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Santas Warned Against "Ho Ho Ho"

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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.
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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.
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Bloody... Fuckin' PC police...

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Doesn't this imply that the Aussie government assumes that all women will automatically respond to "Ho ho ho", further implying that they think they are all "Ho ho ho"s? :lol:
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A friend of mine told me about this but I didn't believe him. But what do you know that bastard was telling the truth. But anyway this Santa thing is fucked up 5 ways to Sunday. Has anyone ever been offended by "ho ho ho", show me a person like that and I'll consider changing my opinion.
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PC GONE MAD!

Moral decline!

Common sense!

And other such Daily Mail catchphrase headlines to respond to invented hysteria.
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Zuul wrote:PC GONE MAD!

Moral decline!

Common sense!

And other such Daily Mail catchphrase headlines to respond to invented hysteria.
Except even a broken clock is right twice a day. This kind of idiocy may be lapped up by such rags, but that doesn't mean we should automatically ignore it because conservative loons feel it brings Armageddon to society.

It's eerily similar to O'Reilly's ranting about Christmas and "happy holidays" in stupidity if this is true.
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I had to check twice to make sure it wasn't a link to The Onion.
It really isn't a link to The Onion. :(
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I seem to remember that when Don Imus lost his job, there were a couple of cartoons showing Santa losing his job for saying "Ho, ho, ho". Life imimating art, I guess.
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Hahahaha :lol: I just realize something. My last name's actually "Ho". If I visit the Aussies, will they force a name change onto me?
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Zuul wrote:And other such Daily Mail catchphrase headlines to respond to invented hysteria.
Except even a broken clock is right twice a day. This kind of idiocy may be lapped up by such rags, but that doesn't mean we should automatically ignore it because conservative loons feel it brings Armageddon to society.

It's eerily similar to O'Reilly's ranting about Christmas and "happy holidays" in stupidity if this is true.
Sure, but even in this very thread we have bozos saying things like "the Australian government" and "PC police," implying (falsely) that this is some kind of society-wide, over-stretching of the legal process. As opposed to what the article says, which is that a firm that's hiring Santas is being stupid. Le Yawn.
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Coriolis wrote:Hahahaha :lol: I just realize something. My last name's actually "Ho". If I visit the Aussies, will they force a name change onto me?
Do you have a cousin named Ida? :lol:
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Of course he does, and don't forget about her twin sister Ima!

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Regarding the OP I really shouldn't be surprised, what with the slippery slope of political correctness and all.
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Well, pimpin' aint easy. Ho Ho Hoes for all good boys!
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If the Santa does it right, it doesn't even sound like 'ho'. It sounds like a robust, if peculiar, laugh. (See Santa Claus the Movie)
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Executor32 wrote:Of course he does, and don't forget about her twin sister Ima!

*rimshot*

Regarding the OP I really shouldn't be surprised, what with the slippery slope of political correctness and all.
Hur hur hur :P I also have a brother called Yuza.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Zuul wrote:PC GONE MAD!

Moral decline!

Common sense!

And other such Daily Mail catchphrase headlines to respond to invented hysteria.
Except even a broken clock is right twice a day. This kind of idiocy may be lapped up by such rags, but that doesn't mean we should automatically ignore it because conservative loons feel it brings Armageddon to society.

