Christmas is a holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. In most places around the world, Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25. During this time of the year I always ask myself, "Where did Christmas go?" Christmas was outsourced to the Beige-ists, language crusaders, and sold back to us as Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings.
Christmas has been replaced by a holiday I am not familiar with. This new holiday is called "Happy Holidays". Every time I see or hear that Beige-ist term I wonder what Holiday they are referring too. Why can they not just say Merry Christmas?
I do not recall anyone ever saying Seasons Greetings when summer arrived. It isn’t right that we only greet winter. It is offensive to the other seasons. We should be more consistent with our greetings. Most people enjoy summer more than winter. It would be more logical to say seasons greeting in summer. How does one greet a season? Doing so makes about as much sense as wishing a rock, good luck. The one thing that we have to remember is that Beige-ist are irrational, illogical, and inconsistent. Why are we allowing such volatile people to control our social customs?
It was the Beige-ist's as I like to call them that are coloring everything Beige. P.C. B.S. is making me want to have a B.M. I want to know if people are not celebrating Christmas and only having a happy holiday then why have a holiday at all. If you are not celebrating Christmas then why have a Christmas tree, egg nog, or presents? I do not receive presents during New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, or March break and last I checked they are all holidays. I also assume people want those holidays to be happy as well.
Out of all the holidays I like to think that people enjoy Christmas the most. Why did the Beige-ist's start with Christmas? They should have started with a smaller holiday like New Year's Day. Chinese people do not celebrate their New Years the same time as us. We must be offending them by celebrating this. Strike that holiday from the list. Good Friday can also be tossed out the window. It is another religious holiday that is sure to offend. Victoria Day must be offensive to everyone that has been oppressed by the English. Watch it get striked from the list. Canada day must also be thrown out the window too. Most of Canadians are immigrants that want to change our culture and laws so celebrating Canada day would be offensive to them. Flush goes that holiday. Thanksgiving Day without a doubt is offensive to all Native Indians. We better deep six that one as well. You would think that Labor Day would be safe, but it isn't. Labor Day started with the Toronto Trades Assembly, the original central labor body in Canada. They organized the country's first significant workers demonstration. We all know that all companies such as Wal-Mart are against Unions, not to mention all you morons who are reading this. Flush goes that holiday. Therefore we only have one holiday left, March Break, last I checked it wasn't a statutory holiday. Therefore it does not count.
Perhaps it was the Beige-ist's plan to start with the big holiday. Coloring all future holidays Beige would be easier once you morons accepted the removal of Christmas.
I do find it interesting that if people cannot celebrate Christmas then why let us have all the hoopla. Perhaps you have already guessed it. All races, religions, companies, and Beige-ist's love money. We cannot celebrate Christmas but, we can celebrate this new holiday called Happy Holidays. We can do so by spending money on Happy Holiday items. They are somewhat like Christmas items; we just can't call them Christmas items.
Where do I register my complaint? I find this new holiday, Happy Holiday offensive, it seems to mock Christmas. As I recall Santa was a Catholic Saint. Santa cannot say Merry Christmas. Santa must say Happy Holidays. I want Christmas back. Where is the Beige-ist's office so I can file my complaint? Perhaps I can ask the mailperson, or policeperson, where their office is. Perhaps their office is in front of the person hole cover, or perhaps I can ask my local waitperson, or the mentally challenged utensil sanitizer from my favorite restaurant. Perhaps the body entrepreneur on the street corner can give me directions.
The attitudes and values of the politically correct may well have had their origins in the civil rights and equality campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s, but political correctness is not about protecting the fundamental rights that lie at the heart of these campaigns. It is about limiting or suppressing the way people are able to think and express their views. Political correctness runs counter to the basic freedoms of society, precisely because it is intended to limit the debate on issues of rights and freedoms.
Here in Canada we celebrate CHRISTmas. I encourage you to use your rights as a Canadian. Celebrate Christmas not this new holiday. Although, you can only celebrate Christmas until all our rights are gone and Canada is renamed Sell-Out, or Liquidated.
Don't let the terrorists win. Merry Christmas.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Are you being served?
