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..because that's what it is?
Because the papacy is a position for life?Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Guess God screwed that one up, huh.
If only the Ayatollah took his lead. :o Then they can spend a happy retirement together.
I'm assuming he is doing it now so that they can get a new guy in before easter.
He was really old to begin with, almost as if they were planning for a short term pope from the getgo. Something that would possibly help contain the sex/abuse scandals in the history books.
As in, you're supposed to dilute those yourself? Because the very basis of homeopathy is the idea that water "remembers" whatever chemical it once contained after it is diluted to a sufficient degree - and generally, the more diluted it is, the stronger its effect, which is supposed to be pretty much the exact opposite of what the full-strength ingredient would cause.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Sadly, it is established that water has rather short memory, IIRC, less than a nanosecond... Which is the first entry on the long, long list of problems with "theory of homeopathy".
Over here, the biggest problem is that terms "herbal remedies" and "homeopathic medicine" are used interchangeably by pharmacists. And unlike homeopathic preparations, herbal remedies actually contain active ingredients, and have proven to be effective enough in many cases (I'm not talking about "a root of a plant used by Chinese for thousands of years to gain supernatural powers" sort of hebal mixtures here, of course). So, sometimes people end up buying some homeopathic crap just because they don't know what the term actually means.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ec...jpg/xlarge.jpg
On the left, the officially filed police mugshot courtesy of the Greek police force. Totally not shopped.
There are more like it. Also totally not shopped.
Without a link ? Are the Greek police publishing mug shots at all ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013...etings.html?hp
Did the IOC give up on even pretending that its decisions aren't made purely on the basis of bribes?
There's been this storm in a teacup in the UK going on about horse meat being sold as beef. Which is a bit odd since probably you're better off eating the meat of a horse than the meat of a cow, but I guess every country needs to have its food oddities. But today it got real funny; because of course the EU is to blame for it again. As it turns out the EU forbade UK meatprocessors selling a product that was basically offal as beef in the food industry. And that of course, naturally, forced producers of food for the UK market to fraudulently sell horse meat to their consumers. This according to some chap who was working for the Food Standards Agency. One has to wonder what standards they were about in the first place. :D
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You may be better off, but horse meat is cheaper than beef so you're being ripped off.
And they tend to blame everything, even non existing things on the EU in certain newspapers, so this can't be a surprise, can it?
Also can't help but to be reminded of this: :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqVJEZnYiZo
Not really, you're getting horse meat at horse meat prices, just labelled as beef. How goes the saying again? If it looks too good to be true then probably it's not true" ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
Regarding standards.....the stranded Carnival cruise ship is limping its way into port, with help of several tug boats.
Hard to believe the passengers were given free booze for several hours, as their food and water spoiled, then told to defecate into plastic baggies, when they didn't have any way to clean their hands. Sounds like the biggest WTF ever.
Loki posts links without comment. Frequently. WTF?
I don't think there's more appropriate comment to that link than :bulb: :p
There was a Frito-Lay competition to design the next best flavored potato chip. They were offering $1,000,000 to the person with the best recipe idea. My kids and I had some fun throwing around potato chip concepts, wondering if our ideas wouldn't be duplicated by millions of others, and how the finalists would be chosen.
Well, the finalists have been chosen. I've tried the sriracha (hot sauce) chips, and they're quite good. Like a BBQ chip with a zing. The cheesy garlic bread sounds interesting and will be our next taste test. But the chicken and waffles flavoring is a big WTF. :eek:
We didn't like the cheesy garlic.
Garlic bread needs to be soft and hot, the chips are neither. and the flavoring didn't work well, like you could tell it was there, but not in the right amounts.
I'm going with chicken and waffles next.
