Prior to 2005, I was under the impression that “happy holidays” was acknowledging both Christmas and New Year’s because they are so close to each other. I’m pretty certain it was around then that it became pointlessly controversial.
You can simply be a decent human being without the super cringey religious association. The 7 Tenets are just baseline instructions for being a good person.
But I suppose if structured guidance helps edgelords behave then it’s better than nothing. Hail Satan lol.
I guess it depends where you live. I grew up around a large Jewish population, so “happy holidays” was just a way of saying “have fun with whatever you’re celebrating this year”.
No one in the US was offended by it until Fox News told them they should be.
and I think thats the rub. Rural Georgia - no synagogue in my county and very few Jewish folks outside of metro atlanta. So these folks get the idea it can only be an attack on Christianity vs just an inclusive festive greeting with no ill intent - at least it makes sense when Fox tells them it is at least.
I say "happy holidays" because I just say that at Christmas or thanksgiving or new years or basically anytime there is an extended holiday break because it's way easier lol
This song has always been a standout for me because it's so easy to replace the words with horribly explicit lyrics. I do it every time it's on. It's really magical
Happy holidays acknowledges thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, new years.... whatever anyone celebrates around this time of year. It includes all people. But some people think happy
Holidays means f**k Jesus and his followers...and they are stupid idiots
Theres a lot holidays in December, so many im not going to list them out. If i dont know you I'll just say happy holidays, but if I do know you and what holidays ypu celebrate I will specify. This is because I like to converse with people in a relevant way to show that I appreciate. Im also not a massive ignorant trash heap.
In Sydney, where I grew up, it was just a way to include the entire grab-bag of late November - mid February holidays. It does a great job of covering Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa (for our tiny local US population), Hanukkah, a crapton of Catholic days, New Year's, Chinese New Year...
No-one got left out, was the point.
Even our Scripture teachers in school were pretty accepting of this. While they preferred "Merry Christmas", they didn't find Happy Holidays offensive or upsetting -- unlike the shortening of 'Christmas' to "Xmas" on cards and posters and such.
Since birth is been under the impression that I have once given one flying fuck what prime want to say some this time of year. Say whatever you want or say nothing at all.
I think if this is trying to say that democrats don’t say merry Christmas then that’s bull. But, who tf is getting mad over how someone celebrates a holiday???
The point isn't that its stupid. Its to seed that people are different and wrong, its to sow division. That way, someone saying an innocuous holiday greeting suddenly becomes a politically charged attack.
The guy is an absolute elite level troll. He just thrives on attention. He started out with your typical right wing nonsense where you weren’t sure if it was a troll job, but he’s leveled up the nonsense over the last few years to stay relevant.
The people who get mad are the ones where their religion is their whole personality and feel slighted at the assumption they celebrate anything than the lords holiday. They’re afraid you think they’re Jewish or god forbid a Muslim
It’s hilarious that they’ve been convinced someone is going to confront them if they say Merry Christmas and that’s the worst thing in the world. Meanwhile, we’ve got a trillionaire in this country and the billion and millionaires are making more money than ever. You really are an idiot if this is the type of thing you base your vote on come Election Day.
Its a psyop by Christians to eventually remove Santa and all the other pagan practices. The church i grew up in hated all the non Jesus stuff around Christmas and would happily ban generic Christmas music along with Harry potter.
Also, that map functions as an I.Q. test. If a person doesn't understand population density, I wonder how they make it in this world.
basically I think he is a genuine conservative believer but his twitter account is 90% shitposting "ironic" satires of right wing alpha males. Like the posts about Hooters or whatever are self aware but he genuinely is a Trump supporter.
They get even madder for some reason if they don’t get a fight over it
I forget when it was but I disagreed with a boomer coworker about something with trump, and as I was walking away he said merry Christmas all smug as if that was a gotcha, to which I just said merry Christmas to you too. Felt like he short circuited a bit when I took it away from him 😂
The funny thing is nobody actually cares or gets offended if you say “merry christmas” genuinely. Same as if someone said “happy hanukkah” to me - they’re just wishing me well wishes. That’s how 90% of regular people will take it.
