Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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OK I admit I hate shopping full stop but the thought of wasting a Sunday in the shops really makes it worse. I will never understand how some people can view that horrible chore as some kind of leisure activity.
Sundays are for relaxing, reading the thick Sunday papers a BBQ maybe in the summer, or a good film or two on the Blu Ray......
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry to say the church,s are not open 24/7 and we all know why,Sunday is just one day aweek out of seven and is Gods day and we should go back to thinking that way. We all need one day which is not like the rest.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Yes Vic, Sunday should be free of things like shopping, when we have time for ourselves and family, a sort of 'switching off' day, from the rest of the week when we can't relax much.
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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Sorry Vic but i think as normal I shall have to agree to disagree with you.
In this current culture we dont stop for one static day a week, its like saying that everyone should stop on Sundays and have a day with family, thats fine, my mum would love that.. dont think her patients would so pleased!
We live in a society that requires our services and shops to be available to use 7 days a week, over here in Faversham I really struggle, because everything is shut on a Sunday pretty much, apart from the supermarkets. Mark and I like to have a wander around as it is sometimes the only day we have off together, well he has off at the moment, ( only let him have one day a week off at the moment.. ohh i am soo mean) but just like dover, we have to go OUT of town to do something, because everything is shut..
And as a member of the slightly younger generation , we dont bat an eyelid at having to work Sundays. If anything, Sundays not opening are viewed as old fashioned and an opportunity to take a second job!
Hmm, good logic methinks. All the Christian businesses close on Sunday, and all the other religions businesses stay open. That's what got us to where we are in the first place.
No point in going backwards, recognise the way it is and make the most of it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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things will not go back to the old sunday ways.
if all businesses were to close on religious days, we would have christians on sunday, jews on saturday and muslims on friday.
complete chaos.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you all for your post,s but just one day aweek from shoping in big stores is not alot to aske for,I worked like some of you ,for over 50years and alot of that was over seven days a week and long hours,and when I had time off I found it very hard to relax and go for a walk or just sit in a chair and do nothing,now that i have had to stop work I am finding out there is alot for just having time out and going out holding hands with my wife and not going into shops or stores of anykind, we need to chill out more in the UK and just let the world go by,I have worked overseas And Sunday is the one day to get out with the familys etc or go to church and then go out after.
Try it one week say right this Sunday we will keep away from the shops and just chill out and it will make monday just that much better after the day of rest.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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I did do a thread on here a couple of month`s back regarding the mentality of people who seem to visit supermarket`s on a Sunday as a day out. I don`t normally go out Sunday, but if I do, it`s nice to find a cafe or pub open or some event where you can enjoy a day out. It has only been on the odd occasion when I`ve had to pop up tesco for something we forgot, and found it swamped with shoppers. Not for me, but it is very handy having them open on Sunday`s.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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Vic, maybe that is why our opinion is so far away on the spectrum, 10 yrs of employment vs 50 yrs...and I certainly cant tell Mark to stay at home on Sunday when there is an opportunity for work in this economic climate, it would be foolish!!
I dont visit supermarkets if i can help it, but i do try to use the local shops! Hairdressers shut on a Monday normally lads, so how you going to approach that?!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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you should see life in ilford colin, a lovely summers day and people with cars instead of heading for the coast or countryside used to drive half a mile to a multistorey car park and spend the day inside visiting all the shops.
i doubt it it has changed in the years i have left it.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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the way things are going dover will be closed 24/7.
I'm with you guys who hate shopping - my idea of Hell!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well I am geting some support on this one,and I am glad not to be out on my own with the way I think.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I don't like shopping, but why shouldn't I shop on a sunday if I want to ??
Been nice knowing you :)
So, are we advocating Doctors, nurses, police, ambulance-persons, army, navy, air force, train drivers, bus drivers, pilots, ships crews, coast guards, lifeboat persons, emergency repair person, telecoms engineers, nuclear power station workers, aiport workers, port workers, all should take Sundays off. Surely they are as entitle as me to a day of rest on a Sunday?
Now you begin to see the futility of the suggestion no matter how well meant.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Oy Sidney don't forget us booking clerks at Dover Priory,we work 3 shifts 06.00 to 16.00, 09.30 to 19.30 and 18.30 to 06.30 I wish I could have Sunday's off,
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Sid - all those people worked on Sundays before our current 24/7 madness took hold.........................it didn't stop us having an acknowledged day of rest, which those essential services took on another day if they had to do their Sundays.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Your taking it to far now there are jobs that have to be done 24/7 and like some of you mine was one of them but that is not the case with big stores etc please note I said big stores.And Brern most jobs do have there rest days,must say in my case at was not so but there again I did not work each weekend only when I had to but most repairs on the railway have to be done at weekends..
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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tut tut tut.... and now we are discriminating against all those people who HAVE to work.. key essential workers, who chose to do that job, but because they chose NOT to go into retail... ohh dear Vic..
We cant have discrimination in this day and age .. causes all manner of problems...
and of course.. those poor people who actually like to go shopping on a Sunday.. doesnt it stop their human rights if take the option away.... *shakes head*
Jenn, obviously there aren't any Christians in those trades and professions so we can overlook their religious needs.
Bern, not many churches have services on days other than Sunday's, so what good is Wednesday off for a practicing Christian? Not beign able to worship on a Sunday was a problem for essential workers back in 'the good old days'.
Maybe the answer is for churches of all denominations to get off their backsides and offer the public a proper service, if you'll excuse the pun.