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Started by Oexmelin, April 15, 2009, 06:38:25 PM

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Caliga

Quote from: Neil on April 16, 2009, 10:36:15 AMNo.  But they might write 'Sp_t'.

The problem is that assorted idiots think that 'god' is the actual name of their deity.

I tried to explain this to a negress at a former workplace and she got extremely offended.  :(
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Valmy

Quote from: Caliga on April 16, 2009, 10:43:38 AM
I tried to explain this to a negress at a former workplace and she got extremely offended.  :(

It is amazing how ignorant Christians are of the Bible sometimes.

'I believe the Bible is the literal word of God.'

'Oh have you read it?'

'Well...no...it is so very long...'
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Quote from: Caliga on April 16, 2009, 10:43:38 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 16, 2009, 10:36:15 AMNo.  But they might write 'Sp_t'.

The problem is that assorted idiots think that 'god' is the actual name of their deity.

I tried to explain this to a negress at a former workplace and she got extremely offended.  :(

It is sort of like where the word originally used not to give offense ends up, in turn, being offensive, and is replaced with another term.
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Caliga

Quote from: Malthus on April 16, 2009, 10:49:01 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 16, 2009, 10:43:38 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 16, 2009, 10:36:15 AMNo.  But they might write 'Sp_t'.

The problem is that assorted idiots think that 'god' is the actual name of their deity.

I tried to explain this to a negress at a former workplace and she got extremely offended.  :(

It is sort of like where the word originally used not to give offense ends up, in turn, being offensive, and is replaced with another term.


Exactly.

Ioa -> YHWH -> "I am who I am" -> Elohim -> Jehovah -> God -> Jiminy Cricket  :)
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Neil

Quote from: Caliga on April 16, 2009, 10:43:38 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 16, 2009, 10:36:15 AMNo.  But they might write 'Sp_t'.

The problem is that assorted idiots think that 'god' is the actual name of their deity.

I tried to explain this to a negress at a former workplace and she got extremely offended.  :(
To be fair, most black churches aren't big on theology.  It's all hymns and 'GOD DAMN AMERICA!'.
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I went to her wedding there, it was awesome.  Toward the end of the vows, the minister started to shout them and the bride/groom answered in unison with the audience.  At the end when the groom kisses the bride he like bent her over backwards and they were literally sucking face something fierce.  All the ladies in the church shouted "uhhhhhhh-huhhhhh, you go girl!" and started cheering.  Then they like danced out of the church, and we went to a banquet hall down the street and had fried chicken and ribs.  A good time was had by all.  :cool:
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Caliga

Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 16, 2009, 11:25:19 AM
:mmm: Ribs

They were spicy too, IIRC.  No wuss rubs for these folk :)

Oh, I forgot about the part where we arrived at the banquet hall and were four honkies in a crowd of 300, and felt uneasy.
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garbon

Quote from: Martinus on April 16, 2009, 10:33:19 AM
What if she "refuses" to write "their" and instead writes "there"? It's a fucking typo - if a student does not know proper spelling of words, she should be failed.

But she knows how it is spelled...
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Quote from: Caliga on April 16, 2009, 11:27:57 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 16, 2009, 11:25:19 AM
:mmm: Ribs

Oh, I forgot about the part where we arrived at the banquet hall and were four honkies in a crowd of 300, and felt uneasy.

You were worried there would not be enough Ribs to go around?

The Brain

Quote from: Oexmelin on April 15, 2009, 06:38:25 PM
One of my student systematically avoid writing God in her work, using rather G-d. or even G-. Is this taboo usual, frequent in some denominations ?

Fail the student. Is she fucking 8 years old? Grownups spell correctly. Jesus.
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garbon

Quote from: The Brain on April 16, 2009, 12:03:07 PM
Fail the student. Is she fucking 8 years old? Grownups spell correctly. Jesus.

Okay, Marty.
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Quote from: garbon on April 16, 2009, 12:04:26 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 16, 2009, 12:03:07 PM
Fail the student. Is she fucking 8 years old? Grownups spell correctly. Jesus.

Okay, Marty.

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Quote from: garbon on April 16, 2009, 12:04:26 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 16, 2009, 12:03:07 PM
Fail the student. Is she fucking 8 years old? Grownups spell correctly. Jesus.

Okay, Marty.
:rolleyes:  He clearly signed it "Jesus" not Marty.
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