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Lobok posted:Oh man I wish it was actually mid-winter. Like from a calendar perspective winter only just starts by Christmas but even moreso from a weather perspective there's that realization every year after the extended celebrations and vacation time of the end of December that there's still such a long lovely slog to get through. Christmas is to winter as a 10 o'clock lunch break is to the rest of the workday. The answer is to keep your lights and tree up through all of January and enjoy it more.
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SpacePig posted:Oh yeah smart guy then when is it? If it's not on Christmas then why is his name right there in it? Christmas is a bastardized form of Xmas, the day Charles Xavier was born. 
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Holy poo poo what is this advent calendar thing? I've never heard of them in my life but everyone's talking about them like it's some integral part of the holidays and I 
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Xun posted:Holy poo poo what is this advent calendar thing? I've never heard of them in my life but everyone's talking about them like it's some integral part of the holidays and I You get 25 pieces of lovely chocolate before being disappointed on Xmas morning
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Fried Watermelon posted:You get 25 pieces of lovely chocolate before being disappointed on Xmas morning Sorry your parents bought you a bad brand of calendar.
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Fried Watermelon posted:You get 25 pieces of lovely chocolate before being disappointed on Xmas morning Or you do it right like we do in this house   
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Lobok posted:Oh man I wish it was actually mid-winter. Like from a calendar perspective winter only just starts by Christmas but even moreso from a weather perspective there's that realization every year after the extended celebrations and vacation time of the end of December that there's still such a long lovely slog to get through. Christmas is to winter as a 10 o'clock lunch break is to the rest of the workday. “Fixing” that would require accounting for seasonal lag, which varies widely in different regions of the globe, so there’s no way to do it and satisfy everyone.
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Winter begins on the first day of Gormánuður (on a Friday circa 21-27th of November) and end on the first day of Hörputungl on A Thursday between 19th and 25th of April. It is known.
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The first I saw of advent calendars was when we were stationed in Germany when I was a kid. We got them then, and didn't really see them for a while. The PX and commissary started to carry them later, followed by "regular" stores. And the quality of the chocolate depends on which one you get. Some are crappy, sub-Hershey's stuff, but you can also get decent Euro-style chocolate. And to fit in with both the derail, the thread topic and my av: 
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Xun posted:Holy poo poo what is this advent calendar thing? I've never heard of them in my life but everyone's talking about them like it's some integral part of the holidays and I They're just a way of marking the days of December before Christmas. They used to be pretty much just paper things with pictures behind flaps, or reusable fabric things that you'd move a marker around.
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Dec 14, 2020 19:26
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SpacePig posted:Oh yeah smart guy then when is it? If it's not on Christmas then why is his name right there in it? As you can see from his name, Jesus is a Latino. Chistmas is Christ-Mas, or More Christ. It's a day for Christ to really get up in your face and rub his big spiritual donger all over the holidays.
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Dec 14, 2020 19:35
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BaronVonVaderham posted:Or you do it right like we do in this house Gotta be honest, I love lovely weird advent calendars and this one is going to be tough to beat: James Woods posted:This one upholds the true spirit of Christ's birth.
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Dec 14, 2020 19:36
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I would love to use that to construct a nativity scene. The three wise commanding officers bringing gifts of assault rifles to the baby k9 unit in the RHIB.
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Dec 14, 2020 19:38
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hooah posted:They're just a way of marking the days of December before Christmas. They used to be pretty much just paper things with pictures behind flaps, or reusable fabric things that you'd move a marker around. Or small toys for kids. I had a Lego one 20~ years ago, which I know they still make and update every year or so. You’d get 25 little sets out of it. One of my little cousins had a Hot Wheels one or something like that a few years back, and other brands/types of toys do it as well, along with all the food/drink/sex ones people already mentioned.
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This is a very popular calender in Sweden this year: https://i.imgur.com/eES8BrN.jpg(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Somebody has a new favorite as of 23:58 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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Thanks I just got fired from the dicksucking factory for looking at the competition
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anatomi posted:This is a very popular calender in Sweden this year: Don't doxx me, nation of Sweden
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drat horror queefs posted:Don't doxx me, nation of Sweden Are you Petyr Baelish or the other guy?
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Who is Boerglyflrt and is he the one getting jacked off, the one doing the jacking, or the concept of jacking someone off while lifting?
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The latter one. Böglyftet is a classic Swedish meme.
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bony tony posted:The latter one. Böglyftet is a classic Swedish meme. Det är böglyft mina bekanta 
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FreudianSlippers posted:Winter begins on the first day of Gormánuður (on a Friday circa 21-27th of November) and end on the first day of Hörputungl on A Thursday between 19th and 25th of April. Það er vitað
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Det är böglyft mina bekanta That one made me laugh harder than I've done in a long time
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bony tony posted:The latter one. Böglyftet is a classic Swedish meme. This is great...for me! My last name begins with Bog, and for years I've used the handle Bog Lord with various bog-prefaced iterations. Looks like I'm the Gaylord now! Just gotta move to Sweden and capitalize on this somehow...
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Leon Sumbitches posted:This is great...for me! Yeah you just have to change your name to begin with Bög.
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All the Swedish I know, I know from Hatten är din Oddly, it prepared me fully for this page
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RoboRodent posted:I'm convinced that some variety of midwinter party is necessary for humans, assuming you don't live at the equator. Christmas Day is traditionally a scorcher, in Australia.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Gotta be honest, I love lovely weird advent calendars and this one is going to be tough to beat: Not enough big toys for 24 days. The day you get a shrub is gonna suck.
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Dec 14, 2020 21:48
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Hyperlynx posted:Christmas Day is traditionally a scorcher, in Australia. Do Australian retail stores play a lot of Christmas music during this time? If so, do they also play the songs about winter and snow?
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CannonFodder posted:Do Australian retail stores play a lot of Christmas music during this time? If so, do they also play the songs about winter and snow? Absolutely they do, yes. The irony is not lost on us. They also play the usual Mariah Carey/George Michael songs, you know the ones.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Not enough big toys for 24 days. The day you get a shrub is gonna suck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72e2mCRft0U
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Det är böglyft mina bekanta Adam Friedland lookin good
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Memento posted:Absolutely they do, yes. The irony is not lost on us. What about slade or is that a UK only thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI The video itself is thread appropriate as a catalogue of highly unfortunate hairstyles.
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Memento posted:Absolutely they do, yes. The irony is not lost on us. That said, they tend to avoid Winter Wonderland, for obvious reasons. I only heard that to the brink of insanity when I spent Xmas in the UK.
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OwlFancier posted:What about slade or is that a UK only thing? I've never heard of this song in the US. I'm pretty sure the only Slade song US folks know is Cum on Feel the Noise, and then not even the Slade version.
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I, too, own the traditional Swedish advent calendar.https://i.imgur.com/WFYaTQQ.jpg (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Somebody has a new favorite as of 17:16 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Memento posted:Absolutely they do, yes. The irony is not lost on us.
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