Exactly. I started reading and:

Pope music is bad?? Pop is pretty much all I listen to. I never said it was badly sung.

I don't think anyone's said she's like Adele. Britney is a pop singer, just like other pop artists like Lady Gaga or Beyonce or Lana del Rey. It's all about factory-manufactured music (it's the fast food of music). If you're looking for amazing vocals (or deeply soulful, emotional music) pop is not where you're going…

And Iran:

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Yes they are.

Nah. It's more like:

Who did it better?

Don't care.

Yup. Anyone who happens to know a bit of French, Greek or Latin - they're the ones with the real advantage. (I'm sure serious spellers study these languages at least a bit.)

Bullshit. Most of these seemingly long names are combinations of smaller words (e.g. Chandrasekhar = Chandra + Sekhar) so to anyone familiar with even a smattering of Sanskrit words they're not long, complicated names.

Actually modern analysis has shown that Jesus was basically a fire-and-brimstone preacher who thought the end of days was nigh (oops! didn't happen!). See the book "How Jesus Became God" by Bart Ehrman. (Ehrman is a New Testament scholar.)

Actually modern analysis has shown that Jesus was basically a fire-and-brimstone preacher who thought the end of days was nigh (oops! didn't happen!). See the book "How Jesus Became God" by Bart Ehrman.

Actually modern analysis has shown that Jesus was basically a fire-and-brimstone preacher who thought the end of days was nigh (oops! didn't happen!). See the book "How Jesus Became God" by Bart Ehrman.

I don't wish to debate this issue here, I just want to share the Christian perspective.

I did not grow up in the US.

Nothing to be confused about. Most Middle Eastern and South Asian immigrants to the US come from educated, middle to upper class families, a lot of them coming for education and then settling down. Whereas for the UK a lot of them come from poor and uneducated families to work menial jobs.

Adorable? Yes....