Sad to say, this video about prospects for the presidential election is just too true.
Apr 24 2012
Episode CCCXX: Make ‘em sweat
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, purveyor of candy and lies
25 April 2012 at 7:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
With a name like “Philis”, I assumed woman, too.
But, there’s nothing really going on the fb page– I have to wonder if male is simply the default setting.
The Sailor
25 April 2012 at 7:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Even after the santorum has leaked out, I don’t think there is room.
Caine, Fleur du mal
25 April 2012 at 7:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Beatrice:
Auuughghghgh. I was running under the assumption that Phil was male, given the blind privilege attitude and the umbrage over ‘cupcake’.
Caine, Fleur du mal
25 April 2012 at 7:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hmmm, the profile is all female though, however, ‘sissy boy’ is listed under “other”?
Beatrice, anormalement indécente
25 April 2012 at 7:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m not sure about the gender, really. The picture on fb is of a female looking doll, but as Audley says, who knows.
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
25 April 2012 at 7:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Allo allo
Hopelessly thread bankrupt.
Fighting back a wave of rage and bile.
Firstly, it seems that the name of my employer wound up on a list sponsored by ELF or PETA-types.
So: extra security, mandatory briefings, etc etc.
Fuckers.
Secondly, I went to work this morning and there were people standing outside waving signs and screaming about “Life.”
FUCKERS.
On the plus side, it was raining sideways.
Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, purveyor of candy and lies
25 April 2012 at 7:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Caine,
There’s no telling with Phil. Their fb page says “male”, but there’s nothing else to go on, really.
It’s a crap shoot.
Beatrice, anormalement indécente
25 April 2012 at 7:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Refresh before posting. Damn.
Cassandra Caligaria (Cipher), OM
25 April 2012 at 7:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Fuuuuuck.
I’m sorry. :(
Ichthyic
25 April 2012 at 7:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Heyo, was just over on the “clit thread” and was wondering if there is general interest in this thread in discussing anatomy and sexual positions and “g-spot” stimulation?
Is that too over the top for the regulars here?
I’ve got a meeting I need to get to, but would happily jump in with personal experiences when I get back.
I figured I’d just toss this out there in case there was interest. Uh, call it a “warm up” post…
:)
Caine, Fleur du mal
25 April 2012 at 7:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ah, little Phil posted previously, on a fine point of creationism.
carlie
25 April 2012 at 7:35 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Since Bill brought it back up, re-reading it made me thing of another angle re: masturbation and jealous partners – it’s a horrible, somewhat abusive type of control, if you carry that to the logical conclusion. What that “jealous” person is saying is “You don’t get to have an orgasm unless you have it with me, which means you have it on my timetable, not yours”. And they’re hiding that control under the guise of “It hurts my feeeeeelings when you get off without me”. It’s a really sleazy and awful and controlling thing to do to a person.
Caine, Fleur du mal
25 April 2012 at 7:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Carlie:
It’s all about control, alright. Manipulative control, most often driven by fear. A lot of people see a partner masturbating as a move away from them or a move toward independence.
A. R
25 April 2012 at 7:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Esteleth: Not fun. Hope your crazy people problem goes away soon. (BTW, if you can say without revealing anything you don’t want to, what work does your employer do?)
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
25 April 2012 at 7:48 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ah, A.R., that is the cherry on the shit sundae.
I work for a major-city hospital. It does hospital-stuff.
A. R
25 April 2012 at 8:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Esteleth: The fuckers are mobbing a hospital? That’s a new strategy to me. And to think that I was whining last night about one of my -20s taking a shit. Sympathies and tea ready to go through the USB.
carlie
25 April 2012 at 8:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Why do I write questions that I then hate grading? Why haven’t I learned not to do this by now?
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
25 April 2012 at 8:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, if you like poetic justice, A.R., think on this:
1) Raining sideways
and
2) There are consequences to blocking the ambulance driveway to an ER.
carlie
25 April 2012 at 8:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Eesteleth – surely they couldn’t have gotten a permit to protest near the ambulance entrance? Trespassing fines seem to be called for.
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
25 April 2012 at 8:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They didn’t have a permit! They just decided to. Oh, and block the ambulance entrance.
Security had fun with them.
A. R
25 April 2012 at 8:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Esteleth: I do enjoy poetic justice.
carlie
25 April 2012 at 8:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I hope everyone watching the scene also enjoyed it. :)
If I had a dollar for every time a student restated the question rather than answering it, I could buy a lot of stuff. Why do people do this? Why are people not taught how to read for comprehension? This happens every semester, with a huge percentage of students.
John Morales
25 April 2012 at 8:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
[meta]
Schadenfreude, eh?
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
25 April 2012 at 8:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Damn straight!
Alethea H. Claw
25 April 2012 at 8:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Birgerjohanssen:
You would hope so, and I think it does, but not to the extent that you might wish. You do get a lot of stupid and uneducated people conflating it with WW2, or more modern conflicts, and saying stupid shit about “defending FREEDOM!!!”
Nutmeg
25 April 2012 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Does anyone know if StarStuff is okay? It occurred to me that I haven’t seen her around for a little while. I hope she’s just busy with exams.
John Morales
25 April 2012 at 9:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Esteleth, hm.
Literary usage and philosophical analysis:
(Hey, just shooting the shit!)
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
25 April 2012 at 9:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m just going to point out the irony of quoting the Bible in response to a discussion of anti-choicers discovering that the rules, in fact, are not written by them.
Part-Time Insomniac, Zombie Porcupine Nox Arcana Fan
25 April 2012 at 9:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Jumping around:
Wow, Runescape really cherried out their town layouts and decorations since I left. And they offer emotes you can buy with loyalty points. Just saw all this in a vid on YT. I’m afraid nothing they can do would make me leave DDO, though.
