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Oh, I failed my spot check earlier and got pickpocketed. Everyone be careful out there!

Great, now it feels like sheisemas. My girlfriend just got into an argument with my dad and she's not coming over his house with me for christmas. fething great. Honestly I've never had such an awful time of christmas and as soon as things are starting to look up a ball of sheise comes and throws everything off course. I'm getting drunk tonight and tomorrow so i can forget all about this crap.

Corpses 2 step plan for Christmas happiness:

1. Drink your spirit of choice
2. LOOK AT THE PIGGY!

shadowsnip wrote:I'm getting drunk tonight and tomorrow so i can forget all about this crap.

This is how I have handled all family gatherings since I was old enough to imbibe in front of my family without reprisal.

Dogma...

You smell like my mama.

I feel like its not Christmas at all. I got gifts. Plenty of things I liked..including 40k, but it feels like everything is forced now. No one is nice anymore. Everyone just wants to buy stuff and receive things. Its all about getting the best sale rather than actually giving a gift and receiving it. This year I haven't wanted to listen to any Christmas music. The family wasn't in high hopes either. I just don't get it...I feel like Christmas has become too commercialized to ever have that "Christmas spirit" ever again. Heck even my own mother felt the christmas spirit until this year.

I feel a bit better after having a couple friends over, and eating loads of food, and giving them gifts. Gift certificates, but gifts none the less.

We also watched like 8 Christmas movies/specials.

Monster Rain wrote:Dogma...

You smell like my mama.

To quote one of my younger second cousins:

"Uncle, can I have some?"

If his mother hadn't been right next to him, the answer would probably have been yes.

I admit, the only thing special about today for me is that I get to try out a new recipe and have more test subjects whom I can pressure in to putting it on their plate than normal.

It'll almost be worth the santimoniousness of a certain couple in my extended family members.

Does it smell faintly of almonds?

No, it smells of Gouda, Cheddar, and Swiss, with some onion flakes, powdered cayanne pepper, and mustard seed powder mixed in.

It feels like Christmas now.
Don't say anything.

I think xmas came too fast this year too.. feels like it should still be like july by now. This year flew by way too fast. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Christmas has always sucked.

Worst part is being an atheist and pretending not to be to appease your biblethumping grandfather. I'm growing tired of it. Especially when he talks about how all atheists are stupid, drunken, evil monsters.

I may be evil, and I quite enjoy alcohol, but I am certainly not stupid.

It's too warm for a proper christmas, about 10 degrees above 0...probably the warmest christmas i can remember (it's usually -1/-2).
Though I must say mum's trifle was excellent, none of that sissy fruit in it this year
Just waiting for parents to go to bed so i can have my festive spliff...then probably some more trifle.
Merry Christmas, all!

Fafnir wrote:Christmas has always sucked.

Worst part is being an atheist and pretending not to be to appease your biblethumping grandfather. I'm growing tired of it. Especially when he talks about how all atheists are stupid, drunken, evil monsters.

I may be evil, and I quite enjoy alcohol, but I am certainly not stupid.

LOL "Amen" brother or sister, whatever the case may be.

I've always enjoyed the festivities, and the symbolic lights as a counter to the lessening of daylight hours.

Last year was offensively OTT on "CHRISTmas", from my acquaintances/ work. Which caused me to have retaliatory secular enjoyment... oddly enough.

This year, there has been nothing. At all. But honestly, today I realized that now the days will grow longer, and I really do enjoy my sunshine. I am not being forced to buy crap for people who don't appreciate the gifts, or me. Instead, me and my SO are watching Sci Fi movies, burning firewood, and enjoying good food and alcohol. Will do the same tomorrow. After that, the following week will be hell at work because I'm the only one covering as the crap hits the fan, but the commute will be light, and I'll be able to get crap done.

Overall, it is nice. But "christmas" is irrelevant. what a relief!

Poor weather and lackluster general happiness would be my guess. Also my first Christmas without my dad.

Joey wrote:It's too warm for a proper christmas, about 10 degrees above 0...probably the warmest christmas i can remember (it's usually -1/-2).

o_O It was a nice 80 (26 .6) degrees here.Overall a very nice day.

Luco wrote:

Joey wrote:It's too warm for a proper christmas, about 10 degrees above 0...probably the warmest christmas i can remember (it's usually -1/-2).

o_O It was a nice 80 (26 .6) degrees here.Overall a very nice day.

That's standard summer temperature for us, if we are lucky it gets to low 30's (around 90 in Fahrenheit).

