As Richard Littlejohn would say, you really couldn't make it up, could you! Have you ever read such politically correct garbage in your entire life?

Wannabe vegan? Vegan awareness month? Vegan Month Coordinator? Where do they get these barmy people and their barmy cliches from? Can you imagine Ms Kelly Slade going to a dinner party and, on being asked by other guests what she does for a living, replies: "Well, actually, I'm a Vegan Month Coordinator." Stunned silence follows all round until someone mutters "Well, that must be nice for you, dear!" Presumably, of course, Ms Slade does not in fact go to dinner parties unless all present sign a declaration to the effect that no animal products will be eaten - bet she wears shoes made of leather, though!

I wonder how many entries there were for this competition? One? Two? Three, even? Personally, I thought vegans were something in Star Trek, or was that Vulcans, I forget?

Anyway, good luck to them whatever it is that they do. Can't say I thought of them whilst I was eating my lovely duck and steak over Christmas, or the equally delicious sausages, gammon with a fried egg, bacon and beef sarnies and roast rack of lamb, all washed down - naturally - with some decent red wines.

Can you seriously believe these pretentious, posturing, sanctimonious, self-righteous clowns? And a Happy New Year to all.

You're like the school bully Roy, anyone different to you is fair game and needs sorting out.

Roy Stockdill wrote:
As Richard Littlejohn would say, you really couldn't make it up, could you! Have you ever read such politically correct garbage in your entire life? Wannabe vegan? Vegan awareness month? Vegan Month Coordinator? Where do they get these barmy people and their barmy cliches from? Can you imagine Ms Kelly Slade going to a dinner party and, on being asked by other guests what she does for a living, replies: "Well, actually, I'm a Vegan Month Coordinator." Stunned silence follows all round until someone mutters "Well, that must be nice for you, dear!" Presumably, of course, Ms Slade does not in fact go to dinner parties unless all present sign a declaration to the effect that no animal products will be eaten - bet she wears shoes made of leather, though! I wonder how many entries there were for this competition? One? Two? Three, even? Personally, I thought vegans were something in Star Trek, or was that Vulcans, I forget? Anyway, good luck to them whatever it is that they do. Can't say I thought of them whilst I was eating my lovely duck and steak over Christmas, or the equally delicious sausages, gammon with a fried egg, bacon and beef sarnies and roast rack of lamb, all washed down - naturally - with some decent red wines. Can you seriously believe these pretentious, posturing, sanctimonious, self-righteous clowns? And a Happy New Year to all.

Yes, Roy....I totally agree!
You missed out on the most important description of this sector of society.
I like to call them...The Great Unwashed.
I hate soap dodging nut roast munchers.
There are alternatives to such a miserable lifestyle choice and no doubt, more pleasurable ones...such as contracting syphillis....

P.S Roy, Less about the bacon and eggs...you might get branded an Islamophobe!

P.S....
No wittle fuwwy animals were harmed by the W.O. hacks in the making of this utter tosh!

JonBoy wrote:
You're like the school bully Roy, anyone different to you is fair game and needs sorting out.

It's not a question of "sorting out" someone who has different views to me, JonBoy. They are perfectly entitled to their beliefs, however crackpot most of us think they are. If they want to live on nut cutlets and carrot rissoles, or whatever, let them get on with it, say I.

What I do object to is them trying to force it down the throats of the rest of us with their fatuous "Vegan awareness month". I'm sure I am far from being the only one who is sick to death of the word "awareness" which seems to crop up every week now with awareness-of-this-we
ek and awareness-of-that-mo
nth! Every time I see the word "awareness I turn the page because I know it's just another bunch of politically correct, self-righteous nutters trying to force their minority views onto everybody else.

These people have the right to do whatever they want, provided it's legal. I simply object to them shouting about it and spouting their rubbish at the rest of us.

This particular bunch don't seem to have thought anything through. The simple fact is that the vast majority of farm animals like cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks etc, exist for one purpose only - to provide food and clothing for human beings. That is what they are bred for. If these nutters had their way and all animal foods and products were banned, then the species would simply disappear and not exist at all. However, this simply fact appears to be beyond their comprehension.

Roy Stockdill wrote:

JonBoy wrote: You're like the school bully Roy, anyone different to you is fair game and needs sorting out.

