Christmas in your corner?

[The Brain]

I try to please Thor, Odin and Frey.

[viper37]

Well, for Jews, the birth of Christ doesn't mean much, I guess.  I don't know if secular Jews not living in Israel do celebrate Christmas with their family, or if they pass over to simply celebrate Hannukah when it is not at the same time as Christmas season.

Heh.  No Christmas in Israel is just another work day.

I figured that about Israel, but those in Canada, US, Europe, where we have a day or a week off, I'm curious if they nonetheless picked up the tradition.

[viper37]

I try to please Thor, Odin and Frey.

Good.  Are they, pleased I mean?

[Barrister]

Well, for Jews, the birth of Christ doesn't mean much, I guess.  I don't know if secular Jews not living in Israel do celebrate Christmas with their family, or if they pass over to simply celebrate Hannukah when it is not at the same time as Christmas season.

Heh.  No Christmas in Israel is just another work day.

I figured that about Israel, but those in Canada, US, Europe, where we have a day or a week off, I'm curious if they nonetheless picked up the tradition.

The stereotype is they like to go to the movies on the 25th since they have the day off and they theatres are half empty.

[crazy canuck]

Well, for Jews, the birth of Christ doesn't mean much, I guess.  I don't know if secular Jews not living in Israel do celebrate Christmas with their family, or if they pass over to simply celebrate Hannukah when it is not at the same time as Christmas season.

Heh.  No Christmas in Israel is just another work day.

I figured that about Israel, but those in Canada, US, Europe, where we have a day or a week off, I'm curious if they nonetheless picked up the tradition.

One of my partners makes a habit of telling people he is available on the 23-26 for arbitrations.   

[merithyn]

The stereotype is they like to go to the movies on the 25th since they have the day off and they theatres are half empty.

And out for Chinese food.

[The Brain]

I try to please Thor, Odin and Frey.

Good.  Are they, pleased I mean?

Who knows?

[Valmy]

Yeah the Chinese food one is pretty common.  I recall a Simpsons gag about a Jew being visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past and it was just a vision of lots of Chinese Food.

[The Brain]

Yeah the Chinese food one is pretty common.  I recall a Simpsons gag about a Jew being visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past and it was just a vision of lots of Chinese Food.

That's inverted racism.

[CountDeMoney]

Working Xmas Day, it was always Atman's Deli and their massive corned beef sandwiches.  Whether on the dashboard of a squad car or at the bail office, that was my traditional Xmas dinner throughout most of the 1990s.

[derspiess]

24th - baking and then attendance for Christmas eve service at the church chosen for that year
25th - meal of sorts (kinda potlucky) and open presents with mother's extended family (at some point in the afternoon my siblings and I sneak off to see my father's extended family for a few hours).
26th - go to theater to see "Christmas" movie picked for that year.

Is your aunt still off of Kwanzaa?

[derspiess]

The stereotype is they like to go to the movies on the 25th since they have the day off and they theatres are half empty.

I know a lot of non-Jews who do that.  That was my best friend's family's tradition and his dad was a Methodist minister.

[mongers]

Working Xmas Day, it was always Atman's Deli and their massive corned beef sandwiches.  Whether on the dashboard of a squad car or at the bail office, that was my traditional Xmas dinner throughout most of the 1990s.

 

[garbon]

24th - baking and then attendance for Christmas eve service at the church chosen for that year
25th - meal of sorts (kinda potlucky) and open presents with mother's extended family (at some point in the afternoon my siblings and I sneak off to see my father's extended family for a few hours).
26th - go to theater to see "Christmas" movie picked for that year.

Is your aunt still off of Kwanzaa?

I think she gave up that bit of African resurgence when everyone on my father's belittled it. I don't think anyone uses her "African" name, anymore.

[Admiral Yi]

I spent one Christmas at a nudey bar.  That was pretty grim.

Not least because the fuglier dancers got stuck with the shift.