Is it Merry Christmas or Happy holiday ?
- Thread starter Durry
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I don't treat my neighbours according to theoretical arguments I encounter on the internet. And frankly, this whole 'war on Christmas' that so many stress over, that they start thread after thread about over the holiday season, boils down to a mere few loud individuals in a few places. I refuse to get caught up in its nonsense. Because once you turn it into a war, people will fight. I'd much rather stick to the reality of me and my neighbours, or me and the people I know, here and now, in real life, thanks.
lol... yes, life is better when you choose to treat your neighbour on their own merits, and not based on the worst person you can find who resembles them in the whole world. It's kind of a no brainer.
Thanks for your insight.. now which one DO YOU SAY as a GREETING??
ha. I say whatever the first person says to me. Makes it easier.
I have wished Muslims, Hindus and persons of other faiths a Merry Christmas. Not once have I ever heard a bad word, nor seen a grimace.
And dollars to donuts I have met more Muslims than you Durry.
That range selector is a bitch isn't it?
Unless your neighbour IS that person.
Reason why truckers tell you an empty trailer is filled with dispatchers brains.;-)
:canada: If one wishes to wish one and all Happy Holidays, it's allowed.
Likewise if one wishes to wish one and all Merry Christmas, it's allowed.
The former can't help being inbred and retarded.
Likewise if one wishes to wish one and all Merry Christmas, it's allowed.
The former can't help being inbred and retarded.
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What part of 'on their own merits' escapes people?
I really don't think my Muslim neighbours are hiding their ill will behind gifts of basil plants, help with the renoes, dropping by with cookies, etc. They are exactly the same as the rest of my neighbours
The very first Christmas card in the world said Merry Christmas on it, so all others should follow suit.
World's first Christmas card, 1843. It was also the year that D ickens wrote A Christmas Carol
The first Christmas cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley in London on the 1st of May 1843. The central picture showed three generations of a family raising a toast to the card's recipient: on either side were scenes of charity, with food and clothing being given to the poor. Allegedly the image of the family drinking wine together proved controversial to the prude Victorian British, but the idea was shrewd: Cole had helped introduce the Penny Post three years earlier (he designed the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, in 1840). Two batches totalling 2,050 cards were printed and sold that year for a shilling each.
Sir Henry Cole invented the Christmas card in 1843
World's first Christmas card, 1843. It was also the year that D ickens wrote A Christmas Carol
The first Christmas cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley in London on the 1st of May 1843. The central picture showed three generations of a family raising a toast to the card's recipient: on either side were scenes of charity, with food and clothing being given to the poor. Allegedly the image of the family drinking wine together proved controversial to the prude Victorian British, but the idea was shrewd: Cole had helped introduce the Penny Post three years earlier (he designed the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, in 1840). Two batches totalling 2,050 cards were printed and sold that year for a shilling each.
Sir Henry Cole invented the Christmas card in 1843
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It is rude to wish a person Happy Holidays who celebrate Christmas- it is rude not to offer a Jew or Muslim their greeting when they celebrate their Holy days.
What does it cost a person to be polite. Nothing.
really, how would I know by looking at them if they celebrated Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanza or any other holiday
Can't we all just accept the neutral Happy Festivus............
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