Sunday, 16 December 2018

SUNDAY'S BREAKING NEWS.



The Scottish Parliament has decided that festive 'Gingerbread men' will no longer be available in their hallowed Coffee Shop. Instead, they will now sell 'Gingerbread persons'. Those bloody sexist male biscuits have been condemned to antiquity (where they obviously belong).

At the moment, Scots politicians have very little on the agenda, so plenty of time to debate much more important questions such as biscuits. Well done all those Scottish MSP's; och aye, hoots mon, and tuck a wee one in yer sporran for Hogmanay!



41 comments:

Susan Heather said...

PC gone mad.

Cro Magnon said...

Mad, and madder.

Anonymous said...

I am not a redhead, although I quite like redheads and I think the gingerbread person discriminates against the gingers and red haired among us. I think bread persons would be a more appropriate name.

Yael said...

In an ideal world all parliaments will discuss only cookies, there will be no other troubles.

Sue said...

Hogpersonay please.

Cro Magnon said...

How about just 'persons'?

Cro Magnon said...

Now there's a good idea.

Cro Magnon said...

They will be ruling about that any day soon.

Gwil W said...

The snowman is becoming a snowperson. I blame the snowflakes.

Gwil W said...

They'd be better debating what the Scottish euro coins are going to look like. They'll be needing them soon when they have to cash in all those Bank of Clydesdale notes,

Andi's English Attic said...

Crumbs!

Cro Magnon said...

Unless you dunk them in your Buckfast.

Cro Magnon said...

The EU may not want them as a member; They'd have to fulfil the membership criteria just like any other country.

Jacqueline @ HOME said...

Oh, for f***’s sake !!! XXXX

Graham Edwards said...

How about just bread.

Cro Magnon said...

My exact words!

northsider said...

God rest ye merry gentle persons.

The Weaver of Grass said...

How die we know they were men anyway with the relevant piece missing?

Ro said...

How speciesist. Not everyone is human(evident in politics) NonbinaryLGBTQXGingerbreadbeing has to be the correct name.............

Cro Magnon said...

I think you'll have to inform Nicola Sturgeon of this.

Cro Magnon said...

They have ways of sexing Ginger Persons.

Cro Magnon said...

And so on, and so on, and so on; where will it end!

Simone said...

It's ridiculous! Gingerbread 'men' don't even have male parts! If they are really against it they could just call them gingerbread eunuchs!

Cro Magnon said...

The ones that Lady Magnon makes are definitely 'men', even though they're fully clothed. I can just tell.

Jennifer said...

Is this for real? You're not joking?

Cro Magnon said...

Modern Britain.... No joke!

Tom Stephenson said...

There's an easy solution to this. Put penises on them, preferably erect like the Cerne Abbas giant. The same wouldn't work the other way round without offending trans gingerbread women. I always bite the heads off jelly babies. I would prefer to bite the cocks off.

Joanne Noragon said...

You certainly have them wound up, Cro. There's a better expression for this in Britain, but I can't think of it.

Cro Magnon said...

If you patent the biscuit cutters, you could make a fortune; especially in Scotland.

Cro Magnon said...

Yes there are other, and better, expressions; but they are unprintable.

50 and counting said...

I've always seen ginger bread men and gingerbread women, never thought too much about it.

However having said that, a couple of months ago, me and my oldest pal went home to Scotland for the last visit we plan on making.

Did you know that there are indigenous Scots? Blew us away. The topic under discussion was the lack of funding for Arabic language instruction and concerns that education was only available in English and Gaelic in some reason.

I am so glad my Father chose to migrate to Canada. I couldn't live in my homeland now.

Sol said...

anatomical ginger flavoured biscuit

Sol said...

Yes Yael this would be fabulous. But you know it would be like Lilliput and Blefuscu where they argue about which end of the egg to eat first. People will always find something to argue about. but if it is anything to discuss, I would like to say ginger nut biscuits are the best!

Sol said...

ha ha it is done with a light whilst they are baking?

Charles said...

I cannot believe they have allowed the persecution of ginger people to continue, surely these should be biscuits of colour? The Scots do take the biscuit at the moment .

Margie from Toronto said...

Honestly - I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

Cro Magnon said...

Yes, the lack of funding for Arabic, Hindustani, and Swahili, is a disgrace. As for the indigenous Scots; aren't they called Italians?

Cro Magnon said...

I hope you're not suggesting that (what used to be called) Gingerbread men, should now be called Coloured people. We'd have riots.

Cro Magnon said...

Do neither; just bury your head in some very deep sand!

Tom Stephenson said...

There are a lot of ginger people in Scotland who might take offence...

Tom Stephenson said...

Edible coloured people.

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