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Letter: Ban this sick filth!
Tuesday 31st May 2011, 6:00AM BST.
Letter: I support Ray Williams’s letter of May 21 regarding the filthy Daily Sport, which he wants kept on the top shelves. People who buy it are obviously after the dirty stories in it.
Ray mentions schoolchildren buying it. Well, there is a move to give moral teaching in schools, but as long as this filth is freely available we are wasting our time.
The material circulating now in papers and on the internet is a direct assault on all moral behaviour. It promotes promiscuity and all forms of deviant and unnatural sexual practices.
The libertarians who led us into this permissive society are guilty of smashing millions of families and creating generations of morally broken people.
The only place to start is by going back to the Maker’s instruction book.
Ron Jones
Oswestry
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What’s moral abour telling children fairy stories about a “Maker”? Isn’t lying immoral?
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What are you still doing here? Didn’t you and your ilk get “raptured” a couple of weeks ago?
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Ron, chill out a bit mon! I don’t think many people buy the sport and I very much doubt school kids bother. They’re more likely to look on the Internet. You can’t blame porn for the break up of families. As for getting back to ‘the maker’s instruction book’, that’s caused more trouble than porn ever could.
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I agree that producing the Daily Sport is a waste of a good forest and the saps who ‘read’ it deserve it. However nothing else in this diatribe interests me. Chill out Ron…I’d find a hot woman if was you because the day of judgment is almost upon thee…
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Don’t people worry about silly things. If I had kids, I’d be less concerned about them looking at a pair of boobs than reading the hate, violence, discrimination & twisted morality as depicted, in say, the bible!
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Looking at the Daily Sports circulation figures I don’t think it is much of a problem. Their cant be too many teenagers that have not had a crafty look at an adult magazine!.
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Didn’t the Daily and Sunday Sport go bust a couple of weeks ago and haven’t they stopped publishing?
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Well at least someone noticed!
Fancy writing a letter ranting about something thats already closed as an issue.
Perhaps Ron Jones, (does that name sound familiar somehow), should submit his new letter… “Beware the rise of the nazis” or his perennial favourite “why I believe we abolish slavery”
And for the record the reason why the “sports” went bust is because of all the free “top shelf” available courtesy of google.
Good luck with bringing them down Ron!
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Ron the good book says go forth and multiply that involves a bit of rumpy pumpy which is probably what you need to go and do.Clearly you have had a little look in order to comment on such an item, unless of course you are basing it on what other people have told you? and if that is the case I assume the others have done it for research purposes. CHILL RON
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Down with this sort of thing!
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Careful now.
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hahaha 9&10 had me laughing for ages :-D genius
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Brilliant.
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very clever lol …more please
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Morals?
Here’s a list of everyone your God kills in your bible.
http://goo.gl/VdCg
Total number is about 25 million.
Boobs vs. Murder? I vote boobs.
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What about murderous boobs?
On second thoughts, no cant stand her…
(you all know who I mean!) :)
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i find it funny and newsworthy, great read
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Some interesting comparisons here between the Daily Sport and the Bible. I think it was Karl Marx who once said that religion was the “opiate of the masses”, in other words it served to keep ordinary people placated and preoccupied whilst the ruling classes got on with exploiting them. You won’t find much in the Daily Sport about MP’s expenses, government cuts or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, just a few lies about “Celebs” and some soft porn to keep the semi-literate eye off the real (bad) news. I guess the Bible and the Daily Sport are both working for the same cause. Personally I’d like to see both in brown wrappers on the top shelf.
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Why is it that so many fundamentalist Christians are so obsessed with sex? Are they missing out on something.
Why is it that they don’t instead rail against the violence in the world that is directly caused by religious extremism and division – whether inspired by an extreme interpretation of Islam, of Judaism or Christianity?
The letter writer seems to know a great deal about the Daily Sport – my advice would be not to read it if you don’t like it!
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Methinks he doth protest too much. So Ron, to write this letter, I presume you have read the Daily Sport and therefore are now promiscuous and carrying out all forms of deviant and unnatural sexual practices?
I do take exception to the imprecision in the language used in ron’s little diatribe. He goes on about “moral teaching”. What kind? “Good” morals or “Bad”? I use the inverted commas because what is considered good by one person may be bad to anothwer. What I do hope is that schools provide a balanced eduacation allowing pupils to form a strong set of moral standards without the prejudices of another being forced upon them.
“The material circulating now in papers and on the internet is a direct assault on all moral behaviour” What kind of material? There is plaenty of stuff on the net from Religious organisations. I’m presuming that its that sort of tosh that Ron is banging on about. Ban it all now I say!
I’m now off to read my Breville Instruction Manual. They made my kettle and I fancy a cuppa.
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Sadly, too many of those with religious beliefs see their religion as somehow the creator of morality for the rest of us. They simply will not accept that despite the fact that we probably (broadly-speaking) have similar moral standards, those of us without a belief in supernatural creation, simply don’t need, the Bible, the Koran the Torah etc. to provide us with a moral compass.
