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Muckraker  Posts: 329 Joined: 5 Dec 2008     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 787 Joined: 26 Jan 2008    | That is very true I mean just because you don't celebrate it doesn't mean you have to stop other people from celebrating it as well its kinda selfish to complain about a holiday just because you don't agree with it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2684 Joined: 13 Jul 2008     | I think you can probably say it without fear of interruption, but it's more like that one guy got annoyed and it got blown out of proportion in a newspaper article. |
On the Record  Posts: 5521 Joined: 7 Feb 2008   |
[Citation Needed] |
Press Junketeer Posts: 440 Joined: 10 Mar 2008  | The commercial end tried to play down the entire Christmas (and try only doing Happy Holidays) thing a few years back. It didn't go over very well. I mean if I say "Merry Christmas" to someone and he says "I'm Jewish" does that mean my response suppose to be "Well I hope your 25th of December sucks!" |
Muckraker Posts: 300 Joined: 1 Jul 2008  |
Seconded. People are generally politically correct to the point of utter inanity, but the only time I've seen someone get reamed out for saying "Merry Christmas" was because he also said "We were here first! If you immigrate, you should do things like we do!", which rightfully earned a fair bit of wrath. Seriously, what does it matter? It's not like Christmas is anything close to 'sacred' or 'special' - especially not these days. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2591 Joined: 18 Sep 2008    |
Thirded. I say Merry Christmas all the time. Never had any guff. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 837 Joined: 11 Sep 2008   |
I am in agreement. How would one enforce this law? Shooting anyone and everyone who says Merry Christmas? Perhaps allowing the creature in my avatar to become a deputy? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2495 Joined: 18 Sep 2007  | Sorry, I call "bogus" on this. Some companies have inclusion policies which I think overdo it, but no one on the street is going to get arrested for wishing someone "Merry Christmas". And I hate this stupid "war on Christmas" meme hijacked by the (im)Moral (not)Majority types. Seriously, I wish they'd find another security blanket or do everyone (including themselves) a favour and quit looking for reasons to feel persecuted. -- Steve |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 355 Joined: 28 Aug 2008  | This amuses me. I'm an Atheist, and i still say Merry Christmas if someone says it to me. It's just pointless and arrogant to attempt to define one's superiority by subverting a holiday in this way. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 53 Joined: 10 Dec 2007 | Well Christmas was originally a pagan festival so maybe they should change it to "Happy Pagan festival" instead? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1234 Joined: 9 Sep 2008    | I take this time of year to be as offensive as possible to all peoples. I celebrate the holidays by slaughtering sacred cows in a non-kosher way, wearing a mask of Mohammad and an upside down cross, while wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, then tell them they're going to hell for believing that we descended from Monkeys. Then I pat them on the head. Anyone I missed there? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 691 Joined: 10 Jul 2008   | Do what I do: IT'S MERRY-FU*KING-CHRISTMAS! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 823 Joined: 20 Oct 2008    | "Merrry christmas!" *looks around* "Nothing happened; I'm still here! I guess Canadians can say merry Christmas after all." |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1743 Joined: 11 Nov 2008    |
same i hate it when something fun has to be ruined when someone does someone like that i'm all for xmas decoration and people saying merry xmas and i don't even celebrate nor am i sopposed to ( muslim i am ) |
SUSPENDED  Posts: 3187 Joined: 7 Nov 2007  | We can't put up Christmas lights in some areas of the Midlands of the UK. User was suspended for: Lock this.. (7 days) |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 837 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 |
Yep 'bout everybody in there. Good job. |
Muckraker  Posts: 266 Joined: 4 Dec 2008  | Wow, thats stupid! If other religions want their holidays to be popular too (thats the only reason i think some people are offended by christmas, cuz their holidays suck (no offense intended, i'm atheist)) they should put a fat man in a costume, with some funny looking physically handicapped people as his sidekicks, and hand out presents too!! |
BANNED  Posts: 2499 Joined: 19 Aug 2008   | I hate how we can't say merry Christmas, I have never censored my self while saying it and I do not intend to. If immigrants want to come here thats fine, but if they wanted to be treated equally and have equal respect for each others beliefs we should be able to say merry Christmas without getting any sass. Canada is founded on mainly Christian beliefs and we choose to let immigrants come to our country and if they don't like us saying merry Christmas they can leave, we treat their beliefs with respect so why can't they do the same with us? User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 478 Joined: 16 Jun 2008  |
