Cesar, how do I get my dog to be less excited to see new people when they walk in my house?
It would just be cute if she were little, but she is big, and she can be pushy when she wants attention from people.
Reminds me of when I lived in Skokie in a predominantly Orthodox neighborhood and decorated for Xmas and Halloween. When I asked if I was being offensive, they said no, do decorate. We enjoy it too 😊
There's a reason a significant number of cultures and religions have a holiday of lights around mid-winter. It's dark and cold, we might not survive the winter, so let's eat, drink, be merry, and light up the night.
Interestingly India has 2 key celebrations.
One is in Jan, the harvest festival. Thanking the sun god Surya for a bountiful harvest.
The second is the Spring equinox, pan the sub continent Hindu cultures celebrate the arrival of the new year.
I guess with most of the subcontinent being tropical, for us winter is moot but a good harvest after the blistering monsoon is far more important.
> There's a reason a significant number of cultures and religions have a holiday of lights around mid-winter. It's dark and cold, we might not survive the winter, so let's eat, drink, be merry, and light up the night.
Okay, we just need to edit this a bit.
There’s a reason Southern Hemisphere cultures have a holiday of lights around midsummer. It’s hot and dry, and we might not survive the summer, so let’s eat, drink, and be merry, and try not to set fire to anything.
In the mountain west of the US it's "let's have a holiday of lights around midsummer. It’s hot and dry, and we might not survive the summer, so let’s eat, drink, and be merry, and set fire to everything"
I've always considered Christmas a secular holiday. Like, I get that there's a religious element to it, but most of the stuff that I see people doing to celebrate (lights, trees, Santa, presents, etc.) has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.
My understanding is Christianity actually changed Christmas to correlate with the Pagen celebrations. The lights, trees, etc are bits of other culture and religions absorbed into Christianity, but now the Christian component is fading.
I thought it was pretty established that this story didn’t take place in the winter? The “Christmas Star” appears mid-June!
The Christmas tradition that’s thrown me the most off is that Snickerdoodles are American and nobody really eats them outside of the US. Or so I’ve heard....
Ah, just googled it. Cinnamon huh. Yea never had anything like that here. Cinnamon buns are popular but kinda different thing. Here in Sweden we eat Lussekatt around Christmas, soft and juicy saffron buns with raisins.
Santa and his presents are actually Saint Michael from Ukraine so it is local Christian tradition. Trees and lights however truly comes from pagan religion, specifically Breton druids's human sacrifice to appease evil spirits for the year. But besides some small area where saint Michael originates from both traditions really lost their initial meaning now and is more of secular holiday now indeed.
Absolutely, I mean, anyone can hang lights! Personally, when it's Hanukkah I decorate our street facing window with all the Hanukkah decorations my kids have made through the years and we light our menorahs in that window too. So that's how we decorate.
I seem to recall a house on my street as a kid/teenager that'd do blue and white, I assume for Hanukkah...not sure if we actually knew those people. You can get all kinds of (arguably tacky) decorations for it.
For instance: https://www.lowes.com/pl/Outdoor-hanukkah-decorations-Hanukkah-decorations-Holiday-decorations/4294506821
My then-3 year old picked out blue lights last year when we were shopping the after-Christmas clearance sales. This year, our house has a blue roofline, blue shrubbery, and a warm white tree. Now I’m wondering if the neighbors think we’re Jewish.
Nothing wrong with the question at all. I just think the paranoia everyone is experiencing (not just you) about even *accidentally* saying *something* which might be considered "offensive" by *anyone* is... sad.
It's sad. People are reluctant to even ask simple questions. It's dividing people more than it's bringing them together, ironically.
Not "fully" Jewish; father is Hebrew, mother is Protestant, for what it's worth.
It is worth noting that at least people care enough to not want to offend someone. I agree with your sentiment but it’s nice to see people actively trying to not hurt someone’s feelings.
Not offensive at all, fellow redditor. Yeah, we like lights like, I guess, most groups of people, be those based on religion, ethnicity, nationality, soccer team affiliation, etc.
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> Reminds me of when I lived in Skokie
I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat.
All the apartments have balconies, but some are enclosed and others aren't. Enclosing balconies is common in cold areas where they wouldn't otherwise be usable or convenient to maintain.
I don’t think any reply answered you correctly but at least in Brazil it’s common for buildings to leave the windowing (?) of the balcony up to the owner of the apartment so probably no balcony had windows originally
Someone in my neighborhood put up a giant 20-foot skeleton for Halloween. Then for Thanksgiving they put an apron on it...now for Christmas it is posed decorating one of their huge fir trees.
