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| Author: | Micheal [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 9:55 pm ] |
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The Holiday season that is. In spite of being mistaken for Santa regularly by little children (I play along) and being freshly retired, it is all so much junk right now. Everywhere all I see is more maneuvers to suck people's money away from them. Commercially thrown together "families" that don't look like they know each other. Crowded malls and canned Carols playing. Not feeling Scroogish or Grinchish, just not interested. How about you folks? |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:24 pm ] |
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Hah, I have felt this way for years. With a wife and children who are into it, though, I've had to mellow. Just finished putting up the lights and tree. But I get where you're coming from, yes. What's ironic is that I played Scrooge in a 6th-grade play. I didn't even really need to act the Scroogey part. 
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| Author: | Arathain Kelvar [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:29 pm ] |
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I'm struggling with Christmas=shopping (as usual) but otherwise I'm into it. I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old. It's fun. |
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| Author: | Raell [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:13 pm ] |
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My wife keeps dragging me back down. I'd rather just blow off the whole thing. |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:27 pm ] |
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Phe and I have been watching Doctor Who Xmas specials all day. I'm no more in the holiday spirit than I was when I started, but I am a lot happier, because Doctor Who. So...po-tay-to, po-tah-to? I don't really have any strong feelings about Christmas one way or the other...the biggest issue is that we're on our own this Christmas, and have been too busy to put up decorations and the like. Combine that with not visiting family, and it just doesn't feel "Christmas-y" to me. It blows my mind that it's 10 days away. Feel like...I dunno, early November or something. |
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| Author: | Jasmy [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Not into it |
Hubby and I are feeling the same Micheal. We have decided to have an Unchristmas this year. No decorations, no fancy dinner...I'm going to put out a nice antipasto tray and just relax. |
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| Author: | Shelgeyr [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:16 am ] |
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Taamar loves the hell out of her tree, but that's about as much 'Christmas Spirit' as either of us have. |
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| Author: | Ulfynn [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:51 am ] |
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I'm not into it either. Divorced now, no kids. Needing to move house before the end of the month. Skippin' xmas this year. |
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| Author: | Darkroland [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Not into it |
I don't care about Christmas. Haven't since I moved out of my parents house. My wife loves, loves, LOVES it. Made me buy a giant tree, the whole nine yards. Now that we have kids, they love it. I pretty much just hang out, and enjoy the old school stop motion and animated christmas specials (as well as "A Christmas Story". (Although I must admit, my 3 yr old singing all the words to Frosty the snowman while we were driving the other day warmed even my frozen heart.) |
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| Author: | Lex Luthor [ Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:31 pm ] |
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Not a fan, except for the vacation days from work. |
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| Author: | Diamondeye [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Not into it |
I have 3 small children, and Christmas is one of only 2 times a year our oldest daughter gets home from college, so it always feels Christmas-y around our house. I love the holiday season, although in south Texas, I do miss the snow (visually) and the wintery stuff up north. We used to get out to my mom's house around Christmas; either over the holiday or right after, when we lived in Ohio. One of the few things I like about the east coast is the historical stuff and the holiday stuff and they always combine into a very nice atmosphere - for example, there's a museum at Brandywine, PA that has fantastic holiday displays every year; often including a very nice HO railroad layout! The older I get though, the more I like the holiday leadup from Thanksgiving to Christmas than I do Christmas itself. I actually have always liked Christmas Eve the best of all days of the year; It was always a nice long day of family time and holiday treats before the intensity of Christmas day (we used to have pretty intense Christmas Days as a kid due to all the cousins). I like the fact that work slows down and fewer people are in, listening to the songs on the way to and from work, things like that. I don't really care for the fact that you get Christmas stuff in the stores before Halloween, and some times things do get rather over-commercialized (the habit of hyping movies as "ON CHRISTMAS DAY!" is really annoying) but other than that, I love Christmas time. |
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| Author: | Midgen [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 11:18 am ] |
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I've never been a big fan of the Holidays in general. I usually volunteer to be the one in the office, so others can take time off. It's always quiet, and I can either get more work done, or goof off, as needed...
