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New York Times Issues Series of Embarrassing Corrections About Basic Christian Beliefs

Even I know most of this stuff and I only went to Sunday school about three times.

As for the saints-sacraments -- I also guessed that they might be relics or statues.

Based on this French language tweet:



But 1, that's partly because I was translating from the French "saints sacraments" and didn't know if those words had a special meaning when paired (they do -- it's just not on WordReference.com!), and 2, I also said I did not know what this term meant, but was guessing at its meaning, not reporting, authoritatively, what it meant, and 3, I corrected and added the right information in about 20 minutes when two readers told me what it meant.

BTW: I also forgot that "saint" actually means "holy" in French, and just took it to have the meaning we associate it with in English, that is, a person elevated to sainthood.

This bit of forgetting led me down a crooked path of mistranslation.

Mark Hemingway points out the New York Time's very provincial ignorance:


Just in time for Easter, The New York Times has been forced to run yet another correction that speaks to the paper’s profound ignorance regarding the basic beliefs of Christianity.

In a Thursday report on the fire at Notre Dame, The Times highlighted the actions of Father Jean-Marc Fournier, the Paris Fire Department chaplain who exposed himself to certain danger in order to recover the cathedral’s treasured relics.

"I had two priorities: to save the crown of thorns and a statue of Jesus," the Grey Lady quoted him. The story was full of gripping details about the scramble to preserve this statue. "As the chaplain began removing a statue of Jesus, he said, his colleagues were fighting the fire from the cathedral's towers," the paper reported. "With the statue in hand, Father Fournier, alone in the nave, gave a benediction to the cathedral, he said."

There’s one small problem here. There’s no statue of Jesus inside Notre Dame. What Father Fournier was referring to was the Blessed Sacrament, communion bread that, according to Catholic doctrine, contains the real presence of Jesus Christ.

Sure enough, The New York Times later appended this correction to the story: "An earlier version of this article misidentified one of two objects recovered from Notre-Dame by the Rev. Jean-Marc Fournier. It was the Blessed Sacrament, not a statue of Jesus."

They did what I did, I think: They tried to translate the French term used here, "saints sacraments," and they guessed it referred to some kind of relic or statue, as I did, though they added this bizarre specificity that it was definitely a statue and furthermore a statue of that most famous saint, St. Jesus.

Okay, so: Are the New York Times' French translation resources no better than my own?

In fact, they seem worse, because I never had any confidence in my guess. The New York Times reports -- as if it's a verified fact! -- that saints sacraments refers to a statue of Jesus.

By the way: Here's a hint that that couldn't possibly be right:

Saints sacraments."

Does the New York Times not know that the French plural is just like the English plural -- you add an -s, 98% of the time?

And, though some singular words end in -s (as they also sometimes do in English), you can tell that this is indeed a plural because the adjective, sacrament, is also pluralized to agree with the noun?

Seriously? There is no possible way that someone with even the most basic acquaintance with French could think that saints sacraments referred to A statue (singular) of Jesus.

Wait, I mean Saint Jesus.

How could the newspaper possibly confuse these two things? The most logical explanation is that Father Fournier referred to the “body of Christ,” and the reporter took his words literally and not seriously. It doesn’t appear to be a translation error; the reporter who wrote the story, Elian Peltier, appears to be fluent in French and tweets in the language regularly.

Yeah, I'm going to guess "No" on this. To repeat, I myself found a French news source reporting that le couronne d'epines et les saints-sacrements s'ont sauvee', or words to that effect, and I guessed (because the crown of thorns is itself a relic) that the saints-sacraments might be other relics.

I'm going to guess that this idiot saw the same reference and made the same religiously-ignorant guess that I did -- but stated it as a fact, and a correct translation.

Okay, so I don't want to steal everything from Mark Hemingway. So I'll just tell you that if you click the link to see the Times' previous Body of Christ-related corrections, you'll find out that the New York Times thinks that Christians believe that Jesus is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre -- which seems to me to be another wild-assed, Bart-Simpson-Book-Report-style guess based on context.

Also, they think that Easter is the day Christ was resurrected... into Heaven.

And they think the crook'd staff a bishop carries is a "crow's ear," rather than a crosier or crozier.

I mean, it just goes on and on.

Professor Henry Jones Jr. is baffled at the ignorance of the curators of the supposed holy repository of all the facts that need knowing.

Is there a single Christian employed at the New York Times?

If not -- that's awfully strange, isn't it? Perhaps it's time to open an EEOC investigation into this Hate Group.

By the way: Here's the priest the New York Times is quoting-- the chaplain of the French fire brigade who was brought with them into the cathedral to rescue objects of inestimable value.

He does say that his second goal was to save "Jesus," but then follows that with "present en les saints-sacrements" -- taken together, "Jesus, present in the saints-sacrements."

Not "present in a statue."

Also: plural.

And also, not just "Saving Jesus." Saving Jesus, present in the holy hosts.

Here's how another French source put it:

Le père Fournier se fixe deux objectifs : d’abord, « sauver la couronne d’épines et les reliques de la passion », puis « sauver Jésus » en récupérant le Saint-Sacrement, c’est-à-dire les hosties consacrées.

"Father Fournier set himself upon two objectives, first, "saving the crown of thorns and the relics of the Passion," then "saving Jesus," in recovering the Saint-Sacrement, which is to say the consecrated hosts."

Here's the thing: the French word for statue is, get this, "statue," and I find it strange that in no quotation from this guy does he ever mention the word "statue" but repeatedly specifies Jesus as present in the saints-sacrements.

But the New York Times and its Pulitzer winning reporters and editorials just guess that saint-sacraments means "statue."

Bonus: Real Headline from the AP. This is real. This is not The Onion or the Babylon Bee.


Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship

Really.

Thanks to Dr. Spank.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 04:14 PM




Comments

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1
Oneth?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at April 19, 2019 04:15 PM (HaL55)

2 The Godless trying to explain God to Christians.

Posted by: Blake - used vacation salesman at April 19, 2019 04:15 PM (WEBkv)

3 Italicans!

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 19, 2019 04:15 PM (Vu4cn)

4
Hot dawg! I'll fetch the others.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at April 19, 2019 04:16 PM (HaL55)

5
This is kinda a Good Friday post.

Alternate poat title:

He Is Risen

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at April 19, 2019 04:16 PM (ah86I)

6 Italics > French

Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2019 04:17 PM (WgAJo)

7 It's an alien world to them.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 19, 2019 04:17 PM (rW4Nn)

8 Sacre bleu!

Posted by: steevy at April 19, 2019 04:17 PM (AjVAj)

9 >>He Is Risen


Well, then I can't have any.

Unleavened only.

Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2019 04:17 PM (WgAJo)

10 as if i remember any of the French i was supposed to learn in high school.

shoulda took spanish: that way i could get a j*b at a fast food place.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 19, 2019 04:17 PM (ER1jH)

11

Alternate poat title:

How To Argue The New Green Deal With Your Conservative Relatives On Easter And Burn Down Their Church

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at April 19, 2019 04:18 PM (ah86I)

12 What are the chances those fuckheads would botch any particulars in the dogshit fairy tales of the religion of pieces?

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 19, 2019 04:18 PM (y7DUB)

13 It's all frog to me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) Of Girth at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (D1R6o)

14 http://bit.ly/2VUhtvJ
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Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (BqBId)

15 I just love Mark and Mollie Hemmingway!

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (xptlg)

16 Catholics eat Jesus every week in church? Ooh, icky.

Posted by: The New York Times at April 19, 2019 04:20 PM (4e+hS)

17 But the New York Times and its Pulitzer winning reporters and editorials just guess that saint-sacraments means "statue."

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Just like journalists' complete lack of understanding of the word "precedent" and its derivatives, they don't seem to understand the meaning of words.

But, you know, they know what's best for the country and how to run it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:20 PM (aFMSC)

18 14 We need the Mandela funeral sign language guy

Posted by: steevy at April 19, 2019 04:20 PM (AjVAj)

19 Bet they know all the current GAYbonics though.

Posted by: Anchovy at April 19, 2019 04:20 PM (B3kya)

20 >>the New York Times thinks that Christians believe that Jesus is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre


Nail'd It!

Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2019 04:21 PM (WgAJo)

21
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Funny, because just today I realized 1984 was 35 years ago but we're living in 1984.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at April 19, 2019 04:21 PM (ah86I)

22 Catholics eat Jesus every week in church? Ooh, icky.


Lutherans too! The madness is spreading!

Posted by: Grump928(C) Of Girth at April 19, 2019 04:21 PM (D1R6o)

23 In fairness, we get most of our religious knowledge from Boondock Saints I and II.

Posted by: The New York Times at April 19, 2019 04:21 PM (4e+hS)

24 Ace:
Even I know most of this stuff and I only went to Sunday school about three times.

Heck, I'm not even Christian (never been to a church other than to admire the artworks inside) and I know this stuff too.

Only a studiedly ignorant and smug atheist can maintain that level of ignorance.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:21 PM (5tb4C)

25 it's strangebhe didnt say Holy Eucharist (Sainte Eucharistie)

but maybe in France they call it Saints Sacrament

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:21 PM (dm05u)

26 At a certain point we will have the phrase: Well, it was in the New York Times, so it might be true.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:22 PM (xptlg)

27 *wades through the comments about slanted text*

There was an article in the NYT in the 1980s who went on a quest to find out about these strange and frightening evangelicals who helped Ronald Reagan win. He wrote an article for the LA Times (and later a book) all about it. His conclusions were pretty amazing for me as a boy raised among Christians my whole life. Not what he learned but why he had to learn it.

This epiphany - it would be hard to call it anything else, except maybe a revelation - transformed the way I approached my beat. I discarded the traditional way of structuring my stories. No more, "While some wacko evangelical leaders over here say this, these rational secularists and moderate mainliners over there say that," with an author or academic in the middle tossed in for balance.

Evangelicals were no longer caricatures or abstractions. I learned to interpret their metaphors and read their body language. From personal, day-to-day experience I observed what John Green at the University of Akron has discerned from extensive research: evangelicals were not monolithic nor were they, as The Washington Post infamously characterized them, "poor, uneducated and easy to command."


He was inexcusably ignorant about the dominant religion of the nation -- at time about 80% of the country identified as Christian -- because he just knew nobody and worked with nobody who was one.

And in the intervening decades its hardly gotten any better

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:22 PM (39g3+)

28 24 Ace:
Even I know most of this stuff and I only went to Sunday school about three times.

Heck, I'm not even Christian (never been to a church other than to admire the artworks inside) and I know this stuff too.

Only a studiedly ignorant and smug atheist can maintain that level of ignorance.
Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:21 PM (5tb4C)

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Remember the story from a few weeks ago about a teacher forcing a student to wash off that weird black stuff on their forehead?

