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Golden Key
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Cue James Earl Jones, either as himself or as Darth Vader.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Twilight:
Please allow me to use this thread and say just how much I hate "gift bags." We aren't big Christmas buyers at my house, we get each other things like chocolates and socks and the grand cost total for everything under the tree right now, for three people, is probably about sixty dollars, so why does my entire living room look like someone just came through and dropped the weeks' shopping and trash in the middle of the floor? Those damn gift bags, that's why! There's plenty of wrapping paper, ribbon and tape in the closet. It doesn't have to be neat, just wrapped, instead of sacked with crushed crepe paper spilling over the top.
Then why the fuck don't you wrap it? Does your husband insist on gift bags? Did somebody follow you home from the store and hold a gun to your head and insist you use a gift bag instead of wrapping paper? WHY DO YOU USE THE FUCKING THINGS IF YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH? Are you stupid?
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Ariel:
I've now received three cards wishing me Happy Holidays. It's Christmas. What's wrong with wishing people a happy Christmas? Why is that considered offensive?
Why do you think the reason the person sent you a card saying "Happy Holidays" is because they consider it offensive? Or even that they think somebody else might consider it offensive? is that the only possible reason someone might send a card that says "Happy Holidays"? What makes you think they think there's something wrong with wishing someone a happy Christmas?
Why do YOU think it's wrong to wish someone happy holidays? Who twisted your knickers? Have you been watching televangelists again? We've warned you about that. First they get you uptight about winter greetings, next thing they're hitting you up for money and getting caught with their pants around their ankles in a men's room in Bimini. Is that what you want to be associated with?
In short, why are you such a fucking idiot?
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M.
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Ariel can speak for her/himself but possibly because, I believe, that Ariel is in the UK. Ariel is not going on holiday. Ariel is looking forward to Christmas.
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Twilight
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Then why the fuck don't you wrap it? Does your husband insist on gift bags? Did somebody follow you home from the store and hold a gun to your head and insist you use a gift bag instead of wrapping paper? WHY DO YOU USE THE FUCKING THINGS IF YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH? Are you stupid?
Am I stupid? I believe most people who read that rant would take it for granted that the gifts in gift bags were not wrapped by me, but by Someone Else. A few of them are actually to me.
Every year the majority of the gifts under our tree are to my son from his father ( my ex-husband.) It's a time honored tradition for the non-custodial parent to go overboard at Christmas. I wouldn't be so rude as to mess with them, only to complain about them here.
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Pomona
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Happy Holidays/Seasons Greetings (whichever is more appropriate to one's side of the pond) normally includes Diwali since it happens in winter, so a bit confused as to why the OP mentions nobody doing this for Diwali. As for Easter, there are more festivals around the same time in winter than there are in spring, and Easter's changing date also impacts this. It just seems like common sense to use a generic seasonal greeting at a time when there are many religious festivals being celebrated, and even many cultural Christians may have a hard time with Christmas. And as has been pointed out, it is not Christmas yet anyway.
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Pomona:
Happy Holidays/Seasons Greetings (whichever is more appropriate to one's side of the pond) normally includes Diwali since it happens in winter, so a bit confused as to why the OP mentions nobody doing this for Diwali.
I am fairly certain that the majority of people wishing others "Happy Holidays" have never heard of Diwali, let alone considered that they might be choosing their language in order to include it.
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Pomona
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But how wouldn't they have heard of Diwali? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
It's not some kind of big secret, it's just another major winter religious festival like Hanukkah or Kwanzaa.
Also most people saying Happy Holidays are doing it to include all festivals around that time, whether they have heard of them or not. Diwali is included because of the timeframe.
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betjemaniac
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Originally posted by Pomona:
it's just another major winter religious festival like Hanukkah or Kwanzaa.
is this where I tentatively stick my hand up and say Kwanzaa is a totally new one on me as word thing and festival? Every day's a school day...
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Well then.