Keeping people in their place since Gurk told his brother to leave the cave because his lighter brown hair was weak. It was really because Gurk wanted all the women and Muga had rebuffed his advances.
For my job sometimes I say have a happy holiday season and occasionally they say Merry Christmas back like it will offend me almost. I just merry Christmas and it’s over lol Idk the problem. Sometime actually people get weird believe it or not when you say Christmas so the holiday thing is just good catch all when you speak to all types of people.
Exactly. I don’t get offended whatever they say. They could say happy Hannukah to me which I don’t celebrate at all and I’ll smile and say you too or merry Christmas back
It was Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Joyful (happy) Yule (yuletide) I heard all the time when I was young. My grandma was from Germany amd the area we all lived was a bunch of German immigrant families. So Yule was pretty common in my area.
I say merry Christmas if it's a Christmas event or near Christmas... If I'm referring to the holiday season I say happy holidays... It's not that hard Republicans... Just stop being fucking losers
Huh, weird. So places with large areas of people say “happy holidays”, and places with almost no people there say “merry Christmas”. Got it, thanks Nick! I guess I’ll stick to the one used where there’s humans.
Man I just say "merry Christmas and happy holidays". If someone says merry Christmas only to me first then I just say "merry christmas" it's really not a big deal man.
Oh there's no place like home for the HOLIDAYS, cause no matter how far away you roam, if you want to be happy in a million ways, for the HOLIDAYS you can't beat home sweet home.
The cornfields and trees in the woods along with all the woodland critters and especially that long ass empty stretch of I-70 where no human dares to tread cutting through Kansas is wishing you a robust Merry Christmas!
If someone says happy holidays to me I say happy holidays. If someone says merry Christmas I say merry Christmas. It’s seriously not a big deal and people who freak out about it regardless of political affiliation they’re just fucking dumb.
People are so ignorant. When I hear somebody say happy holidays. It's an all-encompassing phrase because there are multiple holidays at this time of year and you're wishing the person plural holiday happiness.
It's so fucking stupid because even if you're a regular old white Christian piece of shit you're probably still celebrating both Christmas AND New Year's, making "happy holidays" completely legit, and I've known this for as mong as they've been bitching about it. Fucking idiots.
Americans being offended by this is so funny because in my country these two are used completely interchangeably without any hidden meaning and nobody bats an eye.
And yet, the Puritans that came over on the The Mayflower, and who evangelical Americans love to cite as evidence that America was founded on Christianity, absolutely hated Christmas, to the point that its celebration was banned in Massachusetts under Puritan rule. In fact, to this day there are Christian denominations that don't celebrate Christmas at all.
Easter is by far the more important Christian holiday and Christmas wasn't celebrated by any Christians for the first three centuries of Christianity's existence. So how come we don't have a stupid annual debate over how you're not allowed to say "Happy Easter"?
I need to interview Nick Adams in like ten years hopefully he will break character by then and tell me honestly what it felt like being the biggest troll in the world.
Not that I give a shit, but I doubt he realizes that by his own map's population density, he's actually admitting most Americans supposedly say "Happy Holidays" lol. But as usual, just like during elections as other people have commented, he neglects the fact "land doesn't vote". So in this case, land doesn't say anything Nick.
I honestly have always said “Merry Christmas” right before Christmas. “Happy Holidays” I’ve always said a few weeks before Christmas, and after Christmas referring to both Christmas and New Year’s. My parents said “Happy Holidays” when referring to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. I just don’t get the point lol
Prior to 2005, I was under the impression that “happy holidays” was acknowledging both Christmas and New Year’s because they are so close to each other. I’m pretty certain it was around then that it became pointlessly controversial.
But the Starbucks cups!!! Or something…
Jesus Christ, I forgot about that stupid shit
There’s so much stupid shit happening rapid fire, that it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with and remember.
You said you'd never forget.
9/11
My theory is that it was always a Starbucks free advertising campaign.
This was abouts 2016 when I was a teenager and thought being an idpol republican was real edgy. Even I thought the cup thing was stupid.
I am a massive democrat and feminist now. Still say merry christmas!
