Politically correct holiday greetings or the old favorites?

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    cornnifer wrote:
    Being a big fan of analogies, i think this is a damn good one.

    *bows* thank you sir. i try :)
  • 1970RR
    1970RR Posts: 281
    soulsinging wrote:
    which is why we say happy holidays when we dont know what they celebrate and why it's stupid for people to get wound up when people/stores/governments/offices/whatever dont say merry christmas.
    Exactly!!
  • Banana-Rama
    Banana-Rama Posts: 108
    fanch75 wrote:
    lmao

    that's awesome!

    lemme axe you this - did they call it that to be facetious, or was that a genuine attempt to be unoffensive?

    I honestly think it was a little of both.

    The company I work for is funded by the Canadian government and they threatened to cut us off if we called it a Christmas Party due to the fact that clients are also welcomed. We could not even call it a "holiday party". I mean I get the being politically correct and do agree with it to some aspects but not even using the term "holiday party". That is just silly.
    "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend" - STP

    "Frugality without creativity is deprivation." - Amy Dacyczyn

    Proud Supporter of the CAROLINA HURRICANES. GO CANES GO!!!
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    A Heartfelt Happy Holidays to you all!!! ;)

    We will have to agree to disagree. Though the birthday analogy comes the closest to making me understand your points.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    aNiMaL wrote:
    A Heartfelt Happy Holidays to you all!!! ;)

    We will have to agree to disagree. Though the birthday analogy comes the closest to making me understand your points.

    im glad it did the trick. in the end, i dont care what you do. you can moan about losing christmas all you like... it isnt gonna change anything cos you're outnumbered! ;)
  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    Banana-Rama wrote:
    Where I work they were scared of calling our staff Christmas party a Christmas party, so they re-named it...I shit you not....Generic Winter Holiday Staff Get-To-Gether.

    Thats unbelievable!

    Ive heard of a few places renaming their christmas lights, celebration lights. I find it all pretty ridiculous to be honest, i could never be bothered making an issue out of something like that.
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Banana-Rama wrote:
    Where I work they were scared of calling our staff Christmas party a Christmas party, so they re-named it...I shit you not....Generic Winter Holiday Staff Get-To-Gether.
    Oooh, I like that! Throwing the word "generic" in there is what makes it fun. :D It has much more flair than the bland and boring "winter party" we have here. Of course, ours really is a winter party, not a holiday or Christmas party ... they moved it to January because everyone is too busy in December to go.
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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    soulsinging wrote:
    im glad it did the trick. in the end, i dont care what you do. you can moan about losing christmas all you like... it isnt gonna change anything cos you're outnumbered! ;)
    That's the great thing about this country. It's okay that we don't see thing always in the same way....but none of that stops us from respecting and allowing each person to be their own individual.

    Seriously, Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I hope you all get to spend the day with your loved ones and have a great dinner!

    Much love to you all!!!

    :)
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    I prefer to use the traditional greetings, in part because I loathe political correctness for its own sake, and in part because they are familar to me. I have no problem if someone else prefers to use "happy holidays". What I do have a problem with is someone telling me that I shouldn't say Merry Christmas or the like because its insensitive. No, it is not. If I say it and someone does get offended, I will apologize. I'd like to think that most people can cope, though.
  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    aNiMaL wrote:
    That's the great thing about this country. It's okay that we don't see thing always in the same way....but none of that stops us from respecting and allowing each person to be their own individual.

    Seriously, Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I hope you all get to spend the day with your loved ones and have a great dinner!

    Much love to you all!!!

    :)


    Don't forget football!

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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:
    Don't forget football!

    It's the way the Pilgrims would have wanted it.
    Hehehe, totally!!!

    We do football picks every week...and for the 3 games on tomorrow we are calling it D-Day; Detroit, Dallas, and Denver will be winners. I think Detroit....for as bad as they have been this year, will step up for their traditional Thanksgiving day game.
  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    aNiMaL wrote:
    http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/6242408p-5450164c.html

    Being a liberal myself, I believe in tradition. And while I may have moved further away from organized religion, I still want to celebrate the pagan tradition of Santa Clause and Christmas. In fact, I play Santa Clause for my nieces and nephews on the big day itself.

    I also believe that the majority wins. The majority of people celebrate the legal/national holiday called Christmas. I do not think ANYONE, whether they celebrate it or not, should be offended if someone wishes them a Merry Christmas. I personally would be elated if someone wished me a Happy Hanukkah or Happy Kwanzaa. And I do not think the government should try and candy coat the fact that this nation celebrates and recognizes Christmas Day as a holiday.

    I don't believe that anyone is actually offended about Christmas. It's just media hype - usually the right-wing media who like to huff about how the "minorities" are infringing on them with their strange ways. They like to make out that non-Christian groups are the ones with a problem but I'm non-Christian and I know that of the non-Christian people I know, (both Hindu and Muslim) not ONE person has ever had a problem with Christmas. I've never heard anything about it recently from them and I've never heard anything about it as I was growing up.
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  • Restless Soul
    Restless Soul Posts: 805
    enharmonic wrote:
    My favorite card reads..

