101. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68981 by pewkatchoo on September 9, 2007 at 11:46 am

papabryant
central argument against religion the root of war and violence!

You have clearly not read The god Delusion. Now be a good chap and fuck-off before I click the Troll button.

102. The smallest signs of retreat

Comment #68887 by pewkatchoo on September 9, 2007 at 2:56 am

Hahaha, he does look a bit like Waldorf.

103. The smallest signs of retreat

Comment #68881 by pewkatchoo on September 9, 2007 at 2:31 am

and here is the man himself:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2004/08/06/ftdav06.jpg

Odd looking fellow.

104. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68877 by pewkatchoo on September 9, 2007 at 2:11 am

Sorry folks but we are losing the battle.

I am watching The Big Question on BBC1 at the moment and they carried out a survey the results of which are 82 percent think that Britain has suffered a moral decline and 67 percent think that religion is the solution.

What a crock of shit the whole thing is. There are a few token atheists who are not very good at making their case and the religiots are allowed a lot of time to make their cases. I am losing the will to live at the moment.

105. The smallest signs of retreat

Comment #68863 by pewkatchoo on September 9, 2007 at 1:23 am

My blood is boiling, that idiot Martin Bell the independent MP was on Andrew Marr this morning wittering on about that arch bigot Ian Paisley and how he is a good man because he has a nice voice and gives a good sermon and has always been pleasant to him. Then the clincher, apparently he (Paisley) is good to all his minority constituents even the Catholics. That is what an MP is for you cunt, to represent all peoples. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH,.

106. The smallest signs of retreat

Comment #68860 by pewkatchoo on September 9, 2007 at 1:12 am

Northern Bright
Yes I saw that last paragraph too. I decided he needed an education into the differences between viruses and diseases. Virus carrying rats, what next!

107. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68717 by pewkatchoo on September 8, 2007 at 8:52 am

fides
hahaha, you are a real card you know! Keep it up mate. Brilliant satire.

108. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68715 by pewkatchoo on September 8, 2007 at 8:51 am

NMmC
Yes, but I am a bit more circumspect in whose slippers I am crapping. I just feel that JennyM didn't really deserve your ire. I am definitely NOT a socialist.

Robotoholic, why do you have a photo of Nick Faldo as your avatar? hehehe

109. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68685 by pewkatchoo on September 8, 2007 at 6:19 am

NMcC
Do you not think you are being a bit over the top in your criticism of JennyM. She caused me to raise my eyebrows a little at her rather naive assertions, but calling her ignorant is pushing it more than a bit. Your 2 little rants are way out of order.

I think that you should save your ire for someone a wee bit more deserving. Or as Jenny herslf said, perhaps stop with the caffeine.

110. The smallest signs of retreat

Comment #68673 by pewkatchoo on September 8, 2007 at 4:33 am

They are at it in the bloody Daily Telegraph now. That idiot Christopher Howse is blathering away there even more inanely than Bunting. Please go and post some rebukes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/09/08/do0809.xml

111. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68660 by pewkatchoo on September 8, 2007 at 3:03 am

I wonder if this is the author:

http://torch.op.org/preaching/preacher/43

112. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68641 by pewkatchoo on September 8, 2007 at 1:51 am

And every single one of them simply not worth the death of a single tree. I suppose that Mr Blane will be along in a moment to tell me that I cannot say that unless I have read them all. Pffffttt.

Ordinarilly, I suppose, Professor Dawkins might feel flattered. But, given the quality of the rebuttals, I suspect not.

113. The Mix Tape of the Gods

Comment #68484 by pewkatchoo on September 7, 2007 at 9:00 am

Yorker
Yes I did, by way of the military. Times were tough back then and I lost both my parents very young so uni was out.

Had a great time in the forces though and learned a lot. Like you, I ended up going sideways into documenting systems and thereby into software. I have been working on all sorts of systems since.

Good life so far. I have had 3 seasons as a ski teacher, thanks again to my military years, I learned to dive to a fairly high standard, white water canoeing, 3rd dan kendoka, started my own fairly successful media company in Holland, learned to speak 3 other languages to various levels of crapness, got married and divorced and married again with an, er, eventful love life in between, 2 kids in their teens, developed a love of birds and horses, and I am now looking to retire in a few years with a decent pension and in a warm place and start my own little bird sanctuary.

So that is pewkies life encapsulated in just 1 short para.

114. The Mix Tape of the Gods

Comment #68405 by pewkatchoo on September 7, 2007 at 5:00 am

Oh dear, here we go again. I was not being insulting at all, just a bit of advice with a little gentle humour attached. I actually remember my childrens encyclopedia from the (harrumph) some time ago, and it described the various wavelengths very well, with pictures to boot. It was books like this that stimulated my childish urge to study electronics. I may have got the page number wrong after all this time, but there you go even pewkie is fallible.

