Pope just died

L5

Originally Posted by Ms Beanbag
"He wrote quatrains that describe the fall of the twin towers"

that was all proven to be rubbish, he never said that

Wertz

Arabel wrote:

In fairness to TV3 they said that Italian media said he was dead, they added that it was still unconfirmed.

I stand by my previous statement. It's a simple case of wanting to be first in with the bad news...any REAL news team go and check/douublecheck before they go to air with something so final and so important to many viewers as this.

Bad and all as RTÉ are at least their journalists actually have some qualifications and an air of professionalism...

Third_Echelon

Bond-007 wrote:

Have they got a sucessor lined up?

I heard that they are going to bring back jesus from the dead.... its been done once, it can be done again...

Simi

Yes Nostramadus did write total ****e but he did it so that it couldn't be deciphered before the event in question took place. And he did predict the rise of hitler.

tk123

Sorry if this has already been asked but do we get a day off? He's a international figurehead and all...

Ms Beanbag

doodle_sketch wrote:

No, that was someone trying to stir up a little extra fear by taking passages from other quatraines and mixing them together in a way that would look like a canon one.

Yeah, I just researched it now. Seems it was a hoax alright...
I deleted my previous post. Didn't think it was appropriate to start debating about it!

Renegade_Archer

You should probably only look here if youre not easily offended.




Regards


Ewan

aidan_walsh

tk123 wrote:

Sorry if this has already been asked but do we get a day off? He's a international figurehead and all...

Did you get a day off when the Macedonian President died in February? He was an international figure and all, you know... :rolleyes:

Ms Beanbag

yeah, but the pope is the leader of a religion that has 5 billion followers. I'd say he's a bit more of an international figure than the macedonian president!

lomb

Ms Beanbag wrote:

yeah, but the pope is the leader of a religion that has 5 billion followers. I'd say he's a bit more of an international figure than the macedonian president!

and he is so well known his real name is.........

Renegade_Archer

Does that mean if the chinese premier kicks it that we get a day off?



*plots*

aidan_walsh

Ms Beanbag wrote:

yeah, but the pope is the leader of a religion that has 5 billion followers. I'd say he's a bit more of an international figure than the macedonian president!

:eek: Ya don't say...

tk123

lomb wrote:

and he is so well known his real name is.........

John Paul! I know a good few John Pauls who were named after the Pope - I wonder if there'll be loads of babies born this year who'll be named after the next pope?

Lump

He's still alaive. "His condition has worsened and he has heart and kidney problems" From BBC World.

John

JBoyle4eva

How much longer can he last? I had Sky News on al day @ work making sure I didn't miss anything. I doubt he'll be alive on Sunday anyway.

And what's about this 'Nine days of Mourning' someone went on about on SKy News?

lomb

tk123 wrote:

John Paul! I know a good few John Pauls who were named after the Pope - I wonder if there'll be loads of babies born this year who'll be named after the next pope?

his name isnt john paul, that is a made up name, is name is karol Wojtyla, somehow i dont think ud call ur son karol

cgf

Ms Beanbag wrote:

yeah, but the pope is the leader of a religion that has 5 billion followers. I'd say he's a bit more of an international figure than the macedonian president!

Closer to 1 billion me thinks

L5

Ms Beanbag wrote:

yeah, but the pope is the leader of a religion that has 5 billion followers. I'd say he's a bit more of an international figure than the macedonian president!

5 billion?! Its not even half that

JBoyle4eva

lomb wrote:

his name isnt john paul, that is a made up name, is name is karol Wojtyla, somehow i dont think ud call ur son karol

Well, he is polish so it's probably literal translation

Big Ears

L5 wrote:

5 billion?! Its not even half that

ya isn't the total world population something like 6.5 ?

mentalimplosion

Roman Catholic church has 1.1 billion followers.

we might get a day of mourning on his actual funeral which be on the sixth of nine consecutive days of mourning by the vatican. if he dies after midnight tonight (italian time), the vatican shouldn't announce until 9am the next morning which will mean.... next friday off work and school

that said, i think the Pope's passing is a very sad and momentous occasion and i hope that you all include him in your prayers.
it wasn't jusst TV3 that covered the 'pope is dead' rumours c. 7:45pm, channel 4 did too, and they're usually really good about these things. best stay tuned to sky news methinks

Ms Beanbag

L5 wrote:

5 billion?! Its not even half that

I heard on a sky news report an hour ago that thats how many catholic followers the pope has. That report is probably being repeated over and over again.

lomb

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Well, he is polish so it's probably literal translation

afraid not, he took the name of the previous pope who served only a year.

