snafuThat’s just a gag to get your friends to pee on their own feet…
Ok, how do you feel about them peeing on your feet…?;o) (That is probably a four or five figure sum for some rich perverts in the city!)
snafuCan you pick lottery numbers as well?
snafuNo from the Christian, Jewish and even Muslim dogma if you are wrong you spend eternity in the region of hell; if Christians are wrong nothing gained nothing lost.
Unless one of the others is right…?
Please tell me there aren’t people stupid enough to believe that and write it, or stupid enough to read it and believe it?
Why not? There is a certain book that some people take as (ahem) gospel, and there is plenty of room for all sorts of idiots to believe whatever they want from whatever rubbish they are told.
I mean, I was threatened with being judged for the final seven years at ‘end times’ unless I signed up to religion; ‘just like that?‘ I asked and was assured that I could skip judgement and eternal damnation by opening my heart to god! Turned out I’d have to open my wallet to god too – there was this little matter of how much money I wanted to donate to his church to make the whole process run smoother, quicker, so at that point I figured that I should retain my money and enjoy myself rather than letting some shyster church minister enjoy my money for me. This is not to say that others also didn’t take up this ‘kind’ offer at what was described as a ‘reasonable’ minimum of $150 a month for the basic package (this was about 2003-4 – it’s probably gone up a bit since then) so he could still be raking it in with all those who believe you when you tell them someone has written gullible in the dust on the ceiling…
snafuNah, church of malt and hops.
Old Marty sent on a different path from the church of Rome but unlike the poor old Baptists and such, he knew beer and Christians was a holy marriage.
He was also a rabid anti semite…
In his 1543 work On Jews and Their Lies, Luther ranted that the Jews were not the chosen people but were the devil’s people, and referring to them with violent, obscene language. He advocated burning their synagogues, destroying Jewish prayerbooks, outlawing rabbis from preaching, seizing Jews’ property and money, and smashing up their homes, so that they would be forced into labour or expelled for eternity. Sound familiar?
From the very first post and all the following posts it is obviously true, that come the judgement, there will be very few who will be able to plead complete ignorance of God. Which is something to be thankful for. Alleluia.
Indeed, but thank goodness it isn’t going to happen because religion is bunkum.:o)
snafuThe abstracts of most major religions have more similarities than differences, so what did you expect, a Barney the Purple Dinosaur dogma?
OOOoo!!! You got one? (Thought dinosaurs apparently happened before the earth was created and only exist to prove something or other to creationists)
I was a well respected member of an American copier forum which in the general section(much as this) got around to Religion and I said I was a non believer. The Death threats and vitriol I received from my so called friends was something else again. One member from Tennessee PM’d me and said he was still my friend but if he said to his employer or prospective employer that he did not believe he would not get the job or promotion.
Mentioned it before – had a colleague tell me she’d pray for my soul after I told her I didn’t believe and wouldn’t be going to church that Sunday; had an understanding office boss at the time but he had to be careful because he knew he would be in trouble if head office thought that he was morally unsound for not having any religious belief. Such was life in America.
Which is why this topic is frequenty raised here? 😉
(I can lend you a spare ‘L’ if you’ve run out…)
It is probably more because something happens to let the subject be raised and someone comes in with some crazy reason for why we all should accept this ancient superstition – the one with little proof other than a believer insisting that we MUST believe. It is always the way that their religion is the right one and all others are wrong – and unbelievers inevitably will end up burning in hell (other domains of eternal torment are probably available dependant on what lunacy you believe).
What do you want to talk about then.Vietnam, agent orange Lt Calley the way you treated your veterans or Hanoi Jane?
As a person living in America you choose any subject and lets see what we all say about it. This one has IMO run its course.As for your remark about America and my experience with America, As an outsider during my time I have been able to observe much on both sides of the Mason Dixon line.I fear we have imported to much rubbish from the good ole USA from trick or treat,drug culture and large portions of fast junk food. I will give you some of your music is great though from Blues to Rock and Roll.
Lets not get into any of that – we have a few things of our own that we don’t talk about: if you want to discuss that sort of thing try starting your own thread and not dragging this one off topic.