But I did enjoy prof Dawkins explanations in Unweaving and thought that Tyler might enjoy it if he had not already read it. OK it is not ideal for a full picture of how radio waves work, but it is beautifully written.

115. Interview with Richard Dawkins and John Cornwell

Comment #68388 by pewkatchoo on September 7, 2007 at 3:58 am

I think that I would have ended up flooring the guy. Prof Dawkins was just too polite. Using Beachbums analogy, I am the pet dog who rips up their slippers and craps on their pretensions.

116. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #68358 by pewkatchoo on September 7, 2007 at 1:52 am

Lordfenriz
Not at all. I assumed that your name was an allusion to the Fenris wolf of Norse mythology. As I used to be rather keen on the old Norse myths, I tend to like such allusions.

I only really pick up missuses of my name or pseudonym when it is done by people who are having a go at me. I feel that the least they can do if they are slagging me is to spell my name right. Nichts wahr? (^8

117. Bible Belter

Comment #68264 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 2:54 pm

I finished god is NOT Great just last week. It is incredibly fluid writing and I enjoyed it immensely.

Kudos to Hitchens for producing such a memorable work. I even rate it higher than Professor Dawkins own effort, and that is saying something.

118. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #68247 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 2:05 pm

Bla, the name is pewkatchoo not pew. A pew is something you sit on in church.

119. Interview with BHA President Polly Toynbee

Comment #68241 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 1:33 pm

Sorry folks, I know that I am going to get some more flack here, but I am very uncomfortable with the idea of Polly Toynbee as an important light in the atheistic world. I find the vast majority of her writings to be badly thought through and, in many cases, simply a bit of left-wing ranting. At the same time the interview was OK, but she said nothing that any one of us on here could have said.

I also read the link that Flagellant supplied. Her approach is rather careless and she makes some statements that are patently ridiculous, for example:
Given the Northern Alliance's past, we should draw up a human rights contract now and make Alliance leaders sign the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, binding them personally against atrocities before fighting begins.

Yep Polly, that will work. Mr Eugenides has some fairly astute things to say about miss Toynbee http://mreugenides.blogspot.com/2006/11/polly-am-i-bovvered.html and, having read quite a few of her articles, I am inclined to agree with his summation. Only once in a while does she produce something worthwhile, the rest of the time...

120. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #68113 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 7:00 am

I will let others who are less intellectually lazy than I argue with you. Personally, your arguments bore me.

121. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #68108 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 6:33 am

blaine
Except this is not a complex field. Astrophysics, neuro-surgery, now those are complex fields. One does not have to be an expert to have some idea of what is logic and what is not. Operating on someones brain might require a bit more than a quick skim through the First Aid Manual.

So, in my opinion (there I qualify it), your argument is fallacious.

122. The Mix Tape of the Gods

Comment #68105 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 6:17 am

Tyler Durden
Might I suggest that you pick up your copy of the Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia and turn to page 204. Alternatively you could invest in Prof Dawkins 'Unweaving the Rainbow' which outlines all the various wavelengths.

123. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #68097 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 5:51 am

Epeeist
I just visited your site. Nae bad pal. Just two things. The Russian translation goes totally berserk on my monitor. I would not use the superscript th in text as it screws up your line spacing. There is a way around that though.

Did you actually do all the localisation yourself? 7 languages, I am quite impressed.

Did you know that Pewkatchoo has his own site: http://www.pukiemon.com.

124. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #68066 by pewkatchoo on September 6, 2007 at 1:14 am

lordfenriz (like the wolfie name)
Bicyclerepairman

Fairynuff you two. Perhaps the argument from qualification was a bit naff. However, having looked at his website I doubt even his claims to be an authority on website design. Having designed more than a few websites in my time, I think I know whereof I speak to say his is sh1te.

I will try and avoid attacking the person in future, which I agree is weak, and focus on what he is saying. The problem being, of course, I am then doomed to finding out what they have to say. Still, the bright side is that most of these people condemn themselves in the first paragraph, so I wont have to read too much.

Sometimes I just lose the will to live.

125. In God we doubt

Comment #67938 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 8:53 am

Veronique
Don't you dare disappear. Otherwise we will just have to create a cult in your name.

I was going to write a load of sycophantic crap to convince you to stay, but I can't be @rsed. Just stay OK.

126. 'Root of All Evil? The Uncut Interviews' Released on DVD

Comment #67924 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 7:16 am

d4m14n
"where's the uncut Ted Haggard?" In some rentboy allegedly.

127. Orthodox Call on Sinners To Give Chickens a Fairer Shake

Comment #67921 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 7:12 am

Mysturji
That was what my link above was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtKYOtOIkE

128. Orthodox Call on Sinners To Give Chickens a Fairer Shake

Comment #67920 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 7:11 am

I hope nobody here is suggesting that PETA and the fscking lunatics that run it are in anyway to be construed as civilised society.

