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Belfast... yay! And still zero Apple Stores in all of Germany...

Talk about priorities!

Sep 21, 08 - 09:01 am Comment from: TowerTone

Looks like they had a blast....

Sep 21, 08 - 09:22 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

@ TowerTone,

WOW. that was definately an explosive statement. I hope you are prepared to get bombed with foreseen and intended backlash.

Sep 21, 08 - 09:23 am Comment from: Cubert

Good thing it was on a Saturday and not on a Sunday or it may have gotten bloody.

Sep 21, 08 - 09:28 am Comment from: TowerTone

I'm just glad the The Troubles have mostly passed and can be made light of.
-signed: a Protestant with Irish blood

Sep 21, 08 - 09:31 am Comment from: DLMeyer

Yeah, TT, it looks (and sounds) like the crowd is thrilled to have the Apple Store there ... and they seemed happy to support it with their hard-earned ? Pounds? Euros? Things have changed since my visit to Galway, and the money confused me even then.
So ... what about Germany? Why are there no Apple Stores there? We have four in the Boston area, why do they not have at least as many in Germany? They have the population, the money, the smarts ... I would think (not knowing the right questions, much less the answers) the country would be a great opportunity to expand the market.

Sep 21, 08 - 09:37 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

Well, I think the protestant attacks stopped after they realized the catholics really weren't out to hurt them, they just wanted to hurt young catholic boys.

Maybe I should have prefaced that with "This next comment could bring up bad memories for some sexually confused teenage to early 20 something catholic boys/men." Sorry that I didn't, doesn't make the previous statement any less true.

Blame your parents for being so intent on their religion. The only thing worse than growing up religiously in Ireland as a catholic/protestant is growing up religiouly in the deep south (USA) as a baptist.

God have mercy, and please explain to ignorant parents everywhere to worship you, and not those who say they come in your name.

Amen.

Sep 21, 08 - 10:32 am Comment from: TowerTone

"The only thing worse than growing up religiously in Ireland as a catholic/protestant is growing up religiouly in the deep south (USA) as a baptist."

So, I am worse off than an Islamo-Fascist?
Interesting.

Sep 21, 08 - 11:05 am Comment from: Anonymous©

I'm quite sure there's photos of a Bavarian Apple Store being built, at the ifoapple website.

Anonymous©: I'm quite sure there's photos of a Bavarian Apple Store being built, at the ifoapple website.

I wasn't talking about Bavaria, I was talking about Germany...!

@TowerTone:

""The only thing worse than growing up religiously in Ireland as a catholic/protestant is growing up religiouly in the deep south (USA) as a baptist."

So, I am worse off than an Islamo-Fascist?
Interesting."

Whether jarrettdailynews implicitly implied you or not, I'll trust your sound judgment and sensitivity to judge for yourself.

However, by taking it upon yourself to drag in and bash another religion (that had absolutely no context in this thread so far) in order to defend yours (perceived or otherwise) and in the same breath tossing up hip words like 'Islamo-Fascist' (clever stuff, that!) regardless whether it's a valid (or even a logical) juxtaposition, IMHO -- yes you are.

MDN MW: develop. Nah, I got nothing.

""The only thing worse than growing up religiously in Ireland as a catholic/protestant is growing up religiouly in the deep south (USA) as a baptist."

So, I am worse off than an Islamo-Fascist?
Interesting."
********
Having lived in the South, I can tell you that there is very little difference between an Islamo-Fascist and a Conservative-Christian-Fascist. Both are willing to kill for God, which makes them both Devil worshippers.

Sarah Palin is the mirror image of Osama Bin Ladin

Sep 21, 08 - 12:09 pm Comment from: TowerTone

adashofflair

I find it interesting that Baptist had not been brought up until jarrettdailynews made his statement, but that is OK with you, as long as the terrorist wing of Islam is not mentioned.

Any parent can screw up any kid's head by way of religion, sex, neglect or other abuse. I don't see how the Baptist could be considered more detrimental to child-rearing than a fundamentalist conversion by death sect of a major religion.

You and jarrettdailynews may consider all religions, or just Baptist, or just Southern Americans, to be just as backwards as Islamo-Fascist, but I don't.

Of course, jarrettdailynews could have also been making a joke at his own expense, by which I asked if I was in that boat, too, by comparing it to a more extreme form of religion.

I'm sure you considered that first, though.....

@TowerTone

I would kindly direct you to the very first sentence of my previous response.

Sep 21, 08 - 12:21 pm Comment from: TowerTone

adashofflair

As I would also direct you to the first in mine.

