*Builds a room out of no where*

tadaaaa!!!

*checks watch*

yeesh.  The guys late to the opening of his own thread.  :)

Just means we'll have to help him decorate now doesn't it?

*Gets out paint and feathers*

*smiles*  It's usually "tar and feathers" when I show up places, so I'll take what I get.

And I am NOT late, Grizzly, I just had to let you two test it to see if it was safe.  ;)

Hello, everyone!   How is everything?

Of course it's perfectly safe here.

The booby traps don't activate until Sue and I leave the thread.

...I mean...

It's perfectly safe.

As long as there's boobies involved, I'm okay with it.

I only use tar and feathers on people... rooms get pink paint and hot pink feathers...

Isn't it nicely decorated ?

*Smiles impishly*

Also, I've always wondered about that saying... Has anyone ever met and seen how an imp smiles?

*grins*   Yes, I've grinned impishly many times.   I've never seen anyone who qualifies as a real Imp, but I seen enough "imp impersonators"

*Tries to drag out an imp*

How does one impersonate something one has never seen thought?

*grins*  How easy is it to impersonate something when no one can technically say you're wrong, because THEY have never seen one either?
Probably pretty easy, I think.   *chuckles*

It also depends on what current Disney Movie is currently using one.  :)

oooh, so they impersonate a disney imp

niice...

also, yes, impersonating something no one knows how should behave, should be easy

*grins*  Heck,  you could be the "original" imp, right?

It's all about being first, and doing it so often that people are convinced that they made it up.

*giggles*

But I'm too big for an imp thought...

I can be the original succubus :)

My dear, you can be as big an imp as your little heart desires.

However, an adorable succubus would suit you very well also.  :)

A CuteSue-ccubus?

well, I don't sleep, so you just proved it

I'm a sue-ccubus :)

also, funny punny

Puns are our thing around here.  *grins*


And I'm going to like the Sue-cubbus.   I'm feeling less tired already.  :)

*Jumps around lotsa*

*laughs*   *Is happily transported to "planet bouncy", and enjoys the show*

What, I have a whole planet of my own?

Niiice

*Jumps and giggles*

Sweetheard, you can have whatever you want, just keep doing that.

*sighs happily*

Sweetheard?

well, I suppose one can call me that, I have no heart :)

*Jumps more*

*Gets out pink tutu so she can really do the flowing dress-jumps*

*grins*  I really need to spell check when I flirt.

*sits down to watch the show*

Well, I can be a right bitch too of course, and really use not spellchecking against one, but I'm not in that mindset today

cookie?

Yay!! Cookie!   *nom...nom...nom...*

I, on the other hand, am the epitome of sweetness and light, painfully adorable and cuddly.  :)

painfully adorable?

You can't get ladies, they just go 'aaaawww' and pat you on the head?

I'm just painfully weird and awesome.. :)

*laughs*  That's closer to the truth than I'd like to admit.

And "weird and awesome" is a fine combonation, and almost redundant.

Painfully weird and awesome?  Epitome of Sweetness and light?

Am I the only normal one here?

Of course normal is relative...

Yes, Grizzly, you're the poster child of normalcy and conformity.   :)

Why thank you for noticing.

Wait.  Are you being sarcastic?

No, I never do sarcasm.  I'm not nearly smart enough.

hmm, maybe you do black humour?

I love sarcasm, it's the best, not in writing thought... No one knows sarcasm in writing, they think I compliment them

Why, thank you.  I really appr.....

Wait, was that sarcasm?

darn...     Okay, I'm really going to bed now.   Have fun, guys.

have a cookie

and don't think too much about it *Grins*

"Not thinking about things" is my specialty!    *eats cookie*

And just because I'm telling everyone:

When you go see The Avengers (and you should, if you haven't), make sure you stay until after ALL the credits.   Until the very end.

I need to go and see Avengers again.  It was such a fun movie.

I've seen it three times.  I might go for a fourth.

haven't seen it yet...

I'm waiting for the dvd, as I hate people texting while watching the movie.. it ruins it when there is suddenly lights blinking beside you...

annoying

I HATE people using their phones in the movie!!!  HAAAAAATE IT!!!!

I carry a little flash light, actually, to flash people who light up their phones.

But if you wait a little while, the crowds might diminish so that there are less people there as well.   I haven't had too many texters so far, though.

maybe, but I think it's stopped showing...

my country rarely has it in cinemas for more than a few weeks...

It's still going well here in America.   I know it started in Europe earlier, though.

I'm sorry if it's vanished.

ah you see...

I live in a small town, they can't afford having it run for too long

if it runs longer than one week, then it's bigger than titanic...

it might be running in the capital still, but one needs to have time to go check to know

Ah, understood.   I'm in a reasonably good sized college town, with two movie theaters.  I'm very spoiled.
It's probably on the internet somewhere, though.  And will be on DVD eventually.

I went and saw two movies on the weekend.  Avengers for the second time (great!) and Battleship (meh)

Both times I had people talking in the row behind me.  I would have asked them to be quiet but I was too busy laughing at their comments.  Not in a good way but the fact that they seemed to hit every single ethnic stereotype that I could think of.

As in the each of them was their own racial cliche?   Bizzare.

I'm sorry Battleship was disappointing, but I can't say I'm surprised.  Even Liam can't save "Battleship: The Movie".

I'm debating seeing Avengers a fourth time.   Yes, it's sad to be me.

What kinds of things did they say?

There were all sorts of comments.  Stuff like,

"where's your hammer, N-word?"

"Gone and made him mad, dawg."

"Shorty be kicking some ass."

It's kind of hard to retell what they were saying, since I don't think that I can fully repeat the slang without getting into trouble.  There were a lot of N-words.

I've never seen a movie in a real "ghetto theater" where all the black people supposedly yelled at the screen (though many black friends and co-workers assure me it happens regularly), so I can see it being annoying, unless you keep your sense of humor about it.

N-word? As in the color of someone's skin in a bad way, N-word? I wouldn't hear anything like that in my country you see, so that's why I ask

We all silently racist over here... And only thing bothering at the movies would be me... or mobiles

Yes, I have to be witty about anything in a movie, with or without audience, yes, I do it.. when I'm alone too.. sad I know

If it's REALLY funny, I'll share it, but usually I try to keep to myself, or whisper it to a friend.
I saw Avengers for a second time today, with two friends, one who was seeing it for the first time, and one seeing it for the second time, and the one who'd seen it before kept saying all the lines with the characters and doing other spoilers until I told her to knock it off.

Still, phones are the worst, though.  Haven't had problems in a while, though, luckily.

