensler's original "poem", PZ, you human paraquat?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensle ... 89013.html

I am over rape.

It's like he judged someone without even reading the original article it's based on.

Oh wait.

http://lornasvoice.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/duh.gif

[AndrewV69]

Good grief the comments on Dan's Civility Pledge are fun ...


p.s. can we stop knocking people for using the word slut ... I know many girls who proudly describe themselves as sluts ... they have overcome their moral upbringing around sex and just enjoy it.

Survey says: They are going to regret it later according to the Manosphere (cue dramatic noise). Or, perhaps not according to the survey over at Susan Walsh:

Match’s 2012 Singles in America Survey
http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2013/02/0 ... ca-survey/

42% would not date a virgin (33% of men & 51% of women).

MRAs are up in arms! This contradicts a widely help belief. But how would the guys that have no idea what a woman's face looks like, because they are always looking at her tits, know the difference about attractiveness anyway?

The Most Attractive Women Have the Least Casual Sex
http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2013/02/1 ... asual-sex/

Whatever!

http://www.hookingupsmart.com/wp-conten ... 00x210.jpg

The conventional wisdom is thus:

The issue is that the older a woman gets, the lower her fertility.

Study Shows Fertility Decline Begins in Late 20s
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... tility-dec

Are you clueless about declining fertility?
http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories ... fertility/

The more she sluts it up and delays having kids, the lower the chance she is going to raise her kids in a LTR, because sluts have difficulty keeping a man around over the long term. Hell, apparently they have problems getting a man to commit in the first place:

Why You're Still Not Married
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-mcm ... 41011.html

But not everyone agrees:

Slut? Selfish? Sad? No, just a single woman
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/95 ... woman.html

But she might, because it bad news for her kids, because kids raised in single parent homes have it worse off than dual parent homes.

Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/t ... d=all&_r=0

But a friendship that evokes parity by day becomes a study of inequality at night and a testament to the way family structure deepens class divides. Ms. Faulkner is married and living on two paychecks, while Ms. Schairer is raising her children by herself. That gives the Faulkner family a profound advantage in income and nurturing time, and makes their children statistically more likely to finish college, find good jobs and form stable marriages.

The Rise and Downfall Of The American Single Mother
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brycecovert ... e-mothers/

Estimates vary, but single parenthood can account from somewhere from 15 to a full 40% of income inequality. The article also points out that inequality can trickle down to the next generation. Children of single parents are much more likely to experience childhood poverty, become teenage parents, and drop out of school. And research from the Brookings Institution found that it can be very difficult for children of single parents to rise up out of poverty: 58% children raised in the poorest third of income levels who lived with two parents rose up, while only 44% of children of single parents were able to.

Of course not everyone agrees either. But not everyone is a hot mess who has fucked up her kids lives like Katie Roiphe who is a professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University and has two kids with two different men, neither of whom live with her.
http://www.slate.com/authors.katie_roiphe.html

And if she waits too long, she is going to wind up a crazy cat lady like OB, or this one:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... rhood.html

And there are lots of articles like the above in the Daily Fail. I just picked one at random. But there will be lots of company:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... pause.html
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/ ... 68x364.jpg

Lots of guys are not complaining either. Neither the younger ones or the older ones like me. All that free sex without commitment provided by an endless supply by young sluts with Daddy issues.

(What? Why would I sleep with a woman my age when even the nearest small town to me has a good supply of women under 30, willing to put out without me even having to buy them a drink first?)

[DeepInsideYourMind]

http://i.imgur.com/YiPOann.png
.... and Barack Obama is a white supremacist space alien.
.

You know via Google it took me 5 link jumps to find the original article, all the other links were FtB pieces linking to Ftb pieces, after 3 FtB pages, one has the actual link to Ben's piece ... which turns out not to be what any of them claimed SURPRISE!

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/over_it/

[Lsuoma]

I wonder if she knows she's doing it. If it could be just be extreme case of cognitive dissonance. The only other possibility is that she's actually trying to give people a brain haemorrhage.

Or that she's thick as pigshit at -250 degrees...

[cunt]

Women have a biological clock!!! Don't stop here Andy, this is going to come as a shock to women the world over.

The truth must out.

[DeepInsideYourMind]

Good grief the comments on Dan's Civility Pledge are fun ...


p.s. can we stop knocking people for using the word slut ... I know many girls who proudly describe themselves as sluts ... they have overcome their moral upbringing around sex and just enjoy it.

