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  • Soldier 1: “What’s he yelling?”

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    Soldier 2: “No idea.”


  • As an older gentleman, I do recall this happening. It was spread here in the UK at the time as well.

    Main reason I remember it was because I’m not religious myself, but thought that the church of all things acknowledging evolution over any Young Earth rhetoric was pretty progressive.

    This is obviously all anecdotal evidence, but I can testify that the NY post article in this case may be accurate.

    Edit: of course, I want to make perfectly clear that misinformation was still a thing back then as well - after digging myself, I should conclude that this is something that could easily have been stirred online at the time and wasn’t actually true.

    I’m going to keep digging though, because it definitely stirred a memory for me.

    Edit 2: it does strike me in the article that these quotes are not from the Pope himself but rather Sat2000.

    I believe what this could mean is that someone from the network was talking about the game (perhaps on one of their shows), and because of the apparent ties between the station and the Vatican, people may have misconstrued this as the Pope having said this, or “this is what the church says” sort of thing.

    My next task is to see if I can track down the source of those quotes… Which I imagine are in Italian… And I don’t speak Italian… Yay.



  • I struggle to understand hype for most things nowadays.

    It’s weird I just don’t feel it now.

    I went to see a band I should have went to see 20 years ago. I can’t say I felt much hype beforehand. The hype only started when the intro played and the band started walking out.

    Within the first couple of songs I was a mess with happy tears, but everything leading up to it? I was just chill, totally unphased.

    I think I’m broken 👍