Everyday and in everyway it just gets worse and worse

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Bush blocks deal allowing cheap drugs for world's poor

What really galls me in the war debate is that US.gov just refuse to evn try to go for the moral high ground. I'd respect the US's disarming stance if they weren't planning to go hell for leather for all types of new WMDs and at least had some compassion for the people of the world. This is why anti US terrorism has burgeoned.

Bush is meant to be a Xtian be he is obviously the kind of Apocalyptic, gay burning, white man's burden fundamentalist Xtian, rather than the sort that follows the rather basic 'love thy neighbor as thyself' tenet.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Bush is fundamental and extreme in the way that many reformed Christians are.

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and Tony's off to see the Pope (Tony secretly converted to catholocism some time in '98, or so it is said)

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Well the Iraqi deputy prime minister was with the Pope last week. Will John Paul save the day?

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i doubt it, he's not SuperPope these days

stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Was he ever?

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pixunlimited.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2003/02/19/2bell.jpg

I think its a great shame that popes no longer where proper papal bunnets.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

For the love of Mike, what is a papal bunnet?

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

The proper pope hat. Gold encrusted behive thing (see the crest in the cartoon and any building, or monument associated with a pope ever).

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I think John Paul wore that until his neck wasn't strong enough to support it. I'm sure the new lad'll reintroduce it. Could start a trend even.

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

haha if it gets on the cover of i-D i'll buy you a king-size twix, lara

mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Q: Whoa, dude, where'd ya get yer bunnet?

A: It's McQueen, innit.

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Mild-mannered John Paul by day, but at night, he dons the papal bunnet and becomes SUPERPOPE!

Sorry to aid in the unseriousizing of this thread that began quite seriously. But I agree wholeheartedly Ed. One thing that really irks me about this whole Push-for-"War" thing (although I refuse to call it "War", 'cause what it really is is AN INVASION) is the absurd inconsistency of American foreign policy at this point. In press, claiming to be "concerned with the rights of women in the Middle East", while destroying feminist-rights initiatives on the home-front, etc.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Do Vatican gift shops sell soapy Pope-on-a-Rope?

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Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh I give up

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Lara needs something to do. I suggest we have a whip-round and buy her a jigsaw.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I have a game of Tell Me instead?

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

tell me....

Beloved (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll spin. Go on..

Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Still, there’s the question of who will actually “see your advertising,” given that it’s now easier than ever to tune that advertising out. Television executives like Mr. Poltrack are spending a whole lot of time studying that.

Some findings are counterintuitive. For instance, Mr. Poltrack said, two-thirds of viewers watch with a second screen either in their hands or on their lap. Yet those screens can be so distracting that their users forget to fast-forward past the ads in recorded shows. It turns out viewers are overwhelmingly absorbing the messages coming from the TV even as they stare at the other devices, Mr. Poltrack said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/business/media/when-tv-ads-go-subliminal-with-a-vengeance-well-be-to-blame.html

I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 May 2016 21:09 (ten years ago)

That's a p fucking stupid argument but then advertising is a p fucking stupid game

Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 16 May 2016 21:11 (ten years ago)

interesting how there's some bush ii revisionism/rehab courtesy of time magazine and co right now, seeing/remembering posts like the OP

global tetrahedron, Monday, 16 May 2016 21:13 (ten years ago)

read this article earlier today and just reinforced my hate for current style of marketing/advertising

i will happily use adblocker and avoid commercials (cordcutting) as much as i can

this industry needs to die

F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 16 May 2016 21:19 (ten years ago)


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