The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

CdM has a big smile tonight

[Maladict]

You guys are lucky to have thanksgiving as a fire break I guess. Be thankful.
It's Xmas already here

Saint Nicholas ftw. No Christmas crap until December 6th.

[Admiral Yi]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

[Hamilcar]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

Mostly. People in Switzerland will put up those Christmas light chains, but that's the limit.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

Really common in England too, mostly tree plus interior streamers etc, a few decorate the outside of the house too.

[Josquius]

It is getting madder every year.
Whats really bizzare is it tends to be in the less nice estates that you find houses which have really gone over the top. It must cost a fortune

[Grey Fox]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

Since we're just USA light, there is no distinction between here & down there.

[Maladict]

It is getting madder every year.
Whats really bizzare is it tends to be in the less nice estates that you find houses which have really gone over the top. It must cost a fortune

Same thing at New Year's here. It's mostly the lower incomes who will spend hundreds or thousands of Euros on fireworks, it boggles the mind.

[Syt]

Yep, same here. Though I think having kids also is a factor. That said, in the previous districts where I was living in Vienna, kids with fireworks turned the area into a warzone two weeks before and a week after New Year's. In the bourgeois neighborhood I live in now it's much more subdued and happens almost entirely within the legal permissable time window on New Years Eve.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It is getting madder every year.
Whats really bizzare is it tends to be in the less nice estates that you find houses which have really gone over the top. It must cost a fortune

Same thing at New Year's here. It's mostly the lower incomes who will spends hundreds or thousands of Euros on fireworks, it boggles the mind.

There are reasons why the less well-off are less well-off 

[Agelastus]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

Really common in England too, mostly tree plus interior streamers etc, a few decorate the outside of the house too.

It's not overly common - there's only about four houses in my street that do it (three of which we get a good view of as they are my neighbour and two of the houses opposite.)

My neighbour has started decorating for Halloween as well, presumably as he has two kids the right age - I haven't heard "trick or treaters" down our street for years now - there was a period of five years when there were a lot of them all of a sudden and then it was back to normal just as abruptly.

[crazy canuck]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

It started as a German thing.

[The Brain]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

It started as a German thing.

Like poop?

[Zanza]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

It started as a German thing.

[crazy canuck]

Is decorating your house for holidays purely an American thing?  I mean more than just a Christmas wreath.

It started as a German thing.

Oh tannenbuam.....

And became, well, this 

https://kaethe-wohlfahrt.com/Weihnachtsdorf-Rothenburg-o-d-Tauber/