As I wrote before in a previous post:
Dogma makes people believe the strangest things.
As the UK activist/comedian Mark Steel wrote of the then new Pope Benedict way back in April 2005:
So if the new Pope's going to stick to papal traditions, he could manage to be the one person in history of whom it could be said as a child he was in the Hitler Youth, but once he grew up he went further to the right.
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Friday 13 March 2009
The onward surge of Groupthink!!!!!!
In the wake of Nerds FC's 10-2 loss to Dirka Dirka on Monday night, Groupthink FC had to suffer one of the great sporting catastrophies to miss out. Lets face it, not even the emos of Target Practice has let through 26 goals in a game, even to our opponents last night, Purple Cobras - a team of fit, young snotty-nosed private school brats and one old bald guy (we too have one old bald guy - we have him as our keeper).* Unlike most teams in our divison, they can shoot, pass and can do arsehole-tricky things with the ball without making a right screw up of it. In the four games we have played them earlier in the season they have not only hung, drawn and quartered us, but have also par-boiled our remains and sent the heads and quarters out to be displayed in all parts of the country.
Would it be any different this time (The reader of this blog wouldn't be asking)?
Frankly, not quite....
The game had the potential of being quite ugly at half-time when the score was 6-0 the snotty-nosed brats way. But the mighty Groupthink FC never gave up the white flag and fought it out to the strange final siren they have there at the indoor sports centre. Some brilliant play from your humble poster set up Scott who put through one of the most easiest goals ever kicked in indoor soccer to put the Thinkers on the board. Later in the half, your humble match-report writer showed his class and kicked Groupthink's second. And finally Roger Rogenous kicked a goal that reminded me of this gem by Andrew Bews:
In the end we ended up having a (semi-) creditable 12-3 defeat, outscoring the Purple Cobras 2-1 in the last five minutes.
Therefore the Nerds miss out and the Mighty Groupthink FC - aiming to achieve the overthrow of bourgeois society through the medium of indoor soccer under the leadership of Chairman Jeremy - takes another long stride for the proletriat!!!
* The emos once conceded 25 goals in a game to Purple Cobras, but then they still managed to score three goals themselves.
Would it be any different this time (The reader of this blog wouldn't be asking)?
Frankly, not quite....
The game had the potential of being quite ugly at half-time when the score was 6-0 the snotty-nosed brats way. But the mighty Groupthink FC never gave up the white flag and fought it out to the strange final siren they have there at the indoor sports centre. Some brilliant play from your humble poster set up Scott who put through one of the most easiest goals ever kicked in indoor soccer to put the Thinkers on the board. Later in the half, your humble match-report writer showed his class and kicked Groupthink's second. And finally Roger Rogenous kicked a goal that reminded me of this gem by Andrew Bews:
In the end we ended up having a (semi-) creditable 12-3 defeat, outscoring the Purple Cobras 2-1 in the last five minutes.
Therefore the Nerds miss out and the Mighty Groupthink FC - aiming to achieve the overthrow of bourgeois society through the medium of indoor soccer under the leadership of Chairman Jeremy - takes another long stride for the proletriat!!!
* The emos once conceded 25 goals in a game to Purple Cobras, but then they still managed to score three goals themselves.
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Happy Birthday to Me!!!! (Classic Comedy Sketches 1 & 2)
It's my birthday today and for your enjoyment here's a couple of classic skits from A Bit of Fry & Laurie :
Monday 9 March 2009
Catholic Church - dogma first and foremost
Well, whaddayaknow...
Catholic church prefers nine-year old to die rather than to see any of "God's Laws" broken.
The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term.
"God's law is above any human law. So when a human law ... is contrary to God's law, this human law has no value," Cardoso had said.
I wonder if there's anything in the bible that mentions abortion.
Or if previously the Catholic church had held different beliefs?
What about the alleged rapist - the girl's stepfather?
He (Cardoso) also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed "a heinous crime ... the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious".
Therefore, according to the Catholic church raping a nine-year old girl is not as bad as aborting the fetuses in trying to save that girl's life.
Dogma makes people believe the strangest things.
Catholic church prefers nine-year old to die rather than to see any of "God's Laws" broken.
The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term.
"God's law is above any human law. So when a human law ... is contrary to God's law, this human law has no value," Cardoso had said.
I wonder if there's anything in the bible that mentions abortion.
Or if previously the Catholic church had held different beliefs?
What about the alleged rapist - the girl's stepfather?
He (Cardoso) also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed "a heinous crime ... the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious".
Therefore, according to the Catholic church raping a nine-year old girl is not as bad as aborting the fetuses in trying to save that girl's life.
Dogma makes people believe the strangest things.
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