Wishing the wrong people Merry Christmas...

Thoughts_Arrive

unlost dogs wrote:

Quick, someone hand Thoughts_Arrive a Festivus Pole!

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Empty Glass

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

unlost dogs wrote:

Quick, someone hand Thoughts_Arrive a Festivus Pole!

????

Festivus for the rest of us

Seinfeld reference. YouTube it, you'll find you agree. Funny shit!

unlost dogs

Empty Glass wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

unlost dogs wrote:

Quick, someone hand Thoughts_Arrive a Festivus Pole!

????

Festivus for the rest of us

Seinfeld reference. YouTube it, you'll find you agree. Funny shit!

True that.

Also, I should add _ Empty Glass, I'm offended by your user name as it implies that glasses, nay, all drink and barware, are something other than full. It would be more politically correct if you were Opting To Be Not Entirely Full Nonplastic Vessel.

Thank you.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

I just can't jump on this bandwagon. Just imagine for a second that you didn't grow up in this Christian-dominated culture. Everything, everywhere, is CHRISTMAS. EVERYTHING. Don't you think it might get a bit much after a while? Telling people to suck it up and ignore it is easy when it's not a big deal to you.

I say Merry Christmas to those I know celebrate it, and that's it. If someone I don't know says it to me, I'll say it back. It's not politically correct, it's being tolerant of other cultures. Most don't give a shit, but to those that do, I can't judge them for that.

catefrances

Paul David wrote:

I just can't jump on this bandwagon. Just imagine for a second that you didn't grow up in this Christian-dominated culture. Everything, everywhere, is CHRISTMAS. EVERYTHING. Don't you think it might get a bit much after a while? Telling people to suck it up and ignore it is easy when it's not a big deal to you.

I say Merry Christmas to those I know celebrate it, and that's it. If someone I don't know says it to me, I'll say it back. It's not politically correct, it's being tolerant of other cultures. Most don't give a shit, but to those that do, I can't judge them for that.

finally.

Thoughts_Arrive

Empty Glass wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

unlost dogs wrote:

Quick, someone hand Thoughts_Arrive a Festivus Pole!

????

Festivus for the rest of us

Seinfeld reference. YouTube it, you'll find you agree. Funny shit!

Which video in particular?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... tivus&aq=f

aNiMaL

I would have told him that him not celebrating something is not the definition of "offense." And, just because he chooses to not celebrate, doesn't mean others shouldn't openly be able to. The last I checked, Christmas is a US National holiday.

I am not sure why a very small percentage of the population think they can just falsely throw the word "offense" around in an attempt to control the masses. We as a nation are free to celebrate any holiday we would like, especially when they are National Holidays. We will not be bullied into hiding the fact that we celebrate Christmas. If we are forced to, I would then conclude that this big experiment of the great "melting pot" that is the USA is a giant failure because we as a nation would be becoming more and more bland of a society.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Music For Rhinos

Dude, you guys are analyzing this way too much. Who cares? Just listen to Pearl Jam and drink.

Gary Carter

Paul David wrote:

I just can't jump on this bandwagon. Just imagine for a second that you didn't grow up in this Christian-dominated culture. Everything, everywhere, is CHRISTMAS. EVERYTHING. Don't you think it might get a bit much after a while? Telling people to suck it up and ignore it is easy when it's not a big deal to you.

well then that could be said for all holidays not just christmas

Gary Carter

why don't these pc people single out hanukkah or kwanzaa? hell those last 8 days and 6 days . i don't see the pc up in arms bout those holidays but god forbid we offend the jewish and blacks. let's all get pc bout the christian holiday. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

if people are so against christmas then dont put up a fucking tree, dont fucking buy presents, dont fucking spend christmas with your loved one, stay the fuck home. kinda pot kettle black if your so against christmas but yet do all the things that are associated with christmas holiday. i say either suck it up for one fucking day or don't do things that are associated with the holiday




MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS !

Empty Glass

metsfan wrote:

why don't these pc people single out hanukkah or kwanzaa? hell those last 8 days and 6 days . i don't see the pc up in arms bout those holidays but god forbid we offend the jewish and blacks. let's all get pc bout the christian holiday. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

if people are so against christmas then dont put up a fucking tree, dont fucking buy presents, dont fucking spend christmas with your loved one, stay the fuck home. kinda pot kettle black if your so against christmas but yet do all the things that are associated with christmas holiday. i say either suck it up for one fucking day or don't do things that are associated with the holiday




MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS !

100% agree here.

And look a Christmas miracle, a Phillies fan agrees with a Mets fan. Merry Christmas brother!

Empty Glass

Thoughts-Arrive, if you can piece the whole episode together, you'll enjoy it. Even it bits and pieces there should be funny stuff on there.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

who's AGAINST christmas here? I just don't think there's anything wrong with being respectful of other people's cultures/religions. See, the real point here is that North Americans (not just the US) are so arrogant that we just assume everyone celebrates Christmas and that if you don't, well fuck you.

