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Religion being forced on us by An Post

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  • #32
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Gbear wrote: »
    So long as they also bring out stamps commemorating Ramadan then it's no problem. :pac:

    It'd almost be worth it for the **** storm alone :D.


  • #33
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    Skid wrote: »
    These Atheist whinges are starting to piss me off so much, I might have to start going to Mass again.

    I might just join you


  • #34
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    To put it in context, An Post released four commemorative stamps for the Titanic centenary.


  • #35
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,294 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    the groutch wrote: »
    there's apparently new stamps being brought out because of that Catholic love-in in the RDS

    http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/News+and+Information/IEC+2012.htm



    so now if I want to send a letter, I'm going to have it look like I'm a Catholic.
    one step too far imo.

    pretty sure you can't catch Catholicism by using a stamp :P

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #36
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    I'm outraged that lettuce is being forced upon me by Kelkin.

    Yes! They've a picture of one of their gluten free rice cakes with chicken and lettuce on it on the front of the packaging.

    I'm sending a strongly worded letter to Kelkin highlighting my outrage. I just hope the person opening it is of another religion (other than RC) so they can be equally offended by my stamp.


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  • #37
    downwithpeace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    First bills now this, what's next, paper advertising cheap pizza.


  • #38
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Damn straight OP, this is right up there with the Crusades.


  • #39
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    prinz wrote: »
    To put it in context, An Post released four commemorative stamps for the Titanic centenary.

    Yeah and look what happened there - out-rage that people couldn't send letters lest people think them Leonardo DiCaprio fans! :mad:


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If i get my post at home within 2 weeks of being sent from the UK, it's an act of God, so maybe they're onto something.


  • #41
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Still trying to kick the golf habit after they had a Solheim Cup stamp.


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  • #42
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I want one where i get to lick the virgin mary:eek:


  • #43
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I want one where i get to lick the virgin mary:eek:

    You might get lucky at Christmas. Still tates like stale glue though.


  • #44
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,377 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Oh wow, they've Dracula stamps. Where's my credit card? I'm guessing you have to specifically request the Catholic stamps from the website, not like you end up with them every time you buy stamps in the shop? If so, that's perfectly fine with me despite me being an atheist.


  • #45
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    just buy a regular stamp :confused:


  • #46
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,377 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    What a very silly thing to complain about.

    Do people even still use stamps?

    Not me. I write the recipient address in the return address corner and send it without a stamp. Although if someone else has been nice enough to send me a letter with a stamp on it, a bit of steam and pritt-stick works wonders for reusing the stamp.

    Anyone else miss the days when you could buy a packet of 10 Travel 90s then claim the tickets were defective and send it back for a new set when you were down to your last 2 or 3?


  • #47
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    the groutch wrote: »
    there's apparently new stamps being brought out because of that Catholic love-in in the RDS

    http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/News+and+Information/IEC+2012.htm



    so now if I want to send a letter, I'm going to have it look like I'm a Catholic.
    one step too far imo.

    If you're that pissed off, you should find out who was responsible and go and stick one on 'em.


  • #48
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    People still send letters????:eek: WTF is this 1950?


  • #49
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Last registered letter I got a district court summons :(


  • #50
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I'm gonna get me some of these holy rolling stamps, stick em on a letter with a false address so when it gets lost I can ring an pope/ an post and go WHERES UR GOD NOW?


  • #51
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    The OP has taken a right licking on this thread. He mightn't be posting here for a while. Real nasty atmosphere around here philately.


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  • #52
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    We need a Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice squad to sort these thing out.


  • #53
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    If this offends you, how do you make it through the day?


  • #54
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Bambi wrote: »
    I'm gonna get me some of these holy rolling stamps, stick em on a letter with a false address so when it gets lost I can ring an pope/ an post and go WHERES UR GOD NOW?

    Lost in the sorting office in Whitehall.


  • #55
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    So? Id hardly call that forces religion on us. I dislike the catholic church as much as any other boardsie and Im not religious at all, I wouldnt even go as far to call myself atheist because I just dont care enough about the whole area. I think the Eucharistic congress is alright, Its going to draw in a few twenty thousand each day and bring in money. Infact Im working at it for 1 day :D

    Atheism seems to be like a religion these days with the way some people rant on. And let me just reiterate my previous point. Im not religious what so ever..


  • #56
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Hosting the Eucharistic Congress is a bit like hosting a major sports tournament, so I can't blame a state body for wanting to commemorate it in some way. The event has brought in about 7,000 tourists, which is not to be sniffed at. As long as the stamp doesn't turn in to Jesus Tartare when I lick it, I'll survive. :o

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #57
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    koth wrote: »
    pretty sure you can't catch Catholicism by using a stamp :P
    Pretty sure the OP thinks you can.


    Where is the OP???


  • #58
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    As a card carrying, baby eating atheist I have to say op is either a troll or false flag terrorist.


  • #59
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    An Post could make a fortune if you were able to upload an image and get stamps made out of it. I'd get loads of pedo bear stamps made for Christmas and send my friends in the states letters with team America terrorist stamps on them!


  • #60
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,377 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    smash wrote: »
    I'd get loads of pedo bear stamps made for Christmas

    Well he was an official mascot for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.


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  • #61
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I bought a book of stamps 2 weeks ago. They all feature various spiders...nasty evil looking spiders that would kill you in your sleep and not think twice about it.

    I pity anyone with arachnophobia who buys them...but at least they don't have to lick the stamp.


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