User talk:Scream!!/Archive

Hi
How are you, anyway? Mei III (talk) 20:43, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Sysoppery
As it has been 3 days, you have a pulse, and you actually seem to care about the site, here is your mop. ТyUser_talk:Tyrannis 21:03, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Stream
Tet test o_O    :-C     O:-) --208.54.38.70 (talk) 23:27, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

You don't have e-mail enabled
I'd like to get in touch. P-Foster (talk) 20:14, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I think that PFoster and I are thinking the same thing. EddyP Great King! Disaster! 20:22, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I edited with her or as Him for about 6 months but I decided that circumstances required me to edit as I now do. Not with the same vehemence as she but with much the same outlook. --Scream!! (talk) 20:27, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You can probably count the number of times I talked to her even over Saloon Bar threads on the fingers of one hand, but it's sad to see her go. I know she didn't believe in a better place but if there is one I hope she's in it. Anyway, unless you say otherwise we ought to bring this to people's attention, but as I didn't know her well I don't think it would be appropriate for me to do so, and I'm not sure where it would be best to tell people. EddyP Great King! Disaster! 20:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't bother. sic transit gloria mundi. (The wiki is awfully slow!) --Scream!! (talk) 20:56, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Look,
I don't mean to sound short, but instead of being cryptic and smart-assy, is there any way you can clarify what's happened, preferably with a link to something in the paper or something? This is a community of sorts, and internet friendships are still frienships of a sort, and it would be nice to know what's going on with someone really important to a lot of us. Thanks. P-Foster (talk) 22:07, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * She died in late February & was cremated shortly thereafter. She had no relatives and few friends and, as you know, no religious hangups, so there was no service or anything. I should be able to point you to a register of deaths but can't find it at the moment, I'll keep looking. She had been very ill for a couple of months, at least since Christmas, and I know she loved RW I kept using her ID here for a while but realised that it wasn't very clever so I stopped. I live almost next door and was using her broadband WiFi and changed when I got my own. I have her laptop (complete with duff "y" key) and archives of all her pictures & stuff. Sorry if I've upset anyone. Her partner (Marghanita Laski) has inherited her property but isn't interested in computers/net and has ditched her broadband etc. Sorry for rambling --Scream!! (talk) 22:26, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Marghanita Laski?? P-Foster (talk) 22:35, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Marghanita Laski. This website's so SLOW! --Scream!! (talk) 22:46, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Further