I’m a Satanist (Satanic Temple sort) and still wish everyone a merry Christmas. It’s really not a religious day anymore.
You can simply be a decent human being without the super cringey religious association. The 7 Tenets are just baseline instructions for being a good person.
But I suppose if structured guidance helps edgelords behave then it’s better than nothing. Hail Satan lol.
I agree. I don’t practice or preach, but if someone asks, I tell them I’m a satanist. It’s just general humanism. People need labels for some reason.
Edit: hail Satan
Thats exactly what I think. "Put the christ back in christmas" is such a stupid campaign when it's been a massive consumerist holiday for decades.
I guess it depends where you live. I grew up around a large Jewish population, so “happy holidays” was just a way of saying “have fun with whatever you’re celebrating this year”.
No one in the US was offended by it until Fox News told them they should be.
and I think thats the rub. Rural Georgia - no synagogue in my county and very few Jewish folks outside of metro atlanta. So these folks get the idea it can only be an attack on Christianity vs just an inclusive festive greeting with no ill intent - at least it makes sense when Fox tells them it is at least.
I say "happy holidays" because I just say that at Christmas or thanksgiving or new years or basically anytime there is an extended holiday break because it's way easier lol
I’m in Canada so not the case here.
Next time someone gives you crap about Happy Holidays, tell them you just love traditional Christmas music from 1942.)
Then you can ask them why they're trying to erase American culture and watch their brain explode.
So whoop-de-doo and dickory-dock And don’t forget to hang up your sock
This song has always been a standout for me because it's so easy to replace the words with horribly explicit lyrics. I do it every time it's on. It's really magical
Okay, but I love this and will definitely be using the knowledge as often as opportunity allows.
Thanks for sharing!
Happy holidays acknowledges thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, new years.... whatever anyone celebrates around this time of year. It includes all people. But some people think happy Holidays means f**k Jesus and his followers...and they are stupid idiots
Theres a lot holidays in December, so many im not going to list them out. If i dont know you I'll just say happy holidays, but if I do know you and what holidays ypu celebrate I will specify. This is because I like to converse with people in a relevant way to show that I appreciate. Im also not a massive ignorant trash heap.
In Sydney, where I grew up, it was just a way to include the entire grab-bag of late November - mid February holidays. It does a great job of covering Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa (for our tiny local US population), Hanukkah, a crapton of Catholic days, New Year's, Chinese New Year...
No-one got left out, was the point.
Even our Scripture teachers in school were pretty accepting of this. While they preferred "Merry Christmas", they didn't find Happy Holidays offensive or upsetting -- unlike the shortening of 'Christmas' to "Xmas" on cards and posters and such.
Since birth is been under the impression that I have once given one flying fuck what prime want to say some this time of year. Say whatever you want or say nothing at all.
You are correct. Congratulations on using your brain, unlike most creepy "Christians".
Its a shortening of happy holy days so theyre just fucking stupid
Decades it was normal. There was even a song.
Happy holidays was always a thing they just made it into a problem
I think if this is trying to say that democrats don’t say merry Christmas then that’s bull. But, who tf is getting mad over how someone celebrates a holiday???
Everyone says both, and they can choose which one. There is no war on Christmas lmao
Ikr. I have yet to actually find a person trying to “cancel merry Christmas”
Ya, everywhere I go I see places covered in Christmas decorations then they just put up a tiny menorah in the corner
Except from Melania. She fucking hates that shit 😂
The point isn't that its stupid. Its to seed that people are different and wrong, its to sow division. That way, someone saying an innocuous holiday greeting suddenly becomes a politically charged attack.
The guy is an absolute elite level troll. He just thrives on attention. He started out with your typical right wing nonsense where you weren’t sure if it was a troll job, but he’s leveled up the nonsense over the last few years to stay relevant.
The extreme followers are the most loyal
The party of small government! Nothing says small government like controlling how and what holidays you celebrate!
