The Pope

[Smurph]

Watched Conclave in a cinema in MAGAville, Tennessee. Few awkward murmurs going around by the end there

Funny how something like that can offend people yet the Churches track record of abusing kids doesn't seem to bother a lot of people.

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

Funny how something like that can offend people yet the Churches track record of abusing kids doesn't seem to bother a lot of people.

Similar with School shootings. Water off a ducks back to most of them as it's all in the greater good of 'freedom from tyranny' and other assorted horseshit the gun lobby have brainwashed people with.

 

[Smurph]

Similar with School shootings. Water off a ducks back to most of them as it's all in the greater good of 'freedom from tyranny' and other assorted horseshit the gun lobby have brainwashed people with.

Against abortion because they want to protect children yet the biggest killer of children are guns.

The country is nuts.

 

[monmouth]

Only if the new Pope turns out to be a woman with a man’s wedding tackle.

Oh, and, spoilers.

I thought in the book it was a woman, although it was a long time ago when I read it. That’s what really did happen in the mists of time wasn’t it? I don’t know much

 

[monmouth]

I thought in the book it was a woman, although it was a long time ago when I read it. That’s what really did happen in the mists of time wasn’t it? I don’t know much

Oh, and have Cardiff City been to see him yet?

 

[Swanjaxs]

Funny how something like that can offend people yet the Churches track record of abusing kids doesn't seem to bother a lot of people.

Thank god I'm atheist

 

[monmouth]

Literally the only one of his I’ve read. I may explore more, any recommendations?

Fatherland and Archangel are excellent. Enigma was decent as was ghost. The real star turn for me was the Cicero trilogy, but I love Roman and Caesar history. I thought Second Sleep and the latest one (can’t remember the name) were pretty pants, and I wasn’t much impressed by Conclave. The Fear Index I thought was far fetched and then it turns out it really isn’t. It’s very good too. So most are worth a read for sure.

 

[Longlostjack]

I've just finished reading his "An Officer and a Spy". Excellent, I can't recommend it enough.

It's based on the true story of the infamous "Dreyfuss affair" in France at the end of the 19th century. All the characters and basic facts of the story are true, but Harris has fleshed them out with dramatic licence to make a highly readable historical novel.

Dreyfuss, a jewish French army officer, was accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. Tried and found guilty, he was cashiered and sent to solitary confinement on Devils Island. The head of French military intelligence, Georges Picquart, who at first helped convict him, gradually became convinced that they had got the wrong man, and the trial was a stitch up by the most senior army officers and politicians.

The novel is the story of how he overcame impossible odds against dark forces, despite being ostracised, kicked out of the army and threatened, to prove Dreyfuss innocent and get both of them re-instated. Top class writing.

Roman Polanski made a french film of the novel in 2019 which was also highly rated. I'm currently looking for it.

Was a question I had at Sussex University admissions back in the day. 1. Define Europe 2. What do you know about Dreyfuss.?
Floundered on the first and was stumped by the second. Interviewer was Zdenek Kavan. Unbelievably given my interview got an offer.

 

[DJack]

Similar with School shootings. Water off a ducks back to most of them as it's all in the greater good of 'freedom from tyranny' and other assorted horseshit the gun lobby have brainwashed people with.

The NRA's silence when confronted by tyranny is telling... unless they confused tyranny with tranny.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Oh, and have Cardiff City been to see him yet?

Yes, he told them to fuck off.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

The films "Pope Joan" - p1ssed off The Vatican greatly!!

 

[Glyn1]

Hell, no.

We see what you did there.

 

[Glyn1]

Watched Conclave in a cinema in MAGAville, Tennessee. Few awkward murmurs going around by the end there

People still go to cinemas?

Quick Poll: when was the last time that you went to one? And taking the kids isn't counted.

For me, it's 2019, I just got out of the habit

 

[exiledclaseboy]

People still go to cinemas?

Quick Poll: when was the last time that you went to one? And taking the kids isn't counted.

For me, it's 2019, I just got out of the habit

Last year. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

 

[jack_lord]

Watched Conclave in a cinema in MAGAville, Tennessee. Few awkward murmurs going around by the end there

By coincidence I saw Waynes World 2 in a cinema in Knoxville Tennessee - some weird rumours going around by the end there as well