13 Feb 2012, 8:59 pm
13 Feb 2012, 9:00 pm
It's you! You're the person! I'm so honoured to meet you!
(just kidding)
13 Feb 2012, 9:09 pm
A fitting end but I would have preferred a more violent one.
Perhaps if the grandson of Regan swooped down in an apache screaming "FECK YEAH USA NUMBER 1!" killing both the professor AND his fa***t lover union rep who were to weak to survive because they had given each other the gay plauge AIDS and THEN they both got tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity?
Would that just about do it, or does the union rep need to be a muslim?
13 Feb 2012, 9:12 pm
It's you! You're the person! I'm so honoured to meet you!
(just kidding)
I'm not so dense that I missed the obvious satire.
The sadistic side of me had to get a lick in there anyway.
13 Feb 2012, 9:15 pm
You know they forgot the big foam hand with USA #1 printed on it.
13 Feb 2012, 9:48 pm
He came by last week and disappeared again shortly after. Apparently the PPR annoys him.
I thought he was banned? The rules prohibit discussions concerning banned members.
I don't see why he would be banned, he didn't do anything wrong...
No, he's not banned.
13 Feb 2012, 11:23 pm
A fitting end but I would have preferred a more violent one.
OKAY ...
The professor, was in fact, that second incarnation of Jesus Christ. After seeing how bad humanity was to him, he talked to his daddy, who declared that single act a "humanity-wide sin". God then brutally tortured everyone - including children - by drowning them. Some people turned into mermaids, but God was to sly for microevolution - which, as creationists tell us, is okay as it ain't macroevolution - and gave them all intestinal cancer. The end.
If you're wondering how God could break his promise and flood the earth again, being an omnipotent being implies the power to break promises.
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13 Feb 2012, 11:31 pm
You mean to tell me those are real?
What about the hats with the beer cans, Britain ruled the world more or less for a couple of centuries and we never came close to inventing such epic coolness.
We had to make do with giving the world evolution instead.
13 Feb 2012, 11:39 pm
It's a parody of a genre of story that is shared among rightwingers, where they get pleasure out of seeing arrogant lefties get their comeuppance. However, it is so over-the-top that it becomes a joke at right-wingers' expense.
If I understand the genre correctly, they prominently feature professors (as opposed to, lets say, leftwing unionists) and often have a socially conservative undertone.
The "Einstein-Atheist professor" myth is a prominent example.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
I should note, however, that it's inaccurate to say this one's over the top - by Christo-fascist standards it's actually quite tame.
14 Feb 2012, 7:52 am
You mean to tell me those are real?
What about the hats with the beer cans, Britain ruled the world more or less for a couple of centuries and we never came close to inventing such epic coolness.
We had to make do with giving the world evolution instead.
Good gosh, that glaring omission confirms the story is not true as told!
14 Feb 2012, 7:56 am
14 Feb 2012, 8:07 am
14 Feb 2012, 10:11 am
We have a church tax in Germany. Both income tax and church tax are deducted from the income and paid by the employer. This tax system earns the two largest (Catholic and Protestant) churches almost eight billion Euro per year (about 4 billion each).
The only way to avoid this is to resign one's church membership. But then you aren't eligible for the services of some church-run institutions such as Catholic kindergardens, despite the fact that they are sponsored by the state. Many German Catholics and Protestants never visit a church and are likely agnostic. They simply remain members because they might want a church wedding or a religious burial some day.
The New Apostolic church that I grew up in opted out of this system, because they make a lot more money by asking their members to tithe. 10% of the entire income beats 9% of the income tax, which is the current church tax rate. And since all preachers, deacons, and even the cleaning staff work on a voluntary basis, most of the money ends up in the pockets of the top "apostles", which are the only ones who get paid. If you want to get rich quick, found a new religion 
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15 Feb 2012, 3:07 am
The only way to avoid this is to resign one's church membership. But then you aren't eligible for the services of some church-run institutions such as Catholic kindergardens, despite the fact that they are sponsored by the state. Many German Catholics and Protestants never visit a church and are likely agnostic. They simply remain members because they might want a church wedding or a religious burial some day.
The New Apostolic church that I grew up in opted out of this system, because they make a lot more money by asking their members to tithe. 10% of the entire income beats 9% of the income tax, which is the current church tax rate. And since all preachers, deacons, and even the cleaning staff work on a voluntary basis, most of the money ends up in the pockets of the top "apostles", which are the only ones who get paid. If you want to get rich quick, found a new religion
OMFG, just OMFG!
