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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined:
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Here's my first loony: Doesn't anyone else find him reminiscent of Brad McFall? I think it's the arbitrary name-dropping of biologists and philosophers that does it.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
Whilst browsing through the Encyclopedia of American Loons, I came across a baraminologist who's actually willing to put her money where her mouth is and identify the kinds. She's only done the mammals so far, but estimates that there are 137 extant mammal kinds (excluding cetaceans and sirenians, since they wouldn't need to go on the ark so aren't being considered), with maybe as many extinct kinds represented in the fossil record.
So, there is indeed a single cat kind and a single dog kind, but she gives some actual notice to taxonomy, and settles on 18 different bat kinds. Looking at the primate kinds, it seems that 'kind' corresponds exactly with 'family'. She hasn't, apparently, been informed that the Callitrichidae family has recently been resurrected, so marmosets are the same kind as capuchins. Oh, and she doesn't buy humans being placed with the other great apes, because "given the significant differences between us and apes compared to some of the differences between other families, this seems ludicrous."
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
These guys are going to provide us with more loonies than we can count. Yup, a Climate Change Denier Will Oversee NASA. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? This seems to be a theme. Allow me to introduce Aldo Rebelo:
Mr. Rebelo is a deputy for the Communist Party of Brazil, and is of the school of thought that climate change is a nefarious conspiracy cooked up by neo-colonialists in Washington and Brussels to keep emerging economies in subjection. he had this to say on the evidence:
quote: In all its wisdom, the Brazillian government has decided that this is the man they want to serve as the new Minister for Science and Technology. The mind boggles.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
The most worrying thing about Tredinnick is that this isn't a sudden odd statement of his. Here's him speaking in Parliament in 2009:
quote: Note that he refers back to saying the same things in 2001. He has won a seat in every election since 1987, despite not only spouting this nonsense continually, but having to resign from government in 1994 for having accepted payment from an undercover journalist to ask questions in Parliament. Sad reflection on the electorate.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
Or the uterus for that matter. The fetus does not grow in the "tummy" ... I wonder if you can get a degree in "republican science" ... ? Reluctantly, I have to come to this chap's defence. Look at the context. He is arguing in favour of a law prohibiting doctors from prescribing the morning after pill without seeing a patient face-to-face. A doctor makes a point about remote colonoscopies. He asks 'can you do that with a pregnancy', to which the answer is no. His point being that therefore this is not the same situation. It's not that difficult to understand if you look past the urge to paint your political opponents as scientific illiterates.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined:
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The pedant in me is less offended by the bigoted screed than by the misplaced 'sic'. What's wrong with 'pussy' as an adjective derived from 'pus'? Dictionary.com is satisfied with the word, and claim it's been about since the 16th century.
sic is a weapon one should wield with care. Nothing worse than being pedantically critical and wrong at the same time.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
The spelling is correctly used. No (sic) should be used for any reason. What would matter is the pronunciation. puhs-ee v poo s-ee You've lost me here. The adjectival form of 'pus' and the slang for female genitalia (or a cat) would be pronounced identically where I'm from.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
That's kus yor a forinner. In the following there are little blue symbols like a speaker. Hit them and hear the difference between 1 and 2. Here. But it's OK to pronounce them the same if that's your social norm. Kinda like pussy poop in a cat box and an English poop in the Vatican. I'm actually fascinated to discover that American English distinguishes these two sounds - I never knew that. In British English they wouldn't be considered separate sounds. Not that we don't hear the difference, but which 'u' sound you use depends on where you grew up rather than which word you're trying to say.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
And yet "British English" itself doesn't have universal pronunciation standards. "Mom" , pronounced "mawm" in the US, is often pronounced "mum" in Britain (and spelled that way too) but it can also be pronounced "Moom" (rhymes with "book"). But that's just what I said - in the north of England it's pronounced 'mum' (which you spell 'moom' because of the silly way you think 'u' should be pronounced); whereas in the south it's pronounced the way you think 'mum' should sound.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
I'm fairly sure that whereas Northerners may conflate ʌ and ʊ into ʊ, no-one conflates them into ʌ. I was about to argue, but then I thought about how a southerner would say 'book' and realised that I didn't think this one through!
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
You really need to wonder about the utter incompetence of NASA and the people that they hire when they have not been able to ever find the edge of the flat earth when they orbit in either an equatorial or polar plane and even those airline pilots who fly long distance flights to locations on both sides of the flat earth. It's not incompetence. The astro-Jews and Nas-holes are all in on the atheistic-communist conspiracy. Who knew?
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
Funnily enough I was back in the UK on a brief business trip last week and bought a Viz (as I tend to do when I visit). Letterbocks included this delight:
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
This guy's conspiracy theory involves the Illuminati, gay marriage, the Zika virus, geo-engineering, "chemtrails", abortion, wars in the Middle East, GMO's, multiculturalism, vaccines and the flat Earth, because why not? I like this guy. Far too many nutters will ally themselves with any other nutter who questions the 'official story'; even when their ideas are clearly in flat contradiction to one another. Not Stallings. A lot of his blog is dedicated to criticising geocentrists, creationists and biblical literalists who, nevertheless, believe the lie of the round earth. Uncompromising commitment to the cause. ABE: My respect is slightly lessened after reading some of the comments. He spends his time focusing on fundamentalists not because of a rigorous commitment to truth, but because he sees talking to anyone else as a waste of time.
quote: Edited by caffeine, : No reason given.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined:
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Re: Flat Earther "Mad" Mike Hughes ... I wouldn't trust that thing to fly anywhere! Reminds me of those old-time videos where early attempts of aviation blew up and crashed again and again! This loon obviously seeks publicity...but for what reason? Is Flat Earthism for real? How could anybody seriously believe that? Thats worse than believing that the planet is 6000 years old! I suspect he doesn't believe all this flat earth silliness either. Apparently he launched a fundraising campaign for his rocket launch a few years ago with no mention of this, and only got a couple of hundred dollars. He didn't say anything about proving the earth flat when he did his last rocket flight, either (the one that landed him in hospital). After appearing on a radio program and talking about his attempt to get funding and prove that NASA's round earth lies are all an NWO conspiracy, however, he's raised thousands. Basically, he likes to play with his home-made rockets, and has figured out a way to get gullible people to pay for it.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1025 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
This appears to be what we call, in English, "a joke".
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