"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane." - Hermann Hesse
***
'Dismayed' by Thai, Malaysian problems - "In Thailand, they say corruption. So to stop the corruption, they have a coup. Then they have another election. But the election does not solve the problem of getting (former) prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's influence removed. So they have all kinds of new rules and laws to disqualify his party or the new party...So as a consequence, you look at the stock markets, it's gone down. The economy is sound, the politics is a problem."
Interference in other countries' internal affairs!
James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785 - "Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. Enquire of the teachers of Christianity for the ages in which it appeared in its greatest luster; those of every sect, point to the ages prior to its incorporation with civil policy. Propose a
restoration of this primitive State in which its teachers depended on the voluntary rewards of their flocks, many of them predict its downfall. On which Side ought their testimony to have greatest weight, when for or when against their interest?"
James Madison on separation of Church and State
What Religion's Blind Stranglehold on America Is Doing to Our Democracy - "These fears and the religious responses to them have been a key to the political success of the religious right in recent decades. Randall Balmer, a leading scholar of evangelical Christianity, points out that it's offered not so much "issues" to mobilize around as "an unambiguous morality in an age of moral and ethical uncertainty."... When religious language enters the political arena in this way, as an end in itself, it always sends the same symbolic message: Yes, Virginia (or Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina) there are absolute values, universal truths that can never change. You are not adrift in a sea of moral chaos. Elect me and you're sure to have a fixed mooring to hold you and your community fast forever."
Strictly No Photography - "Strictly no photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you've ever wanted to see that you're not supposed to. There are pictures that range from the ordinary to the profound. Whatever the content or the quality though we think that each one stands as a little piece of art in itself, as a little expression of personal liberty."
Hee hee
Flickr: You can't take pictures here! - "Places, situations where you have been told not to take pictures, after of course, you already have a few in your camera. Examples are military, government or scientific establishments of any kind, hospitals, churches, you name it. Or situations you find yourself in when suddenly someone asks you to stop. Of course you do stop, but you have the pictures already, right?"
hoho
Beijing Olympics - shirtless men, fake products, and Potemkin facades - "The clip begins with footage of what looks like a normal building. However, closer inspection reveals that it is in fact a painted facade attached to the exterior of an incomplete building. The building was supposed to have been a hotel, but its construction was delayed and it failed to open in time for the Olympics. Authorities have added the fake exterior to improve Beijing’s image to foreign visitors... Japanese reporters go to one of these neighborhoods and witness many men walking around without shirts. The government has told Beijing residents that they must not go around half-naked when the Olympics start, and the men say they will put shirts on when the time comes."
Font Conference - CollegeHumor video - "This video wasn't long enough, so we made it double-spaced."
Naturally Busty Model Search - m4w - "Thank you to all ladies you replied to the earlier posting. I have found 8 of the 10 models required, but still need 2 more. If you are naturally busty and looking for a big payday, then please respond quickly. Must be naturally busty, at least a DD or larger. Please see picture below as an example of models recently chosen. Models chosen could make as much as $1,000 a day. Don't miss out. Please note that positions available are adult in nature."
Uhh..... And why is almost everyone advertising in that category a tranny?! Someone commented he didn't know anyone both DD and openminded - so maybe there's a negative correlation between size and openmindedness here.
Someone else: i KNEW U wld ask [if I qualified]
I am not telling :P
go away
1st HK case: Muslim sues over ham in seafood pizza - "IN THE first case of its kind in this Chinese city, a Muslim has sued Pizza Hut after he ate a seafood pizza that contained ham, a newspaper reported yesterday."
Are people going to sue KFC for putting chicken fat in mashed potato gravy, or Chinese pastry shops for putting lard in pastry?
YouTube - Japan's 73-year-old Porn Star ! (CNN) - "With 200 porn movies under his belt, Takuda - that's his porn name - is Japan's leading man in the genre of elderly porn... Tokuda says he's healthier now than he's been in years... Ruby pioneered the elderly porn field by accident. It started producing adult movies with middle-aged stars. Then older and older actors and saw better and better sales. Ruby now specializes in elderly porn and is looking into selling his DVDs in retirement homes and -- the porn industry in Los Angeles just called. They want to get in on this, too. Director Gaichi Kono says senior citizens are encouraged by Tokuda and other elderly actors. In his generation, Takuda is a superstar says Kono. He encourages older people to think, I can do this because that old man can do this... Takuda's wife and daughter support his second career, but they don't want to know the details."
YouTube - The Singapore Song By Rony Tan - "In deep gratitude to our protective and caring government all these 43 years, The Singapore Song was written in their honor. It is also specially dedicated to Mr & Mrs Lee Kuan Yew.
Lyrics:
Oh it was hard
to endure pain and tyranny
Beneath the load how we
yearned to be free"
My comment: "I am grateful to China for exporting cheap goods and keeping the rate of inflation down worldwide." Those who criticise China are thus ungrateful brats.
When you can't live without bananas
Thursday, August 07, 2008
On false rape allegations
"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." - P. J. O'Rourke
***
Some material on false rape allegations:
CJR - The Elusive Numbers on False Rape, by Dick Haws - "If you talk to sexual assault counselors, you'll most likely hear the low figure: that 2 percent of all accusations of sexual assault reported to law enforcement across the country are later found to be false, which, the counselors say, is the same rate as for other crimes... Allison and Wrightsman simply chose the study that showed 2 percent... The FBI has been saying since 1991 that the annual rate for the false reporting of forcible sexual assault across the country has been a consistent 8 percent (through 1995, the most recent year available). That's four times higher than the average of the false-reporting rates of the other crimes tracked by the FBI in its Uniform Crime Report. The agency's guidelines define a report as false when an investigation determines that no offense occurred. A complainant's failure or refusal to cooperate in the investigation does not, by itself, lead to a finding of false report... A low number would undercut a belief about rape as old as the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife: that some women, out of shame or vengeance or, more recently, the desire to circumvent restrictions on their ability to get or pay for an abortion, claim that their consensual encounters or rebuffed advances were rapes. If the number is high, on the other hand, advocates for women who have been raped worry it may also taint the credibility of the genuine victims of sexual assault. Yet the times may be changing, and while some women still make false charges, true rape victims don't seem to be feeling the backlash... The clearest example of compelling motive can be found in the Sexual Allegation in Divorce (S.A.I.D.) syndrome. In such cases questionable allegations multiply because the accuser has far more to gain than to lose. Simply charging a divorcing spouse with child molestation — or wife battering or spousal rape — can turn a hot but evenly balanced custody battle into a rout."
