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Surely the most important thing about the ridiculous renaming of things for ?politically correct? reasons is that it truly annoys the type of arseholes who get truly annoyed by it?


Underrepresented minorities really don?t give a dam but the banal bleating and persecuted hair pulling of Middle England makes it all worthwhile.


How about on November 11th we wear Peace and Acceptance Poppies and the 23rd of April becomes the National Celebration of Multicultural Mayhem?

Brendan Wrote:

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> Surely the most important thing about the

> ridiculous renaming of things for ?politically

> correct? reasons is that it truly annoys the type

> of arseholes who get truly annoyed by it?

>

> Underrepresented minorities really don?t give a

> dam but the banal bleating and persecuted hair

> pulling of Middle England makes it all worthwhile.

>

>

> How about on November 11th we wear Peace and

> Acceptance Poppies and the 23rd of April becomes

> the National Celebration of Multicultural Mayhem?


i think that you could be on to something here

It is an example of a perceived trend that the "Britishness/Englishness" of the country is being sacrificed at the altar of multi-culturalism and, when combined with the dismissive attitude articulated by Brendan, breeds resentment. It is also patronising as everyone knows they mean Easter, and to pretend otherwise is just ridiculous.

For starters I'd love someone to define what britishness (an invented concept anyway largely aimed at getting all those troublesome scots to bugger off and make the far flung parts of the empire function) or indeed Englishness actually is.


And whatever it might have been 30 years ago, it has changed beyond all recognition as part of an organic process that has nothing to do with whatever goes on at those mythical multicultural altars, but with a massively changing world.


By all means grumble away while flicking absent mindedly at your inflated pigs bladder and smooshing the warm beer froth off of your beard, but it's essentially a luddite response harking for some bygone golden age that never existed.

I wouldn't worry, it's human nature, there's plenty of writings of Romans grumbling that things ain't what it used to be (which after 500AD is actually very true).

And this is in spite of the best efforts of the writers of Midsomer Murders.


Plus we might 'mean' Easter, but as this is one of the least religious countries on the planet, most people 'mean' a weekend to get away or sit in a pub. I'm all for calling it 'pissup' weekend frankly.

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