salesman 'hurt' by wine prizes

[Joe Black]

Good idea Arun, might just do the same myself. Though I think I'm going to make mine state that being offered anything but 72 young virgins will be offensive to me.

And just in case you get this confused with some other potential religion, my good book ('The Book of Wants' I shall call it), shall state that they are provided in the here and now, not in some afterlife where God can fob me off with a keychain or something...

[threaded]

The world could do with more like him...

[SupremeSpod]

When I were a lad and doing a contract for Grand Met, all the nice little kickbacks given to the buyers used to get raffled off at XMas and the proceeds given to charity. I got a case of port for a quid!

[mcquiggd]

Mmmm... imagine how offended some people in foreign climes would feel If I declined to eat a commonly eaten local food offered to me in friendship as my cultural beliefs were different...

Now imagine how they would feel if I used their legal system to sue for compensation as they didnt serve me roast beef, yorkshire puddings and a nice bottle of red to wash it down instead of sheeps eyeballs and bitter caffeine....


Its no wonder there is a growing negative view of islam - quite a number are seperatist, aggressive and intolerant. In danger of becoming the new Vandals, but this time their weapons are the legal systems of the local country.



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The Vandals were a Germanic tribe of Jutland (now in Denmark), who migrated to the valley of the Odra (Oder) River about the 5th century BC. During the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD they settled along the Danube River. This is approximately when they began their conquests over Rome. Today's usage of the word "vandal" reflects the dread and hostility the tribe precipitated in other people, especially the Romans, by their looting and pillaging of the many villages they conquered.

In the 420s, much of Spain was the playground of the ferocious Vandal tribes, who had arrived there in 409 after crossing the Rhine in 406. The Vandals, under pressure from the local Romans and the expanding Visigoths, decided to move on to the rich provinces of Roman North Africa; they elected as their king a crippled son of a slave, Gaiseric. This proud, ruthless king was a gifted conspirator and a genius of political maneuver. For 50 years, Gaiseric’s web of entangling treaties foiled the plans of Roman diplomats and Germanic kings, always to the Vandals’ advantage.

In 429, Gaiseric ferried all of his people across the Strait of Gibraltar and led them east along the African coast. One by one, the gleaming Roman cities with their abundant granaries fell to the hungry Vandals. The people of Hippo were rallied to the defense of their town by their bishop, Augustine. St. Augustine died in his city during the 14-month-long Vandal siege. In the end, Hippo, too, passed into the barbarian hands. The Vandal conquest of North Africa took a decade to complete. Cleaning up operations were still going on when Gaiseric turned restlessly to a new project: he built a swift fleet and launched himself on a lucrative career of piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Vandals carved out big estates and made their homes among the Romans. They left administrative chores to Roman bureaucrats. But the relations of the Arian Vandals with the Catholic inhabitants were never better than strained. Gaiseric barely managed to hold animosities in check, and under his successors prejudice erupted into violence. The Vandals persecuted the Roman majority. They martyred scores of Catholic and provided medieval hagiographers with many grim tales for their lives of the saints.

Gratuitous cruelty was only one symptom of the Vandals’ swift degeneration after Gaiseric’s reign. The warriors, seduced by the luxuries that their rich land supplied, grew weak, corrupt, and disorganized. They succumbed quickly when their kingdom was invaded by an army from the Eastern Roman Empire in 533. Soon afterward, the Vandals disappeared as a distinct people. They melted in with the highly mixed local population and tried to continue to live non-distinct lives. They left little behind but lingering bitterness, anger, and a new desire for justice.
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[vetran]

not much of a salesman if he can't convince his boss to give himk what he wants.

[Board Game Geek]

Following on from Arun's comments, I would like to state the beginning of a new religion.

It shall be called "Gecko".

All members are not to accept any job which pays less than "£500,000" a year.

So when you go for a job paying £100K, you can remind them of your religion, and if they refuse, claim discrimination on religious and financial grounds.

Of course, followers of "Gecko" don't pay tax either.

Next Step....how to get this religion officially recognised :-)

[SupremeSpod]

Look, the guy is going to court because he(and his legal chappie) think they can win and thus claim compensation(In Money, not pork bellies). This is typical of the litigious society that we have become.

[stackpole]

"Take your foot off his head"...

Or her head in the case of Cherie Blair.

[Arun V]

My Ten Commandments

My new religion needs new Commandments...below are the original from Wikipedia:
1. "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt..." - This commandment is to believe in the existence of God.
2. "You shall have no other gods besides Me...Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..."
3. "You shalt not swear falsely by the name of the Lord..." - This commandment is to never take the name of God in a vain oath. In Exodus, the text reads "in a vain oath" (לא תשא את שם ה' לשוא), while in Deuteronomy it reads "in a false oath" (לא תשא שם ה' לשקר).
4. "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy" (the version in Deuteronomy mentions "Keep" rather than "Remember")
5. "Honor your father and your mother..." - This commandment is a development when compared to other laws of the Ancient East (for example, the Code of Hammurabi) that do not call for equal respect of the father and the mother.
6. "You shall not murder" - The Hebrew Bible makes a distinction between murdering and killing (see Jewish interpretation below).
7. "You shall not commit adultery"
8. "You shall not steal" (sometimes interpreted as kidnapping, since there are other injunctions against stealing property in the Bible).
9. "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor"
10. "You shall not covet your neighbor's house..." (in Exodus, the text reads "... neighbor's house, ... neighbor's wife, nor his manservant..." etc. while in Deuteronomy, "thy neighbor's wife, ... thy neighbor's house, his field" etc.)

I definately agree with number 10: if you saw my neighbour's wife u wouldnt want to covet her either.
Keeping the Sabbath I'm not too keen on. The ones about murder, adultery and stealing I'll keep. I'll scrap numbers 1-3.

[FrankScribe]

Or her head in the case of Cherie Blair.

Why would I want to?



Unless of course, I was worried about my toes getting caught in that mouth