Iiiiiiit’s chriiiiiiiiiistmas !!!

BlueHammer85 said:
First Xmas song heard this morning - Co Op shop.

Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas.
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He could be driving overland to Outer Mongolia. Yer'd have to start mid-November if yer want to get there the last week in December. Those fuckin' French border checkers are truly pissed off 24hrs a day pre- and post-Brexit and as soon as they see a UK passport yer've a 500 person queue behind yer. Best to land in Belgium or the Netherlands.
 
heslops barnet said:
Families spending more money than they can afford …….in debt for 6 months
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Sick of it already, trees in shops.

Looks like in the UK it's mental and takes over everything, I don't think it's as big a deal here.

TV stations basically shut down as staff go on holidays (it's summer here).
So no tv Christmas specials just loads of old movies and reruns of tv shows.

It's a nice time if you have little kids though, and I treasure those memories.
 
heslops barnet said:
Fukin hate Xmas, no tree, no decorations and no Xmas cards, wake me up when the shites all over…..

Celebrating birth of Christ? Supposedly
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It’s not really anything to do with the ‘miracle’ birth of some Middle Eastern Herbert, if he even existed. That was the Christian Church making up a date for his supposed miracle birth so it would fit in with the festival that we’ve been celebrating at this time of year for millennia before he was even supposedly born. They did that so we’d still have a festival to celebrate at the time of year we always had and make it easier to convert us to Christianity.

Newrange in County Meath, Maeshowe in Orkney, Stonehenge and many other historic sites across the British Isles and Brittany were all places where the Winter Solstice was commemorated and celebrated, as early as 3,000 BCE.

Like I said on a previous page, in Roman times, 25th December was called the ‘day of the birth of the unconquered sun’. With 25th Dec being the date the Sun moves on the horizon at Sunrise for the first time after the Solstice.

The Christ stuff is just a bastardisation of our long standing traditional festival in the Winter which celebrated the coming of the longer days and warmer weather ahead. This tradition was pre-Celtic and has lived on through Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman invasions of people and/or culture and the influx of Christian religion.

I think it’s important we keep celebrating for that reason. Probably the most British+Irish tradition we have.
 
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M23 Citizen said:
It’s not really anything to do with the ‘miracle’ birth of some Middle Eastern Herbert, if he even existed. That was the Christian Church making up a date for his supposed miracle birth so it would fit in with the festival that we’ve been celebrating at this time of year for millennia before he was even supposedly born. They did that so we’d still have a festival to celebrate at the time of year we always had and make it easier to convert us to Christianity.

Newrange in County Meath, Maeshowe in Orkney, Stonehenge and many other historic sites across the British Isles and Brittany were all places where the Winter Solstice was commemorated and celebrated, as early as 3,000 BCE.

Like I said on a previous page, in Roman times, 25th December was called the ‘day of the birth of the unconquered sun’. With 25th Dec being the date the Sun moves on the horizon at Sunrise for the first time after the Solstice.

The Christ stuff is just a bastardisation of our long standing traditional festival in the Winter which celebrated the coming of the longer days and warmer weather ahead. This tradition was pre-Celtic and has lived on through Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman invasions of people and/or culture and the influx of Christian religion.

I think it’s important we keep celebrating for that reason. Probably the most British and Irish tradition we have.
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This is all well and good but, do we still get pressies and mince pies?

Anyway I’m going abroad this year for a change.
 
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