#52 2010-12-24 18:56:15
Santa don't wrap presents.
One present Christmas Eve; the rest Christmas morning.
Stockings empty until the next morning as well.
Traditions, anyone?
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#53 2010-12-24 19:11:49
Traditions? Yeah we had a few.
But mostly what is etched in my mind is us kids used to spend the evening praying like we never prayed before that this would not be the year where we went too far and old St Nick would show up at our house with Krampus to turn him loose upon us. That old St Nick sure kept us on our toes. Or knees actually. At least till the Xmass season was safely passed and we could blissfully block him completely out of our mind for another year. Well almost completely.
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#54 2010-12-24 20:47:16
Have A Happy All Of My High Street Peeps. Something for you closet Xians, and the Pagans as well.
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#55 2010-12-24 21:48:40
You bastards.
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#56 2010-12-24 22:17:22
Traditionn: Get shitfaced and go to bed.
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#57 2010-12-24 23:12:37
Merry Christmas, Feisty, wherever you are. [/sad puppy eyes]
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#59 2010-12-25 01:11:28
And a very special Christmas greeting to those who left my seasonal banner unshown!
Edit: fixed image link. Also activated the banner. Apparently Taint is busy at the moment entertaining a jolly man in red. - square
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#60 2010-12-25 02:55:02
O hai Fnord!
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#62 2010-12-26 01:20:49
Scotty wrote:
Santa don't wrap presents.
One present Christmas Eve; the rest Christmas morning.
Stockings empty until the next morning as well.
Traditions, anyone?
Exactly. Welcome to the Teutonic culture.
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#63 2010-12-26 14:08:35
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#64 2010-12-26 14:23:56
We don't generally celebrate christmas, but we do celebrate Yule. The Winter Solstice is our thing. A big party, fire ceremony, lots of laughter. The gift giving definitely takes a back seat.
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#67 2010-12-27 05:15:17
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How did you enjoy, square?
Pretty good. Disappointed that the 6-10" of forecasted snow turned out to be less than 1".
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#68 2010-12-28 17:46:45
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#69 2010-12-28 19:36:07
Very alimentary, Tojo.
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#70 2010-12-28 22:04:58
Fled wrote:
Very alimentary, Tojo.
It's the season for giving, Fled.
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#71 2010-12-28 22:33:05
Tall Paul wrote:
Fled wrote:
Very alimentary, Tojo.
It's the season for giving, Fled.
Besides, food and bringing people together are what Christmas is all about.
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#73 2010-12-28 23:11:44
Scotty wrote:
My mouth breather sanitation people are the same way. I set my city garbage pails out every Tuesday and watch the carnage as they literally dump 1/2 of the garbage on the street rather than put it in the truck. Those sons of bitches took my neighbors mailbox out last month and when he called to complain the city told him it was because he set the can too close to the mailbox. It's never their fault.
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#74 2010-12-29 10:00:30
Scotty wrote:
You have to be pretty dumb to get an articulated front end loader stuck in anything less than 6 foot deep mud. I have had them buried to the cab door in sugar sand and the whole front end awash in a ditch and still got them out. You can literally walk them sideways just using the bucket and lifting the front wheels.
Our trash guys have had a leaking hydraulic pump on their truck for over a year now. Every week they leave a 2 inch wide oil slick on our street, plus a puddle wherever they stop. We called the sanitation company (private contractor employees driving a county truck) a couple of times, even giving them the truck number, but they just keep topping off the hydraulic reservoir and spraying down the street. Assuming a 2 inch slick and the number of miles they must travel, they probably pour thousands of gallons of hydraulic fluid a year out of that truck. It just really pisses me off.
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#75 2010-12-29 15:04:28
The story, alas, is not nearly as interesting as the headline.
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#76 2010-12-29 20:38:19
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Scotty wrote:
You have to be pretty dumb to get an articulated front end loader stuck in anything less than 6 foot deep mud. I have had them buried to the cab door in sugar sand and the whole front end awash in a ditch and still got them out. You can literally walk them sideways just using the bucket and lifting the front wheels.
Our trash guys have had a leaking hydraulic pump on their truck for over a year now. Every week they leave a 2 inch wide oil slick on our street, plus a puddle wherever they stop. We called the sanitation company (private contractor employees driving a county truck) a couple of times, even giving them the truck number, but they just keep topping off the hydraulic reservoir and spraying down the street. Assuming a 2 inch slick and the number of miles they must travel, they probably pour thousands of gallons of hydraulic fluid a year out of that truck. It just really pisses me off.
Serves them right for having an absurdly HUGE SUV in NYC. If you can afford such a ve-hicle, maybe they could afford parking in a garage during the most predicted storm of the century.
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#77 2010-12-30 00:30:45
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