Popes Visit (costs)
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Pross wrote:
The large hadron collider? Government pays huge amounts of money towards it and the only benefit of the experiments appear to be to provide evidence to atheists that the universe wasn't created by a superior being
Actually, I've got some friends at CERN and they reckon it'll prove the existance of God !!0 -
I reckon it'll prove to be a big waste of money
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Ash_ wrote:Crapaud wrote:Depends what you mean by 'state'. As I understand it, the status was granted by Mussollini, but to be a State you have to have an indiginous population - which a population of celibates cannot have.
But don't forget the Swiss Guards, I don't think they have to be celibate - although the chances of getting anyone into bed with you when dressed like this is pretty unlikely:
The're maybe not celibate, but they're hardly indigenous.Recruitment and service
Members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard at the Bronze Door in Vatican CityRecruits to the guards must be Catholic, single males with Swiss citizenship who have completed basic training with the Swiss military and can obtain certificates of good conduct. Recruits must have a professional degree or high school diploma and must be between 19 and 30 years of age and at least 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) tall.[4] In 2009, the Swiss Guard commandant, Daniel Anrig, suggested that the Guard might someday be open to recruiting women, but he added that the admission of female recruits remained far in the future.[5] ...A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
I think the TOB race organisers missed out here, they should have run some stages on the same route as the popemobile an hour before his drive about which would have saved Police costs and got huge crowds! 0
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Ben6899 wrote:People can do what they like. I don't particularly live in hope, but I think we're going that way...
I used to live in Hope, but then I moved to Buckley a few miles away.The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
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Pross wrote:fast as fupp wrote:shm_uk wrote:Ben6899 wrote:I do find it a bit 'off' that as an atheist, some of the tax I pay will be going towards a visit by the head of the Catholic Church. For all I care, the old sod can stay the fark in Italy.
Yeh, but there's probably loads of atheist-related stuff paid for by the state that religious folks don't agree with, so it all evens out in the end ...
like.....................?
The large hadron collider? Government pays huge amounts of money towards it and the only benefit of the experiments appear to be to provide evidence to atheists that the universe wasn't created by a superior being
i'd quote Macenroe at this point. If it wasn't for einsteins relativity we wouldn't have gps and hence satnav.
Science gives us lots of new stuff. Like fancy carbon bikes. nowt to do with atheism. It just tends to be that scientists like proof before they believe in something so happen to not believe in God. That's a coincidence rather than the reason they want to discover how the world works!!0 -
I reckon I'm going to go to Italy next year and preach the benefits of cycling to fellow "believers".
Two or three grand should just about cover the expences, bargin. Tail end Charlie
The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.0 -
How about sending out a positive message to the 00's of millions of women the Pope thinks are second class citzens, the 00's of millions of homosexuals he thinks deserve to burn for eternity, and all thos children who were raped and beaten by his priests while he did everything he could to cover it up and allow it to contiunue.rhext wrote:.
Same goes for the Pope. We could be churlish and refuse the visit, or force him to pay his own expenses. And send a message to 00s of millions of Catholics around the world that the UK is not a good place to visit or buy goods from.
£15M seems a bit of a bargain to me!
Telling the evil old c*nt to sling his hook and saving £15 million seems like even more of a bargain to me.0 -
The popes not all bad
The other day he took confession from a man who said he'd had 3 days of non stop sex with Fanny Green.
Week later the same fella comes in with the same story.
Week after that the same fella comes in with the same story so the pope asks him who fanny green is and is told she's the dirties woman in the village.
That sunday in church the popes giving a sermon when a tall blond walks in. Green mini skirt, green bra and green shoes. she sits down legs astride like sharon stone.
The pope looks at his mate and says "is that fanny green?"
His mate says......"Nah, I think its just the reflection of her shoes"
Ay thank you.The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0
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It'sa state visit, therefore the Govt. carries the bill just as it would for any visiting head of State. Remeber the Vatican s an independent state within Italy. Also he is a leader of a faith with millions of supporters. The cost is relatively little in the scheme of things. It would cost more if Obama was visiting or any of the leaders of the G7. If Air Force One is in the vicinity no other aircraft is allowed to be taking off or in the air near it so your plane stays on the ground or circling x miles away until AF1 gives the OK.M.Rushton0
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Departing Popes plane suffers delay at Liverpool airport
http://www.boreme.com//boreme/funny-200 ... ool-p1.phpjc0