I give you three guesses what the black stuff was, and the first two don't count.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (aFMSC)

29 JESUS BUILT MY HOT ROD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI

Posted by: MINISTRY at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (WgAJo)

30 at any rate, the Holy Eucharist IS the body of Christ and woukd be the first priority to rescue fir a religious Catholic

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (dm05u)

31 Flo and Eddie are New York Religion

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (h0Zh0)

32 Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (BqBId)
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Much like dividing by zero, it can't be done.

Posted by: Blake - used vacation salesman at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (WEBkv)

33 CROSS RELIGION BAD.

Posted by: NYT at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (tv7DV)

34 Catholics eat Jesus every week in church? Ooh, icky.

This was literally one of the charges against Christians in the Roman persecution: cannibalism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (39g3+)

35 The NYT was probably thinking of the statue of Lenin in Seattle, so, wrong religion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (6b1dn)

36 >>>but maybe in France they call it Saints Sacrament


yeah apparently they do. The french have the word "Eucharistie" but it only seems to refer to communion itself, not communion wafers. (Based on a quick look up on WordReference.com -- which has failed me before.)

Posted by: ace at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (PbpT7)

37 Remember the story from a few weeks ago about a teacher forcing a student to wash off that weird black stuff on their forehead?

Remember when Ted Turner mocked and attacked members of TBS for showing up to work with ashes on their forehead?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:24 PM (39g3+)

38 29 JESUS BUILT MY HOT ROD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI
Posted by: MINISTRY at April 19, 2019 04:23 PM (WgAJo)


Next up: the NYT asks if Jesus can hit a curve ball.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:24 PM (6b1dn)

39 Also, the Lutherans have a show called Issues, Etc. over at issuesetc "DOT" org and they occasionally have a Hemmingway on discussing these issues. Or, often a man named Terry Mattingly who also discusses The Media and its mistakes.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:25 PM (xptlg)

40 The New Yawk Slimes knows nothing about Christianity but they sure do know a lot about sodomy, fake globull warmering, the FAB and what the President's ass tastes like.

They need to stick with what the know.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 19, 2019 04:25 PM (Z+IKu)

41 37 Remember the story from a few weeks ago about a teacher forcing a student to wash off that weird black stuff on their forehead?

Remember when Ted Turner mocked and attacked members of TBS for showing up to work with ashes on their forehead?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:24 PM (39g3+)


I'd love to see them try that with Indians (dots, not feathers).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:25 PM (6b1dn)

42 it's ritual cannibalism, which is cool

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:25 PM (dm05u)

43 AP : Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship
https://is.gd/PzrPn7

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 19, 2019 04:25 PM (4e+hS)

44
Is there a single Christian employed at the New York Times?



No, but they have a lot of Christian haters who work there

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 19, 2019 04:26 PM (gbQ/t)

45 I wonder how they would do if it was, say, Islam...

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at April 19, 2019 04:26 PM (JcXHH)

46 37 Remember the story from a few weeks ago about a teacher forcing a student to wash off that weird black stuff on their forehead?

Remember when Ted Turner mocked and attacked members of TBS for showing up to work with ashes on their forehead?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:24 PM (39g3+)

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My mother tried to teach me a particular lesson once. When she was young, if you wanted to brag about being smart, you bragged about all of the books you read.

As a high school teacher years later, she was surprised to learn that it was no longer reading things that led people to consider themselves smart, but not reading things and managing to get good grades anyway.

I think that's a manifestation of the same phenomenon. People are arrogantly proud of what they think they know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:26 PM (aFMSC)

47 Discussions regarding transubstantiation in 3...2...1...

Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at April 19, 2019 04:26 PM (lLeln)

48 Liberals are proud of being ignorant of such trifles. Why, it's almost if they have no use for anyone that clings to their (Judeo-Christian) God and their guns.

Posted by: Bert G at April 19, 2019 04:26 PM (OMsf+)

49 Maggie H wants to know what song Father was singing as he ran through the fires.

She thinks Haute Couture means culture of hate, which she equates with anything catholic.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 19, 2019 04:27 PM (+fPHo)

50 Journalists and editors are the most ignorant on all subjects.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 19, 2019 04:27 PM (pw+jk)

51 you'll find out that the New York Times thinks that Christians believe that Jesus is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre



They are soooo much smarter and superior to us

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 19, 2019 04:27 PM (gbQ/t)

52 14 http://bit.ly/2VUhtvJ
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Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (BqBId)


Forget it. A detailed analysis could cause irreversible brain damage.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:27 PM (6b1dn)

53 Those Catholics and their crazy "taking a bite out of the statue of Jesus " communion.


Posted by: brak at April 19, 2019 04:27 PM (PBASO)

54 As someone wisely pointed out long ago, the problem with "quotas" is not that you let in unqualified minorities. Its that by trying to make numbers include x% of every group regardless of size/depth of talent pool, who applies, etc. you end up lowering standards altogether.

At the forefront of Diversity Uber Alles thinking, I think the Times has reached the end of this evolutionary cul de sac sooner than most. Almost every one of their articles about a "culturally sensitive" issue is now co-written by two or more drooling retards of fascinatingly diverse origin.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at April 19, 2019 04:27 PM (koNhm)

55 49 Maggie H wants to know what song Father was singing as he ran through the fires.

Tell her it was "The Internationale."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:28 PM (6b1dn)

56 49 Maggie H wants to know what song Father was singing as he ran through the fires.

==

edelweiss?

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:28 PM (dm05u)

57 so, they lots of the body lying around?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:28 PM (MTjB1)

58 Where was that teacher when I was in school?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 19, 2019 04:28 PM (h0Zh0)

59 Also, let us remember that there has been a lot, an awful awful LOT of good journalisming going on lately.

Just ask them.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:28 PM (xptlg)

60 I'm sure it's been said but if it was a mosque bet they would've fact checked their reporting a bit more.

Posted by: brak at April 19, 2019 04:28 PM (PBASO)

61

Pauline eats kale.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (aKsyK)

62 Layers and layers of buttfuckers.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (hjaPQ)

63 the New York Times thinks that Christians believe that Jesus is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre



That's some kind of grade-a stupid right there. Missed that whole "Easter" thing, didya?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (lwiT4)

64 KOOLER THAN JESUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXK9ZeOVaUk

Posted by: MY LIFE W/ THRILL KILL KULT at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (WgAJo)

65 Wait, what's this holy ghost deal all about? Was this the basis of Ghostbusters?

Posted by: The New York Times at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (4e+hS)

66 53 Those Catholics and their crazy "taking a bite out of the statue of Jesus " communion

==

on Easter they take bites out of the chocolate statue of a bunny

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (dm05u)

67 59 Also, let us remember that there has been a lot, an awful awful LOT of good journalisming going on lately.

Just ask them.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:28 PM (xptlg)

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So, I just watched The Post, Spielberg's film.

That was quite the public blowjob he offered to journalism and a Hillary Clinton stand-in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (aFMSC)

68 51 you'll find out that the New York Times thinks that Christians believe that Jesus is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

It's funny because their religion had one of its famous leaders stuffed and mounted in Red Square.

Used to be two of 'em, but one got kicked out.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (6b1dn)

69 A quick inspection of the pictures from the inside of Notre Dame did not reveal the altar on which infants are sacrificed to Ba'al. We presume it was lost to the flames. The world is better off that way.

Posted by: NYT at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (T6t7i)

70 I love Hosties Consacrees! They almost as good as Little Debbie's Cosmic Brownies...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (CLcKT)

71 Like Ace (if I remember correctly), I took French in high school. Helped when I backpacked around France the first few times.

Since then, however, unlike Ace, I have never revisited my studies or relearned any of the stuff that I forgot. And since I spent most of my French classes in high school making paper airplanes and dodging spitwads from back-row retards, in truth I never learned much in the first place anyway.

Result: I'm still halfway decent at READING French, but pretty terrible at trying to speak it.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:30 PM (5tb4C)

72 The Gray Lady happily gets almost everything about Christianity intentionally wrong. Yet, they are scrupulous about getting the public narrative about Islam right.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 19, 2019 04:30 PM (Vu4cn)

73 Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (BqBId)
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With Alex Donkey-Chompers the best I could find was an idiot to imbecile translator.


Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 19, 2019 04:30 PM (pw+jk)

74 That's some kind of grade-a stupid right there. Missed that whole "Easter" thing, didya?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (lwiT4)

NY Times: Easter - the first zombie story

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:30 PM (dm05u)

75

Gott im Himmel. These people are so, so very ignorant. It's just shocking that they occupy positions of authority.

I'm not Catholic, and I knew all of these, except I didn't know that bishop hook is a crozier. If you told me that, I wouldn't think "crow's ear" because crows don't have external ears.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:30 PM (5aX2M)

76 But, you know, they know what's best for the country and how to run it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:20 PM
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And also what is best for you, personally, in your life - and how best to force it upon you!

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:31 PM (xptlg)

77 At a certain point we will have the phrase: Well, it was in the New York Times, so it might be true.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:22 PM (xptlg)

Youre being generous. I already think its: Well, if was in the New York Times, I highly doubt it.

Posted by: LASue at April 19, 2019 04:31 PM (1pZw2)

78 72 The Gray Lady happily gets almost everything about Christianity intentionally wrong. Yet, they are scrupulous about getting the public narrative about Islam right.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at April 19, 2019 04:30 PM (Vu4cn)

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Gell-Mann amnesia.

What is it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:31 PM (aFMSC)

79 Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (BqBId)


Can you imagine living in her head for an hour? Good Lord...

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 19, 2019 04:31 PM (dUJdY)

80
anyone remember the Paulist Fathers tv show series INSIGHT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYQv-OSTaCw

This religious show would come on on Sunday mornings, with familiar guest stars -- it was a like a sit-com-drama about God.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at April 19, 2019 04:31 PM (ah86I)

81 Before it's too late Happy Easter to the Morons.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:31 PM (NLLmE)

82 >>>Result: I'm still halfway decent at READING French, but pretty terrible at trying to speak it.


I can only read it well. It takes me six or seven replays to understand spoken french (like real french on TV), and that's spotty at best. I can't really speak it except as a child might. I can write it, if I have... lots of time.

Posted by: ace at April 19, 2019 04:32 PM (PbpT7)

83
Liberals are proud of being ignorant of such trifles. Why, it's almost if they have no use for anyone that clings to their (Judeo-Christian) God and their guns.
Posted by: Bert G


But they probably know all fifty shakes of gay.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 19, 2019 04:32 PM (aKsyK)

84 Maggie H wants to know what song Father was singing as he ran through the fires.

She thinks Haute Couture means culture of hate, which she equates with anything catholic.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 19, 2019 04:27 PM (+fPHo)


He sang, A Few of My Favorite Things which is exactly what the Wehrmacht sang as they blitzkrieged through Europe

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 19, 2019 04:32 PM (ElpEA)

85 I refuse to make a relics of the passion joke.

And so should you.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:32 PM (NLLmE)

86 There's a lot of religious ignorance going around. Twitchy made fun the UK Labour party marking Passover by tweeting a picture of a loaf of bread among other things. I'm guessing the problem is that it should've been unleavened bread but I really don't know. I never would've caught that in a million years.

https://bit.ly/2vcKUNB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 19, 2019 04:32 PM (+y/Ru)

87 As a high school teacher years later, she was surprised to learn that it was no longer reading things that led people to consider themselves smart, but not reading things and managing to get good grades anyway.

