Operating, Generating, New Life
By NelsonThanks to thetastysoup for finding these on the subject of swanky new bacteria with synthesised DNA.
You can’t control evolution.
It only takes one of these bacteria to mate with another and you have serious and posibly extinction problems.
Not a good idea.
Hairy Dog
It’s alright, they’ve genetically engineered these ones to be homosexual bacteria-boys. They can hump each other til they’re blue in the membrane and never create anything more terrifying than that episode of Doctor Who where Bernard Cribbins kept bursting into tears and trying to tell The Doctor how much he loved him.
I love this next comment for the sheer exuberance with which Chezobarth7 throws unrelated sentences together.
Before this study continues we need to be sure that the “bacteria” doesn’t mutate like all other organisms in this world do. We all know computers have flaws. This scientist is just in way over his head and he needs to slow down. This could do more harm than good. This could be a step toward ending global warming or it could be a step towards mind control. Watch out it is 1984 all over again.
Chebozarth7
It absolutely, definitely is 1984 all over again. That’s the one where Dr Frankenstein tries to reverse climate change by making a mind-control hat and Richard Attenborough builds an amusement park full of microbes, right?
Dear Sirs,
As a physician, scientist, molecular geneticist and molecular biologist, I am deeply concerned about the implications of this endeavor. The multiple potential benefits of this experiment can instantly vanish by a single unforeseen catastrophic event.
AMMDO, MD, PhD
AndreUSP6

90 Responses to “Operating, Generating, New Life”
I used to be worried about GM foods. I was a computer programmer and I knew that complex systems have a high tendency to go spectacularly wrong (e.g. the famous NASA probe that went swimming instead of visiting Mercury because of a missing minus sign or something). So I thought all our food was going to be turned into Marmite by some fatal GM DNA flaw.
But now I don’t give a fuck anymore, because I love Marmite.
Another graduate of the University of Star Trek Box-Set.
Yes! Still giggling at that one 10 minutes later!
“Evolution cannot be controlled”?
Never seen a dog then.
That’s another Handy Debating Trick(TM) that Andre has taught us, to be used alongside “I’m not racist, but…”
It is: “As a [insert authoritative thing here], I [sentence saying what I want and you can't disagree because of the authoritative thing], so you can jolly well suck my dick.”
Example 1. “As the commanding officer of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, I vehemently condemn any move on the government’s part to scrap Trident.”
Example 2. “As a person who regularly drives in Milton Keynes, I can say that roundabouts are the leading cause of wheel-unbalancing in the last four decades.”
Example 3. “As a racist, I hate black people.”
Doesn’t that argument just fuckin’ floor you, huh? The guy’s a racist, so there’s no comeback, no hope. End of discussion.
Do you think this new breakthrough means that in a few years time, Hollywood starlets will have color-coordinated, cutsy, little synth-bacteria tucked under their arm, while the Duke of Edinburgh will have a pack of pedigree Westphalian Hunt-Bacs.
I think I’m going to start a breeding kennel. I just need one good bitch bacteria and my fortune is guaranteed.
And in case anyone thinks that’s a /reductio ad absurdum/*, I’ve seen that argument used in the wild. Our pal Guy White claims that “Today, a racist is simply someone who won an argument against a liberal.” He’s a racist, you’re a liberal, therefore he’s right. Simples.
* – is there a name for the technique of shoving Latin phrases into arguments to gain an air of authority? Preferably in Latin.
As a Biologicalist, Molecular Scientologist, Physician, Artist, Musician and Raconteur I have calculated that the mutant uprising is less than a week away and sent a painting of my calculations to the Prime Ministers
Fuck the worst of these reared its head last week with the Andrew Wakefield thing.
Scientist with three degrees and 26 years’ experience says MMR vaccine was not the cause of autism and this was actually not physiologically possible.
Halfwit bird pops up “As a mum, I say it is and mums know best”.
KILL!!!
That would be ‘intromissio ad cuntium’ if I’m right (and if it doesn’t actually mean something rude).
@high speed vomit
Its called ‘appeal to misleading authority’:
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/authorit.html
If you’re going to claim a long list of qualifications to yourself, then obviously you have to be posting under your real name. Ergo, Andre USP6 must be his real name.
That is clearly a clone name, so he must be a clone of a brilliant but mad (and probably French) geneticist who’s cloned himself. This means Andre USP6 didn’t actually get those qualifications himself; he’s just a clone of someone who did. Quod erat demonstrandum, he is a ptarmigan’s twat.
Magnus tosserius pretentius, yeah?
As a calligrapher and masturbator, my favourite part was Nelson’s signature.
