Cadbury's Egg Hunt

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:47 pm

Has there ever been a more stupid controversy?

HatfieldClaret · Post by **HatfieldClaret** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:57 pm

Just a few, most involve you insulting people because they disagree with you; which of course makes them stupid, idiot, little englander fascists.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:57 pm

David Moyes joking with that woman?

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:03 pm

Farage's bus

kentonclaret · Post by **kentonclaret** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:05 pm

How many voted for Eggsit?

ElectroClaret · Post by **ElectroClaret** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:09 pm

Englands disputed goal in the 1966 WCF.

After all, we won by two goals anyway.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:13 pm

A Danish newspaper publishing a cartoon?

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:45 pm

Typical silly anti-Christian claptrap.

"Let's have Easter without Easter."

You might think that's appropriate TurtleBrains but most people recognise that we ought to at least pay some kind of lip service to the religion that has formed the bedrock of our secular society. No other religion in the history of mankind has done this so whether you have Faith or not, it might be worth taking that into account lest one of the other, less accommodating religions, becomes predominant.

And who was speaking out against the need for religious observance on the BBC article on the matter? Only the flaming "Humanist Society".

Since when did Humanism become anti-religious? I think they're confusing themselves with the Secular Society personally. I'm all for Humanism and that, to my mind at least, involves duly respecting other's rights to religion. If the Humanist Society imagine its their job to annoy Christians they've lost all sense of what they ought to stand for.

They're no better than silly, juvenile anti-Christian keyboard warriors.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:33 pm

Rowls wrote:Typical silly anti-Christian claptrap.

"Let's have Easter without Easter."

You might think that's appropriate TurtleBrains but most people recognise that we ought to at least pay some kind of lip service to the religion that has formed the bedrock of our secular society. No other religion in the history of mankind has done this so whether you have Faith or not, it might be worth taking that into account lest one of the other, less accommodating religions, becomes predominant.

And who was speaking out against the need for religious observance on the BBC article on the matter? Only the flaming "Humanist Society".

Since when did Humanism become anti-religious? I think they're confusing themselves with the Secular Society personally. I'm all for Humanism and that, to my mind at least, involves duly respecting other's rights to religion. If the Humanist Society imagine its their job to annoy Christians they've lost all sense of what they ought to stand for.

They're no better than silly, juvenile anti-Christian keyboard warriors.

The flakiest of snowflakes.

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:39 pm

Though it's Easter we're discussing, not Christmas.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:45 pm

Easter out dates Christianity anyway. So what's the big deal?

BFCmaj · Post by **BFCmaj** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:32 pm

There's nothing that makes me remember the sacrifice Jesus made for mankind more than an egg hunt.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:25 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:The flakiest of snowflakes.

Hahahhahahaha.

You've no idea how to use that insult to best effect have you? Keep trying.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:35 am

ClaretAndJew wrote:Easter out dates Christianity anyway. So what's the big deal?

BUT MUH VICTIM COMPLEX!

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:12 am

ClaretAndJew wrote:Easter out dates Christianity anyway. So what's the big deal?

They just don't like to hear the facts that their so called religious holidays are using the dates/names etc of pagan holidays for convenience.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:32 am

I had a dream last night that someone tried to say that our secular society was built on a bedrock of Christianity, as if Christianity doesn't continue to be the glass ceiling of this particular secular society. For example, there's still a country in the UK where you can't legally get an abortion if your pregnancy was the result of a rape. But not to take this thread off topic, because this controversy is a much more serious than that.

"Bedrock of our secular society" indeed

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:34 am

Sidney1st wrote:They just don't like to hear the facts that their so called religious holidays are using the dates/names etc of pagan holidays for convenience.

Any excuse to share this. Not that it's related to your post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7chup0dZ1s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

iluva64 · Post by **iluva64** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 8:36 am

Sounds like someones going to get crucified........

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 8:55 am

Sidney1st wrote:They just don't like to hear the facts that their so called religious holidays are using the dates/names etc of pagan holidays for convenience.

I was waiting for IT to decry you for defining a diverse group of people who share similar religious beliefs as "they" and assuming they all think, behave and feel the same way...

Guess that particular principle only applies where he disagrees with the sentiment

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:01 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:Any excuse to share this. Not that it's related to your post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7chup0dZ1s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I've never seen that before, some really butt hurt god botherers in the comments section.

