Hi ieathedead.

I'm curious about your user name. We have a 'Corpse Cruncher' here, is that what you mean? Also, is it purposely missing a "t"?

Hey ! That reminds me. Haven't heard from her for ages. Is she okay?
And leathedead,what's you stand on bacon? :)

Vienna ;)

Not if I can help it

OK Welcome NewB's, And here is the weekend menu
Fresh Goats milk, Bowmore Islay Single Malt,Millers Draft & Light, Belgian beer,
Apple smoke roasted Goat,Rabbits and Roo meat, Assoted Veggies a salads,
Oatmeal cookies, Minties, and cherry pie.

Enjoy the Weekend.

How about some sugared jellyfish?

Hello!

I'm very happy to join this forum!

My name is Vladislav, I'm 32 years old and live in Sofia, Bulgaria. I have a wife (well, strictly speakiing not wife, because we are not married, but anyway :) ) and 2-year old son. I studied applied physics for 4 years in Sofia University but I didn't graduate :(. I'm currently working as a software developer. I was baptized as an orthodox christian but I'm an atheist. I just couldn't get myself to believe in god and religion. And since I discovered Randi, Dawkins and Hitchens I know I don't have to :)
I'm especially interested in religious cults and sects and their methods of deception and manipulation. It amazes me how quickly a person who may otherwise be considered intelligent can be lured into joining such cults. I'm also interested in the different kinds of frauds and scams as they employ mostly the same techniques. I created a small blog in Bulgarian criticizing the so-called MLM (multi-level marketing) companies where I explain the exponential mathematics and the pyramid schemes behind most of them and the methods of manipulation and deception they employ.

OK, enough :) I hope to be able to contribute something to the forum which seems a difficult tasks with so many smart people around here.

Hello jref. Im your average joe system admin/ network janitor. When I'm not busy with work and family I try to enjoy the outdoors. A month or so ago I was following some squatch tracks down a chem trail and ended up here.

Wins thread.

Welcome.

Thanks Roadtoad! I admire alot of folks here from lurking and reading. One day I might post something worth reading.

Welcome to Vladi & tabletsmudge We have our Weekend BBQ going, on see the menu below, so stop by and enjoy your selves and if you happen to see our resident goat walking around be sure to pat it on the head he likes the attention

Hi everyone.


I've just joined as a Basic Member.


I joined up, having been exasperated by seeing so many unquestioning, sheep-like, idle-minded individuals, spewing utter nonsense on the various websites/forums out there.

I am sincerely hoping that I meet many like-minded folks here, who share my hard-core, analytical approach to everything life throws at us.


I have always found James Randi utterly inspiring, informative and interesting. It gives me hope, to know that there are people like him out there, although they sure seem to be few and far between.

Welcome Jonny Have a glass of fresh Goats milk

Your not Vlad the impaler in disguise are you? Anyway, have a Millers Draft.

G'day!

My name is Bayani Mills; I'm an amateur skeptic in Sydney, Australia with an interest in science and technology.

I started http://seektheevidence.org as a way to promote the use of critical thinking and to encourage greater skepticism about popular phenomena and the exploited media to the pubic. (it's a slow work in progress ^_^)

I'm an advocate of rational thought, free-thinking, and seeking enlightenment, I dislike ignorance and apathy, and strongly encourage others to thoroughly investigate the extraordinary claims they encounter.

I started http://ReportARort.wordpress.com as a way of promoting the fact that various individuals and companies have been reprimanded for making misleading and dangerous claims about their therapeutic goods.

I have my blog http://www.bayanimills.com , which contains various links and videos I find interesting, and the occasional write-up from me about skeptical issues, or just bits of my life.

I also promote science and reason on Instagram amongst my photos: @bayanimills :)

While a member for a few months now, I have rarely checked in - hoping to change that.

:)

Welcome bayani. You can be assured you are in the right place. Minties are to your left, goat which has to be patted to your right. Miller Draft straight ahead. Sit down, relax, and make yourself at home.

Jeez... We want to keep the newbies, not scare them away!

Anyone know what a 'rort' is?

I'd like to report one.

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Rort is a term used in Australia and New Zealand.[1] It is commonly related to politics, or, more generally, a financial impropriety, particularly relating to a government programme. The term was first recorded in 1919 and is a derivative of the older "rorty" a 19th century London slang word—meaning “fine; splendid; jolly; or boisterous”.[2] The term is also used as a verb to mean the action of defrauding, (e.g.: he rorted the system.).
Long in use in the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party, where it typically referred to such practices as branch stacking, the term came into widespread use after the travel rorts scandal of 1997, in which a large number of Federal politicians were accused of misusing travel allowances. Three ministers David Jull, Peter McGauran and John Sharp resigned as a result, and Labor frontbencher Nick Sherry attempted suicide

"Pokes head in door"

Um, hi, I'm new! :blush:

Another Aussie here - this time from Brisbane.

I went to TAMOz in 2010 and came here to see if there's a TAMOz12 planned?

Decided to stay for the discussions. :D

Welcome. Colonel will be along shortly with this months menu for newbs.

Well, once again it's getting so you can't swing a dead cat in here without hitting another new Aussie. I swear, they're taking the place over! I think Orphia must be sending them over from the Australasian Skeptics board (you guys aren't all named Spod, by any chance).

Welcome aboard, all. I'm the proud author of the opening post in the Sports sub-forum on your favoritist national sport*... That's right, Taunting the Kiwis Rugby... particularly Rugby Union.

*(well, except that new guy from Melbourne - probably likes Aussie Rules like the other southerners do)

Welcome, everyone. Enjoy the canapes, the main course will be along shortly. (We're out looking for some bodies for ieatthedead**, though.)


