1. Sharia law 'could have UK role'

Comment #204158 by Prankster on July 4, 2008 at 8:47 am

Inayat Bunglawala says it quite clearly in that "There is no parallel legal system. This system cannot override English common law system at all."

As I understand it this type of law is not law as such more like a framework or code for dispute settling or arbitration- I hardly think an English judge is going to try a thief in court by using sharia principles and then ordering the thief to have his hands cut off-it just wouldn't work over here.

The ones seeking a change in the law are not wholly representative of the muslim population.

Education about this law needs to be put on the political agenda rather than scaremongering in the likes of the rightwing press. Aspects of Islam intrigue, fascinate and appall me all at once, but the imposition of sharia doesn't, as it can never happen.

2. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203673 by Prankster on July 3, 2008 at 10:51 am

Trillian

You make, I think, a valid point. I also read somewhere that Muslims at airports objected to sniffer dogs as they were considered unclean?

Like Fanusi posted before it's almost impossible to get along with this religion for fear of giving offence or perceived insults-utterly crackers......

3. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203656 by Prankster on July 3, 2008 at 10:24 am

Fanusi

I was being sarcastic but thanks for the link-quite a revelation (can that word be used here?)

I bet this particular shit-list is growing day by day as well?

Prankster

4. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203638 by Prankster on July 3, 2008 at 9:31 am

Can we have a list of topics that don't annoy muslims in general? It might make these religious idiots easier to deal with rather than walking on fucking eggshells trying not to offend them

That's assuming some stupid bastard complained about it in the first place?

Fuck's sake.........

5. Aliens need Christ's redemption, too

Comment #201758 by Prankster on June 30, 2008 at 8:15 am

Assuming there is intelligence out there and intelligent aliens to boot, perhaps they gave religion a miss in the first place. This to me would denote a level of intelligence way above ours surely?

6. World Youth Day condom protest against Pope

Comment #198632 by Prankster on June 24, 2008 at 10:21 am

Cartomancer

Remind me never to read your posts while drinking fizzy beer-makeszzzzz a terrible mess of the keyboarrrrrrrrddddd and monitor?

Brilliant as always!

7. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198145 by Prankster on June 23, 2008 at 9:24 am

Hicks and Carlin gone,crap like Dane Cook still breathing.....utter sadness.

Least, still Lewis Black to watch and listen to.

Ah well, that's pissed all over my Monday evening, folks.

Night all

8. Christianity 'could die out within a century'

Comment #197458 by Prankster on June 22, 2008 at 5:31 am

Good.......

9. Liberty University is looking for Biology Professors

Comment #196768 by Prankster on June 20, 2008 at 12:25 pm

The interview for the job probably will go something like this~:

So Mr CreationistIdiot, what's your philosophy?

"I believe Man is made from clay, woman is made from a man's rib. I also believe Dinosaurs co-existed with man-I've seen "the Flintstones" so it must be true! Genetics? Well gee, you stumped me there-Godditit? Is that the right answer?

Congratulations, Mr CreationistIdiot,when can you start?

10. Science teacher dissed evolution

Comment #196755 by Prankster on June 20, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Hasn't something like this been posted already on here? Back in April this year weren't there reports of a teacher branding students?

If it's the same fundie idiot, why is still employed?

The mind boggles.....

11. Rapture site sends unbelievers their last chance ... via email

Comment #194772 by Prankster on June 17, 2008 at 8:56 am

Excuse me while I pick myself up off the fucking floor *giggles insanely*

So true that christianity and cash go palm in sweaty palm-how fucking gullible are people?

I really hope they're not using "Windows Outlook" to send the e-mails out-the "Rapture" could have been and gone by the time the bloody e-mails have gone out.

Idiots. However looks like the "toast with the image of the virgin mary" and the orange with the pips in spelling "God" ideas both need refining again.......

12. From Big Bang to Us - Made Easy

Comment #192578 by Prankster on June 13, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Wonderful, just wonderful!

They should really get around to showing this in schools.

Incidentally I was also looking at some related links over on Youtube (planets and stars to scale, voyages across galaxies etc), all superb and awe-inspiring and making you realise how utterly insignificant the need for religion is as no "god" could have come up with something so wonderful as the universe we live in.

13. Debating creationism in Louisiana schools

Comment #191699 by Prankster on June 11, 2008 at 1:16 pm

I thought guys like the spoof richard_dawkins only showed up on here on a Friday night-that was the usual night for such "comedians" to make an appearance-oh well.