Check out Rifftrax.com, though, for "funny things said during a movie".

oh

Yeah, I haven't had that problem

as I don't go to cinemas

Unless you like going to bars and sporting events, there's not much else to do, usually, in this town besides go to the movies.  So we go quite a bit.

It's fun, though anything involving other people can be annoying sometimes.

It wasn't a Ghetto theatre, per se, but it does attract a diverse population.  I've been to it many times, since it's the nearest theatre to me that has an IMAX, but this last time must have been a one off experience.

I went to see Avengers again, with a couple of frends, one of whom had also seen it beforem and I had to shush her as she spouted a few lines from it as well.    Very annoying.

"...and hulk...

...Shush."

isn't it, hulk smash?

*grins*    not while watching the movie.     During the film, Hulk needs to pipe down and eat his popcorn like the rest of us.

After the movie, when the Hulk can't find his Prius, THEN he can smash.

hulk has a prius?

How interesting

Well, of course.    He's very Green.

oh...

I see what you did thar

*grins in a very cheesy way*

*sticks a cheese in mouth*

Mmmmmm   Cheesy!!

"Behold!  The power of cheese!"

*gets out camera*

say cheese

Churzzzz!!   *mouth full of cheese*

*Snaps picture*

hah, you so cuteh

*smiles*  Yes, it's a curse.

*flutters eyelashes*

*snaps more pictures*

*starts doing model poses, strutting down a catwalk*

where did you get that catwalk from?

Honey, I ALWAYS have a catwalk handy.

*summons papparazzi, then has a 'wardrobe malfunction'*

*gets out the chair and popcorn*

interesting

Yes.  Yes I am.    *grins*


I mean, not terribly interesting, but at least vaguely so.

*gets out microscope*

I can get all the dirty details with this?

Probably more than you want.   *chuckles*    And you'd probably get bored quickly.

I wouldn't be so sure I were you...

I have patience

I don't know whether to be excited or nervous.

What would you like to know?

the dirt, what else would I want to know..?

more dirt

*laughs*   I'm actually very squeaky clean, though I get a little kinky here on rpol.

I'm a lot more adventurous here, as one might imagine.

oh, well of course ones mind is more adventurous then the real body..

one rarely gets sued online if one is a lil... less nice

I'm kinky as hell online, but yeah, real life, hasn't exactly seen any action for a while...

My own real life is pretty vanilla, but on here I've played male, female, gay, straight, transgender, transvestite, and all kinds of variations.

My real life has had some of that in the past, but it's calmed down now.

Psssh, I've played robotic android characters, cyborg characters, draconic characters, magical characters, undead characters, manwhores, prostitutes, attempted-but-failed rapists, murderers, cannibals, virgins, perverts, males, females, hermaphrodites, pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, lunatics, chaste monks, polysexual shapeshifters, werewolves, sentient plants and even a genderless sentient immortal made of solid light.

I get ADVENTUROUS. :P

But in real life I am a mere human (homo sapien) with no supernatural abilities (other than my gorgeous smile and keen wit), no grand epic adventures and no kinky activity that was not discussed and agreed upon within a committed monogamous relationship in a safe environment with the safety words "No," "Ouch" and "What the hell are you doing? Sweetie, I don't like that. Can't we just do what we normally do? You're good at that."

Other than actually being a monk, nun, or ice-cream, I can't see how it'd get more vanilla than that. :P
This message was last edited by the player at 06:36, Mon 11 June 2012.

In reply to Arkrim (msg #82):

Yeah, great.  You win.  Congratulations.

I win? Dang, I out-vanilla-ed people. That's sad. :(

okay okay, I play gay sadists online.. male gay sadists... I'm not male...

so yeah, I'm a lil calmer in real life, as well, I don't mix sex and pain

And I don't mix fantasy and reality unless it's a fictional mix and thus all fantasy anyway. :P

ah yesh, fantasy is better as literature

Many fantasies are better left as fantasies, that's true.

Indeed. Otherwise, you might wind up like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdHWD2ozahI

kick ass... as in the movie?

well yeah, he trained his daughter to kill, so he shoulda left it as a fantasy

His daughter was pretty cool, though.  In a psychotic kind of way.

I loved the last thing she does in that movie thought

But I hate bullies so much, they deserve pain

Yes, even though she's got the makings of a bully herself, you kind of want one of her in every school, to kick every bully's ass.

well, that'd be nice, but then, one would hide behind her...

And never get any muscles of ones own...

Standing up to bullies is great, but can make for a traumatizing school experience.
When I was in school, someone to kick the crap out of them for me would have been better, though I see your point about standing up for one's self.
Sometimes, though, it's not feasible.

well...

I did be the one kicking the ass, protecting my big sister...

and to this day, she is a whiny 'kid'.. shoulda never protected her

so, yes, it's good to have a protector, but sometimes, one don't need to be protected all the time, or one turns into an ungrateful brat...

is all I'm saying

also, I mostly lost...

It's a tough choice.   The best way to stop a bully is for the victim to personally stand up for themselves, but that's not always possible.
Sadly, the best solution varies from case to case, depending on how cruel and psychotic the bully is, and how strong the victim can be.

If the bully has six of their friends to help them, then it's not as good a plan to fight back personally.   If it's just a bit of verbal harrassment, then teaching them to "give as good as they get" is the best thing.   It varies, sadly.

well, females always verbally abuse...

men kick ones ass, so yes, I knew to pick my fights

I'm a witty evil bastard nowadays thought, sadly still suck in fights

I was always a little bigger than most people in school, so I wasn't bullied much physically.   But I was a bit socially inept, so I was tortured pretty well psychologically.   That hurt just about as bad.

I wish I'd been able to be an evil bastard, and wish I could pull it off now.   It's just not me, sadly.

Well, I let a couple of ten year olds kick my ass verbally...

As I can't fight on their level without.. Mentally scarring them for life, so I didn't, I just drove away

On my tiny green moped...

I have to smack talk a lot at my job, and I'm better now than I used to be, but not much.

I know it is an obvious question, but what kinda job do you have where your required to smack talk?

I work in a prison in Texas.   When talking to immates, they mouth off sometimes.  And the respect you more when you can "give as good as you get".
This message was last edited by the player at 09:01, Wed 11 July 2012.

they have prisons in texas?

I thought they liked their death-penalty...

Or isn't it texas that has the death-penalty, active?

In Texas, the death penalty is VERY active.   They just had another one.  But they're very expensive and take a long time to get to, so there are plenty of live prisoners.

About a million of them, I think.

Ironically, I'm against the death penalty, because people like our idiot Governor Rick Perry are involved in it.

well, I like it as an abstract idea, as in there has to be something terrible to threaten with, not used, but to keep people in check.

