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^^ McSad ^^
thats my new favorite burger at mcdonalds.
With an extra helping of deep-fried depression. HERES YOUR CHEER.
Can I get a side order of despair? Just a small, I’m watching my weight.
Watching it do what?
Mostly just sit there. It’s not that interesting actually.
would you like a paranoia pop with that order sir?
Idiot. Merry Christmas.
The Christmas tree is a decorated evergreen coniferous tree, real or artificial, and a tradition associated with the celebration of Christmas or the original name Yule. The Christmas tree is often brought into a home, but can also be used in the open, and can be decorated with Christmas lights (originally candles), ornaments, garlands and tinsel during the days around Christmas. An angel or star is often placed at the top of the tree, representing the host of angels or the Star of Bethlehem from the Nativity.
The ancient pagans, Druids, Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews celebrated the Winter Solstice, (Dec. 21st), the day of the year that the Sun begins its ascent in the sky, thereby ushering a fertile time of planting and bountiful harvests. Hence, the evergreen tree represented eternal life and the promise of replenishment during the cold winter months[citation needed]. Apples and other fruit were hung upon the tree to represent the plentiful food to come. Candles were lighted to symbolize the warmth and brightness of the sun. While the Christmas tree is generally associated with Christ, it predates this religious figure by many centuries.
Later in history Germans hung wafers on the tree along with the apples to represent the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. In the Victorian era, the apples were replaced by red glass balls and candles and the representation signified both Adam and Eve along with the fire of life. Moreover, the Christmas tree was also used to scare away evil forces for the new year. (Christmas tree. (2009).
After the beginning of the New Year, January 1, the Pagans would take the chopped decorated Christmas tree down and burn the “Yule” log in remembrance of the past year. They would rejoice in song and dance for the goals that have been completed and in jubilation for the coming of the Spring and life. Furthermore, New Year’s resolutions were constructed at a later date from the Pagans setting of the goals.
Perfect choice, Ivan.
Krismus kisses to you, my dear!
*smooch*
-jumps between them and smooches IVAN up real good-
Hot.
How do apples and wafers represent Jesus on the cross?
The apples in his cheecks and the wafers…
I got nothin’.
You got me, babe.
I luvs me some heathen wimmin.
The apples were from the pagan solstice celebration; they added the wafers, I presume from the communion ceremony. Happy Holidays, Charro. You are one of the lights on the pagan tree we call PK.
But it specifically said they represent Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross!! Nothing about Pagans!!!
Happy Holiday mabs, you light up my days as well. Say, are you on Facebook?
Apples are the blood of Christ?
And they make such a delicious wine.
And those wafers are pretty tasty with a bit of jam on them.
Bowl of Milk… for serious.
Can we get some Jew stock for soup?
That wouldn’t involve a hot tub would it?
It might.. Would that help me get YOUR Jew stock?
Later in history Germans hung wafers on the tree along with the apples to represent the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. — I read this as they added the wafers to the apples that were traditionally placed on the tree, but perhaps my reading was incorrect.
We old folks don’t do that new fangled ‘puter stuff.
Maybe my interpretation was incorrect. Funny how the same words can be interpreted two different ways..
Maybe it’s the eggnog? Hee hee
*hic* But it’s so refreshing!
Also, you didn’t answer me. Are you on Facebook?
Definitely the eggnog. That would be the “We old folks don’t do that new fangled ‘puter stuff.
” 
Stupid eggnog. And there are old folks on Facebook! Just ask Eds!
And Bad Fairie!
And me! –and for that matter, some of my (much) older cousins!
I dunno, if my cousins are on facebook, sounds like a place to avoid like the plague. They tend to have bumper stickers like: Don’t blame me, I voted for the American. (Grammatical error included!)
Ah, but with facebook you can quietly ‘unfriend’ them…or block them, for that matter!
but you forget, it was the old people who invented the computer (ignore whatizbutt & the interwebz thing, he was on stale dated lsd that day)
I used to do tech support for a company that made software for VAX computers.
Best phone call EVER: “Your software crashed our system.”
“I’m very sorry about that, sir. Could you tell me where on your system you loaded the software?”
“I didn’t load it. I set the tape (software was delivered on reel to reel tapes) on top of the computer, and it crashed.”
“Ummmmmmmmmm.” Very long pause on my part. “Okay, sir, we’ll take care of that for you.”
Apparently we crashed his system by osmosis.
It’s actually thanks to Facebook that my parents are talking friendly for the first time since getting divorced 20 years ago…talking very friendly.
