Alive! magazine and a no junk mail sign.

wild_cat

I have a no junk mail sign up on my front door. The only people who seem unable to read it are the people that deliver the Alive Catholic news paper door to door.

I rang them last month requesting that they refrain from putting it through the door in future. The lady refused to tell me who was delivering them to my area but said it wasn't one of their own group of delivery people, as they adhere to no junk mail signs.

Came home today and there was another one stuck in the door.

I do not agree with any of the crap they write and feel I shouldn't have this kind of stuff thwarted at me in my own home.


I'd enjoy it like a copy of Viz if I didn't know they were actually being serious.

Anyway how do I get this to stop?

squod

Suscribe to The Satanist Revue.

It is a religion and a philosophy based on man as he really is: a carnal being free from the fiction that is spirituality and one who champions total responsibility, pragmatism, and the here-and-now

Suits you?

Indubitable

Get a dog who hates postmen and put it in your front garden.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Was just about to say firey satan stickers on the mail box. That or a live hungry rat in the mailbox

alwaysadub

Collect them all till you have a big pile, make a bonfire outside their door, and burn them, while the people are still inside.

panda100

How can you not like Alive?Its bleedin priceless! My fave section is 'The Satan in training' bit on the back page. Thats quality.

bronte

Lol! I just googled the newspaper's website.
There's a big article on why women settle for less in marriage thanks to the pill.

This stuff is better than the slate! :pac:

Get an angry dog.

AnonoBoy

Man here I am paying for a subscription to Alive! like a chump and you're getting it for free? :mad:

hippyraz

hi roro!

wild_cat

bronte wrote: »

Lol! I just googled the newspaper's website.
There's a big article on why women settle for less in marriage thanks to the pill.

This stuff is better than the slate! :pac:

Get an angry dog.

I know that's why I compared it to Viz like.

Shouldn't they have to tell me who is putting it through my door though if I've requested it to stop.

Thomas828

kingofthe3rdyrs wrote: »

Get a dog who hates postmen and put it in your front garden.

It's not employees of An Post who insist on stuffing junk through your letterbox, it's some poor slob who was thick enough to volunteer for Alive magazine. That's the sort of person you should train your dog to see off, not postmen.

bronte

I'm not sure, but I think there's some law that says if you have a no junkmail sign up, it's actually illegal to put stuff in the letterbox.

Indubitable

Thomas828 wrote: »

It's not employees of An Post who insist on stuffing junk through your letterbox, it's some poor slob who was thick enough to volunteer for Alive magazine. That's the sort of person you should train your dog to see off, not postmen.

Handy for chuggers.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

bronte wrote: »

I'm not sure, but I think there's some law that says if you have a no junkmail sign up, it's actually illegal to put stuff in the letterbox.

True, but is it classified as "mail"? Serious idea: put up a gign saying no junk mail or religious magazines.

panda100

Thomas828 wrote: »

It's not employees of An Post who insist on stuffing junk through your letterbox, it's some poor slob who was thick enough to volunteer for Alive magazine. That's the sort of person you should train your dog to see off, not postmen.

Exactly, you just got to train your dog to hate facist idiots.
Just put a few "Abortion for all" stickers up on your postbox and they'll be out of your front porch faster than they can say the angelus. Believe me,nothing annoys these people more than abortion, the genocide of a million people would be more tolerable to them than a womens right to choose.

Stinicker

I don't consider this "Junk Mail" we have frredom of religion in this country which gives people the right to practise religion and to preach to others also. Perhaps you'd rather all be atheists and have no morals at all?

Indubitable

sounds good to me

Ickle Magoo

bronte wrote: »

I'm not sure, but I think there's some law that says if you have a no junkmail sign up, it's actually illegal to put stuff in the letterbox.

I imagine the kind of religious folks that are shoving theistic literature through doors would consider their peddling sole saving ligh rather than "junk" and so don't think the sign applies to them...adding religious material to the junk mail sign may get through but I wouldn't bet on it, some folks have selective hearing/eyesight when it comes to their protylysing. :pac:

Stinicker wrote: »

Perhaps you'd rather all be atheists and have no morals at all?

Yeah, atheists have no morals - never out the papers with their kiddy-fiddling and covering up kiddy-fiddling...ehhhhhh.....

Indubitable

Move to a rural area

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Stinicker wrote: »

I don't consider this "Junk Mail" we have frredom of religion in this country which gives people the right to practise religion and to preach to others also. Perhaps you'd rather all be atheists and have no morals at all?

we also have freedom to be athiests. We also have the freedom to reject morals.

TheZohanS

wild_cat wrote: »

Anyway how do I get this to stop?

