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	<title>Comments on: Happy Winter Secular Greetings of The Season!</title>
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	<description>ranting and rambling to anyone willing to listen</description>
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		<title>By: Guesty</title>
		<link>http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200612/happy-winter-secular-greetings-of-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1296</link>
		<dc:creator>Guesty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So I was surfing the net in hopes of finding some facts about this whole &quot;Winterfest&quot; thing, when I stumbled across this blog and thought:

&quot;Well I&#039;ll be, people with the same views as me who&#039;s opinions are never actually voiced in public.&quot;

God bless the internet...

I live in the midlands, a few miles from Birmingham and although I haven&#039;t actually seen them with my own eyes (so don&#039;t take this as 100% truth) I have been told that Birmingham City Centre xmas decorations have had the word Christmas removed and replaced with &quot;Winterfest&quot; or &quot;Winter Festival&quot; or some such crap.

I actually find this offensive and sacriligious that my major religious holiday is being changed by force, and I would like to say that, just like the christians of ancient Rome, I will be seen nailed to a cross in the city centre before I abandon my religious holiday!

If anyone wants to join me in protest please feel free! I&#039;ve seen &#039;The Life of Brian&#039; and subsequently think that a group crucifixion is one ace way to have a Christmas party.

&quot;Always look on the bright side of life...&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I was surfing the net in hopes of finding some facts about this whole &#8220;Winterfest&#8221; thing, when I stumbled across this blog and thought:</p>
<p>&#8220;Well I&#8217;ll be, people with the same views as me who&#8217;s opinions are never actually voiced in public.&#8221;</p>
<p>God bless the internet&#8230;</p>
<p>I live in the midlands, a few miles from Birmingham and although I haven&#8217;t actually seen them with my own eyes (so don&#8217;t take this as 100% truth) I have been told that Birmingham City Centre xmas decorations have had the word Christmas removed and replaced with &#8220;Winterfest&#8221; or &#8220;Winter Festival&#8221; or some such crap.</p>
<p>I actually find this offensive and sacriligious that my major religious holiday is being changed by force, and I would like to say that, just like the christians of ancient Rome, I will be seen nailed to a cross in the city centre before I abandon my religious holiday!</p>
<p>If anyone wants to join me in protest please feel free! I&#8217;ve seen &#8216;The Life of Brian&#8217; and subsequently think that a group crucifixion is one ace way to have a Christmas party.</p>
<p>&#8220;Always look on the bright side of life&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
		<link>http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200612/happy-winter-secular-greetings-of-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1127</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I promise not to have a nativity scene outside my house and I won&#039;t go to Mass. In turn I will, of course, be expecting the Christians to keep their hands off my yule log, mistletoe, Santa outfit, &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.essortment.com/christmaspagan_rece.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;raucous partying, gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift-giving&lt;/a&gt; while I&#039;m out getting bladdered in the name of the Baby Jeebus.
;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I promise not to have a nativity scene outside my house and I won&#8217;t go to Mass. In turn I will, of course, be expecting the Christians to keep their hands off my yule log, mistletoe, Santa outfit, <a href="http://de.essortment.com/christmaspagan_rece.htm" rel="nofollow">raucous partying, gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift-giving</a> while I&#8217;m out getting bladdered in the name of the Baby Jeebus.<br />
 <img src='http://www.thepickards.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Anthony</title>
		<link>http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200612/happy-winter-secular-greetings-of-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1114</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really should check things before clicking Submit...

&lt;em&gt;Note to self&lt;/em&gt;: always remember to put &lt;strong&gt;http://&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really should check things before clicking Submit&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Note to self</em>: always remember to put <strong>http://</strong></p>
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		<title>By: Anthony</title>
		<link>http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200612/happy-winter-secular-greetings-of-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1113</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chester.gov.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;little council&lt;/a&gt; just got caught up in this little storm&#039;o&#039;excrement.

All we did was write &quot;Season&#039;s Greetings&quot; on our annual corporate card - &lt;em&gt;like we have done for at least &lt;strong&gt;the last FIVE years&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - and all of a sudden we are featured in the Daily Express, Talk Sport and even sodding This Morning.

We were basically accused of canceling Christmas 2006 single handedly.

As far as I&#039;m concerned Seaso&#039;n Greetings is a perfectly traditional and recognised way of saying Happy Christmas - but the next thing we know we are getting bombarded by every nut case Christian in the country denouncing us as the bosom of the anti-Christ. 

Or something.

So it works both ways.

But I totally agree with what you&#039;re saying.

Any way I bunged up last years big Merry Christmas masthead within 10 minutes of the first call.

[ED: Fixed link for you, Anthony]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our <a href="http://www.chester.gov.uk" rel="nofollow">little council</a> just got caught up in this little storm&#8217;o'excrement.</p>
<p>All we did was write &#8220;Season&#8217;s Greetings&#8221; on our annual corporate card &#8211; <em>like we have done for at least <strong>the last FIVE years</strong></em> &#8211; and all of a sudden we are featured in the Daily Express, Talk Sport and even sodding This Morning.</p>
<p>We were basically accused of canceling Christmas 2006 single handedly.</p>
<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned Seaso&#8217;n Greetings is a perfectly traditional and recognised way of saying Happy Christmas &#8211; but the next thing we know we are getting bombarded by every nut case Christian in the country denouncing us as the bosom of the anti-Christ. </p>
<p>Or something.</p>
<p>So it works both ways.</p>
<p>But I totally agree with what you&#8217;re saying.</p>
<p>Any way I bunged up last years big Merry Christmas masthead within 10 minutes of the first call.</p>
<p>[ED: Fixed link for you, Anthony]</p>
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		<title>By: Tim Beadle</title>
		<link>http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200612/happy-winter-secular-greetings-of-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1111</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim Beadle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>** applauds **

You talk sense, Jack. Keep it up!</description>
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<p>You talk sense, Jack. Keep it up!</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good to see you&#039;ve got your blogging muse back :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good to see you&#8217;ve got your blogging muse back <img src='http://www.thepickards.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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