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General discussionI have to stop Christmas from coming ... but how?(148 posts)(148 posts)
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Posted November 18, 2015
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Crewdroog: That's why I like thanksgiving, it's what christmas should be and isn't.
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227: I can't tell if you want Christmas to be full of vicious, wine-fueled arguments with extended family over meaningless political and lifestyle issues or if you just have unusually peaceful Thanksgivings.

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Gnostic: Only when you try to interact with them will they hurt you. If you ignore them, how lights and vibration hurt you?
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227: Does it count as a rebuttal if I throw a flashbang at you?
^Ears prop up you mean you want a game of catch?
Posted November 18, 2015
Odd, I haven't really seen much of Christmas preparations here yet. Ok there are more kid's toy commercials on TV all of a sudden, but apart from that... I don't yet hear any Xmas jingles in supermarkets, malls are not yet decorated with Xmas crap as far as I can tell etc...

The Xmas street in Helsinki will be opened in the very beginning of December I think, and generally I expect all the Xmas pushing to start in full force after the Finnish Independence Day, which is on 6th of December.

One thing I dislike in the weeks before Christmas that our work canteens tend to offer more and more traditional Finnish Christmas food. Thanks, but I get enough of that during the actual Chistmas days at home, I wouldn't want to eat the same stuff weeks beforehand. It is not that tasty food anyway, but I'll endure it during Christmas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joulup%C3%B6yt%C3%A4
Post edited November 18, 2015 by timppu
Posted November 18, 2015
In here we can already see shopping malls decorated by Christmas related dingies. No snow, it's not even cold outside. Doesn't feel like Christmas is anywhere near, but business people are just too much into thinking "Starting season sooner shall give us more moneyh!" Well, it doesn't really. Stupid. We should celebrate now something autumn related instead.
Posted November 18, 2015
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IAmSinistar: stuff
You can stop celebrating it :P
Posted November 18, 2015
Heh, you are late in the US they already started Christmas season in Lidl and Hofer here in the middle October :)

I always think they must be going crazy. Seriously who buys christmas stuff before middle of december at all.
Posted November 18, 2015
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Matruchus: Seriously who buys christmas stuff before middle of december at all.
People that wish to decorate at the start of December and need to buy a few things?
Posted November 18, 2015
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Matruchus: Seriously who buys christmas stuff before middle of december at all.
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JMich: People that wish to decorate at the start of December and need to buy a few things?
Heh, that is so thing of the past here. You rarely see anybody putting Christmas decorations up before one week to Christmas and a few days after that day everything is already cleared and packed away. We already grown out of the craze. At least one thing the economic crisis was good for.
Posted November 18, 2015
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JMich: People that wish to decorate at the start of December and need to buy a few things?
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Matruchus: Heh, that is so thing of the past here. You rarely see anybody putting Christmas decorations up before one week to Christmas and a few days after that day everything is already cleared and packed away. We already grown out of the craze. At least one thing the economic crisis was good for.
I live in one of those old commieblock buildings so there's none of that "YAY! Let's decorate the OUTSIDE of the house!" stuff going on here :P
Posted November 18, 2015
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JudasIscariot: You can stop celebrating it :P
My individual participation has minimal impact when it's happening all around me. It has about as much effect as deciding to opt out of a flood or earthquake.

And technically I already don't celebrate Christmas, since I'm not a Christian. For me it's a social holiday and part of my national culture, plus some Solstice celebration thrown in on my part. I enjoy it as a special event, not a marathon. After all, how special would a Fourth Of July fireworks show be if you were setting them off for a whole month beforehand?
Posted November 18, 2015
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Crewdroog: That's why I like thanksgiving, it's what christmas should be and isn't.
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HunchBluntley: People eating a disturbing amount of food, falling asleep in front of televised football, then going out to wait in line in front of a major retail store for 8 hours so they can gouge somebody's eyes out to get the last bafflingly-named Nintendo-system-du-jour for their bratty kid's Christmas gift? =)
lol yes, everything but the black friday stuff. Never done a black friday and never will :) I hate shopping. hate it. and I hate people, so....

everything you said is awesome.
Posted November 18, 2015
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Crewdroog: Never done a black friday and never will :) I hate shopping. hate it. and I hate people, so....
I'm with you there. Cyber Monday is so much easier, and actually fun at times.
Posted November 18, 2015
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IAmSinistar: . After all, how special would a Fourth Of July fireworks show be if you were setting them off for a whole month beforehand?
Because on the 4th you should be shooting from a cannon for extra awesomeness which would make the fireworks sort of an appetizer in terms of "Explosions! WOO!" :D
Posted November 18, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Because on the 4th you should be shooting from a cannon for extra awesomeness which would make the fireworks sort of an appetizer in terms of "Explosions! WOO!" :D
Considering the scope of some fireworks shows I've seen here, I think one would have to decimate an entire city for the proper climax to a month of such events. :)
Posted November 18, 2015
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IAmSinistar: After all, how special would a Fourth Of July fireworks show be if you were setting them off for a whole month beforehand?
Ask Walt Disney World. Fireworks every single night unless nature's providing its own show with lightning!
Posted November 18, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Because on the 4th you should be shooting from a cannon for extra awesomeness which would make the fireworks sort of an appetizer in terms of "Explosions! WOO!" :D
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IAmSinistar: Considering the scope of some fireworks shows I've seen here, I think one would have to decimate an entire city for the proper climax to a month of such events. :)
So, a scaled up version of this?
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