WILL SOMEONE DO MINE? =)
i find it hard to believe that you make sigs but cant alter your avatar? 
but this wouldnt be the christmas period if you didnt get a gift nonetheless
Actually, if we didn't have to sift through your replies things would be a bit faster as well. 
Deal with the slowdown. Its only for a few days and if I can deal with it on 56k you sure as hell can too. Try looking at snarkpit every damned day at slow speed then you'll know what I deal with all the time.
But, why do WE have to worry about offending people with the religion that the majority of our people practice. Nobody tries to take Judaeism out of Israel. And nobody gets offended when Arabia celebrates Islamic holidays. I think that instead of changing all of our national traditions to save a few ppl from being "offended" we need to let them practice the "tolerance" that they so adamantly preach and start tolerating OUR holidays. they can celebrate thiers freely, why can't Christians say Christ anymore?
Never heard of Eid. Interesting. Lamb is Yummeh.
Why? I'm not offended if you talk about the Crusades and how stupid it was for the white Christians to do what they did. People get "offended" a little too easily nowadays. I have a freedom of speech, abd I'll say whatever I feel like saying. you need to be more tolerant of my sense of humor that differs from yours.
There's a difference between REAL Christmas, which is ONE DAY, and the "christmas" of wal-mart. Wal-mart starts thier christmas stuff in september. it's ridiculous, I know. Christians hate the the comercialization of Christmas. They don't beleive in santa or the fertility rituals of Christmas trees. You can't blame (and punish!) a religion for the commercialization of thier holidays.
It is the same as the Sheep farming industry doing MASSIVE advertising for people to buy thier Eid lambs and starting in september. Yeah, it'd get annoying, but it would not be ISLAM'S fault.
Same as the spammers who send out ads for Viagra. It's not the Viagra company's fault that we are sick of hearing about thier product, it's the spammer.
The commercialization of Christmas is like Spam. Yes, we're all sick of it. but you need to hate the spammer, not the product that they are unlicenced to sell.
Which one do you beleive in?
Morphine- sorry you lost your long response. I hate when that happens.
I see what you mean, and I knew that when I typed it. There was no way for me to properly express what I wanted to say with only text and some little smileys. So let me elaborate:
let me preface by saying that I like Crono. I think he's a good guy. But, he is VERY leftist and that doesn't mix with my place on the political spectrum because I am pretty conservative, especially for someone our age. So naturally, we disagree on mostly everything. I like that Crono and I can present arguments without ppl getting pissed off and calling eachother a "n00b" or somesuch.
Next, let me say that I don't really don't think that what I said WAS perpetuating a racial stereotype. First of all not everyone who celebrates Ramadan is an arab. In fact the largest population of Muslims in the world is in Indonesia, where most everyone is Asian. But, realistically, there wouldn't BE a stereotype if: Arab Islam Extremists did not blow themselves up in the name of thier religion.
And yes, I agree that everyone IS way too Politically Correct. Every single thing you could possibly say, has the potential to offend someone, somewhere. What you've got to ask yourself is where your freedom of speech stops and thier right to not be offended (which isnt really a right anyway) begins. I mean, seriously...
Everyone is preaching TOLERANCE as well. But I don't see a lot of tolerance for people like me: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Conservatives. Every other type of person has a gosh darn "coalition" to back them up and to make sure that they don't get their little feelings hurt. Try being a Christian in a country where everyone is trying to erase all traces of your religion. You can't say that they are pushing for separation of church and state, because the classrooms have Ramadan and Channukah and now they even have a "Christmas Witch"!!!!!! (La Bufana) The only thing that is conspicuously absent is Christianity. Every OTHER religion and group gets "tolerated" in schools and government, but NO! not Christianity. They are changing everything to that "seasons greetings" and "happy holidays," too. What the heck happened to just saying "Christmas?" It's not JUST a holiday for christians. It's a NATIONAL holiday.
Crono, I'm sorry you got offended. But, realistically, if you get mad because some guy on the internet made fun of a sect that makes up a very small portion of the religion that your father happens to be because they do stupid stuff, then you've got too much time on your hands to think about what's on the forum.
I was not making fun of YOU, unless you have ever suicide-bombed anything. If you have, accept my apologies.
Cumon guys, America makes films taking the piss out of muslim Jihads and terrorists, everyone takes the piss out of Americans for being stupid, English call the French frogs, we get called hooligans, ethiopians get called skinny and scrawny (they actually serve some of the best food in the world)- does it really matter?
It's christmas.
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