Better Late than Never

This from a guy that accuses half the board of being like TBBS for not gay bashing enough and shoots off at the mouth at anything you don't likein spite of all the facts folks show you. The bitching in the legalized pot thread being a recent example.

I ride a bicycle to work and face death every day.

What were we talking about again.

Well, why not?

Oh lord.

My husband did that a few years ago and I went along for the ride and it was a huge mistake. You couldn't pay me to go back to that church.

Time to send a pair of LDS Missionaries to ep's

I was kidding Tamar. Hell they can't even drink coffee.

Whew.

I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Mormons don't mind... (though Utah Mormons apparently liked to spike the Sprite/7up punch with Mountain Dew until Salt Lake finally said that the Word of Wisdom didn't really apply to soft drinks, lol)

Doesn't apply to them, or doesn't allow them? I thought it was the latter. When LDSs used to visit me, they always asked for water or juice.

I have a friend who works for a Mormon owned company. I have sometimes attended events put on by the company (banquets and such) and observed that caffeine, at least in limited amounts is consumed freely. I think @Bickendan is confirming that doctrine now allows for such things, but ironically noting that the prohibition was widely flouted anyway.

What @gul said. The Word of Wisdom prohibits coffee and hot teas (herbal tea excepted), and the perception was because of caffeine, therefore caffeinated sodas (a more recent invention that the WoW) were also prohibited. It's really the other substances in coffee or tea that pose more of a problem in the church's view, though they said when ending the caffeinated soda prohibition that drinking it probably isn't a smart habit.

What is there in coffee and tea aside from caffeine that is bad for you?

The tears of migrant workers.

She said "bad" for you.

Those tears are what makes my tea and coffee so delicious.


That and sin.

Sweet, satisfying sin.

Yeah, grew up with lots of Mormon kids, and only one of them followed the no caffeinated soda thing seriously

I'm with Tamar in being puzzled why tea and coffee is worse than the shit 95 percent of sodas contain.

Interesting. Those guys -- and I realize now that that was about 15 years ago, and that I'm really old, and that that makes me cry -- would refuse sugary sodas like Sprite and sparkling water as well. What does the WoW say about those?

Tannic acid's my guess. Personally, I think coffee smells disgusting, so I don't go for it at all (and my shifts are 530 AM - 2 PM), and non-herbal tea on rare occasions as I don't typically drink tea.

Nothing, really. It was written before soft drinks were really a thing. So, the logical approach is the 'in moderation' route.

A very big thanks to the mods for unstickying this shite thread.

Damn, now I've bumped it.

If we had rep comments, we could keep making snide comments without bumping.

yeah, bumping threads suck...

Stop. Bumping. This. Thread.

Bump.

Happy birthday Wordforge!

Thunder thighs!

Whatever happened to curry stump?

Who cares, baby!

His routine hit its sell-by date back before the change over to vBulletin.

Thanks for pointing that out, Volpone.