bah Humbug!

[Max Kon]

A place to vent all those anti-xmas feelings.

[Something Fishy]

you mean opposing the use of 'X' instead of 'Christ' as it seems to devalue the christian meaning of the day?

there was a whole article about that on news.bbc , apparently the 'x' is from the greek and means the same thing.

That is what you meant , right?

[Max Kon]

no. I just don't like holidays, and I knew it meant the same thing so I meant in general.

[Something Fishy]

lots of christians have been attacking saying it devalues the day and taks it further away from christ and closer to the modern commercial sham that it is...  ahh.. thats a bit more humbug innit gov?

[The Amstor Computer]

Bah, humbug to the whole "Christmas under attack" meme. Bunch of fucking nonsense...

[Bico]

Christmas is as good as you make it, but it helps if you give yourself the odd 'time out' to de-stress from the forced cheeriness of having to be in close proximity to the family.

[Max Kon]

'the forced cheeriness of having to be in close proximity to the family.'

No much closer than the rest of the year. Me and my parents eat together. Only happens 2/3 times a year

[Something Fishy]

what is Dirty Frank.. Christmas or those who try to protect it's true meaning?

[The Amstor Computer]

Neither, Fishface - just the idea that Christmas as a Christian holiday is under attack. This has really taken off with the right in the US this winter.

[Noisybast]

Ho hum. I'm stuck in work on Xmas eve.

However, I do now know that my, er, illustrious organ is called Attila the Unconventional Electric Organ!

Link: http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/577/?PHPSESSID=51ade8d2af64495cf52303f0f35dcea9" target="_blank">Well? Spill it!

[Something Fishy]

oh i see, didn't realise they were going that far.  I wouldn't think its under attack as such, just forgotten under a wave of commercialism.

[Mike Carroll]

The Uncanny "X-Mas"...

Well, according to www.snopes.com (the great urban myth-debunking website):

"The X abbreviation of 'Xmas' for 'Christmas' is neither modern nor disrespectful. The notion that it is a new and vulgar representation of the word 'Christmas' seems to stem from the erroneous belief that the letter 'X' is used to stand for the word 'Christ' because of its resemblance to a cross, or that the abbreviation was deliberately concocted "to take the 'Christ' out of Christmas." Actually, this usage is nearly as old as Christianity itself, and its origins lie in the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for 'Christ' is 'chi,' and the Greek letter 'chi' is represented by a symbol similar to the letter 'X' in the modern Roman alphabet. Hence 'Xmas' is indeed perfectly legitimate abbreviation for the word 'Christmas' (just as 'Xian' is also sometimes used as an abbreviation of the word 'Christian').

"None of this means that Christians (and others) aren't justified in feeling slighted when people write 'Xmas' rather than 'Christmas,' but the point is that the abbreviation was not created specifically for the purpose of demeaning Christ, Christians, Christianity, or Christmas -- it's a very old artifact of a very different language."

So there.

Hope you all have a great time this "Holiday Season"!

Love and cuddles,
Mike the Christmas Bunny

[Max Kon]

I'm a bit more cheery now that I've opened my prezzies.