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Did someone say curry? Where?
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Pteryxx: I’m shocked that you got booted for not guzzling the booze. Sheeit, that’s just piss-poor behavior on their part. And then threats of being fired? I think it’s time to look for another job in a place where not getting pumped to the gills doesn’t count as grounds for firing.
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Men who can’t stand the thought of women masturbating: Neh. NEH, I say. Stick a power drill in your ass and turn it on full power.
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Audley: Who in their right mind dares mix Bud Light – which tastes like naught but carbonated piss to me – with tequila? TEQUILA, everyone! My heart weeps at the thought of so much wasted and ruined liquor.
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Robert Pattinson has just won a few respect points from me. Turns out he loathes the circus that is the Twilight franchise and all the batshit fans it’s attracted. Who knew just one bid to make good on acting before quitting would lead to this? I want to hug, him, buy him a drink of his choice, and try to take his mind off the warped reality of his life for a while.
John Morales
25 April 2012 at 9:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
PS BTW, I know real people who are not stupid and who subscribe to the superstition of ‘jinxing’. Seriously.
A. R
25 April 2012 at 9:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Tequila: I’ll take whisky thank you. Not a tequila fan.
Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, purveyor of candy and lies
25 April 2012 at 9:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
PTI:
I know, right?
I would also say it’s a travesty to do that to beer, but let’s face it: Bud Light Lime is about as far away from beer as you can get while still containing alcohol.
Nutmeg:
I don’t know, but it doesn’t look like she’s updated her blog in a while, either. :-/
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
25 April 2012 at 9:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Tequila is bad news.
I went to a bar the other day and asked for something fruity with vodka. I got something blue that tasted like pineapple. It was amazing. It was called something Hawai’ian. I have no fucking clue what it was, and I want to know so that I can order another one!
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
25 April 2012 at 9:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
He’s also allergic to vagina
A. R
25 April 2012 at 9:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m very tempted to go on a wall of text rant about prom formalwear right now. I’ve always thought that if you’re going to wear an Edwardian outfit, you may as well at least try to do it right. OK, I’ll stop. /sartorial pedancy
SallyStrange: bottom-feeding, work-shy peasant
25 April 2012 at 9:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s pedantry.
/grammatical pedantry
evader
25 April 2012 at 10:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sorry to say but the accent on the female presenter makes me want to hurt myself.
Anyone else get nausea from the TV/ presenter’s accent? As in actual physical illness? Or am I alone.
I thought the Seinfeld episode where they mention a man fainting from hearing Mary Heart’s voice was over the top, but now I feel the same thing from this ghoul (she looks ghoulish, unhealthy, not human).
A. R
25 April 2012 at 10:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sally: OOOH! Nice one. It’s almost Inception-like! :)
Not sure why I didn’t catch that.
SallyStrange: bottom-feeding, work-shy peasant
25 April 2012 at 10:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Cue someone informing me that it wasn’t grammar, per se, that I was being pedantic about, but rather simply spelling.
Ichthyic
25 April 2012 at 10:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
protesters blocking ambulance bay…
I do believe that’s actually a jailable offense in many states?
It reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a grad student:
I had a set of behavioral aquariums set up at the Cal Academy of Sciences in SF, and would have to travel from Berkeley to SF 3 times a week to collect data and make adjustments.
One day, a large group of animal rights protesters (evidently there was an annual march on Berkeley that had started a few years before I got there), decided to block the entry/exit to the parking garage for the lifesciences building. I was stuck there for 3 hours, waiting for their “demonstration” to move on, and it screwed up an entire experiment I had been working on for a month.
The next year, when I saw these guys parading around Berkeley, I told them I knew where they did all the “secret” animal experiments, and directed them to the old lifesci building (now completely guted; but with a fence around it), and they marched around an empty fucking building for 5 hours.
Many Hi-Fives did I receive in the zoo dept. that day.
Nutmeg
25 April 2012 at 10:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ichthyic:
For that story, you are entitled to the baking of your choice from Nutmeg’s Virtual Kitchen(TM). Today’s selections include peanut butter brownies, lemon coconut slice, and animal rights activist gingerbread people.
Ichthyic
25 April 2012 at 10:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’ll take a brownie, and can you pop one of the gingerbread people into a blender for me?
:)
ibyea
25 April 2012 at 10:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I like Extra Credits new episode of harassment in videogaming community: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/harassment
Because that kind of crap really has to stop.
ibyea
25 April 2012 at 10:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Icthyic
That was a brilliant plan! ^_^
Ragutis
25 April 2012 at 11:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“Like” this video. (If you like it) IMO she deserves props for being so honest and/in public.
And now for something completely different…
The Laughing Coyote (Canis Sativa)
26 April 2012 at 12:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Um, of course he’s gonna hate twilight. It has vampires in it. Clearly it promotes demon worship, vampirism, and leads us astray from teh one true path of christ.
I don’t get it, is hating twilight supposed to redeem the man?
The Laughing Coyote (Canis Sativa)
26 April 2012 at 12:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh, fuck. Derped on my last comment, for some reason I thought Robert Pattinson was one of those stupid TV preacher-men.
Disregard that.
The Laughing Coyote (Canis Sativa)
26 April 2012 at 12:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Pat Robertson is the name I was thinking.
Bill Dauphin, avec fromage
26 April 2012 at 12:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ichthyic:
Missed this first time through:
Funny you should mention that. Seems like mostly handwaving, though.
