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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: FlippyDoo on December 21, 2013, 06:55:37 PM
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I was sitting around pondering a question on proper etiquette and, unable to reach a conclusion on my own, decided to pay a visit to DU because everyone in the known universe knows that if you absolutely, positively need to know something about etiquette you should visit DU…then usually do the complete opposite of what the DUers suggest. During my search I found the below: Click here to visit Democrat Underground (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024185041)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:30 PM
mfcorey1 (4,222 posts)
Etiquette
Christian audience........Merry Christmas
Mixed religion audience.....Season's Greetings
What is the big freaking deal?
Uh oh! You just know this isn’t going to end well, but first a fairly reasonable post by Nye.
Response to mfcorey1 (Original post)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:31 PM
Nye Bevan (13,688 posts)
1. No big deal at all, and either is fine, whatever the audience (nt)
And now the stupid.
Response to Nye Bevan (Reply #1)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:37 PM
HERVEPA (3,021 posts)
2. Disagree.
Christmas is allegedly about the birth of Christ. (Wrong month, if he did exist, but who's counting).
I don't need Christmas shoved down my throat.
Now I would think that DUmmies, at least the male variety, are every experienced having things shoved down their throats so I don’t know why one more thing would be such a big deal.
I do like how it says “Christmas is ALLEGEDLY about the birth of Christ.†The entire reason they have this discussion every year is because the term “Merry Christmas†has “Christ†in it. I wonder if this DUmmie thinks the MLK Day is ALLEGEDLY about MLK?
Then another surprisingly reasonable post by Nye.
Response to HERVEPA (Reply #2)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:45 PM
Nye Bevan (13,688 posts)
4. If you see a cheery greeting as "Christmas being shoved down your throat",
then you are the one with the problem, not the person saying the greeting.
Good grief indeed.
Then some more stupid.
Response to Nye Bevan (Reply #4)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:50 PM
HERVEPA (3,021 posts)
5. You have every right to your incorrect opinion.
You are the problen in your lack of sensitivity.
By the way, you are supposed to say that my beliefs, not I, are the problem.
Hate to break it to you, hervepa, but you’re the problem. By the way, as it's Christmas I’ll wave my normal fictional spirit-guide fee to tell you.
Then a few (very few) back and tos with DUmmies being reasonable, and then I get to the reason I brought this over…
Response to mfcorey1 (Original post)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 03:08 PM
haele (5,637 posts)
11. The problem is not what the person says to me, it's the response I get in return.
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I say "Season's Greetings" or Happy Holidays" as a greeting on principle. I'm not Christian. I'm an accepting animist through traditional upbringing and by choice.
However, there are people who go out of their way to correct me with "You mean 'Merry Christmas'" - the implication is that if I prefer not to say Merry Christmas, I'm an evil commie athiest who would eat their children if I had the chance. And they aren't cheery at all when there are times they spit that out at the cash register or walking past me on the sidewalk.
It doesn't happen often, but I've gotten at least two of those reactions from the mega-church attendees a year since I started paying attention to that sort of thing in 2004.
It's the "War on Christmas" defense that ratchets the pissyness up, not people who prefer to not to give lip-service to the religious wacka-doodles who think their God granted them the only "Truth, Justice, and American Way".
Haele
An accepting animist? I had to look that one up because even fictional spirit-guides do not know everything, and who knows what a word can mean at DU.
According to the dictionary animism means: the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
Now, let me make clear that I’m a live and let live type of fictional spirit-guide. If you want to think that when you mashed those potatoes they went to Shangri-La instead of your stomach that’s your prerogative; however, if you do think your taters went to Shangri-La maybe you should refrain from calling others religious wacka-doodles.
And Haele, if you’re lurking, I don’t think that if you prefer not to say Merry Christmas that you’re an evil commie atheist who would eat someone’s children if you had the chance, BUT since you post at DU it does give people the idea that you’re probably an evil commie atheist would cheer someone murdering their unborn children if you had a chance.
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Response to Nye Bevan (Reply #1)
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:37 PM
HERVEPA (3,021 posts)
2. Disagree.
Hervepa.
Isn't that a cream for cold sores south of the equator?
Great screen name, DUmmy. "Just call me 'Lesion'."
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Hervepa.
Isn't that a cream for cold sores south of the equator?
Great screen name, DUmmy. "Just call me 'Lesion'."
I just figured it had misspelled "herpes" or "Her Vespa".
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It is sad the way DUmmies go out of their way to foment conflict.
