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This country gets worse by the day

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8431483.stm

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Maybe they will have to ban bingo.:D

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Well they might be accused of promoting gambling next :)

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Which means that the do gooders would insist that we have to fund it as its an addiction.;)

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I think this has more to do with the bingo caller being an elected member/councillor than anything else. Members have to follow certain rules/guidelines, and it's the LA's job to make sure they stick to them.

Although in this case it does seem a bit over zealous,

Makes me think of the case a few months back where a Council canteen changed the name of "spotted dick". It's political correctness that isn't needed(is any of it?).

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Just ban all fat ladies and those with nice legs from Bingo halls... simples!!

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Well they should have been calling him Richard instead.:D

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Political Correctness is like a religion on it's own. one where you can't imagine the Queen using the toilet and deny she had to have had sex to have children :)

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No that is just Prince Edward.

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"Dermatologically challenged Richard" I believe ... :D

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You hit the nail on the head.:D

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The thing I found most amusing about this, is that the East Anglian Daily Times sister paper - The Evening Star, put a full list of old style Bingo Lingo on their website.:)

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content...A14%3A29%3A307

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it seems to me that there is definately something against fat ladies here i mean there are 6 referencies to fat ladies :)

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Statistics show that most bingo players are fat ladies. "HOUSE!"
we have a winner! :D

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you calling wor lass fat like ;)

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No, just big boned. :)

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I'd be interested to see a Politically Correct version of Bingo Lingo - So far I've only come up with -

Number 3 - It's got to be PC.

Ideas anyone? :)

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2 four eyed ladies - 88

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I wonder if "Gordon's den - number 10" will also get outlawed in case it offends tramps and feral individuals who live in a den?

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you calling wor lass speccy like :)

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No, just short sighted and clumbsy :)

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she hits me when i say that :bigcry:

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Hit her back harder :D

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Ever heard of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber and looking at some of her kids I'd deny any of them were conceived in a bedroom, more like a test tube :)

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The sad fact is that now the term "politically correct" is banded around for every stupid decision that is made.

Why sad?

Because there is nothing wrong with being "politically correct" !

The term political correctness was first coined by right wing Americans who did not like the fact that societies view of language had changed so much that now they could no longer call people that were black.......well...I shall let you guess!

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What a load of old tosh in my opinion. The whole fun of bingo is to have the "two fat ladies" like sayings. Etc.

This country is becoming a bunch of whimps. Politically correct. Pfftt. Ill say what i want, when I want. Just another case of "Big Brother"

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If you're fat you're fat. if something is black it's black. if you've got ginger hair then people will laugh at you. if you're a scouser then you sound really weird when you talk! :)

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Hey - that's another one for the PC Bingo Lingo list -

Big Brother - Number 88. No hang on, that could be mis-interpreted as two fat ladies standing side-on!?! :tiptoe:

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:p:
Thats my point! People can say it how it is.

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It's no wonder this country has real problems going unresolved when this sort of rubbish is concentrated on. For me i want councils to make sure rubbish is removed, areas are nice and safe and doing what we the public need them to do not interfere in ridiculous things like this. There is too much involvement of authority in matters that they shouldn't be anywhere near and while they are busy making the country "a better place to live" it is not a happy place to live anymore. No one agrees with or supports nasty bullying but a bit of leg pulling has always happened but these days you can get people done for it rather then learning to grow a thicker skin which is the best solution we really are becoming a nation of pathetic namby pamby little whingers very sad.

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But we can't. because the fat woman will take offence because she's been told she can.
when she's not out looking to be offended. she's at home telling her self she's not fat, just big boned.

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Well, I'm sorry LOL but I was bought up to "say it how it is" I personally dont care about, if it offends. Ill say it how it is.

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:clap::clap:

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Flap your bingo wings.

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Well, you can tell it's Christmas, can't you? This is probably someone who mentioned out of hand, perhaps even joked about it to someone, that shouting, "two fat ladis," might embarrass the two fat ladies at the front. It then got incorrectly translated by someone else and made its way to the local newspaper, where it was picked up by a bored researcher at the BBC. It will be probably go down with the rest of the Christmas urban myths, such as Winterval and banning Christmas etc.

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The council seem pretty unequivocal about it :shrug:

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Winterval, NO MYTH:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval

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But it was heralded as a ban on Christmas, when it was just a collection of events happening at that period of time, including Christmas. It's up there with the others, such as Rainbow Sheep and banning blackboards.

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Also:

http://inspectorgadget.wordpress.com...nt-make-it-up/

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There has been 2 versions on the BBC

http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/294912/diff/0/1

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And the point of your post is what exactly? The first version says 'A council spokeswoman' and the second says 'A town council spokeswoman'. Big difference.:rolleyes: I suppose the change was made to differentiate between the town council and the county council.

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Yep you got it.

The meat of the story however has not changed and i see no sudden retractions to say someone got it wrong. Every now and then some council jobsworth will take offence to something and you end up with it becoming a statement of fact. This is i feel one of those cases were it will all be forgotten and taken as a big joke. The fundamental problem is that some jumped up council worker can change the rules just like that. I just wish that councils could react as quick about the real problems we have instead of taking the easy options and banning things we don't give a fly whatsit about.

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Hmmm...but then:

This is anti-political correctness gone mad

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Winterval was named so as not to offend Muslims. just like everything else is changed so as not to offend.

