Happy Holidays...

Legionreturns

Happy non-denominational winter festival to all ladies, gentlemen and others.  

merlin

stickyfiddle said:

thermionic said:

What about a Festivus, for the rest of us?

You can have Ramadan, or Passover. Your choice!

Passover is in Spring. We're talking Hannukah...

This sums it all up;

Holidays are arriving, 
The genetically modified large bird-like creature is becoming circumnavigationally challenged,
Please put the second smallest denomination of currency in the senior person's head-wear.
If you haven't got the second smallest denomination of currency, then the smallest denomination of currency will do, 
If you haven't got the smallest denomination of currency, then may the Sacred Deity sanctify one's non-gender specific being. 

Dominic

stickyfiddle said:

thermionic said:

What about a Festivus, for the rest of us?

You can have Ramadan, or Passover. Your choice!

Err No.........those are not festivals of Joy.They are festivals of Atonement and Purification for Muslims and a celebration of thankfulness for release from Slavery for Jews
Jews have Hanukkah which started yesterday
Muslims have Eid al -Fitr
as the closest equivalents
there is no Father Hannukah or Father Eid 
Hannukah is made up anyway

roberty

Where does it say Happy Holidays?  I only ever hear it in the context of people complaining about it, who ironically always seem to be offended

octatonic

I like that April 1st is Atheist Day.

(Ok, well it is not, well not more than any other day).

King85

octatonic said:

Where does this happen in Britain?

Exclusively in tabloid headlines from my experience.

jellyroll

Trying to be inclusive through being non-denominational seems like a generous acknowledgement of other people’s faiths and, dare I say it , quite a “Christian” thing to do. 

OTOH, getting pissed off because someone has wished you Happy Holiday and not happy Xmas seems quite curmudgeonly. 

Rocker

It is Christmas. It is a celebration of the birth of Jesus. The pagan festival of Saturnalia occurs around this time. Saturnalia lost it’s value over time so the festival was rebranded Christmas. Not holidays. Not even Xmas. Christmas. 

octatonic

King85 said:

octatonic said:

Where does this happen in Britain?

Exclusively in right wing tabloid headlines from my experience.

Fixed it for you.

merlin

Dominic said:

Hannukah is made up anyway

Correct, because clearly Eid and Easter and Diwali and Christmas and all the other fairy tales are based on truths. Clearly. See what Sir DA had to say about Creation...check out from around 1.25. 

Snap

roberty said:

Where does it say Happy Holidays?  I only ever hear it in the context of people complaining about it, who ironically always seem to be offended

Somebody actually said it to me recently, I think its a thing with da kids. Noticed a bit of it on TV ads too recently.

robgilmo

It is a phrase that encompasses Christmas among other things, its not an attempt at being ''Pc'' nor is it an attempt at not ''offending'' people , its a phrase used for more than 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_and_holiday_season

You see what you want to see, sometimes doing some research can unveil the truth, if thats what you want to see, took me less than a minute.

octatonic

I've never understood why people get bent out of shape about it, nor do I hear people anywhere other than in the US say it.

Here in Singapore people just say Merry Christmas- they fucking love it and every shopping mall (or which there are about a billion of) is playing wall to wall Christmas tunes, tinsel, and fake snow ornaments everywhere.
They also seem to conflate Christmas with Disney and Harry Potter, so there is loads of that about now as well.

We have public holidays for Chinese New Year, Diwali, Christmas, Good Friday, Vesak Day (birth of Buddha), Hari Raya Puasa (end of Ramadan).
If you don't like the holiday, then don't celebrate it.

Dominic

How about this.......
15 years ago took one of the kids to ChristmasWorld at the old WEMBLEY Empire Pool
basically one of these Winter Wonderland things with some poor captive Reindeer , Ice rink , rides ,lots of Tinsel and the locally recruited attendant staff dressed as Elves etc
Locally recruited staff means very varied ethnic backgrounds including Elves in Hijabs etc etc ......all very good natured but obviously the whole Fairytale of Xmas nonsense was not totally understood by most but they were all happily giving it their best. The jaunt ends with a huge queue of kids waiting to see Santa in a Grotto doing the one on one with kids and their Xmas lists.
 The young man dressed as chief elf at the head of the queue ,full of Christmas cheer directing the audience with Santa and lifting the cordon rope every time a new kid goes forward asking Parents ....
" Does your kid wanna see da Grandfarva ?,OK ,wait here innit "
     Santa ? Da Grandfarva ?, Xmas ?, Happy Xmas ? Happy Holidays ?.............to each his own ,who really cares ?

merlin

Bad Santa