But I'm a weirdo, I actually think people are logical beings

*grins*  I understand what you mean.
 That's the problem, though.  If you don't use it, it's not a good threat.

Also, it's unfortunately not a very good deterrant either.
It doesn't happen often enough to make a real impact on anyone.
Plus, let's be honest, no one who murders anyone really thinks they're get caught anyway, so no one who's a murderer really takes the death penalty into their considerations when they plan out their day.

(not to mention that most of them don't really 'play' anything)

It's amazing how often politicians are idiots.

I guess I'm for the death penalty, but barely.  It's not like I'm the sort to start frothing at the mouth about killing a criminal.  I'm with CuteSue in that I believe that people are logical.  It's just that sometimes that logic is so bent and flawed that rehabilitation is just not an option.  Sure a sentence of life imprisonment sounds bad but a career criminal is going to be a burden on the rest of society.

Then again, how many horror movies start out with the villain being executed only to come back more terrifying than before.

I think I've changed my mind.  :)

The sad truth is, the cost of an average execution, after appeals and lawyer fees, is fairly close to life imprisonment.
And enough executed people were proven innocent later that it seems a waste of time.

Hmm, would an crippling of a prisoner, as in they'd be stuck in their own body unable to move, too cruel? Solve some of the costs....

Okay, My mind needs sleep, full-body cripple would cost more money... They need nurses and such

*smiles*    I've had similar discussions with people down here, and crippling is the same thing as killing them ,as far as the chance of getting the wrong guy.

Plus, and I mean no offense when I say this, a society that would do that is a bit too evil for me.
I'd rather be the good guys, as annoying as that is sometimes.

I'm a good guy..

It's just, I'm too nice, so people has taken advantage of it, so it's made me less nice..

But I still wanna help and be there, but I've started cutting out people that are manipulative... I can't take it, grrrrr

*smiles*  Yes, that's the price we pay for being social animals.

Either we stay lonely and self-sufficient, or we let people into our lives, which makes our lives more entertaining and fulfilling, but take the chance of one of those people hurting us.

Still, suffering through a bad person in our lives is better than not having anyone else in it.

SO I love scars, now I have scars on my heart and soul.. If I had one...

anyway, I love that it shows that I've lived and tried, sadly, I have no nerves for manipulative people anymore, and I've limited the chances I give 'new' people....

They have to show me they're worth it, and they only have 11 chances, and they're out

I've gotten a bit more cynical as well.  I love meeting new people, but I usually don't take them too seriously, only trusting them after a "trial period", though I don't tell them about it.
I kind of expect to be let down, and am pleasantly surprised when I'm not.


It's like the old saying:

"If you loan twenty dollars to a friend, and they never pay you back, it's actually a good thing, since you paid a cheap price to find out what kind of friend they are."

Hmm, that's a smart saying, except...

I payed a few of my ex-boyfriends bills.. which ended up being a lot of money lost before I wisened up..

oh well, I will never pay anyone else's bills to save them from their own debts, screw them, if they can't keep after their own money...

*grins*   Well, to be honest, that experience just proves the saying correct.
If you'll forgive me for saying so, you should have stopped at paying one bill, since that would have told you all you needed to know about the guy, once he failed to pay you back.

I tended to be too trusting with friends.  It's burned me in the past and, as terrible as it sounds, it's made me more cautious when money and friends mix.

I'm usually okay with loaning out money to friends.   Though I usually just consider it an unspoken "gift" and assume I'll never see it again.

Oh yeah?

*holds out paw and wiggles fingers, pretending to cough all the while*

*hands out 100 Rpolbucks, good for gaming favors on Rpol.*

Enjoy!

I didn't pay them over time, I payed them all at ones... I'm not that big of an idiot.. But yes, big enough to think he was trustworthy

but oh well, he wasn't, and now he never gets to see me ever again :)

*Sneaks up to Nuric and Purrs*

I can lay here purring right?

*Kitteh eyes*

*smiles*   Then he made a very bad deal and you made a very good decision.

And you may get cozy for as long as you like.
*cuddles*


I'm off on a trip, though, and might not post often for the next week or so.   I'll be at The Pennsic Wars in Pennsylvania, and while I might have occasional access, it won't be often.

Have fun, my dear.

*patiently waits for Nuric to leave before unleashing the doggies of chaos*

*Stares the doggies of chaos into submission*

Thanks for the excellent body-guards

I refuse to clean up chaotic dog poop.

well...

chaotic puppies shit on walls do they not?

Walls....ceilings....floors....in the crawlspaces between walls and floors.....in the transdimensional spaces between the walls....in the spaces in time, so their poop can show up in the random future....

It's very icky.

It was either the doggies of chaos or the parakeets of entropy.

And the parakeets were too scary.

I had The Hampster of Ennui for a while, but that thing is really boring.

I had the Goldfish of Apathy for a while but it was like...meh...

I have the cat of chtulhu

It's.. interesting

*grins*   I think Chtulu is scared of cats.    I don't blame him.

but...

chaos?

*smiles*   I think cats are chaotic because we don't understand them.   I'm sure it all makes perfect sense to them.

Give them some catnip...

and nothing makes sense anymore

We've had a few "junkie cats".   It's very funny.

Depends on how much of a withdrawal they get really

Mine goes nuts on catnip and then they go nuts for catnip

Yes, withdrawal is usually pretty light, or even non existant.   Thankfully.

It's a good high.   :)

You wouldn't happen to have any Bearnip on you, would you?

Purely for research purposes of course...

My body is 100% Bearnip.

*Walks in with a chair and a bucket of popcorn*

heh

*smiles* Don't worry, Sue, there's plenty for everyone, even spectators.

*Starts to gnaw on Nurics arm*

Could use a little butter.

Oh, sorry.  That's my "Healthy Choice" arm.  The other one is glazed in butter and seasoned with salt and garlic.

oooh, you are a little of everything, aren't you?

Yep.   My legs are Gluten free, and my head is totally Vegan.

Yep.   My legs are Gluten free, and my head is totally Vegan.

So...you're head is a vegetable?

I'm really trying hard not to make any comments.  :)

*grins*   comments were deliberately invited, rest assured.

It's either a vegetable or tofu.  Either is fine.    :)

tofurkey?

or then a mushroom

Yes, with some tofurky jerky for later.   Delish!

and a coconut salad to go

I don't like coconut salad.  That shell is too crunchy.

nah, you mixed up the salad and the shellfishy salad

Yes, I get coconuts and hermit crabs confused.

It makes it hard to get milk out of them.

well... they being hard and all in general...

Yes, it gets to be lots of work.   But I builds up an appetite.  :)

*sighs*

so work has been a right out bitch lately

anyone missed me?

