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FreudianSlippers posted:In some countries Santa only stops by in early to mid December for a parade or to throw a bit of candy at kids and the actual gift giving is handled by Baby Jesus. Sorry about your sad childhood.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Baby don't hurt me? I just didn’t remember what my avatar was until I made the first post so I was trying to head that off.
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Dec 19, 2018 04:24
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JoelJoel posted:Sorry about your sad childhood.
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FreudianSlippers posted:In some countries Santa only stops by in early to mid December for a parade or to throw a bit of candy at kids and the actual gift giving is handled by Baby Jesus. This sounds so much cooler than my community's tradition of 'Steal presents and do heroin.' What region has gift trolls.
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Dec 19, 2018 06:59
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FreudianSlippers posted:In some countries Santa only stops by in early to mid December for a parade or to throw a bit of candy at kids and the actual gift giving is handled by Baby Jesus. And here I thought the metric system was stupid
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Dec 19, 2018 10:22
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:And here I thought the metric system was stupid Stupid on two counts then That sounds awesome
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Dec 19, 2018 10:30
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American Santa is bowdlerized protestant police state agitprop
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Dec 19, 2018 15:30
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I'm pretty sure most kids do know Santa doesn't exist when they hit about third grade, but keep it going because their parents do, and it's fun. There's nothing wrong with adding some magic to the season; it's silly fun, and anyone who doesn't get that is a sad person, who had sad parents that didn't get it, either.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:00
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Leavemywife posted:I'm pretty sure most kids do know Santa doesn't exist when they hit about third grade, but keep it going because their parents do, and it's fun. There's nothing wrong with adding some magic to the season; it's silly fun, and anyone who doesn't get that is a sad person, who had sad parents that didn't get it, either. I disagree, I think it leads to applying magical thinking over critical thinking to other things in life and that is not good.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:18
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Shifty Nipples posted:I disagree, I think it leads to applying magical thinking over critical thinking to other things in life and that is not good. Do you have any actual humans to support this?
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Dec 19, 2018 19:45
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Shifty Nipples posted:I disagree, I think it leads to applying magical thinking over critical thinking to other things in life and that is not good. Says the poster with an avatar of a sex offender.
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Dec 19, 2018 19:59
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Ferrule posted:Says the poster with an avatar of a sex offender. It really is the most NDT post possible, to boot
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Dec 19, 2018 20:05
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Shifty Nipples posted:I disagree, I think it leads to applying magical thinking over critical thinking to other things in life and that is not good. Are you trolling? You have to be trolling. That day you finally figure it out, you're like, "wait, mom and dad make sure I go to bed early, but I hear them staying up much later" or "why do rich kids get better presents from Santa" or "we don't even have a chimney so that makes no sense" or "that note is in my mom's handwriting" is like the first time you really understand critical thinking, the first time you feel like really understanding the world around you can pay off. Or you have your own investigation. You pretend to sleep and then sneakily watch what happens from the shadows confirming your suspicions. That thrill of discovery is unprecedented. Then you go along with it for another year or two because, hey, extra gifts. But still. Edit: Debunking Santa in your own time leads to questioning religious leaders and looking for original sources to verify health benefit claims of unregulated substances.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:07
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It's possible to be cool and still do the Santa thing, just don't make such a big deal out of it and don't try so hard to hide the fact that it's actually you getting the gifts basically if it's a big item the whole family will use like a TV or something, write from Santa on it hawowanlawow has a new favorite as of 21:03 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Dec 19, 2018 21:00
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Shifty Nipples posted:I disagree, I think it leads to applying magical thinking over critical thinking to other things in life and that is not good. 
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Dec 19, 2018 22:01
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So if you're not religious you just teach your kids about Jesus anyway and tell them he's real and let them come to their own conclusions? Seems dumb to me. In my experience kids aren't as stupid as we think and we should try to avoid lying to them. Then again, I got a vasectomy to avoid the whole thing, so what do I know?
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Dec 19, 2018 22:29
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JoelJoel posted:So if you're not religious you just teach your kids about Jesus anyway and tell them he's real and let them come to their own conclusions? Seems dumb to me. You joke, but my mostly agnostic vaguely jewish family sent me to presbyterian school for a bit when I was little because it was the best school around that they could afford. I learned all about Jesus and analyzed how the other kids reacted to the religious stuff vs. how I did and it helped shape my (non)religious views today. Plus, Santa and religion are just not the same.
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Dec 19, 2018 22:34
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Of course Santa's a religious icon, just not that religion.
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Dec 19, 2018 22:36
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Dammit I wish I could find that Saturnalia Chick Track but the links I had are dead.
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Dec 19, 2018 23:38
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Ferrule posted:Says the poster with an avatar of a sex offender. Guess I didn't hear about that, bummer. Aleph Null posted:Are you trolling? You have to be trolling. I think I got suspicious about the easter bunny, the tooth fairy, leprechauns and god before santa.
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Dec 20, 2018 01:19
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JoelJoel posted:Then again, I got a vasectomy to avoid the whole thing, so what do I know? Wow, humanity’s gene pool dodged a bullet right there.
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Dec 20, 2018 01:20
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FreudianSlippers posted:Over here we have thirteen mischievous trolls https://youtu.be/0hb_DzWGwB0 And their mom is here: https://youtu.be/L0YXvwBX8Bk
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Aleph Null posted:Are you trolling? You have to be trolling. What magical land do you live in where people have and/or use critical thinking skills?
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Dec 20, 2018 06:25
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Aleph Null posted:"we don't even have a chimney so that makes no sense" My mom told me Santa could use the front door if you didn't have a chimney, which made perfect sense to my five-year-old self. Another important Santa fact imparted by my mom: if Santa comes to your house and he sees your toys everywhere, he'll think he already gave you your gifts and leave, so make sure your room is clean.
