To think that only posh people say Father Christmas?!

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And everyone else says Santa?

I say Santa but my posh DH and all his family and posh friends say Father Christmas.

Anyone else noticed this? Or AIBU?

Another one here who thinks Santa is very American and wank.

We used to have Father Christmas statues that one had a green suit and one had a gold suit.

I assume it is more of an age / generation thing

Where? Not in Scotland or Northern Ireland, which you would know if you'd read the thread.

If you mean England, why not say so?

@SleighOfSparkliness no worries.

Always say Father Christmas but am surrounded here in Glasgow by folk saying Santa in their guttural accents dropping the 't'. Gives me the bloody rage.

"Another one here who thinks Santa is very American and wank."

There's definitely a wank on this thread and it's not anyone saying Santa.

Another one here who thinks Santa is very American and wank.

But if you've read the thread, you will realise that this is because you are under-informed.

We were bought up with Father Christmas, and my family is not in the slightest bit posh! I always thought Santa was the American used term, and my children call him Father Christmas too.

Yabu to use the term posh! I use Father Christmas, am highly educated and very proudly working class. I’ve been called posh all of my life and I loathe it...just another way to look down on others.

Huzzah! I must be posh!

Santa is satan. They changed the letters round

No they didn’t. It comes from Saint.

This thread is reaching new heights of imbecility.

"The thing is, you don’t know know what you don’t know. You can’t expect everyone to know everything about everyone else’s customs. Even if we have the same passports lol."

There's nothing wrong with not knowing, but we are up to page 21 of this and we're STILL getting the "Santa is American and therefore wrong" shite.

This thread is reaching new heights of imbecility.

😂😂😂

Also I think the ‘coca cola made Santa red’ is mostly a myth. Red was already a popular colour for Santa.

The thing is, you don’t know know what you don’t know. You can’t expect everyone to know everything about everyone else’s customs. Even if we have the same passports lol.

No it's impossible to know everything but you shouldn't assume things about that culture/customs & judge. Plus I do find that with the proximity of those countries we should know more particularly with the history & Brexit at the forefront.

It's ok to not realise Santy is a thing in Ireland but it's not ok to hear someone say that & assume they are lower class people imitating "tacky Americans".

English people always think that Halloween and Santa are American. And then they wonder why Scottish/Irish people sometimes have a bit of an anti-English attitude. I'm Scottish and I don't have an anti-English attitude, but the self-absorption of our neighbours can be a bit annoying.

I agree about the tone, there’s no need for the sneering.
A lot of people presume American because they’ve only heard Santa in movies. Maybe Scotland needs to up its Christmas movie game? Miracle on Buchanan street? Lol

There's nothing wrong with not knowing, but we are up to page 21 of this and we're STILL getting the "Santa is American and therefore wrong" shite.

Yep & i'm sure it will continue & appear next yr. It's almost like people know but don't care & just want to judge.

The red Coca cola santa is a myth, he had already been described as wearing red robes.
Coca cola used Santa as an advertising tool - from 1930s until 1950s (and obviously the god awful truck ads started in the 90s ).

English people always think that Halloween and Santa are American

That's something of a sweeping generalisation.

I object to this shitting over what others do in some pathetic attempt to feel superior.

What if I said Father Christmas was tacky, vulgar, ‘urgh’ and English (shudder).

Nope. People who don’t believe that Claus is a saint don’t use Santa -in Asia/ Africa if you’re rich or poor uneducated or educated it’s father christmas.

Oh I forgot ‘wank’

There's nothing wrong with not knowing, but we are up to page 21 of this and we're STILL getting the "Santa is American and therefore wrong" shite

I think that’s mainly for people not RTFT as well.

But I don’t think I’m self absorbed, or entitled, or arrogant for not knowing, I just didn’t know. The only time I had ever heard Santa was in American Christmas films, so naturally assumed it was an American term.
Same with Halloween, it was always in the movies with the big Halloween parties, and the other decorated houses, (which we’re invariably teepeed if the door wasn’t answered).

As I said though, I don’t think that makes me self absorbed or any of the other things this thread has claimed English people to be.

On a side note, I only recently learned that the original pumpkins were turnips, and that people of my generation in the north east grew up carving turnips, which I’m assuming was from Scotland.

I’m sure that southerners must have had some of their own customs, god knows what they were though lol