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Filthy atheists stealing our Christmas
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Crosby Quiet Teaspoon wrote: »You never heard of the eastern European version where st Nicholas's (Santa) demon helper gives coal to bad children and his angel helper gives presents to good children
During the existence of Santa discussion I told Hermoine that I would quite like coal from Santa so she is working out ways I can be sufficiently naughty to qualify. She did warn me that I may not get coal if I want coal as Santa isn't stupid and if I am not careful he will give me something I really don't want like make-up or perfume to teach me not to be such a smarty pants.
Hermoine is getting a microscope to go with the Chemistry set she got for her birthday.
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Bannasidhe wrote: »Hermoine is getting a microscope to go with the Chemistry set she got for her birthday.
Ooh. Microscopes are pretty cool. Plenty of free interesting stuff to look at too. Skin flakes, leaves, cells from a swab of your cheek, hair, crystals, dirt, fabrics...0 -
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Ok, lazygal said "and santa doesn't have a hissy fit and drown you if you're naughty", pointing out that santa is possibly a little more stable and less psyhopathic than god. You then responded with "... demon helper gives coal to bad children..." To me that seemed like you were engaging in a bit of whataboutery, "well yeah, god drowned pretty much everything on the entire planet but the Eastern European Santa GAVE CHILDREN COAL!!! What a monster."
Apologies if you weren't.
MrP
Apology accepted
but he only gives coal to the bad children. Have to say the kids were petrified when their names were being called out in case they were on the wrong list.
You do realise Santa is based on st Nicholas who was a real person.0 -
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Well it'll be a better tree topper than the feckin' silver angel we've had up until now. Bleh.
This is true. I had a star, but it met with an unfortunate heel/treading into ground accident last year. I have yet to come up with the alternative. Perhaps the felt mermaid I have in the window...it being make believe and cutsey too
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He's got four balls :cool: and they're 25mm diameter. I took the first picture on the kitchen floor because I got crap lighting and nasty shadows trying to photograph it next to a wall. The kitchen tiles are 30cm square. I should've included a ruler in the photo
He was really easy to make. I painted the polystyrene balls brown with acrylic paint (ordinary watercolour would do) then put a hole through each one with a skewer and threaded the four of them onto two red tinselly wirey thing (any pasta dish needs sauce) and then it was very easy to construct the rest just twisting the wires together.
The tinselly wires with the eyes on - I bent the ends into a circle around a marker, which was the same size as the googly eyes, then glued them on with contact adhesive.
Have plenty of balls :pac: left and lots of tinselly stuff (I used up all the gold, though!) so I might get the kids to make a couple of smaller ones if they want
Cost (all materials from Euro2) -
2 packets multicoloured tinselly wire - 4 euro (have most of this left)
1 packet foam balls - 2 euro (have six of them left)
Assorted tubes of acrylic paint - 2 euro (have almost all of this left)
1 packet assorted googly eyes - 2 euro (have almost all of these left!)Life ain't always empty.
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You'll do the celebrity chefs out of a job, if you keep coming up with recipies like that for Christmas !!!:):DHe's got four balls :cool: and they're 25mm diameter. I took the first picture on the kitchen floor because I got crap lighting and nasty shadows trying to photograph it next to a wall. The kitchen tiles are 30cm square. I should've included a ruler in the photo
He was really easy to make. I painted the polystyrene balls brown with acrylic paint (ordinary watercolour would do) then put a hole through each one with a skewer and threaded the four of them onto two red tinselly wirey thing (any pasta dish needs sauce) and then it was very easy to construct the rest just twisting the wires together.
The tinselly wires with the eyes on - I bent the ends into a circle around a marker, which was the same size as the googly eyes, then glued them on with contact adhesive.
Have plenty of balls :pac: left and lots of tinselly stuff (I used up all the gold, though!) so I might get the kids to make a couple of smaller ones if they want
Cost (all materials from Euro2) -
2 packets multicoloured tinselly wire - 4 euro (have most of this left)
1 packet foam balls - 2 euro (have six of them left)
Assorted tubes of acrylic paint - 2 euro (have almost all of this left)
1 packet assorted googly eyes - 2 euro (have almost all of these left!)0 -
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Bannasidhe wrote: »I will go to jail before any carbohydrate based deity replaces Xena on top of MY tree. :mad:
Pics or GTFO Life ain't always empty.
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