School have banned the word "christmas"!!!

Person_one

Cat501 wrote: »

I DO agree about the famine mentality though, THAT is bonkers

I've just popped out for apples and bread and there are hoards of people loading up massive trolleys with christmas food. What's that all about? They have 20 days left, a lot of that food will be long past its best by Christmas.

Cat501

Person_one wrote: »

I've just popped out for apples and bread and there are hoards of people loading up massive trolleys with christmas food. What's that all about? They have 20 days left, a lot of that food will be long past its best by Christmas.

Big freezers!;)

20 days - that scared me:eek:

Wickedkitten

Person_one wrote: »

I've just popped out for apples and bread and there are hoards of people loading up massive trolleys with christmas food. What's that all about? They have 20 days left, a lot of that food will be long past its best by Christmas.

Christmas parties

Person_one

Wickedkitten wrote: »

Christmas parties

Yeah I suppose. I bet that wasn't all of them though, what Christmas parties have you been to where they serve parsnips and sprouts!

esuhl

xbrenx wrote: »

We are a Christian country, let's not let them steal the biggest celebration of it. Even if most people don't really celebrate it for religious reasons anymore.

I'm the most er... religiously devoted atheist, so I really don't think it makes any sense to say that we're a Christian country. What makes it so? How can a country or any other blob of land be considered religious? And if the land I'm standing on is Christian, is it also white-skinned?

I still celebrate Christmas, though! It's freezing mid-winter and when it's customary to meet up with your relatives and show them that you care, what a good excuse to do so! There's no need for religion to be divisive - lets all have a knees-up!

So I really can't see why a school (especially a Christian one) would ban any reference to Christmas unless it's causing too much of a distraction.

Person_one

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Ahh well I'm an atheist so I'm afraid to say that I have a complete downer on the whole religious aspect of christmas too. I do call it christmas; only because it's overly pedantic to call it something that 99% of people don't, but it has zero religious meaning to me and let's call a spade a spade - it is a day highjacked from the pagans.

You don't have to be a pagan to celebrate though.

Pretty much every culture in the history of the world has come up with some celebration to try and help them buck up a bit when its dark and cold. Diwali, Christmas, Eid, Chanukah, Yule, Bodhi, Saturnalia, Hogmanay, whatever, its a human impulse, not a religious one.

Everybody has the right to join in, and its just easier to call it whatever the majority culture of your location calls it and to slot in with that one. I could call it 'Happy eating family time midwinter cheer up day' but that's a bit of a mouthful.

Welshwoofs

Person_one wrote: »

I could call it 'Happy eating family time midwinter cheer up day' but that's a bit of a mouthful.

I agree with family....as long as that doesn't include children. There's nothing that ruins a decent Christmas day quicker than introducing a child into the equation I find.

Person_one

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I agree with family....as long as that doesn't include children. There's nothing that ruins a decent Christmas day quicker than introducing a child into the equation I find.

Depends on the child. A random one off the street I probably wouldn't be enthusiastic about, but my niece and nephew are part of my family as much as anybody else and I love them dearly, regardless of how old they are!

You're doing a pretty thorough job with your 'MSE's Resident Scrooge' persona though!

balletshoes

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I agree with family....as long as that doesn't include children. There's nothing that ruins a decent Christmas day quicker than introducing a child into the equation I find.

you mean you don't enjoy having to separate 2 toddlers fighting over the same toy by 10am on Christmas morning ???? It takes all sorts doesn't it?

margaretclare

Person_one wrote: »

Yeah I suppose. I bet that wasn't all of them though, what Christmas parties have you been to where they serve parsnips and sprouts!

A few years ago now I had revision of hip replacement almost exactly at this time in early December. In the next bed to me on the orthopaedic ward was a woman having a knee replacement. She said that she had already prepared the sprouts for Christmas dinner - 3 weeks ahead - because 'no one else would be able/willing to do it'.

So maybe a lot of people do this!