Political correctness gone mad?

[aspidistra]

1 Forest Hill Road surgery is invariably beyond belief. :)

[Willard]

How about "Chocolate Egg binge Friday" followed by "self Loathing Monday"?

[Atticus]

Partridge eat your heart out. 'Honestly,this country'.

[Sue]

Willard Wrote:

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> How about "Chocolate Egg binge Friday" followed by

> "self Loathing Monday"?

:))

[northlondoner]

Alex K Wrote:

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> "Winterval"! We likes it.

>

> Visiting in the USA I encountered "Sparkle

> Season". Oh, dear.

Is this something to do with Strictly Come Dancing?

[Smiler]

Love idea of "sparkle season".

[Brendan]

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?

[pk]

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

[Magpie]

Yes lets laugh at people who bizarrely cling to cultural identity

[Brendan]

Ok.

[Santerme]

As long as I can take the day off I could care less what it is called.

[*Bob*]

Absolutely. They can rename it Banjo String Friday and Legs Eleven Monday for all I care.

That would be only marginally more ridiculous than a public holiday named as a result of a fictitious exercise in medieval nonsense.

[pk]

Magpie Wrote:

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> Yes lets laugh at people who bizarrely cling to

> cultural identity

you think that someone can lose their sense of 'cultural identity' because someone else says 'seasonal' rather than 'easter'?

[Magpie]

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.

[*Bob*]

Ah yes.. patronising, dismissive attitudes and resentment.

The very essence of Britishness.

[mockney piers]

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.

[Brendan]

I think you?re confusing Cultural Identity with Ethnic Nationalism.

[Magpie]

No, it sounds like you are though.

[katie1997]

If anyone wants to fuck about with November 11th, I will come round to their house and in true Blackadder- fashion, will poke their eyes out with a very sharp pencil. So there.

Happy Easter everyone, who's for a slice of simnel cake?

[HonaloochieB]

I've looked averywhere and can I buy an Advent calender? Can I 'eck as like.

Too worried they might upset johnny foreigner, no doubt.

[Sue]

Do you mean Lent?!

[HonaloochieB]

No I mean Advent. Time was when an Englishman could wander gaily into his local stationers and order an advent calendar any time of the year.

It was his unalienable right.

Now it seems we care more for the rights of aliens. Pah.

[Sue]

Loads of Advent calendars about at the time of Advent ie before Christmas :))

No Easter eggs in December, though ....

Possibly a storage issue, HB :))

And what have Martians got to do with this?

[HonaloochieB]

Sue Wrote:

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> And what have Martians got to do with this?

For pity's sake Sue, rein youself in - we'll have the Green Party on our backs if we're not careful.

[Sue]

:))