The Official Christmas 2012 Thread

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I've been planning on making a thread like this this year, and here it is! With today being the first day of December, I decided I'd start it off with a Christmas thread! Here, talk about what stuff you want for Christmas, traditions you might have, Christmas memories, or anything Christmas related!

I'm gonna kick off this thread with a classic tune.

 
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Ah Christmas always a nice time of the year. Besides gifts, family bonding is truly the best part about Christmas and as for every year the simple joy of giving all your friends and family a merry christmas.
 
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Northern Verve said:
Ah Christmas always a nice time of the year. Besides gifts, family bonding is truly the best part about Christmas and as for every year the simple joy of giving all your friends and family a merry christmas.
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Man, this touched me. I should sig it for my Christmas theme. I couldn't agree more.
 
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Am I really the only person who is dead terrified of Christmas? I mean, I guess it means something different to you sepos than it does to us, but still.

In all seriousness, I've never been big on Christmas. But usually we just sit with the extended family and stuff our faces, then go right back to work the following morning, so I guess that's kind of cool.
 
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Thank you for not titling this the happy holidays thread. And a merry, merry Christmas to all of you. :)
 
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Happy holidays and a merry Yule to you all.
 
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You're the one who made the thread.
 
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I know, but the purpose was to talk about anything Christmas related, like stuff you want, traditions you have, etc. I made it December 1st since it's the first day of the Christmas month. You could at least save your wishes till Christmas actually comes, which is what I'm doing.
 
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banjonator1 said:
Thank you for not titling this the happy holidays thread. And a merry, merry Christmas to all of you. :)
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In response to this and your signature:
There is no such thing as X-mas. Christmas. Christmas. CHRISTmas. CHRISTmas. CHRISTmas. CHRISTmas. CHRISTmas. CHRISTmas! And don't get me started on Happy Holidays...
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I have the urge to point out your ignorance on the subject, but I'm a bit busy so I'm just going to copy paste something:

The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated in English for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as AD 1021. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"),[2] and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches.
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I can understand your concern, though, but it all depends on the context of the phrase "xmas". On its own it is not taking Christ out of anything. Yes, people do use "xmas" to turn the holiday into a secular tradition, but on its own it's still the same thing as 'Christmas'.

Also, why not get you started on "Happy Holidays"? Is Christianity the only religion to have a holiday allowed to exist within this time of year? I'm pretty sure Christianity isn't the only religion around.

I know your personal texts boasts "Political correctness? What's that?". But this is more of a case of ignorance and bigotry, rather than political correctness.

Christmas, as well as this holiday season is about being nice and family and all of that stuff. Not being an ignorant bigot.


Anyways, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all :)