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PMZ908

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Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« on: September 30, 2009, 03:41:01 pm »
well Merry Christmas or i could be PC and say Happy Holidays, but now a days people complain even more about that...... "ewwww i dont want to have to ask everyone what they celebrate" well thats why if ur not sure u say Happy Holidays   "ewwww i dont want to say that i want to say Merry Christmas"
well u cant please everybody so we need a new PC term.....hmmm i got it! how about
"Happy Shut The *bleep* Up!!!
lets start say'n that

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2009, 03:57:47 pm »
Why do we even need these sayings? Not just Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, but all of them.
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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2009, 08:36:30 am »
Why do we even need these sayings? Not just Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, but all of them.
i know right

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2009, 01:16:14 am »
LMAO!!!! OMG I LOVE IT! HAPPY SHUT THE *bleep* UP Everyone!!  :angel12:

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2009, 02:36:17 am »
When someone tells me "Merry Christmas" I always say back "Happy Hanukkah!"  If they say "I'm not Jewish!" then I respond "I'm not Christian."  It puts them in a really odd spot.

...and I'm not Jewish either.

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2009, 06:32:57 pm »
Its Merry Christmas for me

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2009, 06:46:02 pm »
When someone tells me "Merry Christmas" I always say back "Happy Hanukkah!"  If they say "I'm not Jewish!" then I respond "I'm not Christian."  It puts them in a really odd spot.

...and I'm not Jewish either.

I like that! Most of the time I hear Merry Christmas from someone it's at a cash register. I just ignore it. I figure it's the same as them saying "have a nice day", they don't really mean any of it. It's just something to say.

Since we aren't religious I don't really say anything to people one way or the other. I celebrate the winter solstice , but I wouldn't tell people Happy Solstice .

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2009, 06:55:48 pm »

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2009, 08:43:23 pm »
I think it's ridiculous on a verbal level. I can understand businesses doing the Happy Holidays thing to keep all their customers happy. But in a plain sense the individual saying it is just wishing you a good day. Nobody cares except the extremists.

Happy Festivus for the rest of us.

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2009, 08:56:55 pm »
...wow... way to be naughty and save Santa the trip.

lol

How about Happy HanuRamaKwanzMas?

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2009, 03:11:46 am »
Why do we even need these sayings? Not just Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, but all of them.

We're a social species that enjoys interacting with each other through spoken forms of communication? 

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2009, 09:06:02 am »
Geeze...Everything is so picked apart these days. 
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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2009, 10:00:36 am »
"Happy Festivus for the rest of us!" I love it, definitely watched that episode a few nights ago.

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Re: Merry Christmas -VS- Happy Holidays
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2009, 11:42:25 am »
Christmas is the federal holiday that is recognized, so Merry Christmas it is!

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