Believe Her! The Woman Never Lies Myth - "Wendy Kaminer (1993) reported that "it is a primary article of faith among many feminists that women don't lie about rape, ever; they lack the dishonesty gene" (p.67). Eight years earlier, in 1985, John O'Sullivan discovered a widespread defense of the belief that "no woman would fabricate a rape charge" (p.22). Feminists themselves admit as much. Law Professor Susan Estrich stated that "the whole effort at reforming rape laws has been an attack on the premise that women who bring complaints are suspect" (Newsweek, 1985, p.61). Some feminists believe that even defending that premise is a sex crime. Alan Dershowitz (1993) reports that he was accused of sexual harassment for discussing in class the possibility of false rape allegations. Believing the self-proclaimed victim of sexual misconduct has thus evolved from ideological conviction to legal doctrine and, in some jurisdictions, into law. California now requires that jurors be explicitly told that a rape conviction can be based on the accuser's testimony alone, without corroboration (Associated Press, 1992; Farrell, 1993). Canada is proposing that a man accused of rape must demonstrate that he received the willing consent of a sexual partner... The McDowell team studied 556 rape allegations. Of that total, 256 could not be conclusively verified as rape. That left 300 authenticated cases of which 220 were judged to be truthful and 80, or 27%, were judged as false. In his report Charles McDowell stated that extra rigor was applied to the investigation of potentially false allegations."
False rape allegations, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 23, Number 1 / February, 1994 - "With the cooperation of the police agency of a small metropolitan community, 45 consecutive, disposed, false rape allegations covering a 9 year period were studied. These false rape allegations constitute 41% the total forcible rape cases (n =109) reported during this period. These false allegations appear to serve three major functions for the complainants: providing an alibi, seeking revenge, and obtaining sympathy and attention. False rape allegations are not the consequence of a gender-linked aberration, as frequently claimed, but reflect impulsive and desperate efforts to cope with personal and social stress situations."
That there was corroborating evidence from 2 colleges where half of rape allegations were false, and were motivated by similar reasons, is remarkable.
Salon Newsreal | Who says women never lie about rape? - "All too often, however, feminist rhetoric merely replaced the old stereotypes that viewed most rape complainants as scorned women or sex-crazed neurotics with an equally simplistic cliché: "Women don't lie about rape." Legal theorist Catharine MacKinnon asserts that "feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men." Some colleges with speech codes have equated talk of false rape allegations with "discriminatory harassment." Activists may even refuse to believe "victims" who admit that they lied, suggesting that women recant out of fear or denial, and many bristle when the media publicize stories of falsely accused men... A Washington Post investigation in Virginia and Maryland found that nearly one in four rape reports in 1990-91 was unfounded. When contacted by the newspaper, many "victims" admitted they lied... Feminists often decry our culture's alleged eagerness to believe the "myths of the lying woman." But it seems that it's the "victims don't lie" myth that is entrenched today. There is virtually no research on false allegations; Kanin's study (which he says a female colleague tried to discourage him from pursuing) received no press coverage. The "believe the woman" principle has also gained ground in the legal system... Of course, it then follows that to be "fair," we should convict defendants in rape cases on less evidence -- and give the accuser's word more weight -- than in other crimes... The trouble with the feminist position is that it seems to leave no room for the presumption of innocence when a woman accuses a man of violating her"
False Rape Accusations Are Not Rare - "In 1985, a study of 556 rape allegations found that 27% accusers recanted when faced with a polygraph (which can be ordered in the military), and independent evaluation showed a false accusation rate of 60%. (McDowell, Charles P., Ph.D. “False Allegations.” Forensic Science Digest, (publication of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations), Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 1985), p. 64.) One interesting discussion on the internet is at the CrimProf Blog, where this topic was raised, and a number of former AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) comment on [Ed: and agree with] this 30% number."
From the Rape Investigation Handbook by John O. Savino, Brent E. Turvey, John J. Baeza: "An editorial in The New York Post on the now-infamous Oliver Jovanovic false report case (Dunleavy, 1999) quoted District Attorney Linda Farstein from an interview in Penthouse magazine where she stated, "There are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen." In a more recent article, it was stated that out of 2000 uninvestigated cases in Philadelphia, PA, from 1995 to 1997, investigators determined that "600 were false reports or allegations that did not amount to crimes" (Inquirer Staff 2000)... MacDonald (1973) shows that, in 1968, the national average for false reports of forcible rapes was 18%. He further shows that, in a 1—year period in Denver, Colorado, 25% of all forcible rapes were unfounded. He goes on to explain that this is a conservative figure, as the police in Denver did not record as false reports any cases where there was a doubt as to the veracity of the complaint. In the same study, MacDonald (1973) states that 20% of the forcible rape complaints were actually in doubt. He does not footnote or otherwise reference this information."
Also, quoted in Until Proven Innocent by Stuart Taylor, Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., K. C. Johnson: "False rape accusations occur with scary frequency and "any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes", Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor know nfor his zealous pursuit of alleged rapists, said in 2004 as a commentator on the Kobe Bryant case for Denver's ABC affiliate. Silverman added that a Denver sex-assault unit commander had estimated that nearly 50 percent of reported rape claims are false."
Unfortunately, although data on false rape allegations is hard enough to find, non-anecdotal data on false marital/spousal rape allegations seems non-existent, though various sources do allude to their use in child custody/divorce proceedings.
