I don't know why but in the society where I was raised, which was heavily Roman-Catholic, a lot priests were plain assholes. The one that was teaching the religion class, I had to attend, was, even, acting in an uncivilized, extremely unpleasant manner. He carried a rubber stick as he walked along the classroom and sometimes would hit one of the desks. He was very rude towards the students. I still remember how he tore one of the students notebook, in half, in a rage fit. That was plain insane.
the south american version of catholicism is very light. where i'm from we don't get a 'christian' name. the name our parents give us is the same as the one in the baptism. so they are not particularly chosen after saints. i have no clue who my godparents are. i was named after a famous bloodthirsty tyrant...because my dad is a sociopath and he admired him, so yea! super fun times :)
@dganir1 lol, what? Why would I lie? And I never said I was raised catholic, I said I was raised atheist because I was. My parents were raised catholic. BIG difference.
While doing the dishes the other day, I was thinking of this video. It came to mind when I accidentally splashed some of the water on myself, and realized how dirty it was, and how I needed to shower afterward. You too got splashed by the dishwater, but intentionally... which if it wasn't by a parental, it'd be a bit bothersome.
Of course for you cleaning it off wasn't really so bad. I mean, at least that stuff goes away. You can't wash away forever a real baptism.
I was raised a Baptist. We used to have a ceremony where the church family pledges to support the new parents as they guide the child in their religious upbringing. Baptism was saved until after salvation, I was 10. There's no naming ceremony.
My mother named me Deborah, after the character in the Bible. Personally, I think she just like Debbie Reynolds. None of my siblings have Biblical names, so I don't know why they chose one for me. *shrugs*
My name is Steve - it means 'Crown' in Greek and the Saint who had the same name as me (I'm a fithy unwashed heathen and very happy about it) was martyred on the 26th of December by being stoned to death for heresy by the Pharisees.
This year at christmas, I'd had a few j's on boxing day and my Dad remembered what day it was and said that he had been shot to death with arrows. Informing them how he really died while toking caused more than a few groans :-) but I couldn't pass it up...
No catholic background, however I have always been aware that I am the only one of my siblings that does *not* have a name the appears somewhere in the bible. Destined for atheism? The saint that I would choose would be named for would be St. Jeanne de Lestonnac. The best story with a name at least similar to my middle name.
I was not babtized at birth. When i was 12 the church had us go to creek in March wich it was pretty fucking cold and they dunked you backwords. Soon after i left the church never to return.
I didn't have a Christian name at Baptism... in my church that waited until confirmation and that was Michael, though I spelled it Michiel. Now since I'm a girl this didn't go over very well. Me and my mother had to fight the church and my grandmother to get the name I wanted. My grandmother wanted me to be Margret I think after a relative. Though I'm not Catholic anymore I have kept the extra name. I just like it.
Hmm, named after my father, who was named after his father, and so on... don't know the saint, but they are all Catholic, so it was one of them. Personally, I give two shits as to which Saint it was, as it really doesn't matter.
My christian name is actually my first name. I'm named after St. Mark, writer of the first gospel and patron saint of actuaries (my father's occupation). I have yet to change my christian name, but I definitely want to.
I´m looking around your videos, havent found -yet- the reason for you attending a Catholic school, being unreligious. No matter which the reason, that is a brave task.
@janover73 I'll have to go back through my Growing up Atheist playlist to see if I missed that (sometimes I put things in the description box that I forget to say when I'm recording). Basically, public schools downtown were crap and I was frustrated with catering to the lowest common denominator so we went private. Catholic school was the only real option given my parent's price range, and since my parents used to be Catholics they figured it would be fine. And it was :)
Well, i would have chosen Saint Zagnar, the Destroyer. But hey...! :)
Okay, no, seriously...I dug around on that website and really didn't find anything. I looked at all the variations on my first name, didn't see anyone I liked; there were no saints from my middle or last names; looked at a few random ones and just didn't find anybody who wasn't a credulous weirdo seein' visions or bein' a virgin and stuff. I don't wanna be named after any of these people!
I have no idea any real deals of my baptism (Catholic upbringing, then I turned agnostic when I was around 12, and firm atheist by the time I was 22.) My name is Danielle, so I suppose I could be named after Daniel (God is my Judge.) But I know my mom picked Danielle because she liked the name...not for any religious meaning. My mom is Catholic in theory...but she doesn't go to church, nor practice anything religious. She almost disowned me when I refused to make my confirmation though.