It's not a question of "sorting out" someone who has different views to me, JonBoy. They are perfectly entitled to their beliefs, however crackpot most of us think they are. If they want to live on nut cutlets and carrot rissoles, or whatever, let them get on with it, say I. What I do object to is them trying to force it down the throats of the rest of us with their fatuous "Vegan awareness month". I'm sure I am far from being the only one who is sick to death of the word "awareness" which seems to crop up every week now with awareness-of-this-we ek and awareness-of-that-mo nth! Every time I see the word "awareness I turn the page because I know it's just another bunch of politically correct, self-righteous nutters trying to force their minority views onto everybody else. These people have the right to do whatever they want, provided it's legal. I simply object to them shouting about it and spouting their rubbish at the rest of us. This particular bunch don't seem to have thought anything through. The simple fact is that the vast majority of farm animals like cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks etc, exist for one purpose only - to provide food and clothing for human beings. That is what they are bred for. If these nutters had their way and all animal foods and products were banned, then the species would simply disappear and not exist at all. However, this simply fact appears to be beyond their comprehension.

Heaven forbid anyone should force their opinions on anyone else Roy.

What a hypocrite, unbelievable!!!!!

Roy is not very bright. I think he has self-esteem issues.

How is this article forcing anything down anybody's throat?

Also I find it interesting that this "man", who is an zealous atheist, chooses to celebrate Christmas.

Jeremy Clarkson's wife would describe him as a hypocritical custard.

What I object to as much as anything is the pretentious and fatuous language of political correctness. If anyone has heard of a dafter job title than Vegan Month Cordinator, I would dearly love to hear it! I doubt you'd find anything more pretentious and plain silly, even in the jobs pages of the Guardian. The self-rightousness and self-importance of these people simply amuses me.

As for celebrating Christmas, I don't celebrate it in any religious way whatsoever. I might eat and drink a bit more than usual, just like everybody else - and I leave it to my wife to send the cards. Left to me, nobody would ever get one! I confess to enjoying some carols, but only because I am a music lover.

I might also point out that Christmas was originally not a Christian festival at all, but was nicked from a much earlier and older pagan one marking the winter solstice. Early next year (February) we non-believers will be celebrating a much more important event - the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809.

The pagan festival that Christmas tacked itself onto, was still a "religious" festival though.
Christmas has ALWAYS been a Christian festival, the clue is in the name.
I agree with you on the loopy job title, but so what?
We always get these right wing, voice of the people, types moaning about how this country is going to the dogs and how the blame is with everyone except PEOPLE LIKE US. What they forget is that one of the things that made this country great was tolerance.

Also if it paid say £50k, who wouldn't want to be a "Nut cutlet outreach worker". I reckon it would be fun.

Also people whose idea of Dinner Party concersation is "Well what do you do...?" are dullards and bores.

To quote from Wikipedia: "The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038. "Cristes" is from Greek Christos and "mæsse" is from Latin missa. In Greek, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ, and it, or the similar Roman letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th century. Hence, Xmas is often used as an abbreviation for Christmas."

This would seem to suggest that the festival we call Christmas is barely 1,000 years old and, of course, it was hardly celebrated at all until the Victorians took it over and began the commercialisation we know today. In previous centuries the vast majority of ordinary people were far too poor and oppressed to worry about celebrating Christmas. About the only thing they got was the one day a year off work and that is why family historians know they will find many of their ancestors who were married on Christmas Day.

Long, long before Christianity "nicked" Christmas, it was a Roman, pagan festival called Saturnalia to mark the winter solstice. Saturn was one of the numerous peculiar gods worshipped by the Romans, but I'd hardly call it religion as we understand it today - more a good excuse for lots of eating and drinking and dancing and general licentiousness, just like Christmas today, in fact!

The notion that 25th December was Jesus Christ's birthday is a complete myth. Nobody knows or can show precisely when Christ was born, if indeed he ever existed at all. In fact, virtually all of the dates associated with Christ are pure inventions of much later writers, since for one thing the Roman and Jewish calendars were different to the Gregorian calendar under which we operate today.

I could give much, much more detail on this, but a quick tour around Google and Wikipedia will supply all that you could wish to know about Christmas.

Hmmm...Roy Stockdill's egotistical profile photo is enough to make anyone consider veganism. You should cut down on yer pork life mate, get some exercise!