Immensely.   Life has seemed merely to be a long, slow, meandering march to the grave, without your shining presence to life out spirits.

:)

Absolutely!

*Hugs Sue*

I knew something good had happened.  The flowers were smelling especially nice lately, the sun shining ever so brightly.

_{Actually it's been raining the past few days but that's hardly a cheery metaphor...}

*dances in the rain*

well, I'm such a bad sue, I don't come here daily anymore...


aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I hate growing up and having to watch work take my free-time away

I agreee with that sentiment, though you have to admit that without work, goofing off time wouldn't be nearly as fun.

^Yeah but it can get so bad that you can't even stop thinking about work during goofing off time.

Then you need different work.  :)

well you see, we movedmy place of workfrom one location to the other...

which is fairly easy

it's the smaller stuffs that is driving us insane, like the stickers on the windows to tell people what store we are (We haven't got them yet, we moved 3 weeks ago) the telling the postal house-thingy that we moved (Apparently it costs money to tell them the new address) The rentarugs, no one told them we moved... No one told the head quarters we moved, so they had to call and ask why the stuff they sent was returned (They pay the bloody rent and electricity and bills... Why the fruit do they not know that we moved?) The chains' webpage still has the old address listed and old opening hours... and we can't get them to change it

so yes.. small details driving meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*takes deep breath*

can I kill someone now?

Yes, you have my permission to kill someone.

preferably a stranger.

*Looks up from a pile that looks suspiciously like body-parts*

so... I took more than one, before it felt better

is this bad?

As long as, collectively, they weren't as valuable to the world as one cool person, it only counts as one.

I see noofink.

*Acts all innocent and oblivious*

*sees through the act*

I was gonna ask, what act, but then I realized

anyway, I made cookies, anyone want one?

*Serves platter with suspicious looking cookies*

Mmmmm.....Suspicious Cookies are my favorite flavor!!

Speaking of cookies, have you seen this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8

Very funny!    Slightly creepy, but funny.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:25, Wed 14 Nov 2012.

it's been so overdone, the remixing and re-wording of that song thought...

*Gives more cookies to everyone*

Cookie Monster was always my favorite Muppet on Sesame Street.    It's good to see that he's still pushing himself as an artist.


*takes cookie, crams it in mouth, spilling most of it*

Never watches sesame street

Didn't even know they existed until my 4th year online

I grew up with it (I was a kid back before all the cable channels).
It's a very different show now, in some ways, I understand, but still probably very cool (especially for kids).

I grew up in a poor family, we didn't have shit...

I got stuff as soon as I got work, but I don't own a tv, as it's useless

Television is something that's very easy to live without, I'll agree.
I've enjoyed it very much, though.   There are some wonderful programs out there.

It is easy to go without TV when you have the internet. :p That way you wanna watch an interesting show, wait five hours and you can see it somewhere.

In reply to Wildcard (msg # 182):

*chuckles*  You can't really call it 'going without TV' if you're still watching it on the internet, though.
But I see what you mean.

Well literally you can. :p The TV is the little box.

True enough.  I suppose I was talking figuratively.

well, I wait a year or so, then buy the dvd-sets...

And watch them on computer, is that living with or without a tv?

As the great comedian Wyatt Cenac said:

"If you have a computer. and watch tv shows on it, you're not allowed to say you don't have a tv.  A computer can do everything a tv can these days, and you can literally watch a tv show while using the bathroom and playing scrabble at the same time.
The only way to do that with a regular TV is to drag a trashcan into the living room.  And the guy I'm playing Scabble against gets REALLY mad."

o,0

eeeeeewwwww

You ruined my imagination now

Yay!!!   My work here is done.   :)

haaaave a cookie

*hands suspicious cookie to Nuric*

Mmmmmm....Suspicious food!  My favorite!

Oh, then you'd love my cooking

I only make suspicious food :)

People are usually suspicious of my skill, but never my food.   I'll happily have some.  :)

*puts something on a plate and hands over*

might be stew, might be somehting else

"That which doesn't kill me.....will probably be avoided in the future."   :)

that depends fully on if it's tasty or not...

All I make look awful, but tastes awesome :)

I've had many foods like that.  Casseroles and the like.   I muck about noodles and make some tasty things that look like I'm cleaning out the bottom of my refrigerator.  :)

I spent a week in Mexico City recently and the food there was amazing.  Simplistic in many ways but the way that they combine things into tasty meals had me anxious to return home and try some of it myself.

And Lime...

Lime is a fine addition to any meal.   :)

bebooo di beboo pop bebooo pop bedo pop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKRfFEa9PGE

ah, val kilmer used to look handsome...

Yes, it saddens me, too.   Granted, I'm not in tip top shape either, but it's too bad that he let himself go like that.

I still want to see him work, though.

I'd wanna see him work-out...

get in the same shape he used to be, I don't want him to die, he is a good actor

Yes, his movies have been some of my favorites.   but I understand not wanting to work out.  It's a lot of work (by definition)

I'll do see a movie with him in it, though.

ah, I always stalk the actor Mark Dacascos, and now when he's in Hawaii five-0

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

Ah, I see.  Yes, he's very pretty, I'll grant you.   I've never been much for police shows, but I've been tempted to watch Hawaii Five O because Masi Oka and Grace Park are on it.   I might try to get around to it, though.

pretty...?

I don't follow him because he's pretty

I follow him because he kicks ass

*grins*  I get that impression, too.  I've never seen him, though, so I was just going by the internet picture.

you should check out 'crying freeman' or 'only the strong'

Oh my lordie he kicks ass :)

*grins*  Sounds good.

Well

I only watch good

*grins*  I don't watch as much TV as I used to.  Mostly because of Rpol.  I kind of miss it, I'll admit.   :)

Well

I don't own a tv, I watch all shows on computer, so I can watch while I rpol :)

*grins*  Well, owning a computer is pretty much the same as owning a TV, as the comedy routine goes.

I have trouble multitasking, though.

well, multi-tasking is a thing one knows how to do, or doesn't

so, be happy that you're one of those few people that can concentrate

*puts hand to ear*   Huh??  Sorry, there was something shiny over near me, and I couldn't hear you.

*smiles*

*turns into shiny beacon*

*smiles*

Ah, you are truly a beacon of hope and inspiration for us.

*shines even brighter*

everyone needs a beacon of hope and... who am I kidding

*Blinds everyone*

*Smiles*

AAAAHHH!!!!   IT BURNS!!!   But gives me a good tan for once.

are you sure crispy is a good tan?

The best Tan probably before your skin starts to hurt.

it's even better after when one is so red one looks like a lobster

even better when it's a few days, like when one slaps or scratches said skin

Yes, I burn in the sun so easily that I get a sunburn while watching the sun on television.  :)

I'm much more of a night person.

