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Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by josinalvo »

Hi there.

I would just like to share my personal view of the 25. As an atheist, I don´t much care about the usual celebration. However, I, too, find there is something worth celebrating: The christmas truce of 1914. Though a religious event in itself, it also shows basic human values, like independence (as in the soldiers who did not heed their orders to avoid such fraternizations) understanding and forgiveness.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3...

Happy truce day to all!

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by dhughes »

nhebb wrote: post #38
ankimal wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downvoted? Well, I ve been corrected before. Merry Christmas, Happy New year and Happy Holidays to everyone. EDIT: How could I forget my favorite. Happy Festivus and I ll see you around the aluminum pole. :)

Merry Christmas, Happy New year and Happy Holidays to everyone. What, no Festivus?

On Festivus Day too, the nerve!

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by vanni »

rick_2047 wrote: post #27
kmfrk wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on whether you think Hacker News is a community or not.

As I said, all hail HN's hypocrisy. When we have a slight sarcasm or a small joke we all downvote it. Then why do you think this belongs here, this is the type of thing we try to avoid in those sarcasm or jokes. You see, the joke and sarcasms should be OK if we are a community shouldn't they be? But we are a community which tries to generate high quality content related to hacking and startups. I don't think this is…

So true, Rick. So boring those downvoters. They upvote "Thanks!", "Merry Christmas!", "Topbar is red!" and downvote criticisms on karma distortion and off-topicity. Mmh...

Re: Merry Christmas HN

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Post by jacoblyles »

ankimal wrote: post #21
ankimal wrote: post #18

I thought the politically correct greeting was "Happy Holidays!". I guess the jury is still out on that one. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/faith/50892288-142/christmas-pe...

Downvoted? Well, I ve been corrected before. Merry Christmas, Happy New year and Happy Holidays to everyone. EDIT: How could I forget my favorite. Happy Festivus and I ll see you around the aluminum pole. :)

Happy Holidays is indeed more politically correct, but offense at celebration of Western traditions is one of the most noisome aspects of political correctness.
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