why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Actually, on the 20th day without rain they just stabbed him to death with the umbrella

- That's Blood Sacrifice

can I just say how much I hate that joke structure where the punchline is some snappy retort plus the name of a previously unnamed character, e.g. "I said not at work, Karen!"

bye, felicia

That thing needs to be remade with minions for maximum impact

xp to frogs, that's officially known as the John Oliver Gambit

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It was Corner Cash Store and it wasn't owned by white folks.

You would have thought a page devoted to all things British would have got British variant spelling right.

It's all very Baudrillard

I actually have a traditional white corner shop as my local one now and it is fucking miserable. Sour-faced old trout, in male or female form depending on the day, stands arms folded and follows me around with its sharp little eyes because I must look like a nicker. Whereas a trot up to the high street gets me to an Asian corner shop where they call me 'sir' or 'boss' or 'my friend' on principle. Both of these things are sheer formalities and neither shopkeeper cares very much of course, but still. It very much mirrors the situation with the barbers.

Both of these things are sheer formalities and neither shopkeeper cares very much of course

lol alienation

You would have thought a page devoted to all things British would have got British variant spelling right.

― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 7 December 2017 09:40 (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Heh, I've been online long enough that I would not, in fact, have thought this- if our own fascists didn't have a deep seam of stuff from the american far right to rip off, they'd have pretty much fuck all to say for themselves.

I saw a similar macro shared by an old schoolfriend which was complaining that back int' olden days binmen would come into your garden for you and drag the bin out and empty it and replace it and they weren't too lazy and now its terrible that we have to put our own bins on the street the night before. I pointed out that if someone was to start dragging six bins through my close at 8am on my day off and wake me up I would be a lot more angry than the minor unnoticable inconvenience of taking my turn to put the bins out.

― boxedjoy, Friday, December 1, 2017 8:45 PM (one week ago) Bookmark

Just moved into a new place where the binmen do come in – at 7am on a Sunday! – and drag the old-fashioned metal bins up the stairs from the back garden and through the close. What a fucking din. Glad I'm on the top floor.

shit now i can't go to sleep tonight

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chill, obv

Didn't need a FB meme to know I'm chill.

savage aparently o well

didn't need a FB meme to know I'm savage

in answer to another, better meme

http://pics.me.me/bitcoin-vs-chuck-e-cheese-tokens-yesnormies-hate-x-no-29570315.png

i looked up the Unitarian church in town on facebook and they had this as their cover photo. the saddest thing i've ever seen! sheesh, the bleakness of a new england winter in full effect.

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and the best friend of all is the one that tells you, every time they see you, and as soon as they see you, that they'd rather be somewhere else

because that's an honest friend who can share things with you

wow that's bleak

gotta love that unitarian humanitarian spirit

Pretty sure that's in line with their official slogan

Unitarian Universalist Church: Let's face it, we'd all rather be someplace else.

The Bleak Uncertainty Of Existence...and join us for potluck after the service!

unitarians are the cool christians imo

i'd much, much, much rather listen to a LGBTQ-friendly minister talk about the bleak uncertainty of existence then listen to an evangelical minister talk about the certainty of eternal damnation as punishment for being friendly with LGBTQ people

every once in a while i think about going on a Sunday, but...you know...really? i know its going to be a half filled cavern filled with all the people who obliviously and annoyingly stand in my way at the co-op market when i just want to grab something and go. it's like a boomer obstacle course in that place.

just go and let them know, as a friend, that you'd rather be somewhere else

i have old school UU routes. my great-great-great grandfather was a Unitarian in the very town I live in.

i feel like adding something to that picture above. "and they don't even know how to skate...and you are dying."

are they unitarians or unitarian universalists? the latter is more common in my experience and they're not christians, although you could uh identify as christian and atttend

Not all Unitarian Universalists are Christians.

Unitarianism was once a flavor of Christianity.

In merging with Universalists, they've sorta coalesced around not having much in the way of prescriptive dogma, but welcoming believers and nonbelievers of a lot of different stripes ("We need not think alike to love alike").

Plenty of atheist, agnostic, and "hUUmanist" UUs in my experience.

we went to a UU church when i was a kid. it was nice. everyone was very nice. i learned sex education in sunday school. my parents didn't believe in god and they weren't christians so it was a good place for them to meet other liberals and democrats. people who wore macrame. i got bored of it though and ended up staying home when i got older.

im a uu, and im christian, although im bad at both bc i have attended services nary a handful of times since my son was born bc sunday is laundry day and that takes all day.

sounds about right

to clarify when I said that UU isn’t christian I meant the organization is not specifically christian, although many members are

feel like there has been some redundancy since then

oh yeah totes. there are ppl in the church who get a little squeamish about god talk. i would describe uu as post-christian, tho.

since we’re getting all wiki about it, there are unitarians out there, just not really in the US

Does UU have any kind of doctrine, I only know about the sex ed parts

be excellent to each other

no wait that's bill and ted

seven principles

https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles

But yeah the sex ed was great. My Sunday school class went to see Risky Business.

When I was a teen, many of my friends were UU. I liked their principles in the way they explained them. Sure sounded more interesting than my parents' Methodist church. So in my mid-twenties, when I was feeling a little lost in my life and in need of spiritual focus, I sought out a UU church near where I was living. I went for three straight Sundays. It was just as uncomfortable and boring as the church I went to as a kid. The sermon from the first week was unmemorable, the second week had a Superbowl theme, and the third week the sermon was a ten minute reminder to tithe! I didn't go back after the tithing one. I'm sure there are great Unitarian congregations out there though and maybe I just caught this one during an awkward stretch. I don't think I have time to go to church the way my life is these days, but one of the prayer apps on my phone is Unitarian ('Illuminations').

includes the knee-slapper about the Unitarian Universalist forced to choose between heaven and a discussion group about heaven, as well as other classic UU joeks:

http://www.firstunitariantoronto.org/what-is-unitarianism/uu-humour

Anecdotally, I think a majority of UUs start coming by choice in adulthood. Of those, I suspect a majority come for reasons similar to those described by how's life. The door is very open for people to people want to go to church but aren't comfortable with traditional dogmatic religion.

My situation was different because my family has several generations of U/UU background, so I inherited it. But like HL I just don't feel like churchgoing is a thing I need or want in my life at present.

And yeah every UU congregation is different in style. Some are very High-Church with organs and choir robes, others are informal domes in the woods, full of Jews and atheists.

i've been interested in going to the local Unitarian church for a while but i don't know if i need a church at all tbh

did the whole UU church thing a few years ago, it was ok, kind of cloying

My mom was a rote, unquestioning catholic for her whole life and my dad went to church with her (and was even an usher for a while) but once told me he would probably be a Druid if he could. Mom got totally disillusioned with sex scandal coverups and was appalled at her donations going to pay the legal fees for child molesting priests so they quit and started going to UU church in town. It fits their needs - my mom can have coffee and bars with other midwestern women and my dad can debate history and theology with a bunch of retired university faculty.

I live that parents seem to defy the trend and have become much more liberal as they age - they marched in January which totally shocked me