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  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    edited 5 May 2015 at 8:19AM
    Does seem that any thread mentioning religion of any/all flavours is culled. So we are left with benefits, politics, housing & the royals. :(
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • UKGuy
    UKGuy Posts: 15,571 Forumite
    Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »
    Does seem that any thread mentioning religion of any/all flavours is culled. So we are left with benefits, politics, housing & the royals. :(

    I know it does get a bit tedious, what we need is a thread about hats!
  • SailorSam
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    Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »
    Does seem that any thread mentioning religion of any/all flavours is culled. So we are left with benefits, politics, housing & the royals. :(

    But that was about politics MrsA, just so happens the lady is religious.
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  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    But that was about politics MrsA, just so happens the lady is religious.
    It was probably the religion that caused the cull.;)
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  • Morglin
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    To be honest, I left when I got bored of the threads which all started with:

    "My neighbour/relative/ex/complete stranger I met at the bus stop is defrauding benefits, and should I report them?

    I know they are frauds, because I know everything about them, including the complete stranger, and I have seen them all hod carrying/working on the side/breakdancing in the Maldives/ moving a bloke in/pretending they or their child is disabled. I might not be a doctor, but I just know........... I also know, although I have never been into their home, they have 6 plasma Tv's at least, along with numerous IPhones".........:T

    All got a bit same ol', same ol'..

    Lin ;)
    You can tell a lot about a woman by her hands..........for instance, if they are placed around your throat, she's probably slightly upset. ;)
  • redux
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    edited 4 May 2015 at 8:33AM
    Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »
    Does seem that any thread mentioning religion of any/all flavours is culled. So we are left with benefits, politics, housing & the royals. :(

    There have been some odd standards for thread removal recently.

    It is somewhat absurd that Farage's stooges and fans on here can parrot and applaud the nastiness of his attacks on HIV sufferers including Britons but replies with uncontroversial mention of someone curing social outcasts 2000 years ago seem to cause the alarm to go off.
  • wheezy57
    wheezy57 Posts: 1,337 Forumite
    I can remember a poster not so long ago started a thread about the NHS. Why, she wanted to know was why she hadnt been offered anything to eat or drink courtesy of the NHS whilst she was in for some sort of clinic? I completely and utterly questioned myself on whether or not I was on a parallel universe for a moment.

    That poster really didnt get it and indeed what the 'discussion forum' was all about.

    There have been worse I must admit before and since..
  • IronWolf
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    Probably because people get bored of the same few posters spamming up every thread with the same nonsense, particularly one poster who is obsessed with UKIP and turns every thread to be about them.
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  • wallbash
    wallbash Posts: 17,775 Forumite
    It is somewhat absurd that Farage's stooges and fans on here can parrot and applaud the nastiness of his attacks on HIV sufferers

    And this is why there is a problem.You saw Farage remarks as an attack on the HIV sufferers, whilst a lot of us saw it as a statement that the NHS was not a cure for all the worlds ills.

    You call it nasty , I call it common sense.
  • jamie11
    jamie11 Posts: 4,436 Forumite
    But we have the election race to skew everything at present, maybe next week we'll all get back to normal and b itch about [STRIKE]something[/STRIKE] everything else
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