And yet you continue to post here.
As Marley points out, Skammer never said he had heard it used to refer to female genitalia, and explicitly said he did not know what it referred to:
Marley, you are just making a ridiculous justification. You permit so-called skeptics ti insult their opponents with “woo-woo” but you don’t permit their opponents any come-back. Your claim that there is a difference between “woowoo” and “skep-dick” is nonsensical.
Whether you like it or not, woowoo is a widely used term for female genitals.
Nice circular reasoning there.
You need to watch the clip again. He distinctly says that woowoo means “the female erogenous zone.”
No, he’s using the word to mean vagina.
And here’s the thing. It’s a famous and much quoted movie. Millions of people know woowoo as a synonym for vagina through seeing this movie.
Oh, really? I can produce several thousand cites if you want. All I need do is Google “woowoo vagina” and find a huge number of people who agree with Mel & me, and disagree with you.
Are you going to claim that every single one of them is wrong?
Here’s a few hits where people talk about vaginas and call them woowoos
WARNING: some may be NSFW, and some may be TMI
http://prince.org/msg/100/257070?pr
http://cuntlove.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/diva-cup-menstrual-product-alternatives/
http://www.richardsonschuster.com/selections.html
And there’s plenty more where that came from. I could quite easily find a thousand cites.
If someone can call me a woowoo, can I call them a twat?
This thread just gets better and better.
How long 'til it’s up for Threadspotting? Time to think of titles for it:
Is ww the wrst wrd ever?
I’ve never heard woo-woo being used as a term for vagina, I would’ve remembered that. To me it is the sound a little boy makes when he pushes his toy train into a tunnel so I would’ve guessed differently. Mind you, I thought cunt meant penis for the first few years after I heard the word, and that could’ve been a disasterous misjudgement.
Everyone believes something irrational at some point in their lives, if only because adults contrive to lie to children. Since science progresses, things we hold to be rational now will be irrational in future. Any rational person who experiences first hand something that they can not explain should be free to discuss it without being labelled
Are you aware that some words have more than one meaning? Gross=144, gross=icky, gross=before any deductions. So if some asks what your gross income is are you going to say they insulted you, are you going to multiply by 144, or are you going to use your brain and figure out the context?
In this case, woo-woo is widely used to refer to pseudoscience or those who believe in it, and less widely used to mean cunt. Use you brain and figure out from the context what someone is referring to in a thread about pseudoscience.
Well then, hundreds of millions know that it wasn’t over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
That’s kind of the entire point.
“Dick” is a forbidden insult on this board, because it has more than one meaning. It can be a detective, short for Richard, male genitals, a type of sponge cake, or an obnoxious person.
And likewise, if someone calls you a dick, they are probably saying you are an obnoxious person, and probably not claiming that you are literally a penis.
Not very likewise.
You’re all a bunch of quijibos.
Sorry. The official term is “hoo-hoo”. An acceptable regional variant is “hoo-hah”.
I’m confident that if you wish to Pit someone for using “woowoo” in ways you find annoying that no moderator will warn you for it, so long as you comply with Pit rules. That said, I suspect that such an attempted Pitting would backfire rather spectacularly.
Bottom line here is that “people that believe in paranormal powers” is not now, and does not appear likely to become, a protected class on the order of race, religion, gender, national origin, or sexual preference.
That’s it!The perfect title for threadspotting: Woo woo: is it a hoo-hah?
Or, What’s the hoo hah about the woo woo?
Words have meaning only in context. As I’ve said many times here, context is everything.
The context of woowoo in the original post by Diogenes was utterly clear. Especially when he used this sentence: “Give me your stories of woo.”
Nobody on earth could read that sentence in the context of a post about ghost stories and think it was being used to mean vagina.
The total lack of reason in understanding the issue, the arbitrary and capricious definitions, the ignoring of countering arguments, and the sheer repetitiveness of assertions shown to be nonsense are all ironically hallmarks of woowoo debates.
You’ve managed to embarrass and discredit the entire community of woo by your behavior in this thread. All I can say is, thank you from our side.
Peter, you are aware that “peter” also means a dick, aren’t you?
Are you going to start claiming hate speech when someone calls you Peter?
There is an antiquated use of “woo” in the expression “pitching woo” which meant to flirt and flatter. It was considered sort of an art. (One that didn’t require material like the composition of poetry.) That makes me think that the term may have been associated with love or seduction at some time.
Fear Itself, “the Mound of Venus” is actually something else, but Oh, you kid!
I would call them teachable. But first I would be sure that both parts of that description are correct.
And I ask you: What word would you prefer we use for those who reject cosmic possibilities even though they claim to embrace science?
Marley, I noticed that you have arbitrarily decided to exclude Spiritualism and New Ageism from the heading of Religion. Also, somehow, “belivers” don’t seem to make the grade with you.
Somewhere around here I have an excellent resource that I bought when I was seventeen which has served as a reference for me on the world’s religions. That was in 1960, I believe. It included both Spiritualism and New Ageism even at that time. I think that you will find that “the New Age” is a little older than you think. It goes back over a hundred years. Spiritualism began about the middle of the Nineteeth Century. Arthur Conan Doyle was a Spiritualist. (And a man who valued science too, of course.)
And when someone says that you are a dick, nobody would think that you actually are a penis.
Do you understand that this is EXACTLY the same thing?
In the first place, I am and have always been a sceptic.
In the second place, YOU and people like you, using vile termsof abuse like woowoo who embarass and discredit sceptics. So rot you from our side.