# It's "Merry Christmas," not "Happy Holidays."
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 2, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812 "2011-12-02T07:47:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/401 "2011-12-07T03:16:57Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> it’s ‘fail.’ ‘flail’ is what you guys used against jesus.
LOL. You think I’m Jewish. That’s fucking hilarious. And typical of people like you.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/402 "2011-12-07T03:19:24Z")
well, a simple correction sorts things out fast. so you’re not a jew. now i like you better. by that i mean you can now understand what i post.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/403 "2011-12-07T03:21:18Z")
> [@Lemur866](#):
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> Maybe I’m all wet, but I’ve got to imagine that a Hindu and a Jew are going to have different reactions toward Christmas. To Jews, not being Christian is kind of a big deal, what with the whole divine human being stuff, and the 2000 years being a minority religion, and this and that. Christ’s divinity is anathema to Judaism. Whereas to a Hindu it’s nothing special, there are dozens and dozens of divine incarnations in Hinduism. If Christians want to worshp their particular baby god, that’s their business.
I think that’s pretty well said. While Jews do assimilate well, we’d like to keep our own identity as well.
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### Author:  [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/404 "2011-12-07T03:21:46Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> well, a simple correction sorts things out fast. so you’re not a jew. now i like you better. by that i mean you can now understand what i post.
So, you dislike Jewish people, and think they are too stupid to understand your incomprehensible dribblings. Again, your true colors are showing, making the real meaning of your disingenuous OP crystal clear.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/405 "2011-12-07T03:22:04Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> but yid sounded funny though i didn’t really know what it meant. is it a short form for “yiddish?” that’s a language, right?
You do realize that even if we believed you, that would make you look really bad, right? Using words without knowing their meaning is a pretty idiotic thing to do, and something that effective communicators never do.
ETA: Holy cow, you really actually do hate Jews? I assumed you were trolling. I’ve only met a couple of anti-Semites in real life, and they were at least possessed of a sort of low cunning and knew to keep it pretty well hidden. I don’t know what to think. I wouldn’t have thought my opinion of you could drop any further, but there you go.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/406 "2011-12-07T03:22:21Z")
mac, your dogwhistle’s broken. It’s audible to humans now.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/407 "2011-12-07T03:22:32Z")
Well, I guess we won’t be seeing mac\_bolan around here anymore. It’s political correctness gone mad!
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/408 "2011-12-07T03:26:27Z")
Wait, before mac gets banned.
My wife had on a Christmas radio station today–24/7 Christmas music. And then when “Jingle Bells” and “Winter Wonderland” and “Frosty the Snowman” were played one after another, I imagined mac calling up the radio station sputtering mad. “Those aren’t Christmas songs, you fucking fucks! Those are winter songs! I demand a refund!”
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/409 "2011-12-07T03:31:07Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> While Jews do assimilate well, we’d like to keep our own identity as well.
Wait, there’s a Borg joke in there somewhere.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/410 "2011-12-07T03:34:48Z")
> [@Kolga](#):
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> So, you dislike Jewish people, and think they are too stupid to understand your incomprehensible dribblings. Again, your true colors are showing, making the real meaning of your disingenuous OP crystal clear.
for the life of me i never had any reason to dislike jews; the fact that i’ve never known one being the best non-reason. i’m somewhat financially secure so i don’t care about top-level conspiracy theories involving finance, economics, and politics. i’m indifferent to all these accusations of jew-instigated programs of racial mixing, or media intended to make young white girls lust for black athletes and celebrities. i smirk at germans who complain they have to apologize everytime a jew farts or coughs.
what made you say i dislike jews? did you mis-read my post again? tsk-tsk.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/411 "2011-12-07T03:39:06Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> what made you say i dislike jews? did you mis-read my post again? tsk-tsk.
Suicide by mod, is all I can think.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/412 "2011-12-07T03:40:39Z")
“all i can think.” 😃
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### Author:  [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/413 "2011-12-07T03:42:53Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#):
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> If so, I think we’ve solved it. The objection to “Happy Holidays” is that pineapple should never be cooked.
Au contraire, my friend. Grilled pineapple is NOM NOM NOM.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/414 "2011-12-07T03:43:00Z")
me banned? i don’t mind, really, as long as semi-humans can come up with valid reasons. reason with proof.
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### Author:  [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/415 "2011-12-07T03:48:03Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> me banned? i don’t mind, really, as long as semi-humans can come up with valid reasons. reason with proof.
The really cool thing (for us) about you being banned is that your feelings on the matter don’t count at all!
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### Author:  [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/416 "2011-12-07T03:49:10Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> what made you say i dislike jews?
This, you lying sack of trolling shit:
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> so you’re not a jew. now i like you better.
You might want to try Stormfront. They seem to be more your type of people.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/417 "2011-12-07T03:52:26Z")
HA!HA! what’s that, a media distortion? are you disregarding the rest of the post?
and what is “Stormfront,” a weather site?
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/418 "2011-12-07T03:54:29Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> Wait, there’s a Borg joke in there somewhere.
Lol!!!
Can I be 7 of 9 if I have to assimilate? I’d be willing to be a 6 or 3 if that’s all that was open.
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### Author:  [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/419 "2011-12-07T03:54:43Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#):
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> and what is “Stormfront,” a weather site?
Look 'em up. You’ll fit right in.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-merry-christmas-not-happy-holidays/604812/420 "2011-12-07T04:01:10Z")
my WAN here in the office bans a number of sites. stormfront is classified as a hate site. what is it, a message board whose members all have nicks that end with 00?
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