** @ieathedead: If that's a typo and you wanted two put two Ts in there, you can PM a mod or administrator and get them to change the user name to avoid the incessant pedantry bound to ensue. You can PM LisaSimpson or LashL - they generally honour simple requests.

I was at TAMOz as well. I was the good looking one.

Welcome. The more Aussies the better.

Welcome to you as well. There are quite a few Melburnians on the forum, and we've had a couple of get-togethers.

Actually I am, I joined because I heard many a folk here didn't believe vampires existed :)

Well, crap. Hey, Colonel - AMB !!! Scratch the Millers Genuine Draft and the Goat's Milk. Draw us a couple of Blood-ee Marys (don't tell Mary's husband, though - he hates it when she services the newbs).

I was at TAMOz too, and I was the good-looking one. Don't let lionking deceive you.

No, there's no plans for another TAMOz at this point. But the Australian Skeptics Convention will be in Canberra in November!

Wow, Colonel, that was awesome. Thanks.

You are most welcome I hope it was what you were looking for.

Introduction
 

- This is not really a reply to anything in this thread – but hopefully, introducing myself and asking a question or two is appropriate herein… I guess I'll find out. If I were patient enough I could probably figure it out for myself.

- But anyway, I'm an old guy and don't know much about modern technology – automobiles, the radio, etc. – and hardly speak the same language as most of you guys on this forum. So, breaking in won't be very easy.
- Also, I am basically a Randi antagonist – I suspect that reality is not the deterministic machine that mainstream science would have us believe. I, for instance, tend to believe that we do have free will, and that life does have ultimate meaning – however illogical these concepts appear. In addition, I suspect that the extreme polarization we find between us humans in regard to these subjects is the result of having two cerebral hemispheres that process information differently than each other, and that we, especially us males, tend to be dominated by one hemisphere or the other.

- Otherwise, it would appear that the threads in which I am most interested involve thousands of replies already, and catching up on any one of them – especially for an old and slow reader like myself – so as to propose an explanation that hasn't been proposed and dismissed multiple times already, is something of a problem. (I can only hope that was coherent…)
- Anyway, would it be improper etiquette to propose my own take on consciousness without being thoroughly versed in what's been already said in the appropriate thread?

- Thanks.
--- Jabba

Hi Jabba. Welcome aboard.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...6e8b167056.gif

It seemes to me that your best bet would be to start a thread of your own.

I think the subject you wish to discuss would best fit in the Religion and Philosophy sub-forum, but if it turns out not being a good fit there a friendly Moderator will move it to the appropriate place for you.

Would you like me to start the new thread for you and copy/paste what you've written above into it as the Opening Post?

Welcome Jabba have some fresh Goats milk

Akhenaten,
- Thanks. Sounds good to me, but wouldn't that be cheating -- I'm not supposed to start any new threads, myself, until I have posted at least 50 times?
- Thanks again, whatever.

- Thanks Colonel, but I don't think I like goat's milk...
- Should I salute? Are you, or were you, a real Colonel? I used to be a real Captain in the Army. That was a long time ago.

I retired as a capt. , but when I was enlisted I got the nick name colonel from my troops and it stuck with me right up until I retired. Seeing as you do not want the Goats milk. How about a nice glass of Bowmore single malt ?

Or an icy cold Millers Draft?

Not cheating. The only restriction for new posters is that they can't post links to external sites until they've made 15 posts.

50 posts means you can have a sig and an avatar.


Do you need help with starting your new thread or are you good to go?

:)

Sorry, Colonel. I don't think I ever had any. I'll have to ask my son -- he's a true aficionado.

Amb,
- That's what I'm talkin about!
- Though, an icy cold Budweiser in a bottle would do just fine.
- Have you noticed that beer goes good with anything but bananas?

Akhenaten,
- Thanks, again.
- I should be good to go -- though, you'll hear from me if I find out that I'm not.
- Pray for me.

Hatin the psychics
 

I have a good video to post of a psychic reading, but it looks like I need 15 posts under my belt before I can post a URL. So......... I'm Benjamin Linus, I hate psychic BS.

HEY JABBA go to this link and hang out , it will help you get you post count up .

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=131690

Welcome Ben I hope your video is not of Sylvia Brown, I can not think of anyone here that is interested in her except maybe if she was to stop living . or have a bad accident, then that would be good news.:D

What do you mean it doesn't go good with bananas? Of course it does! Just drink more beer than you eat of bananas!

Of course, that assertion will require voluminous amounts of testing....

For science, of course.

Beer and chocolate is a bit odd.

But beer and bananas? With that amount of potassium and muscle relaxant, I think I'd have trouble moving!

Welcome all NEWB'S

OK NewB's here is our weekend menue enjoy it

there will be Fried turkey, BBQ turkey drumsticks, roasted Roo and of course we have plenty of cats and Hamsters too. Mashed, baked, and roasted potatos, and assorted fresh Vegtables. Scotch ,beer, wine and Fresh goats milk. Minties, Oatmeal cookies,chocolet chip cookies, Cakes and icecream. Enjoy the weekend

Hello, folks. I am a researcher into the 1963 Coup d'Etat, aka the JFK assassination.

Welcome, Robert. (I think.) The CT boards are where you want to be.

Hello lads and lassies of the JREF. My name is Sammy, I signed up today and just want to say "hi". Looking forward to wading through lots of interesting topics and hopefully add the odd nugget of wisdom, or at the very least not make a total wally of myself.:)

Welcome Sammy We offer a fresh glass of Goats milk to all new members ,But in your case I will give you a Gallon for a bottle of Islay single Malt :D