crabbymelt
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Post by crabbymelt on Dec 23, 2017 2:09:02 GMT -5
Got any that you're planning on doing with our family? I'm a Heinz 57 of white European person, so we have a lot of traditions that I discovered were weird by my Baltimorean friends. I'm Dutch, so on December 5th we put out the wooden shoes for gifts (fruit). I'm Polish, so tomorrow I'm making rum balls (No, I don't measure. Polish never measure alcohol when in comes to cooking. Yes, I will be "narąbany.") On the 25th we'll be looking for the German pickle in the tree and drinking Irish coffee. Then there's the big Russian feast on January 7th. I'm not sure which custom is the weirdest to an outsider, but that's how we celebrate Christmas- a month-long feasting and boozing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 2:25:10 GMT -5
I'm going to drink this stuff we call Christmas Crunk and get f***ing destroyed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 12:27:36 GMT -5
looking for the pickle in the tree? Kinky.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Dec 23, 2017 22:11:51 GMT -5
::sigh:: Gotta find another relative to piss off at this years Christmas eve party.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 24, 2017 11:18:45 GMT -5
Story goes that when my parents were dating she had Xmas eve dinner with my dad’s family, who did some sort of traditional Slavic meal consisting of several courses. Before you ate you said a prayer, at a giant communion wafer, and then did a shot of warm whiskey with honey. But my dad’s uncle persuaded mum that you had to do a shot with each course, not just with the opening prayer. My mom weighed all of 90 pounds at the time and had never drank in her life. So you can guess what the result was. To this day mom says it was the one time she remembers my dad’s mom taking her side because of how peeved off she was at the uncle for it.
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Post by Larryhausen on Dec 24, 2017 21:49:43 GMT -5
It's not officially Christmas until you're in a bar doing shots with your friends to Fairytale of New York.
It is officially Christmas as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Dec 24, 2017 21:53:56 GMT -5
Drinking copious amounts of alcohol.
And since it doesn't snow down here having a BBQ.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 24, 2017 22:37:04 GMT -5
For years my traditions was Xmas eve was go around 5pm to watch my paternal grandmother open gifts. Then we would go visit some close friends of the family. Where the friends' son in law and I would get drunk. Usually on bourbon.
Xmas morning get up and around lunch head over to my maternal grandparents home to open gifts from that side.
Now Xmas eve I spend it with my lady. Xmas day is spent with her family. Then that evening either we have a small gathering at my home or another friend hosts a small gathering.
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Post by Spider2024 on Dec 25, 2017 6:12:50 GMT -5
I guess it counts as a holiday one this year, because we're doing this on Christmas instead of New Years this year. Every year on New Years Day, we buy scratch tickets for the whole family for good luck, prosperity, stuff like that, and to win money. Since some of us won't be here for New Years, we'll do it for Christmas.
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