129. Like any half-decent atheist, I'm fond of a bit of religion

Comment #67874 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 3:56 am

So who was the stiff? Anybody we know? Don't remember being there myself, but then that is what a few Moroccans will do to you...

130. Like any half-decent atheist, I'm fond of a bit of religion

Comment #67867 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 3:33 am

Anyone got their intructions written into their will?
No, not as such. However, my wife, who is catholic, has instructions that I will not have a christian funeral. I want a big party so that people can remember me as somebody who enjoyed a good time. No religious mumbo jumbo allowed, though the local priest will be invited to have a beer too. I am pretty sure that my wife will outlive me as she is 20 years younger and she has always said that I will die of a heart attack if I am not careful when watching PM's questions or Newsnight.

Since becoming a full-on atheist, I no longer am bothered about the prospect of death. Odd that eh? The prospect of meeting my maker would disturb me deeply, particularly as I have called him a prat on more than one occasion.

131. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #67839 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 1:39 am

Cheers Beachbum.
Can you also do a vicious diatribe on the author's qualifications or lack of it for me? Just to get the nimby's off my back.

132. Like any half-decent atheist, I'm fond of a bit of religion

Comment #67828 by pewkatchoo on September 5, 2007 at 12:50 am

I was not aware that Professor Dawkins had set an agenda on atheism. It does not really come out of his writings in TGD. Maybe I am not very bright. As for Toynbee, can't stand the woman so I am unlikely to follow her line anyway.

In fact, I am not quite sure what the author was trying to get at! I think it was just a case of coming to terms with his new position, but I am unsure. We all have our own ways, and that is the point of atheism I guess.

133. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #67816 by pewkatchoo on September 4, 2007 at 11:59 pm

To all my detractors. I really think that you all have missed the main point. I am not speaking for you, I am speaking for myself. Well, maybe I am also speaking for a few like minded souls who are fed up of the rip-off merchants crawling out of the woodwork and making a buck on the back of someone elses hard work. Especially when it is clear that they have nothing else to add to the debate. My attack (if you can call it that) on the guys' qualifications is perhaps your only valid point. If that is all that you have to say then that is OK.

To answer Orr, Dawkins is qualified to produce such a book because every one who has a brain and is able to think clearly about such matters is qualified. Why he feels the need to produce it is also clear, he is tasked with increasing awareness of science. A difficult task when everybody around you seems to believe in woo woo. Book sales seems to suggest rather a lot of people agree with Professor Dawkins or are at least interested enough in the subject to buy it thereby invalidating Orr anyway.

Petal, my psuedonym is Pewkatchoo. Get it right petal (irony alert) and I might actually pay some attention to you (though probably not).

134. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #67744 by pewkatchoo on September 4, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Blaine
Get over yourself.

135. Cartoons from Evolution: a journal of nature 1927-1938

Comment #67738 by pewkatchoo on September 4, 2007 at 3:02 pm

ScottishGeologist
These fuckers are all sick. Those cartoons made me want to go out and beat up a christian.

136. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #67701 by pewkatchoo on September 4, 2007 at 12:23 pm

Mr Blaine
You are quite at liberty to disagree with me, but I would prefer it if you did not cloak your disagreement in pomposity.

I don't represent anyone except myself and my own views. I do not represent atheism any more than does Professor Dawkins. To put it not too finely, you are talking shite.

137. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #67616 by pewkatchoo on September 4, 2007 at 3:05 am

LeeC
Whisky surely. None of that Irish muck around here please.

Sorry couldn't let that pass.

138. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #67610 by pewkatchoo on September 4, 2007 at 2:26 am

Well I am not going to waste my time or money on this. Nor do I want to pollute my totally perfect ipod collection with rubbish like this. I have, however, placed a review of the product on amazon entitled 'A review from ignorance', in the hope that I can put people off donating money to this nonsense.

Sorry folks but I have neither bought nor listened to this product. My review is based quite simply on the following pretexts.

Why has this person seen fit to produce this? This is an insult to the intelligence of the ordinary people who have bought and enjoyed The god Delusion. For someone to feel that they are qualified to provide a commentary on what is in any case a very lucid book is arrogance par extrordinaire. And what are the commentators' qualifications, er, none by all accounts. Barry Krusch is actually a rather ordinary individual.

Why has the author attempted to hide his identity behind a very lame organisational name? Is it because he is ashamed of his product?

Enough. There are so many books attempting to refute Dawkins/Hitchins/Harris et al. All of them are lacking in any new ideas or anything resembling actual thought. Even the best of them is simply a mess of irrational witterings. We have had half-a-dozen books on atheistic lines and the god squad are pooping their pants. Why? If they are truly right and believe totally in their faith they would ignore them as being irrelevant. There are thousands of faith based books published every year. Just six such anti-faith books and there is a total storm. Is faith so fragile that it cannot take any sort of criticism?