Bill Dauphin, avec fromage
26 April 2012 at 12:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, derp! I should’a known (and would’a, if I’d been clever enough to read the other thread before posting) that the thread in question was all about the very same story (albeit a different article about it) that I linked! <Litella>Never mind!</Litella>
SallyStrange: bottom-feeding, work-shy peasant
26 April 2012 at 12:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Robert Pattinson: not a Nazi! Condemns kicking puppies!
Ichthyic
26 April 2012 at 1:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Seems like mostly handwaving
yup.
I never thought “g-spot” was anything magical or even “separate”. My partners have always told me they have specific sensitive spots, and how to stimulate them, and most have a sensitive spot on the roof of the vagina, maybe a couple inches back from the entrance.
I’ve learned it’s quite possible to perform intercourse in easy to manage positions that will stimulate that spot.
*shrug*
Is that too baudy of a discussion topic for Pharyngula? Maybe I’ve lived here in Hobbiton too long already.
The Laughing Coyote (Canis Sativa)
26 April 2012 at 1:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sally: I heard Robert Pattinson once walked past an old lady and didn’t punch her in the face.
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 1:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ichthyic:
Oh, please. I simply don’t think there’s all that much to discuss and there’s already a thread for it. Exactly what is it you’re after?
chigau (Twoic)
26 April 2012 at 1:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Markita Lynda
but They™ sure will gather into Cultural Centres.
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
26 April 2012 at 2:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Good morning
re: partner masturbation
Since I can sadly speak from experience, it was not so much jealousy but a feeling of inadequacy.
TMI to follow
Combine the idiot notion that once people have a partner they should get their sexual satisfaction from them, the fact that the pill reduced my sex drive to almost zero (I was constantly wondering what people found about sex. To me it was like an old James Bond movie: sure, it’s nice, but nothing to miss bedtime for) and not knowing that I really need some lube for my clit so it made stimulation there uncomfortable.
So him masturbating was to me another piece of evidence that there was something wrong with me, that I was not good enough, that a real good woman satisfies her man perfectly and so on.
In short, I’m glad I’m over that.
theophontes 777
26 April 2012 at 2:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Phil Bryant: Liberals’ ‘One Mission in Life is to Abort Children’ (Link)
It never stops. What is wrong with these people? And as the elections approach, I imagine things will become more and more reactionary.
Just for the record: I know this is only hypothetical but, if circumstances had called for it, I would happily accept that my mother aborted me. I say this as a pretty damn happy, well adjusted person. I care for my life, but don’t hold it in such high regard that I think I am somehow special and worth the causing of suffering of others (had that been the case). Existence, non-existence… meh. No regrets either way.
The Laughing Coyote (Canis Sativa)
26 April 2012 at 2:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
bah, Sasquatch stout was such a disappointment. Weak head. Flat taste.
The waterloo stout and irish ale were vastly superior.
jonmilne
26 April 2012 at 3:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Cross posted from the thread about the documentary where that Don guy got interviewed by Colbert.
Hi, my name is Jon. I’ve been an atheist for a number of years, and reading Pharyngula, as well as Greta, The Atheist Experience (and watching it too) were stuff that helped influence me from being a Christian. I live in the UK, which means I’m more free of religious insanity than US folk, although we’ve still had our fair share, especially with all the whining that happened after the current Archbishop of Canterbury decided to quit.
Anyhow, on a semi-related note, I love the website Expelled Exposed and how it ripped apart Ben Stein’s horrible doc Expelled. Going by memory alone, wasn’t this Don guy also subject to criticism from Expelled Exposed? Also, did anyone ever get around to doing a debunking of this article? http://atheismisdead.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/expelled-exposed-exposed.html If such an article of rebuttal exists, please link me to it, otherwise can someone please tackle this?
Keep up the good work!
Jon
theophontes 777
26 April 2012 at 3:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@ jonmilne
I could go on, but you see the problem already. They want to keep it spinning to hide the fact that there is no viable way to prove ID. Do they even have an ID hypothesis? They are trying to create contention where none exists.
No. Why feed it? Next we’ll be starting “contentious” debates with flat-earthers. It all becomes rather undignified.
carlie
26 April 2012 at 5:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
When I dream, it’s almost always a random mashup of all sorts of bizarre scenes, unrelated to each other and composed of people I’ve known at various times all mixed together and in places I may or may not have ever been, with really weird things going on. I’ve never had trouble believing that dreams are the way your brain processes everything it takes in during the day, because mine are generally just big dumps of info, like everything I saw all day got thrown into a box and taken out at random during an improv skit. Very often it’s stuff that’s happened that day or very recently, because I’m impressionable that way (which is why I refuse to watch most horror movies). So anyway, last night in the middle of my dream, my grandfather (who died 14 years ago) showed up, and he taught me a bunch of dances I didn’t know. The only time I’ve seen dancing lately (and my grandfather didn’t dance!) was in the discussion here the last few days. I couldn’t think of a good way to describe dancing and why it’s fun then, but in the dream, learning the steps was effortless (of course), so the joy was intellectual in mastering what was being taught, and social in showing that off by moving in sync and being able to keep up, and emotional in spending time with someone I loved and feeling proud that I could do what he was teaching and getting approval for doing it well. So I know it was a discussion that didn’t go well and had some argument, but thank you for bringing it up, because it let me dance with my grandpa.
carlie
26 April 2012 at 5:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, that’s another thing altogether, and I’m really sorry I didn’t think about that possibility before I went on my rant. That’s definitely an understandable explanation for feeling that way.
