bonniethomas06 wrote:Can you imagine a similar article about Islam? Or Jews?
Yes, I most certainly can. Look on the bright side, they're not painting you as terrorists...
This is what you get for reading that rag. You do realise that it's the down-market version of the Daily Mail?
Valid point Gregorach! But doesn't make it right.
And for the avoidance of any doubt here, I don't read the Metro as a rule, it was on a table in our cafe today when I was waiting for my coffee. Honest!
"A pretty face is fine, but what a farmer needs is a woman who can carry a pig under each arm"
Oh my, I laughed out loud when i saw this in the canteen. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read!!! Obviouly we're the source of all evil in the world with our fertility festivals and apple bobbing!!
Seriously though, what a load of old tosh. What else would you expect from glorified toilet paper?
Puddleduck wrote:What else would you expect from glorified toilet paper?
No thanks - it's clearly so full of sh*t you'd end up with more of it on your ar*e than you started with!
Let us be lovely
And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
Edward Monkton
Member of the Ish Weight Loss Club since 10/1/11 Started at 12st 8 and have lost 8lb so far!
My husband bought this particular article home for me to read/rant over. I told him what I thought about it, my conclusion being that it must have been written by the group of boys ( they looked about 12 to me ) that were pictured above the article.
Actually I think the whole paper is written by barely literate 12 year olds, but aren't so many these days.
Sarah.x
Come on over and see the fun at Troll Manor http://trollfamily.blogspot.com/ Now blogging once more :) after a little shove from the one and only MMM.
Apologies, didn't realise it would ask for an email address. For those interested or who want a laugh at something totally ridiculous, here is the text of the article...
Pagan prisoners are to be given four days off work a year to celebrate days including Halloween and a ‘festival of the lactating sheep’
Offenders who claim to follow the Pagan or Wicca faiths – immortalised in the 1973 film The Wicker Man – will be given the same religious rights as Christian or Muslim inmates.
Pagans and druids will even be allowed to have ‘wands’ or ‘sticks’ in their cells.
They will be able to chose to take off four out of the eight Pagan
festivals, which also include Beltane on May 1 when believers celebrate the Sun God with ‘unabashed sexuality and promiscuity’.
Inmates may be able to hold apple bobbing contests for the Halloween festival of Samhain. Pagans regard apples as ‘the food of the underworld’.
Last night, the Prison Officers’ Association warned some prisoners would simply ‘jump on the bandwagon’ to gain extra privileges.
General secretary Steve Gillan told Metro: ‘I don’t know how this fits in with the 40 hours of work the justice secretary wants prisoners to do.’
The Ministry of Justice said the new guidelines come into force on January 1 and all prison governors must be made aware of Pagan festival dates.
Tory MP Robert Buckland said: ‘I think a lot of Pagan themselves would say once you’re in prison a different set of rules apply. I think a lot of people will be bemused by this.’
But Chris Callender, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said:
People sent to prison lose their liberty – they should not lose their right to freedom of expression.’
A Prison Service spokesperson said: 'The Prison Service issues annually a list of religious festival dates for the year ahead - this includes key dates on which prisoners registered in that affiliation can be excused from work.
'Across faiths, it has been policy for many years to not force prisoners to work on key festival days."
"A pretty face is fine, but what a farmer needs is a woman who can carry a pig under each arm"
I've long argued that tying the cross-quarter days to the Gregorian calendar is fundamentally wrong - they should all fall on full moons, if you ask me. Which nobody does, of course... Perhaps we can look forward to a schism like that between the Catholic and Celtic Churches over the proper date of Easter, now that it actually matters to somebody?
MuddyWitch wrote:...And the main problem is an awful lot of ignorant fools DO read this cr*p & thinks it's acurate!!!
'..We're perverters of children
corupters of youth
It's there in the papers
IT MUST BE THE TRUTH!'
('Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay' Tom Robinson Band)
MW
Awwww! And I was thinking of becoming pagan until I read that. I'd got the script of The Wicker Man off by heart (well, not the whole script, but a scene or two - oh, ok - one scene). Look - if there's no perverting and naked widdershins cavorting, I'm going to have to become a Scientologist.
Mike
The secret of life is to aim below the head (With thanks to MMM)
what a load of bo%%£*ks a right turd brain wrote that .... If your gonna write at least get some sense into the article ...
The prison staff are stupid too ... why do they thing we needs wands and by sticks I assume staffs ... a true pagan whatever path needs nothing but their mind ... and that applies to anyone following any faith/life path ... Going to give Sikhs their kirpan
But it gives us another opportunity to laugh at the powers that be.
scumbags...
