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If you want to see an apologist article, full of excuses and basically trying to dress up a ...

anglophone comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I suggest you learn some rudimentary immunology and some rudimentary epidemiology. I am with @Marionville, @FrayedBear and @Triphid on this one.

anglophone replies on Sep 29, 2021:

@powder Those claims are not in the article that you cited. The response to Covid-19 includes vaccinating the population, which you claim is irrational. Vaccines came out before either you or I were born, so it is impossible for either of us to remember when vaccines came out, your "Remember when vaccines came out?" refers. Your "we were sold an inferior product." makes no reference to any medical reasons for choosing any particular vaccine. You appear to have difficulty in engaging in informed debate.

If you want to see an apologist article, full of excuses and basically trying to dress up a ...

anglophone comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I suggest you learn some rudimentary immunology and some rudimentary epidemiology. I am with @Marionville, @FrayedBear and @Triphid on this one.

anglophone replies on Sep 29, 2021:

@powder Your responses continue to be irrational.

The Five Stages of Antivaxers: 1.

anglophone comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Another way of saying anti-vaxxer is "lethally and suicidally stupid".

anglophone replies on Sep 29, 2021:

@Pedrohbds That is so sadly true.

Got a wee bit of quandary here.

Organist1 comments on Sep 29, 2021:

I would stick with the $20 payment schedule. That way, everything is clear, and he can't gaslight you into wondering if he did enough work to be worth the $20 or not.

anglophone replies on Sep 29, 2021:

Precisely.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'good Christian' abortion meltdown

anglophone comments on Sep 27, 2021:

MTG needs to STFU.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@Buck Oral sex between gorillas? No big deal. Oral sex with MTG? No fucking way!

If you want to see an apologist article, full of excuses and basically trying to dress up a ...

anglophone comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I suggest you learn some rudimentary immunology and some rudimentary epidemiology. I am with @Marionville, @FrayedBear and @Triphid on this one.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@powder There are no vaccines named in the article. Your answer is irrational.

If you want to see an apologist article, full of excuses and basically trying to dress up a ...

anglophone comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I suggest you learn some rudimentary immunology and some rudimentary epidemiology. I am with @Marionville, @FrayedBear and @Triphid on this one.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@powder Which vaccines are you talking about?

If you want to see an apologist article, full of excuses and basically trying to dress up a ...

anglophone comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I suggest you learn some rudimentary immunology and some rudimentary epidemiology. I am with @Marionville, @FrayedBear and @Triphid on this one.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@powder Statistics.

If you want to see an apologist article, full of excuses and basically trying to dress up a ...

anglophone comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I suggest you learn some rudimentary immunology and some rudimentary epidemiology. I am with @Marionville, @FrayedBear and @Triphid on this one.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@powder Your ignorance of immunology and of epidemiology is manifest.

Sad that he was killed, but what on earth was he thinking?

SnowyOwl comments on Sep 28, 2021:

What's for dinner? christian

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@SnowyOwl Poultry is best dressed prior to cooking. Long pig is best undressed prior to cooking. Long pig with macromastia can result in a lot of fat in the drip tray.

Don't slam the door on your way out.

Organist1 comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I feel a little safer now.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

Same here.

Sad that he was killed, but what on earth was he thinking?

SnowyOwl comments on Sep 28, 2021:

What's for dinner? christian

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

What's the best way to cook a Christian? Burning at the stake blackens the skin but leaves the meat rather undercooked. Friars can be fried, but you need to remember to take the God collar off first. Nuns are none too tasty. Popes tend be old and stringy. Jesuits need to be hung by the feet for a week with their throats cut to let the blood drain out for best results.

This is pathetic.

anglophone comments on Sep 28, 2021:

Once again the United $tates of Absurdity shows that it is peopled by those who are clinically and dangerously insane.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

@FrayedBear The link is $-walled - sorry.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'good Christian' abortion meltdown

DenoPenno comments on Sep 28, 2021:

Not only does MTG need to STFU she also needs to e removed from Congress.

anglophone replies on Sep 28, 2021:

Not just removed from Congress. Removed from the planet!

