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Is there all this need for the BBC and sky coverage?

Its just an old geezer on holiday at our expense

If we were a predominently Catholic country, i'd understand it a bit more... but we aren't. Plus he's a paedo-loving twat, so it makes it all a little bit more shit.

Glad you said that I was thinking the same

what are you moaning about.  the government has a massive cash surplus they need to spend somehow. 

oh wait. 

What the fuck is the popemobile about?

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That stupid little car they had made for like a guzliion pounds - what the he'll will they do with that when he's buffered off back to whereever he came from??

I can think of a better way to spend a couple of million quid, than give a German a free holiday. The catholic church is just a glorified version of the Masons, especially on how they choose the next pope.

So its not who fiddled with the most people?

That would be Rome, at a guess. More specifically the Vatican.

I think it's nice he's over here. At a time when the papers are full of talk of cuts in services, it's good to see there's some left in the budget to spend on getting the elderly out and about instead of just abandoning them in sheltered accommodation

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

If he is gods main man on earth, why does he need so much protection. Surely the big man himself should be able to make sure he ain't shot or anything.

That particular strategy didn't go very well in the 80s

Wonder if he will find some Woods to shit in?

Ah, but he didn't die. So maybe...

A fucking £20 million expense. We need to save money and we the taxpayers are paying for this!!

Seen earlier...

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 :D ;D

Love that Alan!

ha ha so true!

Tim Minchin sums up my thoughts better than I ever could..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN002ejgC6I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

That is ace.

You could have warned me it had naughty words in it!

If we want to really save some money we should abolish Trident.  Pointless Cold War relic.  Besides which this is a state visit, which means the pope was invited, so we should be moaning at the government/queen about the cost not the bloke we invited.

the popemobile is all about noone being able to get to the pope, when he has a child inside  :D :clap: :smugfu:

You really shouldnt laugh at your own jokes.

Maybe he should no other fucker seems to.

Although i did raise a smile at that.

the boys from glasgow rangers went to rome to see the pope
the boys from glasgow rangers went to rome to see the pope
the boys from glasgow rangers went to rome to see the pope

and this is what he said

who the fuck are glasgow rangers

maybe it would have been better saying when the pope is inside a child.

Now you ruined it.

@ inthebutt


do you want to get rid of that fucking shit on your avatar mate ?

Graeme Swann raised a good question on Twitter: doesn't the popemobile look exactly like the shit-heap car Homer Simpson designed when he worked for his brother's car business?

 I thought it a bit remiss of the Pope's right hand man to say arriving in Britain was like coming to a 3rd world country....what sort of example does that set the Crispies of the world.

Most countries are 3rd world in comparison with Vatican City.  They're a bit rich there.

I don't think it was a reference to our poverty....rather ethnicity...

 to many different coloured kids to play with

I suspect he was spoilt for choice

The Pope's got a long track record of working with youth. Well, the Hitler Youth anyway

I wonder if the gaddster has gone to edinburgh

 :D well funny

Id be a bit worried if the Pope kissed my baby!

Only if it was tongues !

The pope is head of the biggest racket in world history, haboured fuck knows how many stinking fucking paedo's for years - and it cost the country £20m to bring him here, in the middle of a fucking recession.

And not a riot to be seen. Fucking amazing.

I was quite ambivalent-favourable about the Pope's visit beforehand. Not wildly impressed with him or the Vatican but it's a major state visit, brings a lot of pleasure to a lot of people and despite all the furore about the cost in a time of recession, let's be honest, it's buttons in the great scheme of things. £12m wouldn't even pay for more than a few weeks of the various middle management consultants buzzing around the NHS. So, as I say, not a big Pope fan personally but kind of "Well, we've spent more money on more stupid/harmful stuff" before he came.

But he hasn't exactly covered himself in glory has he?
First we had the aide (who miraculously got "vanished" at the last minute) with his "Coming into Heathrow is like coming into a 3rd World Country" gaffe.
Next, el Popo himself strides in with "Atheists are as bad as Nazis". Now, I'll grant you as a former member of the Hitler Youth he's better qualified than some to make the comparison, but FFS, leaving aside the fact it's not exactly his strongest suit in terms of his own personal record (or the Catholic Church's come to that) does the word "crass" not feature in the Vatican dictionary?
And then this morning, he apparently told a (presumably couldn't believe their luck) planeload of journos that paedophilia was an "illness". No, it's not you dipshit, it's a fucking horrific crime or (to put it in terms he might be better acquainted with) a mortal sin. Don't try and make excuses for the horrific abuse your Church and many Popes, Cardinals etc before you have presided over, turned a blind eye to and actively covered up and enabled. Fucking face up to it. Apologise for it. Pay reparations to the victims. Don't try and elicit sympathy for the criminals and perverts who used your "cloth" as a respectable facade for their sins.

I was always taught that the first part of being forgiven for your sins was acknowledging them and atoning for them. Not exacerbating them by putting spin on them. I don't seriously expect the higher orders of any established religious faith to actually live up to the high calling of their doctrine but I've been genuinely gobsmacked by the sheer gall of the man.

I've a lot of time for the Catholic faith but even by the conventional standards of religious hypocrisy this fuckwit hits despicable new lows. Where's my Ian Paisley fanclub T-shirt?

Fucking top post, PaulD.

The Teutonic cunt still heads up a world-wide butt-fucking club that sucks on Satans cock, though.

Playing devils advocate in a way it is. Well a mental illness anyway. I mean you have to be mentally ill to kiddie fiddle don't you.

Its the mans refusal to deal with what went on and try an brush it all under the carpet. And I find spending £12M  on something like this against the backdrop of financial meltdown ill judged. Though clearly it is a mere drop in the ocean.

To summarise, the Pope can fuck himself. But apparently that's a sin.

Ha, ha, I hadn't realised how much this had annoyed me. Ah, the therapeutic powers of drunken rants on TEF, an essential part of any man's journey of self-discovery.

Depression is a mental illness, as is bipolar disorder, personality disorders, eating disorders etc... lumping paedophiles into that same bracket seems a bit harsh to me

You could make the same argument about murderers, rapists etc. They're criminals first and foremost, what led them to it is secondary and it just comes over as a shit excuse from a man who should be rather more apologetic about the horrendous role his Church played in covering it up

Exactly. It's that whole nature versus nurture argument that has been rattling on forever.

I guess you could.


I think that's the bigger point.

Thank fuck he's gone now.

Kids R safe

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Bit of a likeness

I thought we'd already agreed he looks exactly like Palpatine off Star Wars?

Anyway, without wishing to quote a massive lump of text, Pauld says it far more eloquently than I can be arsed to do.

The South Park episode on it summed it up pretty well - the church not seeing it as a problem and it being a part of normal everyday and acceptable life. It's bad enough that it even happened in the first place, but the way they've covered it up and continually refused to accept responsibility and clean up their act is reprehensible.

Is there that many people that really give a flying fuck about the Pope and his cohorts in the UK any more? I reckon the vast majority of people are either a different faith or are atheists to one degree or another. Even those that are left can't be bothered with it and would prefer to watch Super Sunday on Sky rather than go to church.

Most, if not all, of the Christians I know have turned their back on the church and now practise their religion "in their own personal way". Whatever the fuck that means - I suspect it means they're not religious anymore but are just hedging their bets in case they're wrong.

I still go to church  :)

Heavens to Betsy

Do you make videos?

To paraphrase Marx; Religion is the opiate of the masses. Although most people have now moved on to X-Factor and Eastenders.

I'm just glad Emperor Palpatine didn't find Luke Skywalker this time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmc6tR2V1Vc

That's terrific.