Stuff I don't care about Number 1,286
Pope Benedict XVI is to visit Britain in 2010, the BBC has learned.
Oh. And this is one of the big stories on the BBC News website for precisely what reason? Yes, I know there are several million Catholics in the UK. But does that really warrant the attention being given to an old man who has a penchant for wearing dresses and who used to be in the Hitler Youth coming to the UK? For some - probably a minority - of those Catholics, this is a BIG DEAL. For everyone else in the country, this is the sort of non-story that simply distracts attention away from just about everything that it newsworthy. Even fucking reality TV.
You might just get away with this being a headline in 2010, when the Panzer Pope actually hits these shores. Until then, it is a storm in a teacup. No, wait, that's too impressive. It is a fart in a teacup.
Labels: Media, Oh do shut up, Pope
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 7:00 pm
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Several million is several million and a billion elsewhere. Don't get me wrong - I'm not a Catholic.
To be fair to the old mystic, he was only in the Hitler Youth by conscription, as membership was a legal obligation when he reached 14.
But he's still called Ratzinger, so sucks to be him.
I lived in Germany 1984 - 93 and Josef Ratzinger was very well-known as a rabidly authoritarian nasty old right-wing misery guts back then and I'm sure he hasn't changed.
No disrespect to Catholics in particular, but Benny 16 truly is an evil shit. Whether he was in the HJ voluntarily or not is open to debate.
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