Christmas traditions

[Prpl_Mage]

So, since I'm not from where you live and because some people don't even celebrate this tradition each year.
What do you guys do for christmas?

Personally, I like to put up a star shaped lamp of some sorts in my bedroom window that shines in christmassy colours.
Watching all three lord of the rings movies during the christmas days.
Starts wearing more red colours(especially on christmas).
Get happy since a christmas break is coming up.
I also bake gingerbread and buy presents for the family.

[Prpl_Mage]

We get a huge christmas ham over here and smelly fish. Also meatballs and small sausages. With some other additions like potatoes and small bottles of spirits.

I'm going to assume that it isn't an international tradition at least.

[Zerlina]

Our Christmas dinner is usually pot roast, noodles, egg rolls, ham, cranberry sauce, scallop potatoes, rice, salmon, baked greens, shrimp, and then leche flan (http://www.socypath.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/leche-flan.jpg), ice cream, apple pie, pumpkin pie.

We go to church, pet the animals (they bring donkeys and stuff to the church), watch the children's christmas pageant, come back, eat dinner, watch Hockey reruns, open gifts, and then the relatives go home. Then my dad turns down the heat and me and my sisters huddle in a corner on the couch shivering and eating chocolate.

Then the next morning (christmas day) we go to the movie theatre all together, say hi to all the Jews, watch a movie (used to be the Lord of the Rings but now we can't do that) then go home and shiver more.

[Zerlina]

Why am I racist?

[fruckert]

I think it was a dumb crack at "Say hi to all the Jews."
Because apparently the proper name for one of Jewish decent is racist, because WWII.
*shrugs*

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Jew = Jap = Ching = Beaner - Meticulous

What do they call brazilians again?

[SaiKar]

I fly home for Christmas for a week with the folks. Since I usually end up flying on the 23rd, one of these days I'm going to spend my birthday in an airport having missed a fight. Sooner or later >_>

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

A fight?

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

I was gonna say something  i thought was funny. But sadly the community wouldn't find it so.
So instead, here's tis expression of derision:

¬_¬

[fruckert]

What do they call brazilians again?

This caused me to look it up, and I found what may be the worst webpage in existence.
The racial slurs database
Holy ****.

Also, our christmas traditions include a giant *** present exchange, or did when there were still a lot of little kids.
It was fun.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

This caused me to look it up, and I found what may be the worst webpage in existence.
The racial slurs database
Holy ****.

Also, our christmas traditions include a giant *** present exchange, or did when there were still a lot of little kids.
It was fun.

I LoLd at Chexican and Dexican, the mixed races ones are kinda funny.

[Archem]

Ahem.

My family wakes up early, and they shake me from my slumber so they can all open their Xmas presents. I get a few things, but nothing really spectacular. Then my dad makes enchiladas. My mom sits in the living room and watches TV (no whiteys allowed). We eat, I go back to my regular regiment of browsing the web, end of story.

[Ben]

I normally try to keep my own tradition of telling everyone save for a few people a well placed lie, stating that Ill be going on a trip over the Holidays, then I buy some beers, a bottle of Glenlivet, and a big bag of marijuana, and get shitass drunk with a friend or two.

This year I got sucked into the childhood tradition of going to my folks place. Which wouldnt be so bad (I can do all of the above mnetioned things with my Dad easily enough after my sister goes to bed) except that the following day Ive been guilted into spending with the more external branches of the family, consisting of a rather rad bunch, save for one rather bigotted and homophobic Aunt, Uncle, and set of cousins. Im no flamer or anything, and have no intent of preaching, or even opening my mouth in general in their presence unless its to say "Happy holidays" Or "Pass me a napkin please?". But they are possibly the most akward, passive-agressive, uneducated yet opinionated family I know of. Im going to liisten to them talk about foggots getting married, and how the USA shoulod just bomb every country ever, and give me wierd looks for not having a job in a conventional sense of the word.
"What do you mean you dont have a job?"
"Im an artist. I do work, I just dont have a job"
"What, how do you pay rent then?"
"I live off of the subsitence allowance within my grant funding"
"So what, are you on welfare or something?"
"No, the government pays me to  be an artist."
"So you dont work, and the Government pays your rent. Sounds like welfare to me"
"Im an artist. I do work, I just dont have a job"

repeat every half hour

Throw in a
"You have a girlfriend Ben?"
"Uh....nope"
*Akward silence* They all know about my mansex thing, but we dont talk about it. This is the part where they want me to go off on a homo rant about how gay I am, like they do in the movies or TV. Ill say nothing though, because Im not that guy at all, and the room will be akward some more.

[Cerebus]

I drink Eggnog.

Oh and on Christmas day, we go to my grandmother's house where we eat Christmas things, such as turkey and all.

[HobomasterXXX]

Every christmas day, most of my extended family goes off to my grandmother's place. I like most of my family, except for one of the families within it who **** me up the wall. They're sports mad, the dad used to be a professional football player, and they seem to see me as an invalid person or something because I don't play sport. Every Christmas, it's this; "So, played any sport this year?". You know the answer to that question, stop asking it.

Oh and I have to put up with my grandmother and the other vearious females of my family bitching about my sister, who's mildy agoraphobic, not showing up at Christmas. She knows full well that they bitch about her constantly, so I can't hardly blame her. The whole agrophobia thing doesn't help either.

Anyway, bitchy rant over, and for the record, the rest of my family is pretty rad.