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Am I Adding 2 + 2 And Getting Five?

  • 26-04-2010 7:32am
    #1
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭


    Question: Am I Adding 2 + 2 And Getting Five?

    Maybe its my twisted mind but I beginning to see things that might not real real.

    A couple of weeks ago there was this news story all over the media: "Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested"
    ...Now in the last few days we have a story about a nameless, non-descript British government memo insulting the pope
    Now today we have "Pope's visit to UK under threat over 'joke' memo" and "Pope 'could cancel UK visit' over 'offensive' Foreign Office memo"

    Am I seeing two news mentioned incidents and seeing someone in British government department craftily coming up for a way for the pope to save face, have a way "out" of visiting England?

    * Could someone have said, "Well its better that we come up with a smaller debacle/reason for the pope to cancel his visit that have a bigger fiasco blow up in our faces later when he arrives on our shores!"

    * Is someone trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the British public, someone trying to avoid a possible massive crises (remember: election time!!! - you'd be amazed at what can effect an election!)

    * Am I seeing things that of course wouldn't happen or are not happening! In other words "Am I Adding 2 + 2 And Getting Five?"



    Note: There already is a thread somewhere around on the forum about Dalkings and co, his possible publicity stunt and people's feeling about it.


Comments

  • #2
    MagicMarker
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    Those pedo bastards!


  • #3
    Biggins
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    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Those pedo bastards!
    :pac: Aaa.. the standard AH reply LOL :pac: :D


  • #4
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Pope is still coming to UK so you're getting five. link


  • #5
    Biggins
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    Gordon wrote: »
    Pope is still coming to UK so you're getting five. link
    You could be right, you probably are.
    The suspicious side of me says that something else though might crop up and stall/end the current visit of this pope till Dalkings is made to go away quietly. :pac:
    (I wish them luck with that desire alone! LOL)


  • #6
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,922 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    but 2+2 does equal 5 :confused:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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  • #7
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Dey tuk der childs innocence!


    But yeah, it's a little TOO perfect isn't it?! Also for some strange reason an Iron Maiden track is coming to mind. Run to the something.......Something to the Hills.......


  • #8
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Its all just a thought anyway of this oldie while possibly losing more of his mind. LOL :D


  • #9
    jd007
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    koth wrote: »
    but 2+2 does equal 5 :confused:

    I don't know how to break this to you but...


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    jd007 wrote: »
    I don't know how to break this to you but...
    Darn - that's it... I'm going back to skool! :o

    :D


  • #11
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    jd007 wrote: »
    I don't know how to break this to you but...

    Oh George Orwell you numerically illiterate son of a. :D


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    koth wrote: »
    but 2+2 does equal 5 :confused:

    it does if you add 2.49 + 2.49 = 4.98 and display it using a spreadsheet that rounds to the nearest whole number. :pac:


  • #13
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    It's "Dawkins."


  • #14
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Oh George Orwell you numerically illiterate son of a. :D
    Aaa, I was wondering if someone would pick up on the sub-text. ;)
    A very astute person we have here. Kudos! :D

    ...I'm off to Wigan pier now my job is done. ;)


  • #15
    vodafoneproblem
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    The same thought crossed my mind. How did this 'joke' make its way into the media, anyway?


  • #16
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Biggins wrote: »
    Aaa, I was wondering if someone would pick up on the sub-text. ;)
    A very astute person we have here. Kudos! :D

    ...I'm off to Wigan pier now my job is done. ;)

    ......um..........thanks? Yeah I was about to recommend my 14 year old brother read 1984 but then he's so full of that teenage "I hate the world for no apparent reason" angst I don't really want to fuel it! Or he could go the other way and listen to bleedin' Radiohead....(heheheheheeee!).

    But yeah, pope, condoms, 5, conspiracies. Madness.


  • #17
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    What I find ironic is that it said in this morning's metro that the Vatican didn't believe the action taken on the employee was good enough......


  • #18
    Michaelrsh
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqi8m4CEEY


  • #19
    Jay P
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    If Thom Yorke says it...

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


  • #20
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    You see the thing is, that 2+2 IS equal to 5*.



    *For a given value of 2


  • #21
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Either he comes and gets arrested, or he doesn't come. Either way it's a win for humanity and the law. The only lose is if he comes and isn't arrested, but I don't see both of those those happening together.

    As for the 2+2=5.....I think you are seeing things. Just because the party's all offically "welcome" the Pope, it doesn't mean anyone in the government or civil service actually wants him there. Although in Ireland people seem unable to stop being raped by the Church, in Britain they're thankfully a little less enslaved to the notion that the Pope is in some way deserving of respect. Obviously the people in the office think he's an ass, which tells me they're normal people.


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