Falcon · Post by **Falcon** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:02 am

This is an absolute non-story based on the fiction that Cadburys have removed the word Easter off their literature about the Easter egg hunt. A quick glance at their website shows it mentioned dozens of times, and no they haven't changed it recently as a result of this 'controversy'.

And as others have mentioned already, if you go back far enough in time Easter wasn't even a Christian festival. Hypocrisy much?

Honestly, Christians need to lose this victim complex. It's doing them no favours.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:04 am

They can't lose it, they like to sit in a corner and chew on it when it suits them.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:16 am

Mattster wrote:I was waiting for IT to decry you for defining a diverse group of people who share similar religious beliefs as "they" and assuming they all think, behave and feel the same way...

Guess that particular principle only applies where he disagrees with the sentiment

I'm pretty sure "they" refers to those who are flipping their **** over this nonsense. Nice try though.

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:19 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:I'm pretty sure "they" refers to those who are flipping their **** over this nonsense. Nice try though.

Pretty sure you're intentionally misreading the context used by Sidney, especially in light of his follow up comments. Nice try dodging that though.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:23 am

Mattster wrote:Pretty sure you're intentionally misreading the context used by Sidney, especially in light of his follow up comments. Nice try dodging that though.

What follow up comments?

Keep digging. Maybe sooner or later you'll find something.

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:32 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:What follow up comments?

Keep digging. Maybe sooner or later you'll find something.

Posts #20 & #22, not exactly easy to miss in a thread of 25 posts, "digging"

, kind of supports my thinking that you're intentionally misreading.

"God botherers", can't see you letting something along those lines slide if it disagreed with your own stance.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:39 am

Mattster wrote:Posts #20 & #22, not exactly easy to miss in a thread of 25 posts, "digging" , kind of supports my thinking that you're intentionally misreading.

"God botherers", can't see you letting something along those lines slide if it disagreed with your own stance.

Well, post #22 is a follow up comment to the original post you're whining about, which was post #20. When you said "follow up comments" I expected there to be more than one follow up comment. ie. 2 or more. I mean, if we're taking the literal and most malicious of intepretations of comments nowadays i could easily call you a liar. Or i can choose to understand that you were simply being unspecific, yet benign, in your choice of words.

So which will it be, are you a liar or are we going to be mature about this?

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:55 am

I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of something.

JohnMcGreal · Post by **JohnMcGreal** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:57 am

Falcon wrote:This is an absolute non-story based on the fiction that Cadburys have removed the word Easter off their literature about the Easter egg hunt. A quick glance at their website shows it mentioned dozens of times, and no they haven't changed it recently as a result of this 'controversy'.

Exactly. And yet it didn't stop our increasingly embarrassing Prime Minister from making an absolute tit of herself over it.

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:59 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:Well, post #22 is a follow up comment to the original post you're whining about, which was post #20. When you said "follow up comments" I expected there to be more than one follow up comment. ie. 2 or more. I mean, if we're taking the literal and most malicious of intepretations of comments nowadays i could easily call you a liar. Or i can choose to understand that you were simply being unspecific, yet benign, in your choice of words.

So which will it be, are you a liar or are we going to be mature about this?

Wow. I didn't have you pegged for the type that gets excessively obtuse when cornered in the hope that people won't be able to follow it. That's a textbook attempt there though, they could use that example in workshops on debating styles. Take a bow, mate.

Before we get into it I'll point out I'm not whining, honestly couldn't give a toss about the use of the word Easter on chocolate eggs, chocolate is chocolate and it's got only a tenuous link to Christianity at the best of times.

They are follow up comments in that they are comments by the same person that followed up in the same thread and demonstrated Sid's use of the word "they" was generalising all Christians and his own dislike of Christians/Christianity.

I like that in all of this you've still managed to dodge responding to the point I'm making in my posts, that you're, at best, ignoring or, at worst, endorsing being derogatory towards a group of people with many diverse characteristics who happen to share the same religious beliefs. A stance that you would usually oppose.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:01 am

Sidney1st wrote:I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of something.

Don't worry, Sidney. This isn't because of you. Mattster and I have been rowing a lot recently and none of it is your fault. Whatever happens we both still love you and we only want what's best for you.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:03 am

Mattster wrote:Wow. I didn't have you pegged for the type that gets excessively obtuse when cornered in the hope that people won't be able to follow it. That's a textbook attempt there though, they could use that example in workshops on debating styles. Take a bow, mate.

