Santy get a boyfriend...

I'll ask you a similar question, an ad featuring George Floyd kissing Donald Trump, how would that make you feeel? I'll make it even easier, George Floyd kissing Martin Luther King. How about that?

I know it's unlikely you'll answer honestly, even to yourself. But it made your skin crawl a bit, didn't it? You've just got different value system with different sacred ideals. So what about it? Any fuss over George Floyd kissing Donald Trump in a TV ad?

It is not just Santa...

There are calls a plenty to for the next James Bond film to portray him as gay... including from one recent bond co-star...

about 25 Bond films I think... and 48 books over 59 years... where the character is a straightforwardly straight guy, borderline womanizer in fact....

Now to please, be inclusive and whatever, turn him gay ? Bizarre. It would be seen as a victory for the LGBT quangos...whom it seems are getting quite aggressive in their demands... everyone should be gay, James Bond, Santa, The Pope, ...

what next ? What other historical characters of fiction or otherwise will there be a clamoring to have their characters totally rewritten ?

Ive never felt any sort of neediness in this life to have any facet of my being ‘represented’.... by anybody...

can these quangos not just get on with enjoyment of their life without getting offended by the idea that not everyone is gay ? That there will be millions of people who relate to the decades old premise... decades old story...James Bond and X girl...

santa & Mrs Claus ?

Interesting and clever way of avoiding the question. That's not what I asked.

I don't think anyone here cares whether the santa outside the local tesco goes home and kisses his pet baboon, as long as he's not livestreaming it to kids. The question is not who kisses who, it's would you be ok with an ad on TV showing George Floyd kissing Donald Trump? It's clear from your answer you can't even write the words and instead evade the proposition entirely with a more comfortable and completely abstract concept of 'anyone kissing anyone'.

I'd love to see an honest answer 'I am ok with a TV ad with Donald Trump kissing George Floyd'. But you've already given your answer by avoiding it.

I know you do, that's why you are here and also why I asked. I knew you would evade it. That's the point.

Has anyone told ms . Claus?

There are several actors at play in these ridiculous scenarios, it's not just one single monolithic conspiracy.

Companies have learned that clicks = money.

Controversy = clicks.

It's that simple. Pick something that people have no opinion on, and then inject something that's bound to stir up clicks. Easy. Nothing to do with being gay, I'd say some of the owners of these society splitters are off in their mansions reminiscing about their ad campaigns for the Nazi's. That's how much they "care".

Secondly, there are the "activists", again, a tiny group of soldiers that have so little going on in their lives that they must throw their entire existence into the de rigeur cause of the moment. They'd be the same type, again, that would have been tripping over themselves to join the hitler youth, braindead.

What always makes my eyes narrow in suspicion is anything that targets children. Such as santa clause. When your ideology is so weak that it can't stand up to adult scrutiny, and you therefore need to target the immature minds of children instead, yeah, that's an alarm bell. Just like the indoctrination programmes of the Nazi's that specifically targeted children.

And so on. There are a few malodorous parties at play here.

And it all sucks. It's about as "Christmassy" as rte playing the Texas chainsaw massacre on Christmas morning.

So brave , what unpopular cause will they stand up to society for next ? Women's right to vote maybe !?

*** sarcasm for those who need extra help

Deep down you love it

Not entirely sure anyone here has found it offensive but rather an exasperated air of tired cynicism. Personally I just think the video is shite- too long and low energy which is nothing to do with the content.

Ah come on it's a bit funny. Look at those folk getting annoyed about it, going on about pushing sexuality. It's like they think because one Norwegian company ran one ad that a bunch of kids are going to turn gay. But they don't seem to think of Santa having a wife being about sexuality, when of course it is.

I think it's a daft ad personally, but it's amusing to watch people get mad over something so insignificant and merely shows another view point.