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Christmas means a lot to me because it is the day of my saviors birth. Does Christmas mean anything to you?

Booze, eggnog, sex, drugs, marijuana, presents, you name it.

Annoyingly happy music that you cannot flee from no matter where you hide to.

My family's Christian, but we don't celebrate it religiously. It's mostly just a chance/excuse for us to all get together. For me, it means family, food, egg nog, presents, and an all-around good time. :)

I get stuff without having to pay for it.

Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly.
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say when.

Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens.
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.

On Christmas Day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore.
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.

Relations, sparing no expense, 'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
("Just the thing I need, how nice!")

It doesn't matter how sincere it is,
Nor how heart felt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry merchants,
May ye make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high,
Tell us to go out and buy!

So, let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.

Actually, I did rather well myself this past Christmas. The nicest present I received was a gift certificate good at any hospital for a lobotomy... rather thoughtful.

(Credit:Tom Lehrer)

Coooooooookies!

OT: "the nation of shire"? As in Tolkien? Don't you know the Trilogy is Teh Debil?? Way before H Potter was, too :eek:

Spend time with those I love

Makes it all worth it

Christmas means a lot to me because it is the day of my saviors birth. Does Christmas mean anything to you?

do you go to church on christmas?

*snip*
See what I'm talking about?

*refrains from shooting Mogtaria*

See what I'm talking about?

*refrains from shooting Mogtaria*

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References please!

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References please!
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12100559&postcount=3

See what I'm talking about?

*refrains from shooting Mogtaria*

if you don't did it ,i will

*loads gun*

In before 'Jesus wasnt born on Christmas' arguement.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12100559&postcount=3

one of the funnier and more pointless references

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12100559&postcount=3

Haunted by the Christmas Spirit! Mwahahahaha!

In before 'Jesus wasnt born on Christmas' arguement.

Did you have to bring that up? :p

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1161356741260.t.jpg

Did you have to bring that up? :p

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1161356741260.t.jpg

Its inevitable, just as desu is inevitable on /b/.

I've never had or seen egg nog... What's in it? Is it an American thing?

Presents,

I've never had or seen egg nog... What's in it? Is it an American thing?

yes it is

Christmas is just another day. What is nice is that when you go out on the road on Christmas morning there is zero traffic. That is pretty awesome. :)

Wiki knows all things:

Clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog)

no, it just means bad music, and annoying holiday cheer.

Wiki knows all things:

Clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog)

Milk mixed with alcohol! Completely rank!

it's just another excuse to get really drunk, not that i need one.

no, it just means bad music, and annoying holiday cheer.

In the UK it seems to be the year of covers. Thats what annoys me

Christmas is like a lesser Thanksgiving with god awful music (that doesnt get played at all where my relatives or I live.)

What really makes it special is that movies get released on Christmas, even when it doesnt fall on a Wedsday or Friday. Sadly, I have never, nor do I ever plan to see a movie on Christmas.

Christmas is like a lesser Thanksgiving with god awful music (that doesnt get played at all where my relatives or I live.)

What really makes it special is that movies get released on Christmas, even when it doesnt fall on a Wedsday or Friday. Sadly, I have never, nor do I ever plan to see a movie on Christmas.

I always find it amusing that here in the UK it's the other way around. Here thanksgiving passes with comparatively little fuss and bother. There are food parcels packed up and sent on their way to the needy and services are held but that's about it. We don't get the hype the way you do in the USA. For us the marketing for christmass starts almost immediately after halloween. From then on it's constant pressure in the media to get ready for the "holiday season" (presumably by spending as much money as possible)

I have a rather jaded view of what christmass has become :) if you hadn't guessed.

I always find it amusing that here in the UK it's the other way around. Here thanksgiving passes with comparatively little fuss and bother. There are food parcels packed up and sent on their way to the needy and services are held but that's about it. We don't get the hype the way you do in the USA. For us the marketing for christmass starts almost immediately after halloween. From then on it's constant pressure in the media to get ready for the "holiday season" (presumably by spending as much money as possible)

I have a rather jaded view of what christmass has become :) if you hadn't guessed.

that's because thanksgiving is a purely north american festival. it has no relevance to the uk whatsoever.