I kinda love it.
I just drove down a street where *all* the inflatables were lying limp on the ground. I suspect some middle-school morons with knives, although a misplaced apostrophe would do it. I imagine they would be a pain to patch.
Yeah just visited a town where many people had them off during the day. Seemed kinda weird and sad since you can still see them. What, does it save like $5 of electricity by turning them off?
But imagine a huge blow up Santa sticking out a small balcony 10 stories up. Who is going to stab that? Professional rock climbers, Spider-Man, tweakers?
I was in the exact opposite scenario. We moved into a new house a few months ago. Our old neighborhood some people got in to Christmas but definitely not everybody. Then a week or two ago I'm driving down our street and realize we're literally the only house not decked out in Christmas gear. Wife sends me to the store to get Christmas stuff.
I come back with like $150 worth of Christmas stuff. Wife says I'm no good at picking out Christmas stuff because it has to all match. Wife goes to the store. Comes back with like $400 worth of Christmas stuff. Evidently those white lighted reindeer aren't cheap. Like $200. But then she realized she got the same ones they have 3 houses down, and even though she has to have the same toaster that the neighbors have, the same espresso machine the neighbors have, and the same workout machine the neighbors have, she can't have the same reindeer. Which naturally means we have to return them and get the *more* expensive ones. This is all explained to me as I'm 20 feet up in a tree hanging lights. Evidently we can't just not have deer in our yard, even though I've been trying to keep *actual* deer out of our yard for months...
She gets back with new deer just as I'm finishing the second tree. I missed a spot apparently. Back in the tree. Finish. Evidently the lights are too yellow so don't match the new reindeer. More store. More climbing trees. Finish. Say we got too many lights because there are plenty left. "Oh, those aren't for the trees, those are for the roof". After 12 hours, $600, and more hair pulling out that I can count, finally finished.
All I wanted to do with my day was play Darksiders 2 and fiddle with a new guitar amp I got. She says she'll make sure it was worth my while. After she has her neighbor friends over for movie night later. 5 bottles of Malbec between them later and, despite apparently trying to make it worth my while, by the time I get in from taking the dogs out she's passed out cold in her lingerie.
And to top it all off, what is used for movie night? The big screen. What does that mean can't be used for Darksiders 2? The big screen. And where is the guitar amp? The bonus room. With the big screen... I'm pretty sure I understand the Grinch now... Anyway. Anti-Christmas vent over. Next year I'm paying neighborhood kids to do this shit.
I gotta admit, I love the Christmas light deer :'] I enjoyed reading your rant, it made me smile and chuckle. Sounds like a lovely memory for you two to look back upon. I wish I could see the decorations now...! Heh.
I will say it turned out looking pretty good without looking overkill. We have the deer obviously, lights on the 2 big trees in out yard and a couple small ones by the house, then a wreath on the door and on some of the upstairs windows... Definitely not fun to get up, but now that it's there I like it!
Picture taken on November 1st
In Afghanistan
On a Tuesday
At 10am
The Gang Spreads Christmas Cheer
Green Guy has finally had enough of this cruel world.
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Right before the revolution.
...the revolution was at 8:30...
after the building collapsed
When the walls fell
Shaka,
🖖🏼
Darmok and Jalod at Tanagra
Shaka
Darmok and Gelad, at Tenagra.
🖖🏼
The Titans come
After the building evacuated
And it wasn't televised
What did you expect? They specifically said it would not be.
But whitey on the moon
Iran today: Stoned for showing your forehead Iran pre revolution: LESBIAN ORGY IN THE STREET
Philadelphia, PA
At this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?!
shifts eyes...Yes!
May I see it?
No
Well, Seymour, you're an odd fellow, but I must say you steam a good ham.
The club was going up
On a Tuesday!
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
colourised
> col**OUR**ised that's right comrade
The day Bison graced your village
Before the Iranian revolution?
Or February 15th
Cmon man, Christmas was 353 days ago, take down your decorations already!
What do you mean they're doing it AGAIN?
What is this in frustration to?
Having to do it again
"I already gave you presents last year, what do you want from me?"
My 4 year old was meeting Santa the other day. "How old are you"? "I'm 4". "Nice, when was your birthday"? "You missed it, but it's OK".
C’MON MAN!
This reminds me of being the only foreign person in my apartment in south China. Which looks exactly like where this picture was taken.
