....nothing

Traditions that are forgotten until stirred up and suddenly become VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR NO REASON/completely misunderstood.

So far we have;

-Britannia, the great symbol of Britain nobody knows about until it's about to be removed (temporarily) and as it has been before. All of a sudden we're in crisis.

- The Democratic tradition. The readers will NEVER grasp this.

- Flag flying. I CAN'T FLY IT! YES I CAN! I CAN'T

- Christmas. It's banned don't you know. Easter isn't. How odd. Is that because it's actually about banning what is most enjoyed, not what is most important to religion? Perhaps because not everybody is Christian, but everybody loves Christmas?

Oh hang it all it's not banned anyway!

- Stamps; Secular one year, non-secular the next. But that's just LIES! They're always secular! THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION!!!

- Family values; Gays don't have them.

- Mum & Dad; Schools don't say Mum & Dad anymore! But they do! But they never did! But they do! But, but, but...HOMOSEXUAL CONSPIRACY


There's a big one in my head somewhere but I've forgotten it.

Flying the Union flag? No-one does it until the Mail says IT'S GOING TO BE BANNED* and then it's all "thousands of years of flag flying and nu-labour has banned it. Where's my country gone?"




*One local council have decided to stop flying it

i'm sure subjugating foreigners comes under this heading somewhere

The Christmas card nonsense they came up with in 2006 was quite a good example - they 'surveyed' however many cards it was (most likely by going to chain stores carrying the same stock within a certain mile radius of hitlerloving towers but thats by the by) and claimed that a vast majority were 'non traditional' - ie, didn't have a picture of the baby Jesus and the virgin Mary, not in her veil though because that's only for darkies.

Either way it turns out the images they made out were 'tradition' are infact, no such thing - the first Christmas card went on about feeding the homeless and generally being kind, you know, all that stuff the mail is against.

Then there's the royal mail stamps which alternate from secular to non secular every year, but of course there's always a fresh outrage to be had everytime they alternate back to secular and never a word said when they go the other way.

Odd how the plastic milk bottle from the supermarket has become an instant tradition and the Mail is howling about milk in bags.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... _id=512190

"Supermarket customers could soon be popping out for a bag of milk instead of the traditional glass or plastic bottles or containers"

I thought the randy milkman was the tradition. But I'm out of touch.

Posters can't get fussed about it though. And I'm sure it's not new either.

It would seem it's put egg, or is it milk, on the Mails face as it would seem just about everyone else has already done it. Most comments are like this, but note the swipe toward the end...

Traditional family values.

Husband works and smokes pipe.
Wife minds the home and makes own cakes.
Two children.
Holidays in Eastboune.

Heard on R4 this morning that the Mail is reporting the "banning" of a pancake race somewhere. Can't find it on the website though. It would be odd though, because I've seen more notices and ads in the local paper for pancake races this year than ever before!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770

my comment about the story being rubbish has gone unheeded.

Ahhh the old Health and Safety 'killjoys'

driven, if true, by the good old MUST PAY MUST PAY mentality of people with no self-responsibility. I.e anyone who blames anything on the government. Oh wait!

Not that much of a tradition then. Additionally it's not really because of 'health and safety fears', more the cost and time involved in dealing with the bureaucracy including sorting road closures and policing, neither of which have much to do with health and safety.

From the local paper:



So ... pancake race "banned" because nobody can be arsed with it.

I dunno, closing the road probably has some impact on the health and safety of the pancake racers.

Seriously though. Pancake day. Who can be bothered? I'm a girl. I can't eat all that fat-n-carbs at teatime!

I enjoy pancake day, in a kind of Any Excuse sort of a way. It's not like it's Valentines day, which as far as I can see only exists to remind people to be nice to their partners for a change.

Valentines Day also has the effect of making single people feel like shit, men in relationships feel obligated to spend shitloads of money on shit and gives women in relationships carte blanche to act as smug as shit. Worst day of the year!