# So, who's on the SDMB instead of celebrating and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432 "2009-12-24T12:35:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/61 "2009-12-25T09:49:08Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Wishing you a happy new year, **Paul.** Thank you kindly, and to you and yours as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/62 "2009-12-25T10:23:03Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Christmas is pretty much over. Just sitting here, with that post-prandial torpor which is typical for me for Christmas Day. We’re doing much the same: picking at the leftovers and sitting rather dazed in front of the television, complaining about the cold. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/63 "2009-12-25T11:51:20Z")
Halfway through Christmas Day here, I’m the only one up (unless you count the cats) and I have manflu. Bah, humbug! ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/64 "2009-12-25T12:09:46Z")
Did the shout out to family overseas. Now going to bed and sleep into Christmas day. Ho Hum just another boring day. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/65 "2009-12-25T12:11:22Z")
I am waiting for my lunch 🙂 It should be ready in about 5 or 6hours time! Merry Christmas! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Violaceous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Miss\_Violaceous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Violaceous)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/66 "2009-12-25T12:48:00Z")
I’m waiting for my husband to wake up so we can open presents. He mumbled that it’s still sleepytime, but I have no more sleeps left in me. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/67 "2009-12-25T13:10:45Z")
The wife and I have a long train ride ahead of us to celebrate Christmas with her parents up north. We’re just having some coffee 'til it’s time to leave. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/68 "2009-12-25T13:42:53Z")
Got up at six to fill stockings. Had my oatmeal and am waiting for people to wake up. Thinking about cooking some pancakes & sausage. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/69 "2009-12-25T17:19:42Z")
Have I mentioned I hate taking final exams at nine in the morning in a language I’m not particularly good at? At least the rest of the day’s free. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/70 "2009-12-25T17:30:52Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Have I mentioned I hate taking final exams at nine in the morning in a language I’m not particularly good at? > > At least the rest of the day’s free. Yuck. What language? ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/71 "2009-12-25T17:36:00Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Season’s Greetings. :dubious: Alas, ya can’t pick your relatives. So what ARE your traditions, that we might give them the respect they deserve? I’m Jewish. I celebrate Hanukkah. I am a convert from a family of people who range on the scale from “religion, huh?” to in church 4 times a week, saved, sanctified Pentecostals, all of whom celebrate Christmas. I know I’m an outlier, but _they all know_, they just either don’t care or passive-aggressively ignore what they know about me to foist their beliefs about what I should be on me. Oddly enough, the ones least inclined to recognize my Judaism are the ones who only darken the doorstep of churches for weddings and funerals. Maybe its guilt? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/72 "2009-12-25T17:39:46Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > Thinking about cooking some pancakes & sausage. Thinking about heading out for pancakes and sausage here. I figure someplace like a Denny’s would be open, and I could get a good breakfast with minimal fuss. Right now, just having my coffee, surfing the SDMB, and having fun with our cats, who got some new toys in their stockings. So far, they’re a hit. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/73 "2009-12-25T17:49:29Z")
> [@SecondJudith](#): > > It isn’t personal, but it is pretty much impossible to avoid the marketing and social blitz of CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS YOU SHOULD BE HAVING LOVING-FAMILY-TOGETHER-PARTY-PRESENTS TIME! from November on. It’s not about being offended, it’s about self-defense. Make that September on. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/74 "2009-12-25T17:58:56Z")
> [@willthekittensurvive](#): > > I going make my famous tagliatelli with leaks [Leeks](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.savvy-sirens-superfoods.com/images/Leeks_newBig.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.savvy-sirens-superfoods.com/Leeks.html&h=300&w=300&sz=7&tbnid=csch963Ll39ohM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dleeks&usg=__fB2v4saw-SvFqbwmJox_MZz6up4=&ei=Nf00S_HREYOZlAep5IWZBw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=6&ct=image&ved=0CBwQ9QEwBQ)? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/75 "2009-12-25T18:56:53Z")
Christmas isn’t a holiday I really celebrate, so things are quiet chez twicks. Puttered around online for a while this morning; opened the gift bag from my sister (a few little things and a lovely card); put the insulating blanket on the new(ish) water heater to get it [the blanket, the water heater is has been in the basement all along] off the dining room table, where it’s been sitting since I bought it a couple of weeks ago; started dinner prep. Having a couple of people over; they’ll be here in half an hour or so. Dinner with them, then we’re supposed to go over to the house of one of them for dessert and _Holiday Inn_, but I may just beg off and take a nap. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/76 "2009-12-25T19:25:45Z")
As I’ve mentioned in other threads, my brother has started spending Christmas morning with his wife’s family (he married this year; this started last year). As a result, we had Christmas last night. This morning I slept in and am now slopping around my apartment and listening to the Brandenburg Concertos, although I really should do some chores. We’re having Christmas dinner (the second of three) with his wife’s family tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/77 "2009-12-25T19:34:41Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > I’m Jewish. I celebrate Hanukkah. I am a convert from a family of people who range on the scale from “religion, huh?” to in church 4 times a week, saved, sanctified Pentecostals, all of whom celebrate Christmas. I know I’m an outlier, but _they all know_, they just either don’t care or passive-aggressively ignore what they know about me to foist their beliefs about what I should be on me. > > Oddly enough, the ones least inclined to recognize my Judaism are the ones who only darken the doorstep of churches for weddings and funerals. Maybe its guilt? Well this Gentile hopes your Hanukkah was a good one. My problem is with the purely fabricated holidays, Xmas isn’t completely fabricated, just certain parts are. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/78 "2009-12-25T20:42:56Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Have I mentioned I hate taking final exams at nine in the morning in a language I’m not particularly good at? Ma karah?\* \*“What happened?” Already gotten in trouble for not posting in English once. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/79 "2009-12-26T00:14:51Z")
We’ve already opened presents and we’re waiting for the turkey to finish. I’m supposed to be working on stuff but… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432/80 "2009-12-26T00:46:20Z")
We’re shivering through the coldest Boxing Day that any of us can remember: it’s misty, wet and the temperature is only 12C. Normally we’d be outside having a BBQ or something. Instead we’re inside watching the cricket and grazing on yesterday’s leftovers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-the-sdmb-instead-of-celebrating-and-why/522432.md?page=5)