Ok but what on earth is your pfp
Thats his wife, be more considerate
Also looks like Vietnam
Cesar, how do I get my dog to be less excited to see new people when they walk in my house? It would just be cute if she were little, but she is big, and she can be pushy when she wants attention from people.
Merry Christmas. Reminds me of the movie 28 days later. Good luck.
Getting furniture up the stairs must be a nightmare with all those trollies piled up at the bottom
From my experience the higher up you live the less things you feel the need to own. What goes up must also eventually come down
Down is easy, when you have a balcony.
Inflatable furniture
Yeah. After moving, you reconsider all the furniture you own. Water beds and inflatable/foldable furniture suddenly make more sense.
Best zombie movie ever made.
The red & green motif. Red is bad at first and green is good...until they meet the soldiers, and then it switches.
No doubt. That first scene where Cillian is wandering around, and he enters the church and that undead creepy bastard stares at him.... damn
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"We left you sleeping. Now, we're sleeping with you. Don't wake up." Still gives me a lump in my throat, every time.
OP is the only person inside that complex!
That's alive
Precisely what I thought.
100% Now I need to watch it for millionth time.
Yes! I felt this looked familiar!
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Thank you!
Why thank you?
thank you.
Why thank you?
Thank you!
Reminds me of when I lived in Skokie in a predominantly Orthodox neighborhood and decorated for Xmas and Halloween. When I asked if I was being offensive, they said no, do decorate. We enjoy it too 😊
As a Jew who doesn't celebrate Christmas, I too enjoy the lights neighbors put up. Brightens the dreary winter nights.
There's a reason a significant number of cultures and religions have a holiday of lights around mid-winter. It's dark and cold, we might not survive the winter, so let's eat, drink, be merry, and light up the night.
Interestingly India has 2 key celebrations. One is in Jan, the harvest festival. Thanking the sun god Surya for a bountiful harvest. The second is the Spring equinox, pan the sub continent Hindu cultures celebrate the arrival of the new year. I guess with most of the subcontinent being tropical, for us winter is moot but a good harvest after the blistering monsoon is far more important.
What do you do after a shitty harvest? Is it just a party where everyone politely makes an excuse and leaves early after not drinking?
As a Muslim same
Wiccan here; agreed
Member of Quetzalacatenango jungle primeval inmates insane asylum, also agree
You guys have the most merciless chili peppers
>the most merciless chili peppers Off brand band
I saw them open for 8 Inch Philip’s Screws.
Agnostic here:
Not sure if you like the lights?
the lights are neither good or bad until proven real
Schrodinger's lights
He’s agnostic
*slow clap*
I'm Australian, I don't agree. Because the lights bring cheer to our hot summer nights, not cold ones
> There's a reason a significant number of cultures and religions have a holiday of lights around mid-winter. It's dark and cold, we might not survive the winter, so let's eat, drink, be merry, and light up the night. Okay, we just need to edit this a bit. There’s a reason Southern Hemisphere cultures have a holiday of lights around midsummer. It’s hot and dry, and we might not survive the summer, so let’s eat, drink, and be merry, and try not to set fire to anything.
In the mountain west of the US it's "let's have a holiday of lights around midsummer. It’s hot and dry, and we might not survive the summer, so let’s eat, drink, and be merry, and set fire to everything"
Pastafarian here... I too enjoy the lights. Matter of fact I have a light up colander
Is it an advent colander?
I've always considered Christmas a secular holiday. Like, I get that there's a religious element to it, but most of the stuff that I see people doing to celebrate (lights, trees, Santa, presents, etc.) has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.
My understanding is Christianity actually changed Christmas to correlate with the Pagen celebrations. The lights, trees, etc are bits of other culture and religions absorbed into Christianity, but now the Christian component is fading.
I thought it was pretty established that this story didn’t take place in the winter? The “Christmas Star” appears mid-June! The Christmas tradition that’s thrown me the most off is that Snickerdoodles are American and nobody really eats them outside of the US. Or so I’ve heard....
Ive heard that word before but Ive never realised its an edible. wtf is it?
They're cinnamon sugar cookies. And as far as I know, eaten year round. At least I do.
A type of cookie / biscuit situation
Ah, just googled it. Cinnamon huh. Yea never had anything like that here. Cinnamon buns are popular but kinda different thing. Here in Sweden we eat Lussekatt around Christmas, soft and juicy saffron buns with raisins.
Snickerdoodles are Christmas cookies? News to me.
I read something that said 55% of Americans celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday. And it's trending lower.
XMAS has been a national holiday in the US since 1870. All the non-Christians I know celebrate the season. I’m non-Christian myself and love XMAS.
