1st Post and Hello.

[AshtonBlack]

H Hey guys. I've been lurking on here for a bit and I've decided to come out of the shadows and introduce myself.

I've been an atheist, pretty much, as far back as I can remember, but it's only in the last couple of years, since the birth of my daughter, coincidentally, that I've become an "active" atheist. To be more precise an anti-theist and secularist.

I've been posting here and there and mixing it up with the theist crowd and over at RD.net, whose site I like, but I like the humour you guys have shown a WHOLE lot more. Especially funny is the SHITLORD of the week.

Anyhoo.... time to do some more reading and I might venture an opinion or two

Cheers!

AB

[Professor Chaos]

Welcome, Ash, hope to see you stick around for a while!

[mmfwmc]

Hey dude, good to hear from you.

[nkb]

For fuck's sake, another Limey? Is there a nest of them somewhere?

Just kidding, welcome to the forum.

Let me guess: United fan?

[Choobus]

For fuck's sake, another Limey? Is there a nest of them somewhere?

Just kidding, welcome to the forum.


OMG!!!! why RU so racist?

[Rat Bastard]

For fuck's sake, another Limey? Is there a nest of them somewhere?

Just kidding, welcome to the forum.

Let me guess: United fan?

Wha? I didn't see anything in Arabic in his post! Welcome, Ashton Black!

[Smellyoldgit]

Bloody hell - just up the road eh?
The balance of power is shifting north!
I take it you've noticed how weird the resident yanks can be? :P

[skribb]

What is RD.net?

[Smellyoldgit]

What is RD.net?
Just some dodgy atheist website (http://richarddawkins.net/).

[Eva]

more brits!
oh no. this is like the problem with bunnies in australia.

i will have to cull 'em off a little bit.

(welcome to our humble forum, ashton!)

[Rocketman the Sequel]

Hey! Welcome.

[Irreligious]

OMG!!!! why RU so racist?
:lol:

I would like to extend a hardy G'day, mate, to our newest member. Oh, crikey, that's Austrian, right? I mean, pip, pip, cheerio, spot of tea and God save the Queen. No, that ain't right, either.

Welcome to the forum.

[Smellyoldgit]

:lol:

Oh, crikey, that's Austrian, right?

Nah... that would need a "Guten Tag" and a serious dose of goose-stepping.

[Choobus]

Sshhh! Don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

[mmfwmc]

:lol:

I would like to extend a hardy G'day, mate, to our newest member. Oh, crikey, that's Austrian, right? I mean, pip, pip, cheerio, spot of tea and God save the Queen. No, that ain't right, either.

Welcome to the forum.

I think "Don't take the hub caps you damned manc" would be more appropriate. :angel:

[Irreligious]

Wait a minute. I'm confused. Didn't the governor of California used to be Australian?

[Smellyoldgit]

I think "Don't take the hub caps you damned manc" would be more appropriate. :angel:
I can tell you're no local - you're mixing up yer mancs & scouse.

[mmfwmc]

Mancs steal the whole car?

[Smellyoldgit]

Mancs steal the whole car?
:thumbsup:

[Irreligious]

I resent the intrusion of foreign tongues into this forum. :mad: Speak English, dammit!

[Smellyoldgit]

I resent the intrusion of foreign tongues into this forum. :mad: Speak English, dammit!
Smelly Translations - at your service sir -

Manc (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=manc)

Scouse (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scouse)

[mmfwmc]

Wait a minute. I'm confused. Didn't the governor of California used to be Australian?

:lol: Missed that. Brilliant.

[Irreligious]

My daughter just returned home from spending a semester studying in Glasgow and she mentioned how popular a dish scouse is there. For some reason, I didn't recognize the word in print.

[Choobus]

your daughter enjoys eating scouse?

[Irreligious]

your daughter enjoys eating scouse?
No, she didn't say that. But she did admit to developing a fondness for haggis, much to my surprise. It sounds pretty awful to me, but she insists the spices really do make it palatable.

[Choobus]

I guess there must be something to it, otherwise it wouldn't exist. Therefore Haggis has culinary respectability.

[Irreligious]

I guess there must be something to it, otherwise it wouldn't exist. Therefore Haggis has culinary respectability.
So it does with her, at least. Funny thing is you couldn't get this girl to touch chitterlings (or as the American southern folk call 'em, chitlins), which, I understand, is sort of an American variation.

[ubs]

Welcome Ashton. It's nice to have another body in the house.

[skribb]

Just some dodgy atheist website (http://richarddawkins.net/).
I literally typed in RD.net but that was a web design page so I got a little vexed.

[Gnosital]

I guess there must be something to it, otherwise it wouldn't exist. Therefore Haggis has culinary respectability.

It's 'cause so many people say that haggis is nasty that makes it so obviously respekatable.

[PhilOchsLives]

I've never had haggis. I probably should try it. When I get to Scotland.

[Sternwallow]

I've never had haggis. I probably should try it. When I get to Scotland.
I prefer American Haggis: two pieces of soft bread stuffed with a mixture of common vegetables and cooked ground beef. :D

[psychodiva]

uuurgh Haggis is yukky- and most of my family is scots- we have no idea why the tourists like it- but it does get rid of all those 'bits' that we won't eat lol- tourists do come in handy :)

[Rat Bastard]

I prefer American Haggis: two pieces of soft bread stuffed with a mixture of common vegetables and cooked ground beef. :D

My favorite is with ~1/4" slab of grilled red onion, ~1/4" slab of beefsteak tomato, the tops of a head of green leaf lettuce about 1" high and a regular low-fat beef patty. Mm, mm, mm!

[Rat Bastard]

uuurgh Haggis is yukky- and most of my family is scots- we have no idea why the tourists like it- but it does get rid of all those 'bits' that we won't eat lol- tourists do come in handy :)

Now, if we could convince all those gourmands that locusts were a real delicacy, those infestations could be easily knocked down without insecticide.

[PhilOchsLives]

As a Southerner, I've had lots of foods that normal folk consider "nasty". Some of it I've liked. For instance, I like souse. And liver mush.

I won't, however, eat chitlins. My dad would cook that shit and run my ass out of the house with the pure stench. I couldn't figure out how he could eat something that would stink up the house so bad. But about twice a year he'd get the urge to cook that stuff and I'd make sure to spend the day at a friend's house until the smell had dissipated.

[Professor Chaos]

I see we scared this guy off pretty quick. Damn pussy Brits.

[Rhinoqulous]

You have no idea what the horrors of food can be unless you were raised in a Scandahoovian household.

[Choobus]

I see we scared this guy off pretty quick. Damn pussy Brits.

he might be busy drinking tea or something!

[Professor Chaos]

Or watching soccer and having bad teeth!

[Choobus]

I'm not sure that having bad teeth actually takes up a lot of time. I would guess that it in fact frees up a lot of time that would otherwise have been wasted visiting dentists, brushing or going on dates.

[mmfwmc]

Yes, but mashing your steak with a fork takes considerable energy.

[Rocketman the Sequel]

two words--herring salad

all right a couple more

it's fucking purple.

[Choobus]

in Iceland (I think) they love this rancid shark in a tin thing. When normal people open the tin they tend to vomit because of the stench. I think it's Iceland. Could be Norway.

[Rat Bastard]

in Iceland (I think) they love this rancid shark in a tin thing. When normal people open the tin they tend to vomit because of the stench. I think it's Iceland. Could be Norway.

You talkin' 'bout my kippers? Better watch it! :eh:

[Gnosital]

Nobody here likes scrapple do they? Scrapple is foul AND disgusting.

[Rhinoqulous]

Had to look up scrapple, had never heard of it. I was guessing it's what you get when you let snapple go rancid. Add some various throw-away meat parts and I'm not far off.

[Irreligious]

Nobody here likes scrapple do they? Scrapple is foul AND disgusting.
Haven't eaten that in years, but I remember I used to like scrapple with hominy grits. :D

[PhilOchsLives]

Nobody here likes scrapple do they? Scrapple is foul AND disgusting.

Technically, I think I have eaten scrapple. It's basically the same thing that we call "liver mush" down here in the South. If that's the case, then yes, I've had it, and I quite like it.

[Gnosital]

Had to look up scrapple, had never heard of it. I was guessing it's what you get when you let snapple go rancid. Add some various throw-away meat parts and I'm not far off.


Yes, random meat bits. The consistency is pre-chewed. Then you fry it. DIsgusting.

I think it's an Amish attempt at culinary art.

And as for all you scrapple-lovers out there, I have just one word...

EW!!!

[Sternwallow]

Haven't eaten that in years, but I remember I used to like scrapple with hominy grits. :D
Hominy grits? One grit is already toominy grits. :P