tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post116565647849819795..comments2024-02-24T09:14:44.403+00:00Comments on The Poor Mouth: The non-existent war on Christmasjams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165781684795027092006-12-10T20:14:00.000+00:002006-12-10T20:14:00.000+00:00scrubbed witha felafel? I pitta the poor girl to h...scrubbed witha felafel? I pitta the poor girl to have that happen to her. Seriously he sounds like an utter twatjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165779648036296372006-12-10T19:40:00.000+00:002006-12-10T19:40:00.000+00:00"Grinch" will do in a pinch. :)Dickhead is too kin..."Grinch" will do in a pinch. :)<BR/><BR/>Dickhead is too kind a word for O'Reilly, one of the most persistently offensive right-wing-nuts on the air. I mentioned him because he is one of the most aggressive spreaders of the "war on Christmas" meme. (He spreads other things, too.) His most famous gaffe came not on the air but in the course of sexually harassing a woman colleague: in preparation for filing charges against him, she taped a phone conversation in which O'Reilly said he wanted to bathe with her and scrub her with a... well, he apparently meant to say "loofah," but instead he said "falafel." That sounds both messy and kinky to me. Good old Falafel Bill; what would we do without him!Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165770703935421722006-12-10T17:11:00.000+00:002006-12-10T17:11:00.000+00:00Ah so your name is Steve Grinch Bates? We're on to...Ah so your name is Steve Grinch Bates? We're on to you now!<BR/><BR/>I've got to admit I have heard the name Bill O Reilly but I know little about him. It looks like he is a dickhead though...jams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165768909147118102006-12-10T16:41:00.000+00:002006-12-10T16:41:00.000+00:00Oh no! My secret plot to destroy Christmas... so s...Oh no! My secret plot to destroy Christmas... so secret that even I didn't know about it until this very moment... has been revealed!<BR/><BR/>Does our Bill O'Reilly count as "toilet press"?Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165742690109049342006-12-10T09:24:00.000+00:002006-12-10T09:24:00.000+00:00THat is one humungous Santa Will!I suppose the mor...THat is one humungous Santa Will!<BR/><BR/><BR/>I suppose the moral of this tale is the sheer bullshit sputed by the toilet press. The press prints gross distortions and people genuinely belive Birmingham etc have banned xmas. Christmas seems to be alive and well here Mulletjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165707222893414832006-12-09T23:33:00.000+00:002006-12-09T23:33:00.000+00:00No war on Crimbo here as wellhttp://russianwolfhou...No war on Crimbo here as well<BR/><BR/>http://russianwolfhound.blogspot.com/2006/12/dedications-what-you-need.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165705879266035812006-12-09T23:11:00.000+00:002006-12-09T23:11:00.000+00:00LOL then again Jesus is majorly revered in Islam s...LOL then again Jesus is majorly revered in Islam so the idea of celebrating his birth ought not raise hackles.. <BR/><BR/>These stories are an awful lot of very littlejams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-1165701690620256762006-12-09T22:01:00.000+00:002006-12-09T22:01:00.000+00:00Way back in the 1980s I worked on a youth project ...Way back in the 1980s I worked on a youth project run by Sheffield City Council.<BR/><BR/>Christmas was always a big deal. The kids spent weeks making decorations, cards, etc.<BR/><BR/>One year we had a small group of young Muslim women. There was concern that they might feel a bit alienated or excluded by all the Christmas razzmatazz.<BR/><BR/>We needn't have worried - They joined in and had a whale of time! The only difference was that the cards they made contained the message "Happy Birthday Jesus" instead of "Happy Christmas".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com