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Agnes. Gold Member Offline St Agness Posts: 1248	Ready for Xmas!!? Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:20pm There are houses here that adore Xmas! Santa Clauses climbing onto their rooves, I know its early but as I love xmas it,s fine by me- One such person coming to my place for xmas dinner has ordered Chicken Katsu for that meal-its easy so its ok!!
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Reply #1 - Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm

Agnes. wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:20pm:

There are houses here that adore Xmas! Santa Clauses climbing onto their rooves, I know its early but as I love xmas it,s fine by me-

One such person coming to my place for xmas dinner has ordered Chicken Katsu for that meal-

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

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Reply #2 - Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 7:07pm

Belgarion wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:

Agnes. wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:20pm:

There are houses here that adore Xmas! Santa Clauses climbing onto their rooves, I know its early but as I love xmas it,s fine by me-

One such person coming to my place for xmas dinner has ordered Chicken Katsu for that meal-

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

I don't see it as magic- I'm into it 'cos of the lights and all the other sparkly stuff- seriously! I was 7 when the magic wore off, my poor parents!

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Agnes. Gold Member Offline St Agness Posts: 1248	Re: Ready for Xmas!!? Reply #3 - Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 7:20pm
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 45231 Gender:	Re: Ready for Xmas!!? Reply #4 - Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 10:01pm I will be settling into my new house. Dinner might be sandwiches, depends how soon I find my pans and culinary implements!
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Agnes. Gold Member Offline St Agness Posts: 1248	Re: Ready for Xmas!!? Reply #5 - Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 10:25pm Get KFC-it's good for you anyway!
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Re: Ready for Xmas!!?
Reply #6 - Oct 24^th, 2022 at 12:27am

Belgarion wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

I agree absolutely. For a start, being a lifelong atheist—who had Christmas
force fed to my by my conservative Christian family—I detest the so-called
"festive" season. One that celebrates the imagined, non-birth of someone
who in all likelihood never existed.

It's become an overcommercialised, crass, odious, marketer's wet dream that
for some reason sucks the plebs in to spending hundreds of dollars they don't
have on kid's cheap and nasty, nonbiodegradable plastic toys for $400 a hit.

I'll be mailing this out to all my enemies this year.....

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Agnes. Gold Member Offline St Agness Posts: 1248	Re: Ready for Xmas!!? Reply #7 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 1:05am About 10 days to go , so get your ideas going - make sure the kids have been catered for as well as yourself!! Got any ideas ready at this stage? Put them down here?
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Reply #8 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 3:05am

Washing walls

Patching walls

Sanding walls

Painting walls

Some unbelievable bogan did some terrible things to this house! I need a new wood burning heater too—will Santa deliver one you think?

Want to get rid of stupid curtains and fit vertical blinds.

Will Santa spring for a new bathroom you think? So I can turn the present poky one into a walk in pantry?

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If you don’t like abortions ignore them like you do school shootings.

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Re: Ready for Xmas!!?
Reply #9 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 7:49am

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 3:05am:

Washing walls

Patching walls

Sanding walls

Painting walls

Some unbelievable bogan did some terrible things to this house! I need a new wood burning heater too—will Santa deliver one you think?

Want to get rid of stupid curtains and fit vertical blinds.

Will Santa spring for a new bathroom you think? So I can turn the present poky one into a walk in pantry?

Get some sleep Mad Mong! You've been up all night again Manic Moron!

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Re: Ready for Xmas!!?
Reply #10 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:09am

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 24^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

Belgarion wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

I agree absolutely. For a start, being a lifelong atheist—who had Christmas
force fed to my by my conservative Christian family—I detest the so-called
"festive" season. One that celebrates the imagined, non-birth of someone
who in all likelihood never existed.

It's become an overcommercialised, crass, odious, marketer's wet dream that
for some reason sucks the plebs in to spending hundreds of dollars they don't
have on kid's cheap and nasty, nonbiodegradable plastic toys for $400 a hit.

I'll be mailing this out to all my enemies this year.....

[url]https://i.postimg.cc/nL6bfmCy/Screenshot-2022-10-24-at-01-23-42-Happy-Christmas-
You-front bottom-Card-grande-png-WEBP-Image-424-600-p.png[/url]

Totally agree.

I don't participate in it at all.

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Re: Ready for Xmas!!?
Reply #11 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:35am

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:09am:

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 24^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

Belgarion wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

I agree absolutely. For a start, being a lifelong atheist—who had Christmas
force fed to my by my conservative Christian family—I detest the so-called
"festive" season. One that celebrates the imagined, non-birth of someone
who in all likelihood never existed.

It's become an overcommercialised, crass, odious, marketer's wet dream that
for some reason sucks the plebs in to spending hundreds of dollars they don't
have on kid's cheap and nasty, nonbiodegradable plastic toys for $400 a hit.

I'll be mailing this out to all my enemies this year.....

[url]https://i.postimg.cc/nL6bfmCy/Screenshot-2022-10-24-at-01-23-42-Happy-Christmas-
You-front bottom-Card-grande-png-WEBP-Image-424-600-p.png[/url]

Totally agree.

I don't participate in it at all.

[url]https://purplefrogdesigns.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/O2A0148-s
caled.jpg[/url]

As it's a pagan based festival you (being godless and a pagan) should be celebrating it big time.

