You wanted Xmas?

You wanted Xmas?

Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Myrk- on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:01pm
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Lep has coded snarks today, and fixed the top bar! Huzar!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by OtZman on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:05pm
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And best of all, this christmas they're working in Firefox, our favorite browser!

:santa:

<------- See, even Rock Lee got himself a christmas hat!!!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by French Toast on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:11pm
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Fun for a minute and then they get annoying.
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by ReNo on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:13pm
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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!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by OtZman on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:14pm
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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:
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by French Toast on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:14pm
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Yeah, top bar is messed.

Okay, they get really funny after a few minutes.
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by OtZman on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:15pm
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Myrk- on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:17pm
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by ReNo on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:22pm
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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!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Crono on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:40pm
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There should be Eid, Kwanza (Kwanzaa), Chanukah, snarks. Just to cover the major denominations. As alternatives.

Kwanzaa Snark
User posted image

Chanukah Snark
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Eid (Ramadan) Snark
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by satchmo on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 10:50pm
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Myrk- on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 11:19pm
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Never Crono, the UK already wanted to rename Christmas to "Winter festival", we ain't giving in!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Dark_Kilauea on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 11:24pm
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Yay, I'm definitly in the Christmas spirt now :smile:
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Pegs on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 11:45pm
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by OtZman on Mon Dec 19th 2005 at 11:47pm
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Woohoo, cheers to that ramadan snark :wink: User posted image

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!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Pegs on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 12:00am
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Come on, everyone, remake your avatars to xmas versions!
there ye go
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Myrk- on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 12:11am
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Same... lets crimbo this place up a bit!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by gimpinthesink on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 12:21am
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Underdog on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 12:22am
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<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting OtZman</DIV>
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Actually, there should be a "turn off the xmas snarks" button for us muslims. :wink: :wink:
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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.

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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by OtZman on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 12:35am
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Now I've even added some xmas like ascii to my sig.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by French Toast on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 12:41am
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 1:22am
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Crono said:
There should be Eid, Kwanza (Kwanzaa), Chanukah, snarks. Just to cover the major denominations. As alternatives.

Kwanzaa Snark
User posted image

Chanukah Snark
User posted image

Eid (Ramadan) Snark
User posted image
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?
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Crono on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 1:33am
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Underdog on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 1:54am
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by French Toast on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 1:56am
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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.
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by FatStrings on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 2:36am
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Gorbachev on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 2:42am
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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?
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by fraggard on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 4:03am
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FF people with higher screen resolutions: if the menu bar is b0rked,
[Shift]+Reload to get the fixed Javascript, and see some christmassy
avatarage
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 4:31am
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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?
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by half-dude on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 5:02am
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by G4MER on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 6:06am
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FANTASTIC! THE SNARKS ARE BACK!
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by fraggard on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 6:16am
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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:
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 6:18am
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Yeah I've noticed that, this will help immensely. Thanks again.
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Crono on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 6:23am
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It's in all mozilla versions, probably netscape too.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by G4MER on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 6:51am
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Come on, everyone, remake your avatars to xmas versions!
there ye go
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by wil5on on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 6:56am
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by G.Ballblue on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 7:03am
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Gah, first Sven Coop and the Christmas hat rage, and now this!

The worlds gone mad I say :razz:

I love it! :smile:
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by SpoolE on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 8:17am
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Im also in the Xmas spirit! Yesterday my new PC arrived! Woopee!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Myrk- on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 9:35am
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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!
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Forceflow on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 11:13am
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LOL I begged Lep for them on MSN yesterday. Glad to see at least somebody's listening to me.

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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by BlisTer on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 12:55pm
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MoneyShot said:
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Come on, everyone, remake your avatars to xmas versions!
there ye go
WILL SOMEONE DO MINE? =)
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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

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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by G4MER on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 1:24pm
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Oh I can.. and I have.. I was being lazy. lol. What ever happend to our snark country thing we had going?
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Underdog on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 3:34pm
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by fraggard on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 4:57pm
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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.
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by ReNo on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 5:33pm
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Nickelplate on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 6:46pm
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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?
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Guessmyname on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 7:23pm
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This is unusual. Snarksnow + plus the site pages loading faster!

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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Dec 20th 2005 at 7:33pm
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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.
Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 21st 2005 at 12:46am
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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.
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Re: You wanted Xmas? Posted by G4MER on Wed Dec 21st 2005 at 2:02am
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