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...or whatever floats your boat on this day. Just turned midnight a little while ago, and my wife and I are finishing up SR3 in time to go watch some TV on the way to sleep. Have a good one, F13'ers!

Looks like it's shaping up to be a nice, warm and fuzzy Xmas time for me, shared between my girlfriend, my friends, Skyrim, TOR (not necessarily in this order  :drill: :grin:)

Happy holidays!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, whatever suits you. 

We didn't have a Festivus thread this year. !

It's not too late! Well, maybe it is.

Happy Time Off From Work everyone.

Merry Christmas to all, Happy Hanukah to those halfway through, Happy Kwanzaa for those that celebrate, and Enjoy the Time Off for all!

And to all a good night :)

So far, Christmas has started with a leaky pipe (thank God it was just a wax seal on my upstairs toilet) and home internet/networking problems.

Yah Christmas!

Yeah happy xmas everyone, hope you all have a good time with loved ones and food and festivities and whatnot! xx

Wishing everyone some Orange loots this morning, or purples at least  :grin:

Merry sexmas to all!

Punctured tyre on Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas everybody!

Bah humbug.

Merry Christmas guys!

Almost forgot as I was sitting out having a drink 2am in the morning. Christmas is not a huge deal here, and the lack of real seasons really plays havoc with one's sense of time passing.

Merry Christmas all!  I've spent Xmas Eve watching football and playing SWTOR and plan to do the same tomorrow.  This is my favorite board on the internet because of all of you!  Hope Santa brinz u sweet lewtz!

Xmas to you all!

I thought I slept through most of Christmas but it turned out that I was off by one day. 

No sense of time?  Check.  Vacation is working as intended.

Happy Holidays, F13'ers.

Girl went away for Christmas, making this, I think, the 9th or 10th Christmas Eve in a row I've been alone.

Miss her, but I've got games. Thanks Steam!

Merry Christmas, everyone.  Hope you're having fun.  Off to Phoenix tomorrow where I shall game (if I get to at all) on the PC that time forgot.

It's pretty fun and exhausting having a two year old at Christmas.  Kid is raking in the loot.

Merry Christmas everyone! Now back to Terraria...

For what it's worth, this is the first christmas the missus and I have spent together in the five years we've been together. It only took marrying her. So hey, there's hope.  :awesome_for_real:

Enjoy your holidays everyone.

As long as you get to stay away from the in-laws, you're set.

Merry Christmas, everyone!  I hope you've all been drinking as much as I have.

Merry Christmass, F13. Love you guys.  :heart:

I am now either going to fall asleep from overeating or play more TOR, probably both.  :uhrr:

It turns out the excitement of Christmas makes small children wake up even earlier than their typical 5:30 AM.  Merry Christmas!   :drill:

Merry Christmas you lot.

Happy Holidays to all.

Merry Christmas all you f13 folks.

This is still my favorite forum to mostly lurk but occasionally post something useless that contributes in no way to anything.  :heart: And for that I thank you all.

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Glad Yule!

Had the parents over last night for our big feast and gift opening. As expected the little one liked the wrapping more than the gifts. Today it's gaming, movies, and BBQ. Off to make red beans and rice!

Christmas in 3 different houses across several days sure can tire one out.  Especially seeing the little ones so excited every time.  Finally time to sit back and watch 80's detective shows in peace!

Happy Holidsys everybody!

Merry Christmas!

Time for the drunken noon nap before hitting the bars!

Merry Christmas all! Little one is just old enough to really get into the whole thing, so he has been having a goddamned blast. Took him to his first movie (Arthur Christmas, which I really really liked) on Friday, then it was Christmas Eve with my family last night, and we now headed out the door for Christmas with the in laws. Santa also delivered on what was asked, so all is well.

Numtini, I want some red beans and rice! God that sounds good.

Merry Christmas! 

I don't have anything else to add.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to those who don't do the Christmas thing!

Had a great Christmas filled with much fat loot, Steam sale goodness and family cheer, followed by great food and a pass out nap before watching the Bears take it in the poop chute from the Packers. All in all, a great Christmas! Now on to my week and a day off!

Merry Holidays to all of you! Hope you got the loot you wanted.

I suppose one gift was that my son did not wake me, instead we had to go get him at 10am.  Weird.

Also I got that neat hatchet that Rickey posted in some other thread.  And a Bowie magazine.  And a recipe holder.

Happy Christmas y'all!

I am in Zimbabwe, it's hot and really really boring.

Meh, wasn't expecting presents. But whatever. Living alone is so nice!

