Non Footy Chat Thread II

[I'm a loser baby...]

how do you swing a golf club with these getting in the way

I dunno. I reckon she would help your stroke.

 

[strider]

At the risk of being called gay, im gonna say that is not attractive

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

At the risk of being called gay, im gonna say that is not attractive

Well stop eating at restaurants like this one:

http://gaylordrestaurantmumbai.com/

 

[Incorrect]

At the risk of being called gay, im gonna say that is not attractive

nice person Lover

 

[Gronk]

At the risk of being called gay, im gonna say that is not attractive

nice person Lover

 

[Gary Gutful]

At the risk of being called gay, im gonna say that is not attractive

 

[Gary Gutful]

Great minds, Gronk.

 

[Twizzle]

I dunno. I reckon she would help your stroke.

if I had tits like that I wouldn't bother with golf, I'd just sit at home and play with them all day

 

[Haynzy]

https://thebaffler.com/latest/new-atheisms-idiot-heirs-nichols

I’m just going to leave this here so that we can fight over who fits the bill.


New Atheism’s Idiot Heirs
An irritating rhetoric meets the dumbest possible ideology

IN THE HEYDAY OF THE INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD, let’s say in the 1990s, a certain species of idiot materialized. He was male, aggressively pedantic, self-professedly logical, committed to the hard sciences, prone to starting sentences with “actually,” and almost always devoted to the notion that his disbelief in God imbued him with intellectual superiority. This archetype’s golden years were the 2000s, a decade that saw George W. Bush’s politicized creationism and the use of web forums peak in unison. Once that decade ended, the internet tired of his antics and made him central to a series of in-jokes —“neckbeard” described his less-than-stellar grooming habits; and his hat of choice, the fedora, became the butt of innumerable jokes during Obama’s first term. No longer needed or tolerated, this misunderstood paragon of Enlightenment-core values began a journey that brought him to the worst possible destination: the Republican Party.

Etc,etc .... it’s quite a long article.

 

[Bazal]

https://thebaffler.com/latest/new-atheisms-idiot-heirs-nichols

I’m just going to leave this here so that we can fight over who fits the bill.


New Atheism’s Idiot Heirs
An irritating rhetoric meets the dumbest possible ideology

IN THE HEYDAY OF THE INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD, let’s say in the 1990s, a certain species of idiot materialized. He was male, aggressively pedantic, self-professedly logical, committed to the hard sciences, prone to starting sentences with “actually,” and almost always devoted to the notion that his disbelief in God imbued him with intellectual superiority. This archetype’s golden years were the 2000s, a decade that saw George W. Bush’s politicized creationism and the use of web forums peak in unison. Once that decade ended, the internet tired of his antics and made him central to a series of in-jokes —“neckbeard” described his less-than-stellar grooming habits; and his hat of choice, the fedora, became the butt of innumerable jokes during Obama’s first term. No longer needed or tolerated, this misunderstood paragon of Enlightenment-core values began a journey that brought him to the worst possible destination: the Republican Party.

Etc,etc .... it’s quite a long article.

Actually.....

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Yep. You still see it a fair bit, the whole atheism-makes-me-smart but it's no more useful than thinking expensive toys make you rich or shrieking left wing political tropes makes you a good person.

If you do it for public consumption it's performative. That overrides any intended meaning.

 

[T.S Quint]

how do you swing a golf club with these getting in the way

I dunno...but I'd love to watch her try.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Yep. You still see it a fair bit, the whole atheism-makes-me-smart but it's no more useful than thinking expensive toys make you rich or shrieking left wing political tropes makes you a good person.

If you do it for public consumption it's performative. That overrides any intended meaning.

Old mate who wrote that long winded article could have summarised it down to this.

 

[strider]

Great minds, Gronk.

I was actually originally gonna post ... at the risk of colin calling me gay .... but i forgot his name

 

[Gronk]

https://thebaffler.com/latest/new-atheisms-idiot-heirs-nichols

I’m just going to leave this here so that we can fight over who fits the bill.


New Atheism’s Idiot Heirs
An irritating rhetoric meets the dumbest possible ideology

IN THE HEYDAY OF THE INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD, let’s say in the 1990s, a certain species of idiot materialized. He was male, aggressively pedantic, self-professedly logical, committed to the hard sciences, prone to starting sentences with “actually,” and almost always devoted to the notion that his disbelief in God imbued him with intellectual superiority. This archetype’s golden years were the 2000s, a decade that saw George W. Bush’s politicized creationism and the use of web forums peak in unison. Once that decade ended, the internet tired of his antics and made him central to a series of in-jokes —“neckbeard” described his less-than-stellar grooming habits; and his hat of choice, the fedora, became the butt of innumerable jokes during Obama’s first term. No longer needed or tolerated, this misunderstood paragon of Enlightenment-core values began a journey that brought him to the worst possible destination: the Republican Party.

Etc,etc .... it’s quite a long article.

I follow him on twitter. He's a bit of a knob shiner. But anyway.

 

[Gronk]

Yep. You still see it a fair bit, the whole atheism-makes-me-smart but it's no more useful than thinking expensive toys make you rich or shrieking left wing political tropes makes you a good person.

If you do it for public consumption it's performative. That overrides any intended meaning.

"New Atheism" merkins like Richard Dawkins were militants and gave "non-believers" a bad name.

Not entirely convinced however that he successfully argued that an on-line 2017 version of him are what he calls "theocrats and climate deniers".

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Dawkins might be a militant and general Trump-like bully, but he is certainly not stupid.

But I agree it's odd how logic and reason are now used by the right to harass the left. For a while there it was seemed the other way around.

 

[Gronk]

I was actually originally gonna post ... at the risk of colin calling me gay .... but i forgot his name

We're on to merkins like Colin

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals/

Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals

 

[hindy111]

No, if you're the double of the double then you're obviously the quadruple.

Rossane bar double?

 

[Noise]

Hmm does that mean aracnophobes are actually spiders?