Christmas

[Typhoid]

So, what do you usually do around Christmas? Do you do things with your family? Any traditions, do you oppose Christmas completely?

As Samantha Bee said. (Paraphrased)

"Christmas, December 25th, the only religious holiday that is also a federal holiday, So Christians can go to their services in peace, and normal people can think about the separation of church and state."

Anyways, I love Christmas.

I have "traditions" that my family always does over the days suurrounding Christmas, and the day itself.

Christmas Eve i go to my grandpas down the street, Christmas, we have people here, and Boxing Day i go to my grandpas in North Van.


(Yes....I will admit, I am slightly unsure on how to spell "grandpa")

[Seth]

I don't think you got her quote down quite right but oh well.


I eat a lot of oranges.
I get happy.
I get depressed.


This year's holidays have been a real joke so far. I can't help but see all the bull**** that this holiday encompasses.

anyway, merry christmas!

[Joeiss]

Well, I don't finish exams until the 20th, which absolutely sucks. Plus that fact that I go back to school on the 4th completely blows too.

Anyways, every Christmas Eve my family has a party with a bunch of our friends and neighbours. It's usually pretty darn fun! Drunken karaoke is a plus, too.

On Christmas day, we usually open up gifts, then either Christmas lunch at my house and then go to my aunt's/baba's house for desert and gifts, or just go straight thereto eat. I am not sure which one we are doing this year.

I expect either BIG presents or big money from my baba, haha. Why? Because my sister and my aunt are going to New York soon for 4 nights, and staying in some fancy hotel. So that means Christmas bonuses for me! muahahahaahaa.

I would like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas, and leave you with a classic Christmas song.

Down in the workshop all the elves were making toys
For the good Gentile girls and the good Gentile boys
When the boss busted in, nearly scared 'em half to death
Had a rifle in his hands and cheap whiskey on his breath
From his beard to his boots he was covered in ammo
Like a big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Rambo
And he smiled as he said with a twinkle in his eye
"Merry Christmas to all - now you're all gonna die!"

The night Santa went crazy
The night Saint Nick went insane
Realized he'd been getting a raw deal
Something finally must've snapped in his brain

Well the workshop is gone now, he decided to bomb it
Everywhere you'll find pieces of Cupid and Comet
Then he tied up his helpers and he held the elves hostage
And he ground up poor Rudolph into reindeer sausage
He got Dancer and Prancer with and old German Luger
And he slashed down Dasher just like Freddy Krueger
Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen
Then he took a big bite and said "It tastes just like chicken!"

The night Santa went crazy
The night Kris Kringle went nuts
Now you can't hardly walk around the North Pole
Without stepping in reindeer guts

There's the National Guard and the FBI
There's a van from the Eyewitness News
And helicopters circling 'round in the sky
Now the bullets keep flying the body count's rising
And everybody’s dying to know - Santa, why?
My, my, my, my - you used to be such a jolly guy.

Yes, Virginia, now Santa's doing time
In a Federal prison for his infamous crime
Hey little friend now, don't you cry no more tears
He'll be out with good behavior in seven hundred more years.

(Alternate verse used in concert)
Yes, Virginia, now Santa Claus is dead
A guy from the SWAT team blew a hole through his head
Yes, little friend, that's his brains on the floor
Guess you won't have the fat guy to kick around anymore

Now Vixen's in therapy and Donner's still nervous
And the elves all got jobs working for the postal service
And they say Mrs. Claus she's on the phone every night
With a lawyer negotiating the movie rights
(They talk about)

The night Santa went crazy
The night Saint Nicholas flipped
Broke his back for some milk and cookies
sounds to me like he was tired of getting gypped

The night Santa went crazy
The night Saint Nick went insane
Realized he'd been getting a raw deal
Something finally must've snapped in his brain
Something finally must've snapped in his brain
Tell ya something finally must've snapped in his brain.

[mickydaniels]

Christmas (and most other holidays) are nothing more than pure BS.
Social conditioning works.

[GT News]

Christmas (and most other holidays) are nothing more than pure BS.
Social conditioning works.

Are all Christmas and most other holidays nothing more than pure BS?The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about Christmas and most other holidays. Try being more or less specific.

[Joeiss]

Christmas (and most other holidays) are nothing more than pure BS.
Social conditioning works.

The birth of Christ is anything but BS.

[DimHalo]

Amen to that.

I love Christmas. It is my favorite time of year.

My family doesn't have a set way of doing things. It kind of depends on what part of the world we're in. This year I will be driving straight to my Grandma's house after I finish exams (maybe with a stop over in St. Louis to visit jeepnut's house). My parents and siblings will be meeting me there. Then we'll go back to my parent's place and celebrate Chrstmas eve and Christmas day.

