Comments on: Vatican buys enormous gay sauna

By: mikei

mikei — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:02:00 +0000

That’s not smoke, it’s steam.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:02:00 +0000

You put the foam on the coffee and it looks like a bald head?

And gets kinda creepy when you think about this place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_Crypt

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:13:00 +0000

Took me a moment, but it was worth it.

By: toyg

toyg — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:52:00 +0000

Funny enough, “cappuccino” is a small “cappuccio”, i.e. a monk’s hood (there’s even a monastic order called “Cappuccini”, believe it or not) and again likely shares the “caput” root. I have no idea how this became a type of coffee, but we Italians are crazy like that (I’ve recently found that there’s something called a “smile coffee” — I can only imagine what sort of ingredient is supposed to give you a “smile”, but I guess it’s about alcohol — although that’s usually just a “corrected coffee”, caffè corretto, because anything without alcohol is obviously “wrong”!

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:10:00 +0000

He’d be defrocked the moment he walked in.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:42:00 +0000

Cue up “It’s Raining Men.”

By: Xploder

Xploder — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:48:00 +0000

Dammit! Every time I read your response, I keep reading cappuccino…

By: Origami_Isopod

Origami_Isopod — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:01:00 +0000

I’d pull up his cassock and play with his aspergillum. (But I don’t think he’d be interested in me, somehow…)

By: mikei

mikei — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:01:00 +0000

When I shared this on FB, the thumbnail was a whale. A sperm whale I presume?

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000

…a rest home for priests?

Rectories A through D were full to capacity. They had to expand by adding an “E” Rectory.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:50:00 +0000

Yeah, I’d show him a new meaning for extreme unction.

By: Tyler Firth

Tyler Firth — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:47:00 +0000

*splashpheming

“Hey, I don’t like it in the eyes like that HHTPE!”

By: toyg

toyg — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:44:00 +0000

Caput is Latin but not Italian (of course, Rome will forever be caput mundi, but again that’s quoted Latin), whereas cappella is definitely correct Italian, both in religious and architectural (and dirty) terms. I honestly don’t know the etymology but it’s likely the same.

Or maybe you were thinking of “capo” (head) or “capetto” (minor head, but used exclusively in “managerial” terms to indicate a minor boss, often with derogative undertones), which are correct Italian words that clearly come from the Latin “caput”. In the same family, “capoccia” o “capoccione” is a big head (both in real or managerial terms), but they are vulgar words and outside of Rome tend to have specific metaphorical connotations (“capoccia” being the head of a criminal conspiracy, and “capoccione” a very intelligent person who might be a bit of a nerd).

By: franko

franko — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:43:00 +0000

seriously, just look at him – wouldn’t YOU?

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:36:00 +0000

If you can’t get an audience with the old man in a hat at least you can find something that looks like one.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:35:00 +0000

Wouldn’t that be a misspelling of the diminutive for caput, ie. little head?

By: toyg

toyg — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:30:00 +0000

One of the mentioned jokes is clearly lost in translation: “Oops, I took the wrong door, I thought it was the chapel” — the Italian for “chapel” (cappella) is a common slang word for glans (the shape is quite similar after all, wouldn’t you agree?)

EDIT: and now that I think of it, the first half of that sentence could also have been something more like “I took the wrong side”, completing a very dirty line.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:51:00 +0000

That would be ‘blaspheming’.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:30:00 +0000

Maybe Benedict retired into seclusion in order to keep his boyfriend private secretary from going to the Vatican bathhouse every night. Edit: Here's the website for the fleshpot den of iniquity sauna. The front page, at least is SFW. The name is much more fun if you pretend to be Milla Jovovich while saying it.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:15:00 +0000

“A papal audience? For me?”

By: L8

L8 — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:37:00 +0000

And the automatic jokes get better when you read the whole article:

“There was further embarrassment for the Holy See when the press observed that thanks to generous tax breaks it received from the last Berlusconi government, the church will have avoided hefty payments to the Italian state. The properties are recognised as part of the Holy City.“

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:21:00 +0000

From the article:

It is not known, however, if the former archbishop of Bombay has popped downstairs to give spitiual guidances to the clients of the Europa Multiclub, given his belief that gays and lesbians can be cured of their “unnatural tendencies” through the “sacrement of penance”.

“Spitiual guidances”

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:15:00 +0000

can’t it be both?

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:13:00 +0000

“Hey, cut it out! You’re un-holying the holy water!”

By: TacoChuck

TacoChuck — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:18:00 +0000

While this is funny, more worrying is that the catholic church is buying up hospitals around the country and imposing their doctrine on people who have no other options for health care:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/faith-healers/Content?oid=16050396

By: Frank W

Frank W — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:05:00 +0000

Best conclave ever… Dammit Rob, you won the thread before it even started.

By: steve heath

steve heath — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:59:00 +0000

I think I would have been happier not knowing this. So is it gonna stay as a gay sauna…a rest home for priests??? whats up with this?

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:54:00 +0000

And here I had been thinking how cool it would be if someone had hacked the chimney to put out rainbow colored smoke….

By: Lithi

Lithi — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:09:00 +0000

The jokes just write themselves, don’t they?