The Original Gay Porn Community - Free Gay Movies and Photos, Gay Porn Site Reviews and Adult Gay Forums

  • Welcome To Just Us Boys - The World's Largest Gay Message Board Community

    In order to comply with recent US Supreme Court rulings regarding adult content, we will be making changes in the future to require that you log into your account to view adult content on the site.
    If you do not have an account, please register.
    REGISTER HERE - 100% FREE / We Will Never Sell Your Info

    To register, turn off your VPN; you can re-enable the VPN after registration. You must maintain an active email address on your account: disposable email addresses cannot be used to register.

  • Hi Guest - Did you know?
    Hot Topics is a Safe for Work (SFW) forum.

Google home page does not acknowledge CHRISTMAS

The original post does have a point. Calendars do still say 12/25 is Christmas. It doesn't say "holiday". Is the word "Christmas" considered too profane to even read or say for non-Christians? I feel secure enough that I will not not turn into a Jew if I heard someone say Happy Hanukkah. Same goes for countless other holidays. It's fine for Google to wish the world happy holidays. But it wouldn't kill them to say Merry Christmas just today, rather than just censor an observed historic tradition.

I'm not a war veteran, but I still recognize Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and even Independence Day.
 
I find it amusing that the front page of Google says 'Holidays' while the front page of JUB has a half-dozen or so porn clips that say 'Christmas.'

Personally, I am all about calling things what they are, and Christmas is a holiday, the holiday that I get off work, the holiday for which I buy gifts and indulge my Grandmother in as many of her nostalgic fantasies of trees and stockings as I have the energy to execute. I'm not a Christian, and I don't celebrate the birth of Christ; but I do take part in my family's Christmas traditions, so I feel impelled to call it Celebrating Christmas. Just as my celebration of Halloween has absolutely nothing to do with the Christian tradition but rather with the pagan and American traditions of dressing up and doing spooky things; and I'm not going to not mention the word Halloween just because it's a Christian observance.

I believe that the whole Happy Holidays trend is a reaction to the nature of those who insist on Merry Christmas instead of any of its variations, all of which have been in constant use since Christmas cards got started (you can only say "Merry Christmas" so many times before it becomes annoying)... such people are generally unpleasant, reactionaries who display about as much peace and joy and goodwill toward man as any pre-epiphany Scrooge or Grinch, and nobody wants to appear allied to them. The "War on Christmas" was not started by retailers, nor by the Politically Correct Brigade, nor by all the Atheists and Jews in the world: it was started by people who have nothing better to do than get their panties in a bunch over the abbreviation "Xmas"... a pantie-twist that I distinctly remember being bruited about in the 70s, long before Fox News drew its first breath.

The reactionaries are who the retailers are avoiding by not saying "Christmas"; pornographers don't have to worry about them, because nobody would mentally ally them with a bunch of right-wing Christians. And that's what I find funny.
 
^^39,914......yay closer....and closer...

Merry New Year Lex.
 
G-Lexington said:
It IS offensive. Google (amongst many many others) have no problem putting a menorah up and wishing everybody Happy Hanukkah, and then putting a kinara up and wishing everybody a festive Kwanzaa. But during Christmas, they decide "Happy Holidays" will be more "inclusive"?

Lex
Click to expand...

Do they really? That changes the whole discussion.

cgymike said:
Santa ISN'T GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!


:grrr:
Click to expand...

Sure he is -- it's all the money in the holiday.
 
At least today, the graphic should say "Merry Christmas" because it IS Christmas Day, regardless of whether or not some people celebrate Christmas. I personally recognize Christmas as a holiday and as a time to get together with family, but I don't participate in any religious activities during Christmas.

If they had had a "Happy Holidays" graphic during the whole month of December then that would be understandable. But to have it today? It seems overly-PC.
 
Meh, silly nonsense. it's Christmas, so call it Christmas. No one except nut jobs cares if you call it by its name.
If they say things like Happy Hanukkah (have no idea whether they do) then don't go for double standards.

Is it just me whose computer is slowing to a crawl with the snowflake script?
 
Kabluey said:
Meh, silly nonsense. it's Christmas, so call it Christmas. No one except nut jobs cares if you call it by its name.
If they say things like Happy Hanukkah (have no idea whether they do) then don't go for double standards.

Is it just me whose computer is slowing to a crawl with the snowflake script?
Click to expand...

Is that what's doing it?

Naughty snow flakes!
 
Google sure knows how to pick sides then. It's kind of silly of them to help celebrate one major holiday and then completely disregard another. Then again, Jewish people - just to pick one example - don't go around saying "And remember that ABRAHAM is the reason for the season!", basically waving their dicks in your face about it. I got that SEVERAL times at work this year. It's annoying and it smacks of superiority; i'd rather track Santa on the NORAD.

Other than that, I can't bring myself to care seeing as how I don't care about... ANY religious holiday. At work, if someone said Merry Christmas I said it back. If someone said Happy Holidays, I said it back. Sadly, I see that if we're mentioning it here, someone like that hatemonger on the 700 Club is gonna have an aneurysm over it.
 
GiancarloC said:
I don't know why there is a big fuss about it anyways. Christmas? December 25th was originally a pagan holiday.

http://www.essortment.com/christmas-pagan-origins-42543.html

It wasn't called Christmas originally, but the day was just ripped off from previous civilizations that celebrated something far different.
Click to expand...

It's more accurate to say that people who became Christians brought their old festivities with them and the church just mixed them into the the celebration. The pick of day by the emperor was clearly pandering, but much of the accumulation was just accretion as people who became Christians saw no reason to abandon their old festivals. Instead they just put new meaning into the old material.
 
https://www.google.me/

HAHAHAA.....no mention of anything!

Montenegro has NO gifts to unwrap no holiday no festive no christmas no anything according to google's look

Croatia Serbia ...same....



:eek:
 
Christmas is not the only holiday celebrated this time of year...and I'm not just talking in a politically correct sense. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are all celebrated by the majority of people. All three holidays occur during the same time of year. Saying "happy holidays" can be a generic way of wishing someone good tidings for all three holidays at once. It is not an attack on Christianity. There is no "war on Christmas." All of these bible-thumping idiots who keep screaming "Keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas!!!!!" need to get the fuck over themselves and calm down.
 
Perhaps they're sick to death of pushy Christians forcing this one day on everyone for an entire month and then complaining that there's a "war on Christmas." :roll:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top