Does Christmas rock or suck? Languish: YOU DECIDE!

Started by Caliga, November 14, 2013, 07:39:44 AM

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Christmas?

I love Christmas!
23 (52.3%)
I hate Christmas!
3 (6.8%)
I am ambivalent.
15 (34.1%)
I am a Jew or something more sinister and refuse to choose one of the first three options.
0 (0%)
I love and/or hate Jaron!
3 (6.8%)

Total Members Voted: 44

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KRonn

#30
November 14, 2013, 10:00:46 AM
Quote from: Caliga on November 14, 2013, 09:54:16 AM
@KRonn I agree, but for some reason nobody in my family will do that. :(

Heh, yeah, it just seemed to get a bit odd that we adults were giving others things we didn't really need, or if we did need we could just go out and get it ourselves. What I or some of us may do is if something different comes along, like some item such as a book or whatever that I really like and I know it would be useful, I'll get one for my brother or someone else. But there's very little pressure to do a lot of shopping and gift giving among adults.

Sheilbh

#31
November 14, 2013, 10:04:46 AM
I LOVE Christmas :wub:
Let's bomb Russia!

Ed Anger

#32
November 14, 2013, 10:11:38 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 14, 2013, 10:04:46 AM
I LOVE Christmas :wub:

Ameican over the top Christmas or the more restrained Euro version?

Or the German one with the demon whipping kids?
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

derspiess

#34
November 14, 2013, 10:13:45 AM
Christmas rules.  It's fun to spoil the kids and laugh at them behind their backs for believing the Santa crap.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

PDH

#35
November 14, 2013, 10:57:59 AM
Christmas for me is always at my Mom's house in Big Sur, the weather is usually ok, the food is great, the beer and wine are top notch, and my family (though insane) is nice and getting more mellow over time.  We don't do a lot of gifts, I usually get Mom a half pound of Jamaica Blue coffee each year, but we enjoy the time.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Ideologue

#36
November 14, 2013, 01:13:09 PM
Ambivalent.  Forced to confront the abjection of my life's failure in comparison to parents' mansion, sister's new car/money, step-sister's even larger mansion, combined $200k household income, and children.  Have to travel.  But I get some gift cards, and see people I love, I guess.
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Ideologue

#37
November 14, 2013, 01:15:25 PM
Got a telepathic message from Jacob, reminding me that comparing myself to others is recipe for depression.
Kinemalogue
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CountDeMoney

#38
November 14, 2013, 02:09:24 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2013, 01:13:09 PM
Ambivalent.  Forced to confront the abjection of my life's failure in comparison to parents' mansion, sister's new car/money, step-sister's even larger mansion, combined $200k household income, and children.  Have to travel.  But I get some gift cards, and see people I love, I guess.

Tell them they can mail the gift cards.  Stay home.  Go do something fulfilling on Xmas, like volunteer somewhere.

derspiess

#39
November 14, 2013, 02:14:58 PM
I kind of miss traveling for Christmas.  Kind of adds something to the occasion to make a trip out to see your family & other people you don't see very often.  And I guess I'm lucky I don't have any family that I dread hanging out with.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Razgovory

#40
November 14, 2013, 02:18:22 PM
It reminds me how lonely I am. :(
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

#41
November 14, 2013, 02:26:41 PM
You get to drink glögg. :mmm:
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derspiess

#42
November 14, 2013, 02:34:27 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 14, 2013, 02:26:41 PM
You get to drink glögg. :mmm:

And eat pepparkakor.  I swear I can make a whole tin of those disappear in 2 or 3 days.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

The Brain

#43
November 14, 2013, 02:36:27 PM
Quote from: derspiess on November 14, 2013, 02:34:27 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 14, 2013, 02:26:41 PM
You get to drink glögg. :mmm:

And eat pepparkakor.  I swear I can make a whole tin of those disappear in 2 or 3 days.

:yes:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Admiral Yi

#44
November 14, 2013, 02:36:38 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 14, 2013, 02:26:41 PM
You get to drink glögg. :mmm:

Would you happen to know if there is any common ancestry shared by glogg (mitt tits) and grog?
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