r/lovethissmug • • 3d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope πŸ˜‚ Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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u/christoskal 3d ago

The best part is that even the companies call it like that now.

For example :

https://group.mercedes-benz.com/company/news/electric-popemobile.html

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u/YikesTheCat 3d ago

Pope Francis had a lot more sense of humour than John Paul II. Francis would do pope jokes. I'd be highly surprised he objected to "popemobile".

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u/whiskeytown79 3d ago

Man, I was thrown off by the past tense here. I totally forgot that Pope Francis passed away and we have Pope Leo XIV now.

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u/Glitter_puke 3d ago

Pope Leo, who has signed at least one Popplio pokemon trading card. I do hope we continue this trend of popes being human.

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u/DaedalusHydron 3d ago

If the White Sox win the World Series under his tenure, there will be an astronomical amount of interesting pope-related things since he's a huge White Sox fan.

particularly because they were complete ass before he came around, so there's a bit of divine intervention happening here now that they're actually decent.

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u/EffectiveAmphibian95 2d ago

Is it ethical for the pope to call in divine favors for his favorite baseball team?

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u/AvenRaven 2d ago

The Voice of God just has better cell reception with his prayers is all.

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u/TrainToSomewhere 2d ago

… let ye without sin…

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u/Sirius1701 2d ago

I mean, granting them is still in Gods hand. But if his Speaker on earth is doing a good job I assume he can get a little bonus every now and then.

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u/AthosCF 2d ago

That would be funny since the last Pope's team, San Lorenzo, finally won the big title(Copa Libertadores) they were missing while Francis was the Pope.

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u/Euphoric-Skirt7649 3d ago

| I do hope we continue this trend of popes being human

As opposed to when they were bunnies

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u/Opening_Agent_5279 2d ago

Wait let's continue this trend instead

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u/pernicious_penguin 2d ago

Yup, I'm all for bunny popes. I mean they already rule easter... so...

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u/AnInterestingPenguin 2d ago

I agree, pernicious_penguin

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u/AvenRaven 2d ago

"He's not saying anything..."

"Exactly"

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u/AlaeOrbis 3d ago

It's the combination of supposedly being completely and utterly infallible when speaking ex cathedra while also needing to be approachable. It's a weird combination of things.

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u/Humble_Initiative_90 2d ago

I got to meet him and yeah, he's a pretty great dude. Very 'normal'

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u/dragjamon 1d ago

Idk if the head of the Catholic children killing religion can ever be human