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[challenge entry] This might make life easier...
For £4.99 you can buy the 10 tabbed version that includes Jewish, Sikh, Hindu and Bhuddist festivals



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(I helped save b3ta! WOLF .™, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:45, archived)
# what is 'winterval'?
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:46, archived)
# i have no idea
seemingly a PC name so as not to offend anyone,
except it offends me and everyone else i imagine
(I helped save b3ta! WOLF .™, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:46, archived)
# nope
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:47, archived)
# It's actually a Daily Mail 'scandal'
that was based on 0% of fact - it was a winter shopping campaign in Birmingham about 5 years ago I believe.

Doesn't stop the nutters who write for the Daily Mail running the story every chuffing year.
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:48, archived)
# exactly
Mail readers are angry, so the paper has to make up a scandal for them to be angry about.

It's just sad when otherwise rational people fall for it.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)
# That's scandalous!
I'm angry at the Daily Mail now.
(fridgefreezer inserted a topical reference into his sig on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:02, archived)
# Write them a letter!
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:04, archived)
# The pen is mightier than the sword
After all, it is language that separates us from the beasts.

Thus:

Dear sir,
I feel I must take issue with the unnecessary scandalous overtones occasionally detectable in your esteemed publication.

It displeases me to see your journalistic standards lowered in such a fashion, surely you are above such low-brow tabloid behaviour?

Yours

Brig. Fridgeignton Freezerous-Smythe (Retired.)

And I shall address it to "Cunts, London".
(fridgefreezer inserted a topical reference into his sig on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:43, archived)
# 1998 oops
but what's a few years between outraged of tunbridge well's
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:51, archived)
# I don't wiki
I rely on that amorphous blob between my ears...


YES, MY NOSE HAR DE HAR HAR HAR :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:54, archived)
# Are you coming to Manchester?
(Pachey, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:57, archived)
# Yes/No/Maybe!
I'll let you know! Sorry I can't be more specific :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:00, archived)
# It certainly was
They renamed Christmas to Winterval so as not to offend anyone. They didn't count on those pesky Christians though did they? Who would have thought of that ethnic minority having a go in Birmingham!
(I helped save b3ta! crazygibbon all your monster munch are belong to us, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 16:05, archived)
# The 'PC-gone-mad' brigade
decided to rebrand Festivus.
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:46, archived)
# Linford Christiemas
(I helped save b3ta! WOLF .™, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:47, archived)
# wrong
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:48, archived)
# I know
It was an attempt at humour...

christ!
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)
# Ahhhh
ok, sorry.

Caught you up in the raft of knee-jerkery.

My apologies.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:50, archived)
# :P
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:51, archived)
# what is 'festivus'?
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)
# :)
It's a Seinfeld joke
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:50, archived)
# I'm Festivus!
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:55, archived)
# i'm festivus
and so's my wife!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:59, archived)
# A collective term for the various religious and non-religiious festivals over the winter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:47, archived)
# some p.c twattery
concocted by morons who don't want to unintentionally offend anyone even slightly different to themselves.
pussies.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:47, archived)
# nuh-huh
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:48, archived)
# yep, that's what i was saying
why can't they leave individual holidays alone, instead of lumping them all together with some stupid tree-hugging name?
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:50, archived)
# Because it is quite a mouthful to say
'come to our store for all your Winter solstice, Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Day, Christmas, Advent and Boxing Day needs.'
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:54, archived)
# fuck 'em.
we've called it christmas for years. if they don't like it, tough.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:58, archived)
# I'm sure that's a sensible marketing strategy.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:08, archived)
# it is.
people will always spend their money in a shop that acts like it doesn't need customers.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:12, archived)
# Can someone tell this theory to my boss please?
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:28, archived)
# just point out to him
that all the upmarket shops have really snotty staff that make you feel apologetic for even setting foot in there, but they're all raking it in!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:32, archived)
# Fuck it
if they want to lump everything together into one 3 month long holiday, why the hell not?

Daily Mail readers are a bunch of cocks.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:55, archived)
# if we were getting a 3-month holiday
believe me, i wouldn't be complaining!
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:00, archived)
# a promotional campaign to help Birmingham businesses 10 years ago
that was nothing to do with de-secularising Christmas.

/QI blog
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)
# yeh! like a homosexual manic depressive knows anything.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKy4RHf5tQ

factual tv ftw.
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:01, archived)
# Arf!
Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:46, archived)
# What about Kwaanza?
nice pic
(Pachey, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:52, archived)
# Didn't that go oyut of business
like Pirate Bay?

Or did it go legit like Napster?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:56, archived)