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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:35 PM
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Why is DU now Promoting Crosses in their Icons...what is this?
I see some big cross next to and X as an icon when I look at posts.

I don't get why DU Admins are promoting Christianity and "XANITY."

What does that big Cross mean...I don't like it...I don't understand what it replaced...its very upsetting to me. And, I don't know why those X's against Christians are right there next to it.

I thought this was a "Progressive Site." I wonder what's next..."Signs of the Fish" and "X-Signs of the Fish." :-(
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:37 PM
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1. You're joking, right?
I mean ... you are joking?
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:38 PM
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4. Hey, get a load of the new buttons!
I didn't notice them till KoKo pointed them out...
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:37 PM
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2. It's the "Send a prayer" button...
DU borrowed it from Freeperland.

:evilgrin:
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:40 PM
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9. I personally feel more Christian already.
Freaking hell. I'm turning into a Christian! Naaargh! Damn you Skinner! ARRRRRRGH!
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:41 PM
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12. Praise Jesus!
Hmmm....me, too...
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:38 PM
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40. WWFSMD
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:44 PM
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17. OMG!
I just said something and I couldn't understand myself! I think I just spoke in tongues! Halleluuuia!!!
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cmd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:38 PM
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3. good golly
How did you ever survive math? 2+2=4 2x2=4
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:38 PM
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5. Do you want us to pray for you?
:silly:
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:39 PM
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6. looks like all the icons have turned into children's toys
Big symbols with bright primary colors.


Maybe the admin is reflecting the level of discussion?
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:42 PM
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13. I know...I sorted that stuff on my Refrigerator Door for years...and
picked them up off the floor too. GROSS!!! YETCH...and there's a "pencil," and other stuff, too....

Yetch...feel like I'm back in kindergarten! Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy!
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:45 PM
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20. Oh....I didn't think of that.....
:blush:
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:52 PM
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28. Fisher-Price designed the new icons. Purty. nt
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:31 PM
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35. ..
:spray:
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:40 PM
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7. And that yellow thing
to the far left is the holy grail.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:45 PM
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19. AND............A BLUE MAN!!!!!!!! No ....."Creative Playthings Toys!"
Genderless faceless....Or..was it Fisher-Price that had those "thingies" one had to put in slots to show that you had gone past age 2 in cognitive skills.....:eyes:
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:55 PM
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30. That's not a blue man, it's Tinkie-Winkie!
Go ahead, push the Tinkie-Winkie....I dare you.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:40 PM
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8. Since you asked.
Green Cross International

Greencross

also Greencross
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:55 PM
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31. Cool!
And here I thought it was just a plus sign. But then I'm hopelessly old fashioned.
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:41 PM
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10. It reminds me of math symbols instead.
The + adds somebody to your buddy list, and the "X" marks them off-ignores them. :)
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:51 PM
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26. I thought the "Oldie Icons" were more "Adult" and "Expressive."
Edited on Fri Nov-11-05 08:57 PM by KoKo01
This stuff looks...well...like "mark the paper for Neanderthals."

Cheerful...but in a way sort of Regressive. :shrug:
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:41 PM
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11. or it could be an add sign. and if it were a cross, geez. but it isnt
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carolinalady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:42 PM
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14. its a plus sign not a cross, why does everything have to be
about religion?
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carolinalady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:47 PM
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21. also fyi- A religious cross is not symetrically equal.
The horizontal line is located above the mid-point of the vertical line.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:42 PM
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15. Very funny
um, you ARE kidding, right????
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:43 PM
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16. To be religious & a believer is a human thing. And the real walk the
walk devout will truly go down in the dirt and help people - day in day out. Whoeverthehelldoyouthink takes care of the orphans in the less developed nations?

You cannot possibly paint all Xtians with the brush of the wingnuts! Most xtians are not rich. There were there in the antislavery movement, the labour movement at the start of the 20th century, the civil rights movement. Et all.

So please - you get to put up whoever you adore. Why can't they put up a cross?
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:39 PM
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41. WWFSMD
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 10:58 PM
Response to Reply #41
50. What does WWFSMD mean?
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mestup Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:44 PM
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18. It's so Pat Robertson can't put a patwah on DU
:-)
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InsanityInc Donating Member (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:50 PM
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25. That would be cool ....
LOL .....
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:56 PM
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33. A "patwah"! I love it!
I've never heard that before

:rofl:
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:47 PM
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22. Looks like DU turned into Mozilla Firefox
The new look confused me at first, but I kinda like it.
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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:50 PM
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23. But the 'Greatest' is a pentagram . . .
kind of.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:53 PM
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29. Looks like a "Star" to me...thought that was reserved for "Donors."
Edited on Fri Nov-11-05 08:54 PM by KoKo01
:-(...I guess not anymore. We aren't special anymore...that "Greatest Thingy" has taken over our status.
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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:30 PM
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34. Omigosh, you're right . . . I'm puddling up now . . .
:cry: I'm not special.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:39 PM
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42. That's the way I felt....a puny star for donors..........
:cry: :grouphug:
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sidwill Donating Member (975 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:50 PM
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24. Whats the big deal
Ain't nuthin wrong with the cross, only jagoffs like Robertson and Bush who exploit it for their own agenda.

Christ: The Worlds first Liberal.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:59 PM
Response to Reply #24
47. Many liberals lived and died LONG
before the alleged birth of Jesus....
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lyonn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:51 PM
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27. Dang, I thought they were quite festive
Didn't occur to me they might be bibical, now really, are you guys kidding?
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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 08:55 PM
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32. I like the icons...
...I think that cross is a big plus.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:33 PM
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36. you are kidding, right?
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:38 PM
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39. sort of........
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:34 PM
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37. I guess I shouldn't have looked because now I have you on ignore and on
my buddy list. How do I fix it?
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:37 PM
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38. I don't know...maybe there is another color code that they haven't put up
yet? :shrug: If you can see this...or if you can't :crazy:

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:40 PM
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43. Okay I fixed it
Phew. Wouldn't want to put you on ignore, old friend.

:)
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:43 PM
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45. Where is it......I wondered about that...seemed we were "missing options"
in the "Primary Colors." Do we go to that "Options" thingy? I was scared to click on it...thought a bunch of "animal crakers" in bright colors might fall out. :scared:
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:45 PM
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46. "Mr. SNOOZY" got the "Stone" Bawling my eyes out here....
:cry: :banghead: :nuke:
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 10:01 PM
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48. If you have aol, the old icons are still there
Edited on Fri Nov-11-05 10:03 PM by Generic Other
When you refresh your browser on aol, it usually takes about ten days.

Poor vagrant, Mr. Snoozy. I think I will save you.

edited:
Oh, he disappeared when I posted this.
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tallahasseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 10:58 PM
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51. Same thing happened to me..
I was actually pretty happy about it. Then I posted and now I am stuck with these things.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 11:33 PM
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52. They appreared with "Refresh." sadly......Netscape allows one to choose
a "Classic or Modern" view for my Browser... I wish Skinner would give us that option.
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givemebackmycountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 09:41 PM
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44. I say
The new Icons are soulless and devoid of any personality.

And yes, they do look like they were designed by Fischer-Price.

But, what do I know.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-11-05 10:26 PM
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49. as your username suggests ...
you've said it all. Thank you.


i think they suk. But tha's jus me.
dp
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