JadedWolf

Oh, who cares about a scientific milestone anyway. Clearly it's much more important to focus all our energy into reducing a hardworking scientist to a quivering, groveling mess because he made the faux pas of wearing a shirt gifted to him by a female friend for this very special occasion. That's real empowering.

Actually, a quick google search on that reveals that him telling white people to kill themselves never happened, and was a fabrication by a satirical website. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/26/rumor-check-did-a-professor-instruct-white-male-students-to-commit-suicide-for-the-benefit-of-society/

I can't imagine only having two parties to choose from. I live in a country where we have a plethora of political parties to choose from, and yet even then it's a matter of choosing which one of the parties you hate least.

And this has concluded this week's installment of (semi-quasi-sort of used to be) famous (-ish-esque) people suggesting unreasonable solutions to complex problems without thoroughly thinking things through. Tune in again next week for another exciting installment! And remember people, killing humans is the best way to end global warming. Good evening, and see you next time.

Serious question: why do you guys care so much about people I've never heard of? I'm sorry, I can see that they are saying very silly things, but they just seem very unimportant and not really worth any attention. Am I missing something?

Went to see The Drop this evening, can highly recommend it. Not a spectacle movie by a long shot obviously, but a very atmospheric, slow (in a good way) crime movie, with great acting from all involved.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to two cast members of the Smurfs: And...

To keep with my Ireland theme: Irish English teacher turned down for Korean job because of inherent "alcoholism nature of Irish people" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29929333

They are probably afraid the children will hurt their little feet when they try to put them in the door. It takes a hardened adult foot to take on an atheist.

CNBC reporter doesn't understand why Ireland doesn't use the pound, but the euro:

The truth is that a hungry dog, when given the choice, would certainly eat you.

Speaking of death threats, I was on my way to do groceries today, and I heard a conversation between a grandpa and a 6 year or so old little boy today. "Grandpa?" "Yes?" "I'm going to shoot you dead." "Oh, oh. That's... nice." They should arrest the little bugger.

Well, keep me in mind in case you need anyone to bring 'round the coffee.

Well, the thing was that in the actual kickstarter for the game (Elite: Dangerous) there was a tier where people could get the rights to write a novel set in the universe of the game. That was a tier worth 4500 pounds. The prospective writers obviously couldn't raise that themselves so the people who went for that tier first got the money by arranging their own kickstarter for it. For me supporting the novel kickstarter was more about putting more money into the game, in any case, so I am not that hung up about the quality of it.

So I backed (through kickstarter) a novel set in the Elite: Dangerous world written by a guy calling himself T. James. Imagine my surprise when he sends out a backer mail not talking about Elite: Dangerous or his novel (which I have received ages ago but I haven't actually read yet) but about GamerGame, linking to this: http://thewordonthe.net/11/2014/gamergate-what-does-it-mean-and-should-you-use-it/ An interesting read as to how an outsider came to view the whole thing.

... Wow, that journalist is certainly not going to be asked to do anything like Hard Talk anytime soon. He's constantly going like "Oh, err, can we just err... hmm. errr."

A friend of mine would always humorously try to imitate these guys. Great way to ruin your voice.

Or Brussels.

It was more along the lines of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_bsMGsBjWc

Had a job interview. Got told that they'd let me know if I was one of the 10 lucky ones out of the 200 that applied to go through to the second round. Yay. Regarding Halloween:

TrashMan, are you by chance from Transylvania?