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The 'Funny (ha, ha)' side of religion

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  • #2652
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2015/02/09/parents-totally-not-just-baptising-child-to-get-it-into-a-good-school/


  • #2653
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    338357.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2654
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    obplayer wrote: »
    I remember using the original floppies, 5 inch, which only got stiff when they were spun in the drive.

    Pfft. 8" floppies ftw.

    8-inch-floppy.jpg


  • #2655
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    You old people, zip disks is where its at.


  • #2656
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    You old people, zip disks is where its at.
    Naw brah, minidisk is tha shiz.


  • #2657
    Absolam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Absolam


    Pfft. Whippersnappers


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  • #2658
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Absolam wrote: »
    Whippersnappers
    Showing my age, but we used to use those punch cards back in the early 1970's as drawing paper in senior infants :o


  • #2659
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    robindch wrote: »
    Showing my age, but we used to use those punch cards back in the early 1970's as drawing paper in senior infants :o

    You think that's bad? It reminded me of a knitting machine pattern!




    *Toddles off to iron my wrinkles*


  • #2660
    Absolam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Absolam


    robindch wrote: »
    Showing my age, but we used to use those punch cards back in the early 1970's as drawing paper in senior infants :o

    We were still using them in the mid 80s to run the VECs 'mainframes'....


  • #2661
    swampgas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭swampgas


    Shrap wrote: »
    You think that's bad? It reminded me of a knitting machine pattern!

    The connection is stronger than you might think - the Jacquard Loom was one of the first systems of "punch cards": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

    Edit:
    More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

    .


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  • #2662
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    The Vatican appoints one of its world-famous representatives to an organization called "The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation":

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/vatican-finds-new-position-for-bishop-of-bling-1.2097430
    Irish Times wrote:
    Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the so-called “Bishop of Bling” who was removed from the diocese of Limburg in Germany because of his lavish spending on the bishop’s palace, is to be appointed to a new position in the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation, according to Rome-based website Vatican Insider.

    Bishop Tebartz-van Elst (55) made world headlines two years ago when details of a €30 million renovation project for the bishop’s palace were revealed by a German church-commissioned report. Among the items of lavish expenditure it revealed were works of art, chapel windows, built-in cupboards and also a two-seater bathtub costing approximately €20,000.

    The bishop had excused himself by saying he was much more a theologian than an architect, adding that he had been keen to see that the restoration of the period palace be done properly. At the time of his “resignation” from the diocese in March of last year, a Vatican statement had said that, in time, another job would be found for him.

    Given that it would have proven difficult to appoint the bishop to another German diocese, it seems that a low-key role has been found for him at New Evangelisation, headed by Archbishop Rino Fisichella. In theory, his new job title will be “delegate for catechism teaching”, or the study of the relevance of church teaching to the New Evangelisation. It remains to be seen what, if anything, Pope Francis will make of the arrival in Rome of this most non-Francis style prelate.
    With excellent photo goodness.


  • #2663
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    robindch wrote: »
    With excellent photo goodness.

    Ha! That's a fantastic photo. Well done that photographer - he truly played the hand of god in that :cool:


  • #2664
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    swampgas wrote: »
    The connection is stronger than you might think - the Jacquard Loom was one of the first systems of "punch cards": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

    Edit:
    More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

    .

    Knitting machines were highly technical torture devices designed to send you grey early. However, who wouldn't want a jumper with this on it? Makes it all worthwhile....
    il_340x270.686018941_251j.jpg


  • #2665
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    338496.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2666
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    What a loon :pac:


    An accidental comedian there. It's hard to believe that people can be so ignorant.

    ---

    This quote comes to mind:

    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2667
    RikuoAmero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭RikuoAmero


    also a two-seater bathtub costing approximately €20,000.

    Did his bean-counter not raise any eyebrows at this expense for a supposedly celibate priest?


  • #2668
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,476 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Worztron wrote: »
    An accidental comedian there. It's hard to believe that people can be so ignorant.

    When he was a kid, he watched The Flintstones and thought it was a documentary.

    Scrap the cap!



  • #2669
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    From YLYL.

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  • #2670
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    ..

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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  • #2671
    RikuoAmero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭RikuoAmero


    Worztron wrote: »
    [url=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/393451/338607.jpg[/url]

    Damn...you got balls. :eek:


  • #2672
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    RikuoAmero wrote: »
    Damn...you got balls. :eek:

    Hmm. I personally thought "Damn...you got no taste whatsoever. :eek:", but perhaps that's my sense of humour bypass :(



    Edit: No actually, it's just disgusting and very fcuking unfunny. My humour is fine. Is this still the "funny ha, ha" side of religion or is it the "Mohammed rapes kiddies thread?"


