The full text of Rule 12 at the JREF Forums reads, Attack the argument, not the arguer. Having your opinion, claim or argument challenged, doubted or dismissed is not attacking the arguer. Seems like a good idea in general, but some things just need to be said, ya know? Biting your tongue gets old and leads to hairy palms. Here are some choice comments about a few of the more...interesting... forum members. We're all thinking these kinds of things. I'm just writing them down. If you'd like somebody reviewed here, leave a comment somewhere. I'll see it. 



Monday, March 8, 2010

PookztA

Who the hell is the PookztA dude anyway? In like two days he starts 15 new threads (almost all about 9/11) and averages 30 posts per day. Without reading a single post I can call "asshole" without fear of being wrong. He even used his real name on the board - Abraham Hafiz Rodriguez. This automatically entitles me to call him a "stupid asshole." Do you disagree?

Ordinarily, I'd go on about the stupid things the guy said, but in this case I really don't have to. Besides, it seems that while I was away for a bit, a bunch of bullshit went down over in Forum Management. I've got a few more people to write up as well as some updates for some others. I can't be bothered to defend my opinion. Since this is the Rule 12 blog, feel free to comment and attack this arguer!

Friday, February 19, 2010

King of the Americas

The most recent suspension at the JREF is King of the Americas. Talk about your unlikely suspensions. KOTA has been around forever. He's a one-trick pony. Basically, he saw a UFO, meaning he saw something he couldn't identify. Only he did identify it. Apparently it's constructed by aliens and defies the laws of physics. He couldn't possibly be mistaken about what he saw. No way. Which leads us to his suspension.

Apparently he was trying to stress the importance of relying on our senses, so he suggested that we try ignoring them while walking along the railroad tracks. Or something like that - the mods (the idiot, Locknar, to be precise) excised that text very quickly because, get this, it was advocating suicide!  That's right, the JREF powers that be are so concerned about suicide that if somebody says something that could remotely misconstrued as suggesting they harm themselves, a suspension is in order. Critical thinking at its best, huh?

And that's how the likable but loopy King of the Americas got suspended by the JREF.

Remirol

Jumping Jehoshaphat! How could I have started this blog without mentioning Remirol? Talk about one of the biggest pricks on the JREF Forums. This asshole spends most of his time posting in Forum Management. He's what some people call a Modette, meaning he's one of those little shits who loves telling people that they broke the rules. You can bet he was a hall monitor or safety patrol in elementary school. You can also bet that everybody hated him back then, too.

Take a look at his posting history. Does he actually offer any thing of value? Probably 90% of his last 275 posts (search limit on the forums) are in Forum Management or the pissing match of a thread called "Is JREF a Gay Organization." The guy wouldn't know a critical thought if it jumped up and bit him on the ass.

He thinks he's being clever with his little "k? thx. bye" stuff when "dismisses" somebody. Truth is, he does that stuff on the Internet because in real life he'd get is scrawny ass kicked. You wonder why the guy hangs out at the JREF in the first place. What it is that attracts such an arrogant prick?

Friday, February 5, 2010

boyntonstu

This guy is wound up tighter than nun at a titty bar. Our buddy boyntonstu has just been suspended for the second time in a month. Maybe he's on the spiral towards being banned. It sure looks like it. Why do you have to go around pissed off all the time? Don't you ever have any fun? Or is ranting and raving fun for you?

This idiot loves to politicize everything. Recently he got his rocks off pointing out (incorrectly) that no Arab nations were helping in out Haiti, but good old Israel was right there, being the benevolent and peace loving nation it is. Hey, Stu, what happened in Haiti was a terrible tragedy. Common courtesy says you don't turn it into a pissing contest. That's what assholes do.

I think he's a Jew, but it's really hard to tell for sure. He just seems like a lonely old man who needs to argue all the time. He's convinced he's right no matter what, so any disagreement with him only reinforces his superiority. That forumites continue to engage him shows a distinct lack of critical thinking. Did James Randi envision a bunch of pricks arguing pointlessly when he started the board? Does he really want the likes of Stu doing little but provoking senseless arguments?

They should put together a fund raiser and buy the guy some time with a few hookers. Apparently his religion is okay with lesbians, so let him enjoy the show. Maybe he'd lighten up.