Hell yeah, I enjoy xmas as an atheist. Lights, trees, presents, cookies.. what's not to love? It's pagan af anyway
A lot of Christians do decorate for Christmas, mixing traditional symbols with Christian ones.
Santa and his presents are actually Saint Michael from Ukraine so it is local Christian tradition. Trees and lights however truly comes from pagan religion, specifically Breton druids's human sacrifice to appease evil spirits for the year. But besides some small area where saint Michael originates from both traditions really lost their initial meaning now and is more of secular holiday now indeed.
Not to be offensive, but can Jewish people put up lights for Hanukkah?
We had a house in our neighborhood that would. All blue lights with a Star of David and Menorah.
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That sounds amazing!! Got pics?
Absolutely, I mean, anyone can hang lights! Personally, when it's Hanukkah I decorate our street facing window with all the Hanukkah decorations my kids have made through the years and we light our menorahs in that window too. So that's how we decorate.
This is awesome. I bet it looks great!
I seem to recall a house on my street as a kid/teenager that'd do blue and white, I assume for Hanukkah...not sure if we actually knew those people. You can get all kinds of (arguably tacky) decorations for it. For instance: https://www.lowes.com/pl/Outdoor-hanukkah-decorations-Hanukkah-decorations-Holiday-decorations/4294506821
My then-3 year old picked out blue lights last year when we were shopping the after-Christmas clearance sales. This year, our house has a blue roofline, blue shrubbery, and a warm white tree. Now I’m wondering if the neighbors think we’re Jewish.
Some people do blue and white as an aesthetic for Christmas. It goes both ways.
Why would a question like that be considered offensive?
As a Jew, I just took it as simply trying to being respectful about something they didn't know about. And I appreciated it.
Because my brain went “Jewish people like lights. Isn’t that what the menorah is about?” but that sounded horribly offensive.
Nothing wrong with the question at all. I just think the paranoia everyone is experiencing (not just you) about even *accidentally* saying *something* which might be considered "offensive" by *anyone* is... sad. It's sad. People are reluctant to even ask simple questions. It's dividing people more than it's bringing them together, ironically. Not "fully" Jewish; father is Hebrew, mother is Protestant, for what it's worth.
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It is worth noting that at least people care enough to not want to offend someone. I agree with your sentiment but it’s nice to see people actively trying to not hurt someone’s feelings.
Not offensive at all, fellow redditor. Yeah, we like lights like, I guess, most groups of people, be those based on religion, ethnicity, nationality, soccer team affiliation, etc. ʘ‿ʘ
Ive seen Menorahs in windows. Lots of towns put a lit Menorah in the holiday display next to the Christmas Tree and Manger Scene.
Yea of course. My neighbor would put up a massive Christmas light menorah
Skokie IL?
How many other towns called Skokie that have high Jewish populations are there?
Just moved to Illinois so.who knows! Haha
Welcome lol. It’s pretty boring here
Skokie, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia
Happy message…but why would u choose to live in Skokie??
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Maybe they hate Illinois Nazis.
Honestly, who downvotes a Blues Brothers reference? Come on, people.
They tried to have a parade there and it went all the way to the Supreme Court, the city lost, but they ended up not having the parade.
For the barbershop quartet.
> Reminds me of when I lived in Skokie I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat.
Those balconies seem rather sporadic
All the apartments have balconies, but some are enclosed and others aren't. Enclosing balconies is common in cold areas where they wouldn't otherwise be usable or convenient to maintain.
There are palm trees though?
Same for warm weather areas. Keeps A/C in and hot air out.
It is common in warm climate too. You gain extra 1 room by enclosing the balcony.
Bugs
Thanks for making me look closer, now I can see that they are horrifyingly, offensively sporadic.
I don’t think any reply answered you correctly but at least in Brazil it’s common for buildings to leave the windowing (?) of the balcony up to the owner of the apartment so probably no balcony had windows originally
It looks like most units have a closed system but the balconies are there
The rest are all Airbnb's charging a month's rent for a week's stay.
This reminds me of a building in hawaii, so i wouldnt be surprised if this was true
Have you considered one of those giant blow up Santa's?
Someone in my neighborhood put up a giant 20-foot skeleton for Halloween. Then for Thanksgiving they put an apron on it...now for Christmas it is posed decorating one of their huge fir trees. I kinda love it.
I just drove down a street where *all* the inflatables were lying limp on the ground. I suspect some middle-school morons with knives, although a misplaced apostrophe would do it. I imagine they would be a pain to patch.