***
Some material on false rape allegations:
CJR - The Elusive Numbers on False Rape, by Dick Haws - "If you talk to sexual assault counselors, you'll most likely hear the low figure: that 2 percent of all accusations of sexual assault reported to law enforcement across the country are later found to be false, which, the counselors say, is the same rate as for other crimes... Allison and Wrightsman simply chose the study that showed 2 percent... The FBI has been saying since 1991 that the annual rate for the false reporting of forcible sexual assault across the country has been a consistent 8 percent (through 1995, the most recent year available). That's four times higher than the average of the false-reporting rates of the other crimes tracked by the FBI in its Uniform Crime Report. The agency's guidelines define a report as false when an investigation determines that no offense occurred. A complainant's failure or refusal to cooperate in the investigation does not, by itself, lead to a finding of false report... A low number would undercut a belief about rape as old as the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife: that some women, out of shame or vengeance or, more recently, the desire to circumvent restrictions on their ability to get or pay for an abortion, claim that their consensual encounters or rebuffed advances were rapes. If the number is high, on the other hand, advocates for women who have been raped worry it may also taint the credibility of the genuine victims of sexual assault. Yet the times may be changing, and while some women still make false charges, true rape victims don't seem to be feeling the backlash... The clearest example of compelling motive can be found in the Sexual Allegation in Divorce (S.A.I.D.) syndrome. In such cases questionable allegations multiply because the accuser has far more to gain than to lose. Simply charging a divorcing spouse with child molestation — or wife battering or spousal rape — can turn a hot but evenly balanced custody battle into a rout."
Believe Her! The Woman Never Lies Myth - "Wendy Kaminer (1993) reported that "it is a primary article of faith among many feminists that women don't lie about rape, ever; they lack the dishonesty gene" (p.67). Eight years earlier, in 1985, John O'Sullivan discovered a widespread defense of the belief that "no woman would fabricate a rape charge" (p.22). Feminists themselves admit as much. Law Professor Susan Estrich stated that "the whole effort at reforming rape laws has been an attack on the premise that women who bring complaints are suspect" (Newsweek, 1985, p.61). Some feminists believe that even defending that premise is a sex crime. Alan Dershowitz (1993) reports that he was accused of sexual harassment for discussing in class the possibility of false rape allegations. Believing the self-proclaimed victim of sexual misconduct has thus evolved from ideological conviction to legal doctrine and, in some jurisdictions, into law. California now requires that jurors be explicitly told that a rape conviction can be based on the accuser's testimony alone, without corroboration (Associated Press, 1992; Farrell, 1993). Canada is proposing that a man accused of rape must demonstrate that he received the willing consent of a sexual partner... The McDowell team studied 556 rape allegations. Of that total, 256 could not be conclusively verified as rape. That left 300 authenticated cases of which 220 were judged to be truthful and 80, or 27%, were judged as false. In his report Charles McDowell stated that extra rigor was applied to the investigation of potentially false allegations."
False rape allegations, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 23, Number 1 / February, 1994 - "With the cooperation of the police agency of a small metropolitan community, 45 consecutive, disposed, false rape allegations covering a 9 year period were studied. These false rape allegations constitute 41% the total forcible rape cases (n =109) reported during this period. These false allegations appear to serve three major functions for the complainants: providing an alibi, seeking revenge, and obtaining sympathy and attention. False rape allegations are not the consequence of a gender-linked aberration, as frequently claimed, but reflect impulsive and desperate efforts to cope with personal and social stress situations."
That there was corroborating evidence from 2 colleges where half of rape allegations were false, and were motivated by similar reasons, is remarkable.
Salon Newsreal | Who says women never lie about rape? - "All too often, however, feminist rhetoric merely replaced the old stereotypes that viewed most rape complainants as scorned women or sex-crazed neurotics with an equally simplistic cliché: "Women don't lie about rape." Legal theorist Catharine MacKinnon asserts that "feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men." Some colleges with speech codes have equated talk of false rape allegations with "discriminatory harassment." Activists may even refuse to believe "victims" who admit that they lied, suggesting that women recant out of fear or denial, and many bristle when the media publicize stories of falsely accused men... A Washington Post investigation in Virginia and Maryland found that nearly one in four rape reports in 1990-91 was unfounded. When contacted by the newspaper, many "victims" admitted they lied... Feminists often decry our culture's alleged eagerness to believe the "myths of the lying woman." But it seems that it's the "victims don't lie" myth that is entrenched today. There is virtually no research on false allegations; Kanin's study (which he says a female colleague tried to discourage him from pursuing) received no press coverage. The "believe the woman" principle has also gained ground in the legal system... Of course, it then follows that to be "fair," we should convict defendants in rape cases on less evidence -- and give the accuser's word more weight -- than in other crimes... The trouble with the feminist position is that it seems to leave no room for the presumption of innocence when a woman accuses a man of violating her"
False Rape Accusations Are Not Rare - "In 1985, a study of 556 rape allegations found that 27% accusers recanted when faced with a polygraph (which can be ordered in the military), and independent evaluation showed a false accusation rate of 60%. (McDowell, Charles P., Ph.D. “False Allegations.” Forensic Science Digest, (publication of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations), Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 1985), p. 64.) One interesting discussion on the internet is at the CrimProf Blog, where this topic was raised, and a number of former AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) comment on [Ed: and agree with] this 30% number."
From the Rape Investigation Handbook by John O. Savino, Brent E. Turvey, John J. Baeza: "An editorial in The New York Post on the now-infamous Oliver Jovanovic false report case (Dunleavy, 1999) quoted District Attorney Linda Farstein from an interview in Penthouse magazine where she stated, "There are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen." In a more recent article, it was stated that out of 2000 uninvestigated cases in Philadelphia, PA, from 1995 to 1997, investigators determined that "600 were false reports or allegations that did not amount to crimes" (Inquirer Staff 2000)... MacDonald (1973) shows that, in 1968, the national average for false reports of forcible rapes was 18%. He further shows that, in a 1—year period in Denver, Colorado, 25% of all forcible rapes were unfounded. He goes on to explain that this is a conservative figure, as the police in Denver did not record as false reports any cases where there was a doubt as to the veracity of the complaint. In the same study, MacDonald (1973) states that 20% of the forcible rape complaints were actually in doubt. He does not footnote or otherwise reference this information."