Christ, I used “It’s 1984 all over again!” as a joke once. Now some twat’s managed it with a straight face. We can never compete.
I like how Hairy Dog (who, not to upset someone’s pisstake of him/her, probably has seen a dog) says this:
On the Hairy Dog Scale of Descriptives For Bad Stuff, it goes ‘serious’ to ‘extinction’ and that’s about it. I wonder how he described the Tsunami for instance? Very, very serious perhaps. Or a failed tectonic-based extinction event.
And also that ‘extinction of the human race’ is considered a ‘problem’. Ha, this guy just gives and gives.
Thanks Nelson, now I’ll have Depeche Fucking Mode going round in my head all day.
I wonder how much Nelson would charge to write job application letters. I can’t help but think that there are employers the length and breadth of this country (England, not Britain) who would kill their own offspring to receive a hand-crafted and apparently hand-soiled letter such as the one illustrated above. I particularly like the way he’s tried (and, largely, succeeded) in giving the missive an air of unimaginable antiquity through the well-attested process of staining with tea.
And, @Dean Cramvoid, I think you’ll find it’s ptarmigan’s ptwat
What if the scientist is also a mum with three degrees and 26 years experience (of being a scientist, not a mum)? Are they automaticallly right? or do they have to be a racist too?
Actually I think I know the person who made that ‘I’m a mum’ comment.
Nelson, you terrible cunt! My reaction to the phrase or saying “Pan-fried otter bollock” is likely to get me defenestrated in the next two minutes.
Computers have been doing evolution for years.
It’s causing chaos!
(If anybody else sees the incredibly piss weak joke hidden in the preceeding sentences, please raise your hand now.)
Why is this so-called ‘genius’ digitizing genome sequences when we clearly do not have plasma fission-powered blaster batteries yet? If we do not have such weaponry yet, how will be able to fend off his horde of genetically enhanced supermutants? I mean we do even not have thermopistols, WTF.
Just did a check – no mention of a “Kafkaesque nightmare” in any of the HYS posts on this subject. Nobody! In fact, nobody has since May the 15th. HYS standards are rising worryingly.
As a joker, a smoker and a midnight toker, I am fully qualified to pronounce AndreUSP6 a colossal twatbasket.
I also take my lovin’ on the run so good day to you all.
@Goldstein
As a calligrapher and masturbator, my favourite part was Nelson’s signature.
Seriously?! I feel that the drawing of, what I understand to be called in the vernacular a “ spunky penis” somewhat detracts from the overall oeuvre of the response. Personally I would have welcome a picture of a pouch with a pertroubreness permiating from its poop-pipe.
*welcomed… arse
**welcomed… swap to preferred (better scan)
“It’s 1984 all over again”
Well, I’d love it if we had 1984 all over again. Personally, I found it rather similar to 1983 and I also detected many similarities to 1985.
THE BOOK WAS A WORK OF FUCKING FICTION, YOU NUMB NARWHAL’S NUTS!
Anyone who has to put ‘PhD’ at the end of his spurt of arse-gravy to lend it pretend credibility should be stripped of said PhD immediately. Especially when said PhD has bollock-all to do with the subject he’s allegedly discussing. Asshole.
@Alf Ramsey
I’m pretty sure its proper name is a jizzy cock.
@Bramswune
Binary dialectics aside, I feel you may have grown up on the “wrong side of the Pennines”.
And squeezy hotdog mustard.
Reckon my scanner is going to smell like that forever.
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As a benefits recipient and occasional wikipedia reader I think that anyone that starts having their say with “dear sirs” deserves a good kicking and is possibly some kind of mammalian minge; probably an ocelot’s or something like that.
@ Sir Alf Ramsey’s Porn Dungeon
What the fuck is that? You did that on some other thread too and I have no earthly idea what the fuck it means. Please elucidate.
@High Speed Vomit – Duck My Sick!
Sorry, merely my crude attempt to realise the act of defecating into a vessel communally used for imbibing in the ASCII constrained environment of this thread.
Maybe this will help someone:
MONSTRO-#===3
With a “,” between “imbibing” and “in”. I’m not attempting to create an ASCII constrained environment where in that activity happens. Sorry.
Ah! All is now clear, he said while projectile-vomiting ASCII characters all over the place. Reminds me of an old computer programmer’s joke.
“ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.”
Here’s another:
Q. Why do programmers always confuse Christmas with Hallowe’en?
A. Because DEC 25 = OCT 31.
I already had my coat on when I started typing, thanks. Close the door after me, would you?
