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Shirley that depends on where in the world you live? |
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I live in the UK. Other countries are irrelevant.
(They can put their holidays wherever they like.) |
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The gulf stream will shut down soon enough. |
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Shocking news from Loris' second link, apparently women in the UK can wander about alone, eat alone and drink beer. Those crazy liberals! |
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I live in the UK too, and to be honest I'd rather be able to enjoy the snow when it occasionally arrives without being caught up in the whole nonsense that christmas has become. |
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I think it's an excellent idea. We'd be able to do our
Christmas shopping when the shops aren't so busy. |
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Terrific idea. Shorten the interval between post-holiday
emotional let-down and when the days start to get longer
again. [+] |
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[+] environment-wise, February is a pretty crappy month that could get cheered up somewhat by a festive holiday without having to be Chinese (which New Year is the 14th) |
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How about advancing it one day each year? |
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Has anyone asked Mary if she would mind crossing her
legs and sitting tight for 2 extra months? Gotta think
of the mother, you know. |
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Otherwise, I'm all for it. And I think it's a grand idea. |
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"Christ wasn't born in February."
How do you know? |
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Christmas really has little do do with Christ. It's just a solstice
festival that got picked up by the Christians. All that nativity
stuff is hogswish. |
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Maybe combine Christmas with Valentines Day and give both holidays a whole new dynamic. It could become traditional to get a marriage proposal and a diamond for Christmas. |
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One small step at a time [Loris].... first you move the "r" of "Feburary" one letter to the left! |
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So the year after next, Christmas will be in Febuarry? |
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Christmas was designed to overshadow the winter
solstice, which is why is it so inconveniently placed. |
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To implement this idea I suggest you start to
popularise a Christmas-like event on the date you
desire (using Thanksgiving as a template) presumably
by writing a modern "A Christmas Carol" for this new
event. Eventually it might be adopted ... |
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So to get started, do we skip one, or do we have to put up with two of them two months apart? |
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I'd prefer we change the frequency. It doesn't need to be an annual celebration. Let's do it like World Cup or Olympics, once every four years. For that matter we could select a city to host it. |
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//Uh, just one problem... Christ wasn't born in February.// |
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Hmmm, maybe he was - the Julian calendar was only implemented, in Rome in 45BC - and, if metrication is anything to go by, these things can take time to permeate from the source - but let's assume that was the calendar in use in Palestine at the time. |
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The Gregorian Calendar, the one we use today, only saw use from 1582 and since that time, is progressively going further out of step with the Julian one - the current divergence is about 13 days - add the fact that the Julian calendar, the one replaced by the Gregorian one, which had been in existence for the 1600 years previous "loses" a day every 128 years, and you've got an additional 13 days inaccuracy right there. |
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So that accounts for a total of at least 26 day's divergence from the "true date" - which could put Christmas either somewhere between the end of November, or towards late Jan. It would only take a further non-calendar based inaccuracy to push that out into February. |
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The date of the 25th December was itself the result of a calculation - 9 months from Annunciation day, said to be 25th March, but which Luke describes as "The Sixth Month" (Luke 1:26) this might suggest Annunciation Day itself really ought to be celebrated in June, and, by continuing with the accepted 9-month gestation calculation, we might expect to celebrate Jesus' birthday in March. |
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Poor Jesus. I've always felt sorry for people born on
Christmas Day, having to celebrate both in one day must be a
right gyp. |
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August 29 is a good one, [IT], then we could combine it with the English late summer Bank Holiday. Not sure what the Scots would do though. |
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Yes thanks, [calum]. I'll have a pint of snakebite and a French Martini chaser.
Cheers! |
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Oh, I've got to go home *and do my chores*. |
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Yeah, why don't you relax and come down the pub? |
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They're *chores*. And specific ones at that. Perhaps if someone were to ask me, specifically *what*, in *chore* terms, I had to do, I could tell them... |
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Don't fancy chores much... |
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So get the DNA off of the Shroud of Turin, clone Jesus, do in vitro fertilization in May, change Christmas to February and when he gets old enough to talk, tell him he was cloned so the Brits could see snow. |
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What are your chores, [Zed Tee]? |
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What chores! What chores! |
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I'll have a pint of Pedigree, ta! [z_t] |
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Ooh! Ooh! A cheeky wee dram of Tobermory for me. Thanks [Zee_Tee], you're a star. |
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Dohhhhh!!!
<heads off towards the bar> |
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I'd join you, but I have to tend to my chuavinne. |
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