 * Terry (SusanG) and I were friends and neighbours back in the 60s in Sheffield. We lost touch when we both left home and met again through a mutual acquaintance (Marghanita Laski) in about 1997. (ML and I used the same pub and ML was then a nurse and SG as a patient.) She and Jayne (ML) bought a house almost next door in 2000 - I tipped them off that it was for sale.
 * The deception (me editing as SusanG) was not intentional. I was piggybacking on her broadband WiFi using my netbook as Him but lost the password when said netbook blew up & had to borrow her laptop thereafter. She was an annoyingly stroppy little bird from time to time and would ostentatiously spray air freshener when I went round to her house - I'm a smoker and she hated it. Oh, I seem to have inherited her cats too, although to be fair they always spent as much time with me as with her. --Scream!! (talk) 14:31, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Scream!! Thanks very much for explaining everything. 09:27, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I should have done it earlier but didn't know how to broach the subject. --Scream!! (talk) 10:11, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Don't take it personal, and thank you.
I'm probably going to de-sysop/block Susan's account, given that she's no longer around to use it and somebody else obviously has access to it. Nothing against you at all, but if, for whatever reason, someone else gets their hands on her old laptop and started to edit under her name, that would be weird. And thanks for passing the news along. She meant a lot to us here, as you can see. P-Foster (talk) 01:40, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd have suggested it myself if I'd thought of it. Might as well do Toast as well. --Scream!! (talk) 01:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Grebes
I like grebes too. It's always a pleasure when one puts in an appearance, especially when it's completely unexpected - I saw one in one of the London parks and was very surprised. More people should appreciate the beauty of grebes. Totnesmartin (talk) 08:51, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * All our pond birds are great ... except possibly the coots ... and the Canada geese ... and the gulls .... The cats rather like mallards --Scream!! (talk) 10:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello
I'd like to talk to you about a personal matter, but you don't seem to have email enabled. Could you enable it? I only have a very short message. Mei III (talk) 20:53, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * What you're doing isn't going to work out. Sorry. Mei III (talk) 22:08, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You're probably right. (?) --Scream!! (talk) 01:41, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Spelling
I don't think the British spell "skeptical" with two c's. At least, I've never seen it. Side note: Is UK spelling appropriate for an article about a phrase coined by an American comedian? Regardless, I did use Firefox's spellchecker as the manual suggests, and it tells me that "sceptical" is not a word. Also, the writer of the article seems to be American. ShorinBJ (talk) 06:34, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * We, the British, do spell "sceptical" with two c's.
 * 1) Colbert is American, that's why I didn't change it back.
 * 2) Strangely the original author of the article is British/American but of the person who added the word in question I know not. Spellcheckers are unreliable when it comes to legitimate variants.
 * Oh, one other thing: we normally respond to a comment on the page where it's made thus avoiding what is known as "ping-ponging".
 * I apologise if I've jumped on you, I had a bad day yesterday.
 * All the best. --Scream!! (talk) 07:35, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Before Susan died....
...she made some noises about starting a new online project. Did anything ever become of that, or was she to ill to really move on it? Hope all is well, P-Foster (talk) 14:19, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Oh come on
You're much too obvious. It's like you're not even trying. 199.48.147.38 (talk) 08:44, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
for fixing my twigo:cp blunder. I will get the hang of all this soon hopefully. Too embarrassed to write articles at my current wiki-fu levels. joyaBAD KITTY!        00:50, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * My pleasure, have a look at help files specifically the "General" ones. Scream!! (talk) 00:53, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

I miss Susan.
Just sayin'. B♭maj7 (talk) Anachronistically anachronistic 04:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * As do I. Aceace 04:36, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Not as much as we do. Scream!! (talk) 04:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * She was awesome, one of my favourite RW users. Aceace 04:40, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * And a nice person IRL, as long as you didn't cross her! Scream!! (talk) 04:42, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Editing CP.
I edit CP from a different location to this, so displaying my IP shouldn't cause any problems. But, since I lurk here alot, figured I may aswell create an account regardless ModestGenius (talk) 17:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Health
I read your post in the SB. I do hope you are doing OK and that there hasn't been any permanent damage. Thank goodness for the NHS, whatever it's faults. 08:02, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I too express well wishes for a speedy recovery after your recent heart attack. 08:50, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks each. Blogged here and here. I'm OK for now but got to go in again in about 6 weeks. Scream!! (talk) 07:04, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Apatosis
Did you delete apatosis? yes? no? if yes why? &mdash; Unsigned, by: 94.145.205.69 / talk / contribs 18:12, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * We don't need or want copies of WP articles that have little connection with RW's mission. (specially when they're copied with WP formatting preserved) Scream!! (talk) 18:29, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I want to fork these articles, because Wikipedian suppress information regarding it. Give me a brake plz. &mdash; Unsigned, by: 46.165.221.166 / talk / contribs 18:38, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If they comply with RW's Mission and don't include a load of WP red stuff AND they're begun by a logged in member (as opposed to an IP/BON) they'd have more chance. Talk first, add stuff second. Scream!! (talk) 18:42, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Go search who would want contribute to you. Instead of receiving a thank you, I get this. :) bye .1.  &mdash; Unsigned, by: 109.163.233.194 / talk / contribs 18:50, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * See ya! Scream!! (talk) 18:53, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Quantum Consciousness
Dear Scream, please stop deleting things on the Quantum Consciousness page unless you have an argument against it. 24.192.195.236 (talk) 22:14, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, you stop putting utter tripe on the page and I will, OK? Scream!! (talk) 22:19, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Give me reason to stop thinking that it's "utter tripe", then. Post arguments. Don't just modify stuff for no reason. Otherwise, you're acting with the same rationality as a creatard. 24.192.195.236 (talk) 02:41, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * - David Gerard (talk) 18:10, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Why Michael Sandel deserves an article
He is a very, very popular public intellectual. He has an ethics course on YouTube that has millions of views! He has important ideas about ethics and political philosophy, and he's also an amazing thinker. Epistemos (talk) 00:19, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Sandel may be an eminent philosopher and public intellectual, but he doesn't fall within The MissionTM. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 01:34, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

