[About the lack of a Google doodle on Christmas's Eve]
The most important date in the West. The company that indexes all information and that celebrates even red-assed baboon day says nothing [about it]. It's a cultural war against an elite with more power than any tirant has ever had.
[In the replies many people complaining about the doodle featuring birds instead of Jesus and the hover text reading "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas".]
Original in Portuguese:
Data mais importante do Ocidente. A empresa que faz índex de toda a informação e que comemora até dia do bonobo de bunda vermelha não diz nada. A batalha é cultural e contra uma elite com mais poder do que qualquer tirano já teve.
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13 comments
@pyro
Wait, it's not a public holiday in the US? It's a public holiday here in Malaysia and we barely do any Christmassy stuff around here! (Except the people who go to church and stuff, anyway)
In other news, if Christmas Eve is the most important day in the West, then what's Christmas? A glorified commercial day?
Countries and cultures differ. But it's amazing how some people refuse to accept the differences.
During my time in Germany I remember that Christmas Eve was HUGE. Very strange in a way: not an official holiday but the biggest holiday nonetheless. Stores are open until about 1pm and many people work, but as of about 4pm it's all family and gifts and Christmas. The streets are empty. Totally. The 25th is when people eat big.
I remember a conversation I had with a woman who was shocked to hear that stores in the US were open till midnight on Christmas Eve. She said "how can you do that?, it's CHRISTMAS EVE!!!" I told her, "yes, but Christmas Eve is only a romantic notion in the US, it's the 25th that is important, the 24th doesn't really count." Her answer, "yes, but it's CHRISTMAS EVE!!!" This cycle repeated itself a few times. It was absolutely impossible for her to imagine that different people do things differently. This is a phenomenon which I experienced quite often, especially in regard to Christmas Eve.
Our Portuguese friend obviously belongs to the people who believe everbody does things the way he does, resp. the way his culture does.
However, just imagine if Google really did have a Jesus motive: many fundies would throw a fit, claming blasphemy of this flavor or that.
So Xmas Day is actually Online Shopping Day, then...?! Here is Barack & Michelle Obama saying 'Merry Christmas': before this Donald Fart-damned furore:
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Like that fundie base-pandering retard, you don't even have the right to right eous indignation.
Also:
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Your call.
...oh, and what's stopping you from using another search engine, you yahoo...?!
"The most important date in the West."
Why?
I mean, according to your myths, shouldn't Christmas and Easter be just footnotes to the real big celebration on Good Friday? After all, the entire thing is about Jesus dying for your sins, so why isn't that the massive feast day?
The most important date in the West.
Pffft! Only to you fundies. To a lot of us, and more every year, it's a day off of work (Paid!)
@Philbert McAdamia
The most important date in the West.
Pffft! Only to you fundies. To a lot of us, and more every year, it's a day off of work (Paid!)
Why do you hate Capitalism, Flabbyo Moronstein? Why do you hate Freedom ...?!
Here in Sweden we celebrate on Christmas Eve rather than on Christmas day (we celebrate all "eves" more than the "days"), but I still know that many countries don't. Perhaps we Swedes are so pessimistic that we don't know if we'll be alive on Christmas Day; better celebrate it early, just in case...
Why should that be the most important date in the West, whether it's eve or day? We don't know the date Jesus was born (we don't even know the year, if it was 7 BC or 4 AD or whatever, or if he ever existed at all), it was just put over the Winter solstice when Europe was about to be Christianized. Then they switched from Julian calendar to Gregorian calendar, so now the Winter Solstice is on the 21st instead. And, if that date is so important, the Summer solstice (Midsummer) ought to be just as important. It's an official holiday in Sweden, but few other countries celebrate it, to my knowledge.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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