Skypeland Adventures

Blog traffic

2009-07-24T06:28:00.000-07:00

It is interesting to take a look and see what sort of things bring people to this blog, aside from the regular readers who frequent Skypeland. There are searches that provide links to these pages, as I have previously noted. There are also people who are looking through google images and then click on the google image of their choice to find their way to this page.

Previously a very popular image leading people to this blog was:

from the blog post "What are you eating?". I wonder; why this photo would interest anyone?

Of course, people came to the blog when they clicked on other pictures as well, such as the lovely photos of Amy Winehouse. For example,

is an image from the blog post "National character".

However, by far the most popular photo in this blog, at least judging by the number of people who click on the image and are lead to this Skypeland Adventures blog, is:

from the blog post "Bitch tits". I notice that about 90% of the visitors to this blog in the last 24 hours came because they clicked on this photo. They came from Sweden and Belgium and the Netherlands and the UK (quite a few from the UK, actually) and Montreal and Pennsylvania and Germany and Connecticut and Germany and New Zealand, all because they clicked on this photo after doing a google search that retrieved this image.

I am not sure what this means, if anything, but it is interesting. Perhaps it shows that people are interested in the breasts of both women and men, artfully and attractively displayed. From what I have seen so far however, the men are winning out by a huge margin, contrary to what you might imagine.

Pricks

2009-07-21T10:35:00.001-07:00

Recently in Skypeland, there was a lot of turmoil over the issue of whether people should be allowed to "out" others they dislike or not.

Some willingly give out their personal information, like the "Spam King" BW. Others give out some of their personal information, like Mucus. A few, like the mystery man A, give out what they claim is their personal information, and then deny that they ever did it. The mystery man A also has betrayed storyteller D's confidence, and released D's personal information, and then denied that he did that, making up some highly dubious story (however, to be honest, he was not particularly convincing given his track record). By contrast some, like the lovely long-legged vixen RL of Arizona, have tried to maintain some privacy and not reveal much about their true identities.

Mucus was banned from one Skypeland venue for 3 days for revealing RL's personal information, and then allowed back after he apologized. However, Mucus was still fuming:

cunts

Submitted by Anonymous20 (not verified) on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 13:27.

You fucking American wankers, S, F, and miss gutter mouth RL or should I say P! Go fuck yourselves you fucking pricks!

From this post we see how angry Mucus still is, several days later.

RL/P

Submitted by Anonymous23 (not verified) on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 13:32.

What a foul-mouthed nasty bitch she is what horrible crap comes out of her mouth the sick bitch!

I wonder if Mucus has considered comparing what comes out of RL's mouth with what comes out of his own mouth? Or Mr. Wee Wee Hands? Or the multimillionaire special forces operative and bathroom contractor R? Or any number of other visitors to Skypeland?

Russia should have nuked you all

Submitted by Anonymous24 (not verified) on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 13:42.

What I hear from you wankers and the utter crap that spills from your mouths, has led me to the conclusion that you should have all been nuked by the Russians back in the 80's. The world would be a much better place than it is now without arsewipe yankies around touting your guns and crap. Most of the stuff you talk about is war, you lot are obsessed with war and violence you sick puppies! Listen to the debassed crap that comes out of your very large Amercian mouths! I used to think the yanks were a nice enough people but after hearing the shit you utter and the depths of depravity that you go to, maybe it's time to change my opinion! YOU ARE A BUNCH OF NASTY FUCKING CUNTS!

When I read this sort of nonsense from this angry ignorant unemployed high school dropout, I just shake my head.

fucking power crazy cunts

Submitted by Anonymous45 (not verified) on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 13:59.

Oh I'm going to lock the conference to stop the people I don't want coming in my room! FUCKING PRICKS!

Finally, after all this provocation, someone responded with:

PM Needs to Control Himself

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 17:39.

Using the IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, this mucus of a man, the worthless piece of shit that he is, has decided he will pick on innocent civilians and will attempt to destroy the lives of others. As such, all digital traffic coming in and out of networks close to X will be monitored and placed on a watch list. Proper authorities have been identified and PM will be forced to learn for once in his empty life. So watch out PM, or one day your Internet will be taken away and you will be answering for yourself to men who don't find your attitude amusing.

This post was quickly removed, however, when someone thought the better of it. I think it is still quite interesting and instructive, myself. I don't know if Mucus will calm down, or if the other angry Brits will calm down. It is amazing that something so simple should be blown up out of all proportion, however.

Addendum

Here is a further comment, presumably from Mucus, a few days later, probably in response to this blog post:

bloody X taking the piss

Submitted by wanker (not verified) on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 11:43.

bloody X taking the piss on his blog again cuntbreath you are all over youtube nasty bugger

fool you are mate i wont be

Submitted by tosserwatch (not verified) on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 13:21.

fool you are mate i wont be giving you the pleasure of me reading the shite you putting out wanker come on X you got no balls mate what you got yourself the reason behind your blog nobody cares about and why you isnt coming in the room cuz A

Recent popular blog posts

2009-07-21T06:52:00.000-07:00

For the amusement of my readers, here is a list of the most popular recent blog posts, in approximate order:

*A strange search

A post about a somewhat outrageous search someone used to find this blog.

*King of the Loo

Readers are challenged to guess the identity of the subject of this poem.

*You smell like poo

A story about a dog whose owner visits Skypeland.

*A troll technique

My summary of the events leading up to the current recusal of the Brits from one particular venue in Skypeland.

*Mohammed was right

Some more outrageous statements from one of our Muslim visitors.

*Crustier and crustier

Some speculation about the hygienic practices of a Skypelander.

*Bitch tits

A shocking admission by one of the more irritating Skypeland visitors.

*On patrol

An analysis of several visitors to Skypeland who seem to want to dominate the conversation, and punish those who they disagree with.

*Tits so big it is unreal

A conversation with a mature woman in Skypeland.

A troll technique

2009-07-19T06:59:00.000-07:00

I was reminded of another common troll technique for "debating" in Skypeland the other day. It is very common for trolls to ask a question, and then as soon as someone tries to answer, to talk over them and not allow them to answer.

There are only a few responses possible. If one has control of the moderator controls, one can shut down the microphone of the troll, and allow someone to answer the troll. One can just give up, and leave the discussion. Or one can respond in kind. Most disruptive elements complain bitterly when anyone gives them a taste of their own medicine. Like most bullies, they can dish it out, but they cannot take it.

The muck expert Mucus recently was banned from one Skypeland venue for 3 days for having advertised L's real name in a Skypeland discussion. Mucus was incensed by this, and talked about how unfair it was since people in the room were "racist" to say he is stupid, and to not let him spew antiAmerican and antiSemitic material unimpeded (this little brown man, son of immigrants from Cyprus, and genetically indistinguishable from a Turk, wants to claim he is a "proper Brit" usually; however, he screams "racism" when he thinks it will give him an advantage).

Mucus' buddy, the indolent incomparably incomprehensible Yorkhire pipefitter Mrs. B came to Mucus' defense and attacked me for supposedly having used the real name of someone else in the room. Makes good sense; I didn't ban Mucus, and I did not even hear what he did. But when the Brits want to get even, they attack me. And the mystery man A joined in to assist them, and the Brits cheered him and egged him on.

The shrill shrew J's Skype name is "Anne Boleyn" . Therefore, in one Skypeland discussion, I and others often refer to the shrill shrew J as "Anne" or "Anne Boleyn". Of course, I have no idea what the shrill shrew J's real name is.

Mrs. B got himself all worked up into a state of high dudgeon and claimed that I was not allowed to use the names "Anne" or "Anne Boleyn" in a Skypeland room since these names were supposedly J's real names. Mrs. B claimed that because I said the name "Anne Boleyn" in the Skypeland room, I should be banned. Since I was not banned, this was evidence of gross inequity and discrimination, and showed that people are outrageously unfair to Mucus.

Again Mrs. B brought up the complaint that because this discussion is supposed to be "fair and unbalanced", that therefore I should be forbidden from speaking. On the other hand, Mrs. B asserted that Mucus should be allowed to make whatever misogenic, antiAmerican or antiSemitic statement he liked, and even threaten to kill anyone he liked including the room moderators and those paying for the room. Mrs. B agreed that anyone objecting to Mucus' crazy opinions and threats showed that Mucus was being discriminated against by "evil racists". How is it that not a single one of these great geniuses can figure out what the term UNbalanced means? No matter how often it is explained to them, they are unable to look it up in a book or online, or else they do not care. I would not have thought that was a difficult concept to get across, but it clearly is. However, it does tell one what sort of idiocy one is dealing with.

When I tried to explain, Mrs. B refused to listen, and instead just talked over me. Well, I guess I should not have expected any more than this from Mrs B. He is just unable to understand and reason in any rational way, and is very arrogant about his superiority.

As I have said before, he is "proud to be stupid".

Addition

Although Mucus was "banned" for 3 days, he was back in the Skypeland discussion less than 12 hours later. Subsequently, the "ban" on Mucus was lifted early. However, Mrs. B was so angry about this treatment of Mucus, that he announced he would leave Skypeland forever.

Oh brother. More pointless drama.

Gardening

2009-07-18T06:25:00.000-07:00

In Skypeland one can hear a lot of comments about gardens and gardening. People swap stories about huge zucchinis the size of zeppelins and monsterous Sasquatch-sized squashes. Skypelanders give each other gardening tips. People show pictures of their gardens.

The moderator S has a large garden with a rustic fence around it. His tomato plants were already over 6 feet in height at the start of July. S gets so many vegetables from his garden he cannot eat it all and he has to give most of them away. He is constantly on the lookout for various critters from the surrounding woods who try to sneak in and raid his garden.

Many of the Brits mock S for his gardening efforts. Mucus has asserted that leaves are not good composting material since Mucus claims there is no material in leaves that are nutritious for plants. Mucus also flew into a rage when S said he was putting lime on his garden, since Mucus said one should only put manure on a garden. Mucus cursed and insulted S for being so stupid that he would think lime was beneficial for a garden.

The international mercenary and bathroom contractor R claims he has a massive garden. To prove this, R passed around a picture supposedly showing him riding a small lawn tractor. The man in the photo is wearing a pair of rubber boots and giving the photographer the finger.

However, several Skypelanders raised the question of whether this was even R at all (the face looks a bit different from his other pictures, and the figure in the photo is wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap). Some wondered if this picture did show R on a tractor, was he just making a few extra quid mowing lawns in the neighborhood?.

G in Texas is quite proud of his garden and gives tours of his garden by webcam. G is also interested in inventing and flying novel kinds of kites, which he flies near his garden.

Roxy the "foxy" likes to spend time in the garden, digging and sniffing around. I had friends with a chihuahua that used to raid the garden for peas and carrots. He pulled up the carrots and onions and ate them. I don't know if Roxy does anything similar. Roxy smells so bad that I think no one gets close enough to her for long enough to see what she does in the garden.

K had a garden that was often visited by foxes in the UK. She fed them pizza and dog food and they ate from her hand. However, she found that the foxes danced in her garden and trod down the plants. Also they pooped on the potato plants, crapped on the cabbages, peed on the peas, dropped turds on the turnips and shit on the shallots. K remarked that the foxes had very pungent poos and they did a lot of damage to the plants.

Here are a few of K's comments on the matter:

[8:46:06 AM] K says: yeah not here....yes they ewere rather ''not going to eat those'' i made a veg patch for my upstairs neighbours kid...she liked the foxes more

[9:19:53 AM] K says: they do do (do do hahhah) rather pungent poos

I asked the lovely T if she gardened. T told me that she had some issues with a garden:

[9:40:30 AM] P says: did you ever garden?

[9:41:18 AM] T says: oh yes i just wrecked my friends vegetable garden, didnt water it enough, i take care of their house and garden for one month ooooooooooops. im taking care of the turkish family ( my friends ) house and garden

[9:47:25 AM] T says: and in their traditional they have lots of spinach

[9:47:41 AM] T says: i have to cut it and clean it and put it to the freezer

[9:48:10 AM] T says: there is so much weed that i cant tell the difference of weed of spinach

[9:48:26 AM] T says: so whats the reason for putting weed in the freezer you see

Not everyone in Skypeland thinks that gardening is interesting to talk about however:

[9:57:10 AM] Q says: i do not garden.

[9:57:12 AM] Q says: plants hate me.

[9:57:26 AM] Q says: but, most of the men on here seem to do some type of gardening.

[9:57:28 AM] Q says: how gay.

Well I guess you can't please everyone. And in the case of some of the Brits, talking about gardening just seems to lead to anger and insults and death threats.

A strange search

2009-07-18T04:00:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned before, some visitors to this blog come as the result of internet searches. I occasionally scan through the search terms people used out of curiosity.

Yesterday, someone in Tampa, Florida did an AOL search for the phrase "cunt with mucus" and the second most prominent hit was my blog post entitled "Starvation". Although I am glad to welcome readers here no matter how they find the blog, I do have to wonder about what this person was looking for. Did they want information about a medical problem perhaps? If that is true, this blog is probably not the best place to look.

King of the Loo

2009-07-17T08:34:00.000-07:00

Here is a little ditty I came across. I wonder who it is referring to? Can you guess?

King of the loo, obsessed with poo

He says he is rich, but he's prolly someone's bitch

Says he's a killer, but that is clearly filler

Claims his family mined gems, he talks 'bout BMs

His bragging wont quit, he looks like Brad Shit

When plastered he has fits, he said he's got tits

Can't get a rut, eats cheese from a butt

Bet he wears a skirt, he sure tries to flirt

Not really Norman Bates, more like "Norman Fellates"

Likes it up his rear, looks for a volunteer

Obviously queer, drunk but not on beer

Wants to get a pump, right up his rump

In the same damn hole from which he takes a dump

Mohammed was right

2009-07-17T07:56:00.000-07:00

Recently in Skypeland we had another visit from the lovely S from Algeria. S repeated her claim that it was appropriate and permissible for women to be raped in many circumstances (I wonder if she even knows what that means...), as she has said before.

Sarah was asked about Mohammed's last wife Aisha. Mohammed became engaged to Aisha when Aisha was 6, and engaged in intercrural sex (known in the Arabic world as "thighing") with Aisha until she was 9, when Mohammed married Aisha and started having regular intercourse with her. Some believe that Aisha contracted syphilis from Mohammed before they were married since the Hadiths record that after these bouts of intercrural sex, Aisha became very ill and lost all her hair and was infertile afterwards, which are symptoms of syphilitic infection.

Sarah alleged that "Mohammed was right in fucking Aisha" because Mohammed "knew how to handle her properly".

Well nothing like maintaining your position at all costs, is there? Somehow, Sarah's efforts to defend Mohammed weaken her position and make me even less respectful of Muslims. She should quit while she is behind.

Bitch tits

2009-07-16T16:51:00.000-07:00

The special forces operative and toilet installer R bored a Skypeland venue to death for the 3rd time inside of a week again yesterday. Typically, when a drunk and fuming R shows up in a room, screaming into a microphone at maximum volume, berating all his listeners and threatening and insulting, after a couple of hours the audience has dropped by 2/3 or more.

Some asked R why he was so offensive and obnoxious. R said, "To be honest I don't like people beating others up". However, LY from Iceland said to R that "You are always threatening to beat people up". R responded "Well yes but that is the entire point".

My impression is that R demands that those who want to promote antiAmerican and antiSemitic views in a pro-American and pro-Jewish Skypeland venue be allowed to do so unimpeded. R therefore believes he is justified in acting as rude as possible.

R told us his family was very wealthy in Africa, and owned hotels and diamond mines. When white rule in Rhodesia collapsed, R said he stuffed his pockets with gems and walked for 24 days with a gun to get to South Africa. On his way, R supposedly rescued a princess named Scarlet that he found.

Later he said that one of the participants in the room, D, was "getting on my tits". At this, D broke out into song about R's "bitch tits", which I guess is a colloquial name for the condition known as "gynecomastia". This song just made R more irritated, and soon R was threatening to hunt D down and kill him.

R also posts comments on a website associated with a Skypeland venue. Here is a recent sample:

*HA HA HA HA HA HA

Submitted by R on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:14.

The guys are quite right Knob.....go boil your fucking head!

*place your nose at my feet boy!

Submitted by R on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 04:39.

Know when your betters click there fingers and come BOY......Heel,sit before you get a rolled up npaper wrapped across your snought.While you are at it bring your bitches(Y & F) in tow also.We wait with baited breath for your spew.......wank stain..

*In addition

Submitted by R on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 04:52.

I appologise for leading you to understand, I was talking for others in my previous post.I did not mean to.It is from me.....suck the frosty bits from my cock Knob....I will meet you in person one day and you will squeel like the pig you are.

*you are one strange girl

Submitted by R on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 04:56.

but funny as hell, make them beg for it girl.

R passed around a picture that supposedly shows him wearing rubber boots and riding a lawn tractor. This spurred the following posts:

*R'S GUM BOOTS

Submitted by FG on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 07:17.

i just cant seem to get enough of those boots r is wearing, they are beautiful. I wonder if his mom made him that cup of tea or his tumbleweed girlfriend did???

*Need somewhere to keep your......F Spawn

Submitted by R on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:34.

Aaaah F Spawn need somwhere to keep your offspring?We will have a wip round for a paddling pool for you and your snail trail.

*Nice shitkickers R

Submitted by A (not verified) on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 17:07.

Nice shitkickers R

*Yes Brother

Submitted by R on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 19:26.

In this Room they are needed,where is Knobs head when you want it?

*does your mom pay you to mow the lawn?

Submitted by FG on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 20:58.

how much do you get? Is it by the hour or as a set rate?

*after I have seviced yer ma

Submitted by R (not verified) on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 02:28.

Yes f spawn ,after the lawn,she pays me to service the forsaken like you.When the rest of the world looks at you and vomits,I have to come in educate you.

*educate??

Submitted by FG on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 06:48.

Do you vomit after one bottle of vodka or two?? Does your mom clean up the mess, or does your dog lick it up?

The problem is not that R is offensive, but he is so drunk and obnoxious and tedious, that he is pure poison to a Skypeland conversation. Very few people can listen to him more than a short period.

Starvation

2009-07-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

I am never quite sure what drives Mucus to have a meltdown in Skypeland. Some think it has something to do with his diet. The theory goes that if Mucus has not eaten for a few days, he will be extra angry and combative as a result. A competing theory is that if Mucus gets a good dinner on a Sunday night at his granny's house, that for a day or two Mucus will be full of energy and extra angry. It is difficult to tell really, since Mucus just seems to be angry all the time. He charges into a pro0American discussion in Skypeland and attacks all the Americans, and then is taken aback when they respond.

Here is a sample of some of his rantings:

*"Nobody starves in the UK. Go to the grocery and help yourself to food". When the moderator S asked Mucus if he therefore steals food out of the grocery, Mucus was silent.

*When a lady in the room tried to talk to Mucus, he responded, "As I have noted before, I am talking to the engine driver and not the oil rat".

*I have noted on a number of occasions that Mucus is essentially and genetically the same as a Turk, and Mucus asked me "How am I a Turk?". I tried explain about genetics and DNA, but of course Mucus would not let me, spewing a long diatribe of nonsense, curses and insults.

*Mucus claimed "blacks are more attractive than whites". Maybe this has something to do with Mucus' very brown skin.

*When the lovely V from Arizona said " I have an headache so I have to get an aspirin", Mucus responded, "So fuck off then".

*The room moderator S tried to engage Mucus in conversation, but Mucus retorted that "no one believes anything out of your shitty mouth" and told him to "go fornicate yourself...Disappear like a rat up a drainpipe you fucking cretin."

*When S asked Mucus if he would go on a rock and roll tour to Australia, Mucus was enraged, and squealed, "He is fucking insulting me!". Mucus asked S if he had ever been out of America, and S said that just a few months ago he went to Mexico. However, Mucus charged that "S didn't get out of fucking America because Mexico is fucking next door".

I have noticed that Mucus seems obssessed with male appearance. Mucus brags about how large he is and revealed that he stands 5'8", and therefore is "very tall".

I am sure even this number is probably an exaggeration, but I told Mucus that in the US, this is not even the average height for a male and often would be regarded as quite short (the National Center for Health Statistics in the US puts the current average US male height at 5'9.2"). This put Mucus back a bit.

When Mucus has no other argument to make, he engages in personal attacks, usually about people's looks. Mucus made several negative comments about my looks, and said he was in possession of a picture of me wearing a striped shirt and glasses, calling me "four eyes". Sounds interesting. I would love to see this picture. Maybe I can use it as a profile picture.

When the moderator S tried to calm Mucus down and get him to talk in a civil tone, Mucus called him "fatty" and said in a picture he had his "dinner down [his] trott", leading Mucus to allege that S "couldn't be bothered to change [his] shirt to have a fucking photo". Mucus called S "a parafin lamp... a fucking tramp" and said "Need an elephant gun to shoot you, you fat cunt. Need a harpoon, you fucking cunt".

Mucus, who has about a grade 8 education and has bragged that his secret trick on job applications is to write down that he cannot read or write, then challenged the moderator S and me about our vocabularies in English, claiming his was superior. I accepted his challenge but as soon as I did, Mucus quickly beat a retreat and shut up.

S speculated that the reason for this incredible angry incoherent outburst was that Mucus is on the edge of starvation. I am not sure, but it is possible.

Tits so big it is unreal

2009-07-15T19:38:00.001-07:00

Last night in Skypeland we had a visit from LB, who is a lawyer in Ireland. LB is often a bit tipsy when she comes to Skypeland.

There was a lot of background noise in Skype, and LB thought that a grinding noise was someone talking to her:

Are you chewing a brick or talking to me? Can you get your fucking monkey back and stop squealing in the background? Stand up and be a real man...Sit there and fucking snigger. Fucking stand up. Be proud to be a man!

I said I was not talking to her and that my microphone was muted. She said, "I am muted? Why do you think I am muted?"

LB's connection was horrible, as it always is, and so she was dropped every few minutes. When she came back, she said:

So proud of yourself. You have to kick a woman.

A lot of what LB said made no sense, such as "You know how gobby I can be. Intellectually I can be so superior to gobbiness".

There was constant grinding in the background, and LB asked, "Do you want to have a wee wank again, muppet?"

LB offered the ladies present some advice on how to deal with the bathroom contractor R. "Get your shoulders back and be proud to be emotional", said LB.

One of the ladies listening was the fairly buxom YL from Iceland. A male said that if YL put her shoulders back, his eyes would pop out of his head. To this, LB replied, " That is nothing. My tits are so big it is unreal".

Oh my.

Cow poo

2009-07-15T05:28:00.000-07:00

Today in Skypeland, I heard a bit more about the charming "Roxy the foxy" in New Zealand. As you might recall, Roxy not only likes to perfume herself by rolling in feces, but also likes to freshen her breath by dining on dog droppings, sort of like a breath mint. I wonder if a piece of excrement qualifies as something sweet, or savory?

True to her English heritage, Roxy also likes to eat pies; but in her case, they are cow pies.

Yep. Meadow muffins are Roxy's favorite snack. She likes to munch milker merde. That is, bovine butt nuggets. Cattle keester cakes. Moo movements. Taurine turds. Dogie defecation disks. Ox ordure. Longhorn leavings. Bison BM business. Lineback logs. Buffalo brown bombs. Calf caca. Guernsey Guano. White park waste. Steer stools. Charolais shite. Lourdais lumps. Bull bottom biscuits. Holstein hershey hunks. Angus ass apples. Beef bum brownies.

Mmm tasty. However, having tried British food myself, I cannot say that Roxy's diet seems that different to me than what the Brits normally eat. And after all, fox terriers are a British breed, so it all makes sense.

Crustier and crustier

2009-07-14T05:34:00.000-07:00

After a while in Skypeland, one gets to know something about the personal lives of various participants. T is a young lady from Oregon who frequently visits Skypeland, works from home, and tells us how hard she works and that she puts in long, long hours.

T expressed some discomfort with the personal habits of the young lady who went to Morocco twice. Beset with diarrhea, and after several days of prolonged sessions with her beau in Morocco without benefit of lavation, this young lady woke up "crusty". T was nonplussed.

When someone in Skypeland came across a video with hygiene advice for gentlemen entitled "Wash Yo Nuts", T was very enthusiastic. T said every male she had ever met had sanitation challenges of various sorts. T was anxious to advise men that it is important for males to clean themselves properly. T offered a lot of tips and suggestions.

T also felt it was very unfair of men to complain about what women smell like, since she herself is a paragon of freshness and salutary asepsis. When I suggested that T might want to watch the related videos "Wash Yo Ass" and "Wash Yo Azz" which were mostly directed at women, T was dismissive.

It is interesting that there are a huge number of similar videos and songs like the hits "Girl you stank" and "Girl, you really stank" and "Wash your ass". I wonder if there is a pattern here...

Recently, we heard that T had been hard at work all day long and that at 10 pm or so, still had not had a shower. T explained that she had been unable to take a shower since she was working so hard.

However, as the conversation progressed, we found out a bit more. First, we found out that T had been watching movies and George Carlin videos that day. Then we found out that T's handsome boyfriend Buff Hunkley had spent the entire day with her, and he had not showered all day either.

In fact, since this was a Monday, it was highly likely that Hunkley had been at T's place since Friday night. T spends every weekend with Hunkley, and T and Hunkley engage in sweaty multihour sex marathons whenever they are together. T is usually barely able to walk for days afterwards. I wonder if T and Hunkley even hosed off for several days, and in fact might have both been getting a little ripe by Monday night.

In fact, I can imagine that they were both a bit crusty.

You smell like poo

2009-07-14T04:50:00.001-07:00

After a while in Skypeland, one gets to know various visitors to Skypeland, but also their pets. Dogs, cats and birds are often overheard in Skypeland discussions.

*AN from Finland is a lovely young 27 year old lady who lives with her father after her 73 year old boyfriend booted her out. AN is reportedly Hitler's granddaughter, or at least according to her grandmother who has dementia. AN weighs in at a fairly hefty 238 pounds, but AN says she is not "sloppy fat", and has dropped a few pounds recently.

AN unfortunately has a nervous disorder so she cannot work, and suffered from a stroke when she was a teenager. AN wants to be married, live on a farm, and wants to breed and raise dogs. One can often hear AN talking to her father's elderly dogs in Finnish, and the dogs responding. AN also has several parrots and often walks around town with a parrot on her shoulder.

*F from California has a small dog that is very tough, and likes to challenge much larger dogs by biting them "right in the nads".

*The jetsetting bathroom contractor R is very proud of his rottweiler and passes around pictures.

*T has a Siamese cat that likes to yowl into the microphone and to jump on T's naked lap when T is taking shower.

*K from Austria has a dog that often pipes up with comments in the background.

*FG from New Zealand has a fox terrier named "Roxy" that lives outside in a dog house. The "foxy" guards the house from strangers, even those supposed to be there, barking and growling and baring her teeth. No one plays with this dog because it likes to bite and it smells like excrement, since it loves to "eat poop and roll in poop".

Ah yes. I guess I understand why some might find it a bit difficult to hang around with the "foxy" very much.

