Let's take a look at this shall we?

[Calilasseia]

Good Lord, it's Cali! How do you very do, sir!

Egad, it's Flashman! Tally ho, Flashers!

So this is where you've been hiding between your calls of duty to the Empire, giving the fuzzy-wuzzies a damn good thrashing?

I hope that mad Madagascan woman hasn't dampened your ardour for the fray.

[The Curious Squid]

I don't think it's the real Cali - it's just a sock puppet.

When I see that the real Cali has posted on RDF and I click on the thread he has posted in, the scrolling cursor disappears right up the arse of the monitor and in to infinity on the right hand side, to the point where it can only be dragged if you click on the right pixel.

That's not happening here - something's amiss.

That's because there's no one here to carpet bomb ... yet.

Oh, by the way Dev, when RDF sorts out its server woes, go and take a peek at the Moon landing conspiracy theory thread in Debunking Woo. Oliver is a prize 'tard of epic proportions, who provided us with a real trifecta - creationism, Moon landing conspiracy woo and Illuminati bullshit, all together in one handy thread for you to point and laugh at. You know the old joke about President Gerald Ford purportedly not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time? Well, given the shit this guy believes in, many are of the opinion that he's the board's very own Gerald Ford. He's more literate than Byers (not that this takes much effort - my tropical fish are more literate than Byers for fuck's sake) but the level of delusion this guy entertains is even worse.

Remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs has to battle an alien wearing a weird Corinthian battle helmet? There's a scene in there where the alien pulls out a can labelled "10,000 Instant Martians - Just Add Water". Well, Oliver is the product of someone pulling out a can labelled "10,000 Instant Fuckwits - Just Add Water" and dropping the contents into a septic tank.

Incidentally, it surprises me that no one here bothered to check out Rants 'n' Raves as a venue for the free expression of ribald humour. It's effectively the rationalist version of 4chan, with absolutely zero moderation worth talking about. You can insult people to death on that forum and no one bats an eyelid, and when you're bored with that, you can browse their 100-page plus tits thread. However, that forum has its own resident tossers, and I decided to decamp to TalkRational when that place turned into a frat party. The culture there is dangerously close to that of /b/ at times.

Meanwhile, I see you have a "think" toy on your post editor here ... let's give it a try shall we?

Should I introduce everyone here to Japanese vending machines?

Is this the same Oliver that I argued with 3 years ago!

Is he from Cape town? If it is I might actually be tempted to actually debate about religion again, he was easy money.

He used to come in guns blazing with bullshit, we'd debunk his rubbish, he'd disappear for a few days then return (obviously having consulted a priest) with more shit for us to laugh at.

[klr]

Good Lord, it's Cali! How do you very do, sir!

Egad, it's Flashman! Tally ho, Flashers!

So this is where you've been hiding between your calls of duty to the Empire, giving the fuzzy-wuzzies a damn good thrashing?

I hope that mad Madagascan woman hasn't dampened your ardour for the fray.

It looks like you know something we should know.

[Calilasseia]

Ah, that's a reference to the Mad Queen of Madagascar, who turned up in one of the Flashman novels.

The lady in question was the infamous Queen Rabodoandriana Impoin-I-Merina Ranavalona I, and if you can say that without pausing for breath even when sober, I doff my hat to you. She was quite fond of the Machiavelli approach to statehood, including a fair amount of blood-letting. From all accounts, she was a sort of African version of Erzébet Bathory, though I don't recall her being fond of bathing in the blood of virgins. She was, however, utterly ruthless: she seized the Malagasy crown by intrigue, skulduggery and possibly a spot of poisoning along the way, moved swiftly to round up her opponents and have them executed, then spent most of her reign engaged in rampant pillaging of opposing tribes and indulging in such niceties as re-legalising the slave trade, which provided much of the funding for her military campaigns. To say that this woman was utterly psychotic merely dwells upon the banally obvious, as any scholarly account of her activities readily reveals. Probably one of the most hideous human beings to have walked on the face of this planet, it's just as well she only had access to African levels of technology, because if she'd had European weapons at her disposal, she would doubtless have scaled the sort of dizzy genocidal heights that are more usually associated with 20th century despots.

[Animavore]

Ah, that's a reference to the Mad Queen of Madagascar, who turned up in one of the Flashman novels.

