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Old 12-07-2016, 03:11 PM   #91 (permalink)
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Merry Christmas here. Never met a single person here who says Happy Holidays.
Same. If "Happy Holidays" is an American thing then it's not from my part of America.
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Old 12-07-2016, 05:52 PM   #92 (permalink)
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So... jews aren't allowed in your country?
No jews need apply. I don't personally know anyone who's jewish. I just never heard anybody in Ireland ever say anything other than Happy CHristmas.

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Same. If "Happy Holidays" is an American thing then it's not from my part of America.
Yeah but Monkey is British, inn'ee?
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Old 12-07-2016, 09:38 PM   #93 (permalink)
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Same. If "Happy Holidays" is an American thing then it's not from my part of America.
It's really only something that cashiers say. Hence it being a massive non issue.
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Old 12-07-2016, 09:39 PM   #94 (permalink)
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Old 12-08-2016, 09:31 AM   #95 (permalink)
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As a celebration of religion, gluttony and materialism, I'm pretty indifferent to Christmas, but then I remember that lots of people, especially children and grandparents, get a lot of innocent pleasure out of it, so I guess that's nice.

Also, a time of goodwill in any form should be encouraged. Most of us have heard about this event, and that alone is almost enough to justify every Christmas before or since imo:-

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The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914. In the week leading up to the holiday, French, German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the most memorable images of the truce. Peaceful behaviour was not ubiquitous; fighting continued in some sectors, while in others the sides settled on little more than arrangements to recover bodies.

The following year, a few units arranged ceasefires but the truces were not nearly as widespread as in 1914; this was, in part, due to strongly worded orders from the high commands of both sides prohibiting fraternization.
I'm with Trollheart; to me the idea that Christmas trees or the word Christmas itself should be censored out of some notion of political correctness is ridiculous. If Christians across the world want to celebrate the lowly birth of a Palestinian Jew with delusions of grandeur I don't see why they shouldn't.
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Old 12-08-2016, 09:53 AM   #96 (permalink)
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"Censored" is not the right word. There isn't anyone trying to stop people from saying Merry Christmas or having (private) Christmas trees.
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OK, thanks - I'm afraid I was a little too lazy to go back to TH's links and discover what the exact objections are.
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Old 12-08-2016, 10:29 AM   #98 (permalink)
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OK, thanks - I'm afraid I was a little too lazy to go back to TH's links and discover what the exact objections are.
The links mostly show a separation of church and state as opposed to overzealous politically correct people infringing on the rights of good Christians, except for this one: Woman told to remove Christmas lights to avoid offending non-Christian neighbours - Telegraph. However, it was only a request from one employee who ended up getting fired for it, HOAs are notorious for cracking down on bull**** due to histories of complaints or neighbour feuds, and it is from the Funnygraph.
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Old 12-08-2016, 03:06 PM   #99 (permalink)
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Aha! I should've paid more attention to this, then:-
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It's really only something that cashiers say. Hence it being a massive non issue.
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