You wanted Xmas?

Lep has coded snarks today, and fixed the top bar! Huzar!

---

-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

And best of all, this christmas they're working in Firefox, our favorite browser!



<------- See, even Rock Lee got himself a christmas hat!!!

---

What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Fun for a minute and then they get annoying.

Well aren't you just a god damn scrooge :razz:

Don't mean to put a dampner on things, but the "fixed" top bar is
actually more "broken" now in Firefox :sad: Great to see those festive
snarks back though - until now I just wasn't in the Christmas spirit!

---

[img]http://card.mygamercard.net/sig/Default/reno84.png[/img]
Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

Fun for a minute and then they get annoying.

French Toast, you're ruining everybodys christmas spirit!

Actually, there should be a "turn off the xmas snarks" button for us muslims. :wink: :wink:

---

What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Yeah, top bar is messed.

Okay, they get really funny after a few minutes.

That's the spirit!

---

What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Well firefox is crap, officially- theres nothing good in it. What is thats messed up- using Leps firefox its just the snarks legs missing. It was fixed for larger screen resolutions though- the red lines and image didn't extend to fit bigger screens.

---

-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

How odd, it now looks perfect in Firefox (ignoring the legs missing as you said)! Very strange, in a pleasant way :smile: And as much as I don't want to get into an argument with you over Firefox, I'd just like to say, YOUR WRONG, YOU'RE ALWAYS WRONG, AND YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG. Yeah, so, err....Merry Christmas, one and all!

---

[img]http://card.mygamercard.net/sig/Default/reno84.png[/img]
Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

There should be Eid, Kwanza (Kwanzaa), Chanukah, snarks. Just to cover the major denominations. As alternatives.

Kwanzaa Snark


Chanukah Snark


Eid (Ramadan) Snark

---

Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Yipee!

---

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Never Crono, the UK already wanted to rename Christmas to "Winter festival", we ain't giving in!

---

-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Yay, I'm definitly in the Christmas spirt now :smile:

---

Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

yay

---

Woohoo, cheers to that ramadan snark :wink:

The snarks disappears after falling a bit, around the end of French Toasts first post in this thread :sad:

Come on, everyone, remake your avatars to xmas versions!

---

What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Come on, everyone, remake your avatars to xmas versions!

there ye go

---

Same... lets crimbo this place up a bit!

---

-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

I'll have to take your word on it snowing snarks cos I can only see santa hats as my screen is strangly dark at the min.

But Yay its starting to feel more crimboy.

---

Tinterweb site
Deviantart

Human knowledge belongs to the world

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting OtZman</DIV>
<div class="quotetext">
Actually, there should be a "turn off the xmas snarks" button for us muslims. :wink: :wink:
</DIV></DIV>

Unless there is something different this year, the snarksnow has an off button in preferences I believe. I will go look to be sure but its been there every year so far.

[EDIT]

Can't find it either. Sorry.

</div>

---

There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Now I've even added some xmas like ascii to my sig.

---

What the Snarkpitters listen to!

I do'nt know how to edit animated gifs, so until I learn how I can't edit mine.

Crono said:
There should be Eid, Kwanza (Kwanzaa), Chanukah, snarks. Just to cover the major denominations. As alternatives.

Kwanzaa Snark


Chanukah Snark


Eid (Ramadan) Snark

Does the Ramadam snark blow itself up after a few minutes?

And why is Christmas the only holiday that needs to be avoided, omitted and changed?

---

I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

They're alternatives since ALL of these religious holidays are in the same season and all religious denominations are present here, at the pit. Even more so since we have several members from Asia and Africa.

Eid is not Ramadan, just to note. One of its celebrations is the day after the last day of Ramadan, in which you sacrifice a lamb (to eat).

Nickle, I know you're joking, but it's not funny. Seriously offensive now. (Yes, to me)

There is no need to omit Christmas, it's just annoying that it's shoved down everyone's throat. People would start celebrating the thing in July if they could (and some do). But you should recognize that your beliefs aren't the only ones. Why is that overlooked? Religious freedom, wow, there's a thought. :rolleyes:

My family celebrates both Eid and Christmas, neither get's the boot.