The lady in question was the infamous Queen Rabodoandriana Impoin-I-Merina Ranavalona I, and if you can say that without pausing for breath even when sober, I doff my hat to you. She was quite fond of the Machiavelli approach to statehood, including a fair amount of blood-letting. From all accounts, she was a sort of African version of Erzébet Bathory, though I don't recall her being fond of bathing in the blood of virgins. She was, however, utterly ruthless: she seized the Malagasy crown by intrigue, skulduggery and possibly a spot of poisoning along the way, moved swiftly to round up her opponents and have them executed, then spent most of her reign engaged in rampant pillaging of opposing tribes and indulging in such niceties as re-legalising the slave trade, which provided much of the funding for her military campaigns. To say that this woman was utterly psychotic merely dwells upon the banally obvious, as any scholarly account of her activities readily reveals. Probably one of the most hideous human beings to have walked on the face of this planet, it's just as well she only had access to African levels of technology, because if she'd had European weapons at her disposal, she would doubtless have scaled the sort of dizzy genocidal heights that are more usually associated with 20th century despots.

Were you ever on University Challenge?

[Calilasseia]

No. Though there were occasions in the past that I'd watch the show during the Bamber Gascoigne years, and test myself by trying to answer the questions. I'd try and see if I could beat the competing teams.

[Animavore]

No. Though there were occasions in the past that I'd watch the show during the Bamber Gascoigne years, and test myself by trying to answer the questions. I'd try and see if I could beat the competing teams.

I usually turn it off 'cause I'm stoopid

[Arse]

I think I'm doing well if I get one question right per episode.

[Animavore]

Anyway Jeremy Paxman is a twat. Thinks he's all smart with his answer cards. I'd love to change the answers to totally wrong ones and watch as he reads them out with his smug air of superiority without noticing they're wrong.

[The Curious Squid]

I don't care how clever you are! Is it the same Oliver!

[devogue]

No. Though there were occasions in the past that I'd watch the show during the Bamber Gascoigne years, and test myself by trying to answer the questions. I'd try and see if I could beat the competing teams.

I always beat them now - it's a piece of piss these days. I usually get about 175 points on my own.

When Bamber was on it was fucking ridiculous, shit like:

Bambi: "What is the name of the three arsed fly of the genus Shitticus Lotticus, discovered in Borneo 28 years ago and known to infect Mammary Tigers with Glopticuticus merifidderderm and whi-"

BZZZZZZZZZ

"St Andrews Mollytwat"

Student: Pinifloppicoccus magisfistyfucks?

Bambi: No, you lose five points.......anyone...

It's Pinihardicoccus magisfistyfucks

It was brilliant.

[Calilasseia]

I don't care how clever you are! Is it the same Oliver!

Well, I notice that prior to his outing in the Moon landing shit thread, which itself was a derail from a piece of creationist fuckwittery of Oliver's own making that left several observers doubting his sanity (this idiot thinks there are fucking Sauropods still alive in Africa, for crying out loud), there was a large gap going back either to early 2008 or late 2007, during which he posted some similarly retarded garbage in F&R. He seems to have these fits and starts, so I suspect it could be the same Oliver.

[Clinton Huxley]

I miss Bodhitharta. Now he WAS a lunatic.....

[The Curious Squid]

I don't care how clever you are! Is it the same Oliver!

Well, I notice that prior to his outing in the Moon landing shit thread, which itself was a derail from a piece of creationist fuckwittery of Oliver's own making that left several observers doubting his sanity (this idiot thinks there are fucking Sauropods still alive in Africa, for crying out loud), there was a large gap going back either to early 2008 or late 2007, during which he posted some similarly retarded garbage in F&R. He seems to have these fits and starts, so I suspect it could be the same Oliver.

This is interesting.

I think I'll put on my fundie fighting gear and head over when it's fixed I thought we'd managed to get him to fuck off for good.

[Animavore]

I don't care how clever you are! Is it the same Oliver!

Well, I notice that prior to his outing in the Moon landing shit thread, which itself was a derail from a piece of creationist fuckwittery of Oliver's own making that left several observers doubting his sanity (this idiot thinks there are fucking Sauropods still alive in Africa, for crying out loud), there was a large gap going back either to early 2008 or late 2007, during which he posted some similarly retarded garbage in F&R. He seems to have these fits and starts, so I suspect it could be the same Oliver.

I live with a guy like this. And this in Ireland. It would be different if it were Alabama.