Shops started playing Christmas carols a couple of weeks ago. Fair enough, it makes people stress about their Christmas shopping and they buy more. What shits me is the fact that there are snowflake decorations. I'm hearing that "Winter Wonderland" song a lot. Winter Wonderland? It's 32 fucking degrees outside - NOT WINTER.

That's so strange to think about! Do Christmas cards have snow scenes on them as well?

Fiend I will gladly swap with you.
You can spend Christmas here where it's probably -32 degrees (Slight exaggeration...)
And I can spend Christmas basking in the warmth.

Aaaaah :D.


I hate Christmas songs and decorations in November. It's November. Stop it.

christmas songs in november is a bit much, but its all lovely an cold in scouse land

Yeah, I hate that. Although here it's a on/off winter wonderland. It's sunny one day, frosty the next, and it's already snowed once this winter...
Makes me excited when people start asking me what I want for Christmas though :D

*deletes internet history of youtubing Christmas songs earlier...*

I get excited :(

^^^Me too, I asked my mum to knit me a fluffy jumper with reindeer on, she said no. It hurt =(

The christmas cards are annoying too most of them them have scenes of Winter Wonderlands while there is less of a majority of Australian based cards.  I rarely even hear Australian carols played in the shops either like 'Six white Boomers', 'The Aussie Barbecue'etc.

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You have no idea how much that excites me right now. Not in a sexual way, of course.






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You know, I'm one of the sad people who gets really hyped up for christmas. I love christmas songs and the whole festive thing. Plus, I once stroked a baby reindeer (we went past this kiddie zoo on the Norfolk Broads and went round the back. The reindeer enclosure had these really widely spaced bars and I put my hand through to pet the reindeer. He was like a big excitable puppy).

Mmm, deer...

I don't mind Christmas. It's a good excuse for family gatherings. It's just been so hot and humid, taunting us with snow is cruel!
I would love to spend Christmas somewhere cold. Not the lame Queensland version of cold, either. European cold!

I'm sure Christmas on the other side of the globe really does change a lot. But, I understand your frustration. Even though Christmas does come at the same time as winter, Southern California never gets cold. People often buy this stuff to spray in their windows and make it look like snow has gathered there over night. I've also seen people taking tumbleweeds, painting them white and then making them into teumble-weed snowmen.

I keep telling myself that next year I will spend Christmas with my husband in a cabin in the mountains.

Oh well.

I don't really get the point of celebrating Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere. I once spent December in South Africa, and it was pretty surreal. Everywhere was played a blend of Christmas songs and summer hits. Sorry, but playing Doris Day's "let it snow" on a sweltering hot beach just seems silly to me.

I appreciated the local Christmas traditions though, big family gatherings in a summer house, braai and going for swims and such that is suitable for the climate. But faking a winter wonderland is really just a lost case.

The whole point of Christmas is that the sun turns and that you need some light and festivities at a time of year when it is extremely dark in Northern Europe. It has been celebrated since the stone age, through ásatru and christianity and today muslim immigrants here celebrate it in a fashion compatible with their faith. Winter wonderlands with glittering snow really mean a lot more to you when you get less than one hour of sunlight during the day.

I do not have anything against people in other places celebrating Christmas, but it's probably more successful if one is a little bit in touch with the place one actually lives and adapt the traditions to suit the environment instead of moping after a white Christmas.

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When I was a little girl I thought that everything was topsy-turvy in the Southern Hemisphere. I thought there's a 6 month difference between the hemispheres, ie. December = June.

Now I know that the calendar in the Southern hemisphere is the same as ours but my idea makes more sense, I think.

I walk out of shops if they play carols. I can't stand it. I hate Christmas, but I love presents. I do love the Christmas baby clothes though, I'm going to get a reindeer outfit for when my best friend has her baby....in May.

I doubt it will snow, but it'll rain...a lot. I want a snowman jumper!

We've had xmas decs up in the shopping centre I work in since the 31st October. Really annoying, when I was getting so excited about going out dressed up for Hallowe'en, then I saw that when I got away from the bus station.

