tinyE: ! :D <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/i_have_to_stop_christmas_from_coming_but_how/post2" class="link_arrow"></a></div> Don't you know that killing Santa turns <i>you</i> into Santa? (Source: I've been made to endure [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111070/]The Santa Clause enough times for it to be classified as a form of torture.)

I can see how my pretty blue avatar could confuse you, but last I checked I was still a macho macho man. If you need proof, consider the fact that dividing a prime number always leaves dangly remainders.

Sorry, I just mistook your gender when you said this

Having people claim that you're a woman-hating (even if you're yourself a woman)

227: I can't tell if you want Christmas to be full of vicious, wine-fueled arguments with extended family over meaningless political and lifestyle issues or if you just have unusually peaceful Thanksgivings.

227: Does it count as a rebuttal if I throw a flashbang at you?

Gnostic: Sorry, I just mistook your gender when you said this

Crewdroog: lol none of that happens at our thanksgivings. We eat food and watch football. take a nap. wake up and eat more food. it's great, i love it.

227: Ah, I figured that was probably it. That was a reference to... Kurina, I think her username is? She posted earlier in there with a lot of really good points. Also, a few other women I know on other forums who had to deal with that kind of thing, too.

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There's no way you're really from the US. Strife and drama-filled Thanksgivings are a rich American tradition dating back to when the pilgrims got into petty squabbles with the natives over how to best eat corn, and I shan't stand by as you subvert our cultural heritage with your peaceful gatherings and lack of screaming matches over immigration policy.

IAmSinistar: It's mid-November and Christmas is well underway here in The States. It starts immediately after Hallowe'en, if not sooner. And I freaking hate that.

Only children and idiots believe "more is better" as a categorical imperative. I find it's often the reverse. 12 days of Christmas? That's acceptable. Two months? Not so much. It's the same result that splitting the Olympics achieved - taking something that is special because it only happens at certain times and diluting that to where one is sick of it before it even arrives. I remember as a child being excited when the Olympics rolled around; now they seem like they're always here. Same thing with Christmas these days.

I understand the desire to drag these things out, especially when they mean more commercial opportunities ('cause Christmas is all about the Benjamins here in the U$A). But do people as a whole really enjoy it more? Maybe it's just me whose heart is black and only wants Christmas at Christmastime.

For now I am holding the encroaching tide of Christmas at bay by refusing gingerbread-flavoured things out of season and playing Santa Dog on a loop.

monkeydelarge: What bothers me the most is not Christmas being stretched out to a month but but all those damn Christmas songs being played almost every day in December. Hearing "Simply having a wonderful Christmas time", a thousand times is enough to drive many people insane. But I also think it would be nice if they stopped stretching Christmas to a whole month because it cheapens the holiday, very much. Christmas has become just another day except with presents under a tree because of this when it used to be so much more.

HunchBluntley: The funny thing is, the Christmas season traditionally would extend past Christmas a bit into January; whereas, now, everyone seems happy to be rid of Christmas trappings by the time New Year's Day rolls around. I imagine this would be less the case if the Christmas marketing juggernaut didn't start rumbling across the landscape by the first of November.

Treasure: Thanks for appreciating these greek words I guess. :-) However, since you're going to use them on RPG characters, do bear in mind that what I wrote there are the plurals of the relevant nouns -that is a single sweet of the former kind is a melomakarono, and a single sweet of the latter kind is a courambies. After all why name a single character after multiple sweets, not to mention that Assassin Melomakarono and Courambies the Thief sounds way better -at least to my native greek ears! :-)

awalterj: [...] And Melomakarono sounds like the name of a clown who only gets invited to one children's birthday and then never get invited again because the kids didn't like him and also because one or two kids went missing.

awalterj: Thanks for the corrections, I only learned a tiny bit of Ancient Greek back in high school and already forgot most of it so it's to be expected that I would be clumsily butchering your nice language if I wasn't gratuitously misappropriating it anyway.
"Courambies" sounds like French cheese to my ears though whereas Courambiedes sounds more badass, like Archimedes etc. And Melomakarono sounds like the name of a clown who only gets invited to one children's birthday and then never get invited again because the kids didn't like him and also because one or two kids went missing.