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Air Skwirl posted:You can apparently do that if you're Orthodox too. I had a coworker who took off January 6th for Christmas. Just checking, was it only in 2021?
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It's always 6 and 7 January, because for some weird reason orthodox holidays don't acknowledge a calendar named for a roman pope are we doing a long gag that I'm missing
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Jun 13, 2023 11:16
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Christmas doesn’t drift around year to year like Easter. It’s a fixed date of 25 December. It’s just a matter of which calendar you are using. The Gregorian calendar has been thirteen days ahead of the Julian since 1901, and it will continue to be so through the beginning of 2100. December 25 plus thirteen days takes you to January 7. So why celebrate January sixth? It’s Christmas Eve on the Julian Calendar. Do you not want Christmas Eve off from work? It also happens to be the holiday “Twelfth Night”, literally twelve days after Christmas, for the RCC and some Protestants. The Armenian Apostolic Church separately likes January sixth for reasons that are beyond me, by which I mean that English-language sources are contradictory on the matter.
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Jun 13, 2023 11:20
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:are we doing a long gag that I'm missing Oh is your mother here?
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Jun 13, 2023 11:25
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's always 6 and 7 January, because for some weird reason orthodox holidays don't acknowledge a calendar named for a roman pope It's called "a joke" and it's been known to show up on these forums from time to time
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Jun 13, 2023 11:32
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Platystemon posted:So why celebrate January sixth? It’s Christmas Eve on the Julian Calendar. Do you not want Christmas Eve off from work? After uni I did a stint at Amazon during their prep for Christmas and I worked 16:00-24:00 6 days a week. The way your were paid is you had to have clocked in before the clock strikes 16:00:00 and if you clock out at 23:59:59 you don't get paid for that 8th hour. The reason I bring this up is that generally companies in the UK pay double if you work on one of our two religious holidays - Easter and Christmas. So we were told in no uncertain terms do not come in on Christmas Eve if you worked my shift, because that single second after midnight would trigger that pay rise. They just relied on their normal workers for that day instead and us temp workers could eat poo poo.
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Jun 13, 2023 11:49
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https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1634189428150390785 I’m sure that he’s good for the money. 
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Jun 13, 2023 11:53
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Ohhh it's that dweeb.
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Platystemon posted:Christmas doesn’t drift around year to year like Easter. It’s a fixed date of 25 December. It’s just a matter of which calendar you are using. It is also Epiphany, and it's a day off in some countries (like Poland). As for the Christmas Eve thing - a lot of folks from eastern europe celebrate Christmas Eve more so than the actual Christmas day!
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Jun 13, 2023 11:57
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's always 6 and 7 January, because for some weird reason orthodox holidays don't acknowledge a calendar named for a roman pope That explains religion as much as anything.
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goblin week posted:It is also Epiphany, and it's a day off in some countries (like Poland). MY WIFE is from one of those places and when she moved to America and had (our) kids she switched to the right and godly way of celebrating on the day itself because it seemed sort of mean to open all the gifts and then make the kids go to bed
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Scratch Monkey posted:MY WIFE is from one of those places and when she moved to America and had (our) kids she switched to the right and godly way of celebrating on the day itself because it seemed sort of mean to open all the gifts and then make the kids go to bed the real hardship is distracting kids for long enough to lure them away from the christmas tree when they KNOW Santa's coming. Sorry lil bro MY WIFE and I just celebrate both days. 
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Jun 13, 2023 12:10
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Opening the presents on christmas eve is a common German thing. The British royal family apparently does it, of course. It can be more logistically sensible depending, especially if you don't want the kids bouncing out of bed screaming first thing in the morning.
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Jun 13, 2023 12:19
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Opening the presents on christmas eve is a common German thing. The British royal family apparently does it, of course. We do it in Norway too! We would have christmas dinner at like, 4 or 5 pm, then everyone would open presents and eat cakes and stuff. Christmas day everyone usually gathers for "christmas morning" breakfast.
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Air Skwirl posted:This is annoying because I didn't even know there was a cute huskie photo account and the way I make twitter work for me is subscribing to enough cute animal photo accounts that when it gets bad on twitter, there's still a photo of a cute animal in between all of the horrible. Like, yeah somehow there's 30 post with opinions on who Taylor Swift is dating, but in between every third one is a possum or a lizard or a cat. You can fix that problem by not following people who post horrible things or post about who T-Swift is dating.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Opening the presents on christmas eve is a common German thing. The British royal family apparently does it, of course. It seems it was Martin Luther's way to stop people worshiping St Nick because the "Christ Child" brings the presents a day earlier than that bloody false idol.
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1634189428150390785 How can you tell what is and is not parody anymore?
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credburn posted:Who are Kyle and Bryce? Just the most generic white dude names I could think of. Here’s another one: 
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Jun 13, 2023 14:43
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kazil posted:It's called "a joke" and it's been known to show up on these forums from time to time Jokes are for fools and small children
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Jun 13, 2023 14:45
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1668231868964286464?t=jhpfJZe2WdsJxGllGovzVg&s=19 Don't do the Fable games have a character creator, anyway?
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Is the joke that they modeled her on his face?
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lol at ant man calling literally anyone unattractive
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Put a mirror in front of that motherfucker and he'll turn to stone, goddamn
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1668231868964286464?t=jhpfJZe2WdsJxGllGovzVg&s=19
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Don't do the Fable games have a character creator, anyway? I think the series is more about your character's look gradually changing based on choices, alignment and the passage of time. Moreso than a having an extensive character creator. But I doubt they lock you to single specific character. I wouldn't really know, I'm pretty sure the game('s marketing) is in an early state and the developers have not talked about much yet. Not like an actual antfucker who wants to create outrage would need such details to begin with.
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Ian Miles Cheong has publicly complained about the way people/characters look and in turn been dunked on for the way he looks so many times that I have to assume he has a humiliation fetish.
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His face looks like he’s constantly realizing how bad he smells.
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Lumbermouth posted:His face looks like he’s constantly realizing how bad he smells. There is absolutely a German term for this
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teen witch posted:There is absolutely a German term for this keinfarfrompoopin. 
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Miasma-Erlebnis.
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LegionAreI posted:https://reddark.untone.uk/ There's talk amongst some of the mods of going until Spez gives in, though there's some debate as to a) if he ever will and b) if he'd just replace mods with his shills.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Don't do the Fable games have a character creator, anyway? No, actually. But you can become more evil which gives you horns and more corrupted which gives you an aura of buzzing flies and give urself a mustache.
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goblin week posted:No, actually. But you can become more evil which gives you horns and more corrupted which gives you an aura of buzzing flies and give urself a mustache. are we talking about Fable or IMC?
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Dameius posted:keinfarfrompoopin. neinfarfrompoopin, surely.
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kazil posted:are we talking about Fable or IMC? Yes.
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Captain Monkey posted:neinfarfrompoopin, surely. In the northern dialect, sure.
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Dameius posted:In the northern dialect, sure. It's a Hamburg expression.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It's a Hamburg expression. I see.
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