Merry Christmas to all you godless heathens out there!
(I’m just messing with you. Happy winter holiday of your choosing!)
Well, this heathen just finished celebrating Christmas (you all stole it from US, you know!) and wishes you the same! I hope the munchkins had a great visit from Santa (mine’s a wee old for that).
Actually we don’t do Santa Claus. Never have. We’ve never liked it. My mother and grandmother every year to try sabotage us by telling the kids Santa is real even though we said he’s not. *waits for a Santa flame war*
If there’s no Santa then who brought me all that snow? It must have been a whole handful’s worth of snow.
Note to self: Next time specify how much snow I want when writing letter to Santa.
Ah, is okay. You know me, everyone entitled to believe as they wish.
I can top in-laws this year: after whining that they wouldn’t see US for xmas, my in-laws flew to visit my husband’s brother instead. Guess we know where we rank.
I’m cool if parents choose not to do the whole Santa thing, I just think that when their kids reach school age they need to explain not to ruin it for the other kids (not that I’m saying you dont!) because one kid telling a classroom full of first graders that there is no Santa is tantamount to telling a group of feminists to get back in the kitchen.
We’ve told our kids that. I just really hate my mom and grandma undermining my authority. In fact, they actually blame my wife. My grandma even made a snide comment directed at HER about Santa, but not at me. I hate families at Christmas. Fvck it. I hate Christmas period. I’m so relieved it’s all over.
What is it my friend says: “Beer is proof god loves us.” And never is that more true than when we have to deal with our relatives.
He also says “Our friends are god’s way of apologizing for our relatives.”
I think Benjamin Franklin first coined the beer phrase… God what a smart man.
Yes, I knew he was quoting.
But THIS is why I love Franklin: They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Funny how people seem to leave off the “essential liberty” when using that quote…
Yeah, that’s NOT cool at all. No one should undermine your authority as a parent. You’re not neglecting or abusing your kids so everyone else needs to butt the hell out.
I know right? But when I say something I get blown off for being no fun and taking all the “magic” out of Christmas.
If Santa’s not real, than where did the letters that I sent him go?
Child molesters, apparently.
But I’m not a godless heathen. I’m a godly(?) heathen. I have lot’s of gods! Does this mean I don’t get a merry Christmas? Well fine! I hope you had an icky solstice! *storms off crying*
You can have some of our snow. It’s not very much, but we’ll share.
*runs after DU with corset and tea*
Don’t worry, you don’t have to run that fast. I’m on dial up at the moment. I’m not going any where very fast. *sits down and waits for corset to download.*
Pip pip!
“Pip pip”?
Cheerios!
Fruit loops!
Shredded Wheat!
Weetabix!
Grape nuts!
Lucky Charms
Btw, one of my friends got me this t-shirt for Christmas (link in name because I don’t know how to embed!)
Very cool. My son’s bday is next month. I think I’ll let him pick a thinkgeek or mythbusters shirt for it. I was going to buy one, but there are so many!
There are some really cute shirts on the internet but I’m always hesitant to buy any because the sizing is so weird but this one seems to fit okay. We’ll she how it washes up. I hope okay because I freaking love it.
If you can find out what brand of shirt the website is printing the shirt on and then find a local place that sells that brand it helps for sizing.
I hate buying shirts. It’s as if each shirt company has a different default seaming setup. My favorite part is finding a shirt that’s not turned into a midrift because of my long torso…
Is Max boasting about his length again?
You know what they say about guys with long torsos….
Takes a long time to wax the chest…
The solstice was fine. Christmas pretty well sucked. We had a thunderstorm on Christmas Eve followed by snow today. Very strange.
I want thunderstorms and snow, it was actually pretty warm and sunny here. Wanna trade?
Hell yes!
What does Christmas have to do with Jesus on the cross? Christmas is the BIRTH of Christ (it IS in the word, after all). Easter was when he was killed on the Cross by the Romans and Jews for all of our sins.
how long can babble like this??
How long can type like this??
seven minute.
that way too long.
Ju don wan toes? Why Ju don wan toes!?
You should put another one with that tree on fire.
thank god we didn’t burn it down this year again.
but, there is always time…
Haha, this picture is so not surprising, considering how riot-prone Athens is these days. Heck, just an hour or so after I left the country a few weeks ago, they had to tear-gas the crowd.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Thanks to the Grinch the Whos now spend Christmas in Whoville under marshal law.
Oh, so Whoville is in Greece. That explains a lot.
