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.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
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.
erikaj - Dec 14, 2010 12:50:00 pm PST #11064 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
megan walker - Dec 14, 2010 12:59:13 pm PST #11065 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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. @@
Cashmere - Dec 14, 2010 12:59:21 pm PST #11066 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
"You mean, not at all?" "No." "Not even for the kids???
Yeah, the kids are Jewish, too.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 14, 2010 1:03:36 pm PST #11067 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Don't even get me started on Christmas chauvinism. Or Santa. Blergh.
erikaj - Dec 14, 2010 1:06:35 pm PST #11068 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I think I tried to hang on to Santa a bit longer than was healthy.
Consuela - Dec 14, 2010 1:11:32 pm PST #11069 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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...)
Cashmere - Dec 14, 2010 1:13:36 pm PST #11070 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2010 1:16:29 pm PST #11071 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Goddamn you, Time Warner. Fucksticks.
Jesse - Dec 14, 2010 1:17:29 pm PST #11072 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm sure I've told the story of the dad I know who wanted his first kid to believe in Santa, but lost him with "a right jolly old elf." "But elves aren't real, Dad!!"
Amy - Dec 14, 2010 1:20:22 pm PST #11073 of 30001
Because books.
Don't even get me started on Christmas chauvinism. Or Santa.
What's "Christmas chauvinism"?