1. Get a condom, open it and put some shampoo/conditoner in it ( a tiny amount and make sure the shampoo/conditioner is a neutral colour, not blue or pink!).
2. Post it to Alive! in an envelope with a note stating that for every time they send you their magazine after you asked them to stop you'll send them the same free present.

Make sure you don't sign the letter.

smcgiff

Stinicker wrote: »

Perhaps you'd rather all be atheists and have no morals at all?

No, just not the crazy shít morals dreamt up by water deprived sand kickers from 3 to 4 thousand years ago.

AnonoBoy

Stinicker wrote: »

I don't consider this "Junk Mail" we have frredom of religion in this country which gives people the right to practise religion and to preach to others also. Perhaps you'd rather all be atheists and have no morals at all?

They can believe whatever nonsense they want - but that doesn't mean they have to shove it through people's letterboxes.

bronte

Stinicker wrote: »

I don't consider this "Junk Mail" we have frredom of religion in this country which gives people the right to practise religion and to preach to others also. Perhaps you'd rather all be atheists and have no morals at all?

I worship trees. That is my religion.

Your religious freedom is infringing on my religious freedom because you insist on killing trees and making paper out of them on which to print "alive" and other high-quality publications.

Why you make me sad?

The_Minister

panda100 wrote: »

Exactly, you just got to train your dog to hate facist idiots.
Just put a few "Abortion for all" stickers up on your postbox and they'll be out of your front porch faster than they can say the angelus. Believe me,nothing annoys these people more than abortion, the genocide of a million people would be more tolerable to them than a womens right to choose.

Actually they pretty much equate the two.

CreepingDeath

wild_cat wrote: »

I have a no junk mail sign up on my front door. The only people who seem unable to read it are the people that deliver the Alive Catholic news paper door to door.

Anyway how do I get this to stop?

I've a no junk mail sign on my door, but there's different interpretations of it.
Most leaflet droppers assume it means mail of a commercial nature.
So political, local and religious leaflets are not considered junk.

If you have a sign saying "An Post mail only" that should make it clear what you mean.

Wolfe Tone

Please please please, IF you have a driveway put the no junk mail sign on the wall at the entrance. It is infuriating to trudge up a driveway and then have to turn around. Half of the time I would fire them in anyway. But I was volunteering to deliver charity bags though.

squod

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I've a no junk mail sign on my door, but there's different interpretations of it.
Most leaflet droppers assume it means mail of a commercial nature.
So political, local and religious leaflets are not considered junk.

If you have a sign saying "An Post mail only" that should make it clear what you mean.

They bluddy are by me. Told off some FG cnut last week over the same thing. Fuhken college boys, can't even read right!

NTMK

A massive Pentagram on your front door should stop them:D

Thomas828

kingofthe3rdyrs wrote: »

Handy for chuggers.

Er, pardon me for being obtuse, but what's a chugger?

AnonoBoy

Thomas828 wrote: »

Er, pardon me for being obtuse, but what's a chugger?

Chugger = Charity Mugger.

The annoying people who stop you on the street for Concern/Oxfam/Pet Rescue etc.




Pet Rescue? Did I just dream that one up?

Killer Pigeon

Stinicker wrote: »

Perhaps you'd rather all be atheists and have no morals at all?

Look at Sweden, 85% of them are atheists and are getting on grand. Morals are based on reasoning and philosophy, not on the belief in a supreme magic man in the sky.

AnonoBoy

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Morals are based on reasoning and philosophy, not on the belief in a supreme magic man in the sky.

As of today we call him The Chocolate Monster around these parts.

Linky

Killer Pigeon

AnonoBoy wrote: »

As of today we call him The Chocolate Monster around these parts.

No, no, no! The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the true church:

http://www.venganza.org/

sam34

panda100 wrote: »

How can you not like Alive?Its bleedin priceless! My fave section is 'The Satan in training' bit on the back page. Thats quality.

they actually have a "satan in training" bit???

wtf


what sort of stuff do they have in that?

storm2811

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

No, no, no! The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the true church:

http://www.venganza.org/

How many more times must I tell you people that the all mighty shape shifting octopus is the one true god?!

http://www.tarvu.com/

I never get this magazine,feel so left out,I've done nothing to the christians who came to the door trying to preach to us apart from telling them to go away and to praise satan?

The_Minister

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

No, no, no! The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the true church:

http://www.venganza.org/

Blasphemy!

AnonoBoy

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

No, no, no! The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the true church:

http://www.venganza.org/

Get with the times man. It's all about El Monstruo Del Choco these days.








(Also I can't eat wheat)

Stinicker

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Look at Sweden, 85% of them are atheists and are getting on grand. Morals are based on reasoning and philosophy, not on the belief in a supreme magic man in the sky.

