User talk:Hamster/archive2

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Hi Hamster . Nice of you to join us. If you'd like to know a bit more about the site please have a look at our RationalWiki:Newcomers' guide.--Bob^{bing up} 13:10, 21 November 2008 (EST)

Hey another old codger like me! You're doubly welcome.--Bob^{bing up} 13:25, 21 November 2008 (EST)

Thanks Hamster 13:39, 21 November 2008 (EST)

Message from the RationalWiki Ministry of Demotion and Personal Impediment

Dear Hamster/archive2, We regret to inform you that you have been demoted to the rank of sysop. You are requested to report to a bureaucrat, at your nearest possible convenience, to be assigned a mop and bucket for the purposes of cleaning up the mess around here. If you have any further questions please refer to the enclosed pamphlet So you are now a sysop. Your Sincerely, Sir Reginald Albert Humfildink-Hollingsworth the Third, Under-secretary of the Chief-secretary of the Personal-secretary of the Minister.

I am stunned honored to be appointed Master of all I see bucket boy and will try not to mess up the front page. er, by the way , where IS the front page ? Hamster 00:32, 3 December 2008 (EST)

Human wants to revert some pointless page blankings so we have blanked it for him. - User $\scriptstyle 4\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}(2n+1)^{-1}$ 00:36, 3 December 2008 (EST)

Hello brother

Hello, Maybe we could form a nest? (But a very butch heterosexual one of course.)--Herbert the Hamster 18:04, 4 December 2008 (EST)

See you

I hope things are OK. Come back and say hi when life allows it, maybe. Šţěŗĭļė tooth 17:58, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Good luck

Good luck with that young lady needing attention. If you need anything, feel free to hit me up. I can only pay forward the courtesy and support this community has offered me in the past. Lord of the Goons ^{The official spikey-haired skeptical punk} 06:34, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

127.0.0.1

I block 127.0.0.1 when I have nothing better to do, not for any particular reason other than boredom. --GastonRabbit (talk) 01:37, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

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I moved your new draft to a subpage of the main article, because that's how people normally do that kind of thing. I hope that makes sense. -- Mei (talk) 19:11, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

excellent - thanks

I created a {{wp}} type box, but we don't have an appropriate logo and I can't find it on CAWiki. -- Mei (talk) 19:37, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

thanks , I will ask the other wiki for their logo Hamster (talk) 22:44, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Why/how did you do it?

Why/how did you make the words on the DMCA guy's talkpage smaller? I demand an explanation for such a cool effect! LimpWrist (talk) 06:32, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I messed up the end tag in my comment small comment text and back to normal Hamster (talk) 06:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Nice! I'll have to remember how to do that for later. LimpWrist (talk) 06:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Its the opposite of which make bigger text cool

God damnit man!

You'll just fucking confuse him! I have been cultivating this for some time now. Damn it, you know how hard it is to get him to focus on a single topic. Aceⁱ⁹ 06:22, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

That is the problem I use to have when arguing with Ken over there. Once I had him cornered, other people would come along with their pet gripes and give him an out. - π 06:33, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Pi, That is exactly what I meant. Aceⁱ⁹ 07:01, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Oh yeah.....

I sent you an email. Aceⁱ⁹ 00:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

...

I can't deal with the twistedness of ASK this week. PJR and apparently Bradley live in their own, isolated world. Sterile tooth 12:52, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

I lost track of how many times this same discussion has happened , it never seems to change :( Hamster (talk) 14:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm half tempted to write an essay on "the intellectual dishonesty of PJR's creationism" here, but it's not worth it. Perhaps we're at the last exodus, and PJR and Bradley can stare at each other making their personal wiki regurgitating CMI. I can't imagine how long Philip can afford to keep it on-line. Sterile tooth 15:55, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

I was curious at the appearance of the couple new names. Was entertaining but then same-old. Hamster (talk) 16:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Hosting only gets cheaper. You can keep a wiki with no readers up for bloody ever - David Gerard (talk) 16:25, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

I wonder how long the ERV references will last. Sterile tooth 12:55, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

creation science has the answer to ervs. http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v1/n1/microbes-days-of-creation :) Hamster (talk) 15:50, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Wait a second... there's an implicit denial of the Germ Theory in that article. ERVs create or "are" viruses? Excuse me, wha? By definition they are now encapsulated in the genome of the host animal, and thus no longer "viruses", which is why we have to make the distinction that they are ERVs. I do love though that apparently these ERVs are not "new information" that an offspring would have that their parents do not... because that would violate the principles that genetic modification cannot produce new information. --Eira ^{OMTG! _{The Goat be Praised.}} 17:58, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

creation science at it's best. I sometimes wonder how good an eduction you ned to identify the mistakes . Hamster (talk) 16:06, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

