Oh my fucking, fuck. Despicable, disgusting, fucking inhumane… just an overwhelmingly morally bankrupt synaptic glitch for which the incepting brain should self-destruct by default. Any human who could seriously entertain this concept without physical recoil and abject horror, should be removed from any circumstances now, or in future, where they may have even a modicum of influence over the wellbeing, livelihood, education, security, or happiness of a fellow living being.

I had to do a double take. I thought your comment might have had an issue with keming…

That’s cool buddy, thanks for checking it out. I knew about the mitre and it seems like the popes have the same type of regalia/ornamental discretion as the US President does in many official aesthetic choices. I can’t help but think of the practicality that is always behind any kind of pomp and ceremony like this. There’s always some guy called Marty whose Sister went to school with a guy who calls in a favour to get him a job doing something like holding the pope’s “wee willy winky” on official outings when he has to take a whizz, because the frock and accessories prohibit practical access solo.

The machinery behind the magic, the support staff behind the spectacle… Gladys’s Pips!

How many of those hats you reckon he has? Do they make a new one for each new pope? Reckon there is like a closet with one of each size that he tries on and then has like three of them made in his size? Like the first appearance is in the demo/loaner model - and asap thereafter his custom one(s) gets made? I wonder who the papal milliner is? Do they also do the Swiss guard uniforms? I had no idea how many logistical questions I had about all this! 🤔

Well spotted. Perhaps a very fast last minute edit before posting changing “staff” to “employees”?