Survey says: They are going to regret it later according to the Manosphere (cue dramatic noise). Or, perhaps not according to the survey over at Susan Walsh:

<SNIP>
Lots of guys are not complaining either. Neither the younger ones or the older ones like me. All that free sex without commitment provided by an endless supply by young sluts with Daddy issues.

(What? Why would I sleep with a woman my age when even the nearest small town to me has a good supply of women under 30, willing to put out without me even having to buy them a drink first?)

And yet, of all the words that turn a woman on in bed most, in my personal anecdotal experience, slut is #1 at the top of the list ...


Almost like it's the chance to be their true selves, without societies morals impinging upon them.

[cunt]

I wonder if she knows she's doing it. If it could be just be extreme case of cognitive dissonance. The only other possibility is that she's actually trying to give people a brain haemorrhage.

Or that she's thick as pigshit at -250 degrees...

Lets go with that.

[Pitchguest]

Ladies and gentlemen (ha ha, just kidding - no ladies and gentlemen here, just sister punishers and misogynists)

I give you ... Amanda Marcotte

Ah yeah, I remember a troll pitching a fit because I wrote a piece that, for brevity’s sake, rolled up attempted and completed rapes into the general category of men raping women. Apparently, there is no greater injustice than labeling a man a rapist because tried to rape someone but failed because his victim successfully fought off penetration, though obviously not violation. I’m unclear what the issue was. Perhaps the fear was that the exclusive club of rapists would be dirtied by having to admit men who aren’t successful at subduing their victims.

Just kidding! I know that what’s going on is that the knee-jerk desire to minimize any violence against women turns misogynists into blithering idiots, arguing about the numbers of angels dancing on a head of a pin while women continue to be violated in a myriad of ways every minute of the day, all of them terrifying and painful for the victims.

Remember, it's cool to make pieces that just call men rapists, because if they object then that just mean they're misogynists turning into blithering idiots.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2 ... sseyed.gif

Meanwhile, Ophelia Benson is trying so very hard to imply that we're harassing her because a man who made over a hundred sockpuppets was arrested. All together now:

I'm Spartacus.

(it's here)

[AndrewV69]

http://i.imgur.com/YiPOann.png
.... and Barack Obama is a white supremacist space alien.
.

Nope. But he is Bush in blackface.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... nes-killer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -kill-list

[AndrewV69]

Justin V. is sponsored to go to the Women in Secularism by the Slymepit, Stef Svan is sending another SS, Sally Strange to the convention in Texas courtesy 'Almost Diamonds'.
Atheism plus should get their shit together and send Kassiane and Setar to the con in Ireland. And not just as observers either, I think those two could put by far the most interesting presentation in the conference.
A good possible is "why are gender queer and trans* people underrepresented at feminist conventions and fuck you for silencing us".

Oh Be.Still.My.Racing.Heart!

I would be so tempted to put serious money down so that could happen! I kid you not!

If only (starts weeping). If only. Oh man. That would be ... priceless. A treasure. A pearl beyond price.

[Pitchguest]

By the way, guess who posted this:

Yes — I am not opposed to One Billion Rising, and I can appreciate that some will find value in it. I just said that I’m cold to it — it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

But I am not about to start dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in. We’ve got bigger problems with people like Radford belittling others for participating in a particular cause at all.

[Lsuoma]

Meanwhile, Ophelia Benson is trying so very hard to imply that we're harassing her because a man who made over a hundred sockpuppets was arrested. All together now:

I'm Spartacus.

(it's here)

Classic stealy FeeFee:

Ostealia words: 327
Non-Ostealia words: 1153

[Gumby]

By the way, guess who posted this:

Yes — I am not opposed to One Billion Rising, and I can appreciate that some will find value in it. I just said that I’m cold to it — it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

But I am not about to start dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in. We’ve got bigger problems with people like Radford belittling others for participating in a particular cause at all.

So is Peezus saying that if there weren't "bigger problems" like his childish snit with Radford, he'd be all for dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in?

[AndrewV69]

Almost like it's the chance to be their true selves, without societies morals impinging upon them.

I am not complaining. Not in the slightest. I am sorry for the kids though.

[Pitchguest]

By the way, guess who posted this:

Yes — I am not opposed to One Billion Rising, and I can appreciate that some will find value in it. I just said that I’m cold to it — it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

But I am not about to start dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in. We’ve got bigger problems with people like Radford belittling others for participating in a particular cause at all.

So is Peezus saying that if there weren't "bigger problems" like his childish snit with Radford, he'd be all for dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in?

