With all of the other bullshit going on in this country...

[LuckyCharms]

I guess I have never stopped to think about this war on Christmas bullshit.

Was there ever a time when it actually became unacceptable to say Merry Christmas?

Did the left one day come out and say DON'T SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS?

Of course, I'm being facetious here, but this kind of shit drives me nuts.

I think people should say whatever the fuck they want to say. I usually say both at the same time...Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Yet another reason why I hate the holidays. Some people on the right turn the season into a competition. Couple that with all of the videos of people trampling each other into a coma because of black Friday...I personally have no use for this crap. I deal with it by trying to be a better person and maybe helping someone out, but I strive to do that every day anyway, not just during the Christmas season. It's too bad...it could really be a lovely month, but to my way of thinking, it seems to get worse every year.

[safeinOhio]

1. Tempest in a teapot

What's the meaning of the phrase 'Tempest in a teapot'?
A small or unimportant event that is over-reacted to, as if it were of considerably more consequence.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Tempest in a teapot'?
A tempest in a teapotReaders from England who get irate that 'a tempest in a teapot' is a mangling of their perfectly good phrase 'a storm in a teacup' and that this US interloper only exists because of the neat alliteration of tempest and teapot need to calm down; the tempest version is the earlier form and it isn't American in origin.
In fact, neither the teacup nor the teapot were the first location of the said storm. As we will see, the phrase is really 'bad weather in a domestic receptacle of your choice'.
The expression probably derives from the writing of Cicero, in De Legibus, circa 52BC. The translation of his "Excitabat fluctus in simpulo" is often given as "He was stirring up billows in a ladle". Other cultures have versions of the phrase in their own languages. The translation of the Netherlands version is 'a storm in a glass of water', and the Hungarian 'a tempest in a potty'.
The first user of the expression in English made no mention of tea-making, although he wasn't far away. The Duke of Ormond's letters to the Earl of Arlington, 1678, include this:
"Our skirmish ... is but a storm in a cream bowl."

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/tempest-in-a-teapot.html

[kimbutgar]

2. Was at the Dickens fair today and they say happy Christmas!

I wonder if that phase destroys the stupid merry Christmas scam from Fox?

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. It is just another of 1 million lies perpetuated by faux news.

And the sheep eat it up because it fits in with their world view...myopic as it is.