Consider some of the hidden tribes that are discovered in remote parts of the world. They have never been exposed to religion, nor to the Christian God. Yet, almost without exception, thay live in what we would recognise as family groups – with values that religious zealots would claim in our world as their own. Morality is innate to mankind – it comes about as a result of our instinctive understanding that the best way to survive is to get along with our fellow man. Deities simply don’t come into it.
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Lets see now …..hmmm how many people have been killed because of what is said in the Daily Sport? That will be zero then! What about religion then? Well that would be, over the centuries, millions!
Get a life muppet of Oswestry
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shall we put OK type magazines on the top shelf aswell as they are full of so calle stars in bikinis etc?
Chill out man and wait till Oct 21st your day will come
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No, OK magazines and such should be ritualistically burnt at religious gatherings…
So sayeth the good book.
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The Daily Sport ceased publication in late March/early April.
Next time, letters on the problems caused by the mines in Ketley and the Normans, why have the come to Britain?
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‘Coz they’ve heard about the Daily Star !
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How abou a letter condeming the Romans, after all, “What have the Romans done for us”?
getting back on topic didn’t somebody say
“Look, you’ve got it all wrong! You don’t need to follow me, you don’t need to follow anybody! You’ve got to think for yourselves! You’re all individuals!
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I’m not.
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I like the photo used to illustrate the story. More please.
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I think we’d be doing mankind a big favour by banning the bible before we worry about page three style news articles.
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Porn vs religion. An interesting debate not likley to come up at Oxford. On the one hand, pleasure for millions of men (and many women), possible persecution of women and sadly, abuse of children.
On the other, power for a handful of self elected men (and it is still only men except for Anglicans), persecution of billions (Islam vs the world, the Crusades, Nazis vs Jews etc) and brainwashing of those who believe to make them conform.
I vote for free speach, free thought and free boobs.
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Porn vs religion. An interesting debate not likley to come up at Oxford. On the one hand, pleasure for millions of men (and many women), possible persecution of women and sadly, abuse of children.
On the other, power for a handful of self elected men (and it is still only men except for Anglicans), persecution of billions (Islam vs the world, the Crusades, Nazis vs Jews etc) and brainwashing of those who believe to make them conform.
I vote for free speech, free thought and free boobs:-)
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Yeah.
You would say that, wouldn’t you, Ron *wink*
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In fact he said it twice.
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A bit of Willy Thorne never hurt anyone.
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Or Frankie Vaughan
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Let’s ban all religion and then the world could live in harmony…well somewhere a bit closer maybe?
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Re: The ‘makers instruction book’, is that ‘The Joy of Sex’ or ‘The lover’s guide’ ?
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Kama Sutra?
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If you put it on the top shelf, couldn’t the kids get hurt climbing up to get it?
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Why do you think they insist that the Koran is on the top shelf…….
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Thing is Ron, the Daily Sport had to be lavishly illustrated with big full-colour pictures because it’s readers were all rather short-sighted. For some reason.
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I stopped going to church around the time the minister was ‘exposed’ (sorry) for stocking up on mail order porn.
Conclusion? Whatever else religion itself is or isn’t, a lot of its practioners are shameless hypocrites.
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God made women. So by definition all the Sport is doing is providing a means for people to appreciate gods work. Whats wrong with that?
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It’s the wedding ring in the photo that I find mildly humorous.
Maybe there are more poles in bedrooms than I know about? Probably bought from small ads in the back of the Daily Sport.
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One of the reasons why the Sport failed has to be the reactions of people who work in newsagents. At our local shop, the women who arranged the shelves in the morning always put it at the back of all the other papers because of the pornographic photos on the front. I imagine many Asian shopkeepers, a statistically significant group, would also have a similar view. The photos on the Sport’s front page were often more offensive than those on the covers of the genuine pornographic magazines.
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we needed papers like the Daily sport otherwise we’d never know about the double decker bus on the moon,
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Both me and my husband used to really enjoy watching plenty of filth and dirt on tv.
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I am of course talking about the excellent ‘How clean is your house?’ series with Kim and Aggie.
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I’m wondering if we should hit this head on with the youth and actually discuss the media, all forms, including the daily sport and let the kids know that yes it’s out there and it may even have a place, but please also educate yourself with current affairs and things that affect society environemnt and economy as well as footballers affairs and blatant overdramtisied or untrue stories…if we can teach a balanced enjoyment rather than making the forbidden fruit more tempting then we take the mystique away – after all it’s human nature to hanker after the forbidden fruit and to rebel against one’s elders…been going on since biblical times if you believe in that, and if you don’t is also well documented across history.
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“Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.”
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…and if you google that phrase you will find earnest bible scholars tieing themselves in knots trying to explain what it “really” means.
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To know a paper the author must be an avid reader!
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