I personally saw a woman a few weeks ago at the Starbucks near my office make a big deal out of asking for an extra cup and asking to borrow their Sharpie. She then wrote “Merry Christmas!!!” on her extra cup, and gave them the Sharpie back. I assumed she would just use her now apparently “blessed” cup as an outer cup, but no…she poured her coffee into the Christmas-tized cup, and left her old unadorned one sitting there on the counter.
I felt persecuted because I had to watch this pompous bitch make her little statement, and she was also blocking my reach for the Sugar In The Raw packets.
“I need three of those packets, you uptight bitch!”
Use those elbows in the classic Christmas shopping spirit. “Oops, I’m sorry your coffee’s all over your shirt; you shoulda held on better.” Then grab those raw sugars; you *deserve *'em.
I’m being persecuted by all of the emotionally manipulative commercials telling me that my husband doesn’t really love me unless he buys me diamonds. This year, the SOB needs to come across with at least a few rocks, or I’m gonna divorce his sorry, worthless, non-diamond-giving ass.*
*just kidding. I don’t give a fat fuck one way or the other about jewelry.
As we listened to the elementary school chorus sing “We Wish You a Swingin’ Holiday” to the tune of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas,” this being the closest it got to a Christmas-like song during the winter concert, I overheard a teacher say, “This wouldn’t happen in Texas.”
**Robyn **- what about a shiny new car with a big-ass red bow on top? Would that be sufficient proof of his adoration?
I’m with you on the diamonds, or any jewelry, for that matter, and luckily my spousal unit knows it. The most recent bit of jewelry he gave me was a very pretty watch that was also pretty worthless because even with my glasses, I could barely read the dial. So I took it back and got myself a digital camera instead. And I wear a $12 watch with big numbers on a big face.
Me? No. I don’t joke about supposed persecution in a War on Christmas in the west.
A former colleague of mine is from Nigeria and she would not tolerate the BS claims of persecution for being told Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas when there was Boko Haramfire bombing churches in her hometown and around northern Nigeria. Several years in a row. THAT is persecution.
Please don’t bring the real world into discussions of “first world problems”. It’s *such a buzzkill.
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Just in case it isn’t clear, I’m being sarcastic. I support Iggy’s POV over silly whines like that which prompted this thread poking fun at silly whiners.
I am as an atheist being persecuted by all the people that believe the son of a Israelite carpenter is the incarnate flesh of El or Yahweh or what ever Eneolithic Semitic sky daddy they worship . Is some thing i should bow down to, because he was nailed to a stick by Pontius Pilate at the egging on of Sanhedrin.
I’ve hated that song for over 30 years, ever since I was forced to sing it in 4th grade, pounding on a goddamned coffee can while Mrs. O’Brien grumbled at our class for being off the beat. I’m ambivalent about most Christmas music, but… that song. Gah!!
I have a cousin - let’s just call her “stupid”. Stupid is lazy, entitled, and sits at home all day watching Fox News. She dutifully absorbs the inane rhetoric, and reaches firm conclusions without having any actual facts to back them up.
At one point, before I unfriended Stupid on Facebook, she complained about how “you aren’t allowed to say Merry Christmas anymore”. I replied that this was a myth. Her rejoinder was along the lines of, “If you don’t know what’s going on, then you aren’t paying attention.”
So, there are people out there who do genuinely believe that Christmas is under attack (if they are like my cousin, they are also the people who believe that lazy and poor minorities voted for the President because he gives them free stuff, notwithstanding their own efforts to get on permanent disability). I guess recognizing that there are people in this country who don’t celebrate Christmas is some sort of anti-Christian bigotry.
I think this arises because they live in small isolated locales where they never encounter anyone who doesn’t think or believe like they do, and so they assume that everyone everywhere is just as homogenous as them. It’s the same small mindedness that enables a person to hate all Muslims and assume that every one of them is a terrorist (since they’ve never met one, and can’t fathom that Kareem Abdul Jabbar or Muhammed Ali aren’t Christians).
Airman has given me exactly three pieces of jewelry - or four, if you count the pearl necklace I bought myself as a graduation gift from him because he was deployed and not around to do it himself. I’m okay with that.
I’m also very okay with the idea of waking up to a new car because mine has a bad transmission. It’s not avarice, it’s practicality.
The really sad thing is, there really is a war being waged on Christmas, and it’s mostly being waged by those who complain most loudly about it. See, for instance, the recent to-do about Starbucks’ cups: People were complaining about them removing such symbols as snowflakes and reindeer from the cups. The Christmas they’re fighting to defend, in other words, is the one symbolized by snowflakes and reindeer. If they were complaining about a lack of nativity scenes on the cups, they’d at least be practicing what they preach. snip
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Yup, I’m a victim of this supposed “war on Christmas”, collateral damage if you will, from a formless entity who I will never know whether or not they were “trying to liberate me” or trying to oppress me.
