The 'Drop The C Word' Thread

For those of us who aren't really into the festivities for whatever reason, I hope you have a relaxing few days off work at least, and manage to see some friends.

 

C***?

 

Merry Cockmas

 

Merry christmas everyone!

 

Ha Ha Thought it was the other C word beloved of Auzzies everywhere

 

Indeed. Happy Hanukkah! & Merry Christmas! Kwanzaa too!

Happy Holidays!!

 

Deep joy of a sintiladon and dangly yule most to each famly memberfold and in the hintermost of your mindlymost being a ffft deep and oh blow your yule man happy crimbly to thee and thine ownfolkst

 

Smokin blunts
Swoopin cunts
Ark ark ark

 

whenever i have access to the c word, i feel extremely festive.

 

haha

 

i'm not not into festivities, though i may not be into the "the".
festivities i don't have anyone to festivities with.
i'm into the "u" word: "unknown", i'm into the "s" word: "solstice", i'm even somewhat into the "y" word" yule, though i don't have a harth on which to burn anything.
i'm very into the week of peace and consideration, that begins before hannicha, and continues to somewhere around the day after new years.
well i'm not too into excitement, but i am into techno-eyecandy,
decorating trees with lights is cool, but i prefer to leave trees growing in the ground, instead of chopped down to die inside someone's house.
unwrapping boxes in hopes of their being filled with techno-goodies. but not too as much into filling and wrapping them.
spending money is ok when i have it. when i don't i don't. being anywhere that everyone else is trying to be at the same time isn't.
time of year doesn't have much to do with that.
reverence without fanatacism, and not for conventionality for its own sake.
not into capitalism nor anit-capitalism. its fun to buy techno stuff. buying anything else is a waste of money.
buying stuff is fun (when everyone else isn't trying to at the same time). indenturing yourself into being able to isn't.
using those techno-toys to actually make things is the most fun of all. as long as it can be done, and it can, without tearing up nature.
there are other things that are fun about the time of year.
watching snow plows, especially rotary snow plows, whether on road or rail.
snow and trees and trees and snow and colored lights and control panels.
and people who look like cats playing therimins. and flutes. and analog synthisizers tangled in webs of patch chords.

as for webs of families, i've had very little experience with, beyond as an abstract concept in my mind.
all of the things people say and the dramatizations i've seen suggest to my mind i'm maybe not missing all that much.

no i don't dispise traditions, even conventional ones, except when they are used as a substitute for logic or a motivation for hating it.
so i think its good, even wonderful, that people get together, and enjoy a wonderful meal and time of happiness together.

if only it could be just that, without all the stressful stuff about putting that together.
all the exploitation of that, whither finatical or financial.

well like i sad, i don't experience any of that, and most of it is just not missing what i don't know.
a picture of that is like a picture on the wall of a cat. a picture doesn't shit and you don't have to feed.

a picture that's cute and cuddly, but still just a picture.

 

Haven't had a drink in like 3 years.

But I'm thinking I might get hammered this Christmas. I don't stuff my face when hammered and I really don't want to get the Xmas night bloated blues.

Plus Xmas night at my mums, and she is going to watch Love Actually again for like the gazillionth time

 

I've always hated it that Christians stole Yule! But then, they've stolen a lot of other things too.

 

actually it was rome who stole yule from the druids, for reasons of military and political stratigy, even before it became christian, so its not really entirely their fault.
(plenty of other things that are though, like telling people what to pretend and some flavors of them encouraging people to hate logic,
and whatever belief we blame anything for, its people who come up with them, whatever gods there are, most likely are completely innocent of their doing so.)
but yah, that's kind of a technical hair splitting. its really all about the solstice regardless. and there's no shortage of other names of other days close by,
but it still really all comes down to being about the solstice, and probably not mattering all that much what we call it.

i actually love whatever gods there might happen to be, as i imagine them to be anyway, which is nothing like any of the beliefs i know anything about.
a little bit like buddhist, a little bit like taoist, a little bit like shinto, a little bit like indiginous, but mostly unknown and unlike anything that people think they do.

my "mum" died 9 years ago. my wife 10. my dad 28. gahd i don't miss having to sit through the crap on television most people watch on "the" day.
i miss the smell of pine needles though, and a house full of cats. and a house for that matter, although most of my life, they were almost always rentals.
if there's one thing i really do miss though, it would be not being surrounded by pavement. i would really like to have bamboo and mint planted in the ground,
maybe even a couple of trees, whatever nature puts where it puts it mostly, and see more trains going by then cars. and feral pretty much anything that came by.

 

Merry Holidays you politically correct bastards

 

c-word? you mean cat?

 

Jesus is the reason for the season... Merry Christmas..

 

Well I've survived the holidays so far with only minor hits. I'm holding on for the rest of the ride.

 

So did you get hammered?