Wishing you all the Best.
Merry Christmass.
Happy Yule Tide lovelies <3
I like New Years better ... to a happier new year for everyone!
May this year be the best you all have ever had.
I wish luck to everyone.
Merry fucking Christmas, I still have to work. [emoji857]
Equal opportunity butt-stabber.
Happy holidays!
Ye ol' scurvy band of heathens.
Happy Holiday!!
For a bunch of hateful atheists, everyone seems happy enough.
Quote from: SGOS on December 25, 2016, 01:26:10 PM
For a bunch of hateful atheists, everyone seems happy enough.
I'm only hateful to those who work to suppress people's freedoms or underclass or minorities. I'm quite a festive guy, I love this time of year, and love Halloween.
Quote from: Baruch on December 25, 2016, 08:22:08 AM
I like New Years better ... to a happier new year for everyone!
One year ending and a new year beginning is nothing to celebrate.
Quote from: DeltaEpsilon on December 25, 2016, 06:22:20 PM
One year ending and a new year beginning is nothing to celebrate.
Why not?
Quote from: DeltaEpsilon on December 25, 2016, 06:22:20 PM
One year ending and a new year beginning is nothing to celebrate.
Some people see time as cyclical, others see it as linear. Cyclical timers enjoy the merry-go-round.
I enjoyed my Solstice with a good meal and a nice fire afterwards. And I like New Year's Day even though I think it should logically be the first day of Spring...
happy holidays :)
I went to church with my parents Christmas morning. It was pretty amusing being an atheist who celebrates Christmas, at church, being lectured to by a Pastor about why people shouldn't celebrate Christmas, what with it being a pagan holiday and all. Very amusing. Especially since my mom was ticked off about the Pastor not celebrating Christmas.
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Quote from: FaithIsFilth on December 29, 2016, 01:41:29 PM
I went to church with my parents Christmas morning. It was pretty amusing being an atheist who celebrates Christmas, at church, being lectured to by a Pastor about why people shouldn't celebrate Christmas, what with it being a pagan holiday and all. Very amusing. Especially since my mom was ticked off about the Pastor not celebrating Christmas.
I'm impressed by any religious person who recognizes that Christmas is a pagan rip-off of older celebrations!
Quote from: Cavebear on January 01, 2017, 04:47:54 AM
I'm impressed by any religious person who recognizes that Christmas is a pagan rip-off of older celebrations!
It probably has something to do with him not growing up celebrating Christmas. He is a Christian Jew (or is it Jewish Christian?) who converted to Christianity in his 20s.
Quote from: FaithIsFilth on January 01, 2017, 01:03:40 PM
It probably has something to do with him not growing up celebrating Christmas. He is a Christian Jew (or is it Jewish Christian?) who converted to Christianity in his 20s.
Jewish people can operate on multiple levels at the same time. Gentiles mistakenly call it ... inconsistency.
Happy holidays and have a splendid year ahead!
I had a great holiday. We had a nice family reunion and now we are back to our busy lives. I am in the middle of a home renovation project right now and I am renovating the bathroom at the present moment. I have a hard time choosing the wall color. I am leaning more towards the traditional style so I would be having wooden floors and cabinets in the bathroom. I found a blog online that listed out some colors ( http://www.dispenser.com/blog/organizedbath/pantones-spring-palette-is-perfect-for-bathrooms/ ). I am thinking of getting either pale dogwood or pea green. Which do you think is the better choice? Any thoughts on this would be great.
Quote from: tanny on February 20, 2017, 01:24:57 AM
I am thinking of getting either pale dogwood or pea green. Which do you think is the better choice? Any thoughts on this would be great.
Impossible to ask that question and get any help on the internet. Every color looks different in a different room, and something like "pale dogwood" would have 500 variations of its own, some of which would look delightful, while others would make you throw up. Getting color to work together, and enhance a room is not easy. Few people can do it well. Many people can choose colors, but couldn't put two together and get a pleasing result. I've seen grown adults do their best and end up with something that looks like a taco stand. I would be one of them. I know that, and constantly restrain myself. I have to stay with subtle colors, close to white, or else the room will look like a bunch of multi-colored paint bombs exploded.
Quote from: SGOS on February 20, 2017, 06:22:55 AM
Impossible to ask that question and get any help on the internet. Every color looks different in a different room, and something like "pale dogwood" would have 500 variations of its own, some of which would look delightful, while others would make you throw up. Getting color to work together, and enhance a room is not easy. Few people can do it well. Many people can choose colors, but couldn't put two together and get a pleasing result. I've seen grown adults do their best and end up with something that looks like a taco stand. I would be one of them. I know that, and constantly restrain myself. I have to stay with subtle colors, close to white, or else the room will look like a bunch of multi-colored paint bombs exploded.
^This
Plus, I'm slightly colorblind.
