Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
In Backroom tradition starting on the 24th of December, the Backroom will be closed until after the New Year has started.
Whatever plans, celebrations or shenanigans you are up to over this period, we the staff team wish you well and hope to see you return in the new years with all the exciting updates and news over the week.
Last edited by Beskar; 12-20-2011 at 21:06.
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Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pintenOriginally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Down with dried flowers!
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Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
What rotten luck, I completely forgot about this. :P My last final is the 22nd and I was gonna spend the next day or so catching up on sleep and then return to some threads I have not been posting in for weeks due to school. Looks like I will have to wait until after the Holidays.
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Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
I intend to start an abortion/gun control/global warming/religion thread at midnight on the 23rd.
Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
Don't forget the economy and sexuality.
Hammer, anvil, forge and fire, chase away The Hoofed Liar. Roof and doorway, block and beam, chase The Trickster from our dreams.Vigilance is our shield, that protects us from our squalid past. Knowledge is our weapon, with which we carve a path to an enlightened future.
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Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
weak-kneed sissy liberal pansy stuff.
what am I supposed to do during those days??? pick fights with the family?? ;P
"If given the choice to be the shepherd or the sheep... be the wolf"
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Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
lol, funny you should say that, because every time I am with my family for the Holidays, my older sis and I somehow manage to get on the subjects of religion and politics, and before you know it there is a raging debate. :P Gonna try to just keep my head down this time around. lol
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Backroom Truce: 24th Dec - 1st Jan
In Backroom tradition, starting on the 24th of December, the Backroom will be closed until after the New Year has started.
Whatever plans, celebrations or shenanigans you are up to over this period, we the staff team wish you well and hope to see you return in the new years with all the exciting updates and news over the week.
Plenty of time to brush up on those skills.
Last edited by Beskar; 12-18-2012 at 04:18.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
Re: Backroom Truce: 24th Dec - 1st Jan
Obligatory protest against it.
Rude to force a break on everyone just because a part of Christianity celebrate holidays during that part of the year. It's an international forum, with atheists, jews, muslims, hindus, orthodox christians and other faiths, denominations and beliefs.
This is the .Org's version of stamping on civil liberties.
Re: Backroom Truce: 24th Dec - 1st Jan
The org is no democracy I like this tradition myself. Not that it's really truce as things are friendly enough as it is. Have a great christmas and new year mia mucas
Re: Backroom Truce: 24th Dec - 1st Jan
And as the aforementioned Hindu, I feel that this truce is more in the spirit of the values that Christmas represents rather than having anything to do with religion.
And that is something everyone can appreciate.
Last edited by rajpoot; 12-22-2015 at 08:01.
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Re: Backroom Truce: 24th Dec - 1st Jan
You're not helping my case. Just pretend you're oppressed.
were is the backroom?
were has it gone?
“Its been said that when human beings stop believing in god they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse, they believe in anything.” Malcolm maggeridge
The simple believes every word: but the prudent man looks well to his going. Proverbs -14.15
The first to present his case seems right,till another comes forward and questions him -Proverbs 18.17
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1.1
Re: were is the backroom?
As I understand it, it gets put away for this time of the year or something which is some sort of tradition.
Re: were is the backroom?
Christmas truce
The art of war, then, is governed by five constant
factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations,
when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field.
These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth;
(4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline.
Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
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Re: were is the backroom?
A higher being struck the Backroom from the forum for it being delayed in the truce and Backroom will only return once it has been pleased...
Last edited by Beskar; 12-27-2013 at 17:30.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
Re: were is the backroom?
It's only temporary? Bah! ;)
Where did the Backroom go to?
I logged on right now and I can't find the Backroom. Was it removed?
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Last edited by Beskar; 12-25-2016 at 02:08.
BLARGH!
Re: Where did the Backroom go to?
In the spirit of the Christmas truce, it is closed over the festive period. It re-opens just after the New Year.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Re: Where did the Backroom go to?
Even the Germans and the English laid down their weapons during this time... So do we...
I think it is mainly so that the staff can spend time with friends and family.
Last edited by Beskar; 12-24-2016 at 18:40.
Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
Happy holidays everybody!
And hello KukriGood to see you're still around
Andres is our Lord and Master and could strike us down with thunderbolts or beer cans at any time. ~Askthepizzaguy
Ja mata, TosaInu
Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
The fact
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
Happy holidays everybody and good to see you around Kukri Sama!
Ja Mata Tosainu Sama.
Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
Happy holidays everyone!
Re: Winter Truce 24th - 2nd of Jan
Have not been to the org in probably a year now and thought I would stop in the backroom to see if the euros and other foreign commie ilk were still performing fellatio on Obummer but to my great disappointment there was no backroom to be found... Then I remembered that this was that time of year when we pretend that some invisible boogie man demands our morality and good will to go into overdrive....
Happy Holidays everyone, including the terminally stupid. Peace and love, peace and love...
RIP Tosa
Christmas Truce
Just as a reminder, though most of you know the story well, the "war to end all wars" took a break on Christmas of 1914.
So this yank conservative will pause a moment in our persiflage melee, wish you all a Merry Christmas, and pray that the New Year brings health, joy, and a bit of peace to you and yours.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: Christmas Truce
Christmas truce must be the most horrific thing about WW1 in a way, nobody really wanted to kill eachother but when it was over they had to. Things can be so twisted. I love the 'Futility' poem by Wilfred Owen, had to make sense of it when I was still at school and I never did really the question remains unanswered; 'was it for this the clay grew tall?'. Sometimes I wish I am less cynical but the world and surroundings give me no choice, I relish the smaller things and prefer to be the fool
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