I was thinking about this on the way to work yesterday.......driving down Main Street, they put up Xmas trees and angels and ribbons and shit........I thought we were supposed to separate church and state. Why is the government decorating our public places with the decorations of one specific religion's stuff?

My mayor is Jewish. Can you imagine if there were menorahs hanging all over town? And why shouldn't there be, really?

I know, I know, it's been this way ever since we whites came here and stole the land of the Natives. I know. I get it. I always go back to this when I hear people of European descent complaining about the current state of political correctness. What if we came here all those years ago, and we hadn't been ABLE to overthrow all of their traditions and destroy their culture with our disease and genocide? WE would be the ones saying "I don't celebrate Aboriginal faith, so don't say it to me!".

These "pc people" don't single out hanukkah or kwanzaa because I've never seen any commercials for Hanukkah week door crasher sales or Jessica Simpson lighting the Kwanzaa Kinara on national TV.

metsfan wrote:

why don't these pc people single out hanukkah or kwanzaa? hell those last 8 days and 6 days . i don't see the pc up in arms bout those holidays but god forbid we offend the jewish and blacks. let's all get pc bout the christian holiday. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

if people are so against christmas then dont put up a fucking tree, dont fucking buy presents, dont fucking spend christmas with your loved one, stay the fuck home. kinda pot kettle black if your so against christmas but yet do all the things that are associated with christmas holiday. i say either suck it up for one fucking day or don't do things that are associated with the holiday




MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS !

Hugh Freaking Dillon

agreed. No one is singling out one particular holiday here, it was just the subject of the OP.

metsfan wrote:

Paul David wrote:

I just can't jump on this bandwagon. Just imagine for a second that you didn't grow up in this Christian-dominated culture. Everything, everywhere, is CHRISTMAS. EVERYTHING. Don't you think it might get a bit much after a while? Telling people to suck it up and ignore it is easy when it's not a big deal to you.

well then that could be said for all holidays not just christmas

unlost dogs

Paul David wrote:

agreed. No one is singling out one particular holiday here, it was just the subject of the OP.

metsfan wrote:

Paul David wrote:

I just can't jump on this bandwagon. Just imagine for a second that you didn't grow up in this Christian-dominated culture. Everything, everywhere, is CHRISTMAS. EVERYTHING. Don't you think it might get a bit much after a while? Telling people to suck it up and ignore it is easy when it's not a big deal to you.

well then that could be said for all holidays not just christmas

I'm offended that Paul David hasn't been David Paul for 50% of the time in order to provide equal first billing on behalf of all the Davids of the world.

And that metsfan has consistently championed just one team, when he really should be mindful about offending others. Truly he should consider being lionsfan, cardinalsfan, raidersfan or royalsfan. At least for a while.

Really, it's all quite offensive.

Oh, and Happy Second-To-Last Friday of the month!

Thoughts_Arrive

I was watching the annual Christmas Eve carols on TV last night, everyone in the city singing and having a good time.
Then I think about Islam, what joy do their followers have?
All I see is violence and no joy.
If Australia ever loses its right to celebrate Christmas I am out of here.

Thoughts_Arrive

Empty Glass wrote:

Thoughts-Arrive, if you can piece the whole episode together, you'll enjoy it. Even it bits and pieces there should be funny stuff on there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8g4Ztf7hIM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus

Sounds a bit bizarre, people actually celebrate this?

titchinello

I skipped all the replys and came to here.

where i live is a small village, and in the community there is a lot of religion. ( none of which i take part in)

Last year Daughter Tyler who was 4 at the time gave out xmas cards to all here classmates, chuffed to bits that she was getting to do this.
Next day one of the girls in here class gave Tyler her card back. with no explination, which really upset tyler.
turns out her family are some religion that doesn't celebrate xmas. and we had to wipe away the tears and explain this to tyler.

so i ask also. was the girl right to give her card back, or should she have just binned it, and said nothing.

Sorry to hijack your thread dude. but just felt i should share this to.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Then I think about Islam, what joy do their followers have?
All I see is violence and no joy.

what a lovely generalization.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

I would say toss it without saying anything. it was the next day. had your daughter had said merry christmas to her, then the girl would have had a right to say "I'm sorry, but we don't celebrate christmas". my guess is this girl's parents made her do it. which to me is a bit extreme. they are 4 for christ's sake.

titchinello wrote:

I skipped all the replys and came to here.

where i live is a small village, and in the community there is a lot of religion. ( none of which i take part in)

Last year Daughter Tyler who was 4 at the time gave out xmas cards to all here classmates, chuffed to bits that she was getting to do this.
Next day one of the girls in here class gave Tyler her card back. with no explination, which really upset tyler.
turns out her family are some religion that doesn't celebrate xmas. and we had to wipe away the tears and explain this to tyler.

so i ask also. was the girl right to give her card back, or should she have just binned it, and said nothing.

Sorry to hijack your thread dude. but just felt i should share this to.