I think it's less so about education level. There is a lot of study into pedagogy that suggests that the vast majority of people hear educating text, and simply use it to reaffirm their existing beliefs. Namely, that people actually do the fucked up backwards science that we constantly jab creationists with not through malicious intent, but just because that's how the typical human appears to be set up. --Eira ^{OMTG! _{The Goat be Praised.}} 17:42, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Thinking in science is hard for savannah apes. We only bother at all because it's spectacularly successful - David Gerard (talk) 17:45, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Hamster vs. Cake

I wish to debate you regarding the recipes of Hamster vs. Cake. Hamster actually doesn't have any flour in it. But the interesting question is, since cake is mostly just sugar, beaten eggs, and milk, couldn't it be said that a cake is simply Hamster + flour and baking? --Eira ^{OMTG! _{The Goat be Praised.}} 03:19, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

If you add just a small amount of flour it firms up the Hamster slightly and keeps it from softening in the heat. Its a pastry chef type of trick to keep things good in varied temperatures. Its a little bit like a pastry cream thats made with flour. Addd more flour and bake in a water bath and you get something more cake like. This was on a cooking show recently. You are right about the Hamster / flour etc = cake.

Ah yes... I definitely could have used that when I tried to make my mint chocolate-chip Hamster. I whipped the eggs up to soft peaks, whipped the whipped cream, and turned to look at the eggs, and they had already fallen. Took them forever to even get to soft peaks in the first place. I should have known better... another trick, I know of is to use corn starch, this adds less flavor per stabilizing unit, and is actually why they recommend to use confectioner's sugar, because it has corn starch to prevent caking. But you're pretty much right on the dot, if I added flour and cooked a Hamster, I would get a cake. :) Have you tried frozen Hamster? It's awesome. It doesn't require constant churning like ice cream does, because it's stable on its own, however it comes out significantly more fluffy than creamy, and melts super fast. But still a big yum! (For the record, me vs. Hamster right now is 5 to 1... Hamster's favor. :( I totally get why some people just go with flavored whipped cream, and call it Hamster.) --Eira ^{OMTG! _{The Goat be Praised.}} 07:53, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Then what the hell is a flourless chocolate cake? I always viewed it as a wet but firm souffle. ÑR_{/Señor Admin}^{/¡hablen ustedes!} 17:49, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, a Hamster isn't cooked. Reading a recipe for soufflés the differences are: you beat the eggs to stiff peaks instead of just soft peaks. You cook it. :) So, yes, a flourless chocolate cake would be a soufflé, which if uncooked, would be a Hamster. --Eira ^{OMTG! _{The Goat be Praised.}} 19:53, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

you need to be careful with whipping eggs with an electric mixer , its easy to get them warm. Sitting the mixing bowl in a bed of ice can be a big help if your kitchen is not cool. I have a Kitchaid mixer with a whip for that sort of thing. Is a pain cleaning the bowl though. A flourless chocolate cake ? sounds wierd ? I get hit for calling stuff souffle, but hey if its beaten eggs what else is it ? Hamster (talk) 19:57, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Also, avoid doing it when it's 80-90° out... unless you have some good air conditioning/swamp cooling. --Eira ^{OMTG! _{The Goat be Praised.}} 20:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Why would you cook a small, innocent mammal?! You cruel, cruel bastards. ;___; Radioactive afikomen ^{Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.} 20:12, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Sir

You are a bigot. As an umpire of this site I am directing you to either substantiate your bigoted claim or withdraw it and apologize to those poor creationist peer reviewers who've signed on to a Statement of Faith and can't help themselves for being liars. Or you will be blocked. User:Nutty Roux/sigtalk 00:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

I love how PJR can perform character attacks at will at his blog while no one else can. What an asshole. sterile tooth 00:19, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

but they are not character attacks when Phil does them. I will never use the terms 'real geologist' and 'tas walker' in the same sentance. ! AWC deserves a medal I think :) Hamster (talk) 00:35, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey buddy

Sorry you hear your dad is having a hard time. Hope your family is doing Ok. Be well. User:Nutty Roux/sigtalk 04:10, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Just saying hi

Hope things are going OK. sterile^talk 01:49, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

thanks yes , as well as can be expected with parents in the 80s. Giving aSK a break for my health. Hamster (talk) 03:36, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

You got your bucket back. Wěǎšěǐǒǐď^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 14:14, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

thanks Hamster (talk) 16:18, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination

Y'all been nominated for Moderator. Please to go here to accept or decline. Aboriginal Noise ^{Oh, you want to hit people with garbage cans?} 14:37, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Swearing

I dislike aggresive swearing. I don't mind swearing when it is done in a friendly or flippant manner. That said, different people have different standards. If you are a guest in someone else's home, if you know they have an objection to swearing, you respect that. Yet, you swear on aSK? You can have whatever opinion you want of Philip or anyone else, but when you express it by swearing, you just make yourself look bad. (((Zack Martin)))^™ 06:13, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

be specific . ^{— Unsigned, by: Hamster / talk / contribs}

"a lying sack of shit"?^img (((Zack Martin)))^™ 07:36, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

