Who are people who find Christmas offensive

In what way specifically?

And some people create mayhem by saying things that they don't care are true or not.🙄

Yes I don’t mind if all religions are treated equal in how they are celebrated but I do feel in some ways the higher powers are minimising Christian beliefs but they absolutely would not dare attempt to minimise others.

I feel a proper Lenten Advent Calendar would involve various non treats / small sufferings. A sachet of fish oil, or stale bread crumbs, or kale; perhaps a small demand for charitable giving. Maybe a guilt evoking picture of a lamb called Mint Sauce and a recipe for a vegetarian Sunday Roast. Like church in a cardboard chapel.

Yes, Khan has made certain to erase any mention of Christmas from Oxford Street. There's not even a mention of the C word on the Oxford Street website. It is a disgrace.

You think the government made an unnamed School make a Winter biscuit in November?

It was a friend of mine who was temping at the school. I don’t care if it’s true or not, my point is that people like to cause mayhem by saying things that may offend

‘Muslim mayor stamping his culture on the capital’, get outta here ya bampot, away for your egg and chips

I expect telling you would be outing 🤣

But do they change the events? Rather than having a winter/holiday element to the naming?
Because just changing the name doesn’t stop anyone enjoying the celebrations.

hear of a local school not making Christmas biscuit this year in H.E they made winter biscuit instead lol as to not offend any religions

Where did you hear about this? I am only asking because there is a lot of made up nonsense posted on FB, Next Door, X and the like.

I think our government think an idea up then try to run with it to cause mayhem. Although I do hear of a local school not making Christmas biscuit this year in H.E they made winter biscuit instead lol as to not offend any religions. Sometimes I wonder if we all try to pussyfoot around everyone else too much. Christmas should be celebrated freely to whomever wishes to celebrate it, in what every way they chooose. Those that may get offended should just think of it as a celebration they don’t participate in and move on rather than cause a racket. Plenty of things could ‘0ffened’ me but the world doesn’t revolve around me so I let people have their moments and I get on with my own life.

To take just one of your examples - Sainsbury’s have their own (plus loads of other) advent calendars.
And if a company is using an alternative word why assume it’s because they think someone will be offended? That’s the bit I don’t get. What if they just want to make their product attractive to a wiser group of people? The only offended ones around seem to be those making up the banning of the word Christmas to offend themselves.

Maybe these folk need to hijack another festival and have a month to let rip with traditions like going round after dark yelling at street lamps, eating Proper English Egg and Chips with glitter on and giving presents like black nylon socks while declaring ‘it was good enough in my day ya snowflake’.

Not many people do much with Imbolc in England and the weather’s still pretty gloomy then too.

No-that’s Lent.

I was going to say this. This was on Christmas cards when I was a child in the 60s.

84 of them to be exact. I counted. All sold as.... Christmas Trees!

If Lent was rebranded from a time of sacrifice into a time of 40 mini eggs, sign me up, I’m in. Where’s that marketing maven who posted previously? Get them on it!

I don't know @BMW6 , just looking back over this thread there are quite a few believers of this baloney

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@GuyForksAndKnives

I've seen Halloween advent calendars. They're clearly a countdown to an event. I've not yet seen an Easter one but it wouldn't surprise me if chocolate companies didn't create one stuffed with mini eggs.

Isn't that Lent?

@CatchyShyCat

How is this racism? Is there a specific skin colour that doesn’t do Christmas? The whole debate is about ‘woke’ and pandering to a tiny minority of people, who probably aren’t even from ethnic minority backgrounds.

I think it’s disingenuous to claim there’s no racist element here. The right-wing media outrage over imagined “cultural appropriation” of supposedly British traditions is clearly manufactured. The same outlets that throw around the word “woke” are driving it, and people with similar views are buying into it.

Four pages in and there’s still no evidence that the word “Christmas” has ever been banned. To include Christmas within a broader “winter” theme - especially while still using the word Christmas elsewhere - isn’t banning it or replacing it.

All meats other than turkey or goose should also be removed.

Vegetarians can be allowed their nut roasts but meat eaters have no excuse for eating anything other than those two.

I live in Bradford too and I agree with you.