Conference 19th / 20th sept 2009

[trystan]

Sept 25, 2009 8:31:45 GMT Mr. Jon Donnis said:

So you had first hand experience of the middle aged housewives brigade! I hope you weren't too scared of their superior debating techniques

You can spot them as they all hold cards above their head with 'victim' written on them.

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

Sept 26, 2009 10:33:10 GMT trystan said:

Sept 25, 2009 8:31:45 GMT Mr. Jon Donnis said:

So you had first hand experience of the middle aged housewives brigade! I hope you weren't too scared of their superior debating techniques

You can spot them as they all hold cards above their head with 'victim' written on them.

The spiritlove women are all cougars, I get the feeling that they ate John Jackson alive

[badpenny]

Sept 26, 2009 10:51:03 GMT Mr. Jon Donnis said:

Sept 26, 2009 10:33:10 GMT trystan said:

You can spot them as they all hold cards above their head with 'victim' written on them.

The spiritlove women are all cougars, I get the feeling that they ate John Jackson alive

No, we're all pussycats really. If you weren't so much of a chicken, you'd have come along to the Conference and found that out for yourself.

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

Sept 26, 2009 11:23:12 GMT @badpenny said:

Sept 26, 2009 10:51:03 GMT Mr. Jon Donnis said:

The spiritlove women are all cougars, I get the feeling that they ate John Jackson alive

No, we're all pussycats really. If you weren't so much of a chicken, you'd have come along to the Conference and found that out for yourself.

You shouldn't use Dicki boys email address to sign up to these forums, unless of course you are him?

[asdfg]

I see the 'new BP' attitude is a great improvement on the old one.

Sept 26, 2009 10:51:03 GMT Mr. Jon Donnis said:

The spiritlove women are all cougars, I get the feeling that they ate John Jackson alive

Surprisingly, we managed to debate from differing viewpoints like mature adults!

Of course, we could have all just called each other names and congratulated ourselves on how funny we were - in good old BadPsychics fashion - but we grew up as we passed through adolescence.

I look forward to you joining us one day.

[badpenny]

Sept 26, 2009 17:04:00 GMT Mr. Jon Donnis said:

Sept 26, 2009 11:23:12 GMT @badpenny said:

No, we're all pussycats really. If you weren't so much of a chicken, you'd have come along to the Conference and found that out for yourself.

You shouldn't use Dicki boys email address to sign up to these forums, unless of course you are him?

- For some reason BP has taken a dislike to my email address and doesn't seem to recognise it. Richard is just doing me a favour. After all, I'm just a poor, naive housewife 'victim'. What would I know about the complexities of emailing etc.

[badpenny]

The December 2009 issue of Fortean Times carries a 2-page spread (with pictures) headlined :

UK Skeptics' 2009 Conference, Muncaster
penned by Peter Brookesmith
(one of the hardy few of us still left standing (well ... just about) well into the wine-filled wee small partying hours ...

An extract:

Perhaps because he's known the Pennington family for years or, perhaps, with a more ironic or provocative intent, Dr Braithwaite (who with Dr Wendy Cousins and John Jackson organised the event) thought this an excellent location for the UK Skeptics' 2009 conference. It was indeed, for one of their intentions was explicitly not to lay on a self-gratifying schmooze at which 'skeptics' (a.k.a. debunkers or deniers) could reinforce their sense of being supremely rational, superior to benighted proles, and generally the last hope of a ruinous age.

Rather, the organisers meant this to be an opportunity for those genuine sceptics, who want no more than to know what really lies behind reports of unexplained events, to exchange views and information with those with more faith in the anomalousness of anomalies but who are trying to find some hard evidence that weird things really do happen. The speakers represented a pretty fair cross-section of this population, and more work was probably done in amiably exchanging views in after-hours gassing-and-drinking than in presentations and panel sessions. Which is how it should be. And the audience included a number of people generally committed to 'the paranormal' but ready to consider materialist or scientific interpretations. This contingent may or may not have had something of the night about them, but they had phenomenal stamina when it came to the small hours of the morning ...

When it came to official business, there wasn't a dull presentation among them. Some speakers dealt with problems in so detailed and subtle a manner that it's impossible to do them justice here.
........

If you want to know more, go get your own copy.