Oh the irony of loving winter but disliking the associated holidays. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

  • Treczoks
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    591 year ago

    I know why migratory birds fly faraway south in the winter. It is not because of the cold, or the lack of food.

    It is solely because they want to escape “Last Christmas” on repeat from each and every loudspeaker.

    • @Blubber28OP
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      141 year ago

      As a biologist I can confirm this 😂

    • @droans
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      31 year ago

      “We’re on track to open fifty new churches this quarter. And, don’t tell anyone, but I’m the creative lead on an upcoming crusade!”

  • @Mojojojo1993
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    311 year ago

    Christmas isn’t in winter in southern hemisphere

    • MrsDoyle
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      I grew up in NZ - we used to spray fake snow on the windows at Christmas and send cards with winter scenes, reindeer, robins, all that. On the day we’d have a big meal topped off with plum pudding. Bloody ridiculous.

      • @Mojojojo1993
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        91 year ago

        I’m in New Zealand and I know we pretend it’s winter. But the season is still summer.

        It’s a really weird filling since I’m from the UK.

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    161 year ago

    Christmas is mostly an ordeal to get over with IMO. I’m an adult atheist with social anxiety and no offspring to vicariously enjoy the festivities through, so it’s really not for me 🤷

    • Cyrus Draegur
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      131 year ago

      i’ve come to celebrate the winter solstice not because of ‘christmas’ or anything but because it’s an observance of an objectively empirical astronomical phenomenon. Recognizing the solstices and equinoxes were pivotal, fundamental, essential discoveries that humanity needed in order to properly leverage agriculture, and everything about civilization stems (no pun intended) from there.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Same here. I have neither the religion of the germanic peoples who ‘invented’ Christmas nor the religion of the ones who incorporated it later (or any), but I can appreciate lights, warmth and people who are important to you getting together at a time of the year when it’s cold and grey and dark for 16 hours a day. That’s why and how the winter solstice was originally celebrated and I get that.

    • @Blubber28OP
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      I feel you as a fellow socially anxious atheist. Thankfully my parents respect my wish not to celebrate, but not everyone is so lucky.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s been 90+ where I am. A fall bbq event at work had to switch locations due to excessive heat.

      I’m in the US

    • janus2
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      21 year ago

      ↑ i made a dumb comment about how it might be in the southern hemisphere but then i remembered that’s their summer not their winter

    • janus2
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      [southern hemisphere staring at you]

      edit: im dumb it’s summer down there when it’s winter up here

      • @droans
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        31 year ago

        Imagine living in Quito, Ecuador and trying to remember if it’s summer or winter when you’re traveling through town.

  • @NocturnalMorning
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    121 year ago

    I don’t enjoy the cold weather, icy roads, or shoveling my drive way ever week or so. But it is pretty to look out from my window. I much prefer fall right before it starts to get Uber cold. The air is crisp, the morning is just slightly cold, and the trees are turning all manner of color. That’s the best time in my opinion.

    • Ataraxia
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      61 year ago

      As long as I’m wfh it can snow all it wants

      • R0cket_M00se
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        21 year ago

        Amazing how little it concerned me when I was WFH. Loved seeing it blow around outside.

        Just find some cozy music and brew some coffee.

    • @Blubber28OP
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      21 year ago

      For people living in colder regions I can certainly understand that winter is not their favourite season. We only have a little snow in winter - if at all - so the nuisance is minimal.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I bestow upon this the banner “valid opinion” by the winter lovers association. You are welcome to our events. You now hold the title of “friend”. Please note that you must wear your friend badge at all times to be easily distinguishable from actual kin.

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    51 year ago

    thankfully the holidays end right after winter starts and then you have like 3 months of post-holiday winter to enjoy. pretty much all of january, then february, then most of march.

  • @[email protected]
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    The “Christmas Season” is Fall, not Winter*. The only reason the holiday isn’t literally over when the Winter season starts is that the Christians got their calendar screwed up and hold the holiday on a fixed date instead of on the solstice where it belongs.

    (*Or “Spring, not Summer” for upside-down people, I suppose.)

  • LinkOpensChest.wav
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    41 year ago

    Me when I try to get my Christian co-workers to be respectful of our non-Christian clients during December:

    • @droans
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      31 year ago

      Number one rule of working with clients during the holiday season is that you don’t wish them Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, or anything else unless they say it first.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    Move to the Southern Hemisphere. It’s in the middle of Summer here.

    Then you can sing about snow falling and fireplaces while sweating your balls off.

  • R0cket_M00se
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    31 year ago

    I like Thanksgiving, it’s always great food and one of the only times I end up seeing family these days.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    At least where I’m from, the coldest time of year is late January to late March and that’s what I regard as Winter. I love it. It’s cold, fresh and clear. My home is cozy. Christmas is over. I’m remote working. Everyone else is miserable. Bliss.