Christmas

[epilogue]

When is it ok to start celebrating Christmas? What date do you start decorating? Start listening to Xmas music? Start watching holiday themed films?

[Jorge]

December 1st!

I love Christmas

[Ello Sailor]

I can't really argue with Dec 1st.

Vitalogist starting his Christmas movie watching in early Nov is completely insane.

99% of Christmas music is awful.

Food and family good.

[Jorge]

I like Christmas music too

Big fan of the whole season

[Ello Sailor]

Get a load of this idiot.

[tommy]

I went to the theater to see Gremlins today, but usually I don't start celebrating Christmas until after Thanksgiving.

[wease]

We put up all our Christmas stuff the weekend after Thanksgiving

[Monkey_Driven]

Usually put up outside decorations on a nice weekend in mid to late November. Inside decorations go up the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

[bart]

The lockdown really seems to have radicalized the early xmas lobby, a half dozen people on my neighborhood have already had their decorations up since right after Halloween. Really bugs me.

[tommy]

The lockdown really seems to have radicalized the early xmas lobby, a half dozen people on my neighborhood have already had their decorations up since right after Halloween. Really bugs me.

It shows a real lack of respect for Thanksgiving

[Jorge]

Getting into Christmas mode too early just dilutes what makes Christmastime special

(Even though many would argue that even December 1st is too early)

[dad]

The lockdown really seems to have radicalized the early xmas lobby, a half dozen people on my neighborhood have already had their decorations up since right after Halloween. Really bugs me.

Same thing here. It’s annoying.

[wease]

The lockdown really seems to have radicalized the early xmas lobby, a half dozen people on my neighborhood have already had their decorations up since right after Halloween. Really bugs me.

It’s better than still having Halloween decorations up.

[Ello Sailor]

Disagree.

[bart]

Getting into Christmas mode too early just dilutes what makes Christmastime special

(Even though many would argue that even December 1st is too early)

Right, “Christmas time” can’t be 1/6 of the entire year

[daft twat]

Black Friday is when our tree goes up. It’s down on January 1 or 2.
I love Christmas music starting around the 18th of December.

My favorite Christmas song is Feliz Navidad by Jose Felicianos. I saw an insta reel the other day with a black woman holding her child and asking for her baby daddy to be let out of prison because he just robbed a gas station, not a Walmart. She sang Release My Nigga to the tune of Feliz Navidad, and I genuinely wish I never heard it. I don’t think I’ll ever hear the song the same way again.

Holly Jolly Xmas by Burl Ives and The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams are my 2 and 3.

Christmas Vacation is my favorite holiday movie. Love, Actually is a close second. Rudolph is my favorite animated feature. I love Christmas.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Anders]

We have started decorating a little bit. Not full on everywhere, but a few small things. Will be gradually more, and by Christmas, it will be a proper amount.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I can't really argue with Dec 1st.

Vitalogist starting his Christmas movie watching in early Nov is completely insane.

99% of Christmas music is awful.

Food and family good.

Correct

[spike]

We have started decorating a little bit. Not full on everywhere, but a few small things. Will be gradually more, and by Christmas, it will be a proper amount.

Same.

Also listened to Xmas music a bit in the car the other day, but that was only cuz the kid wanted to.