Look, I just want to drink my green and red NyQuil in peace
The people who get mad are the ones where their religion is their whole personality and feel slighted at the assumption they celebrate anything than the lords holiday. They’re afraid you think they’re Jewish or god forbid a Muslim
Trump supporters. Trump brags about how he’s bringing back “merry Christmas”
It’s hilarious that they’ve been convinced someone is going to confront them if they say Merry Christmas and that’s the worst thing in the world. Meanwhile, we’ve got a trillionaire in this country and the billion and millionaires are making more money than ever. You really are an idiot if this is the type of thing you base your vote on come Election Day.
Its a psyop by Christians to eventually remove Santa and all the other pagan practices. The church i grew up in hated all the non Jesus stuff around Christmas and would happily ban generic Christmas music along with Harry potter.
Also, that map functions as an I.Q. test. If a person doesn't understand population density, I wonder how they make it in this world.
https://i.redd.it/oitn4hkd1k8g1.gif
**NSYNC does both
Wait, I don't think they're really flying...
Clearly they're flying sideways
Today I learned Bing Crosby wasn't a real American.
NSYNC covering all the bases
We should probably add happy hannukah in the song
Lmao good catch
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All I can say.
Still convinced that Nick set himself up as a parody, then when people believed him, he went with it. Taking them for every cent he can.
basically I think he is a genuine conservative believer but his twitter account is 90% shitposting "ironic" satires of right wing alpha males. Like the posts about Hooters or whatever are self aware but he genuinely is a Trump supporter.
The most loyal supporters
I suspect this is what happened as well. Anyway to get a dollar.
Real Americans don’t give a fuck and want you to mind your own business.
This just in: Land can wish you a holiday greeting!
Merry Christmas, land! And Happy Holidays, humans!
Land can’t talk, people can though. The blue is where the majority of people live.
Happy Holidays to everyone but Nick here.
Lmao
I'm so leftwing I can't even type out Merry Chriigmff.
Merry Hot Chip
Chrjdmt
I despise the fact that they’ve made this totally innocuous thing into a culture war. I’m tired of all their culture wars.
They get even madder for some reason if they don’t get a fight over it
I forget when it was but I disagreed with a boomer coworker about something with trump, and as I was walking away he said merry Christmas all smug as if that was a gotcha, to which I just said merry Christmas to you too. Felt like he short circuited a bit when I took it away from him 😂
Also a map of where pedophiles support each other.
Isn’t Nick Adam’s the guy with the inverted penis?
I say Merry Christmas all the time! I didnt know i was a real American! Have to get my British passport updated... 🤔
Merry holidays everybody
And Happy Christmas to you!
These people pick the weirdest shit to be mad about.
President of the United States committing war crimes on international waters and preparing to invade a non-aggressive country?
*Crickets*
Saying "Happy Holidays" so that those who don't celebrate Christmas can share in the festive spirit?
"How dare you?"
The funny thing is nobody actually cares or gets offended if you say “merry christmas” genuinely. Same as if someone said “happy hanukkah” to me - they’re just wishing me well wishes. That’s how 90% of regular people will take it.
He's Australian
Wait for real?! Lol
Land isn't people, FFS.
Identity politics.
Keeping people in their place since Gurk told his brother to leave the cave because his lighter brown hair was weak. It was really because Gurk wanted all the women and Muga had rebuffed his advances.
For my job sometimes I say have a happy holiday season and occasionally they say Merry Christmas back like it will offend me almost. I just merry Christmas and it’s over lol Idk the problem. Sometime actually people get weird believe it or not when you say Christmas so the holiday thing is just good catch all when you speak to all types of people.
Exactly. I don’t get offended whatever they say. They could say happy Hannukah to me which I don’t celebrate at all and I’ll smile and say you too or merry Christmas back
r/peopleliveincities
Real Americans say whatever the fuck they want.
Gotta get them mad at something trivial and stupid and make them think it’s going to take away something they love.
No, real Americans don’t give a fuck what people say, they just appreciate the sentiment and reply “Thanks, you too”.
And they certainly don’t sit around making maps about who says what.
Which is probably inaccurate anyway. It’s just blue vs red states lol
It was Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Joyful (happy) Yule (yuletide) I heard all the time when I was young. My grandma was from Germany amd the area we all lived was a bunch of German immigrant families. So Yule was pretty common in my area.
