No Right Answer: Worst Commercialization of Christmas
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Personally, I think you're all correct. Holidays in general are heavily commercialized and I don't believe that there's one that's any worse than the other. My family is traditional Chinese Buddhist, so we don't care about all that materialistic crap.
Also, Christmas isn't actually the day Christ was born, but I assume everyone knows this by now.
Also, Christmas isn't actually the day Christ was born, but I assume everyone knows this by now.
Gotta go with Black Friday, guys. It's so much the symbol of commercialism that it pretty much makes people forget an entire holiday. Commercializing Jesus is pretty bad, but at the end of the day, he's still an important part of Christmas to a lot of people. Commercializing CHHAanukkah is even worse since it almost blots out the entire purpose of the Jewish holiday, but again, at the end of the day, you can still have CHGHHAAanukkah and be happy with it.
Black Friday? Black Friday pretty much makes Thanksgiving disappear. They reduce Thanksgiving to being not about giving thanks or eating together with friends to basically the start of the Christmas season. Christmas has almost completely enveloped Thanksgiving. It's just a starting point for another holiday, and that starting point always has the best sales for stupidly expensive shit you don't need.
Black Friday? Black Friday pretty much makes Thanksgiving disappear. They reduce Thanksgiving to being not about giving thanks or eating together with friends to basically the start of the Christmas season. Christmas has almost completely enveloped Thanksgiving. It's just a starting point for another holiday, and that starting point always has the best sales for stupidly expensive shit you don't need.
Funny/Horrifying thing about elf on the shelf...
For those that don't know, the basic idea is that the stupid little elf dolls watch you in their doll forms (BAD CHILDREN!) and come to life at night when you are asleep. The parents are supposed to convince their children of this by moving the elves to different locations at night. Apparently, if you touch the elves during the day they don't come to life that night or some shit.
ANYWAY, for some reason, my parents have convinced my 7-year-old brother of this fantasy and it led to tragedy. You see, one of our dogs got to the elf and... tore him to pieces. My brother thought the elf was alive, so naturally, he flipped out on the dog and cried all day. My mom managed to Frankenstein him back together, however, and everything's all good now. My brother still thinks our dog is a legit murderer though :/
Despite how fun it can be to pose the elf in sexual positions on furniture, I have to ask myself if the lie is worth it XD
For those that don't know, the basic idea is that the stupid little elf dolls watch you in their doll forms (BAD CHILDREN!) and come to life at night when you are asleep. The parents are supposed to convince their children of this by moving the elves to different locations at night. Apparently, if you touch the elves during the day they don't come to life that night or some shit.
ANYWAY, for some reason, my parents have convinced my 7-year-old brother of this fantasy and it led to tragedy. You see, one of our dogs got to the elf and... tore him to pieces. My brother thought the elf was alive, so naturally, he flipped out on the dog and cried all day. My mom managed to Frankenstein him back together, however, and everything's all good now. My brother still thinks our dog is a legit murderer though :/
Despite how fun it can be to pose the elf in sexual positions on furniture, I have to ask myself if the lie is worth it XD
Hehe, great episode. Good to see all 3 of you guys slamming christmas.
Good on you being a Buddhist. I really dont understand why not everyone is. I'm not, at least not...er...actively. But the philosophy of it speaks to me, and it should make a lot more sense to any person bothering to have a thought of his own, than any "real" religion.
It was even mentioned in the episode, so at least everyone in the comments section should knowWaaghpowa said:
Good on you being a Buddhist. I really dont understand why not everyone is. I'm not, at least not...er...actively. But the philosophy of it speaks to me, and it should make a lot more sense to any person bothering to have a thought of his own, than any "real" religion.
Black Friday hands down. It's a requirement that if you're a business you HAVE TO open at least at midnight if not THANKSGIVING EVENING 'cause who the hell knows. We have crap like Walmart encouraging it's customers to be savages by saying "We can guarantee we'll have what you want -IF- you're in line within the first hour we open our doors." And the worst victims are not the insane people who buy into all that, but the employees who are just trying to get by and have to work on Thanksgiving or get up ridiculously early the next day just to face hoards of customers who are out to get deals, most likely on stuff they're not even buying as gifts.
I had to stop watching TV in November this year because I just couldn't stomach another Black Friday commercial.
I had to stop watching TV in November this year because I just couldn't stomach another Black Friday commercial.
Those elves are the worst, but anyway, there's no right answer to this other than to say that all of them are over commercialized. I don't know how you can judge the severity when one is corrupting a religion, another is destroying another holiday, and the other is CHHHHanukah.
Ah Woolworths...
It takes me back to that crappy year known as 2005.
Come to think of it, I don't want to be taken back to those dark times.
Christmas in general is horribly commercialised, with the only pure christmas experience left being the Steam Christmas Sales.
I can't wait to piss away most of my life with Fall of The Samurai and Civ V Complete.
It takes me back to that crappy year known as 2005.
