OT: 45th Obsequious Banter Thread - Jody Shelley is truly a Superstar..
 

Continue on.

Wooo!

did Shelley score while i was offline or something ??

Should we quickly scratch this thread and move onto the 46th thread

Moves like Marshall

or The Most Interesting Thread in the World's Brother.

Kablargage.

first page in a thread of glory and dreams

Hey, he got Chara off the ice for 5 min the other day.

Damn, Chara is 6'9" - not someone i'd wanna pick a fight with...

Id fight him if i was wearing stilts

I'd throw down with him :naughty:

Asham should get some love in here too.

OT - Happy Holidays?
 

I'm a Brit, so this is a term that's confused me for a while. Why is it that you all say 'Happy Holidays' rather than 'Merry Christmas'?

Because its politically correct. Not everyone in the US celebrates Christmas.

Yea there is Quanza and Hanakkuh that fall around the same time as Christmas. So we are politically correct like the post above said and just say happy Holidays! Greatest time of the year!

That makes little sense. It's not as though you're saying 'Happy Christmas and every other religious event sucks balls'.

The second post regarding Quanza and Hanukkah makes more sense, especially why we don't have it here. I literally have no idea what the first one is and there isn't a huge Jewish community in my part of the world.

IMO it has more to do with Hanukkah.

I don't care if a stranger wishes me a happy holidays; after all, for all they know I might be Jewish. But when a friend does it bothers me a little. They should know which holiday I celebrate.

Edit: "Political Correctness" is a big deal in the US. There's a drive to accept all cultures and never do or say anything to make anybody anywhere uncomfortable. I understand where it comes from, but it gets taken too far at times.

Not saying I agree with it, but that's how it is here. Everyone is afraid to say anything that is not politically correct.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! :yo:

I'm rushing right home and changing my Christmas cards to this. Thanks, 1865!

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I think the biggest thing is Hanukkah (Chanukah? How the hell do you spell that anyway?), especially around here (Newton/Brookline have very large Jewish populations). And I think it's more a matter of companies saying "We want EVERYONE'S money", rather than "Oh, don't offend the <insert group here>."

Actually, looking up the "Happy Holidays" song on wikipedia indicates it dates to a 1942 Bing Crosby movie (Holiday Inn), and was sung in the movie on New Year's day. It was intended to cover multiple holidays throughout the year, so thus "Happy Holidays". :teach2: So it appears it didn't start out politically correct, and has been adapted over the years as we've accepted the fact that Jews and black people are humans too in this country. :D

And it's not like anyone could say the 1940s were exactly politically correct.

Bingo. Couldn't have said it better myself, word for word

I couldn't find the video game thread so I figured it'd work here. Does anyone here play OnLive?

Not sure where else to post this but I am cracking up at this. Friend of mine just sent it to me:

Oh, we've got political correctness here too, that and the health and safety brigade are making everything difficult.

Just all a bit silly. I'm not religious at all but it's all such an effort to keep everyone happy. It's such a big thing nowadays that it's a little unreasonable to get wound up about.

Merry Winter Solstice eve! May the re-birth of our Son Sun bring warmth to everyone!