Plus, isn't he making a "Dear Muslima" argument? :think:

[Skep tickle]

Although, I'm not 100% confidant that hyperdeath has read my PMs. If he has, yes, it would all make sense. But it's not necessary, and I have no reason to believe he's sleezy like that. My gut feeling about hyperdeath is that he would NOT read PMs. Granted, this is just gut intuition.

Weeeeeeeeell...there is a way to test whether hyperdeath is reading your PMs. If he is, though, you'll be instantly banned. Just send a PM to yourself calling all the big names on A+ stupid cunts.

Just so people know, there is no facility in phpBB by which mods or admins can read PMs. One would have to go to the MySQL backend to do that.

There may not be anything in the standard package, but it looks like there is (or has been) a phpBB modification that'll do it: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/ ... oderation/

Description
Moderate the private messages sent by users on a phpBB3 bulletin board. Administrators can view the private message database and delete private messages using this Administration Control Panel plugin.

Features:

• View private messages created by the users of your bulletin board
• View all of the private messages sent by a specific user
• View all of the private messages received by a specific user
• View the conversation between two specific users
• The ability to filter autogenerated private messages out of the views
• Search for private messages that contain a specific text string
• Delete private messages

(I don't know whether this is still available, but there are entries on the "Discussion/Support" tab from late December 2012)

[Pitchguest]

Why is Ophelia so hell bent on insisting that READING HER BLOG amounts to stalking and harassment?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-471159

I COULD NOT IMAGINE ... that I would end up with not one but twenty, thirty, maybe more people goggling at my every online move EVERY MINUTE THAT I AM ONLINE. I thought Wally was weird and bizarre and off. His obsession was a dead giveaway, and it was why I spotted him when he returned. Now…obsession is just that weird thing that a bunch of people do.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/46 ... adslam.gif

[16bitheretic]

http://www.alstefanelli.com/threedicks.jpg

Laßt uns niemals der Pflicht [spittle] vergessen, welche wir auf uns genommen haben [more spittle].

삼키는 우리의 의무입니다
침을 뱉다 결코
(still not as meme-worthy as the pic of Michelle Bachmann eating the foot long)


And did someone mention sending A+ forum members to host a panel at a con? LOL, a whole hour of 'FUCK YOU DON'T TONE POLICE ME YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!" and "I don't have enough spoons to answer questions from the audience, quit JAQing off you fuckers, this is my safe space, now go die"

Sounds like a real crowd pleaser.

[Mr Danksworth]

Why is Ophelia so hell bent on insisting that READING HER BLOG amounts to stalking and harassment?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-471159

I COULD NOT IMAGINE ... that I would end up with not one but twenty, thirty, maybe more people goggling at my every online move EVERY MINUTE THAT I AM ONLINE. I thought Wally was weird and bizarre and off. His obsession was a dead giveaway, and it was why I spotted him when he returned. Now…obsession is just that weird thing that a bunch of people do.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/46 ... adslam.gif

\\

Come on now. You know that one is not allowed to read blogs unless one is 100% in agreement with the author. By Ophelia's metric, anytime they visit a creationist blog, they are guilty of stalking. The retardation is getting to be too much.

[16bitheretic]

Maybe she's just surprised 30 people read her blog. Isn't that like, one reader for every 2 words she actually posts per blog entry?

[AbsurdWalls]

Maybe she's just surprised 30 people read her blog. Isn't that like, one reader for every 2 words she actually posts per blog entry?

All the people on her shitlist seeing what she's saying about them today?

[AbsurdWalls]

Maybe she's just surprised 30 people read her blog. Isn't that like, one reader for every 2 words she actually posts per blog entry?

All the people on her shitlist seeing what she's saying about them today?

[masakari2012]

Now I remember why I unsubbed from tooltime9901 years ago.
[youtube]wvjlwmJ4pUc[/youtube]

[AbsurdWalls]

Now I remember why I unsubbed from tooltime9901 years ago.
[youtube]wvjlwmJ4pUc[/youtube]

Ponytail, beard, glasses...

"THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!"

[cunt]

By the way, guess who posted this:

Yes — I am not opposed to One Billion Rising, and I can appreciate that some will find value in it. I just said that I’m cold to it — it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

But I am not about to start dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in. We’ve got bigger problems with people like Radford belittling others for participating in a particular cause at all.

So is Peezus saying that if there weren't "bigger problems" like his childish snit with Radford, he'd be all for dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in?

Hey, it personally didn't appeal to him. It had nothing to do with him having to go out, get into his car and travel into the city to stand outside for a bit. Hotel conferences and e-petitions though are just easier ideas to warm to, for some reason.

