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You know how glad I am that smartphones weren't a thing when I was a kid? Those types of embarrassing things would not have degraded over time, instead they'd probably be turning up in "omg look how ridiculous we were as kids!" posts on Facebook.
 
I'm all in favor of laughing at silly things from my childhood, but I definitely don't want it preserved forever and ever on the Internet. :yikes:
 
New avatar.

New favorite video.

Great band.

Monks won't immolate themselves until the record hits the shelves
Yetis walk right out the woods to cop it without thinkin' bout it
 
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Was walking through Melbourne city tonight on my way home listening to In Rainbows. No other Radiohead release really even comes close to topping that for me. Mofo has made mention before of songs that you can't listen to without also listening to the track that follows it, and that's pretty true for me with Weird Fishes and All I Need.
 
I'd say the same thing for Electioneering and Climbing Up the Walls.
 
Santa came early and delivered me a "your card was one of the ones impacted by the Target breach" letter today.

Hooray for using cash for everything for the next two weeks!

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Happy holidays, everyone. I've already successfully abused my digestive system for the last half week. I may have diabetes or a heart attack by the 26th.
 
Diabeetus sounds like the better choice.

The sugah diabeetus!

One guy told me he had that once. So I asked him, "you're sure it's the sugar diabetes, and not the salt? Because that stuff will kill you." He said, "oh it's definitely the sugar one." To which I replied, "good because I just made up the salt diabetes." And he didn't even realize I was making fun of him.
 
Happy holidays and whatnot, all.

I'm in Turkey right now, and my Christmas started with a Muslim call to prayer. It was a nice change of pace from the usual hyper-commercialism of this time of year in the States.
 
Happy holidays and whatnot, all.

I'm in Turkey right now, and my Christmas started with a Muslim call to prayer. It was a nice change of pace from the usual hyper-commercialism of this time of year in the States.

Do you get to have a turkey dinner in Turkey for Christmas?
 
It's gotten pretty bad that in the rare occasions where I'm listening to the radio, the even rarer occasions where I think I'm hearing a clash song, I have to wait for a bit to see if it's actually the clash or just some douchebag appropriating them for their own terrible song. Between that MIA song, and the time someone I was working with had a pop station on and I had the misfortune of hearing what one direction is, the chances of it being not the clash are far too great for my liking.
 
I miss that. Remember how fucking exciting Christmas Eve/morning was when you believed in Santa? :sigh:

I visited Nan and Pa's headstone at the cemetery twice today. Really nice... although I noticed "In Gods Care" is engraved down the bottom without an apostrophe.

Dad also decided to dress up as Santa and give out presents, despite there being no one here younger than 15...
 
This Christmas season has been a strange one for me, but tonight I was reminded of just how much the holiday itself means to me. That time spent with my family is just the absolute best.
 
I've known Santa was bullshit since I was about four or five, so no. I don't really remember that. And I really hated going to church on Christmas Eve because it wasn't the same as Sundays (despite how confirmed an atheist I've always been, I mentioned it in fym a little while back, I used to actually like going to church when I was about 10, 11, 12. It was a really small church with between 8 and 14 people on a regular basis, and set up as a discussion more than a sermon, with singing. Whereas Christmas was all business and being lectured at, with about 70 other people I'd never met before).

I'd much rather go eat dinner with my family on my own terms (our schedules permitting) than for some idiotic holiday reasons (read: just because the majority of the rest of the people in the country are doing it). The commercial aspect o this particular holiday is downright obnoxious, and the religious aspect of it means nothing to me.
 
This Christmas season has been a strange one for me, but tonight I was reminded of just how much the holiday itself means to me. That time spent with my family is just the absolute best.




I'd love to be like this, and I try, but dad's side of the family (mum's side is in QLD) can just be pretty boring and don't have the best social skills.
 
Christmas to me has always been: wake up, open a few presents, have breakfast, open the rest of the presents, eat a shitload (and, once I was a teenager, drink even more than a shitload), play cricket in the backyard if a backyard was available, fall into a food coma, and wake up the next day in time for the first ball of the Boxing Day Test. Thanks to having a family scattered all around Australia and New Zealand, I've struggled to maintain most traditions on an annual basis, but the one tradition I've successfully kept no matter where I am in the world is watching the first over of the Test.

The idea of going to church - or doing anything religious whatsoever - on Christmas seems totally alien to me. It's always been a totally secularised festival of family, friends, food, and conspicuous consumption to me.
 
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