Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    That whole debate is one of the dumbest things to come out of America.

    The rest of the world doesn’t worry about it, because Christmas is like 90% secular. The Christians do their thing today, and leave the rest of us to celebrate Christmas with friends and family and too many cold cuts of meat. You can say happy holidays and nobody’s gonna get upset, but even as a non-Christian I’m more likely to wish you a merry Christmas.

    (The poms and their “happy Christmas” are weird though. Just sounds wrong.)

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      11 months ago

      FYI, the majority of Americans don’t give a shit either and think it’s embarrassingly stupid.

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      11 months ago

      In Danish you don’t even have a way of saying “happy holidays”. It’s just “glædelig jul”.

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      11 months ago

      The whole thing is tilting at windmills. Nobody gives a shit what you say but they want to fight this supposed force out there trying to control what people say. It doesn’t exist in a way where it will ever matter.

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      11 months ago

      (The poms and their “happy Christmas” are weird though. Just sounds wrong.)

      As a Brit I’ve never heard happy Christmas. It’s always merry Christmas. Then it’s happy new year.

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      11 months ago

      It just proves you can convince conservatives to be angry and scared about literally anything.

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      11 months ago

      Fyi, “happy Christmas” is just the normal phrasing in the UK. “Merry Christmas” didn’t start to spread until A Christmas Carol was published.