SiD the Turtle said:Well that's blatantly not true.
Edit: or is my sarcasm detector broken?
I've heard it claimed - its one of those stories thats 'Too good not to be true'. See also:
Winterval
Banning Hot Cross Buns
Banks banning Piggy Banks
Papers print it because they know that moronic people are pre-disposed to beleive 'facts' that back up their pre-conceived opinions.
So your average knuckle dragging mail reader, on reading that Christmas has apparently been renamed 'Winterval', simply shakes his/her head, tuts disgustedly, and repeats the story in the pub later on. No-one bothers to look any deeper because, well, its the sort of thing that always happens, so it *must* be true.
Eventually you end up with a modern mythology that becomes so ingrained in the popular consciousness that new allegations are treated as supporting earler ones that time has transformed into Holy Writ.


lmao