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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: TheBoy on 11 November 2015, 20:15:08
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...she wants to know what I want for Crimbo.
As always, absolutely no bloody idea at all. HELP!
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Tools, or vouchers for tools.
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A new merkin. :y
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A quicker car? ::)
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...she wants to know what I want for Crimbo.
As always, absolutely no bloody idea at all. HELP!
Just man up and tell her you want....nothing. It's what I've been asking for, and getting, for years.
CHRISTmas...are you religious? No? Then what's it all about?
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A quicker car? ::)
I don't think she'll stretch to that....
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...she wants to know what I want for Crimbo.
As always, absolutely no bloody idea at all. HELP!
Just man up and tell her you want....nothing. It's what I've been asking for, and getting, for years.
CHRISTmas...are you religious? No? Then what's it all about?
Tried. Failed.
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A quicker car? ::)
I don't think she'll stretch to that....
A 3.2 shouldn't cost much more than a cheap power-drill? ;D
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Gas heater for the garage :-X ::)
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...she wants to know what I want for Crimbo.
As always, absolutely no bloody idea at all. HELP!
Just man up and tell her you want....nothing. It's what I've been asking for, and getting, for years.
CHRISTmas...are you religious? No? Then what's it all about?
Depends on your POV STEMO, me, me mum and dad are all about as devout atheist as you can get, but when I was growing up my dad worked as a contractor in the aviation industry, away 2-4 weeks at a time. The only big block of time we used to get together was 10 days or so around Christmas so for us it was, and still is, all about being together.
Plus its hardly religious any more, its all mixed up and has been for lots of years:
- Its the wrong point in the year for the Christian festival
- Turkey is an americanism
- Santa Clause was Turkish (or Ottoman I think)
- And only got his red suit due to Coca Cola advertising
- Christmas trees are a victorian invention
Happy Yuletide :y
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...she wants to know what I want for Crimbo.
As always, absolutely no bloody idea at all. HELP!
Just man up and tell her you want....nothing. It's what I've been asking for, and getting, for years.
CHRISTmas...are you religious? No? Then what's it all about?
Depends on your POV STEMO, me, me mum and dad are all about as devout atheist as you can get, but when I was growing up my dad worked as a contractor in the aviation industry, away 2-4 weeks at a time. The only big block of time we used to get together was 10 days or so around Christmas so for us it was, and still is, all about being together.
Plus its hardly religious any more, its all mixed up and has been for lots of years:
- Its the wrong point in the year for the Christian festival
- Turkey is an americanism
- Santa Clause was Turkish (or Ottoman I think)
- And only got his red suit due to Coca Cola advertising
- Christmas trees are a victorian invention
Happy Yuletide :y
How many holes could I pick into that list....... hmmmmmmm.
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...she wants to know what I want for Crimbo.
As always, absolutely no bloody idea at all. HELP!
Just man up and tell her you want....nothing. It's what I've been asking for, and getting, for years.
CHRISTmas...are you religious? No? Then what's it all about?
Depends on your POV STEMO, me, me mum and dad are all about as devout atheist as you can get, but when I was growing up my dad worked as a contractor in the aviation industry, away 2-4 weeks at a time. The only big block of time we used to get together was 10 days or so around Christmas so for us it was, and still is, all about being together.
Plus its hardly religious any more, its all mixed up and has been for lots of years:
- Its the wrong point in the year for the Christian festival
- Turkey is an americanism
- Santa Clause was Turkish (or Ottoman I think)
- And only got his red suit due to Coca Cola advertising
- Christmas trees are a victorian invention
Happy Yuletide :y
How many holes could I pick into that list....... hmmmmmmm.
Generally interested in your comment as I though all these were pretty on the mark:
1. Astronomers calculated that the star of Bethlehem turned up in June, a couple of years BC (4 I think)
2. Introduced by a bloke called Strickland I think from America, Henry VIII took it on as Xmas fayre but it didn't hit the mainstream until the mid C19th when it became a popular middle class dish amongst Victorians.
3. St Nicholas came originally from that part of the world, big reputation for generosity and gifts. Hence the Santa clause gig. Also there's a legend that he pitched some gold through a family's window and it landed in a young poor maiden's sock, meaning she could afford her dowry and didn't face a life of prostitution. Hence why we get stockings at Christmas. Although since this doesn't exist in other countries (eg Germany) seems a bit more far fetched than the rest of st nick's CV.
4. Prior to coke's 1930's ad campaign, st nick appeared in lots of colours, for example my folks have some victorian Xmas decorations that show him in blue and green suits. And in some countries/cultures he still rocks up in his original bishop's regalia. However, since the ad campaign most/all of those alternative colour schemes for him gave vanished.
5. Introduced by queen vic for the benefit of prince Albert to remind him of Christmases gone by in ze fatherland.
:y
However, like I said, believe what you want, just use it as a time to seek out the people you love and who (hopefully) love you back and be together. Whatever label you stick on it or whatever brand of funny hat you wear while you do it, doesn't really matter at the end of the day.
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You guys really are numpties.
Go to the local tool shop, and buy yourself something you've always wanted - you know a 3/8 extension bar, or a replacement 13mm box spanner - something to make you happy.
