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At this time of year when a lot of the shops and supermarkets and internet sites are all geared towards Christmas. It really bothers me when Father Christmas is referred to as Santa Claus.
Father Christmas just sounds much more jolly and welcoming. And I’ve never really liked the name Santa Claus and it bothers me.
Are there anymore small things or issues that bothers anyone? And by small, I mean quite insignificant that doesn’t bother anyone?
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A really small issue that I do not like. on 19:29 - Oct 9 with 734 views
A really small issue that I do not like. on 19:30 - Oct 9 by GlasgowBlue
I was brought u with Father Christmas but brought my own kids up with Santa.
Substituting Santa Claus with Father Christmas with the following would be so wrong.
Santa Claus is coming to town - Father Christmas is coming to town.
I saw mommy kissin' Santa Claus - I saw mommy kissin' Father Christmas
Santa Baby - Father Christmas baby
Here comes Santa Claus - Here comes Father Christmas
That shows you’re both cultured and a good egg for pushing back against the dominant patriarchy, with Santa being derived from Latin and the feminine form of Saint.
Besides, everyone knows Santa was a ‘she’ as you’ve already inferred:
A really small issue that I do not like. on 17:45 - Oct 9 by Plums
My father in law detested them. He was always complaining about them - rats with wings waking you up in the morning with their sex games and then wrecking your lawn. When he died we discovered an air rifle in his cupboard. There's no doubt what it was there for
I rather doubt an air rifle would have done them much damage tbh, even the pointy pellets likely to bounce off their feathers unless getting a shot to the head? (unless they’ve advanced technically since I last had one around 2010).
A really small issue that I do not like. on 19:19 - Oct 9 by badadski
Yeah the fact that super markets stack through the day when stocks not needed and leave the stupid trolleys in the middle of isle so you constantly having To dodge employees, trolleys and other shoppers. They always block off what you need it seems.
I'd much rather they all stayed an hour or two later at the end of the day so they have less time with their family and friend, all so I don't ask them to move a trolley or walk two step more than I have to. 😂
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A really small issue that I do not like. on 20:51 - Oct 9 by Kropotkin123
I'd much rather they all stayed an hour or two later at the end of the day so they have less time with their family and friend, all so I don't ask them to move a trolley or walk two step more than I have to. 😂
Surely more available paid work is a good thing rather than squeezing staff into as much work as possible into as little time as possible at the inconvenience of the customer. Let’s face it, nothing to do with being nice to their staff now is it so they can get home for tea time.
Norwich fans pretending Sunday didn't happen and then becoming more interested in having to move seats to accommodate some executive seating for people who want to pay an extra £100 for a glass of cheap wine and a prawn sarnie.
A really small issue that I do not like. on 05:30 - Oct 10 by noggin
Stokie, you reading this?
Heh, I did think of him. Nobody else signs off their posts so he’s actually making extra effort. If he does it at work as well though, definitely a w@nker.
A really small issue that I do not like. on 17:39 - Oct 9 by Ryorry
I share your pain bro.
Thinking of applying for a shotgun license specially for them …
Years of thousands of their fist-sized dumps all over every surface in the garden incl furniture, gates, doors, windows, walls, tools left unattended for 5 minutes will finally do that to you
Don't forget to apply for one of these licences too unless you fancy a fine or imprisonment
I no longer live quite as remotely as I used to, and most country dwellers realise it’s not safe to let loose with a shotgun when you can’t see for at least 200m (depending on the gun & ammo I suppose) what’s behind your target!
There’ve actually been a handful of dead ‘uns around over the past year, cause unknown - maybe my neighbours’ 4 cats do have a redeeming feature …
Anybody who celebrates Christmas that is over the age of 12 should observe one, and only one, figurehead at Christmas time and that is Detective John McClane. One minute you're in the magical New York City and the next you're looking at the legend himself stating "Now I have a machine gun. Ho, ho, ho".
You don't see Father Claus reaching that level of chadliness, ever.
A really small issue that I do not like. on 10:03 - Oct 10 by Ryorry
Cheers, but I was joking …
I no longer live quite as remotely as I used to, and most country dwellers realise it’s not safe to let loose with a shotgun when you can’t see for at least 200m (depending on the gun & ammo I suppose) what’s behind your target!
There’ve actually been a handful of dead ‘uns around over the past year, cause unknown - maybe my neighbours’ 4 cats do have a redeeming feature …
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No problem - as a wildlife rescuer in my spare time, felt obliged to say something!
We have a lucky solution for keeping pigeons out of our garden; a pair of resident woodpigeons who nest in one of the trees and keep all the others away.
If you can't persuade another pair to do the same for you, you could probably do with someone like this legend in one of the parks I cover... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-29637810
(Article is from 2014...he'd already been at it for 5 years when it came out, and he's still going strong today - probably from eating 3 or 4 pigeons a day)
A really small issue that I do not like. on 16:16 - Oct 9 by jasondozzell
Fully behind you.
It's Father Christmas not Santa. We're not in America are we.
The creeping Americanisation of everything is not good.
Quite. Watching the England match last night, I wondered how long the terms "player in" and "player out" have been used to refer to substitutions? I'm sure it always used to be "player on" and "player off".
And as for the now ubiquitous reference to "seasons" of TV programmes, instead of "series"....
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A really small issue that I do not like. on 15:43 - Oct 10 with 278 views
I managed to avoid doing this yesterday, but my OCD tendencies have got the better of me now the thread’s popped back to the top.
A really small issue I don’t like is full stops at the end of titles. That’s what too many years proofing and reviewing does to you . Punctuation at the end of titles isn’t needed, except when it’s key to the emphasis of the title such as a question mark, and exclamation mark or a colon to indicate there’s a following sub-title.
Oh, and the other little thing that really annoys me is a pedestrian crossing where the red/green men symbols are on the box with the button you press and not opposite in the bleedingly obvious location for anyone who looks in the direction they walk. That’s not so little, as I genuinely think it’s a danger and it does me nut in.
A really small issue that I do not like. on 17:01 - Oct 10 by solemio
And there was me thinking Santa Claus was St Nicholas.
[edit: and the small thing that I do not like - small print, the more legally pretentious the worse it is. If you can't deliver a straight forward proposal then stand down, don't bog every one else down with ambulance chasing guff.}
A really small issue that I do not like. on 16:31 - Oct 9 by noggin
Something I've been pondering recently, is people who have to use shoe horns. How do they put their socks on?
I’ve clearly been labouring under the misapprehension that shoe horns are designed solely to protect the back of one’s shoe from being repeatedly crushed by one’s heel during forcible ingress of foot into said footwear.
Surely, if it’s a mobility/flexibility issue, you’re virtually there when you use it anyway? **
**cue some smart-arse posting a photo of a one-metre extendable one or some such nonsense.
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