---

Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

My only problem with any holiday is its current level of commercialism. I get so tired of the exhibits going up in the stores months in advance. We know the holiday is coming but why push it so hard?

I want to see Halloween during October, not June and I damned sure don't want to see Christmas while its still 80 or 90 degrees outside.

I have zero religious views but still enjoy the holidays. I told my spouse today in fact that I like buying gifts far more than getting them. Giving something to some little one who really needs it is a gift all in itself.

---

There is no history until something happens, then there is.

I'm not religious at all but I enjoy and celebrate Christmas all the
same. What I don't like is my town not allowing a banner that
says "Merry Christmas". I mean, I don't care what your views are
and what you celebrate, but there's no reason to stop me from
celebrating what I do.

And the commercialism isn't going to go away. It's kinda stupid how much they do it, but it doesnt really bother me.

dude christmas is so f**ked up

one of my friends sisters went to hollister and spent $500 now her
grandmother is going to wrap it up and give it to her for Xmas

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now just fix the buggery text box for FF 1.5 and I'll be happy.

Why change the Santa Snark? Santa isn't Christian anyway, Saint Nick is, but not Santa, sure it's related, but I mean if you're going to add all those religious ones, where's the Snark on a cross?

FF people with higher screen resolutions: if the menu bar is b0rked,
[Shift]+Reload to get the fixed Javascript, and see some christmassy
avatarage

FF people with higher screen resolutions: if the menu bar is b0rked,
[Shift]+Reload to get the fixed Javascript, and see some christmassy
avatarage

Wow, worked like a charm... and updated the forum avatars. Thanks for that.

What exactly does shift+reload do? Force a reload of everything? Or just the Javascript?

Im pumped for x-mas break! Im having my friend from WA come up here to KS for 2 freaking weeks! We will work on Half-life: New Recruits together since we both came up with the idea. It will also be his first x-mas.

---

Yes I spell bad, but remimber Mighty are the stupid.

Check out my drawings at http://half-dude.deviantart.com/

FANTASTIC! THE SNARKS ARE BACK!

FF people with higher screen resolutions: if the menu bar is b0rked,
[Shift]+Reload to get the fixed Javascript, and see some christmassy
avatarage

Wow, worked like a charm... and updated the forum avatars. Thanks for that.

What exactly does shift+reload do? Force a reload of everything? Or just the Javascript?

Overrides everything in the cache related to the current page AFAIK.
Very useful feature because FF seems to cache things very aggressively
and will refuse to let go and get on with life :biggrin:

Yeah I've noticed that, this will help immensely. Thanks again.

It's in all mozilla versions, probably netscape too.

---

Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

<html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="themes/standard.css" type="text/css"></head><body topmargin=2 leftmargin=2>

Come on, everyone, remake your avatars to xmas versions!

there ye go

WILL SOMEONE DO MINE? =)

Myrk- said:
Never Crono, the UK already wanted to rename Christmas to "Winter festival", we ain't giving in!

Inform your government that as an inhabitant of the southern hemisphere, I am deeply offended by this and demand they change it at once.

Walter here would put a christmas hat on, but theyve been banned by the administrator. Its hot enough as it is in those lab coats anyway.

---

"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Im also in the Xmas spirit! Yesterday my new PC arrived! Woopee!!!!!!!!!!!!

As for other religions, I'm affraid your gunna have to deal with it like we deal with yours when we visit the countries of origin. This is primarily a UK based website, as such, UK traditions- if you want others you might have to ask lep and code it yourself :razz:

God I sound like Scrooge!

---

-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

LOL I begged Lep for them on MSN yesterday. Glad to see at least somebody's listening to me.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow !

---

:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

MoneyShot said:
<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>

Come on, everyone, remake your avatars to xmas versions!

there ye go

WILL SOMEONE DO MINE? =)
</div></div>

i find it hard to believe that you make sigs but cant alter your avatar? :razz:

but this wouldnt be the christmas period if you didnt get a gift nonetheless

---

These words are my diaries screaming out loud

Oh I can.. and I have.. I was being lazy. lol. What ever happend to our snark country thing we had going?