I think that's a manifestation of the same phenomenon. People are arrogantly proud of what they think they know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:26 PM (aFMSC)


It's one of the good things about STEM. If you don't do the reading - and the problems, etc. - then you are guaranteed NOT to get a good grade. Glibness, Cliff Notes, etc. don't count for squat. For the same reason, STEM students do not generally pull all-nighters. It is simply not possible to learn a semester's worth of a STEM subject in a night, I don't care if you've got an IQ of 500, it's not happening.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:33 PM (6b1dn)

88 Paul Comtois, a Lt. Governor of Quebec, died in a house fire in 1966 while attempting to remove the Blessed Sacrament reserved in his private chapel to safety.
Happy that Father was able to carry out his mission without injury.

Posted by: Sal, not a one-syllable troll at April 19, 2019 04:33 PM (wR64M)

89 Maggie H wants to know what song Father was singing as he ran through the fires.

It sort of sounded like the Horst Wessel Song, although he told me it was "Jesus Loves the Little Children". I don't trust him.

Posted by: Maggie Haberman at April 19, 2019 04:33 PM (T6t7i)

90 I guess this is appropriate Good Friday content as I while away the day.

J-school grads are useless and hate Christianity

Posted by: Keto not Beto at April 19, 2019 04:33 PM (9AcAx)

91 Liberals are proud of being ignorant
===

Yes and even prouder of openly demonstrating it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 19, 2019 04:33 PM (pw+jk)

92 I'm not getting spun up about NYT errors when 80 per cent of modern day RC's are ignorant about the basic tenets of our Faith.

Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (r9gUQ)

93 It's really weird how they have religious ceremonies in a museum and architectural exhibit.

Posted by: New York Times at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (uTY3H)

94 82 >>>Result: I'm still halfway decent at READING French, but pretty terrible at trying to speak it.


I can only read it well. It takes me six or seven replays to understand spoken french (like real french on TV), and that's spotty at best. I can't really speak it except as a child might. I can write it, if I have... lots of time.
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2019 04:32 PM (PbpT7)

==========

I've read a couple of books in French within the last few years. I actually understand somewhere around 60-70% of every word, but through context can understand the rest.

It helps reading familiar tales like The Three Musketeers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (aFMSC)

95
Okay, so I don't want to steal everything from Mark Hemingway. So I'll
just tell you that if you click the link to see the Times' previous Body
of Christ-related corrections, you'll find out that the New York Times
thinks that Christians believe that Jesus is buried in the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre -- which seems to me to be another wild-assed,
Bart-Simpson-Book-Report-style guess based on context.

Also, they think that Easter is the day Christ was resurrected... into Heaven.

And they think the crook'd staff a bishop carries is a "crow's ear," rather than a crosier or crozier.

I mean, it just goes on and on.



They also think that Revrund Jessie Jackson and Revrund Al Not-So-Sharpton, the members of Westboro Baptist Church, and that Buttplug guy are all Christians. Oh, and Brother James Comey, too.


They're not.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (HaL55)

96 Those Catholics and their crazy "taking a bite out of the statue of Jesus " communion.


Would an Chocolate Easter Jesus be solid, or hollow?

Posted by: Grump928(C) Of Girth at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (D1R6o)

97 I heard they are not going to rebuild all of the damaged structures. The new motto is "If it ain't baroque, don't fix it!"

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (m45I2)

98 This story is HUGE in my mind.

#1. The Grey Lady knows how to issue a correction.

I will look forward to more corrections in the future on stories they have gotten wrong.

Posted by: Picric at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (nonGu)

99 It would be funny if he was singing Into the Fire

although I am guessing he was just praying, that's what anyone would do

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:35 PM (dm05u)

100 It's one of the good things about STEM. If you don't
do the reading - and the problems, etc. - then you are guaranteed NOT
to get a good grade. Glibness, Cliff Notes, etc. don't count for squat.
For the same reason, STEM students do not generally pull all-nighters.
It is simply not possible to learn a semester's worth of a STEM subject
in a night, I don't care if you've got an IQ of 500, it's not happening.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:33 PM (6b1dn)

====
You really understand the subject when you have to teach it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 19, 2019 04:35 PM (pw+jk)

101 Should rename themselves BackTheBusUp.org.

https://bit.ly/2VUF27B

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 19, 2019 04:35 PM (+y/Ru)

102 I wonder if anyone who was at the fire trying to decide what to save were wearing WWJD bracelets?

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 04:35 PM (a/9Wy)

103 So, I just watched The Post, Spielberg's film.

That was quite the public blowjob he offered to journalism and a Hillary Clinton stand-in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (aFMSC)


Did you expect otherwise? Not that I'm criticizing you for what you choose to watch, because God knows I have a lot of guilty pleasures, but Spielberg's been the mayor of Retardville for a while.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (y7DUB)

104 Is there a single Christian employed at the New York Times?

Perhaps Paul Krugman can put them in touch with a catholic cab driver.

Posted by: Clay, unimpressed with your wokeness at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (d9vOZ)

105 You baroque it you bought it.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (NLLmE)

106 Result: I'm still halfway decent at READING French, but pretty terrible at trying to speak it.
Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:30 PM (5tb4C)


Check out Duolingo. Free, and quite good, IMO. You read, you write, you listen, you repeat, over and over. Put in an hour, and for the rest of the day you're mumbling phrases in the language that well up unbidden from the subconscious.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (6b1dn)

107 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 19, 2019 04:32 PM (+y/Ru)

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Passover is often referred to as the Feast of the Unleavened Bread.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (5aX2M)

108 Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 19, 2019 04:19 PM (BqBId)

Can you imagine living in her head for an hour? Good Lord...

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 19, 2019 04:31 PM (dUJdY)



Swept clean.

Posted by: Legion at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (D1R6o)

109 yeah, they should maybe spend a little time studying the Catholic traditions, before reporting on them.


But many of these things are Catholic, not straight out of the Bible, many not in the Bible at all, but traditions collected along the way. Like all those funny hats, for example. Basic Catholic tradition and symbols is not the same as "basic Christianity", but there is overlap.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (Cus5s)

110 >>>It helps reading familiar tales like The Three Musketeers.


is there a simplified or edited down version? I tried to read the actual original and it was very hard. It's long as heck and there's a fair amount of vocabulary that is sort of archaic.

Posted by: ace at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (PbpT7)

111 I dont know what's worse these lousy heathens or those filthy Christians

Posted by: Regular joe at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (6/uwW)

112 things are Catholic, not straight out of the Bible, many not in the Bible at all, but traditions collected along the way. Like all those funny hats, for example. Basic Catholic tradition and symbols is not the same as "basic Christianity", but there is overlap.
Posted by: illiniwek at A




right

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (MTjB1)

113 I've said "I read it in the NYT, so it must be true," for years. It is usually accompanied by an audible eye roll.

Also, I thought Maureed Dowd was Catholic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (d7Ww2)

114 You really understand the subject when you have to teach it.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at April 19, 2019 04:35 PM (pw+jk)


Also very true.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (6b1dn)

115 Maggie H wants to know what song Father was singing as he ran through the fires.


********

Fire-uh Jacques?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (m45I2)

116 Easter is the holiday where Christians express gratitude for all those statues on that Island.

Posted by: NY TIMES at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (H5knJ)

117 AP BREAKING NEWS : Local Architectural Marvel, And Fire House, Putting Out More Fires Than Jesus : https://is.gd/bRoH0B

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (4e+hS)

118 The Dallas Morning News once referred to Francis Cardinal Arinze, who is Nigerian, as an Afro-American.

Posted by: Sal, not a one-syllable troll at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (wR64M)

119 Is there a single Christian employed at the New York Times?

I doubt it, because they are profoundly ignorant about the faith and "tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as a place of worship" takes the cake of supreme stupidity.

Posted by: Cohen's cell phone at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (FSPNP)

120 For the same reason, STEM students do not generally pull all-nighters.

It is simply not possible to learn a semester's worth of a STEM subject

in a night, I don't care if you've got an IQ of 500, it's not happening.


I did, because my psych class was my last exam and I'd had no time to study the material, what with PChem, etc.

As I was walking out, I heard all the psych majors bitching about how hard it was. I got an A, of course.

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (T6t7i)

121 103 So, I just watched The Post, Spielberg's film.

That was quite the public blowjob he offered to journalism and a Hillary Clinton stand-in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (aFMSC)

Did you expect otherwise? Not that I'm criticizing you for what you choose to watch, because God knows I have a lot of guilty pleasures, but Spielberg's been the mayor of Retardville for a while.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 19, 2019 04:36 PM (y7DUB)

===========

It's on HBO, and I'm going through all of their movies that I have in my queue as fast as I can before the subscription expires.

I like his recent historical stuff (War Horse, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies). It's not his best by far, but it's generally handsome and entertaining.

I don't actively dislike The Post. It's competently made, though it's curiously unfocused. Very middle of the road stuff. It's praise was for other reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (aFMSC)

122 is there a simplified or edited down version? I tried to read the actual original and it was very hard. It's long as heck and there's a fair amount of vocabulary that is sort of archaic.
Posted by: ace


Sounds like a Frenchie trying to read Dickens.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (NLLmE)

123 The Dallas Morning News once referred to Francis Cardinal Arinze, who is Nigerian, as an Afro-American.
Posted by: Sal, not a one-syllable troll at A




was there a picture in the story?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (MTjB1)

124 Would an Chocolate Easter Jesus be solid, or hollow?
Posted by: Grump928(C) Of Girth at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (D1R6o)

Hollow.

Our Father who art in heaven, hollow be thy name.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (a/9Wy)

125 Over/under on when Jeff Bezos buys The NYT for $1?

Posted by: ShainS -- PhD candidate in Angry Orange Male studies at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (SZn+k)

126 No one tell ATC.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (4e+hS)

127 You really understand the subject when you have to teach it.

Modern education refutes this thesis.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (H5knJ)

128 I doubt it, because they are profoundly ignorant about the faith and "tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as a place of worship" takes the cake of supreme stupidity.
Posted by: Cohen's cell phone at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (FSPNP)

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If they had a single Catholic reporter, he'd have the ND beat.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (5aX2M)

129 Over/under on when Jeff Bezos buys The NYT for $1?
Posted by: ShainS -- PhD candidate in Angry Orange Male studies at A




zero

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (MTjB1)

130 110 >>>It helps reading familiar tales like The Three Musketeers.


is there a simplified or edited down version? I tried to read the actual original and it was very hard. It's long as heck and there's a fair amount of vocabulary that is sort of archaic.
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (PbpT7)

==========

I blew through the full one, though I really just tried to read it as I would English, refusing to look up every word I didn't recognize and just try to capture context.

