Why do you hate Christmas...

Just to throw a little pedanticism into the equation

While the birth year of Jesus is estimated among modern historians to have been between 7 and 2 BC, the exact month and day of his birth are unknown.
Yeah I can live with that :thumbs:

. By the early-to-mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25 a date later adopted in the East although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to January 7 in the modern-day Gregorian calendar.
Damn! Two Christmas's! And now they tell us!

The date of Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine months after early Christians believed Jesus to have been conceived,
So let me get this straight,
They are still arguing about when he was born, but are pretty sure they know when he was conceived.
It makes you wonder HOW EXACTLY they knew that :D
 
Cobra said:
Just to throw a little pedanticism into the equation

It makes you wonder HOW EXACTLY they knew that :D
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easy, it was the only week when God's wife was on holiday with her mates so he had time to have a little bit of extra curicular hmmm hmm down on earth ;)
 
big soft moose said:
easy, it was the only week when God's wife was on holiday with her mates so he had time to have a little bit of extra curicular hmmm hmm down on earth ;)
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I'm glad we cleared that up, or I'd be worrying about it all week. :thumbs:
 
Cobra said:
Damn! Two Christmas's! And now they tell us!
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The Americans have had 2 Christmas' for some time. And in Germany, Christmas is on the 24th. Precisely when German Jesus was born. And a day before British Jesus was born.

So bring on the decorations and the large tin of Quality Street. And settle down to watch the 2 Ronnies Christmas Special then turn over when they have to put some token church nonsense on.
 
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The two American Christmases are.....?
 
Cobra said:
Just to throw a little pedanticism into the equation
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for an extra strong dose of pedantic goodness , the correct term is pedantry ;)
 
I've never been a huge fan of the festive season but thanks to the advent of Facebook, lately it has become more as a penile length show to see who can be the most lavish in terms of decorations, presents and food. The tree-hugging hippy in me is also concerned at the amount of strain it is putting on the planet's resources with manufacturing, transportation and of course the aftermath in terms of excess rubbish.

This, seen around the corner from my house earlier on this evening, may help to prove my point . . .

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Ian D J said:
I've never been a huge fan of the festive season but thanks to the advent of Facebook, lately it has become more as a penile length show to see who can be the most lavish in terms of decorations, presents and food. The tree-hugging hippy in me is also concerned at the amount of strain it is putting on the planet's resources with manufacturing, transportation and of course the aftermath in terms of excess rubbish.

This, seen around the corner from my house earlier on this evening, may help to prove my point . . .

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There are similarly decorated houses close to where I live also, Ian. Im sick in my mouth a little every time I drive past.
 
big soft moose said:
for an extra strong dose of pedantic goodness , the correct term is pedantry ;)
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pedanticism
a) the character or practices of a pedant, as excessive display of learning.
b) a slavish attention to rules, details
Both of which I exhibited
viv1969 said:
Is that really germane to the thread?
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But as Ruth also pointed out .......
 
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I don't HATE Christmas as such, I just don't understand the necessity for such a big deal to be made out of it when everyone is quite happy to ignore most other religious events. I don't believe, so I don't celebrate an of them, why should I get all worked up over Christmas?
 
Because of presents! If you got a big fat man in and out of chimneys, doling out goodies, at another time of year, I'm sure we'd all go for that too.

viv1969 said:
The two American Christmases are.....?
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I think they have an extra one in November where they have their big turkey dinner.
 
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No, that's when they thank their invisible friend for allowing them to take the ancestral lands and food resources of the previous discoverers of the continent before introducing them to such Eastern delights as diseases, alcohol, firearms etc..
 
Commercial Christmas as it should be, German supermarket :)

 
To paraphrase Henning When talking about a "German" christmas market here (?Birmingham?), he had no idea so many of his countrymen were so fluent in Romanian.
 
Thanksgiving is nowt to do with Christmas, but to the Yanks is a bigger deal.
They get more time off for TG than Christmas, but there's no exchanging gifts.
Having experienced a couple of Thanksgivings in the US I'd go for that over sillymas every time.
 
No presents? Forced to meet the relatives? Yeah, like that's going to catch on in the UK! :-)
 
ianp5a said:
No presents? Forced to meet the relatives? Yeah, like that's going to catch on in the UK! :)
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No Presents - that's my situation anyway
Relatives - No relatives.
Piles of Food on the Table - Sounds good to me...
 
I would't say I HATE Christmas as a festival (although I'm not at all religious) but do dislike all the false niceties that go with it, all this... Oh! you must come round at Christmas....Oh! its lovely to see you. When you know for the rest of the year they don't give a "monkey's" whether they see you or not.

Now the real thing I do hate is how people set deadlines for Christmas, for example, I have a wrought iron business supplying gates and railings, a lot of my customers have not had railings on their property since they were cut off by the government in the 1940s for the war effort, but all of a sudden its imperative that they be fit before SODDIN CHRISTMAS.
 
Ian D J said:
I've never been a huge fan of the festive season but thanks to the advent of Facebook, lately it has become more as a penile length show to see who can be the most lavish in terms of decorations, presents and food. The tree-hugging hippy in me is also concerned at the amount of strain it is putting on the planet's resources with manufacturing, transportation and of course the aftermath in terms of excess rubbish.

This, seen around the corner from my house earlier on this evening, may help to prove my point . . .

XmasLight143.jpg~original
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do you have an air rifle ?
 
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