Before we get into it I'll point out I'm not whining, honestly couldn't give a toss about the use of the word Easter on chocolate eggs, chocolate is chocolate and it's got only a tenuous link to Christianity at the best of times.

They are follow up comments in that they are comments by the same person that followed up in the same thread and demonstrated Sid's use of the word "they" was generalising all Christians and his own dislike of Christians/Christianity.

I like that in all of this you've still managed to dodge responding to the point I'm making in my posts, that you're, at best, ignoring or, at worst, endorsing being derogatory towards a group of people with many diverse characteristics who happen to share the same religious beliefs. A stance that you would usually oppose.

Lol. You're spending an awful lot of time compounding your wrongness.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:04 am

Thanks for the reassurances Turtle

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So long as everything is amicable at the end I'll be happy.

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:05 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:Don't worry, Sidney. This isn't because of you. Mattster and I have been rowing a lot recently and none of it is your fault. Whatever happens we both still love you and we only want what's best for you.

Have we? I must have missed that. Have a look through my post history, keep digging, maybe you'll find something

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:07 am

Mattster wrote:Have we? I must have missed that. Have a look through my post history, keep digging, maybe you'll find something

I was satirising a domestic. You should know this about me by now but YOU NEVER LISTEN!

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:08 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:Lol. You're spending an awful lot of time compounding your wrongness.

Another one for the bingo card

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:10 am

Matt - I dislike all religions as a general rule of thumb and most of them can have their roots traced back to earlier religions.
Christianity and Islam both borrow heavily from previous religious teachings including, but not limited too, Judaism, Egyptian and Greek mythology.

I personally think that Religion shouldn't be the focal point for any society, I don't need a story book telling me not to be a dick to others.

Whilst Christianity has in many ways provided the basis for how our society behaves, its only because it became the dominant religion when the Romans adopted it when they could see it growing in popularity.

We could go on, but you get my point by now I'm sure.
Once society can move past using religion as a main guide to living life the world will be a better place.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:11 am

Oh. So now you're bringing up past fights? That's so typical of you to remember every little thing i've said in the past and then bring it up any time we have a fight. This is why your parents left you. You're basically turning into your mother.

Mattster · Post by **Mattster** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:45 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:I was satirising a domestic. You should know this about me by now but YOU NEVER LISTEN!

And I was satirising you, which I thought you would have loved because it's always ME ME ME ME ME

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:34 pm

Eggs, bunnies and even the name 'Easter' iare from Europium pagan religions and has nothing whatsoever to do with the crucifixion of Christ.

WestMidsClaret · Post by **WestMidsClaret** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:40 pm

Say it quickly!

Unless you are under 16 then say it SLOWLY!!

bob-the-scutter · Post by **bob-the-scutter** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:45 pm

Roll on the Yule Festivus!

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:33 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:Has there ever been a more stupid controversy?

Already been trumped today by the Pepsi advert that triggered all the SJW's

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:37 pm

Just caught a bit of that on the news.

Are people complaining about a hidden message I didn't see??

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:48 pm

Yes. They have pulled the advert because... well I'm not entirely sure but it has really offended lots of people

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:53 pm

Something about black lives matter I think it was, and a can of Pepsi will save them all?

There was some English woman on TV having a whine, but I'd lost interest by then.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:55 pm

Charlie will no doubt clear up the confusion when he comes online

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:26 am

Damo wrote:Already been trumped today by the Pepsi advert that triggered all the SJW's

Almost.

At least at protests people get hurt every now and then, but no one ever died from the word Easter not appearing absolutely everywhere.

What we should do is get all those Christians who feel victimised everytime someone tells them they can't impose their religion on others into a room with all the lefties who get triggered bya ******* advert, and all the right-wingers who get triggered when someone is not allowed to use someone elses platform to talk ****, and Muslims who suit up over a cartoon, or Jews who flip out when [deleted by mods], and then seal the doors and all ventilation and then bury them under 10km of rock. Or fire them into space for the amusement of the rest of us.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:15 am

Oh dear. You shouldn't post at this time of night. Or perhaps you should drink less if you want to post.

It's cute how you've taken on all the insults of the "alt-right" and are swinging them around like a kid who's just learnt to swear.

Have yourself a glass of water and head to beddie-byes.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:21 am

Lol. What about my post was remotely "alt-right"?

TIL: Mainstream liberalism is now "alt-right".