Also, quoted in Until Proven Innocent by Stuart Taylor, Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., K. C. Johnson: "False rape accusations occur with scary frequency and "any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes", Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor know nfor his zealous pursuit of alleged rapists, said in 2004 as a commentator on the Kobe Bryant case for Denver's ABC affiliate. Silverman added that a Denver sex-assault unit commander had estimated that nearly 50 percent of reported rape claims are false."
Unfortunately, although data on false rape allegations is hard enough to find, non-anecdotal data on false marital/spousal rape allegations seems non-existent, though various sources do allude to their use in child custody/divorce proceedings.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." - Hubert H. Humphrey
***
HWMNBN on the Dawn Yang fracas: if a fraction of the effort people spent on shit of this ilk was diverted towards renewable energy
or an orderly workout of the subprime mess
or space travel
or a cure for cancer
we'd be living in paradise
...
like i said.. .the sad thing about human nature is that we cold be expending allt his energy into fixing anti-aging , cryonics, world hunger, etc etc... but we spend it all on spam generatio nand circumvention
oh well. i guess a world that didn't allocate any energy on porn and entertainment wouldn't be much fo a world worth being productive for
*** on porn: "if the bitches would give it up more we wouldn't need it"
HWMNBN: i was suggesting to *** that we all go to iraq together
he said, "i don't want to get blown up by an IUD."
me. "..."
:"you mean IED right"
"getting blown up by an IUD would be pretty fucked up"
me to ***: "so what's your position on birth control"
"that means i have to buy the condom! .. why do they always have a right to my wallet!"
"why doesn't anyone talk about the right to pussy! i don't hear any UN bureaucrats saying that the right to pussy is a human right"
me: "what about the right to cock"
"i wouldn't mind being a human rights worker then!" *autistic pause* "bu t it depends on who's exercising the right. i mean.. what it's .. it's"
*incoherent pause/stammer/autistic glare*
"like.. like..."
me: "like [an ugly girl]".
***: "like [a fat girl]!"
"who the fuck would wnat to tap that right!"
me: "she's exercising her right to white cock what"
HWMNBN: i'm trying to decide which is mor edisgusting, your prolapsed uterus or the scrotal infusion pics
and i'm dreading the day will come when your get the search term: "prolapsed uterus scrotal infusion porno sex scene"
Someone on a picture of a prolapsed uterus: EWWWW
you are disgusting
and it's pornographic
Me: if you get turned on by a prolapsed uterus you need help
Someone: not that anyone should be turned on by that
MFTTW: i think a lot of sg girls dun know how to come lah
they think their job is not to come
it is to pleasure the guy
so, moo
*** went to hack my fb
and she say..how come all my friends who are overseas married white guys
i said.....isn't it obvious...sg guys cannot make it
Someone else on avoiding horrible July weather in Japan: go library lor
may meet some cute gals there haha
i wonder whether they have adult mags in public libraries
G:
Someone: I'm not sure I even qualify as a minion as opposed to say...a lackey at this stage
Me: what's the difference between a minion and a lackey :P
Someone: Lackey has less power and autonomy?
Me: minion
1. An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.
2. A subordinate official.
3. One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling.
lackey
1. A liveried male servant; a footman.
2. A servile follower; a toady.
Someone: Ah rght....the difference lies between definition 3 in minion and 2 in lackey
Me: ><
Someone else: damn JLPT asks so many qns this time on the registration form? They give u a list of reasons why you(the examinee) is taking japanese
they should have an option...to find a japanese lover ....=P
Me: haha
what else is there
"I want to understand Jap porn"
Someone else: everybody understands jap porn
u dun need to noe e language well to understand it lol
Me: hurr hurr
someone in a forum said he wanted to learn the jap the guy says to get the girls to take off their clothes
Someone else: one word will do
脱ぎ
its nuge
nu-ge
in english its prnounced as noo-gay
Me: orh
I'm sure people will be glad to know that
Someone else: yup it means strip
in a very coarse manly manner
Me: hahahahah
good luck to whoever tries it out
Me: do you think men and women get paid differently for the same amount of work?
Someone: i cannot say
my view is that, in sg at least
that is generally and overwhelmingly not the case
there is no ceiling whatsoever that i have ever observed
any pay differential is really based on accomplishment and results
and as for the un-meritorious pay differences, it is not predicated on gender
but on nepotism and such, which are fairly gender blind
i.e. men can kena from nepotist practices just as much as women
Me: that's because you're a misogynist HAHA
how do you observe this ah
Someone: ya, ya, that i am, that i am
work
and hanging out with working ppl
nobody really complains at all abt gender glass ceiling, you know, in workign world
Me: that's cos they have internalised the dominant paradigm hurr hurr
Someone: yep
smth like that
those feminists ought to do some internalising themselves
then they won't feel so empty all the time
they need.... filling up
"oh yeah, that's it, baby, internalise my DOMINANT paradigm yeahhhhhh"
...
Someone: nowadays
white ang mohs are such an inferior breed
they are acculturated to be weak liao
Me: white men are evil
Someone: yeah and self-condemning
they used to be the masters of the world lor!
not that it was good for us asians, but now i'd rather asians have some worthy opponent to fight
rather than the weak specimens we see today
Me: fight feminists lor
Someone: it's like, the men of Numenor
the high men
their bloodlines degenerated
until today's white men are like, the men of gondor
diluted bloodline
where are the men of the west?!?!
gone, gone forever, faded with the passing of the wind
Ai! *something incoherent but beautiful because it's Sindarin*
ok scrap the passing of the wind phrase
that's too silly
damn, didn't catch myself saying that
Me: Last Vestige Of Manhood Gently Exhaled During Yoga Class | The Onion
Someone: anyways feminism is seriously irrelevant
at least to sg
so that's good
it's only in US that they're wreaking a lot of harm
but down here, as long as PAP maintains its iron grip, one of the subsidiary effects of this iron grip is that feminism will be neutered into stuff like AWARE
and will never, ever take the spotlight
Someone else: girls are crazy i told you already
remember i sent you the flowerpod post about a girl being jealous that her boyfriend sucked on the same stick of cigarette
and then a lot of women came in to analyze the situation for her
Someone on Kim Jong Il: who is that
i google
omg
is the north korean leader
fuck man i tot is some korean actor
:S
Me: ...
quality of USP really going down ah
Someone: haha yar
i actually know v little about politics
im v v ignorant!