[Submariner]

Now I remember why I unsubbed from tooltime9901 years ago.
[youtube]wvjlwmJ4pUc[/youtube]

Is that Zinnia Jones' brother?
Watch his mouth movements.

[Al Stefanelli]

http://www.alstefanelli.com/mykeru9.jpg

[Pitchguest]

Damn it, Al, it's 3 AM!

:lol:

[cunt]

There's people in this world that can get to the end of that video. You might walk past one of them on the street, and continue with your day blissfully unaware. You might accidentally make eye contact with one of them on a long train journey only to hastily shuffle, avert, and resume reading your newspaper. Look out the window. There's probably one of them behind you, right now.

[free thoughtpolice]

Now I remember why I unsubbed from tooltime9901 years ago.
[youtube]wvjlwmJ4pUc[/youtube]

Ponytail, beard, glasses...

"THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!"

And he certainly is a tool.

[mordacious1]

This is a very confused article on Mona Eltahawy:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/1 ... New%20York

The author confuses her stance on how women in the Middle East are treated with her getting arrested for painting over a poster (and a person) supporting Israel (not to get people on Israel again, but it has to be one of the most pro-women countries in the M.E.). The author and the comments don't seem to understand why vandalizing a poster would upset people. Certainly the poster is in bad taste, calling Muslims savages, but it is free speech and vandalizing the poster was illegal. But that's okay if you agree with the vandal's p.o.v. Where have I seen this before?

[free thoughtpolice]

[quote="Pitchguest"]Why is Ophelia so hell bent on insisting that READING HER BLOG amounts to stalking and harassment?

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... ent-471159

[quote]

It could be that she believes there aren't any real good reasons to read her misanthropic rants unless you are kind of like her, and if so wouldn't you be at least a bit creepy/stalky?

[Submariner]

From the selective service website on why women are not required to register:

Upon direct appeal, in the case of Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981), the Supreme Court reversed the District Court decision and upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, ruling that there was no violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court based its decision largely on DOD’s policy that excluded women from combat. The Court reasoned that since the purpose of registration was to create a pool of potential inductees for combat, males and females could be treated differently.

http://www.sss.gov/wmbkgr.htm

DOD lifts ban on females in combat roles:

This week, the Department of Defense honored those sacrifices by making a decision that will advance gender equality in the U.S. armed forces: Women will no longer be barred from serving front-line combat roles.

http://www.ibtimes.com/women-combat-now ... ng-1040702

My question: How long before some attorney's son takes a case to court because he has to register for the draft and his female neighbor doesn't?

Might he win?

What would the feminist reaction be?

[bhoytony]

Is that Zinnia Jones' brother?
Watch his mouth movements.

Or sister?

[Submariner]

Is that Zinnia Jones' brother?
Watch his mouth movements.

Or sister?

To be honest my first draft of that question was :

" Is that Zinnia Jones in reverse drag?"

but I thought better of it.

:doh:

[bhoytony]

Ladies and gentlemen (ha ha, just kidding - no ladies and gentlemen here, just sister punishers and misogynists)

I give you ... Amanda Marcotte

Ah yeah, I remember a troll pitching a fit because I wrote a piece that, for brevity’s sake, rolled up attempted and completed rapes into the general category of men raping women. Apparently, there is no greater injustice than labeling a man a rapist because tried to rape someone but failed because his victim successfully fought off penetration, though obviously not violation. I’m unclear what the issue was. Perhaps the fear was that the exclusive club of rapists would be dirtied by having to admit men who aren’t successful at subduing their victims.

Just kidding! I know that what’s going on is that the knee-jerk desire to minimize any violence against women turns misogynists into blithering idiots, arguing about the numbers of angels dancing on a head of a pin while women continue to be violated in a myriad of ways every minute of the day, all of them terrifying and painful for the victims.

It sounds like Marcotte thinks that the only men who didn't rape anybody just aren't very good at it.

[AndrewV69]

About the "Bitches aint shit" business, since it came up earlier I was wondering if another person can have a stab at it?

I first encountered this phrase at the baboon board, and the last time was just before I was banned for the second time.

I did try to ask what the phrase meant, but I was blown off with a snarky answer as I recall (tip to the baboons ... not everyone in the world lives in America, and/or speaks American English, understands American Culture, and by golly, lots of people do not even speak English as their primary language, much less the quaint version that y'all have going on there).

So I resorted to the Urban Dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... %27%20shit

And I think I get it. But I am also wondering if anyone believes that there may be some sort of acculturation unique to the baboons in their usage of it?

If so, can you share?

