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    #32
    Zaph
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    Khloe Low Stairwell wrote: »
    The question stands: Why the 12th December?

    Probably assuming the 12 days of Christmas are before and not after Christmas Day. A not uncommon misconception.


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    #33
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Ah give the poster a pass here. Even you quoting the 8th December has no relevance really.

    Anyway, no worries. Enjoy the season that's in it in your own way, as I do :P

    All I asked was why they twice stated the 12th was the date and pointed out that Traditionally it was the 8th. I'm not advocating the 8th nor giving any credence to it's significance other than why it was the traditional date here.


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    #34
    Eggs For Dinner
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    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    Well since a lot of us don't believe that the immaculate conception actually happened, then the festivities can begin earlier than that :D

    You don't believe in it, but you celebrate Christ-mas?

    Mmm!


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    #35
    Doctors room ghost
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    Khloe Low Stairwell wrote: »
    Why the 12th? The tradition here was always 8th December - Feast of the Immaculate Conception.



    Not sure. I had the 12th in my head. It’s probably wrong but its time enough for me anyway.anyone celebrating Christmas in November should be took out and shot for the greater good if you ask me


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    #36
    Bigbagofcans
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    Eggs For Dinner wrote: »
    You don't believe in it, but you celebrate Christ-mas?

    Mmm!

    Mmm is right! I don't believe in Christ but I do believe in having a good time :cool:


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    #37
    Peatys
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    Eggs For Dinner wrote: »
    You don't believe in it, but you celebrate Christ-mas?

    Mmm!

    https://wearyourvoicemag.com/entertainment-culture/christmas-pagan-roots-winter-holiday#:~:targetText=Historical%20evidence%20suggests%20that%20Jesus,attached%20to%20their%20own%20holidays.


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    #38
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Eggs For Dinner wrote: »
    You don't believe in it, but you celebrate Christ-mas?

    Mmm!

    You do know the Immaculate Conception is not the Virgin Birth? Not that they'd believe that either.


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    #39
    rafatoni
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    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    Mmm is right! I don't believe in Christ but I do believe in having a good time :cool:
    do you believes there be snow at christmas? Do you believe there be peace on earth?


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    #40
    Spanish Eyes
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    Khloe Low Stairwell wrote: »
    All I asked was why they twice stated the 12th was the date and pointed out that Traditionally it was the 8th. I'm not advocating the 8th nor giving any credence to it's significance other than why it was the traditional date here.

    No need to explain, it's just a Christmas thread. There will be many more like this :p


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    #41
    Scarinae
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    Eggs For Dinner wrote: »
    You don't believe in it, but you celebrate Christ-mas?

    Mmm!
    It is mainly Catholics who believe in the immaculate conception, and there are plenty of Christians who celebrate Christmas and are not Catholics.

    And even people who are officially Catholics don't always subscribe to all the religion's teachings.

    And there are plenty of people who are cultural Christians, who celebrate Christmas and other festivals despite not really being religious.


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    #42
    randomspud
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    This country has turned into America Jr over the past decade or so.


    The same copious consumption and a wholesale adaptation of "The Holiday Season" that runs from Halloween to New Years.


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    #43
    Snow Garden
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    Like Halloween and Easter, Christmas has its roots in European pagan culture. Christianity borrowed it from established winter solstice traditions and festivals across pagan Europe to help establish itself as the dominant form of religious expression.


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    #44
    matchthis
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    randomspud wrote: »
    This country has turned into America Jr over the past decade or so.


    The same copious consumption and a wholesale adaptation of "The Holiday Season" that runs from Halloween to New Years.

    They have no morals and no respect for human life. But what they do have and no-one can deny this now, they have the finest collection of boilers in the world! And I include Canada in that!


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    #45
    freshpopcorn
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    I take it they were referring to some colleges Christmas day.
    When students take the day off and get pi**ed!


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    #46
    andekwarhola
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    I always put them up around now cos I like it. The idea that a load of my neckbeard neighbours might be crying on the internet about it is a pleasant bonus. I'll add a few inflatable figures tomorrow.


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    #47
    Blaizes
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    Starts too early I think. Understand it does break up the winter though and gives people something to look forward to, though it has in my mind at least turned into one gigantic retail fest. we even have Black Friday lobbed into the mix.Think I’ll have reached saturation point well before the 25th.Santa is the best part obviously.

    Thoughts too to those who will be spending Christmas alone or part of it can be a lonely dragged out time I’d say.


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    #48
    RobbingBandit
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    Merry Whatever


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    #49
    Blaizes
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    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Merry Whatever

    Thanks RobbingBandit! Keep the stories coming...


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    #50
    Spanish Eyes
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    All over on the 26th really, and what to do then? Stretches out for the kids but it is blx.