  • #2673
    RikuoAmero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭RikuoAmero


    Shrap wrote: »
    Hmm. I personally thought "Damn...you got no taste whatsoever. :eek:", but perhaps that's my sense of humour bypass :(

    Considering that there are Muslims in the Middle East who will quite gladly kill you and your family for merely not saying PBUH after saying Mu's name, drawing and waving this picture around is like painting a target on your chest.

    Personally, I don't find it funny, and yes, the content is disgusting (it is showing a full grown man threatening a beating to a small girl if she doesn't allow him to rape her, after all), but that is what the historical record says. There are disagreements between us and the Muslims as to whether or not Aisha was co-erced of course, but the record is clear - she was pre-pubescent child, not yet double digits in years and he was in his fifties.


  • #2674
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    RikuoAmero wrote: »
    Considering that there are Muslims in the Middle East who will quite gladly kill you and your family for merely not saying PBUH after saying Mu's name, drawing and waving this picture around is like painting a target on your chest.
    Couldn't give a monkey's mate. It's not bleedin' funny. At all. If I weren't on my way to bed I'd take it to a moderator, which I will do in the morning.

    Is there ANYBODY here who doesn't already know that this is "controversial" and so therefore "should be allowed?" :mad: Does that mean taste and respect go out the fcuking window? What about people who are actually sickened by reading that cartoon, like me? There are people who might actually have been abused as children who could be looking at this FFS. :mad:
    Idiots.

    BTW, you can go ahead and mod me for the word "idiots", am very pissed at this.


  • #2675
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    The day child-rape becomes a laughing matter because it's got Mohammed in the cartoon is the day satire dies. Get a grip folks.


  • #2676
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    For the sake of everybody's sanity, the controversial image above has been replaced with a link to the controversial image. Anybody who wants to see it, just click on the link.

    I think there are funnier gags around on the topic of Mohammad's alleged unusual proclivities.


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  • #2677
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    338708.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2678
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Worztron wrote: »
    338708.jpg

    One problem with the whole suicide bombers thing is that the tactic was invented by the decidedly secular Tamil Tigers. It was a response to the asymmetric war they were fighting against the US and UK backed government forces in Columbo.

    And that is why the various islamist groups have adopted it, because it the most effective use (in war terms) of their limited resources and relatively large pool of untrainable (by the groups) volunteers


  • #2679
    obplayer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭obplayer


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    One problem with the whole suicide bombers thing is that the tactic was invented by the decidedly secular Tamil Tigers. It was a response to the asymmetric war they were fighting against the US and UK backed government forces in Columbo.

    And that is why the various islamist groups have adopted it, because it the most effective use (in war terms) of their limited resources and relatively large pool of untrainable (by the groups) volunteers

    Still a fukcing stupid idea.


  • #2680
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    338755.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2681
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,676 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    obplayer wrote: »
    Still a fukcing stupid idea.
    Possibly. But not a religious idea. Which in the context of this forum is a relevant point.


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  • #2682
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,847 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    :D

    https://twitter.com/Fun_Beard/status/564921602102394881

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



  • #2683
    bpmurray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    Absolam wrote: »
    We were still using them in the mid 80s to run the VECs 'mainframes'....

    And we used to push the little squares back into the holes to correct typos


  • #2684
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


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  • #2685
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


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    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #2686
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    338860.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2687
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    jesus-white-man-middle-east-300x289.jpg

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #2688
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    robindch wrote: »
    For the sake of everybody's sanity, the controversial image above has been replaced with a link to the controversial image. Anybody who wants to see it, just click on the link.

    I think there are funnier gags around on the topic of Mohammad's alleged unusual proclivities.

    It is not alleged. You sound a bit like an apologist for religion.

    This smacks of censorship.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2689
    RikuoAmero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭RikuoAmero


    Worztron wrote: »
    It is not alleged. You sound a bit like an apologist for religion.

    This smacks of censorship.

    I wouldn't call it censorship. All anyone has to do is click once on a link to see the image.
    This line of thinking is oft repeated on the website Techdirt, where a small handful of trolls constantly complain of being 'censored' when all anyone has to do to see those comments of theirs that have been flagged by the community...is click once on a button.
    That's it.


  • #2690
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Shrap wrote: »
    Hmm. I personally thought "Damn...you got no taste whatsoever. ", but perhaps that's my sense of humour bypass

    Edit: No actually, it's just disgusting and very fcuking unfunny. My humour is fine. Is this still the "funny ha, ha" side of religion or is it the "Mohammed rapes kiddies thread?"

    Refer to my recent post here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=94270632&postcount=2680
    I'm not saying death by crucifixion is funny but you would probably not get the humor in that post either.
    Shrap wrote: »
    Couldn't give a monkey's mate. It's not bleedin' funny. At all. If I weren't on my way to bed I'd take it to a moderator, which I will do in the morning.

    Is there ANYBODY here who doesn't already know that this is "controversial" and so therefore "should be allowed?" Does that mean taste and respect go out the fcuking window? What about people who are actually sickened by reading that cartoon, like me? There are people who might actually have been abused as children who could be looking at this FFS.
    Idiots.

