As here in Europe Christmas eve has already begun, we, the OSNews team, both editors and site maintainers, would like to wish all of our readers a very merry Christmas. May everyone be with the ones they love– no matter one’s nationality, religion, favourite operating system, favourite desktop environment, or whatever. Let us also hope the victims of the tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan, and Gulf Coast hurricane, and all others who have suffered this year, have found comfort. Let’s have a moment of silence on the 26th for them. Merry Christmas, people (and anyone who dares to sing “Last Christmas” in the comments gets banned for a week) !
Spelling.
And here’s to another year of anal retention!
Have a nice christmas everyone! Luckily for me, I can’t sing 🙂
I celebrate Quanza and Honica you insensitive clod.
Guys, don’t…
You celebrate both? Well that isn’t possible if you are actually ***…
“You celebrate both? Well that isn’t possible if you are actually ***…”
Why is it say ***… that was supposed to say J ewish for some reason it doesn’t like the word J ewish.
LOL JEWS
Plus you spelled one of them wrong I will let you figure it out since you cellebrate it.
God damn!
Thats the one of the worst spellings of “celebrate” I have ever seen – more like cellebate….
“Thats the one of the worst spellings of “celebrate” I have ever seen – more like cellebate….”
Truely an instrument of chastity.
celebrate
I don’t celebrate either of those, but I do not begrudge them their right to celebrate both. May you enjoy peace and happiness during both. And while I am at it, have a Merry Christmas anyway. Any chance of a name other than “Anonymous”?
Bill
“Honica?” Sounds like a car company.
Anyway, {happy,merry} {Christmas, ?????, Kwanzaa, Festivus} to all!
Err, ????? being Chanukah. Osnews, it’s time to switch to utf-8…
I hope you all have a merry christmas and another shit meaningless year.
“I celebrate Quanza and Honica you insensitive clod.”
You’re a liar. You misspelled BOTH. It is possible to celebrate both but I think it impossible that you wouldn’t know how to spell either or that you would make such a complaint about someone wishing others a merry Christmas. Your attempt to cast a bad light on those who celebrate those holidays reveals your true nature. Thus we see the reality of the phony “war on Christmas.” It’s really an anti-tolerance campaign by right wing extremists.
I whish somebody whould get a dictionary.
Everybody has to be a critic.
Bill
Though I guess OSNEWS does not want to be “Attacking Christmas” 😛
I think he meant “Merry Christmas”. I celebrate Christmas, but I do not find it offensive to wish anyone all the best for their sacred celebrations. How about a little tolerance here.
Bill
Use Konqueror in the new year, it has spell checking 🙂
Merry Christmas
Guess next year I can sing “Last christmas, I gave you my comment..”
“no matter one’s nationality, religion, favourite operating system,”
I thought that religion and ones operating system where the same thing…
I thought that religion and ones operating system where the same thing…
That spelling error sure is contageous. Happy holidays
Spoken like a true Geek. 🙂
Leave the kid alone guys. He is 21 and sensitive. Give him a break.
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I’ll give it to someone special
Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance
But you still catch my eye
Tell me baby
Do you recognize me?
Well
It’s been a year
It doesn’t surprise me
(whispered) Merry Christmas,
I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying “I love you”
and meant it
Now I know what a fool I’ve been
But if you kissed me now
I know you’d fool me again
[Chorus x2]
A crowded room
Friends with tired eyes
I’m hiding from you
And your soul of ice
Oh my I thought you were
Someone to rely on
Me?
I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
A friend to discover with a fire in her heart
A girl under cover but you tore me apart
You tore me apart, ooo-ooo
Now I’ve found a real love you’ll never fool me again
[Chorus x2]
A friend to discover with a fire in her heart
A girl under cover but you tore me apart
[Spoken] Maybe next year,
I’ll give it to someone
I’ll give it to someone special
😀
i wish everybody to be happy and i wish all your dreams and hopes and wishes to come true!
Happy christmas and Happy New Year to all of you from Greece!
I’m deeply offended by your holiday cheer. Prepare for a spanking!
Happy Hanukkah, tonight is the first BTW
Edited 2005-12-24 18:58
Chag Chanukkah Sameach you too!
