one of my bosses offered to buy chili for everyone

[prole_for_peace]

from some church fundraiser. it is $8 a bowl. i think i should get $8 since i can't eat it on my diet (la weightloss). doesn't that seem fair.

[Child_Of_Isis]

1. I think so.

But I am such the agreeable type ;-)

[ET Awful]

2. I'd ask what church, and if it's an ultra-fundie church, I'd ask him

to donate the $8 to a real charity instead.

[prole_for_peace]

3. it is an Episcopal (?) church

[pagerbear]

5. Just curious: where does that question come from?

[ET Awful]

7. Are you asking me? If so. . .

Most ultra-fundie type churches spew the Bush bile and do their damndest to manipulate their congregations into voting the way they want. The do so and somehow remain tax-exempt institutions. I'll be damned if I'd allow them any extra tax free dollars with which to spread their venom.

[pagerbear]

18. No, I was asking about the Episcopal question

I quite understand your question and its reasoning.

[ET Awful]

24. Okay. I think THAT question meant "is an Episcopalian church

ultra-fundie or not?" I'd say in many cases it's not. Episcopalians are like Catholic Light :). Less dogma, more karma :) They allow women and homosexuals into the clergy as far as I know, not exactly ultra fundie :)

[Spinzonner]

4. Chili Out

it's not worth making a fuss over.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. Are you for real?

[Spinzonner]

8. At most you're entitled to

the fair market value of the chili.

The rest is a donation to the charity.

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. Yep. Doesn't seem fair when someone offers you a gift

when you could just take the money instead. :eyes:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. damnit I HATE THAT!

:grr:

bastids!

[On the Road]

10. If Someone Offers Something to Your Group

and you can't participate, you just let it pass. How much is the $8 worth?

[HEyHEY]

11. You've got to be kidding me

Step back and take a long look at what you've written

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. I think you should consider yourself lucky to have a job.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. You should consider yourself lucky to have me reply to you

[DS1]

13. Your diet is optional, or a necessity of your own creation, depending

on how you look at it.

Sure, an alternative would be nice, but refusing a gift of one variety doesn't immediately grant you the right ( or mandate in current terminology ) to pick a gift of equal value.

[HEyHEY]

17. Yeah, this ain't fucking airmiles

[DS1]

21. *L*

Bowl of chili or the first 1/4 mile of airport taxiing free ;-)

[prole_for_peace]

15. actually i was just kidding about the $8

jeesh....

[HEyHEY]

20. Phfeeww to be fair you need to understand such retardation DOES exist

So sometimes you can't tell.

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. In all fairness,

please use a smilie if you're sarcastic. Believe you me, there really are some folks on here who don't kid about such things :hi:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. I hate you

[Beware the Beast Man]

27. Eat my ass.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

28. bite my balls

[SOteric]

30. Now, now boys...

don't be having cyber-sex in the Lounge. :hi:

[DS1]

31. Oh, but it was just getting kinky

with the biting and malcontent :-)

[prole_for_peace]

29. sorry, didn't think about it.

i thought it was obvious i was kidding. i forget there are boors that would actually want the money instead.

:crazy:

[asthmaticeog]

19. Once, for my birthday,

a friend of mine bought me an ample bag of pot. I don't smoke pot, so I declined her gift and thanked her profusely for remembering my birthday. I did not ask her to give me the cost of a lid of shit in cash.

[DS1]

22. But you could've sold it

;-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. but then theres the tax responsibility