JadedWolf

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?

He seems to equate genetic engineering from which genetically modified crops result with selective breeding. They are not the same thing.

I honestly don't think a few nutjobs say something about an entire gender, and to be fair men in general being more prone to use violence as a coping strategy really isn't something I'd question but speaking of female poisoners... May I introduce you to Maria Swanenburg from Leiden? "It was established with certainty she poisoned at least 102 people with arsenic of which 27 died (16 of those were her relatives) between 1880 and 1883. The investigation included more than ninety suspicious deaths. Forty-five of the survivors sustained chronic health problems after ingesting the poison. Swanenburg's motive was the money she would receive either through the victims' insurance or their inheritance. She had secured most of the insurance policies herself. Her first victim was her own mother in 1880; shortly after this, she killed her father too. She was caught when trying to poison the Frankhuizen family in December 1883." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Swanenburg

The sound of children. They just have a talent for getting under your skin at just the right pitch.

To be fair, there is an option on this forum to put users on ignore so you won't have to read their posts. If you find you can't ever have a meaningful discussion with someone and you only get annoyed by them, maybe that's an option to consider.

That trailer was amazing, awesome magic and its effects I want that bird !!! That's a really sexist remark, Bruce, and I am really disappointed in you. We don't refer to girls as birds anymore, just so you know!

I doubt your story. Likely it was some douche you knew her information was already online; so he posted it to make a point. It was a douche move by a douche. That's the theory I'm going with. Agreed.

And then you'd need to feel guilty about that, too.

Those are some interesting articles which show that some journalists simply don't understand the problem. There's a very interesting response from one of the posters in the article you last linked, David Ward. "These articles were proof that games media was hostile to those that consumed games media, not because we are the stereotype but BECAUSE we had thought a natural progression had already occurred where the stereotype was disproved, but our media hadn’t gotten the memo. To think we’re simply mad because we heard “Gamers are Dead” hur dur derp, anger, is condescending – we understand they’re not trying to “take away our games.” We’re hurt because we’re alienated, we’ve had stereotypes thrust on us since the 80s, and it hasn’t stopped since but we’d hoped that our media (our advocates) were the last people to perpetuate those stereotypes." I'm not a GamerGate supporter (I guess I'll have to say this a thousand times) but I still feel insulted when I hear the press' stereotypical definition of "Gamer". But, oh no, sorry guys we don't mean you, when we say gamer we only mean the sort of virgin, neckbeard, obese, cisgendered, white, male, crybaby that we immediately think of when we say gamer, and you're not like that right? Yeah, that's not at all insulting. Edit: The Felicia Day article, well, I can certainly understand how she would feel that way considering that there are people out there that do have these very negative views on anything female and that the press puts all its focus on them. It's a shame because it honestly isn't a reason to avoid people who look like gamers to her (can you really tell? Is there a secret handshake I missed?). And that's the thing really, because all the focus goes out to the toxic GamerGaters suddenly all gamers seem to be suspect.

I guess that's it. The human race had a good run up until this point, but now it's time to slaughter them all. Proof that TN is a ****roach infiltrator from the post-nuclear apocalypse future.