Louis
26 April 2012 at 5:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Threadrupt. But good morning to y’all any how.
I just read this from the Daily Mash (a UK satire site) and laughed and laughed and laughed…
…until I realised this satire is actually pretty goddamn real. Then for some reason I stopped laughing. Why, it’s almost like the Catholic attempts to institutionalise homophobia beyond their own doors is a bad thing…
Louis
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 6:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ugh, do I hate Wendell Berry. Anti-choice, anti-birth control, anti-women working outside the home, anti-childfreedom. A Luddite. His work is shot through with the implication that unless you’re living on “the land,” i.e. in Buttfuck East, your life is somehow “less than.” And, of course, he’s a fundie xtian.
Seriously, I’m tired of the privileged stupidity from prominent foodies. Michael Pollan, with his crap about how we need “moms” cooking, is even worse than Mark Bittman.
Will catch up with rest of thread later.
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
26 April 2012 at 7:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
AMG my hair is so soft and fluffy today!! :D
Just thought I’d share…
theophontes 777
26 April 2012 at 7:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
{theophontes reads linky to Wendell Berry, yawns. Reads linky’s linky to Wendell quotes:}
Wendell = vapid strawmanning
…
{reaches paw out through USB port, touches Kitty’s hair}
Kewl!
Catnip, Misogynist Troglodyte called Bruce
26 April 2012 at 7:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Also been threadrupt. Must be something in the ether Woooo!
TLC
You know, it does sound familiar. Hard to remember, except that I probably had one, two, many to remember properly.
(just found your next post at 58). Doesn’t sound the same. The one I had had a decent head on it. Might have been told about the sasquatch.
Like making love in a canoe?
Blocking ambulance access?
*headdesk*
Damn! that’s twice now I’ve done that with no desk in sight! Not nearly so satisfying.
Glad (if) they got their comeuppance.
@Ichthyic.
Nice one! With the derelict building. I like.
Giliell @ 56. Know what you mean. the pill does that. I was on the other end of a similar relationship.
Carlie;
This describes well the pleasure I get from dancing.
Brother Ogvorbis: Advanced Accolyte of Tpyos
26 April 2012 at 7:39 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
WOOHOOO!
Went on BP meds 2 weeks ago (141/105).
Went in this morning and got my BP checked (after having a diet soda with caffeine (D’oh!)) and I am at 110/82!
Woohoo!
And, oddly, in the last two weeks, I have lost 5 pounds.
echidna
26 April 2012 at 7:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Esteleth, I think the cocktail you are after is a Blue Hawaiian.
Blue Hawaiian cocktail recipe:
Ingredients
2 Parts Vodka
2 Parts Blue Curacao
1 Part Coconut Syrup
Pineapple Juice
1 Whole Maraschino Berry
Fill glass with ice, add first three ingredients, fill with pineapple juice, top with cherry.
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 7:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
jonmilne I believe that was written, at least in part if not in whole by Casey Luskin.
The rebuttal to that is this:
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
26 April 2012 at 7:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ah, I must mention a small triumph in my war on pink princesses.
We’re going to visit some friends on Sunday and I thought I’d whip up something for their little daughter.
I decided against anything pink and princessy, which is not a triumph as such, and went for a little bag with a cute lion.
The little one, who hasn’t been to kindergarten brainwashing yet wanted that lion too, so I took a blank shirt and made her one.
And when #1 saw that, she wanted one, too!
She actually asked for something that is not pink, glittery and princessy!
Yay, the rainbow is coming back!
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
26 April 2012 at 7:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And if you wanna see the lion, I put up a ton of picks on my crafts blog
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
26 April 2012 at 8:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Giliell:
You need to teach your #1 that purple is clearly a better color than pink :D
niftyatheist
26 April 2012 at 8:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Morning, Horde.
Pretty hair, Katherine! :)
I am only signing on to complain that I wish I had been born with a time machine, could have gone forward in time as a child and learned computer literacy and keyboarding – and then would have been satisfied to stumble back through my ordinary life with at least those skills!
Last night I lost a whole day’s work with one click.
Fuck fuck fuck
niftyatheist
26 April 2012 at 8:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
OMGs! Where did all those other posts come from! :O! Better go catch up.
niftyatheist
26 April 2012 at 8:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ogvorbis # Wow that is wonderful!! It is such a relief to get such excellent results on a BP med!
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls
26 April 2012 at 8:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You might be on a diuretic. I so, that is water weight.
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
26 April 2012 at 8:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Augh, bacon. Why do you smell so good? I won’t even eat you and now I’m hungry.
Bacon and popcorn should be banned from offices. That smell just goes around and it’s like “who’s got the bacon/popcorn? where is it? will they share?!”
niftyatheist
26 April 2012 at 8:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Giliell, I cannot see your pictures. The most recent post I can see after refreshing seems to be January 24 (and I wish I could read German! ;-) )
The Sailor
26 April 2012 at 9:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Conga rats Obvorbis!!!
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Giliell, I liked the little monsters, but clothes were awesomely cute;-)
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Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
26 April 2012 at 9:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Strange, I can see the post well, even with changing to IE
niftyatheist
26 April 2012 at 9:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh, now I can see them! (operator failure again, no doubt – seems to be a thing right now)
OH squeeeeeeeeee adorable little girls! Love the viking picture! And yes, that lion is really cute. I love the light cloudy mane! :D
The Sailor
26 April 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
From the Economist as a poll thread: The pyrophysiology and sexuality of dragons.
chigau (Twoic)
26 April 2012 at 9:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
mmmmm
bacon flavored popcorn
Janine: History’s Greatest Monster
26 April 2012 at 10:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Pat Robertson’s friend has just been convicted of crimes against humanity.
Remember, Charles Taylor’s ex-wife, Jewel, is the person who recently introduced a bill to Liberia’s Senate that would make being homosexual punishable by death.
If only the atheists and LGBT people would just try to be nice and reason with these people.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 10:21 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Audley, #437:
All I can think of is… candirú.
