muscles like this? posted:

The stupidest one has to be the forcing churches to gay marry since nobody has done that in the history of ever. I think one place was forced to let a gay couple do a ceremony but it was like a public park and not a church.

Sir Rolo posted:

Gay marriage again.

Sir Rolo posted:

The Week in LL101:


Uh... what?

Alpha 1 posted:

It's amazing how LL101 has managed to become even LESS coherent over time. I know the point is to fill conservatives with self-righteous fury, but at least the old ones had a certain internal logic to them (as long as you accepted their insane, strawman premises). I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be angry at here.

KillerJunglist posted:

Don't you usually get married in the church you attend, meaning it's just as much THEIR church as YOUR church? Or do gay people have some weird, satanic way of randomly selecting a church to get married in that I am unaware of?

KillerJunglist posted:

Don't you usually get married in the church you attend, meaning it's just as much THEIR church as YOUR church? Or do gay people have some weird, satanic way of randomly selecting a church to get married in that I am unaware of?

Alpha 1 posted:

It's amazing how LL101 has managed to become even LESS coherent over time. I know the point is to fill conservatives with self-righteous fury, but at least the old ones had a certain internal logic to them (as long as you accepted their insane, strawman premises). I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be angry at here.

DeusExMachinima posted:

At the risk of, ugh, starting gunchat, can anyone find a significant number of reported incidents of this happening? There's about 7-8 million licensed carriers in the U.S., plus another 4-5 million adults who live in states where no license is required to concealed carry. Way more than that if you count places you can open carry without a permit (but let's not because that's generally dumb in urban areas). Out of that many concealed carriers, how often does this Mexican standoff nightmare happen?

Snowman Crossing posted:

Actually, in the cropped out content there was a woman who showed up and was concerned about her safety if men were able to use the women`s restroom. I pointed out that unless she is personally inspecting the genitals of everyone she uses the restroom with, she is making an assumption that puts her in the exact same "danger" today, but it didn't seem like she was buying it.

gradenko_2000 posted:

This one stood out to me because of how low effort it is. Literally "pee pee doo doo bad president"

Dr Christmas posted:

Legalizing gay marriage will force churches to perform them, just like how the Catholic churches are currently forced to perform non-Catholic ceremonies for people of different religions who want to get married.

Guilty posted:

Uhhh, no they're not... People DO get turned away from Catholic churches for religious reasons. Just not very often.

Dr Christmas posted:

Legalizing gay marriage will force churches to perform them, just like how the Catholic churches are currently forced to perform non-Catholic ceremonies for people of different religions who want to get married.

Guilty posted:

Uhhh, no they're not... People DO get turned away from Catholic churches for religious reasons. Just not very often.

Sir Rolo posted:

Job Truniht posted:

Has someone pointed out to this guy that gravity is a constant acceleration for all objects? Who writes this stuff?

Mornacale posted:

Um, you understand that that's the whole point of the image macro, right? "Gravity is a natural law but I bet liberals want to redefine it so that everyone can choose to weigh whatever they want [just like hetero- and cis-normativity are natural but liberals want to redefine marriage and gender]."

Sir Rolo posted:

Yeah but that's mass equality, we already have gravitational equality.

Mornacale posted:

Just like we all are actually straight cis-people until liberals start re-defining marriage and sexuality and gender!

Job Truniht posted:

Has someone pointed out to this guy that gravity is a constant acceleration for all objects? Who writes this stuff?

quote:

Have a history teacher explain this if they can.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

Both wives lost a child while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.

Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.

Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.

Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford."

Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford."

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the "kicker":

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.

A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

AND...................:

Lincoln was shot in a theater and the assassin ran to a warehouse...

Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to a theater...
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I saw this had to share just in case anyone did not know.

XyloJW posted:

My Aunt shared this and said "Many of our generation know this. However, things like this are no longer being taught in school these days."


The biggest inaccuracy is that Marilyn Monroe died 15 months before Kennedy was shot. Also Booth was killed in a barn, not a warehouse.

The real "kicker" for me is that I found the Snopes debunking of this from the year 2000. And they refer to it as "that old one" and trace it to at least early 1999.

This email is old enough to get a driver's license.

1stGear posted:

The silly thing (well, silliest) is that they gently caress up the punch line. It should be "Kennedy was in Marilyn Monroe!" and then full stop.

XyloJW posted:

So wait a minute. You're saying if Catholic churches do actually turn people away for religious reasons... then does that mean that legalizing gay marriage won't force churches to perform them? Hang on, this is hard for me. I need to sit down and rethink this. Maybe Dr. Christmas was wrong about that whole thing.

Walter posted:

Dude who wrestled the gun away from the Giffords shooter was nearly shot by a CC permit holder.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2011/01/friendly_firearms.html

You want more than that, go find it yourself. But yeah, it can happen.

DeusExMachinima posted:

Ironically gay marriage being illegal forces otherwise willing churches not to issue legally binding licenses at the end of whatever service they've chosen to perform. But that's not real oppression, libtard.

1stGear posted:

The silly thing (well, silliest) is that they gently caress up the punch line. It should be "Kennedy was in Marilyn Monroe!" and then full stop.

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Being Green

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.

ZDar Fan posted:

A friend of mine shared this, which is just kind of weird. I did some formatting because the paragraph structure made it very hard to read.


The intro story is clearly a typical poo poo That Didn't Happen anecdote, and the whole thing just strikes me as an oddly specific.