Comments on: YES

By: Essayons

Essayons — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:31:12 +0000

Having tons of bad ideas constitutes having brains?

By: Default User

Default User — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:36:52 +0000

I think this is actually the first internets I’ve ever been officially awarded. I have a few I’ve um..commandeered when people left theirs lying around, but you know, someone has to do the cleaning up around here.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:33:16 +0000

Yeah, the books themselves are just brain candy. They give you cavities if you read to many of them without flossing.

May I present you with this shiny internets for that engaging comment?

[How many does that make, now?]

By: Default User

Default User — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:10:39 +0000

I could just read mental floss magazine…It’s less painful than trying to thread the floss in my brain.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:06:25 +0000

*weird image of DU ‘flossing’ her brain*
Uh huh.

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:58:02 +0000

Yeah, the books themselves are just brain candy. They give you cavities if you read to many of them without flossing.

By: mabsba

mabsba — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:55:58 +0000

The books are better, IMO. The show just became bizarre. And I agree about Sookie. Of course, I listened to most of the books, and I have a higher tolerance for what I’ll listen to over what I’ll read.

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:50:35 +0000

I didn’t actually see much of the series, but I remember when they came out to the world they did so on TV and therefore could be captured on TV. I didn’t like the show over much, Sookie seemed really dumbed down to me

By: mabsba

mabsba — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:45:20 +0000

I don’t know if this was in the Trueblood show or just the books, but the author explained that by saying that they showed up with digital technology and not with the film cameras because of the silver used in developing solutions. I thought that was a pretty clever workaround.

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:36:01 +0000

I think they do. Certain other types of vampires photograph too, like the Trueblood vampires…

By: mabsba

mabsba — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:35:02 +0000

Do the sparkly vampires photograph?

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:25:25 +0000

Maybe because if he’s a vampire, he won’t photograph? I guess most of us don’t see the President in person….

By: Default User

Default User — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:21:38 +0000

Unless the vampire turns him into a vampire and he lives forever? Just a thought.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:04:08 +0000

No, someone please bite obama. on the neck. preferably a vampire..so that way we never have to see him again…

By: Default User

Default User — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:59:53 +0000

Sure! I also have a princess one and a unicorn one! And the Big Box of crayons!

By: justacanuck the booty wench

justacanuck the booty wench — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:31:53 +0000

*perks up ears* Colouring book? About Fairies? Can I colour too, DU?

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:58:25 +0000

Yup!

By: mabsba (who is Ganesha for the day)

mabsba (who is Ganesha for the day) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:59:42 +0000

I believe that was the idea.

By: Nebton

Nebton — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:57:45 +0000

Oh, bite me!

By: joe

joe — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:45:04 +0000

you are a douchebag

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:17:12 +0000

*glances around* Um, this was a WEE bit before facebook…or email.

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:11:59 +0000

Gah! English! Grr.
“likeliHOOD”!!11!elebenty!!!

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:11:14 +0000

Dang! I guess you’d have to work off of likeliness that your friend is ‘friended’ by a classmate on facebook?

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:05:46 +0000

Me too! She’s actually a very liberal Southern Baptist — plays cards, dances, goes to movies. A lot of the Southern Baptist churches don’t allow any of those things, as I discovered when I taught in Texas. Can you imagine trying to teach probability to students who’ve NEVER played cards?

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:03:17 +0000

I like your friend!

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:01:36 +0000

Yes, I do realize that my experience with evangelists is limited due to where I have lived and traveled (OMG, I never thought I’d have a reason to be glad to have traveled LESS). I was speaking of the US and probably should have said so. I really feel that a lot of the anti-Christian sentiment in the US is due to the obnoxious Christians who keep trying to put prayer in the schools and things like that. I mean, I spent six years while my son was in public school being very nice responding to arguments such as “Well, everyone here is Catholic; why can’t we just have Catholic prayer?”* After a while, you get tired of being nice.

*My Southern Baptist friend always responded with, “Whose prayer? Do I get to pick or will it be the Muslim family or the Jewish family?”

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:44:57 +0000

Yes, I’ve the same response to the ‘Caribbean Jerk seasoned’…until I smell it. After smelling it, my only response is ‘Please?!’

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:26:54 +0000

Of course, politically, jerks only exist on the conservative side of the spectrum.

Wha– Hey!

Oh, wait, you mean there’s another term for jerk-type people on the liberal side of the spectrum, right?

(As an aside here, does anyone else giggle a little every time they encounter “Caribbean Jerk seasoned” food? “Caribbean Jerk” just always brings to mind an image of some guy from the islands cutting you off in traffic….)

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:00:41 +0000

Cookies? Yay!
*offers chocolates*
Does anyone have some tea to go with our desserts?

By: Nebton

Nebton — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:33:46 +0000

One more thought on jerks being in all religions: it really boils down more to political issues than religious issues, in my opinion. If you look at all of the murder in the name of Christianity, Islam, etc., you’ll find a political motive under the surface (assuming it’s even buried at all).

Of course, politically, jerks only exist on the conservative side of the spectrum.

By: Nebton

Nebton — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:30:51 +0000

I’d say that Christianity and Islam are both pretty big on the whole conversion thing. Theoretically, they do it because they’re trying to save your soul. Similarly, some atheists do it because they’re trying to save you from (what they consider) stupid. Of course, in the US you’re not going to encounter many Muslims trying to convert you, both due to there being fewer of them and due to those that are here not wanting to bring wrath down upon themselves. Similarly, you probably wouldn’t find too many Christians trying to convert you in Turkey (although you will find some and the repercussions there are frequently much worse).

