PC culture-loving SJW who won't even say "Merry Christmas"

[bigtree]

Parker Molloy ‏@ParkerMolloy 19m19 minutes ago
Look at this PC culture-loving SJW who won't even say "Merry Christmas" https://twitter.com/realbencarson/status/809748488510640129 …




Parker Molloy ‏@ParkerMolloy 16m16 minutes ago
Hahaha. He deleted it. 😂

[tanyev]

1. I don't even get what that picture has to do with the season.

Wooden spoons and ??? What am I missing?

[Jake Stern]

2. That's star anise

a spice used to "season" food. Get it? "Seasons greetings"

[Achilleaze]

4. A subliminal mind-bend meme about the illegitimate "Dark Star" cabal of Russians & Republicans?

[tanyev]

5. Thank you. I figured it was some type of spice, but didn't know what.

That makes it a clever greeting for those into baking, but it still seems an odd choice for a faithful defender of "Merry Christmas."

[bigtree]

6. probably Chinese

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Some HCJWs probably got on his ass about it.

HCJW = Hypocritic Christian Justice Warriors

[hunter]

7. Seventh-day Adventists don't celebrate Christmas.

As a kid, my mom was a Jehovah's Witness. They don't celebrate Christmas either.

That's why I associate Christmas with religious warfare within my own family.

It didn't help that even those who did celebrate Christmas had entirely different opinions about how it ought to be done, ranging from thoughtful prayerful Mass on Christmas day and a few modest gifts to pagan drunken debauchery, dancing, fighting, and lighting big fires.

I think my favorite Christmas as a kid was when my dad and my grandpa decided to stick the entire Christmas tree into the fireplace and light it. (This wasn't an unusual thing, my grandpa was a rocket engineer, probably because he liked fire.) Fortunately the fireplace was very solidly built masonry because the whole thing went WOOOOOOSH! and my grandfather rushed to open the windows because all the air was getting sucked out of the house and some flames and smoke were spilling back into the living room. The fresh air made the flames even more intense but the flames and smoke that had been escaping were pulled back into the fireplace.

My siblings and I ran outside to look at the chimney, and it did look like a rocket, maybe ten feet of flame and many sparks shooting out of it.

This was the Christmas tree my mom and grandma had fought about, leaving my grandma crying, because my grandma supported the more traditional Christmas with Santa Claus and everything and this tree was the one my grandpa had bought to spite my mom, so perhaps it was a fitting end for it.

[frogmarch]

8. That was a wonderful story!

I mean it, hunter. You told it beautifully too. Love it!

[frogmarch]

9. Ben needs to

splash a little water on those poor flowers - if it's not too late already.

What are those two white things above SEASON'S?