    This Thanksgiving, give a Native American Smallpox for old time's sake.

    That's sick!
    "We have to change the concept of patriotism to one of “matriotism” — love of humanity that transcends war. A matriarch would never send her own children off to wars that kill other people’s children." Cindy Sheehan
    ---
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    London, Wembley, 1996
    London, Wembley, 18 June 2007
    London, O2, 18 August 2009
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    Milton Keynes Bowl, 11 July 2014
    London, Hammersmith Apollo (Ed solo), 06 June 2017
    London, O2, 18 June 2018
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Restless Soul wrote:
    That's sick!

    What's with the shock value remarks lately, enharmonic?
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    hippiemom wrote:
    I think the world would be a much nicer place if people didn't take offense when others wished them well. If you don't celebrate Christmas and someone has the nerve to wish you a merry one, can't you just go ahead and try to have a merry day on the 25th anyway? By the same token, if you do celebrate Christmas and someone wishes you a happy holiday, say thank you! They want you to be happy on your holiday, how is that offensive?!

    I blame Bill O'Reilly for creating an issue where there wasn't one. Of all the things we argue about in this country, this is surely the dumbest.


    Bam! Hippiemom hits it out of the park. Thread over, at the fourth post.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Happy November 23!!!!

    Hmmm, what can we celebrate?

    * R.C. Saints - Pope Clement I
    * Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qawl (Speech) - First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar
    * Georgia - St George's Day
    * Japan - Kinro kansha no hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)
    * Slovenia - Rudolf Maister Day
    * Isle of Man General Election every five years (next 2006)

    1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.

    1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.

    1963 - The first episode of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, airs on the BBC.

    1971 - The representatives of the People's Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as China's representatives

    1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history.

    1990 - The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.

    1993 - Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

    1996 - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    If you move to the middle east, would you be offended if people with you a happy Ramadan??? Would you insist they change that to happy holidays? A tree has never been tradition in Islamic or Jewish religions, so to start calling it a holiday tree is ridiculous. It may not be Christian even but it has been adopted by Christianity and the Western world. I forget what Jewish people call those candles – are people now insisting they call them holiday candles? :confused: . If people get offended by what I wish them, they’ve got a serious stick up their arse and I can’t understand why some of you say you would apologise. It’s downright laughable.

    God, I’m just glad I don’t come from a country where political correctness has ever been an issue. If I say happy Christmas to someone and they say ‘oh I’m jewish, I don’t celebrate it’, I’d probably reply ‘well have a happy one anyway’. You don’t have to celebrate it for me to want you to be happy. I wouldn't be offended by Happy Holidays but I'd be a bit sad cos it’s such an American thing and it would just be a huge sign of how Americanised Ireland is becoming. If someone wished me a happy birthday should I be offended if I don’t celebrate it? December 25th IS Christmas day and that’s that. If I’m not going to see someone between now and their birthday, I will say happy birthday, same with christmas.

    As for cards, I just buy whichever is the prettiest.

    Guinness wasn’t even invented when st. Paddy was around… do you think that will stop anybody from touching a drop when it comes to March 17th? :rolleyes:
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Guinness wasn’t even invented when st. Paddy was around… do you think that will stop anybody from touching a drop when it comes to March 17th? :rolleyes:

    The Irish don't need the excuse of a holiday to drink, no one does!!! :D
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    aNiMaL wrote:
    http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/6242408p-5450164c.html

    Being a liberal myself, I believe in tradition. And while I may have moved further away from organized religion, I still want to celebrate the pagan tradition of Santa Clause and Christmas. In fact, I play Santa Clause for my nieces and nephews on the big day itself.

    I also believe that the majority wins. The majority of people celebrate the legal/national holiday called Christmas. I do not think ANYONE, whether they celebrate it or not, should be offended if someone wishes them a Merry Christmas. I personally would be elated if someone wished me a Happy Hanukkah or Happy Kwanzaa. And I do not think the government should try and candy coat the fact that this nation celebrates and recognizes Christmas Day as a holiday.



    eh i don't really care one way or another. i work in retail, and i have worked in retail off and on my entire career. if a customer is clearly purchasing an obvious christmas gift or themed merch, or obviously for chanukah, i do take note. however, i normally play it safe and offer a simple: " enjoy your holiday"....or "enjoy the holiday season".....etc. just b/c the majority of people believe in a god doesn't mean i think our government should get involved......so i don't have an issue if people of various faiths don't want to be subjected to others. c'est la vie.
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    If you move to the middle east, would you be offended if people with you a happy Ramadan??? Would you insist they change that to happy holidays?

    Nope, not at all. I understand that Islam is the majority faith in most of these countries. Which is why its annoying when people here (in North America) insist on PC greetings.

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