I burn easily too, but yeah. I need more 5 minutes in the actual sun...

can't be burned by tv...

have no tv

In reply to CuteSue (msg # 226):

Having a computer is pretty much the same thing.  ;)

But I'm so pale I blind people be showing my legs.

so you have the perfect distraction with you at all times

neaaaaaaaaaat

Yes.   If I get into trouble, I can flash my legs.  While they scream "Ah!!!  It Burns!!!", I can run away.

*pulls out sun-glasses*

I need a body shield.

*hands an innocent by-stander*

there you go

*puts them overhead like an umbrella*

Thanks.  *grins*

so now you can't burn anymore, yay

for the umbrella stick, what did you use? a spear?

A classy looking mahogany pole.

ooooh

classy

I god class coming out the wazoo, toots.   :)

okay, you be the olympus type?

Maybe Bacchas.

*hands some wine*

Whoo Hoo!!!! Party!!!!

*hands an owl*

hoo?

HOO? YOU!   :)

Dr

is that you?

Whoooooooo else?   :)

no idea..

Sherlock Holmes?

Nope.  Sherlock isn't Holmes at the moment.  He's at the Elementary School, Watson.

Nooo!!!

Must stop Nuric from making puns!

*Leaps in front of puns, sacrificing self for world peace*

okay, David it is

*hums happily*

Mind your peace and queues, Grizzly!    *wags finger*

By the way....

  I'm leaving, probably in a week, for the Pennsic War, an SCA event in Pennsylvania.  I'm not positive when I'll be leaving, but it'll be sometime in the last week and a half of July (not very helpful, I know).
  I won't be back until at least a week into August.

 The Official dates of the even are from July 19th, until August 3rd.  I might not be there for the entire time, but I'm going to try to be there for most of it.

  I've been threatened, on pain of random smacks about the head, not to be on my computer for that time.
  I probably still will, because I'm a rpol junkie, but it will be much reduced.

  I'm not leaving permanently, unless I get hit by a bus or something, so I'll be back no later than the middle of August.

I was gone for several months and hadn't given any reason

So I'm just gonna say, see you when you return, no matter when that is

have fuuuun!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll do best.  No promises.   :)

yay

Have some travel lunch

*Hands box of cookies*

So what are we going to do to Nurics room while he's gone?

He has left right?

I should set some traps.   :)

as soon as he has left, we will set traps!!!!

I see traps on traps, will be nifty yes?

also, why not re-paint the room?

*smiles*   Just have fun.  That's all I ask.

hehehehehe

*haves all the funs she can handle*

Wow!  That is a LOT of fun!!

do realize, that it is way more than any other human can even survive :)

*Puts sprinkles on everything*

Want some glitter too?

What's the fun if you don't over do it?  :)

hmm, over doing it might cause a rift in the matrix

oooh, that's be really fuuuun!!!!!!

It would make the robots give up, that's for sure.

ooooh

*Parties so much robots explodes*

*Parties some more*

In reply to CuteSue (msg # 265):

*parties until Keanu Reeves is a good actor*

we will party for forever...

then..

*grins*   exactly.

*gets out energy-drink*

weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I was listening to a morning radio show, and they were talking about people who like drinking energy drinks.
One friends drank seven bottles of 5 Hour Energy Drinks each day.
Which means he got 35 hours of energy for his 24 hour day.

over here, it's forbidden to drink more than two bottles a day, cause doctors

no one that sell them care, cause money

except one store, but they only care that the person buying have to be over 16

and also, lotsa kids that drink too much, has had a heart-attack

Yes, people forget that caffeine is a drug and can be abused.

I know someone who teaches university and tells the young people that most of them are probably addicted to caffeine.   Most deny it, until she points out, correctly, their symptoms and problems quitting.

I'm addicted to coca-cola

is this a border-line drug? should I worry to get addicted to harder drugs? like sprinkles?

I'm that way with Mountain Dew.  Though I've been drinking it since I was 6.
Still, I drink at least a liter a day.

And if you put sprinkles in your Coca Cola, you're REALLY got a problem.   *grins*

indeed, the sprinkles will lose their color and be all white.

I have made my coke addiction to a liter a week. cause I counted how much money it costs a year to drink 2 liters a day. and the numbers was frighteningly high

It's one of the cheaper addictions, not counting Rpol (smiles) but, you're right.
I can easily spend 20 dollars a week on my soda, depending if I buy in bulk or not.

I haz been lotsa broke lately, so no money on coke.. and 20 dollars? that cheap?

if I buy coke, it's up to 50 euroes a week, as one half liter of coke is 2 euro, and 1,5 liters is like 3,50 euro, fully depending on which store I buy it from, some add a 5 cent to the price, just because they hate me, I think

anyway, Coca-cola is expensive

Up in the northeastern United States, they add 5 cents to the price of most bottled drinks, and you get the 5 cents back when you recycle it.   Texas, famous for its "screw you" attitude to the environment, doesn't do that.

An individual 1/2 liter bottle of soda can be as much as $1.75, depending on where you get it (like convenience stores and vending machines, but a six pack can be only twice that, in grocery stores, and many 2 liter bottles can be on sale for $1.50 in places.

Still, it adds up.

you don't have recycling built in?

over here it's 20cent on half liter bottles and 40cents on 1,5 liter bottles, and it's just how it is, I don't even, my brain can't think in prices without the pawn

*grins*   Yes, we Americans are a lazy bunch.   Many want to recycle, but there are plenty who don't care and feel like it's a huge inconvenience.
Plus there's some controversy about recycling pick up services that just dump everything into the same land fills as trash pick up services.


And here in Texas they get especially whiny about having to separate bottles and such.  Many actually, I kid you not, think of it as the first step to having us all live on 'hippy communes'.

Ah, soda/pop addiction.  That's a vice of mine as well.  It doesn't help that my office has a fridge stuffed with the stuff and it's too far to walk with a mug of hot water for tea.

I'm all for recycling but the 5 cents a bottle is not enough for me to carry my empties to the grocery.  I recycle them in my building.

It was great when we were kids.  Our parents would give us all the bottles to turn in for candy money.  :)

We have a bag for recycling, which we put out every Tuesday, hoping that it goes to the right place.

over here, if one mixes the bottles in with 'normal' trash, one is fined

and the bottles are melted down, to be re-shaped into new soda-bottles and reused

We used to have soda-bottles that were reused after being washed, but now they rather re.make from melted, because melted goop is smaller than full bottles

We are getting closer to that, but many people are too lazy to make the transition, siting "freedom" as the reason they shouldn't be forced to recycle.

