The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

Today is a beautiful sunny day in Vancouver and there was a lengthy line up at my favourite lunch time food cart.  Their fish and chips are the best in the city.  So I waited patiently while newcomers looked over the lengthy menu and decided what to order.   When it was my turn to order, before I started talking the cook said, "Hi CC.  I saw you in line.  Here is your fish and chips."

Now that is service!

You sound like...a bore.

[Josquius]

4 day weekend.... And it's raining . Gah

[CountDeMoney]

[Eddie Teach]

Clearly not as many Jewish retirees in Florida as people say.

[CountDeMoney]

Clearly not as many Jewish retirees in Florida as people say.

Their life expectancy probably skewers the results.

[Ideologue]

Islam is once again correlated with dysfunctional polities and failed states.

[Barrister]

What the hell is up with South Carolina and Ba'hai?

[Ideologue]

Louis Gregory became attracted to the Bahai ideal of racial harmony in the early 1900s, and started converting people.  He was modestly successful and there's a museum in Charleston.  I'm not entirely convinced it's our second-largest religious group, though.  I could probably find ten times as many Muslims and Buddhists at USC alone than there are Bahai in Columbia.  That said, I have seen that as a state we have the second largest congregation in absolute numbers after California.

[Josquius]

I'm totally rained in and bored out my mind. Suggestions?

[Caliga]

No chance, I have been eating there since they opened last year.  I always have the fish and chips.  Like I said, its the best in the city.  From their point of view it also makes no sense to attempt to pursuade me to try something else as the fish in chips are the most expensive thing on their menu.

I meant you should have said that as a joke.

[derspiess]

Islam is once again correlated with dysfunctional polities and failed states.

My WV Facebook friends are freaking the hell out over that map.

[Syt]

Well, it would be nice if the map came with the %-age of the religions in question.

[Valmy]

I wonder how close Hinduism is to Islam in Texas.  We have more Indians here now than we did in 1491.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I wonder how close Hinduism is to Islam in Texas.  We have more Indians here now than we did in 1491.

Or Buddhism, for that matter.  I admit, my perception is skewed because I live in one of the Vietnamese/Thai sections of DFW, but there an awful lot of them.

[Savonarola]

Clearly not as many Jewish retirees in Florida as people say.

They still dominate South Florida, but Muslims have conquered the center: