what you got in the post?

iamemmao wrote:Edit: Haha! I just realised the picture looks more like we are going to hug each other than battle it out!

if we did, our torsos and heads would disappear though

memma you spelt your own name wrong!

I've been making my business cards today, and I actually did spell my name wrong, took me about an hour until I noticed! Thank god I didn't print them, that would have been silly.

did u miss the first m on those too? x

Yeah, sorted it in the end though:

lol that am legend reppppppp!

14" Paiste Alpha sound edge hi hats

i got a book

http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/8276392/The-Year-Of-Living-Biblically/Product.html

i bought it after watching the guy's TED talk

and today dynamic anatomy arrived.

The Amazing Fletch wrote:

I see what you did there

I got my skamutiny shirt and some assorted cool junk. Fun times!

Also a replacement for my broken laptop charger, today goes down as the day I got two things I wanted in the post ON THE SAME DAY OMGZZ

At least somebody got it.

I'm not getting a skamutiny T-shirt. I don't really like the design. I'm always having to buy laptop chargers too because my rats chew them all!

that aj jacobs talk is really interesting.

I wish I could get some awesome stuff in the post... all I've had in the past week is bills

Reel Big Moose wrote:that aj jacobs talk is really interesting.

ted talks are always interesting.
i got on to that one from a talk by Richard Dawkins on militant atheism, it was a good talk on its own. I perticularily like the argument that since voters always vote for the christian candidates, specifically singling out atheists, and that atheists in the USA have on average considerably higher IQs, the system is keeping people who are both smart and honest out.

Cap'n Lee wrote:smart and honest

Honest of course being an opinion, not a fact

no, of course not. an atheist can be elected only if he lies about his beliefs.

am i missing something or was the 'honest' misread as god-bashing?

Well, it wasn't aimed at you, more at Richard Dawkins, who is an annoying bell. I'm not quite sure what you/he means by 'honest', surely all the candidates are being honest about their beliefs?

much as the christian fundamentalists piss me off, richard dawkins pisses me off just as much cos hes just as much of an arrogant douche as they are.

oh god i just used the word douche, someone shoot me.

Furious D wrote:Well, it wasn't aimed at you, more at Richard Dawkins, who is an annoying bell. I'm not quite sure what you/he means by 'honest', surely all the candidates are being honest about their beliefs?

well, an atheist could still stand a chance of being elected if he lied and said he was a christian (as i'm sure some do), but it is dishonest of them to lie.

i'm not really a dawkins fan and watched the ted talk expecting to disagree with him but he isn't really arguing about religion in this as much as he argues that the most highly educated and least orthodox thinkers are being sidelined in favour of 'what the people want to hear'. He paints a pretty bleak picture of the education system in the USA

Spoiler:

but his main comparisons are to how he was accepted as a man of science back in the UK.

Give it a watch, it's certainly worth your time.

us education sucks! fact.

US education does seem pretty politicised (look at what's happening with the Texas curriculum).
I do think it would be quite difficult for a non-christian to be elected in the US (for now at least). Athiests would get the most resistance compared to Jew or Mormons (according to Gallup) but the number does seem to be slowly rising (except from 1999 to 2007).

Also, I got my provisional driving licence today! The roads are a lot more dangerous now!

Speaking of running people over, i need to book my practical test sometime soon.

You are aware that the actual practical test is the opposite to Grand Theft Auto and you get minus points for runninh people over? I think it's like a three life system nowadays. You'll be ok if you just hit two people.