Don’t listen to the do-gooders
THIS year, when taking down Christmas cards, I noticed the lack of religious themes.
We didn’t have one from a total of almost 60 cards. No stables, no mangers no star, no wise men.
Till girls at one supermarket chain had to wish happy holiday rather than merry Christmas. Girls are dismissed for wearing crucifixes, some councils fear to fly the St George flag on St George’s Day. Whatever next?
A message to David Cameron: don’t listen to the dogooders, get some teeth and start biting back.
As much as I hated Margaret Thatcher for what she did to families, industry and the unions, I admired her for the actions she took for the sake of the country.
So for God, The Queen and St George, wake up!
SP, Handsworth
Time for drivers to speak out
so our Labour council is skint again! They think ‘How can we raise a lot of money? Plenty of cars are on the road so there must be a way to raise a bagful of cash there surely, but how? Bus lane cameras are a start!’
When you buy a new TV, first the you have cost of the set, then the BBC comes calling for its licence fee. But what if the BBC then said you could only watch TV between certain hours? You wouldn’t put up with it!
So why are motorists who buy a car, insure it, pay road tax, told when we can or can’t drive down certain roads due to bus lanes?
Why have buses, taxis the right over the majority of road users? Speak up, car drivers.
Car driver
Blew chance
to my horror, I found myself agreeing with Coun Shaffaq Mohammed (Jan 6), in hoping that Jessica Ennis wins gold at the Olympics in London, that England lifts the Euro 2012 trophy and that both Sheffield football clubs get promoted, preferably Wednesday (I also am biased). With regard to the rest of his letter, I remind him that the Lib Dems had their go at running the city and blew it and now I bet they are really looking forward to the local elections in May.
Mick Gethin Westbury Av, Chapeltown
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Morlockian
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 11:10 AM#9, EspFil, you at least label me correctly for I am a troll. Not a god of anything, since gods are merely figments of the human imagination.
EspFil
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 04:34 PMActually Morlockian (correctly spelt?), I was praising you for your knowledge, but with your reply you have shown yourself to be the standard troll. Oh well.
Morlockian
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 09:53 AMGo far away EspFil, God of mispelling the names of others! Roflmao! Are you that loser deisel dogg?
EspFil
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 07:28 PMGo morlokian! the god of sanity. lol
Morlockian
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 09:57 AMSP may notice a lack of religious themes, but there are plenty if you expand your definition of religion beyond mere christianity. A christmas tree goes all the way back to Yggdrasil, the Norse world tree. and Santa Claus is obviously Odin. The reindeer that pull santa's sleigh is Sleipnir the multilegged horse of Odin. So there were plenty of Viking religious thematics. And the Yule celebration was around before christianity. So, arguably, christians hijacked a pagan seasonal festival. :)
seenitall
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 03:43 PMGeorge 1916,,,to quote your own words you are talking complete 'Tosh'.The millions who still regularly attend church in the UK ,to say nothing of the billions world wide, are celebrating a religious festival....a festival which has been celebrated in these parts for something like 1.5 millenia. You might describe Jesus as an "imaginary friend" but a Christian's belief is, arguably, greater than your belief in self....with all the limitations that concept embraces.
George1916
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 08:24 AMSP you are talking complete tosh, for those of us, and there are an increasing number, who don't observe a religion who use the opportunity to send cards that are linked to charities, therefore doing our bit rather than sending cards related to an imaginary friend.
Capricorn
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 05:16 PMSP. Name them ....who are these councils afraid to fly the flag of St George? I bet you can't because its nonsense. It never happened. There is no reason why they can't fly the flag - and they do. And Which supermarket banned girls from saying Merry Christmas? I saw plenty of religious Christmas cards on sale. Maybe you didn't recived them because the friends and family who sent them to you aren't regligious.
EspFil
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 05:09 PMI am sorry but in the shops were many Religiously themed Xmas cards, very nice pictures, blues, golds, reds, everything a religious person could wish for. Were the till boys told to say Happy holidays or was this just a sexist thing? Sorry get a grip, Religious cards are so easy to find, maybe your friends didn't want to sent them? I work in a supermarket and as a male was VERY happy to Say MERRY CHRISTMAS. Happy holidays is an American saying. I was also given Merry Christmas greetings by many Muslims. WOW!
seenitall
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 10:34 AMThe Lib-Dems lost Sheffield not on account of their performance (they could hardly be worse than MS Dore and her lot) but rather on the unpopularity of Clegg joining a Co-alition with the hated Tories.
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