Ed Rob Menard's FOTL Claims

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SpitfireIX said:
[ot]Okay, this has been bugging me, so I just have to ask. What in the world made you decide to use a carnivorous plankton as your nick?[/ot]
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In brief, I like them. The majority of my formal education and professional activities were in biology/biochemistry. When I first became aware of the phylum they were something of a curiosity, an obscure invertebrate group of uncertain affiliation. One could dispute exactly what they were, in a phylogenic sense, on a lot of bases: embryology, coelom status, nervous system structure. Everything was kind of contradictory.

Over the following decades the Chaetognaths have emerged as a true conundrum. Their molecular biology suggests their ancestors diverged from the remainder of metazoa at a very early point, and so these creatures represent a somewhat specialized group that independently evolved all manner of characteristics we see in the 'mainstream' of invertebrates (and for that matter, chordates). Chaetognaths are almost the pure expression of partial convergent evolution, with fishlike bodies and fins, but also totally alien facets, such as their face spine arrays.

I find them both simply charming and attractive, but also a tiny glimpse into the diversity of life we have lost, over the millennia. For me, a place like the Burgess Shale is sacred, a kind of temple to how diversity and elegance can emerge from chaotic processes. I had the opportunity to travel there years ago and visit with the paleontologists who patiently split away pieces of that couple meters of black rock. That is an afternoon etched into diamond; holding fragments of a meter long flying worm with armoured tentacles, globed facet eyes, a mouth array of radial grinding teeth.

I won't ever have the chance to observe or hold the varieties of life from that period, and any of us can only imagine the even more delicate experiments before that.

But, against all chance, in the plankton we have a small ambush predator that is an echo of those hopeful monsters before and after. I think that is quite marvelous, and precious beyond words.

Chaetognath.
 
Hi pals!!!

How's everybody doing?

Is everyone still relishing in their CBC gov issue propaganda?
 
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flabio said:
Hi pals!!!

How's everybody doing?

Is everyone still relishing in their CBC gov issue propaganda?
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Well I am dreading how foolish I will look when Rob returns and this time for sure provides evidence of him not being bound by statutes and thus refuting the CBC report. Who am I kidding, he's certainly going to play sophist games with the consent game, again imply that every situation involving consent is morally equivalent to rape, and tell a few anecdotes with little if no verifiable information.
 
flabio said:
Hi pals!!!

How's everybody doing?

Is everyone still relishing in their CBC gov issue propaganda?
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"gov issued propaganda" ... That's so funny :D

I have abandoned their "propaganda" so no longer have an account with them :)

I know that a combination of habitual weed-smoking and failure to take personal responsibilty can lead to chronic paranoia... but this!?

Poor atempt at trolling or being one of Rob's socks.
Or perhaps an utterly infantile belief.

ETA: One of your first posts on this forum:
Grow up you flippin' tools, make better threads. These one's make you look the tard.
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...and you're from Canada.
 
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freemanmenard is finished guys, he has disappeared back under his stone and is now confined to his Facebook page.
He will still sucker the odd halfwit but not much can be done about that, his latest scam isn't going to fool anyone, and if it does then Rob will "go straight to jail do not pass Go do not collect £200"
 
jargon buster said:
freemanmenard is finished guys, he has disappeared back under his stone and is now confined to his Facebook page.
He will still sucker the odd halfwit but not much can be done about that, his latest scam isn't going to fool anyone, and if it does then Rob will "go straight to jail do not pass Go do not collect £200"
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Well, I'm sure he'll be back here once his ban expires.
 
Actually if he does return here after his ban will simply re-enforce the fact he is finished, he's not posting anywhere else at the moment so why would he want to come here and post?
It doesn't make sense, he could be selling his oil on other freeman sites (hes tried WFS but no one is buying) but he continues posting here with zero chance of securing a mark.
Hes just a little boy lost at the moment, the chickens have finally come home to roost.
 
jargon buster said:
Actually if he does return here after his ban will simply re-enforce the fact he is finished, he's not posting anywhere else at the moment so why would he want to come here and post?
It doesn't make sense, he could be selling his oil on other freeman sites (hes tried WFS but no one is buying) but he continues posting here with zero chance of securing a mark.
Hes just a little boy lost at the moment, the chickens have finally come home to roost.
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You're assuming that he even realizes that. This entire thread is a testament to the fact that Menard isn't very good at this whole con artist business.
 
Rob clearly doesn't believe any of his spoutings, if he did he would be out doing it, he doesn't, he just looks for deluded halfwits to sell the idea too.

He just posts here for some attention because he doesn't get it anywhere else.

I explained my reasoning (mucky trousers ;) ) in another post but it went to AAH :)
 
Chaetognath said:
...For me, a place like the Burgess Shale is sacred, a kind of temple to how diversity and elegance can emerge from chaotic processes......
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And on a more practical note it would be a great place for Sci-Fi writer to get inspiration on aliens. :D
(It would let us avoid stuff like Avatar.)
 
Toke said:
And on a more practical note it would be a great place for Sci-Fi writer to get inspiration on aliens. :D
(It would let us avoid stuff like Avatar.)
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What like this fine fellow

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Chaetognath said:
In brief, I like them. The majority of my formal education and professional activities were in biology/biochemistry. When I first became aware of the phylum they were something of a curiosity, an obscure invertebrate group of uncertain affiliation. One could dispute exactly what they were, in a phylogenic sense, on a lot of bases: embryology, coelom status, nervous system structure. Everything was kind of contradictory.

Over the following decades the Chaetognaths have emerged as a true conundrum. Their molecular biology suggests their ancestors diverged from the remainder of metazoa at a very early point, and so these creatures represent a somewhat specialized group that independently evolved all manner of characteristics we see in the 'mainstream' of invertebrates (and for that matter, chordates). Chaetognaths are almost the pure expression of partial convergent evolution, with fishlike bodies and fins, but also totally alien facets, such as their face spine arrays.

I find them both simply charming and attractive, but also a tiny glimpse into the diversity of life we have lost, over the millennia. For me, a place like the Burgess Shale is sacred, a kind of temple to how diversity and elegance can emerge from chaotic processes. I had the opportunity to travel there years ago and visit with the paleontologists who patiently split away pieces of that couple meters of black rock. That is an afternoon etched into diamond; holding fragments of a meter long flying worm with armoured tentacles, globed facet eyes, a mouth array of radial grinding teeth.

I won't ever have the chance to observe or hold the varieties of life from that period, and any of us can only imagine the even more delicate experiments before that.

But, against all chance, in the plankton we have a small ambush predator that is an echo of those hopeful monsters before and after. I think that is quite marvelous, and precious beyond words.

Chaetognath.
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Wow. That's a much more complete and interesting answer than I was expecting. Thank you.

Before I looked it up I figured the word was either a Native American term, or something from the fevered imagination of H. P. Lovecraft. :eek:
 
Menard tries out the con on some Windsor babes. New twist: after setting aside half the money he takes in and paying his salary, he expects to have one billion dollars left over with which to provide interest free loans. This means he expects to collect at least 2 billion dollars. To do so, he must collect $125 per month from at least 16,000,000 Canadians. :eye-poppi That's half of the entire population of Canada.

I guess $250 per year from WFS members (both of them) just wasn't quite feeding his delusions of grandeur.




Nice camera work. Especially around the 6 minute mark.
 
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Pure Menardianism, he didnt even have the courage to answer one question.
Just his "answer me this", leading question kidology.

Nice camera work. Especially around the 6 minute mark.
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