Disney corrupts?

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Disney corrupts?
Topic Started: Sunday, 30. November 2008, 22:42 (506 Views)
Rose of York	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 21:52 Post #31
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	CARLO Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 21:43 Is that where the term 'to make a fast buck' comes from? Judging by Buckfast's accounts, yes. They are coining it in, running a luxurious conference centre, expensive restaraunt, bookshop, owning Chandlers Wines, which gives all its profits to the Abbey under the Gift Aid scheme, thereby avoiding paying Corporation Taxes, and buying pottery made by my friend, and adding 300% markup. It is acceptable for Catholics to spend money at Buckfast, where, when I visited, there was not a monk or priest in sight (apart from the one who was standing behind the shop counter wearing jeans) but it is unacceptable to spend money with businesses that pay taxes. OK it was not the Abbot of Buckfast who made the daft remark, it was the Abbot of Worth, he sounds a bit sad. These guys need to understand, parents who spend most of their hard earned money on housing, food and clothes for their families, and put money in church collections, are entitled to unwind.
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Rose of York	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 21:58 Post #32
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	I would like to open a theme park, a Catholic one. At the entrance there would be a massive skating rink, called Holy Rollers. All the floodlights would look like giant candles, at least three hundred feet high. The helter skelter would look like a candlestick. On Fridays the restaraunt would sell everything from fish fingers to caviar. Nobody would complain about people spending money, because the theme park would be a registered charity, donating all surpluses to abbeys and the Bishops Conference.
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Emee	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:06 Post #33
Posts: 1,278 Group: Members Member #20 Joined: September 26, 2006	Oooh Rose! How exciting! Can I be first visitor please!!



Derekap	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:09 Post #34
Posts: 3,408 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	The candles of course would be purple in Advent and Lent except on Gaudete and Laudate Sundays when they would be rose and the staff would wear rose clothing. By the way you did mean surpluses and not surplices I suppose? Edited by Derekap, Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:12.
	Derekap


Rose of York	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:10 Post #35
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Emee Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:06 Oooh Rose! How exciting! Can I be first visitor please!! Yes, if you promise to be good.
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Rose of York	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:10 Post #36
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Derekap Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:09 staff would wear rose coloured clothes. Green cardigans if you don't mind! We would have special days. Irish dancing on St Patricks Day. Italian, Polish, and other nations' food on the Feast Days of their patron saints. Everything would be done reverently and respectfully. There would be a good Catholic bookshop.
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Derekap	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:13 Post #37
Posts: 3,408 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	Sorry Rose!
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SeanJ	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:16 Post #38
Moderator Posts: 868 Group: Moderator Member #208 Joined: September 26, 2008	The Buckfast Abbey stuff reminds me of an abbey in Germany where the monks brew a very strong beer full of yeast, and therefore full of protein and carbohydrate. I am told that during Lent they fast from food each day and drink beer: 15 bottles of their beer provides adequate protein, carbohydrate, and calories to keep them going. The problem (pleasure?) is that having consumed their protein, carbohydrate, and calories they haven't had anything to drink!!!



Derekap	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:20 Post #39
Posts: 3,408 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	"We would have special days. Irish dancing on St Patricks Day. Italian, Polish, and other nations' food on the Feast Days of their patron saints. Everything would be done reverently and respectfully. There would be a good Catholic bookshop" Everything in the Extraordinary Form and in Latin of course. Derekap (aka The cyncical intransigent wind-up merchant in need of a psychiatrist) Good Night and God Bless You all! Edited by Derekap, Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 22:22.
	Derekap


Clare	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 23:16 Post #40
Wacko Schismatic Traditionalist Woman Posts: 3,083 Group: Members Member #70 Joined: March 27, 2007	Rose of York Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 21:22 OsullivanB Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 17:58 Is Legoland free from or tainted with the same sin and to the same extent as Disneyland? One could say the same as any tourist attraction aimed at children. Should Christians boycott Alton Towers or CHessington World of Adventures? It is all a matter of balance, there is no harm in having fun provided out first priority is the salvation of our own souls, and the souls of others. If Christians pledged to boycott seaside attractions, zoos, wildlife and theme parks, we would be contributing to unemployment and the associated social problems. The benefit and social welfare bills would rise, the Abbot might find that as an interim measure, his Abbey, a registered charity, would have to pay tax. We are stuck on this earth for a while, not all of us are called to live as hermits. It's not just Disneyland. It's all the must-have merchandise.
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Emee	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 23:19 Post #41
Posts: 1,278 Group: Members Member #20 Joined: September 26, 2006	But Clare, as I've said, you don't have to buy it. You can just enjoy the movies...



OsullivanB	Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 23:46 Post #42
Posts: 2,193 Group: Moderator Member #205 Joined: August 14, 2008	Clare, Have you actually been to a Disney theme park? I've been twice to the one in California and once to the one in Paris (California is much better). There can be few more innocent places of family entertainment. And my experience was that there was no pressure to buy anything. When I took children, they certainly didn't ask for mementos.



Rose of York	Wednesday, 3. December 2008, 01:15 Post #43
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Clare Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 23:16 It's not just Disneyland. It's all the must-have merchandise. What is the harm in buying it? All things in moderation! I am beginning to feel guilty about my Government funded Mickey Mouse gas mask. I have still not quite forgiven my mother for throwing it in the bin. There were no toys in the shops for poor designer label deprived war babies. The gas mask and the home made sailor doll were all I had. Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Would I have grown up a better person if I had never had it?
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OsullivanB	Wednesday, 3. December 2008, 02:55 Post #44
Posts: 2,193 Group: Moderator Member #205 Joined: August 14, 2008	Rose, A few random thoughts for your RC Theme Park. You would doubtless have a Holy Roller Coaster, and a Holy Water Chute. (A Holy Ghost Train might be ott.) Pride of place would have to go to the Tridentine Ride. You might think about a facility for baptisms by immersion to be conducted by a very large priest - to be known as the Big Dipper. To attract the Trads you could differentiate yourself from Thorpe Park by pointing out that Thorpe was a Liberal. Edited by OsullivanB, Wednesday, 3. December 2008, 10:33.



Rose of York	Wednesday, 3. December 2008, 13:30 Post #45
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	OsullivanB Wednesday, 3. December 2008, 02:55 Rose, A few random thoughts for your RC Theme Park. You would doubtless have a Holy Roller Coaster, and a Holy Water Chute. (A Holy Ghost Train might be ott.) Pride of place would have to go to the Tridentine Ride. You might think about a facility for baptisms by immersion to be conducted by a very large priest - to be known as the Big Dipper. To attract the Trads you could differentiate yourself from Thorpe Park by pointing out that Thorpe was a Liberal. The catering department would have two departments: Ordinary (menus in the vernacular, male servers wearing smart casuals). Female manager. and Extraordinary (menus in Latin, not French, male servers wearing lacy collars).
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