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Hey, cut us some slack, I drive like a complete jackass in perfect conditions. I'd go as far to say I'm severely disabled as a driver (too many moving parts for my simple mind -clutch, gearshift, pedestrians, cars, stoplights, etc). Heather McHugh! where are you? My backseat driver needs a vacation!
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oh shit, you might be right. I've been on Slog too long. Every year, we're hear commenters squawking about bad drivers when winter rolls along. Nice catch.
@11 - It is a silly matter of semantics. Catholics can pretend all they want, but even ignoring the trinity nonsense, saints are worshipped as minor gods with divine powers; Christianity is polytheistic.
@15, 16, 17 - I'm not saying it isn't kinda batshit crazy, but the branches of Christianity that recognize saints call their observance veneration, not worship. Agree with it or not (put me in the not camp), I still think it's useful to call things by their proper names.
I've seen Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, so I know that real "hive of scum and villany" is the... Rio de Janeiro police force! (bum bum BUUUUM!)
The film, said to be "semi-fictional", presents a picture of rampant corruption, abuse of power, and neglect of public welfare throughout all levels of Rio government and law enforcement.
The movie also happens to be fucking awesome. (Cliche movie pitch: think The Wire meets City of God.) It was filmed in these very shantytowns of Rio.
What a brutal existence. Humanity has a long way to go.
@19: (and I grew up doin' the Vatican Rag) âwhich kinda goes in the same box as Muslims' inability to tolerate any depiction of Mohammed. Your omnipotent/omniscient god can only manage to tune in a dozen channels, like old-timey VHF? Your "prophet" is such a great man that a few scratches of pen on paper can bring him low?
@18: maybe I've told this story before, but seeing a weeping woman openly rubbing the cootchal area of a BVM plaster statue in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral left me with no doubt as to exactly whom she was pleading with.
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Yes, yes it does.
Hey, cut us some slack, I drive like a complete jackass in perfect conditions. I'd go as far to say I'm severely disabled as a driver (too many moving parts for my simple mind -clutch, gearshift, pedestrians, cars, stoplights, etc). Heather McHugh! where are you? My backseat driver needs a vacation!
oh shit, you might be right. I've been on Slog too long. Every year, we're hear commenters squawking about bad drivers when winter rolls along. Nice catch.
yes ma'am, bingo. my toddler-level readiness for the Mexican majority come 2040-ish. Squid-licious!
Roads are extra slick when it rains after a dry spell. This is due to a buildup of oil and grease that coats the road.
To the people talking about Catholics worshipping saints, in Sunday school we were taught that you pray to saints to pray to God for you.
The film, said to be "semi-fictional", presents a picture of rampant corruption, abuse of power, and neglect of public welfare throughout all levels of Rio government and law enforcement.
The movie also happens to be fucking awesome. (Cliche movie pitch: think The Wire meets City of God.) It was filmed in these very shantytowns of Rio.
What a brutal existence. Humanity has a long way to go.
@18: maybe I've told this story before, but seeing a weeping woman openly rubbing the cootchal area of a BVM plaster statue in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral left me with no doubt as to exactly whom she was pleading with.
Too bad.
That was the greatest non sequitur in the history of comments.