You know, once my husband and I were driving back to Vegas from the races at the Bonneville salt flats outside Salt Lake City. We'd just passed Caliente on the Nevada/Utah border, on what has to be one of the loneliest stretches of highway in the US, when he said something innocuous  that I took absolutely the wrong way. I nattered at him for about two hours, and, finally, he pulled over to the side and said, "Get out of the car."

My husband is one of the all time greats, but when he hits his limit of patience, you want to get out of the line of fire. I got out of the car.

After a couple of hours - during which I was positive the guy from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was lurking behind every tumbleweed - he pulled back up, and said, "So...you wanna change the subject or what?"

Sometimes, an inadvertent comment is just an inadvertent comment. It doesn't mean the person who said it is a pig headed boor. Keep harping on the issue, though, and they wil metaphorically leave your ass by the side of the road.

Posted By Farencue on 04 Apr 2010 03:11 AM

Old mate being Akhenaten, of course.

No wuckers, Cobber. I hear ya.

Posted By Daylightstar on 04 Apr 2010 10:02 AM

Sure something is broken. But could you educate me a little? bff's, best friends forever?

I spend far too much time online, it seems. I sound more like a teenage girl than a 56-year-old bloke.

My bad, and your translation is correct.

Posted By Akhenaten on 04 Apr 2010 08:55 PM

Posted By Farencue on 04 Apr 2010 03:11 AM

Old mate being Akhenaten, of course.

No wuckers, Cobber. I hear ya.

 

Posted By Daylightstar on 04 Apr 2010 10:02 AM

Sure something is broken. But could you educate me a little? bff's, best friends forever?

I spend far too much time online, it seems. I sound more like a teenage girl than a 56-year-old bloke.

My bad, and your translation is correct.

WTF is this mess all about?  This is the new poster girl for scepticism?

Posted By Vision from Feeling on 20 Apr 2010 17:48 AEST (at the JREF Forum)

Dear woo visitors of this thread (other than me), it is just that I am a Skeptic, or at least I try to be. And you know how Skeptics can be. I am not easily convinced that there is anything paranormal going on with this claim, yet, it remains interesting and has not revealed the "compelling perceptions that I state represent the most compelling of what my claim can produce and to find that those are inaccurate". But surely you must realize, that any similarity in body language or other characteristics of woos does prove nothing other than that similarity, but does not provide evidence in support of the claims that they make, also, I challenge you to question yourself whether these others with paranormal abilities truly have any supporting evidence for their claims of the paranormal, and I expect that they do not.

You must try to be skeptical, because I assure you that with some experience in both worlds of woo and skeptics, the rewards in skepticism are far more satisfying than anything woo tries to promise. Reality is far more awesome than anything imaginary.

And Skeptics, I will not be tricked into falsification of this claim. Attempts at calling out my claim as falsified because somebody asks me to try a screen when I already know that a screen (ie. the cloth napkin at the restaurant) blocks the claim from manifesting, or attempts to falsify the claim simply because of things that I never claimed as one way or another, or other dirty tricks that belong nowhere in real research. It kind of comes across as using trip wire. A sneaky laboratory assistant pouring a secret chemical into the reaction mixture of a colleague knowing that it will ruin the chemical reaction and falsify the hypothesis like they were personally hoping or expecting to see. That kind of thing is nasty.

The claim will be falsified when I state that I have made a compelling medical perception of something either being there or not being there and I state confidence in that this perception represents the very best of what my claim tries to do, only to find that this perception is inaccurate. And that is when the claim can be falsified. And that has not happened yet.

The woos here and the Skeptics here are both driving me crazy. I should go somewhere else.

LINKY

Poster girl for raving lunatics, more like.