Isolated Blurt Thread

[china-doll]

What? Are you trying to get me lynched? People sing whole songs and create entire movies about wanting their white Christmas. Dammit, man! Be careful saying things like that.

You'll all be happy to know that I'm leaving before actual Christmas Day.



No promises before then, though.

~lucky

To bad. I was hoping to work on my tan on Christmas Eve.

(P.S. Love that AV. )

 

[lucky-E-leven]

To bad. I was hoping to work on my tan on Christmas Eve.

(P.S. Love that AV. )

Tan? I could help you with that, if you like. Only it's not really the golden brown variety. More of a rosy/blush hue.

~lucky

p.s. Thank you, kindly.

 

[matriarch]

I want to be a tree!

Ummmmmmmm.............why???????

Mind you, I have a particular foible....I like to hug and stroke trees. Could that be it?

 

[SlickTony]

Don't get me started on how a convocation of Germans, Dickensian sentimentalists and Yanks hijacked Christmas when it got started in a country that doesn't even have snow.

 

[matriarch]

Don't get me started on how a convocation of Germans, Dickensian sentimentalists and Yanks hijacked Christmas when it got started in a country that doesn't even have snow.

You start, I'll join in.

 

[matriarch]

I so love my new laptop. It sits cosily on the desk a the bottom of my bed, and when I finish, I just switch off and crawl into bed. Wonderful. I don't think it willbe long before I take it into bed with me. *sigh*. I think I'm in love.....*stroking the sleek silver case*

 

[Guest]

Ummmmmmmm.............why???????

Mind you, I have a particular foible....I like to hug and stroke trees. Could that be it?

Yes, I am an extreme tree hugger. Kind of like extreme ironing, but safer.

Lou

P.S. "You start, I'll join in." LOL!!!!!!!

 

[matriarch]

Yes, I am an extreme tree hugger. Kind of like extreme ironing, but safer.

Lou

P.S. "You start, I'll join in." LOL!!!!!!!

There's extreme ironing???? good god. And I thought my version of ironing (Pressing Matters) was extreme enough, in fact a story line that might just appeal to you, in a recreational sort of way.

*big grin*........you know me, I'd never start trouble...but I might stoke the fires a bit later on.

Off to bed now, have fun.

 

[Guest]

There's extreme ironing???? good god. And I thought my version of ironing (Pressing Matters) was extreme enough, in fact a story line that might just appeal to you, in a recreational sort of way.

*big grin*........you know me, I'd never start trouble...but I might stoke the fires a bit later on.

Off to bed now, have fun.

Yeah, there's a website and all! Some nutters even do their ironing while sky diving.

Someone posted a link to the site on here, some months back. Think it might've been Sher.

Oooh, a good and hot story, eh? Might have to look that one up.

Oh yes, indeed! That sounds like you.

G'night, babe.

Lou

 

[impressive]

Just blown away by the PCs my poems are getting. They're out performing my stories now. I'm stunned.

 

[impressive]

Just blown away by the PCs my poems are getting. They're out performing my stories now. I'm stunned.

Spoke too soon. Fucking trolls!

 

[SlickTony]

You start, I'll join in.

It's just so fucking ridiculous, that's all. I've fulminated about the whole Christmas Snow Scene in AH before, but since Christmas is approaching again I'll be perfectly happy to rant afresh.

I lived in the middle east at one point, and I doubt that the weather where I lived was that much different from the place where Jesus was born. Hell, it's in the desert! In the winter, it rains, and everybody scrambles to get their vegetables and spring flowers in. In the spring, it's like paradise. Stuff blooms and fruits. Around May you have seen the very lastest last of the rains, and it's 115+ in the shade and cools down to 95 at night. It occasionally gets overcast, but that doesn't mean anything; you know you're not going to see a smidge of rain until November. What's more likely to happen is a dust storm from somewhere to the east of you.

There is NO snow, NO holly, NO sleighrides, NO snowmen, NO jingle bells, NO fir trees.

