Category Archives: Language

Jennifer Lawrence Defends Butt Scratching Comment, Cites Pope Francis

img_7507HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles, Honolulu Bureau) – Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence came under intense fire for her live television comment regarding butt-scratching on a sacred rock while filming in Hawaii.

HERE is what she’s said.

Today, however, Lawrence defended her comment by saying that ” if Pope Francis can say ‘sh*t,’ then why can’t I say ‘*ass?’ ”

Lawrence was referring to a comment recently made by Pope Francis in which he compared media spreading fake news to ‘excrement.’

“Is there a double standard here, just because I’m a sinner and the Pope is a saint,” Lawrence asked her critics.

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Pope Francis To The Media: You’re A Piece Of Sh*t

img_7505VATICAN CITY (The Adobo Chronicles, Rome Bureau) – Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians are nothing but a piece of sh*t, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Francis told the Belgian Catholic weekly “Tertio” that spreading disinformation was “probably the greatest damage that the media can do” and using communications for this rather than to educate the public amounted to a sin.

img_7506Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.

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No, UNDAS Is Not A United Nations Agency Or Holiday

IMG_6769.JPGMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – UNESCO. UNAIDS. UNDP. UNCHR. UNDAS. These are all United Nations agencies. Well, except UNDAS.

UNDAS is a Filipino term that refers to the day people remember their dearly departed.  It is a holiday during which families troop to the cemetery to visit the tombs of the dead. It is commemorated on November 1, which, ironically is All Saints Day.  Perhaps all Filipinos automatically become saints?

But if UNDAS were a United Nations agency or holiday, what would it stand for?

In the spirit (pun intended) of this Filipino religious and cultural holiday, let us know of what you would suggest to be the meaning of this acronym.  Use our comments section.

We’ll start:

United Nations Day of Asian Separation (to celebrate Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s previous remarks about his country leaving the U.N.)

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