SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.
Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.
One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute.
"Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.
"We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph.
"Leave Santa alone."
A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.
Yeah, I've heard about this here and there. Freakin stupid. I'm pretty sure 'ho ho ho' came into existence a LONG time before the word 'ho' was negatively connected to women. Some people are just so narrow in their view of the world that they actively seek for things to ban and fight against. Urgh.
I think the first two are about the snack cake, and the third "ho" is referencing prostitutes. Thus, he is talking about women who have sex in exchange for small pre-packaged cakes.
I know. That's the real issue here. Instead of trying to be even more respectful of women, we need to work harder to undo all that damage from the civil rights movement. It was all down hill after that whole voting thing.
That reminds me of that one episode of The Man Show, where they set up a booth on a beach and got a ton of women's signatures to "End Women's Suffrage." With a tagline of "Haven't women suffered enough?" Haha.
I don't remember.. they showed a lot of women signing it though. Of course, it probably wasn't an accurate percentage. I'm sure they showed more women signing than women getting pissed.
Does this mean the Christmas specials over there will have Santa's greeting bleeped out?
I think these people are looking at it in the wrong context. They could say the same thing about the Thundercat series and have to bleep every episode.:rolleyes:
Does this mean the Christmas specials over there will have Santa's greeting bleeped out?
I think these people are looking at it in the wrong context. They could say the same thing about the Thundercat series and have to bleep every episode.:rolleyes:
Cheetara was the Thundercats' ho. When they said in the themesong that "Thundercats are loose" that's who they were talking about.
The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
There's an update on the site stating that the specific guy they interviewed for the story will no longer have to pay back the bonus, but there's still no word on the others affected.
A 101-year-old woman has posed topless for a charity calendar to promote a children's football team.
Nora Hardwick, who will be 102 next week, decided to pose behind the bar of her local pub in Ancaster, Lincolnshire dressed only in a pink scarf.
Nora is Miss November in the calendar, which is supporting Ancaster Athletic.
She said: "I am always game for anything, especially if it's for charity. I did enjoy it, though I don't suppose I will do it again."
Football strip
Donna Moodie, 37, landlady at Nora's local pub, the Ermine Way, said: "I thought if Nora would do it, then everyone would. She's amazing."
As well as Nora, mothers of some of the team players have appeared in the calendar.
Ancaster parish councillor Sandy Ford-Pain, whose husband Jonathan still coaches the youngsters, said they hoped to sell 400 calendars.
The money raised is being spent on a football strip so a second team can be set up.
Mrs Ford-Pain, 35, posed as Miss December for the calendar. She said they had raised £1,000 last year by asking men in the village to pose nude.
There is no ethical dilemma here. The boy and his legal guardian refused treatment with full understanding that without a blood transfusion, he would die. He made his choice.
I’m not sure why Jehovah witnesses’ don’t allow blood transfusions. I think it may be from an obscure verse, but the results of their interpretation yield some disheartening results.
If I remember correctly, they base that doctrine on these verses:
Genesis 9:3-6:
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life. Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind.
Leviticus 17:10-12
If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut that person off from the people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar; for, as life, it is the blood that makes atonement. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel: No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.
That could be my niece or nephew soon. I fucking hate these god-damned morons! She just murdered her nephew, who was placed in her care, entrusted to her to protect! She lied to him until he believed this bullshit and now he's dead. He probably went to hell because he intentionally allowed himself to die. That's tantamount to suicide. If I tell somebody that essential medical treatment is actually going to be bad for them and they make a decision to forgo that treatment based on my lies, it's murder.
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I think these people are looking at it in the wrong context. They could say the same thing about the Thundercat series and have to bleep every episode.:rolleyes:
1) Ho Ho Ho, Children! Come here and sit on Santa's lap!
2) *expletive deleted* *expletive deleted* *expletive deleted* Children! Come here and sit on Santa's lap!
There's an update on the site stating that the specific guy they interviewed for the story will no longer have to pay back the bonus, but there's still no word on the others affected.
Medicine can't cure fucking stupid.
Genesis 9:3-6:
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life. Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind.
Leviticus 17:10-12
If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut that person off from the people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar; for, as life, it is the blood that makes atonement. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel: No person among you shall eat blood, nor shall any alien who resides among you eat blood.