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All aboard the atheist bus

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  • #212
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    So who did that one then? :p


  • #213
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    ooh that's me!


  • #214
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    brilliant letter


  • #215
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    bender_applause_thumb.gif


    EDIT: Just noticed Charco made "Post of the Day" with all his thanks! Surely 5uspect deserves that honour too? Lets go for 2-in-a-row for the A&A forum!


  • #216
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    5uspect wrote: »
    ooh that's me!

    Nice one :D.


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  • #217
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Great letter.


  • #218
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Aw chucks.


  • #219
    Ste05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Ste05


    Great letters guys, really well written.


  • #220
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Dades wrote: »
    EDIT: Just noticed Charco made "Post of the Day" with all his thanks! Surely 5uspect deserves that honour too? Lets go for 2-in-a-row for the A&A forum!

    I see After Hours are actively looking for a new Mod. maybe we should campaign for one of these guys to do it, might be nice having a mole in that place...


  • #221
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I heartily approve of such underhanded shennanigans.


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  • #222
    Fallen Seraph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Fallen Seraph


    Fair play, but at the same time I'm really inclined to feel that arguing with the indo is basically arguing with a red top; a sisyphan task, tbh.


    Still though, very eloquent. Well done.


  • #223
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    5uspect wrote: »
    ooh that's me!

    Nicely done!


  • #224
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Galvasean wrote: »
    I see After Hours are actively looking for a new Mod. maybe we should campaign for one of these guys to do it, might be nice having a mole in that place...
    Why anyone would want to mod that place I can't imagine. Volunteers must be trying to make up for some horrible past or something.


  • #225
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    I've probably missed the bus on this one, but I sent a letter off to the Independent tonight. I'd say it's rather too long and probably doesn't really tread any new ground, but I really wanted to get it off my chest anyway. If they don't run with it I'll stick it up here anyway. Maybe it's my tiredness at 2am but I think I went off on a pretty grandiose tangent in there. Might be better if they don't print the thing...


  • #226
    condra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭condra


    Great letter man.

    Did anyone call her a stupid bitch? I was so tempted, but I just ranted instead.


  • #227
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    womoma wrote: »
    Did anyone call her a stupid bitch? I was so tempted, but I just ranted instead.

    Nah. I started out angry with her but ended up feeling sorry for her. She reckons the atheist world where we define morality for ourselves is chaotic and terrifying, hence her anger. She just hasn't twigged that, right or wrong, we reckon the world always has been the atheist world. We've always defined our own morality; we just gave the credit to God.

    I more or less summed up my own letter with that sentiment, that she sees no hope in humanity itself. I find that really saddening.


  • #228
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Today's paper:
    Ian O'Doherty, Irish Independent, 24 Nov wrote:
    IN HONOUR OF MARY

    This column is a big fan of the Indo's Mary Kenny, but her recent column on atheists (we're all horrible, miserable people apparently, apart from one atheist she knows who is cordial because he's pissed all the time) has driven some of the heathen Godless into a tailspin of fury, which no doubt amuses Kenny a great deal.

    But it may have also backfired on her -- donations to the fund to bring the frankly ridiculous 'Atheist bus' to Dublin have rocketed, with dozens of donations all given in honour of Mary Kenny.

    Will she attend the official reception when it arrives?

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-1554634.html


  • #229
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    The woman who started the campaign made a post about Mary here
    http://www.atheistcampaign.org/

    A similar ad was apparantly rejected in Australia (again, in the link).

    BTW,


    Simon Bishop 25/11/2008 £2.00 n/a Mary Kenny thinks atheists call her stupid because she is religious. I disagree. It has nothing to do with her religion. If the cap fits ...

    Simon Bishop 25/11/2008 £2.00 n/a Each time I reread that Mary Kenny article I get more and more angry. I can't control my OCADD when I get angry.
    Simon Bishop 25/11/2008 £3,000.00 n/a Mary Kenny ...
    :eek:


  • #230
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3a0g4-gHfQ


  • #231
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    5uspect wrote: »
    Today's paper:
    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-1554634.html

    Brilliant :pac:

    Not really a supporter of the campaign myself- but the like of Kenny would certainly tempt me to contribute.


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  • #232
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    so where do you donate to get this bus to come to dublin


  • #233
    condra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭condra


    I want to support a Dublin bus too.


  • #234
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Gotta say I'm loving Womoma's sig right now.


  • #235
    jimbling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭jimbling


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Gotta say I'm loving Womoma's sig right now.

    I know... got a good laugh out of that.... but it seems to have suddenly disappeared :(


  • #236
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Actually i don't think it is a sig after all, but rather an image with a line above it.


  • #237
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    MooseJam wrote: »
    so where do you donate to get this bus to come to dublin
    Ach, donate my ass! Let's hijack a 46A this evening. We're supposed to be militant, aren't we? :)


  • #238
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Actually i don't think it is a sig after all, but rather an image with a line above it.

    Thats what I thought as well, but if that was the case then when you go to quote the post the text and picture below the line should appear in the quote box, and they don't.

    It has me confused :confused:.


  • #239
    condra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭condra


    The theists have gone fairly quiet in the After Hours thread.


  • #240
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Charco wrote: »
    Thats what I thought as well, but if that was the case then when you go to quote the post the text and picture below the line should appear in the quote box, and they don't.

    It has me confused :confused:.

    You can turn your sig on or off when you post. I'm guessing womama has hers(?) off by default.


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  • #241
    condra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭condra


    womama has hers(?
    I'm a member of the male gender, despite my name, feminism (not to be mistaken for femininity). The sig only comes out now and then for maximum impact.

    Anyway, I'm still pissed about Monkey Kenny. That article will be looked back on and laughed at in years to come. Pathetic bint. (Can I say 'bint'?)


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