Prince Harry

[killer b]

Don't they bash in any recently deceased pope's head with a hammer? Imagine that's probably been done ahead of time on occasion too...

 

[JimW]

Don't they bash in any recently deceased pope's head with a hammer? Imagine that's probably been done ahead of time on occasion too...

Once of the news portals had a picture of the said hammer, looked like some steampunk cosplay item

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't they bash in any recently deceased pope's head with a hammer? Imagine that's probably been done ahead of time on occasion too...

With a slight change, to bashing in the head of any recently elected pope, this could be a winner

 

[Chilli.s]

some steampunk cosplay item

Thats how the whole royal pageant looks

 

[killer b]

actually I just googled it and it's probably bollocks. ho hum.

 

[gosub]

It’s rumoured his wife went the same way, so official court mourning didn’t interfere with her granddaughters coronation. For all we know, it could’ve been done again in Balmoral last autumn. ‘I’ve had enough now, I can’t have Liz Truss here again, get the syringe set up’.

Still think it was more about staying alive til Boris was gone.....she did follow covid restrictions for her husbands funeral while Downing Street partied

 

[moochedit]

With a slight change, to bashing in the head of any recently elected pope, this could be a winner

Replace pope with mp and the above line works as well.

 

[Pickman's model]

Replace pope with mp and the above line works as well.

Or new monarch

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Don't they bash in any recently deceased pope's head with a hammer? Imagine that's probably been done ahead of time on occasion too...

Why???!!

 

[JimW]

Why???!!

If they do it before they die they get complaints

 

[Dystopiary]

I'm not sure that military training does specifically emphasise dehumanizing the enemy but even if it does I don't think for a minute that Harry made the remarks as a public service. It's no secret that soldiers kill people in wars but most tend not to brag about it. I think it all goes back to the question of why he'd put that into the book. Absolutely nothing to gain but loads of potential downside to both his security and reputation. It feels like the dickhead gobbing-off in the pub who served with 'The Regiment', tells war stories, but everyone knows has always worked in Sainsburys. Except Harry's telling the truth.

Can't remember who said pretty much this upthread but it was probably down to him answering a question the ghost-writer/co-author asked of him.

I'd bet whoever it is they're a journalist who's well used to getting info out of people.

 

[danny la rouge]

Why???!!

It was initially a misunderstanding. Room service went in with breakfast and came running out:

“The Pope’s dead!”
“Really? - go back in and make sure”.

Then it became a tradition.

 

[Orang Utan]

Why???!!

To avoid vampire popes

 

[Sue]

Why???!!

Symbolic innit.

 

[scalyboy]

Possibly, being charitable. To me it looks like misplaced braggadocio that he should have been very strongly advised against.

Re. Harold’s motivations for going on record as having killed 25 people, I’m not convinced we should take him at his word, or understand this to be the literal truth. After all , this is a fellow who, by his own admission, has consumed psychedelic drugs a-plenty, and has admitted to receiving messages from a bin.

Far be it from me to disparage someone who has explored the interior of his mind, but if a bloke knocked on my door to say that he was going to give me a first-hand account of the war in Ukraine and would I mind if he had an in-depth discussion with Henry the Hoover beforehand, well I’d think he was off his chump. So I don’t see any difference.

Harold may well be giving an accurate recollection of his war experiences, but equally he could be a shambling mental wreckage, a travesty of rational humankind, a drooling, reeling ayahuasca and psilocybin casualty who might politely be shown the door as a arch-mentalist

 

[Orang Utan]

Popelore is weird - don’t the cardinals also make new popes sit on a chair with a hole in in the seat then lift them above their heads, Jewish-wedding-style, so they can inspect their genitalia?

 

[danny la rouge]

Popelore is weird - don’t the cardinals also make new popes sit on a chair with a hole in in the seat then lift them above their heads, Jewish-wedding-style, so they can inspect their genitalia?

Dream thread that-away —->

 

[Agent Sparrow]

To avoid vampire popes

Zombie popes surely. For vampires it would be a wooden crucifix through the heart.

 

[Spymaster]

Can't remember who said pretty much this upthread but it was probably down to him answering a question the ghost-writer/co-author asked of him.

I'd bet whoever it is they're a journalist who's well used to getting info out of people.

Sure, but he would have read the sodding thing before it was published, along with a bunch of advisers.

 

[friedaweed]

Popelore is weird - don’t the cardinals also make new popes sit on a chair with a hole in in the seat then lift them above their heads, Jewish-wedding-style, so they can inspect their genitalia?

No that's when they all kiss his arse

 

[Pickman's model]

Zombie popes surely. For vampires it would be a wooden crucifix through the heart.

Vampire popes wouldn't last long with the thousands of crucifixes in the vatican

 

[JimW]

Popelore is weird - don’t the cardinals also make new popes sit on a chair with a hole in in the seat then lift them above their heads, Jewish-wedding-style, so they can inspect their genitalia?

Pope Joan legend related

 

[Pickman's model]

Sure, but he would have read the sodding thing before it was published, along with a bunch of advisers.

You'd have thought so anyway

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Vampire popes wouldn't last long with the thousands of crucifixes in the vatican

Don’t know if the sight alone of them would kill them. They’d probably just be permanently anxious. Or it would work like exposure therapy…

 

[JimW]

The Windsor holey chair is to check for frostbite

 

[platinumsage]

Popelore is weird - don’t the cardinals also make new popes sit on a chair with a hole in in the seat then lift them above their heads, Jewish-wedding-style, so they can inspect their genitalia?

Debunked in 1406:

Were the medieval popes examined on a toilet-lid-like chair to establish their masculinity?

Is one of the consequences of the Pope Joan story, whether it was true or false, the use of a marble chair with a large, toilet-like hole in its seat? As the picture above shows, it seems that that

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[Pickman's model]

Don’t know if the sight alone of them would kill them. They’d probably just be permanently anxious. Or it would work like exposure therapy…

Plus the holy water and the plentiful use of garlic in Italian cooking, it'd be a nasty, short and brutish life for a v.p.

 

[Tanya1982]

Popelore is weird - don’t the cardinals also make new popes sit on a chair with a hole in in the seat then lift them above their heads, Jewish-wedding-style, so they can inspect their genitalia?

Do they? Queening stools at the Vatican? Whatever next?

 

[Dystopiary]

Sure, but he would have read the sodding thing before it was published, along with a bunch of advisers.

Well you'd think so wouldn't you. It's clear he's not being well advised or just ignoring people who try to tell him shit. I think he probably didn't come up with the idea of saying "I killed 25 Taliban members" to all and sundry himself. Either way, he's a bit of a div, but I do feel slightly sorry for him and his wife.

 

[scalyboy]

Debunked in 1406:

Were the medieval popes examined on a toilet-lid-like chair to establish their masculinity?

Is one of the consequences of the Pope Joan story, whether it was true or false, the use of a marble chair with a large, toilet-like hole in its seat? As the picture above shows, it seems that that

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Spare Prince Harold: as desirable as a Pope at a Jewish wedding