Fairytale of New York should be banned from radio

[Alrighteo]

This is from one of the UK tabolids

The lovely Alex Dyke
www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alex-dyke-bbc-radio-dj-suspended-after-complaining-about-unnatural-breastfeeding-10454751.html

I love it. Christmas isn’t just about joy and presents and snow. A lot of people feel shitty and miserable at Christmas. The song is realistic and it’s about hope, because (like many of us) they argue but ultimately still love each other despite all the lost dreams and broken promises. Sorry but Alex Dyke (whoever he is) could never write poetry like that and he clearly doesn’t appreciate it either.

I'd rather they stopped playing songs (and videos) that treat women like sex objects.

If we want to ban Christmas songs can we start with that stupid bloody one that goes ‘when the snowman brings the snow’? A snowman doesn’t BRING snow, he’s not like a bloody postman!

I love FONY

That clip of The Pogues & The Dubliners is fantastic.

Ronnie Drew-what a voice!

My favourite Christmas song.

The hypocrisy of censorship is galling.

Wtf is that Ed Sheeran version?
Rather have Barlow, Tulisa, Scherzinger and French than that garbage.

@blackteasplease as I was saying to eldest DS the other day 'Any song that manages to get the word bellend past the censor is a grand song for me'.

I'm a very long time sober alcoholic and I absolutely love this song. Its raw honesty is very touching. Reminds me of my bad old days and of the wonderful things that came after.

Grest song but not the most genious poetry i've ever read. It succeeds in evoking the drunken despair of the season though!

Can I ban the Robbie Williams song instead?

Whatever happened to just not listening to/watching/reading things you don’t like?

Ronan Fucking Keating singing it is the biggest travesty of music ever.

There's something odd about Christmas that makes some people become tiresome control freaks. Perhaps they are always control freaks who think all sofas should be grey and all women should wear their hair long (until they're 45 when it has to be cut short), but they know it's socially unacceptable so they hold it in. Then Christmas comes along and for some reason they feel they can dictate what Christmas is and only their way is right. And if real life continues, with people who have a hard life the rest of the year also having a difficult December then those people must go unrepresented in the media, anyone with less than positive feelings must be made to shut up because they might bring everyone else down and everything must be done according to how it was done in their house when they were children.

It's so odd, if you know it's not acceptable to tell people how to live their lives the rest of the year why would you think it's acceptable in December.

I don't mind it, it's just a song, but my favourite "Christmas Song" is Jack Frost and The Hooded Crow by Jethro Tull.

Can't stand the slushy Christmas songs

I'm with you on that one Ronnie

Ah yes, the DJ who wanted breastfeeding banned in public because it unnatural. I remember now! Nice guy

There wasn't much joy in 'do they know it's Christmas' was there?

No, and the lyrics are wrong too.

'And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time'

Rubbish. I was actually in Africa in 1984 and there was snow in July, never mind at Christmas time!

(OK, it was on top of Mount Kenya, but it was snow none the less)

Perhaps they are always control freaks who think all sofas should be grey

Oi, my sofas are grey

I do think it's interesting that he is all for banning and censoring on his own terms; I'd bet my bottom dollar he's the type who rails against the 'nanny state' and 'PC gorn mad' et al when it suits him.

Thinking about it - does it really matter what a radio DJ thinks or says? Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? Surely, most people have playlists of music they actually choose to listen to on services like Spotify.

Jesus fucking christ. Dont be so bloody silly OP. Should we ban ALL songs with foul language/not so nice undertones? Poople like the tune/music. Where is the snowflake emoticon when you need one.

If we want to ban Christmas songs can we start with that stupid bloody one that goes ‘when the snowman brings the snow’? A snowman doesn’t BRING snow, he’s not like a bloody postman!

This was annoying me just this morning . And, on the subject of misleading portrayals of the function of snowmen, let's ban:

In the meadow we can build a snowman
And pretend that he is Parson Brown
He'll say are you married
We'll say no man
But you can do the job
When you're in town

Snowmen are not legally sanctioned to conduct marriage services, whether you are pretending they are a clergyman or not. Bugs me every year. Just no.

My favourite Christmas song. I love blaring it in the car and singing along badly. Sometimes it plays on my phone if it's on shuffle and it's June or something but I still love it!

I love Fairytale of New York and it is a Christmas song- it's those two characters Christmas.

It's so moving and like someone said upthread, it should be studied at A-Level.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. They were just horrible to him - but only nice after they realised his nose glowed. So they would still be horrible if he was just an ordinary reindeer?