Retail Milestones

[CorneliaMarieRocks]

and we have a winner folks!! yep NCIS it is

cookies of your choice coming your way


and actually it should be "probies" as Ziva is now a probationary agent too

[ZedOmega]

Cleaning up the restroom when it looks like somebody did a Mr. Creosote in there.

Having to push the motorized shopping cart across the store to the charger--after it was used for an extended period of time by an usually stinky person.

Early morning or not, I'm glad I stocked up on brain bleach before I even thought about asking this: 'Mr. Creosote'? If it's as bad as I'm guessing it is, I'm not googling it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

You need to watch more Monty Python.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Oh, you'll get your chance to ruin Christmas... seeing as Christmas is already here, at least, according to the supermarket over the road which already has Christmas items on sale. XD Ah, ruining Christmas for SCs... puts a smile on my face every time I do it.

Another milestone would be, "Everyone else/Every other store lets me do this!" and of course, references to that mystical store "Everywhere Else."

[wolfie]

Unnecessary Proselytizing

I got handed a pamphlet as a tip from a lady. I kinda want to make these up for lesser-known religions, like Buddhism, Zoroastrianism (though there'd not be much point in this one, seeing as you cannot convert to it.)

Why would Zoroastrianism not allow people to convert TO it? Seems a bit unusual for a religion to actively PREVENT "growing the flock".

As for some of the remarks about opinions of various religious figures, many years ago there was a "What would Jesus drive?" campaign, to which I applied logic and came up with an answer the campaigners would NOT like. If people are curious, I can (depending on volume) answer by PM or a thread on Fratching.

[Kristev]

It's not that surprising. Wicca, for example, doesn't believe in recruiting people. Wiccans believe that one should be drawn to it, rather than recruited in.

[wolfie]

I can understand a religion not actively recruiting (as in Wicca - waiting for people to come to you WANTING to join is going to weed out people who aren't truly interested in joining), but it sounded like they would be turning away people who had gone down to the basement, past the "beware of tigers" sign, and ASKED about joining.

Every religion is going to have people leaving the faith (through the mortician's office, even if by no other way). If there's no way to join, then the population will decline to nothing.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Every religion is going to have people leaving the faith (through the mortician's office, even if by no other way). If there's no way to join, then the population will decline to nothing.

Here's the answer to your question:

In order to be a Zoroastrian, you must be born of two Zoroastrian parents. One is not enough! No children of mixed marriages are officially Zoroastrian. In practice, however, the children of Zoroastrian fathers and non-Z. mothers are sometimes given admission to the faith - but not the children of Zoroastrian mothers and non-Z. fathers. Zoroastrian identity descends through the father's line, unlike Jewish identity, which is defined by the mother being Jewish.

From HERE.

[Ghel]

We need a list of these milestones we can check off, in the style of "purity" tests. Then we can all compare our scores.