On patrol

2009-07-11T08:17:00.000-07:00

There are certain Skypeland figures who insist on "patrolling" various Skypeland venues for extended periods. These characters pull long stretches logged into Skypeland, sometimes punctuated by breaks of varying lengths.

Many just use a Skypeland discussion as a radio, and rarely if ever weigh in and contribute themselves. Others are much more acutely aware of what is being said, and attempt to respond to any comments they object to. Some even try to censor or silence conversations. For example:

*C from Denmark

C will interrupt an exchange to tell various Skypeland participants that they "talk to much" or tell them to "piss off" and yell out, "you bastard". C has a tendency to try to protect Islamic extremists, Holocaust Deniers, antiSemites and conspiracy theorists by telling those arguing against them to shut up.

*D from Greece

D sits in Skypeland for prolonged stints, telling jokes, recounting stories, and giving advice. D has a few special topics he always returns to however. He is a fierce defender of Israel, and frequently brings up Baba Yar, Ukrainian site of a Nazi slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.

*the international spy and hit man, bathroom contractor R

R is loud and obnoxious and almost always drunk when he is in Skypeland. R has a difficult time letting anyone else speak, and always tries to turn every conversation around to a discourse on anal sex, excrement, evacuation and male buttocks. R threatens to slaughter anyone who challenges him and eat their flesh.

Of course, R claims he has no homosexual tendencies and is not at all violent.

*Mucus

Unemployed and frequently starving, malnourished uneducated angry muck expert and high school dropout Mucus sits in Skypeland smoking one hand-rolled cigarette after another, snorting and sniffling, breathing through his mouth noisily. A few days ago Mucus said his secret technique when applying for jobs is to claim he cannot read and write, giving him an "advantage" over others. Reading some postings by Mucus on a website, I wonder if this tactic is closer to the truth than Mucus lets on.

Mucus attacks almost any American that dares to speak in one Skypeland venue. He complains bitterly that he hates the evil United States, the dirty filthy Jews and a country he believes is worse than Nazi Germany, Israel. If anyone tries to discuss anything with Mucus, and particularly if they disagree with Mucus, Mucus lets loose with a stream of expletives and imprecations, and fantasizes about how nice it would be to murder as many people listening as possible.

However, Mucus claims he is not antiAmerican, or uneducated, and that he is perfectly sane and rational. And he wants to kill you if you disagree.

*the mystery man A

Perhaps the champion "room patroller" in Skypeland is the mystery man A. The mystery man A will either sit quietly monitoring a discussion for hours and hours, many times illegally recording the participants in an attempt to embarrass and harass them, or blurt out a comment every few minutes for hours and hours on end.

The mystery man A tries to drive out anyone he dislikes from a room, or change the topic of conversation. The mystery man A brags and brags about his supposedly glorious resume and chants things like "shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up" over and over and over to drown out others. The mystery man A plays recordings of people he dislikes for long extended periods to silence conversations he wants to stop.

If anyone expresses some reservations about mystery man A's screwball conspiracy theories, or his claims that the Holocaust never happened, or A's allegations that there is a secret worldwide cabal of Jews running the world, the mystery man A threatens to harass them, or "out" them, to sue them, or to hunt them down and kill them. [1] The mystery man A nurtures acrimonious relationships with a huge stable of Skypelanders on his "enemies list".

On the day of the mystery man A's purported wedding, he visited one Skypeland venue every 10 or 15 minutes for about 20 hours straight. The mystery man A visits Skypeland at midnight his time, and at 4 am his time. The mystery man A visits Skypeland during the work day. The mystery man A visits Skypeland when you would think he would be with his young family and his alleged wife, or dealing with the multimillion dollar international businesses he supposedly operates.

The mystery man A has advertised for months that his only purpose for visiting Skypeland is to disrupt discussions, cause dissension, irritate others, create confusion, engage in obstreperous trolling and generally piss people off. The net effect is that the mystery man A probably causes more fights, drives more people away from Skypeland and prematurely destroys more conversations than anyone else in Skypeland.

I guess it is extremely important to the mystery man A that he patrol one particular Skypeland venue. He has repeatedly said he was leaving forever it because of someone insulting his father, or some other alleged affront, but then he is back within hours to engage in more petulant belligerent behavior.

I don't know why this "Skypeland patrolman" is so desperate and even frantic to squelch discussions and comments he disagrees with. It would be a simple matter for the mystery man A to host conversations in another room dedicated to his own particular interests. However, I get the impression that bullying others just is too much fun for him.

Perfect fit

2009-07-10T13:46:00.000-07:00

Sometimes a Skypeland visitor will be so inebriated that it is almost impossible to decipher what they are saying. The international mercenary and bathroom contractor R held forth for a while the other day, attempting to dominate the conversation. Unfortunately, no one could tell what he was saying. Here is a sampling:

*You pole dance a nudger. Then he cackled drunkenly.

It took R about 10 tries to get that out. It still did not make any sense, however.

*Unless you can ask this and take a crap sit on a toilet, you have an entire campaign about taking a shit. As usual, R displayed plenty of his anal fixation.

*Take a turd on a toilet on a fucking toilet where you sit up straight. About half of his comments made some reference to backdoor sex, or fecal material, and related subjects.

*If you are hunting terrorists in Africa and eat cheese or any kind of dairy they can smell you for miles. I have heard about people being able to smell you when you cut the cheese, but I did not know they could smell you because you just eat cheese. I also know about another kind of body odor associated with cheese, but I don't think R was talking about that (it should be noted that R has his own special interest in cheese, as frequent readers of this blog know).

R made the mistake of attacking the lovely long-legged P from California and suggesting she did not ever have sex. P responded:

*I fuck so much I can't even handle it. And we are a perfect fit too.

That put him in his place, and R quickly beat a retreat. R changed the topic.

Food prices

2009-07-10T13:01:00.000-07:00

In Skypeland discussions, it is clear that many in some parts of the world do not eat as well as people in other places. Of course, one might expect this when a Skypeland visitor is from the Third World. However, it can be startling to realize how poorly some people from Western Countries eat as well.

Of course, many have atrocious diets by choice, but a disturbing aspect that emerges is that good food is not uniformly readily available in many Western countries, or it is prohibitively expensive. One of the most common complaints is that "junk food" is more expensive than fresh fruits and vegetables in many areas. Of course this is troubling, but it can be interesting to compare current food prices in the US (taken from the fairly high end supermarket Giant Foods) and the UK [1] [2] and other places to shed some more light on this issue:

*Bananas are roughly 0.58$/pound in the US, and about 0.63$/pound in the UK. These are not produced in the US, but they are still about 10% cheaper in the US than in the UK. Often bananas in Germany, France and Japan are at least 50% more than they are in the US and are sometimes even double the American prices. [3] (I just found bananas at 0.50$/pound at a US grocery).

*Apples are 1.00$/pound in the US and about 1.07$/pound in the UK. Again, the prices are close, with US prices being a few percent less than UK prices. There is some variation depending on the type of apples compared.

*Vidalia onions are 1.00$/pound in the US compared with sweet onions costing 2.45$/pound in the UK. This is a dramatic difference, but regular onions are about the same price in the two countries. I have since found Vidalia onions for about 0.95$ a pound in a US store.

*Hamburger meat in the UK is about 3.12$/pound and about 3.00$/ pound in the US, which is only slightly less. Anyone who has compared the taste of these will quickly realize there is a substantial quality difference between them, however.

*Potatoes in the US are about 0.80$/pound and 0.58$/pound in the UK, perhaps contributing to their popularity in UK diets.

*A dozen medium size free range eggs in the UK are 4.25$ and a dozen large size free range eggs in the US are 3.39$. The cheapest eggs I could find at the UK supermarket Ocado are about 0.31$/egg and the cheapest eggs are 0.16$/egg at US supermarket Giant Foods. I know I could find much cheaper eggs at other less expensive US grocery stores (for example, just after I wrote this, I found eggs at another US grocery store priced at 0.14$/egg. I then found another US store that is selling organic eggs at 0.0825$/egg.).

*Six salad tomatoes in the US are 0.48$, and six salad tomatoes in the UK are 1.48$. This is a surprisingly large difference.

*A gallon of milk in the UK is 4.11$ and a gallon of milk is 3.49$ in the US (A few days later, I found milk for sale for 3.09$ a gallon in the US at another store. I am pretty sure I could find it even cheaper if I kept looking, however. For example, a few days later I found it for 2.26$ a gallon at a US discount outlet.).

*Skippy peanut butter in the US is 0.14$/ounce and is 0.23$/ounce in the UK.

So obviously, some food prices are somewhat close in different countries, but in other cases, US food is far less expensive. Of course, as a fraction of aftertax income, the US prices are even lower. In 2006, Americans spent about 5.8% of their incomes on food, and British spent about 8.8% of their much lower incomes on food. [4] That is, the British spent 50% more of their incomes on food than Americans. However, there is not a lot of variety in the British diet; they eat 4 times as many potatoes per capita as the healthy-eating Italians for example. [5]

British food prices are increasing very rapidly as well. British food prices are rising at 4 times the rate of the rest of Europe. [6]

One of the most well-known indices of living standards is the "Big Mac Index". This tries to gauge the relative values of different currencies based on the price of a Big Mac in local McDonald's restaurants. For example, in February of 2009, the average price of a Big Mac in the US was $3.54 and was $3.30 in the UK. [7] However, incomes are much lower in the UK than they are in the US, particularly aftertax incomes. Therefore, in terms of the average amount of time working that is required to buy a Big Mac, the US is well ahead of the UK on the UBS Wealth Management variant of the Big Mac Index. [8]

In light of this, is it any wonder that some of the visitors to Skypeland from the UK are struggling to eat properly?

Debating a troll

2009-07-10T09:15:00.000-07:00

Some trolls in Skypeland are desperate to stir up trouble. Skypeland is home to one prominent troll who has threatened me repeatedly, and is furious at me because I have refused to accept his outrageous unfounded conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic and anti-American claims. He bullied and bullied me and others and threatened repeatedly to kill me since I did not find his arguments compelling. Yeah, that is a really great way to win over your opponents, isn't it?

He even bragged that he is just a troll and frequents Skypeland only to disrupt discourse and cause hard feelings and disruption. He misquotes, illegally records others without their permission, is a huge rumor-monger and attempts to "out", embarrass and stalk others as part of his toolkit.

The standard and recommended response to a troll infestation is "Don't feed the troll".

I have been following this advice for a while now. Of course, given that I have declined to have any further verbal exchanges with this troll, he has become increasingly irritated. He claims I am "boring" and a "pussy" because I have decided not to have any further discussions with him. He is frantic to connect with me and to "debate" me, and continually challenges me to do so.

However, this troll already had many many many chances to "debate" me. However, he has wasted all his chances. His debating techniques are highly suspect and consist of several "tricks":

(1) This troll never answers any questions, but relies on the standard polemical technique of changing the topic when the conversation gets uncomfortable for him, or the subject of the discussion is veering in a direction he finds unfavorable.

(2) A secondary tactic is to lob personal attacks when all else fails, and the troll is only too glad to do that as well in a sort of low-brow, poor man's demagogic approach.

(3) Another strategy employed by this troll is to claim he has an incredible personal resume; youngest ever UN representative, head of the Chernobyl inspection team, war hero, jet aircraft mechanic, multilingual genius, licensed ship captain and aircraft pilot, fish farmer, fur trader, multimillionaire businessman, and so on. Based on this purported record of achievement, he claims that everything he states should be accepted by everyone without question, or verifying some of the ridiculous statements he makes. When inconsistencies and inaccuracies in his personal vita are unveiled, undermining his putative authority to dictate to others, he flies into a rage.

(4) A more desperate maneuver he employs is to chant "shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up..." over and over and over to drown out anyone he does not want to hear, like a baby throwing a tantrum.

(5) Finally he threatens those he is confronting if he cannot make progress any other way. He threatens to "out", "stalk", embarrass, humiliate, sue, physically beat or even kill those he disagrees with.

If anyone else gives this troll a taste of his own medicine however, he complains and whines and bitches and whinges and protests and gripes and groans and grumbles. He claims it is unfair if anyone treats him the same way he treats others. While he constantly challenges others and calls them names, he has one of the most fragile egos I have ever seen, sobbing, wailing, sniveling, bellyaching and carping if someone does something he objects to. If anyone questions his statements, or his vaunted personal record that he brags about, he gets extremely defensive and takes it as some sort of affront.

Today he tried again to goad me into "debating" him by "baiting" me with the allegation that I do not know the English language very well:

Oh X, learn to speak

Submitted by A (not verified) on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 09:54.

Oh X, learn to speak english, fix your shitty mic and take it to the room.

If I get all out of line, I'll get booted huh.

Yes that is right. I have no facility with the English language, compared to this multilingual and learned "genius". Let's take a look at some examples of his dexterity with the English language in a formal letter asking for assistance:

*Your unique insight to the problems these countries are facing could be of great aid the economic reformers tasked with the immense responsibilities of converting the Soviet machine into the freemarket players they need to be. So what is this supposed to mean? Care for a clumsy run-on sentence anyone? Maybe missing the word "to" at a critical location?

*You asked for more information about our organization, I will try to give you some background as to how we came about. Gee, he really knows how to punctuate properly, doesn't he? Yes he is a genius alright.

*During my time here I meet many other Americans that had come here to carry out some kind of mission, some were of a business nature and others of a non-profit nature such as humanitarian aid or to provide lectures, generally things of this nature. Nice to know you like the word "nature" a lot. This again is awkward and poorly punctuated. It would be better as at least 3 sentences rather than one long run-on sentence.

*As I saw more and more of this, and myself became a more seasoned as to the realities of life here, I began to notice that many of these people where not what they were said to be. Ever hear of the difference between "where" and "were"? And if this sentence does not scream "illiterate moron", I don't know what does.

*I became disgusted with touristic humanitarian aid and pirates of American educational funding. What is "touristic" humanitarian aid? Who are the "pirates" of American educational funding? What on earth does that even mean?

*Things like medicine, clothing in children's sizes, many forms of education (from STDs to Marketing), Quite frankly do not even exist. Punctuation is not a strong suit I notice.

And this is all in the first couple of paragraphs. The letter goes on and on, with one infelicity after another, each one more comical and stupid than the last.

Yes this troll sure has me pegged. He knows English a lot better than I do, for sure.

Smelly pussy

2009-07-06T16:45:00.000-07:00

This blog has a surprisingly large number of readers, particularly since Skypecasts have been shut down now for many months. A few of the readers find the blog after having made search engine queries, and on occasion I scan through the list of search terms people have used to stumble upon this blog.

Today I noticed that someone in Georgia entered the query "does cialis give with a smelly pussy?" in a Netscape search. Somewhat surprisingly, this blog post from this Skypeland Adventures blog was the second hit, leading someone to come and read a few blog entries.

I do wonder about exactly what motivated this person to make this search query. One can only imagine, I guess.

I can almost smell it from here.

More political correctness

2009-07-06T11:35:00.000-07:00

In a Skypeland venue named "S" recently, someone anonymously posted the following image

This Skypeland venue advertises itself as "fair and unbalanced". Interestingly, several participants in Skypeland immediately objected to this image. For example, one posted on an associated website:

I humbly request

Submitted by P on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 07:12.

That whoever is in charge of this site (S) takes the photo and text down. Please

This sort of response, which I have seen repeatedly in Skypeland, is interesting to me. This product, its name and this article are part of US history. They represent a particularly and distinctly ugly part of US history. But this article is so politically incorrect that it is comical.

I am amazed at the demands that S must be politically correct. Why must it be politically correct exactly? What about "fair and unbalanced" is not understood here?

So, to be "politically correct", should this Skypeland site:

*Put only proIslamic arguments on its site?

*Put lots of Holocaust denials on its site?

*Allow 911 conspiracy stuff on its site, but ban all debunking of 911 conspiracies?

*Put only antiAmerican rants on its site?

*Put Black Supremacist claims on its site?

*Describe Nation of Islam positions on its site? (I bet the Europeans do not even know what these are: try researching them on the internet and prepare to be shocked)

*Put only antiIsrael and proPalestinian material on its site?

*Have only pro-Obama propaganda on its site?

I am stunned over and over that people do not quite understand the obvious bias of Skypeland venue S. S is pro-American and pro-Israeli. S is against Islamic extremism. Period. This is not a secret.

However, people believe that they have a right to demand that S have a different agenda than it does. Or that people who visit S have different views than they do. And when they make their request or try to dictate what opinions others hold, and they are unsuccessful, they are surprised. Absolutely incredible.

In some cases, some Skypeland visitors (like Mucus and BT and mystery man A) call for the killing of those that disagree with them. Well go ahead and demand it. But realize that your demands might create a pretty negative image for you. It sort of colors how people think of you, you know?

Interestingly, this person P has a long record of intervening in the middle of arguments, ostensibly to plead for comity and a pleasant environment. However, after a few months one notices that P always intercedes on one side only; that is, to try to silence anyone arguing against Holocaust denial, or anyone disagreeing with 911 conspiracy theories, or anyone siding against Naziism or anyone deploring antiSemitism or anyone opposing anti-Americanism or anyone attacking left wing dictatorships or Islamic extremism.

Interesting.

I have noticed that a lot of people will therefore attribute various unsavory positions to P, since he always seems to interfere in a discussion to defend people holding these sorts of postures. P objects strenuously over and over that he does not subscribe to this sort of anti-American, anti-human rights, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel agenda.

However, actions speak louder than these denials, frankly.

A reasonable person might easily draw the obvious inference that P is in favor of killing all Jews, and killing all Americans, and Islamic terrorism and so on. Since P never disagrees with anyone spewing anti-American or anti-Semitic nonsense, and in fact defends them, a casual observer might interpret this as support for these people and their platforms. And guess what? People do interpret the evidence this way.

And then P gets offended when someone mentions it. Sorry. They are just stating what is quite evident to everyone else already. People should be careful about what sort of image they project, if they are sensitive about the impressions others might acquire.

Only his accent

2009-07-06T07:30:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I was taken to task by a lovely Brit who is a friend of mine. She said that the only reason I mock "Mr. Wee Wee Hands" is that he has a funny accent. Since she feels she has an accent similar to "Mr. Wee Wee Hands", she was very angry and hurt and upset.

Wow. What a claim.

To be honest, I have not really had any problems with Mr. Wee Wee Hands' accent.

I do not think that the reason Mr. Wee Wee Hands is blocked currently from several Skypeland venues is because of his accent. I do not think that Mr. Wee Wee Hands is vilified because of his accent.

Consider some of the blog posts I have made about Mr. Wee Wee Hands:

*Yankee

*Put the Al Qaeda prisoners on an island

*Topping up

*She is a he

*Nissan is not a capitalist company

*A little gentleman

I have not really mocked Mr. Wee Wee Hands' accent in these posts, or at least I have not made much of a big deal about it. I have had no problem understanding Mr. Wee Wee Hands. Other Brits like Mrs. B are very hard for me to understand and I have mocked their accents, but not Mr. Wee Wee Hands.

I am amazed at how this lovely Brit somehow seems to have ignored the main problem most have with Mr. Wee Wee Hands and instead blamed Wee Wee Hands' image difficulties on his accent.

I guess that says a lot about how some people think.

Addendum

Here is the response from the lady who motivated this entry:

wtf thats not what i sed .i mentioned his accent yes but i also sed u do it to all britts yav twisted it up ta suit yr self .very dissapointing

National Character

2009-07-02T15:25:00.000-07:00

The subject of "national character" has fascinated many for centuries, if not millennia. And this includes those who visit Skypeland, where various nationalities are held up to scrutiny in a stark light in a unique environment. Skypeland provides a way to investigate the question of "national character". Does national character exist? And if it does, what is the character of each country, and why?

For example, traditionally it is suggested that the French are known for their refinement, the English are reserved, the Germans are paragons of orderliness, the Italians are spontaneous, and the Dutch are frugal. [1] Intellectual luminaries like D'Argens, Espiard de Laborde, Montesquieu, Helvétius, Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Condorcet debated national character in the 1700s. [2]

Some connect national diets and culinary habits with national character (if that is true, then heaven help the British). [3] Others can find evidence of national character in music [4] or in theatre [5] or religion. [6] Modern attempts to uncover "national character" using psychological tests have so far been fruitless [7] and some are skeptical that it even exists. [8] However, some scholars still maintain that national characters can be discerned. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

National character is often a matter of considerable pride and interest. For example, American national character has been the focus of a lot of attention since well before the US was a country. J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) investigated the question of American national character in the 1700s, and decided that Americans constituted a "new race of men". Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) in the 1800s decided that Americans were individualists, and that is what set them apart. Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) argued in 1893 that the presence of the frontier shaped American national character. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) published a study on American national character in 1942 and headed up a sociological effort to investigate national character after World War II. [15] Seymour Martin Lipset (1922-2006) championed the notion of American Exceptionalism [16] [17] , an idea that built on previous theses, which has substantial resonance in various quarters. [18] [19] [20]

Skypeland, with its anonymity and easy access to groups from all over the world, can shed some light on the question of national character. Visitors to Skypeland often feel less inhibited, and therefore arguably reveal their true natures.

For example, it is easy to cut past diplomatic niceties and get into direct raw dialogue with people from the Muslim world in Skypeland. As I have documented extensively in this blog, the fraction of Muslims that hold anti-American, anti-Western and anti-Semitic views appears to be staggering. There are hints of this in the mainstream media, where there are rumors about the "Arab street".

However, it is one thing to learn about these attitudes third or fourth hand, and it is a another thing entirely to hear these views aggressively preached, or to even discuss and argue with someone who holds these opinions and is convinced that they are absolutely completely correct. Skypeland offers one the opportunity to sample these kinds of conversations, unfiltered, and engage in dialogue with Muslims from all over the world.

One could not easily observe these sorts of beliefs from speaking to Muslims in the US (except for members of the Nation of Islam, but they are not "real" Muslims, are they?). Most American Muslims appear not to have such extreme views, and even if they do, few would be willing to voice them (although exceptions exist, such as the statements made by teachers and students at the madrassa in Potomac, Maryland).

However, in Skypeland, a lot more is exposed to casual observation. In addition to political discourse, the thumbnails that Arabs used to advertise their Skypecasts revealed something else. These Arab Skypecast thumbnails hint at an intense obsession with sex of all kinds; males and females masturbating, males having sex with females, males with males, females with females, groups of males and females having sex with each other, males having sex with animals, females having sex with animals and so on (sounds like they could give Mr. Wee Wee Hands a run for his money). The Skypecasts of other language groups rarely if ever used these kinds of sexually explicit thumbnails.

Perhaps because they often live in restrictive societies, Arabs (and Muslims) seem to use certain internet venues more aggressively to explore their erotic urges. Further confirmation comes from records of internet searches for the word "sex". Interestingly, most searches for "sex" originate mainly in Muslim countries (4 of the top 5 countries are Muslim countries, and 7 of the top 10 are Muslim countries). [21]

As another example, Skypeland has also afforded me the opportunity to learn something about people from the UK. I have definitely been underwhelmed by the sorts of Brits that visit Skypeland. In my real life experience, most Britons are well-behaved and well-educated. They read and write Latin and Greek. They speak in gentle lilting tones. They are very understated, compared to loud pushy brash Yanks and boastful bold "Awkkers" (not sure how to spell that, but they are the true "fair dinkum", "g'day mate" sort of Aussies).

However, in Skypeland one gets to see much a different side of the UK. There has been an unending parade of British heroin addicts, drunks, morons, louts, sexual perverts, layabouts, angry violent buffoons, and prison convicts that have traipsed through Skypeland. [22] [23]

In fact, I would have to say that compared to the visitors from any other country, the British create by far the worst impression (and that is saying something, considering the angry anti-Western Muslims in Skypeland that like to threaten to kill all nonMuslims, or the large ghetto population in the US that sometimes visits Skypeland). Even the one "proper Brit" (*) that I can remember meeting in Skypeland appeared to have been sleepwalking through his University studies and did not seem to know a thing about his purported undergraduate major; I guess he was more interested in polo and foxhunting than studying (but at least his English was understandable and he did not threaten to kill anyone and he was not drunk).

*Note that I am using the term "proper Brit" in a way that seems to confuse most Limeys, but is always easily understood by foreigners. To me, a "proper Brit" is someone who knows how to read and write English (and probably a few other languages as well), has a rough idea of how to spell English words, speaks in a manner that is not too different from what BBC News anchors sound like (or the Queen), drinks tea with their little fingers extended, plays polo, tennis on clay courts, badminton and cricket, went to Oxbridge or Camford (or at the outside, Imperial College in London), says things like "good show, old boy", and so on.

I have remarked before on this striking contrast between the kinds of Brits that we meet in real life in Canada and the United States, and the type of Brits that are common in Skypeland. As I ponder this, I realize that the signs of a "British Dark Side" have been there all along. However, since foreigners do not often encounter these sort of cruder rougher Brits for the most part, we sort of think of the media characterizations of them as exaggerations or meant only for comedic effect. For example:

*British soccer hooligans

Clearly, British soccer hooligans, thugs and louts are infamous, and have even been banned from attending "football" matches in some countries at various times. [24] [25] One journalist even dubbed it the "English Disease" [26] Several thousand had to surrender their passports in 2006 to keep them from causing disruption. [27]

*Little Britain

This well-known BBC sketch comedy show highlights many of the more unsavory parts of British culture.

*Jade Goody

A chunky rude British reality show contestant who recently died of cervical cancer at the age of 28. Goody is famous for being incredibly dense (for example, believing that Cambridge was in London, and that East Anglia was another country named East Angular), and for getting into a fight with Indian beauty Shilpa Shetty.

*Ali G

Sasha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame created this character to mock the British "chav" culture.

*The horrendous media in the UK, with its obsession with trivial matters.

*Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse, instead of being rejected as an addle-brained drug-addicted ugly whorish skanky balding crackhead with horrendous teeth and an awful figure, and a national embarrassment who should be ignored, is celebrated in British popular culture and in the British media. Winehouse seems to be a source of British national pride and a role model (heaven forfend).

Take a good hard look at Amy Winehouse:

#A video of a bizarre concert in Rio

#A video of Amy Winehouse at an awards ceremony in 2008

#A video analyzing Winehouse's ugly face

#A video showing Winehouse's hair loss

#A video analyzing Winehouse's appearance after a beating or fight

# A video showing Winehouse's downward spiral

#A video of a drunk and/or stoned Winehouse in the street, pulling out a tooth (ok, maybe this is a parody but it is still funny)

#A video parodying Amy Winehouse talking about rehab

By contrast, in the US, when Britney Spears had her meltdown and shaved her head, she came extremely close to destroying her career. Only when Spears cleaned up did she save herself from disaster. When Courtney Love got caught in a self-destructive spiral, her career faltered, and she was avoided and even shunned. Currently, Lindsay Lohan has been declared persona non grata in Hollywood and might never resurrect her career.

Michael Jackson was almost certainly a child molester and drug addict who destroyed his looks through excessive plastic surgery until his face started to rot. [28] Is there any doubt that Michael had problems? This guy was 5'11" tall and 120 pounds when he was arrested a few years ago. Apparently he had lost more weight and weighed even less in the last few months. Does that sound normal? Healthy? (maybe it does not sound bad to Brits who are malnourished and starving).

