Season's Greetings is the most annoying phrase going. Anyone uttering this, or writing it in a card is not wishing anyone a 'Happy Winter' or 'Happy Spring', so where the fuck does the 'Season' come in? We are fast approaching Christmas. So, anyone wanting to dole out a bit of goodwill ought to be wishing the receiver a happy or merry or joyful CHRISTMAS. Printed cards are partly to blame, as the makers try to adopt a neutral position, and sit on the fence. They would be better off creating cards with the inside being blank. Hang on, that's already been thought of, so in effect, there's no logical reason then for card makers to try and adopt a generalist approach that's actually flawed.
No one uses "Season's Greetings" at Easter. Just as well, because Easter is not a fucking season either, but logically, it has as much right to benefit from a misused phrase as Christmas does. Some (twats) will argue that "it's the holiday period" or the "season of goodwill". Well, sorry, few people get a holiday now, often not even Boxing Day off. If they do have time off work, they've used their holiday allowance. As for goodwill, that's a bit thin on the ground. People like to think there's goodwill floating around, or even on the ground in a thick layer, but no, it's very thin on the ground. Also, the idea suggests that for 50 weeks of the year, there isn't any goodwill at all, as people are 'saving up' so it can be used at Christmas.
Some will say "Ah, but I'm counting New Year's Eve and New Year's Day as well, so that's why "Season" is appropriate. All I can say is 'Fuck Off - that still makes no sense'. I blame the makers of television programmes, and the Americans, for the introduction of "Season" to our vocabularies and the simultaneous ousting of the word "Series". TV programmes used to be made in groups, and aired as a "Series". The number of series (and the number of programmes in each series) would vary enormously depending on the success of the things and the budgets of the producers. No series was ever aligned to any specific season. The only relevance to time of the year would perhaps come if a programme was made as a "Christmas Special" - but that's fuck all to do with a season. So, we have come to suffer box-sets on sale as not Series One, or Series Two, but "Season One" etc.
I urge you to wish people, if you're so inclined, a Merry Christmas, and/or a Happy New Year, but do not bring seasons into the equation. Depending on where you are in the world, there would also be a rather significant variation in the actual season.
Perhaps I could wish you a Happy Winter Solstice (for Thursday) if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, and a Happy Summer Solstice if you are in the Southern Hemisphere.
[PS: I haven't even started on the term "Festive" - I do not want anyone to give me "Festive Greetings"]
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