Oh Dear.
Urgh, the past couple of days have been exhausting. But it means money for my week off (yay for Christmas).
Not long back
author_by_night mentioned an article she found that said Sydney had banned Santa from using the term 'Ho ho ho'. Aparently they thought it would offend people because some Americans uses the term 'ho' in a derogatory fashion. Which seems stupid no matter which way you look at it. I didn't really think too much about it though because, well, it's Sydney. No one listens to Sydney.
But yesterday I had a bunch of kids come up to me for the following conversation:
Them: Miss Amy, did you hear about the woman at Myer?? (Myer is a department store)
Me: No. What about her?
Them: She got fired for saying 'Ho Ho Ho'. (Said with strangely gleeful expressions)
Me: Really? I heard they were going to ban that. Seems a stupid thing to get fired for though.
Them: Yeah. Did you know that ho means prostitute!? (really gleeful expressions)
Me: Only in America.
Them: COOL!! It really means prostitute!
And then they ran off to tell their friends that it had been confirmed. So the people who tried to ban it in fear of offending people who didn't know what it meant, are now responsible for informing an entire generation of children that there are insults that can be used to call fellow students prostitutes under the guise of 'Christmas Cheer' (something that has never been a problem before).
At least there's only one more week of the children going feral before summer hols start. Bring on the Vacation Care!