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Maybe they should try a Tar Baby, instead.

Phydeaux wrote:

This is smurfing stupid.

I'm about ready to hang up my hat and give up on these smurfing stupid people. People are stealing your nativity prop. Big smurf. Stick another prop outside, or don't put anything outside at all if you're not expecting stuff to get messed with. Big bunch of babies. Really, this is three year old behaviour and I'm sick of hearing it.

Just put the Baby Jesus back already, would you, please?

Phydeaux wrote:

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

Phydeaux wrote:

This is smurfing stupid.

I'm about ready to hang up my hat and give up on these smurfing stupid people. People are stealing your nativity prop. Big smurf. Stick another prop outside, or don't put anything outside at all if you're not expecting stuff to get messed with. Big bunch of babies. Really, this is three year old behaviour and I'm sick of hearing it.

Just put the Baby Jesus back already, would you, please?

Not until they "get it". I'm trying to prove a point.

Local Yokel wrote:

They probably think it's funny. Well, it's not funny. There's gonna be a baby Jesus here come Christmas Eve, because if we let them win. We aren't gonna let them win.

They're not going to "get it." They'll just keep on putting a new Baby Jesus out every damn day. That means you'll have to steal seven more of them. By Christmas Eve they'll have the whole smurfing S*W*A*T team staking out the Nativity scene with "Shoot to Kill" orders. I'm begging you, Phydeaux, give it up before things get out of hand. We don't want to see anyone get killed over this.

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

They're not going to "get it." They'll just keep on putting a new Baby Jesus out every damn day. That means you'll have to steal seven more of them. By Christmas Eve they'll have the whole smurfing S*W*A*T team staking out the Nativity scene with "Shoot to Kill" orders. I'm begging you, Phydeaux, give it up before things get out of hand. We don't want to see anyone get killed over this.

This whole thing always baffles me.  In the USA you hear lots of "we're a Christian nation" stuff (which, really, is not true...but I digress).  And then you get all of this fussing and bothering about "holiday trees" and "happy holidays" and whether or not a menorah and/or a nativity scene should be seen together on the courthouse lawn.

On the other hand, you have Canada which makes no such grandiose "Christian Nation" claims, though many folks here are real or nominal Christians.  However, basically everyone says "Merry Christmas" and light-decorated trees are called Christmas Trees (because, as people ask, "which other holiday has a tree?").  If you say "Merry Christmas", no one thinks that our proseletyzing.  If you say "Happy Holidays", no one automatically assumes that you're some sort of pinko.

So what's the deal?  I mean, we also have "separation of church and state"...likely to a degree great than the US.  But no one here (other than a few cranks) seems to fuss about it nearly as much.

Hank Rearden wrote:

(because, as people ask, "which other holiday has a tree?")

Ever hear of Arbor Day? Oh, of course not! I guess that's just an American holiday.

Hank Rearden wrote:

(other than a few cranks)

That's pretty much who gives a smurf in the U.S. about the whole "War on Xmas," too. Unfortunately the few cranks here have their own stupid TV shows.

The problem isn't due to cranky people objecting to "Merry Christmas"--it's the idiots like Bill O'Reilly who are objecting to stores like WalMart having their staff say "Happy Holidays." There are even certain conservative Christian pundits who are suspicious of Dubya (yes, the President!) for having "Happy Holidays" inside the White House Christmas cards (this is despite the fact that this year's cards have a quotation from Psalms printed above this). "Happy Holidays" has been in every Bush White House Christmas card so far, though I'll bet that the 2006 version will have "Merry Christmas," and those same pundits will proclaim victory.

Of course if anyone were to wish me "Merry Christmas," I would reply:

Merry Christmas!  Out upon merry Christmas!  What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?  If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Bah, humbug!

D'Eyncourt wrote:

The problem isn't due to cranky people objecting to "Merry Christmas"--it's the idiots like Bill O'Reilly who are objecting to stores like WalMart having their staff say "Happy Holidays."

Well - it is cultural tradition to say "Merry Christmas".
When I was in public school - it was called "Christmas Break" etc.

Why is it that wallmart is saying "Happy Hollidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"?
It's because of a minority of PC people getting upset over it and complaining thus pissing on the tradition of Americans - religious and non religious alike.

I can't remember a year in which there wasn't a lot of stuff stolen from public nativity scenes.

resedit wrote:

Why is it that wallmart is saying "Happy Hollidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"?
It's because of a minority of PC people getting upset over it and complaining thus pissing on the tradition of Americans - religious and non religious alike.

Why do you hate the Jews?

resedit wrote:

D'Eyncourt wrote:

The problem isn't due to cranky people objecting to "Merry Christmas"--it's the idiots like Bill O'Reilly who are objecting to stores like WalMart having their staff say "Happy Holidays."

Well - it is cultural tradition to say "Merry Christmas".
When I was in public school - it was called "Christmas Break" etc.

Why is it that wallmart is saying "Happy Hollidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"?
It's because of a minority of PC people getting upset over it and complaining thus pissing on the tradition of Americans - religious and non religious alike.

Cultural tradition, eh ?  Like banning interracial marriage ?  Like keeping women from voting ?

If someone's tradition depends on corporations to stay strong and valid, that's some pretty feeble tradition.  If WalMart, and radio stations, and teachers say "Happy Holidays"...does that stop you from celebrating the Jesus's birthday ?


Since this is the WoC thread...did anyone see Kristof's challenge to O'Reilly?  Kristof apparently said something to the effect of "War on Christmas ?  Come to Darfur with me, I'll show you war, you dumbass."

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wellfleation wrote:

Yuppie scum!

"'Tis the season to shut the smurf up and stop being a whiney bitch!"