 

[Belegon]

It's just so fucking ridiculous, that's all. I've fulminated about the whole Christmas Snow Scene in AH before, but since Christmas is approaching again I'll be perfectly happy to rant afresh.

I lived in the middle east at one point, and I doubt that the weather where I lived was that much different from the place where Jesus was born. Hell, it's in the desert! In the winter, it rains, and everybody scrambles to get their vegetables and spring flowers in. In the spring, it's like paradise. Stuff blooms and fruits. Around May you have seen the very lastest last of the rains, and it's 115+ in the shade and cools down to 95 at night. It occasionally gets overcast, but that doesn't mean anything; you know you're not going to see a smidge of rain until November. What's more likely to happen is a dust storm from somewhere to the east of you.

There is NO snow, NO holly, NO sleighrides, NO snowmen, NO jingle bells, NO fir trees.

well, you have to remember that most of the trappings around Christmas in Europe, which migrated to the US, never had the slightest thing to do with christianity. It was all a way of incorporating existing celebrations and making them relate to the "new" religion. Whatever anyone says about early christianity, there is no denying it was very successful in adapting itself to mitigating circumstances. NOTE: This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the belief system that lies at it's heart. Don't flame me about being anti-christian.

 

[matriarch]

well, you have to remember that most of the trappings around Christmas in Europe, which migrated to the US, never had the slightest thing to do with christianity. It was all a way of incorporating existing celebrations and making them relate to the "new" religion. Whatever anyone says about early christianity, there is no denying it was very successful in adapting itself to mitigating circumstances. NOTE: This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the belief system that lies at it's heart. Don't flame me about being anti-christian.

Exactly Bel.
The modern Christmas celebration was tagged on to the back of the existing Pagan Midwinter celebrations, it was, as you say, the easiest way to get the people to move over to Christianity.

Which is why I am quite happy to decorate my house with holly and ivy, and spiced fruits, and have a log fire (yule), because I always celebrate Midwinter, and toast the coming spring. That's my special day, Dec 21/22 whichever day midwinter falls on. I share that evening with a very special friend, and we take joy in maintaining a tradition way older than Christmas. Christmas was for my children.

I can even tolerate the lights everywhere, by thinking of them as a symbol of the lighter days to come, once the longest night has passed.

I just won't get sucked into all the materialism and silliness weeks and weeks, sometimes months, in advance.

So I'll be on my own this Christmas for the first time. Do I mind? Hell, no !!!

 

[Guest]

grandma got run over by a reindeer

 

[impressive]

grandma got run over by a reindeer

Barking "Jingle Bells"

(Are we free associating now?)

 

[Guest]

Barking "Jingle Bells"

(Are we free associating now?)

i see no reason why not.
i mean honestly...the human psyche is an odd thing isnt it?!

 

[Evil Alpaca]

i see no reason why not.
i mean honestly...the human psyche is an odd thing isnt it?!

I would say it's more even than odd.

 

[SlickTony]

Oh, I know all that, but it just makes me feel snarky celebrating Christmas in the south, where it never snows, and where holly berries turn red long after Christmas when you really needed them. Plus, you have sleigh riding weather in the north long past Christmas, but I'm betting that when it snows in February--and March--and April, what people do, instead of singing "Jingle Bells," is look out the window, say, "Shit, it's snowing again, and I just did the driveway," and then to their partner or one of the kids, "It's your turn," at which point an argument ensues as to whether it isn't really someone else's.

 

[Guest]

I would say it's more even than odd.

even is so boring.
i mean really...

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Steak fingers rule!

 

[matriarch]

Steak fingers rule!

Huh?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Huh?

I'm having a lunch of steak fingers (strips of steak, fried like chicken strips) and it is soooo good.

 

[matriarch]

I'm having a lunch of steak fingers (strips of steak, fried like chicken strips) and it is soooo good.

Sounds it. I just had Spanish omelette and chips. equally scrummy.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Sounds it. I just had Spanish omelette and chips. equally scrummy.

Yummy.

This wasn't exactly my lunch of choice, but I was hungry enough that it's very good going down.

My ideal lunch was a bit out of reach.

How's you?

~lucky