Happy Holidays from Bus Eireann/ Expressway!

LordSutch

Happy Holidays indeed :rolleyes:

I'm surprised that it was an Irish company to import the US term this year, and we were doing so well up until now.
Not a sigh of Happy Holidays this year, then this offering from Expressway . . . . .

We say Merry Christmas/Happy Christmas, so go away Bus Eireann and have a rethink for next year.

Mint Aero

******* ******* if I had my way I'd **** the **** in ****** and ***** the smelly *****

Mr. Incognito

It's cheaper for me to rent a car and drive between Kerry and Dublin than it is to take public transport (train ) or 8.5 hours on public routes. (bus) I've been doing this for three years.

Public transport in Ireland is a joke, staffed by over payed, uncaring oafs.

You want a better image, make the bus drivers stop at every stop, whether someone waves them down with a demented nazi salute or not. Have the trains leave on time

Stop eye goughing people on prices and a crap service and stop raping people on fares on friday and sunday.

They did specials on the trains, numbers went up on singles. They put them back up to full price numbers dried up. Its not rocket science

Lando Griffin

Worked for me.
Going to go interstate from Cork to Dublin.
Hopfully get a Dr Pepper and pretizls for the journey.

Skylinehead

LordSutch wrote: »

Happy Holidays indeed :rolleyes:

I'm surprised that it was an Irish company to import the US term this year, and we were doing so well up until now.
Not a sigh of Happy Holidays this year, then this offering from Expressway . . . . .

We say Merry Christmas/Happy Christmas, so go away Bus Eireann and have a rethink for next year.

Who the hell cares?

Nodin

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

It's cheaper for me to rent a car and drive between Kerry and Dublin than it is to take public transport (train )

How much is the train?

Mr. Incognito

Nodin wrote: »

How much is the train?

Enterprise weekend special is a class c (Golf / Opel) etc and works out between 40-60 for the weekender special, collect sat morning and drop back monday morning before work. You could get a small car for cheaper but not worth it imo as on the motorway they might be more economical but I like a decent car.

Train is between 68/88 euro. per person, single or return are generally the same price

I usually have the gf and collect my son on the way. Throw in 60 diesel and still mile cheaper and more convenient.

kneemos

Paid nine Euros recently for a thirty mile round trip.You could drive at least twice that for nine Euros.

EuskalHerria

I always thought people said Happy Holidays to include Christmas and the very soon after New Year celebrations.

It's extremely efficient so I had assumed it was a German import.

Kettleson

Hang on a mo, by the end of the third semester our interns will need that service, period!

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What the hell is wrong with happy holidays?

Bus wánkers

LordSutch

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What the hell is wrong with happy holidays?

Maybe we should resist too many Americanisms taking hold here?

I was quite content with Happy/Merry Christmas.

Kettleson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiBI3A2WcrE

The National Express did it for me, several times oftenly.

WoollyRedHat

Skylinehead wrote: »

Who the hell cares?

Jesus Christ.

Victor

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

It's cheaper for me to rent a car and drive between Kerry and Dublin than it is to take public transport (train ) or 8.5 hours on public routes. (bus) I've been doing this for three years.

If you book in advance, you can do Tralee-Dublin for as little as €9.99 + charges.

Your diesel will cost you €22 + tolls + car hire.

So it will be down to specifics of the trip

Daisy03

The "happy holidays" annoyed me too when I saw it. This is Ireland for crying out loud what is wrong with Happy Christmas. If they wanted to be PC the could have at least just kept it at "Seasons Greetings".

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LordSutch wrote: »

Maybe we should resist too many Americanisms taking hold here?

I was quite content with Happy/Merry Christmas.

But Ireland is multicultural now.

robertxxx

******'s

Frank Lee Midere

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But Ireland is multicultural now.

That's nice. But so what. The only other holiday at the same time - vaguely - is Hanakuh. Not really celebrated by Irish Jews whose number is declining. So now would not be the time to get PC on that.

