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Shopp'd photo shows reflection...
Posted on: April 7, 2012 - 8:30am
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Shopp'd photo shows reflection...
Fucking douche bag religious leader has $30,000 watch removed from photo but the idiot forgot to remove it from the reflection of the table...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/world/europe/in-russia-a-watch-vanishes-up-orthodox-leaders-sleeve.html
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That's hilarious ( in a bad way ) !
$30,000 for a watch? wtf? later in the article they said there is a watch worth $1 million.... ? I can't imagine what it is like to have that much fucking money. Even if I won $150 million in the lotto I wouldn't buy any thing so gaudy.
$30,000 for a watch is actually fairly common. When watches start including diamonds and gold it isn't unheard of for them to be worth hundreds of thousands. I've heard of a few that sell for $2-$3 million. It isn't that much different than women's jewelry that sells for similar sums. If you have the money and it looks nice, why not?
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
The significance wasn't the cost of a watch, it was the obvious contradiction between the image of a religious leader and the alleged emphasis upon believers
not getting caught up with the vain pursuit of Earthly treasure. If that wasn't true then why would they bother photo shopping it out to begin with ?
I would spend "my" millions on a Bugatti Veyron and a slew of of bad ass Ducatis. Fuck a stupid watch.
Because I can find more practical ways to spend my money.
This. The problem isn't his taste in watches or the money he has... it's the overt attempt to avoid appearing materialistic.
Instant rice arrest, numbnuts.
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)
What the hell is "rice arrest" ?
Bingo, the internets! Let's teach the medieval batman that this is the 21st century and the world is looking.
Look what the watch says about that man's personal character. Let me guess. He's materialistic, greedy, corrupt or corruptible (the watch was likely a gift or a bribe), boastfully displays his wealth and seems not to care about poorer people, neither about their poverty, nor about their opinion. Unless the media look into the matter.
I don't know who of his staff retained a shred of Public Relations skills to think of dogtoring the photograph, or did he order it? I doubt so, he wore the watch at least since his 2009 lecture on the virtues of ascetism.
You guys might want to check out the movie Angels and Demons, I think it contains scenes like a cardinal coming out of a private jet plane smoking a cigarette and talking into a cell phone. Or maybe that's a different movie with Anthony Hopkins, I don't remember exactly.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
it's where you get a unfavorable mention at http://ricecop.com/
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)
Again I am impressed at the incredible amounts of stupidity and laziness that humanity can produce.
Of course the options of rolling the sleeve down or taking the watch off were never considered.
No! We must instead hire a graphic artist.
Yes.
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