I went to catholic school in Titusville Florida, my father was an Atheist and Mom was a Christian. We went there for a better education . I was suspended in 1974 at the age of 14 after a nun slapped me , I liturally beat her down three sets of stairs with in an inch of her life. I am not kidding. My father drove from his job at the space center to collect me, he never punished me.
Ex-Catholic here. For our confirmation we were supposed to pick a Saint's name as well for a confirmation name. When my teacher asked why I picked the name 'James' (which James and why) I just shrugged my shoulders and said "I just like the name James." She was not impressed. :-D
Well in the Roman Catholic church it's my impression that confirmation which took place in my church at around 12-13 is intended to confirm your commitment to Catholicism when you are considered old enough to make such a commitment, which isn't the case when you are baptized as an infant.
Despite the fact that I am not Catholic,and that my family hasn't been Catholic for 100 years or more, my name is pretty darn Irish Catholic sounding. For my "Catholic" name, I have chosen Orthodox Saints (scandalous, I know, but as an atheist, according to the Catholic Church, I'm supposed to be) Cyril and Methodius, who fought against the hegemony of Greek and Latin as ecclesiastical languages, and instead advocated use of Old Church Slavonic, for which they created the alphabet, Cyrillic.
I guess it's no difficult step to see which saint shares the name Nicholas. My brother Michael was an angel or something, pretty sure there had to be a St. Michael somewhere. We're not catholic, nor did our parents really bring us up to be religious, but we were later told that my grandparents, who WERE catholic did their OWN baptismal on both of us behind our parents' backs! Now Nanny doesn't care so much, she's a spunky little lady, who wants to have fun and goes out dancing still with grampa!
That assignment was terrible; it's exclusive, and makes a lot of assumptions about your background. I don't think that shit would fly in today's Catholic Education system.
I am a defected Roman Catholic who was baptized in the name of Saint Christopher. Those who are familiar with the Church's standing w/ Saint Christopher should immediately see the irony involved. It seems that even the Roman Catholic Church at one time declared no historical evidence for his existence. (Like this ever had any effect on Church doctrine.)
Growing up, I also attended exclusively catholic schools, so when I was little I thought I was named after St. Anthony of Padua. I later found out that I was named after my grandfather and my actual Christian name was chukwuebuka, which in the Nigerian language of Igbo, means "God Is Great", which is my middle name and is perfect now that I'm an atheist. *sarcasm*
My grandmother thought I was named Paul based on the bible. In fact, I was named after Paul Newman! LOL Thank God (pun intended) my parents raised me to think for myself versus being brainwashed by organized religion. PS - There's something about an attractive woman who is also intelligent, articulate, confident and opinionated that is sooo sexy. Keep speaking out for what you believe in (or don't believe in, as the case may be) and **** the haters. Science and reason is taking over the world.
I was raised presbyterian so I was baptized, but the ceremony was different, it took place when I was a baby and was more about my parents the congregation pledging to teach me in the ways of the denomination and the religion (or at least that is how it was at my church).
Of I had been catholic I think I would have gone with the classic Jone of Arch the warrior/general of france.
St. Catherine of Bologna, Virgin (Patroness of Artists) Feast - March 9th Born in 1413, Catherine de Vigri was the daughter of a diplomatic agent of the Marquis of Ferrara. At the age of eleven, she was appointed maid of honor to the daughter of the Marquis and shared her training and education. When the daughter eventually married, she wanted Catherine to remain in her service, but Catherine left the court and became a Franciscan Tertiary at the age of fourteen....
YEAH! New video! You look lovely...get on with it.
Your mom sounds awesome! That is probably EXACTLY what I would have done...lol. I think I may have to do this one (never Catholic...but sounds amusing)
Peter oddly enough in my case, though I did not get that name at baptism, I chose it before I was confirmed. Things seem to operate differently within catholic schools in different parts of the country. This is all so bizzare
I don't know what my baptism name was, but I remember my confirmation name was mary... I thought it went well with my middle name, rose. Get it? Rose Mary. Yah, I thought I was clever and knew I'd never use the "confirmation name".
