h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Oooookaaayyyy...

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Well, unless the spontaneous colour change starts becoming a major problem they'll be alright there.

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This'll be the little known "Screwed up and Wrong" method of teaching...

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Well... I suppose you *could* argue that the swastika is a traditional symbol for good luck and prosperity but I have an inkling that this isn't the case here.

Really, what's wrong with this picture?

"The pair are the biggest thing to hit the white supremacist pop scene in some time"

Frankly I'm rather worried about the fact that there *is* a white supremacist pop scene for them to be big on.

It is unfortunate, but these girl's are probably already so indoctrinated that they are a lost cause. I know I've read that our personalities are pretty well developed by age 5. I don't know what the age is for indoctrination. But what we're taught when we're young - if it is intense, which is the way the racist groups operate - sticks with us. I'm not saying it is impossible to overcome, but it is difficult.

The Roman Catholic Church says 'Give me a child until it is 5 and it will always be catholic'
I suppose this applies to indoctrination too?

Not so, I know plenty of people (including myself) who were catholics til well past 5 years and aren't any more.

"Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. "

It's a pity when children are taught to hate.

I stand corrected.

My wife was catholic until the age of 4 when her mother had a dispute with the priest and was told to take her children and be dammned with them.
They were brought up methodist - but the mother took the last rites and was buried catholic.

I don't really understand the different strands, I know methodism was founded by John Wesley but no idea why.

The Church of England broke away from Rome when Henry 8th wanted a divorce and the Pope wouldn't hear of it.

Methodism broke away from the Church of England because of it's continued practice of papal type ceremonies.

Roughly that's a very brief summation of the history.

Yes I thought it was quite ironic when there was an outcry when Prince Charlie got remarried seeing as that was how the C of E started.

Sorry sergeant - it was Henry 8th. Bonnie Prince Charlie came a long, long time later.
Mind you, I'm no historian but these two were in different centuries.

not what I meant

I think the Sarge was referring to the CofE's outcry about Charles and Camilla being ironic as Henry VIII's desire to remarry is what started it.

Sorry - never thought of Charles as bonnie prince charlie.
I stand corrected again - not my day is it?

Back to these two girls. I wonder what their song lyrics say. And who publishes this stuff. It's scary that there is enough of a market for it to make it profitable.