A young gorilla escaped from his enclosure at the Melbourne Zoo last night and wandered about for 20 minutes while craven visitors hid out. I would have sat and waited for him to introduce himself. And paid good money for the chance.
A moron by the name of Cardinal George Pell, who has a chance at being a pope one day, has reiterated the lie that condoms do not reduce the incidence of AIDS, with anecdotal accounts filtered through the Jedi Catholic Mindshield.
And to the folk who were up at 6.30am to go to Mass, and decided that everybody had to be able to hear their conversations in Portuguese outside my bedroom window this morning, allow me to disabuse you of that notion.
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European Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese?
Because European Portuguese is some sort of purely utilitarian communication method, while Brazilian Portuguese is the pinnacle of the aesthetic possibilities inherent in romance languages.
I'm guessing these people were Europeans (or maybe Angolans or Macanese or something), because I can imagine no lovelier way to wake up than the sound of Brazilian Portuguese.
Why awake so early?
I would have thought you'ld be sound asleep at that time.
Brazilian Portuguese is the pinnacle of the aesthetic possibilities inherent in romance languages.
I'm guessing these people were Europeans (or maybe Angolans or Macanese or something), because I can imagine no lovelier way to wake up than the sound of Brazilian Portuguese.
I'll have to disagree on both accounts. The most difficult part in understanding European Portuguese as a foreigner is to actually manage to hear the sounds at all, as people barely open their mouths while speaking and won't pronounce the last half of each word. I find their whispering accent pleasant. And it does makes eating at restaurants a nice quiet experience compared to trying to heard your own thoughts at a busy restaurant in, say, New York City.
As for Brazilian accent, I would only agree on aesthetics if the folk outside John's window were serenating him with Bossa nova.
That might be the problem.
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James 2:24
That's the Church for you. Every other day of the week they'll be insisting how they're faith is rational, how they are the very paragon of the union of reason and faith, and then, because they're own sacred cow has been decimated by science, rather than doing the rational thing and reinterpreting a few scriptures that more indicate some pretty strange sexual fixations by the Ancient Hebrews than a cogent argument for the banning of contraceptives, they insist, as if the centuries between the Galileo Affair and today were but a mere moment, that they're pseudoscience is a tenable, honest position.
The really sad part is that evidence is fairly suggestive that a great many Catholics in industrialized countries have been ignoring these anti-contraceptive commandments for decades. The Church is so fundamentally duplicitous and cruel in declaring birth control a violation of Biblical statute, and yet basically turning a blind eye to what a good many Catholics are doing in more Liberal countries.
Of course, turning a blind eye seems to be a particularly well-practiced skill of the Church.
(found this on the front door)
Happy zombie jesus day!
only in Nor Cal.