Then ask for whatever this years 'must have' kids toy is. It makes no difference what it is - Thunderbirds Tracey Island, Cabbage Patch Doll, Tinky Winkey Telly tubby, Striker, Flightdeck etc. Whatever. As far as I can tell Women love the argy bargey of Christmas shopping and trying to find that impossible to source item, so this will give them hours and hours of fun.
Then on Christmas morning, graciously accept the pressie - but for deity sake DON'T OPEN IT. Wrap it up carefully, and put it in the loft. Leave to mature for 40-50 years. Then when you come to retire you'll have a loft full of junk, but in amongst it you'll have one or two Mint in box James bond Aston Martins, or Star wars Millenium Falcon, or similar. Put the valuable items on eBay, and bin the junk
Sorted.
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;D ;D
Brilliant!!!
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To be honest for I can't remember how many years Maureen and I never got each other anything at all.Realistically we'd both got every thing we'd ever need or want,so anything else would've just been dust gatherers.
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A quicker car? ::)
I don't think she'll stretch to that....
A 3.2 shouldn't cost much more than a cheap power-drill? ;D
But we all know that even the best 3.2s will struggle to beat really shagged 3.0s. I know it, you know it, my mum's dog knows it...
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on a serious note I cant believe how quickly its come round again. scary
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But we all know that even the best 3.2s will struggle to beat really shagged 3.0s. I know it, you know it, my mum's dog knows it...
Well you don't need a sense of humour for Christmas as you've clearly still got one of those. ;) ;D
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Gas heater detector for the garage :-X ::)
changed that for you TB ;)
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But we all know that even the best 3.2s will struggle to beat really shagged 3.0s. I know it, you know it, my mum's dog knows it...
Well you don't need a sense of humour for Christmas as you've clearly still got one of those. ;) ;D
Fantastic imagination too... ::)
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Gas heater detector for the garage :-X ::)
changed that for you TB ;)
I know a good company that installs as well ::) :y
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25th December predates Christmas day as a good old pagan festival to boost morale at the coldest and bleakest time of the year in Europe. So if you want to celebrate a proper traditional Christmas, then it is all about celebrating with friends, family, feasting and fornication. Mistletoe was just the warm up in those pagan times. :y :y :y ;D ;D ;D
Of course it was easier for the Christian religion to steal an established festival, rather than invent a new one with a new date. :( There again they were never overly fussy when it came to facts, hence the writing of various stories, a quite considerable time after Jesus allegedly lived, but it was quite an imaginative story by Joseph on why it wasn't him that put Mary up the duff. ;D ;D ;D
Our modern Christmas is based on a Victorian concept due to the industrial revolution and rapidly increasing wealth and the writings of Charles Dickens. :y :y :y
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Yup, all the religions were at it, and guess what, most all of them are Northern hemisphere ::)
The film Zeitgeist and its sequels are interesting viewing when it comes to sociopolitical engineering :y
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25th December predates Christmas day as a good old pagan festival to boost morale at the coldest and bleakest time of the year in Europe. So if you want to celebrate a proper traditional Christmas, then it is all about celebrating with friends, family, feasting and fornication. Mistletoe was just the warm up in those pagan times. :y :y :y ;D ;D ;D
Of course it was easier for the Christian religion to steal an established festival, rather than invent a new one with a new date. :( There again they were never overly fussy when it came to facts, hence the writing of various stories, a quite considerable time after Jesus allegedly lived, but it was quite an imaginative story by Joseph on why it wasn't him that put Mary up the duff. ;D ;D ;D
Our modern Christmas is based on a Victorian concept due to the industrial revolution and rapidly increasing wealth and the writings of Charles Dickens. :y :y :y
And ba humbug to you too. ;D ;D ;D
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She's hassling me now :'(
I did suggest we buy each other a really nice holiday so we can go with our friends to Asia, but the £9k price tag put the kybosh on that :o
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She's hassling me now :'(
I did suggest we buy each other a really nice holiday so we can go with our friends to Asia, but the £9k price tag put the kybosh on that :o
Women's underwear.
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She's hassling me now :'(
I did suggest we buy each other a really nice holiday so we can go with our friends to Asia, but the £9k price tag put the kybosh on that :o
Women's underwear.
That was last year....
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She's hassling me now :'(
I did suggest we buy each other a really nice holiday so we can go with our friends to Asia, but the £9k price tag put the kybosh on that :o
Women's underwear.
That was last year....
For who :-X
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If you need to ask TG... :D
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If you need to ask TG... :D
Well I have heard some rumours about these OOF meets :-X :-X :D :D
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...then it is all about celebrating with friends, family, feasting and fornication....
Ermm.. These activities don't have to be concurrent, do they? ???
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...then it is all about celebrating with friends, family, feasting and fornication....
Ermm.. These activities don't have to be concurrent, do they? ???
I would probably steer clear of the Roman themed meet ::)
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A quicker car? ::)
I don't think she'll stretch to that....
A 3.2 shouldn't cost much more than a cheap power-drill? ;D
But we all know that even the best 3.2s will struggle to beat really shagged 3.0s. I know it, you know it, my mum's dog knows it...
:y
I miss my 3.0 :'(
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...then it is all about celebrating with friends, family, feasting and fornication....
Ermm.. These activities don't have to be concurrent, do they? ???
ALL activities stop when its time for curry. Except drinking, obviously.