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I've heard it all now !
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<<<<<<awaits the obligatory "in fairness, now...." post>>>>>>>
.... (cant say Chtristmas anymore ... might offend non-christians...).
The "holiday" season will never be the same. (cant say Chtristmas anymore ... might offend non-christians...).
I cant wait until the Islamic extremists get pc, no more beheading the infidel !!
Says who... thats just a case of someone not having the balls to say it 'case they might offend..... screw that...
I further propose that because of the risk of offending Polish people, "poles" (as in ESB poles etc) should be renamed.
I think we should instead refer to them as "erections" - who could possibly be offended by that?
I was actually driving behind an ESB truck last week carrying "wooden" poles which had a warning sign saying "DANGER: POLES IN TRANSIT", made me smile!
..didn't some English town come up with the bright idea of replacing Christmas with a festival called "Winterval" so as not to offend non-Christian residents of the town? Political correctness gone competely mad...
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Perhaps the most notorious of the anti-Christmas rebrandings is Winterval, in Birmingham, and when you telephone the Birmingham city council press office to ask about it, you are met first of all with a silence that might seasonably be described as frosty. "We get this every year," a press officer sighs, eventually. "It just depends how many rogue journalists you get in any given year. We tell them it's bollocks, but it doesn't seem to make much difference." According to an official statement from the council, Winterval - which ran in 1997 and 1998, and never since - was a promotional campaign to drive business into Birmingham's newly regenerated town centre. It began in early November and finished in January. During the part of that period traditionally celebrated as Christmas, "there was a banner saying Merry Christmas across the front of the council house, Christmas lights, Christmas trees in the main civil squares, regular carol-singing sessions by school choirs, and the Lord Mayor sent a Christmas card with a traditional Christmas scene wishing everyone a Merry Christmas".
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