Maybe I understood less than I realized. I also read the first few Harry Potter books in French. They're designed for children, so it was definitely an easier read.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (aFMSC)

131 Venn Diagram of Christianity:

Union of Orthodox + Catholic + Heretics

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:40 PM (dm05u)

132 is there a simplified or edited down version? I tried to read the actual original and it was very hard. It's long as heck and there's a fair amount of vocabulary that is sort of archaic.
Posted by: ace at April 19, 2019 04:37 PM (PbpT7)


It's quite useful to read something on a subject you know pretty well. Or, alternatively, read something in English, then read it again in the target language.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:40 PM (6b1dn)

133 The non-Christians at the HQ know more about Christian beliefs than the putzheads at the NYT.


Holy God
Holy Mighty One
Holy Immortal One
Have mercy on us and the whole world

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 04:40 PM (XAYDB)

134 9 years of college down the drain, workin' at the Times.

Posted by: Burger Chef at April 19, 2019 04:40 PM (RuIsu)

135 That headline...wow.

I'm the least religious person you'll find and even I know the fucking basics of how it all works.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (FiUMj)

136 English speaking Roman Catholics would generally translate it as the Blessed Sacrament. We do often refer to consecrated hosts as the Blessed Sacrament.

I had read the original article and had no idea what "statue of Jesus " they were talking about.

This mistake is right up there with an Ash Wednesday news report I watched one year where the infobabe asked her guest if he knew he had a huge smudge of dirt on his forehead. After the break she came back and said, "I should have known better. I was raised Catholic. I'm really sorry, Grandma."

Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night, not an NPC at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (rw1l7)

137 The Dallas Morning News once referred to Francis Cardinal Arinze, who is Nigerian, as an Afro-American.
Posted by: Sal, not a one-syllable troll


I think the PC twits decided years ago that ANY black person would be from now on an African American no matter what.

Because otherwise you have to say ::::::black::::::

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (NLLmE)

138 The Three Musketeers.


is there a simplified or edited down version?



********

Dumas For Dummies

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (m45I2)

139 82 >>>Result: I'm still halfway decent at READING French, but pretty terrible at trying to speak it.


I can only read it well. It takes me six or seven replays to understand spoken french (like real french on TV), and that's spotty at best. I can't really speak it except as a child might. I can write it, if I have... lots of time.
Posted by: ace


Don't know if you've ever been to France, but the old rumors are still true, to some extent:

When an American tries to speak French in France to a French person, 80% of the they either

a. Actually don't understand you; or
b. Pretend to not understand you, as punishment for pronouncing everything slightly wrong.

The problem, is, it's impossible to tell to what extent the French really can't understand your speech versus to what extent they're just being Language Chauvinists and humiliating you on purpose because you are an inferior foreigner.

As a result, it can be really really intimidating to try to plunge in and just try to talk French to people naturally there. Only if you're in a coddled environment with friends and acquaintances who will forgive you faux pas can you relax enough to even try. In stressful real-life situations, the average Frnechman will not forgive (or even understand) your blunders. On my third trip to France, to be honest, I just pretended not to know French at all. Trying to speak it but mispronouncing everything and getting various slang and idioms wrong was just too humiliating.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (5tb4C)

140 the New York Times thinks that Christians believe that Jesus is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Like the atheist who asked me how I'd respond if they found a 100% certain bone from Jesus Christ, wouldn't that be exciting and proof?

I would be in suicidal despair because then there was no salvation you fool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (39g3+)

141 Venn Diagram of Christianity:



Union of Orthodox + Catholic + Heretics





Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:40 PM (dm05u)



Rev's church says I'm a heretic. I've learned to live with it.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2019 04:42 PM (lwiT4)

142 I think the PC twits decided years ago that ANY black person would be from now on an African American no matter what.

Because otherwise you have to say ::::::black::::::
Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (NLLmE)

___

Remember me? I'm African American too!!

Posted by: Tereza Heinz at April 19, 2019 04:42 PM (FiUMj)

143 Yeah, that AP headline is a classic. What a remarkable coincidence that a popular tourist attraction doubles as a house of worship! I mean, what are the odds?

I'm willing to bet that the writer used "mecca" completely innocently and unironically as well, not even noticing that it has a connection to Islam.

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2019 04:42 PM (xjiRE)

144 139 When an American tries to speak French in France to a French person, 80% of the they either

a. Actually don't understand you; or
b. Pretend to not understand you, as punishment for pronouncing everything slightly wrong.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (5tb4C)

==========

From my experience, this is just the action of Parisians.

French people from outside of Paris are actually quite understanding and congenial to non-native French speakers struggling through the language.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:42 PM (aFMSC)

145
Funny, because just today I realized 1984 was 35 years ago but we're living in 1984.

And have been for just about the past 35 years.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at April 19, 2019 04:42 PM (HaL55)

146 Ocasio-Cortez: 'Acknowledging Racism Is More Offensive Than Racism Itself' in U.S. | Trending
*******
Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language

-
I think what she was trying to say is that the great unwashed are more offended by her pointing out their racism than they are by their racism itself.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 19, 2019 04:43 PM (+y/Ru)

147 Answer : Theee Musketeers


Question : What does Michael more have for breakfast every morning.

Posted by: The Great Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 04:43 PM (a/9Wy)

148 From my experience, this is just the action of Parisians.

French people from outside of Paris are actually quite understanding and congenial to non-native French speakers struggling through the language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts


It's almost like city folk are overwhelmingly assholes everywhere... (Our fine metro area Morons excepted. Well, mostly. OK, you're assholes, but you're OUR assholes...)

Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at April 19, 2019 04:43 PM (lLeln)

149 From my experience, this is just the action of Parisians.



French people from outside of Paris are actually quite understanding
and congenial to non-native French speakers struggling through the
language.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts


That is also my experience, and even the Parisians aren't as bad as they used to be. They want your money.

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 04:44 PM (T6t7i)

150 I like his recent historical stuff (War Horse


--Sarah Jessica Parker was robbed not being the nominee for Best Actress as War Horse.

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 04:44 PM (XAYDB)

151 I'd love to read Dumas in the original French simply because the man was a master with the language and I'm sure there's a lot of humor and characterization I'm not getting even in a great translation. But you really REALLY have to know a language to appreciate a good book in it. Subtle choices in words, sentence structure, etc. Even things like chiasms and how dialog is delivered are at a level of sophistication that someone just studying a language isn't likely to get.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:44 PM (39g3+)

152 I'm a Catlick. My religion is licking cats. Unfortunately they frequently do not like being licked. Nobody said being faithful was easy.

Posted by: The Dog at April 19, 2019 04:44 PM (aBR7R)

153 I blew through the full one, though I really just tried to read it as I would English, refusing to look up every word I didn't recognize and just try to capture context.

Maybe I understood less than I realized. I also read the first few Harry Potter books in French. They're designed for children, so it was definitely an easier read.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (aFMSC)


I've read chemistry papers in French and Italian, and I've never had a course in either (just started Duolingo in French last month). I started out looking up words in a dictionary, but after a while, didn't bother because, surprisingly, I could guess words from context with very few mistakes from English and Latin cognates (I had Latin in high school) and chemical terminology.

"The flask was charged with the reactants and the solution heated to [unfamiliar word] for 2 hours."

[unfamiliar word] from context = "reflux"

That sort of thing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:44 PM (6b1dn)

154 129 Over/under on when Jeff Bezos buys The NYT for $1?
Posted by: ShainS -- PhD candidate in Angry Orange Male studies at A




zero
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:39 PM (MTjB1)


--Correct


The *second* richest man in the world controls the NYT, so nuthin' doin'.

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 04:45 PM (XAYDB)

155 I wonder if the geniuses at NYT realize that most of the cities in California and Texas are religiously named...San Francisco, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Lubbock.

OK I made the Lubbock part up.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at April 19, 2019 04:45 PM (FiUMj)

156 Ace, try reading for comprehension, not specificity. I've worked on both Spanish and French by using translations of The Hobbit.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 04:45 PM (3RKQd)

157 I can hardly wait for the Snope's fact checking.

Posted by: April Perry at April 19, 2019 04:45 PM (Z4rgH)

158 I think what she was trying to say is that the great
unwashed are more offended by her pointing out their racism than they
are by their racism itself.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler



I think she was trying to say "how do you like this set of charlies, cabron?"

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 04:45 PM (T6t7i)

159 152

OK that's funny. Trollish but funny.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at April 19, 2019 04:45 PM (FiUMj)

160 Yeah, that AP headline is a classic. What a remarkable coincidence that a popular tourist attraction doubles as a house of worship! I mean, what are the odds?

"People actually go to church these days and worship? OMG how prehistoric! I bet they start their car with a key too, what are they cave men??"
--20 something urban hipster

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:46 PM (39g3+)

161 Used to be two of 'em, but one got kicked out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:29 PM (6b1dn)

Is Lenin still on display? I think he is gone too.

What did they do with bodies of those two dead criminals.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 19, 2019 04:46 PM (Z+IKu)

162 Hey, Jesus ends in an 's', and that's why saints sacraments does, too!

Posted by: NYT at April 19, 2019 04:46 PM (nIvDu)

163 I would be in suicidal despair because then there was no salvation you fool.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (39g3+)
--------------

Yep.

Eat, drink and make merry, for tomorrow we die.

Posted by: Blake - used vacation salesman at April 19, 2019 04:47 PM (WEBkv)

164

b. Pretend to not understand you, as punishment for pronouncing everything slightly wrong.

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LOL. The French hated Americans when I went there. But my mom was there for awhile back in the 60s, when they still liked us, and she tells a story about buying a train ticket.

She was summoning up her French and thinking through the ticket order, because the English lady in front of her couldn't speak French, and was struggling through terribly with the ticket guy.

Once they got done, he discerned she was American, and completed her transaction in flawless English.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:47 PM (5aX2M)

165 Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2019 04:42 PM (lwiT4)

--Orthodox Christian members of the various sects have more in common with each other than the SJW libtards of their own respective congregations.

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 04:48 PM (XAYDB)

166 Once they got done, he discerned she was American, and completed her transaction in flawless English.

Yes, well they treat Americans with disdain but they have long, long historical reasons to despise the English (and vice versa)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:48 PM (39g3+)

167 Once they got done, he discerned she was American, and completed her transaction in flawless English.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


So what changed?

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:48 PM (NLLmE)

168 I think the PC twits decided years ago that ANY black person would be from now on an African American no matter what.

A liberal twit - the only one in my circle - responded to a story about an African grad student I'd had in Europe by referring to him as "African-American."