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| Author: | Müs [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:00 pm ] |
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Midgen wrote: I've never been a big fan of the Holidays in general. I usually volunteer to be the one in the office, so others can take time off. It's always quiet, and I can either get more work done, or goof off, as needed... This. |
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| Author: | Aizle [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:47 pm ] |
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The only up side to the "holidays" is time off work which allows for time with family and friends. The rest of it can suck it, most especially Christmas music. |
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| Author: | Rorinthas [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Not into it |
Well DE there's no visual snow here either. I'm looking forward to seeing some folks. I've actually been digging abiding radio Christmas stream. I put my little tree up with my collection of hallmark and hand made keep sakes. I want to get something for the first Christmas in Oregon (Ohio not the state of you haven't been listening) but I'm getting too busy. Usually I'm pretty meh about it, but the new everything has me a little warmed. After 20 years (has it really been that long) the memory if my cousin's passing (cervical cancer) still creeps in. Moreso in a year like this when I wonder what she'd think if the man I'd become. I think I've passed the older than she was mark by now. That's scary. |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Wed Dec 17, 2014 2:40 pm ] |
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{Rori: Apparently, no, I wasn't paying attention. I think I knew you moved or something, but I had no idea there's an Oregon, OH, until now. For some reason I find that pretty cool. I also really had no idea where Toledo is, and now I do. Thanks! OK, back to your regularly scheduled Christmas programming.} |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:30 pm ] |
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Yeah, I hadn't caught the town you moved to, and thus didn't know an Oregon, Ohio existed (though I knew you stayed in Ohio). I'll add it to the list of other blatantly stolen place names like Lima, Houston, Versailles, Lebanon, Russia, and so on. Do they at least pronounce Oregon normally, unlike the rest of that list excluding Lebanon? |
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| Author: | Rorinthas [ Wed Dec 17, 2014 3:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Not into it |
Final syllable is pronounced with the long O like "on" (pronouncing it like "un" is a sure sign you're an outsider). I have no idea of that's "correct" |
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| Author: | Aethien [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:36 am ] |
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Ah, yeah, that's the pronunciation that people from the state hate. It's like Green Bay. Now, where'd you put the stress? On the Green, or the Bay? I swear, Mo Udall lost the 1976 primary when he came to the Austin Straubel airport and said, "It's wonderful to be here in Green Bay." It's only a green bay at certain times, usually in August. Otherwise it's Green Bay. Of course, with the popularity of the Packers now, that's much less an issue. |
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| Author: | Rorinthas [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Not into it |
Welcome to Ohio where we steal spellings but make up our own pronunciation |
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| Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:38 am ] |
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Ohio is notorious (among transplants, at least) for being preposterously uncultured in pronunciation of all the place names it's lifted for towns. Russia, OH is pronounced "ROO-see". Lima, OH is pronounced with a long i. Houston, OH is "HOUSE-ten" to locals. Versailles, OH doesn't understand it's a word with a French origin, and thus the "lles" is vocalized. And all I can do in the face of all this is shake my head. |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:12 am ] |
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: Ohio is notorious (among transplants, at least) for being preposterously uncultured in pronunciation of all the place names it's lifted for towns. Russia, OH is pronounced "ROO-see". Lima, OH is pronounced with a long i. Houston, OH is "HOUSE-ten" to locals. Versailles, OH doesn't understand it's a word with a French origin, and thus the "lles" is vocalized. And all I can do in the face of all this is shake my head. 
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| Author: | Aethien [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:13 pm ] |
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Well, House-ton makes sense, of course! That's how it's pronounced in New York Houston Street). Could have been NY settlers or something ... And, all of you speakers of Spanish need to come to LA and embarrass yourselves at least once in your life. Los Feliz, Sepulveda, heck, Los Angeles itself are all pronounced with a certain level of gleeful butchery. |
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| Author: | darksiege [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:56 pm ] |
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I actually enjoy Christmas, this is the first year in a long time when I do not feel single for Christmas. I enjoy the gathering with family and friends, seeing the happy look on people's faces as they enjoy a holiday dinner together and make gluttons of themselves. I hate the commercialism of the holidays, but I enjoy the companionship of them. |
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| Author: | Diamondeye [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Not into it |
I didn't used to mind even Christmas shopping (although I never shop on Thanksgiving weekend) but since coming to south Texas it's awful. My wife and I went to Toys R Us last night for the kids. I turned my back on my cart for 2 minutes and our choices were removed from it, placed on a shelf, and the cart made off with while we weren't paying attention. The store was a total zoo. Actually that's pretty much what shopping on any moderately busy day is like down here. It's just worse at Toys R Us before Christmas. |
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