So I've got my xmas decorations already up

[Sunday8pm]

Tree included, but I solely blame the women in this household.

Currently listening to a song that's main lyric is "All i want for xmas is my two front teeth"...

And unusually enough for canada it hasn't even snowed yet :/

What about you guys, when do you do yours?

[LHC]

Around the fifteenth of december, which I feel is too early. Most of the internet doesn't celebrate Christmas, so I expect you'll be told that in this thread.

[midge5]

But it is only the beginning of November It always bugs me when I see people with them up this early.

At a guess my mother will chuck ours up around December 15th.

[Sarina_Joy]

Never. In general I find Christmas decorations ugly and rather tacky looking. There can be some prettyish things such as wreaths and such and a tastefully decorated tree can be OK. I suppose I may get a small tree if I can find a decent looking one but that will be it. Humbug.

[JonnyBGood]

About a week before christmas. I can never stand the whole "let's prepare for christmas two months in advance!" attitude. Just seems a bit pathetic really.

In reference to sar's post how many decorations do people put up? We have a tree, a wreath on the front door and a manger underneath the stairs.

[Nondescript Human]

I don't have any here at uni, but they usually go up in the first week of December at my parents' house.

[Phil^]

theyve put the outdoor lights up for christmas where i am in the nearest city centre

[Hicks]

15th for some reason.

[Dante Hicks]

Last year we stole a piece of tinsel from a friends door and put it on the arcade machine. Aside from that, we didn't.

If I had kids, or lived with family I might make more of an effort, I'm not sure.

From memory I think when I lived at home my mum put them up in the first weekend in December so the effort would be worth it.

[Marilyn Manson]

Christmas. Now there's a real invention of Satan.

[Tactitus]

That reminds me--I should take the Halloween decorations down. :/


As for Christmas, putting anything up before the 1st is just tacky. The 15th is about right.

[Burbank]

i usually upt mine up around the 23rd
then they stay there till someone comments

[Boogster]

We usually put them up the weekend before Christmas I think.

[lokken]

We can't be bothered with christmas decorations

We just stick all our christmas cards around the place.

Less effort, less tacky stuff about, otherwise I celebrate xmas as normal

[melandron]

I'm desperately trying to stop my only female housemate from putting up christmas decorations this early... every evening she nags about wanting to put them up but we slap (not literally) her down, don't know if my patience will hold out but i'm not having them put up before december and the later the better.

[KoeN]

we'll start with xmas decorations about 1,5 weeks after "sinterklaas"...so that'd be +-16 december..

[Sunday8pm]

Originally Posted by lokken

We can't be bothered with christmas decorations

We just stick all our christmas cards around the place.

Less effort, less tacky stuff about, otherwise I celebrate xmas as normal

The question is... are they all signed

Merry Xmas from Crywolf!

Merry Xmas from Patrician!

etc.

[LISELOTTE]

i think ill skip xmas this year...

i have to stay here (in scotland) anywas.. just gonna get drunk and weep like a child.

[Ebany]

I like to have mine up from the 1st of December, and it seems that some of the others in the household are the same, so probably around then. They come down when someone can be bothered.

[lokken]

Originally Posted by Sunday8pm

The question is... are they all signed

Merry Xmas from Crywolf!

Merry Xmas from Patrician!

etc.

Believe it or not i know real people outside of the internet, Sunday.

2/10

[JonnyBGood]

Originally Posted by Sunday8pm

The question is... are they all signed

Merry Xmas from Crywolf!

Merry Xmas from Patrician!

etc.

I wish I got cards from people I knew on the internet

[Burbank]

whats your adress?

[JonnyBGood]

What the **** I don't want any of you freaks knowing where I live.

[Sunday8pm]

Originally Posted by JonnyBGood

What the **** I don't want any of you freaks knowing where I live.

Do you not want all your wishes to come true?

[Deepflow]

see sunday, this is what happens when you dont have a job...

[Tomkat]

I saw a Christmas tree in someone's window at the beginning of October, it was quite worrying (they also had a flag with the gay colours on (rainbow) outside - but that's a different story).

I don't know when we do it. Around 10th-15th December I think?

[Dace]

A week before Christmas usually.

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by Tomkat

I don't know when we do it. Around 10th-15th December I think?

Christmas Eve.

[Aryn]

putting up xmas decorations before remembrance day is downright rude (imho)
i would prefer not to put them up until a couple weeks before xmas.. but my roommate is really really anxious to put them up. so i said 'fine.. i'd prefer dec.1.. but i can handle it if you can wait til after nov. 11th.

[CryWolf]

SCIENTIFICALLY SANTA

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second.

This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.

This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element.

Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them... Santa would need 360,000 of them.

This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake.

The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.


so there.. no point in celebrating.. no gifts this year.. =)

[Knight Theamion]

see, we replaced the word love with christmas and are opting on a hitsingle

[HobbieRogue4]

Originally Posted by JonnyBGood

I wish I got cards from people I knew on the internet

BAD FORM.

[Hicks]

You're such a scrouge Crywolf

[LHC]

It's okay Santa is magical.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by LHC

It's okay Santa is magical.

Only Jesus can do magic. Anything else is necromancy.

[Ninja_spammer]

Originally Posted by Sarina_Joy

I suppose I may get a small tree

I hope you plan on using my dead and decaying corpse as a decoration for it.