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Warning! This Sign Will Definitely Offend Some Of Your Friends (Original Post) Playinghardball May 2012 OP
Won't offend any of my friends. GoneOffShore May 2012 #1
I'm probably gonna be real offensive gratuitous May 2012 #2
Good luck on that, Gratuitous kewhawaii Jun 2012 #22
Doesn't offend me. Worried senior May 2012 #3
No...I don't think so... PearliePoo2 May 2012 #4
Doesn't offend me, LeftofObama May 2012 #5
I have purged my life of people who would be offended by that sign. Justpat May 2012 #6
If it offends anyone, they're not my friends. n/t sarge43 May 2012 #7
"oooohh, that's hippie talk"... Tikki May 2012 #8
I don't have any friends. n/t bupkus May 2012 #9
Won't hurt at all! calimary May 2012 #10
Great sign HarveyDarkey May 2012 #11
This forces church-goers to decide... FiveGoodMen May 2012 #12
++1,000!!!! nt nanabugg May 2012 #13
Nah...don't live in hillbilly heaven. i want to tell u May 2012 #14
Well maybe they don't leave because it ain't that easy Bluzmann57 May 2012 #16
I cant move I have elderly inlaws and my mother lives with me. TNLib May 2012 #18
I just recently escaped Mariana Jun 2012 #24
Yea, just packup and leave...just like that. What dumb statement. demosincebirth Jun 2012 #28
If I have "friends" that are offended... kenfrequed May 2012 #15
I would add Doc Holliday May 2012 #17
K&R!!! n/t DeSwiss May 2012 #19
Wouldn't offend even my most conservative friend TheKentuckian May 2012 #20
what's with the cops... fromwyoming May 2012 #21
My Mom taught me a very good saying for the type of people who would be offendedby that sign. MarianJack Jun 2012 #23
All of my friends would agree with that message Bluenorthwest Jun 2012 #25
HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Jun 2012 #26
It is time to kick religion off of it's underserved perch. Dawson Leery Jun 2012 #27
Make ALOT of sense,,,,,,,,,,,,,, benld74 Jun 2012 #29

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. I'm probably gonna be real offensive
Thu May 31, 2012, 03:54 PM
May 2012

Because I'm going to express that very sentiment this summer at our denomination's annual get-together. I'm working it over in my mind just how to go about doing it in the politest possible manner, although the folks on the other side of the issues are already all primed to show up with their most pained butt-hurt faces.

kewhawaii

(59 posts)
22. Good luck on that, Gratuitous
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 01:55 AM
Jun 2012

Sometimes ya gotta just push back against the religious right and let them know how offensive they are. Let us know how it turns out.

Justpat

(3,567 posts)
6. I have purged my life of people who would be offended by that sign.
Thu May 31, 2012, 04:04 PM
May 2012


The Great Purge included many family members. I don't miss them.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
12. This forces church-goers to decide...
Thu May 31, 2012, 05:19 PM
May 2012

...whether to oppose bigotry, or to endorse it outright (because it has been endorsed by their god...according to the preacher they trust).

 
14. Nah...don't live in hillbilly heaven.
Thu May 31, 2012, 05:23 PM
May 2012

I am always so surprised about the number of people on here bitching about their red state teabaggery and yet, why don't they just LEAVE then?

Bluzmann57

(12,336 posts)
16. Well maybe they don't leave because it ain't that easy
Thu May 31, 2012, 06:33 PM
May 2012

I mean perhaps they have jobs and family in their locales and don't want to leave or quite simply can't. If you are able to pick up and move whenever you want, more power to you. Some people can't.

TNLib

(1,819 posts)
18. I cant move I have elderly inlaws and my mother lives with me.
Thu May 31, 2012, 09:38 PM
May 2012

It aint that easy to just pick up and move my whole family and leave behind those that depend on you.

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
24. I just recently escaped
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 06:52 AM
Jun 2012

last summer, after seven long years. My husband would have been laid off in 2004 if he hadn't transferred. For the family, it was the right move to go there temporarily. I still reserved the right to bitch about my fundie Repuke neighbors. We lived in Grapevine, Texas - one of the ten teabagger strongholds where they ran that Sarah Palin worship flick in the theater.

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
17. I would add
Thu May 31, 2012, 06:35 PM
May 2012

"wrapped in an American flag", but other than that? I have no problem with the sign, or the sentiment.

K&R

TheKentuckian

(25,023 posts)
20. Wouldn't offend even my most conservative friend
Thu May 31, 2012, 09:49 PM
May 2012

Who is a tax whiner, not in Grover's ballpark but frets about them when politics are discussed and otherwise a regular kat.

I guess I don't have right wing friends of any weight. I do know/associate with a few but I doubt they'd care either other than to make fun of the folks in the picture.

fromwyoming

(11 posts)
21. what's with the cops...
Thu May 31, 2012, 11:41 PM
May 2012

one in blue, two in grey, in the background? What was the occassion that brought out two levels of law enforcement?

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
23. My Mom taught me a very good saying for the type of people who would be offendedby that sign.
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 06:28 AM
Jun 2012

"Screw 'em"

Wise old bird, my mom, eh?

PEACE!

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
25. All of my friends would agree with that message
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 09:26 AM
Jun 2012

that goes for my religious family members too, they are decidedly against bigotry particularly that expressed with religious trappings.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
27. It is time to kick religion off of it's underserved perch.
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 12:50 PM
Jun 2012

Religion has been given an undeserved place of great respect in society.

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