It's spelled out pretty explicitly in the article that The Church would rather have more priests (and collection plates) than impliment possibly effective messures to assure pedophiles aren't working with children. I don't see what's respectable about that.
If you mean to imply the new policy was put in place so The Church could continue to handle pedophiles in their own way because they are so forgiving, I would find fault with that too.
Their attitude toward pedophiles doesn't really have much to do with forgiviness. They intimidate the victims into not talking. They pay for lawyer to defend people they know are guilty with parishoner's money.
It's about protecting an image of the priest and his special connection with God. You can tell in the way The Church deals with the public whenever it makes any demands for change that The Church still believes that its clergymen exist in some higher state than laymen and that we should know our place bellow them. So much of the mass is about producing and maintaining that image around the priest. A criminal conviction for a predophile priest would shater that image. They'd just be people like us. The kind of Holy gestalt they've used for centuries to control people without any fear of reproach is finally fading and they're scrambling to protect it. That's what this is all about.
I understand The Church means a lot to some people, but that's no reason not to point out that it's a pretty rotten organisation and it's still fucking people over to protect its members' status.
The pictures by the adults are all sadder. I don't really like the disturbing for the sake of not having any other aesthetic either, that's in some of the pictures. Though I do like the bizarre, rubbery piglett in the bridge picture, creepy as it is. And the Christopher Robin with multiple feet.
Petebest's joke is funnier as "take it all, bitch!" as it clarifies the implication that the rat believes himself in possession of an exorbitantely large member for which the elephants vaginal cavity is too small to recieve its full girth.
Also, Kitfisto's blue suite joke is a reference to the oft repeated, sick joke:
What's blue and fucks babies?
Cot death!
Another familiar variant involves Grannies and pnuemonia.
What goes "pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, clomp?"
A centipede with a wooden leg.
A scientific expedition disembarks from its plane at the final outpost of civilization in the deepest Amazon rain forest. They immediately notice the ceaseless thrumming of native drums. As they venture further into the bush, the drums never stop, day or night, for weeks.
The lead scientist asks one of the natives about this, and the native's only reply is "Drums good. Drums never stop. Very bad if drums stop."
The drumming continues, night and day, until one night, six weeks into the trip, when the jungle is suddenly silent. Immediately the natives run screaming from their huts, covering their ears. The scientists grab one boy and demand "What is it? The drums have stopped!"
The terror-stricken youth replies "Yes! Drums stop! Very bad!"
The scientists ask "Why? Why? What will happen?"
Wide-eyed, the boy responds, " . . . BASS SOLO!!!"
What happens when a bass player takes Viagra?
He gets taller.
How do you get a bass player to turn his volume down? Put some sheet music in front of him.
A man gives his son an electric bass for his 15th birthday, along with a coupon for four bass lessons. When the son returns from his first lesson, the father asks, "So, what did you learn?"
"Well, I learned the first five notes on the E string."
Next week, after the second lesson, the father again asks about the progress, and the son replies, "this time I learned the first five notes on the A string."
One week later, the son comes home far later than expected, smelling of cigarettes and beer. So the father asks, "hey, what happened in today's lesson?"
"Dad, I'm sorry but I couldn't make it to my lesson. I had a gig!"
Sam Cooke does an awesome "If I Had A Hammer".