I pointed out the guy was African-African, and had never set foot in America, so he clearly was thinking "black" but couldn't bring himself to say it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:49 PM (6b1dn)

169 What did they do with bodies of those two dead criminals.....
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 19, 2019 04:46 PM (Z+IKu)

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Considering both were probably full of formaldehyde, probably burned for fuel.

Posted by: Blake - used vacation salesman at April 19, 2019 04:49 PM (WEBkv)

170 Go to Paris Match Magazine online, lots of pix with text. Look at pix, read article and caption. Viola - Learn some frog for free.

Oui, Viola. Like a Cello.

Posted by: Burger Chef at April 19, 2019 04:49 PM (RuIsu)

171 Corpus Christi

The Navy actually changed the name of a Los Angeles class attack sub from USS Corpus Christi to USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) because of the religious implications.

Proof again that Rickover would have locked today's media in his infamous closet.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 04:49 PM (3RKQd)

172 And here are the Catholic holy days:
December 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Reception, honoring the catch made by Franco Harris in the 1972 NFL playoffs

November 1 - All Saints Day, which honors Saints greats, such as Archie Manning and Morten Andersen, honored for his alleged ability to perform autofellatio

August 15 - Feast of the Assumption - Where we all assumed Trump colluded with the Russians

Posted by: The New York Times at April 19, 2019 04:50 PM (FJYfm)

173 I'd love to read Dumas in the original French simply because the man was a master with the language and I'm sure there's a lot of humor and characterization I'm not getting even in a great translation. But you really REALLY have to know a language to appreciate a good book in it. Subtle choices in words, sentence structure, etc. Even things like chiasms and how dialog is delivered are at a level of sophistication that someone just studying a language isn't likely to get.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


I would just love to be there when some SJW idiot calls Dumas a "dead white man"...

Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at April 19, 2019 04:50 PM (lLeln)

174 When I had Sirius I'd tune in to Quebec stations just to keep my ears attuned to the rhythm and the syntax. I also enjoyed hearing the quirks of their dialect that differed from academic FRONCH.

Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2019 04:50 PM (r9gUQ)

175 so, wanted to make sure how you get credit from ace is clear.

You GET credit / hat tip for pointing out things listed in the sidebar all morning?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:50 PM (MTjB1)

176 144 139 When an American tries to speak French in France to a French person, 80% of the they either

a. Actually don't understand you; or
b. Pretend to not understand you, as punishment for pronouncing everything slightly wrong.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (5tb4C)

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From my experience, this is just the action of Parisians.

French people from outside of Paris are actually quite understanding and congenial to non-native French speakers struggling through the language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts


In my experience, it wasn't just the Parisians. Had similar experiences all over the country.

If I had to generalize, it was this:

-- Parisians pretend not to understand you;
-- French people in touristed spots will indeed try to make an effort to understand you;
-- French people in random untouristed out-of-the-way place, however, actually do not understand you at all.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (5tb4C)

177 I've been to Paree a few times and with one exception, didn't really experience any outright hatred towards me. Maybe it's also because I tried to be as un-touristy as possible. Blend in without screaming I AM AN AMERICAN TOURIST!!!!!! Ie don't wear baseball hats, or running shoes with knee high white socks and cargo shorts

I think that's what Parisians hate, tourists. Not Americans per se. And I can't blame them. I lived in a few touristy areas and in a very short amount of time came to detest the hordes of tourists. I can only imagine the seething hatred Parisians must have.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (FiUMj)

178 O/T NeverTrump Cavuto has economic genius from the Carter era, Stu Eisenstat, on his show to talk about how screwed up Trump is. My husband knows the man and we ran into the troll and his wife in Italy years ago. He wanted to know where the nearest AGIP gas station was so he could save money on gas for his rental vehicle, and in the next breath told us the people in the US needed to pay "at least $6/gal." When my husband told him it would hurt a lot of Americans, he said "they need the pain." He was Carter's Ambassador to the EU at the time.


Sorry. My husband and I are gobsmacked and angry. Carry on.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (ptqGC)

179 176 I'd love to read Dumas in the original French simply because the man was a master with the language and I'm sure there's a lot of humor and characterization I'm not getting even in a great translation. But you really REALLY have to know a language to appreciate a good book in it. Subtle choices in words, sentence structure, etc. Even things like chiasms and how dialog is delivered are at a level of sophistication that someone just studying a language isn't likely to get.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I would just love to be there when some SJW idiot calls Dumas a "dead white man"...
Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at April 19, 2019 04:50 PM (lLeln)

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Race traitor...writing about white people and not celebrating his native Haitian mother's heritage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (aFMSC)

180 would this headline be far off?:

"tourist mecca capitol building also revered as place of legislation."

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (Pg+x7)

181 Considering both were probably full of formaldehyde, probably burned for fuel.
Posted by: Blake - used vacation salesman at April 19, 2019 04:49 PM (WEBkv)


Don't be silly. Would Russians waste perfectly good formaldehyde?

They drank it, of course.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (6b1dn)

182 Even things like chiasms and how dialog is delivered are at a level
of sophistication that someone just studying a language isn't likely to
get.


Chiasms? What does sex have to do with good writing?

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 04:52 PM (T6t7i)

183 I think the PC twits decided years ago that ANY black person would be from now on an African American no matter what.

I lost count of the number of times the geniuses over there called Nelson Mandela an African American.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 04:52 PM (3RKQd)

184 I would just love to be there when some SJW idiot calls Dumas a "dead white man"...

LOL Yeah. They'd get the shock of their lives seeing his dad

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:52 PM (39g3+)

185 outside the set of Christianity :

heathens, pagans, atheists

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:52 PM (dm05u)

186 179 -- Parisians pretend not to understand you;
-- French people in touristed spots will indeed try to make an effort to understand you;
-- French people in random untouristed out-of-the-way place, however, actually do not understand you at all.
Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (5tb4C)

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Ha.

"Seriously...you're talking mush."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:52 PM (aFMSC)

187 shoulda took spanish: that way i could get a j*b at a fast food place.
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 19, 2019 04:17 PM


I thought it would get me a j*b, too.

Posted by: ¡Jeb! at April 19, 2019 04:52 PM (DMUuz)

188 Chiasms? What does sex have to do with good writing?/i]

Near as I can tell, there's no connection whatsoever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:53 PM (39g3+)

189 Different christians believe different things. protestant vs catholics. Babtistes vs pro slavery southern babtists ect.

Posted by: raimondo at April 19, 2019 04:53 PM (ylaBt)

190 would just love to be there when some SJW idiot calls Dumas a "dead white man"...



the funny thing is they pronounce his name "dumbass"

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:53 PM (MTjB1)

191 New York Times:

Christians take cummunionism with a small cracker known as a Christ Crispy. Jews celebrate Passed Up by eating unleaded bread known as mozzarella.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (gC2IV)

192 I would just love to be there when some SJW idiot calls Dumas a "dead white man"...

LOL Yeah. They'd get the shock of their lives seeing his dad
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Wrong parent, but it's 2019, the error is understandable

Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (lLeln)

193 Don't be silly. Would Russians waste perfectly good formaldehyde?

They drank it, of course.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:51 PM (6b1dn)
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And yet again, no matter how disturbed a comment may seem, teh horde always finds a way...

Posted by: Blake - used vacation salesman at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (WEBkv)

194 Hating tourists - people interested enough in experiencing your culture and history to come there at great expense and trouble and spend even more money there - is so misanthropic that even I can't relate to it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (H5knJ)

195 *looks up Job on the internet and gets an obscure company's website on the first page*
--Ethan Hunt

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (39g3+)

196 This is a common problem with atheists - they think it is all just gobbly gook and not worth their valuable time. They purposely avoid learning anything about religion.

Because of that they just sound like fucking morons whenever they talk about religion.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (rgPG6)

197 Maybe the NYT comes here for translations from the French!

Posted by: m at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (5AuVV)

198 And here are the Catholic holy days:
December 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Reception, honoring the catch made by Franco Harris in the 1972 NFL playoffs

November 1 - All Saints Day, which honors Saints greats, such as Archie Manning and Morten Andersen, honored for his alleged ability to perform autofellatio

August 15 - Feast of the Assumption - Where we all assumed Trump colluded with the Russians
Posted by: The New York Times




On December 28, 1975, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a successful 'Hail Mary" pass.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (LDbTO)

199 On the warpath!

Elizabeth Warren calls for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (+y/Ru)

200 The closest I'm going to come to going to France is having lunch at La Madeleine though I could curse someone out in Cajun.

Posted by: The Great Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (a/9Wy)

201 I would encourage the Democrats to publically endorse $6/gal gas.

Posted by: Jean at April 19, 2019 04:55 PM (zPKGP)

202 I'm gonna state the headline is purposely crafted. No person, not even the Village Idiot King would make that construction with mooselimb reference and assignment of a secular existence.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2019 04:55 PM (VkWRL)

203 Corpus Christi

The Navy actually changed the name of a Los Angeles class attack sub from USS Corpus Christi to USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) because of the religious implications.

Proof again that Rickover would have locked today's media in his infamous closet.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 04:49 PM (3RKQd)


How soon before the left demands all of those cities get rid of those bigoted religious names like Corpus Christi, Santa Fe or even all of the saint cities like Saint Louis, San Diego etc...

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 19, 2019 04:55 PM (DnN0G)

204 Christians take cummunionism with a small cracker known as a Christ Crispy. Jews celebrate Passed Up by eating unleaded bread known as mozzarella.

Dave Barry used to write this stuff in his "Mr. Language Person" columns. You know, for fun. The NYT does it and calls it journalism.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (3RKQd)

205 197 Hating tourists - people interested enough in experiencing your culture and history to come there at great expense and trouble and spend even more money there - is so misanthropic that even I can't relate to it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 19, 2019 04:54 PM (H5knJ)

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I get it.

I lived in Rome for a year. When I need to get to work everyday, but I have to work my way through a bunch of clueless people who have no idea how the metro works, or where sidewalks are, or who just stop in the middle of a thoroughfare, it becomes frustrating.

"Yeah...the Colosseum is cool, but could all 15 of you not suddenly stop to stare up at it at once, please? I'm trying to get through."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (aFMSC)

206 This is a common problem with atheists - they think it is all just
gobbly gook and not worth their valuable time. They purposely avoid
learning anything about religion.



I wonder. They probably know these things, but don't want to be seen by their peers to have that knowledge. It would smack of flyover country. Therefore, they say things that will emphasize their complete ignorance of religion.

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (T6t7i)

207 Catholics eat Jesus every week in church? Ooh, icky.

Posted by: The New York Times at April 19, 2019 04:20 PM (4e+hS)


Us Catholics also drink his blood every week, too. The belief in transubstantiation is where the chalice holding the cup of wine is transformed during the Mass into the blood of Christ.

Catholics are a bloodthirsty lot. But then again, we did do a number of Crusades.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (Y8PSl)

208 Posted by: raimondo at April 19, 2019 04:53 PM (ylaBt)

Robert Byrd was a Southern Baptist?

