Play Nice Random Chat Thread VII

[goalieboy82]

Give him a good send off Timmy.
Game day thread Champion

i will have a thread for him when the time comes

 

[Disco Dew]

Happy Easter everybody!

 

[Mordecai]

Anyone been to the mcw at Thornbury theatre. Wicked fun and good vibe in the crowd. Strong recommend.

 

[Dan]

I just watched the Dalai Lama tongue a small boy.

 

[gokangas]

I just watched the Dalai Lama tongue a small boy.

Saw that too - very uncomfortable. Weird.

 

[ferball]

What are youse on about?

 

[gokangas]

What are youse on about?

Dalai Lama speaks out after bizarre video showed him asking to kiss boy’s tongue​

The Dalai Lama has responded to outcry surrounding a video that showed him kissing a young boy on the lips and asking him to “suck” his tongue.

Frank Chung
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April 11, 2023 - 8:25AM



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Dalai Lama kisses boy and asks him to 'suck' his tongue

The leader of Tibetan Buddhism has raised eyebrows in India after he hugged and kissed a boy at an event for the M3M Foundation.


The Dalai Lama has apologised following outcry over him kissing a young Indian boy on the lips and asking him to “suck” his tongue.
The spiritual leader’s office released a statement on Monday after footage of the bizarre interaction, which occurred last month during an event for India’s M3M Foundation, went viral on social media.
The statement said he “wishes to apologise to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused”.
“His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras,” the statement read, also saying he “regrets” the interaction.

The response has seemingly done little to quell outrage over the incident on Twitter, with many taking to the social media platform to deem his apology inadequate.
Journalist Abhimanyu Bose posted: “The boy asked for a hug so you asked the boy if he wants to “suck his tongue”. And this is your idea of an apology? You think asking a child to suck your tongue is “playful”? Or “innocent”? Religious/spiritual leaders get away with so much bullsh*t.”
Another user wrote: “The audacity to call this playful and innocent. I’m so done.”
One more said: “This apology by dalailama isn’t meaningful. He doesn’t acknowledge what he DID. He apologises for “hurt his words may have caused” rather than for asking a child to ”suck [his] tongue”. Apologies that deliberately downplay what someone did can never be a basis for forgiveness.”
The leader of Tibetan Buddhism, Tenzin Gyatso, was hosting students and members of the foundation at his temple in Dharamshala, India, where he lives in exile.

In the video, the boy approaches the microphone and asks, “Can I hug you?”
The 87-year-old says “OK, come” and invites him on stage.
The Dalai Lama motions to his cheek and says “first here” and the boy gives him a hug and kiss.
He holds the boy’s arm and turns to him, saying “then I think fine here also” as he points to his lips.

The Dalai Lama kissed the boy on the lips. Picture: Twitter
The spiritual leader then grabs the boy’s chin and kisses him on the mouth as the audience laughs.
“And suck my tongue,” the Dalai Lama tells the boy, sticking out his tongue.
They press their foreheads together and the boy briefly pokes out his tongue before backing away, as the Dalai Lama gives him a playful slap on the chest and laughs.
The boy goes to move away but the Dalai Lama shakes his hand and holds it to his cheek, before pulling him in for another hug.
He then offers the boy some spiritual advice, telling him to “look [to] those good human beings who create peace, happiness” and not “not follow those human beings who always kill other people”.
The clip caused a stir in India, with some online branding the footage “creepy” and “disgusting”, while his supporters insisted he was “joking around” with the boy, according to local media.
The video has also gone viral on Spanish-language social media.

He also asked him to ‘suck my tongue’. Picture: Twitter
“This video is scandalous,” Colombian journalist Vicky Dávila wrote on Twitter. “The Dalai Lama kisses a boy who approaches him on the mouth. The attendees applaud and laugh instead of condemning this aberration.”
Last month, the official Twitter account for the Central Tibetan Administration shared a clip of the second half of the interaction.
“During his meeting with students and members of M3M Foundation at courtyard of Thekchen Choeling Tsuglakhang, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama advised a young Indian boy to look up to a good human being who always work for cultivating peace and happiness in the world,” Tibet.net wrote.
In 2019, the Dalai Lama was caught up in a sexism controversy after he remarked that if his successor were a woman, “she should be more attractive”.
His office was forced to issue an apology, saying that sometimes his “off-the-cuff remarks, which might be amusing in one cultural context, lose their humour in translation when brought into another”.

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The prior year he also made headlines for suggesting on a trip to Sweden that refugees should return to their homes and help rebuild their countries because “Europe belongs to Europeans”.
frank.chung@news.com.au

 

[ferball]

Vladimir Putin likes this i guess...

 

[see see]

OK, so the Catholic clergy aren't the only ones who are a bit iffy. Not particularly surprising TBH.

 

[Chadwiko]

Dalai Lama isn't a paedophile. He's just a ****ing weird and eccentric unit.

 

[Chadwiko]

So, have thoroughly enjoyed watching the poop-fight between Elon Musk and his hand-picked 'Twitter files' reporters after the relationship broke down between them.

The Twitter Files were a huge nothing burger filled with woefully inaccurate reporting, and now that the world has really pulled it apart, Elon is mad so he's shadow-banned substack and Matt Taibbi, and unfollowed all three of them.

Hilarious stuff. What a "genius".

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Taibbi thought he could act as a billionaires PR agent without that coming back to bite him. Let’s see if that MAGA substack money sticks around without this twitter files nonsense.


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[ferball]

Anyone remember what the first iterations of these threads were called?

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Ra

Anyone remember what the first iterations of these threads were called?

Random chat thread 1 and 2.

 

[rickety]

Anyone remember what the first iterations of these threads were called?

 

[Dan]

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Musk co owns twitter with the Saudis. Absolute cuck of a human being.


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[DesertRoo]

Musk co owns twitter with the Saudis. Absolute cuck of a human being.


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[koshari]

think this is where brendon goddard got it from?

 

[goalieboy82]

a good photo of Scurry...

 

[goalieboy82]

 

[koshari]

 

[rickety]

If you need $2 in your pocket to avoid being done for vagrancy .... what happens if we move to a cashless society?

 

[Emma12]

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My freshly brewed

 

[koshari]

If you need $2 in your pocket to avoid being done for vagrancy .... what happens if we move to a cashless society?

Wemt ro 2.20 after gst was introduced.