It's officially Christmas!

[Stephenite]

FTFY

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Imagine if your birthday was on Boxing Day. Or Christmas eve. Yayyyy, looking forward to that. It's not going to be overshadowed by any other celebration is it? Imagine if it was on New Years Eve!

If you have a child born in the yuletide period LIE to them. Tell them their birthday is in March, or something. March is shoot.

 

[classic33]

It ain't Christmas til Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi tower.

That was on telly a couple of weeks ago though!

Also on in May

 

[jefmcg]

Even the X Factor is preferable to Michael bloody McIntyre...

So have you heard of the new-fangled TVs with an off button?

 

[classic33]

Imagine if your birthday was on Boxing Day. Or Christmas eve. Yayyyy, looking forward to that. It's not going to be overshadowed by any other celebration is it? Imagine if it was on New Years Eve!

If you have a child born in the yuletide period LIE to them. Tell them their birthday is in March, or something. March is shoot.

Easter this year

 

[jefmcg]

Imagine if your birthday was on Boxing Day. Or Christmas eve. Yayyyy, looking forward to that. It's not going to be overshadowed by any other celebration is it? Imagine if it was on New Years Eve!

If you have a child born in the yuletide period LIE to them. Tell them their birthday is in March, or something. March is shoot.

I sympathise with what you are saying, but your date of birth is a big part of your legal identity. Kids have to know when it is. Plus my mother, for reasons we will never know, found out when she got her birth certificate as an adult that she her official birthday was actually 11 days after the date her family celebrated it. I know this worried her.

May you could do what the Italians used to do: celebrated on the the namesake saints feast day? Of course, you really have to old school Catholic to that. And you kid has to be named after a saint who still has a feast day (they trimmed a lot of Sts in the sixties.

 

[winjim]

Imagine if your birthday was on Boxing Day. Or Christmas eve. Yayyyy, looking forward to that. It's not going to be overshadowed by any other celebration is it? Imagine if it was on New Years Eve!

If you have a child born in the yuletide period LIE to them. Tell them their birthday is in March, or something. March is shoot.

Nah. Christmas day itself is exceptional. Every other day of the year is just another day of the year. (Except maybe 29 February. That's quite special.)

And if your kid is born on Christmas day but celebrates it on a different date, they will have to explain it to their friends. Every year for the rest of their lives. People will get confused and think they are a year older than they are. It will become awkward.

Why March? Conception date?

 

[Stephenite]

Easter this year

September then?

 

[screenman]

Oh and i forgot the Christmas market in Nottingham last week.

You anywhere near Arnold?

 

[Stephenite]

I sympathise with what you are saying, but your date of birth is a big part of your legal identity. Kids have to know when it is. Plus my mother, for reasons we will never know, found out when she got her birth certificate as an adult that she her official birthday was actually 11 days after the date her family celebrated it. I know this worried her.

May you could do what the Italians used to do: celebrated on the the namesake saints feast day? Of course, you really have to old school Catholic to that. And you kid has to be named after a saint who still has a feast day (they trimmed a lot of Sts in the sixties.

Nah, the proddys also have name days. I have no idea what that's about.

 

[tyred]

Bah Humbug!

 

[Stephenite]

Nah. Christmas day itself is exceptional. Every other day of the year is just another day of the year. (Except maybe 29 February. That's quite special.)

Nope. Imagine asking people out to celebrate your birthday in the christmas week. They would be like 'Sorry, forgot to get you anything as, well... it's xmas.' Or, 'nah, can't make it aunty Doris has got a big batch of mince pies that need scoffing'. It's crap having a birthday at xmas. So i believe.

 

[Tin Pot]

You anywhere near Arnold?

Was just there for the week, in the "characterful" Ibis hotel.

 

[screenman]

Was just there for the week, in the "characterful" Ibis hotel.

Try Fat Boys cafe for a laugh next time you are there. Proper old cafe grub at a price you would have been happy with 20 years ago.

 

[slowmotion]

Any decent bargains to be had?

I see Aldi advertising £7.99 Malbec, but I'm sure Laithewaites would have something at that price.

Lidl has some Gigondas for about a tenner, if you can find it. I'm trying to seek it out. I think it probably flies off the shelves within fifteen minutes of opening time.

 

[clid61]

xmas is fookin shite