And surely teasing RpR is a fun sport, is it not?;o)
Death threats because you said you were an atheist, hmmm, if you say so…
I say so – seen it on an American film forum (long since gone) that I joined, although several months after the event I hereby mention. A thread about The Passion of the Christ with Jim Caviezel in the lead role. Someone was discussing Mel Gibson’s directing and an argument started about some point mentioned in the bible; reference was demanded for something (I forget what) that someone insisted wouldn’t have occurred at the time and someone else replied with ‘read your bible!” which brought forth the taunt ‘don’t have one, don’t need one’ and all hell broke out. And yes, someone asked for the address of the bible-less user because that person didn’t deserve to live on god green earth, apparently. The thread was locked, although I was amazed it wasn’t deleted.
#138 All I said when someone had a relative gravely ill was in the context of religion was I could not pray for them as I was a non believer but I had them in my thoughts and mind and hoped they made a speedy recovery and I hoped also they found some comfort in their prayers.
Yep, that would do it.
Ones rhetoric exposes ones intellect and yours speaks volumes.
Have a nice day.
Oh come on! He practically called you dumb and you wish him a nice day?;o) Curse him, threaten him with the wrath of your god and watch him quake!
snafuAt some point either my wife or I have neglected to tick the ‘not interested in other services’ box on some financial application, so we get phone calls from the bank/building society which goes a little something like:
Them: Is that Mr Snafu?
Me: Erm, yes?
Them: This is Smug Git at We’veGotYourCustomAndWeDon’tCareAnymore Bank. I’d just like to talk to you about life insurance/internet banking/loans and mortgages/facilities available at your local branch/etc. But before we chat I just need to ask you a few security questions…
Me: I don’t think I’m interested, thanks.
Them: Well, we need to ask you the questions to make sure we’ve got the right person. Can you tell me the pass word that you have agreed with us?
Me: Nope, haven’t a clue.
Them: You set it up with us.
Me: Maybe the wife did, but I haven’t the foggiest what it is.
Them: It isn’t too difficult, it might even be the answer to the question about your wife’s maiden name.
Me: I know that one! But what proof do I have that you are Thieving Bast’s Building Society?
Them: I introduced myself at the start of this phone call.
Me: You did, but you called me and still want me to prove who I am – and I don’t have a security question to ask you!
Suffice to say their call is most unproductive from their point of view.
snafuI’ve recently returned from a rather pleasant visit to a place whre there were no people with higher education, sporting vulgar acronyms.
Croydon?
I travelled at various times on four different public service vehicles (coaches) full with unrestrained passengers.
What happened, did you fire the chauffeur? I mean, having to travel with…riff raff, how absolutely common! And on an old coach as well…
That is, unrestrained by seatbelts not behaviour.
Thank goodness you clarified that; we could have been confused about your meaning of the word ‘unrestrained’ on a thread about seat belts.
With about 70-80 passengers in various stages of relaxation, an accident might have produced some rather interesting moments.
Interesting? I fail to see how 70-80 people in various stages of relaxation being involved in an accident could be described as ‘interesting’.
So yes, the seatbelt law is responsible, commonsensical and its adherants say that it saves numbers equivalent to the population of London – every year – except in coaches.
Did the coach have seat belts fitted or was it over 14 years old?
Coaches made or first used after 1 October 2001 are fitted with three point seat belts or retractable lap belt in all forward and rearward facing seats.
Passengers over the age of 14 years must wear a seat belt in coaches. They must be notified of the requirement to wear a seat belt (this is usually by a notice on the vehicle, an announcement or a film). Each passenger is legally responsible for wearing their seat belt.
The law does not yet require passengers under 14 years old to wear a seat belt. However, all passengers are strongly advised to wear seat belts or the correct child seat on all journeys.
http://www.childcarseats.org.uk/the-law/other-vehicles-buses-coaches-and-minibuses/
So you see the law in Britain requires that coaches first used after October 2001 must be fitted with seat belts which must be worn, unless the passenger is under 14 years old.
Did you break the law, John?
snafuJust to satisfy you — He be a low down stinky pooh-pooh ishy person!!
