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I've heard it used probably once or twice in real life and probably a couple of times in movies and TV, but it's an older phrase that's not used nowadays; I've never used it. There's a size which just makes even frequent posters fairly anonymous or reduces all people to caricatures or stereotypes because you can't keep them straight. The JREF officially came into existence on February 29, 1996, when it was registered as a nonprofit corporation in the State of Delaware in the United States.

The organization has been funded through member contributions, grants, and conferences, though it ceased accepting memberships after 2015. An interest in James Randi and Penn and Teller brought me to the JREF forum long before I started posting on the SGU forum. This forum feels more like living in a small town, where people know each other better, rather than living in the big Jref city. even if I don't anymore), but we have some people who are active in spurts (SQ the enigma or NeutralMilk for example), and yet have been here long enough that you know who they are when they grace us with their presence. You are currently viewing the forum as a guest, which means you are missing out on discussing matters that are of interest to you.

In 2007 the JREF announced it would resume awarding critical thinking scholarships to college students after a brief hiatus due to the lack of funding. My mum is chinese, my dad is Japanese, look at the state of me (when chinese is said, the corners of the eyes are pulled up, when japanese is said, pulled up, and when 'me' is said, one eye is pulled down and the other up. To date, no one has been able to demonstrate their claimed abilities under the testing conditions, all applicants either failing to demonstrate the claimed ability during the test or deviating from the foundation conditions for taking the test such that any apparent success was held invalid; the prize money remains unclaimed. However, after "finding" the SGU Forum and interacting with the folks here, I quickly abandoned JREF. This is a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational foundation under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, incorporated in the State of Delaware.

I think I have been warned once on this board in the years I have been there but multiple times there. Consequence was a biweekly podcast hosted by former outreach coordinator Brian Thompson in which regular people shared their personal narratives about the negative impact a belief in pseudoscience, superstition, and the paranormal had had on their lives. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us. It's a shithole, full of people who range from just JAQing off to out and out racists, as opposed to our one or two concern trolls who never have an opinion of their own to offer that we get here.The JREF Award "is given to the person or organization that best represents the spirit of the foundation by encouraging critical questions and seeking unbiased, fact-based answers. Department of State: Division of Corporations – Entity Details – The James Randi Educational Foundation". I'm pretty sure it comes from 'cockney rhyming' slang, which is a centuries old slang originating in London's West End (apples and pears - stairs, dog and bone - phone, skin and blister - sister). Other than that though, I never found myself moved to join or participate in their discussions and didnt think much of the discourse in general (I thought their american gun thread was pretty poor tbh while I think the one here is probably the best I have ever seen in terms of actual discussion). The foundation produced two audio podcasts, For Good Reason which was an interview program hosted by D.

The organization previously administered the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, a prize of one million U.The foundation produced its own "Internet Audio Show" which ran from January–December 2002 and was broadcast via a live stream. If you as a Japanese person used it, it might lose some of its meaning and be funnier than you intended. I just got the sense that the community was too big to really have the feel of a community that I like. Usually inferring to "that person won't give me something, or they are a jerk because they are jewish. Easy-peasy must have been the original phrase (you'll probably hear The Artful Dodger say it in Oliver Twist), but I suppose people have added their own extra words that rhyme with easy over many years like 'easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy', or easy-peasy-japanese.

The JREF award is given each year to persons or organizations that best represent the spirit of the foundation and the legacy of James “The Amazing” Randi. You have to actually be concerned that what you say in one thread will be remembered and held against you if you contradict yourself elsewhere. y. Ok, that doesn't really help, but the slang comes from a deeply rooted culture, so it's not easily explained with words.On October 5, 2014, this online forum was divorced from the JREF and moved as its own entity to International Skeptics Forum. S. dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.