Interesting Stuff Thread

MagicMarker · 14-09-2012 6:12pm

Former principal of private catholic school who refused entry to a pregnant girl because there "must be standards of morality in every school", seems to have suffered a set back in his own morality after he was found to be a tax fraud.

His 705,619 euro bill includes 346,059 euro in unpaid taxes, plus 100,016 euro interest and 259,544 euro in fines.

Scumbag.

Sarky · 14-09-2012 7:08pm

Bahahahahahahahaa!

Quatermain · 14-09-2012 7:19pm

No freaking way. Karma does exist.

recedite · 14-09-2012 8:22pm

How much would you need to have in a deposit account for the tax on the interest to be €346,000?
And where did he collect that from, seeing as his school is not a fee paying one? Very strange.

Hotblack Desiato · 14-09-2012 9:33pm

muppeteer wrote: »

Your bullets won't penetrate my Coptic APC!!!

Fetch the Holy Hand Grenade!

Turtwig · 14-09-2012 10:14pm

ninja900 wrote: »

Fetch the Holy Hand Grenade!

Right you are sir!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAVtyHxRl04

Calibos · 15-09-2012 12:52am

Calibos wrote: »

Sure we've been doing that in the West for a Millenia!!

[Cough] :cool: [/cough]

Hotblack Desiato · 15-09-2012 3:01am

Calibos wrote: »

[Cough] :cool: [/cough]

Well, that's what I get for browsing the web with javascript and plugins turned off like a paranoid mofo rationally cautious sceptic who doesn't assume random 3rd-party code is safe.

joseph brand · 18-09-2012 7:28pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

Former principal of private catholic school who refused entry to a pregnant girl because there "must be standards of morality in every school", seems to have suffered a set back in his own morality after he was found to be a tax fraud.

Scumbag.

Here he is:
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From this site.

He looks the part alright. A real creep.

Sarky · 19-09-2012 12:21am

Something about him screams "geezer".

robindch · 19-09-2012 9:40am

Here he is again on the right. You'd have thought in the days when he had €700,000 euro belonging to the state that he could have afforded a decent tie, and known how to tie it!

sephir0th · 19-09-2012 10:12am

OK this seems out of place now, but I was reading a few pages back

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pauldla · 19-09-2012 11:34am

From todays Irish Times.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0919/breaking16.html

A Harvard University professor has unveiled a fourth century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife.
Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to “my wife”, whom he identifies as Mary. Ms King said the fragment of Coptic script is a copy of a gospel, probably written in Greek in the second century.

Dades · 19-09-2012 11:53am

robindch · 19-09-2012 11:54am

More on that:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19645273

BBC wrote:

Jim West, a professor and Baptist pastor in Tennessee, said: "A statement on a papyrus fragment isn't proof of anything. It's nothing more than a statement 'in thin air', without substantial context."

Zing!

Sulla Felix · 19-09-2012 11:56am

The irony is delicious.

Sulla Felix · 19-09-2012 8:40pm

Wasn't sure whether to put it here or in the funnys.

Wolf-Peter Funk, a noted Coptic linguist attending the same conference as Ms King, said there were "thousands of scraps of papyrus where you find crazy things,"

Kivaro · 19-09-2012 10:57pm

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Wasn't sure whether to put it here or in the funnys.

Wolf-Peter Funk, a noted Coptic linguist attending the same conference as Ms King, said there were "thousands of scraps of papyrus where you find crazy things,"

Yeah, not unlike the bible.

robindch · 20-09-2012 12:33pm

The winner's been announced for the UK's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19637073

Wouldn't mind getting that last one blown up to bathroom-ceiling size...

extra gravy · 20-09-2012 2:04pm

Sulla Felix wrote: »

Wasn't sure whether to put it here or in the funnys.

Wolf-Peter Funk, a noted Coptic linguist attending the same conference as Ms King, said there were "thousands of scraps of papyrus where you find crazy things,"

Coolest name ever.

kylith · 20-09-2012 7:52pm

robindch wrote: »

The winner's been announced for the UK's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19637073

Wouldn't mind getting that last one blown up to bathroom-ceiling size...

Breathtaking.

joseph brand · 20-09-2012 8:29pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Coolest name ever.

Certainly beats this one.

"I got it from a hair dryer." Homer J Simpson

I also like, Windy Shepherd Henderson. (Father Ted)

Mr. CooL ICE · 22-09-2012 5:11pm

If anybody would like to to torture themselves by watching a badly made american creationist science film, I highly recommend watching The Genesis Code.

I saw it in the place where I 'acquire' my movies and saw it got 70% on rottentomatoes, so thought "it can't be that bad". Oh, how wrong was I. I do enjoy movies that are so crap they are entertaining, but it is rare that I watch a movie as far as the 45 min mark and have to switch it off. I went ahead and looked at the reviews on IMDB and it is interesting to see the unbiased reviews (1/10) against the friends/family of those involved (10/10 all around).

robindch · 25-09-2012 5:16pm

Portland, Oregon, with a population of around 600,000 people, was the last major city in the USA to hold out against fluoridation of the city's water supply. Here's the Democratic mayor's thoughtful and measured statement announcing the introduction of fluoridation:

http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm?c=49522&a=410028

Dades · 25-09-2012 9:29pm

^^ Freakin' hipsters.

CerebralCortex · 26-09-2012 11:52am

robindch wrote: »

Portland, Oregon, with a population of around 600,000 people, was the last major city in the USA to hold out against fluoridation of the city's water supply. Here's the Democratic mayor's thoughtful and measured statement announcing the introduction of fluoridation:

http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm?c=49522&a=410028

I was convinced or at least cured of conspiracy by this vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAXwv7j_jbY

He may be the squarest fecker alive but he does great critical thinking videos.

robindch · 26-09-2012 3:08pm

Hubble astronomers have spent 23 days of camera time creating an extreme deep-field view:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/25/revealing-the-universe-the-hubble-extreme-deep-field/

Very cool.

Turtwig · 27-09-2012 12:56am

So lads and ladies, let's face it, the self portrait of our own workspaces is never going to be as awesome as this.
(Bet the fecker is pulling a duckface pose too.)

Bannasidhe · 27-09-2012 1:01am

I have interesting mould on my office wall that looks quite pretty in a certain light....:(

Gbear · 27-09-2012 1:20am

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1209/25comet/#.UGMQXQyVuJI.facebook

A new comet has been discovered that is predicted to blaze incredibly brilliantly in the skies during late 2013. With a perihelion passage of less than two million kilometres from the Sun on 28 November 2013, current predictions are of an object that will dazzle the eye at up to magnitude —16. That's far brighter than the full Moon.

That's going to be ****ing awesome!

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