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flavor.flv posted:You gotta mark at least one from Santa, and one from every pet in the house My mother in law does this, plus major political figures. She is of the school of thought that everyone should get a couple dozen or so presents at Christmas. Most of them are decidedly crappy (we don't need another cheap spatula, for god's sake) and it's more annoying than endearing, but we can't shake her of the notion that we don't need quantity of presents to feel loved on Christmas. We've tried repeatedly.
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Henchman of Santa posted:We just do a lot of joke names usually related to TV we’re watching lately or whatever. Though one time my dad bought himself a Tommy Bahama shirt and put it under the tree with the label “To Id, From Ego” In the early 2000s a friend sent me something and the "From" tag was labelled 'THE UNFORGIVEN III'. After that became an actual Metallica song a few years later I can't even look at them.
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Push El Burrito posted:Wait what? Well, I was pretty insistent about it and refused to do the writing a letter to Santa assignment that brought it up. I’m pretty sure I assumed it was a religious thing since my parents were very into religion at the time. I also never did any Halloween stuff for the same reason. They’ve since lightened up a lot.
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It's cool how insane twitter people are always 18 levels deep. Free associating a woman doing a wrong straight to trafficking then Epstein My fav thing is when the online politics brain rot is so bad you can't parse their thoughts through the 1000 sub-political cartoon level nicknames they use. I replied to some lovely DJ podcaster going nuts online with "your DJing sucks" and I got 6 replies that read like this "why don't you libcry to GoBack (to BANghazi) OBumbler the DemoRAT Jes-see Sommelier, Jo-VID Juicester Shot (in the head)???"
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I'd basically figured out the Santa claus poo poo when I was younger but wasn't totally sure. So then my parents took me to see one of the professional Santas in a sweet wonderland thing and he asked me what I wanted and I told him about a Redwall book I wanted. What i didn't know was that it wasn't out in the states yet and so i ended up getting a UK edition. And my little brain figured it had to be real since my parents couldn't be Santa, since I hadn't told them! And getting a book from the UK was basically the same as getting it from the North Pole. So yeah, that little stunt kept me believing in Santa for another year or two. Also it was a sweet Christmas present. Ravenfood has a new favorite as of 17:39 on Dec 24, 2021 |
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See thats the thing about Santa and Goons. believing in Santa is totally cool if you generally had a good childhood. but goons are like "My parents kept me in a box till i was 10 because I didnt say the Lords prayer right and i think believing in Santa is poo poo" its like no duh your gonna be thinkin that people like me stopped believing in Santa gradually. I cant even remember when i stopped but i do know i was just like, of course hes not real, that makes way more sense. neither are wizards and dragons and unicorns. people make it out to be some horrible thing, like your putting them through a crisis of faith or some poo poo. Like no I'm pretty sure it was the other child abuse stuff, not the santa stuff that hosed you up.
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:It's cool how insane twitter people are always 18 levels deep. Free associating a woman doing a wrong straight to trafficking then Epstein Doin' a set as DJ JO-vid the Juicester Shot
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I realized Santa wasn't real when I realized that all the 'To Vandar, From Santa' words on my presents were in my dad's handwriting. 
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My parents got a good couple of years extra "Santa belief" out of us by traumatizing us, albiet briefly... Excited on Christmas morn we ran to the tree from our room to find...nothing under the tree from Santa but a note. "Dear Kids, you've been too bad this year, maybe next year..xoxo - Santa" We ran bawling to our rooms, convinced our (admittedly horrible) behaviour meant no gifts from the fat man. A few minutes later we hear "Ho ho ho" blowing from the living room. We run out to our parents acting agasht that we had just missed Santa and that he had changed his mind... Along with a note from him saying so (and that we had better be good the following year or else). They legitimately hid our gifts, and put them back immediately after we ran off crying. It's diabolical. And got us.
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I don't remember when I found out but I do remember a number of years in my childhood where I knew and my parents knew I knew and we basically just went along with it cause it was fun. Also we're another "non religious family going back generations which goes hard at Christmas cause we enjoy it". The tree and the meals especially.
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oldpainless posted:I’d like to read more of your gay pirate fanfic Arr, then correct me rear end in a top hat, matey
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Vandar posted:I realized Santa wasn't real when I realized that all the 'To Vandar, From Santa' words on my presents were in my dad's handwriting. I realized Santa wasn't real when I noticed presents labeled from him under the tree a week before Christmas.
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My first big Santa (well Saint Basil) realization was the logo from a local store on the tag of some items, including a PS1 steering wheel one year
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The whole thing was probably easier to sell when your toys were wood, metal, and cloth, plus a shiny bright orange for your stocking.
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as a youth i had a minor existential crisis about santa. i didn't believe per se but i could tell i was getting conflicting information and wasn't sure who or what i could believe about it. i was already often staying up late so i basically started the personal tradition of "gently caress it i'll stay up all night xmas eve and find out for myself what's up" i don't think i thought santa was bringing all my presents or anything, obviously it was family, but like i had to test the data to know for sure i guess??
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Vitruvian Manic posted:This should just be used as a lesson to inculcate revolutionary consciousness on to poor kids. Interesting. Which parachute account are you? Vitruvian Manic posted:Subject: Which sailor scout is your favorite?
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one of my favorite memories from early childhood is my grandma explaining that Santa IS 'A Christmas Kinda Guy' but he does respect our holiday and wishes us the best. Like, she wanted to be sure I knew Santa's Christmas 'thing' was in no way based on dislike of Jews, and hey thanks grandma nice to know Santa doesn't hate me. My parents were always pretty open on the whole 'Santa's not real, he's a Christmas character, don't be a little poo poo and ruin it for your Christian friends though let them have their fun' thing though, but the thought was nice.
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Henchman of Santa posted:https://twitter.com/ELDRITCH0ENTITY/status/1474119369873580044?t=dOk7WtuH38haozdl3nagsQ&s=19 aww yiss radcal anthropocentrism I fukkin love it. I really do hope it takes off more, genuinely one of my favourite philosophical positions.
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I'm an entire adult in my 30s and mom still says the gifts she buys are from Santa every Christmas. Let people have fun who gives a poo poo lol. Santa's been charging gifts to your Amazon account, mom, beat his rear end!
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Acute Grill posted:I'm an entire adult in my 30s and mom still says the gifts she buys are from Santa every Christmas. Let people have fun who gives a poo poo lol. Yea ever since the Friends episode my mom's jokingly labeled at least one thing from 'The Holiday Armadillo', it's fun to have lil mascots! Japan knows! We should have more mascots in society.
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Acute Grill posted:Let people have fun who gives a poo poo lol. You've been a goon how long and you still think this?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You've been a goon how long and you still think this? I mean, I still post here so I'll get pants-making GBS threads mad about something important like video game opinions or comic book movies but everyone moralizing over Santa is a dweeb.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:In the early 2000s a friend sent me something and the "From" tag was labelled 'THE UNFORGIVEN III'. After that became an actual Metallica song a few years later I can't even look at them. This sorta reminded me of the time I forgot it was my turn to take our son to kindergarten, causing my then gf to be late for work, kind of a dick move by me. I felt really bad, and I ordered flowers sent to her building, like two dozen red roses, with the custom message I AM SORRY I hosed UP DELIVERING THE CHILD. PLEASE FORGIVE MY TRANSGRESSION. I LOVE YOUR BUTT with no name because I forgot. She was questioned at work by her boss who was like, who the gently caress is this person? Should we report it to someone? Thankfully she convinced them I am just a complete idiot.
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A Sometimes Food posted:I don't remember when I found out but I do remember a number of years in my childhood where I knew and my parents knew I knew and we basically just went along with it cause it was fun. I'm pretty sure my eight year old now is like "I dunno about this but the presents keep coming, so..."
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If you want some Christmas  , peep the replies:https://twitter.com/Frances40996115/status/1472315214959890441
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It's not entirely clear if he's a sexpest, but he's absolutely an ordinary sort of pest.
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Just sayin' what? That Santa Claus isn't real? Stop the loving presses.
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I saw NdGT once and he wandered around on stage clearly drunk in his socks for two hours
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Today the idiot on social media is Blizzard's customer support. Someone gets harassed in World of Warcraft, submits a ticket and reaches out on Twitter since WoW's moderation is infamously bad. How does CS respond? https://twitter.com/slavsocialist/status/1474392315875655688?s=20 https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/1474394356652154893?s=20 Oh. https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/1474439504622723074?s=20 https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/1474447427872571393?s=20 No reassurance, just "acksually the queues aren't that long. any criticism of my approach is trolling"
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Rockman Reserve posted:I saw NdGT once and he wandered around on stage clearly drunk in his socks for two hours Is "drunk in his socks" a new expression of extreme inebriation that I haven't run across, or did he actually, like, lose his shoes
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Powered Descent posted:Is "drunk in his socks" a new expression of extreme inebriation that I haven't run across, or did he actually, like, lose his shoes Maybe we're supposed to take our socks off before drinking? I don't understand fashion
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If Santa can travel around at hypersonic speeds then he has the technology to protect himself from the effects of that velocity Checkmate nerdass 
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OwlFancier posted:Now I buy that a reindeer can fly, but not that it can go to space or travel faster than the speed of sound, that would be silly. Maybe it's that the sleigh can fly by itself, and the reindeer are just performative animal cruelty?
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