We had those stupid kinds of assignments too. Pointless busywork. Even while I believed I never took them seriously. Not like they ever checked anything. I literally made up every answer. Pure smoke blowing for four years of religious classes and no teacher was ever the wiser. Example: "Have you ever been in a situation where you lost your temper? What did you do?" My answer: "I got into a fight once then said I was sorry." It was that simple.
Ex-Cath here. Actually, there are so many saints that most Catholics have relatives with saint names so we were given the name of a relative which also happened to be a saint's name. I am named for St. John, but only because my dad named me after his brother John. It's confirmation that really has the "choose a saint name" stigma.
i was baptised as an SDA. we don't fallow false Catholic traditions.
Swackers90 2 months ago
PRAISE THA LAWD YESSSS! My name is saintless.
Unholy since birth, blasphemous to the soul.
HybridD91 6 months ago
I was born in St Anthonies'day, so thats my second name. But here in PR I don't think I've seen that tradition of the 'çhristian name' imposed.
Raphaelus13 8 months ago in playlist Growing up Atheist
lol, I was baptized, but I don't have a Christian name.
Can't wait to be de-baptized though, looking into it.
Cinafoil 1 year ago
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SuperLiberal2010 1 year ago
I don't know why but in the society where I was raised, which was heavily Roman-Catholic, a lot priests were plain assholes. The one that was teaching the religion class, I had to attend, was, even, acting in an uncivilized, extremely unpleasant manner. He carried a rubber stick as he walked along the classroom and sometimes would hit one of the desks. He was very rude towards the students. I still remember how he tore one of the students notebook, in half, in a rage fit. That was plain insane.
flyingshitter 1 year ago
the south american version of catholicism is very light. where i'm from we don't get a 'christian' name. the name our parents give us is the same as the one in the baptism. so they are not particularly chosen after saints. i have no clue who my godparents are. i was named after a famous bloodthirsty tyrant...because my dad is a sociopath and he admired him, so yea! super fun times :)
panthpope 1 year ago
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yourenotsmartenough 1 year ago
Your mother is awesome.
undertehlaw 1 year ago
I was named after Saint Joan Of Arc same as my grandmother, as well as Saint Dominique.
Ps. I'm not an X Catholic
NickyMicky3 1 year ago
Why are so many "atheists" actually Jews? And why do they always pretend to have been raised Catholic?
dganir1 1 year ago
@dganir1 lol, what? Why would I lie? And I never said I was raised catholic, I said I was raised atheist because I was. My parents were raised catholic. BIG difference.
BornWithoutReligion 1 year ago 3
You always look great sweetie don't worry.
Cheers Christine
christinepeace 1 year ago
wow your mom is a cunt
zachsmith47 1 year ago
While doing the dishes the other day, I was thinking of this video. It came to mind when I accidentally splashed some of the water on myself, and realized how dirty it was, and how I needed to shower afterward. You too got splashed by the dishwater, but intentionally... which if it wasn't by a parental, it'd be a bit bothersome.
Of course for you cleaning it off wasn't really so bad. I mean, at least that stuff goes away. You can't wash away forever a real baptism.
SamuelHans 1 year ago
My mom was catholic ... I think she named me after the imaginary Mark fellow of the infamous four ... Mathew, Mark, Luke & John
msginca 1 year ago
Francis
21dandandan12 1 year ago
I would choose Francis of Assisi because he's the patron saint of animals. I love animals.<3
vulcangrl13 1 year ago
Welcome back, Emily.
I was raised a Baptist. We used to have a ceremony where the church family pledges to support the new parents as they guide the child in their religious upbringing. Baptism was saved until after salvation, I was 10. There's no naming ceremony.
My mother named me Deborah, after the character in the Bible. Personally, I think she just like Debbie Reynolds. None of my siblings have Biblical names, so I don't know why they chose one for me. *shrugs*
debbieomi 1 year ago
My name is Steve - it means 'Crown' in Greek and the Saint who had the same name as me (I'm a fithy unwashed heathen and very happy about it) was martyred on the 26th of December by being stoned to death for heresy by the Pharisees.
This year at christmas, I'd had a few j's on boxing day and my Dad remembered what day it was and said that he had been shot to death with arrows. Informing them how he really died while toking caused more than a few groans :-) but I couldn't pass it up...