The American public and media for the most part rejected Jackson. So when Jackson wanted to make a few hundred million dollars fast fast fast, where did he go for his comeback tour? He did not consider touring in the US.

Instead, Michael planned to perform only in the UK, where suckers laid out huge sums. [29] [30] No concerts were scheduled for the US because Jackson probably could not sell enough tickets to make appearances worthwhile in the US.

So the Brits obviously have no problem idolizing and worshipping a black man who tried to turn himself into a white woman, barely escaped prison several times, spoke in an effeminate childlike voice, regularly shot up with anesthetic medications, was caught kiddie fiddling over and over and over, and who effectively "bought" 3 white babies that he did not father so he could parade them around in masks. This guy was beyond sick, and for the most part, Americans treated him that way. But the Brits on the other hand could not wait to shower him with cash. What does that say?

There clearly is another side to the UK besides the image presented by the "proper Brits". These troubling cultural signs are not just jokes, but a symptom of deep problems in British society. And there is ample evidence of these British troubles revealed in Skypeland conversations, over and over, every day.

Is this blog too dangerous?

2009-07-02T10:00:00.000-07:00

This blog gets many in Skypeland extremely angry. I often wonder if I should tone it down, censor the blog, remove controversial posts or even stop writing the blog entirely.

Today a friend sent me this message:

[9:30:46 AM] J says: hot hot hot the blog is

[9:31:00 AM] J says: a hot potato be carefull

[9:31:48 AM] J says: i like you dont want anything to happend to you

I asked which post he was referring to, and J indicated that it was the blog post entitled "Troll follies". J said that he knew the person who motivated this post, and J asserted that this person is very dangerous. I do agree that the person who inspired this post is a bit of a menace, and poses a threat to others in a variety of ways, which is why I avoid him for the most part.

Not only does any involvement with this person represent a hazard, but in all likelihood he is mentally ill, as I interpret the evidence.

In addition, he has a very long ugly record that he is attempting to avoid. He is only partially successful about hiding the truth about himself, which he stuggles to do by telling one lie after another. Unfortunately, after enough mendacity, discrepancies start to emerge. And therefore, the troll resorts to making death threats when the underlying inconsistencies and contradictions in the image he is trying to create for himself are exposed. He sputters and stutters and stammers and makes up even more flagrant falsehoods in a generally ineffectual effort to explain himself and bolster his stance. Frankly, these lame exertions are almost always a failure, and are even comical.

Of course, if I remove the outrageous material, the blog will be far less interesting. And my audience will suffer.

Why might people dislike this blog?

*People do not like me to describe what they say, even if their identities disguised, since they probably think my writing makes them look ridiculous or they believe I have misquoted them. Of course, many times I only write down an approximately accurate version of what was said, sometimes because I am not able to take notes fast enough, and sometimes because I cannot understand what has been said because of accents and technical problems. I have frequently stated that my accounts are not direct word-for-word transcriptions.

*People are insulted when they read my opinions of their behavior and views; particularly those who don't want to be challenged about their conspiracy theories, or antiSemitism, or Holocaust denialism, or White Supremacist claims or Islamic extremist beliefs or other positions. They are willing to threaten to kill others who disagree with them in conversations, so obviously they will not like it when I show that I disagree with them in this blog. Why would anyone expect anything any different?

*In some cases people attack me or threaten me in other venues. Although I only rarely respond to such foolishness in this blog, I do answer my critics in this blog sometimes, and of course this angers them.

*Some feel that I have been unfair when I point out that they hold unsupportable views, or make contradictory or ignorant claims, or make allegations that are so extreme as to be unlikely to be true.

I suspect that many who read this blog enjoy seeing the comments and characters in Skypeland examined critically. Many in Skypeland want to have the "last word" in a discussion, and often obtain the "final say" by boring their audiences to death, or by threatening those who would dare confront them in a verbal exchange.

However, they cannot control what I and others think. And this blog is a written record of what I have concluded about certain figures and situations. And I guess this angers them, since they do not really have the last word, after all.

Some want to be "thought police" and to control what others believe about them. In particular, those engaging in "trolling" strive desperately to shape and manipulate the impressions of their audience. However, the easiest way to have others think positive things is not to blurt out such stupid declarations.

Perhaps if some of the people that are upset understand they are creating a very negative impression, they might change their approach a bit. Social pressure is a powerful force. Of course, the way social pressure works is that it is painful to realize that one has acquired and projects a negative image.

In any case, many of those that are disturbed by this blog would be agitated even if the blog did not exist. Many of them are probably seriously psychologically unstable, including an array of drug addicts, alcoholics, former prison inmates, chronic liars, criminals, former patients at insane asylums, etc. Involvement with many of these individuals in any way, including listening to them passively, can stir them up, and cause them to become unglued.

This blog has a few hundred readers at this time. Of these, only a small handful can guess or identify who the disguised composite characters are based on. Those who inspire the blog postings here are as anonymous as I can make them, in many cases.

In fact, many do not recognize themselves in blog posts. Often people ask me who a given character is based on, since they are unable to guess from the information in this blog.

I think my detractors have little to complain about, although at least one of them has repeatedly threatened me with legal action and worse for what is written here. I would love to see the face on a judge when someone tried to make a case for defamation based on what is written in this blog:

*No one is identified by screen name, let alone their real name, in this blog.

*Many of the details are altered on purpose to disguise the identities of those who inspired the characters in this blog, as I state repeatedly in the disclaimers.

*The characters in this blog are in many cases composites, as I state in the disclaimers.

*I state in the disclaimers that what is in this blog is my own personal interpretation of events. I do not assert that this blog is a "true" representation and make no claims that what is in this blog is the "truth".

Finally, I believe that my readers appreciate this blog because it puts some obnoxious bullies in their place and points out how silly many of their statements are. It can be unpleasant to sit quietly and listen to garbage, and think, "My gosh, this is complete crap", and feel unable to respond in any way. There is a certain amount of comfort and satisfaction that comes from sharing opinions with others about a particularly disturbing or nonsensical exchange, and to be made aware that others were left with similar impressions.

Humans are social animals, and interacting with others to digest unsavory information or to analyze allegations that are so ridiculous that they are humorous has an appeal. In a small way, this blog presents a way for people to fulfill their desires for dissection of events in Skypeland and to associate with others with congruent interests.

To further increase the opportunity for interchange and expression, I have tried to set up a new comment system. Unfortunately, the new comment system is not yet working as it supposed to. I hope to get it functioning soon so people can given input on the posts. Hopefully I will have a rating system on the blog as well so people can see what posts are the most popular.

Troll follies

2009-06-28T17:01:00.000-07:00

Skypeland is often awash with internet trolls. Unmanaged, trolls can basically take over and destroy a discussion venue. In small doses, trolls can keep a Skypeland conversation channel fresh and interesting.

Recently I have been repeatedly "smeared" by a troll. Why? Because I dared to say things like:

(1) I do not believe all Americans and Jews are inherently flagitious, heinous, immoral, malificient, and so on, and should be killed.

(2) I do not believe the United States attacked itself on 9.11.01. In spite of all the spitting and venom by conspiracy theorists, I have seen nothing that makes me think otherwise.

(3) I actually believe the Holocaust happened, pretty much in the way that the mainstream history books describe it. I have seen plenty of evidence and studies that support this. Sorry.

(4) I think that World War II actually happened, pretty much the way that most people think it did. Does that offend you? Too bad.

(5) I think Storm Front and the Klu Klux Klan and similar Neo Nazi and White Supremacy organizations are basically sort of nuts. Not that different from the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam and the Black Supremacy organizations, really.

(6) I do not subscribe to the hare-brained idea that the US or some secret cabal of Jews or the Vatican or the Masons or the Skull and Bones Society or the Illuminati or the Bohemian Grove or the US Federal Reserve Bank or the Templar Knights or the CIA or the Council on Foreign Relations or the Bilderburgers or some other secret group is responsible for all the evil on the planet.

(7) I do not trust someone like the "mystery man". Sorry, is there a law that I must trust him? If there is, please show it to me. Otherwise, you know where you can file your complaints.

For the most part, I have avoided this troll. After all, the best advice is "Don't feed the troll". And the poor troll has complained bitterly that I am "boring" because I won't engage him any more. Aw, isn't that too bad, poor trollie-poo...

However, the troll continues to make one crazy accusation after another about me:

i. First, I supposedly called his girlfriend's mother.

ii. Next, I supposedly had my lawyer call his wife.

iii. Then I supposedly called his mother.

iv. Then I supposedly announced I would call his lawyer.

Let me set the record straight. The troll made a HUGE deal when he blustered that he would sue me and others, and threatened even worse. The troll challenged me, over and over and over, dozens of times, to call someone he identified as "his lawyer" who he claimed was possibly related to him in some way. The troll said it many many times, over a several week period. There were lots of witnesses.

So, a couple of months later, when I thought of it, I called the person the troll had challenged me to call; his "lawyer". I was pretty sure that this person was not the troll's lawyer, and had no connection with this troll. After all, almost everything else this troll has said has been wrong, or a lie, or a misrepresentation, or just pure nonsense.

Sure enough, the "lawyer" confirmed for me that there is no relation whatsoever between him and this troll, and never has been. The troll is not the lawyer's client. It is all just pure unadulterated horsepucky. Exactly as one would have expected.

Interestingly a video of this troll's "wedding" does not include any shots of the troll himself, or even include his voice. It only shows his "bride". I wonder what that means? Hmm. What do you think?

Instead, what I have learned about this troll from a little investigation, and what he does not want to reveal, is in fact very very ugly. I wonder why he is so anxious to stir up trouble and potentially expose himself to ridicule and worse? I guess it is just normal behavior for a troll.

Addendum

As I could have predicted, the troll saw this post and flew into a rage, cursing and threatening. Of course, I just left so he could complain about how unfair it all is, without me.

Interestingly, he did this about 5:30 am in his time zone. What was he doing surfing this blog at 5:00 am or 5:30 am? Hmmm.

You would think this young newlywed would be in bed with his wife. Or up getting breakfast for his "kids". As a family man and important international businessman he sure has a lot of time to devote to this silliness. And he sure seems frantic to get me and others to believe the stupidity he dishes out. Well sorry, I am not buying it. Try another sucker.

In addition, this troll has recently tried to make assorted posts in my name. Is this identity theft? Well I guess in a minor way. It is lame and disgusting. But completely true to his base nature.

Splooge

2009-06-27T16:31:00.000-07:00

A new visitor to Skypeland came by today. His name is RJ, but he soon acquired the nickname of "Splooge". He is from the UK, and almost immediately he offended every person listening. He attacked the other Brits, and insulted the Americans. Within the first 10 minutes of having introduced himself, he was threatening to have "butt sex" with any man who dared to talk to him.

RJ just spewed a mindless rant of invective-laced drivel, stringing one execratory expletive after another. He had no interests and said nothing that was of any value. He was angry and combative. He was ignorant and proud to be stupid. He was aggressive. RJ was cursing and spitting and sputtering. He hated everyone and everything. He had no reason for showing up to the Skypeland room, and wanted to cut off anyone else who was talking. He refused to answer any questions. He did not want to engage in any dialogue with anyone. RJ threatened. RJ abused. RJ mocked and taunted. RJ derided everyone else, blustering and bullying, grunting and snarling. He issued a long fulminating diatribe replete with obloquious calumny and vituperative vilification. He berated and denunciated. His tongue dripped with contumelious contempt and offensive opprobrium.

And pretty quickly he created a bad impression. See, people can acquire a lousy reputation without very much effort at all, in no time at all.

Hope he is happy with that.

Insurance man

2009-06-25T05:38:00.000-07:00

As an example of the sort of stupidity that is common in Skypeland, I dropped in to listen to PP, who is normally banned from many Skypeland venues, while he tried to engage a group in conversation. I decided to just listen and stay quiet while visitors came and went for a while. This is a rough record of some of what was said.

PP said he sold insurance; not life insurance, but health insurance. He made it clear that he did not do anything fancy like an actuary, and did not know how to read the "amateurization tables" like the sophisticates do. He was flirting with several women, including Stench Mouth (SM) and her "posse" of babes. SM and the ladies did not know who PP was at first, so they called him "Insurance Man".

SM asked PP how long humans could live. PP said 120 years, but this was met with derision and disbelief by the women, who did not think anyone could live to 120. One of them said "SM , he is pulling your boob" (is that a common expression?). SM said she believed that no one could live past 92, and then changed her mind and said 89.

The women were excited, and constantly tripped over each other and talked over each other trying to talk. However, they did try to allow each other a chance to speak:

G1: you crack on girl

SM: no you go

G1: no you

SM: you go

G1: you go

SM: no you get on with it

G1: go ahead

SM: why don't you talk?

G1: after you

SM: go ahead and say something

G1: no you

SM: you go

G1: you

SM: no you

Finally SM tried to make some sort of analogy:

SM: Suppose you are playing a game of rounders

G1: Can you not have baseball?

SM: We don't play baseball.

G1: They wont understand rounders. What about softball?

SM: We don't have softball.

There was a lot of giggling and cackling at this. SM never got to her analogy:

SM: By the way we kick your ass...the crocker's ass... Down Under I mean.

G1: I really need a wee but I am afraid I might miss something.

PP: Is that the game you play with a flat paddle that is not even aerodynamic?

G1: I need a wee. Can I have a wee?

SM: You mean rowing.

G1: He means cricket. I need a wee.

PP: Of course I mean cricket.

G1. I need a wee. Don't anyone talk when I am gone. I don't want to miss anything.

I am not sure what she was afraid she would miss. I didn't hear anything particularly earthshaking or important or interesting in the conversation. It just sounded like a bunch of dopes getting stupider and stupider talking to each other:

PP: This might surprise you but only about 12% of the US population went to college. I am one of them.

Wow that is surprising.

PP: I want to sell cryotherapy insurance.

G1: I thought you wanted to sell radiotherapy insurance.

SM: That is a pretty cruel thing to sell.

PP: Cryotherapy.

SM: I know cryotherapy. They chop your head off like Disney and freeze it.

After some general merriment, there was a pause in the conversation.

SM: Someone else please talk

PP: What is different between interruption and an interjection?

SM: Can I get insurance if I shag one of the guys in this room and I get pregnant ? Will you insure me for the medical bills?

G1: Ultrasound? Cesarean?

Mrs. B: My jeans are alright, do not panic. My jeans are alright.

G1: What if SM flew over to Mrs. B and Mrs. B stuck his magic wand in her? Cinderella would keep quiet.

M: I don't know about that. My wife has a really good right hook... I will give you D who will show you gals.

G1: SM what if you breed with D? Would you insure her then?

M: SM would shorten D's life expectancy. Not the act, but having to live with her.

SM: You would look in the mirror and say who am I? I have had the best sex of my life and lie down and die.

G1: Do you insure people if they have accidents with their blow up dolls?

SM: I have seen a TV show about these real life dolls. It was really strange.

PP: I am going to get rid of my blow up doll. It is good for carpooling.

SM: And they are good for hand jobs!

M: If I check the website for the real doll, will you get it out of my history?

SM: I want a real live cat. I love my cat.

G1: A male cat you can have sex with. A bit of bestiality.

PP: You can have them make the real doll with the face of whoever you like. For example, Kimber Henry from the Nip Tuck show.

SM: I know who Kimber Henry is. Hellooooo. She fucked him, and then she fucked him. She sucks off women. A transvestite.

G1: I am a transvestite. Will you insure me?

SM: Her vagina was not finished, so it did not have the depth. A younger man wouldn't know that.

G1: I am going to fuck Kimber Henry. She is genius. She is a porn star.

SM: She is quite religious. They didn't show the fucking part on Fox News. Really annoying.

M: Change the subject.

SM: Who is going to see Osama Bin La La?

G1: He is going to come eat your cherry.

SM: Can anyone hear me?

M: No one can hear you SM because you are muted.

C: M, my son in love, has D been teaching you? That is why you are talking so much. Shut up please. Chill out.

G1: Oh my god SM, she has no brains.

SM: What are you talking about?

G2: Just fucking forget it.

SM: Can anyone hear me?

X: I can't hear you.

SM: Who are you?

The conversation was just sort of stream-of-consciousness nonsense:

SM: Put trousers on C and call yourself lovely.

G1: Yep, God shave the queen.

SM: God shave the C.

G1: If you can't shave yourself you can't take the throne.

SM: Fuck off.

PP: Charles is the most ugly male I ever saw.

M: I don't like anyone who eats with their hands.

SM: I quite like eating my food with my hands. Not my feet. It is very sensual.

M: Do you drink wine SM?

SM: Yes... I would with my hands though.

M: Do you drink the wine crushed with feet?

SM: Indeed I do...So eat with your hands; Turkish food, Greek food, Middle Eastern...shoving it into your gob. It is quite gorgeous...I love sushi; spring rolls.

At this point, she made a sound like a pirate:

SM: Arrr! Oh my god...wasabi. I dip in there. I do way too much, and it makes my nose run.

X: You know how to eat wasabi? Mix it with soy sauce.

SM: Awwww... wow, ok.

X: Don't eat wasabi raw.

SM: Ok.

X: Then between courses, eat ginger to clear out your taste buds.

SM: ...a real good dinner party in the UK...I am talking about a 12 course dinner...

M: Isn't that greedy when people are starving in the world?

SM: No.

PP: The food you get you shouldn't throw out...Shouldn't waste. Some assholes who hunt, they leave the kill.

G1: That is different what you are saying, insurance guy.

PP: I am not insurance guy, I am PP.

SM: PP! Oh my god I know who you are.

PP: If you are going to hunt you should use all the animal.

G1: SM is talking about wasting a bit of lettuce and potatoes, not the whole bloody thing. It is ok if she does what she does. She has earned it.

PP: But it is not ok to waste food.

SM: Your example is too extreme.

PP: No you didn't get it. I wasn't comparing.

G1: Everybody wastes food. It depends on what degree we are talking about.

SM: People leaving a few potatoes it is really no big deal.

M: If you are Irish it matters. Or Dutch. Or English.

SM: Speaking of fishing though, I really hate scallops. They are like little little bollocks.

G1: I barbecue them in the shell on the barbie, with herbs and butter.

M: Do you think American football is tougher than rugby?

SM: You are kidding me.

PP: Soccer is gay.

SM: Shut the fuck up. David Beckham is a homo.

M: Really?

G1: His wife is a lesbian.

SM: They are having another baby I think. She has a tiny little butthole.

G1: Really?

In almost every conversation with Brits, sooner or later they start talking about anal sex and buttholes.

SM: Fucking hell, pike are vicious. If you swim with them, they bite you.

PP: They taste good.

M: They are tasty.

G1: My father caught a shark once.

PP: It would be gross if you went to clean a shark and you realized there were human parts inside. Talking about fish boning...

SM: I knew you were a homo. That is disgusting.

G1: I would talk about boning with you. I don't mind.

M: What is the weather like in Tasmania?

G1: Bloody cold. I have thermals on, thermal leggings on...Are you naked insurance man? You can be naked if you want to be. You are with friends.

PP: Go to mebeam and it is just gays jerking each other.

G1: I want to see a wanger. I am going into a room called wank.

PP: After Skypecasts went down it went all gay. Not even usually women, just men.

SM: X, where are you from?

X: I am in the UK ...southern UK...Kent.

SM: I wasn't too far. Where did you grow up?

X: London...South London .

SM: You dirty bastard, I am from North London. Whereabouts in South London? You sound like you are on speed or something.

G1: This guy has a humongous ding dong... No, really.

SM: Give me the link... When I was in college we did a Fawlty Towers sketch. We changed it to Farty Towels. We were very impressed with ourselves.

PP: It sounds like a satire.

SM: It wasn't satirical at all. Satirical is something that makes a mockery of the daily day. Fawlty Towers is about a fucking bed and breakfast.

Then she noticed that I was listening to the discussion, so she said:

SM: You write blog posts about me. You are a cunt on a stick. I will put on my strap on up there. KK, get a fucking bondage on your boy. I cant think of something outrageous to say. I am not interesting.

Ah yes, more anal sex talk from Brits. Fancy that. Then a few minutes later she said:

SM: If my bumhole counts as a vagina I have two vaginas.

A: Hello girls. What are we talking about?

G1: We are talking about extra parts like having two vaginas.

A: The only think I got extra is brains man.

SM summarized things, and then lectured us a bit about Kuwait:

SM: We found out he is PP and we threw up on our own shoes. I am in Kuwait and no one answers the call to prayer. No one goes to pray. Not a fucking one. Not one single bugger of them. I have no idea why they make such a big deal about their religion. If you are going to make it a big deal, at least go and pray. Instead they go to Burger King or Pizza Hut, shoving their faces full of food. Also, these girls are sluts. They so are. They bump into you and go tee hee hee. Walking around with my husband, it pisses me off. Of course, we never wear our wedding rings, so they see him a single Westerner. They probably think I am his sister. Oh god, how disgusting.

C: or his grand daughter

SM: I am only 7, 8 years older than him...Wait, no younger. Can you imagine what K comes over here? What the hell is she going to do? She says, "we have a caaaaake". I can't do Australian.

G1: Proper Australian accent...

PP: Your shoes are wet? I don't think that is why your shoes are wet.

SM: How dare you! I will slap you in your face with a kipper! KK, say something.

KK: How can I compete with two vaginas? Can I talk about exercise programs? Are you vegetarians or meat eaters? Guys do you eat meat?

PP: Yes, especially the hairy beaver.

SM: How disgusting! Slap yourself in the face. Oh my God I want to punch you in the baby makers. Shut up! On YouTube I saw some guy who said there were niggers in my back yard and he shot them. Nasty 007 this your pants out ways to killing people. I will kick your bollocks in... How often have you seen the white puddle? Stop wanking! ... I slept with 4 American guys and all fucked...

D explained why he had a problem with A. D had told A his real name, "Sammy" and in an argument, A revealed it in a sneering manner. A claimed he had not used the name "Sammy", but had used "Sandy". It did not sound very believable, frankly, particularly given the long line of blatant lies A has tried to push before. Of course, A likes to back his lies up by threatening to kill anyone who expresses disbelief in any statement he makes. Yes, very compelling. And such a big man. I am impressed....

D referred to A living in the Ukraine:

Mucus: A doesn't live in the Ukraine. He lives in Crimea. He lives in Kiev.

A: That is right.

Does anyone ever look at a map? Oh that is right, we are talking about Mucus. Mucus has had a computer for 2 years and still does not know how to use Google. Never mind.

At this Mucus launched into a little song, that had as the chorus:

Mucus: D, D, orange pit, Tell us a story...

It did not make any sense to me.

S: Mucus you are not allowed in the United States. You are a convicted felon.

Mucus: I am allowed in. Why would I want to go there? I can go to any country but Turkey.

D: Why can't you go to Turkey?

Mucus, in an angry expletive-laden rant, claimed that no one who had a Greek last name could go to Turkey since his brother had tried to take a ferry from Cyprus to Turkey 15 years ago and had been refused. Mucus was furious about everything, and started threatening to kill anyone listening. S asked him why he was so angry, and asked if he had had anything to eat yet that day (it was about 5 pm UK time). Mucus confirmed that he had not had anything to eat all day, and maybe for a couple of days.

D, who lives in Greece, said that was a bit strange since the Greek people he knew went to Turkey all the time with Greek passports, and they all had Greek last names. This just made Mucus angrier and he threatened to kill everyone that he could get his hands on, particularly those listening:

Mucus: Is Greece Cyprus? Is Cyprus Greece? It is not the same country. Might speak the same language. My brother couldn't go to Turkey since his last name is Greek on his UK passport. Greek people cannot go to Turkey...Why do I want to go to fucking Turkey? It is a fucking shithole. It is full of fucking bathhouses and queers. They are Muslims man. America is pushing for Turkey to join the EU. All know they are pushing for Turkey to join the EU. Sort out their own back yard first. I would go a thousand miles to avoid going to Turkey. What is Turkey for me? It is full of queers. It is a shithole.

D: The sensitivity of Greek immigration has been relaxed. You can go for a day trip. Or a week trip.

Mucus: I won't spend 5 minutes or a day in Turkey let alone a day trip. My brother tried to go 15 years ago but with a Greek name he couldn't. Fact is he couldn't.

D: He can now... Mucus have you read the bible?

Mucus: I haven't read one sentence in the bible. I would rather read truth or facts. Not going to read a book of bullshit, Hebrew schmuck. Eat your fucking pork.

S: Mucus is not allowed in T's room.

PP: Why?

Z: He called T's wife a fat cunt.

Mucus: Probably is if she is American.

L: Mucus, I am the future mother of your child and this is how you talk to me?

Mucus: Probably is if she is American.

This was punctuated by heavy mouth breathing by Mucus. The cavalcade of idiocy continued:

X: I am going to get a job in the highway commission.

Mucus: Why are the roads so bad around here?

X: Water expands when it freezes.

PP: Does it really?

X: Water freezes and it expands.

PP: Does it really?

At this point, the guys realized that the women were not speaking. This often happens in Skypeland. There is a conversation with girls in it, and guys move in and dominate it, usually talking about complete boring nonsense and getting into fights. Before you know it, all the women have wandered off.

X: Where are the tarts?

D: Mucus, have you read the bible?

Mucus: I read about a sentence.

A: Mucus, can you explain the Big Bang Theory?

Mucus: There was a big bang meteor, crashing to earth and starting life.

A: Wrong.

Mucus: Go on and explain it to me. When I hear big bang I think good sex. That is the only big bang theory I am interested in.

A: You haven't heard of the big bang?

Mucus: Of course I have heard of it. I can't comprehend as you well know. If the galaxy has any sense it will be moving away from this fucking shithole.

S: I am out and about and doing some work.

Mucus: Have I got a big cock? At least I haven't been circumcised. It my advantage mate believe me. I can eat pork and I can eat bacon.

X: What does that have to do with it?

Mucus: Usually if you are circumcised you are a Jew and Jews don't eat pork and bacon, do they?

D: Did you know Muslims are circumcised? You don't know much. You thought there were 30 million Jews in Israel.

Mucus: So what? Seven million Jews. Why repeat yourself? ...Pigs...Has to do with the dirty animals. Pigs will eat human bodies you know.

S: What?

Mucus: You are pants over trousers.

S: What does that mean?

Mucus: Ha, ha. Pants over trousers.

S: You should eat something. Maybe a sandwich with mayonnaise.

Mucus: Mayonnaise is fucking Dutch. We don't have mayonnaise here. We have salad cream.

S: Salad cream? No mayonnaise?

Mucus: I told you it is a fucking Dutch thing. Salad cream looks like mayonnaise but tastes a bit better.

S: You have to eat.

Mucus: I understand protein and what kind of parbohydrates I have to take in.

S: You have steroid rage.

Mucus: One moment I am on steroid the next moment I am starving.

S: You Brits are eating Yankee fish.

Mucus: What is a Yankee fish? Is that a smelly pussy in America?

S: I am putting lime on the garden.