I realized when I saw “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” for the ten millionth time a couple of weeks ago that if he’d just paid attention to the Who’s song the Grinch would have been aware that he was going about the whole “stopping the Christmas noise” project all wrong. He needed to sneak into Whoville in the dead of night on Christmas Eve and cut all their little Who hands off.
No one out grinches Diss.
Don’t forget to smash in their voice boxes to end the singing.
but it will never end the singing in your head
No, that’s not necessary….remember, “Christmas is within our grasp/ as long as we have hands to clasp!” The hubris involved in ritually broadcasting your one fatal weakness to your darkest enemy that lives up Mt. Crumpet is just staggering.
Eh, I think the Whos were completely unaware of the Grinch’s existence, possibly believing him dead after so many years living on the frozen mountain. After his previous Easter massacre, a massive manhunt ensued that turned up nothing. After that, the Whos spent decades in fear before letting down their guard in the last few years, giving the very patient Grinch an opportunity to return to wreak new havoc. Alas, the lonely, frozen years on Mt. Crumpet affected him, leading him to his change of heart. The very naive and amicable Whos decided that his noble effort to undo his own evil earned him acquittal from his past crimes. The Whoville Massacre Memorial made the Grinch cry for days realizing the blood on his hands. The next day he shot himself. It was very tragic.
Well, they should have known better than to ask him if he had a gift receipt to return all that stolen crap.
I blame the massacre on the Whoville President. While the Grinch was holed up in his cave, President Whoosee started an unrelated war with Urrack.
I believe you’re vastly underestimating the contribution of Horton the Elephant to the entire debacle.
Well, Horton is the deity they all pray to since their lives are in his hands. Horton sneezed and wiped Urrack right off the face of the speck.
I just don’t see how he can pull off cutting everyone’s hands off. One would think the resulting screams would alert the authorities before he got done with Cindy Lou Who’s family. Much better to sneak in quietly and cut the throats of every last Who, from the tall to the small.
Maybe if he roofied them….
Did you know that the same man that voices the Grinch song is also Tony the Tiger?
Rofl.. I live in Athens and I understand why the guards are there… they’re riot police, because last year some idiots burned down the Christmas tree at Syntagma like 2 times xD Man I can’t wait to leave this stupid place
It wasn’t a christmas tree. It was a yule log. That’s how you bring in the new year. Didn’t you read Ivan’s post?
They burnt it down cause of the idiot cop who shoots like a maniac killing that kid who had no connection to the riots last yer.
ahh Greece… (I study 8 years of my childhood just to understand this?!?) >:(
Did they at least teach you how to type different email addresses?
I was more worried about why someone would spend 8 years studying their own childhood… I mean… were they not there for it? Do their parents give them a test on it once they hit 9?
I studied my childhood to figure out how the hell I got this fvcked up. I can’t seem to put my finger on it, though.
Actually I studied your childhood as well, for just that reason, I’ve even managed to pinpoint the exact time and date the whole thing happened. It was 4:37pm on march the 23rd, 1980.
What, yours don’t? I get tested annually on my memory of all my past failings. We call it “Christmas Dinner.”
Right, so the christians stole the pagan christmas festival…and Christ’s birthday was unknown. What other things have we been defrauded on by this untruthful socalled religion? I’m writing to the 82-y-o pope right now. He might be old enough to remember something useful…although I seriously doubt it.
your not celebrateing his birthday, your celebateing the coming of the christian messiah, its not about what day he was born on, just that he was born. the pope of the time choose that same day as the pagan festival to make it appleaing and help convert the evil heathen pagans from their evil heathen ways. in hopes they will convert from the imaginary god they worship to the imaginary god he worshipers
This is blasphemy! This is madness!
No…. THIS IS SPARTA!!!!
This is CNN.
This is the SONG that doesn’t END…..
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system.
This is the end….this truely is the end my friend…
This is a call to all my past resignation.
Death to all blasphemers, schemers and coneheads. And Nobel Idjits.
So… everyone?
No, apparently ignoble idiots are okay.
These stupid cops have ruined my Greece…not the anarchists,not the one’s who gave a fight-last year and this year-for a better country….
the fact that some people burnt the christmas tree was bad though,as a wise had once told… ”If you want a symbolic gesture,don’t burn it (the flag). Wash it!”
I got a new tv and a digital camera. My mom claims she got “good deal” but seriously.
We spoiled the kids rotten. A Wii, a DS, and a digital camera. And games. And other toys. It’s crazy here. My wife and I didn’t get a whole lot, but the kids got their best Christmas ever.