leave santa alone!
1) Santa are instructed against saying 'ho ho ho' so not to scare children (okay there) or offend women. If you are offended by SANTA saying 'Ho Ho Ho!' in your general direction, then you probably are a ho. Live with it.
2) Santa can't scoop up a child and put he/she on his lap is fine - if the kid gets scared and loses his/her shit, then Santa needs a new pair of pants. But please tell Mom or Dad or Babysitter to get off the fucking cell phone and put the little one on Santa's lap instead of holding up the line. No telling Santa and the elves 'Just a minute' five times and pissing off everyone waiting behind you - this goes WAAYYY past coal. Use your imagination. (yes this actually happened tonight and I'm still upset)
3) Now, of course, comes the pc-ness of Santa's weight - it was inevitable. The Acting (in other words he's pretending to be) US Surgeon General said Santa should trim down since he sets a bad example and is a poor role model due to his weight. Santa comes around once a year. Kids look up to him not just because if you' re nice you get stuff, but because there really aren't too many people in the world who look like Santa does and maybe it blows their minds a little bit. Seriously, when you were a kid how many twinkley-eyed happy older man with round glasses, white hair and a long white beard who also just happened to be a little round in the belly and had a fondness for red did you know?
I am so upset the little things are made into such tremendous issues and waste brain cells of overly-pc'ers franticly rushing to make whatever that little thing is to something 'kinder and gentler' which is becoming more and more cumbersome and asinine.
This is what happens when a stupid person puts an obviously hot cup of coffee between her legs, gets burnt, sues the company for not placing a "caution hot coffee" message on it and wins.
2) Santa can't scoop up a child and put he/she on his lap is fine - if the kid gets scared and loses his/her shit, then Santa needs a new pair of pants. But please tell Mom or Dad or Babysitter to get off the fucking cell phone and put the little one on Santa's lap instead of holding up the line. No telling Santa and the elves 'Just a minute' five times and pissing off everyone waiting behind you - this goes WAAYYY past coal. Use your imagination. (yes this actually happened tonight and I'm still upset)
3) Now, of course, comes the pc-ness of Santa's weight - it was inevitable. The Acting (in other words he's pretending to be) US Surgeon General said Santa should trim down since he sets a bad example and is a poor role model due to his weight. Santa comes around once a year. Kids look up to him not just because if you' re nice you get stuff, but because there really aren't too many people in the world who look like Santa does and maybe it blows their minds a little bit. Seriously, when you were a kid how many twinkley-eyed happy older man with round glasses, white hair and a long white beard who also just happened to be a little round in the belly and had a fondness for red did you know?
I am so upset the little things are made into such tremendous issues and waste brain cells of overly-pc'ers franticly rushing to make whatever that little thing is to something 'kinder and gentler' which is becoming more and more cumbersome and asinine.
This is what happens when a stupid person puts an obviously hot cup of coffee between her legs, gets burnt, sues the company for not placing a "caution hot coffee" message on it and wins.