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Lol, so have I... Gladiator.. but it's a long time ago... Hmm.. I liked what you said about the posh accent.. it makes perfect sense. I think it's what English students here aim for. So intimidating really... it scares the heck out of me when they do it.

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The thing is, it's so easy to sound posh! Trust me. Although, sounding posh is not always the best thing. Makes you sound stuffy and high-browed if you know what I mean.

I do so wish , that A-U had, like MSN, a nudge button. Twould save me having to post with content with regards to just bringing the clubbeh back to first page
But that is digressional from teh British point at this point in time.

So, good morning to everybody, s to everybody, and a hearty word of advice from The Dude (from the film the Big Lebowski):


"Hey! Careful, man, there's a beverage here! "

I thank you

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I think it's like that in every country. It seems as though it's impossible to find a truly accurate newspaper nowadays. Everything seems to be turning into a tabloid for rumours of every kind. If it's not the bird flu pandemic, something we already know about [such as your example], or an article on what the latest celebrities are doing [which always seems to revolve around getting drunk, doing drugs, or getting arrested ] then it's something else equally ridiculous.

Why not report about the things that really matter, eh?

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It seems like all news is bad news thses days, if you catch my drift.

And as for most of these so called Celebrities, such as BB contestants, they havent really, in my opinion, earned their fame. But they end up being considered as celebrities, and all these gossip magazines don't help by running stories on what they eat etc. We worship "celebs" too much imo.

As for the health thing, Im not exactly adonis,Im a bit overweight, but I don't really mind, because Im not uber restricted in what I can do. It seems like our government and media will force people to live how they see fit, whilst they should just give the public the information impartially and let them choose for themselves, rather than giving people hell for it.

[Rantness over]

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It is interesting to hear from you what a change you have observed within such a short time. For a non-Brit like me it is interesting both the fact that you used to sing religious hymns in school and now that you don't do it anymore.

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As far as IM concerned, this is just PC being concerned about what the minority, rather than the Majority say. I know dozens of Muslims, Skihs and other such religions who celebrate Christmas as a time of family, generousity and kindness. Why should we downgrade a celebration that has been in Britain for centuries, just because some people are whinging?
I believe each culture in Britian should maintain some of its own traditions, but should also bend the neck to customs and traditions native to this land also, British Customs, and should pay their first loyalties to the land they live in.We are traditionally Christain, and even though there are less Christians, why should the remainder suffer?
As for the conservatives thing, I don't want them in. David Cameron has one braincell less than an amoeba, and he would basically let the rich get richer and not give a stuff about anyone else.

This Labour Government needs to frankly, have some balls, and not be afraid to assert some power, otherwise we are getting the BNP in government, and I wouldnt wish to have this group, of what are essentially, the Nazi parties dark shadow, in government.

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Bah! This is ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned this is just another reason to commercialise Christmas even more than it already is. It is a traditionally Christian holiday which makes it mainstream. Why downgrade Christmas just to shed more light on more minor holidays. Don't participate if you don't want to, that's my view on it. No one is forcing you to celebrate Christmas, so do what you believe in whether it's Islamist celebrations or Hindu celebrations.

Why even bring this up? I mean, yes, national unity is important, but I really don't think this is the way. As it is, we've never had to worry about it before...

Well, I will make a rather random post, with the quotability value behind it, and nothing but quotability value behind it..

"Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard."
Genghis Khan

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i appear to have come into this discussion a little late, but here's my tuppence worth...

all this talk of downgrading christmas really gets on my nerves - it's like we in britain have become ashamed of our own religion/culture/traditions etc. i believe that we should be a tolerant society and accept other beliefs and practices, but we are still a christian country (nominally, at least) and so we should be able to celebrate christian festivals in public with pride. personally, i think that stuff like this does more to harm national unity than promote it - it annoys a lot of people, and that causes tension where there wasn't any before.

i'm a christian, and i feel more and more that i am being persecuted and ostracised because of it. british christians are obviously not being persecuted to the extent that christians in places like china are (and i thank the lord for that), but persecution is still happening in its own, very british way. satirists will quite happily mock christianity, while tiptoe-ing round other religions so as not to offend them; muslim girls are allowed to wear headscarves to school, but christians are not allowed to wear crosses (ostensibly for safety reasons, but i reckon you're far more likely to strangle yourself with a headscarf than with a cross); the islamic society in my old college was allowed to hold an islam awereness week, but the christian union was denied permission to organise a similar event...and so on. christianity is being discriminated against in order to accomodate other religions, and that'snot fair. equality and tolerance should extent to all religions, including the native one.

and i say NO to the conservatives. i'm not a big fan of any of the political parties at the moment (personally i'm old labour, which now doesn't exist thanks to tony blair) but i particularly hate the tories. smug capitalists. i reckon they'd only aggravate this situation anyway by going too far the other way and not being tolerant enough.

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