To prefer Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays!

[kittya]

Its too American isnt it? Its just something my friend told me about her workplace, that they arent allowed to send Happy Christmas cards to clients anymore but, Happy Holidays.

Maybe I just need to move with the times

I haven't come across these radical, progressive ideas before. Do they appear in the Labour thinktank report?

You did.

& it was amply explained then, that 'Winterval' was a marketing term designed, basically, to cover 'all the stuff we're doing in November & December, kicking off with Diwali, going on to Children in Need, Christmas, New Year, Chinese New Year'

What exactly is wrong with that?

I grew up in Brum. Chinese New Year was always fabulous.

But most Brummies will have been celebrating Xmas - if not by church-going.

You'd be better heckling the CofE - if you want a proper religious Xmas for the whole of the UK. Somehow, they don't seem to be winning many bums on pews.

I don't want 'a proper religious Xmas for the whole of the UK'. I just don't want to see Christmas downplayed by the PC brigade.

I have found some more evidence of the promotion of winterval

www.dailyquail.org/2008/11/oxford-bans-christmas-forces-residents.html

Aaaargh! I have so been had!

Sorry for being so slow.

Had by the progressives. Yes we were all had by them. But now they're out of power.

Good night and Merry Christmas.

Your link, you wally.

I was assuming it was you acknowledging a nice bit of trolling. But if not - do, please, take another look at it!

Good night & I hope you're enjoying the Brumalia.

I will look up the meaning of Brumalia in the Labour thinktank document. Will it be near winterval?

A little more archaic even than your 'think tank' references.

You may need to brace yourself for the rigours of wikipedia.

Natalem Hilarem et Annum Faustum

That will escape the PC brigade's radar as they have received a dumbed down education under the Labour years.

Not the ones I teach Latin to (state comprehensive), they haven't.

They could even sing you a rousing 'Adeste Fideles'.

Their English teaching has been utterly transformed for the better under Labour - I grew up in a Tory administration, & the only reason I have any grasp of English grammar is through Latin.

But you can still wish Merry Christmas to whomever you like, in the language of your choice.

Still waiting for an example of Xmas being undermined.

'Their English teaching has been utterly transformed for the better under Labour'

I know this is the festive season, but have you started early on the wine?

Gove will transform education, while Pickles wages war against winterval.

More examples of Christmas being undermined tomorrow, on top of the ones I have already given. Good night.

2:34am isn't actually 'early' for wine drinking - unless you're considerably more hardcore than me, it's 'very late'!

Gove's 'transformation' of education is another thread. It appears, so far, to consist of having a lousy grasp of maths & upsetting lots of PE teachers.

His talents are probably needed to fight off Winterval, actually - poor Pickles can't do it alone! Honestly, we can spare him...

Would you like me to explain the difference between 'more' & 'some', btw?

There is a touching faith in, and sadly a corresponding fear of, gummint 'those from above' here.

Meanwhile, parents who don't care much will continue to send their children to school (good luck with the transformation of education, Michael Gove...) and people will do whatever it was that they were planning to do on December 25th.

A hung parliament is hardly evidence of a ringing endorsement of any particular party's platform, or a mahoosive rejection of any other party's allegedly progressive agenda.

"Meanwhile, parents who don't care much will continue to send their children to school "

And parents who do care will do what?

Just one day to a Merry Winterval!

Seeker I finally managed to find the official, just for you! [little red pointy floppy hat with a white fluffy pompom grinning emoticon]

I'm going to get a T shirt printed - Progressive and Proud!

Love the Utube - but it's scary to think that it will shortly become proof positive that Christmas really has been banned.

Thank you gorionine for finding proof positive.

'And parents who do care will do what?'
They will wish Eric Pickles luck.

Seeker, sorry I was a bit obtuse there meant 'as well as those who do care' twas to illustrate the futility of trying to reform education, while dealing with the same basic 'raw material'.

My Jewish friends of course celebrate Hanukkah at the time. Christmas is a reason to get together, just like a Friday night.