No Right Answer: Worst Commercialization of Christmas

[truckspond]

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[Chris Pranger]

As random as it is, the candy cane was actually made with religious meanings so, yeah, whatever that's worth. I'd have to give it to Black Friday. It overtakes Thanksgiving and Christmas both it's just crazy.

The other stuff you can choose not to be a part of and it's still a great holiday. But man, try driving somewhere on Black Friday and you're going to wish you had a grenade launcher.

I must lay down a Snopes-bomb of truth upon the candy cane mythology:

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/candycane.asp

I know, I'm no fun at all.

 

[zvate]

Ah yes, Chanukah (and dan's nicely robust chhhhh)... I do love having a holiday which is literally placebo christmas. It kinda helps that at least it not the perversion of a particularly significant Jewish holiday, I mean we have a non-central holiday for trees that rates more highly then Chanukah...

... still the saddest thing is that even as a placebo christmas it still fails... I mean it came so freakin early this year that the work season hadn't even ended yet so I couldn't even head home for it

Dan just needs to follow the age old tradition of giving his kid some relatively crummy present each night of Chanukah and then claiming with a straight face that it must be better because it lasted 7 times longer (It worked on me)

 

[Lunar Templar]

since I'm not Jewish, I can't comment on Hanukkah, so I'll just take your word for it.

But Christmas on the whole? it has become so tainted and corrupted by commercialism that I doubt more then maybe 5% of people even celebrate it for the right reason. I did wanna go with Black Friday, but its really not a cause of, but a result of just how corrupted the holiday has become.