Mucus: You don't put that on the garden. You use fucking manure.

Mucus became angrier and angrier, and threatened to kill everyone listening. His sidekick Mrs. B came in. It was early evening UK time.

S: What did you eat today Mrs. B?

Mrs. B: I have had a cream bun today. It was be-yooooooooo-tiful. And tea.

That is all he had eaten all day. Maybe for a couple of days. Mrs. B has a very poor diet. He proudly told us a couple of months ago that he had not had a single fresh vegetable or piece of fruit since early October. No fresh fruit or vegetables for months and months.

Mucus: America is no good since you got no castles.

PP: We have a castle in Death Valley.

Mucus: Death Fucking Valley.

S: I am gardening today.

Mucus: Americans dont know nothing about gardening that is why you have Mexicans, you lazy fat bastards. I am going to kill you all.

S: Mucus you don't have anything to eat and you have no money. You have to buy a plane ticket to fly over here to kill us. You have no money for a plane ticket.

Mucus: I have money.

S: Mucus buys one liter at a time. If he has a lot of money he puts in 10 liters.

Mucus: One minute I am a dumbfuck Brit and the next moment I am a millionaire.

I have never heard anyone say Mucus is a millionaire. I do not know where he got that idea.

S: G, take over you have a couple of crazy Brits here suffering from malnutrition.

G: Every time a shithouse stinks you leave it don't you?

And so I left.

Are women interested in sex?

2009-06-23T16:37:00.000-07:00

The anonymity of Skypeland creates a sort of crucible in which all sorts of concerns can be explored. This includes discussions of sex and erotic material.

Under normal circumstances (at least in most cultures), women are discouraged from revealing any interest in fornication and related activities in the majority of situations (exceptions like the matriarchal culture of the Mosuo of Tibet stand out because they are so different). A lot of these barriers are weakened considerably in Skypeland however.

Studies of the so-called "pedigree error rate" (that is, the fraction of offspring that are not fathered by the husband or primary mate) in humans and other species show that infidelity by females is far more common than had been previously thought. [1] [2] [3]

In addition, it is very enlightening to compare male and female statistics on usage of internet search terms. Surpringly, half the internet searches for "sex ads", "sex chat" or "sex" are executed by females. More than half the searches (56%) for "free sex" and "teen sex" and 59% of the searches for "cyber sex" are made by females. Even more striking, 64% of the searches for "adult dating" and "adult sex" are performed by women. Although women are a minority of visitors to pornographic websites (28%), they still visit in significant numbers (9.4 million visits per month), 70% of those polled keep their online erotic activities secret and 13% admit that they access pornographic sites from work. [4] Although women have an image of being far more prim and proper than men, they are not markedly less involved than males in online prurient activities.

Women do have to be careful because there are still some that will brand them as "sluts" if they show any enthusiasm for sex that is deemed inappropriate or unseemly. For example, the shrill shrew J lobbed this charge at assorted women who frequent a Skypeland venue when she threw a tantrum in response to my suggestion that I did not trust her cyber boyfriend, the mystery man A:

[4/20/2009 7:35:05 PM] J says: I dont need to listen to drunks, desperate women who slut themselves out to any man who will come their way, or morons.

Therefore, women in Skypeland have to be cautious that they do not display an excess of licentiousness, or the wrong kind of interest in sex. Nevertheless, one can still find lots of examples of women in Skypeland who are not particularly guarded in revealing their salaciousness and libertine natures.

YL is young milkmaid from Iceland who has a voice that is so sweet that it positively drips honey. YL's pictures show a gorgeous vivacious temptress. According to YL, she packed on 45 pounds after an illness and now has eye-popping, mind-bending curves (size 8/10, 36DDD, and a very leggy 5'10". She is also a runner; is she at risk for black eyes? Is she a candidate for a kush?). Men apparently walk into walls around her. YL notices that after she passes, males who are sitting are not able to stand up, while standing males who are trying to sit down grimace in discomfort and pain.

YL is unfortunately in a sexless relationship, but clearly her libido is in overdrive. YL has a slightly outrageous side. YL taunts and teases every male within earshot (with the possible exception of dedicated homosexuals like the San Diego naked realtor J [5]). YL alleges that this performance is limited to Skypeland, but one has to wonder. She certainly seems natural when she delivers those flirty lines. Interestingly, although her male counterpart Mr. Wee Wee Hands (who admittedly engages in far more extreme behavior when he hits on both women and men) is almost universally reviled in Skypeland (and is often immediately ejected from many Skypeland venues), YL is adored by most in Skypeland.

Aussie "man's man" MM is an exception. MM talks in a calm authoritative voice, with a gentle Aussie accent. MM projects a strong, rough, tough image (similar to that of Mick Dundee) and is fiercely proud of "the lucky country". For example, MM brags relentlessly about sports Down Under*, particularly Australian Rules Football (which is not played anywhere else really, so it is a bit hard to compare). MM is convinced that Aussie athletes can beat athletes from anywhere else in the world, in spite of evidence to the contrary (for example, does anyone really believe that an Aussie footie player would turn down a contract worth tens of millions of dollars to play in the NFL?).

MM is also quite the lady's man, and has a harem of babes that come over for servicing when the "need" arises. When several Skypeland females scolded MM for this, MM recounted a story about having his heart broken by an ex-girlfriend, the love of his life. Instantly every Skypeland women listening melted, and then started to fawn over MM. I guess he was forgiven.

The flirtatious YL set her sights on MM and went a bit over the top, inviting MM to "eat the jizz out of my asshole". While many males might welcome such an offer, or take it as an encouraging sign, MM was disgusted. This has created unfortunate tensions between MM and YL, although other Skypeland regulars remain puzzled.

Another female who likes dirty talk is LM, who some have nicknamed "Stench Mouth" for her extreme assertions. LM not only encourages others like Mr. Wee Wee Hands to make outrageous leering lewd wisecracks and remarks, but has volunteered the information that she often enjoys stimulating her rectal passage by cornholing herself with the handles of ladles, spatulas, brushes and other kitchen implements. Of course, she is a Brit, so it stands to reason.

A lady who seems to get away with almost as many outrageous flirtatious statements is SN from Missouri. Perhaps because she hails from the "show me" state, SN maintains a long list of beaus, suitors, inamoratos, swains, and admirers in Skypeland who are seduced by her naughty pornographic dialogue, shocking carnal revelations and incredibly sexy photos. SN greets most semi-normal Skypeland males (which might be a bit of an oxymoron) by purring and cooing, "Hi baby. Oooh I missed you". SN tantalizes and titillates males with her recitations of her favorite sexual positions and lewd practices, including rimming and ultralong marathon sexual sessions that go on for hours and hours until all concerned are barely able to walk. These accounts have Skypeland males SN has invited to visit considering if they should get a Viagra or a Cialis prescription filled first.

AM is a unique lady from Maine. AM is very interested in boning, getting a put-in, porking, rolling in the hay, balling, knocking boots, doing the mattress mambo, screwing, getting some beef in her taco, humping, greasing a rod, stuffing her muffin, playing hide the salami, banging, waxing the pole, getting mounted, boinking, schtupping, bumping uglies, getting a hot poke, and so on, and makes no secret of it. AM has twice travelled to Morocco to engage in wanton licentious activities which she was glad to tell everyone about (I documented this in the blog article entitled "Four days at Mohammed International").

The shrill shrew J might at first glance seem to be a "paragon of propriety", completely virtuous and chaste and above reproach. That is certainly what she wants everyone else to believe. However, all is not necessarily what it appears. For example, although J has chastised other males for making advances, J purred and cooed when Mystery Man A told a Skypeland roomful that "J has really big tits. I have seen them, isn't that right J?" J did not object at all, and even flirted back. Maybe J is not quite as reserved, unsullied, wholesome and incorruptible as she wants people to think.

The lovely K from Austria also seems very sensible, untarnished and principled. K is approaching middle age, and is always very composed, restrained and rational. However, after some prodding, K revealed that she "caught" her husband at the beach. When he saw her in a bathing suit, he was hooked for good. And that was that. We all know what that means.

C from Sweden has one of the sweetest voices in Skypeland, and a beautiful accent. Reports from those who have seen C on webcam are that C is breathtakingly attractive; absolutely strikingly gorgeous. C is very careful to guard her privacy and presents a very proper image. However, C has complained to me that I make her sound excessively stiff, starchy, dour, dowdy and frumpy in this blog. I am sure that C has normal instincts, but is perhaps just more circumspect and prudent than many others. And although I have no direct reason to believe anything different, it appears that even the most ostensibly prudish of Skypeland females has a healthy affinity for carnal pleasures and she was even insulted at the slightest hint that she did not.

Clearly from the evidence revealed in Skypeland conversations, women have plenty of lascivious interests, no matter what the dictates of assorted social norms suggest. I remember when I was growing up being given advice by a wise old gentleman who told me, "All women are interested in sex. After all, their mothers did it..."

Addendum

* When I hear the phrase "sports down under", I think of the Australian spiny anteater, the echidna, which has a penis with four heads (although only two are fully developed). [6] [7] Some claim that while one penis is in use, the other rests for the next use. This kind of equipment might come in handy if you had to go visit SN from Missouri; it would be like getting a second wind.

Go out with a bang

2009-06-21T07:20:00.000-07:00

In Skypeland people often feel comfortable in revealing opinions which they might not in other circumstances. B, one of the more strident Holocaust deniers in Skypeland, visited a Skypeland forum to offer a few comments about 88 year old James von Brunn, white supremacist and accused Holocaust Museum gunman.

B claimed that von Brunn took rational and appropriate action; anyone who is older and at the end of his life should try to kill as many Jews as possible, to take as many with them as they can before they die. When I expressed some dismay at these comments, I was attacked and threatened and insulted repeatedly. B said that the news media was completely out of line to publicize this event, since "only a nigger was killed", so who cares.

B then complained bitterly that such museums would even exist in the US, since the Holocaust had taken place in Europe. Of course, judging by B's attitude, he would be glad to have an American version of the Holocaust on American soil, if he could arrange it.

B was also outraged that any government funding went towards this kind of museum. I was not aware that there was any government funding for the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, but when I checked I found out that the museum does receive federal funding, and is the result of a private-public partnership.

As disturbing as this event was, it had some value in exposing some of these attitudes which are just below the surface in many communities.

What is a continent?

2009-06-13T12:14:00.001-07:00

As much as I try to limit the amount of space in this blog devoted to certain individuals, there are some whose boundless stupidity never ceases to amaze. Today in Skypeland, Mucus the muck expert was holding forth on what a continent is.

Mucus claimed that there are only three continents on earth, that everyone agreed with this and that it was a simple matter of geography. One of these continents Mucus identified as "Australasia". At some points in the conversation Mucus tried to claim that South America and Africa were not separate continents because they were once joined and then separated because of plate tectonics. However, seemingly in contradiction to this, Mucus alleged that only geography was relevant in defining continents, not geology.

Mucus was smug and self-satisfied when he confidently declared that geology could not possibly have anything to do with continents, since geology was about rocks. He was positive that this argument was unassailable. However, the moderator S asked Mucus what continents were made of. Mucus did not know, and when S revealed that continents were made of rock, Mucus was taken aback and did not know what to say. Mucus responded with a viscious string of insults and invective, threatening to attack S and anyone listening.

Mucus was angry, and confused, and sputtering. Mucus threatened to physically beat anyone who disagreed with him. He was upset and he insulted everyone listening. I am not really sure why he was unhappy, or why this issue was so important to him.

Of course, the definition of the term "continent" is somewhat arbitrary. For example, some designate Europe and Asia as separate continents and some do not. What makes this episode notable is that Mucus became so incensed when anyone disagreed with him or challenged him on anything. He refused to explain himself when questioned, and just slung insults around instead.

To doublecheck, I looked up the term "Australasia" and found out that it refers to a region "south of Asia". It was coined in 1756 by the French writer Charles de Brosses. de Brosses defined it as part of Oceania, including Australia, New Guinea and neighboring islands, but excluding Micronesia, Polynesia and Antarctica. It is definitely not a reference to a supercontinent of some sort, the way "The Americas" might be, or "Afro-Eurasia".

Anyway, there is no way to settle an argument with Mucus when he is foaming at the mouth. He is always positive that he is correct, and that is that. And Mucus will rant and rave like a lunatic and demand that his views be respected as much as anyone else's, or maybe even more than anyone else's. What might be a chance for people to exchange views and possibly learn things turns into an opportunity for Mucus to put his endless supply of stupidity on display for all, and then to aggressively defend it.

I have heard this far too often previously. Nothing new really. And so I left.

Best or worst

2009-06-09T15:55:00.000-07:00

Appearances are a common topic of conversation in Skypeland. Some Skypeland stalwarts regularly lead others on late night field trips to justin.tv to ogle young ladies and then compare notes about which look best and which of the "web cam queens" are total dogs. Likewise, Skypeland females get into detailed discussions about who is a "hottie", and who is a "nottie" (everyone agrees on who the "naughties" are).

Recently, the results of a survey of 1500 UK men about the best and worst celebrity bodies were excitedly announced in numerous media outlets. Kelly Brook, a cuvaceous English model and television personality, was voted as having the best body. Megan Fox (American model and actress who burst into the public eye in the Transformer's movie) came in second, Angelina Jolie (a relative old bag at 34, compared to the others ranked by the survey) took third place, followed by Cheryl Cole (A limey singer who was voted sexiest celebrity in FHM magazine's poll) and Katy Perry (the "I kissed a girl last night" singer), who was awarded fifth position.

The survey also produced a ranking of "best breasts" and again Brook's bust was rated as best, followed by Holly Willoughby (a UK television presenter who has mainly been involved with children's shows, and who had a boob fall out of her top during a live broadcast) , Cheryl Cole and Jessica Simpson (with her rapid weight changes, I wonder if the voters were not confused about the size of her mammaries?).

All standard stuff. All pretty boring really, since there seem to be many such surveys. A recent survey of 3000 men on sportingfix.com rated Cheryl Cole as "Ultimate fantasy cheerleader" (whatever that is), followed by Kelly Brook, Kylie Minogue and Holly Willoughby (just the same names more or less, in slightly permuted order; this is like musical chairs).

However, the same survey of 1500 British lads also voted Victoria Beckham as having the worst body. What on earth? Luscious, gorgeous, toned, curvy (even if possibly artificially enhanced curves), sweet Posh Spice. Worst body? I can think of quite a few more candidates for worst celebrity body. For example, have we all forgotten Amy Winehouse? What about my dear friend Amy Winehouse, that bathing beauty?

However, the Brits seem to be obsessed with how hideous they think Victoria Beckham is. In November, the UK's Sun published a survey that rated Beckham's legs as the worst celebrity gams. London plastic surgeon Patrick Mallucci announced in September 2007 that Victoria Beckham's breasts were found to be the worst in a study (a view shared by other plastic surgeons, apparently). The British press gleefully reported that Victoria Beckham was rated as worst dressed on Mr. Blackwell's last Worst Dressed List in January 2008 (the last such list since Richard Blackwell kicked the bucket in October of 2008).

What makes this sort of funny is that a poll of more than 5000 British women disagrees, having rated Beckham's body as second best in 2007, according to New Woman magazine (Liz Hurley took the "best body" honors, popstar Myleene Klass came in third, and Kelly Brook was fourth). British women want to have a body like Beckham's according to New Woman editor Helen Johnston. In 2008, Victoria Beckham and Angelina Jolie covers of fashion magazines sold more than any other models, so women obviously find her attractive and appealing. The British magazine Celebrity Bodies, aimed at young women 25 to 35, rated Beckham's limbs as the i deal legs in 1998 (did they get much worse in ten years?).

In 2009, Celebrity Bodies, after a survey of over 5000 people, announced that old bat Jennifer Lopez has the best celebrity female body at the age of 40 (Was it her huge butt that earned her the top spot? What about Kim Kardashian then? Did a lot of black males vote in this poll?), and the similarly ancient Catherine Zeta Jones was second best. Interestingly, David Beckham was rated by Celebrity Bodies as having the best male celebrity body, and his wife barely made 50th place. Betraying the UK origins of the poll, 6 of the 10 best male celebrity bodies were British, and 5 of the 10 best female celebrity bodies were from the UK. No one outside the UK has a good body, huh?

The UK papers have tried to describe these survey results as a switch in public attitudes, from admiring those with thin figures to those with more curvy figures. I don't think they have analyzed the situation accurately, however.

So what can we learn from all this?

(1) The UK press is preoccupied with Victoria Beckham and her body (Why? Who the hell is this has-been anyway? The Spice Girls broke up 9 years ago you know).

(2) Many British women want to look like Victoria Beckham.

(3) Many British men find Victoria Beckham repulsive.

There are lots more examples of the fixation of the British press on Victoria Beckham:

*It was big news in the UK when Victoria Beckham wore the same outfit twice inside of two weeks. Also, Beckham committed the unforgivable sin of wearing the same hat four times in public, albeit in different colors (oh heaven forfend!).

*The British Press were beside themselves with horror when Victoria Beckham's nipples showed through her shirt (I could imagine this being a news story on a blog, but in the mainstream press? This is at all relevant?).

*Numerous articles in the British media whenever Posh Spice is found to have a zit (I kid you not; a pimple is important news? What on earth?). Victoria is also reported to use bird poop to treat her acne (haven't seen that treatment in stores, or even advertised on late night television, I have to admit).

This sort of stupidity repeats itself over and over in the British press. In spite of all the complaints about US media (which are not completely undeserved), the British media sets new lows constantly obsessing about minutae and empherema.

I happened across the similarly ridiculous case of former Big Brother contestant Chantelle Houghton (a perfect example of someone who is famous for being famous), and the tracking of Houton's career in the British press. Houghton married a popstar she met on the Big Brother show and was divorced about a year later. [1] After her divorce, she had breast implants, changing from a 32B to a 32E at the end of 1997 (she had wanted DD cups, but ended up with E cups; poor thing). [2] Chantelle posed for pictures in which she tried to copy busty British model, media personality and singer Jordan/Katie Price, and the British press were ecstatic about the comparison. [3][4] However, by mid-April 2009, the Pommy media was reporting that Houghton "hated her big boobs", that they were sore and that she just wanted to hide them (in spite of posing for literally thousands of pictures flaunting her bustline). At the end of April 2009, Houghton announced that she was ill, and she feared she had swine flu, and the press covered this (Every fever and every sniffle reported? I guess like reporting zits). The newspapers wrote fawning articles when Chantelle rented a pink limousine. By early June 2009, articles were appearing announcing that Houghton had gained 21 pounds, and was currently 5'7" and 133 pounds and was now happy with her womanly curves except that maybe she would prefer D cups (why do we even care?).

This sort of meaningless story is published by the British press over and over, day in and day out, year in and year out. As bad as the American media is, I think it has a long ways to go to compete with the stupidity the Limeys dish out. Americans consign this sort of crap to supermarket tabloids like National Enquirer, The Globe and Weekly World News, where it shares space with revelations like "Dick Cheney is a Robot", "Elvis is a alive and running for the US Presidency", "Alien Bible Found; They Worship Oprah", "Abraham Lincoln was a Woman", and "Sarah Palin Shoots Bigfoot". However, these tabloids are not taken seriously at all in the US. In contrast, the Pommys seem to revel in this sort of garbage, and it gets picked up and repeated endlessly. I think the closest I have seen a US publication come to the low level set by the Brits are a few stories about stars with cellulite that appear every year, but again these are not in the mainstream media at all in the US. I definitely do not think that a zit or two would be reported in the mainstream US press (especially not the zit of someone that used to be a pop singer well over a decade ago).

This sort of thing really makes one wonder about the UK. What happened to this country that ruled the world for centuries, was the center of culture and learning, and gave rise to Adam Smith, Robert Hooke, Francis Bacon, David Hume, John Locke, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Wren, Jonathon Swift and Isaac Newton, and countless other great thinkers? Are Mucus and Mrs. B and Mr Wee Wee Hands and the bathroom contractor R the best that Britain has to offer?

Sadly, if one is to try to judge from Skypeland, it seems like it. Maybe Britain exported all their talent, leaving just detritus behind. Sort of like the soap scum after you have drained the bathtub.

What are you eating?

2009-06-07T20:37:00.000-07:00

Food is a frequent topic of conversation in Skypeland. Of course, all people everywhere eat, and people in different regions consume a wide variety of provender. Some countries are renowned for their fine cuisine, but it might be more accurate to say that some countries are not so much famous for their national dishes, as infamous. Skypeland offers the chance to interact with many from other places and learn about dining around the world.

A lot of traditional comestibles can be a little bizarre and even repulsive. For example, at one time Australian Aborigines included witchitty grubs, large white wood-eating larvae, in their diets. However, I have yet to find a single Aussie, including "fair dinkum" (i.e., authentic) "Abos", that will admit to ever having eaten one. Australians do like to snack on musk sticks, which are pink candies that smell and taste like musk perfume (i.e., the secretions of the anal glands of some animal). Few nonAustralians seem to like these sorts of confections, however.

The durian is a particularly stinky fruit grown in Indonesia and surrounding areas. Durians reek so much that it is illegal in some jurisdictions to ingest them in many public areas, like parks and subways and hotel rooms. However, durians have a nice fresh flavor, in spite of their odor.

In Norway one can find smalahove, a barbecued sheep's head customarily consumed at Christmas and accompanied with mashed rutabaga. [1] Scandinavia is also the home of lutefisk, which is a sort of jellied whitefish that is partly rotten and prepared with lye. Rakfisk is an even more rancid Norwegian dish. Another variation on this theme is surströmming from Sweden, which is decaying herring packed in salt water. After the fish ferments for a few months, it is packed in tins where it continues to decompose and this causes the tins to bulge. Surströmming is very fragrant, which is why it is commonly eaten outdoors. However, I have not encountered any Scandinavians who will confess to consuming (let alone enjoying) smalahove, lutefisk, rakfisk or surströmming.

Germany has a wide variety of sausages and meat pastes and weird spreadable meatlike substances. A Skypeland regular recently returned from a medical trip to Germany with ugly reports of the atrocious meat products and limp anemic vegetables there. Although she liked the Teutonic coffee and desserts, she lost quite a few pounds in Germany. Some think this weight loss was because of her surgery; I suspect that it might have been caused by German cooking.

The US also has a number of disgusting foods, like jello/gelatin (made from boiled pulverized cow hooves), hot dogs (packaged ground-up anonymous meat "parts", which have an ersatz but "obviously healthy" reddish chromatic enhancement) and marshmallows (basically the same stuff as jello). However, American alimentary scientists are world leaders in creating novel synthetic but good tasting "frankenfoods" using radiation, genetic engineering, chemical processing, and a wide assortment of additives, many of which are not found in the natural world. For example, in ongoing attempts to avoid the Value Added Tax in the UK, the US manufacturer of Pringles brand potato snacks recently revealed that Pringles are composed of only 42 percent potato. Americans know much of their esculent intake is not as organic as it could be, but US nutrition engineers add carefully designed fake flavors, stabilizers, emulsifiers, propellants, humectants, precipitants, solvents, catalysts, hydrates, lixiviates, sequestrants, seasonings, fixatives, preservatives, thickeners, colorants and manufactured sugar substitutes to Yankee vittles. This makes US fare so attractive, tempting, mouthwatering and downright delectable that immigrants to the 50 states from all over the world soon find they are struggling with their weight, similar to many native-born Americans.

One region that is reputed to have some of the worst tucker in the world is the UK. [2] However, instead of acknowledging that their food is either bland and tasteless, or vile and repulsive, many Brits in Skypeland seem to champion the British table with a fierce pride, almost approaching indignant defensiveness and even fury (this is very different from what is seen in surveys; only 5 percent of Britons want to learn how to prepare their national dishes, which are the least popular in Europe, garnering only a 3% popularity rating, compared to Italian food at 60%).

Most foreigners who visit the British Isles return with stories about how horrendous the chow is there. One notable example that serves to illustrate the situation is the case of beef in the UK. Although the limeys often boast about the quality of British cow cuts (and some even brag about being "beef eaters"), visitors are almost always disappointed to discover that British bovine briskets and sirloin are dry and stringy and tough. In my experience, British beef has essentially the same texture and taste as shoe leather.

To add injury to these insults, the UK cattle industry was devastated by Mad Cow Disease a few years ago. It is estimated that over 500,000 British domesticated bos primigenius taurus were infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and about 80% of these sickly critters were consumed in the UK. This can be compared to one or two cows diagnosed with BSE in other countries. There are many fewer reported instances of BSE-contaminated meat being eaten anywhere outside the UK. Is this because the British monitor their food more carefully, so they were able to document the problem better than other countries, or because the Pommys eat more disgusting cuts of meat, from sicker cows, without a second thought? The American Red Cross will not even accept blood donations from people who spent significant amounts of time in the UK when BSE was rampant in the British cattle population. [3]

In addition, the names of British foods might generate confusion or create negative impressions. Food names can be important and even contribute to the popularity of a dish. For example, some foreign companies can run into trouble trying to make sales in English-speaking areas if they choose poor brand names.[4]

Just imagine the difficulties that one might encounter trying to market products like Pee Cola, Jussipussi bread or Shitto peppers in the US or the UK.

However, the British do not have the excuse of being nonnative speakers of English (although it might seem like it sometimes, particularly if one listens to someone from Yorkshire). In spite of this, Brits often have very unusual and even unappealing names for their foods. These linguistic difficulties, together with a collection of some of the least palatable vittles on the planet, easily explain why British cuisine has such a poor image worldwide.

Here are some specific examples of what makes outsiders wonder about British grub:

*One of the staples on the British national menu is "bangers and mash", a nasty, greasy yet bland meal of mashed potatoes and sausages.

*A variation of "bangers and mash" is "toad in the hole"; soggy cooked vegetables and sausages surrounded by pastry. I hate to say this, but the name of this dish reminds me of "turtling".

*Haggis is a notorious Scottish food, but there are versions of this dish in other places in the British Isles. Haggis consists of a sheep's heart, liver and lungs, boiled in a sheep's stomach for 3 hours. I will pass, thanks.

*Bubble and squeak is not quite as stomach-turning as haggis, but this meal is just warmed up, dried up vegetables left over from a Sunday dinner, typically served with cold meat. Yum.

*Kippers is a traditional British breakfast and a vile herring dish, complete with bones, scales and fish eyes. Perhaps not so good to eat if you are hungover, when you have to deal with food that is looking back at you.

*England is home to Stinking Bishop Cheese. This cheese is supposedly very popular because of its aroma, which is said to be reminiscent of a combination of ripe unwashed socks and wet towels. Stinking Bishop Cheese can have a nice grey rind as well. Don't you want to try it?

*"Spotted dick" is something else that can be found in the UK. No, spotted dick is not some sort of "social disease", or a symptom of a "Moby Dick" infection. A spotted dick is a tube of steamed raw beef or mutton fat ("suet") in which dried fruit is embedded. Mmm, mmm, sounds good. But doesn't it seem like something kids are advised to hang outside from tree branches as feed for birds in the winter?

