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ToughDiamond
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07 May 2025, 10:35 am

I didn't think they needed to pick a new one now that Trump's grabbed the job.



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07 May 2025, 10:37 am

I find the rituals fascinating I do


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07 May 2025, 10:42 am

I like the idea of rituals but I don't like it when people try to force me to perform the uncomfortable ones, like Thanksgiving.



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07 May 2025, 10:50 am

Yeah

My brother went to heaton park in the 80s (I think) to see Pope John Paul 2nd and everyone said that when he comes back he'll have a ring to sell


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07 May 2025, 10:57 am

They should have done the hamlet cigar advert for the conclave


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07 May 2025, 12:01 pm

You're not allowed to smoke if you're close to God.



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07 May 2025, 12:10 pm

Who said that


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07 May 2025, 12:21 pm

J.M. Judy in "Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes," a book featuring anti-smoking dialogue which was published in 1904 by the Western Methodist Book of Concern. However, Johann Sebastian Bach was known to enjoy smoking a pipe, and wrote poetry on how doing so enhanced his relationship with God. So I suppose it's kind of up for grabs, but you'd never think so if you ever lit one up in a church.



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07 May 2025, 2:38 pm

Oh right

That reminds me, I must remember to water my plants tomorrow


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07 May 2025, 2:57 pm

What the religious view on smoking has to do with watering plants will probably always be a mystery to me.



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07 May 2025, 4:23 pm

babybird wrote:
Oh right

That reminds me, I must remember to water my plants tomorrow


Watering plants can be therapeutic. 8)



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07 May 2025, 4:24 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
What the religious view on smoking has to do with watering plants will probably always be a mystery to me.


:lol: I was waiting for that


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07 May 2025, 4:41 pm

:lol:
Must be something to do with the Baptist church. They're quite into watering. I got splashed with holy water once in a church. By reflex I said "bloody hell!" :oops: Well they'd taken me by surprise, flicking it off an olive branch or something. Last thing I'd expected. Can't take me anywhere.



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07 May 2025, 7:15 pm

You reap what you sow.



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07 May 2025, 8:42 pm

^
Was that a new random thought or are you commenting on that time I was assaulted at that church?



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07 May 2025, 9:45 pm

So many eyes are made of ice.


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