/shudders
Mattir, #438: Thanks for the advice and information. I appreciate the offer of booties, but since it’s almost May here I think I’m good. I’m disappointed that I will more likely get a cast than a boot, even if the cast is cheaper. I don’t look forward to trying to drive with it on.
Esteleth, #533:
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
Hi, Jon. Any relation to A.J. Milne?
Yay, Og!!
The Sailor, I note that the author of that article on dragons is at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in London.
Richard Austin
26 April 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
birgerjohansson:
My boss is on Zofran for morning sickness. Well, for her, it’s more like “it’s been four months and I’m still vomiting every 30 minutes” sickness. She apparently had the same problem with her first pregnancy, and she’s also 38 and therefore “high risk”, so they’re not taking chances. I’m not sure of the expense; I know it’s one of the drugs we give our chemotherapy patients, so I doubt it’s ultra-cheap.
Ogvorbis:
I’ll throw your kermit arms right back at you and YEEAAAHH!
My BP yesterday (went to the doc as I’ve been feeling dizzy lately) was 123/78, which I told the nurse before she put the cuff on me. I was also guessed within 0.1 lbs of my weight. When she then asked me my height and I said, “6’2, approximately” she laughed and said, “Believe me, I trust you.”
Richard Austin
26 April 2012 at 10:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Uhm, I know we’ve got some internationals here.
If you’re using an Arcadyan brand router for your network, you may want to read up on this(original in German).
/. summary since the translation’s not great:
Janine: History’s Greatest Monster
26 April 2012 at 10:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Post racist society, my fucking ass.
If only we would be nice and reason with these people, this would end.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Janine, why I am not surprised to read that it was Boston sports fans?
As I said before, Mississippi on the Charles.
Janine: History’s Greatest Monster
26 April 2012 at 10:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ms. Daisy Cutter, at least one of those tweets was using the Detroit Red Wings logo. Also, I doubt that the rest of those idiots were Boston Bruin fans; just fools who were upset that someone who they think should not be playing hockey happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 11:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Annoying title but a marginally interesting list.
Hot Atheists and Agnostics
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
26 April 2012 at 11:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They left out a lot though.
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 11:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I received a box of Benton’s bacon yesterday. Brought it in the house and the house smelled like the most awesomest smoked baconny baconess ever all yesterday.
And I do have a recipe for bacon popcorn….
Janine: History’s Greatest Monster
26 April 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Lance Armstrong. Ha! Proof that just being an atheist does not make one a better person.
And Jodie Foster. As much as I respect her, her public advocacy for Mel Gibson wipes away the public good she has done.
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 11:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I know, I’m not even on there.
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
26 April 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Good god this.
If his supporters really ‘love’ Mel they’d push him to get help for his obvious issues.
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 11:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I read this as “Push him into traffic”
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 11:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I get Mister Bacon Popcorn from Think Geek. He luvs the stuff.
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
26 April 2012 at 11:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That too. Interventions can be tough.
chigau (Twoic)
26 April 2012 at 11:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sometimes while quick skimming a thread, I misread several lines at the same time.
This reading caused me to see “intravenous bacon popcorn”.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 11:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Janine, odds are good they were Bruins fans.
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls
26 April 2012 at 11:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Talk about defeating the purpose of bacon popcorn.
chigau (Twoic)
26 April 2012 at 11:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
No kidding!
Janine: History’s Greatest Monster
26 April 2012 at 11:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ms. Daisy Cutter, I have no doubt that most of those assholes are Bruin fans. But this is also the perfect occasion for racist hockey fans to join in the hatred pile up. Never mind that that black and mixed raced players have been part of hockey for decades now. (Hello, Grant Fuhr. Part of arguably the best team in NHL history.) (And as a fan of the Chicago Blackhawks, I wish that Dustin Byfuglien was still on the team.)
AJ Milne
26 April 2012 at 12:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
In a list of celebrity unbelievers, I guess there will always be a few inducing cringes. And you probably can hear this coming, but anyway:
Garofalo. What can ya do. What little I heard from her prior to the whole ‘de-toxification’ silliness, I actually quite liked. But man, I really can’t let this thing pass without mentioning it.
So I guess the day she stands up and says, ‘Okay, I get that the whole thing was complete fucking quackery, and worked out as promotional/recruiting stunt for some of the sleaziest people on the planet’, I might take her off my shit list.
(/But hey… They showed the press towels with purple stains. Can’t get more sciency than that, I guess.)
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 12:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Janine:
True enough.
jonmilne
26 April 2012 at 12:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
theophontes777:
Oh, I’m all too aware they can’t prove ID. I ought to have been clearer, I was referring more to the “persecution” stories and the seeming “links to Hitler” than to any supposed “evidence” that can prove ID.
Again, this is logic that I agree with, but I guess one of the things I’ve always been big about as an atheist when debating with theists is that I address all their points, no matter how dumb or retarded they are. Short rebuttals can be effective too, but are more prone to tedious “OMG you claim to be approaching the debate honestly and yet you’re not addressing the entirety of what I say” whining, so despite the length it takes, I generally engage in longer rebuttals more often than shorter ones.
It also comes from personal experience I guess. As a former Christian (who was on the verge of looking to take on higher duties in my Church before I decided to do my research and do justice to my faith so that I could in theory defend it if my research had yielded an overall positive incentive to remain being religious – it didn’t) I found ultimately that longer, more detailed rebuttals hit home and actually registered to me far better than shorter rebuttals, but that could just be me.
Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, purveyor of candy and lies
26 April 2012 at 12:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Daisy:
Aaaaarrghflarglwarble!