When people look at me, they can tell absolutely nothing about my beliefs, or non-beliefs.
Therefore, when someone says "Merry Christmas", "Happy Holidays", "Season's Greetings", "The Fish are Biting" - it is so easy to simply respond "Well, thank you, and to you as well."
It's that easy, DUmmies.
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I say "Merry Christmas", regardless of what someone says to me first.
Christians smile and DUmmies fume in my wake!
It's a win-win all around! :cheersmate: :-)
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I thought liberal regressivness was all about tolerance?
Love and understanding of others.
Accepting the views of others as they accept yours.
I wish a DUmmie would explain to me.
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As always they prove that hate is their master.
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I thought liberal regressivness was all about tolerance?
Love and understanding of others.
Accepting the views of others as they accept yours.
I wish a DUmmie would explain to me.
I will pay a DUmmie to explain it to me.
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I will pay a DUmmie to explain it to me.
I'll pay you, if you find one than can.
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Merry Barackmas, DUmmies.
He Shall Be Called Barack, the Anointed One, Allah Willing!
August 4, 1961. Shall this date live in infamy along with December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001?
Or should America be celebrating the birth of Barack Hussein Obama with the same gusto, reverence, and passion reserved for Christmas?
Do we Americans need a new national holiday—Barackmas—to celebrate this most special birthday?
Under this tax and deficit neutral scheme, everyone would get August 4th off. A small $500 “gratitude fee†would collected by the IRS to pay for the frolicking.
If all of this sounds far fetched, please consider the following scrolls found in Mohamed Attah’s safe deposit box at the Bank of Baghdad:
And He Shall Be Called Barack, The Anointed One:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/he-shall-be-called-barack-the-anointed-one-allah-willing
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I've been wondering what is the proper holiday greeting when meeting a DUmmie animist. Merry Fruit Salad?
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I've been wondering what is the proper holiday greeting when meeting a DUmmie animist. Merry Fruit Salad?
Happy Groundhog Day!
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I've been wondering what is the proper holiday greeting when meeting a DUmmie animist. Merry Fruit Salad?
If you say it out loud, the DUmmy will try to get your state law changed.
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Happy Groundhog Day!
When I first read your response I was very pleased. I thought you had come up with the perfect holiday greeting for when meeting a DUmmie animist.
Then I thought about it. Why are you putting emotional baggage on the poor groundhog? That greeting is putting pressure on the groundhog that it just doesn’t need. Especially on the holidays. You're basically ordering it to be happy. What if it wants to be sad?
And why even refer to it as a groundhog? Ground is dirt. Referring to it as a groundhog is almost like saying it is beneath you. Something that you walk all over.
And why does it have to be a day? Couldn’t it just as easily be a night?
No. Even thought it sounded good at first, Happy Groundhog Day is not the best answer.
I’ve given it much deep thought. I think I finally have the answer. The perfect and proper holiday greeting when meeting a DUmmie animist.
Hold on to your seats….
The perfect holiday greeting when meeting a DUmmie animist almost has to be: F*** You Shithead!
It’s got the “F†word in it, and DUmmies love to drop the “F†bomb.
It’s got “you†in it, and DUmmies love to think everything is just about them.
It’s got “shit†in it which is a composite of all types of animal and plant life.
It’s got “head†in it, and the DUmmies all think they’ve got a great head on their shoulders.
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Groundhogs are fat squirrels that can't climb trees.
Why do you hate rabbits?
Think of the baby Robins. Hater!!!
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I've been wondering what is the proper holiday greeting when meeting a DUmmie animist. Merry Fruit Salad?
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I think it's "Merry Tossing the Fruit Salad."
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Forgive me if I am wrong, but I think it's "Merry Tossing the Fruit Salad."
I wanna party with you!
:hyper: :hyper: :hyper:
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ya know, liberals used to be like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odf1WWhAF6I but DUmmies are just full of hate.
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ya know, liberals used to be like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odf1WWhAF6I but DUmmies are just full of hate.
You can only go so long before the mask falls off. For every happy hippie love fest, there was an equal black panthers/militant hippie shooting, bombing destructive action.
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I've not heard a single person say "Happy Holidays" or such, it's always "Merry Christmas". Every store, every bar, every golf course..."Merry Christmas".
DUmmies would HATE living in my town.
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I've been wondering what is the proper holiday greeting when meeting a DUmmie animist. Merry Fruit Salad?
I hope that telling your kids that it is not nice to point and laugh is acceptable...
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Happy Anime ist...
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