Almost another wooter he's that good

14. New British Petition: Stop the Nightmares

Comment #191692 by Prankster on June 11, 2008 at 1:09 pm

Comment #191686 Paula Kirby

I see you've signed but are people doing this as a reaction against religious indoctrination as a form of abuse or religion as a whole?

I think this distinction needs to be made, still too vague for me I'm afraid so I wont be signing.

15. New British Petition: Stop the Nightmares

Comment #191667 by Prankster on June 11, 2008 at 12:25 pm

I'd gladly sign-however the level of religious mental torture or abuse or otherwise,inflicted on children, needs to be measured or proved surely?

Sorry but the premise while laudible, is a little too vague for to sign this petition at present.

Prof Dawkins et al may say religious indoctrination is a form of abuse, but there's no tangible evidence or published proof I can find at present to make me want to sign for now. However give me proof or evidence and I'll step down from my metaphorical fence sitting and decide what to do

16. Hints of 'time before Big Bang'

Comment #189488 by Prankster on June 6, 2008 at 10:59 am

Trying to wrap my head around this is painful-however I liken it to the universe contracting an expanding-the universe reached such a point of contraction it actually exploded back out forming itself again-fanciful maybe but the science is well beyond me......just a thought..

Prankster

17. Storm erupts over 'virginity' divorce

Comment #189142 by Prankster on June 5, 2008 at 2:17 pm

RE:Comment 189138

Have to agree with Mitchell-there's only human sexuality as far as I can see and the "configuation" (for want of a better description, be it M/F, M/M F/F etc) shouldn't matter nor should it be labelled or compartmentalized, not in this day and age for fuck's sake!

Just a thought...

Re my comment about hamsters-apologies I'm tired and was trying to inject some levity.

Prankster

18. Storm erupts over 'virginity' divorce

Comment #189137 by Prankster on June 5, 2008 at 2:08 pm

Corylus

I was actually expecting a mild retort or a flaming from Appleby!

Hamsters?

19. Storm erupts over 'virginity' divorce

Comment #189129 by Prankster on June 5, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Do we think this is something Appleby has tried in his past?

*ducks*

20. Storm erupts over 'virginity' divorce

Comment #189120 by Prankster on June 5, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Been lurking this thread for a couple of days-totally lost.....

We've gone from an annuled marriage on the grounds of non-virginity and the legal and religious/moral implications, thru gay adoption, homosexuality, bestiality, and back around again numerous times, circles within circles and wheels within wheels, so I'm wandering away from this one folks, I crave my sleep.....

21. Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion

Comment #187529 by Prankster on June 2, 2008 at 9:29 am

Amazing if true and fabulous if provable but this reminds me of an earlier article when a guy claimed he had developed a perpetual motion machine.....I'll believe it when it happens.

22. Car dealership advert tells atheists to 'shut up'

Comment #185653 by Prankster on May 28, 2008 at 9:07 am

Selling religion or selling cars?

Both useless items bought by gullible fools....

Nuff said!

Prankster

23. Mail-boat record 'proves Darwin stole his original ideas from a Welsh scientist'

Comment #185287 by Prankster on May 27, 2008 at 11:17 am

Does it matter?

Really? We all know ideas get pinched and stolen and passed off as other peoples work-cameras and telephones being the most notable example...

If it gets called "Darwinism" or "Wallaceism" it doesn't matter-not to me at any rate, and if it pisses off creationists and fundies then so much the better eh?

24. Texas Megachurch Minister Busted in Internet Sex Sting

Comment #181790 by Prankster on May 18, 2008 at 9:15 am

What can I say....?

Another devout religous pervert on the prowl, caught before he managed to corrupt or molest another young person.

If it wasn't so sordid and tacky it would be funny-no doubt he'll do a Swaggert and go blubbing on the television asking for forgiveness saying he's only human and "Ah have sinned Lord" etc, etc, etc, blah,blah, blah.

Fuck him he's an idiot he got caught-good! I hope he rots in jail-bastard!

25. Surviving an unholy school war

Comment #181784 by Prankster on May 18, 2008 at 8:55 am

Ah yes the leather strap and frequent beatings in a "loving" catholic school......makes me pine for the good old days doesn't it?

My experiences while not as gruesome involved me tackling a mob of bullies, beating the shit out of the ringleader and 2 of his mates and receiving 12 of the best (6 on each hand) for defending myself...never quite got my head around that one.....

