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Why is everyone referring to "Santa"

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WinWinnieTheWay · 08/12/2020 20:30

DH and I (from different UK countries and different social class) were both brought up with Father Christmas. Why are so many people calling FC "Santa" these days? Is it just the impact of American culture? Each to their own, but I don't like it.

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WinWinnieTheWay · 09/12/2020 18:03

@VanityWitch

I did bring up class, but I didn't say which. Only that we of different social class and different areas.

Get ready for this....

We are Not Southern
We are Not Landed Gentry

One of us is working class. You have projected a lot onto me from the little that was posted. Obviously I have touched a nerve and you have a chip on your shoulder about something.

I have enjoyed the more balanced responses from other posters and have learned a bit too.

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Audreyseyebrows · 09/12/2020 18:06

@jerometheturnipking I would never be a dick, especially not to the man in the red suit.

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 09/12/2020 18:07

And what have you learned @WinWinnieTheWay?

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WinWinnieTheWay · 09/12/2020 18:08

That some people can take offence at almost anything!

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ImNotMeImSomeoneElse · 09/12/2020 18:11

After 26 pages, op, that is all you have taken from this thread?

How very disappointing.

VanityWitch · 09/12/2020 18:12

@WinWinnieTheWay

*@VanityWitch*

I did bring up class, but I didn't say which. Only that we of different social class and different areas.

Get ready for this....

We are Not Southern
We are Not Landed Gentry

One of us is working class. You have projected a lot onto me from the little that was posted. Obviously I have touched a nerve and you have a chip on your shoulder about something.

I have enjoyed the more balanced responses from other posters and have learned a bit too.

What are you on about? Honestly, I have found this thread completely inoffensive and amusing! But, thanks for that bombshell. You sure showed me Xmas HmmXmas Grin.
Peppafrig · 09/12/2020 18:13

@WinWinnieTheWay

That some people can take offence at almost anything!
Yes and apparently someone people take offense to people calling Santa his name so much so they start threads about it .
AccidentallyOnPurpose · 09/12/2020 18:24

@WinWinnieTheWay

That some people can take offence at almost anything!
Seriously?

Tbh I shouldn't be surprised , this thread was never about learning or broadening horizons. It was about whinging and "americanisms"

LadyEloise · 09/12/2020 18:28

Santa Claus - San Nioclás - Irish version.
St Nicholas bringer of gifts.

We always use Santa (or occasionally Santa Claus ) though I do remember my parents saying Santy.
Living in Ireland all my life.

midnightstar66 · 09/12/2020 18:38

Also totally unoffended but hugely amused by the twists and turns this thread has taken.

VanityWitch · 09/12/2020 18:40

Tbh I shouldn't be surprised , this thread was never about learning or broadening horizons. It was about whinging and "americanisms"

Ah now! It's practically the law that we have to have this thread every year. Someone starts a thread because they "just don't like the word Santa" for some reason they can't put their finger on..., chaos ensues and then we all have a nice mince pie!

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 09/12/2020 18:50

@VanityWitch

Tbh I shouldn't be surprised , this thread was never about learning or broadening horizons. It was about whinging and "americanisms"

Ah now! It's practically the law that we have to have this thread every year. Someone starts a thread because they "just don't like the word Santa" for some reason they can't put their finger on..., chaos ensues and then we all have a nice mince pie!

I know but I'm fairly cranky and short on patience at the moment. The faux naïveté makes my eye (and fingers on the keyboardGrin) twitch.
VanityWitch · 09/12/2020 18:54

😂😂😂😂😂

It's been a belter!

Sorry you're feeling cranky accident. Mince pie?

NameChange84 · 09/12/2020 18:54

Never met anyone that said Father Christmas! It’s always been Santa for me.
I’m not English but live in England.

ProudAuntie76 · 09/12/2020 18:57

Can’t be bothered to read the entire thread so might have been mentioned, but we are religious... Santa Claus is a translation of Saint Nicholas.

Father Christmas? Who’s he? The Father of Christmas? The Father of the birth of Christ? God? Nope.

Sticking to Santa Claus here, thanks.

ImNotMeImSomeoneElse · 09/12/2020 19:02

@ProudAuntie76 interesting - what specific brand of religious are you? There's someone with a theory about Santa Claus and Father Christmas being linked to Protestant/Catholic. But I won't say which is linked to which at this point!

ProudAuntie76 · 09/12/2020 19:06

[quote ImNotMeImSomeoneElse]@ProudAuntie76 interesting - what specific brand of religious are you? There's someone with a theory about Santa Claus and Father Christmas being linked to Protestant/Catholic. But I won't say which is linked to which at this point![/quote]
Catholic

VanityWitch · 09/12/2020 19:10

Oh interesting... yes, that is the 'side' my NI family are from. Although I was never baptised myself.

ImNotMeImSomeoneElse · 09/12/2020 19:11

Well that would fit the theory then.

MacDuffsMuff · 09/12/2020 19:13

Each to their own, but I don't like it.

Oh well, we must all stop saying it immediately. Grin

I'm Scottish and it's always been Santa to me, was to my parents, grandparents etc. There's a thread like this every single year and the responses are always the same too.

NuniaBeeswax · 09/12/2020 19:52

"I have enjoyed the more balanced responses from other posters and have learned a bit too."

I think you got exactly what you wanted out of this thread.

CherryPavlova · 09/12/2020 19:59

[quote ImNotMeImSomeoneElse]@ProudAuntie76 interesting - what specific brand of religious are you? There's someone with a theory about Santa Claus and Father Christmas being linked to Protestant/Catholic. But I won't say which is linked to which at this point![/quote]
Catholic and Father Christmas in our house.

MillieEpple · 09/12/2020 20:10

Father Christmas and Santa Claus are different people who have sort of merged into one. Father christmas more pagan in origin. St Nic being St Nic.

Peppafrig · 09/12/2020 20:16

@ImNotMeImSomeoneElse if your theory is only Catholics call him Santa then you are sadly mistaken.

ImnotCarolineHirons · 09/12/2020 20:43

@leflic my dad who is now in his 80s remembers his parents (born in the 1890s) and all his family aunts cousins etc saying Santa.
Never ever Father Christmas.
And his early magical Christmas' were pre WW2.
So this proud Scot will happily "bleat" that it's not a new American thing at all.