possibly the weirdest picture I have ever seen

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 05:47:59

Tachyon · 2014-01-28 05:51:00

Latin?

insert slice of cheese and fashion a rational thought

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 05:54:14

Latin being used entirely seriously on a contemporary ATM machine, written in Comic Sans, in The Vatican.

Tachyon · 2014-01-28 05:56:23

you know of all the places on Earth for such an ATM to exist, the Vatican probably makes the most sense

still bizarre

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 05:58:27

Very few people speak Latin fluently, though.

Especially tourists, who the ATM is presumably there for (I doubt the Pope ever needs to make a quick withdraw from his bank account to grab a sandwich at the local Subway).

Tachyon · 2014-01-28 06:02:04

Priests, maybe?

but we know the Vatican love their Comic Sans:

sunn wolf · 2014-01-28 08:06:49

^ nah that's all about the Papal Papyrus Watermark

nohaynicklibre · 2014-01-28 10:16:51

Latin is actually an official language in the Vatican, so it makes sense they put it in that ATM, as a way to make tourists go "Oh that's neat". I'm sure there are other languages avaliable in the machine

Princess Alice · 2014-01-28 11:00:25

Yeah, if it's really intended for tourists, there's probably a language selection screen before you get dropped straight into Latin.

Doesn't excuse the Comic Sans though :P

glennmagusharvey · 2014-01-28 12:48:18

It's pretty obvious how to use the machine even if you don't understand Latin.

Imipolex G · 2014-01-28 12:54:49

that hand looks like a butt to me

glennmagusharvey · 2014-01-28 12:56:34

...cannot unsee

glennmagusharvey · 2014-01-28 12:57:11

Justice4243 · 2014-01-28 14:35:45

The evidence is really piling up that the Catholics believe Comic sans to be the holiest of fonts.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-01-28 14:56:22

the font of all holiness

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 14:58:52

Every handout I've ever gotten from the local catholic church is written in a nice Gothic-looking font I can't identify.

idg why The Vatican specifically loves Comic Sans so much, maybe it's a joke amongst the younger clergy.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-01-28 15:00:18

Clearly it means that the Vatican is secretly funding the Large Hadron Collider.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 15:00:49

isn't that the plot of a Dan Brown book

like I'm not even kidding I'm pretty sure it is.

Tachyon · 2014-01-28 15:02:28

Angels & Demons?

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 15:02:49

That's the one.

Fossilmaiden · 2014-01-28 15:09:21

Nah, that's "A Muslim assassin is hired by the Pope's bastard son to kill the Pope for having a son and then to steal an anti-matter bomb to make science look evil."

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 15:10:27

WRITING

Yarrun XIX · 2014-01-28 15:17:10

Justice4243 said:
The evidence is really piling up that the Catholics believe Comic sans to be the holiest of fonts.

But Comic Sans is the devil!

This is so contradictory!

Tachyon · 2014-01-28 15:26:21

eh, put it down to doctrinal differences

lots of people in culturally-Protestant parts of the world think inverted crosses are Satanic, after all

Salix Babylonika · 2014-01-28 16:14:21

I actually received a large Peter's Cross necklace as a confirmation gift.

It was very nice, but since the cross was made out of onyx it made people think I was just really into The Cure.

Justice4243 · 2014-01-31 18:42:44

Burgundy Queen said:
I actually received a large Peter's Cross necklace as a confirmation gift.

It was very nice, but since the cross was made out of onyx it made people think I was just really into The Cure.

Sounds preferable to them thinking you're really into Satan.

Obā-san · 2014-01-31 18:56:50

semi-relatedly a few years back my little sister told me she wanted to be a goth and asked me what goth rock she should listen to so i sent her a youtube link to Friday I'm In Love and lemme tell you the look on her face was priceless

Justice4243 · 2014-01-31 19:38:56

Hehehe, nice.

This get played all the time on my local alternative station. One would almost think The Cure was a one hit wonder.

lee4hmz · 2014-01-31 22:55:03

Around here, they at least played "Lovesong" occasionally...

Imipolex G · 2014-01-31 23:06:24

I used to hear this one a lot

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-01-31 23:08:38

"Friday I'm In Love" is mastered just slowly enough to lower the song by a quarter-tone.

I actually like The Cure, but their post-Disintegration output is one hell of a mixed bag. Some of it is glorious, some of it is painfully kitschy or bland or flawed in the most puzzling ways... and a lot of it is squarely between the two. But then, I love The Top, and that album is undeniably one of the most excessive things in their discography, period.

^ Good song, but their proper "goth" stuff is more like... all of Faith and Pornography, plus tracks like "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" and "The Same Deep Water As You", I guess? The gloomy stuff. "Just Like Heaven" is pure guitar pop.

Previous Calica · 2014-01-31 23:10:09

Justice4243 said:

Burgundy Queen said:
I actually received a large Peter's Cross necklace as a confirmation gift.

It was very nice, but since the cross was made out of onyx it made people think I was just really into The Cure.
Sounds preferable to them thinking you're really into Satan.

Even that's preferable to them thinking you're a LaVeyan Satanist and really into Ayn Rand.

Imipolex G · 2014-01-31 23:15:25

I cannot take "goth" stuff seriously

Especially after reading My Immortal

Previous Calica · 2014-01-31 23:17:53

goffik

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-01-31 23:21:10

^^ Most older bands lumped into the "goth" thing really don't like being called that, or are just totally indifferent to the concept; and likewise, most actual goths have pretty eclectic taste in music, as far as I have observed. They do seem to dig EBM, post-punk, dream pop, industrial and black metal the most, though, which I can sympathise with.

But really, most goths don't take themselves very seriously. It's hard to take oneself seriously when dressed like that.

Bee · 2014-01-31 23:31:14

Most goths I've met were pretty cheerful folks, usually with wonderfully warped senses of humor. The trick is knowing the difference between goths and emos.

Obā-san · 2014-01-31 23:35:41

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-01-31 23:38:24

^^ You mean scenester emos, not...

^ ...that kind of emo, which basically means "punk without the posing."

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-01-31 23:41:04

(There is sometimes a thin line there, musically and personally, but confusing the two can be problematic in many circumstances...)

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