But you cannot disprove the possibility of divine intervention on behalf of the Jesus fish. Absent such proof on your behalf, I will continue to believe.
(Sorry if I sound snotty, but I’m probably influenced by the fact that on Sunday my UU church is going to vote to call a minister who has made such mindnumbing statements as “I don’t really distinguish between knowledge and belief.”)
Had a buddy who was selling his house, and someone kept taking the FOR SALE sign. His agent just said, let them take them - I’ve got tons of them. But my buddy was pissed. So every day I was entertained by his increasing efforts which culminated with the sign anchored to the ground with welded chain and smeared with vaseline. Probably not the approach you would want to take with your truck, tho.
mswas: *Having seperate laws for hate crimes is fucking ridiculous. Murdering someone because they are a jew is no different from murdering them because you wanted their shoes. *
Well, the courts have generally said that there is a difference, because the hate crime has the additional motive of terrorizing all the other members of the same racial/ethnic/religious group. The hate criminal isn’t just murdering or beating up some random person, s/he’s doing it partly to intimidate other people on a discriminatory basis. That, in the eyes of the law, bumps up the heinousness factor, and you get to charge more for extra heinousness.
Heck, buy one of every fish available and put 'em all on your car. Use the combination of ones still on the car at the end of the day to conclude the ideology of the person who’s vandalizing you.
“Lessee… They like angels and Jesus, hate the devil and Darwin, and half the Buddha’s been taken. But Chips and the UFO are still there. I’m stumped.”
My biggest reason to approve of hate crime laws is purely practical- recidivism.
Someone who commits a hate crime is more likely to continue to be a threat than someone who commits a crime with a motive.
I have an old blue Honda Civic. It’s a great car. It’s so great that about 23 gazillion other people have the same make and color. (On my street there are anywhere from 1-3 blue Honda Civics parked at any given time, for example. Roughly.)
Enter the Darwin fish. Enter the sticker of the local public radio station. Oh, and the local zoo.
Useful in large parking lots.
I would also note that parking permit stickers are not the height of fashion either.
-fb, agnostic, doesn’t believe that the Darwin fish is necessarily anti-Christian.
(Sigh. Will someone please show me evidence that the vandal who did this is a “Christian”, and not some teenage twit doing the mindless things that teenage twits do? )
OK. Two good Christian girls tore my “Jesus Hates Me” bumper sticker off of my car. How do I know it was them? I was told that they blabbled it around and I confronted them. They tried the Darwin fish but didn’t have a tool. Too dumb to pick up a rock I assume.
Hey Lightnin’ this has worked for me… Next time you put one of your fishies on the car go buy a tube of White Marine Grease, take a little and carefully apply it to the edges of the fish, just so it is around the little walls of it, but not on the top so it isn’t as visible. Apply it using gloves. Next time they try to rip it off they likely won’t succeed because of the slippery grease, and even if they do, their hands will be full of it. It is a huge pain to try to get off your hands, worse if it gets in your clothes, and it stinks to high heavens. If somes gets on your car, just wipe it off a shop rag or some toweling.
Hope you get those little buggers,
~Aqua
Not that poor Cinders here is bumping this thread or anything…
…but although I’m quite happy to have a couple o’ quiet cold ones with redboss in St Kilda, if any of you other buggers want to speak up, I’ll be in Melbourne this Wednesday week. Wed, Thur, and Fri nights are ok if any of you want to meet up.
Well, obviously that last post was meant for another board. My brain must be malfunctioning. Mods, delete as required… I’ll just stumble off into the oblivion of embarrassment (also as required).
Goddam Yellowstone hater. Ooh, look! Waterfalls! Yeah, those are so much more exciting than fucking boiling water gushing from the ground. I otta come over there and kick your ass. I mean half dome? HALF dome? What a rip-off! The least they could do is give us a full dome.