Happy Harmonica
Happy Dieting Month
Happy Lighting Festival
Happy More Recently Invented American/African Fruit Harvest Thing
Happy Moose Hunting Season
And anyone omitted, please treat yourself to a McDonald's Happy Meal. Vegetarians are SOL, you don't get a holiday.
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You forgot Happy Beethoven's Birthday (tomorrow).
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Ariel
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Why do you think the reason the person sent you a card saying "Happy Holidays" is because they consider it offensive? Or even that they think somebody else might consider it offensive? is that the only possible reason someone might send a card that says "Happy Holidays"? What makes you think they think there's something wrong with wishing someone a happy Christmas? Why do YOU think it's wrong to wish someone happy holidays? Who twisted your knickers? Have you been watching televangelists again?
![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif) Wrong thread, MT. Go and play on the Rosencrantz one in the Circus.
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Originally posted by Piglet:
PS - just a thought re: Twilight's post: why would you feel intimidated by a "British"* accent?
* not that such a thing actually exists. Who did it sound like? Billy Connolly? Someone from East Enders? The Queen?
Eddie Izzard! Now if it was his voice at the local Kroger self-checkout, I would make it a point to use those. And normally I hate self-checkout because it's intimidating. All those people behind you, impatiently clucking their tongues because you're a little slower at the whole business. Eddie Izzard would be oddly comforting.
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Pomona
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Originally posted by betjemaniac:
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Originally posted by Pomona:
it's just another major winter religious festival like Hanukkah or Kwanzaa.
is this where I tentatively stick my hand up and say Kwanzaa is a totally new one on me as word thing and festival? Every day's a school day...
In fairness (and I should have qualified it thusly), Kwanzaa is only a major festival in North America. It's an African-American festival honouring West African culture and traditions.
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Twilight
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Originally posted by The5thMary:
Eddie Izzard! Now if it was his voice at the local Kroger self-checkout, I would make it a point to use those. And normally I hate self-checkout because it's intimidating. All those people behind you, impatiently clucking their tongues because you're a little slower at the whole business. Eddie Izzard would be oddly comforting.
Oo, oo, yes he would! Or Ricky Gervais doing his soft and smarmy mumbling: "Now you might want to run it through the scanner before putting it in the bag --wait -- or not --(chuckle)... (sigh) fun... I see you have the magazine, "Big Breasted Women Being Punished," that's not fair then, is it? If anything they should be rewarded, shouldn't they ... oh, I see you have Twinkies, I think they're yummy don't ..."
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Uncle Pete
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In fairness (and I should have qualified it thusly), Kwanzaa is only a major festival in North America. It's an African-American festival honouring West African culture and traditions.
In further fairness, it is only celebrated in the United States; I never hear of it in Canada, and a significant part of my family is of Black origin.
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Firenze
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Oh well, if we're living our fantasies...
Jeff Bridges greets me with audible delight - 'Mmm, steak, my favourite! You're going to slow roast the peppers? Fresh chili salsa - wow! '. Instead of a spotty lad in a nylon overall coming to swipe a card when I scan the bottle of wine, Jeff purrs on 'Chilean Merlot? Was that cheesecake I just saw? What time's dinner? I'll be there.'
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Siegfried
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Why do you think the reason the person sent you a card saying "Happy Holidays" is because they consider it offensive? Or even that they think somebody else might consider it offensive? is that the only possible reason someone might send a card that says "Happy Holidays"? What makes you think they think there's something wrong with wishing someone a happy Christmas? Why do YOU think it's wrong to wish someone happy holidays? Who twisted your knickers? Have you been watching televangelists again?
Wrong thread, MT. Go and play on the Rosencrantz one in the Circus.
You done fucked up your OP and now are pissy about being called on it. Take your lumps.
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Siegfried
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Originally posted by Twilight:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Then why the fuck don't you wrap it? Does your husband insist on gift bags? Did somebody follow you home from the store and hold a gun to your head and insist you use a gift bag instead of wrapping paper? WHY DO YOU USE THE FUCKING THINGS IF YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH? Are you stupid?
