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Another year, another holiday, same stupid shit. This on the heels of some that believe a "fat" Santa encourages obesity.
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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.
Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.
One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute.
"Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.
"We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph.
"Leave Santa alone."
A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.
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Belgium8305 Posts
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wow.... ho ho ho this is blasphemy.
edit: haha this reminded me of a chinese phrase "nei ge" as in "that", and it sounds like nigger... and some black guys could be taking it the wrong way ;p
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Bosnia-Herzegovina1381 Posts
Eventually they are going to ban Santa from saying "Hello" because it has the word "Hell" in it.
Child- "LOOK ITS SANTA!"
Santa- "Salutations Child!"
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yeah i saw this before, just didnt post it. i plan to put on a hat and say ho ho ho to everyone outta spite. my god everything is so PC now.
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is awesome32277 Posts
On November 16 2007 01:44 vGl-CoW wrote:
leave santa alone
lololol
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"ha ha ha, merry christmas" just doesn't have that same ring to it.
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wow that's fucking stupid, a friend of mine told me about this but i couldn't take him seriously, i can't believe it's legit.
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Wow, that's so stupid... poor aussies 
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Anti-corruption is going to make all teenagers of the modern generation either seem like terrorists to the adults that imposed these restrictions because they understand the meaning of "ho", or they will all graduate as infantile retards and systematically kill themselves when exposed to the real world.
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United States3573 Posts
rofl I can just imagine all the retarded Australian women glaring at santa's in the mall when they say ho ho ho 
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Wow, and I thought we had over protective shit in the US...
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Australia3818 Posts
I always think of that whenever Santa says 'ho ho ho'.
It was only a matter of time before that fat bastard was given some politically correct treatment.
They could tell him to lose some weight and consider shaving his beard while their at it.
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United States20661 Posts
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United States4991 Posts
According to a different article, this is somewhat misleading.
+ Show Spoiler [The article itself] +
SANTAS working in shopping centres across Australia have been banned from bellowing "ho ho ho" because it might frighten children.
Recruitment firm Westaff, which supplies hundreds of Santas around the country, yesterday confirmed the edict.
Westaff national operations manager Glen Jansz said the company's Santas had been urged to tone down their use of the "ho, ho, ho" phrase.
"The reason behind that is we find that in some cases the little kids can get a little bit scared of the deep 'ho, ho, hos' and we ask them to be mindful of keeping their voices to a lower level," he said.
"And kids are probably more inclined to understand 'ha, ha, ha', than 'ho, ho, ho'."
Thirty trainees at a recent Santa course were instructed to replace the traditional Christmas greeting with "ha, ha, ha".
A Santa veteran of 11 years told the Sunday Herald Sun the instructions were clear: "No 'ho ho ho'."
"We were told to say 'ha ha ha Merry Christmas'," he said.
Two Santa hopefuls reportedly left the course after the edict.
Family Council of Victoria spokesman Bill Muehlenberg described the ban as "nonsensical".
"Potentially any big guy in a red suit with a white beard is scary but I don't think him saying 'ho ho ho' would damage a child's psyche.
"Let's just concentrate on the kids having a good time."
A survey of Melbourne children yesterday found universal support for Santa's "ho ho ho".
"It's silly, we love hearing Santa's laugh," said Briony, 8, of Mitcham.
"It doesn't frighten me at all. It's what Santa is supposed to say," said Byron, 9, of Melton.
Yesterday in the Bourke St Mall, Santas appeared to be ignoring orders to stop the 'ho ho hos'.
David Jones's bellowed to a delighted group of children and rival Myer's Santa also kept up the jolly tradition.
The relevant part of the article:
Westaff national operations manager Glen Jansz said the company's Santas had been urged to "tone down" their use of the "ho, ho, ho" phrase – but he said it wasn't for fear of offending women.
"The reason behind that is we find that in some cases the little kids can get a little bit scared of the deep ho, ho, hos and we ask them to be mindful of keeping their voices to a lower level," he said.
Bold added by me.
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hahahah what a retarded read
Santa's a fatty, so what?
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Australia3818 Posts
Santa with demon eyes, with the deepest "HO, HO, HO" you can imagine.
Play some metal in the background and you've got a certified child-scarer.
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You know who else says hohoho? Jabba the Hut.
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Canada5062 Posts
I would understand if the ban was in the context of a Chinese city. It must be irritating as hell to hear your name being called out like that.
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