22 tweets for 2010-3-4

[azurelunatic]

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Thursday, 0132: http://tezurith.livejournal.com/2738.html tee hee heeeeeeeee. Fawkes/peacock!!
• Thursday, 0133: @Scatterbeams People create any old hashtag they feel like, whenever they want to. #likethis
• Thursday, 0135: @oakandsage That and I think that I don't probably want to be undergoing surgery at all, let alone from an underqualified one.
• Thursday, 0136: @Oglaf Perhaps a whiteboard with a tasteful curtain overtop?
• Thursday, 0143: to-read: http://noarrows.dreamwidth.org/29743.html
• Thursday, 0151: @CA_Young Though you can forward the plain-text notifications with impunity. (I dislike the current HTML notif behavior also.)
• Thursday, 0411: I've just snapped a new picture: http://dailybooth.com/u/22g5r
• Thursday, 0437: Thank you, @thingswithwings; I now have "James Bondage" in my head, where it is MUTATING MY SETS.
• Thursday, 0437: uh. Wrong @thingswithwings; I am thinking of a fangirl rather than an aviator. My apologies.
• Thursday, 0516: chamalla: Twilight fanvid - Kung-Fu Fighting :) (beverage warning) http://chamalla.livejournal.com/11501.html
• Thursday, 0522: thingswithwings | New Vid: James Bondage [Mythbusters, Jamie/Adam] (hoping they don't search this, *embarrassing*) http://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/87724.html
• Thursday, 0752: @afuna Wendy's french fries, in (chocolate) Frosty.
• Thursday, 0806: @MythBusters Robot Jamie?
• Thursday, 2140: @sarahreesbrenna Of course I do! It is not a proper story if I cannot read it again and still have it be good.
• Thursday, 2150: @zarhooie remind me to tell you about AK-47 Guy.
• Thursday, 2207: @teshiron Do I need to borrow a book from you when you are done?
• Thursday, 2209: @aellairene When they stop trying to control the whole woman connected to the reproductive system?
• Thursday, 2210: @handler Sounds like an excellent party then.
• Thursday, 2216: @Scatterbeams Exactly so! #screaming
• Thursday, 2218: @semanticist Oh, in your country is religion a *private* thing, not talked about much in public?
• Thursday, 2257: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/03/02/meanwhile-in-texas-american-taliban-isnt-hyperbole-anymore JUST WHAT. Hey Amarillo, time to clean house!
• Thursday, 2300: Congratulations to the District of Columbia, US. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/us/04marriage.html

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Comments

[pauamma]

Oh, in your country is religion a *private* thing, not talked about much in public?

In a number of Western European countries, the majority perception is that religion shouldn't occur in the open, where children could see it and ask questions their parents can't or don't want to answer. Kinda like same-sex PDAs in some places. (I find both attitudes sad, FWIW.)

[azurelunatic]

In the US, things are at the other extreme, where one finds people peddling their religion to others similar to that guy on the street corner with the dirty blanket and used toasters.

To me personally, public sex is far more palatable than public religion aside from tasteful display of jewelry.

[pauamma]

I can see the grounds for that opinion, and as far as personal taste is concerned, I would agree, about pushy PDRs at least, but I find the passive-aggressive (or sometimes active *cough*France*cough*) attempt to sweep it all under the rug/shame it out of public view far more disturbing not the inherent (or perceived) tastefulness of specific PDRs or PDAs.

[wibbble]

I like that the extremely religious as seen as nutjobs here. It says good things about my country's ability to apply rational thinking. :o)

I mean, I'm a moderately religious person myself, but I'm also fully aware that it's all bunk.

[pauamma]

That's as it may be, but I think Azz was asking about discouraging visible religion qua se, which is a different debate. (At least, that's how I read and answered her question, but ICBW.)

[wibbble]

Well, she was replying to my tweet about being trapped on a train (broken points, was stuck stationary for half an hour on my way home) while a couple of Americans discussed the meaning of stuff out of the Bible in the most ridiculously over the top manner - "Oh, wow! I'm just SO EXCITED!" after re-translating the bit about doing unto others. People conducting public Bible study groups are considered extremely religious (and therefor nutjobs) over here, at least in my experience.