Am I stupid?
Yes. Next question?
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Siegfried:
You done fucked up your OP and now are pissy about being called on it. Take your lumps.
Nope, just bored. Time moves on.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
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In fairness (and I should have qualified it thusly), Kwanzaa is only a major festival in North America. It's an African-American festival honouring West African culture and traditions.
In further fairness, it is only celebrated in the United States; I never hear of it in Canada, and a significant part of my family is of Black origin.
It isn't only celebrated in the US. Just not by very many people. To be fair, it is a minority of Black Americans who celebrate it, IME. There is more awareness in the US, because that is where it originated.
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Twilight
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Originally posted by Siegfried:
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Originally posted by Twilight:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Then why the fuck don't you wrap it? Does your husband insist on gift bags? Did somebody follow you home from the store and hold a gun to your head and insist you use a gift bag instead of wrapping paper? WHY DO YOU USE THE FUCKING THINGS IF YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH? Are you stupid?
Am I stupid?
Yes. Next question?
Next question? Why come late to a thread, with no clue what's going on, and say things that have already been said but with more wit and timing?
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Golden Key
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More December holidays (Wikipedia).
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Golden Key
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Firenze--
You really need to create self-serve register AIs, and sell them.
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orfeo
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Maybe we should just all send cards that say "Congratulations on making it as far as December, not long to go now".
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Pomona:
But how wouldn't they have heard of Diwali?
Because they don't know any Hindus? Hanukkah gets enough mentions in popular culture (TV, movies etc.) that the average person with no particular knowledge of Jews or Judaism has probably heard of it. Diwali doesn't get so many mentions. I'd guess it was about as well-known as Eid. (But probably more well known than that there's more than one Eid.)
Kwanzaa? I've heard of it. Probably all my black friends have heard of it, but none of them celebrate it. Amongst the white folks? Oddly enough, it came up in conversation the other day (it was written on the seasonal wrapping for some kind of fast food). The current score stands at one "I've heard of that", one "is that the black thing?" and three "huh?"
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Rossweisse
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Originally posted by betjemaniac:
is this where I tentatively stick my hand up and say Kwanzaa is a totally new one on me as word thing and festival? Every day's a school day...
Kwanzaa is a phony holiday, invented in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s, and celebrated primarily by the kind of people who insist on capitalizing "black" when it is used to refer to human beings with more melanin in their skin than some other human beings.
None of my black friends or colleagues observe it; it seems to be of interest primarily to the obsessively politically correct.
Happy Hoohah.
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Gill H
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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
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Originally posted by Pomona:
But how wouldn't they have heard of Diwali?
Because they don't know any Hindus? Hanukkah gets enough mentions in popular culture (TV, movies etc.) that the average person with no particular knowledge of Jews or Judaism has probably heard of it. Diwali doesn't get so many mentions. I'd guess it was about as well-known as Eid. (But probably more well known than that there's more than one Eid.)
Wasn't it Jimi Mistri in 'The Guru' who lamented that the only famous Hindu in the US was Apu from the Simpsons 'and he's not even real!'
(Best quote from that film: "Feel Billy Joel between your legs," But I digress.)
I have heard of Kwanzaa but I have never heard of anyone I know in the UK celebrating it.
As for Beethoven's birthday, I certainly intend to celebrate that - and mine too!
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Alan Cresswell
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Supermarkets have no shame. They'll sell anything that might make them a quid/buck. Hot cross buns in January, mince pies in August (with an October best-by date), even cards declaring "Happy Holidays".
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la vie en rouge
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Originally posted by Pomona:
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Originally posted by betjemaniac:
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Originally posted by Pomona:
it's just another major winter religious festival like Hanukkah or Kwanzaa.
is this where I tentatively stick my hand up and say Kwanzaa is a totally new one on me as word thing and festival? Every day's a school day...
