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When do you take down the Christmas tree?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by SomeGuy on Saturday December 04 2021, @06:35PM (6 children)
The irony is that the tradition of bringing a tree in to the house originally had little to do with religion.
Imagine a long time ago, being stuck in a small cabin with a family during the winter, with piles of snow everywhere, and only a small fire to keep things warm so can't exactly open any windows. The entire place starts to stink. So what do you do? You cut down a nice smelling tree and throw it in the corner to cover up the smell. Oh look, the family wants to decorate it to make it look pretty. Fuck it, it keeps them busy. Let them make a few decorations outside too if they are still bored.
Celebrate? Sure, celebrate the winter solstice. Days getting longer? Who wouldn't want to celebrate that?
Don't throw out the tree until it gets warm enough to do something else about the smell, or the tree stops smelling nice.
...Then one day some creepy child molesters show up and insist all of this has do to with worshiping some shit dick named jebus and his magic sky daddy. WTF?
Of course, with modern air filtration and sanitation, there is no longer a need to bring a dusty, dirty tree in to the house. Unfortunately, consumertards need somewhere to hang their strings of burn-out-your-eyesockets-and-give-you-seizures blue LED lights and something to put their presents of new Apple iPhones under.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by ChrisMaple on Saturday December 04 2021, @10:29PM (1 child)
Child mutilators.
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Thursday December 09 2021, @12:55AM
No. That was the old chosen people who had the thing about chopping pieces of penis off.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Saturday December 04 2021, @11:11PM (2 children)
The real history is more like: A bunch of Germans would celebrate the winter solstice by decorating up a local evergreen tree in the middle of the village, a practice that might have pre-dated the whole Jesus thing (sources are unclear) and probably had something to do with the evergreens not dying during the winter. Centuries later, rich Victorian Brits brought the tree inside to impress other rich people, keeping the decorations idea though. Rich Americans started doing it to imitate the rich Victorians. During the 1950's post-war boom, middle-class people could afford to do it. So now lots of people and organizations do it in the USA because it's "traditional", not-religious enough that they can get away with it in what are supposed to be secular spaces, and religious enough to make the Jesus-believers happy.
It really wasn't a regular thing in the USA before the 20th century.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @02:36AM (1 child)
Yeah, it was all Charles Dickens before that. Damn goose looked awful scrawny.
I always wondered what percentage of the population died from Christmas tree fires back in those days
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 19 2021, @08:24AM
It was common enough in the 1950s and 60s that I remember news stories about Christmas tree fires. It seems like there were 1 or 2 stories every year. To clarify, 4 Star News was THE source of news, channel 4 at 4 o'clock every day, did 1/2 hour of national news, then 1/2 hour of local/regional news. Maybe not every kid will remember stories of houses burning down at Christmas, but I remember them.
(Score: 1, Troll) by jasassin on Tuesday December 07 2021, @10:45PM
That shit made me laugh. I had to start reading it slowly to savor the fucked up imagery, laugh, savor repeat. I’m going to forward that to a couple friends! A+
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