Why not just say you shat in a cup? Short sentences + simple words = less chance of error. With all the time you’ll save by not writing correction posts you could shit in another cup and perhaps even send us a link to a picture.
Crude, sorry, BTW: If you let y = r cubed over 3. And if you determine the rate of change in this curve correctly, it’s a f$%king laff, right?
Yes, it’s the Parka, how did you guess?
So…pix?
@Birmswoone
Here you go:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/files/2009/04/starbucks1.jpg
You say it was squeezy hotdog mustard, but how many of us believe you?
Oh yeah, and props for the “pan-fried otter bollock”. Very cheffy, very Gordon fucking Ramsay.
Back on track, folks. I reckon AndreUP256 or whatever his name is deserves a proper scientifically-named animal fanny.
Here’s my contribution:
He’s a blue whale’s bloody barn-sized bollock-sack. (Or, as Linnaeus would say: Balaenoptera musculus sanguini colosseo saccotesticulus.)
Bloody barnyard’s busted ball bag, IMHO (and for alteration’s sake)
As a genuine[1] Minister and masturbator, I am deeply concerned about unforeseen catastrophic events[2] as well.
The Reverend john Adair’s Gerbil, Falcon Patrol Leader, West Church Scouts.
[1] The Universal Life Church of Modesto, California.
[2] Such as the wife walking in when I’m watching porn on the big TV.
“ruentus barnyard’s tumultus ball pera”apparently, although I swear blind my history teacher never said anything about “the latins” dealing in euros….”
The characters you used for your illustration aren’t ASCII.
Looks like a yawn turning into a smile to me.
(here’s betting the blockquote doesn’t work)
Ha! I should have more faith in myself.
An army of synth-germs escaping their test-tube to invade Chebozarth7′s head?
He’s wearing his anti-mind-control hat but it looks pretty inneffectual.
@ad ho, it’s probably a hankie with knots in.
Speaking of ineffectual, AndreUSP6 must shit his fucking pants whenever he ‘endeavours’ to cross a road. Does MD stand for Mild Downs?
Now imagine AIDS with missiles on. What hath science wrought?
Give him a break. If you’d paid your $59.95 to this place…
http://www.noveltydegree.com/
…you’d want everyone to know about it, yes?
Not as catchy as “watch out, watch out there’s a Humphrey about”. Or even “watch out boys!” as exclaimed runningtowardsly by the cheeky-volvic man.
In short, words not so much typed as wrenched out by the rough, bloodied hands of James Herriot.
Apologies if I’ve missed a post on this, but I’m obviously too excited to check properly.. The latest New Internationalist contains a letter from an Andrew Kadir-Buxton of Hatfield, England. It outlines a plan for preventing extinction of fish species by means of an international law “which ensures that the gonads of all fish caused are liquidized”. Artificial fertilisation, dumping the resultant goo in the sea and lo, a flawlessly repopulated ocean.
A nice man from Greenpeace explains in the reply that this would probably not work. He barely laughs at all. I am impressed.
I was gonna come here with bundles of delicious idiocy from the various articles about Iain Cuntan Smith’s (c wot i did thar?) new policy of ‘fuck poor people’, but it genuinely is too depressing. I perked up a little at the mention of AKB, but he didn’t propose slapping anyone and I settled down again.
Maybe the liquidisation process involves punching gonads into goo? That’d be in character.
I’ve suddenly conjured up a rather gruesome mental image of our friend Andy standing in a barrel full of fish scrota, stomping away with his big ugly feet. Completely naked. And semi-aroused.
A strike to the abdominal region from one of our piscine oppressors has for too long served as the benchmark for human woe.
At last someone has now had the sense to suggest payback. Now fuck off, gillchops!
I hate the term “pan-fried”. What else would you fry an otter bollock in?
Thank you, all those who commented on dear Andy. I nearly choked on my dinner! Cellphone has little gobs of quiche on it now.
Hopefully 1984ReturnsForReal will pop up and turn it back into a joke for us.
Urgh. Yeah, mums know best, because being able to have sex without protection at least once is evidence of being An Expert In Everything.
I don’t remember anyone ever saying “mums know best” in the context of Baby P.
Anyone know what AMMDO is meant to be? Google gives me nothing (AMMDO + qualification leads back here, in fact)
“Anyone know what AMMDO is meant to be?”
I’m pretty sure it’s A Massive Mouldy Donkey’s Orifice, but then I’m not educated like some.
I’m well impressed that Nelson has 17 nectar points.
That’ll be 5 pence off your next shop you lucky bugger.
Sorry to go off topic for a minute, but can I heartily recommend: America Speaking Out?