I write this rant not with the intension to criticize or insult, but to honor and praise the hard working few that work in the service industry. This rant is for you. You know who you are. The greedy season of Xmas is upon us. It is a time when everyone and their goat, feels the need to spend money they don’t have on things they don’t need for people they don’t care about. I am always amazed that during the Xmas season, a time when people should be kind and loving towards others, how rude you can be to customer service representatives.
Tap Tap Tap is the noise of the impatient customer. Tap Tap Tap is a noise that is heard by all customer service representatives. It is a noise that causes people in the service industry to want to murder. It is a noise far worse than nails on a chalkboard. Tap Tap Tap is the noise of an impatient customer striking their nails or coins on the counter. The noise is always followed by me envisioning some sort of Hannibal Lecter style defingering of the impatient customer.
The Xmas season does not provide an environment of fun loving happy go lucky people. The Xmas season seems to inspire us to flaunt our most aggressive and ignorant qualities. The impatient customers are always oblivious to the fact that other people are being tended to by customer services representatives. The shopper demands immediate attention, immediate satisfaction, and immediate gratification.
There is a gigantic misnomer that seems to float around in the service industry. I want to clear this up very quickly. The customer, you, is not always correct. I recall a time when I worked in the service industry. I recall a customer who was ranting and raving. This customer claimed that she was intentionally sold a computer mouse that was not functioning. She continued to inform me as well as the entire store that her genius son had tried to get the mouse to work. She continued to tell the store that this was the second mouse she had purchased that did not work. If a customer can be openly hostile to a person they don’t know over something as simple as a computer mouse, how is the customer service representative supposed to deal with the situation while smiling? It is by the grace of God that the impatient customer does not get a stapler in the head. In case you are wondering how I dealt with the situation I shall continue the story. I removed the batteries from the computer mouse and placed them back into the mouse in the correct positioning. I then informed her that perhaps her genius son would be better off with a mouse that did not require batteries. I was appalled by the customers open vindictiveness towards me. Why would I have sold this person a non functioning device? I had little interest in dealing with this customer the first time let alone a second. I feel the need to point out that the customer was a woman, one of these self appointed important people. She had no problem elbowing her way to the front of the line. Where in the Xmas season mentality does it say elbow your way to the front of a line and be openly hostile and vindictive towards strangers?
Customer service representatives not only have to deal with arrogant, ignorant, greedy, hostile, demanding, and impatient customers but they themselves are often over tired, over worked, stressed and underpaid. While working as a salesman during the Xmas season I was often required to work 6 days a week and 10 hours a day for most of November, December, and January. If anyone should be impatient I would think that it would be the CSRs. Think about that as you are sitting around your Xmas Turkey, because I assure you that most salesmen will not be, they will be at work dealing with idiots. As you are standing line on Boxing Day waiting to explode on anyone near you, keep in mind that you are lucky. You are lucky because you have the ability to buy things you want, whereas the CSR is working to pay for things they need. Your perceived want is not a need. Unless you are standing in line at the water company, hydro company, housing department, or a grocery store you are one of the lucky ones. Be happy and enjoy the Xmas season, stop being a snob. Customer service representatives (CSR) must be polite and courteous and have an ever present smile while dealing with these less than human customers. There is little doubt in my mind that most if not all CSR’s strive to do their best to appease the customer. I have little doubt because the faster they can help you, the impatient customer, the less of a chance you are going to be a dick. I will tell you, the impatient customer a secret. Happy, smiling, eager customers will get attention from a CSR more quickly than a pissed customer. Most people prefer to deal with smiling people than openly hostile people.
If you the impatient customer wants to be angry towards someone then direct your anger towards the correct people. The first person you should direct your hostility towards is yourself. If you shopped in a timely manner then perhaps you would not be so impatient. The second person you should be angry with is the greedy bastards who own the store. It is a very simple equation. Sales minus overhead equals profit. If a store can reduce its overhead by limiting its labor costs then it makes more profit. It isn’t the CSR’s fault that only 3 people are working in a store when clearly 10 people are required. Nor is it anyone’s fault other yours that a CSR called in sick the day you happen to be shopping. Why is it your fault that the CSR called in sick you ask? Perhaps you should not send your infected child to school thus infecting others. Perhaps you should wash your hands after using the washroom. The list is endless. A salesman does not have control over staffing issues. Another reason why you become openly aggressive is the fact that you the customer have misconceptions over what is occurring in a store. If you see what you ignorantly believe is a free CSR that doesn’t seem to be helping you then do not assume that they are being lazy or simply ignoring you. The CSR is most likely trying to sort out twelve or more issues in their head. The CSR could be, God forbid I even say it, having lunch. After numerous hours of dealing with ignorant impatient customers such as yourselves I think any person including yourself would need a few minutes to refuel and regroup for another bout of dealing with you. I often see CSR’s fervently puffing away on a cigarette. I am never angry with these people. I only think to myself that I am happy that they have a crutch to lean on.