[bhoytony]

To be honest my first draft of that question was :

" Is that Zinnia Jones in reverse drag?"

but I thought better of it.

:doh:

Well, I did actually think about whether to post it and realised that everybody thinks I'm an arsehole anyway, so why not. Plus I can't fucking stand Zinnia Jones although xe, xit or whatever I'm supposed to write seems to have a lot of fans for no apparent reason that I can see.

P.S.I agree that I am an arsehole.

[cunt]

Similar reason to Aron Ra from up-thread. Speaking quickly and not stumbling over your words is now the gold standard of intelligence.

[ERV]

By the way, guess who posted this:

Yes — I am not opposed to One Billion Rising, and I can appreciate that some will find value in it. I just said that I’m cold to it — it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

But I am not about to start dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in. We’ve got bigger problems with people like Radford belittling others for participating in a particular cause at all.

So is Peezus saying that if there weren't "bigger problems" like his childish snit with Radford, he'd be all for dictating what kind of activism people choose to participate in?

Well, Im sure Peezus would never belittle anyone elses activism. Like when people get together to pray for rain, or someones health. Or when atheists work with theists for volunteer work. Or when people raise money for breast cancer awareness. Only slugs like Radford sink to those levels.

On this issue, I thank the police officers, detectives, sheriffs, lawyers, and judges who helped me with my stalker (only the lawyer was a female, btw). There was no disruptive dancing or PZ Myers involved.

[AndrewV69]

http://www.alstefanelli.com/threedicks.jpg

Ok Al. OK. Fine. You win.

I was not, not going to give you the satisfaction by asking what the above means. But I give up. I am stumped. I do not really understand American.

Can you tell me what this means?

[bhoytony]

Ok Al. OK. Fine. You win.

I was not, not going to give you the satisfaction by asking what the above means. But I give up. I am stumped. I do not really understand American.

Can you tell me what this means?

I don't understand American either, but I do understand porn.

[cunt]

http://www.alstefanelli.com/threedicks.jpg

Ok Al. OK. Fine. You win.

I was not, not going to give you the satisfaction by asking what the above means. But I give up. I am stumped. I do not really understand American.

Can you tell me what this means?

It means that americans have no respect whatsoever for women in politics.

[katamari Damassi]

Meanwhile, over at Chris Clarke's 'I Pledge to be Uncivil' post, more than a few commentators are getting quite hissy over the fact that Finke appears to have closed comments, and they can't get a response in.

Blimey - you'd think Daniel was being uncivil, or something. :lol:

I'm giving Clarke a pass on his present assholish behavior, he's not in his right mind at the moment. After all how could he be? His dog died 6 years ago.

[Pitchguest]

Ok Al. OK. Fine. You win.

I was not, not going to give you the satisfaction by asking what the above means. But I give up. I am stumped. I do not really understand American.

Can you tell me what this means?

I don't understand American either, but I do understand porn.

Does the phrase "one in each hand" give you a clue?

How about "one in each hole"? Not the porny type, I guess.

[CommanderTuvok]

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[bhoytony]

Ok Al. OK. Fine. You win.

I was not, not going to give you the satisfaction by asking what the above means. But I give up. I am stumped. I do not really understand American.

Can you tell me what this means?

I don't understand American either, but I do understand porn.

Does the phrase "one in each hand" give you a clue?

How about "one in each hole"? Not the porny type, I guess.

I was tempted to post a picture with visible dicks to explain it, but thought better of it.

[mordacious1]

This Canadian male co-anchor gets the Palin reference, so it's not just Americans:

[Lsuoma]

http://www.alstefanelli.com/threedicks.jpg

Ok Al. OK. Fine. You win.

I was not, not going to give you the satisfaction by asking what the above means. But I give up. I am stumped. I do not really understand American.

Can you tell me what this means?

It means that americans have no respect whatsoever for women anyone in politics.

FTFY.

[16bitheretic]

Wait, what is this? People from FTB-land mad because they can't comment on someone's blog or their comments are in moderation while the blog owner decides if they are gonna memory hole what they say? But what about FREEZE PEACH!?

No seriously, to the FTB people and commenters who read Slymepit and who are mad because they can't defend themselves from being criticized in a place that's not their own rhetorical echo-chamber and where they don't dictate who gets silenced, I thought you people liked this sort of thing. You know, when you ridiculed all those people banned for stupid reasons on Pharyngula, Butterflies and Wheels, Skepchick and the A+ forums with your braindead chants of "FREEZE PEACH!" Is this not the sort of online discussion style you people promote? Why are you so annoyed now?