    OK I am a bah humbug. But I reckon many others are too, but may be terrified to say it!

    Love Christmas Day, but hate the run up. We are not idiots, we know what we need to buy or not as the case may be.

    Shoo. Thanks.


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    #51
    Potential-Monke
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    Blaizes wrote: »
    Thoughts too to those who will be spending Christmas alone or part of it can be a lonely dragged out time I’d say.

    Only if people keep harping on about how important it is to spend with other people. Christmas is just another time of the year, it's no more important than May 19th, if you let it. I actually dread Christmas at home, because it's usually full of loud, annoying kids. I don't like kids... And as others have noted, it's dragged out way too long and takes away from the occasion. Like, what other holiday has nearly 2 months of prep?


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    #52
    JupiterKid
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    Merry Christmas OP!!! :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY



    I’ve had been the tree and decorations up since the middle of October. :)


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    #53
    randomspud
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    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Only if people keep harping on about how important it is to spend with other people. Christmas is just another time of the year, it's no more important than May 19th, if you let it. I actually dread Christmas at home, because it's usually full of loud, annoying kids. I don't like kids... And as others have noted, it's dragged out way too long and takes away from the occasion. Like, what other holiday has nearly 2 months of prep?

    Same.

    The thought of having to spend most of the day with parents making awkward small talk. I'd much rather just drop over and see them for a bit and then go home and do my own thing.

    "Lonely" me bollix.


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    #54
    Yamanoto
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    You get accused of being Scrooge for not being enthusiastically onboard with Christmas in late November or early December. I love Christmas time, which is precisely why I get irked by fcukwits who devalue it, by almost wanting their Turkey in the oven by December 1st.


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    #55
    blueshade
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    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Only if people keep harping on about how important it is to spend with other people. Christmas is just another time of the year, it's no more important than May 19th, if you let it. I actually dread Christmas at home, because it's usually full of loud, annoying kids. I don't like kids... And as others have noted, it's dragged out way too long and takes away from the occasion. Like, what other holiday has nearly 2 months of prep?

    I think the message about spending Christmas with other people is important in the sense that Christmas can be an extremely lonely time for many people, it's also a bit of a peak time for suicide attempts. There's this forced jollity in ads and the message is pushed that Christmas is a lot of people sat around a huge table laden with all kinds of luxuries when for many people it's anything but that. Realistically most of us are a bit selfish and aren't thinking about anyone in our communities who are living alone and might not see anyone at all over Christmas.


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    #56
    blueshade
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    I always put them up around now cos I like it. The idea that a load of my neckbeard neighbours might be crying on the internet about it is a pleasant bonus. I'll add a few inflatable figures tomorrow.

    Yeah, go for it. Those tacky plastic lawn decorations made in sweatshops in developing countries by men women and children will really show how great you are.


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    #57
    blueshade
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    Peatys wrote: »
    What a bunch of miserable neck beards. This time next month it'll all be over. Then ye can all get back to listening to Beck and writing your poetry while drinking buckfast

    You OK HUN? You sound like one of the numpties who have the house strewn with Christmas tat in November. There's no need to have Christmas decorations up for 6 or 7 weeks, it shows a very juvenile nature.


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    #58
    Peatys
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    blueshade wrote: »
    Yeah, go for it. Those tacky plastic lawn decorations made in sweatshops in developing countries by men women and children will really show how great you are.

    Says the poster on the smartphone


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    #59
    blueshade
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    Peatys wrote: »
    Says the poster on the smartphone

    Actually, I'm at home on my laptop and I don't own a smartphone. I'm happy with my under 100 euro phone that I don't use for anything other than calls, texts, lists and photos, not selfies. But feel free to keep on trying. I've nothing against Christmas decorations, I like them because it brightens up a really dreary time of year. What I don't like is seeing Christmas trees and decorations up in people's houses in November.

    There's a time and a place and Christmas is in December. All this does is encourage people to spend money they don't have on crap that nobody really wants let alone needs. If someone gives me a gift then I'm obligated to give them a gift and on and on and on it goes.

    I see people loaded up with lots of tubs of chocolates, loads of selection boxes and tins of biscuits and it just means that the people who receive them then have to go out and buy more so they can give something back. Utterly pointless commercialism that has nothing to do with the spirit of Christmas. Hell, it's now quite common to not even mention Christmas in case if offends people. Now it's Winterfest or Seasons greetings.


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    #60
    Peatys
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    Free range laptop?


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    #61
    blueshade
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    Peatys wrote: »
    Free range laptop?

    Nope, just a basic phone that doesn't have lots of stuff that I don't need. I don't care about having the latest model with all the bells and whistles. If I had my way I'd still have my old Motorola Razor, I loved that phone. :D


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