I’m going to wait till I get home. And I’m in my bedroom.
very good.
Originally posted by @CB-Saint
Originally posted by @Rallyboy
Another thread smothered to death.
Harold Shipman walks among us.
It was his thread to smother
more fritzl than shipman then.
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I had my haircut by a Muslim last week (hair…not throat, note) and he asked me what I was doing for Christmas and wished me a merry Christmas when I left. Assuming that he hasnt been taken out by IS for being too friendly with the infidel, I would say that was a nifty bit of integration.
If he didn’t offer eggnog and pigs in blankets it doesn’t count.
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Would never happen with Barry. He strides proudly into a barbers wielding a bacon sarnie and waving it at would be hair choppers. If anyone recoils in horror, he tuts, turns his heels and walks out.
He has often mistaken vegetarian barbers as adherents of Islam*
* Probably
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I got my hair cut by a Christian last week.
I would say its a bloke doing his job and his faith has nothing to do with it.
Then why feel the need to tell everyone the religion of your barber? Just a bloke doing his job.
Faith has nothing to do with it, apparently. Unless it suits.
Sacasm, why would someone say I got my hair cut by a Muslim last week, who says that?
I would come back and say I just I got my haircut, race, religion and colour doesn’t matter does it?
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No Nanny state will do that for you
Sarcasm? If you want to see it that way. Or you could see it as one of the hundreds of thousands of little acts every day that show that there is social interaction and integration between people of different faiths/cultures in this country. You, apparently would rather focus on th negatives whilst ignoring the positives.
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No I simply won’t define anyone by their religion, they’re a person first and a religion a long way down that list, being a good person is far more important.
As I have said elsewhere “it is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice”
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Exactly, I have explained before some of my friends are gay and from a religious family with a culture that certainly doesn’t allow for their lifestyle, they 't define themselves as gay, brown, Muslim or any of that, they define themselves as people. Far more important, tag lines along race and religion only add barriers to integration.
Yeah, you see, Barry, I think you missed the point.
The point of sharing the fact that SoG’s barber was Muslim was not to show that he had a “Muslim haircut”, it was, as he went on to say, that the Muslim barber wished him a Merry Christmas and asked about his Christmas plans.
SoG’s sharing of the belief system that the barber held as his own was important because the barber offered SoG seasonal greetings that come from a completely different religion.
SoG cited this to show that social integration is there.
I saw SoG’s point clearly and I agree.
When your Christian barber wishes his Muslim customers “Happy Eid” at the end of Ramadan, then your barber’s Christian beliefs would be relevant on a thread about social integration.
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What is you wished a Happy Eid to a Hindu and it started a race war? How would the hairdresser feel then?
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