*A friend who went to the British Isles told me about a delicacy called a "Scottish Wood Cock" (I wonder if after a bad case of "spotted dick", it fell off and had to be replaced with a prosthesis?).

*The British eat a food called "faggots", which are orbs of meat formed of chewed up pig hearts, livers, intestines and other undesirable parts (as an aside I will note that meatballs are sometimes called collops in the UK). However, as horrible as faggots sound, many Brits find nothing strange about eating a food that bears the same name as the UK slang term for a cigarette, or a common informal slur for a male who enjoys "buggery and blow jobs" with a few of the lads. Personally, I think it sounds a bit questionable to announce, "I like to eat faggots", as Mrs. B proudly proclaimed the other day. Such a statement certainly would raise eyebrows in the US.

*The British eat jellied eels and something called "mushy peas". How appetizing.

*As if Spam were not vile enough on its own, the British were so excited at the introduction of Spam to their island that they created a special dish called "Spam fritters", which is deep-fried Spam. Ick. It can still be found in those British temples to deep frying, fish and chip shops.

*Black bun is a Scottish cake with a nice filling made from fruit rinds. Wow, how delicious.

*Sometimes one can get some glimpse of British culinary culture in the international section of a US supermarket. I was surprised to come across a package of something from the UK called "cock flavored soup". I have no idea what that might taste like, but perhaps this is some more evidence of the English fascination with homosexual behavior?

*Stuffing for meat or fish is called "forcemeat" by the Brits. The only way to get most people to eat British meat would be to force it on them, I think.

*The Brits use many other odd names for food. Gammon is a British name for ham, and groundnuts are peanuts to limeys. Meats like liver, liver, tripe, heart and kidneys are called "offal", although "awful" might be a better spelling in my opinion. These meats are also called "pluck" to confuse matters further. Tunny is tuna, aubergine is eggplant, bilberry is blueberry, sack is sherry (maybe for the bag they wrap the bottle in, when they are out on a Winehouse rampage?)

and pips are seeds. This makes me wonder what on earth the proper British expression "pip, pip and all that" means. And the Chinese are supposed to be inscrutable? What about the Brits?

*Another British favorite is the so-called "head cheese". However, head cheese is not cheese at all, but instead is slices of calf or pig head, sometimes including meat from the animal's feet, tongue and heart, served cold and coated with aspic (that is, jellied animal head meat). Nice...

*Not only do the British drink their beer warm, but they eat the foul remnants of the brewing process. Marmite is spread on toast and eaten, in spite of having a taste that can make the average person gag.

*Black pudding is cooked thickened pig's blood. Ugh.

*Laverbread is a Welsh bread made from seaweed.

*Hotchpotch is a Scottish soup made by boiling vegetables together with some bones to leech out some of the bone marrow. Confusing matters further, a marrow in the UK is a kind of squash that looks like a monster-sized zucchini. However, the Pommys call a zucchini a "courgette" (sounds like what you might call a female Corgi dog).

*Pork shoulder is called "hand of pork" in the UK. How on earth can anyone refer to a pig's hands? Maybe someone was drinking too much of that warm beer.

*In the US, beer is consumed chilled, particularly when the weather is hot. So is lemonade, and the Brits mix the two to create to create a "shandygaff" or "shandy". I am not sure I would like to drink a nice warm shandy to quench my thirst.

*A "baby's head", or "babby's yead", is one of the endless variety of mystery meat pies that the British seem to consume. And as if the name were not repulsive enough, a baby's head is a pie filled with diced pig or lamb kidneys (sometimes together with steak, or what passes for steak in the UK).

The Brits seem to have an unlimited number of weird names for their food. Here are a few more:

*Liver and lights is a dish made from liver and lungs. Who eats lungs? I guess even the Brits want to disguise the nature of this food with a vague name.

*Cornish pasties are meat turnovers, not something worn by a stripper to hide her nipples.

*The English don't eat English muffins, but they do eat crumpets.

*A chump chop is a type of lamb meat. It sounds like an undesirable cut of meat, frankly.

*A coley is a black codfish. Naming a fish dish after a lump of smelly inedible hard decomposed plant material is just what might expect from the British. One can only imagine what meal of coley might taste like.

*A garibaldi is a large cookie, full of currents. I think the name of this treat is a reference to the Italian patriot, not a comment about a candidate for minoxidil. Apparently, Giuseppe Garibaldi sat on an Ecces Cake during a visit to Tynemouth, England in 1854, and thereby invented this biscuit.

*A ginger nut is not a type of nut (that is, a desiccated anhydrous indehiscent ripened ovule-bearing nether portion of the pistil of a gymnosperm or angiosperm, well-known photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms) at all, but a ginger snap.

*Corn is the term used for any type of grain in the UK, but maize is the British name for corn.

*Bully beef, alternately called salt beef in the UK, is corned beef. In the US, a bully beef would be whining by someone who picks on others, and a salt beef is an action taken to add sodium chloride to cooked cattle flesh or maybe a complaint about the sodium content of some food. Obviously, there are lots of chances for confusion and misunderstanding.

*In the UK, floss is not necessarily something you use to clean your teeth, but can describe cotton candy.

*A jacket potato is a baked potato. Does that mean that a peeled potato is a jacket off potato?

*Perry is pear cider, not the first name of a 50's crooner.

*Polony in the UK is bologna. Is this an attempt at rhyming slang?

*A ring doughnut in the British Isles is a doughnut, but a doughnut in the UK is a jelly doughnut.

*Sherbet is not only a frozen dessert in the UK, but a type of powdered candy.

*Squash is not a vegetable in the Britain, but a juice drink.

*A dessert in the UK is typically called "pudding", even if the dessert is not literally a pudding (just like tea in the UK often refers to a meal, not necessarily accompanied by tea). Obviously, some puddings are not dessert at all, like the previously mentioned black pudding (a kind of blood sausage), and hog's pudding, which is a sausage from Cornwall that is similar to haggis (here is a recipe from a British newspaper for "hog's pudding and sweatbreads on toast". Ooh, how inviting!).

*A swede is a yellow turnip, or rutabaga. Turnips are called neeps in Scotland.

*British Demarara sugar is turbinado sugar, named for the Demarara colony in Guyana, paying tribute to the UK history of involvement with slavery.

*A tart is not only a slag (a British term meaning "slut"), and a word that describes a sort of unpleasant sharp or sour taste, but a type of pie in the UK. This produces endless opportunities for jokes and puns in what passes for comedy in the UK. "Tart jokes" are ubiquitous in British humor, as can be seen by viewing Benny Hill reruns.

*Mayonnaise sounds distinctly French, and is sometimes said to be named for the town of Mahón. However, a little investigation shows that the origin of mayonnaise is not clear at all, and one of the theories about the invention of mayonnaise suggests that the British contributed to the creation of it. [5] This is just what you might expect for one of the blandest and most nasty condiments. After all, who else would put something that looks like pus on their sandwiches and french fries? The only thing that is more unpleasant than the Pommys putting mayonnaise on french fries is the British habit of dribbling gravy on their "chips". I won't even mention what that looks like.

One of the complaints about British food is that it is often bland. This is mostly correct, but it is not completely accurate. An exception is the well-known Worcestershire sauce, which is popular the world over. However, most brands of Worcestershire sauce are flavored by something called 'asafetida' (sound it out), also known as "devil's dung" because of its foul stench, and is therefore usually unlisted on food labels.

In addition, Worcestershire sauce often contains "xanthan gum", made from the microbe xanthomonas campestris, a plant pathogen. Plants infected by xanthomonas campestris have disgusting slimy black spots on their leaves.

There are some special dishes associated with holidays, celebrations and special occasions in the UK. For example, parkin (a sort of oatmeal bread) is consumed on Guy Fawkes Day in Yorkshire. Parkin is made with ginger and molasses, and is another monument to Britain's proud history in maintaining slavery in the Americas, since both ginger and molasses were produced by slave labor in Jamaica and then imported to the UK. Guy Fawkes Day commemorates a great UK historical event, when Roman Catholic Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Parliament buildings because of religious inequities in the UK (one of the conditions that fueled UK emigration).

Guy Fawkes celebrations are a little peculiar; it would be like the US having an Osama Bin Laden day on September 11. However, Brits engage in all kinds of revelry on Guy Fawkes Day, including setting off firecrackers that they have "shoved up the bums" of neighborhood cats. [6] What great fun! And of course, this tradition gives a bit more evidence of the obsession most Brits seem to have with butt holes.

Many holidays in the UK are associated with a special dessert. For example, "hot cross buns" is not a nickname for a sexy angry guy with a nice backside, but a type of baked roll eaten at Easter.

A conventional British wedding cake is an iced fruitcake. Fruitcakes are often given as gifts at Christmas as well. Fruitcakes are so unpalatable that they are the one kind of cake that most Americans will not eat (and that is saying something). Fruitcakes are typically not consumed in the US, but "regifted" to someone else. People even joke about using fruitcakes as substitutes for cannonballs. [7] [8] [9] [10]

A special British Christmas dessert is the "Yule log", which is also what they call a tubular tree section they put on the fire. Naming a dessert after a large cylinder of wood is the sort of thing one might expect from the British, I guess, and I can imagine that many British Yule log desserts probably taste like a piece of wood as well.

In one college, some students in the dorms decided to have a "Yule log contest" over the December vacation break. They competed to see who could squeeze out the longest "Yule log" and they saved their efforts on old newspapers in a linen closet. Unfortunately for these students, after about a week a janitor opened the closet (which was in a somewhat pungent state by then) and the students were threatened with expulsion. The students decided to protest this action, staging a "shit in" to attempt to convince the University administration to let them stay in school.

On "Mothering Sunday" in Lancashire, the beer is not just served warm, but is even heated by shoving a red-hot poker into it (I hope this does not get some of my female readers too worked up, although I guess there are a few gay readers who might like that idea as well). The mulled ale is eaten with "simnel cake", which looks like a vomit-colored dessert which is growing a bunch of tumors. [11] Gross. In this case, I think it might be more appropriate to classify the simnel cake as more of a "baked bad" than a "baked good".

After surveying some of these British foods, the behavior of a British man who was arrested for urinating all over some of his country's foods becomes a bit more understandable. [12] The only question is, could one even tell the difference afterward?

Can you imagine a good slogan for this drink? How about "Have a Pee", or "I love the taste of Pee"

Addendum: A naughty limerick

As noted above, these bizarre British food names give rise to all sorts of gags and jokes. I decided to try my hand at it, utilizing an extended form of that classic British poetic form, the limerick:

There was a young lady from Wumpet

who enjoyed hot tea with her crumpet

'long came a lad, exceedingly bad

Who asked her to blow on his trumpet

'Cept the lass was sort of a strumpet

and she liked to have boys hump it

she told him 'stead of givin' him head

to get down to work and to pump it

The young boy was too 'fraid to jump it

And then she pulled out her plump tit

She said I've a need, ain't gunna plead

Take me right now, like it or lump it.

Addendum II: BSE risks

I did a bit of investigation to see if I could find any evidence for the hysteria in some health food media about BSE risks in the US. [13] [14] [15] There have been only 3 verified variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) cases in the US up to June , 2008, while there have been almost 1400 verified cases of vCJD in the UK through the end of 2008. [16] The three in the US had lived in the UK or Saudi Arabia and presumably contracted the disease there. One mystery case of a woman in Massachusetts turned out to have taken supplements made of imported cow brain parts for years. [17] A very interesting paper from the CDC gives a careful assessment of the BSE disease, and the risks for BSE in the US. [18] Although the risks in the US are not vanishingly small, they are not quite the reason for alarm that the "health food Nazis" seem to think either, at least in my opinion.

However, it is quite interesting to me that there appear to be some similarities between BSE, vCJD and Alzheimer's Disease. [19] [20]

A message to my readers

2009-06-04T07:08:00.001-07:00

I have had this blog for almost two years, documenting a few of my experiences in the world of online conversations. This blog captures only a small fraction of what I have heard and seen; a sampling of what I observed in Skypecasts, on MeBeam, on Paltalk, on TalkShoe, and now in assorted conference calls and HighDef conference rooms. Of course, there are many other online venues where one can take part in conversations, such as Yahoo! messenger and MSN messenger, both of which offer voice and video capability. I have only experimented with a few of these, so this blog captures only a small fraction of what is available in the world of online discourse, and does not even cover the full range of what I personally have been involved with in this medium.

The blog currently allows for anonymous comments by readers, which I can moderate. I am considering adding a capability for readers to vote on each post so they can tell other readers (and me) what they thought of it.

For example, in the last week, using the number of readers who clicked directly on a blog article as a crude estimate, the most popular blog posts were (in order):

*Window lickers

*On the horns of a dilemma

*An inside job

*Skanky slut

*Sonia Sotomajor

*Droner

*Yorkshire wisdom

*A visit from Brad Shit

*Rock around the clock

*Definition of character

I am sort of surprised that as many wanted to read the Sonia Sotomajor article. Obviously, "A visit from Brad Shit", although it is a less recent article, is still very popular.

These are just the most commonly read articles last week, by this rough measure. A full list of the articles clicked on directly in the last week would include about 60 articles. Most people probably do what I do; they click on a month and read a selection of the articles from that month, or read articles that follow others. Many read articles from the archives as well. The newest post, Restraining order, while still heavily read, might not have been up long enough yet to rise higher in the list, because many people read the blog only once every few days.

If this sort of information is interesting to you, and you want to give feedback on what is in the blog, then let me know by voting in the upper right hand corner poll. If you want to comment on a blog post, then feel free to do so. Just realize that I reserve the right to moderate comments, since some have used this method in the past to attack me personally. And since it is my blog, I reserve the right to only publish comments that I think enhance the blog.

Thanks for your interest.

Additional note

Also, if you are really observant, you might notice that sometimes I post new articles out of temporal order. That is, I often have draft articles that retain the date when I first started working on them when I finally publish them to the internet, days, weeks or months later. So sometimes the most recently posted articles are not those with the most recent dates on them. I realize that this can be confusing to people, and that these articles are less likely to be read if they do not appear at the top of the list of blog posts. However, sometimes there is a value to this, if a blog post is particularly controversial or confrontational. This blog is not only for my readers, since I want to use it to keep notes about what goes on in Skypeland.

Restraining order

2009-06-03T07:16:00.001-07:00

The undercover operative, international jet setter, bon vivant, renowned mercenary and bathroom contractor R was back in Skypeland for his weekly performance the last couple of nights. R seems to think that his exhibition of belligerence and inebriated incoherence is charming and fascinating to everyone else. Personally I think that sometimes R's visits are too much of a "good thing" (using a very loose interpretation of the word "good"), especially because R's visits tend to discourage all other discourse. In the worst circumstances, an uncontrolled raucous R drives away many other potential participants, the lifeblood of Skypeland.

R has a tendency to get fixated on certain things. Obviously, alcohol holds a strong grip over R; he drinks 1-3 liters of alcohol (usually vodka) at least once or twice a week. In addition, a Skypeland visit by R always features a tremendous amount of bragging about R's purported achievements and wealth. However, it appears to be highly doubtful that there is more than a minimal element of truth in this bravado.

R also seems to be obsessed with violence, and threatens one after another in Skypeland venues that he visits. Some are the focus of special attention; I am one of them. Even if I am not present, R rambles on and on about me, clearly preoccupied with his thoughts of me. R usually fantasizes about killing me; lately R has expressed the strong desire to have my "head on a pike".

However, after 1,000 death threats or so, this sort of statement gets a bit wearisome. I don't particularly feel the need to sit around and listen to a slobbering drunk repeat the same death threat he made 1 minute ago, or 10 minutes ago, or 2 hours ago, or a week ago, or a month ago, just for the amusement of the listening audience (although I am doubtful about how amusing it really is). It gets a little tedious, you know?

In any case, R wants to be heard; he screams into his computer microphone and runs two computers simultaneously trying to log into Skypeland, often using multiple accounts. As soon as R is muted or removed from the room, he is back hollering again.

As R drinks more, he becomes increasingly focused on men's butts, and various forms of sodomy, such as cornholing, back scuttling, dick licking, prick sticking, irrumation, bunghole banging, poophole poking, shirt lifting, mattress munching, fudge nudging and so on. Sometimes R will even slide into this sort of talk when he is in the middle of a boast about his ability to kill someone with his bare hands and eat their brains. For example, last night as R was bragging yet again about his lethal talents, R said, "I promise you, I will lick any man's ass in no time flat". Normally one might not think twice about that kind of phrasing, but in R's case, one starts to wonder.

After all, what else is one to think when R seems to have some sort of weird mental fixation with "playing the pink oboe" and having a "sneaky butcher" shove some meat into a "sausage kennel"? Almost any subject is likely to be seized on by R as some way to introduce an anal reference. For example:

*If someone is talking about skiing, R will blurt out something like, "What sort of ski boot do you wear? I always prefer to have a rear entry".

*R calls sideburns "buggergrips".

*R never says "I can't be bothered" but instead says, "I can't be arsed".

*R never talks about hitmen, always assassins (one of R's favorite words because it has not one, but two asses in it).

*When a geek is speaking about Star Trek, R might offer to come over to help him remove "cling-ons".

*When a Skypeland visitor was discussing his vacation, R asked if they "dropped anchor in poo-bay".

*If someone says "not to cast aspersions", R is sure to pipe up with something like, "Ass Persians? You mean Iranian beaver leavers? Farsi-speaking knob jockeys?"

*Someone in Skypeland who identifies their hometown as Dingle in Ireland will prompt R to ask if this is where "dingleberries" are from.

*A discussion about the importance of wearing headgear as sun protection might draw the admission out of R that he is a bit of a "brown hatter".

*When one of the ladies in Skypeland says they have to go shower and wash their hair, R will ask if they use shampoo or "real poo" to wash their hair.

Since R is from the UK, some of R's allusions can be a bit cryptic, but a little investigation reveals that they still almost always have something to do with his anal obsession:

*If different kinds of jam, marmalade and other breakfast spreads are being discussed, R will ask something like, "Have you ever had a drive on the Marmite motorway?"

*If people are talking about fishing, R will reveal that once he "caught a huge brown speckled Mersey trout".

*Someone who plays the banjo will lead R to ponder the delights of "strumming a banjo string".

*When people are talking about pets, R will mention that he once had a "chutney ferret".

In other words, R always seems to be talking about poofters, pillow-biters, bone smuggling up Bournville boulevard or the Cadbury corridor, willy woofters and "plowing the backfield". Although R claims to be completely heterosexual, after a while one starts to wonder if he "bats for the other team", and even might have been the "filling in a triple decker manwich" (the so-called, and apparently highly sought-after, "Lucky Pierre").

At first, R's antics might be viewed as mildly comical, but they wear thin after a few iterations. The biggest problem is that Skypeland really relies on a steady flow of new people to any venue to keep the conversations interesting and fresh. Otherwise, discussions in Skypeland quickly deteriorate into stale, repetitive, tedious drivel and back-biting. Very few find R sufficiently engaging that they are willing to tolerate him for long, and so to allow R to rampage unimpeded and unrestrained for many hours every week is a losing proposition. However, malcontents like R are necessary in small doses to prevent the creation of bland "kumbaya rooms" in Skypeland that are completely boring.

The best option is to make some sort of compromise between these extremes. Lunatics and fruitcakes are necessary, but they should not be allowed to dominate any Skypeland channel.

Droner

2009-06-01T09:34:00.001-07:00

There are a lot of people who come to Skypeland to lecture others. Some of these lectures are interesting, but some are less than captivating.

For example, many find the secular Jew D's jokes, personal vignettes and monologues entertaining, but others disagree vehemently.

A visitor to Skypeland who frequently goes into drawn-out dilatory explanations is CWS. CWS is an autodidact. CWS has only a high school education, but reads widely and is able to give lengthy "commentaries" on a wide variety of religious, political and scientific matters (some might denigrate CWS's prelections as diatribes). Although many disagree with some of the material CWS recites, his memory is impressive.

The Algerian conspiracy theorist DJ also used to give long-winded harangues when Skypecasts were active. DJ claimed that Jews are the most evil people on the planet and that all Jews should be eliminated. Sometimes DJ would change things up a bit and blame all the world's problems on the Americans or the West (or just kaffirs in general, when he was in an expansive mood). However, DJ is no longer able to do this in the present incarnation of Skypeland since others will not sit quietly and allow him to blather on unimpeded. In a fit of pique at the unfairness of being forced to engage in a dialogue and defend his views, DJ has left Skypeland, at least for the time being.

The unfairness of a pro-American Skypeland venue is commonly discussed by assorted Brits in Skypeland, like Mucus and Mrs. B. Mucus and Mrs. B demand that they be allowed to preach about a variety of loony conspiracy theories, reveal that the USA is evil and rant that Zionism is the same as Fascism, without anyone disagreeing or responding. They share this complaint with most other conspiracy theorists, like the Florida pothead TP. Nothing outrages a conspiracy theorist more than being told that their assertions are not particularly credible or compelling. After hearing them a few times, they get very tiring.

However, perhaps the champion in serving up dry orations of extended duration in Skypeland is HF, a German filmmaker, bike peddler and anti-Muslimization activist. Some in Skypeland have nicknamed HF "H-Droner" because of his propensity to go on and on and on in a monotone voice, seemingly without a break even to breathe, holding forth on some of the most arcane subjects.

Sometimes HF has a semi-interesting adventure to relate, but HF's delivery does not always help retain the attention of his audience. HF has travelled widely, and one evening he related an account of a tryst with a young lady in Africa. This assignation anecdote could have been quite amusing, but unfortunately it was not. HF's version was that after "insertion", HF was startled when he felt a substantial amount of friction and an unpleasant chafing sensation. HF asked his partner why this was so (since she was a young lady) and she revealed that it was traditional in her culture for women to stuff dry grasses inside themselves to absorb any juices and reduce the lubrication (I imagine this is somewhat similar to J's experiences with the lady he calls the "Tumbleweed"). This report was delivered in a banal bloodless neutral fashion, without much emotion or verve. HF probably could have presented this narrative in a more entertaining fashion, in my opinion.

Other times, HF can babble on for long extended periods about stuff which is probably of limited interest to most other people. For example, one of HF's favorite subjects is his conception, construction and testing of a wooden bicycle. Visitors to Skypeland are offered the opportunity to hear HF describe, for many hours in excruciatingly minute detail, his efforts to create a ligneous velocipede of novel design.

HF gives protracted comprehensive explanations of cutting and filing and sanding the planks and boards into the desired shapes. Every stage and aspect of this project is delineated, analyzed, and recapitulated. Interminably. HF expounds. HF expiates. HF elaborates and enumerates. Repeatedly. And then does it again, for good measure. All very precise, and all very arid and tedious.

This enterprise has also resulted in a large number of crashes and other mishaps, as HF learns about the physics of human-powered two-wheeled conveyances through the creation of some painful abrasions on his backside. Everyone listening gets a complete rendering of all particulars.

It seems that not only are HF's soliloquies a bit grating, but somehow the topics HF chooses often revolve around some sort of attrition, fretting, grinding, rasping, corrasion, debridement or trituration. Based on this, I predict that soon Skypeland will hear HF give a platitudinous, monotonous vapid discourse or two (or more) about something like lapidary, frottage, scouring dirty pots or tribadism.

Or perhaps HF will combine two of his interests and his next presentation will focus on intercrural sex (known in Arabic as "thighing") , which Mohammed engaged in with his fiance Aisha (from ages 6 through 9 according to some Sunnah in the Hadiths). Not only is thighing all about rubbing (which seems to be a recurring theme in many of HF's stories), but it is quite frequently brought up by detractors of Islam. Although it is difficult to imagine that any kind of sex could be boring, if there is a way to make it dull, I am pretty sure that our Teutonic rhetorician H-Droner will find it.

Rock around the clock

2009-06-01T09:12:00.000-07:00

In Skypeland, not all characters are equally outrageous. Many are calm and reasonable. However, there are a wide range of views about who is reasonable, and who is not, which behaviors are normal and which are not, and which opinions are rational, and which are not.

One participant in Skypeland that evokes widely differing assements is D, a secular American Jew who is living in Greece. D participated as a guard at the Japanese War Crimes Trials at the conclusion of World War II. D is a staunch defender of Israel and Jews, although he is not religious himself. Some other Jews have wondered if D can really claim to be a Jew, but D clearly knows a lot about Judaism and history.

D has a tendency to lecture passionately on subjects he is interested in, or knows a lot about. One of his favorite topics to discuss is Babi Yar, a ditch in the Ukraine that was a dumping ground for tens of thousands of corpses, starting with the slaughter of a large number of Jews by Nazi troops in World War II.

D's defense of Israel and attack of Israel's opponents can sometimes verge on the strident, and there are a large number in Skypeland that either condemn D, or support him. Some of D's opponents are fueled by D's tendency to be very quick to categorize others as enemies. If D judges that someone does not support Israel or Jews aggressively enough, then D will quickly turn on them.

One of D's most striking characteristics is his incredible repertoire of jokes. D finds his favorite joke so humorous that he can only rarely tell it without bursting into laughter. Here is D's favorite joke:

Two Eskimos were fishing through a hole in the ice. One Eskimo asked the other, "say do you have any bait?". The other Eskimo replied, "What do I look like? A clock?"

There is not much more that can be said after that punchline, is there?

Voting rights

2009-05-30T07:47:00.001-07:00

It is interesting to see how political correctness colors conversations in Skypeland. One can also see how different politically correct views are in different countries and different cultures.

For example, it is clearly politically correct in many cultures to characterize the US as some sort of international bully, wantonly attacking other groups across the globe. Even in the US, the politically correct "Thought Police" adopt this view. This gives political cover to conspiracy theorists who believe that 911 was a false flag operation by the US government to give it license to attack poor defenseless Iraq and Al Qaeda.

It has also become politically correct to be anti-Semitic. Amazingly, in a few short years, the culture that nurtured assorted communist and socialist elements, championed civil rights around the world, and gave rise to the Kibbutz Movement is now vilified as a bastion of right wing reactionary mossbacks.

In a very short period, Sadam Hussein has been rebranded as some sort of champion of human rights and democracy. Osama Bin Laden is no longer looked at as some sort of international criminal and terrorist, but merely a puppet of the evil CIA.

It is politically correct to view Islamic culture as progressive and harmless and blameless. Somehow, Mutah marriage, female circumcision, honor killing, polygamy, unequal treatment of women, stoning, death penalties for homosexuality, suicide bombing of women and children, torture for minor "crimes", and repressive religious dictatorships are all ignored, or judged to be irrelevant, or blamed on the West because the West has kept Islamic societies impoverished.

And now, we get a little glimpse of the Obama Administration's version of political correctness. Black Panther intimidation of voters at the polls in November of 2008 resulted in charges being filed against 3 black men. These men dressed in military style uniforms and stood outside voting locations in Philadelphia (and possibly other locales) brandishing weapons and insulting those who wanted to vote with racial slurs. According to the Washington Times lead article on May 29, 2009, career lawyers at the Justice Department were overruled by Obama Administration officials and the charges were dropped. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Amazing. Disappointing. But sadly, not too surprising.

