Poll: How was Christmas 2020 for you?

My mother is still stuck in a nearby rehab center and nursing facility and it's closed to the public because of the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis. I couldn't even visit her on Christmas this year. At least I got to speak to her over the phone.

I am sorry to hear you feel so alone. The pandemic is wearing on all of us, I think this is the worst of it and the end is in sight.

I hope you feel better.

Hello Max, thank you for responding. How was YOUR holiday?

My holiday was pretty good. I traveled... but tried to do it safely. Social isolation with people I care about.

Thank you. FINALLY, SOMEONE RESPONDED WITH A SATISFACTORY ANSWER.

Supermarkets don’t sell egg nog over here, if you want it you’ll have to make it yourself.

Having said that I never have, I don’t fancy it, sounds too much like advocaat.

I believe they started selling eggnog because people are afraid of drinking uncooked eggs. The store bought stuff is pasteurized

We don’t consume it over here, it’s not something we associate with Christmas.

It also sounds a bit racist. During the 70’s a more ’acceptable,’ racist term that appeared on telly was to shorten the n word to the first three letters and add nog.

I know eggnog isn’t racist, but it sounds it over here. And I still don’t fancy drinking raw egg, regardless.

I am never niggardly with my eggnog (another racist sounding term that doesn't actually have racist roots).

My industry (software) is now in a big argument about whether the term whitelist (or blacklist) should be changed. We have a whitelist as part of the software I work on to determine which data should be processed. The argument over words seems silly to me.

"Nignog"? Seriously?

Just because certain words that sound racist may have non racist derivations doesn’t mean they should be used, not with our extensive vocabulary.

You could use parsimonious then you can’t be accused of sneaky racism, like when the white southern racists mispronounced negro so it sounded like the n word.

Never had egg nog, never even seen it, only heard it referenced on American telly apart from one solitary mention on a cooking show and that was it.

It was a Christmas special and egg nog was one of a few Christmas drinks, from what I remember it went down very well.

I still don’t fancy it, like I don’t fancy advocaat. That’s available in the shops though.

Seriously, there was a TV comedy called Love Thy Neighbour about a black family living next door to a bigot and his wife. He used that term all the time, it’s as bad as the n word over here.

Google the term.

I don't think you and I will ever agree on this.

Trying to eliminate words from the English language is silly. These ridiculous arguments about whether a word terms like "master/slave" when used in electronics might offend people by disenfranchising the rights of disk drives is laughable (and meaningless). They distract from real issues.

We should be talking about how to make real changes to society to ensure rights, that means ensuring voting rights and ending real discrimination in the work place. No one has a right to not be offended.

Everyone of us has pushed a male plug into a female receptacle. If this is rape to you, you have a problem.

Ohh, I thought you meant that "nignog" was coined to replace "eggnog," not that it was meant to replace the n-word. Ok, never mind. Carry on.

We don’t have eggnog over here.

You clearly delight in using racist language, there’s no point trying explain anything.

Yes, I delight in language in general.

If you really want to get me going... use the word "Latinx". A word that is ironically both politically correct AND culturally insensitive.