A Jewish Christmas Eve

So it's wrong to wish your kids had it a little nicer?

What's so friggin' wonderfully tonic about wishing someone a Merry Christmas anyway?

 

Of course not. "Nicer" is fine. "Perfect" is impossible and just pisses people off who demand or expect it.

But spending $500 on Hannah Montana tickets and taking 2 days off from school (previous discussion) just to keep from disappointing a 5-year-old? Ridiculous.

And wanting to smack a stranger who says "Merry Christmas"? Ridiculous, too.

If you and your kid visit Italy, someone may speak to him in Italian. And the kid may be upset that he can't understand. So are you going to be pissed because your "difference" is not being shown the proper respect?

 

I'd compare it more to this:

Say your cousins are in for the holidays and they are taking their kids to Chuck E Cheez for lunch and announce it to everyone. (You hate the Chuckster, by the way).

So are you OK for wanting to smack them because now you have to take your 6-year-old or tell the tyke you ain't going to Chuck E Cheez?

 

Chuck is like childbirth.

You wanted the kid? Well, this is what comes with it.

Good analogy, though.

 

If you want someone to feel good, instead of saying Merry Christmas, you might try, "Have you lost weight?"

 

It's a religious holiday, no matter how badly some people have perverted it.

 

This.

And these.

 

I would like to get the jump on everyone and wish you all a happy Martin Luther King day. Enjoy your federal holiday.

And if you are a racist SOB, tough. Suck it up.

 

You think the racists are going to work that day in protest of the holiday?

 

Maybe they will work anyway because they have earned the day off with their commitment to personal responsibility. Not like all the slackers and handout seekers.

 

Every society has some sort of major winter festival around that time, because winter is dark and depresing and we need to cheer up.

Ours just happens to be a secular holiday built out of the remains of a half-assed religious holiday that was just a mishmash of stuff stolen from other religious and secular sources.

Calling it a religious holiday is really stretching it.

 

So you're saying the original Christmas is a half-assed religious holiday?