Skanky slut

2009-05-29T07:17:00.000-07:00

Men and women often see things a bit differently, and this is frequently observable in Skypeland. Recently a few events in Skypeland have had me thinking about this a little more.

C is a man from the UK who has moved to China to be with a lady he met in Skypeland. C is from Yorkshire, but does not seem to be on the absolute bottom of the barrel like Mucus and Mrs. B. C has a deep streak of hatred of the United States, which he has revealed a few times in unguarded moments. For example, C hopes there will be a military confrontation between the US and China, and enthusiastically predicts that the virtuous China will dominate the evil US in any military enounter.

C positively swoons when he describes the pleasures of living in China. One of the things that C likes best about China is the "female landscape" there. C likes Chinese women, and he makes no bones about it. C asserts that Chinese women are much prettier and more attractive than UK or American women. In addition, C says Chinese women "love to fuck" and has many stories of lads from the UK and the US who moved to China so they could "get their rods greased". Chinese women are particularly drawn to Westerners because of the prospect of getting access to Western immigration documents, according to C. C told us about a couple of American guys who were deported for "excessive porking" when some of the Chinese women realized that these boys had been playing the field.

Q, a leggy American goddess, launched into a full frontal attack after hearing this account. While the American men were all listening to this description of C's antics in China with rapt attention, Q's blood was boiling. Q alleged that C is so ugly that he can't get an American woman. C likes Chinese women because "that is all he can get", in Q's opinion. Q contends that Chinese women are all 4 foot tall beasts with unibrows, fat faces and sloping foreheads. Q declared that Chinese women "have no boobs" and all are "butt ugly". I did not have the impression that C's account offended many of the men listening, but it certainly hit one of Q's hot buttons.

C is not the only Westerner living in China who visits Skypeland. Hiney's "butt-kisser" U is an American living in China, who has also hinted that part of the reason that he is in China is to take advantage of similar "opportunities". Like C, U likes to give the impression that he has his finger on the pulse of the Chinese public opinion and is well connected with Chinese government officials. U makes some outrageous statements about Chinese views; for example, U has claimed that the Chinese elite feel that the US should leave South Korea and Japan, and let China take over their defense, and then all will be well. U, in his typically moronic fashion, seems to think this is a viable option and that because the US has not embraced this solution, the US is clearly a belligerent bully.

Like many in Skypeland, I get constant "friend requests" from foreigners. However, because one of my user names has the word "furniture" in it, I get many contact requests from Chinese women representing Chinese furniture manufacturers. Many of these women have photos on their profiles, and if one can judge from that, they are beautiful.

When I described these Chinese women in Skypeland, I could tell that Q was pretty skeptical. In response, Q told everyone present that all Chinese women are like "ugly little yellow monkeys".

However, Q forgot that many times we have Chinese men in Skypeland listening. One of them, P from Shanghai, overheard these comments. I could tell that P was nonplussed, since he did not think Chinese women are all dogs.

I tried to lighten the mood. I revealed that I sent these Chinese women's Skype contact information to some of the Chinese guys that visit Skypeland. To date, none have hooked up as far as I know. Maybe these Chinese boys should inquire about buying a chair. Or make up a Skype username with the word "sofa" in it.

Another example of the different ways that males and females judge certain situations arose the other day. WW has a thing for young ladies who shed their habiliment for remuneration. That is, WW likes girls who are paid for raiment removal. WW has volunteered at a defrockery or two, and therefore is well-acquainted with females who have adopted this avocation. There are many pictures floating around the internet of a diminutive WW standing next to some striking Amazon who towers over him by a head or two.

I remarked that WW's female companions are attractive, and this raised Q's dander considerably. WW was not able to respond because of computer problems, but he was treated to a long diatribe from Q who said that all of WW's women were "skanky sluts", "whores" and worse. Q said WW's girlfriend looked like she had been "ridden hard and put away wet".

None of this seemed to bother WW particularly. Here is a sequence of text messages from WW I received while Q was deprecating WW's women:

[12:14:23 AM] WW says: I am here

[12:14:27 AM] WW says: unmute me

[12:14:28 AM] WW says: :)

[12:14:52 AM] WW says: that wasn't nice Q

[ 12:15:30 AM] WW says: true

[12:15:37 AM] WW says: she can be a good girl though

[12:16:27 AM] WW says: can be

[12:16:37 AM] WW says: she's 42 what do u expect

By and large, men are not put off by a woman who "looks a bit experienced" and might even be a "high mileage unit", with a few more "city miles" than "highway miles". However, to a woman, this is the worst possible insult. Therefore, this is one of the first weapons a woman relies on when she wants to attack other females.

The shrill shrew J lobbed this charge at assorted women who frequent a Skypeland venue when she threw a tantrum in response to my admission that I did not trust her cyber boyfriend, the mystery man A:

[4/20/2009 7:35:05 PM] J says: I dont need to listen to drunks, desperate women who slut themselves out to any man who will come their way, or morons.

From context, it is very clear that Q was the primary target of this snide statement. J has made many similar nasty comments about others who visit this room, particularly a couple of very pleasant ladies that everyone else likes (In typical hypercritical fashion, J has leveled charges against me that I similarly belittled others in my text messages to her. I dispute this of course, and I have plenty of evidence showing that the opposite is closer to reality.). Probably out of a misplaced sense of chivalry, I have not yet made public most of J's damning text messages, which reflect very negatively on her. Should I?

Another example of the differences between men and women's attitudes has arisen in discussions of the fabled "dutch oven". Most men seem to feel this is a bit of light-hearted fun that a man can have with a woman in bed. Almost all women seem to have a very different opinion, causing men to explode into gales of laughter whenever the topic is broached. The moderator T recounted a story of a time he elicited outraged yelps from his cat. This feline liked to sleep under the covers, and experienced a nice dutch oven because of T's nocturnal gaseous emissions.

Last night the lovely temptress M, who previously expressed her disgust with dutch ovens, shocked a Skypeland discussion with her revelation that she herself had actually introduced a family pet or two to the delights of the "dutch oven". So perhaps females only pretend to be repulsed by dutch ovens for comedic purposes. Or maybe this admission from the gorgeous M might be added to the evidence fueling the rumors that M is really a "chick with a dick".

Yorkshire airlines

2009-05-28T13:10:00.001-07:00

The more I listen in certain quarters in Skypeland, the more I have to wonder. I told Mucus and Mrs. B that I had found an "advertisement" about "Yorkshire Airlines" on youtube and I would play it for them. They were skeptical, but curious.

The "advertisement" was a fake, presented as a skit on a UK television program. I played it for several in the room because I thought it was mildly funny, but Mucus and Mrs. B missed it. Later Mrs. B asked me if Yorkshire Airlines was real or not. I said Yorkshire Airlines was not real; it was just a joke. I told him it was from a television program. However, this did not stop Mrs. B, who apparently asked all the friends he knew if they had heard of Yorkshire Airlines. None of them had.

The more Mrs. B asked, the more annoyed he became, positive that this proved how superior he was to me and how stupid I am. I was astounded at how irate he became at my reference to this fake airline advertisement. Somehow, I get the impression he is so slow, that he does not quite realize when the joke is on him.

Ooohkay. Well now we know. Yep, a window licker I guess.

Hostile to women

2009-05-28T13:10:00.000-07:00

There are disputes that arise all the time in Skypeland. The incomparably incomprehensible Mrs. B and his moronic sidekick Mucus attacked me today. Mrs. B told me how irate he was that I had characterized him as being anti-Jewish and anti-Israel and said I am incredibly direspectful of women. As usual, they would not allow me to respond to these charges, so I will do it here.

In numerous instances, Mucus and Mrs. B (and a few others) happen across some huge argument and jump in without knowing what is going on. For instance, when secular Jew D and I were involved in a very serious defense of Jews and Israel from the Holocaust denier CD, Mucus and Mrs. B butted in to try to silence D and myself. I have seen this many other times as well however. When Mucus and Mrs. B try to silence one side of a discussion, they are supporting the opposite side. So if Mucus and Mrs. B try to stop me from answering an attack by a Holocaust denier, they are aligning themselves with a Holocaust denier. As the saying goes, if you go to bed with dogs, you might wake up with fleas.

However, this is not the only thing I have observed Mucus and Mrs. B do. They "just" ask leading questions about the Holocaust, or Judaism, or Holocaust denial, or the "father" of Holocaust denial Paul Rassinier (1906-1967). In addition, Mucus and Mrs. B seem to always defend Muslims and the Palestinians, no matter what atrocities they are involved in.

For these reasons, I categorize Mucus, and to a lesser extent, Mrs. B as harboring anti-semitic views and negative feelings towards Israel. Of course, there is no question that Mucus and Mrs. B are stridently anti-American.

However, Mrs. B and Mucus have also joined forces to attack me for being "disrespectful to women". In particular, Mrs. B and Mucus said I was unfair to the shrill shrew J, as well as to R. Mrs. B claimed that I stayed away from a given Skypeland venue for a month afterward because I was "sulking". I disagree with these claims and take umbrage at this characterization:

*I go out of my way to treat women in Skypeland better than most men, perhaps out of a misplaced sense of chivalry.

*I have not released J's personal information, as she has done to me, not once, not twice, but at least three times. I have not yet done so to her, although I have threatened to do so and considered it.

*J has gone out of her way to try to belittle, insult, attack and threaten me repeatedly.

*J's reason to launch a "war" on me is because I said I do not trust her boyfriend/mentor the mystery man A. This is within my rights to do, as far as I know.

*J's dispute with me was heightened considerably when I observed that most males I know have a problem with the mystery man A, except for fellow conspiracy theorists and anti-Americans and malcontents, but several women (all with a bad track record with men) all have expressed a different opinion. For this, I was branded as "sexist" and evil. I have not responded in kind, although I am in possession of several nonpublic text messages that reveal J in a very negative light that I have not yet published.

*I have only given J a tiny taste of what she has earned with her attitude and behavior. I have not even done to her what she has been glad to do to me, multiple times.

*One interaction described was the result of frustration. Not only have I explained this repeatedly in public, but I explained this event in detail to R and apologized to R, which she accepted.

*I have twice stayed away from the Skypeland venue Mrs. B referred to, but neither because of this episode. In both cases I stayed away because of demands that I not challenge certain views promoting conspiracy theories, or anti-American and anti-Jewish views. I reserve the right to not visit such venues because they hold very little interest to me. Why do I want to sit and be lectured about things I disagree with and not be allowed to respond? I would rather leave. I guess Mrs. B and Mucus believe there is a law that they must be allowed to present their views unimpeded. I think not.

In addition, Mucus' and Mrs. B's behavior towards women is quite wanting, in my opinion. They should be the last to cast aspersions on the behavior of others. For example, I am in possession of some very ugly statements Mucus made about J when she turned down his sexual overtures. Also, Mucus and Mrs. B gleefully encourage Mr. Wee Wee Hands' unwelcome advances towards women. I did not notice Mrs. B or Mucus defending women against stomach-turning attacks by the bathroom contractor RL either. In addition, the status of Mucus' personal relationships with women is well known, and also a matter of some serious concern. Mucus wants to criticize me in this regard? I have dozens of text messages from others in Skypeland affirming that Mucus is a well-known woman-hater. Their blind support of the mystery man A with his record in this area is also something that gives me pause.

In short, I am not going to use Mucus and Mrs. B as examples of proper comportment. And I reserve the right to be annoyed with a woman who has attacked me, particularly when she is operating as a puppet for someone who has threatened me extensively. I leave it to my audience to decide if I am hostile to women or not, particularly compared to Mucus and Mrs. B.

An inside job

2009-05-28T06:57:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of flakes in Skypeland. Tuskie-poo, or TP for short, is a 20 year old pothead who lives in Florida and claims to have about 2 years of college under his belt. It is unlikely that TP's studies are in any technical field, since TP does not seem to know any science or engineering or anything even remotely technical. We call him TP since he is the kind of guy that is likely to walk around all day with a bit of used toilet paper stuck to one of his shoes.

TP does not work and is stoned every day. TP plans to move to Mexico to grow his own food and weed since he is disgusted with the US. TP believes that the atomic bombs used on Japan were just "random events" done by an evil US on a Japan that had already surrendered, or a Japan that would have surrendered if they had only been asked.

TP is as ardent believer in "the inside job"; that is, the theory that the 911 attacks were planned and orchestrated by the US government as some sort of covert operation. The people who claim this is true believe that there is a massive cover-up by the government and this "false flag" operation was used as an excuse to attack the innocent Al Qaeda and Taliban forces, as well as remove Sadam Hussein from power.

TP's main interest is the collapse of Building Seven in the World Trade Center complex since it was not hit by any airplanes, but still came down. TP thinks that the only way Building Seven could have fallen down in the way it did is through controlled demolition.

TP has been a proud Inside Job activist, showing up at his Florida town council to demand that they investigate 911, marching in the streets in Florida with a bullhorn yelling about the Inside Job and writing a letter to the FBI demanding that they investigate 911. The FBI sent TP a nice form letter which he proudly brandishes as proof that he is being taken seriously by the highest authorities.

TP fervently believes the piles of youtube videos and google videos that have accumulated since 911 purporting to show that Building Seven (also known as BS) was brought down by controlled demolition. TP demands that all rooms in Skypeland that he frequents talk about nothing else but Building Seven when he is present. All conversations with TP end up focused on BS.

Unfortunately, TP not only has a one-track mind, but he also is given to making insults and assorted death threats. Even when people are extremely nice to him, and give him a chance to lecture, he invariably threatens to hunt them down and kill them. This has happened at least half a dozen times that I know of.

After TP makes a death threat, people on his contact list block him. He also gets banned from Skypeland forums. This drives TP wild, and he tries over and over and over again to get back into the Skypeland discussions so he can preach about the Inside Job, how World War II was a false flag operation and BS.

Last night TP returned to one pro-American Skypeland forum. Since it was a slow night, the moderator allowed him to speak for the first time in months. Sure enough, within a few sentences TP was preaching about BS. TP tried desperately to recruit people who did not subscribe to his BS theories to come on his new internet radio show, which reportedly has about 6 or 7 listeners. I guess TP realizes that having several people who all agree on BS sit around and listen to each other does not make for a very interesting show.

Last night, TP claimed he had graduated from college (when did that happen?), and that he had access to an immense amount of "peer reviewed" studies showing that BS was an inside job. We asked him to show us. He promised to do so.

He said that the studies showing BS was a false flag operation were all performed using the "scientific method". TP stated that everyone else in the room was stupid and did not know what the scientific method was, particularly its new formulation, since he is young and open-minded. At that point, the room included a current chemistry professor, a retired biochemistry professor, 2 physics researchers, a medical school professor, a rocket scientist and a total of about 6 masters degree holders, 3 PhDs in science and an MD by my count. Of course, TP was asked what he meant by this "new scientific method" and he said that in the new scientific method, tests and studies had to be repeated over and over. Does not sound that new to me, frankly.

I said I would add TP's contact information on Skype, since so many young ladies had said things like, "TP Is so cute. He is just a little peanut". To me, it seems like it would be more accurate to say "TP is just a little nut". However, for to satisfy these women, I said I would accept TP's contact information and give him a chance. Aftert hearing this, TP sent me a text message:

[5/27/2009 11:11:31 PM] TP says: im a skype pimp

[5/27/2009 11:11:38 PM] TP says: i got girls from all over

[5/27/2009 11:11:56 PM] TP says: tyland,aussi,england,moraco,ukraine,ect

However, a bit earlier TP had told us that he "hated lesbians" since they were "taking all the pussy" and he "needed all the pussy he could get". It sounds to me that the only real Inside Jobs TP is associated with are the chores around the house his mother tries to get him to do, and "choking his chicken" (at least I hope TP does not do that in public, the way Mr. Wee Wee Hands does).

We said that TP did not know the basic principles which he was using to demonstrate that BS was destroyed by controlled demolition. We asked TP what "free fall" was, and he was unable to describe it. TP even said that buildings would fall faster in Mars since there was more gravity on Mars than there is on earth. Asked about air resistance, TP was not able to describe the effects of air resistance accurately. When TP was told he needed to learn about basic physics before he could evaluate these inside job theories and claims, he told us not to "patronize" him.

TP uses the word "patronize" so often, with no apparent understanding of what the word means, that one of the Skypeland participants advised him to stop using it. Patronize, patronize, patronize; you would think TP is a hot dog stand. However, from TP's attitude about lesbians, it is clear that TP is not serving up many frankfurters.

TP said he did not get any of his ideas from the internet or any internet videos, such as those made by talk show host Alex Jones, since he is a "free thinker", but somehow almost everything TP said is a carbon copy of what is claimed in one 911 truther video after another. TP said repeatedly that he never reads or watches anything produced by Alex Jones.

I said that if you gave me a button to click every time I heard something ridiculous or incorrect in one of these 911 truther videos, I would click the button every few seconds. TP accused me of making an "ad hominem" attack with this statement. Someone tried to explain to TP that an ad hominem attack would be a personal attack, like telling TP he was a "fucking idiot". However, saying there are problems with the truther arguments was not an ad hominem attack. I do not think TP absorbed this information.

When we asked TP repeatedly for a peer-reviewed study, he first provided me with a letter to the editor in a minor Florida newspaper. Then he gave me the link to an editorial by Alex Jones in the journal "911 Studies", which is published by an operation equivalent to a "vanity press". In this editorial, Alex Jones berates his fellow truthers for not creating peer-reviewed studies using the scientific method so they can be taken seriously by the mainstream. Finally TP directed me to a google video of a lecture given by architect Richard Gage who founded the Architects for 911 Truth. As I started to watch this 2 hour video, I saw it was replete with all the same nonsense I had seen dozens of times before:

*Gage made the claim that no other building had ever collapsed in this way because of fire. Just because Gage claims this is true means nothing. I need to see this backed up by a massive statistical study of all the high rise building fires for decades, organized by building design. I need quantitative measurements and data. I can't evaluate the gratuitous assertions of one guy.

*Gage repeated the claim that only a controlled demolition could result in the "pancaking" of the floors. Again, I need to see the evidence backing up this assertion. Someone just making it means nothing. This statement also is contradicted by the NIST study and some recent work by an MIT professor.

*Gage made the claim that the dust cloud after the collapse was only consistent with a controlled demolition. Oh really? Prove it.

*The video included the claim that "squibs" were seen being set off to bring down the building. Oh yes? Where is the data? The evidence?

*Once again I heard the claim that there was "unusual insider trading" before 911. Where is the statistical analysis and the data?

After just a few minutes of this video, I decided I had seen enough. There was nothing new in it that I saw. The video is long and tedious and not a peer-reviewed study. There is no scientific evidence in the video. I am not going to sit around and watch hours and hours more of this garbage. What is the point?

The NIST study was quite detailed, and if any truther wants to be taken seriously, they are going to have to repeat and refute the multi-year study that the NIST team did. And then get it published, in a mainstream peer-reviewed journal; not in something like 911 Studies. TP said I was a "fucking coward" and otherwise berated me for not wanting to waste hours and hours showing where these truther conspiracy theories are wrong. However, I think that is completely futile, since 911 truthers like TP will not listen to anything anyone else has to say on the subject, and ignore all the other information that makes their theory unlikely at best.

Then TP made it clear that he is at least being fed rumors and other information by the Mystery Man A and his minion, the shrill shrew and graduate student J. I suspect that it is more likely that TP is being "handled" by this mystery man troll. TP tried to pump me for personal information, such as what I look like and where I live. All pretty transparent and amateurish. Then TP asked if I feared for my life and then said I should fear for my life. Oh yes? Why is that? Because I do not find the truther arguments compelling? So TP will threaten me, just as the mystery man A does? Sounds rational.

Exactly true to form, TP had made another death threat. And that is a repeatable experiment, as required by the scientific method. Every time TP is allowed to open his mouth, he starts to talk about BS, and makes a death threat. Perfectly repeatable and perfectly predictable.

And so once again, TP was blocked and banned.

Addendum

TP returned to a Skypeland room today and announced to the shrill shrew J that he was "now allowed to come to the room once in a while". I sat and listened, and then said what I had heard from TP the night before, that TP had tried to get ahold of my information for J and the mystery man A. And then threatened me.

J flew into a rage at this, and said she hoped I would enjoy "having the police come to my door again". I would welcome a police visit, and even a discussion with the local federal prosecutor and the FBI, and I would be sure to tell them exactly why J and mystery man A are upset with me, and then consider violating their privacy the way they have violated mine.

Window lickers

2009-05-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

Something that is quite remarkable about Skypeland is the profusion of accents from around the world that you can hear. One of the most difficult native English accents to understand for most English speakers is probably the Yorkshire accent. The Yorkshire accent is characterized by an inability or unwillingness to pronounce consonants; there is almost a complete lack of enunciation and articulation in Yorkshireese. A few Yorkshiremen who come to Skypeland are almost completely incomprehensible, even to their fellow countrymen.

For example, in Yorkshireese, "button" sounds like "unh-onnh", "bottle" sounds like "baw-ugh", "water" sounds like "waah-ehh" and "butter" sounds like "buuh-uh". Yorkshire English resembles a series of guttural ejaculations, murmurs, mutters, grumbles and grunts, more akin to animal noises than human speech.

In places where people actually pronounce English words roughly the way they are written, youngsters who speak in this way would be sent to a "special school", riding on the "short bus". All children have had an experience in which one of their classmates leaves a huge turd in the urinal, or an impressively well-formed "steamer" on the floor of the boys room because they still have not quite figured out how to use a toilet at the age of 9. Very soon after some kid has "pinched off" an errant anal loaf in the wrong place, the adults recognize this as a signature of something that can not be spoken of openly, but only whispered about in hushed tones; "Little Davey is a...um... tard". Almost invariably, Davey sounds like he speaks a variety of Yorkshireese and drools a bit.

Davey is next seen riding the short bus, licking the window as it departs for a mysterious destination where others of Davey's ilk gather to learn how to use glue and hopefully to pronounce consonants. The bus collects little ones who are all slightly "different"; hydrocephalics, children with Down syndrome, pinheads and so on. Spastic cross-eyed children wearing helmets and orthopedic shoes who smell a little strange. Invariably, they share one characteristic however; they all sound like they come from Yorkshire.

So to normal people, Yorkshire and its environs seem like an entire region populated by short bus riders and window lickers. When you listen to some of the nonsense that Mrs. B and Mucus come out with, and notice the pride with which they advertise their lack of A-levels, you realize that you are talking to people on the lowest rung of the intellectual ladder. Even among window lickers, there are some that are more able, and some that are less able. And Mrs B and Mucus are definitely from the group that is less able.

It is not good to be on the bottom of the barrel, if that barrel is full of a bunch of window lickers.

Addendum

After some pondering, I realize that the Scottish variety of English is not particularly clear either. However, one might reasonably pose the question, "Is Scottish English even recognizable as English at all?" However, at least the Scots use consonants, even if they mangle the pronounciation of the words into something incomprehensible. The problem with Yorkshireese is that without consonants, a Yorkshireman sounds like a person who has not had enough "nonnutritive crude fiber" in his diet, and therefore is straining to squeeze one out.

Other varieties of English that are a bit difficult to understand, like pidgin English, Spanglish and Punjablish are the result of someone who has been taught English as a second or third language. This is far more forgivable, at least to my mind, than what passes for English in Yorkshire.

Addendum II

I think a perfect anthem for Mrs. B and Mucus might be a song, set to the tune of Britney Spears' song Womanizer:

Yorkshireman, where you from? Where you goin?

I know you got no clue bout what you're sayin

You got respect from your crew of fellow idiots and morons

But I know what you, what you are, buddy

Window licker, window licker, you're a window licker

Oh window licker oh you're a window licker buddy

You, you, you are, you, you you are

Window licker, Window licker, window licker

Sonia Sotomayor

2009-05-26T12:24:00.000-07:00

Some forums in Skypeland discuss political issues and current events. Today President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill an upcoming vacancy on the US Supreme Court. We discussed Sotomayor's nomination. I listened all day to various news coverage of the nomination. I have to admit, I was stunned at how florid the praise was in many instances from various media figures and commentators.

I heard several claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a first rank intellect of incomparable brilliance. I investigated a bit, but I was unable to find out what her major was at Princeton or really how incredible a scholar she was. I heard similar things about Barack Obama that were impossible to confirm.

She was married in college, but divorced in a few years and is reputed to be a lesbian [1] (not that there is anything wrong with that...).

Some claimed Sotomayor is the first Hispanic nominee, [2] but in fact Benjamin Nathan Cardozo who came from a family of Portuguese Jews served on the Supreme Court from 1932-1938.

I also heard that no other member of the court has any "trial experience" but Sotomayor does. This is just the most blatant nonsense I have ever come across. A quick survey of the current sitting Supreme Court Justices shows they all have similar or even superior backgrounds in the courtroom and as lawyers. Do these reporters and analysts even do a modicum of checking before they spew this stuff? I heard many claim that Sotomayor had an incomparable amount of experience, but in the important executive powers arena, Sotomayor has less background than the other front-runners for the nomination. [3] Perhaps Obama did not want anyone on the bench who might set limits on his own power.

One commentator was excited that a Hispanic would sit on the bench, so they could "fix" the situation where several white teenagers in the Shenandoah Valley were acquitted of the murder of an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was supporting his illegal immigrant fiance and 3 children. The fiance, and the commentator, demanded that since the teenagers were white, that it was unfair that they were acquitted, and they were positive that a Hispanic judge would nail all white males since that is what Hispanics demand. No word about the law or the evidence or anything. That is all irrelevant I guess.

Here is an analysis from Robert Schlesinger of US News and World Report that speculates that Sotomayor might be so liberal and so obnoxious that it might push some left-leaning judges to the right. [4]

One claimed that her nomination has nothing to do with her being Hispanic and female, but then stated that no Republicans would be able to oppose her nomination because it was against the rules for them to oppose anyone female and anyone Hispanic (I notice that the Democrats had no problem opposing Hispanics for various comparable positions, just a short while ago). Another said that Republicans would not dare oppose this Hispanic since they had already lost 70% of all Hispanic votes by supporting the enforcement of immigration laws. Still another commentator suggested that it was against the rules and tradition for anyone to oppose any Supreme Court nomination made by the president. A conservative commentator reminded the panel about the Bork nomination that set a precedent for opposing Supreme Court nominations based on political agendas, and the liberal analysts were crestfallen. There was some whining from liberals that Sotomayor was not as much of a judicial activist as they would like. One noted that if Sotomayor was confirmed, it would mean that six of the nine Supreme Court justices were Catholic, and there was some nervousness about what might happen to abortion laws in this situation.

Yorkshire wisdom

2009-05-26T06:55:00.000-07:00

Today, the incomparably incomprehensible indolent Mrs. B sat waiting in Skypeland for a while, reportedly hoping I would come in. I asked why he was not painting, and he said he had to be in the right mood for painting. If Mrs. B were painting portraits or artwork, I could understand, but not when he is painting one room. I guess that is why it is taking so long to paint that room; several months have gone by so far since he started to paint.

