Xander ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I had a friend in college who was very surprised to find out, junior year, that Jews don't believe in Jesus. And she was from the US.
I've been having the same conversation about this with one co-worker for years now. "So what is your family doing for Christmas?" "Oh, we're Jewish." "<blank stare>" "So we don't celebrate Christmas." "You mean, not at all?" "No." "Not even for the kids???"
And she's from New Jersey. Some people just really, really, don't get the concept of non-Christians.
I think that's part of the joke.
tommy gets it in one. The other usual description for it is "Twilight isn't that bad" apparently, but that's nowhere near as amusing to me.
And, fuck, my internet is acting wonky. I need this for work.
yeah...it's only depriving if you're used to doing it and then you don't. I bet Hannukah is lovely, but never having done it, I had cheeseburgers on one of the nights and only thought of it in passing. That's cultural privilege, though. Assuming everybody misses what you do.
It's like when I tell people that my parents didn't do the whole Santa Claus thing. Like we were deprived somehow because those piles of presents came from our parents. @@
"You mean, not at all?" "No." "Not even for the kids???
Yeah, the kids are Jewish, too.
Don't even get me started on Christmas chauvinism. Or Santa. Blergh.
I think I tried to hang on to Santa a bit longer than was healthy.
I wonder how much of that ignorance can be tied to Christmas being so secularized over the years, versus religious parochialism? (I do suspect there's a difference...)
I think I tried to hang on to Santa a bit longer than was healthy.
If Santa would bring me an iPad, I might believe now.
Goddamn you, Time Warner. Fucksticks.