The Post Man is having a laugh! (Lounged)

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Just found two little parcels that could have easily fit through my letterbox tucked under the door mat, and the funny thing is, one of them is for Father Connor at St Thomas Moore Church, I am not near to the church and the last time I looked, my house did not LOOK like a church. Looks like I have to play Post person and find the time to post it to him!

[Gimme]

Was this really worth starting a thread for?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Full of the Christmas spirit I see Gimme.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Why not? not ALL of the threads on the EDF are useful. I am sure if I looked hard enough I could find some of yours that is probably pointless.

I was kind of hoping Father O'Connor frequents this forum and could come and collect his post.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I don't think gimme was critiquing the post's interest value, more that there is an ongoing thread about missing and mis-directed post just a centimetre away from this one

[sprocket]

Hey HeidiHi, why don't you start a thread about the thread police

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Sorry Sean, just noticed the thread!:-$ I should have posted on there. Why didn't Gimme just say that?!

Sprocket, now there's an idea.....

[????]

I wouldn't want anyone from a catholic church collecting my post with a young baby about.....

[steveo]

Father O'Connor has his pager turned on 25/7. He is called out to administer the last rites at Kings sometimes as often as three times a night, which for a man of a certain age is tough. Delivering his post would be doing him a service. Tarring him with the same brush is probably not.

[Bellerophon]

???? Wrote:

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> I wouldn't want anyone from a catholic church

> collecting my post with a young baby about.....

How do you come up with these hilarious posts ??? - You're a genius......

HeidiHi, I will happily collect the parcel from you and bring it to Fr O'Connor on Sunday morning

[Sue]

Bellerophon Wrote:

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> ???? Wrote:

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> > I wouldn't want anyone from a catholic church

> > collecting my post with a young baby about.....

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> How do you come up with these hilarious posts ???

> - You're a genius......

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I thought it was quite an offensive post actually, unless I've misunderstood it :-$

[Bellerophon]

Sue, It is deeply offensive, and my reply was intended to be ironic

[????]

As offensive as helping spread aids throughout the world with unscientific claptrap and sheilding child abusers and leaving them to carry on abusing!!! You are joking right? I have no respect for that malovelent and disgusting institution and those that work for it. If that offends you fine but it does far less harm than the disgusting catholic church.

[SeanMacGabhann]

redundant and duplicate thread this maybe but about the catholic church it ain't. Plenty of threads in the Lounge and/or Drawing Room for that

so stick to postmen and possible addressees (catholic or not) or move on please

[Sue]

I hear you Sean.

Am I just allowed to say that Father O'Connor is an individual and not the Church, and Quids' post was totally out of order. Also just goes to show that irony is not always picked up. Not by me anyway.

And no I'm not a Catholic, I just hate this kind of mindless stereotyping.

[????]

I'll say 3 hail marys and ponder your misplaced outrage

[Bellerophon]

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> I'll say 3 hail marys and ponder your misplaced

> outrage

????, please if you've got nothing to say that isn't sarcastic or patronising, then don't say anything, there's a good man.

Back to the Lounge with you where you seem to have an informed opinion on everything & anything.

'Two Sheds' would be a far better Forum name.

[Administrator]

To the Lounge with this one

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

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[????]

I wasn't being sarcastic, my children are going nowhere near the Catholic church with given its appaling contribution to both individuals mental state, instituinal abuse and history in general...but I guess I'm off to hell

[Sue]

Sounds like you're already creating your own hell ...... :-S

[????]

How so?

[legalbeagle]

Quids - I am not a catholic, but I do have an alternative thought on this. It is surely possible that there are people out there who genuinely believe in the catholic faith. They want to do good, and they try to do so, every day, in fact they devote their life to it. It is possible that the institution to which they belong lets them down, or does things it shouldn't, sometimes in a terrible way. But nonetheless that individual has a genuine faith, and has devoted his life to helping others.

I don't know this gentleman, but perhaps your condemnation of the catholic church and "all those who work for it" is a little hard on him?

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you on the big picture issues, and in fact am not a fan of any organised religion, but I still think there are individuals within those institutions who genuinely try to do good. Perhaps this gentleman is one of those people. Those forumites who seem to know him certainly think so.

[daizie]

Any one religous im suspicous of ..

[????]

Look - my first post was a highly flippant remark that by itself makes no reference to any individual priest etc I'm sure this Father whatever is a decent fella etc. I hold no regard nor do I think that the Catholic church deserves any reverance and perhaps if members of the catholic community held a more irreverant attitude to the church and its authority then its appalling record on abuse and its aids spreading hogwash on condom use wouldn't have happened.

But as Sean said, this has been done to death elsewhere and is boring, so for stirring it up again - and for that alone - I apologise. Shall we just stop now?