So because I'm curious I wondered what you wish people at this time of year?

I don't have a problem wishing or being wished a Merry/Happy Christmas, a Cool Yule, Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings or whatever. I think I've used them all at one time or another. In fact I think the only one I haven't used was one that a friend of my mother's used to wish me every year that always sounded fake, and that was Yuletide Felicitations. I mean do people really talk like that?

So what's your favourite and do you have one that you would never use?

Moon.

I actually don't do a lot of holiday wishing around this time of the year.

When I do it would most likely be around my Christian family and then of course it's Merry Christmas.

I don't like the ideal that people have about it being politically correct to say Happy Holidays or such. I think that if I say Merry Christmas to someone and they get offended because I didn't know what they celebrate. It is not my fault. If that person wishes to take a few moments to explain to me what it is that they celebrate I would happily wish that person whatever they wished to be wished. I think it is their own fault that they didn't take a moment to explain to me and instead got offended. Not a mind reader you know.

Anyways, so yeah. I don't have any greeting that I wouldn't use. As a result of not really doing a lot of celebration, I also don't have a favorite.
~Farshief

I don't say any...The only thing is on christmas day the family has a competition to see who can say "Christmas wish" the most...getting phone calls at seven is not fun...especially when it wake syou up. but I usually wait for them to say it first to aviod offending

I say merry christmas and happy chanakkuh and happy thanksgiving but when I say that in a none meaningful way i'm really saying "go to *Milton Keynes*, come back and tell me if your really happy/merry."


by the way... HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Silver (yes. I mean it.)

I would always wish a stranger a 'Merry' or 'Happy Christmas', for the simple reason that I have a higher percentage of Christians in the world I inhabit than any other religious faith.
The response I expect is either 'Merry/Happy Christmas' or 'the same to you'.
I extend my wish only to be polite, not to press any religious belief upon anyone else. If a person wishes to be offended by my good will wishes that is their choice, and not something I have any control over. I would simply walk away, or if a crowd is gathering, I would simply say 'As you wish, I apologise if my good wishes to you have offended you, however my good wishes to you remain', and then walk away.

I believe it to be a fact that some people will find offence even where there was none intended, and that if I allow their insecurities to alter my behaviour then I am no longer being myself.
This is unacceptable to me.

I believe people should look at the intention behind the greeting and not at the words of the greeting themselves. If the intention was good then there is nothing there to be offended by.

And although I believe I am a day late, HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you also Silver.

Merry Christmas usually.

It's a good general greeting and I've never had anyone complain about it. Well not yet anyway.
I'm not sure political correctness has reached where I live yet.

Round here (Wales) they all seem to say Nadolig Llawen so I say Merry Christmas in the broadest English accent I can muster.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Zygo

Oh most definatly either Happy Christmas or Happy Yule Tide.

So:

"We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE.

I think Just saying


MERRY CHRISTMAS


should work unless they have something against christmas like someone I know

I think just saying Merry Christmas doesn't get the point across. So I say
"Merry Christmas? Christmas is a HUMBUG.

A pox on all your Christmases, and your little dog's too.

May your tree catch fire and your pudding not.
May all your presents be little ones.
May Carol singers pen you in your home for hours when you have just discovered you need your last fifty pence for the electricity meter.
May you discover your turkey does not fit in your oven, twenty minutes before all your relatives are due to come round to your house for dinner.
May Santa fall off your roof top and slip a disc, cancelling Christmas for everyone.
May you spend boxing day talking to the vegetables on your plate because they're more interesting than your relatives.
May your Bread Sauce and your mashed potato be indistinguishable from each other in lumps, and taste and texture.
May all your brussel sprouts be hard and cold, and The Sound of Music be constantly on the TV. (Nothing new there then).

So Merry Christmas to you, and to all a Goodnight."


Velvet.

I just go Merry chistmas....


MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

I AM IN THE MOOD!!!

Kiari

thank you velvet. At last someone has seen the light

I will not say anything this christmas because im am still convinced that santa is not right and if i hear reindeers on my roof im starting a barbeque

People who know me, know what I mean when I wish them a Merry Christmas.
People who don't know me don't get wished anything at Christmas.
So misunderstandings like this aren't a problem for me.

I find the whole idea of Santa very creepy Serenity.
The old time, original Santa was a kindly fellow who left the children of his village gifts for Yule, but the modern one isn't like that and I have this feeling that there is something not right with the idea of him. Just creepy.

Darkness

What has Santa ever done to you?
You make him sound like a serial killer.

I wish people Happy Santa Day, it's better than Christmas, at least for me.

Though for Serenity and my dear Scrooge obsessed sister I shall say
'Many good wishes of the holiday season' instead. lol

I don't know ....between Serenity and I sitting out in our respective gardens with large bore rifles (look out reindeer), Velvets spotty curse, and I daren't even think about what Darkness will do to Father Christmas if she catches him, this Christmas could be rather interesting and at the very least a barrel of laughs.
I am looking forward to a salivatingly tasty yule.

Have a Cool Yule everyone..............except for the man in red who's bringing Christmas lunch

Zygo