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I feel sorry for men who have to wear pants

A few years ago, back in the Netherlands, the male bus drivers of a certain public transportation company were forced to wear long pants by their 'managers'. Their female colleagues had a more comfortable uniform with a skirt. As a protest, a number of male bus drivers started borrowing the uniforms of their femaile colleagues. HR gave in. Good.

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Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?

Lately, I was in a train. Across me, there is this man who keeps peeilng oranges, throwing black pepper on them and throwing them out of the window. After some time, my curiosity gets the best of me, so I ask him why he is throwing peppered oranges out of the train window. "Why sir?", he says, "To keep the elephants away of course". I replied that there are no elephants around, to which he says: "so it works!"

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As a semi-agnostic, ex-Christian theist, I get shit on by both atheists and religious people. I think I'm getting caught in the cross-fire of their hatred for the other group. It's frustrating.

I know people who believe in one or more gods, but who do not consider themselves part of any religion. They did their own thinking and decided for themselves that there is a god (or gods). They also explicitly decided that the religions they know of do not fit their beliefs or ethics. I respect that.