    BTW, you can go ahead and mod me for the word "idiots", am very pissed at this.

    I won't report your name calling because you may get further offended and we wouldn't want that now.

    So should we ban all movies and TV that portray violence because someone was once attacked?
    Shrap wrote: »
    The day child-rape becomes a laughing matter because it's got Mohammed in the cartoon is the day satire dies. Get a grip folks.

    Please avoid Family Guy, and multiple comedians because you may get offended.

    If you don't find the "controversial" post funny, that's fair enough - but to get offended? It was mocking the vile middle aged man. Clearly actual child molesting is an abomination. This is a cartoon - it's not REAL.

    Consider watching this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl2w7q_easily-offended-then-watch-this_fun

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2691
    obplayer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭obplayer


    Worztron wrote: »
    It is not alleged. You sound a bit like an apologist for religion.

    This smacks of censorship.

    The fact is the image was just not funny. Offensive without being funny is missing the point of satire.

    P.S. just watched the dailymotion video and it was excellent. But it was also funny and this is meant to be a funny thread.


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  • #2692
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,253 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Worztron wrote: »
    It is not alleged. You sound a bit like an apologist for religion.

    This smacks of censorship.

    Nah sorry Worztron, usually I love your pictures and jokes, but that one wasn't actually a funny, even in the sense of satire. It's aim was nothing more than to insult and degrade. Fact or not, it wasn't humourous.

    Also, censorship would be if the image and post was removed, rather than a link being provided instead. Also, mods can remove things as they wish, there is no "Free Speech" as such on boards.

    Again, I love dark humour and offensive comedy, but that wasn't actually funny at all.


  • #2693
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Worztron wrote: »
    If you don't find the "controversial" post funny, that's fair enough - but to get offended? It was mocking the vile middle aged man. Clearly actual child molesting is an abomination.

    I don't find it funny either. If it was trying to be satire, it failed.

    It would be a suitable post in a thread on issues with religion or a thread on the despicable things that religious folk ignore because it is clearly abhorrent.

    Can you explain the funny part of it? because it isn't clear to me.


  • #2694
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    powerless.jpg?w=470

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #2695
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    338966.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2696
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Worztron wrote: »
    It is not alleged. You sound a bit like an apologist for religion. This smacks of censorship.
    Nope. The image is still there. And a number of people reported the post as being either excessively nasty, counter-productive and unfunny.

    I certainly agree with the "unfunny" bit and have some sympathy with the other two. Hence the decision to replace the pic with a link to the pic. As I said, the image is still there, but one has to choose to open it, rather than have it appear whether one wants to see it or not.


  • #2697
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Meanwhile, here's a guy from Alabama out trolling his neighbours:

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/12/alabama-redneck-hilariously-trolls-anti-gay-bigots-by-reporting-on-how-same-sex-marriage-is-affecting-his-county-video


  • #2698
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    339093.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2699
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    obplayer wrote: »
    The fact is the image was just not funny. Offensive without being funny is missing the point of satire.

    P.S. just watched the dailymotion video and it was excellent. But it was also funny and this is meant to be a funny thread.
    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Nah sorry Worztron, usually I love your pictures and jokes, but that one wasn't actually a funny, even in the sense of satire. It's aim was nothing more than to insult and degrade. Fact or not, it wasn't humourous.

    Also, censorship would be if the image and post was removed, rather than a link being provided instead. Also, mods can remove things as they wish, there is no "Free Speech" as such on boards.

    Again, I love dark humour and offensive comedy, but that wasn't actually funny at all.
    CramCycle wrote: »
    I don't find it funny either. If it was trying to be satire, it failed.

    It would be a suitable post in a thread on issues with religion or a thread on the despicable things that religious folk ignore because it is clearly abhorrent.

    Can you explain the funny part of it? because it isn't clear to me.

    Humor is subjective.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #2700
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    RikuoAmero wrote: »
    I wouldn't call it censorship. All anyone has to do is click once on a link to see the image.
    This line of thinking is oft repeated on the website Techdirt, where a small handful of trolls constantly complain of being 'censored' when all anyone has to do to see those comments of theirs that have been flagged by the community...is click once on a button.
    That's it.

    The key words then are 'often' and 'constantly'. Never heard of that site.
    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Nah sorry Worztron, usually I love your pictures and jokes, but that one wasn't actually a funny, even in the sense of satire. It's aim was nothing more than to insult and degrade. Fact or not, it wasn't humourous.

    Also, censorship would be if the image and post was removed, rather than a link being provided instead. Also, mods can remove things as they wish, there is no "Free Speech" as such on boards.

    Again, I love dark humour and offensive comedy, but that wasn't actually funny at all.

    Ok, partially censored then.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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  • #2701
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,739 ✭✭✭Worztron


    339107.jpg

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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