Heretical thoughts

[Chromatic]

Quoting @raleighnut as a reference probably isn't the best move....

He seems a jolly good fellow to me, straight out of the top drawer.

 

[captain nemo1701]

The Force Awakens was disappointing over-hyped tosh caught half way between a reboot & remake, Disney cashing in on an old franchise that actually ended in 1983. At least Harrison Ford had the guts to have himself killed off.

We are not a Christian nation - it's old mythology imported from the Middle East. Go down to a field in Wiltshire and there's a wonderful monument to pagan civil engineering & astronomy:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/
Should also add that Xmas was invented by missionaries to convert pagans from the festival of Yule.

This should count as heretical as it has a religious angle and in timing, is topical for the next few weeks!. I am expecting a visit from the Spanish Inquisition & the comfy chair any moment now.....

 

[SWSteve]

The Pogues song about Christmas isn't very good. It's overstayed its welcome.

 

[Chromatic]

The Pogues song about Christmas isn't very good. It's overstayed its welcome.

It is worse than 'isn't very good' and it was never welcome in the first place

 

[jefmcg]

This should count as heretical

Well, if we are going to literally heretical ...


Christianity should not be called Christianity; it should be called Paulanism or some such as they whole religion was hijacked in the first century by a megalomaniac Roman citizen while recovering from a stroke.

Also, Paul was probably abused as a child - he had deep seated issues about sex.

 

[srw]

I live in a vibrant multi cultural part of London. I needed the doctors last month but had to wait days and days for an appointment. As I sat in the waiting room for 2 hours you can just guess the make up of people there. Entirely dominated by white old people. The only brown people I saw were the exceptionally busy yet competent staff.

Exactly the same in the general hospital in Buckinghamshire I've just come out of. Local population - overwhelmingly white. Patients - overwhelmingly white, and overwherlmingly old. Staff - a rainbow mix of skin colours and accents from all five continents, with "white British" people in the minority.

 

[Markymark]

Exactly the same in the general hospital in Buckinghamshire I've just come out of. Local population - overwhelmingly white. Patients - overwhelmingly white, and overwherlmingly old. Staff - a rainbow mix of skin colours and accents from all five continents, with "white British" people in the minority.

Only difference is the local population here is not overwhelmingly white, yet the waiting room was.

 

[TVC]

The Pogues song about Christmas isn't very good. It's overstayed its welcome.

I really like the Pogues, seen them several times. I was genuinely upset when Kirsty MacColl died, I loved her work and she clearly had a lot more to give. However, that collaboration is an abhomination that proves that sometimes two rights make a wrong.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Lordy you come out with some bollocks at times....

It makes more sense that most Christian doctrine... but than I've spent much of my life as a literal heretic too.

 

[Smithbat]

I sometimes think I must be the only person in the universe who didn't think that was the greatest film ever made, and in fact was crap, but I see @raleighnut has given me a like for it so there are at least two of us with our heads screwed on.

Nope, I think it is utter crap as well. I don't get it, I don't find it funny and quite frankly do not see the attraction.

 

[Beebo]

I'm a tad disappointed that so much of this thread - whose title actually seems to me to have potential - has turned into an 'I don't like x' ercise.

For some slightly more positive heresy, I think politicians are much-maligned.

I don't know any personally, but I think it likely that many if not most are driven largely if not entirely by a desire to do what they can to advance the common good, as they see it. I think good constituency MPs far outnumber bad ones, and most will do their best to help constituents who need help. I think almost all start off meaning well, and a large proportion remain that way. Of course ego and money play their part, but I suspect most politicians, in this country and many others, probably work harder, and for better motives, than they are ever given credit for.

Can I also add that their salary is not high and it grinds my gears when people refer to them as the political elite. There're salary would barely get a mortgage to buy a 3 bed semi in most of London.granted a small few have money but not many

 

[tyred]

Can anyone actually understand James Joyce?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I really like the Pogues, seen them several times. I was genuinely upset when Kirsty MacColl died, I loved her work and she clearly had a lot more to give. However, that collaboration is an abhomination that proves that sometimes two rights make a wrong.

I like both the Pogues and Kristy Maccol, and I actually liked that song the first time I heard it, but like most of the popular Christmas songs its long out stayed its welcome.

 

[smutchin]

Can anyone actually understand James Joyce?

It's not all impenetrable modernism. Try Dubliners - beautifully written short stories, very accessible.

 

[Shortandcrisp]

Cycling is a sh*te spectator sport.

Moby Dick is a pile of whale blubber.

The Royal family bore me into subservience.