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Re: Ready for Xmas!!?
Reply #12 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 12:22pm

Lisa Jones wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:35am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:09am:

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 24^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

Belgarion wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

I agree absolutely. For a start, being a lifelong atheist—who had Christmas
force fed to my by my conservative Christian family—I detest the so-called
"festive" season. One that celebrates the imagined, non-birth of someone
who in all likelihood never existed.

It's become an overcommercialised, crass, odious, marketer's wet dream that
for some reason sucks the plebs in to spending hundreds of dollars they don't
have on kid's cheap and nasty, nonbiodegradable plastic toys for $400 a hit.

I'll be mailing this out to all my enemies this year.....

[url]https://i.postimg.cc/nL6bfmCy/Screenshot-2022-10-24-at-01-23-42-Happy-Christmas-
You-front bottom-Card-grande-png-WEBP-Image-424-600-p.png[/url]

Totally agree.

I don't participate in it at all.

[url]https://purplefrogdesigns.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/O2A0148-s
caled.jpg[/url]

As it's a pagan based festival you (being godless and a pagan) should be celebrating it big time.

No, Christmas isn't a pagan festival - it's a festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ.

You're thinking of Saturnalia.

Some people mistakenly believe that Christmas originated from Saturnalia, but it didn't.

They just happen to be two festivals that are held at the same time of year.

A common mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.

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Re: Ready for Xmas!!?
Reply #13 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 12:30pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 12:22pm:

Lisa Jones wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:35am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:09am:

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 24^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

Belgarion wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

I agree absolutely. For a start, being a lifelong atheist—who had Christmas
force fed to my by my conservative Christian family—I detest the so-called
"festive" season. One that celebrates the imagined, non-birth of someone
who in all likelihood never existed.

It's become an overcommercialised, crass, odious, marketer's wet dream that
for some reason sucks the plebs in to spending hundreds of dollars they don't
have on kid's cheap and nasty, nonbiodegradable plastic toys for $400 a hit.

I'll be mailing this out to all my enemies this year.....

[url]https://i.postimg.cc/nL6bfmCy/Screenshot-2022-10-24-at-01-23-42-Happy-Christmas-
You-front bottom-Card-grande-png-WEBP-Image-424-600-p.png[/url]

Totally agree.

I don't participate in it at all.

[url]https://purplefrogdesigns.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/O2A0148-s
caled.jpg[/url]

As it's a pagan based festival you (being godless and a pagan) should be celebrating it big time.

No, Christmas isn't a pagan festival - it's a festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ.

You're thinking of Saturnalia.

Some people mistakenly believe that Christmas originated from Saturnalia, but it didn't.

They just happen to be two festivals that are held at the same time of year.

A common mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.

Here we go, this will clear things up for you:

Did the Romans Invent Christmas?

Did the first Christian Roman emperor appropriate the pagan festival of Saturnalia to celebrate the birth of Christ? Matt Salusbury weighs the evidence.

"It was a public holiday celebrated around December 25th in the family home. A time for feasting, goodwill, generosity to the poor, the exchange of gifts and the decoration of trees. But it wasn’t Christmas. This was Saturnalia, the pagan Roman winter solstice festival. But was Christmas, Western Christianity’s most popular festival, derived from the pagan Saturnalia?"

Gwynn concludes: ‘The majority of modern scholars would be reluctant to accept any close connection between the Saturnalia and the emergence of the Christian Christmas.’

Full details here: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/did-romans-invent-christmas

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Re: Ready for Xmas!!?
Reply #14 - Dec 16^th, 2022 at 12:59pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 12:22pm:

Lisa Jones wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:35am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 16^th, 2022 at 8:09am:

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 24^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

Belgarion wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 6:46pm:

There should be no mention of Christmas before 01 December, on pain of violation by a very prickly piece of holly! Wink

Seriously, the commercial build up gets earlier every year and the magic wears off long before the day arrives. Sad

I agree absolutely. For a start, being a lifelong atheist—who had Christmas
force fed to my by my conservative Christian family—I detest the so-called
"festive" season. One that celebrates the imagined, non-birth of someone
who in all likelihood never existed.

It's become an overcommercialised, crass, odious, marketer's wet dream that
for some reason sucks the plebs in to spending hundreds of dollars they don't
have on kid's cheap and nasty, nonbiodegradable plastic toys for $400 a hit.

I'll be mailing this out to all my enemies this year.....

[url]https://i.postimg.cc/nL6bfmCy/Screenshot-2022-10-24-at-01-23-42-Happy-Christmas-
You-front bottom-Card-grande-png-WEBP-Image-424-600-p.png[/url]

Totally agree.

I don't participate in it at all.

[url]https://purplefrogdesigns.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/O2A0148-s
caled.jpg[/url]

As it's a pagan based festival you (being godless and a pagan) should be celebrating it big time.

No, Christmas isn't a pagan festival - it's a festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ.

You're thinking of Saturnalia.

Some people mistakenly believe that Christmas originated from Saturnalia, but it didn't.

They just happen to be two festivals that are held at the same time of year.

A common mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.

Christmas has nothing to do with Saturn or Saturnalia. You need to go further back in time.

Its pagan roots are entrenched within the very ancient and abominable Baal - Sun god cult worship which is often referred to in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible.

If your link doesn't state this ....then keep Googling.

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