***
HWMNBN on the Dawn Yang fracas: if a fraction of the effort people spent on shit of this ilk was diverted towards renewable energy
or an orderly workout of the subprime mess
or space travel
or a cure for cancer
we'd be living in paradise
...
like i said.. .the sad thing about human nature is that we cold be expending allt his energy into fixing anti-aging , cryonics, world hunger, etc etc... but we spend it all on spam generatio nand circumvention
oh well. i guess a world that didn't allocate any energy on porn and entertainment wouldn't be much fo a world worth being productive for
*** on porn: "if the bitches would give it up more we wouldn't need it"
HWMNBN: i was suggesting to *** that we all go to iraq together
he said, "i don't want to get blown up by an IUD."
me. "..."
:"you mean IED right"
"getting blown up by an IUD would be pretty fucked up"
me to ***: "so what's your position on birth control"
"that means i have to buy the condom! .. why do they always have a right to my wallet!"
"why doesn't anyone talk about the right to pussy! i don't hear any UN bureaucrats saying that the right to pussy is a human right"
me: "what about the right to cock"
"i wouldn't mind being a human rights worker then!" *autistic pause* "bu t it depends on who's exercising the right. i mean.. what it's .. it's"
*incoherent pause/stammer/autistic glare*
"like.. like..."
me: "like [an ugly girl]".
***: "like [a fat girl]!"
"who the fuck would wnat to tap that right!"
me: "she's exercising her right to white cock what"
HWMNBN: i'm trying to decide which is mor edisgusting, your prolapsed uterus or the scrotal infusion pics
and i'm dreading the day will come when your get the search term: "prolapsed uterus scrotal infusion porno sex scene"
Someone on a picture of a prolapsed uterus: EWWWW
you are disgusting
and it's pornographic
Me: if you get turned on by a prolapsed uterus you need help
Someone: not that anyone should be turned on by that
MFTTW: i think a lot of sg girls dun know how to come lah
they think their job is not to come
it is to pleasure the guy
so, moo
*** went to hack my fb
and she say..how come all my friends who are overseas married white guys
i said.....isn't it obvious...sg guys cannot make it
Someone else on avoiding horrible July weather in Japan: go library lor
may meet some cute gals there haha
i wonder whether they have adult mags in public libraries
G:
Someone: I'm not sure I even qualify as a minion as opposed to say...a lackey at this stage
Me: what's the difference between a minion and a lackey :P
Someone: Lackey has less power and autonomy?
Me: minion
1. An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.
2. A subordinate official.
3. One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling.
lackey
1. A liveried male servant; a footman.
2. A servile follower; a toady.
Someone: Ah rght....the difference lies between definition 3 in minion and 2 in lackey
Me: ><
Someone else: damn JLPT asks so many qns this time on the registration form? They give u a list of reasons why you(the examinee) is taking japanese
they should have an option...to find a japanese lover ....=P
Me: haha
what else is there
"I want to understand Jap porn"
Someone else: everybody understands jap porn
u dun need to noe e language well to understand it lol
Me: hurr hurr
someone in a forum said he wanted to learn the jap the guy says to get the girls to take off their clothes
Someone else: one word will do
脱ぎ
its nuge
nu-ge
in english its prnounced as noo-gay
Me: orh
I'm sure people will be glad to know that
Someone else: yup it means strip
in a very coarse manly manner
Me: hahahahah
good luck to whoever tries it out
Me: do you think men and women get paid differently for the same amount of work?
Someone: i cannot say
my view is that, in sg at least
that is generally and overwhelmingly not the case
there is no ceiling whatsoever that i have ever observed
any pay differential is really based on accomplishment and results
and as for the un-meritorious pay differences, it is not predicated on gender
but on nepotism and such, which are fairly gender blind
i.e. men can kena from nepotist practices just as much as women
Me: that's because you're a misogynist HAHA
how do you observe this ah
Someone: ya, ya, that i am, that i am
work
and hanging out with working ppl
nobody really complains at all abt gender glass ceiling, you know, in workign world
Me: that's cos they have internalised the dominant paradigm hurr hurr
Someone: yep
smth like that
those feminists ought to do some internalising themselves
then they won't feel so empty all the time
they need.... filling up
"oh yeah, that's it, baby, internalise my DOMINANT paradigm yeahhhhhh"
...
Someone: nowadays
white ang mohs are such an inferior breed
they are acculturated to be weak liao
Me: white men are evil
Someone: yeah and self-condemning
they used to be the masters of the world lor!
not that it was good for us asians, but now i'd rather asians have some worthy opponent to fight
rather than the weak specimens we see today
Me: fight feminists lor
Someone: it's like, the men of Numenor
the high men
their bloodlines degenerated
until today's white men are like, the men of gondor
diluted bloodline
where are the men of the west?!?!
gone, gone forever, faded with the passing of the wind
Ai! *something incoherent but beautiful because it's Sindarin*
ok scrap the passing of the wind phrase
that's too silly
damn, didn't catch myself saying that
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Someone: anyways feminism is seriously irrelevant
at least to sg
so that's good
it's only in US that they're wreaking a lot of harm
but down here, as long as PAP maintains its iron grip, one of the subsidiary effects of this iron grip is that feminism will be neutered into stuff like AWARE
and will never, ever take the spotlight
Someone else: girls are crazy i told you already
remember i sent you the flowerpod post about a girl being jealous that her boyfriend sucked on the same stick of cigarette
and then a lot of women came in to analyze the situation for her
Someone on Kim Jong Il: who is that
i google
omg
is the north korean leader
fuck man i tot is some korean actor
:S
Me: ...
quality of USP really going down ah
Someone: haha yar
i actually know v little about politics
im v v ignorant!