The change is being made because city council officials hope to create a more multi-cultural atmosphere in keeping with the city's mix of ethnic groups.

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Even though they still went on to celebrate Christmas as normal?

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They could hardly cancel it. they just took the Christ out of it.
like taking the black out of black sheep. it's still there, it's just rainbow coloured now.

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They took the 'Christ' out of it? How do you figure that one out?

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Because Christ is Christianity. Christmas is a Christian celebration.

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...and they still went on to celebrate 'Christmas'....

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They could hardly cancel it. they just took the Christ out of it.
like taking the black out of black sheep. it's still there, it's just rainbow coloured now.

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Repeating your post isn't going to make it any more correct.

They did not cancel Christmas, they did not take Christ out of it. They celebrated just as they do every year - as Christmas.

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If you're going to quote my post can you please have the decency to address it and not Sollp's post?

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Nobody is saying that they did or the intention was to cancel it. only you.
Where is the word Christ in Winterval?
Winterval was a word to describe the multicultural events over the 'Christmas' period. to include all cultures and not to exclude other religions.
'They' celebrated it as normal because they could hardly cancel it.

Here's a piece on GMTV.
http://www.youtube.com/gmtv#p/u/5/RgKD3paELw8

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Found this on the subject on Wiki:

Sound pretty much like Christmas was celebrated as normal there, along with other events.

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Yes. it's the same with the sheep. he's still there, just a different colour now.

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divent tak it porsonal lik -gan oot seed an smerk a tab ;)

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Again, repeating your post does not make it right, it just makes you look like you're running out of options. Christmas has always been celebrated as Christmas, nothing has been changed about it. Your example of the 'Rainbow' sheep myth is wrong because that would be a main part having been changed.

Nothing was changed about Christmas. In fact have a look at Birmingham council's website. Spot the occasional reference to Christmas? See the massive references to Winterval?

No council has tried to change, alter or water-down Christmas.

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I thought that was you when you keep saying 'but they didn't cancel Christmas'

:dunce: n o b o d y h a s s a i d o t h e r w i s e.

88 - 2 fat ladies will be called a myth after the event too.

I don't think you're understanding Russ. this happened in 97-98. they tried to make the Christmas period a multicultural thing. they come up with the phrase Winterval. Winterval included everybody.
they had a lot of stick about it and that they should leave Christmas, Christmas.
that's why you won't find the word Winterval on the councils website now. you'll just see the word Christmas.

What was the intention of Winterval then?

The change is being made because city council officials hope to create a more multi-cultural atmosphere in keeping with the city's mix of ethnic groups

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You really can be arrogant sometimes. If "n o b o d y h a s s a i d o t h e r w i s e" then why are you going on about 'Winterval'? What your point? That it was 'changed to include other faiths'?

Christmas has always been celebrated by all UK councils. For 2 years Birmingham added other events at the time (starting before and finishing after the Christmas period) which did not detract from the festive celebration. Christmas banners were paraded about the city as normal.

Are you getting the message yet? Christmas was still Christmas in Birmingham for those 2 years. The only difference being was they also offered something for other faiths as well. If it was the political correctness that you're so obsessed about then they'd have ignored 'public outcry' and continued to call it 'Winterval' every year because, as I'm sure you know, "this country bends over backwards to accomodate foreigners" doesn't it?

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There's no talking to you when you're like this.
everybody else knows what I am saying. and that I didn't say they wanted to cancel Christmas, only to include all cultures in that period with the word Winterval.

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That will be the Community Cohesion route -

In which it is ment to provide opportunities for different people to come together, to mix and to form communities of commonalities.

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Actually, what you said was
Which is different from "they didn't want to cancel Christmas" - your post could be read as if they wanted to cancel it, but couldn't....

So perhap "everybody else" didn't know what you were saying. ;)

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"everybody else" doesn't include you. :D


Russ seems to think that Wintervalgate was to cancel Christmas. and because it still went ahead then it couldn't have ever happened and was a myth.

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Nice to see your all-inclusive pronoun has exceptions.....;)

Also nice to see you defending a religious celebration - keep up the good work. :)

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I'm only defending the present side of it. can you imagine Christmas without presents?
that's what Christmas is all about! :)

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LOL.

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Nonsense, this is a story from over ten years ago, hardily being changed now is it. The name of the event was chosen to incorporate all festivals happening a the same time,. Christmas was featured heavily in the festival and there was no mention of using the term to reduce offence to non-Christians. Did you not read the article? It was from The Catholic Herald, if anyone has cause to complain they would, but they didn't find any, did they?

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That was quoted from the time of the event.

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Gary's missing link

(and no, the word "the" was not omitted after "Gary's" ;) ......)

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Even the bishop thinks council officials try too hard to be idiots :)

All the arguments in defence of this 'Winterval' have and always are, Christmas still went ahead, and they didn't cancel it though.

the point is we wouldn't let a council 'officials' cancel it anyway. they wanted to tone it down and bring bonfire night into the mix a bit so it wasn't just all about a Christian celebration on it's own.

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aThe "pen pushers" that come up with this tosh should be sacked and maybe our tax's would go down a bit more. Maybe, the cash could go to some thing proper, like our boys in the front line. I am so sick to death of this country, I'm going to immegrate as soon as I can.

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I'm sure you could show them, Gary.....

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Too right.





I could show them you :D