So what happens to important information that falls outside of your little mission rationalwiki? Must it be kept a secret to protect the fortitude of your rational readers?
 * Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! Try TOW Scream!! (talk) 22:13, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Clarification (re: SciAm)
Sorry, I wished to clarify my reasoning (and point) a bit further without cluttering the page. Among the scientific community, many see it as a significant issue that magazines like SciAm, and even worse, news outlets, are taken as definitive and authoritative sources on issues of science. This is part of the reason why many scientific institutions spend significant amounts of money on outreach: eliminating the middle man that is the pop sci press is ultimately a desired goal. Of course, I did not author the WIGO, and I believe it is significantly problematic that SciAm's editor has taken this stance. I just believe that anything that potentially obfuscates those much larger (and more significant) issues is inherently problematic. Most folks taking their undergraduate are more likely to get their news through proper research avenues, for example, so the views of SciAm are unlikely to sway them much. However, several intelligent women with whom I had the pleasure of attending undergraduate classes ended up switching out of physics because they couldn't go a day without being hit on (and in one case actively stalked) by various physics students. Even among the graduate students in my lab, this is a huge issue. - GrantC (talk) 18:19, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

SP
Thanks for the SP on Flew. I'm making headway into a bottle of Roija and mistakes and errors of judgement are likely. :-)--Bob"I think you'll find it's more complicated than that." 16:49, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Mark Dice
You wouldn't like to go over that para you just inserted in Mark_Dice#Dicey_hypocrisy and make it a) grammatical and b) sense, would you. Thanks. Scream!! (talk) 21:39, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

A)who made you the owner of this website? b)I am changing it within this day and you are deleting it all? b)Sorry that English might not be your most suitable contribution to the way of communication by speaking. C) who made you the expert of Mark Dice? I know more about him than you even know. Did you know about his dating help business? You don't?
 * I 'm not sure I would count "being expert on Mark Dice" as something to be proud of. PowderSmokeAndLeather (talk) 23:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * A) I never claimed to be the owner. b) I didn't delete it. b) (again?) It appears that you aren't able to communicate in English (judging by this sentence) C) I know nothing about Mark Dice. Scream!! (talk) 23:27, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

You edited it out. I just added an extra detail to that segment. I did not create that hypocrisy segment. If you know nothing, who gives you the right then?--Mrvideoknight (talk) 23:34, 23 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I edited it out, because the writing was atrocious, bordering on incomprehensible. And everyone has the right to edit articles as he or she sees fit. I may not be an expert on dice, but I am an expert on writing. PowderSmokeAndLeather (talk) 23:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

"I edited it out, because the writing was atrocious, bordering on incomprehensible. And everyone has the right to edit articles as he or she sees fit. I may not be an expert on dice, but I am an expert on writing" So going by what you said, I can basically edit everything whenever I want and delete them to nothing?--Mrvideoknight (talk) 23:39, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You can also run around the streets shouting random swear words at strangers. I wouldn't recommend it, though. Nullahnung (talk) 23:47, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes. But then I can undo it. PowderSmokeAndLeather (talk) 23:40, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yup! (But you'll get blocked pretty damn fast) :-) Scream!! (talk) 23:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Scream, You are biased and please come here and gather to this group photo of hypocrites. I can get you blocked too. You are making the same thing as I do or other who gets blocked for small reasons because keyboard warriors like you think you are cops on "Miami Csi"--Mrvideoknight (talk) 23:45, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * " I can get you blocked too." Really? How? PowderSmokeAndLeather (talk) 23:47, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * FAFUXAKE stop making it personal. All I initially said was make it grammatical and sense. Nothing you have done since has addressed these points. Put up or shut up. Scream!! (talk) 23:51, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Scream, you are "talking" nonsense. I addressed them in the beginning. I have the right to speak and I haven't offended anyone. I am done here. Cause you think, you have the authority to say that you will block me doing the action that you did. [Peace] --Mrvideoknight (talk) 23:59, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You are done here? Good. Goodbye! Scream!! (talk) 00:01, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