Still it hasn't......unngh!....woof! woof! aarrrghh! affected me in any way at all-howl! has it?

26. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #180997 by Prankster on May 16, 2008 at 8:55 am

Wow......I'm no expert on the human form but these people need to get out more and see that those appendages.....well, how can I put this?

THEY AREN'T ACTUALLY FUCKING LEGS!

Here's another frightening thought folks...these seriously clinical psychotic people are out there right now, finding things to complain about.....and they are breeding.....

Sleep tight!

27. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #180141 by Prankster on May 14, 2008 at 9:10 am

So it's now ok to believe in Aliens?

Ok Herr Ratzenberger, thanks for that.....no really such a climbdown of olympian proportions from your good self, well frankly I'm amazed.....(ain't sarcasm great folks?)

28. British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus

Comment #178284 by Prankster on May 11, 2008 at 4:51 am

PC gone mad?

Eliminating the risk of offence before any is actually intended or even before it's caused seems to be the norm nowadays-has any one consulted the majority of Hindus besides the UK Hindu Council on this or are the majority of Hindus even bothered if non Hindus are served or want to eat beef on BA flights?

Fucking planet's gone mad and it's leaving me behind....

29. Atheists are nice people who will roast in hell, says Cardinal

Comment #177990 by Prankster on May 10, 2008 at 7:02 am

Just posted this but looks like my PC is goosed again.....

Hey ho so some arsehole says our souls are in peril and we're in for fun and frolics in the fiery pits of hell? Sounds ok to me!

This is surely preferable to spending eternity in the company of this village idiot and his brethren?

Tosser.....

30. Atheists are nice people who will roast in hell, says Cardinal

Comment #177986 by Prankster on May 10, 2008 at 6:45 am

Guys, guys, the article ain't real-it's not particulary funny but it's not real-stop stressing out over it! It just shows what some senile old cleric actually thinks about non-believers-miserable old fart!

By the way is anyone bringing nachos and dips, failing that some pringles?

I volunteer to bring the potato salad and cans of Bitter (preferably Boddington's)?

31. Gene map proves platypus is part bird, mammal and reptile

Comment #176932 by Prankster on May 8, 2008 at 11:04 am

Just proves mother nature got seriously off her nut on something when she created this creature.....

"pppffft-bird, mammal and reptile? That'll fuck them scientists up-pppffftt-who's coming down the all-night garage I've got the munchies?-giggles"

32. Citing Faith, Bush Defends War Actions

Comment #176927 by Prankster on May 8, 2008 at 10:58 am

Faith, like Patriotism, the last refuge of the Scoundrel?

Spreading freedom, backed up by faith and possibly at the point of a gun, and furthermore vetoing an opposing view-makes me proud to be part of the same speices he says sarcastically......

33. Life after Jehovah's Witnesses: website offers help to followers who lose their faith

Comment #176455 by Prankster on May 7, 2008 at 11:28 am

ExJehovahsWitness

Thanks for clearing that up -obviously the electronic format for posting can be read wrongly but let me assure I mean no disrespect when I say "club" or "Getting involved"

You obviously had a difficult time being a witness and a worse one when you left.

Religion (in any form) is not something I feel comfortable with anymore after suffering 3rd degree burns caused by red hot catholicism being inflicted on me-brrr not a nice time at all!

34. Life after Jehovah's Witnesses: website offers help to followers who lose their faith

Comment #176437 by Prankster on May 7, 2008 at 10:22 am

One thing I did notice is that they tend not to bother door stepping or knocking on doors any more (not in this area anyway) but they do come out the woodwork especially around Xmas and Chocolate Bunny time-the rest of the year? Zilch!

Amazing.

35. Life after Jehovah's Witnesses: website offers help to followers who lose their faith

Comment #176434 by Prankster on May 7, 2008 at 10:17 am

Podaar

I wouldn't bother to do any research either for free or in my own time. I'd be inclined to find out only what makes these people tick......and then stay the hell away from them-don't what it is but I find them.....creepy? Must be the righteous fire in their gaze that tells them they are right, that's scaring me.

Also am I right in thinking that only a specific number of them are going to paradise when the end comes (144,000?)and who makes the decision who's going or am I mixing them up with another religious club?

36. Life after Jehovah's Witnesses: website offers help to followers who lose their faith

Comment #176424 by Prankster on May 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

Blood transfusions and leaving cults aside what actually compels people to join this organisation in the first place (apart from being born into, or marrying into a JW family)?