Conservatives complain about a war on Christmas, trump is literally trying to start a war, on Christmas!
Happy Holidays is normal and always has been. The plural holidays acknowledges the season of overlapping holidays, which Christmas is a part of.
But these dorks are toddlers who cant stand anyone having a slightly different culture.
I say merry Christmas if it's a Christmas event or near Christmas... If I'm referring to the holiday season I say happy holidays... It's not that hard Republicans... Just stop being fucking losers
Real Americans do not support insurrection. Full stop. There are no other arguments to have about the matter of patriotism.
Every fucking year with these people. The War on Christmas has apparently been going on for the last 40 years.
“This is a FREE country! Just as long as you believe in the god I tell you to believe in!”
For a group who likes to call everyone snowflakes, they sure get offended over anything.
"Merry Christmas to you too." said all the farmland
Land-mass doesn’t say either!
Land doesn’t say shit
Land can talk?
Huh, weird. So places with large areas of people say “happy holidays”, and places with almost no people there say “merry Christmas”. Got it, thanks Nick! I guess I’ll stick to the one used where there’s humans.
”Merry Holidays!”
Whatchu’ gonna do now huh?
So land says merry Xmas?
Imagine how fragile you have to be to get upset over how people greet others over the Christmas period.
3x more population in the blue :)
Isn’t there a classic Christmas song called, Happy Holidays?
And it is the music of the devil, obviously
I exclusively say 'Happy Holidays'; not for any moral reason, but to find out who around me is a big ol' bigot
This just in: my flight attendant just said “happy holidays and Merry Christmas”
The audactiy
Merry Christmas. Now release the Epstein files.
I had a guy yell at me for saying happy holidays one time and his argument was “DECEMBER 25 IS CHRISTMAS AND NOTHING ELSE”
Like ok but today is December 18th and it’s currently Hanukkah, so what do you mean?
Land doesn't speak
Man I just say "merry Christmas and happy holidays". If someone says merry Christmas only to me first then I just say "merry christmas" it's really not a big deal man.
Stupid shit like this is why libertarians will never fully support the republican party.
Oh there's no place like home for the HOLIDAYS, cause no matter how far away you roam, if you want to be happy in a million ways, for the HOLIDAYS you can't beat home sweet home.
Nick Adams is a literal clown
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I have a better one Nick.
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The cornfields and trees in the woods along with all the woodland critters and especially that long ass empty stretch of I-70 where no human dares to tread cutting through Kansas is wishing you a robust Merry Christmas!
Rhe war on christmas. Another manufactured crisis
I say both depending on the context. It’s not that serious and only the anti happy holidays people care.
If someone says happy holidays to me I say happy holidays. If someone says merry Christmas I say merry Christmas. It’s seriously not a big deal and people who freak out about it regardless of political affiliation they’re just fucking dumb.
Conservatives: self-described anti-anti-semitism and yet say Merry Christmas to jews.
So is he trying to limit free speech?
People are so ignorant. When I hear somebody say happy holidays. It's an all-encompassing phrase because there are multiple holidays at this time of year and you're wishing the person plural holiday happiness.
Why are people so butt hurt?
"marked save from the war on Christmas"
Trump tweets: we dont care about christmas anymore, it offends israel.
MAGA: *map inmediately changes to all blue*
Everything is a fkn contest with these people
So if blue states aren’t real Americans can they just pay state taxes? That seems fair.
People really need to stop with the persecution mania. There's no war against Christmas.
Next time dot the people instead of the land
I don't think the desert knows it's Christmas
Republicans say “it’s ok to fuck kids” real Americans say “ewww”
This has always been so funny to me. Dont the Republicans LoVe Jewish people? God's chosen? Give money to Israel? Allies no questions asked?
Jewish people dont celebrate Christmas. Its nicer to say Happy Holidays to include them.
No way a map indicating that areas with a higher average IQ say "happy holidays" crazy
It's so fucking stupid because even if you're a regular old white Christian piece of shit you're probably still celebrating both Christmas AND New Year's, making "happy holidays" completely legit, and I've known this for as mong as they've been bitching about it. Fucking idiots.
