Weird Presents Anyone?

g8way writes "Now that Christmas is about, it's time for presents. A joyous occasion with much drinking, fruitcake, and butt-ugly sweaters. What's the weirdest gift you've gotten so far? Personally, I got toothpaste, tic-tacs, deodorant, and a McDonalds coupon book in the same package. What's your story of Christmas present mayhem?"

Comments

Re:Screw weird, this is the *COOL* present thread!

[Datasage]

I find it funny that your mother in law is advocating piracy.

Re:My iPod

[kantai]

Yet again, that is the metric or decimal way of looking at things. When your computer shows you MB, it isnt showing you 1,000,000 or 10^6 bytes it is showing you 1,048,576 bytes or 2^20. But, hardware manufacturers use this system so that it appears that their hard drives are larger. Also, the metric system is commonly used with data transfer rates, while the binary is used with data storage, like with this iPod.

This is not funny

[Pan T. Hose]

I also got a dildo for Christmas, from one of my coworkers. (It's some sick sodomy kind of dildo, called "arse plug" or something.) As soon as I find out who bought it, he is going to get a big, nice, happy lawsuit from me for the Happy New Year. There is no place for perverts where I work.

Re:This is not funny

[MrIcee]

Obviously you can't use the butt plug since your ass is already occupied with your head. What the world REALLY needs less of is people like you. Go fuck yourself (the message the giver was intending most likely)... oh wait, your already constipated. And let me guess where you store your jackboots....

Re:This is not funny

[ModernGeek]

You are the kind of person who thinks that if a lawsuit is won, that whatever they were trying to prove with that lawsuit is correct. You are one of those guys that if you weren't in America, you wouldn't make it because you need to be pamered and sheilded from the world and all things offensive. Wake up to reality. By the way, pointing out my spelling errors doesn't prove your point either, so don't try that either.

I will not "fucking live with it" (sic)

[Pan T. Hose]

Quite contrary to what you insinuate, I didn't "enjoy" it (sic), as I got it secured by our security team as as soon as I opened the package, to preserve the fingerprints for the investigation. As I've already said, I will not tolerate perverts working here. Over my dead body. This sick deviant will "probably enjoy anyway" being sodomized in the jail, where he will get for his act of sexual abuse in the place of work.

Do NOT make fun of Christians!

[Loundry]

If you are a non-Christian who wishes that Christians would keep their beliefs and practices to themselves (or may go a step further and may wish that Christians abandon their beliefs), then I beg of you to not make fun of Christians.

Christians, like all religious people, thrive on persecution. If someone is attacking them, then they feel that they are being "persecuted because they are right". Mocking them puts them on the defensive and makes them resistant to your message no matter what your message may be.

Instead of making fun of Christians, I implore you to, instead, attack their stupid, superstitious beliefs. Sympathize with them and appeal to their sense of reason. Ask difficult and probing questions. Build bridges, not walls.

Re:Do NOT make fun of Christians!

[Loundry]

I believe you just made fun of us, hence negating you're entire post. Nice work.

Nice opinion. You're suffering from the, "You must respect my beliefs to respect me" problem. Furthermore, I got another reply from a Christian who did not feel like my post was making fun of Christians.

Besides, if the founding fathers of the USA weren't Christians, nobody here would get Christmas day off to spend with their families.

Thomas Jefferson ripped out every page of his Bible that referred to Jesus's divinity. He didn't think the pages he ripped out belonged in the Bible. The founding fathers were not as Christian as you want them to be.

Further, I don't need to defend my religion or the Bible.

Yes, you do, you condescending, smug Christian. You claim that your superstition is ultimate truth for all humanity. If you're going to make *that* arrogant of a claim, then you better be well-prepared to defend it!

If it needed me to defend it, it wouldn't still be such a driving force in a large part of the planets population.

This is an ad numeram argument. Following this flawed logic, I can claim that since non-Christians are in the majority, their philosophy is better.

Rather, I can let the Bible speak for itself. Got a "probing question"? Read for yourself.

I have read the Bible exhaustively. I probably know scripture better than you do. It is because I know scripture so well that I choose to reject it as the superstitious work of humans.

Re:Do NOT make fun of Christians!

[Loundry]

My main objection, in case you're wondering, was the attempt to change current Christians over to non-Chirstians, which is not a very good goal for ones self. I mean, how rude is that? I'm not trying to switch you over, so why do the same to me?

It isn't rude at all. Christians present a threat to me and my family on many different levels. Religion is divisive and immoral. For people to abandon superstition for reason is a good thing.

At any rate, you're probably right -- you do know scripture better than I do.

Did you know that slavery is supported in both the OT and in the NT?

And as for the founding fathers, they were Christian enough to see that Christmas was of great importance.

Non sequitur. You argued that the founding fathers were Christians. Many of them were not.

Also, they didn't allow businesses to be open on Sundays. That's more Christian than quite a few people.

The Sabbath is Saturday, not Sunday. There is nothing in scripture that states that the Sabbath was or should be moved to Sunday.

Just because Jefferson didn't believe the entire Bible doesn't mean that the majority of the founding fathers weren't Christian.

It isn't that Jefferson didn't believe the entire Bible, but rather that he completely denied the divinity of Jesus. Thank you for admitting that not all of the founding fathers weren't Christians. You've fallen back on the weaker, "The majority of the founding fathers were Christian". Perhaps you haven't read about how James Madison decried what he called the "Tyrrany of the Majority". Perhaps you haven't noticed that Jesus is never mentioned in the Constitution. If this truly were a Christian nation, then why doesn't Christ appear in our founding document?

And you claim that your lack of religion (or belief in an alternate) is the ultimate truth for all humanity as well.

Where, specifically, did I claim this? I don't trumpet "Truth" the way Christians do. Reason and reality are my guiding principles, not "truth".

Yes, it's true -- not believing in one God is a religion in and of itself. Several, in fact.

There are several atheistic religions, such as Bhuddism and Leftism. I do not follow any religion (which implies superstition). I, like all people, follow a philosophy. Yours is grounded in superstition. Mine is grounded in reason.

Society seems to think that if you don't subscribe to an organized religion (and it's not that organized, trust me), then you aren't religious. Fact is, you are, just in a different way.

It depends. I, for one, am not superstitious and am thus not religious.

But we can debate this until the second coming (or, if you prefer, until the cows come home), and it will only solve to agrovate each other. So, for now, let us agree to disagree.

Give me a chance to make some headway. Do you mind if I ask you some more questions about your faith?

Re:Do NOT make fun of Christians!

[DunbarTheInept]

I mean, how rude is that? I'm not trying to switch you over, so why do the same to me?

Every time you claim the bible is correct, you are also claiming people should make that switchover, since that's a major portion of the message contained therein. It is not logically possible to say the bible is truth and not also be saying people should become Christians. The two go together.

Christmas in Russia

[rwrife]

I wonder what kinds of gifts they give/get in Russia?