Locknar

Locknar is a moderator over at the JREF. This guy is an idiot. A doofus. He is probably the worst moderator in the history of moderators. I really don't even know where to start or where to end. His stupidity knows no bounds.

Oh, that's not being a critical thinker, now is it? It surely isn't, but I don't care. If you hang out at the JREF, which is probably the case if you're here, then you have probably encountered Locknar floundering as a moderator. There are many people are annoyed with his uneven, knee-jerk, idiotic moderator decisions. Other moderators hardly ever back him up, and when they do, it's because they are just protecting their own.

I wish Darat would publish the number of appeals each moderator gets along with the number of infractions. More importantly, I'd like to see what percentage are reversed. He's had his chance, Darat. Fire his ass and find someone decent.

That is all.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Kitakaze

Methinks Kitakaze is not such a bad guy. He seems nice enough. But, dude, what's the obsession with Bigfoot? It's not real. We know it's not real. If there's no evidence for Bigfoot, which there isn't, then WTF are you talking about all the time?

Take a look at all the posts started by Kitakaze. Almost every single one of them is about Bigfoot. I mean, it's one thing to snipe at the occasional Bigfoot idiot who comes passing through, but do you really need to start new threads about it? You've written thousands of posts about Bigfoot and to what ends? You only help perpetuate the myth. If the myth is no fun, it goes away. There's nothing left to be said about Patterson Gimlin film. That played out 40 years ago.

Seriously, dude, shut up already. You're just as bad as the Bigfoot believers. Like Truthers, they just want to talk about Bigfoot because it's fun. You're no different. Free porn is out there. Make use of it. In the meantime, the only response is, "Bring me one, dead or alive, and we'll talk."  Do something useful with your life.

Skeptic Ginger (formerly Skeptigirl)

Nobody could possibly be more impressed with Skeptic Ginger than Skeptic Ginger. When it comes to ego, she puts most of the blowhards at the JREF to shame. It all stems from her insecurity that she's only a nurse practitioner. You didn't know she was a nurse practitioner? I think she might have mentioned once or a thousand times. That's her standard tactic when people are showing her to be the inattentive, blowhard bitch that she is.
It's a shame she wasn't smart enough to continue her medical education. She would have made an excellent doctor. She's got the pompous thing down pat, and she's fully mastered the art of not listening and talking at people rather than with them. She desperately wants respect, which is why she just can't shut up. People just misunderstand her, and if you disagree, well, that's because you're not a nurse practitioner. She knows that if she tells you that you're wrong and repeats herself, you'll finally see the light.

Did you know that she thought a human and a sheep could make a baby? Let's not let the trivial matter of differing numbers of chromosomes get in the way. She saw a blurry picture of an aborted sheep and determined through her expert eyes that the squashed "face" of the beast looked human. Nevermind that an experienced vet said that it looks typical of aborted sheep, Skeptic Ginger thought it merited a DNA test just to be sure. I guess they didn't cover basic biology in nurse practitioner school.

But her expertise is not limited to medicine. Dear me, she's expert in many fields. Just take a look at her 58 posts in the thread about Amanda Cox. Apparently Ginger is an expert in crime investigation as well. She knows Amanda Cox was convicted because she did a cartwheel at the police station. Everyone else in the thread is either an idiot or misunderstanding her. This idiot even used her "credentials" to establish without a doubt that the reason a parent lied to the press and tried to extort money from the school system is because the school administrators communicated poorly with the dad. She knows because, dude, it's just like a medical practice. I'm glad that is settled. Phew!

She's the reason the Ignore feature was added to every forum software program in existence.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Truthers

Yet another Truther was banned from the JREF today. This person was a sock puppet of another Truther. There appear to be 23 identities in all. In fact, it reads a little like Genesis:

pdoherty76 begat docker who begat laith who begat jessicarabbit who begat Shades_of_grey who begat stundie who begat Wizard who begat rebel who begat Aphelion who begat Jaguar who begat tonicblue who begat Traitorbasher who begat soundaddicted who begat NBachmann who begat Aqua323 who begat Cheers who begat JHarrow who begat theauthor who begat mchapman who begat Cracker who begat releaseeabode who begat Ragnarok who begat vinniem who got banned today.

