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Pastafarians join ranks of those persecuted for religion

oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
edited September 2015 in A Moving Train
This just in, and from my neck of the woods, too! It seems that Pastafarians are the latest to be discriminated against for their religious headgear.

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/pastafarian-s-icbc-woes-come-to-a-head-1.1414080

At least the colander can still be used for a delicious meal.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,042
    Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Ha!

    I wonder if they develop their doctrine by throwing ideas at the refrigerator to see if they stick?
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  • dignindignin Posts: 9,336
    Our pasta, who art in a colander,
    Draining be your noodles.
    Thy noodle come,
    Thy sauce be yum,
    On top some grated parmesan.
    Give us this day our garlic bread,
    And forgive us our trespasses,
    As we forgive those who trample on our lawns.
    And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza,
    For thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever.
    -RAmen.
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    That's as good a way of developing doctrine as any other, and better than some.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,042
    dignin said:

    Our pasta, who art in a colander,
    Draining be your noodles.
    Thy noodle come,
    Thy sauce be yum,
    On top some grated parmesan.
    Give us this day our garlic bread,
    And forgive us our trespasses,
    As we forgive those who trample on our lawns.
    And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza,
    For thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever.
    -RAmen.

    "RAmen" LOL :))

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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    You people suck.

    In having mentioned this thread to my husband, I am - as of tomorrow and declared against my will! - committed to making fettucine alfredo with shrimp and asparagus.

    Probably garlic bread too.

    Fuckers!
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,042
    hedonist said:

    You people suck.

    In having mentioned this thread to my husband, I am - as of tomorrow and declared against my will! - committed to making fettucine alfredo with shrimp and asparagus.

    Probably garlic bread too.

    Fuckers!

    Ah, but a little vino, a warm belly full of good chow, a little after dinner smoke and you will quickly forgive us one and all!

    Bon Appétit!

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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    hedonist said:

    You people suck.

    In having mentioned this thread to my husband, I am - as of tomorrow and declared against my will! - committed to making fettucine alfredo with shrimp and asparagus.

    Probably garlic bread too.

    Fuckers!

    Fettucine alfredo, against your will? And garlic bread too?? He's a cruel, cruel man.
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    If only you could see my hand slung dramatically across my damp forehead.

    Somehow, someway...I SHALL endure - nay, prevail!

    Really craving this dish now too. And I've publicly committed to it.

    Fuck :D

    Pumpkins' "Tonight Tonight" just kicked in as well on our random music channel thingy.

    Tomorrow, Corgan, tomorrow!
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    You'll come through this a stronger person, hedonist.

    Or if not stronger, then at least more, how shall we say..... well-rounded.
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    oftenreading said:

    You'll come through this a stronger person, hedonist.

    Or if not stronger, then at least more, how shall we say..... well-rounded.

    :D

  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    I'm watching some cooking show while waiting for the mud-mask on my face to do its thing.

    The host made her own pasta - just flour and eggs - and it got me thinking about (and thankful for!) whomever discovered and perfected the process. How many tries it must've taken - just the idea alone - then getting the ingredients right but the prep wrong, or the cooking wrong. Kneading it, flattening it, using different shapes for different sauces. Learning to cook it al dente, to mix it with the sauce, to let the flavors marry and get it on for awhile.

    That's amore!
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    You are clearly more than half way to being a Pastafarian already, hedonist.
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    My heart, soul and (well-rounded :D) ass would agree!

    However, I never have and probably never will don a colander on my head.

    (intentionally)
  • benjsbenjs Posts: 9,150
    hedonist said:

    I'm watching some cooking show while waiting for the mud-mask on my face to do its thing.

    The host made her own pasta - just flour and eggs - and it got me thinking about (and thankful for!) whomever discovered and perfected the process. How many tries it must've taken - just the idea alone - then getting the ingredients right but the prep wrong, or the cooking wrong. Kneading it, flattening it, using different shapes for different sauces. Learning to cook it al dente, to mix it with the sauce, to let the flavors marry and get it on for awhile.

    That's amore!

