# Aluminum Christmas Trees Confessions Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aluminum-christmas-trees-confessions-thread/820826>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aluminum-christmas-trees-confessions-thread/820826 "2018-09-05T19:20:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aluminum-christmas-trees-confessions-thread/820826/1 "2018-09-05T19:20:55Z")

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I’ll start:

I didn’t know real people say “Bloody hell”

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**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aluminum-christmas-trees-confessions-thread/820826/2 "2018-09-05T19:39:06Z")

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It can be anything. You can even confess not knowing that a movie character was based on a real person, or not knowing that a movie was based on a real event.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aluminum-christmas-trees-confessions-thread/820826/3 "2018-09-05T19:39:51Z")

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?

I’m missing something here. Another cultural loop I’m on the outside of. What do aluminum Christmas trees have to do with exclamations?

For what it’s worth, my aunt and uncle had an aluminum Christmas tree, with the four-color wheel and all. But they didn’t say “bloody hell.”

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**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aluminum-christmas-trees-confessions-thread/820826/4 "2018-09-05T19:44:49Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> ?
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> I’m missing something here. Another cultural loop I’m on the outside of. What do aluminum Christmas trees have to do with exclamations?
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> For what it’s worth, my aunt and uncle had an aluminum Christmas tree, with the four-color wheel and all. But they didn’t say “bloody hell.”

> **[Aluminum Christmas Trees - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AluminumChristmasTrees)**
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> A story element that exists or existed in Real Life but is assumed to be fictional by the audience, often because it seems too unlikely, bizarre, or kitschy to be real. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction... The Trope Namer comes from …

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aluminum-christmas-trees-confessions-thread/820826/5 "2018-09-05T19:51:43Z")

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Thanks for asking, **Cal** , I didn’t know either!  
I’m not sure if it fits here, but the other day my husband and I were watching a show in which parents go to their kids’ grade-school class and talk about their jobs. I asked him if he thought that was a real thing, and he looked at me funny and said of course, it was common. _shrug_