Come to think of it, I don't want to be taken back to those dark times.
Christmas in general is horribly commercialised, with the only pure christmas experience left being the Steam Christmas Sales.
I can't wait to piss away most of my life with Fall of The Samurai and Civ V Complete.
The Worst Commercialization Of Christmas Ever is Santa Clause.
Santa Clause giving out free gifts or coal contradicts the commercialization & capitalism of Christmas. Santa Clause is basically a socialist or whatever. In fact Fox News should hate Santa for even implying free gifts.
Then there is the other part which is the coal. Maybe the practice of giving coal for Christmas to people who were bad during the year didn't happen in my childhood. But if everyone doesn't get or know someone who got nothing but coal for Christmas from Santa Clause why talk about it?
And IF "The real" Santa Clause did start giving out gifts or coal to all those in a single night like he's suppose to & broadcast why he did it then maybe we'd have world peace by now.
Of course we'd end up with One World Under Santa Clause.... But I'd take that over "Corporations Are People My Friend" Romney, "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain, "The Americans Were Dumb Enough To Re Elect This Guy" GW Bush any day.
Santa Clause giving out free gifts or coal contradicts the commercialization & capitalism of Christmas. Santa Clause is basically a socialist or whatever. In fact Fox News should hate Santa for even implying free gifts.
Then there is the other part which is the coal. Maybe the practice of giving coal for Christmas to people who were bad during the year didn't happen in my childhood. But if everyone doesn't get or know someone who got nothing but coal for Christmas from Santa Clause why talk about it?
And IF "The real" Santa Clause did start giving out gifts or coal to all those in a single night like he's suppose to & broadcast why he did it then maybe we'd have world peace by now.
Of course we'd end up with One World Under Santa Clause.... But I'd take that over "Corporations Are People My Friend" Romney, "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain, "The Americans Were Dumb Enough To Re Elect This Guy" GW Bush any day.
Judging by the look on that elf's face (which gives me a very serial-killer vibe), your dog's a goddamn hero. But the fact your mom Frankensteined it back together is a movie monster origin story.Fappy said:
AH, the Krampus. One of the few beings in existence to go toe-to-toe with Brock Samson and live, and the only holiday character who either belongs in Hell or on a Dio album cover. I forget if he comes to naughty childrens' houses and tortures them into behaving or straight up kills them, and that makes me wonder what that says about whoever made him up.Remus said:
Well, in my opinion, he's still leagues better than Holland's Sinterklaaus' sidekick and, ugh, African slave. God knows what that freak gets up to.
Well this is a hard one.
Black Friday is the most violent, and was created for to be just about "commercialism".
But Christmas is the one that has "sold out" the most, and become such a big monster that people who don't even follow the believes of those who started it almost have to celebrate it.
And Hanukkah, as Dan put it, is just kind of sad. Trying to compete with the others by doing what they do, and having no chance of success.
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:/ I wonder what the people who celebrate Kwanzaa feel about all this....
Black Friday is the most violent, and was created for to be just about "commercialism".
But Christmas is the one that has "sold out" the most, and become such a big monster that people who don't even follow the believes of those who started it almost have to celebrate it.
And Hanukkah, as Dan put it, is just kind of sad. Trying to compete with the others by doing what they do, and having no chance of success.
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:/ I wonder what the people who celebrate Kwanzaa feel about all this....
*laughing* Masterfully done, gentlemen.
Personally I'm all for Christmas as a secular (not-religiously affiliated) holiday. Do nice things for other people, peace on earth, goodwill (and eggnog) for all - I've got no problem with any of that, though I dig non-Christians looking askance at Christ in the name, so Happy Holidays works for me, too. Shoot, I don't know why people knock the solstice as a reason - I live in a cold place, celebrating the gradual end of short days and long nights is a decent enough reason on its own.
Anyway, bravo, and may good fortune find you in the new year.
Personally I'm all for Christmas as a secular (not-religiously affiliated) holiday. Do nice things for other people, peace on earth, goodwill (and eggnog) for all - I've got no problem with any of that, though I dig non-Christians looking askance at Christ in the name, so Happy Holidays works for me, too. Shoot, I don't know why people knock the solstice as a reason - I live in a cold place, celebrating the gradual end of short days and long nights is a decent enough reason on its own.
Anyway, bravo, and may good fortune find you in the new year.
Maybe you guys should just adopt the Canadian Thanksgiving, which we have on the 2nd Monday of October. Considering that Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner tends to be the same thing it doesn't make much since to have the two one month apart, so Canada's timing works much better and gets you away from Black Friday!TheDrunkNinja said:
Kind of off topic but:
I don't talk much to my American relatives and they mostly live in Muslim neighborhoods so I want to ask, did any of you see anything about Eid-ul-Adha a few months ago? Or Ramadan?
I don't talk much to my American relatives and they mostly live in Muslim neighborhoods so I want to ask, did any of you see anything about Eid-ul-Adha a few months ago? Or Ramadan?