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christmas is good

It’s bad

shhh silby let them have their special day we have tons they get like two

Maybe in America they only get the two.

It’s not like I don’t like going to the movies but it’d be nice to have options is all

who the fuck is "they", bucko?

the ppl celebrating christmas

poll the best feastdays imo

Aren’t there 100-odd, you’d need two tranches

can only speak for the culturally catholic paddies we only have about forty

America taught me that all Christians are Protestant.

we have a thread for that im sure

We would be ok without any of it:

1. The current bloated Walmarty "Christmas" that lasts from October into January and incorporates door-buster sales, bows on cars, etc.

2. The artificial inflation of (comparatively minor) Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Neopagan solstice celebrations, and occasionally Ramadan so they can be roped in to an ostensibly neutral "holiday season".

2(a). Said roping-in being entirely to assuage qualms/guilt about secular and cultural Christians indulging in (1).

(3). Arguments about whether Santa, Rudolph, Frosty, "Jingle Bells," etc., can be truly secular (and thus universal) or whether they inherently derive from Christian lore, and are thus not nearly as "neutral" as culturally Christian white suburban ppl want them to be acknowledged as.

nothing makes me steamed than holiday messages that incorporate chanukah literal weeks after the end of chanukah

wow, liking Christmas, the contrest of ops apparently

I mean I won't blame anyone for liking Christmas just keep it in your home y'know

corporate America celebrates Christmas in a completely different way than my family

NB that three years ago "it's funny that non-Christians celebrate Christmas" turned out to be the most controversial opinion on this thread.

Corporations aren't people tbf

Silby otm; the idea that "well, everybody celebrates _something_ this time of year, so therefore 'happy holidays' is culturally neutral" is both a) WRONG and b) irrelevant self-serving bullshit driven by Christians.

kind of exhausted by Xmas this year, feel like it should maybe only happen biannually or something

"kind of" - no, I am exhausted. feel like last Xmas just happened. fight the real enemy: time

Flappy bird: last Christmas I gave you my heart.

Please return it immediately, because I am dying. Apparently hearts are kind of important. Thxbye.

gotta head down to the icebox I'll be back asap

I like sparkly lights, green and people not working. This is as far as my love for xmasy/holidaysy types of things go.

The 'people not working' part is the absolute best.

I said it, before but mandatory (all) gift giving for adults is kind of terrible, unless it's a one off life event, or you see the perfect thing for someone randomly.

good of ymp to follow up on the "not all humans are americans" with the most American "all christmas is like this" possible

wow, liking Christmas, the contrest of ops apparently

― Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:32 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this controp was on ilx so yknow maybe that's the filter thru which controp because most controps itt are for ppl to fuckin nod to

yr a mean one mr grinch

i felt attacked therefore my behaviour is unquestionably valid

^__^

you're extremely normal we get it xp

x-p

I thought an inordinate fondness for gnomic pronouncements disqualified one from normalcy.

I wasnae attacking *you*, you big doof

the claws were in at all times big man

on that note i had a kitten hang off my fuckin nostril for a full two seconds two nights ago before slitting through it mafia style, controp is that it is still an adorable kitten

otm

there are many beautiful things that are expressions of the universe's innate evil tbf

Cats are single-handedly responsible for Stockholm syndrome.

cats have four hands my dude

Precisely. They only needed 1/4 instead of the usual 1/2 to wreak irreversible havoc.

paws for effect

Are you denying paws can be hands too? Speciesist.

claws consist of a subject and a predicat

Intersectionality is lazy

I'm not sure what that means. But it makes me think you have a different definition of intersectionality from me.

Nothing is quite as reliably funny as dead air

twitter user @dril is tiresome

(i guess i hate fun but i find his style so mannered that i can only take it in very small doses. is he a sacred cow around here? never seen a word against him)