Right wing snowflakes call for Greggs boycott over sausage roll nativity

Original post by IamJacksContempt

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/15/greggs-nativity-jesus-sausage-roll-advent-calendar

Political correctness gone mad.

i would be happy with their japery as long as they also produced a Muslim version for Eid.

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IamJacksContempt

OP

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Original post by the bear

i would be happy with their japery as long as they also produced a Muslim version for Eid.

There's only two religions now? You don't have an agenda do you?

Reply 42

Good bloke

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Original post by the bear

i would be happy with their japery as long as they also produced a Muslim version for Eid.

Read my link from a few posts ago.

Reply 43

the bear

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Original post by IamJacksContempt

There's only two religions now? You don't have an agenda do you?

Christianity & Islam are the two big hitters in this country :h:

Reply 44

abc:)

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I find the photo hilarious kudos to Greggs - it would be funny without the outrage but the outrage makes it that tiny bit funnier.

Reply 45

Snazzyzebra

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Original post by IamJacksContempt

Spare me your life story mate.

I would also work on your patter because typing sausage roll in caps is about as funny as cancer.

Life story? Can you even read? Your buttherdness about righty snowflakes came out in your initial post, thus proving your potential lefty snowflakeness, amusing me on my apolitical perch.

Adios.

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Trapz99

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Original post by Good bloke

You mean a bit like this:

Www.jesusandmo.net/?s=sausage

The difference is that that was probably made by some edgy atheist from a basement rather than a FTSE 250 company

Reply 47

IamJacksContempt

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Original post by Snazzyzebra

Life story? Can you even read? Your buttherdness about righty snowflakes came out in your initial post, thus proving your potential lefty snowflakeness, amusing me on my apolitical perch.

Adios.

Weak, so weak.

Reply 48

Good bloke

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Original post by Trapz99

The difference is that that was probably made by some edgy atheist from a basement rather than a FTSE 250 company

Must such organisation be humourless namby-pamby puritans? Or might they be allowed to appeal to a different demographic?

Reply 49

Luke7456

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i think the issue is double standards. I personally feel that all religions are ideas and all ideas should be free to be criticized or mocked etc. However the issue occurs when its okay to criticize or ridicule one religion but not another etc.

Reply 50

username1221160

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The Holy Savoury?

I bought a sausage roll and a steak bake from Greggs after reading about this.

Reply 51

Trapz99

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Original post by Good bloke

Must such organisation be humourless namby-pamby puritans? Or might they be allowed to appeal to a different demographic?

They can if they want but clearly that's going to create bad publicity

Reply 52

nashhh2

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Original post by Trapz99

The difference is that that was probably made by some edgy atheist from a basement rather than a FTSE 250 company

It makes me upset that this breed of diseased idiots are crawling into TSR.

When it became cool to hate on religion, which has given a certain level of order to society, is beyond me.

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username1148663

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Original post by IamJacksContempt

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/15/greggs-nativity-jesus-sausage-roll-advent-calendar

Political correctness gone mad.

As some one brought up as a Catholic I really couldn’t give a shiny shite about this

Reply 54

SMEGGGY

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Nice to see Christians still have a backbone (even the plastic ones )

Posted from TSR Mobile

Reply 55

GovernmentEarner

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Baby Cheesus and the 3 Pies Men.

Reply 56

Fullofsurprises

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All the ad needed was some lego.

Reply 57

Iridocyclitis

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The double standards here are quite astounding. If the sausage roll was in place of Muhammad, for example, all hell would break loose. There would be numerous Guardian opinion pieces about how it represents terrible bigotry in our society, Jeremy Corbyn would probably issue a statement, the Twitterverse would go into meltdown, etc.

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Reply 58

GovernmentEarner

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Original post by Iridocyclitis

The double standards here are quite astounding. If the sausage roll was in place of Muhammad, for example, all hell would break loose. There would be numerous Guardian opinion pieces about how it represents terrible bigotry in our society, Jeremy Corbyn would probably issue a statement, the Twitterverse would go into meltdown, etc.

That is true, if it was Allah it would have destroyed Greggs forever.

I personally don’t care either way and think things should be allowed to be satired.

I suppose one difference is British people aren’t very religious and even if they’re born into Christianity and put it down on application forms, they really aren’t Christian. While many immigrants have strong held religious beliefs and satirical representations of their gods would infuriate them.

But still, you shouldn’t make a rule for one and not for another.

Reply 59

DavidJT

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While I personally think it's hilarious, we aren't allowed to criticise/parody other religions such as Islam, and so by that basis we should not be allowed to make jokes about Christianity either, until we are allowed to make jokes about all religions.

Right wing snowflakes call for Greggs boycott over sausage roll nativity

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