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That's because Christmas is shit but too many people don't have the guts to admit it.
I loved ‘A Christmas Carol’............
That's because Christmas is shit but too many people don't have the guts to admit it.
The Romans
The A272.
Leeds United
The Romans
Mrs Not Andy Naylor, who knows about these things, assures me that all the evidence points to baby Jesus being born in April, probably in 6 BC. King Herod died in 4 BC, so Christ was definitely born Before Christ.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health and Christmas, what have the Romans ever done for us?
They don’t use BC and AD anymore
It is now CE and BCE. Common era.
Yeah, I hear they took 175,000 away fans to Bethlehem.
Have found out Mrs NOBO is being induced on the 29th. This has thrown things right out. Not least my for the Arsenal game which are now in tatters.
I’ve heard tell that Coca-Cola changed Santa to red but maybe Bing Crosby started it or even someone else.
In all seriousness in these 'enlightened times' has Black Pete the loyal sidekick to St Nicholas in Holland been airbrushed out or modernised to as not to offend?