X-mas Customs

[nq:1]I heard and learnt as well that you British are not really pious any more.[/nq]
All of us are not pious any more. But then, it is unlikely that all of us ever were.
[nq:1]Would you agree? Tell me more about it. It is a piece of knowledge I cannot just find. It must be told by you.[/nq]
I just did. You have been told. Be told.
[nq:1]If it touches your personal feelings, accept

[nq:1]I heard and learnt as well that you British are not really pious any more. Would you agree?[/nq]
No, it's the Poles who are raving religious nutters. In Britain, the Church of England has exactly the right balance, in that you don't actually have to believe anything to be a member. Or go to church, ever, though some people like to take the children along as part of an education in nicene

[nq:1]I heard and learnt as well that you British are not really pious any more.[/nq]
Who hate all the pious?

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[nq:1]I heard and learnt as well that you British are not really pious any more. Would you agree? Tell me ... touches your personal feelings, accept my appologies. However, here you should be able to treat it as a secular issue.[/nq]
"Pious" is not the right word. You might have said "religiously observant" to which I would have to reply that the nation has steadily become more secular through

[nq:2]I heard and learnt as well that you British are not really pious any more.[/nq]
[nq:1]Who hate all the pious?[/nq]
Groan!

[nq:2]I heard and learnt as well that you British are ... should be able to treat it as a secular issue.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Pious" is not the right word. You might have said "religiously observant" to which I would have to reply that the nation has steadily become more secular throughout the 20th century.[/nq]
Perhaps you might have added that we distinguish between religious and religiose - some

[nq:2]Who hate all the pious?[/nq]
[nq:1]Groan! The OP will now be totally mystified.[/nq]
Piou, Piou, Barley, McGrew, Cuth

[nq:1]Piou, Piou, Barley, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble & Grubb.[/nq]
Ah, the Seven Deadly Firemen.

[nq:1]Most churches don't even have a full time vicar any more, just a team who call in now and then ... and choirboys, and the breach is made wider by the fact that many of the team are in fact vicarenes.[/nq]
Shouldn't that be "vicaresses"? In any case, surely some of them are rectrixes (rectrices)? I don't know if one has made it to Archdeaconess yet... Can you say deanene?
(Molly could

[nq:2]Most churches don't even have a full time vicar any ... fact that many of the team are in fact vicarenes.[/nq]
[nq:1]Shouldn't that be "vicaresses"? In any case, surely some of them are rectrixes (rectrices)? I don't know if one has made it to Archdeaconess yet... Can you say deanene?[/nq]
I'm looking forward to the first Popette. Or should it be Popesicle?
Phil C.