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Post by JoeP on Dec 24, 2015 10:20:52 GMT
No posts in the last 14 hours!
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Post by JoeP on Dec 24, 2015 10:23:40 GMT
Is everyone Christmas partying and Christmas shopping and Christmas relaxing?
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Post by Miisa on Dec 24, 2015 10:45:28 GMT
I shall be Christmas saunaing soon.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2015 10:55:24 GMT
We were in the cinema yesterday and saw the Star Wars movie.
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Post by Kye on Dec 24, 2015 12:43:14 GMT
I'm in super busy mode until the 26th.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2015 12:53:25 GMT
I hope you can still enjoy it, Kye.
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Post by Kye on Dec 24, 2015 13:18:48 GMT
I'll enjoy the 26th!
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Post by JoeP on Dec 24, 2015 16:25:27 GMT
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Post by tangent on Dec 24, 2015 17:56:51 GMT
I'm asleep.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 24, 2015 18:04:23 GMT
That's good.
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Post by jayme on Dec 24, 2015 20:04:29 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 26, 2015 19:18:49 GMT
So...Christmas was so yesterday. (Thank dawg that's over.)
When is the match and who are the contestants?
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Post by juju on Dec 26, 2015 19:50:57 GMT
You're referring to Boxing Day, right? Funnily enough, as a kid I always thought Boxing Day was so named because there was so much sport on TV.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 26, 2015 20:18:27 GMT
Yes...*smirks*...Most Americans have no flippin' idea what Boxing Day is or is not. To us, it sounds like an annual 'big match' between the heavyweight contenders, or some such. Fisticuffs after Christmas! The initial impression leaves us wondering whether everybody engages in fisticuffs, or whether there is some kind of specialized match. (Of course, Festivus is inclusive of the 'Feats of Strength', which includes besting the host in Greco-Roman wrestling.)
From what I've heard, there seem to be slight variations upon a theme for the interpretations of the 'real' reason it is called 'Boxing Day'.
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Post by Kye on Dec 26, 2015 21:06:12 GMT
It took me a long time to realize Americans don't do Boxing Day. I used to think it was universal.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 26, 2015 22:00:52 GMT
It took me a long time to realize Americans don't do Boxing Day. I used to think it was universal. Heh...I suggested to Swimmer that most Americans have no inkling of the meaning of 'Boxing Day' and she piped up as chirpy as could be, "Oh, I know...It's for gathering up and boxing all the waste wrapping paper, ribbons, tape and string from the Christmas Day festivities." Evidently some kind of 'morning after' thing dedicated to cleaning up after the debauchery of the season. She was born and raised in Maine; not far from you, Kye. I did not contradict her. I held my tongue.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 22:03:15 GMT
I can't remember now if Germans have their own name for Boxing day. I think they just refer to it as the second Christmas day.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 26, 2015 22:06:28 GMT
Hey...We get to the end of Christmas Day, it's over; time to stock up on champagne and look forward to New Year's Eve! Oh, and post-holiday sales, too.
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Post by tangent on Dec 26, 2015 22:47:28 GMT
We have 12 days of Christmas.
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Post by Kye on Dec 26, 2015 22:58:36 GMT
I bought something at a post-Christmas sale today for 40% off that I had had my eye on for months! *is pleased*
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 23:48:19 GMT
I have recently realised that I buy a lot of things on eBay. Someone asks me about my nice coat, my scarf, my jumper, my cardigan and I keep saying I got it second hand from eBay. But it's a nice way to get things I would not be able to afford new.
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Post by tangent on Dec 27, 2015 0:36:40 GMT
I wouldn't have guessed you get some of your clothes from eBay.
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Post by Miisa on Dec 27, 2015 12:03:25 GMT
I can't remember now if Germans have their own name for Boxing day. I think they just refer to it as the second Christmas day. In Scandinavia it is St. Stephen's Day. ETA: actually, when I think about it, also Swedish more commonly refers to it as just the second day of Christmas.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 28, 2015 4:48:23 GMT
We have 12 days of Christmas. Now, that sounds bloody awful...stretching all that tripe out for twelve stinkin' days? The flippin' muzak alone is enough to engender temporary insanity. Look...it may have at one time have been a twelve day festival, but it has thankfully lost much of that. That it has been beaten in to merely two days is laudable. We can only hope that the erosion continues until the whole thing is merely some passing 'archaic tribal observance' of little note nor commercial interest.
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Post by tangent on Dec 28, 2015 13:54:17 GMT
Two days!? You must be joking!
Christmas festivities in Marple start on the first Saturday in December with a Cracker Food and Drink celebration, which includes a visit from Father Christmas and sley rides. The following day, there's a 2-mile Santa Dash raising money for charities. Then you have to fit in your work's Christmas lunch and Christmas party. Of course, you have to go to the nearest garden centre to pick out a Christmas tree, which has to be decorated. Parents and grandparents have the obligatory nursery Father Christmas and the Christmas Nativity play to attend. Then there's the Carol Service and the children's Christingle on Christmas Eve and we haven't even got to Christmas Day yet.
The week after Christmas Day is spent visiting relatives at the other end of the country, if you're unfortunate, or just partying if you're not. Most people have ten days to a fortnight off work, all of it paid leave (negotiated by the engineering unions in the 1980s). Traditionally, you take down your tree and Christmas decorations on 5th January. And if you haven't managed to fit in a pantomime then you will just have time to go to one in the first week in January, or up to 31st January if you live in London.
Christmas now occupies the whole of December and the first week in January, which I think is far too long. Much of it is decided by the general public and not the Church but I'd prefer Christmas to be limited to just one week.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 28, 2015 21:41:29 GMT
Which are several of the reasons I detest the holiday....particularly that 'obligatory' crap.
I'd prefer if Christmas did not exist at all.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 8, 2016 20:17:54 GMT
I have been busy for several weeks and only just starting to get time back!
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Post by Moose on Jan 10, 2016 1:58:18 GMT
Yeah sorry I've been busy for the same reason Col has Lots of changes here and lots of adjusting for all of us and it feels as if Christmas has come and gone in a blur (though we had a nice one). Am quite staggered that it's the tenth of Jan so far .. no idea where the last three or four weeks have gone
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2016 9:13:56 GMT
Am quite staggered that it's the tenth of Jan so far .. no idea where the last three or four weeks have gone I feel a little bit like that. I think it's because last week we were so busy with things for the wedding.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 12, 2016 18:20:13 GMT
I have just reached the point where there is only a single page of topics with new posts!
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