not quite
it used to annoy me a little bit that the atheists I knew would go to Christian Union meetings and start arguments, when generally those meetings involved discussion on which charities were being supported that term, who was going to bake the cookies etc
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:12, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

That is just cunty.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:13, Reply)

especially since they never turned up
to the debate evenings that were specially organised for a chance to discuss it

edit: I don't like the Christian Union (not very multi-denominational) myself but I wouldn't purposefully upset them
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:16, Reply)

I did the lab work for my dissertation with the president of Cardiff Christian Union
nice guy. pretty naive though.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 14:49, Reply)

my best wild exploit story
involves a Presbyterian
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:11, Reply)

it was thanks to the aforementioned Christian
that I was in a Barcelona police station a mere 30 minutes after having arrived in the city.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:19, Reply)

did he just go mad
and throw his religion to the wind?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:20, Reply)

naa, he got fully suckered in by a street game of "pick which matchbox the ball is under"
lost 50 Euros. Me and the other guy with him couldn't quite believe what was happening, so we just let it.

As we walked off this scruffy dude flashed us a random badge and a massive pistol and said he was the police, did the guy lose some money and if so follow him.

We marched to the police station (although we could've been going anywhere, the badge didn't look like any I'd seen before and the guy looked like a spanish version of the Sweeney) and a form was filled in. None of us could remember what the guy looked like, so the cop told us. Meanwhile we could hear him being given a bit of a slapping in the next room.

Guy got his 50 Euros back, and I got a mildly amusing anecdote. Everyone's a winner.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:26, Reply)

that's pretty cool
certainly a bit naive though
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:28, Reply)

the whole thing was quite surprising
it'd been a massively late night and travelling the night before, so everything felt a bit unreal.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:31, Reply)

Was he splashing people with holy water?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:23, Reply)

I don't have any amusing stories regarding religion
Apart from screaming the Lord's Prayer at my last house party
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:28, Reply)

I'm sure I told you of Presbyterian girl

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:30, Reply)

Did you? You've told me many amusing stories
some in full, some just tantalising hints. But this one is ringing more bells than others.

I'm going to shut up now I'm just blathering
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:33, Reply)

too risque for here haha

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:39, Reply)

Isn't your life?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:39, Reply)