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Szyznyk posted:I’m still trying to figure out if my 11 year old still believes in Santa or if the older girls at school or on her cheer team have told her and she’s just keeping kayfabe to keep her mom happy. A smart kid will keep the game going to hedge their bets on continuing to receive those "extra" presents, but by that age will probably also deduce that the total number of presents will be unchanged, just those formerly addressed from Santa will now just say from Mom + Dad
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theres no way a shitload of 5-6th graders havent googled "is santa real?" yet
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Dokapon Findom posted:A smart kid will keep the game going to hedge their bets on continuing to receive those "extra" presents, but by that age will probably also deduce that the total number of presents will be unchanged, just those formerly addressed from Santa will now just say from Mom + Dad And the ones from my in-laws that say From Jesus on them which is a whole other herndy-derndy that I keep out of.
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Fat Loser posted:Growing up, I hated Christmas because my birthday is 4 days after it. So celebrating my birthday was almost entirely overlooked because everyone had spent their energy/resources on Christmas that they had empty tanks (so to speak) for me. As a fellow winter birthday I sympathize and am grateful for my mother refusing to accept that line of bullshit from relatives and holding them accountable to give me as many presents for my birthday as I would receive at any other time of year
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Szyznyk posted:And the ones from my in-laws that say From Jesus on them which is a whole other herndy-derndy that I keep out of. It's a Jesus/Santa Believe-Off!
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Heh, remember the Friends where Ross is the Holiday Armadillo, Chandler is Santa Claus, then Joey shows up as Superman. Man that show was funny. RIP Matthew Perry
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My entire family has norovirus
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Ha! That's loving great.
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Szyznyk posted:And the ones from my in-laws that say From Jesus on them which is a whole other herndy-derndy that I keep out of. Gee thanks, God, couldn't you have stopped a genocide or something that I had on my actual Christmas wish list instead, you hack
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For reference I have loving covid and will spend Christmas bedridden and in isolation, which is perfect, and probably in everyone's best interest anyway. I love it when a good plan works out.
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Karate Bastard posted:For reference I have loving covid and will spend Christmas bedridden and in isolation, which is perfect, and probably in everyone's best interest anyway. I love it when a good plan works out. Good luck friend!
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Thank you! I should probably sneak out and hack a gob onto my covid denier bastard relatives when they're not looking to teach them the good word
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Worf posted:theres no way a shitload of 5-6th graders havent
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Karate Bastard posted:Thank you! I should add that they, like me, are bastards, and utterly intolerable.
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Karate Bastard posted:I should add that they, like me, are bastards, and utterly intolerable. You don't deny Covid, at least. Apparently.
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God I wish I could. Covid has taken so much from me.
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This round of the 'rona showed every sign of peaking right around the time many people get vacation days. It's a real shame that self-righteous liberals were only willing to wear masks for about 9 months longer than selfish conservatives. We should have all masked back up a month or so ago. Condolences to all the sick goons itt.
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Roleplaying Dad posted:My family always went out to eat for thanksgiving; no having to make 15 trips to the grocery store, no dishes, everybody got to eat what they wanted (including vegetarians, keto, gluten free people), but then I met my husband and he declared that was an unacceptable way to do Thanksgiving, and now I'm in charge of grocery shopping, cooking, decorating/undecorating, cleaning, buying welcome and good bye gifts, and running back and forth to the airport for 12 people over a four day weekend. He cooks a loving turkey. 🙄 have you thought about growing a pair?
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ChubbyChecker posted:have you thought about growing a pair? I'm not sure two husbands is the answer
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Torquemada posted:I'm not sure two husbands is the answer 
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Torquemada posted:I'm not sure two husbands is the answer Seriously, why would they want to double their already heavily compensatory holiday workload?
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post itt why christmas is so poor and dry this year
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is christmas usually wet
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Christmas is stupid and I don't respect Santa clause
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Thora posted:Just L O L if your childhood holiday memories are not colored by the recollections of the adults in your life acting like giant vindictive toddlers who use gifts as a means of compliance, control, and punishment. Good times. bonus points for the adults in your life being deeply paranoid of aging, which projects through last-minute extremely intense farces where they absolutely insist you must believe in Santa Claus for Christmas to work.... at ages 9/10/11/...12  holy gently caress i hate christmas
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Children should be raised by trained professionals. Like orphaned orangutans.
