To show you these horrendous Christmas cards

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I actually find them quite offensive!

They’re as naff as heck and will probably sell out with all the “I love a gin, me” boring types who use this as their only USP but they’re not offensive.

Naff but not offensive.

Kind of want the gin one so naff and tacky, I love it!

My eyes! My eyes!

people get offended way to easily over the most rediculous things.
Why not just stay home, and never use the internet because if this offends you then a lot of things must.

Get a grip ffs

You must spend most of your life being offended, OP.

for SOME people, Christmas retains it's original message

That original message being the midwinter festival to celebrate the days starting to get longer again, when you kill the animals who wouldn't last the winter and have a big party?

Or do you mean the birth of the baby Jesus? Can you point me to the evidence showing that he was born in December? Hah, people complaining that their so-called Christmas which is just commandeered from the pagans is now being commandeered by the new pagans? Oh the irony.

Yeah not offensive but I hate these alcohol "sayings" - same with the plaques / signs people put up in their houses like wine o'clock. But then again I have issues with alcohol so the issue is with me!

I'm a Christian, but I do not find these anymore offensive than cards with Santa and elves on it. Which is to say not offensive at all.

They could be offensive if sent to someone with a known issue with alcohol.

Not what I'd choose if I had to send a card to a recovering alcoholic but it could be worse

Neck-o the Christmas prosecco. Noice.

Not something I would buy but I’m not offended. If I was given one I wouldn’t think anything much of it or the giver tbh. I’m not religious and similarly don’t get offended or judge if I receive a religious themed card.

Now if it has a penguin on, that’s perfect. I love penguins. Each to their own, not something to be offended by, unless it’s sweary as I don’t find that very amusing around the kids.

The early Christians didn’t celebrate Christmas in any case. They only started to do this when the pagans wouldn’t give up their winter festivals. I wouldn’t give these cards to an alcoholic or devout Christian but they’re not offensive. You’re being daft, OP.

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Personally they are bad taste but bad alcohol related greetings cards are everywhere unfortunately.

OP, I’m a regular churchgoer who sent my minister a wildly offensive Christmas card last year for fun and she hooted with laughter and showed it to her friends and fellow ministers from other churches!
(Little cartoon man reacting with fury to an invitation for a mince pie at the neighbours, shouting “I’ve already got a fucking mince pie!”)
I knew that by the end of Advent she’d be frazzled with exhaustion and sick to the teeth with endless mince pie socials!
Offence is in the eye of the beholder to a great extent.
My rule of thumb is that it has to be funny and not bullying or insulting. I think the ones in your picture aren’t very funny, but I don’t think they need banned.
A lot of people who celebrate Christmas aren’t actually Christians- they’re just celebrating the winter solstice, or time off work, or whatever. If they want to send rather dull alcohol related cards to each other, that’s up to them, I feel.
I think I’d be rather more concerned at cards deliberately mocking Christ, like the Greggs sausage roll in a manger advert, which was in very bad taste. I doubt they’d have done that with an Islamic subject.

Certainly not to everyone’s taste. God help you in the event you actually see something offensive.

Tiresome, yes.

Offensive, no.

All this Prosecco and Gin obsession you see in gifty shops is a bit sad. It sits among those fake 50s cards with some prissy becardiganed woman telling her husband to feck off, she is busy getting pissed. All a bit tired now, the joke has worn off, and patronising to women in general (who they assume buy all the cards and gifts).

But not as bad as a card my mom saw: 'From My Dog to Your Dog'.

You should write to your MP because this is outrageous!!!!

I’m not religious so Christmas isn’t about that for me
However, while I’m not offended by those cards it does annoy me when “ let’s get drunk since it’s Christmas “ seems to be the message everywhere
I do like an occasional drink and don’t judge people who might drink a bit more that I would but we do have a real problem with anti social behaviour due to excess drinking in this country and we are actually known for it.
I was discussing this with a Spanish friend recently and we discovered that in Spanish there are no “positive” words for being drunk and accusing someone of drinking too much would not be a compliment like it seems to be here. Calling someone a pisshead or alkie would be seen as funny to a lot of people when it’s really not if you think about it.
I think that cards like that reflect the awful attitude to alcohol we have in this country, I can’t imagine seeing anything similar in other countries

Not offensive, but it could be argued that it highlights Britain's largely dysfunctional attitude to alcohol. And perhaps goes some way to explaining it too.

I tried to buy a birthday card for a friend who is a recovering alcoholic the other day. Was reduced to buying a very un-her flowery offering because it was the only one that didn't make reference to getting pissed.

X-post Hopping. You said it better!

Cheap and nasty but hardly offensive.

Why is that offensive? It’s a Pagan Winter Festival that Christians hijacked. Now THAT’S offensive, but hey ho, the more the merrier, but not to the point where anything non religious is ‘offensive’.

Rather sad and trying too hard and just jumping on the 'all women think about is wine, gin and prosecco' bandwaggon. Yawn. But offensive? Hardly.

About 75% of Xmas cards dont have anything to do with the nativity, are they offensive?

Nobody has to buy them if they dont want to.

Aaaah, how nice to see so many of you upholding the modern tradition of being an officious, self-righteous, meddling fucking whinyarse at Christmas.

Honestly, those cards are not at all offensive (I treasure the one I got a while back that says Merry Christmas You Absolute Cunt). They may not be relevant or appropriate for everyone, but neither are the ones with specifically Christian iconography.

And, if you don't want people to think you are a clueless gammon, don't try insisting that Christmas is a Christian festival. 'Christmas' is just one of the current names for midwinter celebrations, and the newborn-deity myths just got bolted on to the feasting/decorating/lighting up trappings of the rest of it.