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Out on the bike today and saw a guy on an 'invalid scooter' with a face mask connected to an oxygen bottle. He was out for a 'roll' along sand bay seafront with lots of families walking around with their dogs. Looks like some people don't want to be 'helped'. The amount of cars out and about today it looks like lock down has been lifted....

Leader of the free world

Surely in the spirit of 'live and let live' MLG can be as vocal as he likes about religion and air his views on it? As far as I can tell, MLGs 'intolerance' - FWIW I don't believe he is being 'intolerant', more pedantic - has been confined to the written word on an internet forum.

Odd that the WHO doesn't share that opinion. https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/

Wow, just wow! Possibly one of the most racists things I've read on this forum! Presuming to tell an entire race what they can and can't eat because you have (wrongly) made the assumption that eating 'dodgy ****' from 'disgusting places' caused SARS!

And yet many religions do condone violence....

Would you still have the same opinion if a radicalised nutter blew themselves and members of your family up in the name of their one true God - genuine question as clearly their 'belief' would have an impact on you.

So basically you're saying that religion is relevant if you are in a church! Not exactly a stunning revelation!

Tradition - as Lighthouse said. It's also part of the big 'fairy tale' they've dreamed about for years and usually nothing to do with religion. Having said that, more and more people are shunning church weddings in favour of far more accomodating venues, especially since the church lost its monopoly on weddings and more civil licences were issued. https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/12-april/news/uk/church-weddings-fall-by-nearly-half-in-two-decades

To insist that it is relevant for everyone is simply not true.

No. It says the archaic laws of our country require it to be taught - in all fairness, it is no longer about Jesus, Mary and the wise men and tends to be more balanced covering all the major religions.

Probably because in 1871 when they were legally declared as bank holidays, religion played an important part in people's lives, owing to the fact that science hadn't yet developed sufficiently to debunk most of the myths.

No, I gave them ALL the facts and allowed them to make their own minds up - it tends to only be the highly religious families that engage in brain washing

Pagan calendar? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/03/easter-pagan-symbolism Just a coincidence that : ?????

They are legally bank holidays in the UK, not religious holidays. The law protects workers rights to have time off on those days - or time off in lieu - and they have been classed as bank holidays since 1871.

Boris?

Does that mean it is now irrelevant?

Don't you need a plane to fly?

Took a few seconds, but I got there

It's your opportunity to educate the 'thick idiot', grab it with both hands

I hope not

Sadly not as these are also the 'unnoticed' workers who go about their work day in and day out largely forgotten about - until something goes wrong and the bins don't get emptied or the supermarket shelves are not full and then all hell breaks loose!

I'll take that as you can't find any and therefore tacit agreement

The whole of 'Next' had no consultation - they were informed that it was going to happen. Not sure there was time to consultant with thousands of workers given the timescales involved, logistically it would have been impossible with non-essential travel bans. Wouldn't expect a claim to hold up in a tribunal, but the law has never been straight forward!

Jesus wept! Please let me know where you are getting that information from about 'covid deaths'. The BBC are reporting "a record 938 daily deaths were reported in UK hospitals." : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52221724 But they are very careful to not state that these were caused explicitly by covid, as far as I can tell, that is just your assumption. It's been discussed before that as a 'reportable' disease, any death that occurs whilst 'infected' has to be reported to the WHO, which means, essentially you could bleed to death whilst infected and it will be reported, but the cause of death will be lack of blood! I'm more than happy to be proven wrong - and have stated this more than once on this thread - and will be more than happy to look at any publication that is giving figures for deaths above and beyond the natural death rate, however, from everything I've read, this is not being reported. Enlighten me, show me the full facts and figures, pal.