Sorry, people, but this person is a nutjob, plain and simple. Why does the JREF even keep the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory forum alive? It's a waste of resources. Nothing is being accomplished. Nobody is learning anything. It's just a bunch of idiots being repeatedly humiliated by a group of people who enjoy humiliating idiots.

It's called codependency.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Algebra34

Algebra34 just got banned by the JREF Administrators. Word on the street is that he was a sock puppet for Homeland Insurgency. Both are 9/11 Truthers, which is to say they are idiots. Come on, people, get over this 9/11 CT stuff already. The conspiracy theories have been so solidly debunked for years now that there's really nothing left to be said. Even if any of it were true, nobody is going to listen. It's over, baby! They eventually stopped making movies about Gilligan's Island, and that premise was a lot more believable.

What I don't get is why you Truthers have to be such assholes about it. I know you're a bunch of lunatics, but do you have to be raving lunatics? Can't you just present your evidence and move on? I've met strung-out crack whores less persistent than you people. It's bad enough that you get banned from the forums, but do you really need to create sock puppets to come back and repeat the same arguments? There's plenty of free porn out there. Make use of God's gift.

The only thing worse than you are all the 9/11 CT debunkers. Here's a tip for you people: Truthers just like talking about this stuff. You're feeding their obsession. You're not actually accomplishing anything except telling the world that you like to engage raving lunatics for sport. You must be very proud. And you must be even more proud arguing with a banned member's sock puppet! Go do something more useful and challenging, like teaching a nun to pole dance.

And Algebra34, if you come back with another sock puppet, we're going to have to make a little trip to the woodshed.

Brattus

The other dude bashing RSLancastr is Brattus. He's a relatively quiet forum member with just 500 posts in about three years. Most of them are in the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory forum debunking the stragglers from the Truth movement. If you want to play whack-a-mole with Truthers, go for it. It's pointless, but at least you get to exchange the little tickets for cheap plastic toys.

But what's up with riding RSL's ass? Did he sleep with your wife? Did he stop sleeping with your wife? Does he owe you money? At least when UncaYimmy does it, he tries to sound like he's not the dick that he is. You on the other hand just sound like a dick. And then you whine about how unfair people treat you. Poor baby!

UncaYimmy

We can't talk about RSLancastr without talking about UncaYimmy, now can we? UY, as he's known to people he thinks are his friends, created the site www.StopVisionFromFeeling.com. It's dedicated to attacking a fellow member, VisionFromFeeling, a nutcase who thinks she has just about every woo ability known to woo-kind. More on her another time. Suffice it to say UY has had resounding success proving that a nutcase is, in fact, a nutcase. What next? A site telling people that Michael Moore is a fat liberal?

UY attacked RSLancastr in a thread in Forum Management after his buddy, Brattus, pissed of the Fawning Millions. Even though it was quite clear that nobody was going to listen, UY forged ahead, pissing off people left and right, especially the comment about RSL's wife "begging" on the forum. Sure, technically speaking asking for money is begging, but don't pretend like you didn't know what the reaction would be. That technique is patented by The Atheist. Of course, plenty of other people looked like total jackasses attacking UY and Brattus, including a few moderators.

UY does have the distinction of being one of the few people ever to be banned from the JREF and returning. Apparently UY left the JREF on his own and asked to have his account unregistered. A few months later, Darat changed UY's password so he couldn't log in anymore. Apparently Darat didn't like UY reporting posts to the moderators. What followed was like a bad episode of Three's Company (the good ones had lots of bra-less jogging) where Darat, Lisa Simpson, Jeff Wagg and UY all talked past each other and got pissed off. Jeff Wagg banned UY. For some reason UY decided to fight with the people running a forum he didn't want to use. WTF? After much pissing and moaning, Jeff and UY kissed and made up. Blech!

Now UY is back, writing longer and longer posts without actually saying all that much. You paid by the word, UY? Are you lost without your girlfriend, VisionFromFeeling? If you ever get those naked pictures from her, be sure to pass them along. In the meantime, Mr. High IQ, haven't you figured out yet that people are gonna ride your ass now? You don't have to reply to everything people write. In fact, it was a pleasant little break when you were gone, which is to say nobody missed you. How about a repeat performance?