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"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." - Dan Quayle
***
The Philosophical Lexicon
chomsky, adj. Said of a theory that draws extravagant metaphysical implications from scientifically established facts. "Essentially, Hume's criticism of the Argument from Design is that it leads in all its forms to blatantly chomsky conclusions." "The conclusions drawn from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle are not only on average chomskier than those drawn from Godel's theorem; most of them are downright merleau-ponty."
church, n. A tightly constructed, heavily defended medieval place of worship, now primarily a tourist attraction.
derrida. A sequence of signs that fails to signify anything beyond itself. From a old French nonsense refrain: “Hey nonny derrida, nonny nonny derrida falala.”
flew, (1) n. An old-fashioned device for blowing smoke into church. "He was so annoyed by the fitch that he stuck it up the flew." (2) v. To glide rapidly and superficially over difficult terrain (cf. foot and randall). "We were trying to heidegg the suppesitions in hampshire but he just flew right by."
foucault, n. A howler, an insane mistake. “I’m afraid I’ve committed an egregious foucault.”
habermass, (from the Middle High German halber Marx; cf. ganzer Marx) n. A religious ceremony designed to engender an illusion of understanding through chants describing socio-economic conditions. Hence also, habermass, v. "He habermassed Einstein; he attempted to deduce the special theory of relativity from the social structure of the Bern patent office." "Nothing but a gadam habermass" - H. S. Truman.
heidegger, n. A ponderous device for boring through thick layers of substance. “It’s buried so deep we’ll have to use a heidegger.” Also useful for burying one’s own past.
immanuel, n. (from im-, not, + manual, guide or rulebook) A set of instructions for doing something that kant (q.v.) be done.
jerry-mander, v. To tailor one's metaphysics so as to produce results convenient for the philosophy of mind. E.g. "Paramecia don't have mental representations; therefore the properties they react to are nomic." Hence jerry-rigged, adj. said of an argument proceeding from jerry-mandered premises. "Paramecia only react to nomic properties; therefore, they don't have mental representations."
lacanthropy, n. The transformation, under the influence of the full moon, of a dubious psychological theory into a dubious social theory via a dubious linguistic theory.
lycan, n. An automated trash sorter containing a powerful solvent; one deposits a jumble of theories in it, pushes a button, and the mess is dissolved into its components, neatly packaged and ready to discard.
lyotard, n. The new clothes of the present King of France.
nagel, v. To sense, vaguely, that something crucial but ineffable has been left out of account. "No sooner had I completed my proof that the robot was conscious than I was beset by a swarm of nageling doubts."
nozick, n. (from nostrum + physick) Political snake oil, a patent medicine, esp. a cathartic or purgative. "Waste not logick, not yet strong physick, on the Leviathan; serve it nozick, and stand back." - Hobbes.
rand, n. An angry tirade occasioned by mistaking philosophical disagreement for a personal attack and/or evidence of unspeakable moral corruption. "When I questioned his second premise, he flew into a rand." Also, to attack or stigmatise through a rand. "When I defended socialised medicine, I was randed as a communist."
rawl, n. A fishing line, baited with a few apparently innocent intuitions about fairness, but capable of bringing in such big fish as Pareto optimality and God knows what else. “But some who use a rawl are only fitching.” Hence rawl, v. “When he rawled that slender line in, I could hardly believe my eyes.”
ricoeur, v. To interpret all philosophical questions by means of a limited range of insights and themes. Hence ricoeursive procedure, a recipe for generating infinite philosophical insights from a very limited subset thereof. "The Tractatus proceeds ricoeursively."
rort, n. m. (1) an incorrigible report; hence, rorty, adj. incorrigible. n. (2) Fashionable but confused discourse. "Don't talk rort."
voltaire, n. A unit of enlightenment. Hence voltairage, as in the warning to would-be purveyors of superstition and tyranny: "Danger: high voltairage in this vicinity."
wittgenstone (from Old High Anglo-Austrian, witty and Stein) (1) v. To deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant, on the ground that the grammatical pre-conditions for such a denial do not obtain. “Some think qualia should be quined or fostered – but I think they should be wittgenstoned.” (2) n. Clever but utterly unrelated metaphor used as an argumentative move to silence the opponent. “He argued that on my view I don’t know that I’m in pain; but since he’s not a good kripkographer, I managed to outsmart him with a wittgenstone.”
Unfortunately I don't get most of the jokes on the page.
***
The Philosophical Lexicon
chomsky, adj. Said of a theory that draws extravagant metaphysical implications from scientifically established facts. "Essentially, Hume's criticism of the Argument from Design is that it leads in all its forms to blatantly chomsky conclusions." "The conclusions drawn from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle are not only on average chomskier than those drawn from Godel's theorem; most of them are downright merleau-ponty."
church, n. A tightly constructed, heavily defended medieval place of worship, now primarily a tourist attraction.
derrida. A sequence of signs that fails to signify anything beyond itself. From a old French nonsense refrain: “Hey nonny derrida, nonny nonny derrida falala.”
flew, (1) n. An old-fashioned device for blowing smoke into church. "He was so annoyed by the fitch that he stuck it up the flew." (2) v. To glide rapidly and superficially over difficult terrain (cf. foot and randall). "We were trying to heidegg the suppesitions in hampshire but he just flew right by."
foucault, n. A howler, an insane mistake. “I’m afraid I’ve committed an egregious foucault.”
habermass, (from the Middle High German halber Marx; cf. ganzer Marx) n. A religious ceremony designed to engender an illusion of understanding through chants describing socio-economic conditions. Hence also, habermass, v. "He habermassed Einstein; he attempted to deduce the special theory of relativity from the social structure of the Bern patent office." "Nothing but a gadam habermass" - H. S. Truman.