(those idiots are rare, but they exist)

freedom.. to kill the planet, so no one can live on it?

you silly 'muricans... Good thing that there is Americans to make the country less 'murican...

Yes, Texas 'mericans are very proud to be stupid and ignorant.   Many actually brag about not being 'ivory tower over educated folks with too much book learning'.

They have totally rationalized about Recycling, Global Warming, and nearly every environmental action.

But there are plenty who feel otherwise, you're right.   :)

You see, I want people to be smart, sadly the most seen people, are always the ones that make the worst mistakes or idiotic quotes

because there is nothing funnier than laugh at an idiot, so the most idiotic always stay famous

anyway, normal non-famous people are usually smart

Yes, the average person is usually pretty reasonable, but it's the loud, obnoxious fanatics who make sure to scream into cameras and in the midst of crowds.

I have this delusion that if I just lay out my argument logically, people will see what I'm talking about, but many people just don't want to.

Logic isn't strong in this day and age

Common sense, isn't so common anymore

Which is sad

Yes, too many people feel like they're letting someone else 'win' if the agree with them, so they don't.

so sad

should we try to make common sense more common then

*chuckles*  Yes, people seem to think that they're better off being 'uncommon'.

Well, maybe we should start calling it logical sense then

logically, if you stick fingers in an outlet, you'll die, so no sticking fingers in outlets.

but would that work?

There are people who would be literally offended if you told them not to put their fingers in outlets.
They wouldn't want to do it, granted, but they'd be annoyed by being told not to do it, because they'd resent being ordered around.   :)

okay, is children in this category too?

I don't wanna insult any toddlers... They so loud when angry

*smiles*  Yes, you keep them from going it.  Not like the old days, when you'd let them and then laugh at them.  "Well, you learned a lesson, didn't you?"

oh yeah, cause everything done in the olden days, is considered child-abuse nowadays

and it's hilarious

laughing at a tantrum throwing child isn't abuse, laughing at a child that fell on their bum is

But explaining this to today's youngsters is, not happening

Yes, but it's because so few of the younger parents really know how to be tough with kids without being mean.  So many seem too angry at life that they take it out on the kids.

And this is why one should live life before getting kids so no one gets bitter with kids cause they stop one from living life

so getting kids in late teenage or early 20s is madness, early 30 or better yet late 30 is better, unless one is a douchebag that never grows up, then don't ever get kids

anyway, I have ideas about kids, and I plan to get mine in mid 30s, or then adopt those that feel unloved by too young parents, foster others kids

ah, I am insane and plan for a future I don't know if I'll get, who would love me? Or even stand me enough to want to add a screaming baby to the mix?

and also, watching Hannibal - tv-series is making me want to learn how to cook professionally, weirdly enough

Yes, say what you want about Hannibal, but the man could cook.  :)



I don't have kids, and don't want any.  I will never have children.  I don't have the patience for them.
I figure that with 7 billion people on the planet, there's no need for more from me.


I agree 100% about waiting to have kids until one is settled, though.
So many teens and young twenties people have kids, and then pine for their partying days.  It's a terrible burden.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:19, Thu 15 Aug 2013.

kids aren't supposed to be a burden

and partying is for people without a brain, so I suppose the brainless part means they forget protection...

I enjoy music and dancing, partying the way people party nowadays... So I call it enjoy music instead, the boozing can be left to people with too much money

Yes, people need to have kids for the right reasons, and many don't.

And kids are, by definition, a burden, but that's a good thing.  It's so only people who are fully prepared to shoulder that burden should be doing it.  :)
A recent study showed that the cost of raising a child in America, from birth to age 18, was about 240,000 dollars.

oh

they didn't calculate the colleges in, cause they seem to be brutal

over here, all schools are free, so, to me, it's an odd thing to pay for, and I have no idea what it costs to raise a child over here, all I know, that as a parent, the state pays you child-support, and the more kids you have, the more money you get, and still parents only get like one kid

cause it's exhausting to raise a child, if one doesn't raise the kid properly, it's public shaming

anyway, kids need to be a loving burden, a loved and wanted burden

Yes, our system needs work.  Many people have more kids to have more money from the state.
And people tend to look the other way when kids act up, and parents of kids confronted usually get indignant.

hah, hide their bad parenthood behind indignation

I once made a mistake, I threatened a misbehaving child with santa not giving them any gifts that year, the funny thing is, the mum liked that I taught her child to behave

cause apparently as a sales-person, I need to be my customers mom too, to teach them things and help their kids

If I did that here in America, the odds are that the parent would want me fired, even if they knew I was right.

Many bad parents will not try to talk to their kids, but they'll scream at strangers who complain.  I'm assuming that they're getting out their frustrations at their obvious failure.

here we have notices in papers from single mums having been stared at annoyed telling people to stop staring and maybe try and help, the children are hard to handle

so, interesting, if I ever go to USA to work, I will need to turn into a silent drone, and never care...

no no, not good

you need to learn to think of children as children, a clean slate to help teach how the world works, ergo "it takes a village to raise a child"

and this not raising them at all, need to stop, also, teaching children that bad behaviour is bad, and mommy won't protect them, she should scold the child for making someone else do her job, child should show the world what a good mother she is

It's still that way  some areas, but a lot of younger parents are less caring.

Many parents over work themselves and are too tired to be proper parents.

ah, I know, earn money to make family happy with things, why?

Families only want one thing, and that is to be loved, and being given things, isn't love, it's just things.

I keep reminding friends, to be with their children now, and not suddenly wake up one day and realize you have a teenager in your house you hardly know

well, all teenagers change, but you still know and recognize some part of them if you know them from the start, but working and never having time for kids, will make you a stranger in your own home, and so many are this day and age

all they do is work, then come home to stare at computer or TV for the remainder of the day before sleep... it's sad

Yes, because working hard and earning money is deemed easier than spending quality time.

nah, it's more like, I earn money, it shows family I love them...

they forget that people want things, but what they need is love and quality time

Yes, earning is seen as love, instead of spending time.

And, earning is often easier for most people than quality time, especially in this fast paced world.

ah, who wants to sit down with family and talk, there is tv in the house

or game-night, why? the console only have 2 controllers?

Like Homer Simpson said: "Having children is Easy!  And they practically raise themselves,  what with the internet and all."

ah, having children in easy yes, being a parent to said kids is a totally different thing

also, internet, will make up for a straaaaange generation of kids

like in Japan, they have stopped having sex, which means no kids, as they think the sex will be like in pornos and when first time isn't, they think there is something wrong and never try it again

With all due respect, my dear, I strongly suspect that the kids of Japan will NEVER try it again.  We have a watered down version, where many kids think sex is like porn, but they eventually get the urge again and give it another go.

