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When will the USA stop celebrating Christmas?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by reggietodd, Nov 18, 2005.

  1. mc mark

    mc mark Member

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    and don't forget...

    Macy's Parade
    Apple Picking
    Raking leaves
    Pumpkin pie
    FOOTBALL
    Starting that first fire of the season in the fireplace
    Pulling out the Christmas Decorations

    Thanksgiving ROCKS!!!!
     
  2. reggietodd

    reggietodd Contributing Member

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    Sears, Kohls, Toys R Us, and Walmart are not allowing their employees to say Merry Christmas to customers.
     
  3. MadMax

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    been that way at most places for a long time. they tell them to say happy holidays. because those places are concerned MOST with making money and not offending customers who don't celebrate christmas. if someone said happy hannukah to me in a store i'd be like..."ummmm...yeah.....thanks?" i wouldn't be offended, but i'm sure someone would...so why cause the problem?

    Sears, Toys R Us, Kohls and WalMart aren't exactly the last bastions of Christendom.
     
  4. MR. MEOWGI

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    Halloween is the best holiday damn it.
     
  5. robbie380

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    i thought i saw something about some christain group that said they would boycott walmart if they didn't put up merry christmas with their signage and walmart decided to cave, redo their signs, and put up merry christmas instead of happy holidays.

    that being said...christmas is already whored out like no tomorrow. it's hardly about the birth of jesus of much of america. you should be in more of a rage over how christmas has been so commercialized rather than people simply saying happy holidays. remember....something like 25% of america is non-christian.
     
  6. A-Train

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    Just rename it "debt day"...
     
  7. Colt45

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    YEAH, it does!
     
  8. Blatz

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    plus Thanksgiving is the day before Black Friday

    I love it
     
  9. VooDooPope

    VooDooPope Love > Hate

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    I agree.
     
  10. Rashmon

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    We could always go back to celebrating Saturnalia.
     
  11. Zac D

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    This thread makes me giggle.
     
  12. topfive

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    Yeah, I'll bet Walmart wants to do away with Christmas altogether. They don't want all the money they make off the crass commercialism that comes along with Christmas in this country. :rolleyes:

    Reggietodd, instead of just listening to AM radio for all your info, try doing some thinking of your own. Does THIS look to you like Walmart is trying to get rid of Christmas? Walmart is selling almost *8000* products with the word "Christmas" in them!

    Oy.
     
  13. rhester

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    I love Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, 4th of July, Apple Pie, American flags, Star Spangled Banner, Pledge of Allegiance, good manners and Amazing Grace.
    :)
     
  14. RocketMan Tex

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    The best holiday of the year is Saint Swithom's Day.
     
  15. mc mark

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    Do Jews have saints?

    :eek: ;)
     
  16. RocketMan Tex

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    Naw...Saint Swithom's Day is non-denominational, can occur on any day of the year, and is highlighted by raucous celebration and mind-numbing inebriation.

    I celebrate it at least once a week.

    :D
     
  17. mc mark

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    AH!!! Like this Guy!

    [​IMG]
     
  18. Mulder

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    When you run a large business that caters to many different tyoes of people you have to temper what you say sometimes. Businesses say "Happy Holidays" instead of Merry Christmas so that they don't alienate non-Christians. Why is that so difficult to understand? Would you walk up to a person that you knew was Jewish or Buddhist or Atheist and say Happy Easter? Of course not. Why is this any different?
     
  19. FranchiseBlade

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    The whole wal-mart Merry Christmas thing is silly. How does that hurt Christianity or Christmas becasue a store says happy holidays instead of Merry Chrstmas?

    Are either going to cease to exist?

    I love Christmas. I love the whole feeling that surrounds it. I get excited after Thanksgiving. I look for gifts to give and it is awesome when you find the perfect gift for someone. I know I will be seeing family and friends that I haven't seen for a long time.

    I enjoy some of the old Christmas programs that will be on television, like "It's a Wonderful Life", "Never Say Goodbye," "A Christmas Story,"

    I won't be working, we always have a great breakfast with blue berry muffins, OJ, homemade doughnuts, biscuits, etc. I wake up and it smells great. I will play the Kinks song "Father Christmas".

    It's good stuff.

    On the other hand I know lots of people who hate Christmas. Their families are usually at fault. One friend's mom made him help wrap all the gifts, including his own, on Christmas eve even when he was in first grade. So the next day there was no surprise about what he was getting, the whole Santa Claus thing was ruined, etc. His mom also never really appreciated any of the gifts he got her.

    He doesn't really enjoy Christmas. My own wife gets depressed around Christmas time. To her it comes from stress that her parents always felt at the time. They went through all the motions when she was a child, but her parents didn't make a big deal of anything, would get stressed about making a mess, didn't plan that much for what it would be like, etc.

    For me it has always been huge and I love it. Last year I was in Houston for the snow on Christmas Eve. That was really something special to see.
     
  20. Mr. Brightside

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    All Holidays suck. People should be working all the time, except maybe for Sunday . Slackers.
     

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