(this year it will start at the evening of 25th)
Merry F*cking Christmas …
What happened to christmas ?!?!
Have we all forgotten what christmas it really about?
We eat like we haven’t eaten for weeks,
and in other parst of the world there is real hunger,
We buy present for millions of dollars,
and in other parst of the world, there are people without any money …
Have we forgotten what christmas it supposed to be about?
Well, not really. The presents we bought were manufactured by poor little children from poor countries. Think about it. We’re helping them earn some cash. Huray for us!
Yeah…. hooray for us … NOT !
That would be even worse …
To exploit them, to work for too little money,
so you can have your toys …
The world would be a better place if there was no
money at all … but unfortunately there is,
and only, because of greedy people who want to
be richter than others … this world is sick:
infected with greedy people, people who don’t care
about anything but themselves …
or you know, you could stop your self righteous bullshit and shut up.
have a merry christmas
shup up youself, and think about it,
when you are eating your christmas dinner …
think about the people who are alone,
who have noone who cares about them …
that is the people you should be caring
about this days … and don’t tell me to
shut up, just because you don’t agree with me,
you just want to go with everyone, who is just
doing what the companies want you to do…
spend your money on expensive stuff, and fill
their pockets … please … this is not what
christmas is supposed to be about …
Hmmm… give presents to loved ones, check. That IS what Christmas is about. Sorry I can’t make everything I do or say have an impact on the world’s problems. But once or twice I year I can gather with my close friends and familiy and celebrate, without guilt for that the fact that the world sucks. And you should to.
there is nothing wrong with the present,
just to show you care about your friends,
but that is not the point … the point is,
it is supposed to be just a present, and not
a too much … not all expensive stuff,
just a simple present to show that you care…
and why do you need a 5 plate dinner ?
Just to have dinner with family and friends should
be enough…
I’ve never purchased a million dollar present.
“Have we forgotten what christmas it supposed to be about?”
Oh yeah! That reminds me…pick up Andre’s present.
Given the forum, I think it only appropriate that Linus tell us what Christmas is all about:
http://www.xmasfun.com/Stories/CB/Default.asp
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year! 2006 the year Linux take over the desktop!<snicker>
This is the time to celebrate the birth of our Saviour, Steve Jobs.
Sincerely,
Your Average Mac Zealot Templar
I admire your courage in posting that. I bet you knew you were going to take a lot of flak. Don’t let it get to you. You will always have to deal with intolerant people throughout your life. Thanks for the greeting and a very Merry Christmas to you and the staff as well.
Bill
For those of you wishing to express your christmas spirit to those less fortunate, instead of some fat exec:
http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/
Don’t let the name fool you, its a secular organization.
“For those of you wishing to express your christmas spirit to those less fortunate, instead of some fat exec:”
I can always say Merry Christmas to everyone at Weight Watchers. /g/
happy christmas to everyone
Merry Christmas to everybody and thank you for this great website !
Merry Christmas!
Too bad see people fight even in this topic in this day who are supposed to be about love, forgiveness and union O.o
Tks for all osnews staff for this site and for the message.. merry christmas for all editors, staff, users… and the world!
This day is not about presents at all, sure! commerce are happy, but you only buy presents to people who you like. The best thing is to wake up in the morning and see all your family, including the past generations and celebrate. Enjoy the day, forget your problems… think about a perfect world, and then will turn on reality. The first step for a better world is care about other people for good. Regardless of religion, or lack of, this day is to be celebrated by their message, who are simple: love.
Happy holiday to everyone =]
Merry Christmas to all registered and anonymous OSNews readers, posters, flamers, zealots, geeks, nerds and especially to the OSNews crew!
I can’t sing either
“no matter one’s nationality, religion, favourite operating system, favourite desktop environment” ???
HHmmmm… Nationality, religion, sex, colour… that’s not really important, but Operating System…
OPERATING SYSTEM is bloody immportant,guy. It is of paramount importance… Some people is going to hell directly for using a determinate one 😉 (we all know which one)!!!
Merry christmas to all, Feliz Navidad a todos, Jojeux Noel à tous, etc. !!!!
Angel–Fr@gzill@
Anyway … merry christmas …
and, a little late, merry Yule
Can I sing “Wake me up (before you go-go)” instead ?
