I can't wait for friday

[billybob537]

"To start the War on Christmas"
BWAAHHAAHAHAHA
:evilgrin: :silly: :nuke: :evilgrin: :silly: :nuke: :evilgrin: :silly: :nuke: :evilgrin: :silly: :nuke:

[Muttocracy]

1. Buy Nothing Day! :)

[Greyhound]

2. Tomorrow begins my 6 week hibernation period. n/t

[question everything]

3. Why do you hate America?

Don't you know that 70% of the economy is service based? All the poor unskilled workers who used to have decent jobs at a factory - when we had those - now work for peanuts at the mall?

Actually, it is the credit cards company that hate America, raising interest rates to really keep shopper to - gasp - live within their means.

:banghead:

[billybob537]

5. What's a Mall?

[Richard D]

4. I have a confession to make . . .

. . . I hate the Christmas holiday season and wouldn't mind in the least seeing it relegated to the trash bin of holiday celebrations.

There, I said it.

[question everything]

6. But leave all the lights

After all, this is how Christmas and Hanukkah started. Trying to put some lights during the winter solstice.

A few years ago we were ambitious and would take a walk after work which, by then, was pitch dark around this time of the year. We live in a suburb where there are street lights only at the intersections. So all the houses that were full of lights made it easier to, at least, spot a herd of deers.

No, we do not put lights on ours, though, but if people want it, hey, we enjoyed their generosity.

[Richard D]

9. To clarify

It's not the tree, xmas dinner and lights that I hate, it's going into every friggin store in town and hearing xmas music being blasted into my poor sensitive brain. That and the commercials, marketing and general commercialization of the holiday. I agree about the lights. It's beautiful. If we could just get the beauty back into it I'd be a happy camper.

There was an amazing spec-fiction book I read years ago, the title of which I can't remember, that had several modern day people going back to medieval times and the description of what Christmas was in a small village in Europe then was just beautiful. Bringing light to the darkest days of the year. Community gathering. Warmth in the midst of freezing cold.

[Ian David]

7. Not to mention the Mork and Mindy Marathon on The Sci-Fi Channel!

[question everything]

10. Oh my. He looks so young

I'd better not pass by any mirror..

[bdamomma]

8. it is going to be a very lean holiday for alot of people

people just do not have the money.

[greguganus]

11. Thought you were looking forward to leftovers. n/t