Ginger, that's probably the intent, sure. I'm just hoping it will work like the massive overplaying of Hootie and The Blowfish singles and break up the band. And does anybody think of science...animatronics doesn't count, or parasailing when they look at Mitt Romney?Guy Smiley, maybe. (if my life had worked out more like I wanted in college, I might have had to work for the firm on the Cool Mormon Hunt. Guess God does answer prayers after all
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Nov 16, 2011 11:09:51 am PST #7108 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ginger - Nov 16, 2011 11:11:10 am PST #7109 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Stepford Mormons?
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 11:12:46 am PST #7110 of 30001
brillig
is Phoenix just super-duper-special.
Phoenix is Salt Lake City South, the whole of Arizona is seen as "they'd be a pseudo-theocracy just like Utah, if we could just make them understand". There is very little difference seen between the two states. We (Utah) just need to get that booze away from you.
Cashmere - Nov 16, 2011 11:15:16 am PST #7111 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Atheism, though terrifying, seems much less annoying.
I get a lot of "so you believe in nothing?" I'm not so terrified of the unknown that I'll walk straight into the arms of a misogynistic, self-serving, self-righteous group of ninny muggins and hand over my wallet and my free will.
erikaj - Nov 16, 2011 11:17:35 am PST #7112 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
maybe. I think that level of self-promotion from a church is...icky. Of course, they are really easy for me to mock and stuff, and it's hard for me to get inside their worldview where people not digging Mitt makes them persecuted... But on a non-political level, don't they have kids to feed or something?(Of course, I feel that way about UCP and Easter Seals, too, actually.
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 11:20:39 am PST #7113 of 30001
brillig
heir worldview where people not digging Mitt makes them persecuted...
Lots of things make them feel persecuted. Persecution is what makes them special. That's why they persecute people, because they must defend themselves from persecution. (That's a fun logical knot to die stupid Mormons into.)
sumi - Nov 16, 2011 11:21:54 am PST #7114 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Toddson - Nov 16, 2011 11:24:09 am PST #7115 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Well, isn't that in line with "the war against Christmas" and the "war on Christians"? People who've been in the majority for so long that any infringement on their position to accommodate others is persecution?
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2011 11:24:53 am PST #7116 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, the burn book still has me entranced. It's just the bitchiest shit ever. I'm so sad I'm almost finished.
erikaj - Nov 16, 2011 11:27:53 am PST #7117 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Connie, man, I knew it. Of course, now the secret's out, you'll have to go in the wind or something. I would say the booze makes it possible to live here, but that would just be shtick. Mostly I don't drink. You see why I cried when Countdown 1.0 got cancelled...it was a nightly reminder that I'm not crazy, and that knowing many words is valuable somewhere...it was like my liberal "It Gets Better" video. (Dag, reliving that just now, and it's NFG.(Shakes fist toward East...damn you, Olbermann! Phil Griffin, you motherless fuck.)