Totally the same person. We recognise Santa and Father Christmas as the same character, it's just rare that anyone over here (of my generation at least) would call him Santa.
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Originally posted by Ben Thomas View PostTotally the same person. We recognise Santa and Father Christmas as the same character, it's just rare that anyone over here (of my generation at least) would call him Santa.I like the way the line runs up the back of the stocking.
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He's just always been Father Christmas over here. I guess parents got sick of explaining what 'Santa Claus' meant. But actually a lot of European countries call him variants of Father Christmas. In France, he's Pere Noel and I think most of the Latin-derived languages use a variant on that, so maybe we got it from them.Last edited by Ben Thomas; 10-12-2013, 04:21 AM.I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.
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And jus' loike me, they long ter be. . .
Cloooooose t' yerrrrrr. . . . .I like the way the line runs up the back of the stocking.
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You Brits DO realize it's "disoriented", & that "disorientated" isn't a word, right?I like the way the line runs up the back of the stocking.
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