Officially, the site was set up:
However, it has become a kind of American blend of HYS and SYB, with a bit of Reddit thrown in, and it is fantastic! It’s a troll’s dream.
Apart from the comments and replies, some of which are terrific, the “ideas” section at the top of each page has so far offered me:
and:
and:
There’s a site like SYB for that sort of thing.
http://www.fstdt.com/
Fundies say the darndest things.
Awesome.
In a “fuck me, they believe this shit?” sort of way.
Some samples.
There’s more. But I despair.
Ooh they look good. Thanks [NutterBrackets] and john Adair’s Gerbil.
As a semi-professional rape drum maker I think Andre.s a twat?
How is killing your own kids a crime? It’s just not logical. That’s like saying breaking your own TV is a crime.
All these people banging the ‘my kids are dead’ drum need to fuck off to a church and realise what selfish dickheads they are.
I find the use of “bacteria” utterly mystifying. If he doesn’t believe in them, why does he worry about the “threat” they pose? (See what I did there?). Chebzoarse also seems to think that plural = singular.
Ahhh, nothing like an expert opinion from a mouldering magpie’s minge.
JC Denton’s comment nearly made me cry laughing.
Fuuuuuuck me!
“Honey, where will we vacation this year? Paris? Rome? Or the Great Wall of America?”
Um, the one that got his arms and legs chopped off, you mean?
Yeah, building a wall across Guatemala is a hell of a lot harder when Guatemala hasn’t been annexed. And who gives a fuck what the Canadians think, anyway? After all…
You don’t say?!
I remember A. A. Gill once wrote that the US/Canada border is the longest undefended border in the world, “although I’ve yet to hear a Canadian mention the fact.”
Yeah, and he can beat her up and pimp her out all he likes, too. Says so in the Leviticus vs. Ezekiel crossover issue that came out last month.
Well, now I’ve had my Two Minutes’ Hate (it’s 1984 all over again!) I guess I’d better get some work done.
I made the mistake of going to the Fundies site.
Oh dear God make them stop.
Oh. My. God. When I was an angry young man I came out with some pretty stupid shit, but this stuff makes me look like the Dalai Lama.
Now, the guy above is just nuts and obviously has too much time on his hands. But this one is a little scary for my taste…
Kids: DON’T try this at home.
Can’t resist. Can’t.
The unconscious imagery in some of these posts is incredible. That quote, again, this time with the, er, interesting bits highlighted:
It’s like there’s a remnant of sanity in the guy’s head that’s trying to sabotage what the rest of his brain is saying, telling the world: It’s okay! If he goes postal, I can stop him. But I need help!
(Not to mention what he uses his penis for besides “sex & peeing”. Any ideas?)
…And I just realised that God’s Penis always has a capital P.
Yeah. Mine does too.
One more. I’ve already got my coat on. Just one more.
In fairness, this does explain quite a lot.
Blimey, this American stuff is so fucked up it even gave the server a short dose of the 503s!
It is ironic, although not particularly surprising, that these would be American patriots and Christians clearly know next to nothing about American geography, history or society, or Christian theology for that matter.
Getting confused about the meaning of “in his image” and missing the whole point is ignorant but not uncommon. “Blessed are the cheese-makers” and all that. Using it as an excuse to speculate about God having a penis, and the nature of penises in general, is quite special though.
Noting that people come back from college having picked up regional slang from their fellow students shows some ability to accept input data from the real world (as opposed to getting it all from Fox News and the Bible). Interpreting it as evidence of a big gay conspiracy suggests that all input data leads to the same conclusion, making the input stage rather redundant.
Then we have the guy who thinks rape is no big deal and thinks that God agrees. I suspect that neither God nor the internet would ever hear the end of it if he was raped.
And finally, we have the ones who are still asking the question “Seeing as Iraq and Afghanistan are going so well, which countries should we invade next?” and coming up with “Our closest neighbours, best allies and trading partners” as an answer.
It makes you feel sorry for all the normal Americans and Christians who have to put up with nutjobs like this in their communities.
Jesus H Christ. American mentals are even more mental than I thought they were.
Deep fried otter bollocks are considered a great delicacy in the Falkirk area.
The Chinese use wok-fried otter-bollock as an alternative to fish balls.
@ Dean Cramvoid
Oh please dont tell me someone else from Falkirk has stumbled in here and here i thought i was the only one
You cruel people have made me go and dig up my favourite fundie quote ever:
U GOT RAPED LOL!!!!11
‘Pan-Fried Otter Bollock’ is currently my wife’s favourite phrase. Thank you.
I shall be closely monitoring what I get given for my tea for the next few days, though …
Linford Christie
Ahem
WTF?