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( WOLF .™ - has quit, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:45, archived)

what is 'winterval'?

( mictoboy, 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
( WOLF .™ - has quit, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:46, archived)

nope

( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, 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.
( Hamster Trippin', 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.
( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)

That's scandalous!
I'm angry at the Daily Mail now.
(fridgefreezer could tell you, but he'd have to kill you., Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:02, archived)

Write them a letter!

( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, 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 could tell you, but he'd have to kill you., Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:43, archived)

1998 oops
but what's a few years between outraged of tunbridge well's
( god save the queen hardly ever original, 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 :)
( Hamster Trippin', 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 :)
( Hamster Trippin', 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!
( 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.
( Hamster Trippin', Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:46, archived)

Linford Christiemas

( WOLF .™ - has quit, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:47, archived)

wrong
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval
( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:48, archived)

I know
It was an attempt at humour...

christ!
( Hamster Trippin', Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)

Ahhhh
ok, sorry.

Caught you up in the raft of knee-jerkery.

My apologies.
( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:50, archived)

:P

( Hamster Trippin', Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:51, archived)

what is 'festivus'?

( mictoboy, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)

:)
It's a Seinfeld joke
( Hamster Trippin', Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:50, archived)

I'm Festivus!

( Joe Scaramanga The bitch hit me with a toaster, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:55, archived)

i'm festivus
and so's my wife!
( Smash Monkey getting blamed for sparkly bikini bandwagons since, 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
( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, 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.
( Smash Monkey getting blamed for sparkly bikini bandwagons since, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:47, archived)

nuh-huh
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval
( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, 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?
( Smash Monkey getting blamed for sparkly bikini bandwagons since, 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.'
( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:54, archived)

fuck 'em.
we've called it christmas for years. if they don't like it, tough.
( Smash Monkey getting blamed for sparkly bikini bandwagons since, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:58, archived)

I'm sure that's a sensible marketing strategy.

( chenobble GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, 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.
( Smash Monkey getting blamed for sparkly bikini bandwagons since, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:12, archived)

Can someone tell this theory to my boss please?

( SugarSpunSister www.facebook.com/pages/SugarSpun/8347697732, 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!
( Smash Monkey getting blamed for sparkly bikini bandwagons since, 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.
( Afinkawan, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:55, archived)

if we were getting a 3-month holiday
believe me, i wouldn't be complaining!
( Smash Monkey getting blamed for sparkly bikini bandwagons since, 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
( Wasp Box has a Dutch Equivalent, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:49, archived)

yeh! like a homosexual manic depressive knows anything.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKy4RHf5tQ

factual tv ftw.
( god save the queen hardly ever original, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:01, archived)

Arf!
Woo!
( Hamster Trippin', 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?
( Joe Scaramanga The bitch hit me with a toaster, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 14:56, archived)