Posted by: The Great Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (a/9Wy)

209 Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship

They have no understanding of average, normal people.

They really do believe that a cathedral is there for the tourists.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (+lVUW)

210 "How soon before the left demands all of those cities get rid of those bigoted religious names like Corpus Christi, Santa Fe or even all of the saint cities like Saint Louis, San Diego etc..."

Fortunately, we won't have to change the name of San Diego, since that means "the whale's vagina"

Posted by: The New York Times at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (FJYfm)

211 I think that's what Parisians hate, tourists.

Regardless, visit Paris. Be a tourist. There are spectacular things there.

Posted by: t-bird at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (g0Lfb)

212 How soon before the left demands all of those cities get rid of those bigoted religious names like Corpus Christi, Santa Fe or even all of the saint cities like Saint Louis, San Diego etc...
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 19, 2019 04:55 PM (DnN0G)

This is when the civil war starts. Drive around the south and tell me how many Mount Olives there are. It's like counting the stars.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (3RKQd)

213 167. I always asked 'parlez-vous anglais' before starting in with any Frenchy-french. If they didn't then I asked - 'italien?'. If it was 'non' to both questions I was like OK I gave you fair warning, now ecoutez bien mofo.

Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (r9gUQ)

214 210 Catholics are a bloodthirsty lot. But then again, we did do a number of Crusades.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (Y8PSl)

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Sometimes, blood drenched conquering of the Holy Land is the only way to work out my daddy issues, okay?!?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (aFMSC)

215 Elizabeth Warren calls for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler


Oh, Liz, you aren't going to be President. Just give it up, already.

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (T6t7i)

216 ourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship

They have no understanding of average, normal people.

They really do believe that a cathedral is there for the tourists.
Posted by: nerdygirl at A



so, what percentage of the people entering nd do you think were there for religious ceremonies?

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (MTjB1)

217 https://cnn.it/2VW8eLc
*******
Mueller's report looks bad for Obama (opinion) - CNN
*******
Holy SHIT???????????

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (BqBId)

218 TRIVIA!

No cheating . . .

How many state capitals are named after saints?

Name 'em.

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (XAYDB)

219 218 Elizabeth Warren calls for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

Oh, Liz, you aren't going to be President. Just give it up, already.
Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (T6t7i)

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She hasn't sold enough books on her tour yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (aFMSC)

220 I've been to Paree a few times and with one exception, didn't really experience any outright hatred towards me. Maybe it's also because I tried to be as un-touristy as possible. Blend in without screaming I AM AN AMERICAN TOURIST!!!!!! Ie don't wear baseball hats, or running shoes with knee high white socks and cargo shorts

Trust me, you fooled no one. Americans might as well wear sandwich board signs in Europe. They stick out like sore thumbs, even without baseball caps, etc.

I think it's for two reasons. One is that Americans typically wear brighter colors than Europeans. The other is that Americans typically have kind of an open, innocent (guileless) "gee whilikers" expression on their faces. It's hard to explain, but when I lived in Europe I could spot Americans from 100 yards off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (6b1dn)

221 How many state capitals are named after saints?

Name 'em.
Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (XAYDB)

Lincoln, NE

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (dm05u)

222 All the pagan anti-Christian rhetoric that's fit to print!

Posted by: The NYT at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (EgshT)

223 sacre mento? (holy mentos)

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (Pg+x7)

224 Albany.

Helena

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (NLLmE)

225 Because of that they just sound like fucking morons whenever they talk about religion.

Bill Maher is the king of them. He's the emperor of the universe of ignorant atheists who try to lecture Christians about their faith.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (39g3+)

226 Sacremento

Posted by: The Great Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (a/9Wy)

227 I think that's what Parisians hate, tourists. Not Americans per se. And I can't blame them. I lived in a few touristy areas and in a very short amount of time came to detest the hordes of tourists. I can only imagine the seething hatred Parisians must have.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at April 19, 2019 0

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I never went to Paris. Just a couple of towns by the Spanish border, and only for a minute, but I'd still get shit for being American.

Now in Germany/Austria, most people were just fine. But in Berlin, I got the most shit of anywhere I've ever been. Everywhere I went for a beer, for cryin' out loud. I put up with it for awhile, but eventually this guy started lecturing me about our treatment of Saddam's Republican Guardsmen in the first war.

I told him that as an American and a Jew I refused to be called on the carpet by a Kraut for war crimes. That shut his ass up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (5aX2M)

228 "Elizabeth Warren calls for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump"

She'd scalp him if she could. PDT's scalp puts up a pretty good fight though.

Posted by: Mayor Bootygig at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (UdKB7)

229 224
How many state capitals are named after saints?


I believe the capital of CA is Sacred Mentos. Does that count?

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (T6t7i)

230 @226

Curse you.

Posted by: pep at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (T6t7i)

231 "Heretic" is basically being at variance with tradition. JC said "you making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition." So Jesus also was a "heretic".

The thing I recall from Lutheran church was the big stained glass window with Luther nailing the thesis to the door. Sorta like trying to get back to the constitution now ... in a civic sort of way. Not that our constitution is perfect ... but going back to the text ... instead of yielding to DeepState tradition .... is fitting for today. imo

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (Cus5s)

232 Ewww off Dandy sock

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (UdKB7)

233 "Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 04:56 PM (aFMSC)"

The lack of reverence at holy sites was my biggest complaint. Here we have functional churches that just happen to be very old, and the tourists show no awareness of that holiness. They trudge through like cattle.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (VkWRL)

234 216 167. I always asked 'parlez-vous anglais' before starting in with any Frenchy-french. If they didn't then I asked - 'italien?'. If it was 'non' to both questions I was like OK I gave you fair warning, now ecoutez bien mofo.
Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2019 04:57 PM (r9gUQ)


My first trip I made the mistake of asking Western Europeans who didn't speak English if they spoke German.

Big mistake.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (6b1dn)

235 In the 'well I'll be damned' dept....

@JackPosobiec

Coca-Cola, Ford and Xerox Announce: 'We No Longer Donate to Planned Parenthood'

Posted by: Tami at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (cF8AT)

236 I think it's for two reasons. One is that Americans typically wear brighter colors than Europeans.

Another is that Americans are taller than most Europeans, on average. But its like a country kid in the city (or the other way around). You just don't fit in and they can tell. You have different cultural patterns that you're not even aware of. Things amaze or draw your attention that the locals are blase about and ignore.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (39g3+)

237 It's hard to explain, but when I lived in Europe I could spot Americans from 100 yards off.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (6b1dn)

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I'm an American and I can do it from a block away in Europe. We walk differently. Seriously, you can spot it from a block away.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 05:01 PM (5aX2M)

238 I know Toledo is holy.

But not a Capitol.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 05:01 PM (NLLmE)

239 "Man who sent powder-filled letters to Trump sons gets probation." Why? "Federal Judge Nathaniel Gorton said he declined to send Frisiello to prison because of concerns the 25-year-old would not respond well to incarceration"

-
You know who didn't respond well to execution? Ted Bundy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 19, 2019 05:01 PM (+y/Ru)

240 Elizabeth Warren calls for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump

And we have the first pathetic flail of the 2020 campaign. For those of you who had Senator Native American Crab Recipe, please see the cashier for your winnings.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 05:01 PM (3RKQd)

241 How many state capitals are named after saints?

Sacramento is named for a statue of St. Jesus.

Posted by: t-bird at April 19, 2019 05:01 PM (NpvYf)

242 ok.I cheated and looked it up
juat one

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 05:01 PM (dm05u)

243 The Gospels? Wouldn't know 'em if they smacked us up against our smug, pointy heads!

Posted by: The NYT at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (EgshT)

244

Squaw Lizzy tweeted that the House should start impeachment hearings. Squaw wantum to scalp golden scalp weasel

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (DnN0G)

245 When I was on an extended stay in Paris, it was difficult to get a seat for mass at ND.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (VkWRL)

246 I told him that as an American and a Jew I refused to be called on the carpet by a Kraut for war crimes. That shut his ass up.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (5aX2M)


My favorite: a German who said Americans have a history of selecting bad leaders.

Wow. Just wow.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (6b1dn)

247 While being totally ignorant of and abhorrent of anything Christian, you can rest assured the media is Sharia compliant and erudite in all things related to the Koran.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (cCxiu)

248 Well, to be fair, the story was about those icky Catholics, who have the Gaul to still believe what all Christians believed from Jesus' resurrection until the Protestant Reformation, i.e., that the consecrated Host was the actual Body of Christ.

So you have to forgive the NYT a little for forgetting one of the most important doctrines of Christianity, which half of Christianity has also forgotten for the last 500 years or so.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (Y3hKx)

249 243 Elizabeth Warren calls for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump

And we have the first pathetic flail of the 2020 campaign. For those of you who had Senator Native American Crab Recipe, please see the cashier for your winnings.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 05:01 PM (3RKQd)

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In a field of 20 (where the top 4 are all white men), you need to do something to stand out.

She's already called for reparations. Why not impeachment as well?

The big question is what's next? $5 on Guaranteed Income. The woman is desperate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (aFMSC)

250 oh when the saints, go marching in ... oh I want to be in that number ....


Saints are Christians, Christians are saints. the end.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (Cus5s)

251 'We walk differently. '

We don't have that shuffling hung shouldered gait quite down yet.

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2019 05:03 PM (UdKB7)

252 249 I told him that as an American and a Jew I refused to be called on the carpet by a Kraut for war crimes. That shut his ass up.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:59 PM (5aX2M)

My favorite: a German who said Americans have a history of selecting bad leaders.

Wow. Just wow.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 05:02 PM (6b1dn)

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That Kaiser Wilhelm...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 05:03 PM (aFMSC)

253 I think that's what Parisians hate, tourists.



But they love the tourist's filthy lucre.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2019 05:03 PM (LDbTO)

254 In the 'well I'll be damned' dept....

@JackPosobiec

Coca-Cola, Ford and Xerox Announce: 'We No Longer Donate to Planned Parenthood'
Posted by: Tami at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (cF8AT)

This makes me absurdly happy.

Finally seeing some push-back.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 19, 2019 05:03 PM (xPJvm)

255 "Man who sent powder-filled letters to Trump sons gets probation." Why? "Federal Judge Nathaniel Gorton said he declined to send Frisiello to prison because of concerns the 25-year-old would not respond well to incarceration"

How would he respond to a good hanging?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 05:03 PM (6b1dn)

256 Prescient analysis of the NYT and the Mueller Report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HqyEHqEYho


Add it up.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2019 05:04 PM (wXw18)

257
She was summoning up her French and thinking through the ticket order, because the English lady in front of her couldn't speak French, and was struggling through terribly with the ticket guy.

Once they got done, he discerned she was American, and completed her transaction in flawless English.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 04:47 PM (5aX2M)

Reminds me of the movie French Kiss with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. The snooty front desk clerk at the ritzy hotel who speaks impeccable English while being incredibly rude and snotty to Ryan's character.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 19, 2019 05:04 PM (tTCOp)

258 No one responds well to incarceration. Kinda the point.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 05:04 PM (NLLmE)

259 "While being totally ignorant of and abhorrent of anything Christian, you can rest assured the media is Sharia compliant and erudite in all things related to the Koran."

We always refer to "the Prophet Mohammed," but wouldn't be caught dead saying "our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." That way, they'll kill us last!

Posted by: The New York Times at April 19, 2019 05:04 PM (FJYfm)

260 a bunch of clueless people who have no idea how the metro works, or where sidewalks are, or who just stop in the middle of a thoroughfare, it becomes frustrating.
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Change a word or two and you just perfectly described a regular night of mine working at a MLB park. Add in copious amounts of alcohol and I want to cut someone regularly.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at April 19, 2019 05:04 PM (SkuXa)

261 because of concerns the 25-year-old would not respond well to incarceration

... do most people respond well to imprisonment??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 19, 2019 05:05 PM (39g3+)

262 Elizabeth Warren calls for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump


The left thinks impeaching Trump is payback for Clinton.

Sorry sugartits. Clinton was payback for Nixon.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 19, 2019 05:05 PM (LDbTO)

263
Donna Brazille: There was no collusion, but there was lots of penetration.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at April 19, 2019 05:05 PM (NMAzL)

264 "declined to send Frisiello to prison "

And instead he will intern under Maddow at MSNBC.

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2019 05:05 PM (UdKB7)

265 263 a bunch of clueless people who have no idea how the metro works, or where sidewalks are, or who just stop in the middle of a thoroughfare, it becomes frustrating.
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Change a word or two and you just perfectly described a regular night of mine working at a MLB park. Add in copious amounts of alcohol and I want to cut someone regularly.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at April 19, 2019 05:04 PM (SkuXa)

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I can imagine.

Which park?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 05:05 PM (aFMSC)

266 It's hard to believe it's been 26 years since the FBI burned those children to death in Waco, but it has been. 4-19-93

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 19, 2019 05:05 PM (D1R6o)

267 It's the American swagger, walking ariubd like they saved the plave two world wars in a row

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at April 19, 2019 05:06 PM (dm05u)

268 I think that's what Parisians hate, tourists.

The worst tourists? The very worst of the worst?

French and especially Italian schoolchildren. Loud, obnoxious, and destructive packs of them. A case in point: one of them washed his/her jeans and placed the soaking wet jeans on a grand piano to dry.

I'm not making this up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 05:06 PM (6b1dn)

269 "Oh my God, it's moving. And it's huge."

https://tinyurl.com/3667fa

Posted by: Tami at April 19, 2019 05:06 PM (cF8AT)

270 For the love of St God please don't use Brazille and penetration in the same sentence.

Posted by: eleven at April 19, 2019 05:06 PM (NLLmE)

271 nood Walter Duranty place of worship

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 05:06 PM (aFMSC)

272 Oh shit, even the substantiation is going trans these days?

Posted by: JuJuBee at April 19, 2019 05:06 PM (aBR7R)

273 Finally seeing some push-back.

I guess aborting full term babies was a bridge too far.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 19, 2019 05:06 PM (dUJdY)

274 It's hard to explain, but when I lived in Europe I could spot Americans from 100 yards off.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 19, 2019 04:58 PM (6b1dn)

Hot water and soap is the key.

Hot water and soap. Plus nice, white teeth.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (Z+IKu)

275 She's already called for reparations. Why not impeachment as well?

The big question is what's next? $5 on Guaranteed Income. The woman is desperate.

-
Mandatory homosexuality.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (+y/Ru)

276 So Donna Brazile is the new Star at Fox? Have they forgotten about her role in rigging the Dem debates? Or maybe that's a plus.

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (7ZQe3)

277 "Oh my God, it's moving. And it's huge."

* checks to see if web cam is switched off *

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (UdKB7)

278 "believe what all Christians believed from Jesus' resurrection until the
Protestant Reformation, i.e., that the consecrated Host was the actual
Body of Christ" sharkman

that makes it a tradition. I've done a lot of communions, and the teachings with what the Bible says about the whole subject. "in remembrance of me". that whole "trans" thing ... or consecrating ... actually eating the flesh? that's just weird. a stumbling block, I'd say.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (Cus5s)

279 One time in Italy a market vendor started explaining something to me in French. I was a little taken aback then realized he must know some French chick who looks like me. I let him know I was Italo-American. No matter what nationality they thought I was, I always let them know I was American.

Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (r9gUQ)

280 That Kaiser Wilhelm...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at April 19, 2019 05:03 PM (aFMSC)

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He wasn't such a bad egg. A sinecure. His son, on the other hand, was a raging, greedy retard.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (5aX2M)

281 Bet that if that was irredeemable, knuckle-dragging me, that lawless judge would have found me to be to be well-responsive to 25 years.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (EgshT)

282 Which park?
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SunTrust.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at April 19, 2019 05:08 PM (SkuXa)

283 Ocasio-Cortez: 'Acknowledging Racism Is More Offensive Than Racism Itself' in U.S. | Trending
*******
Can someone translate this from Retard to normal IQ Language
Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT


OMG! I went to the link.
What the f**k is "colonialism of color in our communities"?

My takeaway from the article? Gramma needs to hit her upside the head.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2019 05:09 PM (+lVUW)

284 The lack of reverence at holy sites was my biggest complaint. Here we have functional churches that just happen to be very old, and the tourists show no awareness of that holiness. They trudge through like cattle.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (VkWRL)

mmm, let's see. Michelle Obama waltzing into a 12th century Italian cathedral in a shirt with the right shoulder so exposed, she almost was showing side boob along with it. While she was representing the USA as first lady.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 19, 2019 05:09 PM (tTCOp)

285 Excellent way for the GOP to reach young voters, raise the smoking and vaping age to 21.


What a brilliant idea Mitch McConnell


Mitch McConnell, Super Genius!!!


This country is all over the map with the age of consent and adulthood.

13 and you pay adult prices to watch a movie, but you can not see adult movies.

18 register for the draft and vote, but cannot buy a firearm or booze.

An adult in criminal prosecution varies.

26 and can still be a dependent.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2019 05:09 PM (KMujq)

286 Here is a very good (and Catholic) talk by Dr. Scott Hahn called The Fourth Cup, which explains how the Passover Seder Jesus began celebrating in the upper room on Maundy Thursday didn't end until Jesus took the sour wine from the hyssop branch just before expiring on the Cross on Good Friday.

https://tinyurl.com/The-Fourth-Cup-Dr-Hahn

Dr. Hahn is excellent in explaining how the Old and New Testaments come together in Jesus.

Also, the book Death on a Friday Afternoon by the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus is one I always read during the Easter season:

https://tinyurl.com/DoaFA-Fr-Neuhaus

It is ponderations on the meaning of the last 7 "words" (actually phrases) that Jesus uttered on Good Friday from the Cross.

A Blessed Triduum and a Holy Passover to all, and prayers for all of you, 'Ettes and 'Rons.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 19, 2019 05:09 PM (Y3hKx)

287 FWIW I've been treated really well in France, in Paris as well as in Normandy and the Loire Valley. I speak French ok and people are generally very friendly to me and my daughters, who speak it even better. I think they know their language is somewhat difficult for outsiders to get right and appreciate a good faith effort.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 19, 2019 05:09 PM (y7DUB)

288 NYT:

Just in time for Passover, the Vatican announced its releasing a new breakfast cereal called Christ Chex.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 19, 2019 05:11 PM (gC2IV)

289 Ann Coulter and Mitt Romney are now as much as an enemy to me as any other Lefty.

Posted by: The Great Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 05:11 PM (a/9Wy)

290 They're idiots.

Posted by: MAGA at April 19, 2019 05:11 PM (I5LRE)

291 119
Is there a single Christian employed at the New York Times?



I doubt it, because they are profoundly ignorant about the faith and
"tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as a place of worship" takes
the cake of supreme stupidity.

Posted by: Cohen's cell phone at April 19, 2019 04:38 PM (FSPNP)

++How can one not laugh at this absurdity? We are so far down the drain right now I have no idea how much longer we can last til this pipe hits the ocean.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 19, 2019 05:11 PM (aWjrD)

292 The lack of reverence at holy sites was my biggest complaint. Here we have functional churches that just happen to be very old, and the tourists show no awareness of that holiness. They trudge through like cattle.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (VkWRL)

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Yup. I was on a city tour in Jerusalem where they stopped at a mosque. They told me I had to remove shoes, and I was OK with that, but they told me to remove my American flag pocket square. I was 15 and made it for the trip.

Can't be done, guys, I'll wait outside for y'all.

If you can't respect their traditions, don't go in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 05:12 PM (5aX2M)

293 Americans see the House democrats wailing about impeachment 24/7 and wonder, "Are all the country's problems solved that they can spend all their time on this?" Whoever claimed that winning the House would come back to bite the dems in 2020 was correct.

Posted by: JuJuBee at April 19, 2019 05:13 PM (aBR7R)

294 Dumas is a wonderful writer. "Count of Monte Cristo" is stunning--a great page-turner with Shakespeare-level characters. The scene where Mercedes returns--wow.

Posted by: Caliban at April 19, 2019 05:13 PM (QE8X6)

295 Wow, only one hit.

(St.) Helena Montana

And no one as I type this has listed the obvious one, St. Paul (hey, we're Mmorons).

And the sneaky one:

Boston, a contraction of St. Botolph's Town(e?).

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 05:13 PM (XAYDB)

296 Posted by: Kreplach at April 19, 2019 05:09 PM (KMujq)

As is a moron tradition , I have to point out , from an otherwise excellent post, that you can buy a gun in Texas if you're 18.

Posted by: The Great Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 05:14 PM (a/9Wy)

297
Famous I love Lucy scene where they have to translate from French to German to Spanish to English:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x186ihw

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at April 19, 2019 05:14 PM (NMAzL)

298 At a certain point we will have the phrase: Well, it was in the New York Times, so it might be true.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at April 19, 2019 04:22 PM (xptlg)

Nope. We will say, "It can't be true!"

Posted by: Grannymimi at April 19, 2019 05:14 PM (u5LFV)

299 I enjoy when Jeopardy has a Bible category.

"This man led the Jews out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea"

*Contestants stare blankly at Alex Trebek*

Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2019 05:15 PM (i0wNm)

300 that makes it a tradition. I've done a lot of communions, and the teachings with what the Bible says about the whole subject. "in remembrance of me". that whole "trans" thing ... or consecrating ... actually eating the flesh? that's just weird. a stumbling block, I'd say.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2019 05:07 PM (Cus5s)

--John Chapter 6

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 05:15 PM (XAYDB)

301 I enjoy when Jeopardy has a Bible category.

"This man led the Jews out of Egypt and parted the Red Sea"

*Contestants stare blankly at Alex Trebek*
Posted by: bonhomme at April 19, 2019 05:15 PM (i0wNm)

Who is Henny Youngman?

