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Not being funny here

  • 21-11-2010 9:31pm
    #1
    branie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭


    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    For all the good that talking to the wall has done until now.


  • #3
    Larsist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Larsist


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray

    Why?


  • #4
    branie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    Because the country is in trouble


  • #5
    Enkidu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Enkidu


    branie wrote: »
    Because the country is in trouble
    That doesn't make any sense.

    Basically:
    Country is in trouble, please talk to something you don't think is real.


  • #6
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray

    Ohh glorious, cruel and malevolent Cthulhu, in this, our hour of darkest need, I pray for your mercy, take this mortals soul, this 'Branie', in fair exchange for your protection from our enemies the IMF. This I promise you and more. Hail Cthulhu. Hail! Hail! Hail!


    ===========================================================

    Well no one can say I didn't do my part for Ireland.

    33992702.png


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  • #7
    Skrynesaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    Ahh religion, do nothing that might effect change, leave your betters in charge and talk to your invisible friend.

    Why do some people acuse it of being a tool of suppression :(


  • #8
    OpenYourEyes
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray


    The "not being funny here" bit is right at least!


  • #9
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray
    Good plan!

    We should all pick different gods to cover ourselves.


  • #10
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Dades wrote: »
    Good plan!

    We should all pick different gods to cover ourselves.

    Dibs on Thor.


  • #11
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I think enough people have been praying to Loki as it is....


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  • #12
    liamw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭liamw


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray

    prayer-how-to-do-nothing-and-still-think-youre-helping.jpg


  • #13
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Religion: Still infecting people when they're vulnerable.


  • #14
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray

    Dear YHWH, please let the IMF come down on us like Thor's Hammer, laying economic waste to this pathetic isle of ours, and all it's inhabitants, including myself. And please don't listen to any prayers that ask the contrary, especially from branie. Amen.

    I assume you've already said your prayers, so now I've just undone your prayer, and scuppered your chances of having any of your future ones on this matter heard.

    If you actually believed in the power of prayer, you might actually be worried now. But I suspect you're just paying lip service to the notion...


  • #15
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Though Catholic may I point out other religious traditions involve Human Sacrifice might be used to appease the gods in these times. Offhand I've reckon we'd have no real difficultly "volunteering" people. ... :)


  • #16
    Humans eh!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭Humans eh!


    We can all accept "Cheeses" as our saviour in December :D


  • #17
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Dades wrote: »
    Good plan!

    We should all pick different gods to cover ourselves.

    Wanna draw straws?


  • #18
    Goduznt Xzst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray

    *yesterday, billions of people in abject poverty, being raped, murdered, dying in gutters, still births, cancer, disease*

    Not praying

    *today, billions of people in abject poverty, being raped, murdered, dying in gutters, still births, cancer, disease, branie might not be able to afford his 60" plasma next year*

    Starts praying


  • #19
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Sheesh. What's next - no atheists in foxholes? I suppose you wouldn't know who Christopher Hitchens is, and how he's coping with cancer without indulging in the fantasy of prayer. :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #20
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    A single pair of hands at work is worth more than a million clasped in prayer


  • #21
    tdv123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭tdv123


    Your not being funny an awful lot.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056015025


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Sh!t troll. Next.


  • #23
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    How come I make a genuine comment in the christianity thread ( Albeit I was drunk ) but it still had merit, and the Mod calls me a troll and threatens a lashing with the ban stick. Yet we welcome trolls with open arms here, for fun of course


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    GO_Bear wrote: »
    How come I make a genuine comment in the christianity thread ( Albeit I was drunk ) but it still had merit, and the Mod calls me a troll and threatens a lashing with the ban stick. Yet we welcome trolls with open arms here, for fun of course

    Might have something to do with us being willing to defend ourselves and take a joke once in a while. Just maybe. :pac:


  • #25
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    GO_Bear wrote: »
    How come I make a genuine comment in the christianity thread ...
    Firstly, do NOT talk about moderation in other forums (particularly that one). Their forum, their rules.
    GO_Bear wrote: »
    Yet we welcome trolls with open arms here, for fun of course
    Secondly you've answered your own question.


  • #26
    GO_Bear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GO_Bear


    My apologies !

    Have not had my coffee yet!


  • #27
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    God answers prayers of Paralized little boy.

    'No' says God


  • #28
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    sensibleken wrote: »
    God answers prayers of Paralized little boy.

    'No' says God
    One of my favorite onion stories. I have rolled it out a few times... You beat me to it in this one.

    MrP


  • #29
    darjeeling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    branie wrote: »
    Not being funny here
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray

    Not being funny? Perhaps not intentionally anyway.


  • #30
    darjeeling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    This isn't funny either, though - in this thread - has a certain grim irony:
    The Independent wrote:

    POLITICIANS, businessmen, churches and charities have lost millions in the collapse of AIB shares, a special investigation by the Irish Independent reveals.

    The Church of Ireland is nursing one of the biggest losses after its €17.3m investment plummeted to just over €260,000 in the shares wipeout.

    (link)

    What did the poor CoI do to deserve such smiting?


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  • #31
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    darjeeling wrote: »
    What did the poor CoI do to deserve such smiting?
    Put all their eggs in one basket? Gotta feel for them, though.


  • #32
    Improbable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    Dades wrote: »
    Put all their eggs in one basket? Gotta feel for them, though.

    No we don't. :rolleyes:


  • #33
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Not being funny here
    Don't worry, you're not.


  • #34
    MarkGrisham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭MarkGrisham


    branie wrote: »
    But becuase of the confirmed bailout, you'd be wise to pray

    You're having a laugh right?


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