I would feel vindicated if some time during the Xmas season I read the following headline:
Customer Service Representative beats ignorant and rude customer to death with a Tickle Me Elmo.
Don’t let the terrorists win. Use your Xmas spirit and kill them with kindness.
Tap Tap Tap is the noise of the impatient customer. Tap Tap Tap is a noise that is heard by all customer service representatives. It is a noise that causes people in the service industry to want to murder. It is a noise far worse than nails on a chalkboard. Tap Tap Tap is the noise of an impatient customer striking their nails or coins on the counter. The noise is always followed by me envisioning some sort of Hannibal Lecter style defingering of the impatient customer.
The Xmas season does not provide an environment of fun loving happy go lucky people. The Xmas season seems to inspire us to flaunt our most aggressive and ignorant qualities. The impatient customers are always oblivious to the fact that other people are being tended to by customer services representatives. The shopper demands immediate attention, immediate satisfaction, and immediate gratification.
There is a gigantic misnomer that seems to float around in the service industry. I want to clear this up very quickly. The customer, you, is not always correct. I recall a time when I worked in the service industry. I recall a customer who was ranting and raving. This customer claimed that she was intentionally sold a computer mouse that was not functioning. She continued to inform me as well as the entire store that her genius son had tried to get the mouse to work. She continued to tell the store that this was the second mouse she had purchased that did not work. If a customer can be openly hostile to a person they don’t know over something as simple as a computer mouse, how is the customer service representative supposed to deal with the situation while smiling? It is by the grace of God that the impatient customer does not get a stapler in the head. In case you are wondering how I dealt with the situation I shall continue the story. I removed the batteries from the computer mouse and placed them back into the mouse in the correct positioning. I then informed her that perhaps her genius son would be better off with a mouse that did not require batteries. I was appalled by the customers open vindictiveness towards me. Why would I have sold this person a non functioning device? I had little interest in dealing with this customer the first time let alone a second. I feel the need to point out that the customer was a woman, one of these self appointed important people. She had no problem elbowing her way to the front of the line. Where in the Xmas season mentality does it say elbow your way to the front of a line and be openly hostile and vindictive towards strangers?
Customer service representatives not only have to deal with arrogant, ignorant, greedy, hostile, demanding, and impatient customers but they themselves are often over tired, over worked, stressed and underpaid. While working as a salesman during the Xmas season I was often required to work 6 days a week and 10 hours a day for most of November, December, and January. If anyone should be impatient I would think that it would be the CSRs. Think about that as you are sitting around your Xmas Turkey, because I assure you that most salesmen will not be, they will be at work dealing with idiots. As you are standing line on Boxing Day waiting to explode on anyone near you, keep in mind that you are lucky. You are lucky because you have the ability to buy things you want, whereas the CSR is working to pay for things they need. Your perceived want is not a need. Unless you are standing in line at the water company, hydro company, housing department, or a grocery store you are one of the lucky ones. Be happy and enjoy the Xmas season, stop being a snob. Customer service representatives (CSR) must be polite and courteous and have an ever present smile while dealing with these less than human customers. There is little doubt in my mind that most if not all CSR’s strive to do their best to appease the customer. I have little doubt because the faster they can help you, the impatient customer, the less of a chance you are going to be a dick. I will tell you, the impatient customer a secret. Happy, smiling, eager customers will get attention from a CSR more quickly than a pissed customer. Most people prefer to deal with smiling people than openly hostile people.
