How did you find Rationalia.com?

[trdsf]

Invited to check it out by Bella Fortuna from a thread on home-made liqueur on TU.

[Bella Fortuna]

Invited to check it out by Bella Fortuna from a thread on home-made liqueur on TU.

I wish everyone were so suggestible to my ideas!

[tattuchu]

Invited to check it out by Bella Fortuna from a thread on home-made liqueur on TU.

If you're a friend of Bella, then welcome to the fold. All that remains is the secret initiation involving special handshakes, Morris dancing, and memorized recitations of odes to cheeses from a code encrypted Ratz handbook.

Did I say secret? Bugger! I've given away our secrets again

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Hmm...Fender Jazz. Nice.

[Robert_S]

Hi everyone

I located Rationalia in an almost random google search. More or less doodling on the internet, but it looks interesting.

I chose the monica 'Blind groper' for two reasons.
1. We are all blindly groping after understanding. (That is the pretentious reason).
2. I happened to have taken a photo of a blind groper that I thought would make a cool avatar (the real reason).

I am a religious non believer (I prefer that term since other people seem to regard the distinction between agnostic and atheist as an excuse for an argument). I gave up my Presbyterian upbringing at age 15 when I realised I had no credible reason for believing in a deity. I have been listening to religious people trying to give me a reason for the last 48 years, and I still do not have a credible reason for believing in a deity.

Nice to meet you Blind groper! ;cheers:

[Bella Fortuna]

Invited to check it out by Bella Fortuna from a thread on home-made liqueur on TU.

If you're a friend of Bella, then welcome to the fold. All that remains is the secret initiation involving special handshakes, Morris dancing, and memorized recitations of odes to cheeses from a code encrypted Ratz handbook.

Did I say secret? Bugger! I've given away our secrets again

How many times have I told you not to mention the Morris dancing?!?



This will mean more Morris dancing for you.

[trdsf]

Hmm...Fender Jazz. Nice.

Clone, actually, but I've had the chance to play a real one so I can say it's a damned good clone.

[trdsf]

Invited to check it out by Bella Fortuna from a thread on home-made liqueur on TU.

If you're a friend of Bella, then welcome to the fold. All that remains is the secret initiation involving special handshakes, Morris dancing, and memorized recitations of odes to cheeses from a code encrypted Ratz handbook.

Did I say secret? Bugger! I've given away our secrets again

Is that Morris, or Morris Minor dancing? It doth a difference make!

As far as cheeses go, I know if one goes off, you put it in a cave over the weekend and cheeses will rise on the third day...

[Tero]

Who was it that said "everything should be tried once, except folk dancing and incest." ?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Who was it that said "everything should be tried once, except folk dancing and incest." ?

I'd add "Nailing your scrotum to the floor" to that list.

[Blind groper]

Welcome Blind groper!

Where did you take the shot of the fish?

Sorry to take so long to answer this. Somehow I managed to overlook the fact that this question has been posted.
That thud sound is me kicking self in arse.

The fish was one I saw and photographed at the Kermadec islands, about 1,000 kms north of Auckland, New Zealand. I was lucky enough to insinuate myself onto an expedition.

It is a groper of the Epinephelos daemelii persuasion. (Australians call them 'rock cod' for some weird reason, comprehensible only to an Occa.) They are very friendly at the Kermadecs since they have very little occasion to run into humans. They grow to 200 kg, making them quite awesome.

The one I photographed was unusual, being blind. Interestingly, it did not seem to have affected its health, and it was as fat and sassy as any other groper there.

Here is one that is nice and healthy, with good vision.

[apophenia]

Some dweezle on AFO was getting whammered, and proclaimed that while s/he wasn't well known there, s/he was well known and regarded on other atheist forums. (As if that would matter.) So doing my due diligence, I checked to see if her bona fides were indeed bona and fidey, and in doing so I came across Ratz. I bookmarked it, and came back at a later date. (Wherein I proceeded to cause my usual bit of trouble.)

[laklak]

It was part of a plea bargain.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It was part of a plea bargain.

In lieu of a fine or public service? (You still have the chance to do trash pickup on Alligator Alley.)

[maiforpeace]

Welcome Blind groper!

Where did you take the shot of the fish?

Sorry to take so long to answer this. Somehow I managed to overlook the fact that this question has been posted.
That thud sound is me kicking self in arse.

The fish was one I saw and photographed at the Kermadec islands, about 1,000 kms north of Auckland, New Zealand. I was lucky enough to insinuate myself onto an expedition.

It is a groper of the Epinephelos daemelii persuasion. (Australians call them 'rock cod' for some weird reason, comprehensible only to an Occa.) They are very friendly at the Kermadecs since they have very little occasion to run into humans. They grow to 200 kg, making them quite awesome.

The one I photographed was unusual, being blind. Interestingly, it did not seem to have affected its health, and it was as fat and sassy as any other groper there.

Here is one that is nice and healthy, with good vision.

Amazing fish (gropers in general, and that one in particular) and an impressive shot! A most worthy avatar.