BarbaraHudson's Journal: Happy $INSERT_WHATEVER_HOLIDAY_FLOATS_YOUR_BOAT

Feel free to use a REAL instead of a FLOAT.

Happy Newton Day...

[jawtheshark]

Or whatever, it's the spirit that counts not the denomination.

I'd like to call you out for lack of inclusiveness

[smittyoneeach]

Your emphasis on a *NIX-style environment variable is a highly exclusive move, and marks you an -ite with strong -ism tendencies.
You may schedule several minutes of shame for yourself in the next several months to cover over your micro-aggression.

just go ahead and insert your holiday

[Bill Dog]

I wouldn't be offended if someone said Happy Hanukkah to me. I'm not Jewish, but not everything's about me and my feelings. An expression of goodwill from someone is about their feelings.

I would take it as it was meant; as someone who's Jewish who's expressing to me warm wishes in their way of doing it. That's not being divisive or exclusionary; I shouldn't have to take 5 minutes to express happy holidays in all the major ways, like a voter guide printed in umpteen million languages.

Nor should we need to