heidegger, n. A ponderous device for boring through thick layers of substance. “It’s buried so deep we’ll have to use a heidegger.” Also useful for burying one’s own past.
immanuel, n. (from im-, not, + manual, guide or rulebook) A set of instructions for doing something that kant (q.v.) be done.
jerry-mander, v. To tailor one's metaphysics so as to produce results convenient for the philosophy of mind. E.g. "Paramecia don't have mental representations; therefore the properties they react to are nomic." Hence jerry-rigged, adj. said of an argument proceeding from jerry-mandered premises. "Paramecia only react to nomic properties; therefore, they don't have mental representations."
lacanthropy, n. The transformation, under the influence of the full moon, of a dubious psychological theory into a dubious social theory via a dubious linguistic theory.
lycan, n. An automated trash sorter containing a powerful solvent; one deposits a jumble of theories in it, pushes a button, and the mess is dissolved into its components, neatly packaged and ready to discard.
lyotard, n. The new clothes of the present King of France.
nagel, v. To sense, vaguely, that something crucial but ineffable has been left out of account. "No sooner had I completed my proof that the robot was conscious than I was beset by a swarm of nageling doubts."
nozick, n. (from nostrum + physick) Political snake oil, a patent medicine, esp. a cathartic or purgative. "Waste not logick, not yet strong physick, on the Leviathan; serve it nozick, and stand back." - Hobbes.
rand, n. An angry tirade occasioned by mistaking philosophical disagreement for a personal attack and/or evidence of unspeakable moral corruption. "When I questioned his second premise, he flew into a rand." Also, to attack or stigmatise through a rand. "When I defended socialised medicine, I was randed as a communist."
rawl, n. A fishing line, baited with a few apparently innocent intuitions about fairness, but capable of bringing in such big fish as Pareto optimality and God knows what else. “But some who use a rawl are only fitching.” Hence rawl, v. “When he rawled that slender line in, I could hardly believe my eyes.”
ricoeur, v. To interpret all philosophical questions by means of a limited range of insights and themes. Hence ricoeursive procedure, a recipe for generating infinite philosophical insights from a very limited subset thereof. "The Tractatus proceeds ricoeursively."
rort, n. m. (1) an incorrigible report; hence, rorty, adj. incorrigible. n. (2) Fashionable but confused discourse. "Don't talk rort."
voltaire, n. A unit of enlightenment. Hence voltairage, as in the warning to would-be purveyors of superstition and tyranny: "Danger: high voltairage in this vicinity."
wittgenstone (from Old High Anglo-Austrian, witty and Stein) (1) v. To deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant, on the ground that the grammatical pre-conditions for such a denial do not obtain. “Some think qualia should be quined or fostered – but I think they should be wittgenstoned.” (2) n. Clever but utterly unrelated metaphor used as an argumentative move to silence the opponent. “He argued that on my view I don’t know that I’m in pain; but since he’s not a good kripkographer, I managed to outsmart him with a wittgenstone.”
Unfortunately I don't get most of the jokes on the page.
Post ID: 2143405746518410762
"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." - Bill Hoest
***
Baltics trip
Day 5 - 20th May - Soviet Missile Base, Klaipeda, Lithuania (Part 3)
'Atchoo' (pronounced variously by the locals like the way you sneeze or as "Ah'shoo'") is the Lithuanian word for "Thank you".
We then entered the missile silo.
Net to prevent lawsuits
Roof. You can see the sunlight coming from the crack between the cover and the edge of the hole (?).
Down into the silo
Exit from the silo
Around the Missile Silo
The various Lithuanians on the tour
More attempts to caputre the silo
The ladder originally used to enter the silo (it has been replaced by a wooden one IIRC)
Missile fuel tank storage room
More Russian
Door
Me
Back above ground
The silo we were in. The guide threatened to not let us out if we couldn't identify it, hurr hurr.
All in all, the tour was good, although very pricey (160LT for a carload [up to 4]). Plus an site entrance fee of 2LT per student (it was 6LT per adult), which was peanuts, but was a slap in the face given how much we'd paid for transport.
Church we saw from the car
We asked our driver for a restaurant recommendation, and he recommended Cili Kaimas. Cili Picas was an ubiquitous pizza chain - this was the line serving up Lithuanian food. Interestingly, despite the Chili in the name and the logo, virtually all the food was non-spicy (only some of the pizzas, in fact).
Cili Kaimas's Chef's suggestions
Fish in pond at entrance. From the decor it was probably a very upscale place for the city.
The menu was intriguing.
Menu - Salads
"'Pixie's wizardry'
'Roosters fight'
'Fishmen's competition'
Youngest daughter's salad with cheese 'Fetaki'
Witches' salad
'The lure of tuna-fish'"
Menu - Cold Appetizers
"Dad's drink: Tomato juice, sour cream, green onions, parsley, pepper spices
'Better keep still than talk bunkhouse': Pieces of boiled beef tongue, canned peas, lettuce, mayonnaise and dill sauce"
Menu - Hot potato courses
"'For the end of potato digging': Fried balls of boiled potatoes with cheese filling, butter and sour cream sauce
'Kas liko po baliaus' / Party leftovers: Sauteed zeppelins with minced meat, your chosen sauce"
NB: Zeppelins are just potato shapes
Menu - PORK
"'Flying cabbage': Stuffed cabbage rolls with hot boiled potatoes and sauce
Mom's cutlets
'So delicious, so filling': Liver cutlets, mashed potatoes, beetroot and cabbage salad, butter and sour cream sauce
'Eat a more filling meal': Roast of flank with minced pork filling, beetroot salad, fresh cabbage salad, chanterelle sauce, mashed potatoes
'String for a long time': Baked and smoked pig leg, fried potatoes, stewed sauerkraut, horseradish"
I can't help but wonder if the English translations are wrong, done just to amuse tourists. It was better than Engrish.