Teloculos 1 year ago
thomas, which i think is kinda funny since im a doubting atheist lol
cz1992 1 year ago
No catholic background, however I have always been aware that I am the only one of my siblings that does *not* have a name the appears somewhere in the bible. Destined for atheism? The saint that I would choose would be named for would be St. Jeanne de Lestonnac. The best story with a name at least similar to my middle name.
LJonYT 1 year ago
gotta give you props for taking classes there, i think my head would explode from frustration in some of those types of situations lol
peteheatb3 1 year ago
That's an awesome story! Made my day :)
MichaelPayton67 1 year ago
I think I would say I was named after Saint Dale of Earnhardt and I was baptized by Father Ted Crilly.
deedubya286 1 year ago
Apparently the Catholics in my family weren't aware of this tradition. I was named after my grandfathers, first and middle. :)
badnewsBH 1 year ago
I was not babtized at birth. When i was 12 the church had us go to creek in March wich it was pretty fucking cold and they dunked you backwords. Soon after i left the church never to return.
blueridger28 1 year ago
My dad was Catholic and he was named, I presume, after St. Francis of Assisi.
RHYMEMAIDEN1 1 year ago
we gonna baptize these teachers with gulf oil
TheAtheistworld 1 year ago
I didn't have a Christian name at Baptism... in my church that waited until confirmation and that was Michael, though I spelled it Michiel. Now since I'm a girl this didn't go over very well. Me and my mother had to fight the church and my grandmother to get the name I wanted. My grandmother wanted me to be Margret I think after a relative. Though I'm not Catholic anymore I have kept the extra name. I just like it.
shakensilence 1 year ago
Hmm, named after my father, who was named after his father, and so on... don't know the saint, but they are all Catholic, so it was one of them. Personally, I give two shits as to which Saint it was, as it really doesn't matter.
CraniumOnEmpty 1 year ago
My name is Mary. I was baptized but never given a Christian name. I guess I didn't need one lol. Mary Catherine is Catholic enough.
Marri3free 1 year ago
My christian name is actually my first name. I'm named after St. Mark, writer of the first gospel and patron saint of actuaries (my father's occupation). I have yet to change my christian name, but I definitely want to.
kundun1 1 year ago
We used to do that as kids to each other and shout; "Buddha bless!"
TheTruePooka 1 year ago
I was baptized as an infant. However, I did go to catholic school, and when it came time for confirmation, I skipped out.
It is fun to say that catholic school made me an atheist, or at least a good religion teacher.
I would have cheated and used my middle name of Paul.
Mr500sheetsofpaper 1 year ago
St. Dyfnog - because it sounded funny...
jxaxmxixn 1 year ago
I´m looking around your videos, havent found -yet- the reason for you attending a Catholic school, being unreligious. No matter which the reason, that is a brave task.
janover73 1 year ago
@janover73 I'll have to go back through my Growing up Atheist playlist to see if I missed that (sometimes I put things in the description box that I forget to say when I'm recording). Basically, public schools downtown were crap and I was frustrated with catering to the lowest common denominator so we went private. Catholic school was the only real option given my parent's price range, and since my parents used to be Catholics they figured it would be fine. And it was :)
BornWithoutReligion 1 year ago
...and no doubt your christian name was Hypatia
AtheistCitizen 1 year ago
The only saint I even like AT ALL is St. Joseph of Cupertino, because he's the patron saint of astronauts (rock!).
...but 'Kate Joseph' sounds kinna...weird. Just sayin'.
BionicDance 1 year ago
Well, i would have chosen Saint Zagnar, the Destroyer. But hey...! :)
Okay, no, seriously...I dug around on that website and really didn't find anything. I looked at all the variations on my first name, didn't see anyone I liked; there were no saints from my middle or last names; looked at a few random ones and just didn't find anybody who wasn't a credulous weirdo seein' visions or bein' a virgin and stuff. I don't wanna be named after any of these people!
BionicDance 1 year ago
I have no idea any real deals of my baptism (Catholic upbringing, then I turned agnostic when I was around 12, and firm atheist by the time I was 22.) My name is Danielle, so I suppose I could be named after Daniel (God is my Judge.) But I know my mom picked Danielle because she liked the name...not for any religious meaning. My mom is Catholic in theory...but she doesn't go to church, nor practice anything religious. She almost disowned me when I refused to make my confirmation though.
danigurrl26 1 year ago
I went to catholic school in Titusville Florida, my father was an Atheist and Mom was a Christian. We went there for a better education . I was suspended in 1974 at the age of 14 after a nun slapped me , I liturally beat her down three sets of stairs with in an inch of her life. I am not kidding. My father drove from his job at the space center to collect me, he never punished me.
