Er this is way out of date, but i just came across this.

The Big Issue is sold by homeless people, and the idea is that they are classed as employed for the various benefits that bestows against anti-begging rules or social norms.

And it kind has a respectability to it so it gives confidence to people who believe the usual stigmata; this is a Big Issue seller so you're not going to get spat on, swore at, it's not stolen and your money won't go on booze, etc.

The previous description made it sound a bit like a career choice, when it's more like a helping hand when you don't have a career.

OK, a few things.
First of all, how can you hate this? They even had a vagician!
Still cracks me up.

Second, look, I'm not a female so I'm probably not the best person to comment on this but...
I've seen "Carrie" and even read the book (which obviously makes me an expert), so I wouldn't compare the first period with random erections. I don't know about you but I had them way before I knew what they truly meant. When girls get their first period, they are at least capable of understanding it (depending on their sexual education more or less well). And it is a bigger deal. Not like making you an awkward, homicidal X-Men big but noteworthy when it happens the first time.
Just from a stigmata perspective (not even talking the maintenance side of things) it's a quite different thing. How many boner jokes did you see and hear on average in movies or TV last year? How many menstruation jokes? See where this is going? It's still very much a taboo subject. You're more likely to find videos here about fucking children than menstruation. That's how comfortable our western culture is with the subject.

Third, the only stupid thing about this is that there is a country that is super rich and wealthy and still somebody feels the need to sell a menstruation starter kit to the parents living there. And that commercial is not aimed at single fathers (who'd probably really love such a kit), no, it's aimed at the moms. You know, the women who menstruated for (hopefully) at least a decade or two before their little girls start as well. Just like their grandmothers and great-grandmothers. They are supposed to buy that shit. Welcome to the country of vajazzling!
Still, hilarious video! Exactly the shit I'd pull on my kids if I had any (and the exact reason I shouldn't have kids).

Why are these words offensive? Because some assholes uses them to dismiss others? Is "woman" an offensive word now too? Women drivers. Women's health. Women's rights.
Why don't we, for a change, stop turning words into stigmatas and instead change their definition into something more objectively descriptive? Language changes, it's not static, let's embrace that. Let's stop making more and more tools for awful people to hurt others. "Homosexual" was once nothing but a horrible insult and a description of human moral failure. Now we're looking at a future where it is as offensive as the word woman. Or blond. Or plumber.
It is becoming nothing but an adjective. We're getting there.
Crazy people deserve much better than that, they have enough on their plate.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^criticalthud:
The mormons are wrong. jesus prefers a high five, not a secret handshake.

I'd rather give Jesus a fistbump.


good idea! wouldn't irritate the stigmatas as much.

Eye stigmata!

The child's just got a moderate case of stigmata.

Jan Jakub Kolski directed Jasminium - imdb link.

Excerpt:
The film is about love: primarily about love or love relationship between a man and a woman. The viewer is gradually introduced first to Patricia's unrequited love to the movie star, and as the story unfolds, also to Jasmina's tragic love story with one of the monks, and finally the unhappy love story of Natasza, the main character. And the movie is about love in a more general sense, or similar feelings between human beings: exemplified in the unusual friendship between the little girl Genia and Brat Zdrówko (Brother Sanitas), or Natasza's friendship with Patricia.
...

The precocious narrator Genia is the only person who does not have a tragic love story hidden in the past for obvious reasons. Therefore her narration of the story is fairly objective, with her adorable dryness adding to the humorous aspect. In the end, however, Genia experiences her own version of a sad love story when she must leave Brat Zdrówko.

The key to solving all the mysteries of love lies in finding the right aroma. The film is all about magical smell. This extraordinary idea also adds to the fairytale aspect of the film. The important fact is that Natasza's magic perfume works as a love potion only because the love is already there. She merely gives a little boost by caring and acting upon her sympathy. This leads to the final topic of the film: "saintliness," as the director comments.

The film's message is that the most important thing between people is love and caring, and acting upon one's caring for another person. When the caring and acting reaches a certain level, it qualifies to be saintliness. The final scene, when Brat Zdrówko becomes a saint, confirms this idea. As the viewers saw in the film, Brat Zdrówko is the one who cares the most, even about the piglets; he is the one who acts the most to take care of the entire monastery, silently and inconspicuously. This final message is conveyed again with "a sense of humor and tender attentiveness" as Zdrówko complains he cannot light the stoves with the stigmata his hands.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
The below gnostic gospel, made notable in stigmata, provides that you can find "god" every where around you. All types of "god", the angry "god", the happy "god", the sad god. etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas
So in a way all church's are useless under the gospels words. I was raised catholic, until I grew up. Any organization that requires me to go to a 'Mass' of some sorts on a Sunday in the morning will not ever get my patronage. Not because I want to sleep, but because I don't want to be around all those people who I don't agree with.


The beauty to gnostic works is they are all of questionable origins. You can find them that say just about anything you like, but they hold about as weight as quoting the apocrypha. Unless a religion is willing to accept them as canon, then that argument is not valid because there is no way to ascertain the validity of the content. Even if the book is as old as it purports to be and was written by who it is credited it still begs the question of the creditability of the author.

>> ^MINK:
so then, given those facts, it doesn't make sense to defend mormonism by saying "mormons are mostly nice people" because then you are also defending a lot of other crazy organisations by implication.


I think we're stretching a bit here, we need to focus more on the big picture. I think the point of the argument follows the lines that you must check the result of something to determine weather it has been good or bad. I think I can safely say there were no nice guys to work at concentration camps, so there are not nice guys everywhere. Hitler may have hired many nice guys, but by the time the camps closed, I would say they certainly were not nice anymore. On the other hand, I have known many people who were not-nice guys decide they wanted religion and suddenly make the shift to the nice side.

So let's review: concentration camps produce bad things and bad people. I won't say all religion produces good things (crusaders were probably bad, for example), but producing good people is definitely a good start.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
"In worship, a believer in immanence might say that one can find God wherever one seeks."
^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanence
The below gnostic gospel, made notable in stigmata, provides that you can find "god" every where around you. All types of "god", the angry "god", the happy "god", the sad god. etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas
So in a way all church's are useless under the gospels words. I was raised catholic, until I grew up. Any organization that requires me to go to a 'Mass' of some sorts on a Sunday in the morning will not ever get my patronage. Not because I want to sleep, but because I don't want to be around all those people who I don't agree with.


I fail to see how this is relevent. Sorry.

"In worship, a believer in immanence might say that one can find God wherever one seeks."
^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanence

The below gnostic gospel, made notable in stigmata, provides that you can find "god" every where around you. All types of "god", the angry "god", the happy "god", the sad god. etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas

So in a way all church's are useless under the gospels words. I was raised catholic, until I grew up. Any organization that requires me to go to a 'Mass' of some sorts on a Sunday in the morning will not ever get my patronage. Not because I want to sleep, but because I don't want to be around all those people who I don't agree with.

Not stigmata, but perhaps stigma to some, depending on yer point of view, I guess.

Closets, fletch,... unpredictable.-Is that the stigmata in yer pic there man???

"Go on then, go on report me,
I'm English, try and deport me!"

I have teh biggest crush on Lady Sovereign. I don't think she's a chavette, especially since she's the one who wrote that "Sad Arse Strippa" parody of Jentina's "Bad Ass Strippa". The negative stigmata really affected her career developing in the UK, however she's now Def Jam's first British MC and this was the first single out in the US.