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Strafer, you've got to be joking. No-one could construe it as so, the remark about bunnies as being less offensive as using the word animals was even more galling in itself. Did he think anyone would believe that for a second? So no, I don't think anyone will see it as him being a victim of pc-gone-mad (by people with a brain, that is)


PS - going back a page, did you spot that comment from SeanMac (RIP) "mum doing kitcheny things in the kitchen" !! Glad HE'S gone...harrumph.

StraferJack Wrote:

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> now Katie, you SAY that - but there is a reason

> the telegraph will have closed the article to

> comments.


Yeah, I ws going to comment on that earlier but as I don't read the Torygraph regularly (and never the opinion pieces anyway as I hate those in whatever paper) but...my understanding is that anyone who thinks the paper (certainly over the last 5years if not more) is very right-wing is mistaken. Its as bland as the Independent.


So wholly surprised to see that bit about comments not being allowed but there you go...

My comment wasn?t really a reflection on the Telegraph. Or any paper that closes it?s comments to particular articles. But when you get the hate-merchants in full-flow on any board ? including this one* - it?s not a pretty sight . (or even a legal one sometimes)


*I?m thinking of some of the long-removed posts from certain repeatedly-banished visitors


Edited to say an earlier comment of mine said "some Tories" would say this was an example of PC gone mad. And that is true - if this guy thinks he can say it, he will have friends who certainly think that way. But I shouldn't have been so specific.. I should have said many, mostly right-wing people, will think this is an example of PC gone too far


And it is these people who would have hit the comments section hard


It's not contentious btw, to say that it does tend to be right-wing (or 'libertarians' as some insist) who are obsessed with PC stopping them doing things is it?

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But seriously, after 2000 years of burning dissenters and torturing 16 year old girls who need a bit of loving care, who really gives a monkeys about Christians getting some verbal on the BBC?


Most people who burned on a stake drowned in their own lungs desperate attempts to lubricate the flames.


Get a sense of perspective, please.

The majority of the world's population subscribe to one of the three Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity or Islam.


This year is:


1432 AH if you are a Moslem


2011 AD if your are a Christian


5771 AM if you are Jewish


If, like me, you ae an atheist, then you could expect to use a dating system that reflects the tradition of e country in which you live. In UK that would be a western Christian tradition - thus we use the terms AD / BC and they should carry no pejorative connotation nor any element of offence to other faiths.


I doubt many Muslims or Jews are worrying about it - altho' the Jewish faith will, when referring to the Gregorian / Western Christian calendar avoid the use of the term Lord or Christ as the figure referred to is n ot considered a Lord / Christ in their religion.


This whole matter seems petty and of very minor significance - except in that it represents a shift away from Britain's western Christian tradition, and I deplore a shift from tradition unless there is a very good reason. I can see no very good reason for this proposed change in terminology.


Edited for spelling and clarity

Complete and utter madness.


Common Era???


what the hell is all that about - what does it mean? the dinosaurs ruled for 200 million years, is that a common era?


And, to prove their own idiocy, BCE and Ace both equate to BC and AD.


They'll be banning advertising of peanuts soon because one person in a million is allergic to them.

People seem to be missing the point - it's a non-story, dressing up something to have a nother pop at a supposed "PC gone mad"


no-one is banning anything, the BBC continue to use BC and AD and noone has suggested it's offending any other religions


But then again I'm a celsius man, nor a farenheit guy, so maybe I would say that. I'm also quite keen on decimal and wouldn't want to go back to pounds, shillings and pence. Or groats

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