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The Hobby Horses of Belief (and assorted hazards)

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    #512
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    So we could rock up to Galway and have a FSM uhh.... meetup complete with gorging on ramen noodles, and it'd be ok to park there?

    Yep. We might need a declaration from Bobby Henderson to this effect when the chocolate soldiers show up. But the sign, and I presume the bye-law is quite clear, you're having a religious service?

    Park away, sirs and ladies, to your hearts' desires!



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    #513
    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118416695#Comment_118416695

    Excellent!


    Though, an abortion celebration by the Satanic Temple would be even more fun, what with all the heads exploding. I wonder if the Temple has an Ireland chapter....



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    #514
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Church of Ubuntu?

    I've heard of "Linux evangelism", but...


    It is the position of the COU that to receive the COVID-19/Sars Cov 2 injection consciously and deliberately with intent is in contradiction with our Constitution and contrary to our position on what is required of us by our Lord God and Creator.

    Ah. Just common or garden xtian looney tunes.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #515
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,413 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118417488#Comment_118417488

    I know linux users think they are god but that is taking it too far.



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    #516
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    You're only god if you have root.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #517
    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Oopsie. Seems "Papa Nazi" knew about naughty priests and naturally did nothing. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/20/europe/pope-benedict-xvi-munich-abuse-report-catholic-church-intl/index.html



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    #518
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,413 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10419615/Drunk-man-trying-sacrifice-goat-fatally-stabs-neck-person-holding-animal.html




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    #519
    Bannasidhe
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118505226#Comment_118505226

    Colour me not even slightly surprised.


    "The brother of Benedict XVI, the former pope, has admitted slapping boys at a Catholic choir school and has been named as partly responsible for a culture of abuse at the school in Germany where at least 547 boys were victims of physical or sexual assault.

    Georg Ratzinger ran the Domspatzen (cathedral sparrows) choir in Regensburg from 1964 to 1994 and said that slapping boys was common practice at the time. He denied knowledge of sexual abuse."

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/georg-ratzinger-brother-of-pope-benedict-admits-abuse-jhntbmlfm



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    #520
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    We all know Ratzo will die peacefully in his bed untouched by any law.

    This seems to fit...

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


    [Instrumental Intro]

    [Verse 1]

    Halls of justice painted green, money talking

    Power wolves beset your door, hear them stalking

    Soon you'll please their appetite they devour

    Hammer of justice crushes you, overpower


    [Pre-Chorus]

    The ultimate in vanity

    Exploiting their supremacy

    I can't believe the things you say

    I can't believe, I can't believe the price

    You pay


    [Chorus]

    Nothing can save you

    Justice is lost, justice is raped, justice is gone

    Pulling your strings, justice is done

    Seeking no truth, winning is all

    Find it so grim, so true, so real


    [Verse 2]

    Apathy their stepping stone, so unfeeling

    Hidden deep animosity, so deceiving

    Through your eyes their light burns, hoping to find

    Inquisition sinking you with prying minds


    [Pre-Chorus]

    The ultimate in vanity

    Exploiting their supremacy

    I can't believe the things you say

    I can't believe, I can't believe the price

    You pay


    [Chorus]

    Nothing can save you

    Justice is lost, justice is raped, justice is gone

    Pulling your strings, justice is done

    Seeking no truth, winning is all

    Find it so grim, so true, so real


    [Instrumental Break]


    [Verse 3]

    Lady justice has been raped, truth assassin

    Rolls of red tape seal your lips, now you're done in

    Their money tips her scales again, make your deal

    Just what is truth? I cannot tell, cannot feel


    [Pre-Chorus]

    The ultimate in vanity

    Exploiting their supremacy

    I can't believe the things you say

    I can't believe, I can't believe the price

    We pay


    [Chorus]

    Nothing can save us

    Justice is lost, justice is raped, justice is gone

    Pulling your strings, justice is done

    Seeking no truth, winning is all

    Find it so grim, so true, so real


    [Outro]

    Seeking no truth, winning is all

    Find it so grim, so true, so real

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #521
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Michael Gove, the UK's Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (what an unintentionally great name!), and the man with the least plausible manner in all of Europe, has hit upon a solution to the latest self-lit firestorm to engulf serial arsonist, Boris Johnson.

    When asked if senior members of UKGov had taken a “cavalier approach to lockdown”, Gove replied that he was sure the guilty would show contrition, for which the country would then "owe them an element of Christian forgiveness.”

    Glad that one got sorted out!

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/19885976.michael-gove-we-owe-christian-forgiveness-partygate-scandal/



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    #522
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    So that makes the angry voters the bad people, not the person who did the bad thing.

    How convenient.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #523
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,413 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118564375#Comment_118564375

    I am in complete agreement with Gove. Once the guilty have shown contrition it would the christian thing to do to forgive. To show contrition they can admit that they lied to parliament and resign from parliament with immediate effect. Not just resign as prime minister but resign as an MP.



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    #524
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    In order to fund a gambling habit, a nun spent ten years nicking $835,000 from the school where she worked as headmistress. Following her retirement, she was found out, arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to a year in the clink, announcing that "I have sinned [...]" but in future, she intends to follow "more closely in Christ's footsteps".