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I just recovered from Covid fatigue yesterday as a Christmas miracle. Gonna give my son a ton of Lego that'll keep him and his dad busy during the school break. The secret to Christmas is getting take out and not stressing about cooking. Getting some fantastic Indonesian from our favorite place that will feed us for three days. I am mad about my family situation though. Mine are thousands of miles away and my husband's dad is sex pest narcissist but everyone save me ignores it. I won't be in the same room with him though as it's personally triggering because I've been sex pested (not by him, someone else I am no longer in contact with) but it still makes me some super uncomfortable. So I don't go to family things and my husband doesn't really want to go without me now so yeah. I feel guilty about that sometimes, but what are you going to do.
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122223 posted:post itt why christmas is so poor and dry this year Spent $250,000 at the SA store just on rereg accounts for myself
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Ralph Crammed In posted:I just recovered from Covid fatigue yesterday as a Christmas miracle. Gonna give my son a ton of Lego that'll keep him and his dad busy during the school break. The secret to Christmas is getting take out and not stressing about cooking. Getting some fantastic Indonesian from our favorite place that will feed us for three days. What sets did you get him? I'm looking forward to the Chinese New Year set, Family Reunion Celebration 80113 ready to drop January 1. I'll probably wait til the next day when the Lego store is actually open though. You're right about cooking, in the last 24 hours I have been T-boned in traffic and locked myself out of my car outside the grocery store (and they didn't even have the Swiss cheese that I need for quiche lorraine) solely in pursuit of ingredients for Christmas meals. On the 26th I might just say "gently caress it" and bring home Red Lobster 
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I'm building a pillow fort and when santa shows up I'll kick him in the dick
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Yes, I'm well aware it's probably one of my relatives in disguise. your point?
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Karate Bastard posted:I'm building a pillow fort and when santa shows up I'll kick him in the dick Wow, Karate Bastard.
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1/3/21 one of my old friends shot himself in the head, 12/24/22 my grandpa died of a very extended bout of Alzheimer's, and today another long-time friend killed himself. 'Tis the season for something
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MrQwerty posted:1/3/21 one of my old friends shot himself in the head, 12/24/22 my grandpa died of a very extended bout of Alzheimer's, and today another long-time friend killed himself. and a partridge in a pear tree 
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Dokapon Findom posted:What sets did you get him? I'm looking forward to the Chinese New Year set, Family Reunion Celebration 80113 ready to drop January 1. I'll probably wait til the next day when the Lego store is actually open though. He's getting the 3-1 Viking set 31132, The Mandalorians N-1 Starfigher 75325, Police Station 60316, the little Iron Man Mech and a plastic bag of Batman and Dr. Strange. He was due to get more city sets, those are his favorites, and some of the Lamboghini sets, but they were both out of them at the store when we went shopping and he's been a bit naughty lately with waking us up in the middle of the night to bitch about not being tired and wanting to go downstairs at 3am, which we have told him many times Santa specifically does not like. He's also has been working on the Marvel advent calendar, but due to aforementioned naughtiness he still has like 5 days left on it which I think I'll let him open all later today while I am making some pasta salad. He's only 5 so the Viking set may be a lot for him, but lucky for him his dad is big business Lego himself and they work on the big sets together. I also like Lego, played with it a lot as a kid, but I don't like to follow the directions I freestyle it. Today they are going to finish the pyramid set so I can, you get, get some godamned work done around here before his cousins come visit. Our house is just crammed full of Lego, my husband is on the spectrum and they are his special interest, but computers are also his special interest so as long as that internet money comes in he can buy as many Lego as he wants. Mostly he gets vintage stuff and wheels and deals it all over the country, which I am all for because a lot of times we go to drive to pick up old Lego he bought on marktplaats and then we go to thrift stores and I get to look for Pyrex. Anyway, Christmas!
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