I have a rather jaded view of what christmass has become :) if you hadn't guessed.

agreed, my birthday is near Christmas and I refuse to think about it until after.

Kind of, Thanksgiving has its roots in the "Harvest Festival" which is what we semi-celebrate here. So it does have relevance in the UK. Just that it has become much more of a celebration in the US.

Kind of, Thanksgiving has its roots in the "Harvest Festival" which is what we semi-celebrate here. So it does have relevance in the UK. Just that it has become much more of a celebration in the US.

oh right, i've never associated the two. as far as i was aware thanksgiving is about a specific event or series of events in the history of the colonisation of north america by europeans. something to do with the indigenous people helping those europeans out in a hard winter by giving them food. the harvest festival is a church thing, or at least it was appropriated by the church a long long time ago.

An early Harvest Festival used to be celebrated at the beginning of the Harvest season on 1 August and was called Lammas, meaning 'loaf Mass'. Farmers made loaves of bread from the fresh wheat crop. These were given to the local church as the Communion bread during a special service thanking God for the harvest.

Early settlers took the idea of harvest thanksgiving to North America. The most famous one is the harvest Thanksgiving held by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1621. The Pilgrims were particularly thankful to Squanto, the Native American who taught them how to catch eel, grow corn and who served as an interpreter for them (Squanto had learned English as a slave in Europe). Without Squanto's help the Pilgrims might not have survived in the new world. They set apart a day to celebrate at Plymouth immediately after that first harvest, in 1621.

Gradually, an annual Thanksgiving after the harvest developed in the mid-17th century. This did not occur on any set day or necessarily on the same day in different colonies in America. Then in the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November.

I've missed out a lot but it's enough of a lecture as it is and you're probably not that interested :D.

But you are right also :)

It means capitalists everywhere rejoice.

Well it's a wonderful time when everyone is happy, and I get free stuff.

It's also a painful reminder of two things - the vast majority of people around me beleive in a magical sky-god who incarnated himself into a bearded hippy 2000 years ago who was nailed to a two-by-four only to come back to life and ascend to live with the sky-god 3 days later. And the vast majority of those people are willing to piss all over thier religion such as it is by having a 2 month long orgy of commercialism in celebration.

I consider it one of those cosmic trade-offs.

yes it is

Actually, no, it isn't. It's EnglishHistory

It originated in England, where eggnog was the trademark drink of the upper class. "You have to remember, the average Londoner rarely saw a glass of milk," says author/historian James Humes (July 1997, "To Humes It May Concern"), former speech writer and adviser to four presidents. "There was no refrigeration, and the farms belonged to the big estates. Those who could get milk and eggs to make eggnog mixed it with brandy or Madeira or even sherry." But it became most popular in America, where farms and dairy products were plentiful, as was rum. Rum came to these shores via the Triangular Trade from the Caribbean; thus it was far more affordable than the heavily taxed brandy or other European spirits that it replaced at our forefathers' holiday revels."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog

do you go to church on christmas?

Yes, I go every Sunday. I love Church. Christmas is just another excuse to go to church. :)

Christmas means a lot to me because it is the day of my saviors birth. Does Christmas mean anything to you?

JEE-ZUS!!!! JEE-ZUS!!!!

The carolers are at your door! What do you do?

*Summon Grue (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Grue)
*Sing with them (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare.php)
*Run away to your computer and play Zork (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Zork)
*Don't click here! (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare.php)

Christmas is actually my favorite time of year! Alongside my birthday.

Yes, I go every Sunday. I love Church. Christmas is just another excuse to go to church. :)

Well you ought not need an excuse to go to church if you enjoy it. Heck go as often as you like.

I enjoy Christmas. If other people don't enjoy it, that's fine. They don't get to come to my house for the Christmas Party.

They have to wait for New Year's.

Christmas means a lot to me because it is the day of my saviors birth. Does Christmas mean anything to you?

it means i get to spend time with my family as a family, not as work colleagues

Christmas means a lot to me because it is the day of my saviors birth. It isn't actually..Christmas used to be one januari 6th. But it made sense to merge it with the midwinter solstice; to celebrate the birth of Jesus at the time of the return of light.