On top of that, there are two birthdays to celebrate (in addition to Jesus')

[Su-Yin]

my parents are buddhists...but cause we live in Malaysia where all races celebrate everything for the sake of a holiday and some fun....every xmas we go for a nice fancy christmas-sy dinner with all xmas-sy stuff.....and i sometimes go carolling at church with christian friends...havent done that in awhile though....
we dont really exchange gifts.....but i sometimes try...last year i bought a bag full of candy canes and left one at the doorstep of all my closest friends at night...cheap..but sincere...;)

[The Germanator]

I'm not religious and my parents aren't terribly religious either, but that doesn't mean that Christmas can't be a wonderful time for you to gather with friends, family, etc. and have a good time. It's definitely a fantastic time of year and I look forward to it despite it having no other deeper meaning to me other than that I don't have school for a while so I can hang out at home for a bit. And presents, yes, presents are nice.

[Blackmane]

It's only fantastic because there are presents. Without that, it would be thanksgiving. But that doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

I love Christmas

[Crash]

i wanna know why the athiests of the board celebrate christmas


I'M GOING TO THE CARIBBEAN FOR CHRISTMAS! BAHAMAS BABY!

[TheSlyMoogle]

i wanna know why the athiests of the board celebrate christmas


I'M GOING TO THE CARIBBEAN FOR CHRISTMAS! BAHAMAS BABY!

I celebrate christmas because it's not just about the birth of Christ, it's about a time when everyone gets together to be together. Of course presents are involved, but normally my family and I get together and have dinner. Everyone is there and everyone has a good time, and really for me that's what Christmas is all about. I would be lying if I said it wasn't about presents too... Hehe.

[Dyne]

Let's see.

Usually about the 15th of December, we put our tree up. The weekend before that, we put up our Christmas Lights.

For Christmas Eve, I used to have to go to church for 5 hours. My mom used to be the organist at our old church, so I had to stay for the "All-purpose" service, and the "Quiet" service. You know how hard it is to stay quiet in a quiet service when you're ten years old the night before christmas? Yeah. It's hard.

Christmas morning is usually the earliest I wake up all year. I run out maybe first, or second, depending on if my brother is out already or not. Then I turn up the lights a bit, and turn on the TV to something like the Christmas Parade, or a Christmas movie. With a bit of sound going, I inspect the presents carefully.

Then my parents wake up around 8/9 am and we open stuff until 11/12, where we head off to my Grandparent's house, mother's side. There, we have lunch, and open gifts from my Grandma. After that, we hijack it over to my other Grandparent's house, where we meet most of our gameplaying cousins. It's tradition to set up a Nintendo system to the small little TV in the upstairs room and crowd around it. Parents usually gather downstairs, and they come up one by one to see what's going on. Then, dinner at some point, then we go for a walk. (Last year was nice, because I was able to play my lighted GBA on the walk.) Then, we play tons of games and watch a movie before it's time to head home.

And that's Christmas. We leave our tree up until the 6th of January, because that's when christmas "really" ends. And my birthday is December 31st, so it's nice to have even more presents appear under the tree then. :D

[Professor S]

I just want everyone to know that I WILL NOT LET THIS THREAD delve into a religious argument. If you are religious or not there are plenty of reasons to love Christmas and this time of the year. At its most religious Christmas is a celebration of the birth of the messiah, at its least religious it is a celebration of our loved ones, families and the best parts of ourselves.

If you want to talk about your Christmas plans and what you do this time of year, post away. The minute this turns into a "Christmas is bull****"/"You're a miserable self-hating atheist" party, I'll be shutting it down.

Now myself, I've been working so much lately I hardly even realize what time of year it is, which is ironic since I'm working so much BECAUSE of Christmas. One thing I have noticed is that Christmas stress is VERY real. I bounce at a local bar and you would be shocked at how many seemingly calm regilars end up having to be separated over the littlest things. The alcohol releases all that stress in a violent way, even if its just been pushing and shoving to this point. I've bounced for almost a year straight and I've thrown more people out in the past 2 weeks that I have all year long before that.

But I'm in a great mood. My girlfriend is taking me to Atlantic City for Christmas and I can't wait to hit the tables. MONKEY!!!

