Alytha
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Not sure where to post this, but I think this thread fits, for the sheer absurdity factor:
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...ions-for-a-potential-interview-with-mick-west
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...ions-for-a-potential-interview-with-mick-west
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purpleivan
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I know that Metabunk has a politeness policy, but my reaction to that list of conditions is that it's more than a little unhinged. Especially as it includes something that (even if Nolan's beliefs were all true) would be entirely beyond Mick's control, i.e. the withdrawl of "Guerilla Skeptics" from Wikipedia.
Alytha
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Yeah, and I'm sure he could not buy Susan Gerbic, even with his massive shill millions
JMartJr
Senior Member.
Shillions?massive shill millions
Ann K
Senior Member.
Furthermore:
I eagerly await my check. Tell me, are payments under the table considered by the IRA to be taxable income?
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...ions-for-a-potential-interview-with-mick-westExternal Quote:
I eagerly await my check. Tell me, are payments under the table considered by the IRA to be taxable income?
JMartJr
Senior Member.
Mr. Capone says "yes."
purpleivan
Senior Member.
But does it come as a cut of a Scrooge McDuckian vault, or of a Smaug hoard of treasure. I think that affects its taxable status.
Gary C
Senior Member.
It depends on whether or not you meet Irish residency requirements I imagine.
FatPhil
Senior Member.
Am I the only one who spots a heffalump in the room? Bigelow's a billionaire, isn't he? Which side is he funding? (And no, I don't mean politically, I mean UFO-wise.) Do the skeptics have anything equivalent?
Emphasis mine:
-- https://www.wired.com/story/inside-robert-bigelows-decades-long-obsession-with-ufos/External Quote:
Links in that text:
[1] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB935357220206970615 - content unknown, WSJ hate me
[2] - https://uploads.isaackoi.com/2023/02/pdfs-robert-bigelows-nids-batch-1-of.html - "PDFs - Robert Bigelow's NIDS - Batch 1 of research material added to archive", in turn linking to a stash of 91 docs here: https://files.afu.se/Downloads/?dir=./Documents/0 - UFO Researchers/NIDS/Website Material , some with very fringey titles.
[3] - https://www.wired.com/story/inside-robert-bigelows-decades-long-obsession-with-ufos/ - "Inside Robert Bigelow's Decades-Long Obsession With UFOs" which looks mostly fluff
JMartJr
Senior Member.
Nah, we have to make to with the truth, and some very clever people who like solving puzzles.
Smythe Bacchus
Senior Member
Dr Garry Nolan's reasoning mirrors that of a religious zealot who considers skeptics as an enemy of the faith. This flawed logic is essentially:
"Convert to my religion first, donate a substantial sum to it, and repent! We can debate it once I am convinced you share in my fundamentalist beliefs."
Google search suggestions below (for the English speaking world at least) provide an insight into the level of interest for different conversions.
Modern-era religions that have received the greatest interest for new converts include:
* Excel worshippers (the holy numerology)
* Smartphone worshippers (2nd coming of SIM)
* PDF worshippers (behold the glory of our format!)
Unfortunately, the religion of Disclosure has a long way to go.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if the <blank> entry in the Google list was claimed as evidence of religious suppression.
NorCal Dave
Senior Member.
Even stranger, starting at about 31:00 in Ford's video,he and Nolan relive Nolan's life through photos. Nolan at collage, Nolan in a UFO art piece, Nolan at a Nobel party, Nolan on cruises, and a young Nolan about to take off his pants to swim in San Francisco bay. I would assume he was about to take his pants off in the photo so he could put on a wet suit, because damn! The bay is cold. It was all very odd.
John J.
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As a British person that left a horrible mental image, only slightly improved when I realised we're talking Americanese:
To me, pants are what you wear under your trousers or jeans.
FatPhil
Senior Member.
Source: https://i.imgur.com/yBHjsSG.jpeg
I accept no debunks unless they're published in a top-tier peer-reviewed journal.
Smythe Bacchus
Senior Member
@derwoodii Unfortunately, I don't think time works like that 
FatPhil
Senior Member.
@derwoodii Unfortunately, I don't think time works like that
Hear me out, I think I have a way around this - just don't upgrade to 2026 in the first place (OK, too late now, but you can use this in future years). Alas, you need to move to one of the poles, and you'll need to constantly be running away from the oncoming dawn at your longitude, but assuming you can keep it up, the pending day will never begin for you. You might think that jumping westards across the international date line once a day would set your calendar forward by a day, but that would be cancelled by the fact that you're continuously setting your clock back as you rotate - a matching 24 hours of backward clock-setting per day.
(Is this a new paradox/puzzle? I can't believe it is, but I don't remember seeing it before, and given that I hand around in puzzling groups, that seems a surprise.)
JMartJr
Senior Member.
There's some sort of dopey crime story that could revolve around (ha!) running around the pole to prevent ever having to reach a trial date, or the other way to get to the statute of limitations quicker...
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Gary C
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Why do I get the feeling one of those warped serial-killer jokes is behind all this?
Ann K
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That's pretty much the sub-plot of Pirates of Penzance...
JMartJr
Senior Member.
Yeah, I see this guy, maybe a mob boss, who gets the bright idea and heads up to the pole to run around to before the warrant to arrest him is issued, making it invalid. But the warrant server chasing him is a real Inspector Jalvert type, dedicated entirely to bringing back his man, and sits himself down while his assistants constantly bring him new warrants, newly opened investigations of additional crimes, and our protagonist (though not in any sense our hero) is stuck constantly having to circle this way and that around the pole, to be in the wrong time for the current attempt to catch him, never able to wander more than a handful of meters from the pole lest he get too far away to change his date fast enough. I don;t have the ending yet, but it must have to do with the two of them being stuck there forever, but what does "forever" even mean in a situation where time has to be treated as optional and essentially meaningless? Maybe we end with our guy deciding to run around the poll into the past to reach the date before he was born,hoping that this might make him cease to exist and so get out of the trap he's fallen into... hmmm, there might be something there...
Good artists copy, great artists steal. Picasso is credited with that, but I bet he heard it somewhere and repeated it.
Mendel
Senior Member.
Britain is simply too cold for nudism. [It's not.] It's called FKK in Germany, and we have beaches dedicated to it.
Last Christmas my mum bought me a t-shirt saying, "I'm a nudist."
I haven't worn it yet.
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John J.
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There are a few naturist beaches in Britain. One of them is called Duke's Mound, the mind boggles.
FatPhil
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If it's boggling you're after, I'll see your Duke's Mound, and raise you Parson's Pleasure.
Ann K
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Dubrovnik is a nice warm place with a fully-nude beach, whereas the other beach behind our hotel was merely topless. I had brought only a one-piece suit, so I did consider the nude beach, but then I realized I was about to spend a couple of weeks in a bus with the rest of my tour group (not all of them strangers) and chickened out in favor of American prudery.
FatPhil
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You could have fallen back on your scots roots, and worn nothing but a sporran?Dubrovnik is a nice warm place with a fully-nude beach, whereas the other beach behind our hotel was merely topless. I had brought only a one-piece suit, so I did consider the nude beach, but then I realized I was about to spend a couple of weeks in a bus with the rest of my tour group (not all of them strangers) and chickened out in favor of American prudery.
Ann K
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