F "Happy Holidays"!

[charlotte49er]

:rant:

I'm sick and tired of people wishing me "Happy Holidays!"

"Welcome to ---------, Happy Holidays."

"Thank you for shopping at -----------, Happy Holidays!"

It's Christmas dammit! Followed by New Years! If you don't want to wish me a "Merry Christmas", you might as well say, "Go F yourself!"

If you want to wish me . "Merry Christmas, welcome to --------"

Or, Happy Hanukkah, welcome to -------------"

Or you walk into a Chinese restaurant and they say, "May a 1000 blessings be bestowed upon you."

I'm cool with that!

This "Happy Holidays" a-political crap, is for the birds! Even if you are agnostic, pagan, Jewish or whatever. You are getting time off from work because of a Christian Holiday! The celebration of the birth of the Christian savior, Jesus Christ!

Even though it's been proven that Jesus Christ was born in the Spring and not the Winter. That in order for Germanic people to more readily accept Christianity, they chose this date because middle Europeans already had a Winter celebration that included Santa Klaus.

If you don't want to wish me a "Merry Christmas" then don't say anything at all! This "Happy Holidays" crap, you can sit and spin on it!

Rant over. Carry on!

[Dpantherman]

do you prefer Grinch or Scrooge? I prefer Grinch, he has a theme song.

[Jangler]

Bill O'Reilly, is that you?

I always say Merry Christmas back to them. And then I win.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

What kind of easily offended bitch gets so fired up about something this insignificant

[Jackofalltrades]

As a PC thing I hate it too, but there are three major holidays rolled into a five week period, thus I'm ok with it.

I still say Merry Christmas and refuse to stop.

[KBRed]

What kind of easily offended bitch gets so fired up about something this insignificant

Insignificant, because you are from London...duh!

[davos]

I'll say Merry Christmas on Christmas, it makes sense & I'll say happy holidays during the holiday season, it makes sense...but I never actually need to say these things to anyone other than friends & relatives...so whatevs and latresonthemenge

[Captroop]

I want to rant on how much I hate political correctness, but I think that was well summarized by JOAT raising the point that it's 3 holidays rolled into one period, so really, Happy Holidays is fine.

BUT! What I'm against is anyone telling anyone else to say anything. Store X tells their employees to say Y so you don't offend Z. That's bull shiz.

If you want to wish me a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukkah, a Happy Kwanza, or even a Happy Holidays, that's fine. And I will wish you a Merry Christmas in return (I am aware of the irony that I am in fact a staunch Athiest, but as a Pagan, I'm probably more in the right celebrating the commercialized sun-worship "Christmas" we all know and love...but that's another rant for another day).

What blessing you want to bestow on others is your decision alone, and no company policy should be a factor in that decision (But I'm against corporate spiel altogether after working at Macy's; "Hi, I'm Captroop. How may I provide you with excellent service today?").

[Jangler]

The first year after Macy's took over Hechts, they told everybody to say Happy Holidays. They go so many complaints, the next year they started saying Merry Christams.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

No, fug all religious/commercial holidays...

[scpanther22]

What kind of easily offended bitch gets so fired up about something this insignificant

You could say the same thing about sports fans...

[Samuel L. Jackson]

oh look, it is the resident holy roller!

[Jangler]

oh look, it's the resident holy hater!

[Samuel L. Jackson]

oh look, it is the resident Beck-bot!