JBoyle4eva

1.1 billion chatolics
2 billion Christians

I swear that the Guinness WR book in 20002 said there are only 130 illion Chatolics worldwide? Either GWR or Sky News are wrong.

Ciaran500

They were saying close to a billion followers on Sky. I've had it on for the last hour.

JBoyle4eva

lomb wrote:

afraid not, he took the name of the previous pope who served only a year.

Oh, I stand corrected.

p~b

there are 1.5 billion christians

is_that_so

cgf wrote:

Closer to 1 billion me thinks

1.1 Billion - BBC News

aphex™

Wasn't Brian Dobson being a bit premature when he was wearing his black tie there on the 9 o'clock news?

Ms Beanbag

Ciaran500 wrote:

They were saying close to a billion followers on Sky. I've had it on for the last hour.

must have heard it wrong then. sorry...!

is_that_so

lomb wrote:

afraid not, he took the name of the previous pope who served only a year.

He lasted 33 days !!! Lot of conspiracy theories about that . Was a nice guy too - the smiling Pope. Rumour is that he was a bit too much of a reformer and they "disposed" of him

limerick_man

I hope his replacment is better... revives the religion, he didnt do much!!!

Women preists and gays marrying and condems and stuff im all for a modern world!!!

Haha ... he got killed on the job! LOL

tinkerbell

TV3 are back with a bulletin saying "Italian media reports were incorrect". Well duh, you morons. Maybe you should have checked proper sources before having a special broadcast telling people false things!

Ugh!

limerick_man

Well all reports are saying Italian media says pope has lost conciousness!!!
TV3, Sky, Live 95fm, CNN, MSNBC all except RTE who havent gotten the news yet!

p~b

theres a vatican statement shortly

tk123

lomb wrote:

his name isnt john paul, that is a made up name, is name is karol Wojtyla, somehow i dont think ud call ur son karol

Wow I taut it was only nuns had made up names!!!

Rew

As I said in another thread a min ago TV3 is tabloid quality at best, thye don t care about facts its all about shock value.

limerick_man

TV3 are Ireland sbest news service!!! The are faster at reporting any news than RTE because they have better connections!!

p~b

ah yeah they told us the pope was dead even before it happened

is_that_so

limerick_man wrote:

TV3 are Ireland sbest news service!!! The are faster at reporting any news than RTE because they have better connections!!

We all suffer from dodgy connections betimes

mentalimplosion

eh WHAT are you talking about. RTE knew about the italian media reports saying he'd died, but were basing their news wisely on the vatican statements. and yes, a bit odd seeing everyone on rte dressed in black at 6pm news...

Stark

Third_Echelon wrote:

I heard that they are going to bring back jesus from the dead.... its been done once, it can be done again...

You mean with that machine they keep using to reanimate the pope?

I don't think they can use it on Jesus till they solve the drooling problem

Rew

limerick_man wrote:

TV3 are Ireland sbest news service!!! The are faster at reporting any news than RTE because they have better connections!!

There utter rubish, I saw there coverage of the "M50 Sniper" and nearly kicked the sreen it was so over hyped and full of misleading info. Reporting the Pope is dead before he dies was stupid they should know better then to belive everything they see on TV.

iguana

Sky are ready to go with a 6 minute long obituary.

Rew

All the media keep obituarys on high profile people while there still alive. They update them ever so often and are ready to run a moments notice.

Lump

Indeed they do... In the BBC they've been updating it recently. The Queens one is regularly looked at.

John

sionnach

Rew wrote:

All the media keep obituarys on high profile people while there still alive. They update them ever so often and are ready to run a moments notice.

and they're often mistakenly displayed on news websites. ABC news accidentally ran sharon osbourne's obituary on their site a while ago and i think colin powell or someone of similar power in the us had their obituary accidentally run on cnn as well.

billy the squid

http://search.ebay.com/vatican-euro-coins_W0QQfromZR40QQsojsZ1
let the hawking begin!!!

all eyes in st peters square are on the two lights which are on in the papal apartments.
http://video.cgi.cbsnews.com/video/video.pl?url=/broadcast/*/livenews1.wmv&sid=500251&dart=news.video

cgf

Lump wrote:

Indeed they do... In the BBC they've been updating it recently. The Queens one is regularly looked at.

John

I recall Viz came up with the classic "Baked Bean Brown Bread" tabloid heading for when the Queen croaks it.

deceptacon

Arinze will be the next Pope.

Have y'all noticed how thoroughly horrible Irish people are being about this? What are they trying to prove? "Oh, look ma, I hate the Pope, and Catholic stuff and all that"