*collapses into fetal position, while quietly crying and rocking side-to-side*
jonmilne
26 April 2012 at 12:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh, and Rev. BigDumbChimp, I’m unfamiliar with who exactly Casey Luskin is. While I’m all too willing to search FTB as well as Google that person, could you perhaps start me off with some basics, like what sort of stupidity they’ve come out with and any appearances by them personally on Pharyngula/elsewhere?
consciousness razor
26 April 2012 at 12:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The theology of tone-trolling:
Bless their hearts,* they think this is the solution!
Hmmm, it does sort of explain why our existence is so offensive to some religionists: we’re maligning and marginalizing them by not putting on our Jesus-goggles. I’m not quite sure how we’re supposed to get into their god’s head when he’s inside theirs, but it’s worth a shot, right?
*Translation: Fuck them.
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Audley:
No, no, it’s okay. You don’t have a penis.
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
26 April 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Don’t you love it when, after three solid weeks of cold rain, the weather forcast promises that the rains stops everywhere and temperatures rise except followed by where you live?
So, apparently we’ll have to wait for the last rainfront to stop until the next one arrives…
Katherine
I’m actually trying to teach her that all colors are beautiful colours and that no colour, outfit or toy she chooses can threaten her girlhood.
Doesn’t mean she has to be a girl, but to see how her world gets so narrowed down because of the things “girls do and like” is horrible.
Purple is nice but it’s also kind of “pink light”. Purple and lilac are what the girls nowadays wear when they feel daring and are experimenting.
It was so disheartening to see this change occur once she started kindergarten and she definetly becomes “more girly” when she goes to kindergarten, but she seems to re-discover other colours and activities.
slignot
26 April 2012 at 1:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Giliell, I know just what you mean about purple being merely pink-lite.
Although it’s funny to think back on my reaction to “girls do/like this” since it was “well, fuck being a girl then, I’ll play with bugs and never ever wear pink, lace or dresses.” In my case, it was closer to some internalized sexism that condemned “girly” things, though.
A neighbor friend found out she’s having a boy and rather than give her pale blues or sports shit, I picked a super cute material that’s full of brightly colored lizards that any kid would like to make a blanket. (Hell, I like the fabric now.)
cicely. Just cicely.
26 April 2012 at 1:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
*hug* for Esteleth.
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And here’s another one: *high five*
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Hi, jonmilne; welcome in!
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*high five*
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Giliell, kyoot lion is, indeed, kyoot.
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‘Cause it totally is!
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Afternoon, nifty. Sorry about your errant day’s work.
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:D
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I know that I don’t qualify as a “girl” any more, but nowadays I wear purple (which I wouldn’t do in my younger, “girl” days), and anyone who has a problem with the way it makes my skin look bright yellow can go fuck themselves. I like purple.
Nonono, not strong enough. I love purple. Purple is hands-down my favorite color; it draws my eye every time.
And one day, I gonna dye my hair purple, just wait and see if I don’t!
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Jules
26 April 2012 at 1:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I had a very vivid sex dream the other night that involved fingering Robert Pattinson’s asshole in a bathroom outside of a Twilight premiere. No, I’m not a fan of the series, nor do I find him particularly attractive.
I blame the discussion on Man Boobz and the subsequent linky (provided by Rutee) to the hi-larious blog dealing with the series. My own twisted subconscious is blameless, here.
Um. *glances at top of own post*
Too effing cute.
♥ Bacon popcorn is the only popcorn I make.
I hate the world.
In Adorable Toddler News™, we’ve started a new game called Do People Make… So far, people do not make trees, but they do make dogs and cats. In fact, over the last week or so, I’ve discovered that houses are self-creating, but farm animals are a human fabrication, and fish and bugs appear to be of Nature itself and free from the guiding force of humankind.
She definitely knows that people do not make plants, but she’s far more confused about animals.
She gets everything (except houses) that people actually do make correct.
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
26 April 2012 at 1:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Giliell:
Gasp! You take that back. Onion Girl will be maaaad!
Nutmeg
26 April 2012 at 1:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I love purple, and it looks good on me. When I was a kid/young teen, you couldn’t wear purple without getting a bunch of homophobic teasing. I don’t think I wore purple at all between 8-15.
Now I wear it at every opportunity. I’m wearing purple right now, in fact.
Now I’ve written “purple” too many times in one post, and I’m distracted by what a weird word it is.
Back to work!
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
26 April 2012 at 1:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
slignot
Loooooove that fabric.
And yeah, it’s amazing how everybody seems to think that a pink/blue onesie is a totally original gift.
cicely
Actually, purple is one of my favourite colours, too.
I even like bright raspberry pink.
I just hate the colour coding.
Fuck them, all colours are for all kids. And adults.
Some colours hardly seem to exist anymore since they are not clearly boy or girl. Bright green (dark green is for boys, they’re not allowed to wear bright colours) or yellow seem to vanish.
Geez, it’s only been parenting girls for four years now and I’m already tired to all that swimming upstream.
opposablethumbs
26 April 2012 at 1:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yay for your bp, Bro Og – nice one, mate!
Sandiseattle
26 April 2012 at 1:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Okay, gotta make a book reccomend here.
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
and
Spook- same author.
Seriously, she’s my new fave nonfiction writer.
chigau (Twoic)
26 April 2012 at 1:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
re purple
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/warning/
Just_A_Lurker
26 April 2012 at 1:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
consciousness razor
I hate tone trolling. To me it either scream fucking privledge because they can afford to be nice or it benfits them, or they’ve been brain washed into believing this be invisible and quiet will get you rewarded with rights for being a good little athiest/woman etc etc.
Gah.
