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Ah yes, part-time makes you a leech.

BrookM wrote:Ah yes, part-time makes you a leech.

Don't you ever say anything nice, man?

Cheese Elemental wrote:It's not the fact that you're gambling, it's the fact that it takes no effort at all. I earnmy money, as should everyone.

Seeing as the Gentleman in question is 67, I suspect he might well have worked to earn money at some point in his life.

Seeing as he has a child/children it would be likely he's made loads of sacrifices in those years, surely he deserves a bit of a break, not least to not be ripped off by a clerk at a store where he is a regular customer ?

reds8n wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:It's not the fact that you're gambling, it's the fact that it takes no effort at all. I earnmy money, as should everyone.

Seeing as the Gentleman in question is 67, I suspect he might well have worked to earn money at some point in his life.

Seeing as he has a child/children it would be likely he's made loads of sacrifices in those years, surely he deserves a bit of a break, not least to not be ripped off by a clerk at a store where he is a regular customer ?

Yeah yeah, I know, I'm just being a grouch today. Sorry if anyone took offence. I'd better back out of this now.

Reds8n, when did you become a mod?

Lord-Loss wrote:Reds8n, when did you become a mod?

Yeah, woah... what? How... okay.

Lord-Loss wrote:Reds8n, when did you become a mod?

After he passed Malfred's Trial of the Thousand Manpurses...

I for one welcome our new Mod Overlord, and wish nothing but the best for him, as he leads a ragtag fleet across space in a shining quest for a place, a place called Earth.

Cheeses avatar wrote:

Seriously Cheese? If I am not mistaken, this is the second time you have laid out this joke... which is not funny.

(You seem to know the technique known as avatar manipulation... good on you)

Headdog... is not happy about this... not happy at all. This new pic though... Headdog can live with.



Get a stress ball or something man...

Lord-Loss wrote:Reds8n, when did you become a mod?

When Mr. Yakface hacked into my private picture account... damn his blackmailing eyes !

When you ascend to Modhood it takes place outside of normal Space and Time, therefore I have now in fact always been a mod, just like Slaanesh has always existed.

This thread deserves advice dog... in 3-d.




Not sure if I should say congrats or not reds8n... so I will just leave this cookie here.

Sorry... I had to eat cookie, it was necessary.

Cheese Elemental wrote:It's not the fact that you're gambling, it's the fact that it takes no effort at all. I earnmy money, as should everyone.

No-one earns their money, you just turn up, do what you do and get paid what you get paid. It's the most efficient system we've got, but it's got stuff all to do with 'earning'. If it was about earning your money, nurses would be on a lot more than brokers.

So at the end of another week, if someone drops their spare change on a lottery ticket because it helps them dream of winning it big and having an easier life, fair enough.

I used to think that lotteries were taxes on the stupid, but after about 10 years in the workforce I realized I was never going to get rich merely by working hard or saving the money I can afford to put away.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:Of course lotteries are stupid to Cheese. Don't think he's old enough to play (not sure gambling laws over there, it's 18 here).

It's not the fact that you're gambling, it's the fact that it takes no effort at all. I earnmy money, as should everyone.

WHAT? You're a teenager... you should be mooching off your parents, it's part of your culture.

Kilkrazy wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:Of course lotteries are stupid to Cheese. Don't think he's old enough to play (not sure gambling laws over there, it's 18 here).

It's not the fact that you're gambling, it's the fact that it takes no effort at all. I earnmy money, as should everyone.

WHAT? You're a teenager... you should be mooching off your parents, it's part of your culture.

Yeh!

Cheese, whats make you better then the rest of us mooches?

Cheese: I politely ask that you NOT call Lotteryism 'idiocy'. That's insulting religion, something not permitted on this forum. This is why we can't have threads about religion; they ultimately devolve into trolling, , and people forgetting Rule #1.

My brother always said that the lottery is an additional tax for people who can't do math.

no swearing please ! ta.

What has the lottery got to do with Religion, I must be missing something here.

There is another thread in which Cheese told me off for calling Creationism idiocy.

I see more value in the lottery personally, but hey, it doesn't get protected 'cos no-one thought to write a book about it 2000 years ago (just incase it gets missed: wink wink wink,

You're pushing the troll envelop Fifty.

