Tim Minchin and the Pope

I loved this song. Today, my mother came over to my house, all upset because her friend and the choir director of her church has been fired for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old boy some 20 years ago. Her friend would have been in his late 20's at the time. My mom keeps saying that it's not fair he got fired. My opinion is kudos to the church for not sweeping it under the rug and shame on her for the hypocrisy. She'd be ready to string up a priest that diddled a teenager, but when it's her friend, "he should be forgiven". Meh.

I really needed to get this off my chest. It's been bugging me all day.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I loved this song. Today, my mother came over to my house, all upset because her friend and the choir director of her church has been fired for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old boy some 20 years ago. Her friend would have been in his late 20's at the time. My mom keeps saying that it's not fair he got fired. My opinion is kudos to the church for not sweeping it under the rug and shame on her for the hypocrisy. She'd be ready to string up a priest that diddled a teenager, but when it's her friend, "he should be forgiven". Meh.

I really needed to get this off my chest. It's been bugging me all day.
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Worst story ending ever.

Let me fix that for you:

Lisa Simpson said:
I loved this song. Today, my mother came over to my house, all upset because her friend and the choir director of her church has been fired for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old boy some 20 years ago. Her friend would have been in his late 20's at the time. My mom keeps saying that it's not fair he got fired.

And so I played this song for her...
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It is vulgar, yes, but also the wittiest thing I've heard in a long time. I'm hoping the meme thrives and eveyone is whistling it by the time Benny turns up at Heathrow.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I loved this song. Today, my mother came over to my house, all upset because her friend and the choir director of her church has been fired for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old boy some 20 years ago. Her friend would have been in his late 20's at the time. My mom keeps saying that it's not fair he got fired. My opinion is kudos to the church for not sweeping it under the rug and shame on her for the hypocrisy. She'd be ready to string up a priest that diddled a teenager, but when it's her friend, "he should be forgiven". Meh.

I really needed to get this off my chest. It's been bugging me all day.
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There's nothing illegal here in Queensland about sixteen year olds sleeping with people in their late twenties. Arguably priests are in a position of authority that should preclude them from sleeping with parishioners, but since I find priests very silly and they don't actually have the kind of direct power over others that, say, a teacher has over their pupils or a police officer has over a suspect, I find it hard to get worked up about it. If he's not a priest but just a choir director I flat out don't care whether he slept with a sixteen year old in his choir.

If it's church policy to fire employees who sleep with their parishioners, then fair enough, but the age of the person seems immaterial in that case.

Also, I loved the song.
 
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Wildy said:
Unless both partners are of the same sex, where yes, it would be illegal.
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You might want to check your facts on that one. Anal intercourse is illegal in Queensland for under-18s regardless of the sexes and orientations involved last time I checked, although I've never heard of the law being enforced, but other homosexual acts are just fine as long as you are 16.
 
Manopolus said:
Vulgarity based shock humor is so passe.
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Tim Minchin and the Pope said:
"And if you don't like the swearing that this **************** forced from me
and recon it shows moral or intellectual paucity
Then **** you ****************, this is langauge one employs
when one is *********** cross about ****ers *********** boys."
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'Nuff said.


:D


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Kevin_Lowe said:
priests... don't actually have the kind of direct power over others that, say, a teacher has over their pupils or a police officer has over a suspect
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That's probably why the catholic church fizzled out so soon after it was set up. Imagine if there were loads of them, raping people and then using their position and influence to intimidate their victims and escape justice :rolleyes:
 
I'm with Stephen Fry on protests of 'vulgarity';

"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or of a lack of verbal interest is just ****** lunatic," he says. "Or they say, 'It's not necessary.' As if that should stop one doing it. Things not being necessary is what makes life interesting."
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Bit of a generalisation there. Some people do appear to know only one adjective.
It's the fact that Minchin is emphatically not one of them that lends the song its power.
 
That song should be played AT TOP VOLUME every time Papa Ratzi appears in public during his visit to the UK, assuming that he shows his face over here.
 
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