I'm hoping that it will only keep the stupid kids from having more sex until they're a bit older and have more of a clue.  :)


But, yes, too many kids think that a baby is either like a wonderful pet or a best friend, or just don't think about anything past showing it off to friends, and forget that they have to take care of it for two decades.

and then there is those that can't get it up unless they watch a porn at the same time

or then those that do it once sloppily and end up with a baby... never heard of contraceptive?

in my country, we get condoms for free in school, from age 13 and up
and it's always funny as hell, when the boys go all bug eyed when they actually give girls condoms too.

It is boths responsibility to have protection handy

Yes, our religious crazies foam at the mouth when we suggest giving condoms to kids, with most of them insisting that 'If you don't tell them about sex, they won't have it!'.
It's sad.   We really need better contraception in this country, but won't until the religious zealots die off.

they don't use contraceptives, they won't ever die out

they'll just keep multiplying like germs

Yes, that's true.  Like the Duggers on "19 Kids and Counting".   *shudders*


But many of the religious kids are getting to be slightly more moderate than their parents (or at least can't pull off crazy as well as the old people do) and that might tip the balance.

Here's to hoping kids won't be brainwashed into being their parents mirror images

and be allowed to think and learn to be their self

The kids sound brainwashed when the cameras are rolling, and the boys might be, since their particular cult favors boys over girls, but I'm hoping that growing up in a huge family will at least discourage some of them.




(I'm taking off in a moment to visit my family.  Talk to you soon)

Ever heard about catholics?

They reproduce no matter what, and they have the guilt AND the big families on their side

Yes, but the number of EX Catholics is growing, too.

okay, see you soon.   :)

indeed

getting outta the church and find ones own way to believe in something

or not believe in something

I'd love for everyone to believe just what is logical and real, but I'll settle for just not letting them make religious books into actual laws.

religion is belief-system, not a way of life or followed to the t of what is written in it

make in to laws?

what?

The book was written 3000 (Old testament is believed to be so old) years ago, it isn't usable in todays way of life

There are LOTS and LOTS of people who'd disagree with you.  Most Americans are pretty moderate with their religion (and the number of atheists is growing yearly) but there are plenty of people in positions of power who feel that the 'good moral lessons of the Bible' would be better off as part of the laws of the land.
And are convinced that they already are, just aren't followed enough lately.

morals yes, but slavelike following of a book that was written by shepherds into an age of politics and computers.. is just silly

They didn't know what the future would bring, basically, they men that want to do as they see good, by hiding that it's their words behind this very well respected but abused book

I've read it, it has awesome ideas, but also so bad ideas, so no blindly following it, just use it as a pointer and good suggestions

*grins*   If you'll forgive the ironic response:
"You're preaching to the choir, sister!"

But many people, at least here in America, are very slavishly devoted to that book, and have spent generations, literally centuries, rationalizing why they should do so when it doesn't make a lick of sense.
They also claim to know the future, in the Revelations (the vague 'end of the world' stuff is all that matters to them.).

It's crazy.   Literally crazy, in fact, to follow a book about a magic man in the clouds, but it's so ingrained in the culture that even skeptics have trouble letting go.

okay

Maybe they'll let it go in a couple of hundred of generations yet

You know what I find funniest?

If there was a second coming of christ right now, he'd be locked up and medicated and forgotten about

Cause that's blasphemy

*grins*  Yes, exactly.  Anyone claiming to be Jesus, who didn't have magic powers, would be treated like a liar or a schizophrenic.
And any magic powers would still be doubted.

I listen to a relatively local show out of Austin, Texas called "The Atheist Experience".   It's on television there, but I watch it on Youtube.  It's a lot of fun.
They are constantly pointing out the stupidity of all the 'traditional' arguments for Christianity and other religions.

I read an article in my local news paper that someone in america had done a research paper on who is religious

and they came to the conclusion that intelligent people don't need religion to make them strong, they believe in themselves, they argue for themselves and they have higher paying jobs cause they believe in themselves and don't hide behind a book

I found it funny (My local paper might have made it funnier than it was)

Yes, that is pretty funny.   It's not just you and your local paper.   :)

People can vary greatly, but many religious people are very stressed out because the world isn't the way they want it to be.

But many religious people are very happy, due to their self-delusion.  it's like being in a cult (in more ways than one), where you can turn your brains off and not worry about what happens in the world, just what happens after they die.

I was at my grandmother's funeral, who was very religious.   The preacher talked about her 'unbreakable faith', and read a passage from the bible, Psalms I think, about not putting faith in materials things.
He then said that we should all do that, not putting faith in the things of this world, like our fancy computers, phones and, he added, doctors.
"Because," he said, "in the end, the doctors couldn't help her, but The Lord did."

It was all I could do not to raise my hand and say:
"Um....but he DIDN'T help her.  Because, um, you know, she DIED!!!
AND...she only lived to be 88 years old because of DOCTORS!!!"

But, the funeral was for everyone, not just me, so I was silent.
(well, I did talk to my brother about it, but that was it).

0,o

Don't have faith in doctors to keep you alive?

Does he practice what he preaches too? If he has ever stepped into a dentist he is a hypocrite

also, god gave us doctors, so... I don't understand this at all, god gave us phones, computers and everything to make sure money moves to places where it's needed, to people that can make the things that god gives to make

I just don't...

BLOODY HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!

sorry, some people shouldn't be allowed near religion, others are much smarter and accepts that everything that is alive, has been sent by god, this means sexuality, material things (It's made by humans that live) and happiness is not just for the after-life

*chuckles*

Yes, I know faith isn't logical, but it shouldn't be stupid.    It's a tribute to how hard people want to believe that these folks work so hard to ignore such obvious gaping holes in common sense.

Yes, why use common sense, it wasn't approved by god

*laughs* and is VERY disapproved by the clergy.

They've been actively discouraging common sense, science, and any kind of discussion ever since.
It's very discouraging.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5n7CYhpZ18
Try listening to this.  It's the show I was telling you about.  There's many, many more of them, but here's a random one.

Religion and faith are always touchy subjects to discuss, at least in my experience.

I have some faith although some of the aspects of Christianity do not make sense to me.  I can't blindly accept something, it has to make sense to me.  Higher being?  Sure, why not.  Not eating meat on certain days?  That doesn't make sense to me.

Faith is just that, but it doesn't have to replace common sense.

I consider myself to be a 'born again atheist'.   And I have to keep reminding myself not to be too obnoxious to the believers around me.   I love debating the issue, though.

Still, I try to have tolerance for people with different beliefs, as I'd want them to have tolerance for me.