In fairness (and I should have qualified it thusly), Kwanzaa is only a major festival in North America. It's an African-American festival honouring West African culture and traditions.
Which is why it is very odd to see it in a list used by a British person. This is my main objection to “Happy Holidays” being used by British people in general. Not that there’s anything wrong with being an American. But don’t pretend to be one if you’re not. I’m sure “Season’s Greetings” would be good enough for the Queen ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) .
The equivalent of “Happy Holidays” in French is “Bonnes fêtes”. If someone went with just “Happy Christmas (Joyeux Noël)” I would assume that for some reason they didn’t like me and wanted me to have a miserable New Year.
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Penny S
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They sell hot cross buns in JanuaryFebruaryMarch AprilMayJuneJuly AugustSeptemberOctoberNovember and December. And they aren't, of course, hot.
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Siegfried
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Originally posted by Twilight:
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Originally posted by Siegfried:
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Originally posted by Twilight:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
Then why the fuck don't you wrap it? Does your husband insist on gift bags? Did somebody follow you home from the store and hold a gun to your head and insist you use a gift bag instead of wrapping paper? WHY DO YOU USE THE FUCKING THINGS IF YOU HATE THEM SO MUCH? Are you stupid?
Am I stupid?
Yes. Next question?
Next question? Why come late to a thread, with no clue what's going on, and say things that have already been said but with more wit and timing?
I've been reading this all along, darlin', and have more clue than you I'd say. But that's just in general.
As for my answer, I must have misunderstood your question to be an overall assessment of you, not just on this thread. Of course, my answer would still have been the same.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
The equivalent of “Happy Holidays” in French is “Bonnes fêtes”. If someone went with just “Happy Christmas (Joyeux Noël)” I would assume that for some reason they didn’t like me and wanted me to have a miserable New Year.
Which is why I have less than no objection to "Happy Holidays." Until I saw Pomona remind me that of course I'd been thinking of it, how could I not, I hadn't even remembered that Diwali was a winter holiday. Heck, I hadn't even thought about it at all. Kwanzaa? Yeah, you meet people around here who celebrate that. Advent? Hey, I enjoy being pedantic and reminding GLE's that they're taking part in the War on Purple (and putting a yellow cap on another bottle of blue chain lube at the bike shop every Sunday). Krampusnacht? St. Nick's Day? Santa Lucia? Any excuse for a party? Bring it.
Look, I can't hardly remember what day of the week it is. Retailminionschedule, no regularity, no significance to days other than a few shifts in when you're open on two of them. I'd probably wish someone "Merry Christmas" on 30 December or something, forgetting that Christmas had passed. "Happy Holidays" isn't just PC run amok. It's convenient, it's all-encompasing, and it keeps the folks behind the counter a little less crazy.
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I recommend Daily Mash Christmas Cards. Caption is HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS! HAVE A SPROUT.
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Originally posted by Ariston:
I'd probably wish someone "Merry Christmas" on 30 December or something, forgetting that Christmas had passed.
Nope, it's the sixth day of Christmas with six more to go.
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lilBuddha
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But don’t pretend to be one if you’re not.
Says someone called la vie en rouge... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Supermarkets have no shame. They'll sell anything that might make them a quid/buck. Hot cross buns in January, mince pies in August (with an October best-by date), even cards declaring "Happy Holidays".
Hot cross buns have been on sale for a while now and were in store last night when I passed by. I sort of did a double take as I had just come in past the flower stall bit where they had daffodils and tulips as well.
As for cards saying "Happy Holidays" - so much better than a card wishing you a simple Merry Christmas, which can only be used once and looks very out of date in January. Instead, you can use them at any time throughout the year for any occasion. Just get in a stock and your worries about having the right kind of card for the occasion are over. Next stop, Easter. (Which to judge by the flowers and buns is already almost here.)