To begins with, I like your style Aardvark. Also, Canada isn't the only place where 'happy holidays' is the PC thing to do. Honest and truley it's never bugged me at all when I say merry christmas to someone and they respond with happy holidays. I mean yeah, there's other holidays that go on during the christmas season, but are you going to sit there and tell me that a vast, vast majority of the civilized world doesn't celebrate jolly old fat santa and his slave labor elves regardless of religion. Especially when the networks run a charlie brown christmas, the grinch, and every other dang christmas special every night of the week till we're down right sick of the joy. I'm really sorry to the people of the world who are somehow offended by a holiday that promotes peace and generosity, but piss off ya grubby lil wankers. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1234 Joined: 9 Sep 2008 | Just sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. They can't complain about that, because Biblical Scholars totally say he existed. Also, that he was born in Smarch. |
BANNED Posts: 2499 Joined: 19 Aug 2008 |
Yeah, I just found out he was an actual person about a week ago. Seems pretty interesting. User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1414 Joined: 15 Oct 2008  |
Retail companies don't like you saying "Merry Christmas" that's where you would get gruff. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 667 Joined: 25 Oct 2008    | An answer to your problem: Stop trying to be so European and take a look at US of A. (stereotypes included) Frankly my dear I dont really know why the hell we would need to give a damn if somebody supposedly gets offended that 2 billion people celebrate Christmas. |
BANNED  Posts: 789 Joined: 8 Jul 2008  | Hmm. Let us see if Canadians can say those words. First I need some supplies one Canadian check (me), an audience check (you guys). Ok let's try this. Eh-hem Merry Fucking Christmas... It worked who knew. User was banned for: The Xbox Screwed Me Over!. (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 390 Joined: 29 Jul 2008  |
Budhists |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2591 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 |
First off, it's 'guff'. |
Paperboy  Posts: 46 Joined: 10 Sep 2008  | Considering I'm an atheist I really don't give a fuck. Sure I still celebrate it for the sake of getting together with long lost relatives and getting/giving shit. I say happy holidays but I wouldn't jump all over someone for saying marry christmas, nor do I get pissy about those set ups with little baby jesus' in em. What does tick me off is when people complain to me about saying happy holidays and complain that this is a christian nation. No, no and no. Fuck off and go back to your delusion. So to sum up, say what ever version you want, but if you start complaining that they should be more PC you are a fucking censorship whore, and if you tell them to say marry christmas you are a deluded fuck-wit. Say which ever you want and allow me to say which ever I want. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 390 Joined: 29 Jul 2008 |
Happy Birthday to Jew, Happy Birthday to Jew... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2495 Joined: 18 Sep 2007 | Look, in retail if you say *anything* (or even nothing) someone's going to get pissed off. Retail shows people in the state of nature, savage, brutal, without art and culture, teetering on the brink of cannibalism... random explosions of misdirected rage have to be expected. -- Steve |
Anonymous Source Posts: 3 Joined: 17 Dec 2008 | I think all this political correctness in terms of Merry Christmas is a bit over the top, me being Canadian (I almost typed crazy for some reason). You should be able to say it. It's like telling people you can't say Trick or Treat. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1234 Joined: 9 Sep 2008 |
Already got them. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2138 Joined: 12 Nov 2008  |
Fourtheded? @Op - This kind of thing gets printed in the UK tabloids all the time. Some mad council member mentions in an offhand way that he doesn't like Christmas, and before you know it "GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO OVERTHROW CHRISTMAS" is making headlines all over the country. Anyone in the UK remember the conker trees fiasco a few years ago? The council cutting them down because kids were trying to get them and play conkers (a game where you smash each others nuts until one breaks)? The tabloids here went mad. The typical "political correctness gone mad" columnists were calling for resignations. Why shouldn't kids play conkers? They did when they were kids! It was the BBC who pointed out that the actual playing of conkers had nothing to do with it. The problem was the trees were in the central reservation of a busy main road and kids were running around on that road, throwing stuff into the trees to get the conkers to fall, and creating a serious traffic hazard. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 390 Joined: 29 Jul 2008 |
Sorry, i thought that was just to patronise rather than specifically being a budhist thing |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 489 Joined: 18 Jun 2008  | hey everyone hope you all have a happy hanaka, a great divali and good family ramadan this year =] |
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Here in Canada we can not say Merry Christmas, instead it's happy holidays since Merry Christmas offends some people. I think this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. And in the capital they won't even put up a Christmas tree. This is blown way out of proportion is what I think.