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Was going to put this in the happy thread, cause its hilariously awesome. Then I realized how depressing it was:
https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan
They've had a similar competition here a few times, with some.. odd contestants (and winners) as well. Eh, each to his own I suppose, I'm not forced to buy flavours I don't like :pQuote:
Originally Posted by GGT
What's with that FloridaMan twitter feed? I can't tell what's real. Hell, I can't even figure out what's on his face. :noob:
I'm also trying to figure out how potato chips can be flavored to taste like chicken and waffles, let alone why we'd want chips to taste like chicken and waffles. Butter and maple flavoring is one thing, but chicken chips? :confused:
The stories are all real. Just not about the same person. Florida is so full of WTF, agencies seem to love using "florida man" as a descriptive term, almost as a way to justify having to write such ridiculous stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
As for the face, its a mug shot. paint, tattoo, or marker of some sort i suspect.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/da...uffelblog1.jpg
http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/10/gu...bill-benefits/
Someone on McConnell's staff needs to get fired...
But it is written on the internet so it must be true!
Next you're telling me that The Onion isn't a real news site!
Because my promotion has been delayed for about 8 months I'm getting promoted twice in one next week O_O;
Congrats Brigadier? :p
Na just back to PFC :P
Absolutely. Ditto for Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, or any elected official who relies on Breitbart.com for their "information".Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
So WTF is going on in the Vatican and the rumors surrounding the Pope's resignation, bribery and homosexual coverups? Jesus fucking Christ....I mean...uh, yeah.
Pfff ... silly primitive outdated institution, run by silly primitive outdated people.
I think we can pretty much rely on nothing much going on. Just like how in Holland we've got this class of people who seem to have found a fervor for royal etiquette despite their republicanism, you've got heaps and heaps of people who aren't Catholics telling the Catholic church what it should be. Most of the time based on wrong ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Like the one that Benedict chased nuns out of their humble abode so he could have a place to retire. Supposedly that gave the wrong message to women. The real wrong message was the 'news' itself since the nunnery was empty already.
In Holland republicans are obsessing over the question whether or not the wife of the future king should be addresssed as 'queen' or 'princess'. Supposedly because the law obliges to call her 'princess'. Truth of the matter of course is that the law names her as one of the people eligible for the title of 'Princess of The Netherlands' not precluding any other honorific like the entirely acceptable and widely used 'queen'.
Hazir, I think it's silly to suggest he 'sent the wrong message to women' from the whole monastery thing. But it's not even remotely unreasonable to suggest that Benedict has been planning this for a while, which was the motivation behind relocating the nuns and renovating the place. It doesn't really bother me, though.
I doubt that some random PR guy in the US has been following the Papacy so closely that they picked up on that in combination with the announced resignation.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
As it happened the building was vacated by the nuns, because it was used in rotation by different orders. While it was empty its designation was changed.
The whole papacy thing is.....WTF. So, the Pope isn't infallible. And the papacy is more political than religious.
I've never really understood the Roman Catholic Church, its hierarchy or politics. I've also never understood why some one billion people consider themselves part of the church, when over half disagree with its doctrine on birth control, priesthood, divorce, or sexual orientation. :confused:
The pope is only infallible when it comes to making certain kinds of statements, which popes make very infrequently. :noob:
Oh. Well, if the Pope isn't Divine.....why do so many Roman Catholics continue with the charade?
I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. The pope isn't meant to be divine. He's divinely-inspired, and the infallibility only applies to "ex cathedra" statements, which I believe were only made twice in the last century and a half. I fail to see where the charade is.
"Divinely inspired" is how many Roman Catholics think the papacy is Divine, and the Pope is the literal hand of God leading the church.
I'm not claiming to be an expert on Catholicism, let alone a theologian. But I do know plenty of Vatican II Catholics who don't follow papal doctrine, but would still kiss the Pope's ring. Even if they've been divorced, used birth control, had abortions or extra-marital affairs, or are homosexual.
And plenty of people support Obama despite not agreeing with parts of his platform. Who knew that life isn't black and white.
What's Obama got to do with Catholicism and the Pope?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki