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?

AhNowTed Exactly. We don't want this funny foreign Christmas, taking our jobs and our women.

We don't want this funny foreign Christmas, taking our jobs and our women.

Santa is married and has a job already anyway

@ginghamstarfish for the love of fuck. Do you think you're above reading the thread?

I swear this thread has burst a few blood vessels.

Back on page 27 I posted my grandad used to say to me 'was Santa guid to you?' My granpaw was born in 1901 but I forgot to say I'm in the West of Scotland

@gingergittable The funniest comment I read was whoever said "Santa sounds like a slang word"

Irish so I say Santa. Im from Dublin where lots say Santy but I have threatened the kids with the orphanage if they go down that route. Santa is NOT an American term, comments like that show ignorance. Father christmas is just a british thing as far as I can tell - I don't know anyone outside Britain or possibly outside of England that says it.

@Chemenger Can I add to your list?

No such place as 'mainland UK'.

-I don't know anyone outside Britain or possibly outside of England that says it.
Well, the French have "Pere Noel".

AhNowTed

Brexit in a thread

The plucky Tommy didn't win the war to start calling it Santa 😂

🤣🤣🤣

I use Father Christmas or Santa Claus. DC came home from nursery asking when Crisp Pringle was coming down our chimney. Finally worked out they had been talking about different things people call Father Christmas and he meant Kris Kringle, which I haven't heard anywhere, except on Miracle on 34th Street! (We're absolutely not posh)

AryaStarkWolf

@gingergittable The funniest comment I read was whoever said "Santa sounds like a slang word"

AryaStarkWolf

@gingergittable The funniest comment I read was whoever said "Santa sounds like a slang word"

Omg. The depths and heights of pure craziness!

Yabu

AryaStarkWolf

@gingergittable The funniest comment I read was whoever said "Santa sounds like a slang word"

Omg. The depths and heights of pure craziness!

.

Someone actually opined that Father Christmas “sounds nicer”. Oh this gets better. Jeez

Oh dear god, never in all my gazillion years on Mumsnet has a thread given me the absolute fucking rage as much as this one. 😂

In the Raymond Briggs film there are scenes in both Scotland and Vegas where a child refers to him as 'Santa Claus'. There's also a bit where he's looking at the letters he gets and mentions a few of the different names children use for him. He does then make a comment along the lines of 'plain old Father Christmas, it should be', but as the whole device of the film is that he's a bit of a curmudgeon, I can't help feeling the comment satirises the English FC superiority.

It was always Father Christmas when I was small, including with all my friends. We grew up in a deprived town, nothing middle class about it.

I try to still use it because I have happy memories of it but Santa is winning with my own daughter.

Vair working class family background and always Father Christmas here.

Father Christmas. I really don't like Santa. We've never used it and I never will. The TV is not helping me teach ds it's FC and not SC. Apparently I'm a little posh but I disagree 🤷🏼‍♀️

And he IS real! I won't hear a word otherwise.

Father Christmas here, always has been and there's nothing posh about us!

Yep definitely Americanism. I'm working class/brought up working class and everyone said Father Christmas. My daughter uses both but mainly Santa, but I made sure I wrote Father Christmas on a couple of her presents so as not to get rid of that term. To me, that's his name!

Flumpywoo not an Americanism. Global. R. T. F. T.