They don’t want you to exist or raise your voice to fight so why are you doing that? Why are putting down people trying to fight back? Bleh.
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slignot
Ditto for the internalize sexism about condemned girly things. It makes raising my daughter all the more difficult to find a balance.
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He’s also a brony. But I don’t think he’s that great, and he’s one of the reasons I didn’t watch the move “Water for Elephants”. The main reason is I don’t watch movies from books, I prefer the books hands down. If he wasn’t in it, I might have given it a shot. I just hate Twilight so much, especially being in the age range of women that went crazy for it. Down right annoying. It may not be fair to him but the bias against him is there for me. I’ve known that about him for awhile and it’s conflicting for me due to “love and tolerate”.
I love saying “I’m going to love and tolerate the shit out of you”. XD
ibyea
26 April 2012 at 2:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Just a lurker
The phrase “Tolerating the shit out of you” sounds like an oxymoron, if you ask me. At least it sounds funny. ^_^
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 2:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Caine:
They can swim up your vag, too.
Pleasant dreams!
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 2:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
oh boy.
Casey Luskin is the designated attack mouse of the ID “movement”, if you can call it that. He’s a lawyer and worked for the Srcipts Institute at one point, who has an incredibly inflated sense of “knowing what the fuck he’s talking about”. Translation, he’s a boob who shills for the Disco Tute and provides near constant evidence that his grasp of scientific concepts is 100% polluted by his religion.
That and he’s a prolific liar and distorter of truth.
But mainly he’s just a slimy little fuck.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 2:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Jules, congrats, I can usually contain laughter while at work but you made me sporfle. Did his asshole sparkle, btw?
Markita Lynda—damn climate change!
26 April 2012 at 2:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
More about savings from Obamacare: It will save Medicare $200,000,000,000 over the next four years and Medicare users $208,000,000,000 over the next eight years. If it’s allowed to continue, that is.
A.R., I think this might help in calculating how much less people & the government will have to pay if true universal healthcare were implemented in the U.S.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 2:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
/falls over again reading Markita Lynda’s mention of “doughnut hole”… because I’m 12 years old
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Didn’t think I’d hear about asshole fingering today.
+1
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 2:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Just realized there is a moment of misogyny in that link above.
Sorry.
Focus on how much a slimeball Casey is.
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 2:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Daisy:
Yes, I know, but they’re much easier to extract.
Markita Lynda—damn climate change!
26 April 2012 at 2:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Esteleth @506, you know the drill! Thank all the “Life” demonstrators for coming, tell them that you are giving the hospital’s abortion office $1 for each protester, and ask them to come back again soon and bring friends so you can do it again.
Brother Ogvorbis: Advanced Accolyte of Tpyos
26 April 2012 at 2:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh, that is when you are trying to learn a new song and suddenly you scream, “Asshole!”, because they have tossed in an E 7 minor with a suspended 9th and an augmented 12th.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 2:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’d still hurt like hell, though. Also, what’s the optimal extraction method? Google isn’t helping.
Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, purveyor of candy and lies
26 April 2012 at 2:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Caine:
*checks pants*
Okay, whew.
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 2:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Daisy:
From men? That’s nightmarish. From women, I don’t know. Usually, when it happens to a man (which is rare), for some reason, they don’t go in to a doctor right away, which allows it to lodge as high up as possible. Surgery is necessary.
Rev. BigDumbChimp
26 April 2012 at 2:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
massholes
Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, purveyor of candy and lies
26 April 2012 at 2:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Daisy:
Gah!
That’s it! I am completely done with you people!
*goes back to corner to sob quietly*
Markita Lynda—damn climate change!
26 April 2012 at 2:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You’re fine as long as you don’t pee into the water–they follow it upstream. By the way, candiru are a species of very small pirhana.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 2:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
David Sumrell of Springdale, Arkansas likes to write letters to local newspapers about uppity, disobedient Jezebels.
Commentary here.
Then there was this one from yesterday:
BTW, he’s got a profile on CBN.
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 2:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Audley, I wouldn’t worry about it:
Sili
26 April 2012 at 2:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
::considers cosplay::
Now. Where are my sparklies?
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 2:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Uh huh. I think this dude needs to read A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. The sheer amount of work done by Martha and other women is *staggering*.
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
26 April 2012 at 2:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Speaking of MLP, the Heirs of Breitshart are freaking out over “bronies.”
Markita Lynda—damn climate change!
26 April 2012 at 2:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Just a little warning for women in the childbearing age. The first time I got pregnant, my breasts were swollen and tender. The second time, they were already pre-stretched or something so I didn’t realize until I started to get morning sickness–so you can’t count on the breasticles to for an early warning more than once.
I wasn’t keeping track because I was using contraceptive foam. You know when the package insert says, “if avoiding pregnancy is really important see your doctor”? That means, “This method used by iteself is unreliable.” So that’s two warnings. Condoms plus foam are about as reliable as the Pill. (Condoms alone have a 15% per annum failure rate.)
This has been a public service announcement.
cicely. Just cicely.
26 April 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Weeellll…I read somewhere (Wikipedia?) that you push it further forward/inward, so as to disengage the spines, and then turn it around and bring it out.
I can’t help thinking that this probably won’t be much comfort to you, though.
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Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
26 April 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Jules:
A trigger warning may have been good there ya know…
kristinc, ~bitter and resigned~
26 April 2012 at 2:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Don’t forget turquoise! VERY DARING.
Markita Lynda—damn climate change!
26 April 2012 at 2:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Caine, thanks very much for the fact-check! I sit corrected.
Nutmeg
26 April 2012 at 2:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Reason #643 why I will never be brave enough to leave Canada and travel to somewhere tropical. At least here it’s pretty much just bears and Giardia to worry about.
