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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Laughs in Canadian

You have no power here Santa, Thanksgiving has come and gone!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Curse you, you Syrup flavored bastid.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My local store already has Christmas decorations out. I freaking hate it so much

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should be illegal before the beginning of December

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

October 5 ours went up at work. July 24 was when Halloween showed up. I’m convinced dropping sales has pressured them to chase the holiday high of old, and their layoffs and cut hours simply don’t save enough to recover normally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In fact, their sales are probably dropping BECAUSE they're firing all of the people doing the selling and other work that facilitates selling.

Corporations reacting to a subpar quarter with mass layoffs is like a marathon runner reacting to a bad third mile by intentionally spraining their ankle.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Original, because the posted copy is jpeg'd to hell

https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/130534161521/ho-ho-no

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Everybody forgets poor ol' Saint Nicolas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my country, Saint Nicolas is celebrated way more than Halloween

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My 4 year old kid says Halloween is better than Christmas. So I think you're missing out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You can still dress up as ghosts and ask people for candy they will just give you firecrackers instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Traditionally kids do the rounds for candy on December 31th or on epiphany (three kings bringing gifts) around here. It depends on the region if one of those traditions is maintained.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In my area, kids receive money instead of candy when going to people and singing on Saint Nicolas, between Saint Nicolas and Christmas, before Christmas, on Christmas, after Christmas and on New Year day

I also know that different parts of my country do the same

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I make a point of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I guess not everyone likes his helpers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I was shopping for parts for a Halloween costume at the beginning of the month. Christmas music was playing in the store.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here’s the issue I have. The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter. Christmas is 3 days later, yet people expect it to be in the middle of winter, so people keep trying to move the season up. Realistically they should be trying to celebrate it in late January rather than pushing it back into Autumn. But they had to go and steal Yule and then keep wanting more time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter.

Only true in some places. It's not a universal fact. Lots of places don't even have winter. Yet, Christmas is still celebrated. You're making arguments about Christmas everywhere based on your own location's individual climate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

wtf are you on about? The Winter Solstice is very much a verifiable fact (it’s actually the 21st so I was a day off) and marks the start of Winter in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is usually (I say usually so you can’t be pedantic about the minority outliers) celebrated on December 25th. That’s still only a few days after the solstice like I was saying.

This comic is talking about the Christmas season, creeping into Halloween and fall festivities, which is very much true in the northern hemisphere. I see your on an NZ instance which, yes the seasons are flipped there, but don’t go getting butt hurt if you can’t read context clues from the comic just because it doesn’t line up with you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I just want to point out that "the solstice marks the start of the season" is not a universal fact. Here in Aus, we mark the start of summer as 1 December, and so if I were to take my perspective and apply it to the northern hemisphere, I would say that for you, Christmas is about a third of the way through winter.

The difference here is technically referred to as "meteorological" vs "astronomical" seasons. I've always thought meteorological seasons make far more sense because they much better reflect reality. Winter is defined by cold weather and short days. The winter solstice is already very cold and it has the shortest day. It is absurd to put the shortest day at the very beginning of winter. If you wanted to have an astronomically-based calendar, the solstice should mark the very midpoint of winter, with the season starting precisely halfway between then and the autumnal equinox.

But also, as the other user mentioned, some places have entirely different season systems. Seasons are, fundamentally, a human creation. The notion that weather patterns change throughout the year is a universal fact, but what we call those changes and how many categories we separate it into is human. Many cultures have their own systems with more or different seasons. Many tropical areas have traditionally only observed "wet" (or monsoon) and "dry" seasons. In ancient Egypt, the flooding of the Nile marked an important seasonal change. And South Asia uses a variety of different 6-season systems, such as the Hindu, Bengali, and Tamil calendars.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It sounds like you and drag agree that the winter solstice is only in December in the Northern hemisphere. You've taken on drag's correction and understood drag's point. Thank you for being so reasonable and open minded.

Drag would also like to clarify that the winter solstice does not mark the start of winter in climates that don't have winter. For example, in places that have a six season calendar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Defense Against Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Depends on your position on that. Special military operation to give Christmas back its rightful place in the year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn’t this practically the plot of The Nightmare Before Christmas?

P.S. I know it’s not, but it could be the plot of a gritty reboot. A bunch of Halloween mascots are fed up with how Christmas is overtaking all of fall so they declare “War on Christmas” I’d watch it. Unfortunately I imagine this would be like a Seth Rogan and James Franco movie a la Sausage Party but hey I’d still watch it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, let’s get Christopher Nolan to make it and it becomes a mind-bending exploration of consumerism, pagan festivals and the death of innocence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They should really start dividing the holidays over the rest of the year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I will set your polyester Santa suit on fucking fire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

🔫 Jack Skellington and the Castle Doctrine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Meh, I am scared enough this year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm a school bus driver and I had to ban the singing of Christmas songs on my bus before Thanksgiving. Naturally the little bastards ignore this, just like they ignore my injunction against singing Taylor Swift songs. Thank god T-Swiffer has never done a Christmas album.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY HEART

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This October to save me from Wham I'm opening a can of whoop ass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What is it with people trying to make the entirety of October into Halloween?

It's one single night, it's not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

What's next, turning Easter into a month long extravaganza?

[–] zalgotext 4 points 1 month ago

What is it with people trying to turn the entirety of October, November, and December into Christmas?

It's one single night, it's not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

What's next, celebrating other holidays in the actual month that they fall in?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And what's next after that? People having traditions and celebrating things the way they want to for their enjoyment? -___-

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The tradition to fill landfills with plastic skeletons

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would gladly decorate with a real skeleton as they're biodegradable non-petroleum products but my mom said I'm not allowed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Seriously fuck Christmas