I think of myself as a freethinker.

anglophone comments on Sep 27, 2021:

You have just pressed one of my "go" buttons, so here I go ... As a child, I was inquisitive about the nature of thinking. After half a century, I have only got as far as the following. Thinking properly involves at least four cognitive skills: critical thinking (which you mention), analytical ...

anglophone replies on Sep 27, 2021:

@powder I like your reply. I am such an habitually abstract thinker that I was quite blind to that aspect. (Wanders off muttering to himself that he now needs to remember five aspects, not just four, but nevertheless feels very grateful to powder.)

I wonder what those who are antivaxx, antimask, and think the whole covid thing is overblown, think ...

anglophone comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Keep the fuckers out of our hospitals and let them die on the streets.

anglophone replies on Sep 27, 2021:

@PondartIncbendog As the Scotsman said: "Nay lad, I'm nay into Canny Ballism.". ;)

I wonder what those who are antivaxx, antimask, and think the whole covid thing is overblown, think ...

anglophone comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Keep the fuckers out of our hospitals and let them die on the streets.

anglophone replies on Sep 27, 2021:

@itsmedammit The lethality of such people's wilful ignorance has finally got to me.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'good Christian' abortion meltdown

anglophone comments on Sep 27, 2021:

MTG needs to STFU.

anglophone replies on Sep 27, 2021:

@Triphid And a vulva clamp while we are about it. We don't want that piece of excrement reproducing.

Is it just me, or are you also frustrated and/or annoyed at the carelessness with which other people...

waitingforgodo comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Nah, I jest know they're as dumb as crow's call. Arrant errant syntax's impingement on epistemological imperatives highlights the cognitive ontological challenges of the descriptivism and prescriptivism dialectic in communication.

anglophone replies on Sep 27, 2021:

@waitingforgodo But yer fergot yer glottal stop! ;)

Anti-vax Alabama picker couple both die from COVID-19 [waff.]

BitFlipper comments on Sep 27, 2021:

I still don't have any sympathy for them. But I think it's wrong to permit people to be fed a steady diet of lies, which results in their death. Hmmmm. They're fed a diet of lies. They injest the lies because they don't know any better. So lies are as potent as disease. Lies are poison. Those ...

anglophone replies on Sep 27, 2021:

And Suckerberg is doing sweet fuck all in terms of reigning in the assholes who spread such lethal lies.

Is it just me, or are you also frustrated and/or annoyed at the carelessness with which other people...

waitingforgodo comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Nah, I jest know they're as dumb as crow's call. Arrant errant syntax's impingement on epistemological imperatives highlights the cognitive ontological challenges of the descriptivism and prescriptivism dialectic in communication.

anglophone replies on Sep 27, 2021:

Best said in north Yorkshire accent! :)

Anti-vax Alabama picker couple both die from COVID-19 [waff.]

Scott321 comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Sad state of affairs. If only they had not gone down that deadly road of ignorance. The dad had the forethought to set up a Gofundme for their funeral. It should have never gotten to to point. Death is easily preventable. And they left orphans. Ugghhh!!! So many cases like this. So many orphans....

anglophone replies on Sep 26, 2021:

You raise a difficult question: what is it that causes people to be suicidally culpably ignorant? The short answer is that I do not know. A longer answer includes people who do their own research but fail to distinguish hard scientific fact and alarmist claims. This includes people who regard the Center for Disease Control as a source of misinformation. Ultimately, such people have very poor models in their heads about how the natural world works and how governments and people work, and such poor understanding ends up killing them. It does not help that such people are quite incapable of reasoned thinking.

So in Texas a security guard in a hospital was bitten on the thumb by a anti-masker (Wonder if he is...

Castlepaloma comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Don't know the whole story. Possibly the security guard physical handled him. How much damages to the guards thumb? Lots of ass-u-me, ass- of- you & me.

anglophone replies on Sep 26, 2021:

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Is being a maskhole a contagious condition? The maskhole needs to be repeatedly and violently slapped across the face until he or she wises up.

Is it just me, or are you also frustrated and/or annoyed at the carelessness with which other people...

racocn8 comments on Sep 26, 2021:

When I listened to a course on the English language, the professor had rafts of examples where meanings and pronunciations changed over the decades (or centuries). Many of us have been paid to seek precision in our writing, but so many more are satisfied to remember any words that sound right.

anglophone replies on Sep 26, 2021:

Thank you for the insight in your last sentence. My parents were philologists, so I am no stranger to what the professor said.

