The pope

[Samdy Gray]

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?

[Reg Smeeton]

 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.

[Saxondale]

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

[Reg Smeeton]

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...

[tans]

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

[pauld]

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

[tans]

I wonder if the gaddster has gone to edinburgh

[Spy]

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?

  well funny

[adje]

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

[Anteater]

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

Only if it was tongues !

[deltaincline]

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.

[pauld]

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?

[deltaincline]

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.

[Batch]

planeload of journos that paedophilia was an "illness".

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.

[pauld]

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.