So, PZ is a stone-cold racist.

[DaveDodo007]

I'm not letting gratuitous cockroach bashing go unchallenged. Cockroaches are the victims here. Sure, we call them "filthy" or "unhygienic" but we are the ones forcing them to live under the refrigerator, without running water or the most primitive of sanitary facilities. We spray deadly nerve poisons on them, leave out poison bait, and routinely squish them. We kill their children EVERY DAY. And then we get upset when they dribble a bit of salmonella on food that we leave out overnight. I cannot believe the hypocrisy of this thread.

I don't think you have to worry too much about this as when humanity is long gone due to it's adherents to religion or ideology the cockroaches with still be laughing at us.

[Thumpalumpacus]

As a human (from my mother's side), I resent that comment and find it offensive.

[tattuchu]

Sounds like we have a new name for our forum! Nest of Cockroaches!

I thought that was an 80s band.

You're thinking of Cocks of Nestroaches.

[Jason]

Silly question:

Is there any chance people here will stop obsessing about PZ Meyers, his baying followers, and the skepchicks any time soon?

[Robert_S]

Silly question:

Is there any chance people here will stop obsessing about PZ Meyers, his baying followers, and the skepchicks any time soon?

Not until people stop obsessing over the fact that we're all obsessing about PZ Meyers, his baying followers, and the skepchicks.

[Jason]

Very good. I'll resume making inappropriate jokes and unwanted sexual advances where only members can see them then. Business as usual.

[Svartalf]

That still doesn't make it trolling.

Guys, it was trolling.

I'm not looking to hash it out any more, but let's call a spade a spade.

"trolling" is not synonymous with "inflammatory." Most people who cry "troll" are trying to make just that conflation. It was dickish, it was blunt, it was rude, it was insensitive, it was tasteless, but it was not trolling.

Trolling USED to have a well-defined meaning, but over the last few years people have just turned it into "saying anything offensive or provocative."

Nothing personal, i'm just really sick of people throwing around labels because they happen to be popular.

I hear you.

I'm using the sense introduced by the new poster.

I'll try to get quote.

But I get what you're saying. I like to try to keep meanings precise when I can, as well.

here's the quote:

I don't think you can define all offensive language as trolling. A post intended for the purposes of deliberately antagonizing someone is.

For once that this particular noob was posting something worthy... So Papa's original post that started the fun wasn't trolling at all...

Now, more recent posts poking fun at PZ and the other godwinesque mullahs ... were they? Were they purely internal posting, or were they posted because we have additional traffic and it was assumed somebody from those other places would see them and be offended enough to respond hire/comment on them elsewhere?

[Svartalf]

I'm not attracted to the majority of black women. I'm not racist. So fucking what?

Huh?

I like lentils. I'm not from Bombay.

We've had lentils in the West at least since Roman times, you know that? You can have a nice dish of lentils without it having to be a form of dhal.

[Svartalf]

On another forum, which none of you read so far as I know of, a guy posted a link to news article about an atheist who was asking that three crosses erected without authorization be removed from Marine Corps property. The OP suggested that they should shoot the atheist, a Marine himself. When I asked if they would feel the same why if it was the Star of David or the Star and Crescent I was called for trolling. When I asked what it meant there they said, "Posting inflammatory remarks." The OP was not called for the same offensive.

At that point I decided anyone who calls trolling can insert a spool of barbed wire up their urethra and shit it out their ass.

That was trolling and I am deeply offended !

Now please gimme the wire, I need interesting sensations.

[lordpasternack]

Pedant mode: IT'S PZ MYERS! M-Y-E-R-S!

Thanks…

[Gawdzilla Sama]

On another forum, which none of you read so far as I know of, a guy posted a link to news article about an atheist who was asking that three crosses erected without authorization be removed from Marine Corps property. The OP suggested that they should shoot the atheist, a Marine himself. When I asked if they would feel the same why if it was the Star of David or the Star and Crescent I was called for trolling. When I asked what it meant there they said, "Posting inflammatory remarks." The OP was not called for the same offensive.

At that point I decided anyone who calls trolling can insert a spool of barbed wire up their urethra and shit it out their ass.

That was trolling and I am deeply offended !

Now please gimme the wire, I need interesting sensations.

You'll get the droud when you earn it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pedant mode: IT'S PiZZy MYERS! M-Y-E-R-S!

Thanks…

[colubridae]

On another forum, which none of you read so far as I know of, a guy posted a link to news article about an atheist who was asking that three crosses erected without authorization be removed from Marine Corps property. The OP suggested that they should shoot the atheist, a Marine himself. When I asked if they would feel the same why if it was the Star of David or the Star and Crescent I was called for trolling. When I asked what it meant there they said, "Posting inflammatory remarks." The OP was not called for the same offensive.

At that point I decided anyone who calls trolling can insert a spool of barbed wire up their urethra and shit it out their ass.

I find this post to be highly provocative. You are being deliberately provocative Zilla.

Every decent person knows the barbed wire goes up the asshole and out the urethra.

Inflammatory post. Reported.

Inflamation?

I had one of those suppositories once. For all the good it did I may as well have shoved it up my arse.

[laklak]

Very good. I'll resume making inappropriate jokes and unwanted sexual advances where only members can see them then. Business as usual.

Quite, old boy. Steady as she goes.

[hadespussercats]

I'm not attracted to the majority of black women. I'm not racist. So fucking what?

Huh?

I like lentils. I'm not from Bombay.

We've had lentils in the West at least since Roman times, you know that? You can have a nice dish of lentils without it having to be a form of dhal.

Yeah. I didn't get the original comment. I thought I'd just mirror the format, see what happened.

I like dhal.