He was some old Eastern European guy. It was something like ee-RAAGHHJJGH-nee-uhhns. He said it… forcefully. But that’s how he said everything.
I hate both flirting in these situations and religion. Even more when I am a customer, because I am waiting for some shit, too, and the waitress can’t get to me because she is putting up with someone else’s stupid inane one-liners or calls to Jesus. Shut the fuck up and let her do her work!
But I have bitched about this before on these boards.
The common definitions of the term are not quite the same as those used in formal discussion. Scholars differentiate between explicit (“strong”) atheism, meaning a belief that there is no God, and implicit (“weak”) atheism, meaning a lack of belief in general. (Implicit atheism being akin to the commonly understood meaning of agnosticism.) Agnosticism more properly means not having knowledge (without gnosis) and doesn’t address belief or the lack thereof directly.
So someone can be both an atheist and an agnostic, if we take time to clarify what kind of atheism we’re talking about.
Duck egg, you heretic.
You have blue duck eggs?
Are you cross-breeding with robins, or something?
It’s a miracle, obviously.
Regards,
Shodan
Splitter!
He’s admitted Hispanic ancestry, if I’m not mistaken, so I’ve always pictured a Zapata moustache, giant sombrero, and let’s say enormous novelty sunglasses.
I’m sure it’s inaccurate, but the image is comforting when he’s making headway in a debate.
Exactly. A DILF.
Bricks, how are we coming along with the cameraphone snaps that I requested?
I certainly can’t speak to the truth of the ILF portion of that claim.
And I have to admit woeful ignorance on the meaning of the “D.”
Douche.
Zing!
Myself, I meant the more conventional “Dad.”
…I Let Flow?
Yah I don’t understand it either.
Umm, I kind of like it that the girls flirt with me at work. It is a little unsettling though too, I don’t know how to process it exactly. And I’m supposed to be doing my job. What are the long-term psychological effects of a bunch of women flirting with you at work?
Marriage.
lol
You needed to look at him and say “I agree completely. BTW, we haven’t been introduced. My name is Judah Steinberg.”
No, no, he said long-term psychological effects, not financial.
How about someone who repeatedly trys to “witness” the same person after being told over and over again that he’s not interested? My first job was in a supermarket; this one lady would always try to hand those stupid pamphlets out to cashiers. Most didn’t say anthing, and would through the pamplets away as soon as she left (we did have signs clearly posted at each entrance saying solicitation and/or passing out literature was forbidden, managment actually did enforce that). I wasn’t one of them. Everytime I refused the pamphlet and told her she wasn’t allowed to do that. She’d just smile and often tried to leave one in the bagging area when I wasn’t looking. Once I did notice before she left so I called out to her, she turned, and I tore up the pamphlet as she watched.
I did try every polite thing (short of lying and saying I’ve already accepted Jesus) I could think off to get her to stop. The one thing that worked was when I told her I was Jewish (well great-grandma was). That worked one time. The next time she brought me special pamphlets for Jews :rolleyes:and talked about how the were Jews in her congregation. It was like I was some sort of special project for her. Finally onetime she had her kid with her. He was about 6/7, maybe younger (or older, I suck at judging kids’ ages). He tried to hand me a pamphlet while Mommy smiled on. I said “No, thank you. I don’t want one.” He said “Why mister? Don’t you want Jesus to love you?” I said “No”. He was confused and asked why. “Because he’s not real, he’s make believe like God or Santa or the Tooth Fairy!” I responded. 
He started bawling his eyes out and Mom had this shocked and horrified look on her face. She turned pale, very pale, and hurried out of the store. I never saw her set foot in there again
More to the OP topic… years ago I had a job in which apparently all my co-workers were evangelicals (this was a major problem generally in this area). It got to a point where the only attention they would pay to me was to proselytize. Since I never agreed to go to their church, it got to a point where I was basically ignored, and eventually fired- even though I was outperforming my co-workers. I even got an award right before I got canned.
This was hardly my only experience with oppressive evangelicals.
Should I ever acquire sufficient wealth and power, watch out, the evangelicals are fucked!
For that matter, chicken eggs come in more than brown and white.
And if you like green eggs and ham, you’re in luck!