Christmas 2007

[muzzysgal]

Don't you just hate the people who just sign their name and don't put who it's to?
tossers

Not as much as those who can't be arsed to write out my sons' names individually (one name of three letters, the other four), instead preferring to label them " & Boys "

 

[MKFox]

Not as much as those who can't be arsed to write out my sons' names individually (one name of three letters, the other four), instead preferring to label them " & Boys "

Maybe they're sending a card to you and your 'boys'....and wishing not your sons happy christmas but your norks....

 

[muzzysgal]

Maybe they're sending a card to you and your 'boys'....and wishing not your sons happy christmas but your norks....

Aye, that'll be it :icon_roll

 

[Dour]

Of course it is.

So long as you don't call it kid....

 

[SJN-Fox]

Here you go you miserable ****ers, don't say I never do anything for you

http://www.code-d.com/tesco-cards/merry-christmas-cards.php

 

[Darth Vodka]

I know you said you're not interested but I can't resist antagonising Christian nutjobs.

Christmas has absolutely **** all to do with religion or Christianity, **** all, zero, nada.

It is the winter solstice and has been celebrated by humanity for millenia, ever since we understood that it meant that days would start getting longer.

So if anybody mentions that bullshit phrase 'the true meaning of Christmas' you can tell them with confidence to **** right off, poor deluded fools that they are.

it has a lot to do with religion...pagan religion

it was hijacked, like a lot of things, by Christianity

oh and Santa is red because of Coca Cola

 

[Macky]

it has a lot to do with religion...pagan religion

it was hijacked, like a lot of things, by Christianity

oh and Santa is red because of Coca Cola

That Santa in the old Coke advert wasn't the first to dress in red & white, that's a bit of an urban myth.

 

[Darth Vodka]

That Santa in the old Coke advert wasn't the first to dress in red & white, that's a bit of an urban myth.

:icon_redf:icon_redf:icon_redf:icon_redf

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

ooops, that would be the QI klaxon for me

 

[Disco Bob]

Oh those wacky Dutch people...

 

[RHYDAL]

That Santa in the old Coke advert wasn't the first to dress in red & white, that's a bit of an urban myth.

For the record, Santa does not exist. Think of him as the 'Watford' of childrens stories. :icon_wink

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

ive done a fair bit of xmas shopping already i wanna get it all done out the way come december

 

[Macky]

it has a lot to do with religion...pagan religion

it was hijacked, like a lot of things, by Christianity

oh and Santa is red because of Coca Cola

I didn't have time to respond properly this morning, was preparing for my 9:30 :icon_wink, but you're are absolutely right that most of the traditions that are based around Xmas come from the Northern European pagan beliefs , more specifically the lapland shamans who used the red & white fly agaric mushrooms to enter a trance where they would 'fly' with their reindeers, hallucinating of course.
Nice work if you can get it. :icon_bigg

Christianity took all of the pagan festivals that we have 'always' celebrated & stitched on a Christian dimension.
In particular Easter, one of the most important Christian dates in the calender, is the pagan fertility festival. In that case they didn't even bother to change the name, Eastra (sp?) being the pagan Godess of fertility.

 

[MKFox]

Away with the fairies Macky.
Next you'll be telling us that God didn't create the world in seven days....
Your theories are laughable you heretic

 

[Macky]

Away with the fairies Macky.
Next you'll be telling us that God didn't create the world in seven days....
Your theories are laughable you heretic

Well that all depends on which part of the book of Genesis you choose to believe, it has conflicting accounts of the creation story. :icon_wink

 

[RHYDAL]

Away with the fairies Macky.
Next you'll be telling us that God didn't create the world in seven days....
Your theories are laughable you heretic

In fact he did it in six and watched Sky Sports on the seventh.

 

[SJN-Fox]

In fact he did it in six and watched Sky Sports on the seventh.

Then it's a good job City weren't on or he'd have ripped it all up on the eighth.

 

[Melton Fox]

Then it's a good job City weren't on or he'd have ripped it all up on the eighth.

They were, that's why he never made an 8th.

 

[Hazzman]

ive done a fair bit of xmas shopping already i wanna get it all done out the way come december

I started 'eyeing up' pressies on Sunday morning.

Now, I am working it's 3 figures....:icon_roll

Going somewhere today lunch to get some idea's.

 

[homer]

I ****ing love Christmas. Fact

 

[Darth Vodka]

In fact he did it in six

damn you beat me to it