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Dec 20, 2018 07:00
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Antivehicular posted:My mom told me Santa could use the front door if you didn't have a chimney, which made perfect sense to my five-year-old self. Stealing this for when my kid starts asking questions
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Dec 20, 2018 08:59
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Santa brings small gifts like crayons and a colouring book and you get to open Santa's presents before we eat and colour while the adults are enjoying the food. (We do presents in the evening on the 24th) Fun fact; we dance around the tree and use real candles...
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Antivehicular posted:My mom told me Santa could use the front door if you didn't have a chimney, which made perfect sense to my five-year-old self. Santa has a magic key. I grew up in a bunch of different apartments. And now, you can even buy a big rear end key from Hallmark or whatever to hang on your front door for Santa. So that's what my kids do every Xmas eve. Antivehicular posted:Another important Santa fact imparted by my mom: if Santa comes to your house and he sees your toys everywhere, he'll think he already gave you your gifts and leave, so make sure your room is clean. This is fantastic.
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Antivehicular posted:
My boy immediately replied, "yeah but they're not wrapped!" and rolled his eyes at me.
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Ferrule posted:Santa has a magic key. I grew up in a bunch of different apartments. I love old traditions shifting to accommodate modern life. I recall one story from when I was a kid about Santa having a special elf who's job is to shrink down and climb into keyholes to unlock them for places with no chimney.
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Antivehicular posted:Another important Santa fact imparted by my mom: if Santa comes to your house and he sees your toys everywhere, he'll think he already gave you your gifts and leave, so make sure your room is clean. I was determined to not do the Santa stuff with my kid, because I'm still an angsty teenage atheist at heart, but I am honestly tempted now. Apparently when I was a toddler and my mom told me about Santa, I got really frightened by the idea of some strange guy breaking into our house in the middle of the night, so my mom had to reassure me there's no Santa to calm me down.
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Rollersnake posted:I was determined to not do the Santa stuff with my kid, because I'm still an angsty teenage atheist at heart, but I am honestly tempted now. Gooniest comment of the day.
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Dec 20, 2018 21:43
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Rollersnake posted:I was determined to not do the Santa stuff with my kid, because I'm still an angsty teenage atheist at heart, but I am honestly tempted now. My sister didn't do Santa with her kids because she wanted them to know where the presents came from. One year when the oldest was three, they came down to his find two presents in his baby sisters stroller, with a card that said that they were from Santa. My nephew was so excited and relieved because "Santa remembered me this year". My sister did a small gift from Santa every year after that.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They were very nearly an all white group when the animated TV series was being created. Hanna Barbera asked a music label to put together a real life girl group based on the comicbook and produce some songs so the record producer found three girls who matched the comicbook characters and presented them to Hanna Barbera who then went "Ohhhhhh you got an African American .... we were planning on making them all white .... can we have a do over?" and the record producer went "gently caress no" and stood his ground. Hanna Barbera relented after a few weeks and agreed to not change the character's race, and that's how we got the first regularly appearing female African American character in Saturday morning cartoon series.  Stuff I learned today: HALO is an acronym for High Altitude Low Opening. For some reason, I had it in my head that it stood for High Altitude Low Oxygen.
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:
At high altitudes there is very low oxygen and pressure! HALO jumpers need to actually breathe a 100% oxygen so they don't get decompression sickness on the way up.
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y'know that song, Stacy's Mom, by Fountains of Wayne? For years it was mislabeled on download/streaming sites as Bowling for Soup, and for years I was aware of the Bowling for Soup single cover, which my weird brain misread and assumed was the cover for the Fountains of Wayne original. As far as I ever noticed, there was only one Stacy's Mom, and it was actually by Fountains of Wayne. Nope. It took actively looking at the single cover on Spotify and seeing the "Everyone thought they did it anyway...so they freakin did it!" that I realized Bowling for Soup actually covered it as well and the bands just sound really, really similar. I like pop punk and it's a little creepy that a) I never noticed and b) I still can't tell without looking which version is which if it's not in headphones.
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:
Someone needs to play MGS3. Also play the play/grind around the tutorial area long enough so you finaly get the codec where Snake comments he didnt do a perfect HALO jump as a tribute to The Boss.
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TheKennedys posted:y'know that song, Stacy's Mom, by Fountains of Wayne? For years it was mislabeled on download/streaming sites as Bowling for Soup, and for years I was aware of the Bowling for Soup single cover, which my weird brain misread and assumed was the cover for the Fountains of Wayne original. As far as I ever noticed, there was only one Stacy's Mom, and it was actually by Fountains of Wayne. When I was about 14 or so and first getting into punk rock, there was a song labeled Bad Religion - Skaters Paradise on every p2p sharing client. I only found out much later that it wasn't actually by Bad Religion but rather by an obscure Norwegian punk band named Homer who don't seem to have any Internet presence at all (anymore). I ended up re-uploading the song to YouTube myself, since I still had the mp3 on one of my drives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MetO3adJfA It sounds fairly basic to me now at 28, but I still think it's an interesting song, kind of d-beat and pop-punk at the same time. It had to be weird for them to find out their song somehow got fairly popular on the Internet while the vast majority of its listeners never found out which band it was actually by.
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Reminds me of the whole business with The Rabbit Joint's Zelda song
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Baron von Eevl posted:Reminds me of the whole business with The Rabbit Joint's Zelda song one of my favorite System of a Down tracks, yes
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Who knew Weird Al did so many terrible, offensive songs in the 90s?!
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