If you the impatient customer wants to be angry towards someone then direct your anger towards the correct people. The first person you should direct your hostility towards is yourself. If you shopped in a timely manner then perhaps you would not be so impatient. The second person you should be angry with is the greedy bastards who own the store. It is a very simple equation. Sales minus overhead equals profit. If a store can reduce its overhead by limiting its labor costs then it makes more profit. It isn’t the CSR’s fault that only 3 people are working in a store when clearly 10 people are required. Nor is it anyone’s fault other yours that a CSR called in sick the day you happen to be shopping. Why is it your fault that the CSR called in sick you ask? Perhaps you should not send your infected child to school thus infecting others. Perhaps you should wash your hands after using the washroom. The list is endless. A salesman does not have control over staffing issues. Another reason why you become openly aggressive is the fact that you the customer have misconceptions over what is occurring in a store. If you see what you ignorantly believe is a free CSR that doesn’t seem to be helping you then do not assume that they are being lazy or simply ignoring you. The CSR is most likely trying to sort out twelve or more issues in their head. The CSR could be, God forbid I even say it, having lunch. After numerous hours of dealing with ignorant impatient customers such as yourselves I think any person including yourself would need a few minutes to refuel and regroup for another bout of dealing with you. I often see CSR’s fervently puffing away on a cigarette. I am never angry with these people. I only think to myself that I am happy that they have a crutch to lean on.
I would feel vindicated if some time during the Xmas season I read the following headline:
Customer Service Representative beats ignorant and rude customer to death with a Tickle Me Elmo.
Don’t let the terrorists win. Use your Xmas spirit and kill them with kindness.
My name is Muhammad.
It isn’t very often that I have sympathy for anyone but myself or close friends and family, but upon hearing the news that a British teacher in the Sudan is in hot water over the name of a teddy bear, puts a tear in my eye.
If you are not a worldly person and pay little attention to the outside world, which most of you are, I will briefly explain the situation.
A newly arrived teacher from England, still settling into life in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, asked her class of six- and seven-year-olds to dress up and name a teddy bear, and keep a diary of his outings. She hoped it would provide material for projects for the rest of the year. And it might have, except for the name the children chose for their bear: Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, is spending her second night in a Sudanese prison, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet. She faces a public lashing or up to six months in prison if found guilty on charges of blasphemy. Unity High School — one of a number of exclusive British-run schools in the Sudanese capital — has been closed as staff fear reprisals from Islamic extremists.
This situation causes me to become outraged. The anger inside me is insurmountable.
I think that we should refuse and return all Sudanese-Canadians back to their miserable country. If you have read my previous rants you will recall that I am not a fan of immigrants dictating our social customs. I think the above situation helps to explain why I fear immigrants. I do not want, nor should you, want people of this sort in Canada. Fundamentalist of this sort should not be allowed near any “free” country. If Sudanese immigrants come to Canada and use the persecuted immigrant card we might not be able to name out teddy bears Mohammad.
I think we should be thankful that we live in Canada. Keep in mind as I have mentioned in my previous rants the slow erosion of our Canadian customs. This slow erosion is happening so slowly that you the masses, Lemmings, are failing to notice. If you doubt me then think back to when Merry Christmas became Happy Holidays. If this change can happen then I have little doubt that naming anything Mohammad will very shortly become politically incorrect. Personally this PC BS needs to be tossed out the window with all the Sudanese immigrants.
If the above situation is allowed to happen in Sudan then why can we not have the freedom to say towel heads cannot become RCMPs? Or why can’t we arrest Native Americans when they block roads, or say Merry Christmas. Why should we allow children with religious daggers to go to a school? Most of this PC BS should not even be discussed due to its frivolousness. Personally I don’t care if I offend minorities. They are minorities, I am the majority. Majorities rule and dictate what happens in a country, not the other way around. If we are not careful Canada might become something like Sudan.
I'm sick of religious fanatics. I don't care what their denomination is, I'm sick of them all, wherever they're from. Isn't worshipping a God supposed to be about peace, love and humanity? Yet religion has been at the heart of some of the direst cruelties wrought by the human race. Whether we're talking Islamic fundamentalists, or Jehovah's Witnesses allowing their kids to die for want of a blood transfusion, I wish they'd all join us in 21st century.
I am really losing patience with the whole Islamic thing. The more I see of Muslims, the less I am convinced that “Islam is a religion of peace.” If it’s so peaceful, why do so many of them turn out to call for death over nonsensical issues? We’re not talking about demonstrations with a few dozen or a couple of hundred people. We’re talking about gatherings of thousands, they happen every time someone decides that someone they don’t like insulted Muhammad or Islam.