In the winter we tend to have lows of -10 (14) and a standard of around 0.

dogma wrote:My present to myself has arrived:




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Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

dogma wrote:Besides not being a huge family person, I'm a PK, so I've seen the sausage being made, so to speak.

...player killer? I seriously don't know what else to say here.

Preacher's kid.

I thought you where a Power Klaw??!! wtf I still don't get the sausage being made part....and now I've come some wierd ass crap going around in my head...thanks alot...


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Fafnir wrote:Christmas has always sucked.

Worst part is being an atheist and pretending not to be to appease your biblethumping grandfather. I'm growing tired of it. Especially when he talks about how all atheists are stupid, drunken, evil monsters.

I may be evil, and I quite enjoy alcohol, but I am certainly not stupid.

Hey, I might be evil, I love the booze a wee to much, I might even be a little stupid, but im not a porn star!

Well after 5 Christmases and running my ass off for 2 days, I like family more than I used to but hate Christmas. I've heard more bile-filled, homophobic gak than ever in the past 2 days. It's just an excuse for Christians to push their gak on everyone while also pretending that Santa is real. Bah humbug.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

dogma wrote:Preacher's kid.

I thought you where a Power Klaw??!! wtf I still don't get the sausage being made part....and now I've come some wierd ass crap going around in my head...thanks alot...

This is a reference to a famous quote, "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made" often misattributed to Otto von Bismarck. This is a reference to the idea that a sausage may be a tasty thing, but watching the process by which it is made and what actually goes into it may be considerable less appetizing. Saxe drew a parallel to the process of making laws, where lots of unglamorous and possibly downright distateful or even dishonest wheeling and dealing and pressuring is used to actually get legislation made. Dogma is saying that seeing the "backstage" parts of a preacher's work are similarly distateful or uninspiring, leaving one with a different impression from the folks who just see the sermon preached and don't know what's behind it/the context of the person up there preaching it.

Thank you for explaining that. I 'get it' now. Makes total sence. If people only really knew what was going on behind the scene's.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Well after 5 Christmases and running my ass off for 2 days, I like family more than I used to but hate Christmas. I've heard more bile-filled, homophobic gak than ever in the past 2 days. It's just an excuse for Christians to push their gak on everyone while also pretending that Santa is real. Bah humbug.

I really can't stand up-tight Christians. i have plenty of pious christian friends that don't push their beliefs on me, why can't these people be like them?

Come and gone, and back to the cubicle today.

went to my parents house in Wisconsin to find brown earth and no effin snow


when it is 14 degrees, there better be effin snow dammit

shadowsnip wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Well after 5 Christmases and running my ass off for 2 days, I like family more than I used to but hate Christmas. I've heard more bile-filled, homophobic gak than ever in the past 2 days. It's just an excuse for Christians to push their gak on everyone while also pretending that Santa is real. Bah humbug.

I really can't stand up-tight Christians. i have plenty of pious christian friends that don't push their beliefs on me, why can't these people be like them?

Agree with both of you guys (and I am a Christian).

_Tim?

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Oh, I failed my spot check earlier and got pickpocketed. Everyone be careful out there!

Wait a minute, apologies for not asking earlier, but did you really get pickpocketed? I hope I'm being overly literal, if not, dude, so sorry, that sucks!

And judgmental nasty family is the worse part of any family gathering, but the enforced gaiety of christmas makes it so much worse. Ugh.

One nice thing occurred today. I ordered some Reaper minis to get the free promotional items 3 separate days last week. All arrived today, and 2 had free samples of paint (Christmas Wreath Green! Adorable!) and tiny candy canes. This was completely unexpected and made me truly smile.

Gymnogyps wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Oh, I failed my spot check earlier and got pickpocketed. Everyone be careful out there!

Wait a minute, apologies for not asking earlier, but did you really get pickpocketed? I hope I'm being overly literal, if not, dude, so sorry, that sucks!

And judgmental nasty family is the worse part of any family gathering, but the enforced gaiety of christmas makes it so much worse. Ugh.

One nice thing occurred today. I ordered some Reaper minis to get the free promotional items 3 separate days last week. All arrived today, and 2 had free samples of paint (Christmas Wreath Green! Adorable!) and tiny candy canes. This was completely unexpected and made me truly smile.

I actually did but it wasn't much, just a 20 and a receipt. Could've been much worse I had the foresight to store money in two different places.

Mannahnin wrote:Dogma is saying that seeing the "backstage" parts of a preacher's work are similarly distateful or uninspiring, leaving one with a different impression from the folks who just see the sermon preached and don't know what's behind it/the context of the person up there preaching it.

Yeah... it's practically a science of manipulating people :/