A monasatery that apparently needs recruits, (hardly unexpected if one insists upon celibacy), has had a brain-wave!
Sell Holiday plans! Just like Butlins in the UK!

If you like sleep deprivation, wearing prickly hessian, cold hard beds, shitty food, pointless chanting, no females, and poverty, then have the Franciscans from Maria Enzersdorf got a deal for you!
(It’s either that, or an S&M club in Sydney that specialises in that stuff)

All work and no pray makes Jack a dull goy.

The Franciscans say they want to provide people with a realistic impression of life as a monk, and are accepting men up to the age of 40.

I bet they are! No point in un-fresh meat.

But no radio interviews please. The vow of silence renders them quite dull. (Although vastly more interesting and truthful than a speech by Kevin Rudd)

But wait, there’s more:

And it is not just for men – an order of Franciscan nuns is also offering weekend introductions to the sisterhood.

What is stopping you from comitting this strange form of Darwinian suicide?
What’s that? Oh, you have a functioning brain. I see.

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