To hate the now common usage of "santa"

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Just this really. Santa is a vulgar Americanism.

What was wrong with father Christmas ffs.

Snottyness if rife on here ,,

It’s Father Christmas. Santa is awful.

Yes indeed. How dare those people in Ireland and Scotland have their own names for things.

Judging from the majority of posts, it's a regional thing not a class thing and really, I couldn't get worked up about it. Surely not worth arguing about? Captain Christmas is very disappointed in you all lol.

He will be Captain Christmas forevermore in our house!

Yes, like so many great debates on MN, it's about regional variations. There's no definitive answer. Father Christmas sounds very posh to me. but that doesn't mean it's wrong.

I remember telling my kids to behave or Santa wouldn't come - maybe that makes me common in some people's eyes, but I won't lose any sleep over it.

I have to admit. In my head, Captain Christmas is a festive version of Capitan Flashhart. But I'm loving the idea of his cracker shaped rocket ship too.

It’s Father Christmas. Santa is awful.

Well that's you fucked for getting Christmas presents!

Santa sounds much jollier, and has remnants of the history of the whole legend or whatever you want to call it. Father Christmas sounds like you will receive a harsh judgment, grades and a standard pencil as a present. And you have to open gifts in turn and use standardised words to express appropriate level of gratitude.

@SchnitzelVonKrumm I know, right? Silly people who won't abandon their culture and traditions and take on those of people hundreds of miles away! They probably don't even go the evensong, following the Boxing Day hunt or pop into Fortnums for a hamper.

Remember that poster who got her kids to practice opening their gifts in a restrained manner?
I bet it was Father Christmas in that house...

I remember telling my kids to behave or Santa wouldn't come - maybe that makes me common in some people's eyes, but I won't lose any sleep over it

I shouldn't.

Seems the "snobbery" goes both ways. Father Christmas brought me plenty of good swag as a kid. I thought he was great
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People need to take their heads out of their insular rectums.

I hope in future some of you have grandchildren raised in foreign lands who scandalise and appall you with their Santa-ing.

It’s Father Christmas. Santa is awful

He speaks very highly of you

Always been Santa in my house and sometimes santie ! North east England here

In these here parts both are used interchangeably. Does anyone give a shit though really?

More importantly, whos going to set up the .gov petition to get it officially changed to captian Christmas? Shits all over Santa and FC

More importantly, whos going to set up the .gov petition to get it officially changed to captian Christmas

I'll sign

Right, let's all have a nice cup of and work this out, for Beardy's sake. He's a nice old man, he doesn't want us to argue. He doesn't want a decree to go out across the land that dictates he must be known as Santa Christmas, or Father Claus. He doesn't care if the mince pies you leave for him are from aldi or waitrose, or handmade in the aga and infused with clementine scented labrador hairs.

Right. Now let's get started on Kris Kringle.

Well. I must be going. I have to make a Father/Santa/Christmas/Claus sleigh to hang up for Yule. Q. Do I include Rudolph or is that too American?

Another one from NE England here. I'm nearly 50 and he's always been Santa / Santa Claus, although older women have always asked little children if they're looking forward to Santy coming, or asking what they want from Santy.

Can't think of a single song / advert / book or movie (apart from that one short and very English cartoon called Father Christmas) that refers to Father Christmas.

In Mr Snow (Mr Men), Father Christmas magicks Mr Snow to life.

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the arrival of Father Christmas signals that the reign of the White Witch is nearing an end.

Someone's already mentioned the E Nesbit books.

I bet there are many others...

JRR Tolkien wrote "Letters from Father Christmas."

Go to Amazon and search Father Christmas in Children's Books. There are loads.

Growing up, it was always fc. Sc was only ever heard on American films. My dc more often th as n not call him sc. It just sounds wrong to me - like garbage or faucet-cos it's not part of my idiolect.

Topsy and Tim meet Father Christmas is a thing.

Raymond Briggs and Terry Pratchett have books with Father Christmas in the title.