Is it just me, or are you also frustrated and/or annoyed at the carelessness with which other people...

whiskywoman comments on Sep 26, 2021:

sometimes im surprised at spelling and grammar mine included

anglophone replies on Sep 26, 2021:

Spelling and grammar are the least of my concerns. See my reply to @Matias for an example of what I mean.

Is it just me, or are you also frustrated and/or annoyed at the carelessness with which other people...

Matias comments on Sep 26, 2021:

You should give some examples , so that we can see what you mean by "careless"

anglophone replies on Sep 26, 2021:

"You show empathy for other people but not for me" which on later discussion became "You easily show empathy for other people but you struggle to show empathy for me".

Is it just me, or are you also frustrated and/or annoyed at the carelessness with which other people...

Marionville comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Carelessly misusing words is probably more accurate!

anglophone replies on Sep 26, 2021:

I see misusing words as one example. I see complete failure to express something crucial as another example.

'Vigilante treatments': Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs

anglophone comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Please delivery 23 tonnes of Ivermectin, 17,000 litres of 90% hydrogen peroxide and 15 tonnes of hydroxychloroquine to your nearest hospital.

anglophone replies on Sep 25, 2021:

@BitFlipper No, but I expect the undertakers to be doing a roaring trade very soon.

Marjorie Greene's Insane New Ad Is Shockingly Dumb - YouTube

anglophone comments on Sep 23, 2021:

Dumb, dumber, and MTG.

anglophone replies on Sep 24, 2021:

@TheoryNumber3 Yes.

Interesting discussion (?

anglophone comments on Sep 23, 2021:

How come you are so incredibly sane and she is so incredibly insane?

anglophone replies on Sep 23, 2021:

@Umbrella_Guard Same here.

Creationist Kent Hovind Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Domestic Violence | Hemant Mehta | Friendly...

Triphid comments on Sep 23, 2021:

Love it, sad though that he only gets 30 days in the Poky, should get 40 years in the nearest desert ALONE and unaided then he could become his own Messiah.....LOL.

anglophone replies on Sep 23, 2021:

Give him a burning bush or two. (No, not the sort of bush you find on a woman's pubes.)

I do NOT believe it.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 22, 2021:

That means you have to see him every other week for four years for his $20. That seems like a punishment for you..

anglophone replies on Sep 22, 2021:

@Barnie2years Never mind the math, I will enjoy the prospect of Evangelidiot having to give a $20 apology to @Triphid once every fortnight.

I do NOT believe it.

Barnie2years comments on Sep 22, 2021:

That means you have to see him every other week for four years for his $20. That seems like a punishment for you..

anglophone replies on Sep 22, 2021:

One of us is slipping a digit. I reckon $20/fortnight is $10/week, so $523.46 is around 52 weeks, or one year. The Police might be in for a longer haul, though.

It's really that simple

azzow2 comments on Sep 22, 2021:

A .9mm bullet is only costs .37¢.

anglophone replies on Sep 22, 2021:

Ah, the good old "lead injection".

Militant Atheists?

KKGator comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Your "friend" isn't paying your bills. Whatever they think is irrelevant. You run your life how you see fit. None of us are here to live up to anyone else's expectations. Family, friends, or otherwise. If your friend can't accept how you live, they really aren't much of a friend.

anglophone replies on Sep 22, 2021:

Hear! Hear!

The Five Stages of Antivaxers: 1.

Larimar comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Problem is that their "research" is just finding right wing and misinformation sites to corroborate their bullshit opinion. They aren't equipped to do research. A double blind study, proper scientific principles and observation, etc. Telling folks to do their own research when they are incapable ...

anglophone replies on Sep 21, 2021:

I see it as being both simple and complex. It takes a particular mindset to be able to recognise echo chambers and to be able to critically read and understand academic papers. A simpler approach is to look at the technological feasibility of the claims: the claims of microchipping, mind control and altering DNA are manifestly absurd, and only simpletons fail to understand that.

Well, 6 of we locals and the Driver of course were enjoying the ride UNTIL the Bus stopped to ...

PadraicM comments on Sep 16, 2021:

I know everybody got their kink, but to proclaim that homosexuality is a sin and then talk about how one has been injected with Jesus and now carries his essence within them... I'm just saying, shit writes itself.

anglophone replies on Sep 21, 2021:

@Triphid Do you mean to tell me that she *has* a brain?

