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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2009 18:54:28 GMT -5
So tonight, once that clock hits midnight here...me and my brother are going to do battle.
Huh? That's weird, right? Well, get this. You know the old time calendars with the little mouse toy in the day's slot? We're doing battle over which one of us can put said mouse toy into the "24th" slot. This has been going on for the past 10 years, with him claiming victory for the past 3 years. Yeah, he may have the duke going into this, but the best battle came the last time I won, when me, my brother, my older brother, and my father went at it. About 15 minutes in, my dad forfeited and left it to the three of us. Another 15 minutes later, a broken toe, bitemarks, and bruises later, I came out the victor.
So this begs the question. Do you have any weird and/or disturbing Xmas traditions?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2009 19:22:43 GMT -5
for some reason people that normally do not even drink in my family find Christmas as the one day of the year that its okay to drink spiked Eggnog, tell old stories, and get really stupid
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 23, 2009 21:32:31 GMT -5
Oh we like to throw rocks at freight trains on Christmas Day.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Dec 23, 2009 21:52:34 GMT -5
European Nativity Sets sometimes have more in common with Where's Waldo than the Gospel according to St. Luke. In some Nativity Scenes, one of the wise men is shown using an elephant as a mount, and in Spain, a character named el caganer, who I suppose is best compared to the Little Drummer Boy, is always show deficating on the edge of the scene. Also, a shout out to Krampus and Black Peter.
Rick Steves and RD Renyolds present "Wrestlecrap European Christmas"
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Post by The Line on Dec 23, 2009 22:23:04 GMT -5
ritual sacrifice
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Dec 24, 2009 1:31:06 GMT -5
Oh we like to throw rocks at freight trains on Christmas Day. Did you also go to your neighbors houses to pick up one gift from every house and returned home to find your neighbors did the same?
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Post by default on Dec 24, 2009 8:50:30 GMT -5
My dad had me wrapping gifts one year and I'm horrible at wrapping them and tend to get bored easily. So I ended up signing a gift for my older sister as "Ghetto $anta". So for the last ten or so years, at least one person in the family ends up with a gift signed that way.
Also, gifts tend to come from cats as well. That started when our Siamese cat broke my grandmother's big Pyrex casserole dish. She was babysitting and feeding us that winter one day and she said it was her fault for leaving it on the counter. Anyway, my dad got her two new ones and signed them from the cat. From then on, random gifts come from animals. I got a Mick Foley action figure from the dog, my nephews got gifts from cats, etc.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Dec 24, 2009 14:14:15 GMT -5
I did a thread on my weird Christmas tradition last year. Here's the cliff notes version - End of fall semester '03 of college my friend Tom and I were talking about Full Metal Jacket and how {Spoiler}Pvt. Pyle blowing his brains out really messed him up enough that he couldn't watch the rest of the movie much in the same way that the end of SLC Punk in which {Spoiler}Heroin Bob dying in his sleep of mixing John the Mod's girlfriend's prescription pills with alcohol made him never wanna watch that movie again. I had heard about SLC Punk from friends and when the semester ended I went home for intersession and was bored so I went to Blockbuster to rent a movie and saw SLC Punk, rented it, loved it. -Intersession '04 I'm in Blockbuster I rented SLC Punk again since I thought to myself "I haven't seen this in about a year. I'll watch it again" -Intersession '05 I had gotten over a broken leg so Irented it again just for Heroin Bob yelling "Thank god! These doctors can kiss my ass!" when he got out of quarantine. Since I got a little sick of hospitals myself. - After a while I just bought SLC Punk to save money from myself re-renting it every year and watch it sometime from the stretch between Christmas-New Year's Day. With the exception of habit I don't why. There's nothing "Christmasy" about it (except there's snow on the ground for much of the movie) but it's my tradition and I love it. Between my annual viewings of SLC Punk and the fact that I rented Inglorious Basterds for tomorrow this is turning out to be a very Til Schweiger Christmas. Which makes sense seeing as a lot of modern Christmas traditions come from Germany.
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Post by Drink Up Me Cider on Dec 24, 2009 14:21:02 GMT -5
I have Norwegian family, my gran mother's side are all Norwegian (eat it Viking fans) so we half celebrate christmas on christmas eve. It's traditional in Scandinavia. Seeing as I'm half English I celebrate both days with gifts. Not in a religious way, just in a present giving type holiday. Also, beer, pizza and pasta are my 'christmas' meals.
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Dec 25, 2009 16:46:12 GMT -5
This is more for New Years but I bang drums and ring bells around my house like in the corners to get rid of any bad spirits, then I clean my house. It's a Chinese thing I think.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Dec 25, 2009 17:50:06 GMT -5
in Portugal, they don't actually call him Saint Nick. His name is Pai Natal. And, unless children leave him a stick of butter, he steals one of their toes...It is rather terrifying
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