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I love it. Xmas bonus from work and some time off.

 

In terms of all the frills, well it's for kids isn't it, and who would begrudge them some happy material based memories?

 

Me. I believe that perpetuating the santa claus myth only serves to create a sense of materialism in kids which is not something that the human race should be proud of.

 

Me and some friends have decided that next year we are going to boycott 'Christmas' and instead celebrate the old Pagan winter solstice festival of Yule on the 21st december. It means we can eat and drink loads but won't be obliged to spend stupid amounts of money on other people buying pointless crap they won't ever use.

 

Bah Humbug!

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That was his re-birth (and if you believe that then you are a poor, deluded idiot - but let's not turn this into a theological debate!)

 

Let's..

 

It is broadly accepted that Jesus Christ (our saviour) was born 4 years BC (that's Before Christ I think!), so who are we to say it was on the 25th December? There are a number of dates that we should consider as his actual birth day.

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Let's..

 

It is broadly accepted that Jesus Christ (our saviour) was born 4 years BC (that's Before Christ I think!), so who are we to say it was on the 25th December? There are a number of dates that we should consider as his actual birth day.

 

Indeed. Some scholars believe his birthday is in april, whereas others say september. Nearly all are agreed that it definitely wasn't december 25th. It's just that the christian church didn't like the idea of the world's favourite festival being a pagan one so they hijacked it for themselves.

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Indeed. Some scholars believe his birthday is in april, whereas others say september. Nearly all are agreed that it definitely wasn't december 25th. It's just that the christian church didn't like the idea of the world's favourite festival being a pagan one so they hijacked it for themselves.

 

My brother says September too.

 

I have a start of a cold, if it gets any worse I have to move out, sh!tty snow.

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Shut up.

 

This has nothing to do with cool.

 

There are some people who are normally quite positive, and this time of the year usually finds them down in the dumps. But there is often a reason for it. Care to tell us, or is it just Seasonal Affective Dissorder, or as I like to put it, pining for the summer months..? ;)

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Not sure why, just dont like it, too many happy (albeit, usually fake hapiness) people about

 

Yes, I know what you mean. Don't worry. Once we get past Jan 1st, everyone will shake off the enforced merriment and get down to being bloody miserable again. As it happens, I always start to cheer up about December 21-22. It's nothing to do with Xmas, but that the Sun is starting to come back after the Winter Solstice.

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I like that I don't have to go to work for a fortnight, can do some work on the house, get ****ed a lot more.....loads really. I agree, it's a lot of falseness and people who wouldn't normally bother with you suddenly want to wish you a merry christmas and all that.

 

I'm pretty sure it would have been New Years day yesterday, or maybe today, if we were really being traditionalists anyway.

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Nothing, Hamster...nothing.

 

Thanks Deppo, thanks, a very happy christmas to you, I mean that mate.

 

Joking aside, for me personally this has been the ****test year of my life and I personally welcome Christmas as a new beginning and a bright future is on the horizon. Things are looking up and Christmas for us this year has gotten right back where it should be, the season of goodwill.

 

xx

 

hamster

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Merry Christmas to you and yours, Hamster. I think for a lot of people, saying that they hate Christmas is an affectation, a lot of posturing. I love it, even though I usually end up working. I look forward to one where I get a few days off around it.

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It takes a lot for me not to like Christmas. But I always have one thought for those that can't afford it, or have nobody with which to enjoy it. It's a hanger-on from reading A Christmas Carol almost every year. A habit which my old dad started me on, as he read it every year before me.

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Ah Christmas.

 

The local Malls are full of decorations, Santa in his grotto. People wearing their Santa hats to collect their Turkeys, off to Church for Midnight Carol Service.

 

Then a quick trip back to blighty and get arrested for wishing someone a Merry Christmas with a card having a St George's flag on it and being shot by Greenpeace for having a non-carbon friendly Christmas Tree.

 

Christmas away from home means so much more. It always hits you the hardest when you're there slapping the factor 15 on while ogling the chicks in bikinis while sipping the early morning Sherry on the beach while the Maid starts the roast veggies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Brought to you by THANK FOOK I got back yesterday to some warmth productions)

 

:-)

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