Comments on: Powerless body’s new line-up proves fascinating, briefly

By: Private Beach

Private Beach — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:25:25 +0000

Thank you for furthering my education – without your link I might never have known that “According to the teaching of theology a revealed fact can be proved solely by recurrence to the sources of faith, viz. Scripture and Tradition” – or to put it more simply “Jesus loves me, this I know, ‘cos the Bible tells me so”. Other traditions may interpret it differently – it certainly explains the website I found that claims to prove the truth of the Muslim faith. All its “proofs” essentially come down to “The Koran says it, so it must be true”.

Of course to those of a more rational bent this puts the teaching of theology on a par with the teaching of Flat-Earth geography – but I believe that faith still has a few adherents, as well.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:34:47 +0000

Donald has always had strong ties with Raphael Hui. They grew up together in the civil service.

Maybe Beijing knows something that we don’t know, and they are trying to keep their distance from Bowtie, in case the Kwok Brothers/ Raffie Hui thing explodes.

By: Tiu Fu Fong

Tiu Fu Fong — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:15:33 +0000

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for thee, candles-boy. We lads on the water and wine side of the altar were always jealous that you got to hold the candles AND ring the bells. On top of that, you had the opportunity to ring the bells for an extra long time and piss off the old parish priest in his moment of transubstantation (one of the few magic powers you get as a Catholic priest, along with the forgiveness of sins).

By: Maugrim

Maugrim — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:49:08 +0000

Donald despite also being unpopular comes under the designation NOOU. Not one of us. Money being the key factor. Don’t believe me? It explains why Henry is there.

By: Property Developer

Property Developer — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:58:05 +0000

So “Mary Ma” has joined the serried ranks of the Hemlockians? Ph Bowring the other day was clearly also snatching a catch-phrase or two from the Forum.

Final warning: the word “pinnacle” must under no circumstances be written without “Diaoyu” in the 3 (three) words preceding AND without being clearly identified as barbarian-speak.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:21:05 +0000

“Probably, they just don’t like him”. No they don’t he was an arrogant and incompetent little bureaucrat that caused them no end of trouble.

CH Tung was doomed 1 July 2003 and yet it took the CCP well into 2005 to pass the top job on to Sir Donald – much to the shock of the then C.S. Hank Tang.

The CCP was forced to step in when he was unable to get his (no) Democracy bill through a stacked Legco (which in fairness he offered to resign for). Then there was his clumsy involvement in the 2012 CE “election” in supporting Tang by having the information about CY’s alleged conflict of interest in the West Kowloon Bla Bla Bla leaked. It was probably the CCP who then responded by leaking his closeness to certain Tycoons and thus his legacy (such as it was) was trashed.

Reminds me a bit of Tony Blair – another Roman Catholic.

By: Big Al

Big Al — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:17:31 +0000

… and speaking of twaddle, I also just looked at the wonderful New Age Shop, which always makes me grateful that I’m not some vegetable-eating hippy. Resident “practitoner” Amiee Mok is still a total babe, and you probably wouldn’t kick A-Ko or Carlie out of bed for failing to sprinkle lentils on your organic cornflakes. On the other hand, Jenny is still cross-eyed (and ginger, too, poor thing) …

By: Big Al

Big Al — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:06:45 +0000

Just had a look at that link to the Catholic Encyclopedia. Who writes this stuff? What does “The intrinsic possibility of discontinuous multilocation seems to be based upon the non-repugnance of continuous multilocation” mean? It’s all just utter bollocks. And the funny thing is, people are writing this serious-sounding twaddle about something that’s made up. Like trekkies arguing over how the Enterprise’s warp drive works, or Klingon translations of Shakespere. IT’S NOT REAL! Get a life, not religion!

By: Bela Bauhinia

Bela Bauhinia — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:13:10 +0000

I read the first line and I thought it was yet another one of those online confessions about transvestism…then the rest of the paragraph came and I saw altar boys, smarting buttocks, hurriedly reassigned pastors and appearances on daytime TV. Thank God you survived.

The ins-and-outs of the Chinese Honours System must be of very little interest to people with blood in their veins and Angry Birds to play with…

CPPCC….the unelectable in full pursuit of the ineffectual.

PS: Why do so many photos of Donald make him appear to be farting? And Lew has the same hairstyle as Frankie Howerd, RIP.

By: Walter De Havilland

Walter De Havilland — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:08:12 +0000

First Chinese on the Moon! I’m sure we could get enough donations for Sir Donald to take a one-way trip.

Interesting that he insist on retaining the ‘Sir’ but does not like its usage. At least John Lennon had the balls to return his medal to Brenda Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and drop the fancy title.