Green = Green
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on February 20, 2017, 06:30:04 AM
^This
Plus, I'm slightly colorblind.
Green = Green
I'm more color mixup than blind. For me shades of red or green can look brown, or brown can look blue or red or green. Apparently I almost flunked coloring in the 2nd grade according to my mother. :) So, I chuckle when my wife asks what color would go with another color.
Quote from: Mike Cl on February 20, 2017, 11:33:47 AM
I'm more color mixup than blind. For me shades of red or green can look brown, or brown can look blue or red or green. Apparently I almost flunked coloring in the 2nd grade according to my mother. :) So, I chuckle when my wife asks what color would go with another color.
That might be a more apt description, really. Daltonism too?
I had a favorite green coat for 3 years, before I was told that it was brown.
Oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree, your two months out of date, tee hee.
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Quote from: Mr.Obvious on February 20, 2017, 11:55:02 AM
That might be a more apt description, really. Daltonism too?
I had a favorite green coat for 3 years, before I was told that it was brown.
I can relate to that. That's why I don't clothes shop alone. :))
I am glad someone resurrected this thread because it reminded me, our war on Christ...I mean, Xmas has been so disorganized in the past that I didn't even know I was at war with Xmas until some real...I mean fake media source pointed out that it was on Faux (we're calling this shit) News yet again. We need to organize this year. I know O'Reilly proclaimed victory this last year, but something tells me that isn't going to stop me from having a war and Christmas...(dammit!) I mean Xmas again this year.
Whatever it is we did in the past hasn't worked, so I have a three pronged approach to victory this year.
1) Start early and organize! I'm not even sure how we are fighting this war. I assume no weapons are involved. I think that would have made the news, both real and fake.
2) Since there are no weapons involved, figure out what the hell it is we're doing when we declare war on Xmas. Is it just saying "Xmas" and "happy holidays"? Because that's a pretty shitty attack. No wonder we lost! Whatever it is we've been doing it obviously isn't working since the "not us" won the war last year.
3) Plan a real attack, maybe build a time machine to kidnap the baby Jesus or something. That's maybe a bit ambitious, but I have to believe we can come up with a better attack than wishing assholes happy holidays. That seems pretty passive aggressive and not really effective in a war-type situation. I mean, we'd all be speaking German right now if all our troops did during WWII was politely wish the enemy well in a way which would be utterly inoffensive in order to profoundly offend them.
Let's not wait this year until Faux News tells us it's on and then say, "Oh fuck! What did I do? How do I keep doing it? Am I winning???" like we have every previous year. If it weren't for Faux News I wouldn't even know I was at war with Xmas (almost did it again). I don't know how we even did so wall for all those years being this damned disorganized. I do NOT want to lose this war again! Assuming, of course, we can even come back from last year's devastating loss.
So ... you are a warmonger like McCain, only funnier? (sarc)
Quote from: widdershins on February 22, 2017, 02:43:03 PM
If it weren't for Faux News I wouldn't even know I was at war with Xmass...
Just got "Faux News" Sorry. LOL!
Quote from: Mike Cl on February 20, 2017, 11:33:47 AM
I'm more color mixup than blind. For me shades of red or green can look brown, or brown can look blue or red or green. Apparently I almost flunked coloring in the 2nd grade according to my mother. :) So, I chuckle when my wife asks what color would go with another color.
I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my soil, so yesterday, I thought well, I can figure out the PH for nothing, so I boiled some red cabbage, and poured the juice on a soil sample. It turned from purple to blue green, or something between purple and purple green, but kind of brownish. I thought for sure it had to be acid, but the chemistry indicates the soil is alkaline.
I emailed Drew_2017, and told him I thought I would have acidic soil, but it's alkaline, but Drew said, "It's more logical to believe it's acidic, because grass will grow better if it's slightly acidic.
But how alkaline? I feel like identifying blue green is the outer limits of my ability. When the purple turns pink, I can see that just fine, but I'm on the other side of the scale. Finally, I ordered a kit from Amazon, for some lab in Spokane Washington. You send in samples, and they do a chemical analysis and email the results, with actual numbers you can calculate from. Plus they test for other nutrients as well. Cost: $24
But as Drew points out, the trouble with scientific labs is that if you don't like the lab results, they won't change them for you. It's better to just believe what you want.
Does anyone need any cabbage juice? I've got some left over, although it's starting to get a funny smell.