Mrs. B always seems to be full of "Yorkshire wisdom" (which I guess is translated in the Yorkshire dialect as "bullshyte"). He tried to tell me that there are no historical roots to any current wars or disputes worldwide, or that historical backgrounds to conflicts are irrelevant. Mrs. B believes that we should ignore history in places like the Balkans or the Levant. I do not think that the Palestinians or the Israelis or the Bosnians or the Serbians would agree with this viewpoint, but that is what Mrs. B claimed; one can ignore the past. In the words of Mrs B, "today is today, tomorrow is future,and yesterday is past ". Well very profound, but not very compelling.

In spite of this attitude about history, Mrs. B and his sidekick, the "muck expert" Mucus, got themselves all worked up about an event that occurred in the past in the UK. Seventy three years ago, a couple of hundred people walked roughly 300 miles from Newcastle to London as a protest. According to these two bumbling bubble brains, 300 miles is a huge distance, and this march was allegedly an important event, "particularly at that time" (as Mucus proudly stated).

When I and others tried to point out that 300 miles is not very far, particularly on American scales, Mrs. B trotted out the same tired old excuses; "Well you can't compare because England is just a tiny little island" (somehow when talking to Mrs. B and Mucus there is some confusion as to what England is; a part of a country, a country or an island). However, distances are pretty much the same everywhere, and unless the English were of Lilliputian proportions 73 years ago, walking 300 miles is not really that big a deal and not particularly remarkable. Even a fairly small US state like Pennsylvania, which is only the 33rd largest US state, is 307 miles from its easternmost point to its westernmost point. [1] Sorry Mucus and Mrs B, you are spewing irrelevant horse pucky once again. Others do it when they are drunk or stoned. What distinguishes Mucus and Mrs. B is that they do it stone cold sober.

The continuing problems Mrs. B and Mucus seem to have with concepts like fractions, proportions and percentages are similar. Suppose that in some Skypeland discussion, someone tries to compare baldness in the US, with a population of about 305 million, and the UK, with a population of about 65 million. Mucus and Mrs. B will always confuse the issue so badly and get themselves so tied into knots that they convince themselves that no comparison is possible. However, even though comparisons are impossible, Mucus and Mrs. B will always assert extremely aggressively that the UK is superior in all respects, no matter what the facts and the evidence.

For example, suppose that baldness is claimed to be a negative attribute. If 20 % of the US is bald and 10% of the UK is bald, Mucus and Mrs. B will claim this proves the UK is superior since fewer are bald in the UK. However, if instead 20% of the US and the UK are bald, Mucus and Mrs. B will claim that the UK is superior because there are fewer bald people in the UK. If 10% of the US is bald and 60% of the UK is bald, Mucus and Mrs. B will still claim that the UK is superior because supposedly one cannot compare the US to the UK since the US is so much larger (it does not matter if it is larger in population or area or in GDP; all this is irrelevant when dealing with morons).

Last night, Mucus and Mrs. B were frantic to jump in to explain what the Nation of Islam is. It is amazing to me how they are willing and anxious to give their ridiculous opinions about things they know nothing about, particularly things in some other country they have never visited. They even demand that they be allowed to do so when someone else who is trying to explain something is trying to talk. They talk over others and spew completely uninformed claptrap. Any conversation on any subject is fair game; Mucus and Mrs. B will interrupt and then refuse to shut up. Numerous discussions die a premature death in a profusion of self-satisfied stupidity spread by the smug Mucus and Mrs. B because of their undeserved self-confidence. This is compounded by the repeated assertions by Mucus and Mrs. B that they are uneducated, which they are, and know nothing, which is also quite evident to all observers. This does not seem to stop them from butting in to demonstrate how little they know, over and over, and even belligerently cutting off those who do know something. How impressive...

Mrs. B said today that atomic bombs "work by fusion" (I guess he has never heard of fission; he was dismissive when I tried to explain the difference) and that the US should arrange for all countries to have their own nuclear arsenals. Although I understand that this idea might be attractive in a certain abstract sense, I suspect that the likelihood that some madman or fanatic is going to use nuclear weapons in the future is greatly increased by this approach. This depth of analysis is beyond Mrs. B, however. Mrs. B displays an amazing naiveté when it comes to the threats the West faces.

However, as I have repeatedly asserted, perhaps we need a huge disaster with a nuclear weapon as a wake-up call. It is possible that it is necessary to kill a good 500,000 people in one fell swoop, perhaps because of a nuclear accident, or an attack by some terrorists or a rogue state. This might serve to galvanize the legions of people who have forgotten the horrors of nuclear warfare, or who are in denial about the dangers of Islamic fundamentalists' desire for nuclear armaments, or who believe that 911 was an inside job and that no Muslim radicals mean any harm to the US, or the West, or to Israel, or to their fellow Muslims.

I have run across numerous Islamic clerics who proudly claim that Arabs are superior in all aspects because they believe that the US used nuclear weapons against Sadam Hussein. These Imams and Mullahs assert that Sadam stood up to the most powerful weapons in the Western arsenal and survived unscathed, and this proves how superior Islam, Muslims and Arabs are. I think a demonstration of what a nuclear weapon is and can do might be necessary once in a while to refresh memories. The US offered to demonstrate the atomic bomb to the Japanese first before Hiroshima, but the Japanese turned down this offer. Perhaps a similar demonstration might set a few Muslims back on their ignorant posteriors, although it might only increase their frantic thirst to acquire such weapons for themselves so they can kill "kaffirs". Is there really any doubt that some Muslim radical would use these weapons if they got ahold of them?

It is a good thing that this world is not reliant on someone with "Yorkshire wisdom" to protect international security, and deal with the world economy. This never seems to stop Mrs. B from weighing in, extremely aggressively, on every issue.

On the horns of a dilemma

2009-05-26T06:46:00.000-07:00

Every so often as I consider the turmoil in Skypeland, I run across an episode that is difficult for me to document for various reasons. Sometimes this is because I want to avoid revealing personal information. Other times it is because I do not want to embarrass a "friend", or do not want to oppose them in some argument they are involved in. I might want to avoid reopening old wounds in other cases. Some disputes are so complicated that it is not easy to decide what to do.

This post describes an example of a very complicated messy contentious dispute that has erupted in the last while in Skypeland. I am friends with those on both sides, and I feel that both sides are correct to a certain extent. I have avoided weighing in since it is so politically-charged and I do not want to offend any of those involved. I will attempt to describe the situation but I am nervous that I will not do a good job, and I will offend one or both sides.

D is a secular Jew and expatriate American. D is understandably sensitive about the Holocaust and Holocaust denialism. D defends Israel, with no questions asked, on almost all issues. Many enjoy baiting D and trying to get him angry, in particular the mystery man A and his associate, the graduate student J, as well as the pothead college student BT and the Holocaust denier CD. However, muck expert Mucus and pipe fitter Mrs. B have also done their part in goading D into arguments and tried to yank his chain.

Sometimes D is slightly over-aggressive in his defense of Jews and Israel. D has even irritated other Jews on occasion with his proclamations, although I think D means well. D has sometimes been so aggressive that he has alienated a few friends and supporters, as has been pointed out by the moderator Y. D vehemently denies this charge.

I think D's behavior is perfectly understandable. D has children and grandchildren, and does not want anything bad to happen to them. D believes that he is helping the cause of making sure an event like the Holocaust never happens again. D wants Israel to be safe. D is justifiably proud of Israel's accomplishments, and the contributions of Jews to the world. However, sometimes this has to expressed carefully and tactfully.

Y brings up the Holodomor, the death of millions of Ukrainians during failed attempts at collectivization during the early 1930s, whenever D becomes too enthusiastic about describing the Baba Yar atrocity, an event during which tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews were killed by the Nazis. D has recently started posting material that denies the Holodomor, which has been a staple of Soviet and communist propaganda for decades.

Anyway, this situation made me wonder why the Holocaust has so much greater historical and emotional resonance than other disasters of similar or even greater magnitude. I think there are at least several reasons:

*Although the Holodomor and other collectivization disasters cost a lot of lives, and although some deny they ever occurred, they are not used as justification to attempt the extermination an entire body of people, or to advocate the removal of a country from the map.

*Events like the Rwandan genocide or the Armenian genocide or the Cambodian killing fields might have annihilated a similar fraction of a given group, but there is no comparable serious effort by a widespread collection of people to pretend that they did not happen.

* The Holocaust is sort of an echo of similar historical events, like assorted pogroms, killing of Jews during the Crusades, the Inquisition, the captivity of Jews during ancient times in Egypt, and the exiles of Jews to Babylon.

There is a lot of heat associated with this discussion, and not really enough light. Anyone weighing in risks getting smeared by one or both sides. I hope I will not suffer this fate.

Definition of character

2009-05-25T17:35:00.000-07:00

In Skypeland, assorted mental midgets like to throw around legal threats of one kind or another. The incredible mystery man A is probably the champion of legal threats, making them over and over to all and sundry. The mystery man A's position is basically that it is against the law for anyone to disagree with his views promoting anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories (or at least it should be illegal to disagree with him, according to the mystery man A).

The "muck expert" Mucus and the incomprehensible Mrs. B, a sort of moronic Mutt and Jeff duo, claim that I have violated some law with my blog posts. Mucus and Mrs. B assert that I have have engaged in "definition of character". I would love to see the look on a British solicitor's face when Mucus and Mrs. B try to claim that my anonymous writings about anonymous unnamed unidentified composite characters on the internet, published with a disclaimer, violate some sort of legal principle, particularly the well known offense, "definition of character".

An African man

2009-05-25T08:59:00.000-07:00

Once in a while in Skypeland, we get a look at other cultures and mindsets. J is an African American from Ohio who has advertised that he is a "house nigger" not a "field nigger" and for the most part, J presents a rational reasonable image. However, if you scratch beneath the surface a little bit, you find that J has very different cultural values and understanding than the American mainstream.

J came in to Skypeland stoned out of his mind, which he seems to do from time to time. J overheard some of the exchange with Hiney and U, and wondered why the discussion was so contentious. I told J the story, and J said that people needed to get past certain grudges and difficulties in the past. I asked him if he personally was past having hard feelings about slavery. J did not quite know how to respond to this.

J claims to be an "African", not an "African American". J states that there are no Americans, and even after 100 years or more, no one should be referred to as an American, but instead as a Korean, or a Japanese, or a Chinese, or a German or an African, or wherever their ancestors were from. When challenged to name the country he was from, J was unable to pronounce the names of any African countries.

Someone pointed out to J that there are white Africans. J had no response to this. I suspect he does not believe that there are any whites in Africa.

J claims that the African American names that blacks give their children are not made-up names, but are real African names. J said that blacks in the US name their children names from Africa, although J could not tell us what country these names came from.

A couple of African Americans compiled a list of some supposedly "real" African American girl's names. These are purported to be African American names, but I think J or anyone would be hard pressed to claim that these are real "African" names:

Latifah

Shaniqua

Latoya

Laquisha

La Kisha

La Tanya

Rohandra

Bon Quisha

Sha'' Tanya

Topramaneesha

La Quishtia

Bonifa

Levondia

Bufanaquishria

La Quishianiqua

Barbeersha

Mo'Nique

Abduiniana

Fo'Landra

Bon 'Qui Qui

Sha Nay Nay

Tay Tay

Da Quonde

La'Trice

Tramicia

De'Lanice

Ka'Likatifrianiqua

Sha'Londria

Elephantisha

La'Quaysha

Guuurrlll

Qua'Lifriaqui'Sha'Niquia

Cornbreesha

Congratulashayla

Barackisha

Obamaniqua

Koolaidria

Spongebobeeshia

Clitorisandrea

Fa'Nay Nay

Comptonia

Harlemisha

Beethovenice

Watermelondrea

Cellularphoniqua

Unidastazovamerikaliqua

Alejandrisha

KingKongQuisha

Fri'Chickenisha

Colla'Greeniqua

Grapedrankisha

Que'Shayda

La'Taniana Bo Vanashnaniqualiquan

Are these actual names of real people? If you have spent much time in the US, you have heard many similar names or even stranger names of real people. There are even African American websites with advice on baby names that caution African Americans about choosing such awful names that their children will have difficulty later in life (such as having trouble getting a job or being taken seriously).

J claimed that Affirmative Action is not racism, and that those with darker skin should be favored for scholarships and for school admission and to get employment. At first J claimed that there was no favoritism for those with darker skin, until school admission standards from the University of Michigan were read to him. Then J said it was only fair that those who came from bad neighborhoods with bad educations have the right to go to whatever university they want, no matter what and have whatever job they want, even if they cannot perform. J felt these were rights, not privileges.

J felt that favoring those of one skin color over another is not racism, and was quite adamant about it. And then I knew for sure that J had drank the purple koolaid.

Addendum

As an example of how each country has its own set of "political correctness" rules, UK emigrant D was discussing Oprah Winfree, and D said she could see no reason why Oprah was so venerated and respected. Somebody pointed out that one is really not allowed to criticize anyone who is African American, and D shot back that she didn't care what was politically correct; she would criticize whoever she liked. I am pretty sure that after D has spent a few years in the US, she will have a far deeper understanding of American political correctness, and will know instinctively that one cannot criticize someone like Oprah, just by definition.

I read some of the "African names" above to J. He said that they were made-up, which is my point of course. However, he said that those that I could not pronounce easily were obviously authentic African names. His proof of this was that I had trouble pronouncing them. Sounds like good reasoning, doesn't it?

Hiney is a queer magnet

2009-05-25T06:37:00.001-07:00

Grudges can last a long time in Skypeland. Today I was talking to a friend D in a Skypeland channel who is marrying BG, someone she met on Skype. They said it was very unfair that the owners and managers of a given Skype channel did not let them talk freely in the channel.

I pointed out that the owners of this Skype channel paid for the room, and D's fiance BG said the people who had paid for the room were "fucking stupid" for paying and that it was a waste of money. I said that it was their money, and they could do what they wanted with it. It was not up to anyone else. I notice that although some criticize the people who provide the room, they are anxious to take advantage of it. Hmm...

D and BG implied that the room should not have any arguments in it and there should be no discussion of politics. I said that it would be better if there was a selection of rooms for people to choose from, but so far there are very few.

I thought, no one is forcing anyone to come to the room if they dislike it so much. And they are free to start their own room if they prefer. I held my tongue however.

However, at that time, the infamous Hiney with his sidekick U, the retired American expatriate living in China entered the discussion. Hiney is an Indian immigrant who is probably living in Houston and has a huge chip on his shoulder. Hiney used to host "argument rooms" as Skypecasts for years. His method of "arguing" was to memorize a long soliloquy and then spew it out at high speed, laced with insults and threats and personal attacks. Hiney would occasionally allow half a second or a second for the other party to respond. No matter what the other party said, or did not say, Hiney would shut off his microphone and eject him from the room, laughing and mocking him. Hiney was aggressive about pressing his strident anti-American views, along with a good measure of conspiracy theories. Finally few would listen to Hiney any more, so he took to hacking other Skypecast rooms and ejecting the hosts, destroying one cast after another where people were having productive conversations. This went on for years. Hiney earned a fair amount of ill will from his behavior and attitude. Gee, I wonder why that would be?

Hiney's wingman U holds similarly outrageous points of view. While Hiney is around 20 years old, U is in his 60s. It is sort of curious to watch a 60 year old "kissing the posterior" of a 20 year old boy. U frantically brown-noses Hiney because of Hiney's alleged "intellectual superiority" which Hiney demonstrated by reciting a memorized script. U also lectures people for hours that the US is awful and that evil Jews secretly run the US and the World. U told me in great detail that there is no political repression in China and that China has more freedoms than the US. Ah yes, U is a real genius and so nice and rational

I had been quiet up to this point, as pleasantries flew back and forth. I listened while Hiney told D over and over what a loser her fiance BG is, and how she could do better. I had the strong impression that Hiney felt that D would be better off with him.

Hiney bragged that women think his picture is handsome. Hiney said women pursue him constantly. Someone asked if men pursue him as well, and Hiney said they did. Hiney said he is a "queer magnet" and many gay guys want to be with him.

After this statement, I could not stay quiet any longer. I let loose a stream of insults focused on Hiney and U, much to the annoyance of BG and of D who wanted a nice pleasant conversation. I was told over and over that I was childish and juvenile for attacking Hiney and U. I only like to give Hiney a little dose of his own medicine so he remembers that he is disliked and why he is disliked.

Some of us hold grudges. We don't appreciate being insulted, attacked, threatened and having our discussions hacked and destroyed repeatedly. And someone who spews nonsense and insults like U, as well assisting Hiney in creating disruption, deserves whatever he gets. This is particularly true in a Skypeland venue that advertises itself as a haven for rude behavior and insults, as well as being pro-American, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish and anti-conspiracy theory. It is not a "kumbaya room". Hiney and U have earned whatever negative reception they get. If they want to reform their ways, maybe eventually they would be treated differently.

Everyone demanded that I stop disrupting the room. So I played about 60 seconds of static in the room to give them a message that I was not going to put up with this kind of nonsense. In response, they accused me of being an infant having a tantrum. And then I muted my microphone and listened, while U played about 30 minutes or more of fart noises in the room.

Ah yes, I am childish and I have no reason for treating U and Hiney like that. Obviously.

Addendum

D invited me to her room in Skypeland. I said I would come and present my side of this contretemps. I attempted to explain why I had disrupted the discussion with Hiney and U. Immediately D's friend DH, the "chronic chronic" user, launched an attack.

I have studiously avoided DH for years, because he is ridiculous to talk to, and makes almost no sense, being usually stoned out of his mind. DH said that I had given Hiney free "adverizing" by talking about him and that showed what a jerk I am. DH also claimed that there is no such thing as computer hacking or malware, and anyone who has their software hacked has chosen to have it hacked. This should be news to most of the computer industry, but I am sure that DH knows what he is talking about.

Then DH came out with gems of wisdom like "If you think what you think, that is only because you think what you think". Hmmm now that is profound, but something I would definitely expect from DH. Maybe it would make more sense after a puff or two on a bong.

I was asked repeatedly to not continue with the topic, and I agreed if all attacks ceased. DH continued to attack, and I was muted. So I left.

I was accused of "not being able to take it" and I was told "some 1 stood up to u n u went runniong". Talking over someone, lecturing them, demanding that they not respond and then muting them is not a good way to get a dialogue, in my opinion. And it is not likely to create a positive impression.

People do not quite get it. If I am verbally bludgeoned, I reserve the right to defend myself. I also claim the right to disagree with statements I find objectionable. If I am not allowed to defend myself or disagree, then I will most likely leave. There is little purpose for me or anyone to be forced to listen to someone lecture about nonsense, except possibly for entertainment purposes or to capture their ridiculous statements for blog posts, etc.

What does unbalanced mean?

2009-05-24T10:36:00.000-07:00

Two of the more impressive Brits who frequent Skypeland are the "muck expert" Mucus and his incomprehensible Yorkshire sidekick Mrs. B. The other Skypelanders always tell Mucus that he does not look like a 'proper Brit', since he father is a Greek Cypriot, but Mucus always protests this accusation vehemently. However, Mucus said today that "with a turban and a red dot on me head I could look like a Sikh". Ah yes, well we always suspected as much...

Mucus and Mrs. B were musing about the American military bases in the UK. Mucus was surprised that Americans on the base were "actually able to buy their own goods". He had thought that there were "a few bits and bobs on those bases" but he "didn't know how big they are". Mrs. B proudly told the room several times that Americans "fly their own kit in on airplanes" every day, in an effort to show how inferior and stupid the Americans are.

As they always seem to do, Mucus and Mrs. B got into a lot of confusion about percentages and numbers, in trying to compare the number of nonCaucasians in the UK and the US. Mrs. B estimated that "1% of the US is brown", but thought that the UK had more Muslims than the US (the UK has about 1.6 million Muslims, well short of the number of Muslims in the US, which is about 4-8 million, but no one could tell Mrs. B these numbers because he was in a frenzy of ignorance and proud to show off his stupidity). When the subject of "Nation of Islam" was brought up, Mrs. B did not want to hear it and just endlessly talked over anyone else in his blind ignorance.

When someone tried to bring up the percentages of African Americans (13%) and Hispanic Americans (17%), Mrs. B threw a fit since he does not understand percentages. A direct quote from Mrs. B on the subject of percentages is "if you have 65 million and you have 10 percent of 65 million, it is a different 10% than the ten percent of 350,000". Mrs. B made this statement smugly, as though he had discovered a cure for cancer, or a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, or discovered the secret of eternal life, or had solved one of the Hilbert Problems. When someone tries to explain percentages to Mrs. B, he invariably talks over them, claims he is correct no matter what, calls them a "wall-eh" and ends with the statement, "An don' gi' ah fock". I guess now we know why Mrs. B is an unemployed pipe-fitter.

Mucus and Mrs. B were extremely pleased with themselves when they thought they had found a way to "trick" me. They asked me what the abbreviation "PhD" stood for. I said it was "doctor of philosophy" in English, but that the original phrase was likely Latin. Mucus and Mrs. B were beside themselves with excitement because I had been "trapped"; obviously "doctor of philosophy" should be abbreviated as "D.O.P.", or maybe even as "D.O.F.", and therefore Mucus and Mrs. B now had evidence that they are superior to me. They went on a rampage, insisting that I was an idiot since I did not know what the "H" stood for in the abbreviation "PhD". Ah yes, these two are real geniuses.

When the topic of food arose, Mucus and Mrs. B asserted that the UK has the best beef in the world, particularly "Angus beef". Several others in the discussion disagreed, and one brought up the topic of Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE). Mucus claimed that there was never any mad cow disease in the UK, and that the only mad cow disease is in the US. Oh really?

A quick look at the data shows that the UK found 179,000 cows with the disease during an eradication program and the US has only had one or two cases of BSE spread out over many years. It is estimated that over 400,000 BSE-infected cows were consumed in the UK and there have been about 164 deaths in the UK so far from the human form of the disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (compared to about 40 cases in the entire rest of the world, combined). [1]

Mucus and Mrs. B said that anyone who had eaten bad beef in the UK must have been in a greasy spoon. I disagreed, and said that I had a beef dinner when I dined at "high table" (essentially formal dining in a posh academic setting in the UK) in Britain. At the high table dinner, I was served some of the worst beef I had ever seen; it was essentially inedible. This sent Mucus and Mrs. B into gales of laughter, since they evidently did not know what "high table" dining is. They felt that "high table was a place for children to eat". Of course, it was impossible to explain anything to them, since they are sure they are correct, no matter what. They get dumber and dumber talking to each other.

Mucus and Mrs. B complain bitterly that a given Skypeland forum and its webpage is not impartial and unprejudiced, and therefore does not live up to its promise of being "unbalanced". They believe that "unbalanced" means that there should be an equal presentation of all sides of every issue. No matter how often people try to explain to Mucus and Mrs. B what the term "unbalanced" means, they never seem to be able to understand it. I guess that is what happens if you don't do your A levels...

Addendum

Mucus and Mrs. B were beside themelves with hubris, positive that I had "never heard of a cafe" and did not know what a "greasy spoon" is. They claimed that greasy spoons do not exist outside of the UK, and the expression "greasy spoon" does not exist outside of the UK.

They also were positive that the blog post above showed what an idiot I am since one does not taste food with one's eyes, but with the tongue. Mrs. B excitedly said, "duzzin make fokkin sense".

I tried to tell Mucus and Mrs. B to "click on the high table link" above to learn about the phrase "high table". However, I was unable to get them to check the link to learn what the phrase means. They were in very high spirits and were quite pleased with themselves for proving that I am an idiot, but they were unable to figure out how to read the link.

Mucus wanted to correct this blog post, and so he tried to clarify things by specifying that he was talking about the last US civil war only (I am not sure what other civil wars there were in the US). He then repeated his story, which was no different than what I wrote above, except the second time he did not mention how long the payments had continued. Well maybe he thought his previous claim sounded a bit sketchy, and he might have claimed too much. Oh well.

Imitation is the sincerest form

2009-05-24T06:46:00.000-07:00

Some people have voices that are easy to imitate. Some people are more easily fooled by fake voices than others. And this can all play out to comic effect in Skypeland.

Some male from Skypeland pretends to be "Lisa from Finland" by speaking in a falsetto voice from time to time. The elderly C from Denmark becomes a bit amorous when he hears "Lisa's voice" and even tried to flirt with "Lisa".

The infamous "Swede fag" P does an imitation of former president George W. Bush in a falsetto voice with a Swedish accent. However, it is a decidedly awful imitation and no one would mistake it for the real thing. P is not that funny after you have heard him a few thousand times, but P seems to think that he is hilarious. P is now banned and blocked from most venues in Skypeland, but P has been known to try to entertain others in Skypeland by making multiple attempts to enter various rooms, even though he is blocked. Records show that P has made literally several thousand attempts a week to get into one Skypeland discussion group.

The two ladies C from Norway and K from Netherlands have very similar voices. It is almost impossible to tell them apart. However, one is decidedly "naughtier" than the other, so eventually you can figure out the identities from the content. They sometimes travel together in Skypeland, creating a lot of confusion.

Some people have more difficulty in identifying voices than others. Probably the most striking example of this is the bathroom contractor R who claims to be an international mercenary and multimillionaire businessman. R gets confused constantly with voices, even confusing some male voices for female voices. R finally learned my voice fairly well, but only after weeks of trying, mainly because of expressed desire to kill me and serve various parts of my body for dinner. R still has been confused when others identify themselves as me, however. I do not know if he just has no ability in this area normally, or if his self-medication has added to his difficulties.

The famous "internet spammer" WW also seems to have some problems with voices.

Mr. Wee Wee Hands, with his murmured whispering low-toned voice is easy for most people to imitate, particularly those with English accents. One of the moderators M played a trick on another moderator D this evening by pretending to be the pervert Mr. Wee Wee Hands, or LF. D is usually completely calm and imperturbable, but this was an amazing and hilarious exception:

M (pretending to be LF): D, We found out tonight that the Queen farts

D: Oh really?

M: and shits in a napkin

D: Where is that little prick?

M: D, what color underpants are you wearing?

D: LF, so help me, if I find you, you are gone.

M: D, are you going commando tonight?

D: Goddamn piece of shit, where is he?

M:Come now D, I will give you a nice reach around.

D: Holy fuck, let me get my hands on you, you perverted bastard!

I hate to admit it, but I was killing myself laughing. It was not very fun for poor D, but it was very entertaining for those listening.

Spammer

2009-05-24T06:29:00.000-07:00

One can meet all kinds of curious characters in Skypeland. One that is interesting, but perhaps not as humorous as many others, is WW the "spam king".

WW is a tiny little 5'2" guy who plays in a rock band. WW likes people of a "muliebral nature".

That is, WW likes the ladies. I mean, WW really likes women. But WW gravitates towards a particular type of lassie, almost exclusively; those that practice the ancient and venerated métier of ecdysiastics. That is to say, the mademoiselles most appealing to WW are those who are a-peeling. WW's favorite kind of female is probably a burlesque artiste or danceuse exotique. A "stripteuse", in other words. Someone who does the bump and grind and knows her way around a pole (and I do not mean that she likes people from Poland).

