"SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/wl_asia_afp/lifestyleaustraliachristmasoffbeat
are you nuts?
2007-11-15 04:59:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Sydney
Never mind that most of the Department store Santas reek of booze and are degenerates and vagabonds. Let's make sure they don't offend anyone by saying Ho Ho Ho !!!!!!
This friggin world is getting so ridiculous. In America school kids can't hug because it violates school policy. If you get pissed off at a coworker (who usually deserves it ) and tell them to go F**K themselves you are sent to "Anger Management" by HR. It's pathetic.
I'd like to line up the people who enacted this policy and rtell them all to "BITE ME" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-11-15 05:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If any woman is offended by Santa saying ho ho ho they should be medicated and carted off in a white jacket until the holidays are over. I cant believe that anyone would be offended by something that brought them joy when they were children. Dont punish the kids just because you have no common sense.
2016-05-23 06:59:00 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
I saw this on the news on tv recently about it. I reckon it's bit stupid idea I think!
It's part of Christmas where Santa always goes around saying Ho Ho Ho! Wouldn't be Christmas if they changed it! It would be like banning Christmas all together!
Christmas is a great time of the year because all the children get Christmas presents and open them on Christmas Day. And a lot of people decorate their house with Christmas Lights each year (I'm one of them!) and it's a great time of the year to celebrate the birth of Jesus on his birthday.
Thank you
From Clint
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2007-11-15 12:37:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As A woman I am not offended if they say ho ho ho.
Ha ha ha is even worse, and it's in a way making a mockery.
Just keep with the ho ho ho's
2007-11-15 05:07:57 · answer #4 · answered by Skyleigh's Mom :)™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a complete media beat-up. Someone probably suggested it as a joke and a Daily Telegraph reporter took it seriously - but that's what you would expect from the Tele. It cannot have even the slightest possibility of being true or it would have made the front page of the Northern Territory News in Darwin - and it hasn't. That's the sort of important story that would get crocodiles off the front page.
2007-11-15 08:34:30 · answer #5 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
LOL
I never heard of this before nor am I offended now.
There is a difference between hoe and ho (even if they sound the same) and if people are that stupid then too bad-it's called a homonym
2007-11-15 05:03:29 · answer #6 · answered by pensk8r 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well that is funny - cause this story says Santa's are banned from bellowing "ho ho ho" because it might frighten children.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22738300-2,00.html
2007-11-15 08:07:47 · answer #7 · answered by • Koala • uʍop ɹǝpun 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get over it!HO HO HO 4 ever!
2007-11-15 05:07:46 · answer #8 · answered by Wounded Duck 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ho as slang for whore is not prevalent in Australia.
Beat up.
2007-11-15 08:15:18 · answer #9 · answered by iansand 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read that article, too. If I heard a Santa say "Ha, ha, ha" I'd be worried that he was laughing at me.
2007-11-15 05:06:26 · answer #10 · answered by HermioneW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