Comment of The Day
Well, yesterday to be precise, but who’s counting? Besides, I deserved an afternoon off the existential hell that is blogging, and the Foley thing would make anyone feel grubby, so I thought I’d spend an afternoon soaking up the general ambience of Amsterdam coolth and looking at clothes.
What it actually turned into was a horrible slog. Walking home from the ferry with heavy bags through puddles in the pouring rain (with an upset stomach to boot)after a couple of hours being jostled and bumped around like a dodgem car by dairy-fed Dutch giants is not fun. Going into town, a direct distance across the river of about 2 km ( if that) now should you be unable to bike it, involves a bus and a ferry and a long walk across a main road and through the crowded building-site that is Centraal Station to a connecting tram because the much-admired-elsewhere transport authority, the GVB, has taken away the direct bus through the Ij-tunnel as there’ll be a metro link to replace it – in 2011. Sod you if you’re sick, disabled or have small children.
Oh yes, and did I say it was raining and people are rude here? Bah. So much for Amsterdam culture.
Anyway, back to the warm dry blogosphere and the comments. This one’s from Bruce at the News Blog, appended to a post about fundies worrying they’re losing their young ‘uns to Sodom:
The 4% number is a great tactic for two reasons. One, it adds meaning/elitism for those who stay, and two, it makes their crappy proselytizing methods appear great if they can get the numbers to, you know, 6%.
Perhaps this is my lapsed Catholic heritage but I have a hard time understanding how anyone can look at these ass-clowns – not conservative Christianity, these particular ass clowns – and not either bust out laughing of be revolted. Not so much from theology but from the sheer plaid-pants tacky bad taste, paper-thin self-righteous garbage.
I am not anti-religion nor “anti-Christian” but when I think of the real religious people I have known, Orthodox Jews, committed Catholics, Greek Orthodox 19 year-old girl who knew English, Greek and Old Slavonic, her dorm covered with icons. Buddhists who could expound on differences among Buddhist traditions. Then I think of these ignorant fools, these uneducated, untravelled (despite having the cash to travel) hairpieces. And I want to laugh.
To me, it’s like walking into a Sears, going into the bathroom fixtures aisle, and seeing a 40 year-old man seated on a porcelain toilet with his pants around his angle enjoying a bowel movement, then getting all excited at the hope that you might have one too, and despairing that you might not.
Bruce Homepage 10.06.06 – 1:45 am #
Quite. Thanks for that lasting mental image, Bruce.
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