Doesn't the soil conservation department of the Agriculture Department ... do soil analysis for free? Or have we privatized that too? Soil is pretty complicated, but if you garden you will have to get your hands dirty ;-))
Quote from: Baruch on February 23, 2017, 06:45:28 AM
Doesn't the soil conservation department of the Agriculture Department ... do soil analysis for free? Or have we privatized that too? Soil is pretty complicated, but if you garden you will have to get your hands dirty ;-))
The County Agricultural Agent sends the samples to a lab, usually a private lab. I'm sure you pay, but it might vary state to state. In Montana, I moonlighted doing Sanitary Reviews on proposed subdivisions and land sales (commonly know as the perc tests, but there's more to subdividing than just perc tests). Part of the review required water samples to test for coliform bacteria. Larger subdivisions required a chemical analysis which was in the $100 range. These were not done by the state. They were sent to private labs, but the information went to the state. I haven't been in that business for 25 years, now, so my discussion might be out of date. Requirements change all the time. And things are getting more and more privatized.
Sanitary Reviews were once a service provided by the county, but they quit doing it and I started doing it as it became privatized. My friend who was the County Sanitarian, got me started in the business when the county quit doing it.
So, when the county stopped doing things, you stopped paying county taxes?
Quote from: Baruch on February 23, 2017, 07:20:09 AM
So, when the county stopped doing things, you stopped paying county taxes?
Well, in that particular situation, I jumped into make money on the service vacuum. And of course, I paid taxes on it. A win-win all around. The county provides less service and saves money, and I paid the county more taxes, plus I got to keep some of the money I made.
Quote from: SGOS on February 23, 2017, 09:37:09 AM
Well, in that particular situation, I jumped into make money on the service vacuum. And of course, I paid taxes on it. A win-win all around. The county provides less service and saves money, and I paid the county more taxes, plus I got to keep some of the money I made.
Not criticizing. But then ... you are a part of the problem, like Walmart shoppers.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 23, 2017, 04:12:35 AM
Just got "Faux News" Sorry. LOL!
To be perfectly honest, it isn't mine, but I loved it so I claimed it for my own.
Quote from: Baruch on February 22, 2017, 07:26:45 PM
So ... you are a warmonger like McCain, only funnier? (sarc)
Hey, this war is going to happen whether I want it or not, apparently. I don't remember ever wanting it in past years, but I still warred with Xmas (I'm getting better) just the same...though, I don't really remember ever doing it. But hey, O'Reilly said I did and that dude is a straight shooter, as fair and balanced as they come. It's not like he's just some loud mouthed jackass who routinely orders the mic be cut on anyone who dares disagree with is crusty old prick ass.
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I always loved Christmas; The family, the meals, the Christmas Tree, and the presents, brought a happiness to the house that was special. So I was quite surprised to find out that all along I had unwittingly been a part of a broad conspiracy to declare war on Christmas.
Some business signs read, Merry Xmas. I never realized the point was to "X" out Christ. I thought it was shorter and designed to appeal to all faiths of the world, of which Christianity is but a minority. But no, there is apparently a well coordinated war, because it's more than just the signs. Yes, I'm sure it's more than that, but I can't remember why else there's a war.
Now that I think about it, I don't think there's a war at all. I think it's propaganda cooked up ministers in churches, and swallowed whole by the faithful. A basic trait common to every Christian that ever lived in the universe is the desire to work themselves into a snit. They love to hear blasphemy so they can wrap themselves in a mantel of self righteous indignation. They love the pain and sacrifice a persecuted minority must bear for their faith. They're happy for any of this that falls their way, but their appetites are insatiable. If additional obstacles to test their faith are not thrown in their faces, they have to manufacture some fake stuff. And that's why normal people get so perplexed over all the hatred Christians spew during the Holiday Season.
Quote from: SGOS on February 24, 2017, 05:42:08 AM
Now that I think about it, I don't think there's a war at all. I think it's propaganda cooked up ministers in churches, and swallowed whole by the faithful. A basic trait common to every Christian that ever lived in the universe is the desire to work themselves into a snit. They love to hear blasphemy so they can wrap themselves in a mantel of self righteous indignation. They love the pain and sacrifice a persecuted minority must bear for their faith. They're happy for any of this that falls their way, but their appetites are insatiable. If additional obstacles to test their faith are not thrown in their faces, they have to manufacture some fake stuff. And that's why normal people get so perplexed over all the hatred Christians spew during the Holiday Season.
Are you channeling Robert Ingersoll? You really have his way with words!
I reckon Christians aren't really happy unless they can feel persecuted, since Jesus told them so:
Matthew 5:10-12
QuoteBlessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
So if they're not being persecuted, they'll just make up shit so they can "rejoice and be exceeding glad."
Quote from: widdershins on February 23, 2017, 05:11:52 PM
To be perfectly honest, it isn't mine, but I loved it so I claimed it for my own.
Several years ago I began calling it Faux News to bug one of my co-workers. I've never stopped using it. :)
Quote from: SGOS on February 23, 2017, 07:00:20 AM
The County Agricultural Agent sends the samples to a lab, usually a private lab. I'm sure you pay, but it might vary state to state.
You now pay in most States.
Enjoying each and every moment......................................