The Funny Side of Religion

swampgas

robindch wrote: »

The Irish Times -- going down in my estimation every day, I have to point out -- produced what can only be the most obviously makey-uppey letter in the history of agony aunt pages.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/tell-me-about-it-have-i-been-living-with-a-sex-addict-1.1537310

Summary: a "practicing catholic" who believes that sex is all about "two people expressing their love for each", but who has sex with her husband perhaps ten times a year, discovers that he five-knuckle-shuffles every day and is so shocked that she moves into the spare room to help him stop. Her son's at it too.

I've known enough people screwed up by religion (and "nice-girl" social programming) that I think it's not completely unbelievable.

While the letter might indeed be entirely made up, I don't agree with some of the comments that suggest that such a screwed up relationship is impossible.

Sycopat

I'm not sure the letter is real, but the attitude behind it certainly could be.

Also there's a few things like down-playing her refusal of her husbands advances and the influence of her catholicism, her assumption that her view is the "normal" one, that make me think she's characterised a bit too fully. I think a writer capable of that would take pains not to go overboard on fantastical details like "daily hand shandies in the bed beside the sleeping wife" or "wife moves out of bedroom to escape".

The conflict in verisimilitude between the character and the situation they are in makes me hesitant to get down off the fence on this one.

Delirium

Bannasidhe wrote: »

If thine husband's right hand offends thee.....:eek:

.... try the left? :pac:

Bannasidhe

koth wrote: »

.... try the left? :pac:

Shure we are all apparently lefties in these here parts according to some. Even bluewolf (:p).


:pac:

PopePalpatine

Quiet you, or you'll rouse dead_one! :pac:

Sarky

I kinda miss his nonsensical bollocksology. in a strange way. It was always good for bringing some entertainment into serious discussions.

CramCycle

I just don't believe that he would be stupid enough to say he was thinking of someone else and not her, after staying married to her for that long and remaining faithful, why jeopardise it with an off the cuff remark that would obviously offend her.

Letter = Codswallop
Reasoning = Characters go against type too quickly based on their set up in the initial act of the letter e.g. Husband is smart enough to hide it from her for 20 years, smart enough to realise to stay with the woman he loves he needs a release that is not unfaithful, but too stupid to realise that she would be offended by the thinking of other women crack?

Hotblack Desiato

robindch wrote: »

Summary: a "practicing catholic" who believes that sex is all about "two people expressing their love for each", but who has sex with her husband perhaps ten times a year,

Ten times a year - a bit above average perhaps but hardly into addiction territory, no? IT hyping up the story...













Already got me coat, thanks

Lucena

CramCycle wrote: »

I just don't believe that he would be stupid enough to say he was thinking of someone else and not her, after staying married to her for that long and remaining faithful, why jeopardise it with an off the cuff remark that would obviously offend her.

Letter = Codswallop
Reasoning = Characters go against type too quickly based on their set up in the initial act of the letter e.g. Husband is smart enough to hide it from her for 20 years, smart enough to realise to stay with the woman he loves he needs a release that is not unfaithful, but too stupid to realise that she would be offended by the thinking of other women crack?

Letter probably is codswallop. Still though, he could realistically have snapped and spurted it out (ooh, matron!) in a moment of anger, not wanting his teenage son end up sexually frustrated and with hang-ups like the mother.

kiffer

Lucena wrote: »

Letter probably is codswallop. Still though, he could realistically have snapped and spurted it out (ooh, matron!) in a moment of anger, not wanting his teenage son end up sexually frustrated and with hang-ups like the mother.

Well he could hardly tell her he's fantasizing about men now coul he...

Hotblack Desiato

:pac:

Sulla Felix

Malleus Maleficarum
I did myself recently receive a lether from none other than KittytheHare, and what a lether 'twas.
Didn't she say that she was facing the worst form of self-pollution not only in her son but worsh shtill, Lord helpusnsaveusall, from her own husband!

Tis wicket where de woreld is got to and the state of married life in dis daynage (and de price o' buther, Missus!). Kitty woke up in the bed only to find that her own husband of 20 years, fed on a starvation diet of the absolute minimum of d'auld jiggery-pokery was only up to his own jiggery-pokery on his own.

WELL I need hardly tell ya dat 'twas a case for the frozen teaspoon that she left in the re-frige-er-a-tor overnight. She put it there, snug in beside her libido, at no more than minus eighteen degrees. Fhwen she was faced with de terrible face of sin as can only be imagined, she was at layst able to reach for de frozen spoon and give him what for. Dere was little talk of dat stuff after dat, I can tell you...

Emphasis mine

Worztron

Cabaal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5U1V-IlP4I

A (badly edited) warning video about the dangers of looking at porn from some very hairy-palmed young Christians.

Gordon

Cabaal wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5U1V-IlP4I

A (badly edited) warning video about the dangers of looking at porn from some very hairy-palmed young Christians.

Strange.. firstly the editing/slomo/rewind thing was a tad weird, but then the guy rejecting a night watching hetero porn and beer by going over to an older guy's house for unknown reasons.. hmmm... I wonder what he was going over to his house for.

robindch

gaynorvader

Cabaal wrote: »

<video>

A (badly edited) warning video about the dangers of looking at porn from some very hairy-palmed young Christians.

I like how, even in a video they made, they ignore direct questions.
"You said it would lead to problems, what did you mean by that?"
"You can come talk to me any time, it's easier to resist temptation when you're not alone."
I was really hoping they were going to make up some nonsense here, but no, just ignored the question (after asking it) completely.

PopePalpatine

Not even the Dexter finale is as bad as this. :pac:

kylith

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Not even the Dexter finale is as bad as this. :pac:

I haven't watched the vid above, and I won't if it makes that wishy-washy, milquetoast, embarrassment of a series finale look good.

They balls up Dexter and no mistake.

Brian Shanahan

robindch wrote: »

<snip of pic>

I love the way Jebus is pulling off Zoolander's The Look.

coffee_cake

I liked how the older guy in the video is like "instead of porn I'm available for you, any time."

Okayyy

Deadlie

I liked how the music's lyrics were 'Inside Out", over and over again, which then faded off as the door closes on the auld lad letting him into his house. There's more subtlety in porn.

CramCycle

Cabaal wrote: »

A (badly edited) warning video about the dangers of looking at porn from some very hairy-palmed young Christians.

And that was the last time Brad was seen alive.

Hotblack Desiato

CramCycle wrote: »

And that was the last time Brad was seen alive.

Nope, that was this one http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=85601410&postcount=4211

Worztron

mewso

Science has been used to prove that gay marriage is wrong

Sarky

mewso wrote: »

Science has been used to prove that gay marriage is wrong

What the actual f*ck. And his lecturers say he's on his way to a Nobel Prize? There are just no words to describe the face-melting stupidity.

Delirium

Sarky wrote: »

What the actual f*ck. And his lecturers say he's on his way to a Nobel Prize? There are just no words to describe the face-melting stupidity.

I think they meant the knob-end prize :P:pac:

Bannasidhe

Sarky wrote: »

What the actual f*ck. And his lecturers say he's on his way to a Nobel Prize? There are just no words to describe the face-melting stupidity.

Did they specify a Noble Prize for Science? They could have meant for Fiction.

Opps... I meant 'literature'...fiction is such a down market term.

Turtwig

And put him on the same Pedestal as Heaney, Goldings, Steinbeck? :eek: