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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on November 11, 2005, 11:02:23 am

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 11, 2005, 11:02:23 am

I heard that in Birmingham Christmas lights are to be called Winter lights from now on. Anyone know anything about this?

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: Forth Bridges on November 11, 2005, 11:06:38 am

becasue ro fit high muit race population in the area.

liek musim, people from teh old inda area , jews etc.  ther don;t celabety xams

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 11, 2005, 12:22:03 pm

 Its OUR Country!!!!

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on November 11, 2005, 01:45:50 pm

Lou it's not just Birmingham...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4415598.stm

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4398680.stm

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 11, 2005, 02:07:33 pm

Thanks cherry.

I think it is disrespectful to christians to say winter lights and not be able to say Christmas lights.

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: smurfboy on November 11, 2005, 02:08:30 pm

I live in Brum and I thought we'd gone back to saying Christmas. A few years ago the council stopped even referring to Christmas - we had 'Wintervale' celebrations.

I think it's ridiculous - can you imagine if Christians protested against Sikh temples or Muslim Mosques displaying lights for their festivals? Every bleeding heart liberal in a ten mile radius would be yelling 'bigots'.

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 11, 2005, 02:16:17 pm

If we went to live in a different country do you think they would stop
referring to their religious celebrations as not to make us feel like
out or something. 

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 11, 2005, 02:16:46 pm

I love Christmas, donlt like them take it away 

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: lemoneye on November 11, 2005, 02:23:07 pm

Birmingham is a foreign country nowadays isnt it? In fact all of the Midlands is now more like Asia. Whole communities who cannot and WILL not speak English. It is not right.

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 11, 2005, 02:23:40 pm

Drop a few bombs in the right places.

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: lemoneye on November 11, 2005, 02:26:06 pm

Mustnt - cant get tagged a "racist" now can we. Ban christmas, ban childrens nursery rhymes... if a black person kills a white on a bus in london it is not a "race Killing" but a "Random Killing" the other way around and it is "racially motivated". What a load of boll*cks. Sooner or later people will stop putting up with this sh*te.

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 11, 2005, 02:29:42 pm

Are golliwogs still allowed?

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 11, 2005, 02:30:51 pm

You can still buy them in antique shops but they are not in the toy shops etc

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 11, 2005, 02:31:14 pm

I had one when i was little.

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 11, 2005, 02:32:13 pm

So did my mum. Saved the tokens from the Robinsons jam jars. Some bits go for a lot of money on eBay

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on November 11, 2005, 02:45:48 pm

But they are not called golliwogs, just 'gollies'

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 11, 2005, 02:47:24 pm

Oh, I thought it was golliwogs

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on November 11, 2005, 03:04:36 pm

It was but you're not allowed to call them that now

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: oldspice on November 11, 2005, 03:29:11 pm

So are Jews not allowed to refer to Honikar lights either? Honiker coincides with Christmas and it is known as the festival of lights. And what about Diwali Lights? Are they banned too? I bet they're not!

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: smurfboy on November 11, 2005, 05:02:06 pm

Of course they're not banned Oldspice - just like waving the Jamaican flag is a sign of independence and freedom, but waving a Union Jack is fascist and jingoistic! It's all so hypocritical isn't it?

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: oldspice on November 11, 2005, 05:19:13 pm

Yes, but we've got the National Front to blame for the misappropriation of the Union Flag. Their adoption of the flag for racist purposes has caused it to be associated with the worst sort of racism

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: minty on November 11, 2005, 06:54:24 pm

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Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: goldencup on November 11, 2005, 07:49:25 pm

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: viking on November 11, 2005, 10:01:51 pm

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Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 11, 2005, 10:55:01 pm

i think it's a good thread

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: smurfboy on November 12, 2005, 04:16:05 pm

Quote from: viking

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Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 12, 2005, 04:22:40 pm

nice one smurfy

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: viking on November 13, 2005, 08:18:36 pm

so who's having an affair then smurf......???

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 14, 2005, 08:38:45 am

Quote from: smurfboy

Quote from: viking

nice thread zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz................

If you're so bored with this forum why not find someone else for your illict affair?

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 14, 2005, 08:39:17 am

There were lovely Christmas Lights on at Bluewater this weekend. I felt all christmasy! 

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 14, 2005, 09:33:51 am

Choc chick the metrocentre decorations are gorgeous too. Might you get there for a visit?

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 14, 2005, 09:45:43 am

I hope so Lou. I have been promised a visit up there for the past YEAR!
I might ask him to take me there before Christmas so I can do a bit of
Christmas shopping. And meet the rest of his family!!

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: loulou on November 14, 2005, 12:41:50 pm

That would be fun.

Title: Christmas or Winter lights?
Post by: chocolate chick on November 14, 2005, 01:39:40 pm

His mum is originally from Hexham so all her friends and family are up
there and so is his dad and that side of the family.