    Hedonist - you think that's something? Take a look at the coffee and chocolate industries - both astonishing end products that are so commonplace and delicious, but in their original forms are absolutely vile, and the amount of processing necessary to extract their goodness is totally mind-blowing. The fact that people took the time and energy to go through the R & D to make something good out of them consistently leaves me flabbergasted.
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    benjs said:

    hedonist said:

    I'm watching some cooking show while waiting for the mud-mask on my face to do its thing.

    The host made her own pasta - just flour and eggs - and it got me thinking about (and thankful for!) whomever discovered and perfected the process. How many tries it must've taken - just the idea alone - then getting the ingredients right but the prep wrong, or the cooking wrong. Kneading it, flattening it, using different shapes for different sauces. Learning to cook it al dente, to mix it with the sauce, to let the flavors marry and get it on for awhile.

    That's amore!

    Hedonist - you think that's something? Take a look at the coffee and chocolate industries - both astonishing end products that are so commonplace and delicious, but in their original forms are absolutely vile, and the amount of processing necessary to extract their goodness is totally mind-blowing. The fact that people took the time and energy to go through the R & D to make something good out of them consistently leaves me flabbergasted.
    Yes! This gets me too. Who even thought something so tasty and comforting and healthy would come from that initial nastiness?

    What else is there in front of us? Second time today - maybe more than that - I go back to "imagine".

    Speaking of the how's and why's, I'll also say that earlier this morning while doing my nails, I wondered what cavemen (encompasses both genders, ya feminists :D) did when theirs grew too long. Did they naturally get lopped off in the course of survival or did they grow and become cumbersome, leading to some form of what we now call nailclippers?

  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,042
    benjs said:

    hedonist said:

    I'm watching some cooking show while waiting for the mud-mask on my face to do its thing.

    The host made her own pasta - just flour and eggs - and it got me thinking about (and thankful for!) whomever discovered and perfected the process. How many tries it must've taken - just the idea alone - then getting the ingredients right but the prep wrong, or the cooking wrong. Kneading it, flattening it, using different shapes for different sauces. Learning to cook it al dente, to mix it with the sauce, to let the flavors marry and get it on for awhile.

    That's amore!

    Hedonist - you think that's something? Take a look at the coffee and chocolate industries - both astonishing end products that are so commonplace and delicious, but in their original forms are absolutely vile, and the amount of processing necessary to extract their goodness is totally mind-blowing. The fact that people took the time and energy to go through the R & D to make something good out of them consistently leaves me flabbergasted.
    That thought has crossed my mind a number of time too, benjs. How did people come up with stuff like that and what about baking powder? Who the heck figured out how to make that stuff? And then there's the deadly hit and miss of figuring out which plants are good to eat and which will make you sick or kill ya. Yikes!

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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    brianlux said:

    benjs said:

    hedonist said:

    I'm watching some cooking show while waiting for the mud-mask on my face to do its thing.

    The host made her own pasta - just flour and eggs - and it got me thinking about (and thankful for!) whomever discovered and perfected the process. How many tries it must've taken - just the idea alone - then getting the ingredients right but the prep wrong, or the cooking wrong. Kneading it, flattening it, using different shapes for different sauces. Learning to cook it al dente, to mix it with the sauce, to let the flavors marry and get it on for awhile.

    That's amore!

    Hedonist - you think that's something? Take a look at the coffee and chocolate industries - both astonishing end products that are so commonplace and delicious, but in their original forms are absolutely vile, and the amount of processing necessary to extract their goodness is totally mind-blowing. The fact that people took the time and energy to go through the R & D to make something good out of them consistently leaves me flabbergasted.
    That thought has crossed my mind a number of time too, benjs. How did people come up with stuff like that and what about baking powder? Who the heck figured out how to make that stuff? And then there's the deadly hit and miss of figuring out which plants are good to eat and which will make you sick or kill ya. Yikes!

    I'll see your baking powder and raise you baking soda!

    And yeah, the plants.

    One word, and bless the poor guinea pigs before us:

    Mushrooms.
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,042
    hedonist said:

    brianlux said:

    benjs said:

    hedonist said:

    I'm watching some cooking show while waiting for the mud-mask on my face to do its thing.

