No, it is perfectly like christmas as it is actually done by you collectively. It may not be your religious christmas, but it’s not what we could care about.
But with click of your tongue and finger guns, right?
We also would have accepted “Merry BLUE Christmas” or “ALL masses are merry!”
Why can’t y’all be like Thailand and wish happiness for any excuse? We celebrate several Buddhist holidays AND Christmas. And Valentine’s Day. We celebrate no less than FOUR News Year’s holidays: one day in each of January and November (full moon) and three-day holidays in each of April and February (new moon, sometimes in late January).
We will not be celebrating Bush Mourning Day, however. December 5 is already a permanent holiday — the Birthday of King Bhumibol the Great,
This:
Or this:
I can’t agree with that. Just because you wanted to be pleasant and friendly to someone you interacted with doesn’t mean you want (or should want) to be be pleasant and friendly to someone who has bee deliberately unpleasant and unfriendly in return. You may have to be pleasant and friendly because of your job, but it’s hardly unreasonable to not want to continue be pleasant and friendly to someone who has behaved that way.
But it does diffuse an otherwise silly situation. Though I can see minimizing my contact with said person in future. They may take a Merry Christmas as leave to start a rant about the “War on Christmas”, and well who wants that?
Merry Birthaversary Day! Covers them all. I use this when I give some a present that is a) big, b) not at a typical gift time c) not someone I regularly give gifts
In the film rating sense of Xxxxx, “ho,ho, ho” is quite the appropriate response.
Well, that was sort of the implication, and I just couldn’t quite bring myself to go that far.
Why jerkish? Because–
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I am actually Christian and celebrate Christmas, and so I have no trouble wishing other people a merry Christmas, though I will typically only do so in a place like my church, where just about everybody celebrates Christmas, or among friends who I know celebrate it; and
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I generally think that people ought to be called what they want to be called, gendered what they want to be gendered, and wished the holidays that they wish to be wished.
So when I said “happy holidays” in a neutral setting to a woman I’d never met, and she harrumphed and tapped a very large button she was wearing that read (this is perfectly true) “It’s OK to Wish ME a Merry Christmas,” I certainly shouldn’t have had a moral objection of any kind to saying, “Oh, okay, and merry Christmas,” and moved on. But I found the whole thing super annoying and verging on assholish (a BUTTON? I mean, c’mon) and I couldn’t resist. I felt a little guilty afterward. (Not very though…)
“Christmas is one of the winter holidays, so take it as read that I wished you a happy Christmas.”
“Have a merry Christmas, happy Chanukah, kwazy Kwanza, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan.”
I’d go with “Cthulhu fhtagn!” or “Allah akbar!”
Always a crowd-pleaser.
This ^^^
When I worked in retail, I just continued to tell people to have a good day, even during the holidays. If they replied Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, whatever, then I responded, “Thanks, you too!”
“Jesus would not want anyone to speak his name in anger or use it as a cause for argument.”
For those suggesting Ramadan greetings, I’ll point out that it was over back in June and won’t come again until May.
That is this year. In a few more years we’ll be having January/December/November Ramadan
I always assume it’s Ramadan whenever my gf makes her incredible Ramadan soup. I’m wrong 99% of the time.
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose!
May an elephant caress you with his toes!
May your wife get great big runners in her hose!
And may the bird of paradise fly up your nose!