Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.
Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.
That whole debate is one of the dumbest things to come out of America.
The rest of the world doesn’t worry about it, because Christmas is like 90% secular. The Christians do their thing today, and leave the rest of us to celebrate Christmas with friends and family and too many cold cuts of meat. You can say happy holidays and nobody’s gonna get upset, but even as a non-Christian I’m more likely to wish you a merry Christmas.
(The poms and their “happy Christmas” are weird though. Just sounds wrong.)
In Danish you don’t even have a way of saying “happy holidays”. It’s just “glædelig jul”.
And ‘jul’ comes from the nordic word ‘yule’ which means Christmas before religion high jacked it.
Yule is much older than Christmas, dating back to the viking age. And they have similar traditions.
FYI, the majority of Americans don’t give a shit either and think it’s embarrassingly stupid.
The whole thing is tilting at windmills. Nobody gives a shit what you say but they want to fight this supposed force out there trying to control what people say. It doesn’t exist in a way where it will ever matter.
It just proves you can convince conservatives to be angry and scared about literally anything.
As a Brit I’ve never heard happy Christmas. It’s always merry Christmas. Then it’s happy new year.
Isn’t that famous John Lennon song called, “Happy Christmas (War is Over)”?
He was a Brit if I’m not mistaken.
It’s widespread
Must be regional. Definitely not a thing in the southeast.
My dad’s from lincs my mom’s frum brum and they’ve always said it so it’s definitely midlands
Non native English speaker here. What’s a pom?
It’s slang for “English person”.
Most people would probably tell you it comes from “Prisoner of Mother England”, but this appears to be a folk etymology, and it actually is rhyming slang for “immigrant” via “pomegranate”, referencing “the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red”.
As a slang term, it’s chiefly used in Australia and New Zealand.
Fyi, “happy Christmas” is just the normal phrasing in the UK. “Merry Christmas” didn’t start to spread until A Christmas Carol was published.
Will you be going on holiday?