Clearly, WW frequents the so-called "titty bars". Or maybe he is just a magnet for this kind of chick. In any case, there are numerous pictures on the internet of tiny WW standing next to some gorgeous and statuesque six foot tall babe or another, usually a total honey, who towers over him by several inches and outweighs him considerably. In these pictures, WW invariably has a huge smile on his face. I guess some broads like a little dude they can overpower and throw around a little like a rag doll. WW does not seem to mind and seems glad to fill their "needs", if you catch my drift.

WW claims to generate immense amounts of income by spamming people. Unlike many of the other braggarts in Skypeland, I have a tendency to find this claim slightly more credible than most of what one hears in Skypeland, mainly because WW has generated a huge amount of mainstream press coverage about his activities. However, I find WW's claims a bit unseemly and possibly a tad exaggerated, because he seems to have a decidedly limited knowledge about computers. He probably just hires experts I suspect.

WW is quite personable and gets along with most people, although he seems to have gotten into some sort of nonsensical row lately over whether Hitler was a Christian or not. WW is very friendly and this probably stands him in good stead, both in business, and in monkey business with the strippers.

Tea bagging

2009-05-23T10:14:00.001-07:00

People around the world pick up bits and pieces of information from the media and the internet. Skypeland is a good place to explore this. BS, a young man from China, came to Skypeland and was advised by S the moderator to start a boy scout troop in China. S told BS all the advantages of scouting and what the young men who are boy scouts could learn in scouting programs. Some advised BS to watch out for "kiddie fiddlers" if he was going to start a boyscout troop.

BS was not familiar with the English expression "kiddie fiddler". One Skypelander explained that "kiddie fiddlers' are pederasts; adults, usually men, that were attracted and drawn to young men sexually. After some contemplation, suddenly BS realized what the Skypelander was talking about. In his Chinese-accented, broken English, BS said "Ah so! Yes! Like tea-bagging! I learn tea bagging from watching Prison Break".

Amazing what pieces of culture are being transmitted across the globe in the modern era.

Left or right

2009-05-23T09:05:00.000-07:00

There can be a lot of confusion about political issues, and Skypeland is a place where one can explore this. F from Germany found an article that showed one of the Danish politicians had proposed forcing the Danes to learn Arabic in school to help the new Muslim immigrants integrate into Danish society. I suggested that this would not work very well, and that the Danes and the Europeans in general are not great at assimilating and integrating foreigners into their societies,cultures and countries. Instead, I said that the Danes and Europeans should learn from the success of the American approach, which seems to work quite well.

Two Danes were in the room during this discussion; the lovely ladies G and H. G felt that it was better to notice that 10 years ago, only 30% of Danish Muslims had jobs, but now 60% of the Danish Muslims were working, according to a report she was reading. This quickly devolved into bragging by the Danes G and H. G and H stated loudly and long that they would never live anywhere else and that Denmark was a superior country to all other countries.

When we tried to bring the topic back to the original plan of the Danish politician to obtain their comments, it was not particularly easy. Finally after several attempts to get G and H's comments, G dismissed the plan to make Danes learn Arabic because the Danish government is a "far right wing" government. H disagreed, and asserted that the Danish government is a far left wing government, not a right wing government at all.

I listened in amazement. These two Danes could not even agree if their country was governed by a left wing or a right wing political party.

I did not quite know what to think.

Vote for me

2009-05-23T05:53:00.001-07:00

Sometimes in Skypeland political discussions, people network and make plans for political action. Recently, the bathroom contractor R who claims to be an international bon vivant and entrepreneur has been trying to convince his fellow Brits, Mucus and Mrs. B, to run for Parliament.

R suggested the following campaign slogan for Mucus:

One of the other Brits suggested that this might be a better campaign slogan for Mrs. B:

Who knows? This might really work...

No wonder he is a bathroom contractor

2009-05-22T13:28:00.000-07:00

The bathroom contractor R who claims he to be an international mobster, mercenary, financier and multimillionaire always seems to find a way to bring up a discussion of men's butts within a few sentences in almost every discussion.

Tonight R told me in great detail that he never drank, and that he has never ever consumed a drop of alcohol. R told me that he is a complete teetotaller. I am sure this is news to many, particularly those who have heard him drunk out of his mind on numerous occasions. R has even pledged to quit drinking cold turkey because he thinks he drinks too much. R will go on a 15-70 hour drinking binge at least once or twice a week. R has advertised that he drinks 1-3 liters of vodka during most 24 hour binges. And now he reveals the amazing secret that he never drinks. Do you think this is just the incoherent rambling of a drunk, or is R in denial, or is he being truthful? What do you think?

In the next breath, R was going into great detail talking about how he planned to kill and eat various participants in the Skypeland forum. The angry unemployed and generally incomprehensible British pipe-fitter Mrs B was there egging him on, and complaining bitterly about how unfair it is that the Brits are not allowed to have unimpeded anti-American and anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli discussions all day long, talking about Holocaust denial and the "911 inside job".

There was a lot of discussion about who the Brits wanted to kill because they were not permitted to have these sorts of discussions unchallenged. I asked why they did not pay for their own room and they quickly attacked me and made numerous death threats against me for making this suggestion.

Later R told me that he had never threatened me or anyone else, ever. R claimed that he was wildly popular on the internet, particularly compared to me. R told me that everyone loved him online. Hmmm, sounds very credible....

All night long, R said one stupid thing after another. Here is a selection:

*Many comments that R makes include some reference to butts or anal sex. For example, " am gay as shit right", "You are an ass wipe" and so on.

*R asked me, "are you butt fucking S the moderator or does he think you are hyper intelligent? You are not intelligent so you must be bored". Does he really think that this sort of statement makes sense?

*Someone said they wanted to buy a mask for swine flu. In response, R asked if anyone "wanted to buy an ass".

*R said "I am thinking of standing for office. I have been arrested. I am fucking in the shit." I have no idea what that means, but it sounds nasty. Perhaps he is into coprophilia?

*R said he was training his dog, George. Before you know it R was talking about sticking his tongue up George's ass. Was he serious, or did he just mangle his words in his drunken stupor?

*The extremely ignorant and resentful Mucus said he knew a "few lads" that would like to come over to R's "estate". In a few sentences, R was dropping hints about having these lads "fuck him up his butt". I am not sure I caught this correctly since R was so drunk and so excited, but that is what I think R said. Then R stated "at least I am not tight". I am not sure if he meant he is not stingy, or something else...

*When R heard about a previous blog post about him, he complained, "I am mildly anti American...my ass". Why is his ass always involved somehow?

*R said he sent one of his employees to an accounting job at Warner Brothers, where they were met by someone with a "rubber glove on". He made "a hundred phone calls" to "make sure that the guy was not molested". Again, somehow an ass reference slips in there, even when discussing a simple business arrangement.

Having seen R and his posse in action, I am not impressed. What has Britain come to?

Don't give a fuck

2009-05-22T11:16:00.000-07:00

In Skypeland, one can get a good close look at various social strata that one might not normally encounter. For example, if one tries to judge Brits only from UK emigrants living in the US and other parts of the world, or from the images presented in the media, or from short visits to the UK for work or vacation, one might not obtain a complete picture. In Skypeland, a much wider range of Brits appear, and they feel less constrained, thereby revealing their true attitudes and natures. Over and over, when these Brits are confronted with what appear to be inconsistencies and evidence that they are full of nonsense, they say "I don't give a fuck".

Here are some examples of claims I have heard Brits make today:

*Supposedly razor wire is illegal according to the Geneva Conventions but they use it in the prisons in the UK and pay the yearly fine.

*One Brit said that he is voting for anyone who says they will not join European Union. However, he also thinks the only hope for the future is to consolidate the entire world into 3 large countries: Asia, Europe and the Americas.

*A large fraction of the Brits in Skypeland are stridently anti-semitic and angry at Jews and Israel.

*Mucus claims that the US is still paying the UK back for its Civil War Debt, even today, so the UK owns the US. Mucus doesn't know why this is, however.

*Many Brits believe that the US is an evil country trying to establish world domination. They say over and over that the British had a worldwide empire and failed, and they are frantic for the Americans to fail at establishing a worldwide empire.

*One Brit claimed that Israel is not the biggest supplier of arms to Germany, but Germany is the biggest supplier of arms to Israel. His proof of this is that the first automatic weapon he ever fired was an Uzi. I have no idea why this is supposed to be evidence of anything. Of course, if you had disagreed with this particular Brit, he would have threatened to kill you.

*One Brit said that the swastika is the new symbol of death to African Americans.

* One of these brilliant Brits asked, "If Israel does not support United Nations, does that mean that Israel is not a united nation?"

*Mucus maintains that the Queen of England controls all food worldwide through the Windsor group .

*One Brit who speaks for hours and hours about Israel and purports to be a huge expert on Middle East matters and Jews and Israel said that Israel has 30 million citizens. When asked repeatedly to "google" this to check it, he was unable to do so.

*Mucus claims that the Queen owns 52% of Montana.

*The "incredible learned" Brit Mucus said that he can show us a town that has 20,000 in it and most are Somalians. He asserts that the US has no place like that.

*Many of these Brits maintain that the UK had the right to defend its position in The Falklands. These same Brits whine that the US should never defend itself or its interests.

*One of these Brits claims that the UK did not lose any major ships in the Falklands War. A little investigation shows that the UK lost two destroyers and several other medium sized and small ships, as well as dozens of aircraft.

*Most of these Brits claim that it is impossible to compare the UK to the US using percentages of the population or the proportion of the population because the US is so much larger. None of these Brits seem to know what a percentage means. When people try to explain it to them, they fly into a rage and talk over others. When an Israeli tried to explain it to them, Mucus said things like "filthy scumbags suck a baby's dick".

*After a bit of discussion with these Brits, it became clear that Mucus did not know the difference between the terms "disagree" and "hate". If someone disagreed with Mucus, he claimed that they hated him.

*Mucus claimed that Israel has a billion dollar a year slave trade industry, trafficking women. However, a little investigation shows that several countries, such as the UK, have much larger human trafficking problems, even proportionately.

*Mucus constantly mangles his English, saying things like "do as I do not as I say" when he means the opposite.

*Many of these Brits are resentful because British troops are deployed in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

*Some of these Brits are angry that the UK was given assistance by the US and the Commonwealth during World War I and World War II. They do not appreciate any assistance they have ever received, and even suggest that it was not wanted or needed.

*These Brits are extremely angry that the UK was required to pay back its loans to the US for Lend Lease assistance during World War II. I guess they want to be given loans and then have them forgiven, like a Third World Country. Well, the similarities between the UK and the Third World continue to accumulate...

*Mucus told us that "the difference between me and Jews is because I admit that Jews are shit. Jews won't admit it".

*There was a proposal for several of the Brits in Skypeland to stand for election. The proposed platform was literally "I don't know what the fuck I am talking about but vote for me".

I have to admit, this slogan seems strikingly accurate.

Peace and love in KSA

2009-05-22T09:09:00.001-07:00

In Skypeland, people sometimes try very hard to create a certain image for themselves. One prominent example is R from Saudi Arabia.

R tries to talk in a pleasant, soothing fashion. At first, R talked a lot about the "911 Inside Job" conspiracy theory, asserting that it is inconceivable that Muslims, and in particular Saudis, would have attacked the US using hijacked airplanes. However, when R realized that a lot of Americans were not particularly receptive to this theory, he cleverly backed off and stopped talking about it. A prominent theme in R's "preaching" is that all the problems with Islamic extremists are the World's problems, and Americans must work with Arabs to fix these problems since Americans share a big responsibility for the extremists.

I have maintained that if Americans and/or the West were to try to "fix" the Islamic World and Islamic extremism, it would cause more resentment than already exists. A large part of the grudge that Muslims bear against the US and the West is their perception that the US and/or the West interfere with the internal affairs of Islamic countries and Islamic societies. I feel strongly that the Islamic world must reform itself to become more tolerant and more willing to live in peace with others they share the planet with. When I voice this opinion, it irritates R tremendously, and a few times R has "melted down" because he does not like this message.

However yesterday we had a special treat when S, one of R's close friends from Saudi Arabia came into the Skypeland discussion. S immediately launched into an attack on the US and Americans and George Bush, and bragged and bragged about how superior he is and how superior the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is. S bragged that he knows five languages and has a college degree and a good job at Aramco. Things deteriorated a bit further when S started on a full long description of Building Seven and thermite and false flag operations and other parts of the Church of the 911 Inside Job official creed.

Finally the moderator stepped in with the observation that Mohammed was a pedophile. This resulted in a screamingly violent confrontation. However, it is well established from the Bukhari version of the Hadiths that Mohammed became "engaged" to the young Jewish girl Aisha when she was only 6 years old. The Muslims often proudly state that he is not reported to have had sexual intercourse with Aisha until she had her period at 9, and she married Mohammed. However, it is recorded in the Hadiths that Mohammed engaged in "intercrural sex" with Aisha from the age of 6 until the age of 9. That is, Mohammed rubbed himself between Aisha's legs and on her special parts in a procedure that is translated into into English as "thighing". Aisha testified later that she became quite sick soon after and lost all her hair, and was left infertile; these are all symptoms of syphilis.

Did Mohammed give Aisha syphilis? No one knows for sure. Was Mohammed a pedophile? You have to judge for yourself.

However, I think that we can possibly get some insight into R's beliefs from who he chooses as his close friends.

Addendum

A day or two later, R showed up in Skypeland, very pleased that such a "positive exchange" had taken place. the Skypelander N who was present when S went on his rampage had a very different account. According to N, S entered the room and immediately said something like, "the US is corrupt and evil, attacked itself on 911 so it could steal Arab oil, is racist and immoral, has whores for women and should be destroyed". From this start, things got worse apparently. And S was somewhat surprised that this sort of opening line would not receive a positive reception, similar to the situatin described in the blog post "A way to make friends".

Absolutely amazing. These same people have very thin skins when their own beliefs or countries are examined critically.

Who is this?

2009-05-22T07:52:00.000-07:00

One of my friends in Skypeland passed me this picture and asked me who it was. I have to admit I am not sure. However, he does not look like he has much "fruit" in those "looms" unless you count the stain. Does anyone know who this is?

Poops in Jutland

2009-05-22T07:06:00.000-07:00

People admit all kinds of things in Skypeland they would not normally tell people. The vivacious J from has a dog named Aisha. Although J frequently defends Muslims and claims that Danish Muslims are very well behaved, I do not think she realizes how offensive it is to name her dog after the most revered female figure in all of Islam.

When J walks Aisha, she never picks up the merde. When people get angry at J for leaving the dog feces on the ground, she says she forgot her gloves or plastic bags to pick up the waste. Aisha leaves excrement everywhere, but apparently Aisha rarely sniffs other dog's offerings; J speculates that this is mainly an activity of male dogs.

J says she has never stepped in any dog feculence, except for her own dog's anal ejecta. She gave us a detailed description of what it feels like to have the soft wet stools squeeze between your toes.

Now you have to admit, few people would tell you about such things in most casual conversations.

Choir of retards

2009-05-22T05:55:00.000-07:00

A perfect example of the reason Skypeland forums often have to be put on automute came up today in Skypeland. We were subjected to a "bit of mucus".

I was talking to the lovely T about the sorts of dangers that present themselves to a woman travelling alone in Arabic countries (see the blog post, "Four days at Mohammed International") when Mucus and his pal Mrs. B entered. They demanded that all other conversation cease. I guess they wanted to prattle on about how hard it is for them to arrange to access the Skypeland discussion without paying by using 3G phones, SIM cards and other paraphernalia.

Mucus asked why the normally polite D had called the lady from Maine a "cunt" a few days ago. Mucus and Mrs. B started speculating about why this could have happened.

However, I knew exactly why she was called a name. The lady from Maine entered in the middle of an immense battle with the Holocaust denier CD, and interrupted with nonsense in the middle of the debate. Several others did as well, or even joined in on the side of the Holocaust denier CD. And so D, out of frustration, told the lady from Maine to shut up, in a fairly rude way.

I tried to explain this several times to Mucus. He talked over me constantly and told me he did not need to have anything explained to him, since he knew everything already (oh really? For one of the stupidest and most ignorant people I have ever talked to, that is quite a statement). Mrs. B joined in, as part of the patented "Mucus Choir of Retards".

These two "nitwit Brits" demanded that I leave them alone in the room so they could have a "proper British discussion". A few times in the past, moderators have come into a pro-American discussion and found a "nest" of a half dozen Brits talking about how much they hate the US and Americans. This lead to the policy of setting the room on automute, so that incoming visitors are not able to speak until a moderator unmutes them.

Mrs. B claimed that the UK is superior to the US since he has free speech, and can burn the UK flag in the UK, while Americans supposedly will be arrested if they burn the US flag. Mrs. B said that he wanted to burn the UK flag anyway, since he felt it was no longer his flag and just a rag. Mrs. B was asked what freedoms of his were eroded, and he said that since he can't light up a cigarette in a public building, or anywhere he likes, his freedom has eroded. He also felt that recent news about MPs with their "hands in the till" showed that his freedoms had been curtailed.

Thankfully, the moderators returned to terminate this discussion prematurely.

Four days at Mohammed International

2009-05-21T20:14:00.000-07:00

We get all kinds of visitors in Skypeland. One of them is a very cheerful 230 pound 5'8" bisexual autistic lady from Maine who has a thing for men from Morocco.

She proudly told us that she had done a few MFM threesomes. However, when we asked if she had done three or more men at one time, she declined to answer since she thought that was private. She said she has a huge amount of porn on her computer. She started getting flirty with one of the men, asking him to come over and help her remove some of the porn from her computer.

She flew to Morocco a few months ago to meet a Moroccan man she had met on the internet. She did not tell her family or friends that she was going there ahead of time. She told the Skypelanders that she "fucked him" several times a day with no condom for a couple of weeks, and did not take a shower the entire time. She said that one night "he fucked me 9 times" and she woke up "crusty". Unfortunately, she decided she did not like him too much after all this. I guess the feeling was mutual, since her internet boyfriend took her to the airport for her return flight to the US a few hours early.

While she was at the airport waiting to fly back to Maine, she met a Moroccan policeman and talked to him for a few hours. She decided she was in love with this Moroccan policeman, and all she could talk about after she came back to the States was her plans to marry the policeman.

A week ago she flew back to Morocco on a one-way ticket to bring the policeman the papers he needed to sign to immigrate to the US as the autistic woman's spouse. Again, she did not tell her friends and family she was going to Morocco this second time.

This policeman took the papers and somehow sort of mysteriously disappeared. The lady from Maine went back to the Mohammad International Airport in Casablanca and tried to buy a ticket to fly to the US. She found they would not take her American Express card. She panicked and threatened to jump off a balcony at the airport.

The airport police confined her for 4 days until she lined up some method for getting the cash out of another account to buy a ticket. During this time she slept on the floor in the airport police station. One of the airport police took her to his house and locked her inside so she could take a shower while a friend kept an eye on her. When the Airport director spoke to her, he complimented her, and this apparently made one of the airport policemen jealous. The jealous policeman tried to entice the lady from Maine to stay in another city with some friends of his for about a month, and suggested that he would come visit her in Maine.

While she was under police surveillance to make sure she did not hurt herself, she also was flirting heavily with two other policemen. She thought she was making progress with them. She hoped that one or both of them might service her. However, she was let down when the next day they came into work and their nametags were mysteriously missing. She was a bit crestfallen.

While she was telling us this story, one of the others in the discussion was chewing and crunching. The autistic woman asked if someone was jacking off to her story.

She said her parents worried about her trips because they thought she might be "enslaved". She asked us if that was possible. Others in Skypeland agreed this could happen, as well as other bad things. She asked us what other bad things could happen, and someone said she could be gang raped. At this, this girl perked up and said "really?". As people laughed at this, she told us that "you can't rape the willing". She said that her mental health counsellor said she was amazed she didn't "totally lose it over there".

She asked if we thought the police were "doing domination" on her. We asked if she was into BDSM, and she told us she was "sort of into it". She said that this adventure was better than "sitting around and watching someone else drink", which is what she does normally apparently.

We said she should be careful because she might get nasty bugs in her blood stream. She just laughed and said "like what?". Then she answered that the only bugs she got were "just from the food the first trip" because she had terrible diarrhea during that entire trip and for a few weeks after.

She said she was just looking for companionship and for someone who will understand her. We asked if she ever gets naked on cam for her boyfriends and she said she did. Someone asked if she did cam sex with her boyfriends online and she said she would not get into that level of detail, since if she told us anything like that she would lose something that made her special. Yes, she is special alright.

When one of the moderators asked if he could see her on cam, she said that she would maybe do it tomorrow, since right now she was in bed and "looked like crap". Oh really? She looks like crap sometimes? That is hard for me to imagine.

Yankee

2009-05-21T12:23:00.000-07:00

It is interesting how many in Skypeland want to turn almost every discussion into something that focuses on their own particular interest:

*The frequently-soused loudmouth R has a fascination with men's posteriors, anal sex with men, and eating food out of men's rectums. If you talk about trees or cartoons or Texas or linguistics, before you know it R is speculating about men's butts.

*The infamous Holocaust denier and antiSemite CD turns all conversations into some attack on Jews and Israel. If you mention Stalin or Mao or Darfur, then within a sentence or two he has turned the discussion into some complaint about Jews.

*College student pothead BT turns all conversations into some speculation about Building 7, and ranting about the "Inside Job".

*Mystery man A likes to focus on attacks on those on his "enemies list", such as those who challenge his claims about assorted conspiracy theories.

*Some of the antiAmerican Brits like Mucus and Mrs. B turn most conversations into some sort of antiAmerican or anti Jewish or antiIsrael rant. Mucus tried to defend himself from this claim the other day, when he said something like, "I am not antiAmerican. I even talked to some Americans yesterday. I am not antiJewish. I even talked to a Jewish lady last night". I guess Mucus had forgotten he was talking to a room full of Jews and Americans when he said this, so this sort of defense rang pretty hollow.

Perhaps one of those in Skypeland with the most disturbing obsessions with a single topic is the pervert and mebeam wanker, Mr. Wee Wee Hands. Almost every discussion will be punctuated by murmurs and suggestions about sex, usually of a paraphilic nature.

Some find Mr. Pee Pee Pants' presence to be decidedly creepy. Numerous moderators throw Mr. Pee Wee Parts out of a Skypeland room immediately when he enters. In response, Mr. Wee Wee has taken to making death threats against those who do not find him a particularly appealing participant in most conversations. That is, his attempts at trying to entice assorted Skypelanders to see him pleasuring his "piston and bearings" on webcam ends up repulsing many in the discussion instead.

Almost every conversation is an excuse for Mr. Pee Wee Pee Pee to "whip it out" and try to steer the discussion around to an exploration of his own sexual interests:

*If someone talks about hockey. Mr. Wee Wee will quickly say something like "I like to do a bit of stick-handling meself, and could do with a good puck now and then, know what I mean?"

*If someone in the room says they have to go to a meeting, Mr. Wee Wee Hands will mutter something like "If you want to meet me meat, darlin', then that can be arranged".

*Mr. Wee Wee makes nicknames for others in Skypeland that have sexual connotations. Today he called one of the Skypeland residents "stiffy", for example.

*In a conversation about American corn subsidies, Mr. Pee Wee Parts will say something like "I like to spread some nice hot butter on a shaft of corn. Did you ever grease up a nice shaft?"

*A discussion of computer games will inevitably lead to a mention of Mr. Wee Wee's "joystick".

*If someone is talking about their favorite meat dishes, Mr. Pee Wee will interject that his favorite is something like "beef-stroke-it-off".

*If someone is discussing country music, it is likely that Mr. Pee Wee Pants will reveal that he is a "bit of a fiddler".

*If a woman is annoyed, Mr. Wee Wee Hands is likely to say something like, "Now now lovey, no need to be upset and put out. You know, an important part of putting out is putting in. I can give you a nice put-in".

*If someone remarks that a given actress has really improved lately and is "coming into her own", Mr. Wee Wee Hands will say something like "I would like to come into her own meself, know what I mean?"

*When the Skypeland forum is pondering the Somali Pirate situation, Mr. Wee Wee is likely to interrupt to ask one of the females "Did you ever want to be a pirate? Fancy a bit of jolly rogerin' an' all that? Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, I want to get a squeeze of your bum. Tha's what its all about, innit?"

* Someone who is doing some home repairs will invariably get a comment from Mr. Wee Wee like "I do a bit of handiwork. Want to see me do some handiwork on mebeam?"

*If someone asks about a favorite film, Mr Pee Pee Parts will say something like "well mine was Free Willy. I will free my willy and you can have a look if you like".

*Mr Wee Wee Pants is likely to blurt out something ridiculous at inopportune moments in a serious debate, such as noting tto a woman that "often one thing leads to another; 'ow about if my thing leads to your thing?"

*If someone is crying and upset, Mr. Wee Wee will comfort them by saying "Get a grip on yourself. I had a grip on meself just a little earlier this evenin', come to think of it".

*At the mention of Rosie the Riveter, Mr. Wee Wee will ask "Is she any relation to Rosie Palm and her five sisters ?"

*If someone went to the circus, Mr. Wee Wee Parts might very well ask a well-endowed woman in the discussion if he can "get under her big top" or get a sniff of her "underthings".

*If people are talking about basketball, Mr. Wee Wee will ask them if they want to go to mebeam and watch him engage in a little "five on one".

*At any moment during a discussion, Mr. Wee is likely to come up with some off topic comment like, "I like to jerk the gherkin" or "paddle me pickle", but he is just as likely to refer to it as "slam the ham", "spank the frank", "tickle me pickle", "thump the pump" or "yank the crank".

*Young ladies that are present will probably get an invitation from Mr. Wee Wee Bits to "a private showin' of me beam on mebeam".

* If someone is pondering whether to deal with a problem themselves or to go to the authorities, Mr. Wee Wee will say something like "I like to take me matters into me own hands".

*Women are likely to get an embarassing invitation in public from Mr. Wee Wee Man such as "'ow 'bout we get together for some slap and tickle?"

*Men are also not spared from Mr. Wee Wee's attentions, and he will often ask them what color their underpants are, or ask if they are "sausage jockeys" or "shirt lifters".

*If someone is eating a potato, Mr. Wee Wee will offer to "whip up some sour cream for that".

*One is likely to hear Mr. Wee Wee recounting stories at Christmas or on other festive occasions that have a certain naughty twist. For example, he might say something like, "Me mom caught me one time stuffin' the Christmas Turkey when company was coming over for dinner. I could'n help it, it was so warm 'n juicy, just out of the oven".

Given that Mr. Wee Wee Hands has revealed that he harbors anti-American attitudes, it is curious that Mr. Wee Wee wants to always participate in pro-American discussions in Skypeland. It has been suggested that Mr. Pee Pee Hands heard that a given pro-American discussion in Skypeland was full of "yankees". Misunderstanding what a "yankee" is, Mr. Wee Wee Hands rushed over to see if he could network with other yankers, wankers, spankers, tuggers, jerkers, strokers, and beaters and discuss things like "fondling the fig", "yanking the yoyo", "pulling the pole", "cuffing the carrot", "choking the chicken", and "beating the bishop".