OK guys get a room already.

@VoodooV.....won't stand-by and let you or other internet social-dysfunctionals take another shit on yet another account. Yourself and chicco (with whom your personal issues have rung-true with often as evidenced in the mechanized comment-up-votes) need to step the fuck back from the baiting-and-blathering and get a room may-haps??

^ If he'd care to, I'd discuss my problem with his tactics at length, but as you can see eric, he's already decided just how he's willing to avoid discussion, and simply deride me publically.

I take offense, and as politely as I am able to at any time, voice my consternation with the dysfunction and hate directed at me personally.

Swirly??-That's like sticking someone's head in a toilet and holding them down while you flush it, right? One usually needs a few like-minded buddies to help with such a move...

I'd call his new favorite word for me a bully-tactic cloaked in an insult, disguised as a free-ticket to absolution. But hey, I'm the asshole here so, it couldn't be anyone but me, right??

Why sir, did not you yourself second his ban of this violator of the sift's rules eric, if it's not simply to call-attention to what you perceive as hate directed at chicco??

Maybe get a room, discuss it amongst yourselves??

get a room you two!
dont make me get the hose!

I really don't think twice when I see an African lady breastfeeding her child in some documentary, but agree it seems awkward to see white women breastfeeding in cities. Although I notice more and more public places and office buildings are getting breastfeeding rooms adjacent to the public bathrooms, not sure about UK though.

Are all public womens bathrooms in the UK cramped and smelling of piss?

I don't feel compelled to provide concrete data because I never took a concrete stance for or against scientific spending. Even when referencing military research it was because some people commented about cutting military spending as though that would have no effect on research funding.

My posts were to point out that the question of research with merit is a very difficult one to answer especially if "the greater good" is used as a criteria because "greater good" encompasses things outside of science and which may be much more immediate than the results of research (ie healthcare, employment, international affairs, etc.)

Those things being high impact and immediate could have a negative impact when using "greater good" in a simplified way because each person's cost-benefit analysis of research will vary depending on their circumstances. I can only assume that the greater good is some kind of aggregate so you cant ignore the individual.

In fact, in order to use the greater good as a measuring stick to even START this debate in a "concrete" way as you say, the following would have to be answered and I don't think you could get a room of people to agree on the answers to them much less a nation or planet.


Who is affected by the greater good?
What do we mean by greater good (greater outcome, greater meaning, greater support)?
How is it measured?
Over what period of time?
In what way and to what are we comparing it?
What terms is the final measure of the cost-benefit analysis? Dollars? Happiness? Health? Opinion?

You said your reaction is not fanatic, yet you're attacking me as a foe despite the fact I never actually rallied against ur stance.

This entire time I'm essentially saying "people need to be more aware of the larger picture when trying to answer this question because both sides seem to focus on the smaller parts that support them (and therefore come across semi-fanatic). Furthermore if a proper analysis is used then ud likely find some research doesnt cut the mustard and some is not as insignificant as it might have first seemed."

To which you've promptly replied each time explaining about how mistaken I am in my understanding of the importance of scientific research. I left a piece of your last post so you can see how aggressively you address me directly despite me never having said I disagree with, but only with the vigor of which people will argue scientific research even when the other side has a valid point...or in this case were not making the point ur arguing against to begin with.

Ok besides ant here....

Who down-votes with a tincture of sensibilities, pet-peevish disdain for tone and timbre of a particular user's comments or antics, half a fifth of, "That'll panty-knot yer grandstandin'!", and maybe a dash of, "Oh fuck off, up or down and I don't care!"??

My take on the dichotomy that does not exist here with regards to the efficacy of votes and their effect on anything but fake bling, is that up and down should be tossed-around with fervor and abandon on offerings of users who have been here the longest, are the most active etc., and that more attention should be paid to the offerings and activeness of the USERS WHO ARE:

A newbies
B talented and resourceful, (feel'em out, dipshits!)
C show the fuck up at all and say ANYTHING on this flaccid site!

Kinna boringly cliquish and dull around here, maybe you charters who put money to mouth should get a room and come up with some ideas-Place needs a douche

Get A Room, Kittens has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals on that post.

Christ, can you two just get a room and be done with it? I'm tired of seeing your entire conversations played out in the "Newest Appreciated Comments" section!
>> ^pumkinandstorm:

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Oh please. Your screen is too small. You need a bigger screen with bigger (dots per inches) DPIs. ;
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I am not little. I am big:
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/pictures/wanted.gif
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And smaller.
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Bah. What about your current age?
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http://stellaween.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/toddler-catwom an.jpg
There ya go...that's me. wshhhhhhhsnap


Why thank you, I always look younger in my catwoman outfit. Must be the mask.


You're one to talk "little" ant!


I have my ruler here...you're only 1/2 inch wide and about 3/4 inches tall based on that picture...not the best picture to demonstrate your massive size.


Nice try...but I have my doubts. Gotta run! Reusing a Terminator clip from earlier in the day (since I'm running out of fresh material) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxaXmXvjnU