The WTF? Thread

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

This is so small time lads. You've got to think bigger if you're going to be taken seriously

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/jessothomson/status/1773811099621593292?t=oNYQkli0so66zQR69l2Zzw&s=19

This company offered families school photos without the disabled kids and now this.

[Patrick Thistle]

BBC News - Easter egg hunt in Wrexham cemetery pulled after backlash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68694676

The WTF is who thought that was a good idea in the first place

[ursus arctos]

Sounds very posh Victorian

[Hot Pepsi]

This seems to be real.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Since not everyone reads the Scottish football thread, this definitely also belongs here.

https://twitter.com/thesportsman/status/1774099778676158629?s=48&t=D13ZPSiKzwis4ezbWYySZA

[Patrick Thistle]

Incredible stuff!

[Patrick Thistle]

This is amazing!

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1776654852749222231?t=ImLfxrLU8mQIU7_RxgUJAA&s=19

[Nocturnal Submission]

This (old) newspaper article claims that one Brigadier-General A.C. Critchley either planned to, or actually did, introduce the sport of cheetah racing in London: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...m-1090171.html

[Guy Profumo]

"The front fell off - that's not typical"

Does what it says on tin, front falls off ship


https://youtu.be/WkpGWbW3YhM?si=WyQkWMtmuMrof73f

[Guy Profumo]

<bugger. It's old, and a fake>

[RaggedTrousered]

I thought WTF on seeing this on rte news

but it turns out offences were historical rather than some new law to literally bring dead people to trial.

[Patrick Thistle]

Yeah that headline needed a "was" in it

[ursus arctos]

A notable example from history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

We included pope Formosus in a papal top trumps mock card game in a college magazine Garcia and myself did back in the day. We wanted to educate people that the popes weren't just a boring polish lad reading out phonetic nonsense like "bringing piss to ireland". The real John XXIII was in there too. There was a lad who got a hammer through the back of the skull by a disgruntled husband somewhere along the line.

[ursus arctos]

Doing God's work as always, you two

[elguapo4]

Pope John XII. He was beaten up and thrown out a window rather than getting the Leon Trotsky treatment.

[delicatemoth]

A notable example from history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

Ooh, the success of this caper may have inspired the trials of animals that took place on various occasions during the Middle Ages.

[Levin]

https://twitter.com/arrroberts/status/1778110496186466418?t=x1mWqbcUKtCqc6QZjKYRhA&s=19

[Hot Pepsi]

A notable example from history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

For some reason, I have no memory of this even though I'm sure it was discussed in my Medieval Christianity class circa 1994.

It's a good example of the pros and cons of majoring in religion. On the one hand, you learn about stuff like that and it is fascinating. On the other hand, that knowledge has no practical application whatsoever.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

For some reason, I have no memory of this even though I'm sure it was discussed in my Medieval Christianity class circa 1994.

It's a good example of the pros and cons of majoring in religion. On the one hand, you learn about stuff like that and it is fascinating. On the other hand, that knowledge has no practical application whatsoever.

It makes you unimpressed by popes. That used to mean something. For some reason I have it in my head that poor old formosus wound up in the Tiber a second time

[Patrick Thistle]

I remember a Catholic former seminarian in college telling me that if you listed all the truly heinous Popes, it worked out at about one in twelve, which is the same ratio of disciples that betrayed Jesus so it was to be expected.

[ursus arctos]

He must have had a very high bar for "truly heinous"

[Janik]

Almost like he had pre-determined what his answer was going to be, and then defined his terms to make sure it came out as he wanted.

[Balderdasha]

It's a good example of the pros and cons of majoring in religion. On the one hand, you learn about stuff like that and it is fascinating. On the other hand, that knowledge has no practical application whatsoever.

This is also true for my social anthropology degree.