Comments on: pain

By: fenchurch

fenchurch — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:01:48 +0000

@MrGronk – The idea that glassed-up kite strings cause beheadings make me think of the equally spurious and ethnically similar excuse made of an Ontario Muslim father that *he* didn’t decapitate his 6 year old daughter: she looked depressed and likely killed herself.

By: John The Geologist

John The Geologist — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:36:18 +0000

MrGronk

I partly accept that.

However, the banned imports also included:

“billiard tables, chess boards, masks and fire crackers”

So they do seem to have had a bit of a downer on recreation (other than recreational stonings and beheadings)

And they also banned lobster which the rules explained was a kind of animal (although in mitigation I suppose Afghanistan is landlocked and you rarely get lobsters up mountains).

By: Gus

Gus — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:59:29 +0000

It’s absolutely clear that god is an octopus

By: bk

bk — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:43:38 +0000

apparently people now worship an octopus. (go spain?)

By: AchillesAndTortoise

AchillesAndTortoise — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:49:08 +0000

@Daoloth: Very interesting. I’m hoping though that religiosity is going down in all categories. Do you have information on that?

By: wright1

wright1 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:24:20 +0000

@ Uncle Roger…

I think the Aztecs did just that, though IIRC, it was the losers who got the ultimate privilege.

By: MrGronk

MrGronk — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:01:03 +0000

@John the geologist
Interestingly, the putative reason for the Taliban banning kites was because the things had a tendency to saw kid’s heads off – apparently the silly little buggers were much given to coating the strings in powdered glass for kite battles. IIRC a recent kite festival in Pakistan had a pile of fatalities from beheadings and idiots falling off buildings. I imagine their tiddywinks competitions must be a sheer gore-fest.

By: Daz

Daz — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:55:16 +0000

@lol

The ‘Hand Of Bog’ was before you were born? Thanks, I feel so old now …

By: lol

lol — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:37:55 +0000

indeed. i’m still annoyed about suarez defiling the game of football and getting a (now thankfully denied by the dutch!) chance at grabbing a medal, lampard’s goal not being counted, henry’s handball, england vs portugal I and II and even maradona’s hand-of-egotistical-twat incident, though it happened before i was born.

By: Uncle Roger

Uncle Roger — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:22:42 +0000

So is football really just a big kiss-ass contest? The team that brown-noses God the most/best wins? And if a team loses, perhaps the local church ought to be looking into what the players might be doing that brought such disfavor from God?

Come to think of it, if football really were a competition of faith, I might be more interested in it — if the prize for the winners was that they got to meet their god at the end of the game.