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.