tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post2760031476937331898..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: WHAT THE PAPERS SAY, THE CHURCH TIMES . ENTIRE CHURCH OF ENGLAND RESIGNScall me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4165872902528831712011-11-04T15:26:56.255+00:002011-11-04T15:26:56.255+00:00Money-grubbing managerialism is just part of the B...Money-grubbing managerialism is just part of the Blatcher legacy, mrs woar,like professionalism, with which all now carry out their duties, however meagre, just as all are now colleagues, no longer workmates, much less comrades in arms, You should have thrown the squash over them. I dunno how to go about serving God but maybe believing in Him would be a good start and most of them don't; a pox on them, clergy persons, as bad in their fashion, as lawyers.<br /><br />It's not just the clerics, mrs n, think aboout it, look around at men, see how they adorn themselves with Satanic goatees, with almost imperceptible lines of sideburn running into beard, with topknots and with ponytails scraped back from glistening pates- if crybaby Lewis Hamilton spent less time on his facials maybe he wouldn't be crashing into folk all the time, David Aaronobitch, he's a champion facialer. I understand, too, that some gentlemen now wear cosmetics of every kind on their faces. <br /><br /> I have a plain ginger, well ginger and white, moustache which I've had since I was twenty; despite its incongruity, I am otherwise dark, I wear it in honour of my UlsterScots mother who was a redhead, handsome and pretty, the Belle of Belfast city. So I have no objection, per se, to masculine facial hair, it's just trying to see so many old geezers playing at being all the young dudes.<br /><br />I would keep my powder dry on the Greek imbroglio, mr dtp; dunno where it's going, save that the poor Greeks are going ninety miles an hour down a dead end street. Maybe a tactical NATO intervention in Iran will focus their minds on obedience. And ours.<br /><br />Probably a back door is more use, mt y, for the useless hypocrites to duck out of.<br /><br />Sorry about the tardiness of ree-plies, Blogger has changed its format and it's like walking through cement, sometimes freezing after three words, and then the next three, and the next.callmeishamelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-13290578792173432732011-11-02T12:58:50.997+00:002011-11-02T12:58:50.997+00:00What I want to know is why they have all started w...What I want to know is why they have all started wearing beards. They never used to. You wanted a bearded cleric, it had to be Metropolitan Anthony or nothing. If they have to have them I think they should be sinister and pointy.mrs narcoleptnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-70569006307749553682011-11-02T12:50:23.308+00:002011-11-02T12:50:23.308+00:00So this St Paul`s place doesn`t have a side door t...So this St Paul`s place doesn`t have a side door then ?yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-60093176343745883742011-11-02T08:42:54.820+00:002011-11-02T08:42:54.820+00:00About a decade ago I used to visit a cathedral on ...About a decade ago I used to visit a cathedral on my travels. I'm neither mean nor stupid; it costs money to keep them standing so I don't mind paying a realistic whack. Consequently, if a coffee and bread pudding costs £4, entry costs what ever (about £2.50 at the time, but you could refuse if you felt strongly) and the gift shop tried to double-up by supplying goods from Goan womens' collectives, all that is fine by me. I bought a helix bead necklace, a very good present for a biology teacher I knew. Goodbye twenty five quid. So? I like lighting candles. What's it to you? <br /><br />But. They wanted to charge 35p for a very small glass of very weak orange squash for my companion. I worked it out at per litre of concentrate and it came to as much as a superior wine. <br /><br />Orange squash is what the grannies and nippers drink. It ought to be near enough free; it's only tapwater with a blessing of oranges and sugar. Even if you allow for the cost of washing the cup, you are still making a whacking profit at 20p per glass, which is what will strike the average visitor as fair. You could throw in a value biscuit for that. I know, because I do it at a tea stall I sometimes run. <br /><br />Something about the 15p stuck in my gullet and I complained in writing to the burser who apparently took it up with the dean. <br /><br />Both of them said that it didn't matter they were a church, fuck all that shit about suffering little children to come unto Him and have a glass of squash and a rich tea biccie thrown in 20p (Matthew innit?).<br /><br />They thought that as I'd have been charged 35p in any other cafe, I should pay it in theirs and the fact of them being a church didn't enter in to it. <br /><br />Nor did they appreciate that the 15p was deal-breaker for all the other trade. If they want to play ordinary shops, it's absolutely the first rule: don't piss-off the customers for tuppence ha'penny. <br /><br />So if you think they are rubbish at serving God, I can tell you they're not in the grove with Mammon either.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43449474681539468632011-11-02T00:07:39.511+00:002011-11-02T00:07:39.511+00:00Dear Mr Smith
Trust all's well. The Archbish...Dear Mr Smith<br /><br /> Trust all's well. The Archbish of York opened up the entire estate after 30 years minimum and it's an excellent place to camp and be hygienicaly angry. <br /><br /> I'm not sure how much credence to put on Gaddaffi starting a monetary union with Morocco, Aligiers, et fucking cetera but...err..and they lived happily ever after!<br /><br /> Love this Greek dude, man. He didn't say a fucking word to any of his cabinet, deputy, MPs, lobbyists - hell, I guess he just told his rentboy - So he just found a camera and said 'fuck yooooo, ya cooooooonttts'<br /><br /> ...and he's gotten away with it. Good fucking lad. Greeks ? Democracy ? All the best man<br /><br /> As always<br /><br /> DtPDick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.com