It's strikes me as odd reading from peoples experiences and what limited knowledge of JW I do have that people would subscribe or join such a "club" in the first place......curious.

But Kudos to Rachel for breaking her conditioning and programming and leaving the organisation

37. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171339 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Dear God Dick

GAY MARCHES AND PARADES FUCK UP TRAFFIC?????!!!!

I really hope you get chewed out over this by both gay/straight posters-what a comment to make!

38. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171319 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 12:30 pm

Comment 171203 MaxD

I found it before on an avatar website-pretty neat ain't it?

The main character from the 80's computer game Karateka grooving in an MC Hammer style-I think it's great.

Pity my martial arts lessons didn't help me move like that- it would have stopped me getting creamed by the black belts!

39. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171183 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 10:56 am

Well it's been fun but I'm bailing out early

Sick of dealing with people like DickDawkins on here, just another fevered ego tainting our collective unconscious and making us pay a higher psychic price than we imagined

With apologies to the late William Melville Hicks

40. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171141 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 10:30 am

Dick Dick this is from the Reader's Digest dictionary of big words so please indulge me

Satanism-worship of Satan, especially in the form of a travesty of christian ritual

Evil or satanic practices or tendencies

Atheist-disbelief or denial of the existence of god

By your logic then everyone who claims they are an atheist is a satanist because they reject god or don't believe in him?


Your world is so black and white isn't it?

Hmm not sure I like being called a Satanist-free thinking evolved human maybe but never a satanist.

Besides the pay and hours are lousy I'm told.

41. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171110 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 10:14 am

DickDawkins

Chill baby!

Then go a get a big book called a dictionary and look up the differences between "satanist" and "atheist"-trust me they are there.

Come back when you're ready

Incidentally stop calling people fags cause they don't agree with you-it's not big and it's not clever. In fact it's just rude

42. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #171093 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 10:02 am

DickDawkins....

Clever posting-self portrait by any chance?

Oh Oscar Wilde lives and breathes.....

43. Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear

Comment #171077 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 9:48 am

Hmm Daily Mail?

A-ha!

Obviously it's a picture of a foul asylum seeking, benefit sponging illegal immigrant fishing our rivers dry before he's caught and deported.....

I'm kidding......

44. Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear

Comment #171002 by Prankster on April 28, 2008 at 8:22 am

Superb

Evolution and development of some spieces just amazes me sometimes.......

Wonderful image, made my day that-thanks for the article

Best

Prankster

45. Mecca should become core to measure time zones: scholars

Comment #165257 by Prankster on April 21, 2008 at 9:11 am

"Oh Great" he says sarcastically

Do these titheads have nothing better to do?

Not only do you now have to set your watch 2 to 3 hours ahead when visiting the middle east from the UK you now have to set it back about 14 centuries as well?

Fuckin' idiots......!

46. Ethical storm as scientist becomes first man to clone HIMSELF

Comment #163856 by Prankster on April 19, 2008 at 7:32 am

Comment ~163850 Russell Blackford

Russell,

I don't honsetly think millions in the UK would be offended. It's just McKellar taking the weight of the world on his shoulders and speaking out for the UK, when he has no right to tell me, or millions of others what to think, or say or do-fuck him and the god-squad who protest against thing like that!

I'm all for this type of research if it's true-as some one posted previously, science cures disease not religion-a world free from all types of disease or the church wringing it's hands piously saying it's wrong?

I know which I'd choose-gimmee science any day

47. The Child Preachers

Comment #163596 by Prankster on April 18, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Woeful and pitiful-this subject is a special bugbear of mine. Using children this way is despicable-makes me sick to be part of the same speices sometimes.....

These parents are total pondlife. First posting tonight on here and now I'm bummed out

Nighty night all

48. Lungless frog discovered in Borneo

Comment #159190 by Prankster on April 11, 2008 at 3:07 pm

A creationist would say it's god's work, put here to fuck with the minds of both atheists and darwinists...

I'd say it's just evolution making a sideways shift every so often. But then again I'm no expert on evolution

49. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #159184 by Prankster on April 11, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Diacanu

You unspeakable swine!

:)

Prankster

50. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #159181 by Prankster on April 11, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Diacanu

Do I detect a smidgen of the late Bill Hicks in your posting...? I know, a moron dies, the planet gets lighter, you got me there, I'll admit it, but for the sake of harmony I'm letting this thread die a death (preferably not log induced)

Prankster