Freeman said:
Kill the Snarks, cuz they slow everything down.

Actually, if we didn't have to sift through your replies things would be a bit faster as well. :rolleyes:

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.

---

There is no history until something happens, then there is.

I've unfortunately had to block teh sn4rks on Firefox on FC3, because
they were really jerky and it felt like Doom 3 at full detail on a
Voodoo card.

If you want to do the same I suggest

1)getting Adblock

2)adding a block rule for http://www.snarkpit.net/scripts/snow.js

There must be a simpler way, but I already had adblock, so... meh.

Yay christmas avatar!

---

[img]http://card.mygamercard.net/sig/Default/reno84.png[/img]
Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

Crono said:
They're alternatives since ALL of these religious holidays are in the same season and all religious denominations are present here, at the pit. Even more so since we have several members from Asia and Africa.

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?

Crono said:
Eid is not Ramadan, just to note. One of its celebrations is the day after the last day of Ramadan, in which you sacrifice a lamb (to eat).

Never heard of Eid. Interesting. Lamb is Yummeh.

Crono said:
Nickle, I know you're joking, but it's not funny. Seriously offensive now. (Yes, to me)

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.

Crono said:
There is no need to omit Christmas, it's just annoying that it's shoved down everyone's throat. People would start celebrating the thing in July if they could (and some do). But you should recognize that your beliefs aren't the only ones. Why is that overlooked? Religious freedom, wow, there's a thought. :rolleyes:

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.

Crono said:
My family celebrates both Eid and Christmas, neither get's the boot.

Which one do you beleive in?

This is unusual. Snarksnow + plus the site pages loading faster!

<div class="abouttext">Message submitted 0 minutes after original post:</b></div>
This is unusual. Snarksnow + plus the site pages loading faster!

---

www.filefence.com. Free vmf hosting!

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 <i style="color: white;">tolerant</i> of my sense of humor that differs from yours.

I just wrote up a long response but lost it do to a connection timed out error. Balls.

Anyway -- the gist of what I was trying to say is that I'd think that as a part of a community based on some degree of mutual respect, you would be willing to respect the someone else's feelings. Whether or not you think he's right in being offended, the fact remains that he was... and what you're saying is kind of like a big I don't care how you feel. Which, I don't know, maybe that is what you wanted to say?

Personally I feel like people are too PC sometimes, but perpetuating a racist stereotype doesn't do any good. It's one thing if my friends make me the butt of their Chinese jokes (they know I can take their s**t and give it back to them) but if I was offended, they'd cut it out.

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.

---

I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

WOW, a Christmas Witch..

http://askhagatha.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=220

http://www.zenit.org//english/visualizza.phtml?sid=64290

there are a couple links to give you more info.

I'm not mad, it's really just the fact that you make Muslims the butt of your jokes far too often. Like the Jihad shirt, for example. And, honestly, just because I mention something Muslim doesn't mean there should be a retort about terrorism. The fact is that most Muslims aren't terrorists. The minority of Muslims are suicide bombers, also, and in your comment you singlehandedly said that all Muslims do that. I know that's not what you think, or know, but it is what your comments imply.

Honestly, I'm sick of everyone's views of the Muslim religion. Most people are wrong. It pisses me off even more that the only Muslims (that aren't converted) that get recognized are murderers, terrorists, and extremists. It's f**king pathetic.

Anyway, It was just getting annoying.

Political correctness is ridiculous. Today, I saw a couple black reverends arguing on TV over Black History month. While one of them had a pretty good point: Black history month is racism. Since, instead of teaching, and practicing, understanding, all that stuff, the history of blacks as HISTORY, they segregate it into black history. Which makes sense, I don't completely agree though.
However, when black history week (which became an entire month) was "created", they wanted it to eventually go away, since it is still segregation. There is a point there, but it's still a little ridiculous.

---

Blame it on Microsoft, God does.