No Ho Ho Ho - it's offensive to women

Just when you thought the PC Police couldn’t possibly get any more insane:

[quote]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.[/quote]

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I saw a Santa masterbating in a park once. You don’t recover from that kind of thing.

No.
No, you certainly don’t.

He was probably saying Oh! Oh! Oh! instead of Ho Ho Ho.

I suppose marginally better than finding Santa in the park with a ho.

What a load of feckin’ nonsense!

P.S. I notice there’s 2 professional Santa outfits for sale on Taiwanted right now: taiwanted.com/detail.php?siteid=6520

Coincidence? I think not!

or a stocking full of seamen. (bad sailor’s joke)

and Guang tou, it’s THE Santa, not A Santa: there is only one, even when they’re all in the same place there’s still only one of him/them. Geez, no pressies for you this year, mate.

does that mean we can’t give kids the snacks called Ho Hos?

What are you talking about? It’s only offensive to ho’s. If the shoe fits…

I doubt even the Ho’s are offended :loco:
Santa discount… busy X-mas season, etc. etc.

But ha ha ha is no good.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ha+ha

Dude. We use it in the US where the word is slang but no using it in a country where it is the slang for a different country?

The only thing offensive about Santa is that he lacks bling. :stuck_out_tongue:

Lacks Bling? Come on. He has a f’ing RED suit. How bling is that.
And BTW, just because Don Immus screws up, why does everybody have to be more politically sensitive. He said some stupid stuff that every American (or rational human - whoops, most Americans are not in that category) would find offensive. Not becuase it was politically incorrect, It was because it was just flat assed wrong to say - ANYWHERE!

Santa’s bringing me plenty o’ BLING this year and I’ve been real bad too ! all year. HO HO HO :santa: but I’m good at it :smiling_imp:

So I guess there will be no reruns of “Bad Santa” in that area?

There are some seriously bad Santas out there.

Be afraid people. Very afraid.

:roflmao: that’s coal in your stocking for the very worst

There are 39 days until Christmas!