Best wishes to everyone who frequents OSNews whatever their religion (or lack thereof) may be.
To those I agree with, and those I don’t. To the smart and the smartass, to the insightfuls and the trolls, to zealots, fanboys and shills. Tonight it’s not worth to fight, let’s celebrate with friends and/or family instead.
Resolution for next year: spend less time arguing on the Internet! 😉
amen.
🙂
En glædelig jul til alle kristne.
What’s up with that? Christmas has never been about Jesus, never will be. He stole it from the solstice celebrations.
And it’s impolite to speak Danish in an international forum… 😛
But yeah, happy xmas!
Well, it ought to be gLædelig jul, but anyway…
Merry Yule and Happy New Year (in a couple of days).
BTW: Nr.2 … er du asatroende?
And then.. no more danish in here
dylansmrjones – posting as anonymous (takes forever to login from my dads pentium mmx@200 mhz with 80 megs of ram and win2k Pro)
Happy holiday and so on in all languages of the world (including dutch)
MERRY X-MAS!
Browser: Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/1.1.2430/hifi/myopera/int; mobile phone; en; U; ssr)
Happy Clearance Day for everyone!
…and more happy baah-lidays at this time of the year too!
thanks
Yes, Merry X-mas to all! Except of course emacs users…
– Simon
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.
If you celebrate another festival have a good one.
If you are not of a religious persuasion …go read the GPL immediately 😉
bah humbug
Is a week in Tenerife.
Just to point out that the phrase is utterly meaningless in the UK as a “holiday” is what we have when you Yanks are having a vacation.
I can also spot all the Americans (and pseudo Americans) by the use of “merry Christmas” as we always traditionally said “Happy Christmas” in the UK till we got endless reruns of US Sitcoms in the 80’s and 90’s.
Is a week in Tenerife.
Yeah, tearing up BrEeZaH-gIrLz in Tenerife… No, not really my happy holiday.
>I can also spot all the Americans (and pseudo >Americans) by the use of “merry Christmas” as we >always traditionally said “Happy Christmas” in the UK t>ill we got endless reruns of US Sitcoms in the 80’s and >90’s.
Hey! :0
Come on now… Santa says “Merry Christmas!”
And a Happy New Year!
Happy Hanukkah
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“Aren’t”, Ohh!
Sorry
Edited 2005-12-25 00:41
Wish all of you a very blessed Christmas and a peaceful, prosperous, wonderful New Year.
God bless you all.
And a happy New Year, indeed. 2005’s been an interesting year; I’m sorry to see it go. Let’s see what 2006 brings!
Two and a half hours to go where I am. I guess I better clear off to bed so I can wake up at 5 AM or whenever I’m supposed to wake up tomorrow…
(Oh, and by the way, I hate “Last Christmas”… and I haven’t even heard it more than four times in the last two weeks. Either we need more GOOD Christmas music, or simply play less of it. I vote less, since even “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” gets old fast.)
Edited 2005-12-25 02:38
Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate christmas and Happy Holidays to whom ever does not. Personally I reall think happy holidays is just wrong when you know who you saying it to celebrates. For example I gave my neighbor a gift and I clearly said Merry Christmas, we have seen each in other in a Catholic church but he said Happy Holidays who how it bugs me.
bah!
You’re all dicks. Go to hell.
Merry Christmas and Merry Chistmuhka and Merry Hollydays.
I hope you all got GNU/Linux computers , GNU/Linux phones , GNU/Linux server and GNU/Linux Jobs for those that dont have one ( BSD , UNIX , Solaris that got replaced by GNU/Linux ) 😉
I you did not receive any GNU/Linux gift this year , pick one up at http://www.distrowatch.com or many and download them for free and legally.
Ho HO HO !
now would they be kdElves or GNOMES??????
muahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!
Either way a very blessed (if a little late) solstice to one and all, and may the returning sun bring light and balance to the world
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a deep THANK YOU for the good and informational work you do.
Vasileios Anagnostopoulos
I wan’t to thank osnews.com for wishing happy Christmas. I also want to say Merry Christmas to everyone.
I’m usually a Troll when i commit here but since it’s Christmas. I’ll be nice. Merry Christmas and happy new boring job finanacial slave bank owned and probably underloved year