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When did i say i wanted christmas banned, i was just talking about the veracity of the report, my scotch friend

A lot of the local councils in the Midlands banned the word CHRISTMAS last year and our local council (Wooly Libs) followed suit.

All hell broke loose but they got away with it.

The battle will resume in September when the all get back from their hols. They are even going to have a 'Full Council Meeting' about it.

That WILL be fun

How did they "ban" it, was it a fatwa of some kind

Oh TBH i couldn't care less people who spend ire thinking about this trivial shite, on both sides are beneath my contempt

The 'Happy Holidays' saying is appropriate in the USA, because of the way celebrations from different traditions occur around the same time - Christmas and Hahukkah being the biggest.

People who are 'into' their own tradition/faith aren't offended by other people's customs and traditions.

Christmas often gets me down, though, it's so sad to hear about how some people struggle to provide the 'perfect Christmas' for their children etc. People expect to be happy at Christmas - but it's the most stressful time for many.

That's why I like to celebrate the Solstice - even before Christmas Day, the days have started to get longer. Nature can't be packaged and sold to the highest bidder.

Yes. My parents split up once and that Christmas my mum was penniless.
That year all of our presents were home-made. Your mum knows you best and that year I got loads of Simon Le-Bon posters cut from magazines and a pink hand-knitted wardrobe for my Barbie doll. I loved Barbies, pink, clothes and Duran Duran so (present-wise, it was the best Christmas we ever had). We did notice that none of our presents were from the shops, they were all home-made but it never occured to us to wonder why. We were just happy bcz it was Christmas and we had loads of cool, personalised prezzies! Kids these days aren't much different I think. There are loads of ways to make Christmas exciting for kids that don't cost any money. The trouble is the playground peer-pressure these days. I don't remember it being that bad back when I was a kid. Maybe I'm wrong bcz I don't have kids, but I don't think there was as much peer pressure at school. The latest fads were always quite cheap those days anyway. Slime in a bucket, a fuzzy-felt kit, (that nostalgia kids toys thread really brought it all back!) I think that todays 6 year old has so much more exposure to the mass media that they become more cynical, more quickly. I'm all for educating kids against the dangers in life today but I also think they should stay kids as long as possible. I hate seeing little girls in mini skirts with calf-length boots, or fancy bikini's or little boys with 'swear-words' on their t-shirts. Sorry did I just ramble...?

Well, they don't seem to have banned the word "christmas" from my town. I think maybe like a poster said before, probably just one or a few people brought the subject up, and then after that, it just got forgotten about.