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at April 19, 2019 05:16 PM (a/9Wy)

302 144 139 When an American tries to speak French in France to a French person, 80% of the they either

a. Actually don't understand you; or
b. Pretend to not understand you, as punishment for pronouncing everything slightly wrong.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2019 04:41 PM (5tb4C)

==========

From my experience, this is just the action of Parisians.

French people from outside of Paris are actually quite understanding and congenial to non-native French speakers struggling through the language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts


Parisians don't just despise the way non-French speak French. They may despise the dialect of French people from outside Paris. They really despise the way French Canadians speak. As another commenter said, it's big city people looking down on the provincials. Similar to the way New Yorkers view us deplorables in flyover country.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2019 05:17 PM (+lVUW)

303
My sister-in-law and BIL stopped in Paris during their honeymoon. Apparently he didn't like the way the French treated American tourists.

They visited the Eifel Tower, and he asked the tour guide "Could you show me where the German's hung that flag in 1940?"

Hand to heaven true story.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at April 19, 2019 05:17 PM (T09ml)

304 "Federal Judge Nathaniel Gorton said he declined to send Frisiello to prison because of concerns the 25-year-old would not respond well to incarceration"

What in the name of Andy Dufresne would responding well to incarceration look like?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 19, 2019 05:19 PM (3RKQd)

305 Parisians consider American Paris-ites.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2019 05:20 PM (m45I2)

306 295 The lack of reverence at holy sites was my biggest complaint. Here we have functional churches that just happen to be very old, and the tourists show no awareness of that holiness. They trudge through like cattle.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 19, 2019 05:00 PM (VkWRL)

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Yup. I was on a city tour in Jerusalem where they stopped at a mosque. They told me I had to remove shoes, and I was OK with that, but they told me to remove my American flag pocket square. I was 15 and made it for the trip.

Can't be done, guys, I'll wait outside for y'all.

If you can't respect their traditions, don't go in.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 05:12 PM (5aX2M)

--Easy to distinguish the tourists from the pilgrims in Jerusalem: Dress.

In the holy sites, shoulders and legs to the knee (for women) must be covered. I saw a male tourist in the Church of the Nativity with shawls around both shoulders and waist. Seriously, can't the travel agents or guides clue them in????

Posted by: logprof at April 19, 2019 05:20 PM (XAYDB)

307 They did what I did, I think: They tried to translate the French term used here, "saints sacraments," and they guessed it referred to some kind of relic or statue


Not one of these uber sophisticated, hoity toity inflagrantes at the NYT is fluent enough in French, (oh, you must go) to comprehend ..


I just went to Google (I know-butTheDevilDoesItBetter) Translate - total turnaround time less than one minute, result:

Good news: all the artworks have been saved. The treasure of the cathedral is intact, the crown of thorns, the holy sacraments.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2019 05:20 PM (wXw18)

308 They really despise the way French Canadians speak.

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I think it's why Quebecois never get their independence. There's a sizable contingent that feel shit upon by the French. No French people consider them French. It's an almost pointless ethnic movement.

PS French Canadian chicks are teh hawt.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 05:21 PM (5aX2M)

309 289. Thank you Sharkman.

Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2019 05:21 PM (r9gUQ)

310 (St.) Helena Montana

And no one as I type this has listed the obvious one, St. Paul (hey, we're Mmorons).



*******

What about Pierre, SD?


Oops, not named after St. Peter- named after some fur trader dude.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2019 05:23 PM (m45I2)

311 Who is Henny Youngman?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation

++++


Take my Pharaoh, please!

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at April 19, 2019 05:23 PM (T09ml)

312 whole subject. "in remembrance of me". that whole "trans" thing ... or consecrating ... actually eating the flesh? that's just weird. a stumbling block, I'd say.

Posted by: illiniwek


Yep. Yet Jesus specifically said that, in John 6:53:

"So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.'"

Most of the crowd He said that to thought He was a lunatic, and most of them as well as a lot of his Disciples left Him at that point.

It is the most difficult thing Jesus ever said, and is indeed a stumbling block. It was also the basis of the Eucharist and Communion in the Early Christian Church.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 19, 2019 05:23 PM (Y3hKx)

313 But I'll bet the fur trader dude was named after St. Peter.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2019 05:24 PM (m45I2)

314 305>>Similar to the way New Yorkers view us deplorables in flyover country.

Actually, real, born and bred NYers are great people and a hoot to be around when they come into flyover land. It's the transplants from the provinces that give NY a bad name. They're the ones who hate their small town upringing and can't wait to prove it by being smug elitist assholes.

Posted by: Floyd of Rosedale at April 19, 2019 05:24 PM (O6DoG)

315 "So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.'"

==

he was talking about gene therapy but the translator implant couldn't handle it

Posted by: Ancient Aliens at April 19, 2019 05:26 PM (dm05u)

316 Posted by: Floyd of Rosedale at April 19, 2019 05:24 PM (O6DoG)

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I believe you completely. Here in CO, we've gotten ruined by people from CA. But, we get people from all over these days. Most of the people from the Midwest are cool. But, the ones who are Leftists are the worst we've got. When you meet a Communist from Iowa, they make sure to let you know how "Colorado" they are.

And to lecture at length about how our entire culture is wrong and just needs to be corrected by some progressive solutions.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2019 05:29 PM (5aX2M)

317 Trying to speak it but mispronouncing everything and getting various slang and idioms wrong was just too humiliating.

Posted by: zombie


one of my more memorable trips to froglandia was a proposal over the summer for a NATO contract. I DELIBERATLEY pronounced EVERYTHING in a rudely obnoxious Texas twang the entire summer. watching those arrogant cheese eatin'surrender monkeys wince still makes my dick hard from the 18 year-old memory of screwing with them.

Posted by: BifBewalski -sofa king we Todd did at April 19, 2019 05:29 PM (VcFUs)

318 Nude

Posted by: Sharkman at April 19, 2019 05:30 PM (Y3hKx)

319 They really despise the way French Canadians speak. As another commenter said, it's big city people looking down on the provincials. Similar to the way New Yorkers view us deplorables in flyover country.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2019 05:17 PM (+lVUW)



Scene in a Barney Miller episode created right after Carter's election contains interaction between a State Department rep and Barney.

Barney refers to the rep as having an accent to which the rep responds We don't have accents anymore, you do.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2019 05:37 PM (wXw18)

320 143 Yeah, that AP headline is a classic. What a remarkable coincidence that a popular tourist attraction doubles as a house of worship! I mean, what are the odds?

I'm willing to bet that the writer used "mecca" completely innocently and unironically as well, not even noticing that it has a connection to Islam.
Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2019 04:42 PM (xjiRE)

I naively missed that.

Posted by: m at April 19, 2019 05:40 PM (5AuVV)

321 "If it ain't baroque, don't fix it!"

Posted by: Muldoon at April 19, 2019 04:34 PM (m45I2)

It ain't baroque. It's Gothic.

Posted by: Grannymimi at April 19, 2019 05:45 PM (u5LFV)

322 315 "So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.'"


I believe in God almighty and have given myself to Jesus but I do not believe that every word of the New Testament is by they word of God.

I believe that Jesus was sent by God, 1st to the Jews whom he really wanted to straighten up and 2nd to the rest of the world.

In the OT there is always a scribe, there is always corroboration, not so in the NT it's all after the fact. There was politicing going on.

God did it that way to get our attention. Forcing us to sort it out is his way of bringing us together and to him.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2019 05:49 PM (wXw18)

323 I think it's his last effort.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2019 05:50 PM (wXw18)

324 "unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have
no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal
life, and I will raise him up at the last day." sharkman

"the words I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life"


imo it is completely figurative. He gave his life ... no one tastes blood or flesh, the payment was made. To claim the communion becomes real flesh and blood is to make people confess to what everyone knows is a lie.

It is symbolic ... claiming that is real flesh and blood is like forcing people to say 2+2=5, while knowing it is not. Claiming a priest has some magic power to make it so (while it still tastes like a wafer/juice) is just making people lie to themselves, forcing them into a dishonest belief/confession (cult). That is why I hate that whole trans/consecrate thing ... special powers to those specially anointed ... nope ... no such hierarchy.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2019 05:58 PM (Cus5s)

325 ""the words I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life"

I was probably too vague on why I quoted that from the rest of that part of John 6. "drink of his flesh and blood" ... drink of his words, which was his life. It is the believing of the words, the drinking of the words/life.

To change that to some sort of cannibalism ... that takes the message the wrong direction, toward pagan tradition. Believe what he was saying, that is where the life is ... not "eat my actual flesh" and you magically are made whole. No one tastes blood or flesh ... the bread of life is "the message", the words are life ... not human flesh, for crying out loud. figurative ... figurative ... figurative.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 19, 2019 06:10 PM (Cus5s)

326 315. Ancient Aliens guy - I think something along that track. Our Lord knew that we are energy systems and when He blessed the bread some of His energy transmuted to it. But the apostles wouldn't grasp that concept so He had to present it as his Body and Blood.

Posted by: kallisto at April 19, 2019 06:21 PM (r9gUQ)

327 314- very true. New York Natives don't feel the need to impress anybody, we're too busy getting on with it. When I see people with maps I help 'em all the time if I'm not on the way to a meeting or something.

Posted by: vivi at April 19, 2019 07:10 PM (11H2y)

328 Alex Jones says hey guy

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 19, 2019 07:19 PM (h0Zh0)

329 the NYT was always stupid about Catholicism.
When St. JP2 was alive he was a traditionalist; the NYT couldn't get it. The then-Vatican correspondent referred to its lack of transparency in decision-making as "like the Kremlin."

It took three rounds of emails to inform her that JP2 was in the Polish resistence against the Soviets; he studied for the priesthood in an underground seminary because the Soviets banned them. To refer to the institution he led as like the Kremlin is the height of insensitivity. She didn't know the bio of the current Pope!

And duh, the church is a hierarchy not a democracy. It's not obligated to share its internal procedures or decisions. I finally got through to her but it was a tough slog.

Posted by: vivi at April 19, 2019 07:35 PM (11H2y)

330 Things just get worst for t he M.S. Media the New York Pravda(Times and the Fake News Network(CNN)too bad but their turkeys have come home to roost

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 19, 2019 07:35 PM (wGqjj)

331 Tourist MECCA ? ? ???

Posted by: starboardhelm at April 19, 2019 08:15 PM (hOtJL)

332 "Is there a single Christian employed at the New York Times?"

No, of course not. They lie all the time and the father of lies is Satan.

A house divided cannot stand so they are all of the satanic persuasion. To work there is to support the murder of the unborn by abortion, celebrate every sexual perversion, and believe hoaxes like AGW and that socialism works.

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Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat