Time to consider the bad habits of the habitual thread.

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Forgive the neglect lately, but I’m a) distracted by the chaos that is Skepticon, and b) mildly enfreakened out by the fact that my talk is still not ready for prime time, and I have to give it in a few hours. So now I see that the thread of perpetual growth is getting overlong, despite the fact several of the participants ought to be similarly distracted because they’re also here at the meeting (Hello, Mattir & Spawn).

Oh, well. I babble at 7, ending the agony, and then it’s some kind of party time all night long.

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I’m already getting grumbling about the commenting changes, so maybe the rhubarb thread would like to chime in with more. Do it with the panache of a Dawkins, please!

Hmmm. Some atheist meeting sometime ought to do this: have a session where the speakers just read aloud from their hate mail for an hour. It could be entertaining.

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Will some cheerleaders cheer up the thread a-gogo? Or will the denizens focus their hatred on me?

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Since the last episode of the thread for obsessive conversationalists was all about that Christian obsession with calling Hitler an atheist, here’s another one: religious dupes lying about Einstein to make it sound like he was on their side.

Einstein never said the words they’re putting in his mouth, and it’s a bogus argument to begin with.

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So, denizens of the deep dark thread, how well would you do on a Hitler quiz?

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We passed 100,000 comments in the last segment of the zombie thread, so here’s something to do with that magic number.

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Really. You need more thread because you filled up the old one?

Oh, well, it’s an excuse to exhibit the latest Mr Deity.

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We seem to be infested with nasty little conservative know-nothings lately, so here’s some rodent repellent that the usual denizens of the long-suffering thread will find mostly unobjectionable.

George Takei calls out a nobody named McCance.

I’m seriously tempted to echo some of the hateful fundie rhetoric just to get Takei to wink at me.

Lily Allen sings about the appropriate response to the anti-gay wingnuts.

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By request, this open thread is dedicated exclusively to non-political topics. Let’s have a race between this one and the political thread and see which can gather the most comments overnight!

The loser thread will be closed tomorrow morning.