Road rules0 min ago
Christmas lights.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Children love the lights and only know why they are there is because of adults.Lets be honest they are there ultimately for the children and to that end I consider myself a child cos I love them.
Plenty time for them to grow up and I absolutely agree - cover your houses in fairy lights and cheer everyone up.
Buddy - Perhaps jenstar means the idiots who take offence on other people's behalves without actually checking how those other people feel. I know if I were using the word "idiot" in this thread that's who I'd mean, although I don't purport to ACTUALLY know what jenstar is thinking! :p
Don't forget folks, Birmingham did this years ago with their "Winter Festival".
If people are GENUINELY offended, perhaps it's only that their own religion is not celebrated by the councils too. I could see a small case for setting a budget for "religious" lights and then spending it in proportion of the town. So if, by some very convenient coincidence, 80% of the town were Christian and 20% Hindu, split the budget that way for Xmas and Divali lights.
Otherwise, I agree wholeheartedly with Boobesque's comments that if we are going to embrace other cultures, fine, but we should not have to do so at the expense of our own.
The more you read the papers and watch the news the more it affects ones blood pressure. It's nice to take an interest in what is going on the world..but we can't change it I'm afraid.I just want people to get along.Happy Christmas !!!
When are we all putting our deccies up?