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The Christmas Thread
Just 12 days until Christmas. Tis the season, as they say! The music has started playing, the decorations are going up and the shops are bustling. If you're lucky you'll have snow where you are right now!
Use this thread to get in the mood! Post songs, lyrics, carols, gift ideas, pictures of your Christmas area, favorite Christmas films, weird traditions etc. Anything you can think of that's Christmassy. Much like the Halloween thread back in October. We have a couple of strange Christmas traditions in my house, although one of the most obscure is that we always get Lime Cordial around Christmas time. |
Some of my favorite Christmastime films--these are good and bad, I like both types!
Scrooge aka A Christmas Carol (1951--with Alastair Sim) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer A Charlie Brown Christmas Christmas in Monkeyland Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny Santa Claus Conquers the Martians A Christmas Wish aka The Great Rupert Scrooge's Rock 'n' Roll Christmas One that should never be watched is "Babes in Toyland" with Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore. There was some kind of curse on that production! I also wanted to mention that I always watch zombie movies for Christmas, because nuthin' says Christmas like zombies! Happy Holidays, folks! |
We have pretty much shunned "Christmas-y" stuff for the last few years now.
Like most "holidays" of this type, I find that it's largely lost it's significance to be replaced by commercialism. BUY BUY BUY SHIT. Breeds bad habits. So we just don't "do" Christmas. We have a gathering at which there is much food not on, but "around" Christmas...sit around talking, sharing our time, cooking together, eating and drinking and using the occasion when everyone generally has the free time to do as such. We'll just have a relaxing day, and maybe throw on some movies and music throughout. Our gifts to eachother are food based, eg - everyone brings/makes something they enjoy preparing, we don't even stick to the Christmas theme with that. Friends, *some* family, free time spent together without worrying about the rest of the world - This is what "Christmas" would have been like, in my opinion, before it lost it's way. Of course, when I have a child - I'll allow for a little while some Christmas-type crap, but in all honesty I'm not going to mislead another child to suffer the eventual disappointment of the shallowness of the Christmas/Santa myth...they'll know from a early enough age to comprehend the "real" story of Christmas vs the misrepresentation of today. I'll just say "some people do gifts", ask them what they want at the end of the year and see if I can get it for 'em. |
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Gotta agree with Despare......it's all what you make of it. But I also agree with cheebs on the commercialism.....it tends to get out of hand.
Having said that I shall post my fav Christmas pic http://marklipinskisblog.files.wordp...runk-santa.jpg |
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Decades ago, Stan Freberg said it best with his "Green Chri$tma$" record...
http://mymerrychristmas.com/2006/greenchristmas.shtml |
Some Christmas traditions at my house are:
we go out to eat on Christmas Eve....normally Denny's,since there the only place open. we normally get to open 1 gift Christmas Eve also That's all the traditions I can really think of Some movies I like to try and watch around this season A Christmas Story, all time classic in my house it's constantly being watched It's a Wonderful Life, I actually just watched it all the way through at once for the first time this year.Previous years I only saw parts of it. and basically any Christmas themed movie. |
I watch Christmas Evil every year - crazy film..
Having a party Xmas eve too with lots of food and drink.. |
my wife, son and i started a tradition a few years ago of going to a movie on christmas day.
this year it'll be The New Sherlock Holmes flick. |
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