RationaLu reversion
Any reason for this?--Mercian (talk) 23:47, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
 * It's a user page. I don't think RationalLu is user Newton. Scream!! (talk) 23:51, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Why did you revert my edits?
There was a clear pseudo-intellectual liberal bias permeating the entire article. I was merely leveling the playing field and exposing objective facts about the Democratic party that few people care to understand (i.e. that many, if not most, of its voters and especially politicians are sheltered bourgeoisie masquerading as "progressives"). &mdash; Unsigned, by: FuckingRightists / talk / contribs
 * Because we have an intellectual liberal bias? OK? Scream!! (talk) 22:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh and "Please sign talk page entries using four tildes like this: ~ or by clicking on the sign button: SigButt.png, on the toolbar above the edit panel. Thank you." Scream!! (talk) 22:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

don't use ref in talk?
did you say that? As in references? I saw that note then it disappeared. I was going to grab my verbosity from the Alternative Medicine talk page and throw it in a user sandbox page to burn- would that not be cool?--Greeneggs (talk) 03:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
 * thing is that "talk" pages generally are fluid and many are auto-archived so the " < references/ > " can become detached from their places. If it's only a talk page, why not just insert the ref (perhaps in parentheses). Do whatever you like in sandbox pages but don't delete from talk pages. Scream!! (talk) 11:12, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

unsig
I never forget to sign. I just sign telepathically. Thanks for catching it, though ... MarmotHead (talk) 16:31, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Done it myself. No worries. Scream!! (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

WIGO
Thanks for catching a rookie mistake. PSA: You shouldn't edit on 0 hours of sleep. Mayo2017 (talk) 20:59, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Why did you reset my talk page?
Hey there; I noticed you reset my talk page? It just had some old (non-interesting) comments on it, so I blanked it ... This is somehow not a good thing? Thanks :-) Carpetsmoker (talk) 21:10, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It's an old peculiarity of RW: talk pages or even individual comments may not be deleted except in special circumstances. (Obviously vile or doxing or similar) Scream!! (talk) 21:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Internet detectivery
I was just doing some ancillary searching on our new Chiropractic edit warring friend, and it turns out he actually works for Fred Carrick's institute, in addition to his own quack office out of Atlanta. It made me wonder, do we have a conflict of interest prohibition here, like wikipedia does? Ikanreed (talk) 20:41, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Excellent detectivorating. Don't think we have anything about CofI bans here. In fact I'd say we definitely don't. Excellent response on the talk page BTW. Scream!! (talk) 20:46, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip.
Much appreciated. The site is sort of strange to navigate.

Low-Carb diet page
A few weeks ago you reverted some changes I made to the Low Carb Diet page, and in your comments you said that it wasn't adequately discussed on the talk page.

I'm wondering if you actually looked at the talk page first? I have made a good effort to discuss the changes.

The page as it stands contains information that is flat out false, misleading or out of date. The changes I made were correcting some of the most egregious errors. For example there is a claim that ketosis is starving yourself to death, with a reference.

The page referenced said nothing of the kind, ketosis is not starving yourself to death; ketosis is used to treat a number of serious medical conditions with no side effects.

I've removed that line again, if it gets reverted, again, then the page is providing readers flat out false information that's not supported by any evidence. &mdash; Unsigned, by: CarbShark / talk / contribs23:09, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I have no recollection of the event. Carry on. Scream!! (talk) 23:09, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Crap!

 * How many lines long is your largest contribution to an article; what is the basis of your claim to the moral high ground? Exiled Encyclopedist (talk) 16:27, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Where is your archive?
Exiled Encyclopedist (talk) 16:38, 22 November 2014 (UTC)