My beliefs as a Christian are mocked all the time. Have you seen some of the cartoons and comics depicting Jesus and Christians that run rampant in the media? While it does not make it right for me or anyone else to mock another religion, it does put things into perspective. However when in a foreign country we must obey their laws, no matter how backasswards, as we expect other to obey ours. This does not explain why we are constantly changing our laws and social customs to favor immigrants who come to our country.
I think millions of people throughout the world should send monogrammed teddy bears to all Muslim countries with the name Muhammad. We should have planes dropping little stuffed animal Muhammad bombs all over their country.
Don’t let the terrorists win. Name your teddy bear, cat, dog, parrot, ferret, hamster, or any other furry little creature Mohammad.
If you are not a worldly person and pay little attention to the outside world, which most of you are, I will briefly explain the situation.
A newly arrived teacher from England, still settling into life in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, asked her class of six- and seven-year-olds to dress up and name a teddy bear, and keep a diary of his outings. She hoped it would provide material for projects for the rest of the year. And it might have, except for the name the children chose for their bear: Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, is spending her second night in a Sudanese prison, accused of insulting Islam's Prophet. She faces a public lashing or up to six months in prison if found guilty on charges of blasphemy. Unity High School — one of a number of exclusive British-run schools in the Sudanese capital — has been closed as staff fear reprisals from Islamic extremists.
This situation causes me to become outraged. The anger inside me is insurmountable.
I think that we should refuse and return all Sudanese-Canadians back to their miserable country. If you have read my previous rants you will recall that I am not a fan of immigrants dictating our social customs. I think the above situation helps to explain why I fear immigrants. I do not want, nor should you, want people of this sort in Canada. Fundamentalist of this sort should not be allowed near any “free” country. If Sudanese immigrants come to Canada and use the persecuted immigrant card we might not be able to name out teddy bears Mohammad.
I think we should be thankful that we live in Canada. Keep in mind as I have mentioned in my previous rants the slow erosion of our Canadian customs. This slow erosion is happening so slowly that you the masses, Lemmings, are failing to notice. If you doubt me then think back to when Merry Christmas became Happy Holidays. If this change can happen then I have little doubt that naming anything Mohammad will very shortly become politically incorrect. Personally this PC BS needs to be tossed out the window with all the Sudanese immigrants.
If the above situation is allowed to happen in Sudan then why can we not have the freedom to say towel heads cannot become RCMPs? Or why can’t we arrest Native Americans when they block roads, or say Merry Christmas. Why should we allow children with religious daggers to go to a school? Most of this PC BS should not even be discussed due to its frivolousness. Personally I don’t care if I offend minorities. They are minorities, I am the majority. Majorities rule and dictate what happens in a country, not the other way around. If we are not careful Canada might become something like Sudan.
I'm sick of religious fanatics. I don't care what their denomination is, I'm sick of them all, wherever they're from. Isn't worshipping a God supposed to be about peace, love and humanity? Yet religion has been at the heart of some of the direst cruelties wrought by the human race. Whether we're talking Islamic fundamentalists, or Jehovah's Witnesses allowing their kids to die for want of a blood transfusion, I wish they'd all join us in 21st century.
I am really losing patience with the whole Islamic thing. The more I see of Muslims, the less I am convinced that “Islam is a religion of peace.” If it’s so peaceful, why do so many of them turn out to call for death over nonsensical issues? We’re not talking about demonstrations with a few dozen or a couple of hundred people. We’re talking about gatherings of thousands, they happen every time someone decides that someone they don’t like insulted Muhammad or Islam.
My beliefs as a Christian are mocked all the time. Have you seen some of the cartoons and comics depicting Jesus and Christians that run rampant in the media? While it does not make it right for me or anyone else to mock another religion, it does put things into perspective. However when in a foreign country we must obey their laws, no matter how backasswards, as we expect other to obey ours. This does not explain why we are constantly changing our laws and social customs to favor immigrants who come to our country.
I think millions of people throughout the world should send monogrammed teddy bears to all Muslim countries with the name Muhammad. We should have planes dropping little stuffed animal Muhammad bombs all over their country.
Don’t let the terrorists win. Name your teddy bear, cat, dog, parrot, ferret, hamster, or any other furry little creature Mohammad.
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