Hollidaze
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 14:30
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Hello...
Well, we're coming onto *that* time of year again...
As someone who was raised in a minority religion (and who hasn't attended for anything other than a wedding or a funeral for over 15 years) I didn't have the holidays others did or the traditions. Hubby's from different religions, too, so I try to balance things. One thing he's never felt comfortable discussing is holidays. His mother jumped around religiously, so he feels lost most days. I tell him to find his OWN path, but that's easier said...
Anyways, I was just wondering if you all like the holidays, if they make sense to you, which is your most/least favorite and why?
I don't understand Halloween, it has always seemed ridiculously archaic to me. I like Thanksgiving but am divided between liking the idea of it, and being conflicted about the hypocracy as both him and I are about 1/8 native american. Christmas is just so massively hyped and obnoxious, I can't get past the commercialism to even try liking it. Don't know much about Hanukkah, Qwanzaa, or winter solstice... Anyone know of any other good wholesome winter traditions that don't come with a load of baggage or power wasting strings of lights???
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Quote:In my faith, righteousness and candy are inseparable. If you're a good little girl you get to bite the ears off a chocolate Easter bunny! Chocolate eggs are discounted at the grocer's so that eating them can be your very own nondenominational holy day ritual in the Spring.
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Anyone know of any other good wholesome winter traditions that don't come with a load of baggage or power wasting strings of lights???
In Autumn, the candy eating ritual certainly could be applied to Halloween. And in Winter there is Christmas, with its candy-canes. To participate, diabetics and atheists must use a blood glucose monitoring system. So celebrate the holidays with sweets. The turkey, yuletide tree, and trick or treat costumes are unnecessary distractions.
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I can't stand them either. I worked at a restaurant along time ago and did triple shifts during the holidays. They had a Xmas Hits tape that played on an endless loop. It was murder. To this day when I here Bing Crosby sing I go just a little mental - I may have heard White Christmas 6 million times. 
I always wondered what holiday traditions - if any - would have made it to the 'Verse. How would Mal feel about Thanksgiving?
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Unfortunately, Two, our faith would have to worship a low-sugar god, as my husband's father is diabetic and we are both borderline... We've never gotten into the sugar parts anyway, easter baskets and trick or treats go in the trash. That's also why my kid is one of the few without cavities in her grade...
-Pismo- A few years ago someone who didn't celebrate Christmas worked at a place that looped holiday music and she sued for emotional distress and won. There has been a couple studies that say holiday music can be the mental equivilent of waterboarding. I'm with that. All the high pitched fast paced stuff makes me nervous.
I'd have to think Mal would have a secret soft spot for Thanksgiving, happy times on a ranch and all. I doubt he'd be vocal about it though...
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Wow, really? You can sue for bad music? Wish I knew that at my old crappy restaurant job, I can't stand country. Country music on a loop is way worse than holiday music, because country music is depressing. Talk about torture... Incidentally, studies have shown a higher correlation between country music and suicide than what is found in any other genre. Listening to anything on a loop would eventually become torturous, I wonder how people who work in shopping malls cope.
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Mu hhahaaa- Fool! you have revealed your weakness!
This shall be your undoing....
(music plays) There's a tear in my beer 'cause I'm crying for you dear....
There's a tear in my beer, 'cause I'm crying for you dear.....
There's a tear in my beer, 'cause I'm crying for you dear... 
I'm suprised it took this long for someone to sue. I think country now isn't half as bad as country used ta be... Not like hip-hop is any better, I can't even have it on in the car with my kid, every song is gettin naked and gettin booty. I was thinking this morning how tame Madonna was compared to Katy Perry, lol.
I guess all genres have a range of perspectives and annoyances, now... Shouldn't be forced to listen to mass repetition of any of them, either way. Went to a local theme park this summer and they played Beach Boys and Beatles looped all summer, you could tell the teenaged lifeguards just wanted to drown themselves, and one girl said she just couldn't take it anymore. I like the Beatles and after an hour or two I couldn't take it.
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Quote:
(music plays) There's a tear in my beer 'cause I'm crying for you dear....
Gorramit, you're makin' me not like beer. You ruin rum for me and we'll have words
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Well, lemme see...
Pour me somethin' tall an strong make it a hurricaine before I go insane...
Hurricaine's rum, ain't it?
OR Give me two Pina Colada's- One for each hand
Or Yabba dabba doo, the king is gone and soooo are you...
That one's about whiskey...
Toes in the water, toes in the clay, not a worry in the world-a PBR on the way...
Does Margaritaville count as country?
I can ruin any poison, my one and only superpower 
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Give me two Pina Colada's- One for each hand
I actually like that song. Your powers have failed because you used a good country song (I forgot they existed). Truth be told, there are a few Garth Brooks and Brad Paisley tunes I really enjoy.
But in most cases I agree with Xander. Country is the music of pain.
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Just so you know, I collect demented "Holiday" music as ECM and counter assault, which I have done since I was about twelve, the crass commercialism of it all... ALWAYS bugged me, right along with the phony smiles pasted over brutal hate at "family" gatherings, you know ?
S'all bull biscuits anyway - but I will go out of my way to help children enjoy it, cause IMHO that's who these are for, and the way we treat em as a general rule I feel they deserve the happy.
This past April we had kind of a bunny overpopulation problem for a while (neatly solved by a pair of hungry owls a little later) and the few residents we have who got kids, well, the kiddies seein em hoppin everywhere were quite delighted, one in particular who was absolutely fascinated...
So I went out and got a couple of them plastic eggs filled with candy and hid em in the yards of the folk I knew had small kids, the night before as I did my security rounds, heh heh heh.
Holidays are what you make of em, really.
Although I *DO* have one "holiday", and it happens three times a year, just a little bit after Easter, Halloween, and Xmas...
*cue epic fanfare*
CLEARANCE CANDY RAID!!!!
And imma pretty bad about it, too - unless there's like a really large amount of it, you can always tell when I have hit the place, cause the only thing left is a couple tumbleweeds!
Seriously, I'll stagger off grinning with six freakin bags worth.
Hehehehehe.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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