WTF Stories of the Week

[Ghoulish Delight]

Here's my favorite so far

Wow. Plenty of usages of the word "Gift", but not even a "Holiday", let alone Christmas. It's obvious that purchasing gifts is the only thing they want you to think about this Christmas.

Umm, you're at a retail store. No sh*t they want you to think about purchasing gifts. If you're walking into an American Eagle store hoping for spiritual enlightenment, I really think you've missed the point.

[Alex]

The list does suggest that there is a correlation between killing animals and having a proper take on Christmas.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

The list does suggest that there is a correlation between killing animals and having a proper take on Christmas.

Closer to nature closer to God I suppose.

[Strangler Lewis]

The comments about people repeating "Merry Christmas" to get it said back to them remind me of movie scenes like the one in The Sound of Music where the local Nazi official repeats "Heil Hitler" until Christopher Plummer's music friend says it back to him.

[Chernabog]

Hahahaha! Governor accidentally directs parents to phone sex line. Tee hee!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Umm, you're at a retail store. No sh*t they want you to think about purchasing gifts. If you're walking into an American Eagle store hoping for spiritual enlightenment, I really think you've missed the point.

Yep. Exactly. Merry Christmas could potentially discourage atheists, Jews, Hindus, etc from shopping. Happy Holidays is inclusive and welcoming, which could encourage more people to come shop. It's logic.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Personally I just appreciate the sentiment when wished good will for pretty much any reason or time of year.

I wish more people would think this way.

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Hahahaha! Governor accidentally directs parents to phone sex line. Tee hee!

OOps!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

Yep. Exactly. Merry Christmas could potentially discourage atheists, Jews, Hindus, etc from shopping. Happy Holidays is inclusive and welcoming, which could encourage more people to come shop. It's logic.

Which is exactly what they find offensive. How dare they acknowledge the existence and right to courtesy of people not like themselves! Satanists!

[Alex]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

Yep. Exactly. Merry Christmas could potentially discourage atheists, Jews, Hindus, etc from shopping. Happy Holidays is inclusive and welcoming, which could encourage more people to come shop. It's logic.

Though an athiest/Jew/Hindu/etc being offended or not shopping somewhere because someone says "Merry Christmas" to them is just as silly as refusing to shop somewhere because they said Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Hahahaha! Governor accidentally directs parents to phone sex line. Tee hee!

It is a carved-into-the-very-fundamental-physical-properties-of-the-universe rule that misstating a phone number in a very public setting will always result in directing people to a phone sex number. Three times over the last three years at my current job I've been involved with emergency fixes to deal with incorrect phone numbers that reached production on web pages. Every single one of those wrong numbers (each different) was a phone sex number.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by Alex

Though an athiest/Jew/Hindu/etc being offended or not shopping somewhere because someone says "Merry Christmas" to them is just as silly as refusing to shop somewhere because they said Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.

Agreed. But it's also basic marketing- because someone might react this way, we have to do "X."

It is a carved-into-the-very-fundamental-physical-properties-of-the-universe rule that misstating a phone number in a very public setting will always result in directing people to a phone sex number. Three times over the last three years at my current job I've been involved with emergency fixes to deal with incorrect phone numbers that reached production on web pages. Every single one of those wrong numbers (each different) was a phone sex number.

Apparently there are a lot of phone sex lines.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Disturbed Elf Threatens to Blow Up Santa

But he looks so normal

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Hahahaha!

That is really funny to read in conjunction with your current avatar

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Governor accidentally directs parents to phone sex line.

And it took two months for it to be noticed.

Or two months for it to be reported.