Recent content by bumeister

Flat earthers, YECs, chemtrail idiots, terrain theory advocates/germ theory deniers, anti-vaxxers, plate tectonics deniers, I've run into all of them on FB, some on public news posts, many in the friend lists of people I know, and a handful are people I have known IRL.

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he will nominate Harmeet K. Dhillon, the former vice chair of the California GOP, to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice. 🤮

I got banned once (during the Katrina thread, in fact) because they thought I was wtz. Which in hindsight is pretty fucking insulting.

Careful, you will summon him and then the board will be in for a world of hurt. He's basically un-moderate-able, and has been banned in some capacity from every board on which I've encountered him (more than just IC and the BoB), and it's NEVER his fault. Just ask him.

It worked! lol ETA at this point about all you're going to see from me is snark and scorn, I'm done putting actual time into arguing with nitwits on the internet. I've served my time and am out of patience and tolerance.

I have not caught up on this whole stupid ass thread (still on page 17), but I just want to say how much I enjoy being lectured to about biology from one of people who sit in the back row. So absolutely certain, and yet knows so little.

Some were just idiots, some were just assholes, and some... well, some had both qualities maxed out.

I have nothing positive to contribute to this thread, other than to say that the ZZL Politics board helped me with my "arguing with assholes/idiots on the internet" compulsion. So, I guess, well done for attracting so many of them?

I was alone in my friend group in my dislike for the Rat. Didn't care for Spanky's either, come to think of it. A curmudgeon from a young age.

Ah, yes, guacamole, enchiladas, and flan, so exotic and foreign they have to be explained. I loved the food at Fats, even if it wasn't especially spicy. I also miss the Flying Burrito.

Late 70s for me, also went to Campbell basketball school one summer when my folks signed me up too late for Carolina.

Yep, among other things Jimmy is the guy who hired and trained me back in the summer of 1985. Haven't seen or talked to him in a very, very long time, but for a year or so I probably talked to him every single day.

I bet well over half my record, and later CD, collection came from Back Door Records. This thread makes me feel old. And I realize despite living in Chapel Hill for 8 years (84-92), I was largely unaware of how much was going on around me, and how much I'd later regret not having paid more...

And it only cost me approximately 48.4% of my already questionable sanity!

Around the time I was most active on IC and the BoB, rand was also on a couple of science-oriented boards that I frequented (EvC forums being one). There was no escape. Anyway. I wasted a lot of time arguing with nitwits on the ZZL and the BoB. Some of it was amusing, like the time the one guy...