The guy is making fun of people who are doing nothing more than trying to be nice to everyone. Dudes really showed his "christian" values.
Land doesn't say Merry Christmas
Happy holidays had been used since 1900's 😂😂
Americans being offended by this is so funny because in my country these two are used completely interchangeably without any hidden meaning and nobody bats an eye.
I just say happy holidays early / mid December and merry Christmas the week of Christmas.
95% of the time I say nothing, because I forget to say it and I am not festive enough to give a shit.
Oh lord lol
Holy days?
Then why is the map of real America on the bottom?
Land of the free...
Which one does Vivek say? Looks like his state is covered in red. I'll wait for them to answer.
Ill say happy holidays if im lumping new years and maybe Thanksgiving in it towards someone i don't see as often.
I work as a manager at a big brokerage.
Due to the climate and crusades against people’s livelihoods etc.
Ima say “happy holidays” and keep it moving lol
And yet, the Puritans that came over on the The Mayflower, and who evangelical Americans love to cite as evidence that America was founded on Christianity, absolutely hated Christmas, to the point that its celebration was banned in Massachusetts under Puritan rule. In fact, to this day there are Christian denominations that don't celebrate Christmas at all.
Easter is by far the more important Christian holiday and Christmas wasn't celebrated by any Christians for the first three centuries of Christianity's existence. So how come we don't have a stupid annual debate over how you're not allowed to say "Happy Easter"?
Oh, are you referring to the majority of the United States population?
Ask them about their Chrimbus Bush
Real Americans say whatever they want.
So the blue is what all woke people? This is dumb
Large swaths of uninhabited land are really into Christmas.
I don't even say either anymore cause I was in the upper peninsula and surrounded by jehovas witnesses so you just get a bye now
What a twisted weird country you have over there Absolutely fubar
Conservative cope like always. Truth hurts.
Real Americans don’t give a shit.
Lol
Ah yes the ol war on Christmas victim fetish. How long are they going to beat this dead horse?
Enjoyful Winterborne Festivities!
I just don’t say anything unless it’s said to me first. I don’t know what/if people celebrate.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
As a British American I say “Happy Christmas” so joke’s on you.
Happy Solstice!!
I need to interview Nick Adams in like ten years hopefully he will break character by then and tell me honestly what it felt like being the biggest troll in the world.
Not that I give a shit, but I doubt he realizes that by his own map's population density, he's actually admitting most Americans supposedly say "Happy Holidays" lol. But as usual, just like during elections as other people have commented, he neglects the fact "land doesn't vote". So in this case, land doesn't say anything Nick.
Why not say all of them? Creates a humorous situation.
Nick Adams is a hate monger apparently.
Look at all that empty land that says Merry Christmas
I honestly have always said “Merry Christmas” right before Christmas. “Happy Holidays” I’ve always said a few weeks before Christmas, and after Christmas referring to both Christmas and New Year’s. My parents said “Happy Holidays” when referring to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. I just don’t get the point lol
May Nick know nothing but an endless vortex of disappointment for all time.
crazy that one super popular christmas song ‘happy holidays’ predates all this bullshit then huh
We still doing this bit?
Real Americans don’t have to be needlessly performative about this type of shit. We don’t care.
So we aren’t going to pretend we aren’t anti-Semitic?
and the blue is most of the high population density areas lmao
The implied meaning here is "Jews". Happy Holidays is inclusive of people who celebrate hanukah.
I always just say “you too.” Never saying anything first
No need for 2 maps
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Happy Hanukkah
Houston Texas is famously known for being anti-Christmas /s
I respond with, “Thank you, same to you.”
Funny because according to this map the vast majority of Americans apparently say Happy Holidays
How would you even quantify this? Hell I say both.
My old coworker combined them all to say, "Happy ChrismaHanukKwanzaa"
If it makes them feel better they can build a giant "Merry Christmas" over that huge plot of land, because, yknow, nobody actually lives there
Why would I take advice about the United States from an Australian troll?
Why is this politicized? Crazy how people have energy to get mad at this lol.
Because Christianity rules the world