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Believe it or not, I seldom troll or even semi-troll on Facebook any more. I de-friended all of the TrumpBots and aside from a few nonsensical drunken postings from time to time, my Facebook interaction is fairly limited. But I couldn't help myself on this one. I can't stand this chick -- it's the sister of a good friend who has a half-dozen multi-level marketing "businesses" and posts "self-help" nonsense on the regular.

I like it because it works as validation of her post (if you want to see it that way) and as a straight up trolling.

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That's fantastic.
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That is outstanding. Well played.
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Hahaha. That's amazing. What did she say after that?
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Johnnie wrote:Hahaha. That's amazing. What did she say after that?
Beautiful. I wonder how many people actually pick up on the joke.
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Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.

Nice guy, but he tends to overshare the events of the day.

He posted this thrilling update earlier in the day with the caption "Homeward Bound" (note, this is the Ottawa airport. He lives in Toronto. It is a 60 minute flight.)

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Respect if he's doing it ironically.
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P.D.X. wrote:Respect if he's doing it ironically.
Nice guy, but no. He's the type who live streams his son's basketball game and will post shots from most of the holes when he plays golf.
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If atheists dont believe in Jesus why are they so worried that he just sacrificed a weekend for their sins. What is sin to an atheist? in order to sin you have to know right from wrong dont you? So for an atheist there is no sin. You are free to do as you please to anyone or anything, without fear. So you are free to murder, rape, steal, commit adultery, but do the majoity of atheists do that of their own free will, no, so where did their moral compass step in and from whom, perhaps that was in the primordial soup called the Big Bang.
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Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.
While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.
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Jerloma wrote:
If atheists dont believe in Jesus why are they so worried that he just sacrificed a weekend for their sins. What is sin to an atheist? in order to sin you have to know right from wrong dont you? So for an atheist there is no sin. You are free to do as you please to anyone or anything, without fear. So you are free to murder, rape, steal, commit adultery, but do the majoity of atheists do that of their own free will, no, so where did their moral compass step in and from whom, perhaps that was in the primordial soup called the Big Bang.
Wow. Just ... wow.
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Sabo wrote:
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If atheists dont believe in Jesus why are they so worried that he just sacrificed a weekend for their sins. What is sin to an atheist? in order to sin you have to know right from wrong dont you? So for an atheist there is no sin. You are free to do as you please to anyone or anything, without fear. So you are free to murder, rape, steal, commit adultery, but do the majoity of atheists do that of their own free will, no, so where did their moral compass step in and from whom, perhaps that was in the primordial soup called the Big Bang.
Wow. Just ... wow.
So much stupidity to unpack in one short paragraph.
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On the bright side, illustrating the fallacy of the false premise just got a whole lot easier.
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Nonlinear FC wrote:
Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.
While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.
Was it Super Diamond?
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P.D.X. wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:
Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.
While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.
Was it Super Diamond?
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Wife had to drag me away, because I was having way too much fun making fun of everything.

I kind of felt bad for the band, because that venue was incredibly difficult. A bunch of codgers posted up front in beach chairs giving almost nothing back. And if click on that video... There's like 10 of them in that band.
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King Diamond?
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Almost too bad because that would be a great name for a cover band that does only Elvis and Neil Diamond covers (which itself would be pretty brilliant).
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brian wrote:Almost too bad because that would be a great name for a cover band that does only Elvis and Neil Diamond covers (which itself would be pretty brilliant).
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I knew that, hence the joke.
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mister d wrote:On the bright side, illustrating the fallacy of the false premise just got a whole lot easier.
Right? I love the way she just subtly slips "and from whom?" in there, which is only like the 8th craziest thing about that paragraph.
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Lowkey, a fear I have is having to give an interview in a professional setting (read: in uniform) and some religion question pops up and I have to answer it in front of a crowd of people.

I was actually coached on this prior to going to Iraq because you're working with people who take their religion too seriously and they love talking about it. The response I was told to give was "I'm searching for my faith." It's a half lie, but it works. But that's on a personal level with Muslims you're working with, not in an interview.

So I figure i'd go with a joke that would finish with that in front of Americans. "Well, a while back I gave up being Catholic for lent and I've been searching for my faith ever since." That may or may not work, but the situation is so unlikely that I shouldn't have to worry.
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Johnnie wrote:Lowkey, a fear I have is having to give an interview in a professional setting (read: in uniform) and some religion question pops up and I have to answer it in front of a crowd of people.

I was actually coached on this prior to going to Iraq because you're working with people who take their religion too seriously and they love talking about it. The response I was told to give was "I'm searching for my faith." It's a half lie, but it works. But that's on a personal level with Muslims you're working with, not in an interview.

So I figure i'd go with a joke that would finish with that in front of Americans. "Well, a while back I gave up being Catholic for lent and I've been searching for my faith ever since." That may or may not work, but the situation is so unlikely that I shouldn't have to worry.
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"I believe in Jesus except for the parts where he doesn't live his entire life in pursuit of money" works well for non-military positions.
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P.D.X. wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:
Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.
While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.
Was it Super Diamond?

This gave me an idea. I'm going to open a wedding proposal planning company named Kneel...Diamond.
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Diamond works two different ways there. If you need investors call me.
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Johnnie wrote:Lowkey, a fear I have is having to give an interview in a professional setting (read: in uniform) and some religion question pops up and I have to answer it in front of a crowd of people.

I was actually coached on this prior to going to Iraq because you're working with people who take their religion too seriously and they love talking about it. The response I was told to give was "I'm searching for my faith." It's a half lie, but it works. But that's on a personal level with Muslims you're working with, not in an interview.

So I figure i'd go with a joke that would finish with that in front of Americans. "Well, a while back I gave up being Catholic for lent and I've been searching for my faith ever since." That may or may not work, but the situation is so unlikely that I shouldn't have to worry.
That's a fantastic answer, and I'm not sure it's a lie in the slightest (at least to me) so long as you can recognize the difference between it and the blind variety.

Life is about reconciling a balance between faith and reason (and also understanding that biblical and blind faith are the exact same thing)...
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EnochRoot wrote:Life is about reconciling a balance between faith and reason (and also understanding that biblical and blind faith are the exact same thing)...
That's quite good, ER.
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Mind asking if that includes suicide bombers?
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mister d wrote:Mind asking if that includes suicide bombers?
I should hope not.
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I just found out that I'm officially single as of today via a Facebook status of the significant other's sister asking if anyone knew of a guy to set her up with

(full disclosure: it was in the process of happening and was inevitable. so this is far from a surprise. but it wasn't done either. we were taking a couple days and going from there.)

((but holy shit this is hilarious))
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Couldn't just take the shittiest room, huh?
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mister d wrote:Couldn't just take the shittiest room, huh?
wasn't my fight!
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So was the status something like "can't wait to help my newly single sister land some hot dick"?
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mister d wrote:So was the status something like "can't wait to help my newly single sister land some hot dick"?
something about "my sister is single again (she was tagged in the post) and does anyone know of a good guy I'm looking to set her up"
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She gots to lose that Yahoo! blogger and get herself a good snogger.
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