GinandTonic
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Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Heard of is different to seeing. So that's what they used for human sacrifices, eh? Awesome.You never heard of The Wicker Man?!?!
You didn't answer my earlier question by the by.
GinandTonic
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Watch the origional not "as irrelivant, pointless and inferior as The Italian Job" remake. Great movie.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
That's pretty much what I was plannin' on doin' there, Tamzarian.
Ulyaoth
Emperor
Yet another thing ruined by hippies.
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
Only the hippies could take an artifact of human sacrifice and completely wussify it.
Lockesdonkey
Liberal Jihadist
A lot of my neighbors are Chinese immigrants; many if not most of my friends at school were some variety of Asian (both East Asian and South Asian, though not very many Southeast Asian). The Chinese and Korean ones (we don't have a lot of Japanese in SE Michigan--I wonder why...), being non-religious or Christian as a rule (increasingly the latter) put up Christmas lights and keep keep them up year-round. My friends say their parents don't see the point in taking the lights down and putting them up every year when you can just turn the lights off ten or eleven months out of twelve and have nobody be the wiser.
Also confusing (for some) is the Hindus who put up Diwali lights; Diwali usually falls just before people are starting to put their lights up (i.e. late October-early November). Diwali lights today are basically Christmas lights, so you see these Indian houses decked out like Christmas, and if you know they're Indian you think "Why do they have Christmas decorations? They're Hindu!" until you smack your head and realize it's Diwali. More confusing is when you don't know the people in the house and you think "What pricks! It's not even Halloween yet and they're putting up Christmas lights!" and then a week or two later you pass the same house and the lights are gone. Which leaves you confused until you smack your head and say "It was Diwali!"
Being Muslim, my family puts up no lights whatsoever.
Also confusing (for some) is the Hindus who put up Diwali lights; Diwali usually falls just before people are starting to put their lights up (i.e. late October-early November). Diwali lights today are basically Christmas lights, so you see these Indian houses decked out like Christmas, and if you know they're Indian you think "Why do they have Christmas decorations? They're Hindu!" until you smack your head and realize it's Diwali. More confusing is when you don't know the people in the house and you think "What pricks! It's not even Halloween yet and they're putting up Christmas lights!" and then a week or two later you pass the same house and the lights are gone. Which leaves you confused until you smack your head and say "It was Diwali!"
Being Muslim, my family puts up no lights whatsoever.
warpus
In pork I trust
I'd rather see people leave up their decorations late (ie. past the 5th of January) than people put up decorations early (ie. before the 17th of december or whatever)
Sharwood
Rich, doctor nephew
That's beauty. And I doubt anyone on my street intends on honouring anyone. They're just idiots. A nativity I could see as an attempt to honour Jesus, but reindeer and snowmen?
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Isn't that what you go churchin' for?
They ought to replace, not supplement, streetlights.
mangxema
I
When my brother was born soon after Christmas, we didn't get around to taking them down until February, so I tend to cut people some slack.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Given the choice, I prefer homes decorated in January to stores and radio stations blasting Christmas music in November.
I'd go along with that... I kinda hate streetlights, but I like the tasteful colored lights. Emphasis on tasteful.
I'd go along with that... I kinda hate streetlights, but I like the tasteful colored lights. Emphasis on tasteful.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
Wrapping paper`s a waste of paper, but people aren`t going to stop using it soon.
My future-step-mother-in-law uses gift bags and boxes, which she made us give back to her as soon as we had opened the present.
SS-18 ICBM
Oscillator
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
We tend to do the same (passing the bags or boxes back and forth alternating holidays, though, rather than giving them back on the spot), and newspaper makes for decent wrapping paper as well, once you've read it.
One year, my mom put up the lights and kept them up until September, at which point she took them down for some odd reason.
salty mud
Deity
Our decorations are always took down without fail on the 4th or 5th of January. People who do not remove their decorations are simply lazy and slightly ridiculous.
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