    The host made her own pasta - just flour and eggs - and it got me thinking about (and thankful for!) whomever discovered and perfected the process. How many tries it must've taken - just the idea alone - then getting the ingredients right but the prep wrong, or the cooking wrong. Kneading it, flattening it, using different shapes for different sauces. Learning to cook it al dente, to mix it with the sauce, to let the flavors marry and get it on for awhile.

    That's amore!

    Hedonist - you think that's something? Take a look at the coffee and chocolate industries - both astonishing end products that are so commonplace and delicious, but in their original forms are absolutely vile, and the amount of processing necessary to extract their goodness is totally mind-blowing. The fact that people took the time and energy to go through the R & D to make something good out of them consistently leaves me flabbergasted.
    That thought has crossed my mind a number of time too, benjs. How did people come up with stuff like that and what about baking powder? Who the heck figured out how to make that stuff? And then there's the deadly hit and miss of figuring out which plants are good to eat and which will make you sick or kill ya. Yikes!

    I'll see your baking powder and raise you baking soda!

    And yeah, the plants.

    One word, and bless the poor guinea pigs before us:

    Mushrooms.
    Oh yes, especially mushrooms! They can fill our tummies, enlighten us or flat out kill us. I had a biology prof years ago who told us a story about a fairly bright naturalist/science teacher he knew who found some mushrooms and tried to identify them. He was fairly certain they were edible but not 100% sure so he cooked a few up and gave them to his cat and waited several hours. The cat was fine so he cooked up the rest and went to bed well fed and happy. The next morning the cat was dead. He immediately went to the hospital where he was informed he had eaten a mushroom with a very slow but irreversibly reacting neurotoxin and, yes, later that day he died. :-(

    So yes, blessings upon those who found for us those wonderful edible and safe fungi! :-)

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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    :bz -kill :D

    What a story! And I'm not sure what it says of me, but I feel worse for the cat.

    I've only gone the belly-filling route (too much of a wuss to try the enlightening kind).
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,042
    hedonist said:

    :bz -kill :D

    What a story! And I'm not sure what it says of me, but I feel worse for the cat.

    I've only gone the belly-filling route (too much of a wuss to try the enlightening kind).

    Yeah, I always felt like the cat was an innocent victim. Don't experiment with the cat!

    The enlightenment mushroom is on my bucket list- but not the mushroom that would make me kick the bucket!!. ;-)

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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    Just a follow up to the story originally posted. Our intrepid Pastafarian minister has officially lost his driver's license, but he is not dismayed because: "“I've been getting a lot of exercise. Noodles contain a lot of carbohydrates,” Canuel told CTV. “His noodliness would prefer if we not dwell on the negatives.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/10/06/pastafarian-loses-bc-drivers-licence_n_5942846.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular&ir=Canada+British+Columbia

    Who can argue with that?
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    "his noodliness" :D

    That sounds like something I'd call our young-yet-hefty cat.

    Love this story.

    (mind you though - not as much as I love pasta)
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    Like I said, you are more than half way to being a Pastafarian, hedonist.

    In fact, I think you should take holy orders. It would add a touch of class to the board to have an ordained minister around here. Plus, you are ideally suited.

    Here's a link you can use to apply: http://www.venganza.org/ordination/ . Let us know when you are ready to start performing marriages!
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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    i cant help thinking of the Paleo diet thread when i drop in here lol
    would they be the equivalent of atheists or more like wicked sinners?
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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    Our dauntless Pastafarians triumph in this instance against the tyranny of motor vehicles branches.

    http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/woman_wears_colander_on_head_for_drivers_license_photo.html

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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    I read about this today!

    Do you think colander and sieve are interchangeable?

    And, finally, I have ordered a proper pasta-cooking pot.
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Posts: 12,845
    I think that colander is more specific to draining food cooked in liquid, whereas a sieve can be used to separate the fine from coarse in any material. For religious purposes, I think a colander is clearly superior, and more stylish, too.

    The Church of the FSM will open its noodly appendages to you whenever you are ready to join.
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    I want to say I'm ready to accept those noodly appendages, but...

    ...I may have a slight problem with the term "noodly appendages".

    Al dente?
  • i_lov_iti_lov_it Posts: 4,007
    Well more to the Point what is he wearing?...and atleast he won't lose he's colander :p
  • PJfanwillneverleave1PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    I've always liked this
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urZXB6ct_cc
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