Anyway, Xmas Related Vid. ;)
http://youtu.be/kMUhlRSem0M

Fuck you for making me tear up at work.

(it's nice to see something like this.  Thanks for the link)

Consider that a bonus, I've seen Zimbabwe on the news when it is exciting.

David or knife?


Heh indeed. May you live in interesting times is a curse for a reason.

God-dammit.  And thanks.

Legitimate question, in hindsight.  It's actually a one-off collectors item about the musician.

Happy holidays and vacation! Finally get to relax.

Other things... cashing in gift cards!  Not mine, though.  I got pants and shirts instead of gift cards.  Also a nice leather jacket.  I can't seem to find a silver Firebird jacket like the one Burt wore in Hooper, but this one is very nice also.

My son just opened a Pokemon CCG booster and got a Zekrom, and that's probably the most excited I have seen him in a long time.  We had to tell him that now is not a good time to call his friends about it.

He also got some extra Skylanders to go with the Skylanders base set he got.  Now I'm about to go online and type in some codes for the online versions, or something.  Already did this with some of the Pokemon decks and boosters, at least the ones I was able to find the online codes for.

Some of this is for me in a way since I'm using his codes to boost my Club Nintendo points.  I can probably get Platinum by June, especially if I break down and get Skyward Sword.

Icy Hot is the new Firebird.

Those do show up from time to time on eBay... but you don't want to know what crazy fans pay for them...

I definitely don't have the cash for one, but a man can dream.  It's for the best, though, because I would become intolerable while wearing it.  A less-lovable Sterling Archer.

Belated Merry Christmas to the lot of you - seems I really only get on here when I should be working at work.

My sister hosted Christmas dinner for 15 of us, a week after popping out my new nephew. Was a weird collection of various traditions (her inlaws are Danish), but she pulled it off quite well.

In laws did the bird. Or, actually, birds. My first ever Turducken:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20557826/IMAG0115.jpg)

It tasted far better than it looked.

Skål!

Exactly...

It means drain your bowl.  I assume you heard a lot of this?

Just consider yourself lucky you if you weren't encouraged to give pickled fish a try.  Though I sort of like chilled aquavit.

I wonder where in Denmark they are coming from, because I've never seen Danes eat a bird like that.  Their Christmas traditions often include duck, but not usually a whole, stuff (I don't think they know what stuffing is) one like that.  Interesting.

Probably just picked up on the local tradition and ran with it.  I know when I told all my French friends about Turducken in the run up to Thanksgiving, they were both horrified and amazed, and demanded we attempt one.   :awesome_for_real:

Danish tradition is to get fucking jagged during the course of the event, turducken is probably the other half of the family.

Has always seemed like a waste of a good duck to me.

If you're blitzed, stuffing one bird inside the other probably sounds like a reasonable idea.

Copenhagen apparently.

The Aquavit actually isn't bad tasting when really chilled, but it packs a decent wallop. As for the Turducken, they are just a family that likes to go to extremes with food. Last family camping trip I showed up for, they were deepfrying Turkey, just cause they could.

No pickled fish, but I also have Finnish relatives, so I've done the whole pickled herring salad thing, and actually don't mind it.
The Turducken was actually quite good, and it meant a lot of dark meat available, which is my preference in birds.

The other weird family tradition they do is a Huuuge bowl of rice pudding, with almonds in it. The idea being, if you find a whole almond, you win a present. This of course leads to everyone eating way more pudding than they should, right after a big Christmas dinner, and lots of schnapps.

The rice pudding tradition is about as widespread in DK as possible.  Pretty much everyone does that one.  Scnapps is optional.

Translation: Danish "schnapps" is shots of aquavit, which is a 40% abv anise flavour liquor served after chilling it in a freezer (or outside, climate permitting).  Traditionally you are expected to drain your glass when the host calls out "Skål"  Serious brain and liver damage may result.  If this is beyond your comfort level you may breach the matter with the host by throwing the first punch.

Schnapptional.

I really like  aquavit.  And rice pudding, which I didn't know was a big Danish thing.  I need to make more of an effort to get in touch with my Danish heritage.

Rice pudding is a textural thing for me. Can't stand it.

I do love me some fruitcake though. Joke about that all you want. The pecans are awesome down here.

There's all different kinds of fruitcake. I've had one I actually liked, and several that were terrible - I swear they must have been a few decades old.

What's your address? I'll send you the next one someone gives me (in the spirit of regifting, of course).  No guarantees on its age though.