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That is tough one, I often find such are uninteresting and redundant after a while but I love classical art and art history and there are some religious pieces that are quite interesting and masterfully done. I think I will say Aye as an art lover.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Big aye-- the gorier the better.
Gilbert and Sullivan?
one of the funnier lines in star trek is in the movie insurrection (great movie!), when worf has been away, but comes back to the enterprise and he and picard are in the process of trying to capture data, whose programming has malfunctioned. picard gets the idea they can distract data by singing a piece they had actually been rehearsing together earlier, and picard asks worf if he knows gilbert and Sullivan, and worf says sorry, he hasn't had the opportunity to meet all the crew yet!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyyjCn1ML3k
aye to gilbert and Sullivan.
violins, or flutes, or other non "traditional" instruments in rock music?
Aye Loved the violin in Kansas' band
Same Question
Aye, I enjoy that fusion. I really like Irish Rock music that fuses traditional Irish instruments with modern rock.
Irish drinking songs?
Damn right! :)
As a child in the cradle, me nurse with her ladle
Was fillin' me mouth with an ocean of pap
When a drop from her bottle fell into me throttle
I capered and scrambled clean out of her lap
On the floor I lay crawlin' and screamin' and bawlin'
Till me father and mother were called to the fore
All sobbin' and sighin', they feared I was dyin'
But soon found I only was beggin' for more!
Ethnic pride?
Aye, a reasonable degree of pride in your ethnicity, nationality, forbearers and culture is a positive thing.
Ethnic price parades?
Well, I hate parades, so it's an easy nay for me.
Legally protected LGBT participation in religiously affiliated St. Patrick's Day Parades (even if the organizers say no)?
Nope, no legal protection for anyone or anything to attend private functions, they can feel free to protest though (the function, not my point of view).
Universal childcare subsidies?
The trouble is the city helps pay, and it provides the cops. This is the sort of thing we throw rocks over in Boston. :rolleyes5:
And sorry, but I'm really conflicted about socialized childcare. Answer it yourself, if you like, or someone else can.
Should Christians (continue to) exclude non-Baptized individuals from taking Communion?
Ah, well if the city is directly involved like that then everyone has to be accepted, LGBT men and women pay taxes.
Socialized childcare is crappy and inefficient, but hey, if you're going to socialize something anyway then it's a good pick.
And I don't know haha, is that an important issue? I'll leave it with the daycare question for someone else.
I don't know that it's such a good pick. Why wouldn't girls who don't want to work just get knocked up and collect a check for getting high to Judge Judy all day? Then you've got a cycle that's going to produce a lot more social problems and probably lead (eventually) to violence. I don't know what else to do about it, though. It's not the kids' fault.
For the other, it seems to me that if a church has universal pretensions, that it's Salvation needs to be available to all--not just to those who bought the tee shirt. But I suppose it depends on the importance one gives to Communion as a means to Salvation.
Driverless cars?
Oh, noooo....Lads, I beg thee. This is the one and only site filled with cheery folk replete with education and wit wot I ever did find on the internet. It is an oasis, a reprieve from the pedestrian effluvia found elsewhere, mercifully free of such spiritually impoverished and intellectually barren topics as politics. I plead, I implore, I offer trips to my backdoor--don't, I say, do not tarry in that woeful land.
"Catholics" do not comprise all of Christianity. Different policies are given by varied churches. No one should feel they have all the answers, however close they stick to what they believe. Has it ever occurred to any of us that we could be the ones in the wrong?
Aye on the cars.
Should we stay off religious topics on this thread?
Nay. We should all take it easy and continue to speak freely on this thread. :)
West Coast/Pacific Jazz?
Aye, and agreed on free, friendly discourse on any topic!
The era of Swing?
Aye, but not as much as my Dad.
Art Pepper and/or Chet Baker?
I like the politics talk most of all, and as it's banned everywhere else these forum games can serve as a sort of Mos Eisley.
I don't listen to much jazz so someone else had better field that one.
Bleeding gums Murphey?
I think that s because we don't fight and fuss when we disagree. Or maybe no one else reads these. :)
Art Pepper is amazing, Clopin.
Aye for Bleeding Gums Murphy.
First year Family Guy?
We, meaning Bounty, Pendragon, you, Dark Muse and I seem to all hold pretty similar views though, but sure I don't think it would get nasty if someone else joined in with a wildly different perception of the issues. Also i know Bounty mentioned something like this, and I think it's worth repeating, but unless you're already posting on a hardcore right wing forum like Stormfront, a lot of people are going to be heavily critical of you for not being very in favour of things like uh... LGBT day camps for kids, etc. So it's nice to chit chat without fear of being socially ostracized (my Facebook news feed is not such an oasis of discourse).
And okay Family Guy, well it's hard for me to give the show an aye when I personally strongly dislike it and feel that it has set a really bad precedent for humor and (American at least) adult animation in general, and since it has been so successful it has subsumed much better shows (King of the Hill for one) and influenced much worse. That all said I do sometimes find Family Guy to be funny and when the first season was being played on TV I was young enough for it to be my favourite show.
Ultimately it gets a nay from me, no matter what season.
King of the Hill?
Nah. The South was funnier than that when I lived there.
Beavis and Butthead?
Haha nay.
Would you publicly disown support from groups considered unsavoury (911 truthers for one) in the public eye if you were running for president?
If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve. So no, I'll take all the friends I can get.
If you were a libertarian presidential candidate, would you court the Evangelicals by pretending to believe in a God that most of your base refuses to accept?
Might as well stick to my principles and beliefs because i'm not getting elected no matter what I do or say. Nay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Pomegranate?
Aye
Desire to run for public office?
Nay.
If you lived in California, and had a lawn, would you water it?
Nay.
South African red wine and Stilton cheese for a first date?
It couldn't hurt.
Peanut butter flavored Oreo cookies?
Nay. I avoid cookies, unless baked by family.
Nostalgia?
Not what it once was.
Cocoanut scented sunscreen?
Hate that stuff.
Cocktails with coconut milk?
If you're driving.
Any entrée that is on fire when they bring it to you?
Nay
Entree prepared right at your table?
Aye.
Entree where you have to pick the live animal (usually fish or chicken) before it's killed and prepared for you?
Aye but only a lobster; I'll take their word on the chicken and unless it's sushi, no need to see the fish either
Fast food chains?
isn't it "not fast food, but good food fast?" smiles...
I say aye. while I like local and variety and ambience, there is also something to be said about taco bells all over the place.
really hot sauce on your bean burrito?
Sure.
Bubble tea?
Very popular in Hong Kong, said to be a Taiwanese thing. I have tried it a few times but not a big fan, I say nay if I can have a good coffee instead.
Spend one week of your life to study the ins and outs of rain deer herding somewhere in Northern Scandinavia?
Reindeer herding, eh? I can't say I want to know more about it than I do at present, so nay.
Italian Neoralism?
I actually did spend a week studying in and outs in Scandinavia, but reindeer had nothing to do with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clockwise
Oh come ON! It was a hanging curveball!