Just that.
I’ve personally been hit by some unexpected shit, this week, particularly financially, but hearing the neighbours up the street party it away, all day and all night, yesterday (and yes, I really, really considered trying to crash it. Just ended up feeling more alone, though, lol), reminded me, perhaps it did in the same way as one of you the other day, that this is a time that really brings people together, and is about far more than spending money and decorative seasonal tat. Today, in Aus, so happens to be the solstice.
I don’t know “where” I’m going with things, and I don’t know what my Christmas will be like (thrifty, if nothing else, lol), but I sincerely hope you all have good, relatively smooth and unstressful Christmases (or whatever you celebrate) and New Years. Remember what the holiday was supposed to be truly about.
That’s all. Keep it real.
Sorry to hear that. Hope things work out and try to have a great Christmas
Ha. Is that because of Qatar or something..?
I’ve certainly never been called that before, lol… But I’ll take it I guess.
But yeah, you too, nutcase, lol.
Hey there Mr. Muslim, merry ****cking Christmas.
Put down that book the Koran and here's some holiday wishes.
It was meant largely in jest, too. Ya filthy animal. :p
Excuse me, brother, he cannot be a true Muslim, because saying Merry Christmas is worse than fornication or drinking alcohol or killing someone.
I think, unironically, partly why Islam has survived is because it is like an “all-encompassing” identity, in a sense (for most Muslims, if not all)…
It’s more important to them than national identity (to some extent), career, or other “defining” traits.
Which is how we get “Islamophobia” as an “-ism”, of sorts…
Whereas Christianity, now, at least in the West, is, as you say, so diluted, cowed and secularized that most people only view it as a minimal defining part of their identity, if at all…
Which, when you consider the fact that we have people losing their jobs over the simple fact that they are members of a Church (in Australia, twice recently), a logic which would never be applied to a Muslim (or probably even a Jew), is probably not all that surprising…
I actually do think that people like Trudeau and Dan Andrews seem themselves as “at war” with traditional Christianity, even while claiming Christian faith at the same time…
We can speculate as to why, but I suspect it’s not all that dissimilar to the way the Church was and is treated in many Communist countries…
Can’t have plebs having loyalties to an “ideology” other than the State, now can we?
It survived because they kill the infidels, including those "in the family".
Merry Christmas 🎄
I hope you can do Christmas stuff. I've been feeling fairly down and decided to just go see lights. It really helped me out.
Sorry to hear that, bro. Keep your head up. 💙
Yeah, I feel that entirely. Unfortunately this time of year really reinforces the feelings of loneliness, poverty, inadequacy and (for me) family tension, that are sort of avoidable, for most of the rest of the year…
It’s not Christmas itself that I dislike - it’s my own experiences of it each year. Which I keep trying, and somehow failing, to get away from
But Christmas lights are definitely awesome! I should do as you did. 🙂
I intend to force myself to go to the city (like a two hour round trip) as much as possible, in the next four days, not to spend money, but just to try to be a part of all that.
Anyway, hope things look up for you soon, bro. All the best.
I'm a couple thousand miles from family right now so it's a bit surreal. I've learned to choose happiness from a previous experience.
That's a good idea to see the city. Just walk thr streets and look at stuff.
I guess tat is slang. It means junky or cheap items for sale.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/tat
Yes! That’s what I meant, ahaha.
Britbong slang, is it? I dunno, it’s always just been in my (Aussie) vocabulary…
Like, I suppose, as a short form of “tattered”, but also not really?
I would say it’s close to “kitsch” or “dross”, but it’s kind of hard to pin down…
Generic dime store Christmas junk. That’s probably what I was thinking, lol…
Haha this has to be top comment! :D
Yes, it must be slang, lol. “Junk, kitsch or general generic crap”, in short, as Assasin pointed out below.
Though I honestly prefer your interpretation, I think! It’s piqued my curiosity, anyway!
What’s the best one you found, lol?
Merry Christmas to you too.
Thanks bro, keep your stick on the ice.
Merry Christmas ya cunt!
From a fellow cunt.
:-)
Never mind crashing it. Just waving hello and saying it's good to see people celebrating the holiday in the traditional way again would be enough to get a neighbor an invite to my Christmas party, and probably a lot of other people's.
I am so fucking sick of Branch Covidians.
Merry Christmas, mate! I've given you shit in the past because I think men are meant to just say it as it as, rather than pussy-footing around.
For what it's worth, I suggest you try to find like-minded people in your area, no doubt they exist even in the woke-hotbeds of Australia. I'm not really familiar with the players over there, but Reignite Democracy Australia springs to mind as a first point of call.
This is rather personal, I realize, but being told by a Government Service that “Christmas is expensive, maybe you’ll just have to go without, this year”, over the phone, followed later by a very insistent “Merry Christmas” before I hung up is just…
Well it didn’t exactly give me “the warm fuzzies”, but it that way…
The cold arm of bureaucracy doesn’t give a shit about “individual needs”, or indeed even what week it is, except to, of course, give themselves the entirety of next week off, as public holidays…
Wish I had that luxury, lol.
Also, Australia is expensive as fuck, man… I know that we have some good shit, like “public healthcare”, but I cannot tell you how expensive it is to survive here, right now… It’s fucking insane.
Any time you think things are too expensive, just remember, in the states, you'd need to pay almost $1400/year to have health insurance that results in near-zero wait times and practically instant treatment.
Sure, they might have half your tax rate, but they cost $1,400 for healthcare, while you only pay an additional $14,000 in taxes!
You got the final word in about your FTX investment? "No, sir. That money belongs to the DNC now."
Just to be a pedantic asshole technically this isn't Christmas week, weeks start on Sunday.
12 Days of Christmas..?
Advent?
By that logic, Christmas Eve this year wouldn’t be part of “Christmas Week”…
That seems like a long bow to draw, if ever there was one, lol…
By any conventional definition, I think, when most people think of “Christmas Week”, they think of the week prior, to be quite honest…
Also, I don’t know how long we’ve been using “Calendar Weeks” starting on Monday, but let’s be honest here, that is how the vast, vast majority of people think of “the start of the week”, at this point…
Whatever else it may have been in the past.