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[challenge entry] this is cool, right?

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(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:11, archived)
# What's this got to do with Christmas?
Needs more Santa, presents, trees, robins, snow etc. etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Eduard Khil's Haircut is lurking and liking on, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:15, archived)
# our local garden centre has a nativity scene
with cows, sheep, a donkey, reindeer, penguins, a polar bear, a dragon and some shreks
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:17, archived)
# PENGUINS!! ARE THEY MAD?
(I helped save b3ta! Chumps ๐Ÿ‘€, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:17, archived)
# with the polar bear
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:18, archived)
# penguins? in a manger? do fuck off
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:19, archived)
# My sentimonies exactly.
*fucks off
(I helped save b3ta! Chumps ๐Ÿ‘€, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:20, archived)
# now fuck back on again
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:40, archived)
# He never said the penguins were IN the manger.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:21, archived)
# oh no, they were nearby
with Santa on a zipline
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:22, archived)
# well, they wouldn't stay outside, would they?
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:24, archived)
# The manger's tiny, you'd just about fit the babby christ in there, never mind some penguins.
I have no issue with the penguins being in the stable though. They'd keep the polar bear's attention away from Jesus.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:27, archived)
# the polar bear would be all "so THAT'S what they look like!"
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:29, archived)
# "Fucking dick penguins, no one told me this was a black tie do."
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:30, archived)
# penguins: pranksters of the snow
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:39, archived)
# Hahahaha Brilliant
Nothing says Christmas more than a dragon
(I helped save b3ta! Eduard Khil's Haircut is lurking and liking on, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:18, archived)
# it breathes smoke too
I took a pic of the shreks. I was too traumatised to take any more...

(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:19, archived)
# Hahahaha. Genius. I don't know what's making me laugh more
"Fiona", the disco ball, the squirrel or Shrek's inability to close his mouth
(I helped save b3ta! Eduard Khil's Haircut is lurking and liking on, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:23, archived)
# oh yeh, I forgot about the squirrel
these are full size too, pretty much
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:24, archived)
# Not like I was planning on sleeping any way.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:47, archived)
#
imgur.com/2jceJ
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:00, archived)
# Holy shit. That exists.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:06, archived)
# Fucking hell that's terrifying
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha โ”( ห˜_ห˜)โ”Œ ส…(ฬโ—กโ—)สƒ, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 20:00, archived)
# This is fantastic
You need to take more pictures
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:53, archived)
# ^this
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:20, archived)
# I need photorial evidence of this.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:36, archived)
# I might be there on Saturday
if so, I will take some more
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:37, archived)
# Are muslims allowed to make pictures of prophets other than Mohammed?
(I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:22, archived)
# I'll find out soon enough
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:23, archived)
# *bums embassy*
(I helped save b3ta! Eduard Khil's Haircut is lurking and liking on, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:23, archived)
# they're not allowed to make pictures of *anything*
which is why they developed such awesome geometric art, as well as patterns based on extremely elaborate caligraphy.

They almost invented an aperiodic tiling of the plane, look up Girih tiles and cf. Penrose tiling.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:35, archived)
# They're allowed to make pictures of whatever.
They're just not allowed to worship them.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:39, archived)
# most modern muslims might be a bit more lenient,
but I believe they're technically not even allowed to make them, you know, just in case.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:43, archived)
#
www.correctislamicfaith.com/picturesinislam.htm
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:44, archived)
# I'd like to point out
that I just used that picture, which is widely available, and added some text to it.

*peeks through curtains*
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:49, archived)
# modern muslim makes excuses for common modern practice,
no surprises there.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:49, archived)
# Pretty much everything in that article after this sentence is redundant:
The Qur'an, the Islamic holy book, does not explicitly prohibit the depiction of human figures; it merely condemns idolatry (5:87โ€“92, 21:51โ€“52).

Everything else is down to interpretation. Modern interpretation is no less valid than ancient interpretation.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:55, archived)
# Wait a minute, I don't actually care.
It's all nonsense anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:57, archived)
# Hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:59, archived)
# Depends what the original text actually translates as
for whether it's down to interpretation or not.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:58, archived)
# That's the thing with the Qur'an, it IS the original text.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:00, archived)
# there is some doubt about that,
although I wouldn't want to publicly doubt it myself.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:04, archived)
# haha
i agree with you absolutely
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:46, archived)
# There are a lot of Hadith lower down,
which the Sunnis take quite seriously. Representative art has been prohibited by some of the stricter sects, and still is.

Modern interpretation isn't necessarily any more valid than ancient interpretation, either. Well I'm no Muslim scholar so I can't comment on the validity of either.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:00, archived)
# Hell, if you go for the common translations of Exodus 20:4
then Christians and Jews aren't allowed to draw pictures either.

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"

I've no idea what the original Hebrew says and modern Bibles tend to ditch the "or any likeness part", but whether that means that this simply bans the production of graven images, or whether that's a modern Christian making excuses for common modern practice (as in the habit of wearing polycotton, for instance, or all those times you cook kid in its mothers' milk - I do that *all* the time) I genuinely have no idea. I actually suspect the former, but I like to think the latter so I can irritate Christians who mock the Muslims for not drawing pictures. I'm a very irritating kind of person.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:56, archived)
# Christians typically use the supercessionism excuse
to get out of anything the Old Testament says, but the argument about the gold cherubim in the Temple in Jerusalem is an interesting one. Apparently they don't count, because they're only gold plated and not solid gold. Thus sayeth the rabbis.

I don't know but I always found statues just a little bit creepy anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:03, archived)
#
creepy sexy

christians duck out of everything they don't like. it's a happy way of life.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:48, archived)
# Thanks for all the answers. :)
(I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 22:04, archived)
# Why are you posting pictures of Happytoast?
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:28, archived)
# hahaha!
The Prophet Toast!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:28, archived)
# as it's my thread, I'm reposting!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:29, archived)
# Ooof!
Consider yourself Hull-bound, sir!
(I helped save b3ta! Kerrisis There's someone in my head, but it's not me., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:32, archived)
# Apparently Stuart Hall was arrested this morning as part of the same investigation.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:32, archived)
# he was arrested yesterday wasn't he?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:38, archived)
# Was he?
I only saw the news this morning.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:40, archived)
# you should have checked b3ta yesterday afternoon!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:42, archived)
# Ha ha, the best way to get your news is on b3ta.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:43, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:51, archived)
# Prison is too good for them.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Thu 6 Dec 2012, 16:58, archived)
# flan knows what's coming
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 6 Dec 2012, 17:10, archived)