FL Restaurant Owner Will Ignore Vaccine Mandate: “God Told Me” to Avoid the Shot | Hemant Mehta ...

Jolanta comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Funny how so many have a personal line to god. He must be ever so fed up with all those calls, I mean when does he get a chance to sleep? Just asking for a friend.

anglophone replies on Sep 21, 2021:

Your friend's name wouldn't be Satan, would it?

FL Restaurant Owner Will Ignore Vaccine Mandate: “God Told Me” to Avoid the Shot | Hemant Mehta ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Sep 21, 2021:

How would he respond to, "God told me you were a righteous man and that I could eat here for free every day."

anglophone replies on Sep 21, 2021:

Would you be speaking about the God of Gluttony? ;)

Well, 6 of we locals and the Driver of course were enjoying the ride UNTIL the Bus stopped to ...

PadraicM comments on Sep 16, 2021:

I know everybody got their kink, but to proclaim that homosexuality is a sin and then talk about how one has been injected with Jesus and now carries his essence within them... I'm just saying, shit writes itself.

anglophone replies on Sep 21, 2021:

@Triphid Hmm. Perhaps the notion of being a servant of *all* the people is anathema to her.

Well, 6 of we locals and the Driver of course were enjoying the ride UNTIL the Bus stopped to ...

PadraicM comments on Sep 16, 2021:

I know everybody got their kink, but to proclaim that homosexuality is a sin and then talk about how one has been injected with Jesus and now carries his essence within them... I'm just saying, shit writes itself.

anglophone replies on Sep 21, 2021:

@Triphid I once worked in a zinc smelter. Blood lead levels where just part of the health and safety at work regime.

Woman Who Wanted To Catch Covid-19 To Prove It’s Not That Bad Is Now In ‘So Much Pain’ ...

Secretguy comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Fk her.

anglophone replies on Sep 21, 2021:

There is no way that I would fuck any such arrogant little bitch. It would be better to parade her naked through the streets of Kabul.

The Ring of Fire - Trump Continues His Coup By Demanding Georgia Decertify Election Results ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Donald can "write"? As in real words? Blows the mind.

anglophone replies on Sep 20, 2021:

Nah. He got his secretary to write that letter after he had finished grabbing her pussy.

Interesting statistics

JackPedigo comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Says a lot. I will post this for the local anti-vaxx idiots here.

anglophone replies on Sep 20, 2021:

The anti-vaxx idiots here will deny those facts. They are driven by their prejudices - data means nothing to them.

STOP DOING THIS SHIT! In your house it’s ok if you want or where no one sees them but not in a ...

Oldman51 comments on Sep 19, 2021:

It is not what you see everyday but if the kid is hungry. It is the Christian mentality that made it taboo.

anglophone replies on Sep 20, 2021:

I find it hilarious that mammophobes forget that breasts are essential to the continuation of the species.

How important is philosophy to you?

Mcflewster comments on Sep 20, 2021:

I Have been trying to avoid philosophy for some years now and replace it with more certainty i.e.science. Philosophy has no "Crunch" point where you decide between alternatives. However there are so many uncertainties about it is very easy to slip into devising "wise statements" without actually ...

anglophone replies on Sep 20, 2021:

For me, proof exists only in mathematics. I see science as providing useful models of the natural world, nothing more, and in particular nothing is ever proven in science. Science only ever deals in probabilities, never certainties. I see philosophy as being a useful tool for discussing ways of understanding the natural world and our place in it.

125 Staff Refuse Vaccine, Quit Indiana’s Biggest Hospital System - NewsRescue.com

mcgeo52 comments on Sep 20, 2021:

They'll be back, just not collecting a paycheck.

anglophone replies on Sep 20, 2021:

Yep.

I am curious.

Pralina1 comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Man . It was hard for me . I still have days that I think about it and can’t breathe . 14 yrs later , i am not mad or scared anymore , not at all , but I look back and I can’t believe I recovered this . My divorce it was a surprise to me . Married for 12, no kids , pretty good money ways , we ...

anglophone replies on Sep 20, 2021:

Thank you for sharing that. ((Hugs))

I am curious.

Organist1 comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Every morning for almost 20 years, I woke up with the feeling that love was dying, and kept it to myself for the sake of my children. I told a friend or 2...that's it. Later, when I finally asked for a divorce, I found out my husband had been gay and in the closet all those years. I put off mourning...