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Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
Depending which version of the bible you read, Gabriel is either male or unspecified, and so are angels in general. I think the theology is they are sexless or genderless.There's this to be said for it: how many boys get to play Mary, and how many girls get to play Joseph?I played the Angel Gabriel, but as I was an angel it was some sort of frock. Was bout 5 at the time.
ETA mind you, the angels on Captain Scarlet were clearly women.
Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
Too busy running his business?I wasn't in a nativity. Presumably there are far more men claiming to have played Joseph than theoretically possible.The idea that a cuckhold is the highest earner seems counter intuitive.
Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
I think this mostly shows that successful people invent stories about their past that may -or may not- match reality.
I think this mostly shows that successful people invent stories about their past that may -or may not- match reality.And remember it differently.
Rashomon Is a brilliant film.
Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
Is the Telegraph not supposed to be a campaigning platform for Freedom of Speech, rather than censorship? The complaints are pathetic.There's this to be said for it: how many boys get to play Mary, and how many girls get to play Joseph?A Gay In A Manger caused quite a stir!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/17/gay-in-the-manger-show-outrages-students/
People having their own opinion that I happen to disagree with, and putting on a performace on that basis that does not restrict my speech or actions, is NOT discrimination.
Full article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1f98de3e3e33583d
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Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
Myrrh is the best
Why else would we say Myrrhy Christmas?
Why else would we say Myrrhy Christmas?
Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
In the film "Dogma" Alan Rickman drops his trousers to show that angels are sexless.Depending which version of the bible you read, Gabriel is either male or unspecified, and so are angels in general. I think the theology is they are sexless or genderless.There's this to be said for it: how many boys get to play Mary, and how many girls get to play Joseph?I played the Angel Gabriel, but as I was an angel it was some sort of frock. Was bout 5 at the time.
ETA mind you, the angels on Captain Scarlet were clearly women.
Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
Yes, and this also correlates with the donkeys and sheep voting Reform yesterday.I’d also assume that there might be an economic correlation - schools in better off areas put on relatively more nativity shows and/or kids from socially excluded backgrounds don’t participate in these shows & also struggle in later lifeThere's this to be said for it: how many boys get to play Mary, and how many girls get to play Joseph?
- Suggesting that the distribution is skewed by sex as a confounder, with men earning more than women, Good point.
- It may also be a case of if you subdivide any group into subcategories, measure a thing, then sort by size of that thing then you will end up with a staircase regardless of actual underlying pattern,
- What MiC should have done is a stacked bar graph or a histogram, so we could identify if outliers are skewing it
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Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
The school I went to was so Christian we didn't celebrate Christmas at all. Pagans and catholics the lot of you.
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Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
A Farmer working himself up into a fury over a Railway Line ... 600m away.
(Full article link)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/408effae3bedbe5c
(Full article link)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/408effae3bedbe5c
MattW
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Re: A nativity story like no other – politicalbetting.com
Totally agree with this, what is needed is to listen to people who post on PB 100,000 times instead.
I’m honestly just fed up with losers. Right-wing and left-wing politics is just losers from top to bottom who have an excessive amount of cultural power in the age of the internet because losers post on Reddit 79,000 times as much as people who have jobs
https://nitter.poast.org/SwannMarcus89/status/2001883311145406928#m
I’m honestly just fed up with losers. Right-wing and left-wing politics is just losers from top to bottom who have an excessive amount of cultural power in the age of the internet because losers post on Reddit 79,000 times as much as people who have jobs
https://nitter.poast.org/SwannMarcus89/status/2001883311145406928#m
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