That is just the sort of curse that will do the job. Expect to hear no more from him after that drubbing… (Shakes head sadly)
Snafu I believe he is bringing your personal hygiene into question and also calling you some one of restricted growth:D
Not me; my personal hygiene is beyond approach. Or maybe I mean reproach? Anyway, he wasn’t talking to me but ZRX61, who, even as we sit here chuckling at the wrath of RpR’s words, is a quivering, gibbering wreck of a person (or not, probably) afraid of what he might be called next.
Go on R – can I call you R? – teach him about false idles, fatty calves and what to do when your male chicken crows!
snafuPersonally, I agreed wholeheartedly with the indoor smoking ban; even if I (or the bar staff) didn’t contract cancer through secondary smoke it used to make my clothes stink.
Remember Roy Castle?
Castle was found to have lung cancer in January 1992. He was predicted to live only another 6 months. He underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy and went into remission later that year. A non-smoker, he blamed his illness on passive smoking during his years of playing the trumpet in smoky jazz clubs. On 26 November 1993, Castle announced that his illness had returned, and once again underwent treatment in the hope of overcoming it…
…He died in Buckinghamshire on 2 September 1994, two days after his 62nd birthday.
In addition, about 11 or 12 years ago I was in a bar somewhere in Brighton that had a memorial on the wall to a previous – apparently non smoking – landlord who had died of lung cancer about 10-15 years previous. Who knows how many pub and bar staff have died over the years of lung cancer acquired or, if they were already smokers, exacerbated by working in a smokey atmosphere?
Here in America we have people trying to tell us how to eat.
Uh oh…
Yes, some people eat stupidly….
It isn’t just an American thing though.
Most famously, the mayor of New York wanted to ban large soft drinks…(but not large beers). I know we need to watch calories…but anyone who was really thirsty (say after working outside in the summer) could just buy 2 soft drinks.
Oh come on, if you are really that thirsty then your body will be dehydrated so drinking one soft drink is hardly going to be of much use, and two would be overkill in filling you up and making your body excrete even more of the electrolytes your system needs: a fizzy, sugary, cold drink is not going to replace them. Drinking alcohol would be even worse.
I can see a day when meat is banned for environment (cow gas) and animal rights issues.
Never happen. Not unless the world collectively made that decision and that is as likely as ISIS developing a guilty conscience.
If it did happen…most of the species currently being bred for consumption would die out – they wouldn’t be needed and having no other use would be deemed uneconomic to maintain.
I’m not sure the men who died fighting for our freedom from tyranny would be amused by this turn of events.
Why not get out your ouija board and ask them? In the meantime get real and join those of us who understand that tyranny is not someone telling you to wear a seatbelt, not to smoke or what you can and cannot eat and instead try sparing a thought for those actually living in the ‘luxury’ of a real life tyranny, for example North Korea (other tyrannies are available), and not those whose biggest gripe is the fact that they cannot pollute the restaurant with cigarette smoke, are being forced to wear that fashion faux pas the seat belt against their wishes, and can’t wash the dust from their mouths with a bucket of Coke before tucking into a burger – with all the trimmings – of such proportions that it would feed a family of starving Africans for a week…
Oh, such are the many perils of living in the first world?
snafuYou miss the topic’s issue by being too literal.
Guy’s of my generation used to say “Never trust anyone over 30”.
And we used to say never trust anyone who wants to be a politician. Still do, in fact.
Now they’re in power, not only are they “The MAN”…they’re passing laws and regulations they would have called fascist 40 years ago.
Even Richard Nixon (or insert the name of any reviled conservative here) on his worst day, never dreamed about limiting actions, and choices to the extent we now see.
The companies wouldn’t have liked that; look at how long it has been known that smoking was bad for you and then think about how powerful the tobacco companies are/were or whether those in government were employed by tobacco companies (as at least one UK government minister was in the last 20-30 years).
But things change: look at all the disease’s that have been wiped out or effectively tamed, the understandings of what causes things like cancer (or some, anyway) and environmental damage, how important things like the rain forests are to our continuing existence. We know things now that weren’t known in Nixon’s day (obviously) but this knowledge means that things like lead must be taken out out of fuel and low cholesterol will help you live longer, little things like that. Now, if they kept things under their hats and not informed the public that certain insecticides actually were bad for us or not tried to cut back industrial scale pollution how do you think the people would have voted when they found out?