Anyone else in the biology field have competitions over who’s had the best parasite? So far I’m “winning” among my group of friends with Giardia, but I rank far below the Ph.D. student who had a botfly larva in his back.
Caine, Fleur du mal
26 April 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Markita Lynda:
:D Years ago, I saw a documentary which included the one case of a candiru up a penis. If it really happened all that often, you’d expect more than one documented case.
Seems to me the takeaway lesson is: if you’re gonna pee while swimming in the Amazon, don’t be nekkid. ;p
consciousness razor
26 April 2012 at 2:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
*pedant mode activated*
Minor chords don’t have augmented 12ths. (E-G-C is C major in 1st inversion) Do you mean it has a minor 13th and a perfect 12th?
So is it like [E G B D F# C] or without the B, as in [E G C D F#]?
And are we talking guitar fingerings?
cicely. Just cicely.
26 April 2012 at 3:00 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Giardia
Eeeek!
*comtemplates whether it might not be better to have an infestation of bears, instead*
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Markita Lynda—damn climate change!
26 April 2012 at 3:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A.R. @483:
I suspect there were more Germans and Italians. There were enough Germans in Ontario that they had a city named “Berlin” (since changed to Kitchener) and the construction industry was overrun with Italians (thus the joke about the immigrant who thought he was learning English from his mates at work). I think it’s simple lack of visible, clear differences.
Markita Lynda—damn climate change!
26 April 2012 at 3:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I thought Cupcake’s ‘nym was “phili” for “Love of” as in “Philidelphia.” :-)
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
26 April 2012 at 3:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Rusty Venture “Oh that’s just a myth!”
Just_A_Lurker
26 April 2012 at 3:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
ibyea
Lol. That’s kind of the point. People who hate on bronies, major misogynists there (not to say bronies don’t have the problem as well), so bronies had to come up with something to say back. Love and Tolerate is a major saying/theme in the show and that’s where “I will love and tolerate the shit out of you” comes from. It’s a spit back in those people’s faces who talk shit about grown men liking “girly, sissy things”. Being accused as a pedophile or pervert is common for bronies.
=(
I’m hate people so much. Fuck people, I have ponies.
slignot
26 April 2012 at 3:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thankfully I grew up with parents who taught me about dangers of stuff like giardia and ticks, but it can be nasty. I’ve never had any scary woods encounters with bears, thankfully since sightings tend to get reported in postings for recreation areas around here.
I’m just bummed that with the impending layoff spouse and I had to cancel the early spring trip for now. I was excited after talking to Lynna.
Just_A_Lurker
26 April 2012 at 3:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
In honor:
The mods are asleep, post ponies.
Just some information on bronies, if you want it. Warning for memes..
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
26 April 2012 at 3:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The death penalty thread has given me a fun idea for a reading game. We give a list of quotes and have people guess “Serial Killer or Death Penalty Advocate”
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
26 April 2012 at 3:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well I was never going to do it anyway, but now I know I’d never vote for Mittens.
Well FUCK YOU Mister Romney. I get paid less than a person doing my same job for the private sector. I have a good pension, and good medical, yeah – but so do a lot of other private sector employees – some of whom get better than I do believe it or not. I’m square in the Middle Class and you want to gouge my wages even more?
Awesome! Totally gonna vote for you, NOT.
Asshole.
A. R
26 April 2012 at 3:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Candiru: IIRC, the normally lodge in the gills of fish. Suppose they could end up in the urethra or anus too.
Markita Lynda: Thanks for the stats. Will be implemented. I’ve not had much time to work with the spread sheet due to excessive real life work though.
birgerjohansson
26 April 2012 at 3:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
40.000 Norwegians oppose Breivik with song
At noon Thursday 40.000 Norwegians gathered at the Young square in central Oslo to sing the song the mass murderer Breivik* says he hates most of all songs – the norwegian version of Pete Seegers ”My rainbow race”.
I think this is the best response possible….the pathetic kook on trial has nothing to offer except hate. And the best revenge is to show how utterly irrelevant Breivik’s beliefs are.
(*Breivik made this statement last week, and the Norwegians promptly started preparing this song protest)
Esteleth, Who is Totally Not a Dog or Ferret
26 April 2012 at 3:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
So, the problem is that workers in the private sector are underpaid.
Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
26 April 2012 at 3:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I presume Romney will stop the unfairness by restoring all the jobs he killed when he was a corporate parasite?
A. R
26 April 2012 at 3:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Useful little game for use with those who say that the Qur’an is worse than the Babble. Most of you probably already know about it, but I thought I would share.
The Laughing Coyote (Canis Sativa)
26 April 2012 at 3:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A.R: The way I heard it, the candiru supposedly track their target fish by ammonia secretions from the gills, which urine apparently resembles enough for the fish to theoretically mistake the urethra for fish gills.
I’ll leave it up to people more knowledged than me to point out any holes in the story.
A. R
26 April 2012 at 3:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
TLC: That is how I understand it. I’m no Ichthyologist though.
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Just listened to a Republican fucking lie through his teeth. Couldn’t make out who as it was over the radio. Angry.
Giliell, not to be confused with The Borg
26 April 2012 at 3:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
True but you can reduce that mightily if you actually follow the instructions ;)
Good thing is that condom failure is often easy to spot so you can go for plan B.
I admit to one broken condom and 0 unwanted pregnancies in about 4 years of use, and be lieve me, we’re a fertile couple…
As for pregnancy-signs: Most of them are hindsight.
I swear I get half of them every other month and I didn’t get half of them during my second pregnancy.
Only halfway reliable one is lack of period.
PZ Myers
26 April 2012 at 3:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
NEW THREAD!
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