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "The Thief and The Cobbler: Recobbled"
That Cartoon Brew link is supposed to go here
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "Keen of trimly"
Hmm...that one doesn't seem to be generating randomly :)
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "4,450 Priests Accused of Sex Abuse"
It's spelled out pretty explicitly in the article that The Church would rather have more priests (and collection plates) than impliment possibly effective messures to assure pedophiles aren't working with children. I don't see what's respectable about that. If you mean to imply the new policy was put in place so The Church could continue to handle pedophiles in their own way because they are so forgiving, I would find fault with that too. Their attitude toward pedophiles doesn't really have much to do with forgiviness. They intimidate the victims into not talking. They pay for lawyer to defend people they know are guilty with parishoner's money. It's about protecting an image of the priest and his special connection with God. You can tell in the way The Church deals with the public whenever it makes any demands for change that The Church still believes that its clergymen exist in some higher state than laymen and that we should know our place bellow them. So much of the mass is about producing and maintaining that image around the priest. A criminal conviction for a predophile priest would shater that image. They'd just be people like us. The kind of Holy gestalt they've used for centuries to control people without any fear of reproach is finally fading and they're scrambling to protect it. That's what this is all about. I understand The Church means a lot to some people, but that's no reason not to point out that it's a pretty rotten organisation and it's still fucking people over to protect its members' status.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
I don't see why anyone still puts their trust in this orginisation. There's something fundamentally wrong with it.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "Artists interpreting preschoolers interpreting Disney"
The pictures by the adults are all sadder. I don't really like the disturbing for the sake of not having any other aesthetic either, that's in some of the pictures. Though I do like the bizarre, rubbery piglett in the bridge picture, creepy as it is. And the Christopher Robin with multiple feet.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "Don't you know you're gonna mock the monkey?"
Devo said in some interview they did that they were mad at Wierd Al because he made his parody better than anything they had ever done.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
James Blunt is such a knob. He also took action against Eclectech and Doghorse for the parody they did which you can still see the animtion for with doghorse's lyrics, but no music.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "Curious George and his Bad Jokes."
Petebest's joke is funnier as "take it all, bitch!" as it clarifies the implication that the rat believes himself in possession of an exorbitantely large member for which the elephants vaginal cavity is too small to recieve its full girth. Also, Kitfisto's blue suite joke is a reference to the oft repeated, sick joke: What's blue and fucks babies? Cot death! Another familiar variant involves Grannies and pnuemonia.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "Girls like pron too. "
Wel, those 'lube' and 'luve' could work anywhere in that phrase... Lube besides, it's luve not about the it's, about the... I see your point...
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
In "Curious George and his Bad Jokes."
What goes "pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, clomp?" A centipede with a wooden leg.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
*reheats dead cat*
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
want more? Pffft. Yes.
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
*encourages Medusa*
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
What do you call somebody else's cheese in Spanish? NACHO CHESE, BABY, NACHO CHESE!
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
These are getting rotten. Q: What's the best part about fucking a hundred and twenty eight year olds? A: There's a hundred and twenty of them!
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
/guitarist comments may have striken a little too close to home :)
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
A scientific expedition disembarks from its plane at the final outpost of civilization in the deepest Amazon rain forest. They immediately notice the ceaseless thrumming of native drums. As they venture further into the bush, the drums never stop, day or night, for weeks. The lead scientist asks one of the natives about this, and the native's only reply is "Drums good. Drums never stop. Very bad if drums stop." The drumming continues, night and day, until one night, six weeks into the trip, when the jungle is suddenly silent. Immediately the natives run screaming from their huts, covering their ears. The scientists grab one boy and demand "What is it? The drums have stopped!" The terror-stricken youth replies "Yes! Drums stop! Very bad!" The scientists ask "Why? Why? What will happen?" Wide-eyed, the boy responds, " . . . BASS SOLO!!!"
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
What happens when a bass player takes Viagra? He gets taller. How do you get a bass player to turn his volume down? Put some sheet music in front of him. A man gives his son an electric bass for his 15th birthday, along with a coupon for four bass lessons. When the son returns from his first lesson, the father asks, "So, what did you learn?" "Well, I learned the first five notes on the E string." Next week, after the second lesson, the father again asks about the progress, and the son replies, "this time I learned the first five notes on the A string." One week later, the son comes home far later than expected, smelling of cigarettes and beer. So the father asks, "hey, what happened in today's lesson?" "Dad, I'm sorry but I couldn't make it to my lesson. I had a gig!"
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
pffft! *fires up google*
posted by Alex Ander 18 years ago
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