"brewers droop"?

That's a new one.

With your history... O____o

I hear you, it disgusts me as well. Commercialist, consumerist, materialist, capitalist, GREEEEED fueled holiday masked in lies and deceit presented as wholesome and good. PUKE.

My method of fighting back: Any radio station that plays Christmas music before Dec 1 gets auto-skipped until sometime in January.

I think they refer to it as a "technicolor yawn".
Great, so you hear next year's Christmas music first. That explains Christmas in July.
I'm curious to hear about that one too.... something told me you might have caught it hanging out in the gamersgate thread.

The speakers both sound really stoned! The pronunciation of κουραμπιέδες is just as I had thought it was, keep in mind that I'm primarily a Swiss German speaker, English is only my second language so I don't force-butcher everything into English pronunciation. Greek pronunciation is very easy for Swiss German speakers provided we know where to put the emphasis. For example, I falsely thought that it's μελομακαρóνο instead of μελομακάρονο, a rookie mistake which in theory shouldn't happen to me, with all the fancy schmancy schooling and whatnot. After all, our classical language teachers at the humanist gymnasium were sticklers for precise pronunciation. Our Latin teacher (a monk from the neighboring monastery) demanded that we pronounced words in the classical way, not in the "modern" way that medieval church Latin does. If anyone pronounced anything the wrong way, they were punished by having to write down the correct pronunciation law 50 times. Very old school education methods, no "every kid is special" stuff. Fortunately I paid attention in that class so I never had to write anything down 50 times.
Some of those monks were very serious folks, one of them wanted to burn me at the stake for heresy, one of my favorite high school stories that I keep telling to spook kids. 300 years ago they did actually burn witches in my village but nowadays this isn't legal anymore (environmental laws about pollution etc).

Well, I did warn that they'd speak slowly -I could theoretically find a link with the same words pronounced faster, but I wanted to be certain you'd understand the pronounciation...

Glad you had understood it in the 1st place-I just assumed you didn't like the sound of the singular of the noun because you had misunderstood the pronounciation. And on the internet it's pretty easy to forget that the other person isn't a native speaker of English either...

Well, your education sounds quite different from what I considered "normal" -"normal" being being taught at a public state (non-church) school. Our own professors of Ancient Greek weren't sticklers for anything (heck I had barely learnt Ancient Greek before the preparation exams for entrance at the university, when I just learnt all the stuff I should have learnt while at school in private lessons (me and other children preparing for said exams went to a retired old high-school teacher and she taught us in 2 years more than what the entire school system had taught us in 4 years!). I personally took up Latin in the last 2 classes of lyceum, but the professor of it (the same who taught Ancient Greek during the same time frame) was so incompetent that he went through the material very slowly, if he went at all, as most of the time he just talked about irrelevant stuff (such as what play he had watched at the theatre!) -so I again learnt Latin outside school, from the same woman that taught Ancient Greek I just mentioned... Anyways, my schooling woes are probably of little importance. Anyways, in Greece and Cyprus Ancient Greek is pronounced like modern Greek (nobody bothers with erasmic pronounciation) and Latin is read pretty much the way we see the letters arranged on paper (wonder if that is the modern way...). Back to the monks now -my point is the only-church person teaching us was a priest for a single year of Religious Education (the rest of the years we were taught by non-clerics that graduated from Theology), so I didn't encounter any of those old-school methods (I didn't encounter the "every kid is special" either, but this trend is slowly coming in our schools too from what I've heard...)
Now regarding the heresy story, I have no idea what you must have done as a kid/teen to be considered heretic (!)(most probably asked questions about religion which the monk didn't like), but it does sound weird that he'd turn against a teen for a couple questions (a stickler indeed!). As for the witch burning, I had heard about it before, but not from a person in whose village "witches" were actually burnt -the witch burning didn't exist as a thing/custom in Greece/Cyprus, so I've only read of it from books regarding west medieval times.
Anyways, sorry if I were too chatty again I just wanted (tl;dr) to say that I'm glad you had understood the pronounciation of the aforementioned Christmas sweets correctly, and I also mentioned btw (since you mentioned the monks) my own, very different education...

It was a great story. BTW, I thought it kind of odd when I went to college and found out that both the girl's soccer coach, and my math teacher was my peer. (He was working on his master's degree.) But that's not all, my chemistry teacher was going to school to learn chemistry of all things and he taught it very well to his students. Those are the kind of people who inspire me.

However, I think my mom inspires me the most. She held down three separate jobs to help pay for things while my dad worked full time. She was scary smart when it came to shopping, the stores actually payed her out of the till.

My family usually start with the christmas themes at home around late november or december at the latest. But I don't really mind since christmas and winter is my favorite time of year.

I love the cold days, driving snow mobiles and hanging out with my whole family during christmas eve and day.

English is not my the first language too but I hate Amrican slang...

Yes, that usually happens to people when they have a vowel movement.

In my country Christmas is on the January, for example)) Don't understand why are you so angry?) You can celebrate it when do you want, both in summer;)

Sorry for the late reply, just wanted to let you know that I read everything you write diligently and appreciate your insight - you're arguably the number one most educated pirate I know!