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It's always good to declare yourself the winner - so long as you don't pay any attention to what's going on. I quite thoroughly answered your question - but since it take some thought to apply it's clearly beyond your capabilities. Stick to coding.
And as for the offense - put in the simplest of terms:
It comes from you (religious fanatics) who think everyone believes as you do.
and won't let anyone else be happy unless it's your way.
The real question:
Why is "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holiday" offensive to you? That's where the problem really lies. Those who are bitching about what they say on the TV news or what pictures Starbucks puts on their cup? They're the ones who's mental problems are probably beyond cure.
As the historical record shows, the self proclaimed "religion of love" primarily loves to torture and kill anyone who doesn't follow their demands. Maybe you should spend more time reading your holy books and less time trying to bash skulls with them.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Why is "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holiday" offensive to you?
And you claim I am the one not reading. 
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Do one, it's Christmas. Do you say Happy Holiday on the 31st? No, it's Happy New Year! Eid? Easter? Hanukkah? stet
Choose your faith, or none, choose your holidays, but don't change the name of other peoples!
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Happy Gin Nagy, Happy Gin!
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Some organizations (and Mae West) may take that route, but few individuals do.
Please don't associate corporate policy with individual preference.
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It's called Christmas, and nothing else.
That would be like me telling the Muslims I don't like the word Ramadan, and wish them to call it "happy fasting month". Insulting, yes. So, our holiday is called Christmas, whether you like it or not. and the best part is, you don't have to be a Christian to celebrate it...or not.
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Attempting to wish someone a Merry Christmas without using the words "Merry Christmas" seems rather silly. If you have acknowledged Christmas then you obviously aren't offended by it, and I would assume that you are giving your sentiments to someone who is agreeable to receiving them.
Can we all stop being offended by everything, and just all accept that we are all different, and that it is these diffferences that make the world an interesting place.
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Where have you been?
I remember some conservative talk-radio host in his 80s complaining about that trend about 15 years ago.
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megaadam wrote: But I have a feeling that this trend is stronger in the US than in the UK. Would you agree?
In the US it may even be a store-policy to do so.
Enough people who don't have a holiday during those days. Should we wish those people "happy workdays"?
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I say Merry Christmas and I am US.
I feel that those who are not Christmas can either disregard or accept my wishings as being of goodwill
I feel that those that have issues with this or generally of the same group of those who cry of "cultural misappropriation". They would rather be guilty of "dilution".
I could care less about being Politically Correct. IMHO being PC is in itself politically incorrect.
Holiday comes from an Old English term for "Holy Day".
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I don't really pay attention to what I say. I've likely said Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays (plural - Christmas and New Years), Gud Yule, and perhaps a few others which are unmentionable in polite company.
The 'War on Christmas' rants annoy me. Most of them don't know that the tree, the lights, the feast, were all pagan traditions to begin with and simply assimilated because it's easier to do that then stamp out an entire idea.
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A policeman in Ystradgynlais stops a welshman in a car with a sheep in the front seat.
"What are you doing with that sheep?" He exclaimed, "You should take it to the zoo."
The following week, the same policeman sees the same welshman with the sheep again in the front seat, with both of them wearing sunglasses.
The policeman pulls him over.
"I thought you were going to take that sheep to the zoo!"
The welshman replied, "I did. We had such a good time we are going to the beach this weekend!"
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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After months of nagging I finally took my wife to the zoo. Sadly the caretakers didn't accept her.
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Were you tired of her monkeying around? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Yes, it was catastrophic... but she was dogged and manage to cow the caretakers to do her bidding.
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I believe that deserves a Boom Tish
Post Christmas party half day... 
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It doesn't make sense though - why would anyone in Wales tell someone to take a sheep to a zoo?
(I'm no fun at parties. Hate them.)
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More to the point, why would anyone in Wales wear sunglasses?
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or want to go to the beach,
not much is more miserable than a beach on a wet and cold day.
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There speaks someone who has never experienced Merthyr Tydfil on a day with any form of weather... 
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Johnny J. wrote: Ystradgynlais
HOw the feck is that pronounced? 
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Fanshaw...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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Whilst ejecting massive amounts of phlegm i expect.
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Here you go - Around 22:15
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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