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The 'Funny (ha, ha)' side of religion

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    #5042
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Mr. Nobody wrote:
    Saying grace at the Lord Mayor’s installation dinner is something that has been done by way of custom for the last 25 years.
    That's only since 1992. Curious.
    A Mysterious Insider wrote:
    Grace has always been said, even by Lord Mayors who wouldn’t darken the doors of a church or chapel.
    "Always" is a bit longer alright.


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    #5043
    MrPudding
    Registered Users Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    recedite wrote: »
    That's only since 1992. Curious.

    "Always" is a bit longer alright.

    I imagine the scene as loads of people looking around the room in panic... what shall we do...? The food is here, it looks delicious and i am soooo hungry... Please someone say grace I need to eat so bad...

    MrP


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    #5044
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,752 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRiDDqy96jE


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    #5045
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,901 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Couldn't make out the reason given for Mo's no-show...?

    The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.



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    #5046
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,417 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Couldn't make out the reason given for Mo's no-show...?
    There's a religious reason as well as more practical ones.


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    #5047
    cumulonimbus
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭cumulonimbus


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Couldn't make out the reason given for Mo's no-show...?

    Daycare pickup.


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    #5048
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    I guess they had to come up with some joke that would also provide "cover" for the more practical reasons for Mo's absence. An elegant solution ;)


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    #5049
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Couldn't make out the reason given for Mo's no-show...?

    He was probably too busy doing some vile acts with his child wife Aisha.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #5050
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,752 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    beliefs.jpg


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    #5051
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Floppy disks are like Jesus.

    They died to become the icon of saving.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #5052
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    Locals upset heroin users are cleaning their equipment in the holy water. It's just a wee bit of heroin, probably not as toxic as all the faeces and snot the holy water already contains....

    http://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/Residents-say-heroin-users-cleaning-equipment-in-Holy-Water-4fdb26ed-23c5-4f1b-9821-8a1871b39300-ds


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    #5053
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,417 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Worztron wrote: »
    Floppy disks are like Jesus.

    They died to become the icon of saving.
    And, one could add, rapidly going out of fashion as well.


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    #5054
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,752 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    robindch wrote: »
    And, one could add, rapidly going out of fashion as well.

    And about as likely to make a comeback any time soon ;)


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    #5055
    loobylou
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭loobylou


    Looks like the lamb ad is "offensive" now. How pathetic.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41169928


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    #5056
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    http://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/Residents-say-heroin-users-cleaning-equipment-in-Holy-Water-4fdb26ed-23c5-4f1b-9821-8a1871b39300-ds
    Nice of the HSE to provide the needle bin, but looking at that photo I don't think I'd fancy walking down those steps myself; I'd be looking for an alternative commute.
    Reminds of the time an Australian asked me what the "black spot" signs on the roads meant. I said "they have installed those to warn you that people get killed on that stretch of road".
    "So why don't they fix the road" he says. There's no answer to that ;)


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    #5057
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭Worztron


    smacl wrote: »
    And about as likely to make a comeback any time soon ;)

    I would not put it past those silly hipsters to start using floppy disks again.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #5058
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    loobylou wrote: »
    Looks like the lamb ad is "offensive" now. How pathetic.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41169928

    That is a tradition with Australian Lamb Ads. There is alway complaints about them.

    For many years their big campaign was just before Australia Day (Jan 26th) and featured Sam Kekovich. The first one went to air in 2005 and was controversial.
    He then did one each year up to 2014. He is no longer featured but they have the same aim.

    This was the original.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWVJikNnx4


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    #5059
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,511 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    CabanSail wrote: »
    That is a tradition with Australian Lamb Ads. There is alway complaints about them.

    For many years their big campaign was just before Australia Day (Jan 26th) and featured Sam Kekovich. The first one went to air in 2005 and was controversial.
    He then did one each year up to 2014. He is no longer featured but they have the same aim.
    Not that it's doing them much good. Despite Australia having just overtaken the UK in the meat-consumption-per-capita stakes, lamb consumption has been declining inexorably. It's all chicken, chicken, chicken on Australian plates.

    I blame the hipsters, of course. And so, I suspect, does the sheep-meat industry. This long-running, slightly controversial, campaign is intended to play up to the bad-boy, free-spirit stereotype. They reckon lamb consumption is down because fashion and/or health concerns are leading people to switch to white meats even though, given their druthers, they'd rather eat red meat, like any truly manly man would. And the ads play up to this. Though not, it has to be said, with any success that has been reflected in actual sales of lamb chops.


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    #5060
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    The Lamb Ads are very funny. The more complaints they got the more outrageous they became. All available on Youtube.

    I suddenly feel like some Lamb!


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    #5061
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,511 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    CabanSail wrote: »
    The Lamb Ads are very funny. The more complaints they got the more outrageous they became.
    I think this is the strategy. The more complaints they attract, the more they get talked about, the more impact they will have. Plus, the whole dynamic is supposed to give lamb a slighlty edgy air, by comparison with bland old chicken.

    It's just that it's a strategy that isn't working for them, as far as I can see.


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    #5062
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    Maybe they need Kirk Cameron to do a series of ads on "The Lamb of God"


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    #5063
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,511 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    CabanSail wrote: »
    Maybe they need Kirk Cameron to do a series of ads on "The Lamb of God"
    Mmm. Given that the slightly-offensive-ad strategy isn't working for them, it seems to me that there's probably more downside than upside in a more intense version of that strategy!

    No, if you can't beat the hipsters, join them. Promote lamb as the humane, open range, additive-free, hormone-free meat, as opposed to all those factory-armed chickens and pigs.


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    #5064
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    The hipsters eat organic free range chickens already.

    Lambs eat grass .... they are vegetarians .... they must be good!

    The one's I find fascinating are the vegan cat owners.


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    #5065
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,472 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The one's I find fascinating are the vegan cat owners.

    Vegan-cat owners?
    Vegan cat-owners?


    :D


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    #5066
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    May have been posted before:

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion


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    #5067
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    looksee wrote: »
    Vegan-cat owners?
    Vegan cat-owners?


    :D

    The vegan humans who possess have cats. (Cats are already possessed)


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    #5068
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 18,333 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    this is still the funnies thread?

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    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #5069
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Vegans who own cats - fine
    Vegans who insist their cats eat a vegan diet - should not own a cat.

    Poor cats.


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    #5070
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 18,333 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


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    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #5071
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,752 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


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