Menu - Hot courses
"'Mistress's whim'
'Nude maids in sweet-flags': Chicken breast, chanterelle sauce, carrot, cabbage salad, rice
'Fish needs water': Sea pike fillet, fried vegetables (zucchini, red paprika, carrots, onions), rice, butter and cream sauce, layered pastry
'Wish-Well'"
"Chargrilled dishes:
'Pub's special'
Healthy men's shashlik
'Ship traction'
Leveler's roast"
Menu - Beer snacks
"'Old house': Fried bread with garlic
'Boyish dreams': Boiled peas with fried hot smoked flank
'Time to clip guy's wings': 'Fried spicy chicken wings with Texas sauce
'Excellent with beer and wine': Smoked curd cheese with garlic, two kinds of fermented cheese, black olives, bread rolls, mayonnaise and ketchup sauce
'Eat, don't hesitate!': Herring and tomato rolls, pieces of hot smoked flank, cold smoked causages, gherkins, fried bread with cheese sauce, onions, garlic"
Fish needs water
HWMNBN on 'Fish needs water': It's not bad. Just tasteless... Fish needs water. Food needs taste.
Potato pancakes with salmon
Healthy Man's Shashlik
Sauerkraut soup, IIRC
Party leftovers with sour cream and bacon crisps
I had two drinks. The first was 'kefir'. I asked the waiter and he described it, very helpfully, as 'like milk but not like milk'.
Kefir
In any event, his description wasn't too bad. I would describe it as diluted sour cream; like slightly sour, unsweetened and tasteless yogurt.
The next drink was much more delicious. You see compote (a blend of fruit juices - blackcurrant and apple) here.
More shots of the restaurant
I think I took this because it looked Communist
Railway station
***
Baltics trip
Day 5 - 20th May - Soviet Missile Base, Klaipeda, Lithuania (Part 3)
'Atchoo' (pronounced variously by the locals like the way you sneeze or as "Ah'shoo'") is the Lithuanian word for "Thank you".
We then entered the missile silo.
Net to prevent lawsuits
Roof. You can see the sunlight coming from the crack between the cover and the edge of the hole (?).
Down into the silo
Exit from the silo
Around the Missile Silo
The various Lithuanians on the tour
More attempts to caputre the silo
The ladder originally used to enter the silo (it has been replaced by a wooden one IIRC)
Missile fuel tank storage room
More Russian
Door
Me
Back above ground
The silo we were in. The guide threatened to not let us out if we couldn't identify it, hurr hurr.
All in all, the tour was good, although very pricey (160LT for a carload [up to 4]). Plus an site entrance fee of 2LT per student (it was 6LT per adult), which was peanuts, but was a slap in the face given how much we'd paid for transport.
Church we saw from the car
We asked our driver for a restaurant recommendation, and he recommended Cili Kaimas. Cili Picas was an ubiquitous pizza chain - this was the line serving up Lithuanian food. Interestingly, despite the Chili in the name and the logo, virtually all the food was non-spicy (only some of the pizzas, in fact).
Cili Kaimas's Chef's suggestions
Fish in pond at entrance. From the decor it was probably a very upscale place for the city.
The menu was intriguing.
Menu - Salads
"'Pixie's wizardry'
'Roosters fight'
'Fishmen's competition'
Youngest daughter's salad with cheese 'Fetaki'
Witches' salad
'The lure of tuna-fish'"
Menu - Cold Appetizers
"Dad's drink: Tomato juice, sour cream, green onions, parsley, pepper spices
'Better keep still than talk bunkhouse': Pieces of boiled beef tongue, canned peas, lettuce, mayonnaise and dill sauce"
Menu - Hot potato courses
"'For the end of potato digging': Fried balls of boiled potatoes with cheese filling, butter and sour cream sauce
'Kas liko po baliaus' / Party leftovers: Sauteed zeppelins with minced meat, your chosen sauce"
NB: Zeppelins are just potato shapes
Menu - PORK
"'Flying cabbage': Stuffed cabbage rolls with hot boiled potatoes and sauce
Mom's cutlets
'So delicious, so filling': Liver cutlets, mashed potatoes, beetroot and cabbage salad, butter and sour cream sauce
'Eat a more filling meal': Roast of flank with minced pork filling, beetroot salad, fresh cabbage salad, chanterelle sauce, mashed potatoes
'String for a long time': Baked and smoked pig leg, fried potatoes, stewed sauerkraut, horseradish"
I can't help but wonder if the English translations are wrong, done just to amuse tourists. It was better than Engrish.
Menu - Hot courses
"'Mistress's whim'
'Nude maids in sweet-flags': Chicken breast, chanterelle sauce, carrot, cabbage salad, rice
'Fish needs water': Sea pike fillet, fried vegetables (zucchini, red paprika, carrots, onions), rice, butter and cream sauce, layered pastry
'Wish-Well'"
"Chargrilled dishes:
'Pub's special'
Healthy men's shashlik
'Ship traction'
Leveler's roast"
Menu - Beer snacks
"'Old house': Fried bread with garlic
'Boyish dreams': Boiled peas with fried hot smoked flank
'Time to clip guy's wings': 'Fried spicy chicken wings with Texas sauce
'Excellent with beer and wine': Smoked curd cheese with garlic, two kinds of fermented cheese, black olives, bread rolls, mayonnaise and ketchup sauce
'Eat, don't hesitate!': Herring and tomato rolls, pieces of hot smoked flank, cold smoked causages, gherkins, fried bread with cheese sauce, onions, garlic"
Fish needs water
HWMNBN on 'Fish needs water': It's not bad. Just tasteless... Fish needs water. Food needs taste.
Potato pancakes with salmon
Healthy Man's Shashlik
Sauerkraut soup, IIRC
Party leftovers with sour cream and bacon crisps
I had two drinks. The first was 'kefir'. I asked the waiter and he described it, very helpfully, as 'like milk but not like milk'.
Kefir
In any event, his description wasn't too bad. I would describe it as diluted sour cream; like slightly sour, unsweetened and tasteless yogurt.
The next drink was much more delicious. You see compote (a blend of fruit juices - blackcurrant and apple) here.
More shots of the restaurant
I think I took this because it looked Communist
Railway station
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