I use to say, I like religion, I'm not a friend of it's fans thought, I read the holy text one way and understand it one way, why do I have to do like people do, ergo the majority believes one way, I believe some but not all...

So religion yes, clergy no, and fanatics, hell no!!

But then again, I love all religions, except the devil worshiping, cause they creepy

My only problem with religion, to be honest, is the stuff that doesn't make sense.

The various philosophical things, like "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"?  Brilliant.
THAT makes sense because it makes sense, not because "God said so".

All the "God said so" crap is just annoying and sad.

""God hates gays!"
"Why?"
"Um...because he does?"

Not acceptable.

If a point of view has no other reason for being than "God said so"  or "It's in the Bible", than it's pretty much worthless.

that is my definition of hiding behind the book

using the word 'cause god said so' is to hide your own disgust or curiosity, cause being curious makes you into one of them, and well, disgust cause "doing something I don't like or understand" is bad...

Love is love, and homosexuality exists in all species

yes, all species, so god allowed all of creation to be homosexual as it is part of the free-choice pact he gave, that is also in the bible

I don't get why people miss that?

Stand up comedian Patton Oswald has a bit where he said:
"If you will just admit 'I don't like thinking about two dudes doing it because it kills my boner', then at least we can start a conversation.  But as long as you keep saying that it's because of God, we can't get anywhere."

There's nothing wrong with having a little faith.  I figure that the world is far more interesting with such things of a spiritual nature than without.  It's just when people interpret said faiths with their own narrow views, then it becomes less of a good thing.

I'm no bible thumper and I don't subscribe to the idea that my beliefs are more right than anyone elses.  One of my friends growing up was like that and it annoyed the hell out of me.  He'd say stuff like  "I've seen the light, but I can't tell you about it.   You wouldn't understand because you haven't seen the light.  You would know if you had."

Yeah, annoying as hell.

I like engaging in discussions about stuff like this.  I used to follow all the discussions on RPOL about Gay Marriage and stuff, until those discussions were stopped because of a few.

*smiles*  I might have been one of the ones who forced the mods to stop it, since my incessant 'pro' arguments about Gay Marriage probably gummed up the works.

I'm becoming more accepting of the fact that I'm a "Born Again Atheist", so I need to control my rabid excitement so as not to annoy the Faithful people who are actually sane, saving my wrath for bigoted Bible Thumpers.

Ah, but it's so much fun to annoy the rabid bible thumpers, even thought one should accept that it's their point of view and everyone should be allowed their own view.

It's just, the worst cases of rabid bible thumpers always has to try and force their faith down everyone else's throat...

Fanatics, the world needs less people that can't do it in moderation and accepting others as they are, which also includes accepting the fanatics, really

I love the joke or saying: Religion is like a dick, it's good having one, but if you wave it around and try to shove it down people's throats..."

*Huge grin*

*smiles* that's a very apt analogy.

Yes, I'm working not to just lash out at religious stuff.

A coworker of mine, one I get along with fairly well, is religious, and more so since her grand daughter was born.  She posted a religious thing on her Facebook page, saying:
"Repost this if you're thankful for the world you've been given.  Remember that Jesus was thinking of you when he died on the Cross."

I resisted for a while, but then posted a response of:
"If he had the leisure time to think about me while he was being tortured by the Romans, they obviously weren't doing a very good job."

She hasn't said anything, but I kind of regret going it.

If she is a good religious person she'll forgive you, and the religion says to forgive those that ask for forgiveness

just try to not poke the religious people in vain, just when they talk about silly stuff like women's right to having their baby or not and homosexual's right to marry, and other silly things

also, no one knows what he was thinking on the cross, other than he asked daddy dearest to turn the sun back on, and to forgive them

I'm sure he was also thinking "OOOWWW!!!!  HOLY CRAP THAT HURTS!!!!"

Yes, I'm trying to learn restraint, so I only react to stupidity, rather than reacting to harmless nonsense.

One of my best friends became a born again Christian after finishing university.  An UBER born again Christian, and he would say things like that as well.

I remember one gaming session where one of our players swore "Jesus" after a particularly unlucky roll.  My friends response, "Well he did die for your sins."  We weren't sure if he was kidding or being serious.  Turns out he was being serious.  It made talking to him awkward, because all of a sudden we were all inferior to him because "he had seen the light."

I don't mind folks talking about their religion.  I don't really talk about mine unless it's part of a really good discussion, but I've never tried to make someone feel less worthy than me because they don't share my beliefs.

*smiles*  I can be kind of a jerk when I talk to pushy Christians, though I try, with some success, to only react to them, rather than picking fights.

Though I can usually be counted on to give a quick response to anyone who pushes religion into a conversation.


Yes, my Grandmother used to, back in the 80s, believe I was destined for Hell for playing Dungeons and Dragons.
She might have actually forgotten about that in her later years.  I never bothered to ask her, since I don't like talking to my older relatives about politics or religion.

Ha ha.  I remember the controversy surrounding DND.  We used to play it on the weekends at our library before some parents complained along similar lines.

Now, I make an annual pilgrimage to Gencon to spend time with gamer geeks like I used to be.  :)


Oh yeah, and there's this.  http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

Ah, yes, I remember THAT particular bag of crazy.

That Chick guy has been splashing around his lunacy for decades.   It's actually funny until you realize that lots of ignorant people believe in it.

*Drops chin on floor gaping because of the mind-numbing stupid*

I

It

Wut?

No one can take that seriously, surely?

and also, ignorance is cause by being uneducated, or wait, they have the internet, why hasn't people gotten smarter by now?

oooor wait, internet is the tool of the devil isn't it?

When people want to believe the worst about something or someone, they'll believe anything you tell them, as long as it supports their views.

If it makes you feel better about yourself to believe that people you already don't like do horrible things, you'll probably believe it without thinking about it.

I hear about all kinds of stories about how ignorant Christians feel about Atheists.  Many how are home-schooled or otherwise kept from meeting anyone who's even vaguely different than them are taught from a very early age that Atheists are hateful, angry, immoral people who secretly worship the devil and want to drag 'good' Christians down with them to Hell, or some variation of that.

I was told that one such Christian was actually uncomfortable shaking hands with someone after being told that she was an Atheist.

it's like mysophobia without the sense

at least mysophobic people are afraid of germs that cause actual problems at time..

atheism doesn't transfer by touch, it transfers by education, and it isn't forced down anyone's throat.

anyway, I'll call religious fanatic, ignoramuses, from now on

Sadly, there are some atheists just as ignorant as some of the worst Christians, but they just don't have the power to force their views on others that organized religion has, and they tend to be more rare.
That's why I try, though with less success than I would like, to not be too reactionary with my thoughts.