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-Nehi Ranger

we keep adding new varieties and possibilities to the soda experience

capitalism would be great for places that don't have it yet but is not the best for places that have had it for a while already

what is best for places that have had it for a while

fascism

to die soon iirc

wld be curious to see a low regulation high welfare state

let the business ppl run wild as long as everyone gets free everything

obvs wld need some level of regulation so they dont destroy the environment and so forth

"you need to jerk off to a racially and ethnically diverse cast of happy ppl" seems kind of fucked up as a sentiment

it seems like culturally we've determined that what turns a person on shouldn't be obligated to social justice concerns but if someone refuses to jerk off to non-white porn stars they're probably bigots right?

what if they have some thing where they only want to watch women who look like their wife

"I guess this looks a little bit like a laotian version of my wife, so it's cool"

FWIW, I think the "I don't watch TV" thing really coincided with the rise of iPads and stuff, and is therefore somewhat disingenuous.

Disingenuous now maybe, but the Onion's "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television" piece is from January 2000 and the Mr. Show "TV is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and television is no friend of mine" bit is from December 1996.

yeah feel like if anything that sentiment is at its nadir

the "i don't watch tv" thing was surely usually a snobby thing coming from people who believed that tv shows were pabulum, lot less people believe that now than probably ever before in history what with the emergence of the golden age of tv drama and the prestige and critical acclaim of tv shows

i know that if i didn't watch tv shows that as a liberal arts degree having 30 something i would be a bit of a dinner party pariah

can confirm.

"I don't watch tv" is just code for "I play a lot of micecraft." people should just admit to playing a lot of minecraft imo.

Sorry, but I'm still not getting the point on the Christmas thing.

Most people are celebrating family, friends, gifts, food, drink, winter, decorations, television, films. The name is the only really Christian thing left.
At this point nativity plays seems like Dickens' A Chistmas Carol, Grinch and The Great Escape. I guess it depends on where you live.

put the crüt back in crütmas

just to clarify, it's "i don't EVEN watch tv". the even is very important

which is really only a suitable phrasing if you are famous movie actor being asked to take a TV role

it's "i don't even WATCH tv" imo

"smell tv? i don't even WATCH tv"

the accent is definitely on WATCH, sorry. I was just capitalizing EVEN to make it easier to notice the additional word. just trying to help over here

although I DON'T EVEN WATCH TV is also acceptable in some rare situations

for example, when you're implicated in a crime that somehow depends on the fact that you watch tv

"I don't whip. I don't nae nae. I don't EVEN watch tv."

this was on the car parked next to me at work today. out of respect for my christian colleagues + friends i will continue to view christmas as a religious holiday about jesus christ and resent it for attempting to use the soft power of jingles, holiday sales and red/green patterned color schemes to convert me and my family:

http://i.imgur.com/w9dxNip.jpg

Totally valid.

(Your reaction, I mean.)

red / green as a color scheme is pretty tite

Keep Shit in Christmas

For my part, I really try as much as possible to hammer home the use of 'HOLIDAY' in place of 'Christmas'.

my wife complained last night about commercials and stuff that only say 'holidays' in lieu of christmas but are self-evidently through their use of christmas iconography, music, etc about christmas. like who exactly are they trying to fool?

A former co-worker had a "Keep Thor In Thursday" T-shirt.

Please don't remind Christians that there's anything in common use which employs the names of gods other than their own.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/6-Tall-Animated-Airblown-Christmas-Inflatable-Santa-Coming-Out-of-Outhouse-Scene/17164640

In 2005, the Barcelona city council provoked a public outcry by commissioning a nativity scene which did not include a Caganer. The local government was reported to have countered these criticisms by claiming that the Caganer was not included because a civility ordinance had made public defecation and public urination illegal, meaning that the Caganer was now setting a bad example. Many saw this as an attack on Catalan traditions. One writer of a letter to the editor asserted, "A nativity scene without a caganer is not a nativity scene."

otm

<3 el caganer

The Caganer is not the only defecating character in the Catalan Christmas tradition—another is the Tió de Nadal, which also makes extensive use of the image of faecal matter (it is a log, i.e. tió, with a face painted on it, which, having been "fed" for several weeks, is told to defecate on Christmas Eve and "magically" produces candy for children, a candy that has supposedly come from its bowels). Other mentions of faeces and defecation are common in Catalan folklore: indeed, a popular Catalan saying for use before a meal is menja bé, caga fort i no tinguis por a la mort! ("Eat well, shit a good deal and don't be afraid of death!").

Learn something new every day.

the essential catalan nativity scene includes someone pooping

just think of that every time you see all the unrelated-to-jesus stuff in north america, that the most christian-related decoration commonly used in many parts of the world, the nativity scene, is not complete without someone defecating

it's a holiday for everyone

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ed/7a/1c/ed7a1c2068b9124817268affd0560523.jpg

Now, my life isn't complete without a Vladimir Putin caganer.

that's not even a good caricature

god, the bono one.

http://www.newstalk.com/content/000/images/000127/130777_54_news_hub_121675_656x500.png

He seems to have smeared the shit around his eyes.

Sorry, but I'm still not getting the point on the Christmas thing.

Most people are celebrating family, friends, gifts, food, drink, winter, decorations, television, films. The name is the only really Christian thing left.
At this point nativity plays seems like Dickens' A Chistmas Carol, Grinch and The Great Escape. I guess it depends on where you live.

On a thread where people have advocated for a two-child policy and death panels and have stated that it is useless for childless people to live past 40, "it's weird/funny that non-Christians celebrate Christmas" has turned out to be the most actually controversial opinion on this thread. Interesting.