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# *looks up Wittgenstein on Wikipedia*
HA HA HA I GET THIS JOKE!

*looks round*
*hopes nobody realises he's an uneducated pleb who's never heard of Wittgenstein*
*realises people can read these bits*

Oops :(
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:31, archived)
# The evening began at the gentlemen's club, where we were discussing Witgenstein over a game of Backgammon
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:32, archived)
# hitler hated jews because of that cunt
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:32, archived)
# Explain, at great length.
And don't cop out by posting a link.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:36, archived)
# at school together
rich gay jew with rich family who dominated the town. Right wing father resented this. Son followed dad.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:38, archived)
# So it's all Wittgenstein's fault
because he was rich and gay and had Jewish heritage (but was brought up Roman Catholic)?
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:40, archived)
# clearly
Protestant, actually.
Edit: you are right.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:41, archived)
# I blame YOU
for Hitler.

and Wikipedia says "Despite his paternal grandparents' conversion to Protestantism, the Wittgenstein children were baptized as Roman Catholics—the faith of their maternal grandmother—and Ludwig was given a Roman Catholic burial upon his death."
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:42, archived)
# then he was rich
gay and catholic and not jewish at all?
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:43, archived)
# Again according to Wikipedia
His father's parents, Hermann Christian and Fanny Wittgenstein (who was a first cousin of the violinist Joseph Joachim), were born into Jewish families but later converted to Protestantism
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:45, archived)
# That's fine. I understand.
you can only belong to one religious cult at a time.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:46, archived)
# Judaism is more than religion
it's heritage and culture too.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:47, archived)
# this, but we won't discuss that with Zoot further.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:48, archived)
# no more than catholicism or islam
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:48, archived)
# Except: no
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 2:06, archived)
# I do my best to belong to several
a bit like wine tasting
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:47, archived)
# Or divine bigamy
Judaism was not always a monotheistic religion. You could just hang out with whatever God was being cool that week technically. Like maybe Vishnu is being kind of cunt because his new girlfriend makes him act like a jerk so you just call up Tao and ask if he wanted to go play beer pong at some Zoroastrian angel's house party.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 2:04, archived)
# Hang on a sec.
You yourself are proudly right-wing, Mr H, and you don't care who knows it.
How do you manage/sleep?
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:43, archived)
# I blame hitler
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:47, archived)
# *wipes brow*
Phew! So do I.

(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:50, archived)
# I blame David Cameron
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 1:54, archived)
# I blame David Hitler
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 2:01, archived)
# Oh god, IVV can see the future.
*keeps eyes tightly shut for several decades*
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 2:01, archived)