• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Here’s the issue I have. The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter. Christmas is 3 days later, yet people expect it to be in the middle of winter, so people keep trying to move the season up. Realistically they should be trying to celebrate it in late January rather than pushing it back into Autumn. But they had to go and steal Yule and then keep wanting more time.

    • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      16 days ago

      The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter.

      Only true in some places. It’s not a universal fact. Lots of places don’t even have winter. Yet, Christmas is still celebrated. You’re making arguments about Christmas everywhere based on your own location’s individual climate.

      • ramble81@lemm.ee
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        16 days ago

        wtf are you on about? The Winter Solstice is very much a verifiable fact (it’s actually the 21st so I was a day off) and marks the start of Winter in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is usually (I say usually so you can’t be pedantic about the minority outliers) celebrated on December 25th. That’s still only a few days after the solstice like I was saying.

        This comic is talking about the Christmas season, creeping into Halloween and fall festivities, which is very much true in the northern hemisphere. I see your on an NZ instance which, yes the seasons are flipped there, but don’t go getting butt hurt if you can’t read context clues from the comic just because it doesn’t line up with you.

        • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
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          16 days ago

          It sounds like you and drag agree that the winter solstice is only in December in the Northern hemisphere. You’ve taken on drag’s correction and understood drag’s point. Thank you for being so reasonable and open minded.

          Drag would also like to clarify that the winter solstice does not mark the start of winter in climates that don’t have winter. For example, in places that have a six season calendar.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Isn’t this practically the plot of The Nightmare Before Christmas?

    P.S. I know it’s not, but it could be the plot of a gritty reboot. A bunch of Halloween mascots are fed up with how Christmas is overtaking all of fall so they declare “War on Christmas” I’d watch it. Unfortunately I imagine this would be like a Seth Rogan and James Franco movie a la Sausage Party but hey I’d still watch it

    • dessimbelackis@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Nah, let’s get Christopher Nolan to make it and it becomes a mind-bending exploration of consumerism, pagan festivals and the death of innocence.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’m a school bus driver and I had to ban the singing of Christmas songs on my bus before Thanksgiving. Naturally the little bastards ignore this, just like they ignore my injunction against singing Taylor Swift songs. Thank god T-Swiffer has never done a Christmas album.

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      October 5 ours went up at work. July 24 was when Halloween showed up. I’m convinced dropping sales has pressured them to chase the holiday high of old, and their layoffs and cut hours simply don’t save enough to recover normally.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        In fact, their sales are probably dropping because they’re firing all of the people doing the selling at other work that facilitates selling.

        Corporations reacting to a subpar quarter with mass layoffs is like a marathon runner reacting to a bad third mile by intentionally spraining their ankle.

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I was shopping for parts for a Halloween costume at the beginning of the month. Christmas music was playing in the store.