Cancel Christmas?

[oldcolner]

Must have been December, Balan because the three wise men followed the twinkling star.

All the inns were packed because the punters had all been to the Christmas markets! "How did they know it was Christmas", is a question that constantly puzzles me!

More Bollox Talk

Did you not go to church or Sunday School

It was for a census. The census played a crucial role in the administration of the peoples of an expanding Roman Empire, and was used to determine taxes.

“ a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child."

Wonder if they believed the numbers...

Theologians have also suggested that Jesus was born in the spring, based on the biblical narrative that shepherds were watching over their flocks in the fields on the night of Jesus' birth — something they would have done in the spring, not the winter.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I try not to overthink things OC.

I would have thought you had got that by now.

[oldcolner]

You leave Becky alone, she's a socialist goddess in my eyes and I am happy Starmer sacked her, just to prove she's on the left side of socialism.

Was it not antisemitism that got her too?

[oldcolner]

I try not to overthink things OC.

I would have thought you had got that by now.

Me thinking you think first act later Never!

[Supersub6]

They never said which Christmas though!

[Norder]

.

They never said which Christmas though!

oh dear - Sub....202? - but, lets stop messing, they're obviously far pottier than we thought....still, lets be kind....we'll make a Gingerbread house for them, they'll like that, they can all sit together, make things up all day long...they can even pretend that they're running a gingerbread world, full of gingerbread people....that'll keep them happy, confined, unable to disturb anything or anyone outside of their gingerbread fantasy land....but, happy.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Was it not antisemitism that got her too?

No.

[oldcolner]

No.

https://www.ft.com/content/e1d7453a-...9-4e524339dac2

Ms Long Bailey was sacked after she retweeted an interview with Maxine Peake, in which the British actress claimed the technique that killed George Floyd was taught to US police by “Israeli secret services”.

Nice excuse for Sir Rodney to remove your hard left friend.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

https://www.ft.com/content/e1d7453a-...9-4e524339dac2

Ms Long Bailey was sacked after she retweeted an interview with Maxine Peake, in which the British actress claimed the technique that killed George Floyd was taught to US police by “Israeli secret services”.

Nice excuse for Sir Rodney to remove your hard left friend.

Not hard to conclude Rebecca was right though...

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