Regardless, jerks exist in all religions, including atheism, whether or not you consider that a religion (which is really a semantic argument not worth having, in my opinion). Yes, you’ll even find militant Hindus (just look at the VHP) and militant Buddhists (just ask Myanmar).

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:52:18 +0000

Wikipedia was first (easy)–sorry:
“In 2007 the median income for a household in the city was $96,548, and the mean income for a household was $127,816. Males had a median income of $87,527 versus $51,586 for females. The mean income for a family in Naperville was $149,352 according to the 2005 census. The per capita income for the city was $42,235. About 2.8% of the population was below the poverty line, including 1.3% of those under age 18 and 9.1% of those age 65 or over.”

“In 2007, the median annual household income rose 1.3% to $50,233.00 according to the Census Bureau.[4] The real median earnings of men who worked full time, year-round climbed between 2006 and 2007, from $43,460 to $45,113. For women, the corresponding increase was from $33,437 to $35,102.”

So, here’s why I found it “funny”: an average American makes 52% of what protesters in Naperville typically earn.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:41:32 +0000

Nebton: That teaparty.org one was funny . . . the first link I clicked on showed protesters in Naperville, IL . . . funny because the mean income in Naperville has got to be ridiculously high. I’ll be good and go look it up.

By: Default User

Default User — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:07:44 +0000

Probably about the same time they came up with the tag line

“Lol News and
Lol Politics Fun”

But I’m just guessing.

By: Default User

Default User — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:42:59 +0000

Are you calling me emotional? I’M NOT EMOTIONAL! *runs off crying*

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:53:59 +0000

OH BTW: I can’t even BELIEVE you’re blaming Carter for the hostages . . . so passe, and utter B.S! His foreign policy to blame, you say? “Allow”? WTF? I suppose next you’ll be blaming the failed rescue on him, when it was sandstorm vs. helicopter, IIRC, and giving Reagan the credit for “bringing the hostages home”! That’s what all the 1980-81 (onward, ad nauseum) conservatives did, mistaken though it was.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:45:51 +0000

And I never even got to Bitter Troll’s reply . . .
Exactement!

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:44:09 +0000

What? Eddie, the 70s may have had high fuel prices and a brief oil crunch (I remember a couple of summers with long gas lines), but it is the END of a period of growth which started post-WWII and a GOLDEN AGE of the middle class! And, here, you’re trying to say Carter ruined the economy for you?

First of all, even I will recognize that the economy is not entirely dependent upon what the President does. Secondly, please don’t even ask a question like, “if things were so horrible under Reagan, how in the world did he manage to get re-elected?” Simple Answer: Charm, personality, affability . . . Smart-ass Answer: Look at Dubya – a HUGE FAIL, yet he managed it, didn’t he?

By: mabsba

mabsba — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:26:24 +0000

I have never had anyone from any religion other than Christianity try to convert me or get me to change any of my religious beliefs in any way. I apologize in advance to Christians that don’t behave like this, but in my opinion it’s all the proselytizing that so many Christians do that makes so many people feel anti-Christian. I can see why some people’s response is to spend time finding fault with Christianity.

As a whole, Christianity is reaping what it sows. Which is not fair to nice, polite Christians who don’t spend their time trying to stuff their religion down others’ throats, but is nevertheless.

By: Naoyusimi

Naoyusimi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:12:47 +0000

As a Cancer, you should’ve said: “I personally FEEL we should be led by Cancers.”

By: Default User

Default User — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:02:21 +0000

I wish you wouldn’t teabag my mom while jumping on the couch in praise of Xenu. That’s just sick.

By: Justacarolinian

Justacarolinian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:50:53 +0000

*wipes sweat off brow* Whew. Cookies anyone?

By: bitter troll :Inserting his bitter balls in YOUR moms mouth, for jesus

bitter troll :Inserting his bitter balls in YOUR moms mouth, for jesus — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:48:13 +0000

bitter troll is a miltant agnostic, not sure of anything..but ready to blow up schools to enforce it!

BELIEVE THE SAME THINGS WE MAY OR MAY NOT BELIEVE IN, WE ARE NOT SURE!!!! OR ELSE!!!!!!!

By: bitter troll :Inserting his bitter balls in YOUR moms mouth, for jesus

bitter troll :Inserting his bitter balls in YOUR moms mouth, for jesus — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:46:22 +0000

thats the second most instane thing bitter troll has ever heard of!

By: Nebton

Nebton — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:39:22 +0000

{http://www.religionfacts.com/scientology/beliefs.htm}

P.S. With respect to your new name, it’d be more appropriate to use the wrong “your”.

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:38:43 +0000

Anti-religious? To me that sounds non-inflammatory, but pretty descriptive. There are of course some inflammatory anti-religious…we’ve certainly seen them here. But since I’m more agnostic than atheist, I should step back to allow for an atheist to judge on the wording.

I suspect that the average atheist is like the average person of any religion–non-militant and therefore not part of the flame wars.

By: viking gal, now with holiday mellow

viking gal, now with holiday mellow — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:34:47 +0000

Flame broiled Nebton? That sounds like it would be tasty on a fresh-baked roll, with a side of beer!

By: Justacarolinian

Justacarolinian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:33:48 +0000

Go for it, if that floats your cookies. All things have consequences, season or not.

By: Justacarolinian

Justacarolinian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:32:05 +0000

I’ve never had a Buddhist try to convert me, or tell me that God/Christianity is wrong. Or a Hindu, and many such religions. I’ve had a lot of polite, well, “Ok, that’s your way” conversations with them. It’s always been the anti-religious atheist, with the exception of one Pagan. Maybe it would be better stated as the anti-religious?

By: bitter troll :Teabagging your mom for jesus

bitter troll :Teabagging your mom for jesus — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:26:45 +0000

well crap, when is it that time in florida??