Apparently, Santas in Austrailia aren't allowed to say "Ho, Ho, Ho," they now have to say "Ha, Ha, Ha" because apparently it is offensive to women, and it "scares" children..

*sniffs*

I smell something in the air..

Is it christmas cookies?

No, its the putrid stench of bullshit..

Has political correctness gone too far?

What are your thoughts?

Australia's ****ed up. But they do have kangaroos. So I gues they're ok...for now.

*walks away* Uuuuughhhh, I stepped in somthing.

Come on, ho ho ho. It's a classic joke. Don't ruin it by actually taking it seriously. Don't ruin the Christmas ho with a simple ha.

This was no joke.. it was on the news this evening..

they minus well get rid of santaclaws over there all together then

OH NO Santa has been declared public enemy number 1, what with all that sneaking into children's home, watching them when they sleep (and that's just one night)

So lets see Santa must be the first to earn break and enter over 300 million times a year, and minimum 300 million counts of pedophilia... And he's been doing this for how many years?

And they're worried about him saying "HO HO HO"? They're a bunch of %^&in' morons.

Yeah apparently santa is a pedophile.. he gives your kids presents for sitting on his lap.. ooh the rat bastard..

Hey, I find that offensive, for I'm Australian, and we are NOT fucked up thank you.. :WHAT?!:

And I obviously know about that and I agree that it's just pathetic....

wow :...:

No, I know that's no joke. But the whole ho ho ho thing. Yeah... If Australia really feels it's necessary to outlaw Santa's laugh then that's up to them. Just don't have ha ha ha. He can wear a red suit, a nice hat, be fat, but if you get rid of ho don't go ha.

*sigh* I've never hated my government more then I do now.

As long as Santa stays fat, I'm down. Have you ever seen a skinny Santa? *shudders*

With what they have done to Cookie Monster, and the supposed ousting of Oscar on sesame street, I don't reckon that Santa will stay fat for long..

Just call it a hunch.

If this happened where I lived, I don't care what the cost is. I'd sue the government for infringing upon both freedom of speech and religion!

It's not really freedom of religion... Christmas when actually looked upon could easily be defended as not a religious Holiday. Santa as well can be defended as not a religious figure. His name titles Saint in it, but that's not really what people think of Santa. Atheist celebrate Christmas, etc... Freedom of speech.. that's another story.

Wait, they got RID OF OSCAR!? SPARTANS, TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!

Supposedly, Oscar was removed because of image concerns, in that they worried that he'd be sending the wrong message.. and Cookie Monster's name was changed to "Health Food Monster" or "Veggie Monster" in an effort to combat child obesity..

Was it the networks decisions to change those names because that just.. that infuriates me. ;-; As a child I remember Cookie Monster and Oscar. Not these weird... 'Things'

I doubt that they will, it would cause too much of an uproar.. however this isn't the first time I've heard about this.. so who knows..

... We have to take a stand...

What is this world coming to? No Cookie Monster? I loved that blue furry thing that I watched when I was little. D: