Ivory Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 the essence of christmas is what you make it. if you make it tacky christmas lights and flshing santas in october then thats your own issue, and i know some very good doctors who could give you a hand with that if for you its a small family affair with those you love, then that too is your choice. i just hate it when peopel push onto others their idea of chrismtas. Just becasue i dont have a 6foot inflatable santa and slay on my roof, and because i dont start wearing christmas earigns in novemeber- doesnt mean i dont have "christmas spirit"! and it doesnt mean that i need you to force yours on top of me! ok, lets move away from thsi maybe- what are peopel doign for the holidays, and what have the good little children of SC been askign father christmas for this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 ok, lets move away from thsi maybe- what are peopel doign for the holidays, and what have the good little children of SC been askign father christmas for this year? I want a six foot Santa full of helium!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivory Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 dont tempt me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Peace on Earth, because I've already got an Xbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivory Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 i woudl just like a chrismtas where children were greatful! if id even hinted tha ti thoguth a preseie id been given was no good id of been shot! let alone the tantrums the kids have these days, doesnt anyone tell them that there are peopel worse off the the world?? ffs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 To ne honest I don't think anyone gives a toss about those worse off - it's a simptom of the "I'm all right Jack and **** you" attitude. For the children to care the adults have to care and teach them how to. And unfortunately that aint' going to happen until something fundamentally changes within society. Mmmm, that's a bit serious for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikal Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I enjoy listening to everyone moaning about having to fight their way through the crowds of people shopping while buying gifts for the earest and dearest. I've bought, wrapped and delivered by the end of August normally. I don't see the point of putting up with the agro. Also it's not a secret when Chrimbo is due so why wait to the last minute? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivory Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 never have had time to do chrismtas shopping at christmas before- so thoguht this year as i do have time id try it!...MISTAKE, next year i shall be doign my shopping in july, as i said before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I find the best way to handle christmas shopping is to give someone a budget and tell him/her to buy whatever he/she wants. And they have to wrap it as well Or I just give them money as it's the cheapest thing around at this time of year. I've got my christmas TV viewing sorted as well. I've got all 38 episodes of Survivors on DVD, which should last me from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted December 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Back to tacky garden ornaments - just seen the best on a trip over to the Midlands. A mid-terrace with a tiny garden, three full size inflatable snowken plus several inflatable Whinny the Poo characters. If it wasn't so far away I would take my camera and post a shot of the abomina.. I mean decorations on the site. https://www.secretgarden.plus.com/drunk.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivory Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Troll- its not about what the gift cost its the thgouth and love that went into buying it. for that reason i dotn give money as a chrismtas gift, and i woudltn want money as a gift either, id rather not have a gift at all. . . but then i guess if the cost of it is all that matters to those your buying for, they might as well be given money to buy their own.(sorry if this sounds harash, i dont mean it to. it just bugs me at this time of year when peopel think its JUST about the biggest most flashy gift you can give-HELLO- the spirit of chrismtas everyone!!!!) as for the christmas lights TACKY TACKY TACKY! yuck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! Time to drink too much, eat too much, try not to be tarnised by the excessively materialistic outlook, and have a bloody good time. Merry Christmas, you lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 I don't see why I should wait until Christmas to drink too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Well, I don't either, but around this time of year it's traditional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Wierd Al Yankovic is the man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gringo Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Here's something that I first encountered in danish. Being lazy not translating it I found it elsewhere on the WWW in english. I'll call it: The scientific proof for that Santa Claus doesn't exsist. 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 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 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 onto 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 not 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 "flying reindeer can pull 10 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).A mass of nearly 600,000 tons travelling 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 reaches 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 17,000 g's.A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim considering all the high calorie snacks he must have consumed over the years) 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 :: Oh, man, thanks for that, Crazy Gringo... it was a blast (literally?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Oh yeah! I saw that yesterday but neglected to get the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 And now my dreams are shattered - all these years and finally I get to find out he doesn't exist. Merry Christmas all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Good one CG, that's awesome! Bah humbug to everyone who still believes, I guess. - Zombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Hey, if it means free presents I'll believe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uriaheep Posted December 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 My girlfriend says of me that Christmas begins when I start to open my presents and ends when they're all open. As if I could be so shallow...... does she think I really like getting that drunk? It's damn hard work!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I commend you for the amount of effort you have put into practicing being drunk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 You're gonna need a whole lot more practice if you want to top our resident drunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accounting Troll Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Too right. I drink a yard of Scotch every day and you guys should see how much vodka gets poured into Matri's milk bowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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