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    Merry Xmas to all here at TD.

    Especially those of you from Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil, who all celebrate and share gifts today.

    Lang may yer lums reek!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    Merry Xmas to all here at TD.

    Especially those of you from Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil, who all celebrate and share gifts today.

    Lang may yer lums reek!
    And my daughter who has somehow convinced us that it's tradition to open 1 present on Christmas Eve.

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    ^^^ What does that say about Joe 90?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    Merry Xmas to all here at TD.

    Especially those of you from Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil, who all celebrate and share gifts today.

    Lang may yer lums reek!
    Oi. Wot about Australia? The Philippines? Etc spent a motza on gifts just got done with the last minute shopping
    As for the Filipinos they have the longest Xmas in the world it seems

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    I understand it'll still be the 24th in most of the world, but I'm pretty sure the Aussies do gifts and dinner etc on the 25th like most normal countries.

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    Unless you have kids. Mine requested there pressies in August. Xmas day they will just get a wee pressie

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    If yer in the Philippines your truelove might give to yee, a blow job in a Jeepney

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    Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BLD View Post
    As for the Filipinos they have the longest Xmas in the world it seems
    Yup. Our Christmas season begins on Sept 1st and ends on Jan 6th (feast of the epiphany/ three kings). As soon as Sept comes, malls get decked in Christmas decor and Mariah Carey is queen of the airwaves again.

    Happy Chrimbo, everyone!

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    Quote Originally Posted by katie23 View Post
    ends on Jan 6th
    Then enter: the Russian Orthodox Church - Stage Left





    The Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing Christmas on Jan. 7 on the new calendar, as have Serbian, Georgian and some other Orthodox.

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    Quote Originally Posted by katie23 View Post
    ^or maybe it's a number which is near my bday?

    Many of my classmates were indeed fans of Michael Jordan 23 & Chicago Bulls. Lots of kids in PH were named "Michael or Michael Jordan" e.g. Michael Jordan Reyes, Michael Jordan Santos, MJ Gonzales, etc.

    Similarly, when Sushmita Sen (Miss India) won the Miss Universe pageant held in PH in 1994, lots of female babies born that year or the next were named Sushmita. Those "Sushmitas" are now ~30 yrs old. When Ms Sen returned to PH a few yrs ago to be a judge in Ms Universe, she was interviewed by a local journalist. She met some of the young ladies who were named after her. It's on YouTube.

    Cheers & happy Christmas to all!
    Nice, I only thought so as there were two Filipinos at my school and they loved bball and MJ23.

    Happy Christmas Katie, God Bless you and your family

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    ^ ^^

    Ethiopians celebrate on the 7th

    Ethiopians celebrate Christmas on January 7th, which is the 29th day of Tahsas on the Ethiopian calendar. This is because Ethiopians use the Julian calendar, which is different from the Gregorian calendar that most of the Western world uses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonecollector View Post
    Ethiopians use the Julian calendar
    but wouldn't that mean January 6th our 12th night?

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    but wouldn't that mean January 6th our 12th night?
    I don't think they follow the same process as we do. My colleague is Ethiopian, pretty serious Christians David, been fighting and holding off the Muslims for quite a while. F'ing nice people.

    'Ethiopian Christmas is celebrated on the 7th of January on the Gregorian calendar, or the 29th of Tahsas on the Ethiopian calendar.

    In the run up to Christmas, practitioners are expected to partake in a 43-day fast known as Tsome Nebiyat or the ‘Fast of the Prophets’.'

    'The Ethiopian Bible is a version of the Christian Bible used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It is considered the oldest and most complete Bible in the world, and is written in Ge'ez, an ancient Ethiopian language. The Ethiopian Bible is nearly 800 years older than the King James Version and contains over 100 books, compared to 66 in the Protestant Bible'
    One should listen twice as much as one speaks

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    At least they'd get their pigs in blankets on sale.

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    I love this time of year

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    I would of thought the etheiopians would be great basketball players given they are so tall. The Filipinos love it despite most aren't tall but it's a huge sport in the p.i a colleague once joked to me. How do you stop a bunch of Filipinos robbing your sari sari store? You throw em a basketball �� I hope he was kidding
    Most people are Kunts.dont believe me? Next time you see a group of people. Shout out OI KUNT watch em all turn around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armstrong View Post
    And my daughter who has somehow convinced us that it's tradition to open 1 present on Christmas Eve.
    That was a bona fide family tradition for us.

    My sister and I were allowed to open our presents from each other after Midnight Mass, although I guess that is technically Christmas Day

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    Yeah same for us, but without the Mass.

    My kids don't see any presents under the tree until they wake up tomorrow.

    Santa has a a Single Malt, a Spy cooler and a steak pie waiting for him.

    Apples and blueberries for the reindeer.

    And a wee note sucking up to Santa.
    Lang may yer lum reek...

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    ^I have left peaches for Rudolph and bubbles for the big fella

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    It's a tough call. I'm not going to put this Santa stuff in there heads at a tender age
    The idea of a fat bearded bloke coming down the chimney when we don't have a chimney? Sky news is probably more believable.

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    Looper's been doing it for decades in the hope that one year Santa will actually find him.

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    ^I live in hope

    Even the crickets sound a bit like sleigh bells on Christmas Eve

    I lent my voice to the choir this evening at the Vigil Mass carol service

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    The guest of honour is yet to arrive as per the details in Matthew Chapter 2

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    Looks a bit weird with all the shepherds and wise men gazing at an empty manger

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    It's ākin to Russian Roulette on Xmas eve waiting to see if the supermarkets have over predicted.Gotta hold your nerve...

    Last year was a lose, this year..

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    Thought I'd get the youngest useful with a tape measure laying the table for tomorrow, well it got him of his PS5 for half an hour.

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    Shalom

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    Nice Looper, God Bless

    Nice Joe, all set, In Tesco we trust!

    Finally, some time to myself and Doncaster Station

    Happy Christmas eve everyone

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