Have you seen the Swedish reported crime rates recently?
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-with-highest-reported-crime-rates.html

It doesn't look too rosy compared to countries that value our Christian ideals and have at least Moral and Ethical values.

desertcircus

Priceless. It never occurred to you that that chart was more interesting for the reporting than for the "crime"?

Surely you wondered why Canada was on the list and South Africa wasn't...or at the very least, you noticed that every one of those countries was culturally Christian?

Nevyn

NTMK wrote: »

A massive Pentagram on your front door should stop them:D

It doesn't, it means they refer you to the legion of mary and you get medals and rosary beads put in the door and they call around to 'have a chat' esp if you have kids.

Irish Halo

Thaedydal wrote: »

It doesn't, it means they refer you to the legion of mary and you get medals and rosary beads put in the door and they call around to 'have a chat' esp if you have kids.

Speaking from experience?

Killer Pigeon

Stinicker wrote: »

Have you seen the Swedish reported crime rates recently?
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-with-highest-reported-crime-rates.html

It doesn't look too rosy compared to countries that value our Christian ideals and have at least Moral and Ethical values.

I really question that source you just gave, frankly I see it as utter bull and not to reflect actual reality. I'm shocked that the US isn't even on that map.

Kiwi_knock

I remember reading an article in Alive about Joe Little (RTE religious correspondent) and talking about his socialist background and how this made his reporting biased. It ended by saying not to trust every word out the mouth of a son of Trotsky. I found it a quite reliable piece of journalism and certainly opened by eyes to the Red element of RTE.

Coriolanus

he highest reported crime rates clearly indicates that countries of Europe are the least safe countries in the world. Africa and Asia even though, not that economically sound are far safer as compared to the ten countries listed on this map.

Iceland with 14727 approx. crimes is the most unsafe country of the world

Yeah... I'm going to guess that considering these nations are amongst the most advanced and civilly sound in the world, that the reported crime stats include everything from murders to petty crime and minor misdemeanours.

AnonoBoy

Stinicker wrote: »

It doesn't look too rosy compared to countries that value our Christian ideals and have at least Moral and Ethical values.

I object to your use of the word 'our' there buddy.

Killer Pigeon

Stinicker wrote: »

Have you seen the Swedish reported crime rates recently?
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-with-highest-reported-crime-rates.html

It doesn't look too rosy compared to countries that value our Christian ideals and have at least Moral and Ethical values.

Here are some sources that are referenced:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri-crime-total-crimes

http://www.data360.org/graph_group.aspx?Graph_Group_Id=441


As you may find religious countries are quite prominent.

Stinicker

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I really question that source you just gave, frankly I see it as utter bull and not to reflect actual reality. I'm shocked that the US isn't even on that map.

Let me see,

Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Pol Pot
Mao Zedong
Jim Jones
Napolean
Kim Jong iL

Such great moral atheists, I guess they got rid of about quarter of a billion people, but being an Atheist that doesn't matter as we are just intelligent animals who means nothing to the world. I guess if we all took this liberal atheist approach we'd all be atheist and all commit suicide enmass to prevent the polar icecaps from melting.

Nevyn

Irish Halo wrote: »

Speaking from experience?

Yes.

Love the bullshít that if you are not christian you can't have morals and/or ethics.

Nevyn

Stinicker wrote: »

Let me see,

Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Pol Pot
Mao Zedong
Jim Jones
Napolean
Kim Jong iL

Such great moral atheists, I guess they got rid of about quarter of a billion people, but being an Atheist that doesn't matter as we are just intelligent animals who means nothing to the world. I guess if we all took this liberal atheist approach we'd all be atheist and all commit suicide enmass to prevent the polar icecaps from melting.

Oh please like christian king, emperors and popes didn't slaughter a hell of a lot more people over the centuries.

Killer Pigeon

Stinicker wrote: »

Let me see,

Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Pol Pot
Mao Zedong
Jim Jones
Napolean
Kim Jong iL

Such great moral atheists, I guess they got rid of about quarter of a billion people, but being an Atheist that doesn't matter as we are just intelligent animals who means nothing to the world. I guess if we all took this liberal atheist approach we'd all be atheist and all commit suicide enmass to prevent the polar icecaps from melting.

OMG!!!! What they did was based on ideology not on their belief in God.

Oh yeah, you forgot to mention Adolf Hitler, oops, he was Roman Catholic.

Oh yeah, the Spanish Inquisition, forgot about them and the burning of hundreds and thousands of people because of the beliefs and accusations of 'witchcraft'.

One more thing, you're not addressing the statistics I gave you above ^^^

Edit: Forgot to mention the crusades.