Sometimes, the ‘man’ must be acknowledged.
Yes, being told you can’t have a Coke is a minor thing to people starving in some hellhole or under the thumb of a real bad guy.
Strangely, that was not my point.
There are better things than a Coke (or Pepsi) to slake that thirst. Something else that is a relatively recent discovery.
How much say do you want to give strangers into deciding what you can…and cannot do?
It is all relative.
Faceless strangers make those decisions about/for people they usually don’t know and will probably never meet, everyday. The local council/government, insurance companies, banks, doctors, blah, blah, etc. Unfortunately you cannot choose those whose decisions affect you.
…(since that seems to be the image you’re trying to conjure up with “…with a bucket of Coke before tucking into a burger – with all the trimmings….”)…
Nope, nothing personal. In fact, if you read it properly, I was inviting you to join…etc.
But I do care about individual rights.
This is a subject worthy of serious discussion as opposed to dismissing it with a health lecture about electrolytes and fizzy drinks.
Just looking out for your health.
And in response to your smart **** comment about a “Ouija” board, I’ll suggest you summon a time machine and go back in time to the 617 Squadron mess.
Ha. Don’t believe in it, but it apparently gives solace to some.
YOU can tell they guys they aren’t allowed to smoke inside after coming back from a mission. You should really share your knowledge and let them know…smoking might kill them! 🙂
And then again it might not. But please remember that when they flew they wore seat belts; not that they would have helped after a direst hit from flak or a dedicated nightfighter…
snafuProblem is that so few agents, let alone publishers, want to commit themselves to new writers these days: to them it is essentially gambling with a minuscule chance at getting a return, especially from an unknown author. A better bet is, as Charlie says, to go via the net so that you can – if nothing else – prove that you have the potential to carry a tale and grab the readers attention (or have room to improve with the help of a good editor). If what I’ve heard is correct then it is practically free, unlike entry level publish-it-yourself printing where you would be expected to place an order for the books yourself (I met someone who had done that in the run up to Christmas last year, she was selling her childrens book at an Xmas fayre and, although the book was nicely bound and full of colour, it was rather expensive – something like three times the cover price of a similar book).
snafuHe only states what people with common sense thinks…
Oh good grief.
If you disagreed with him wouldn’t you claim that to be common sense as well? Not a million miles away from the concept that helped Hitler to power, it was ‘common sense’ then too.
And I thought this update might have been on the back of the latest Clarkson buffoonery…
The BBC’s Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson says he will have points on his licence for the first time in 30 years after he was caught speeding.
Writing in the Sun, Clarkson said he had been caught by a fixed camera while travelling between Whitby and London.
He said: “Sadly, I was going too quickly for the speed awareness course to be an option.”
Clarkson said he had written last month in “blind fury” about the amount of speed cameras on the route.
“Well, it seems one of them got to me,” he added.
His admission comes just weeks after he and his Top Gear team caused controversy during filming in Argentina for using a number plate that appeared to refer to the Falklands war.
Clarkson has said the number plate was a coincidence and the programme’s producer has denied it was a stunt.
In 2008, Clarkson, who lives near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, was criticised for claiming he had driven at 186mph on a public road.
He moans about the number of speed cameras on a a particular from his soap box then – taa daa! – it is revealed he got caught by one of them! And as for his boast that he had driven at 186mph on a public road, just shows what sort of laddish, speed-based culture he is targeting.
snafuBased on nothing, really. So therefore, with no proof that a ‘creator’ was created other than in the minds of those seeking to control the populous through fear and bribery, it cannot have happened. QED did/does not exist.
snafuI have seen many breeders give up this year which can only be good for reducing the cat population.
That would be a good thing, but it will not help with inbreeding and casual cross breeds unless the vast majority of the feline population in Britain is sterilised. A neighbour of my parents had a fluffy female that gave birth to a bunch of kittens (probably from her own brother, who promptly disappeared) that (eventually) they got rid of; but she had another batch shortly after – then she ‘disappeared’ too! We joked that they’d dumped them in the woods, but I wouldn’t really have put it past them to have done that rather than got them snipped.
snafuThank goodness we can’t see what you are selling.
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