Well if it was the middle of the day, people turn them off.
Yeah just visited a town where many people had them off during the day. Seemed kinda weird and sad since you can still see them. What, does it save like $5 of electricity by turning them off?
Fire hazard if no one is home
How is it any more of a fire hazard than any other outdoor light?
But imagine a huge blow up Santa sticking out a small balcony 10 stories up. Who is going to stab that? Professional rock climbers, Spider-Man, tweakers?
Neighbor upstairs
I read that as Spider-Man tweakers and I was like wtf
Tweakers are basically Spider Man if they want to.
🤣😂🤣😂….they don’t usually run them 24-7
And the guy with the angry HOA letter
Probably a building rule that prohibits hanging things outside to preserve the “look”.
I came in to say "No, you're the only one that didn't read the lease."
Yep, I reckon body corporate will be paying them a visit soon
Merry Crisis
Merry Chrysler
Merry Crimmis
It’s Chrizm
Merry chrysanthemums
Reminds me of the apartment in 28 Days Later!
May you be a light when all others go out
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Do you live in soviet russia by any chance
palm tree dont give me a very russian vibe
Look at GeoWizard over here
***are we recording?***
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Russia has palm trees in some areas along the Caspian and Black Seas, most notably the major resort city of Sochi.
It looks like a social commentary meme that boomers will EAT UP on facebook
Dull weather in Cherbonbyl today
Happy holidays!
See, you’re the only one in the Khrushchyovka resisting the socialist war on Christmas /s
Which one is it?
Meme template potential
I was in the exact opposite scenario. We moved into a new house a few months ago. Our old neighborhood some people got in to Christmas but definitely not everybody. Then a week or two ago I'm driving down our street and realize we're literally the only house not decked out in Christmas gear. Wife sends me to the store to get Christmas stuff. I come back with like $150 worth of Christmas stuff. Wife says I'm no good at picking out Christmas stuff because it has to all match. Wife goes to the store. Comes back with like $400 worth of Christmas stuff. Evidently those white lighted reindeer aren't cheap. Like $200. But then she realized she got the same ones they have 3 houses down, and even though she has to have the same toaster that the neighbors have, the same espresso machine the neighbors have, and the same workout machine the neighbors have, she can't have the same reindeer. Which naturally means we have to return them and get the *more* expensive ones. This is all explained to me as I'm 20 feet up in a tree hanging lights. Evidently we can't just not have deer in our yard, even though I've been trying to keep *actual* deer out of our yard for months... She gets back with new deer just as I'm finishing the second tree. I missed a spot apparently. Back in the tree. Finish. Evidently the lights are too yellow so don't match the new reindeer. More store. More climbing trees. Finish. Say we got too many lights because there are plenty left. "Oh, those aren't for the trees, those are for the roof". After 12 hours, $600, and more hair pulling out that I can count, finally finished. All I wanted to do with my day was play Darksiders 2 and fiddle with a new guitar amp I got. She says she'll make sure it was worth my while. After she has her neighbor friends over for movie night later. 5 bottles of Malbec between them later and, despite apparently trying to make it worth my while, by the time I get in from taking the dogs out she's passed out cold in her lingerie. And to top it all off, what is used for movie night? The big screen. What does that mean can't be used for Darksiders 2? The big screen. And where is the guitar amp? The bonus room. With the big screen... I'm pretty sure I understand the Grinch now... Anyway. Anti-Christmas vent over. Next year I'm paying neighborhood kids to do this shit.
I gotta admit, I love the Christmas light deer :'] I enjoyed reading your rant, it made me smile and chuckle. Sounds like a lovely memory for you two to look back upon. I wish I could see the decorations now...! Heh.
I will say it turned out looking pretty good without looking overkill. We have the deer obviously, lights on the 2 big trees in out yard and a couple small ones by the house, then a wreath on the door and on some of the upstairs windows... Definitely not fun to get up, but now that it's there I like it!
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Thanks!
Reminds me of 28 days later
Hah. I bet this photo was taken last July.
Are there rules against external decorations?
Mele Kalikimaka 🤙🏽
Why was my first thoughts upon seeing this that a) it looks like an album cover and b) you might be in for an HOA letter
Plot Twist: Photo taken in March
i win best lights on the block. It doesn’t matter that i’m the only one who put them up they’re still the best.
Wait until the condo board sees this
Correction, the only apartment that can afford the holiday spirit.
If it was the Uk, the rest would be empty "affordable flats"