Or are the authors just cashing in on the success of other peoples intellectual endeavours? Ask yourself what could be their motivation. I think you will find that they are not operating from some higher principle. Cue the almost identical titles to the originals.

139. In God we doubt

Comment #67368 by pewkatchoo on September 3, 2007 at 6:16 am

I like John Humphrys, mostly. He is usually quite sharp when interviewing politicians and doesn't let them get away with any nonsense, unlike his fellow presenter the psychofant James Naughtie. But he is completely out of his depth here. He completely misrepresents atheists and atheism, I doubt very much if he has actually done a proper survey of atheist views given the nonsense he spouts. Either that or he has just interviewed a collection of very stupid atheists.

I will be writing to him personally with a complete reply to his fallacious article. He needs to be a bit more precise than this.

140. What do these atheists understand of religion?

Comment #67305 by pewkatchoo on September 3, 2007 at 3:21 am

Heaven and Earth finished. What a pity, I loved it. It was my humour fix for Sunday mornings. Then watching Songs of Praise in the evening. What a lark watching all those rapturous faces singing praises to him/her on high. I used to put the text on just to see the words being displayed next to the lovely faces. Laugh, I almost started.

141. Teresa, Bright and Dark

Comment #66738 by pewkatchoo on August 31, 2007 at 7:14 am

Oh I remember old Muggerige. Disgusting old fart.

142. Orthodox Call on Sinners To Give Chickens a Fairer Shake

Comment #66737 by pewkatchoo on August 31, 2007 at 7:09 am

Primitive fuckwits.

Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtKYOtOIkE

143. The Sacrifice of Reason

Comment #66723 by pewkatchoo on August 31, 2007 at 6:07 am

Richard Morgan

"vain hope"? It you believed it was really vain, you wouldn't persevere, would you? You would? Aw, c'mon.....don't start talking like Ma Teresa!!!

144. The Sacrifice of Reason

Comment #66707 by pewkatchoo on August 31, 2007 at 3:42 am

Sigh, as the father of a 14 year old boy and a 17 year old girl, I empathise. I suggest that the ability to shock their parents has always been the preserve of the adolescent. The current generation is no exception. The only problems I can think of is that there are less restraints on behaviour these days and more means (internet, mobile phone, sms.) of disseminating their 'ideas'.

I have head-to-heads with my son on a fairly regular basis, difficult as he towers over me now.

I have been trying to instill critical thinking as an ideology with him, with limited success. Kids these days are even less interested in learning than I was when I was young. But I persevere in the vain hope that it will start ringing a bell or two eventually.

145. Teresa, Bright and Dark

Comment #66697 by pewkatchoo on August 31, 2007 at 3:06 am

Haha V
NORWICH is just another of those acronyms put on the back of a letter. It stood for Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home. As I said, it is a forces thing. There are loads more which I cannot remember right now.

146. Teresa, Bright and Dark

Comment #66690 by pewkatchoo on August 31, 2007 at 2:00 am

V
SWAK - Sealed with a kiss! Used to be SWALK or loving kiss. Put on the envelope of a letter to one's sweetheart. Common practice in the forces.

Now can anyone tell me what NORWICH stood for? (((^8

147. Teresa, Bright and Dark

Comment #66680 by pewkatchoo on August 30, 2007 at 11:47 pm

Keith comment 66491
I am afraid you are quite probably wrong and Richard quite probably right (even if he is a git). I say quite probably deliberately because there is still wiggle room.

There are lots of verbal tricks made by journalists, and Hitchens is a very good journalist, the same way as there are visual tricks made by televisual journalists, to either get a personal point across or to shift focus or to stimulate debate, or for a myriad of other reasons. The quick personal aside is one of those tricks, and Hitchens, as a good journalist, would have been well aware of the effect of that remark. If he was not aware of the likely effect, then that actually diminishes his skill. Why did he feel the need to say it? In his world, nothing is done or said by accident.

148. Gene regulation in humans is closer than expected to simple organisms

Comment #66590 by pewkatchoo on August 30, 2007 at 2:38 pm

BicycleRepairMan
Get over yourself. I have read 3 other Dawkins books and find them fascinating stuff. This sort of article is quite mundane stuff by comparison.

149. Mother Teresa's '40-year faith crisis'

Comment #66589 by pewkatchoo on August 30, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Oh for fuck's sake. It looks like we have another bizarro/wee flea clone aboard. Why do all the nutters come and sit next to me?

150. Gene regulation in humans is closer than expected to simple organisms

Comment #66533 by pewkatchoo on August 30, 2007 at 10:27 am

Sorry, but I cannot think how this article was considered interesting enough to be entered here.

It is difficult to see of what relevance it is.