I like the christmas atmosphere for a couple of days... then it gets old :|
It's good I don't go out much then
And usually I'm drunk hour later, so I don't see much anyway. Everything ok for me
And usually I'm drunk hour later, so I don't see much anyway. Everything ok for me
Rakija is gooooooooooood
Hehe, hell yeah
Thats why all this sudden violence here in Norway, it`s all those perky x-mas songs!
My brother and I both worked at a grocery store when he reached the age to work. He was still in high school, while I was working my way through community college. He only worked something like 5 hour shifts. We were on break together when he said he counted 17 different versions of [/i]Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire[/i] all played within the first 3 hours of his shift.
Out halloween party decorations stuff looks like christmas thingys /o\
Ah dammit, so I'll finally come back to Portsmouth to see you and you won't be there?
I was there lunchtime today birthday shopping, it's just so weird to see decorations and xmas gifts everywhere. It doesn't feel festive at all yet, I certainly won't be thinking about it for a while (other than organising transportation for said visit to Pompey, as train tickets are much cheaper way in advance).
I start to get the Xmas feeling when i see this advert on TV http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s9jGzpmjb00 .
hehe.. you didn't tell me you were coming back, git! Well i can stay if you pay me
So true
I think there the only ones that are realistic, and post there adverts at the correct time, usually at the beginning of december afaik.
I think that one is at least a nice song.
What about this one heh.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mTdG46yE9IY
Antidote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi_to_the_World!
(especially "Hang Myself From the Tree").
If that's a bit too strong for your taste, you can try
Loudon Wainwright III - "Suddenly It's Christmas"
(especially "Hang Myself From the Tree").
If that's a bit too strong for your taste, you can try
Loudon Wainwright III - "Suddenly It's Christmas"
The single worst thing about Christmas for me, more so than early decorations and f**king awful pop songs, is the fact that I work right slap-bang in the middle of the UK's third largest commercial centre. For four months of the year I see nothing but hectic shopping on my way too and from work... Thousands and thousands of shoppers, queues coming out of every shop door, public transport that feels more like a cattle transporter. Still, at least the company I work for is not seasonal, so I actually get a rest when I'm doing my job!
Humbug! All this Xmas advertising & Santa posters & Jesus-y stuff and noone ever mentions Mithra. It's his birthday too, y'know.
I'm glad my work closes down between Chrisbo and NYE. That way I only need to take four or five days leave on top of that to make it an even two weeks or so. I need it to do the 2000km roundtrip to see my folks, my inlaws and head to our friends' beach house for a few days' solid drinking. And all without a single sodding carol or hymn or sermon. Bliss.
I'm glad my work closes down between Chrisbo and NYE. That way I only need to take four or five days leave on top of that to make it an even two weeks or so. I need it to do the 2000km roundtrip to see my folks, my inlaws and head to our friends' beach house for a few days' solid drinking. And all without a single sodding carol or hymn or sermon. Bliss.
I remember last Xmas... A couple of my friends and I spent it in Czech Republic... I'll never forget those little green bottles of booze with around 70% alcohol in it, all I forgot about it is it's name
absinth?
If the world is to go green, shouldn't we get rid of christmas? Think of the energy and resources wasted to produce all the wrapping, decorations, piles of mindless tat for "stocking fillers", etc. and then all the energy to keep the lights, etc. going for a month. 
i generally enjoy christmas songs, although i am a complete weirdo.
I do my bit for the enviroment: I'm an atheist.
Mithra???
Anyways it must suck to have a birthday on Christmas. As a kid, I had a friend down the street that had a birthday on X-mas eve. He said he felt cheated... oh well at least his parents named him John...
The thing about X-mas that really bothers me is Why do we have a tree and sleds and flying reindeer instead of ice-cream, birthday cake and I dunno a pinata? After all it is a birthday.
Gee Hank, You don't even watch The Grinch?
My dad's birthday is on Xmas Eve actually, as is my brother's wife's and that of one of my cousins. They probably do feel a bit cheated sometimes - many a time have I heard the "well, this is a big one so it's for your birthday and Xmas" Mine's in July, luckily - bang in the middle.
Mithraism was a religion practiced by Romans in the middle east after contact with Persian adherents. It's contended that Paul of Tarsus (Saul) was a Mithraist until discovering Christianity. Mithra was thought of the earthly representative of Ahura-Mazda, the Zoroastrian deity, and was known as "the light of the world". Mithra's birthday was celebrated on December 25 and he apparently taught on earth for 36 years until ascending to heaven in 208 BC.
Merry Mithramas everyone :up:
Mine's in July, luckily - bang in the middle.Mithraism was a religion practiced by Romans in the middle east after contact with Persian adherents. It's contended that Paul of Tarsus (Saul) was a Mithraist until discovering Christianity. Mithra was thought of the earthly representative of Ahura-Mazda, the Zoroastrian deity, and was known as "the light of the world". Mithra's birthday was celebrated on December 25 and he apparently taught on earth for 36 years until ascending to heaven in 208 BC.
Merry Mithramas everyone :up:
Thats the one I think...
Its pretty bad the xmas ads being on the tv already but today (well, technically yesterday) i went to do a job at a customers house and they had their xmas decorations and tree up in the house already!
:mr-t: Crazy fool.
:mr-t: Crazy fool.
Noooooooo! Not Xmas!!
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