We should start using Merry Christmas as our daily greeting.

[Saboburns]

We should Merry Christmas each other and everybody we meet. Instead of saying hello or thanks or really for any type of greeting. At the store or the game or and work. Just Merry Christmas them to death. Like everyday of the year. We ought to smile when we say it. Man I think it would Piss them off. Just think of it, 10-12 Merry Christmas's a day.

By next August I think they might just get it.

[0rganism]

1. except during the last 2 weeks of December, switch to "Season's Greetings" for everything...

a guy Merry Christamased at me today and i couldn't even answer at all, i just grunted. i already have problems using "great" as an adjective anymore, so now we have one more phrase completely ruined for me. this whole "winning" thing really sucks ass, but Trump was right about one thing -- i'm sure tired of it all.

[Saboburns]

2. Oh Yes

I like this.

Again said with a big smile.

[Laffy Kat]

3. Oh, I work in a clinic and get "Merry Christmased"all the time by patients.

I smile and thank them and return the greeting by saying "And you enjoy your holidays, too" even though I'm an atheist. They don't do it out of hatefulness; it's an attempted nicetie, so why not reply in kind. Besides, it takes less energy to smile and is easier on the old blood pressure.

[0rganism]

4. i just couldn't even manage a verbal response

not even a work thing - i was walking the dog in a park.

i can't say it now, can't respond to it, it feels like poison on my larynx.

[Laffy Kat]

5. I understand.

I do wonder if some people say it to aggravate others. If so, don't take the bait. Probably not saying anything is getting the point across just fine.

[Mariana]

7. Oh, some of them do.

They especially like to harass people who are working, so those people have no choice but to be polite to them. My daughter works in a supermarket, and she got told yesterday that it's unAmerican to say Happy Holidays.

It's interesting that they're so worried about the sanctity of Christmas, but they've made saying "Merry Christmas" into a fucking political statement.

[Laffy Kat]

10. Yes, they have. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Christian privilege.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. I just cant tell you...

How much this is cracking me up.

The “Christmas warriors” will hate the idea.

[Igel]

9. I confuse my friends.

After 1/1, it's S novym godom. "With the new year." The first time I meet people after 1/1.

After Easter--only Orthodox, mind you--I greet them with Iesus vokres. They stare, and I say that the response is to be, "Istinno voskres." It confuses them because I'm not Orthodox.

And if I'm going to greet with with "Merry Christmas" it's going on be just before January 6. Again, just to confuse them. I don't keep Christmas.

I don't have any cute "With Jesus' death" for Passover or "festive fasting" for Yom kippur or even "Merry Lord's return" for chag terua'.

Oh. And I consider myself Christian.

Still, people don't know what to do when they say "hi" on Friday night or Saturday and I respond, Shabbat shalom.

[Javaman]

11. A few years ago I had a run in with one of the "war on christmas" types...

I was leaving the store and said, "happy holidays". She returned with an angry "merry christmas", I thought it was odd but then in a flash it dawned on my, "ohhhh she's one of those nuts". I smiled and said, "Happy Holidays" only be to answered by an even more angry "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" I was near the door, so I was able to get a last, "Happy Holidays" in before I left, but I could help myself from bursting out laughing at her when I said it.

it was so weird.

such a bizarre sense of priorities.