Clemburke1111 1 year ago
Ex-Catholic here. For our confirmation we were supposed to pick a Saint's name as well for a confirmation name. When my teacher asked why I picked the name 'James' (which James and why) I just shrugged my shoulders and said "I just like the name James." She was not impressed. :-D
papafox 1 year ago
Hmmm, I thought it was when you were confirmed that you chose the Christian name? I was baptized, but deconverted prior to confirmation.
TheNakedAtheist 1 year ago
Continued...
On a side not my mother, and father's confirmation names were coincidentally Mary, and Joseph. :p
TheNakedAtheist 1 year ago
@TheNakedAtheist What does confirmation mean? What does it signify?
lazyperfectionist1 1 year ago
@lazyperfectionist1
Well in the Roman Catholic church it's my impression that confirmation which took place in my church at around 12-13 is intended to confirm your commitment to Catholicism when you are considered old enough to make such a commitment, which isn't the case when you are baptized as an infant.
TheNakedAtheist 1 year ago
@TheNakedAtheist Okay. Thanks. I never understood that.
lazyperfectionist1 1 year ago
Despite the fact that I am not Catholic,and that my family hasn't been Catholic for 100 years or more, my name is pretty darn Irish Catholic sounding. For my "Catholic" name, I have chosen Orthodox Saints (scandalous, I know, but as an atheist, according to the Catholic Church, I'm supposed to be) Cyril and Methodius, who fought against the hegemony of Greek and Latin as ecclesiastical languages, and instead advocated use of Old Church Slavonic, for which they created the alphabet, Cyrillic.
TimCubUAkbar 1 year ago
St. Sebastian, patron st. of Archery, or St Gabriel Possenti, Patron st. of Handguns.
APDurrant 1 year ago
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jwissick 1 year ago
Your mom is boss.
KelliSings 1 year ago 2
I guess it's no difficult step to see which saint shares the name Nicholas. My brother Michael was an angel or something, pretty sure there had to be a St. Michael somewhere. We're not catholic, nor did our parents really bring us up to be religious, but we were later told that my grandparents, who WERE catholic did their OWN baptismal on both of us behind our parents' backs! Now Nanny doesn't care so much, she's a spunky little lady, who wants to have fun and goes out dancing still with grampa!
limegreensquid 1 year ago
If that was your mother's attitude to baptism... why did you go to a Catholic school?!
*goes to look at your earlier videos*
Widgetas 1 year ago
Ps - I'm not Christened, baptised, confirmed, anointed... I'm fooked! :(
Widgetas 1 year ago
Damn, I wish I had your mom.
OpenInsanity 1 year ago
I answer only because you ask... Normally, I couldn't be bothered to speak of it....
St. Martin.
I have legally changed my full name to DROP my Christian name, instead using only the letter "M" for a middle name.
Anywayz... I'm done with the Catholic church. They can have their "Christian name" back -- I'm done with it.
TheHogTieChamp 1 year ago
the closest i could find is St.Dunstan the patron of armorers, goldsmiths, locksmiths, and jewelers.
dusty8512 1 year ago
Lol, I find it Ironic that Im a gay man and Im named after my grand mother. Shes Antoinette, and I am Anthony.
TonyPstunts 1 year ago
@TonyPstunts OMG! I'm a lesbian and I was named after my grandFATHER! His name was Emil, so I became Emily... I never thought of how odd that was
BornWithoutReligion 1 year ago 3
@BornWithoutReligion Saint John - John's my middle name.
AdonTimasu 10 months ago
your mum sounds a lot like mine =\
Trillasecond 1 year ago
St. Thomas, definately. The doubter.
samsroomie 1 year ago
That assignment was terrible; it's exclusive, and makes a lot of assumptions about your background. I don't think that shit would fly in today's Catholic Education system.
