Rev
Tom Hollander's character is based on my mate's dad, the vicar of Shoreditch. They use the same buildings and very often employ stories from the parish's colourful history.

One time I skated over there with some friends to hear the steel band playing in the gardens; it was a fund-raiser for a local caribbean community's storm-hit home island. Inside, there were 14 cots made up for local street and homeless people, including some pretty hardcore junkies, who were looked after and, when suitable, put in the adjoining halfway house. At night, the church was kept open and the homeless typically fed and sheltered.

The Church hierarchy can't bear this, and desperately want to kick him out for someone a bit less useful, stop his work with the homeless and addicts and sell the vicarage and halfway house to the Hoxton square developers.

Personally, I detest the Church and all it stands for, and frankly the same goes for the Jews & Muslims (no prejudice here), but if ever there was a man working in the name of Christ, it's Rev. Turp and he deserves to be known for it.

Oh, and I'll most likely be going to hell by default by flying Ryanair.
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 19:48, 26 replies)

Tom Hollander, the actor,
has based his entire personality on your mate's dad?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 20:16, closed)

That just may be
the stupidest comment I've yet read on the QOTW. Well done, you.

*golf clap*
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 6 Sep 2011, 20:22, closed)

Is it the first comment you've ever read on QOTW?

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 20:32, closed)

Clearly, the first of yours.

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 6:05, closed)

Further googling reveals that Rev is a sitcom,
that I've never heard of (as opposed to just being a title that refers to the fact that there's a vicar in this story).

That may well be the most effort I've ever had to expend in comprehending a qotw story.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 20:49, closed)

sorry
was very clear in *my* mind. Should have been more clear
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 21:34, closed)

Eh, all's well that ends well.
It's not like I had any reputation to lose!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 8:02, closed)

My girlfriend's a supermodel.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 21:34, closed)

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 6 Sep 2011, 22:32, closed)

Shoreditch should be nuked.

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 6 Sep 2011, 22:44, closed)

From orbit, just to sure?

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 6 Sep 2011, 23:54, closed)

Not quite sure
How being nuked from orbit is worse than being nuked from the ground...
( MatJ LOOK, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 0:59, closed)

Go and watch Aliens again.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 1:36, closed)

If you nuke it from orbit, the bomb's moving a lot faster when it hits the ground.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 1:45, closed)

E = mc² >> E = ½mv² where nukes are concerned.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 7 Sep 2011, 11:42, closed)

don't nukes detonate above the ground
to ensure more destruction?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 14:58, closed)

I always thought the phrase was figurative
"nuke the planet so hard that it's no longer in orbit"

rather than "fire nukes at it from orbit"
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:07, closed)

I think the point of nuking the planet from orbit
is that your out of reach of whatever's on the planet (as well as being a at a safe distance from the nuke).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 16:06, closed)

I suspect this is correct

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 16:44, closed)

You pile of fucking spastics, it's a quotation from Aliens.
Jesus.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 23:52, closed)

I'm pretty sure we all know that dumbass, I certainly did,
and it doesn't make any difference to what has been said.

don't be so quick to find fault with every fucking thing you read.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 11:16, closed)

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 11:38, closed)

Also, the fact he says "take off and nuke the site from orbit"
suggests you're right and I'm a spaz.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 16:53, closed)

I am aware of the vicar of Shoreditch
and despite my atheist (lack of) beliefs, I thoroughly applaud this excellent man for behaving like a Christian actually should, as opposed to the overwhelming majority of them who think they can swan about church once a week and spend the rest of their time sinning and ignoring the plight of the less fortunate and STILL get into heaven. Fools. If Christ had existed in the sense detailed in the Bible, he'd have damned the lot of them.

However, if I'm wrong and this God business is all true after all, the Reverend thoroughly deserves a sainthood even though he'd be far too modest to accept. A genuinely top chap so I hope this answer gets a whole lotta "likes" and maybe a few B3tans might even help his excellent efforts in some way.
(rampants, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 14:24, closed)

One googling later
Good heavens. A vicar who's human and spends much of his life working with society's outcasts and rejects. I'm sure that reminds me of someone.
(ubergeekian, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 19:37, closed)

Hitler?

( gone, Thu 8 Sep 2011, 9:38, closed)