American Jews celebrate it as a Christmas alternative. No other group has a major festival period around this time, except once every 2 decades when EID comes around. And most immigrants here are European.

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Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

That's nice. But so what. The only other holiday at the same time - vaguely - is Hanakuh. Not really celebrated by Irish Jews whose number is declining. So now would not be the time to get PC on that.

American Jews celebrate it as a Christmas alternative. No other group has a major festival period around this time, except once every 2 decades when EID comes around. And most immigrants here are European.

Well, Happy Holidays covers all religious and non religious BS at that time of the year so it's a catch all. I'm atheist and prefer Happy Holidays.

WilyCoyote

Is December 25th Holidayday or Christmas Day? Axiomatic my dear Jesus.

Karl Stein

I don't believe in all that religious stuff but Christmas is Christmas and always will be to me. Sure didn't the Christians just graft their tall tales onto pagan markers which were actually related to real things like harvest and equinox?

Daqster

It's Christmas, they should say Christmas.

It's just the typical crap to include people who may not celebrate Christmas and so we don't want to offend them.

Well, if they aren't celebrating Christmas, then I take it they'll be working and so it won't be a Holiday from them anyway, so that neatly brings us back to: Happy Christmas!

Bipolar Joe

Oh for fuck sake. Why do you really give a shit? It's got nothing to do with being "American" or "PC". Happy holidays is easier and quicker to say than merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and crazy Kwanzaa.

sligoface

It is most likely intended to include the two other holidays, boxing day and new years which are close together. What a dumb thing to get angry about anyway.

Victor

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

The only other holiday at the same time - vaguely - is Hanakuh.

And the Winter Solstice marked by pagans, amongst others. And New Years?

Not really celebrated by Irish Jews

Really, that leaflet I got in the door from teh local synagogue seemed to say otherwise (I'm not even Jewish).

whose number is declining.

I'm not so sure about that.

Rabelais

It's about time we dispensed with anachronistic terms such as Saint Stephen's Day. It's a relic of a different Ireland and has no place in our multicultural, rational and secular society of today.

A much more relevant name would be DFS Day. Or Land of Leather day. Nothing sums up how far we have come as a people as buying a half-price sofa at 6.20am on the 26th of December.

Cee-Jay-Cee

There is no Punic transport in Ireland. There is a piss poor bus service and an even worse train service that covers barely a 1/10 of the country.

Get bent bus Eireann.

Frank Lee Midere

Victor wrote: »

And the Winter Solstice marked by pagans, amongst others. And New Years?

Really, that leaflet I got in the door from teh local synagogue seemed to say otherwise (I'm not even Jewish).

I'm not so sure about that.

Most atheists are not really concerned with the term Christmas - as we have seen here ( and I am one, it's not an organisation) - and the winter solstice is not a very major feast now is it? The Irish Jewish population is 2,000 or so and declining. It was once much larger. Hanukah ended on the 5th December so why would "holidays" be used after that?

And before Nov 27th why not say "Happy Hanakuh" to Jewish people rather than "holidays". After say "Happy Christmas" to people celebrating it.

After that say "Happy New Year". It's remedial.

So the "holidays" has nothing to do with "multiculturalism" but aping Americans.

Frank Lee Midere

Rabelais wrote: »

It's about time we dispensed with anachronistic terms such as Saint Stephen's Day. It's a relic of a different Ireland and has no place in our multicultural, rational and secular society of today.

A much more relevant name would be DFS Day. Or Land of Leather day. Nothing sums up how far we have come as a people as buying a half-price sofa at 6.20am on the 26th of December.

That's the name of the day. The day before is Christmas. St Patricks day is on the 17th. Etc.

Rabelais

CJC999 wrote: »

There is no Punic transport in Ireland. There is a piss poor bus service and an even worse train service that covers barely a 1/10 of the country.

Get bent bus Eireann.

Punic transport tended to be the chariot, boat, and to a far lesser extent: the war elephant.

I dream of an Ireland where every village in Ireland had a high-speed rail link to Dublin. The figures add up.