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 want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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.
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
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"?
megan walker - Dec 14, 2010 1:23:45 pm PST #11074 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think I tried to hang on to Santa a bit longer than was healthy.
It's so ingrained culturally that (apparently) when I was very little I did think there was a Santa (even though my presents all came from my parents or siblings). Of course, that may be because my workaholic Dad did most of his shopping on Christmas Eve and so a whole bunch got added overnight. My mom used the new present under the tree each day method.