This would have gone up last night, but a combination of work, stupid arguments with certain people, horrid weather, and a general fatigue with the sheer insanity around us, prompted me to watch The Godfather Part II instead. I have seen it at least 2 times before, but it has been about 5 years since I last saw it, and given what a crap day it had been, I figured, what the hell, why not.
This may or may not have helped inform this week’s choice of Instathot, because, as we say so often around here, we rather like and approve of the Eyeties around here.
I was there just over 11 months ago, and I thoroughly approved of my time there. Italy is a chaotic and crazy place, but it is also beautiful, incredibly cultured, and full of amazing things to see and do. Italians approach life in a very different fashion from any of the Anglo-Saxon nations – they view life as something to be lived to its fullest, and they make that very evident in the way they dress, speak, move, and eat.
Their food is, of course, astonishing in its variety, quality, and taste. Indeed, if you want a good appreciation of all things Eyetie, at least insofar as cuisine goes, you cannot do much better than following this particular channel, which I find highly addictive and absolutely hilarious:
I mean, you just HAVE to love a culture that makes food in such a simple, artistic, yet technical way. And, they did give us the Roman Republic and Empire, the Renaissance, and Ferrari, Lamborghini, AND Zonda.
As for the Catholic Church… well, I’m not a hardliner about such things, but on balance I would say the good outweighs the bad. Just about. But not these days – when you have an AMERICAN Pope blessing a block of ice to fight Global Cooling Change Climate Warming Anthropogenic Manbearpig while surrounded by a bunch of fat warbling bints, and Ahhhhhhnuhld, then you aren’t just a deviant, you’re a heretic.
I can really only think of one appropriate response to that:
Uh… where was I?
Oh, right.
Anyway, this week’s lovely lady is Siria Amendola, age 24 from Eyetieland. She is known primarily for being Italian, and also a Pilates instructor.
Let’s just say the latter DEFINITELY shows. As the boys at Lionfield would say – “APPROVED-AH!”
Happy weekend, boys.
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In his autobiography, Hans van Luck (a German WW2 Major) noted during his time in the North African theatre that the Italians “fought to live” while the Germans “lived to fight”. It explains a lot.
Leo is NOT an American. He stopped being one when he took out Peruvian citizenship.
The Italian girl, while well enough built, is not actually all that pretty. Tsk.
I disagree. I am not a fan of the overdone fish-lip look. She looks a little more natural than the cyborgs he usually posts, although the boobs are as fake as any of them.
ON MONDAYS. Which is where they belong. I actively avoid such women on Fridays (most of the time).
“As for the Catholic Church… well, I’m not a hardliner about such things, but on balance I would say the good outweighs the bad.”
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can someone please explain to me why it would be that the Dominicans would create an entire mythology about a female pope? they were so insistent on this absurdity that they had convinced most of Europe that this actually happened. it was SO DUMB that it was the Protestants who debunked it.
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but that’s not the big problem. the big problem is this; if Catholics will lie about there having been a female pope, what else won’t they lie about?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan
I’m Catholic and have never heard of Pope Joan. The story reeks of Prots throwing anything anti-Catholic they can at the wall and seeing if it sticks.
Oh I remember reading about Pope Joan years ago, long before I ever bent the knee. I forget exactly where, it might actually have been on John C. Wright’s website. (He is a longstanding Catholic.)
The legend well predates the Reformation – apparently the first references to her are indeed among the Dominicans.
Look, you can call it reference or legend or whatever you want, but whoever this Joan was was never Pope. She can’t be the Pope, because woman. It doesn’t matter if you “elect” her, put the hat on her and kiss the ring, she’s not the Pope. That’s not how it works. Any Prot playing the “gotcha” game is simply ignorant of how things really work. A Pope has to be validly elected and if that didn’t happen, then either the Pope is someone else or the chair is vacant. There never was, nor could there have ever been, a “Pope Joan”.
the problem is NOT whether or not Joan was a pope / antipope / antipopess / fictional / real.
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as is typical with Catholics, you spend all your time trying to redirect obvious questions into bullshit minutia and irrelevant tangents.
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no one would have EVER HEARD of this supposed “Pope Joan”, had the Dominicans not spent centuries LYING about it. you had Roman Catholic churches placing statues of this fake popess on church grounds, it got so bad.
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further, it was a Protestant who conclusively debunked the Dominican’s lies. if an order specifically created to preach the Word (Ordo Prædicatorum ) and combat Heresy is saying things like this, are there any limits at all to the lies that an active order of the RCC can spread?
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I’m Catholic and have never heard of Pope Joan.
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yes, yes. next you’ll tell me that you’ve never heard of Marcial Maciel or the Legion of Christ.
I don’t think anyone is arguing otherwise that a female cannot be Pope. The point is that this “Pope Joan” thing came up centuries before the Reformation, because of Catholics – not Protestants.
Personally, I consider it an amusing distraction, and nothing more. Of the many things wrong with the Catholic Church, a supposed “female Pope” is both silly and unimportant.
“no one would have EVER HEARD of this supposed “Pope Joan”, had the Dominicans not spent centuries LYING about it.”
What did they lie about? Literally nobody ever believed that she was the Pope. And it’s impossible that the Dominicans would have believed it, or else they would have been excommunicated. Your evidence is, what? Someone had a statue? Does a statue make someone Pope? No, people had long forgotten about this nothingburger until Reformation Prots were digging the bottom of the barrel looking for shit to sling.
You Prots hate the Church so much you will literally grasp at straws to find whatever justification you can to hate it even more. So your big victory here is that a Protestant dug up a 400 year old urban legend, already long forgotten and never officially recognized, and debunked it? Way to go. Got us on that one. Tear the whole Church down and start over.
Just say you hate the Catholic Church and get on with it. Your reasons don’t matter, because as this “Pope Joan” fable illustrates, if none exist you will create them.
Literally nobody ever believed that she was the Pope.
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literally nobody except people who believed the Dominicans.
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if none exist you will create them.
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except no Protestant created this. and it’s the Catholics that i see lying all the time. you, for instance, won’t even address the obvious fact that this entire fantasy was promulgated by a Catholic group, you just accuse everyone else of making everything up regardless of what the historical documantation shows.
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how IN THE FVCK are the Protestants supposed to have gotten into Roman records and falsified them, dumbass?
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And it’s impossible that the Dominicans would have believed it, or else they would have been excommunicated.
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making up a retarded lie about an entirely fictional female pope who “gave birth” in public during a processional, such that rituals are subsequently invented about how popes have to display their testicals to inspectors before investment in the office has nothing to do with Protestants.
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and the Legion of Christ is still a thing. there were not only no signficant penalities for enabling Marciel Maciel’s drug use and pedophilia, prelates who not only enabled his actions BUT WHO ENGAGED IN SIMILIAR ACTS THEMSELVES are still in good standing with the RCC. this is FAR more egregious than making up some fantasy about a fictional popess and much more recent. reporting on Maciel’s activities had been made since the 1950s but it didn’t really blow up into something the RCC couldn’t ignore until the late 1990s. and even then, they swept it under the rug.
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so don’t bloviate to me about the RCC having standards. you are accessories after the fact to at least dozens ( probably hundreds just in the last 100 years ) of pedophile prelates and enabling them to continue their abuses and protect them from prosecution.
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no ever demanded “perfection” of the Roman Catholic Church ( although you claim it for yourselves ), what enrages us is your wallowing in these crimes and non-chalance about the presence of Bishops and Cardinals who have expended enormous energy, time and money enabling them to continue.