Lord-Loss wrote:What has the lottery got to do with Religion, I must be missing something here.

I think it was a zinger about something posted in the Religion thread. Seriously, I turn my back for an hour, and it devolved into an "is NOT" shouting match about absolutes...
All of the naysayers were right... Apparently, we can't talk about it because we can't agree to disagree. I am sad it is dead, but it ran its course. Let sleeping dogs lie.

Back on topic. I think Cheese has a right to say what he thinks, because he doesn't have a career, he has a job. (No offense Cheese)
Bills, health insurance, food, rent, clothes for the children, diapers... It is something you are not experienced with. You will, in time, and your opinion may change.

All I am saying is: People have different situations. I make approx. 45,000 USD a year. That doesn't mean I more correct than a person working minimum wage.
That being said, I do occasionally splurge (8 USD a month) like I said above. I want a PS3 dammit!


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Damn, my post came too late... DAMN YOU MORNING MEETINGS!!!

Another reason i lost faith in people.

Well they say understanding you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery.

Don't be too stern Fraz, meaningful discourse will only be acheived when we are free to communicate our feelings about certain subjects. If someone disagrees so strenuously with an ethos or religion or anything, it's an interesting opportunity to find out WHY they do.

Er, no actually. Dakka rules extend to discussion of religions and inverse, even here.

RxGhost wrote:Don't be too stern Fraz, meaningful discourse will only be acheived when we are free to communicate our feelings about certain subjects. If someone disagrees so strenuously with an ethos or religion or anything, it's an interesting opportunity to find out WHY they do.

I invite you to visit an unmoderated forum, return, and then express the same opinion without looking sheepish. Try this one. The internet is not a classroom.

You can learn about a lot of things outside of a classroom.

Though one of the chief tenets of Lotteryism is to not take a statistics class at your local college.

Despite rumors to the contrary, I really am searching for the thread where we can discuss meaningful topics of life, the universe, and everything, from various religious and nonreligious perspectives without getting into the inevitable snarkfest about page 5.

Frazzled wrote:Despite rumors to the contrary, I really am searching for the thread where we can discuss meaningful topics of life, the universe, and everything, from various religious and nonreligious perspectives without getting into the inevitable snarkfest about page 5.

Didn't we have one that went on, intermittently, for like 35 pages?

I think maybe locking, and reopening, threads can work well in those circumstances as that's what I recall happening in that case.


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RxGhost wrote:You can learn about a lot of things outside of a classroom.

True enough. But after the 8th incarnation of "Lol Jesus lovers/atheists/insert thing" the only thing left to learn is that the internet doesn't have much to teach without filtration. There's a reason why all our institutions of learning feature professors until at least the graduate level.

RxGhost wrote:
Though one of the chief tenets of Lotteryism is to not take a statistics class at your local college.

Lotteryism?

Frazzled wrote:Despite rumors to the contrary, I really am searching for the thread where we can discuss meaningful topics of life, the universe, and everything, from various religious and nonreligious perspectives without getting into the inevitable snarkfest about page 5.

Let's run around it again then: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/263354.page

dogma wrote:Lotteryism?

Yeah, haven't you heard? I thought that everyone had heard.

Frazzled wrote:Despite rumors to the contrary, I really am searching for the thread where we can discuss meaningful topics of life, the universe, and everything, from various religious and nonreligious perspectives without getting into the inevitable snarkfest about page 5.

QFT, this makes me a sad panda... That is what I have wanted since my first day in Dakka OT.

dogma wrote:I invite you to visit an unmoderated forum, return, and then express the same opinion without looking sheepish. Try this one. The internet is not a classroom.

I think there would be something of a difference between Dakka unmoderated and that forum, simply because Dakka is a wargames forum with an Off Topic section, while that forum is specifically dedicated to arguments between Atheism and Christianity.

Also, any idea what the symbol for "Atheism" in the corner of that site is supposed to be? Some sort of wishbone? An eagle's talons? I have no idea.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I earnmy money, as should everyone.

I earn my money, too. How do you think I pay for the tickets?