Schools hit by bun ban
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Mon Ami Mate

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6,589 posts

299 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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Schools hit by bun ban

SCHOOL chiefs have banned hot cross buns from canteens to avoid upsetting non-Christians.

Four councils outlawed the traditional Good Friday food so Muslims, Hindus and Jews would not be offended.

There were complaints when pancakes were served to school kids on Shrove Tuesday in Tower Hamlets, East London.

Tower Hamlets, Liverpool, York and Wolverhampton councils are taking part in the ban.

A spokesman for Tower Hamlets council said: “We can’t risk a similar outcry over Easter like we had on pancake day.

“We’ll probably be serving naan breads instead.”

Superflid

2,254 posts

296 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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This is a wind-up, right?
Please tell me it's a wind-up.
Please.














"Queen to stop using the Union Flag, in fear of upsetting Johnny Foreigner".

That was a wind-up..................so far.

JMGS4

8,932 posts

301 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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If it's not a wind-up...... It's time to tell these do-gooder gruniad reading lefty w*nkers to Fcuk off and the furriners who complain as well...... We're basicly a christian country, white population with British basic reason and mores. BUT if you don't like get the F out!!!!!!!
Sorry if I'm over the top but it's time summat like this was said in the open and not whingingly behind some labour scumbags back.............

kevinday

13,875 posts

311 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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JMG, absolutely right, what a total

the Wiz

5,875 posts

293 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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Saw this in the Sunday Telegraph ... typical PC crap. It does not even help, simply causes resentment and ridicule towards those it is aimed at assisting. I think at the present time the Muslims in Britain have got other things to be worried about.

CarZee

13,382 posts

298 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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I'm 100% behind this move... cinnamon is the devil's love muck & no comestibles containing said luciferous seasoning should ever be fed to children.

Deester

1,607 posts

291 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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I would like to comment but I'm speechless.

Graham

16,381 posts

315 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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Whatever happened to religious tolerance eh?....


why the **** carnt religious people acknowledge that some pople believe in somthing different from themselves. without the need to try and KILL them.

i just dont understand.

why carnt christians/ muslims/jews/hindus etc just get on with their own life rather than trying to kill others....

thank god im agnostic

mind you i think that puts me on half a dosent hit lists

Mrs Fish

30,018 posts

289 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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“We’ll probably be serving naan breads instead.”




Well that offends me

robp

5,823 posts

295 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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What?

Thats put me in a bad mood now.

It would not happen in a reverse situation I can tell you.....

Rich-UK

1,431 posts

287 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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If these people don't like the way this christian country operates, the can just off. The world is a big place, there's no international law that says they have to come here.

If I went to India and told them their flag annoys me and should be banned and said their food offended me, what would you expect them to do to me? Exactly what I deserved.

F*cking PC polititians

CarZee

13,382 posts

298 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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There were complaints when pancakes were served to school kids on Shrove Tuesday in Tower Hamlets, East London.
Were there really ? Who the hell from?

Let's be honest and admit that most people of whatever (or no) religion don't give a shite about kids being served hot cross buns, pancakes or whatever..

It's the same story as the banned pig stories thing recently, really.. some spineless (white) do-gooder has proceeded with a move which will pacify a tiny minority while enraging and embarassing the vast majority of people from every part of society..

Way to smooth those racial and religious divides you fcuking moron!

FourWheelDrift

92,382 posts

315 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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un-bloody-believable.

Perhaps they should take note of what other religious cultures say before doing this sort of rubbish. They'll probably find they don't mind and their kids actually miss the buns as much as the others.

On a similar note I think it should be said that "other relgions" are very welcoming of christian things, as you would undoubtably seen/heard the Hindu's (fictional Kumars) singing and dancing along to the Comic Relief single "Spirit in the Sky" A CHRISTIAN POP SONG!!!!!!!

Could someone remind us what country we live in?

swilly

9,699 posts

305 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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Rich-UK said: If these people don't like the way this christian country operates, the can just off. The world is a big place, there's no international law that says they have to come here.

If I went to India and told them their flag annoys me and should be banned and said their food offended me, what would you expect them to do to me? Exactly what I deserved.

F*cking PC polititians



They would look at you strangely, mutter to themselves that you were a "mad cnut" and ignore you. Like any normal person would.

Not in this country though. We're all fcukingggg bonkerssss mate!!!!

Davel

8,982 posts

289 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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How can anyone be offended by an f***ing pancake or hot cross bun? Clearly they haven't been offended enough to get the next plane out.

Perhaps all asses should be put down for fear of offending anyone, since they also wear a cross!

Where will it ever stop? It was bad enough when they took gollywogs of Robertson Jam and who could really have been offended by them?

I'm not racist but this really is taking things to the extreme.

david010167

1,397 posts

294 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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Ah, did you not know, that England is the only country where it is offensive to be english and have english views (lowercase so not to cause offense that english is in anyway superior to other cultures).

David

>> Edited by david010167 on Monday 17th March 15:08

swilly

9,699 posts

305 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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Davel said: How can anyone be offended by an f***ing pancake or hot cross bun?.


Having read this, I now cannot get the picture of a pancake, complete with skinhead and DR Martens lumbering down the street screaming obscenities, out of my head.

tycho

12,296 posts

304 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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I was just thinking about St. Paddys day. If we tried to celebrate St. Georges day in the same way it would probably be banned because it is a 'Christian' or 'English' celebration. (although it is a good excuse to get hammered. Pity I'm tee-total!!)

minimax

11,985 posts

287 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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Mrs Fish said:



“We’ll probably be serving naan breads instead.”




Well that offends me


but you (and us) don't count!

P*Ting

5,618 posts

289 months

Monday 17th March 2003
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The MP will be hearing about this.

My local school (Mum works there) officially celebretes Divali, Hakakakakka (sorry - that's not being offensive, I just don't know how to spell it), and several other religious festivals with full traditional gubbins, but the native ones are being banned.

This infuriates me. Same as My old school allowed Muslims to miss RE as some of it wasn't their religion, but wouldn't let us Catholics/protestants/atheists/satanists skip the islamic bits (I didn't actually ask- someone else raised the point on principle).

Equality means EQUALITY, not 'ban the majority'.