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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago

They think it works that way because that's the way it works for them.

Show them a picture of Mecca and they freak right the fuck out.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

meanwhile they cry a tantrum when Starbucks uses red cups.

they are the most fragile people on the planet

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

The War on Christmas is absolutely real and it is the height of ignorance to pretend otherwise. To be crystal clear Christmas is the 12 day season between 12/25 and 1/6. Anyone complaining about people not saying "Merry Christmas" outside of 12/25-1/6 is talking about the wrong season.

Advent starts with the first of four Sundays before Christmas day. This is typically after American thanksgiving has taken place and is the actual season that is going on when people complain about "The War on Christmas". The proper greeting for this season will refer to Advent and not Christmas because 12/1-12/23 is not Christmas.

To sum up there is a War on Christmas and the aggressors are the ones bitching about people not saying Merry Christmas during Advent.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

sometimes I see Christmas decorations in November!!!

i saw stores putting a Christmas section, then taking it down for Halloween, then putting the Christmas section back.

Christmas must respect the Halloween borders!

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Halloween? When I was a kid it started after Thanksgiving! We wore onions on our belts which was the style at the time...

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Although I didn't wear the onion belt I did read the documentary on Onion John?

I was there when the attack began on Thanksgiving!

[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm so grateful that we don't celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving here, because that means that stores actually start selling Christmas cookies in September. I was finally able to refill my strategic Spekulatius reserve this week.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i get the hate for American Halloween spreading around the world.

i lived in Scotland for a while and that was a common sentiment, except from actually Scottish people because most Halloween traditions are Scottish, and now they get the English trying to stop them.

that's a traditional Scottish jack-o'-lantern

[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I have no hate for Halloween. We have a similar tradition here in northern Germany called Rummelpott (rumble pot): At new years eve, the kids dress up, go from house to house making noise with their rumbling pot and singing a song asking for treats.

That custom does slowly fall out of fashion and gets replaced by Halloween, but I think the decline of Rummelpott started before and independently of the rise of Halloween, so no reason for hate.

The only thing I really dislike is the aggressiveness of Trick-or-treat. With Rummelpott it was great if you got a chocolate, but if someone couldn't give or didn't want to, it was fine as well. But on Halloween you're kind of extorted to give something. Some older kids have even committed malicious property damage with their "trick" part in the past, but I feel like that's gotten slightly better since the news started reporting the criminal charges some of these teens were facing.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm Scotland, my neighbour accidentally created our own tradition.

practically all the street goes together on a single group, adults and children alike, was so much fun. we never arranged it so, but we ended up doing that one day then it kept on growing.

[-] hdsrob@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I pulled into a Dollar General store yesterday (September 2nd) and they had a bin of Christmas wrapping paper for sale on the sidewalk in front of the store.

It looked faded (like it was leftover in a warehouse from last year), and I think it was with the discounted summer close out stuff, but still.

[-] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

There is a difference on how the holiday season go based on religion, but also based on country. Like f.e. in The Netherlands the gifts are more traditionally exchanged on the 5th of December because we have Sinterklaas then, which is basically based on the same Saint Nicholas.

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 13 points 11 months ago

Or talk about how you're eating less meat/became vegan and they'll act like you're demanding them to become vegan too.

[-] Masamune@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I once told someone I enjoy eating meat. Later they caught me eating tofu, because I enjoy eating that too. It was fun watching them implode!

[-] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Their minds explode the moment they visit Japan, one of the least vegan friendly countries and simultaneously one of the most tofu loving ones

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

People clutching their ears and writhing in pain the moment they find out you're trying to cut back on eating meat is always such a bizarre response.

Imagine doing this to anyone going on a diet. Screaming and thrashing and trying to shield yourself with a fist full of candy bars the moment you hear "I'm cutting sweets out until I lose 10 lbs"

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry i don't eat meat.

I NEED MY PROTEIN, I'M ALLERGIC TO VEGETEBLES, I GET ALLY MEAT FROM A GUY WHO TREATS HIS ANIMALS VERY WELL AND THEY LOVE BEING EATEN.

Okay.

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