It's amazing the Irish have survived to this day, with their rampant alcoholism, superstition, stupidity, violence and proneness to potato famines.

staring at a virgin?

Being a virgin can also cause blindness, I hear.

/Fap fap fap

jimi32: staring at a virgin?

/fap, fap, fap

She's not a virgin.

/I've seen the audition tape!

Trifecta in play

Gaylord Fister: It's amazing the Irish have survived to this day, with their rampant alcoholism, superstition, stupidity, violence and proneness to potato famines.

We fark a lot.

Gaylord Fister: It's amazing the Irish have survived to this day, with their rampant alcoholism, superstition, stupidity, violence and proneness to potato famines.

I suppose if fundies are looking for an argument against evolution, Ireland is pretty compelling.

Rage, there's a potato famine in Ireland, you gotta go down there!

<Insert "blind faith" joke here>

/Christian
//not that stupid

and makes you grow hail mary psalms, too.

"9:13, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache."

MY EYES THEY BURN!!!

/not really, lolz.

Don't Knock it 'til you've tried it!

/ugh

GIS for "Hot Virgin Pics":
For the guys, the original:

and, for the ladies, some gay guy wearing tights:


\Hot

mooseyfate: mother told me not to stare into the sun.

but mama, that's where the fun is

The opposite occurs in some countries. In Dubai in 1999, there was an 89% eclipse of the sun (totality was in Iran, making it tantalisingly impossible for me to travel a few hundred miles to see it.)

The usual warnings about not looking directly at the sun without protection became distorted into a general fear of the "harmful rays" of the eclipse. The President of the United Arab Emirates issued a warning to pregnant women to stay indoors to avoid damage to their unborn children. The entire city of Dubai shut down: people stayed home from work. The normally busy roads were deserted. The hysteria was not surprising, but it was amusing. Less disturbing than people stupid enough to damage their eyes, but only just.

Won't Jesus just miraculously grow them new retinas?

That happens right? Every now and then a new limb is grown back or something? No? Huh, you'd think that would happen once in a while...odd

Staring at a virgin will make you go blind

So, Fark and Slashdot can never offer videochat.

That's ok. God will heal those that are deemed worthy.

Approves.

cross the street from your storefront cemetary
hear me hailing from inside and realize

i am the conscience clear
in pain or ecstacy
and we were all weaned my dear
upon the same fatigue

staring at the sun
oh my own voice
cannot save me now
standing in the sea
it's just
one more breath
and then
down i go

your mouth is open wide
the lover is inside
and all the tumults done
collided with the sign
you're staring at the sun
you're standing in the sea
your body's over me

note the trees because
the dirt is temporary
more to mine than fact face
name and monetary

be what you will
and then thrown down your life
oh it's a damned fine game
and we can play all night

beat the skins and let the
loose lips kiss you clean
quietly pour out like light
like light, like answering the sun

you're staring at the sun
you're standing in the sea
your mouth is open wide
you're trying hard to breathe
the water's at your neck
there's lightning in your teeth
your body's over me

Let them do it. That just makes it easier to spot the fanatics.

"You say she's a virgin? Well I'm gonna be the first in
Her fella's gonna kill me? ohhhh F***ing will he?!?"


/+1 bonus point to the farker who guesses correctly what this lyric is from.

JonnyBGoode: <Insert "blind faith" joke here>

/Christian
//not that stupid

I was just about to make a blind faith joke then I noticed this.

I've seen this happen.

I spent a little time near the Catholic shrine in Medjugorje, during the siege of Sarejevo. Pilgrims would occasionally see "the miracle of the sun", where you're drawn (or compelled) to look directly at the sun, and at the same time, protected from it.

It's a fairly well-known phenomena, so as with any public spectacle, you get wannabes in the crowd. I remember seeing one mid-30's blond, kneeling outdoors, hands clasped, staring at the sun, eyes clinched, tears streaming down her face. Compare that to someone who's actually experiencing the "miracle"; they are wide-eyed, no pain, no squint.

I have no doubt that she burned up her eyes trying to impress her bus-tour-pilgrim friends.

Now the confession: even though I'm not a fundie and tend to be pretty skeptical, I've seen the 'miracle' - and started at the sun - myself. Quite an odd (but enjoyable) experience, and no damage whatsoever... not even the black spot you get from looking at a light bulb.

Third_Uncle_Eno:

Why, that would be some Quadrophenia.

Now gimme that +1; I hunger.

nugatory2: My mom says she is a virgin.

Wait...what?

My son, I hate to break it to you...

Step 1: Be an ophthalmologist
Step 2: Have 24-hour office hours
Step 3: Have said office near Fark Party locale
Step 4: Profit

Step 5: Get to punchline faster...

Dubai Vol: The opposite occurs in some countries. In Dubai in 1999, there was an 89% eclipse of the sun (totality was in Iran, making it tantalisingly impossible for me to travel a few hundred miles to see it.)

The usual warnings about not looking directly at the sun without protection became distorted into a general fear of the "harmful rays" of the eclipse. The President of the United Arab Emirates issued a warning to pregnant women to stay indoors to avoid damage to their unborn children. The entire city of Dubai shut down: people stayed home from work. The normally busy roads were deserted. The hysteria was not surprising, but it was amusing. Less disturbing than people stupid enough to damage their eyes, but only just.



Yeah, you gotta be careful, those "eclipse rays" can really be a problem.

It's funny how people use the phrase, "blind faith", as if there's any other kind.

I thought that was supposed to work the other way around...

Let's go stare at the sun, it'll be fun!

Piss off, I'm gonna get drunk.

Had nothing to do with religion, the Irish simply aren't use to seeing the sun. Even the dogs were barking at this stranger in town.

I once stared at a virgin so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies..

/she was hott.
//she's now my wifey