• Jo Miran
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    681 month ago

    🎶 There goes my hero, watch her as she goes.🎶

      • @LemmyKnowsBest
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        121 month ago

        Ok but was that a mugshot after being arrested for indecent exposure?

  • SharkEatingBreakfast
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    241 month ago

    You can also chase them off your property by saying you’ve been excommunicated, and they’ll never come back.

    • @P00ptart
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      51 month ago

      No no, what you do is you ask them if they know why the church is making them go door to door. When they say “to spread the word of God” you correct them. “No, they know that going door to door won’t get new members of your church because doing so is rude. They want people to get mad at you and treat you poorly so that you run back to your church saying how mean everyone was. That’s when they pull YOU in closer. You’re being played.” It won’t save their souls from the cult, but it plants a seed of doubt. And if they go back and tell the church what you said, you’ll be put on a list of houses to not return to.

    • go $fsck yourself
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      11 month ago

      Considering that’s not the term they use, it would not be very effective. They would know you’re lying.

      • @Kbobabob
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        351 month ago

        Since you didn’t actually provide a good response, it’s called disfellowshipped.

        • @argarath
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          61 month ago

          Thank you!!! I just need to figure out their term in Portuguese now and I’ll be golden here in Brazil and when I finally move in with my BFs in the USA

        • go $fsck yourself
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          Still won’t work. It’s just not worth trying to remember it, and thus not worth mentioning the term.

          It’s more nuanced than that. You can’t be disfellowshipped unless you were baptized as a JW, which you can tell if someone was or not. That’s just not something you can easily lie about. At best you can say you were “disassociated”, but that’s not worth that either.

          You’re better off just saying “put me on your do not call list” than trying to come up with a lie like that.

        • SharkEatingBreakfast
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          11 month ago

          Thank you! My old coworkers were all JW, but I forgot the word and used the protestant equivalent.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Or you were so bad of a practitioner that you didn’t even bother to learn what it was called

      • @[email protected]
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        71 month ago

        The original source is a satirical news site

        Well, that would have been nice to know! LOL The screenshot and post gives no context of where this story came from.

        • @KaiyotoOP
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          129 days ago

          Oh shit, you’re right. I thought it included the link but I fucking ate the onion :(

      • @KaiyotoOP
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        129 days ago

        Oh shit, you’re right. I though I included the link. I ate the onion :(

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      Public indecency, I’m guessing. Some people have a stick up their arse about nudity, which is decidedly on the unpleasant side of the butt fun scale.

  • @[email protected]
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    I answered the door naked once (I was enroute to the shower), they haven’t bothered me since.

    • @Itdidnttrickledown
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      91 month ago

      Had a friend who did that after getting out of shower one morning. He was headed to bed after a twelve hour shift and they had woke him up three Saturdays in a row. He was 5’8’’ and around 160 pounds but we called him Big Ed. Guess why?

      • @P00ptart
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        31 month ago

        I’m guessing he had big teeth? /s

  • @yemmly
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    111 month ago

    Give her a medal.

  • @iAvicenna
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    81 month ago

    remember that no matter how crazy you are, there are crazier

  • @doingthestuff
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    -21 month ago

    My dad’s brother just kept answering the door naked and they stopped coming back. Her devil vagina magic might have worked if she was cute.

  • @[email protected]
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    -341 month ago

    Or just ask them to put you on the “do not call” list and they shouldn’t bother you again for several years.

    • Hegar
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      1091 month ago

      Studies consistently show that devil vagina magic is the more effective solution.

      • @[email protected]
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        141 month ago

        I wish I could’ve participated in that study, I love magic!

        DVM: *Pulls out seemingly endless scarves*

        Me: *Claps gleefully*

        DVM: *Makes my head spin around 3 times*

        Me: I didn’t like that one as much

        DVM: *Makes a quarter appear*

        Me: I’m still dizzy from that last trick. Can you give me a second?

      • @Entropywins
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        91 month ago

        I know devil vagina magic has caught me up a few times

    • @BassTurd
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      261 month ago

      Nah. Keep you religion to yourself, regardless of your religion, and especially at my residence during my personal time.

      • @RedditWanderer
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        181 month ago

        It’s one thing to preach in public, but gtf off my lawn!

        As a millennial, my heart still stops when the door rings, obviously it’s the police or something or I would have gotten a text. I should have bought a house without a front door

        • BeardedBlaze
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          21 month ago

          Which part of “regardless of your religion” did you not understand?

    • go $fsck yourself
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      101 month ago

      That “shouldn’t” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

    • @RedditWanderer
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      101 month ago

      Yeah, and I also keep weeds out of my garden by shouting at them and squirls out of my trees with signs that say: no squirrels

    • @Strider
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      11 month ago

      You could just tell them you’re an apostate.

      Those they actively avoid.