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Penny S
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I have not seen any time when HCBs have not been for sale. Occasionally, Waitrose also have "richly fruited buns" which are the same without the cross, but always as well, not instead. I won't buy the crossed ones, and get my HCBs on Good Friday from the local baker for breakfast - so they are hot at the point of sale.
Waitrose are currantly selling "signature spice star" loaves for Christmas, which satisfy my yearning for spicy yeast dough, and are wholemeal as well.
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Zacchaeus
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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
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Originally posted by Pomona:
Happy Holidays/Seasons Greetings (whichever is more appropriate to one's side of the pond) normally includes Diwali since it happens in winter, so a bit confused as to why the OP mentions nobody doing this for Diwali.
I am fairly certain that the majority of people wishing others "Happy Holidays" have never heard of Diwali, let alone considered that they might be choosing their language in order to include it.
Most people in my corner of middle England have never heard of Divali, as real holiday that real people celebrate. If they have come aross it then it is as something exotic that happens elsewehere.
Happy holidays around here is seen as an creeping Americanism or an attempt to be PC that they find offensive.
I have been driven nuts by anti 'happy holiday' posts on ny FB page - variations of how they are celebrate christams and if you don't like it go back to where you came from (serioulsy)
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Golden Key
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Tell you what: we'll take back "Happy Holidays" to the US, if UK folks will please take back the citron bits from the hot cross buns. You can put them in your own, and enjoy them. I can't stand citron. Win-win.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Tell you what: we'll take back "Happy Holidays" to the US, if UK folks will please take back the citron bits from the hot cross buns. You can put them in your own, and enjoy them. I can't stand citron. Win-win.
Just so long as Hershey's stop calling their brown confectionary "chocolate"
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orfeo
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And on behalf of southern latitudes, I'd quite like you to stop all this nonsense about things being winter holidays. They're December holidays, and this weekend it's going to be 37 Celsius.
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St Deird
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Originally posted by Piglet:
PS - just a thought re: Twilight's post: why would you feel intimidated by a "British"* accent?
* not that such a thing actually exists. Who did it sound like? Billy Connolly? Someone from East Enders? The Queen?
That really annoys me.
If I hear someone talking in an Eastern-European language, that's the most I'll be able to identify it - because I don't speak any Eastern-European languages. That doesn't mean that if I call the not-quite-identified language "an Easter-European language" that I believe there is only one in existence.
Similarly, I am not able to classify accents as specifically from Manchester or York or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I am able to identify that it is one of the many accents from the category "British accents", and so that is what I'll call it.
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Originally posted by orfeo:
And on behalf of southern latitudes, I'd quite like you to stop all this nonsense about things being winter holidays. They're December holidays, and this weekend it's going to be 37 Celsius.
Is because snow won't stick upside down.
Before you bring it up, we all know footage of "Antarctica" is fake. Is a topical island.
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Originally posted by Zacchaeus:
Most people in my corner of middle England have never heard of Divali, as real holiday that real people celebrate. If they have come aross it then it is as something exotic that happens elsewehere.
In this corner of middle England in north west London, Diwali is enthusiastically celebrated, the external manifestation being fireworks which in most years get mixed up with those for Guy Fawkes.
But it never seems to occur anywhere near Christmas, so I can't see any need for a catch-all greeting.
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orfeo
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
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Originally posted by orfeo:
And on behalf of southern latitudes, I'd quite like you to stop all this nonsense about things being winter holidays. They're December holidays, and this weekend it's going to be 37 Celsius.
Is because snow won't stick upside down.
Before you bring it up, we all know footage of "Antarctica" is fake. Is a topical island.
What's the topic? Dyslexia?
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I've never run across hot cross buns outside of the period around Easter in any of the places I've lived in the US. Shame, because they are quite tasty!
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Zacchaeus
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Originally posted by Siegfried:
I've never run across hot cross buns outside of the period around Easter in any of the places I've lived in the US. Shame, because they are quite tasty!
do you not have currant buns? very like hot cross buns but without the cross on the top?
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