RD.net to be re-revamped!

[lordpasternack]

When they don't, I'll get a warning... and carry on whine like fuck.

[pErvinalia]

I don't use the forum rules, I use my own. Usually, they coincide quite happily. Sometimes they don't. When they don't, I'll get a warning... andcarry on have a sook.

[pErvinalia]

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[Red Celt]

Too. Much. Fucking. Stupidity.

[lordpasternack]

Cheer up. It's great for your superiority complex...

[lordpasternack]

From the vaults:

I have a personal theory about why the off topic was a bugbear for Dawkins, there's been rumours that old Dicky has a MAJOR problem keeping it in his trousers which is kept out the press by very good PR. When the sexual threads got pulled this was around the time that apparently a story about the Dawk was trying to be kept under wraps. Essentially if the press did ever run the story, then having that sort of material on the site would have caused a field day for the right wing press.
OK it’s a bit hypocritical and cowardly, but it wouldn’t have exactly helped the image of the Foundation from a PR view.

I've sold that story to The Sun.

Too late to recant.

The way I understand it is that Dawkins has something of an open marriage, which he's at pains to keep under wraps. If the press DID report it he could in all likelihood sue for invasion of privacy. This is all rumour mill stuff but certain bloggers have deleted posts and shut the hell up after his PR people got wind of them. [Cough] Allegedly.

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 30#p636130

[Svartalf]

Nasty Necromanceress

[lordpasternack]

Nasty Necromanceress

I can't believe I'm still waiting for them to send the heavies to my door.

[pErvinalia]

Geez, he's an old root rat by the sounds of it! Go Dicky!!

[Svartalf]

Nasty Necromanceress

I can't believe I'm still waiting for them to send the heavies to my door.

Gimme your address and I'll pound on it, I'm heavy.

[lordpasternack]

Geez, he's an old root rat by the sounds of it! Go Dicky!!

... But go easy on all the lying, nepotism, secret agendas, mistress flats and miscellaneous conflicts of interest, while you're at it - especially when you're supposed to be running a charity devoted to reason and science... And condoms are seriously one of the best inventions, ever...

[Calilasseia]

From the vaults:

I have a personal theory about why the off topic was a bugbear for Dawkins, there's been rumours that old Dicky has a MAJOR problem keeping it in his trousers which is kept out the press by very good PR. When the sexual threads got pulled this was around the time that apparently a story about the Dawk was trying to be kept under wraps. Essentially if the press did ever run the story, then having that sort of material on the site would have caused a field day for the right wing press.
OK it’s a bit hypocritical and cowardly, but it wouldn’t have exactly helped the image of the Foundation from a PR view.

I've sold that story to The Sun.

Too late to recant.

The way I understand it is that Dawkins has something of an open marriage, which he's at pains to keep under wraps. If the press DID report it he could in all likelihood sue for invasion of privacy. This is all rumour mill stuff but certain bloggers have deleted posts and shut the hell up after his PR people got wind of them. [Cough] Allegedly.

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 30#p636130

If this is true, then we might do well to prepare ourselves for a visit from his tame Max Clifford clones. Not a happy prospect. Wonder what Private Eye has got in its little database with respect to all of this?

Frankly, though, I think The Sun would be the least of his worries if any of this ended up in the tabloids. They'd probably congratulate him for being able to perform like a rabbit at his age. More troubling would the likes of the Scaly Mail. Melanie Phillips would have a field day with this.

However, I cannot help but think of the furore that would result if it was revealed that a government minister was behaving in a manner consonant with the assertions presented here. (Before you jump on me for this choice of words, LP, I'm mindful of the need to protect the forum's ass ). Using funds that may possibly belong to others, to keep a mistress in a lavish pad, would see a politician's career go south faster than you could say "David Mellor". Moreover, I have a nasty feeling that if this ends up in the public domain, the SFO might want to have some words, and frankly, the last thing I want to see is RD ending up having the creotard crowd point at him as an atheist version of Kent Hovind.

It's a real pity someone who has his ear can't pull him to one side and remind him of the perilous risks he's taking here.

[Audley Strange]

But... that sort of behaviour sounds suspiciously appropriate for a cult leader.

Perhaps he'll end up with a harem, 30 Aston Martins and and a barn filled with heavy ordinance. He's practically an extispex anyway.

[Calilasseia]

Didn't Lalla suggest to him that if he started going senile, he could tap the Templeton Foundation for some loot?

[Audley Strange]

Hmm infiltration robbery through conversion pretence, interesting idea that also reveals Thomas More was a tit.