Gorth Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 I know, it's still a few days off, but people being busy and all and I'm sure Ukraine and China are more interesting topics, but still... some things just are part of my upbringing, so Merry Christmas everyone (and a Happy New year to those who are too busy the next few weeks to spend time on social media, which is hopefully most of you) (and if anyone suggests this should have been some kind of flavourless 'Seasonal Holidays' instead, go stow it, Christmas gettogethers with the family is what I grew up with) 5 4 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Bartimaeus Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 H̶ ̶A̴ ̴P̷ ̴P̶ ̶Y̵ H̸ ̸O̸ ̴L̶ ̸I̷ ̷D̵ ̶A̴ ̴Y̶ ̸S̴ 1 2 2 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Malcador Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Christmas isn't Christmas for me since I left school. I need the terror and stress of final exams. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 How dare you wish me a good time. 1 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
bugarup Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 There will be no Christmas this year because it overlaps with the weekend and so it's gonna be just a basic long weekend. Also no New Year. 1
Gorth Posted December 20, 2022 Author Posted December 20, 2022 7 minutes ago, bugarup said: There will be no Christmas this year because it overlaps with the weekend and so it's gonna be just a basic long weekend. Also no New Year. Australia is a bit flexible in that regard. If one of those dates falls in a weekend, we get the following Monday off instead. Whether it being Christmas, New Year, Queens Birthday (RIP) or whatever. Downside, we only get four weeks of annual leave, whereas people back in Denmark get six weeks “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Azdeus Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) Go jul Edited December 20, 2022 by Azdeus 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Gfted1 Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Happy Holidays all! Im off from 24 Dec - 2 Jan so Im pretty stoked about that. But that pile of presents arent going to wrap themselves so Ive got to get busy! We just setup the tree on Sunday. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Keyrock Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Merry Christmas everybody. I don't have a snarky comment. Sorry. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Malcador Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 7 hours ago, bugarup said: There will be no Christmas this year because it overlaps with the weekend and so it's gonna be just a basic long weekend. Also no New Year. So no day in lieu ? Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
ShadySands Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Friday and the following Monday off. Not taking any additional time off because it's going to be capital D-E-D dead at work anyways, it already is. Free games updated 3/4/21
bugarup Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Malcador said: So no day in lieu ? Edited December 20, 2022 by bugarup Damn you forum gremlins!!!
bugarup Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Nope, just 26th, hence the long weekend. Could take a vacation as I have generated quite a buffer of days off, but...it's just not the same.
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Keyrock said: Merry Christmas everybody. I don't have a snarky comment. Sorry. Happy Festivus. A donation has been made in your name to the Human Fund. 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
rjshae Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Happy holidays everybody! (Says the guy who's retired and doesn't need any stinkin' holidays...) "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
LadyCrimson Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 'Bah hum" ... never mind, not into that joke this year. Merry Christmas/happy and healthy holidays/vacation, with whatever you do during this time. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
majestic Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) Recently, two of my colleagues talked about their kids believing in Santa (or our local custom, anyway, which is different but similar in terms of results) up until the age of nine or ten, and one said he wasn't certain when his daugther turned eleven, he thinks both sides just pretended for the joy of it, because it's just great to watch the kids at Christmas. Made me wonder if I ruined my parent's enjoyment of Christmas by figuring it out at five. Sure, they still had my brother, and he stubbornly refused to accept the truth for a longer while after that, but it was probably not the same. Well, tangent over. Happy holidays and whatnot. Edited December 20, 2022 by majestic 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
ShadySands Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 My wife and I are not in agreement about Santa for our kid. Since we had our son later in life I got to see friends and family go through the Santa saga with their kids and while most of them didn't really care or mind being lied to about it there were a few that were genuinely hurt their parents tricked them for so long. Santa was not sold to us as real person growing up but as a symbol of the season and I don't want to make him a main focus of Christmas for my son either but my wife thinks I'm killing the joy and spirit of the season by not actively lying about it. I've got no problem exploring the Santa folklore with my son but I don't think I can look him in the eyes and tell him that Santa is a real person who brings him gifts. Maybe I am a joy killer. I'll write a trilogy of books about it but stop after I write myself into a corner with the second book, I think I'll call it the Joykiller Chronicles. 2 1 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
Bartimaeus Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 My mom didn't believe in doing the whole Santa thing because she felt it...didn't foster the proper respect and appreciation that the whole event should have. On one hand, I guess I get it, especially during childhood where the behaviors you learn can determine how you perceive and treat others for the rest of your life, but on the other hand...growing up poor and not having money or much in the way of gifts throughout the rest of the year, I can't help but think maybe Christmas is the one time an exception could have been made - the single time of the year where the kids don't have to worry so much about the ugly problems they can do nothing about. Would a little magic during one's childhood be so bad? There's arguments for and against it... 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Gfted1 Posted December 20, 2022 Posted December 20, 2022 Iirc, my daughter was 8-9 when she found out the "truth" about Santa from the other kids in school and it wasnt a big deal for her. Nor were the deaths of the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny, but I dont remember how I broke those to her. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 If I have children, they will be taught the truth. Santa Claus is either a weregoat or the Wild Hunt. Neither is to be taken lightly. 1 3 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
Hurlshort Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 Santa is part of the Christmas spirit. My kids know at this point, but they enjoy the illusion as much as I do, so we keep it going. It probably helps that I never answer questions directly from my children. Every query is a chance to test their critical thinking skills.
Malcador Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 When you grow up in a condo you know Santa is nonsense - what, is he buzzing in past the concierge ? 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Chilloutman Posted December 21, 2022 Posted December 21, 2022 Where you even dig that Santa thing from? We here believe its baby jesus who bring the gifts as kids. You know, that guy the holiday is named after anyway: I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
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