 Vagrant86
Male, 18-29, Western US
 2556 Posts
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:47:52 PM
awesome |
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 Ughhzombie
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
219 Posts
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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:03:37 PM
Krampus. lol, awesome. |
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 darkhawk
Male, 18-29, Europe
85 Posts
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:56:33 AM
The "Zwarte Piet" thing from halland is compleetly wrong. 1. Its a compleetly diffrent holiday. 2. We have christmas and santa here too. 3. The holiday is calld Sinterklaas, NOT "zwarte piet". Wonred where he got his info from. He would have known if he lookd at wikipedia a min, the moron. |
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 White_Wolfos
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
1155 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 6:54:08 PM
Poor delusional Japanese.
I think I'd be a whole lot happier if I got to eat fried chicken on Christmas.On a different note, the whole beating candy out of the log thing sounds marvelous.
I want a weird holiday tradition. :( |
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 Mitchster
Male, 13-17, Western US
466 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 3:30:17 PM
What the heck? My family has been doing the Pickle thing since I was born! I didn't know it was mainstream. |
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 subzeroblue2
Female, 18-29, Western US
200 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 3:06:02 PM
haha my mother is from spain so we do the caganar thing. It cracks me up to see my friend's faces when they come over and find it in our nativity model |
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 Soundsasian
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
284 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 3:04:51 PM
aha, the netherland picture.Man, i'm starting to feel homesick, i don't know why but i remember one of those black guys giving me a cookie on christmas. |
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 silversoul46
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
189 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 2:59:53 PM
Well you don't have to be black to celebrate Kwanzaa and I do remember being taught the words and their meanings used during the libabtion ceremony, but yea I know no one who celebrates it either |
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 spazking
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
245 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 2:44:17 PM
ahahah, my mother is of german descent and we do the pickle thing |
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 yellowsquare
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
1445 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 1:13:26 PM
I'm surprised at the amount of "anti-Santas" there are. I was expecting to see Knecht Ruprecht, who is the German anti-Santa. He comes with St. Nick, and if you've been bad instead of good, Knecht Ruprecht snatches you up, and puts you in his burlap sack full of other naughty children, and steals you away. And WHY am I not surprised about the Japan KFC tradition? |
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 Hylian4Hire
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
239 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 1:13:10 PM
My family did the pickle ornament one year. My father neglected to remember my keen sense of deduction, and I found it immediately in our 10-ft. tree. Good luck my ass, the whole next year was the stuff therapy is made of. Happy Christmas, indeed. |
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 Jasonbobdude
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
641 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 12:39:07 PM
Who celebrates Kwanzaa, anyway? None of my black friends even know what it's about.But yeah, I really want to celebrate an authentic Catalonian Christmas this year. Poop log and pooping guy at the Nativity! Awesome! |
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 habbazoot
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
2146 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 12:22:51 PM
i learned the KFC thing from a book about confucianism (ruined my life). Everyone in japan wants to be americna because its cool. so KFC went in and said that all americans eat KFC on christmas. so naturally they followed, and now you hve to make reservations about a month before christmas to go to KFC in japan |
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 h0ax_d3m0n
Male, 18-29, Europe
2187 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 11:39:11 AM
so...in short for parts of the world christmas = beating things with a stick. |
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 WhenIsLunch
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
460 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 10:02:14 AM
haha kfc christmas party in japan alright! |
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 Joolz200
Female, 18-29, Europe
128 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 8:18:20 AM
never heard of mari lwyd, and I live in Wales... |
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 amaqdrinker
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2231 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 7:25:16 AM
"And you thought Kwanzaa was different."actually, i thought kwanzaa was a bullsh*t celebration made up by some idiot in the sixties in order to have a day during the holiday season that basically says, "you know, we used to live in africa." |
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 fr0d0lives
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
619 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 7:14:28 AM
that first picture is scaaary. if i was a little kid, i would be TERRIFIED! |
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 alice_x
Female, 18-29, Europe
5227 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 7:12:06 AM
That was very interesting, though i still don't understand why you would need a guy having a turd tucked away in the nativity scene....
wow |
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 ChronicJ
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
357 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 7:03:35 AM
Too much reading. |
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 IkeRay
Male, 18-29, Western US
1612 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 6:26:17 AM
mani-jac....my family DOES celebrate on the 6th of january, but we don't call it the mexican/spanish name. if you know your religious history, that is the day the 3 kings came and gave Jesus his presents. hence, they come and give 1 gift a person in the middle of the night (much like santa).btw, Reyes Mago de Oriente translates to (3) wise kings from orient.
if you were to celebrate any religious aspect of the holiday, you would need to follow the spanish/mexican as they are much more religious, even if the religion is Roman Catholic.
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 Painter13
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
1309 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 5:56:28 AM
Krampus day sounds like fun. |
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 Lyannovitch
Female, 18-29, Europe
143 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 5:54:23 AM
Hmm...Actually, Sinterklaas is where Santa Claus originates from...When the frist Dutch settlers went to america, they took the Sinterklaas custom with them!
And also, like it fairly says in the article, although Zwarte Piet may seem like a totally racist symbol, he is not regarded as such, in the Netherlands...a study has shown that hardly any children will call coloured people, Zwarte Piet, so they don't make the link! |
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 Blackdeath
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
31 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 4:39:54 AM
i have a pickel ornament =D |
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 ohlax
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
725 Posts
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Friday, December 12, 2008 4:09:04 AM
Ive heard of krampus and that one with the people riding on a float because I had to do some christmas research and that was like a week ago. And I am proud to say I have the pickle ornament |
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