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    Christmas... Bah Humbug?

    I'be been an expat my entire adult life.I really pay it no mind. My Asian wife just informed me it's Christmas eve obviously enjoyed Christmas as a child but by my teens I resented the imposition of relatives whose funerals I wouldn'the go to and having to sit through endless repeats of Bond movies.I do send good tidings to my far flung family but other than that I don'the fu.c.k with Christmas. .

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    Ah well, never mind then.

    Me, I love it. Especially if there are kids around.

    We're off to CM tomorrow for a Xmas shindig and there'll be kids there to spoil and a generally good excuse for a splendid spread shared with friends.
    All good regardless of the pagan rites involved.

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    It's bah humbug for me this year.

    Those big Christmas shindigs at the hotels in CM with Santa and everyone's kids are a giggle. My favorite memory of one is the year Santa was handing out gifts to the kids who were so excited for it to be their turn, they pulled his trousers off. There was Santa in his boxers, holding his bag of toys in one hand, trying to pull his trousers up with the other.

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    Dunno. I am not the most social of people, but it gives a once a year reason to get some of the missuses rellies round. And once a year is probably enough.

    Our boy is out of the excitement phase now, but there will be one or two little ones running around with big eyes and faces covered in chocolate trying to catch the kittens. All the while wondering when they get to open a couple of small goodies wrapped under the tree.

    Its not all bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crackerjack101 View Post
    Ah well, never mind then.

    Me, I love it. Especially if there are kids around.

    We're off to CM tomorrow for a Xmas shindig and there'll be kids there to spoil and a generally good excuse for a splendid spread shared with friends.
    All good regardless of the pagan rites involved.

    Give our best to the Pagan Shaman, Nooners, would ya...



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    Quote Originally Posted by thaimeme
    Give our best to the Pagan Shaman, Nooners, would ya...
    will do.

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    Please give him my greetings, hoping he's having a white christmas.

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    You never know he might even come on and give you his seasonal greetings, though I doubt it.

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    Not much to do at Xmas in Myanmar.

    Most of my teaching buddies have gone to Bangkok for their annual fcuk orgy - Eden Club will be getting a lot of trade. I drew the short straw and had to stay behind and teach a course about teaching English to kindergarden kids (I mean I'm teaching the local lass teachers how to teach, I'm not teaching the KG kids).

    Quite why they assume I know how to teach KG is beyond me. I think its only because I was in KG once.

    I've got an Xmas dinner lined up at the local bar. The only foreigners left in town are a couple of teachers and the 'mad mobile phone tower' guys. They are a group of mainly British chaps whose lucrative job it is to install the many thousands of mobile cell towers all over the country for the new mobile networks, including working in some very dodgy locations in the border conflict areas.

    To put these risks (and the risk of climbing towers) to the back of their minds, this group of lads seem to be permanently pissed as farts..... so we should have a good time tomorrow.

    Happy Xmas all TD forum members
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    Greetings from Salzburg

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    Bah humbug. I BURNT my STEAMED Xmas pud. How do you burn a steamed dish?
    Don't top up the water and let the steamer melt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon43
    The only foreigners left in town are a couple of teachers and the 'mad mobile phone tower' guys. They are a group of mainly British chaps whose lucrative job it is to install the many thousands of mobile cell towers all over the country for the new mobile networks, including working in some very dodgy locations in the border conflict areas.

    To put these risks (and the risk of climbing towers) to the back of their minds, this group of lads seem to be permanently pissed as farts
    LMFAO......

    I did a very similar job for the American army back in the 70s. Based out of AMSF in Mannheim we were subcontracted to cover all the maintenance of the US European microwave towers but this soon turned into all towers of any description. Mostly Brits with a lunatic American boss named John Finch, my how we fought. On the road 90 % of the time. Climb the tower, change the light bulb or whatever, get to the nearest Gasthaus, check in and and get pissed, then on to the next one. There were six of us and 4 of them were ex RAF antenna men. A brilliant couple of years.

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    Well, on this day, many many years ago, a boy child was born who would go on to change the world.
    Happy birthday, Sir Isaac Newton.

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    Merry Newtonmas!

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    ^ Haha...nice. , not least because of the scientific pun involved.
    Merry Newtonmas to you too Misskit.

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    Happy Festivus! Sacrifice a buffalo.

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    For some unfathomable reason my beloved decided to bring home a bottle of vodak and a bottle of vermouth last night. She doesn't usually drink and generally takes a very dim view of my adventures in alcohol. God only knows where she got the notion to buy those.

    Still, I wasn't going to push the point (gift horse in the mouth etc) so it's martinis all around chez slackula! I almost feel festive. But not quite.

    I even found some olives in the fridge so I could have a small salad in the festivus breakfast drinky-poos.
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    Woohoo! Martinis for breakfast. That will work.


    My bah humbug has flown out the window. I'm being forced to celebrate. #@!*

    Merry Christmas

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    Still have a little one who loves the magic of Christmas. The older ones have a quick lunch and off to their GFs place. The little one makes it worthwhile. Her fun and laughter at Christmas is a real joy. If not for her I doubt I'd bother.

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    My Christmas Day contribution, should start a thread on it but what the hell I'll talk about it on here.
    I remember being a child at a Christmas party organised by a Company or a Social club for the employees or members kids.
    So many memories of the different ones I went to, one English club that My Dad belonged to had a Christmas tree next to the bar counter and us kids squatted on the dance floor looking at Santa sitting by the tree and Santa would pick up a present and say, " who can this one be for"? Then he would read the tag and whoevers name was called would go upto Santa for your Christmas present.
    Now I knew what wrapped box was mine because my older sister had told me that she had seen Mum put it under the tree before the kids could come in.
    The adults had paid for the presents and sold the story to us kids that this Santa handed them out free and it didn't cost them a penny. Funny old world.
    The same Christmas parties that I enjoyed as a kid , I have not been able to replicate for My own Children, it's a bit late now they are older, but somehow this Christmas I am thinking about all those many live Santa Birthday parties I enjoyed as a kid.
    But I don't belong to any Freemasonry clubs or big Corporations that put on these Christmas parties for kids.
    When was the last proper Santa kids party you attended?

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    This:



    A friend from England just arrived at our Xmas meal in Mandalay. She had brought Mr Kipling Mince Pies!

    I haven't tasted a mince pie for 15 years. I drooled over the box, licking the cardboard and took this porno photo.

    I've taken the empty box back to my hotel for a frottering session.

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    “Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.”

    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

    Cooking for 16 today...Let the feast begin in a few hours...

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    I've got to say the whole concept of modern Christmas sounds dodgy- a mysterious uncle like figure breaks and enters houses to bestow gifts on children but only if they are "good" and keep santas secrets.... It sounds like something from the Savile Enquiry or Broadcasting House in the '70s

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