New Labour New Puritans?

[beagle]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/01/nxmas101.xml

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

The war on X-mas is on! 

[Griffin NoName]

Apparently the war on baubles is on too. Sounds Puritan to me.

mmmmm public holidays for every major holy day for every major religion. It'd be a vote swinger if the Treasury could fund it without increasing taxes.

[beagle]

Apparently you can no longer have sex with a bicycle either.

Maybe I'm a hopeless liberal (somehow I doubt it) but I can't see why that's a sex offender register thing, even if it is completely barking mad. It's the sort of harmless eccentricity that makes England the envy of the world (sort of).  Does it cover all inanimate objects? Are women all over the country even now burying battery powered appliances in shallow graves and dreading a knock at the door?

[Griffin NoName]

I think sex with a bicycle makes more sense than sex with a pavement.

I am somewhat pre-occupied by my travel insurance policy which states that I must obtain a doctor's certificate to make my claim if I have to curtail my holidaay due to death. Must remember to pick up a selection of pre-printed foward dated certificates from the GP before I go.

[beagle]

I suspect they mean the death of a close relative, rather than your own. Otherwise every one could cancel their holiday and say their granny died if the weather forecast was unfavourable.
If they do mean you, then it's definitely not your problem.

[goat starer]

damn good idea. i hate christmas!

bah humbug!!!!!

PS. Is not letting people have sex with a bisexual not some kind of discrimination? ..... oh sory BICYCLE!   

[anthrobabe]

read down the page a bit and you also come to the following

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/04/wrat104.xmlGoat survived by kid and human husband



Oh help........

[Aggie]

I remember that goat story the first time around.

I think sex with a bicycle makes more sense than sex with a pavement.

*rumble*

There are some pretty sexy bikes out there, and given the normal level of intimacy between bike and rider....

I prefer a platonic relationship with bikes, but what else does one grind one's crotch against while wearing tight shorts (I wear baggies ftr). 

[Griffin NoName]

I am somewhat pre-occupied by my travel insurance policy which states that I must obtain a doctor's certificate to make my claim if I have to curtail my holidaay due to death.

If they do mean you, then it's definitely not your problem.

It must be a way of wriggling out of paying the insurance money into the deceased person's estate. My relatives would disagree with you and blame me for not getting the certificate. So it is my problem even though I am not dead yet. Remember, this is an Insurance Company I am talking about......

Back not quite on topic. Am watching The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover and so far there's been no mention of bicycles.

[beagle]

My relatives would disagree with you and blame me for not getting the certificate.

What can they do? Other than send you off in a silly hat?

Am watching The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover and so far there's been no mention of bicycles.

Probably they've been locked away from the servants to avoid giving them ideas.

[Griffin NoName]

My relatives would disagree with you and blame me for not getting the certificate.

What can they do? Other than send you off in a silly hat?

Thanks for the tip. I'll change my will again to specify the hat. Though I'm often puzzled by directions for funerals in wills as in the films they are always read out afterwards.

Am watching The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover and so far there's been no mention of bicycles.

Probably they've been locked away from the servants to avoid giving them ideas.

According to this version of the trial, the upper classes were as bad as the working classes. The people that needed protecting seem to have been the middle classes.

[beagle]

My relatives would disagree with you and blame me for not getting the certificate.

What can they do? Other than send you off in a silly hat?

Thanks for the tip. I'll change my will again to specify the hat. Though I'm often puzzled by directions for funerals in wills as in the films they are always read out afterwards.

It's more fun to do it first. "I'd like my family, who always said I couldn't take it with me, to watch me and the money being cremated".

Am watching The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover and so far there's been no mention of bicycles.

Probably they've been locked away from the servants to avoid giving them ideas.

According to this version of the trial, the upper classes were as bad as the working classes. The people that needed protecting seem to have been the middle classes.

Sounds believable. The working classes live for now, the upper classes think the rules don't apply to them.  It's the middle classes that get all buttoned-up and worry about these things.

[Griffin NoName]

My relatives would disagree with you and blame me for not getting the certificate.

What can they do? Other than send you off in a silly hat?

Thanks for the tip. I'll change my will again to specify the hat. Though I'm often puzzled by directions for funerals in wills as in the films they are always read out afterwards.

It's more fun to do it first. "I'd like my family, who always said I couldn't take it with me, to watch me and the money being cremated".

Change of plans. Going to buy a very very expensive hat.

Am watching The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover and so far there's been no mention of bicycles.

Probably they've been locked away from the servants to avoid giving them ideas.

According to this version of the trial, the upper classes were as bad as the working classes. The people that needed protecting seem to have been the middle classes.

Sounds believable. The working classes live for now, the upper classes think the rules don't apply to them.  It's the middle classes that get all buttoned-up and worry about these things.

If they stayed all buttoned up, they'd have nothing to worry about

[beagle]

I'm worried about the shooting. If Mellors is spending all his time in the hut with one game bird, who is looking after all the others?