RSLancastr

Since we're talking about The Chosen, might as well talk about the JREF's most revered member and honorary sacred cow, RSLancastr. RSL, as he's affectionately known by the fawning millions, created the website www.StopSylvia.com, a site dedicated to exposing the truth about Sylvia Browne. And then he had a stroke. A major stroke. This sucks, and he has my sympathies.

Unfortunately, it seems that attacking someone as awful as Sylvia Browne and having a stroke has propelled him to legendary status over at the JREF. They raised thousands of dollars for him by pestering every visitor the General Skepticism and the Paranormal forum with a sticky thread soliciting donations and updating us with every useless detail about his progress. We're here to talk about Bigfoot, not clogged arteries.

Brattus and UncaYimmy apparently got sick of everyone sending warm wishes to RSL. Or maybe they got jealous. Who knows? Anyway, they spoke up and said enough is enough. Of course, the Fawning Millions heard "RSL is a bad person!" It raised quite a stink with alleged skeptics making all sorts of ridiculous arguments in attempt to make Brattus and UY look like dicks, something both did quite well on their own.

But this is about RSL. You seem like a decent guy, but please shut up about the stroke already. Each year about 700,000 people in the USA have a stroke. You think you're the only one on the forums who has had one? Does this define who you are now? The stroke guy? Tell your wife to quit treating you like a baby and whining at everybody on "her" forum who doesn't fawn all over you. Move on with your life.

Oh, and when people tell you what a wonderful guy you are, do you really need to quote it back and say thanks? Do we really need to see it a second time? Wasn't once enough? How about a little humility? If you think Sylvia has devoted followers who can't think straight, take a look a little closer to home.

The Chosen

Before we go any further, we gotta get something straight!

The Chosen refers to those members of the JREF Forums who, like regulars at a bar, think they own the place. Some of them hang out almost exclusively in the Community forum. Almost all of the moderators are among The Chosen. The Chosen tend to hang out with their buddies, exaggerating agreement when there's consensus but remaining conspicuously quiet when there's disagreement. This is especially noticeable in the Forum Management forum. Some of The Chosen are known to be Modettes, those cheerleaders who almost always find a reason to support the mods.

To deny that The Chosen exists is to deny that a group of humans will form cliques. Of course, being skeptics one and all, The Chosen surely acknowledge this, right? Wrong. Just try referencing the Cool Kids over that the forums and see what kind of reactions you get.

Geek Goddess

If we're gonna rap about The Atheist, then we gotta get it on with Geek Goddess. On her profile her custom description is Hot enough to melt 4" rebar. The Atheist chose to comment on this clear case of false advertising over at the JREF. He received a Rule 12 infraction. Come on, people, look at her picture. The word goddess certainly doesn't come to mind when I look at her, but I may be assuming that goddesses should be attractive. But when you add in her own description of how hot she is, well, shouldn't skeptics point out inconsistencies? Of course, The Atheist tried to pretend that he really didn't know that was her picture. Right. He's still smarting over getting picked last for kickball.

As forumites go, Geek Goddess is a non-entity as far as I am concerned. She's one of The Chosen who hangs out in the Community Forum in the members-only section of the board. Get a life, woman! Only 5 of the last 50 threads you have started are in "real" areas of the forum, like Science. If you want to gossip and shoot the shit, get off your ass and go to a bar. Or is that a problem because you're so hot all the guys hit on you?

The Atheist

Let's start this blog with my brutha, The Atheist. He seems reasonably intelligent, but looks can be deceiving. His modus operandi is to point out the obvious imperfections in an imperfect world. He's the kid who watched other kids play sports while he bitched about how stupid the game was. It was the only way anybody would pay attention to him.

Take his recent post telling us about the racial differences at his business. Apparently them blacks need to be forced to pay child support by the court while whitey pays it voluntarily. The "reason" he brought it up was, you know, because his payroll clerk was complaining about all the extra work. No, Brutha didn't expect people to react to this. I mean, it's not like a KFC commercial, right?

Brutha, I am sure, was all smug saying, "What? I was just making an observation. I didn't mean anything by it." Most forumites are used to his nonsense, but some idiots responded anyway. A few of those idiots didn't pay attention to what he wrote because their eyes were flush with righteous anger. This, of course, leads to more arguing.

Meanwhile, Brutha is sitting back pretending like he doesn't know what all the fuss is about. Some guys wank off looking at porn. I think we know what gets his rocks off.