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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago (4 children)

We were telling dirty jokes about priests and alter boys when I was a kid in the 80s. It was well known and rampant 20 years BEFORE 20 years ago.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jeff Dunham even did a joke with Achmed the dead terrorist.

"I like to throw a penny between two Jews and watch them fight to the death. I also do the same with Catholic priests but instead I throw a small boy! The winner has to fight Michael Jackson!"

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hate that Jeff Dunham idiot. Being straight up racist with a puppet is not comedy, no matter how much your racist uncle laughs at his "jokes"

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey I get that I was just using it as an example of priests always having been this way.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Commas are so underused these days.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I, get, that, I, was, just, using, that, as, an, example, of, a, lack, of, comma, usage.

[–] AnonWyo@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

William Shatner, is that you?

[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah as a kid in the 70s, it was a known trope. Benny Hill and Monty Python even alluded to it.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Long before the '70s. The British arms manufacturing companies Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth merged in the late 1920s to become Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. Employees of the former Armstrong Whitworth were not happy about the merger and joked about being like choirboys - because they were being buggered by Vickers (i.e. "buggered by vicars").

[–] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Somewhere in Rousseau's "Confessions" there's a bunch about him becoming disillusioned by the church as a child because of sexual abuse, and the head priest tells him "that's how it's always been". That was written in 1769!

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

A new priest has to replace another priest who recently retired. As he's taking confession, the woman on the other side says she sinned because she performed a blowjob. The priest had no idea of the correct penance for this. Just then a young acolyte passes so he leans out of his chair and asks the boy: "how much do they give around here for a blowjob?" The boy promptly answers: "One snicker bar, sir."

Yeah, that's the kinda stuff going around in the 80s.