Shop's started playing Christmas songs too, does not make me a happy bunny. I don't think they should be getting played till December, urgh.

Edited for spelling.

-- Edited by Lady-Contraband on Tuesday 24th of November 2009 03:41:26 PM

Personally I think it is best to wear headphones with music on when going to shops anyway, since they play shitty annoying music all year round.

But I stay away from shops the best I can during Christmas shopping time. It's a fucking nightmare with all the people stressing around buying stuff. I much prefer going to Christmas markets or sitting comfortably in my own home, drinking mulled wine and listening to Christmas music of my own choosing while making presents and cookies.

If I was to spend December shopping, I would hate Christmas. I'm much happier staying away and loving Christmas. Best part of the year to me.

When I spend Christmas with my family in Oz, it is sweltering and they still try to cook a giant huge massive humungus christmas dinner. We all sit there going "urrrrrrrgh...." and nobody thinks to adjust the meal to the climate because it is TRADITIONNNNN!

I can't imagine hot weather for christmas...it seems all wrong!
That does seem bizarre that you get wintery stuff played there, when it's not wintery at all.
Is it true that in some parts of Oz, Santa arrives on a surfboard? I've heard that, and am enchanted with the idea!

My great Grandpa missed out on being the longest running Christmas Santa Impersonator by a year (because he died). He used to be Santa in a town called Figtree, and he would arrive by speedboat, and helicopter, and surfboard on wheels, and other such means. It was awesome.

I work in retail, so can't escape the carols. I don't really mind, aside from the Winter bullshit.

I'm also working taking Santa photos in a shopping centre - it's awesome! Kids get so excited, it is really cool being able to contribute to that. Adorable!

I don't see why we shouldn't celebrate CHRISTmas in Australia, it being full of Christians and all. Regardless of how celebrations involving trees at this time of year originated, the holiday called Christmas is about Christ (and, for those of us not interested, about family/love etc.).

In my family, we have celebrations suitable for the climate. We go to my grandparents' house, where we have a huge lunch of seafood and salads with cakes and fruit salad for dessert, followed by an afternoon of swimming and playing card games/Rummiking. I suppose I don't know it any other way, which is why it would be novel to spend the holiday overseas.
So I guess my point is that playing on the whole "Winter" thing here doesn't make sense - I'd rather leave the snow for somewhere it belongs.

^ That sounds like a lovely way to celebrate it. I wouldn't mind at all spending another Christmas time in the southern half of the globe -precisely because it is different.

By the way, the holiday called Christmas in English is called jul, jól or joulu in Nordic countries, a name that have nothing to do with Christ what so ever. I've also seen English speaking people using "Yule" instead of "Christmas".

Now, if Christians want to pretend that Jesus was born at that time of the year and celebrate that, that's fine with me.
But every year some of them go on a media crusade whining about how society have forgotten "the true origins of the celebration" and telling people that they really shouldn't be celebrating anything at all if they are not Christians.

And that is the reason why I frequently point out the history of Christmas celebration.

on thanksgiving people already had chirstmas decorations out, that dries me INSANE! *twiches* its not winter, IT EFFING FALL! DX

The trees have gone up in all of the Colleges in Cambridge. But then, term ends on December the 4th, and we all go home... So that is sort of justified, I guess.

32 degrees is cold way down here... Or did you mean degrees Celsius? Dammit, I would make that mistake...

Yus, Celsius. Though we've already had a few days hotter than that.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers!
Where I am they started with all the Christmas shit in late October :/
AND it's 38 degrees (celsius, haha)

Edit: I can't spell.

-- Edited by Milky Josephine on Monday 30th of November 2009 05:33:58 AM

At home there have been minus 32 degrees Celsius (-25 fahrenheit) in Christmas. I must say that I'm rather happy I've never experienced it getting colder than that. I like cold weather but when it gets below -20 it's a bit uncomfortable.


-- Edited by Irilar on Monday 30th of November 2009 11:57:14 AM