@TowerTone
I would like to excuse myself from this conversation after this response, as I do not consider this to be the appropriate forum for this. However, I suppose I do owe you a response to that first sentence of yours:

"I find it interesting that Baptist had not been brought up until jarrettdailynews made his statement, but that is OK with you, as long as the terrorist wing of Islam is not mentioned.""

As a rebuttal, you are putting words in my mouth. Instead of carrying this any further, I hope you can detect the fallacy yourself?
Seriously, I propose we move on.

Sep 21, 08 - 12:53 pm Comment from: TowerTone

adahsofflair

That's fine, but as a way to diffuse your logic on this, let's take religion out, and suppose jarretdailynews claimed "The only thing worse than driving a Chevy/GMC is driving a Ford" to which I might reply "So I am worse off than a Yugo driver?"

The Yugo is a piece of shit, but that doesn't mean the country that built it was.

Oh, and incidentally, your statement "IMHO -- yes you are." could be considered as 'bashing' something. Feel better?

No offense - offence if you're on this side of the Atlantic - but you'd be better sticking to comments about Mac News and quitting the no-laughs-(Northern)-Irish-political-quips

Sep 21, 08 - 01:50 pm Comment from: TowerTone

A poem for young Alan in Belfast
Who saw no humor in Troubles past
When another acted a prick
By penning a lame Limerick
He responded 'Enjoy that Cork up your ass?'

I knew a young girl from Belfast
She fingered her mac like it wouldn't last
She typed out a tune
Took me back to her room
And now I'm in a store line that won't move fast.

Sep 21, 08 - 02:28 pm Comment from: ron

"WOW. that was definately an explosive statement."

Yes, definitely so.

Sep 21, 08 - 02:59 pm Comment from: TowerTone

I met a young man from Peru
While relieving myself in the loo.
I shook it once, then twice,
He exclaimed 'How nice!'
So my salute is too red, white, and blew.

Sep 21, 08 - 03:51 pm Comment from: Macintosher

There once was a blue whale from Spain,
Who really did not have much brain,
A bit like Bill Gates,
With ads on his plate,
That look like they've come from a drain.

Someone call me?

Sep 21, 08 - 05:40 pm Comment from: jarrettdailynews

eight hour later, I would like to state that any religion is great. We all need something to believe in. My point is, anything you believe in that allows your finite thinking to justify blowing anything or anyone up is wrong.

And if you don't find anything wrong with that thinking, I can personaaly promise bad things for you by the hands of your own God.

jarrettdailynews: We all need something to believe in.

No, we don't.

But not everybody who adheres to superstitions is automatically an evil terrorist because of it.

Sep 21, 08 - 11:12 pm Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

These Mac forums are never dull

Sep 22, 08 - 08:56 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

@ Ping,

Thank you for you .02. Also, thank you for proving that one's ability to read does not always render understanding.

Where did I say in any statement that if a person is religious that they are a terrorist?

jarrettdailynews: Where did I say in any statement that if a person is religious that they are a terrorist?

you didn't. I was commenting on the course of the debate in general and on the incorrect assumption that everybody was religious.

Sep 22, 08 - 10:14 am Comment from: DLMeyer

Ping: I believe in - among other things - science. Scientists are not always right, nor is it always "right", but I believe their method will lead to truth. Even if that truth destroys us.
We all need to believe in something. That something need not be as nebulous as most religious belief, nor need it be amenable to being developed into a destructive force. It may be as simple, and as provably false, as my belief in my abilities as a speaker.
See G.L.Horton's Stage Page Podcast and judge for yourself - it will NOT effect my own belief in my skills as speaker or as sound editor.
Sorry ... needed a case-in-point.
Is there nothing you believe in that another might take exception to? Perhaps that the Mac is far and away a better PC than either a Windows box or a Linux box?

Sep 22, 08 - 10:37 am Comment from: Mike Caine

> We all need something to believe in

I believe in Apple and Steve Jobs. That's all the religion I need

DLMeyer: Ping: I believe in - among other things - science.

I don't believe in science, I simply see it as the best tool to find out about most aspects of the world.

That's an entirely different thing. And not one for this site, really...

Sep 25, 08 - 07:27 am Comment from: Dave H

Another great example of how far Ulster has come in recent times. I was up in Ballymena over the weekend and it's changed so much since my last visit it was like a new town.

I mean, they've even removed all the Union flags and red, white and blue painted kerbstones leading up to Harryville Chapel (although I never quite got why they decided to build a Catholic Church in one of the most Proddy areas of the province in the first place). Surely that counts as progress alone, but together with the obvious economic growth and regeneration going on it's pretty spectacular. Nearly as amazing as seeing how my native Manchester has changed in the past decade and a half.