It's eerily similar to O'Reilly's ranting about Christmas and "happy holidays" in stupidity if this is true.
Unfortunately, obnoxious American black women who look for any excuse to get pissed off at others may be a stereotype, but it's a stereotype that has some basis in reality. I say "American black" because American blacks are a particular cultural phenomenon, quite distinct from actual Africans.
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That kind of stand-offish, sassy, bitchy "sistah" attitude is reeks painfully to me of inferiority complexes. Not to mention just being generally socially unreasonable from a practical perspective and irritating drivel on the airwaves. They had a terrible rap song called "Bossy" that was about some too-cool-for-school bitch preaching about how she's hot and therefore can act like a rancid cunt. Hurray for the virtues our society triumphs.
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Illuminatus Primus wrote:That kind of stand-offish, sassy, bitchy "sistah" attitude is reeks painfully to me of inferiority complexes. Not to mention just being generally socially unreasonable from a practical perspective and irritating drivel on the airwaves. They had a terrible rap song called "Bossy" that was about some too-cool-for-school bitch preaching about how she's hot and therefore can act like a rancid cunt. Hurray for the virtues our society triumphs.
And since American blacks and the urban culture they peddle on MTV represent the highest apex of cool imaginable, white suburban girls are now adopting the attitude en masse. I'd lose track if asked to count how often I've been confronted at a party by a white (or native, now that I think of it) girl with this attitude who seemed perfectly ready to throw fists, irrespective of how intimidating the male opponent was.

I guess peak oil has some upsides, if that's not too macabre a thing to say.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:Except even a broken clock is right twice a day. This kind of idiocy may be lapped up by such rags, but that doesn't mean we should automatically ignore it because conservative loons feel it brings Armageddon to society.
Not quite. There are three problems here with daring to agree with the Daily Heil. You, I and everybody without mental illness see a generally isolated or minor incident of PCness and we groan and shrug it off because, let's face it, it's nothing to get huffed up about. The Daily Mail and co, however, are different.

1) They do indeed see it as Armageddon or at the least as a widespread, concerted campaign against Christmas.

2) They ascribe it to secularist liberals. I'm sure some of these PC retards are secularist liberals; trouble is, the non-vocal majority get lumped with them, i.e. the majority that considers this ridiculous.

3) The most pertinent point is that it gives powerful, emotive propaganda in the more important battlegrounds of secularism, the battle to keep genuine, substantial religious influence out of government. Warning against ho-ho-hos is not a valid goal, wanting to base the FCC (or the Ofcom in our case, cf Jerry Springer the Opera) on religious principles and back this with force of law is a good goal, but the former contaminates the latter with its bullshit. Worthy secular goals are shown by association to be ridiculous.
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Oops, I meant to say preventing the FCC/ofcom from being religious is a valid goal. :p
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My point(s) exactly. I don't intend to praise the retards over at their offices, but I can't disagree with them finding this stupid. I just don't think it's "ZOMG!!1! END OF TEH W0RLD!!2" crap like their ultimate headline of immigrant pædophiles with a new form of gay AIDS that lowers house prices and promotes anti-Christian ways.
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I suppose I should clarify that they exaggerate it so much - and exploit it for Purpose 3 - that it becomes wholly removed from our line on the matter. They are saying superficially the same thing but not only is it unnecessarily vitriolic, it stems from completely different principles - common sense vs religious/conservative bigotry.
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TithonusSyndrome wrote: I guess peak oil has some upsides, if that's not too macabre a thing to say.
I feel guilty for schadenfreude as well, but usually the people in question (arrogant business students, Christian starry-eyes, and pop culture-obsessed myrmidons) ask for it.
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Darth Wong wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Zuul wrote:PC GONE MAD!

Moral decline!

Common sense!

And other such Daily Mail catchphrase headlines to respond to invented hysteria.
Except even a broken clock is right twice a day. This kind of idiocy may be lapped up by such rags, but that doesn't mean we should automatically ignore it because conservative loons feel it brings Armageddon to society.

It's eerily similar to O'Reilly's ranting about Christmas and "happy holidays" in stupidity if this is true.
Unfortunately, obnoxious American black women who look for any excuse to get pissed off at others may be a stereotype, but it's a stereotype that has some basis in reality. I say "American black" because American blacks are a particular cultural phenomenon, quite distinct from actual Africans.
It doesn't look like this idea - that "ho ho ho" will offend people - was started by an actual complaint from American black women. Especially since we are only seeing this in Australia so far, and not the States.
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These bitches have to be fucking paranoid to have their minds jump to the conclusion that santa is calling them hoes. It sounds more like "Hooh Hooh Hooh" anyway.

I predict that in twenty years children won't be allowed to sit on Santa's lap.
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