PZ Myers disapproves (Greg Laden in Jimi Hendrix wig rear)
Almost two days now and still no sign of the SWAT team. Just as well, might take this opportunity to tell them the keys are in the letter box – there’s really no need to kick the door down guys.
Still scratching my head, but I shouldn’t. I know that there is no such thing as rock bottom in a bottomless pit, which is pretty much what the baboon board’s antics are. There will always be some new surprise beyond imagining just around the corner ready to stun you.
So did the big baboon actually post his denunciation or didn’t he? I suspect we will never know with anything that approaches substance. Chances are, even a pathetic loser like me would have heard something on the grapevine by now, but I haven’t. To my mind, there are two realistic possibilities –
- Even a lowlife like Myers is capable of realising the full extent of his spiteful idiocy and back-pedaled without saying so, or
- He actually was stupid enough to do it and did not get quite the universally approving reaction he, as über-baboon, so rightly deserves and is entitled to.
Seriously, who is supposed to get harmed more by this childish squealing-to-teacher? Me or Myers? It’s all good though if he did follow through – though there may be a handful of folks involved that still believe the Emperor is not naked, I suspect there are more that already know better than to to take anything baboon board related seriously. If anything, there will probably now be a few more converts to the latter.
We’ll never know either way I think, with Myers’ honesty having the track record we have seen.
Still perplexed by it all. Reminds me of stories my relatives used to tell me about life under Mao’s China. The naming and shaming and informing and reporting. “Freethinkers”. Indeed. But it’s all good. It’s in the public record now at least.
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November 7, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Franc
Back peddled => back-pedaled
The reference is to cycling, not selling.
Just saying…
November 7, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Ta.
November 7, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Oh I have no doubt he emailed them. Similarly I have no doubt the reaction was…”er…yes Dr. Myers. Right, so that’s your argument, not ours. But if you find something out to actually be worried about other than someone saying unkind things about you, well, you just let us know.”
November 7, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I still have difficulty believing someone could be that much of an idiot though. I know, I should be used to it. But this is a new benchmark.
November 7, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Well, he for sure was not able to convince them just by his word alone. They probably rolled their eyes at hearing him tattle tale bad words and claims of obsession instead of any actual threats.
I’m still shocked at how your daily journalism + a witty insult became an obsession + a real life dangerous threat in their minds. They’ve worked themselves up into such a FEARING FRENZY that PZ actually warned the conference to watch out for you.
November 7, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Like I said over on the Slimepit, it is great, they are painting the picture for me –
FTB are little more than a Stasi-like police state.
This is the only message I ever wanted to convey. They are doing all the hard parts and finishing touches for me. Now it is there for the whole world to see. What’s not great?
And no, I don’t know how I am any more offensive than Hitch or Ricky Gervais either. (NOT THAT I AM EQUATING ANYTHING Sacha) But then again, we are dealing with baboons with sore glands and teats.
November 7, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Thanks for the update Franc. Please get a message to us when the jackbooted politeness police come for you. Do they allow for one phone call in the Australian hoosegow?
November 7, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Probably get one call. That will be for phone sex.
November 7, 2011 at 3:59 pm
They are digging up old stuff it seems.
November 7, 2011 at 4:58 pm
I think it’s fair to call into question. It doesn’t matter if it’s old stuff, what matters is if it makes sense. She charges hypocrisy by bringing these old things up. My first observation is that s/he only links to the one instance with the bit about the psychotic ex, but there is a notable lack of linkage to any of the other alleged instances where Franc reveals the identities of other people. The obvious question is, “Did they really happen?” Silver Lining relies on the faith of the readers to accept that the psychotic ex scenario is enough to affirm that she’s “not making this up.”
Honestly, I’m not sure what to make of the psychotic ex, but I’m just not buying the others. The accusation of hypocrisy as it stands is weak through and through; the assertion that Ophelia is more ethical than Franc is laughable.
November 7, 2011 at 5:02 pm
I mistyped at points. All instance of “she” should be “s/he.”
November 7, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Meh. It really takes in imbecile of Ophelia’s proportion to assume any stories involving junkies, thieves and imbeciles that think ratting bikers out to cops is something that’s forgiven, will contain any positive messages. Ugly memories I don’t need any more about folks that make the Baboon and the Prune look like honest people. If Ophelia hit the bourbon and the barbituates for a decade she would be otherwise indistunguishable from them though (except mine would be less ugly).
Really, I have no desire to revisit that. But again, it underscores the desperation of the muckracking. The prune is truly a vile thing I can’t even look at as female anymore. Seriously, how can she point a finger at anyone when all she does all day is sit there and regurgitate manipulated factoids about Abbie, me, Blu and others for no other reason than to cause harm and to poison their online reputations out of bitter, dried up old cunt spite?
November 8, 2011 at 4:20 am
The busybodies won’t be satisfied, but that sounds to me like deeply personal shit that isn’t anyone’s business but your own. I’m satisfied to leave it at that.
November 8, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Like I say, I really have no interest in what they dig up. I know I have no malice in me, as does everyone that actually does know me. I have also been shat on in the past to the point that people actually express surprise I take no action or at least show some desire to extract pounds of flesh. You step in dogshit, you scrape it off and you keep walking. You don’t shoot the dog. But if they want to keep proving the full depth of their slimebaggery, I say “you’re welcome. You are only painting your own portraits”. It will be interesting to say the least what they do dig up and who they do end up accidentally shooting in the crossfire. Nothing like a few innocent civilian corpses to spoil a SWAT party. In any case, they way they cherrypick and mangle information, what is it supposed to reflect anyway? Can’t make me look any worse than they already have – those pesky laws of diminishing returns.
November 7, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I’m sure my brain is getting it wrong, myers wouldn’t be so hypocritical I’m sure but, I vaguely recollect myers telling someone to grow a pair or suck it up or some such.
His beloved becky publically humilated them, deliberately and with malice aforethought, when speaking at some university.
According to myers, the lady insulted wasn’t ready for the rough and tumble and that becky wasn’t abusing her position of power at all.
Perhaps myers needs to take his own advise and man up, this here intertubes with spiders aint no place for wimps; especially wimps who can’t muster a logical response to a question.
November 9, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Hoggle,
this is crazy given the level of abuse that regularly occurs on Pharyngula. I left there after they tag team flamed a lonely obsessive kid who posted for nearly 48 hours with little sleep. It sounded as if he had few friends and was desperate for company, the more he tried to befriend them, the more they tore into him.
The combination of complaints about “tone trolls” (i.e. anyone who suggests that they might be slightly less rude) and threatening to out those who they disagree with as stalkers is bullshit.
all the best
November 9, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Horace, they feed only on those they perceive to be weak. That is the nature of the baboons, and I keep citing examples of this behaviour here. The slave morality they wallow in demands sacrifices to feed on as revenge against injustice – they wait for people to exhibit weakness and they’re there like a shot. Gave a perfect example of this with Adrienne Myers and her Skepticasm blog. No sign of Myers there ever, but as soon as she faltered and showed frailty, *pow* he arrived to pick at her wounds. What a hero. What a role model. Same thing with Bluharmony. You can search here and at the wiki for the detailed histories of these abuses – http://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/Phawrongula_Wiki
Don’t suppose you have a link for that feeding frenzy?
November 10, 2011 at 1:15 am
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/06/reading_for_non-psychopaths.php
I did post a few times after this thread though.