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60307745



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    #525
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,751 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118601809#Comment_118601809

    I was kind of impressed that a nun in her 70s had the skill-set to take up wire fraud and money laundering 😀



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    #526
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,485 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118602157#Comment_118602157

    If there's one think I've learned from watching Hollywood movies, it's never to underestimate the determination, resourcefulness and surprising competence of nuns.



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    #527
    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose



    Sorry, thousands of people, but your baptisms aren't valid.

    https://www.newsweek.com/parish-pastor-resigns-after-two-decades-performing-invalid-baptisms-1677661



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    #528
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Wonder if any of them managed to get a certificate of defection?

    Would that mean they'd have a catholic status of -1 instead of the expected zero?

    If they wanted to join up again would they have to be baptised twice?

    Yer man would've got away with it too, if it hadn't been for feckin' baptism videos. Agent Arango, we thank you for your service 😉


    Funny link in that article:

    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-supporters-tricked-bible-ban-schools-prank-video-1675451

    The video begins with Selvig speaking to a blonde woman and a man wearing a red MAGA cap. "There's a book we've seen that's in libraries in lots of schools that features a story of two daughters having sex with their dad," Selvig explains.

    "Oh wow," the woman replies. The clip then cuts to Steifler explaining the story in more detail to two women. "They get their dad drunk to have sex with him," he says. "And this is, like, a book."

    "Oh my god," one of the women, who appears visibly shocked on the clip, responds. The footage cuts back to Selvig who asks the woman and the man in the MAGA hat: "Should a book like that be in a school?"

    Both the man and the woman say "no" repeatedly.

    "Just get that out of the school?" Selvig asks. "Absolutely," the woman replies. "Why do kids need to read that?" asks the MAGA hat man.

    Guess what book they're talking about 🤣


    Meanwhile, also linked from there...

    https://www.newsweek.com/students-walk-out-after-teachers-sent-them-christian-event-during-class-1677579


    In Ireland that's just "normal" 🙄

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #529
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118603737#Comment_118603737

    They're also either dead sexy, or male criminals on the lam.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #530
    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118610401#Comment_118610401

    Or armed. https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3213271321



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    #531
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    NSFW.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #532
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,485 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118610401#Comment_118610401

    Or both. If you're into that kind of thing.



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    #533
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Transvestite nun-criminal fetish is rather niche, but YKINMKBYKIOK, as they say 😊

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #534
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,751 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118615062#Comment_118615062

    Broad church as they say :)



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    #535
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,485 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118615062#Comment_118615062

    Yes, but thanks to the wonderful magic that is the internet today, we live in a golden age for niche sexual fetishes.

    How did we get onto this?



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    #536
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,413 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Interesting article on a cargo cult in the pacific. The last line is an absolute zinger

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-john-they-trust-109294882/?fbclid=IwAR31FEYO1VCWGXunzpfnSMryxgeuR854RVb53Hqs55pyjL1Ft0wkOUxMXV8




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    #537
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,096 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    As many of us guessed, the gheys are to blame.

    https://god.dailydot.com/russian-bishop-gay-pride/?fbclid=IwAR2Zk41M43s1GTd3j5YZor7phJ4e33g8QDHf63Oh-j4y90-8HTcnfi2quWE



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    #538
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118152520#Comment_118152520

    The Burkes are back and nutty as ever.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/solicitor-ammi-burke-demands-adjudicator-in-unfair-dismissal-case-recuse-himself-1.4836380

    Solicitor Ammi Burke, who is seeking her old job back at one of Ireland’s top law firms, has demanded the adjudicator appointed to hear her unfair dismissal case recuse himself – claiming he is a Labour Party “comrade” of the opposing barrister.

    During the hearing Peter Ward SC told the inquiry that Ms Burke had “wittered on” for an hour making outrageous and groundless accusations. He said that he had crossed paths with the adjudicator only once and described as “specious” Ms Burke’s claim that a conflict of interest arose because both men were members of the Law Library at the same time.

    And much much more in the way of bat-shít crazy allegations.

    Ms Burke said she had “no confidence” in [adjudicator] Mr Baneham and that if he proceeded to hear the matter “no-one would have a real doubt as to what the outcome of the case will be” .

    No harm in getting one's excuses in early, is there!

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #539
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,096 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118836702#Comment_118836702

    "A sacked solicitor’s unfair dismissal claim has been thrown out by the Workplace Relations Commission after her summons request for additional witnesses and repeated interruptions by her mother prevented the hearing from proceeding for over five hours today."


    "Ammi Burke also demanded that senior counsel for the defence withdraw his remark that the Burke family was like a “travelling circus” – calling it “highly defamatory”."

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sacked-solicitor-has-unfair-dismissal-case-thrown-out-amid-repeated-interruptions-by-her-mother-41512291.html



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    #540
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,704 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    IT had a much tamer report from earlier today which said little other than that the plaintiff was said to not conform to the norms of office conduct... I didn't consider it worthy of an update here 😀

    These people really are their own worst enemy! Can't help themselves with the crazy, free clue: everybody isn't conspiring against you they just think your carry on is nuts and completely inappropriate.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #541
    macvin
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭macvin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118867535#Comment_118867535

    How can it be defamatory. the family literally is a travelling circus and has been for quite a while. i can't see any other employer even thinking of taking any of them on.



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