31: Turkish slang for... ahem... solo activities

[itsjustafruit]

Well, that was a refreshing nap. All this bother with sick people and walking dead and all that... I thought it was better to just treat it like a certain century that will go unnamed.

Has everyone reattached the appropriate limbs and warmed up their credit card hands? Remember tis the season for mass consumption, falalala lalalala.

[ooc: Crowley

Comments

[mr_phale]

Consumerism doesn't necessarily preclude appropriate holiday cheer, you know.

[itsjustafruit]

It does redirect people from the intent of the holiday and I'm all for that.

[mr_phale]

Nonsense. 'Tis better to give than to receive and all that. One purchases Christmas gifts in order to express one's love-- that certainly sounds like goodwill to man to me.

[itsjustafruit]

Give in order to receive. It's about the prezzies. Sure, people say it's about goodwill to man and all that, but you get in a queue when the last video game is up for grabs and you're not going to see much in the way of goodwill.

[mr_phale]

Absolute nonsense. Haven't you ever read The Gift of the Magi? Even if things get a bit iffy in the shops, when it comes down to it, on Christmas morning when the children gasp and their eyes go wide because Santa brought them just the right thing...

[itsjustafruit]

Soppy mush that.

Santa brought them prezzies. Mum and Dad strained their budgets to the limit, bickered late at night, sat for Christmas goose with relatives they can't stand, and dozed through the church services they attend twice a year to put on a good front that they actually believe in something. Christmas is my time of year despite all your mush and fluff.

[mr_phale]

Mum and Dad loved their children enough to strain things on themselves to provide them the best Christmas morning they could, remembered that though you may not like your family you can still love them, and still honored the reason for the season, even if their faith wavered throughout the rest of the year. You just don't want to admit that no matter how good you are, my side always wins.

[itsjustafruit]

If your side always won, things would be much more dull and the radio would be even worse than when it gets stuck on the Best of Queen. If my side always won, Down Below would have franchises on every street corner with humans reading from three ring binders other humans had written up on how best to torment their neighbors.

You just don't want to admit that this holiday that sits on top of other holidays isn't the pinnacle of light, love, and (yechhh) good will to men.

[mr_phale]

Oh, not every battle perhaps, but ultimately good always triumphs over evil.

This holiday-on-top-of-others is always going to be one of ours.

[itsjustafruit]

Mind that pride, old boy.

I think you should put your money where you mouth is. Right now. With this one.

Unless you're not as sure as you think you are.

[mr_phale]

Christmas miracles versus the horrors of holiday shopping?

[itsjustafruit]

Winner chooses a forfeit.

[mr_phale]

Hmnph. You're on.