[DimHalo]

My mom just gave me the go ahead to visit jeepnut in St. Louis for a night! Things just keep getting better! :D

[ulala06]

mmm... i LOOOOVE teh christmas!!!! but it's 61 degrees right now, so i'm pissed off...

christmas eve, all of our family comes over to our house and we eat and open some gifts... it's usually me, gangan, my great aunt, and a whole truckload of cousins.

that night, after everybody leaves, me and gangan usually open one present each. the next morning we open the rest of them and i play my new video games/listen to my new cds/watch my new dvds/hook up my new electronics until around 3 when i go up north. That evening i eat dinner AGAIN and open MORE presents with my father's side of the family.

then i come home and party it up on new year's. lmao

[Acebot44]

Christmas has a really pleasant atmosphere around it. I love this holiday for the jollyness everywhere, the time off of school, and the gifts :)

For the first time in my life, my mother put up the tree without my help this year...I was surprised and disappointed when I came home from a friends house to see the tree basically done. I took care of the lights on the roof all by myself again. It looks decent.

The day of Christmas itself is usually just a few minutes of present opening and then eating some food with the family. Maybe something different will happen this year.

[Vampyr]

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. On Christmas Eve, we always used to go to my grandparents house, on my mother's side. But she passed away this year, so I think we'll be going to my Mom's brother's house instead, but the same people will be there. I like it, because we don't usually have a really large crowd. Just my family, my two of my cousins families. About 12 people all together. We exchange gifts, and have a big christmas dinner.

Then we come home, and my brother and I go to bed as fast as possible, so we can go to sleep and wake up early the next day. We get up about 5 or 6 in the morning, then, go to my parents room and get them up.

Then we open presents, and spend the day enjoying them, then have dinner at my house, just the four of us. We usually go to my Dad's parents house on one of the days around Christmas, but not on Christmas day like we used to. We like spending the actual day of Christmas at home, relaxing.

I am also looking forward to the break from school....awesome.

[TheSlyMoogle]

I am also looking forward to the break from school....awesome.

Lol! The entire week and a half.

AHHH HA!

[DimHalo]

Lol! The entire week and a half.

AHHH HA!


I get 4 weeks for Christmas break.

[GameMaster]

I get 4 weeks for Christmas break.

I do also. :) I think a lot of college students do.

On Christmas Eve, we went to our church's Christmas Eve service for several years but the past couple of years we've been going out to dinner with my mom's dad and my mom's brother's family. I don't like that because we usually see them only once or twice a year and it's just really akward.

Then on Christmas morning we open presents and watch the Christmas parade on TV and my mom cooks breakfast and my grandpa comes over. Then we spend the day playing with our toys. Then for dinner we go to my dad's mom's house and have dinner and present-opening time there.

[Typhoid]

I get 4 weeks for Christmas break.


I get from Dec 17th to like, January 7th?

But yeah, Christmas doesnt have to be about religion. It can be about freinds and family regardless of what you believe. I love it because everyone is generally in a good mood.

[Dyne]

Yes, I'm off for a month for Christmas too. I got a huge game backlog to plow through. o_o

[quiet mike]

A Romanian Christmas.
by Valeriu M. Trufin (a.k.a. Quiet Mike)



I'm really buissy in the Christmas season.
First we have the schools choir concerts in school and in the city. This year we do a live radio concert.
Then I am the church choir conductor and so I get the choir ready for the season. During this I see choir members I forgot exist :D It's nice to see them all dressed in somewhat a uniform way. Here in Romania choirs don't wear robes or something like that. Everyone comes as they like. But during Easter and Christmas I ask them to dress alike. The buissiest part starts on Christmas Eve with a 3 hour service 6-9pm. Then we run home dress more casual but more consistent, and gather again at the church (youth 15-30) and start caroling all the new members that came in the church over the current year, as well as the city's more importan people like the maior and the likes.
On Christmas day we have services moring and night, with a lot of sleep in between. Then again we meet to go carroling our families; the families of the people in the group. Since we are many we divide in 4-5 groups based on age range and best friendships so we can carrol everyone. The second day of Christmas we have the church services and then at night we go to someones house where we stay the night to discuss play games listen music, watch movies and other group stuff. Each group goes to a different house of course.
During all this we eat a lot of home made cookies of all kind. Some really good other unbelivable good, and a few just good :P
The carroling starts from about 10pm and ends sometimes at 6am the next day.

This is what Christmas is like here in Romania for most... Well you have to add some not so good singing;) and alcohool to non christian carroling groups.

Marry Christmas to everyone! :)

[mickydaniels]

This is what Christmas is like here in Romania for most. Well you have to add some not so good singing;) and alcohool to non christian carroing groups.

Marry Christmas to everyone! :)

Romania? Why did I always think you were from Los Angeles, California?