FantasmaBAnco 1 year ago
I am a defected Roman Catholic who was baptized in the name of Saint Christopher. Those who are familiar with the Church's standing w/ Saint Christopher should immediately see the irony involved. It seems that even the Roman Catholic Church at one time declared no historical evidence for his existence. (Like this ever had any effect on Church doctrine.)
ottotechnica 1 year ago
@ottotechnica Hey! Me too! :)
KristoffDoe 1 year ago
Growing up, I also attended exclusively catholic schools, so when I was little I thought I was named after St. Anthony of Padua. I later found out that I was named after my grandfather and my actual Christian name was chukwuebuka, which in the Nigerian language of Igbo, means "God Is Great", which is my middle name and is perfect now that I'm an atheist. *sarcasm*
oakaveli 1 year ago 2
well my name is Pablo Alejandro. so i guess i would be named after San Pablo (saint Paul) but in reality I'm named after my dad.
angusyoung9323 1 year ago
My grandmother thought I was named Paul based on the bible. In fact, I was named after Paul Newman! LOL Thank God (pun intended) my parents raised me to think for myself versus being brainwashed by organized religion. PS - There's something about an attractive woman who is also intelligent, articulate, confident and opinionated that is sooo sexy. Keep speaking out for what you believe in (or don't believe in, as the case may be) and **** the haters. Science and reason is taking over the world.
seattle0002 1 year ago
I was raised presbyterian so I was baptized, but the ceremony was different, it took place when I was a baby and was more about my parents the congregation pledging to teach me in the ways of the denomination and the religion (or at least that is how it was at my church).
Of I had been catholic I think I would have gone with the classic Jone of Arch the warrior/general of france.
RavenBlaze 1 year ago
I would have chosen (LOLOL):
St. Catherine of Bologna, Virgin (Patroness of Artists) Feast - March 9th Born in 1413, Catherine de Vigri was the daughter of a diplomatic agent of the Marquis of Ferrara. At the age of eleven, she was appointed maid of honor to the daughter of the Marquis and shared her training and education. When the daughter eventually married, she wanted Catherine to remain in her service, but Catherine left the court and became a Franciscan Tertiary at the age of fourteen....
jujutubes 1 year ago
Hah, I was baptized Catholic, but I had no idea about the name thing. I'll have to ask my parents next time I talk to them...
rhalas 1 year ago
YEAH! New video! You look lovely...get on with it.
Your mom sounds awesome! That is probably EXACTLY what I would have done...lol. I think I may have to do this one (never Catholic...but sounds amusing)
KingHeathen 1 year ago
Raised in a Jewish family, but apparently there is a St. Nathaniel (of Nitria), so I'll go with that dude because we share the same name.
njb444 1 year ago
I got Michael as my baptism name. Mostly because it's my father's first name I think.
Arikiel 1 year ago
Back when I was a kid and got my first restaurant job, I was "baptized" into the business with dishwater. ;-)
CousinoMacul 1 year ago
Peter oddly enough in my case, though I did not get that name at baptism, I chose it before I was confirmed. Things seem to operate differently within catholic schools in different parts of the country. This is all so bizzare
Comptech224 1 year ago
Hahahah your mother is amazing. ;)
I don't know what my baptism name was, but I remember my confirmation name was mary... I thought it went well with my middle name, rose. Get it? Rose Mary. Yah, I thought I was clever and knew I'd never use the "confirmation name".
Lovingdoubt 1 year ago
We had those stupid kinds of assignments too. Pointless busywork. Even while I believed I never took them seriously. Not like they ever checked anything. I literally made up every answer. Pure smoke blowing for four years of religious classes and no teacher was ever the wiser. Example: "Have you ever been in a situation where you lost your temper? What did you do?" My answer: "I got into a fight once then said I was sorry." It was that simple.
My confirmation name was Paul.
dannypantsgm 1 year ago
Ex-Cath here. Actually, there are so many saints that most Catholics have relatives with saint names so we were given the name of a relative which also happened to be a saint's name. I am named for St. John, but only because my dad named me after his brother John. It's confirmation that really has the "choose a saint name" stigma.
gamutman 1 year ago
your mom is fantastic :)
TheLizardLass 1 year ago
Its about time you make a video!
MrAdmiralAwesomeness 1 year ago
@MrAdmiralAwesomeness I would have chosen the boondock saints.
MrAdmiralAwesomeness 1 year ago