If you are a guest in someone else's home, if you know they have an objection to swearing, you respect that.. Ace ^{of Spades} 07:28, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

And the point is.... ? Be specific. (((Zack Martin)))^™ 07:38, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm just wondering if "lying sack of shit" is actually "swearing". It's certainly abusive and hyperbolic but is it technically "swearing"?--Bob^{Spring is sprung!} 08:28, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Well, the original meaning of swearing was taking God's name in vain, e.g. God damn you!. The meaning in English has shifted; it no longer principally refers to that, but rather refers to the use of shit and a number of similar words. Obviously when I say "swearing", I mean it the contemporary English sense, not in the historical sense of the word. (((Zack Martin)))^™ 08:50, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

you and Philip should get along well. You both seem to redefine terms to suit yourself. Common english states invective as swearing and nothing I typed fits that definition. Please stop messing on my talk page. Thanks bye. Hamster (talk) 15:47, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Wiktionary, defines "swear" as (sense 2) "To use offensive language." It is a well-known fact that the word "shit" is commonly considered offensive in English, especially among more conservative types (which defines Philip and co). Offensive language can be invective, but isn't necessarily (it can also be neutral or even friendly). Sorry, we don't redefine words, you do. (((Zack Martin)))^™ 09:27, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I asked you politely to stop spreading your crap on my talk page, please desist. Hamster (talk) 13:55, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

You're just jealous

that there are no hamsters in Maratreanism. (Or mayber there are and I just don't know it.) sterile^talk 14:36, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

you missed Hama, the god who is a hamster, the hamster who is a god. Also Terror Hama, 7 cubits tall with fangs 1 cubit long who waits in a cave for the final battle where he will carry many on his back into battle and nip the ankles of the unworthy. Hamster (talk) 16:15, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

I left my cubitmeter at work, dammit. sterile^talk 00:17, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

I would assume hamsters have no souls. I am not aware of any reason to think that they do. I may be wrong, however... (((Zack Martin)))^™ 09:45, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Hamsters, not User:Hamster, that is. (((Zack Martin)))^™ 09:45, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Jesus, do you comment on everything, everywhere? You're an annoying version of Human. sterile^talk 00:09, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Dammit now I have to photoshop cocks on to pictures of hamsters. When will the madness end?! 00:26, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Be my agent ?

Hi, I would appreciate it if you could be my agent representing me to Tolerance. He seems easily confused or just doesnt understand cat. I makes a double entendre and he ignores it ! I think I could be Goddess of erotic things because I am after all a pussy cat. Let me know and you get 10% as commision. What do you think of a movie , Terror Taba and Terror_trinka star as Batman and Catwoman. ? That last actress to play me did not have a great tail. Terror Trinka (talk) 04:14, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

You could learn to spell your own name. TRINCA. (((Zack Martin)))^™ 07:28, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Maybe

there's a way to get Philip's post hoc rationalizations of information to circle back on themselves. That would be fun. sterile^talk 02:56, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I would help you out but I got another year of ban left. Ace^ace 03:11, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

You can use my Maratrean account. I ran out of meth amphetamines and can't pull off those 8k walls of text anymore. It also just felt dirty impersonating a mentally I'll person. Let me know. 05:00, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Methamphetamine is one word, and it's singular. Get it straight, shit-head. sterile^talk 03:02, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Getting feisty, eh? sterile^talk 02:05, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I fail to understand anyone with his head so far up his ass. Philip is also an apostate to the christian faith, it peeves me ;-) Hamster (talk) 07:17, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

So you're joining my "shower him with scientific papers" campaign? I love the "just a hypothesis" comment he gave me! sterile^talk 00:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Philip wants to know about feathers so I gave him a nice pdf file ;-). Is it my imagination or is Awc getting snarkier lately ? cant blame him after some of PJRs latest Hamster (talk) 00:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

His latest gibberish is particularly weird and dishonest. Ace^ace 00:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh, yeah--I'm proud of Awc-dude. He's been so patient.sterile^talk 00:44, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Indeed, I could only manage a year before calling him a cunt. Ace^ace 00:53, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Awckie used the word garbage. Any minute he'll be cursing. sterile^talk 16:48, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I am shocked by Awcs language. What has happened to our favorite mild mannered, understanding Awc. ? Hamster (talk) 00:56, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

HA!

Like. sterile^talk 05:30, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

hehehe, at least someones reading aSK. Philip seems to have lost interest. Hamster (talk) 06:25, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Good riddance of that idiot fucktard. sterile^talk 03:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Heart surgery

Best of luck and get well soon. Тy^eh? 02:11, 1 April 2012 (UTC)