It's not really Christmas until....

[JohnDB]

What puts you in the "Christmas mood"?

The first or 23rd Christmas Carol?
People wishing you a Merry Christmas?
Seeing Christmas decorations?
Receiving a Christmas gift?
Giving a Christmas gift?
Watching a particular Christmas show?
(Hans Gruber falling off the Nakatomi Towers does it for me)

What puts you in the Christmas mood?

 

[Wrg1405]

What puts you in the "Christmas mood"?

The first or 23rd Christmas Carol?
People wishing you a Merry Christmas?
Seeing Christmas decorations?
Receiving a Christmas gift?
Giving a Christmas gift?
Watching a particular Christmas show?
(Hans Gruber falling off the Nakatomi Towers does it for me)

What puts you in the Christmas mood?

For me it's the 1st December. I remember as a nipper walking back from school in dark nights and seeing Christmas Trees all dressed up with tinsel and lights in the windows of people's houses.

I'm not allowed to decorate our Christmas Tree. To my wife my idea is tacky. I love a tree with lots of tinsel and flashing lights. The more the merrier.

Going Christmas shopping, not for me but for my family and others.

I think on a serious note though that the world seems to think about Christmas as good tiding and will, reconciliation.
That floats my boat. That's what I pray for.

With regards to Mr Gruber, great film

 

[Papa Zoom]

Music practice...and the tons of Christmas activities I have going on in my art class

 

[jasonc]

When I choke er kindly suggest something to a customer,er ornery , lost and confused snowbird.these flock en mass and have a season.why? Dear Lord can't we shoot them?

 

[reba]

these words .. please read them slowly they really pack a wallop

Hark! the herald angels sing
Glory to the new-born King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!

Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With th' angelic host proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem!
Hark! the herald angels sing
Glory to the new-born King!

Christ, by highest heaven adored;
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
Late in time behold Him come,
Offspring of the Virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail, the incarnate Deity,
Pleased as man with man to dwell;
Jesus, our Emmanuel!

Hark! the herald angels sing
Glory to the new-born King!

Mild He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
Risen with healing in His wings,
Light and life to all He brings,

Hail, the Son of Righteousness!
Hail, the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hark! the herald angels sing
Glory to the new-born King!

Come, Desire of nations come,
Fix in us Thy humble home;
Rise, the Woman's conquering Seed,
Bruise in us the Serpent's head.
Adam's likeness now efface:
Stamp Thine image in its place;
Second Adam, from above,
Reinstate us in Thy love.
Hark! the herald angels sing
Glory to the new-born King!

 

[Christ_empowered]

the weather has turned cold(er), the leaves have mostly fallen; the air is crisp and cool.

With that...cookies, ornaments, sweaters, sky gets dark 6ish. that one radio station plays christmas songs 24/7. The one cat, minnie, her fur gets huge and puffy. All the outdoor potted plants have to be brought in, and the spare room looks like a greenhouse.

Then, its Christmas time.

 

[jasonc]

Cold in florida.oh no I can't wear me flip.flops

 

[ezra]

real Christmas spirit for me is till about week before Christmas. to commercialized

 

[Wrg1405]

You go into town and fancy a coffee from s/bucks
And then wait 45 minutes in the queue

 

[Jethro Bodine]

You go into town and fancy a coffee from s/bucks
And then wait 45 minutes in the queue

Let's try it again in American English.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Cold in florida.oh no I can't wear me flip.flops

That's when Floridians turn on the Fireplace video:

 

[Jethro Bodine]

the weather has turned cold(er), the leaves have mostly fallen; the air is crisp and cool.

Ditto for me.
The weather always starts the Christmas season for me.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

The...23rd Christmas Carol?

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the discount store..."

 

[jasonc]

when the arguments if its pagan or not begin.

then enter the one guy who hates the romulan catholic. an yes I want to spell it romulan.lol

 

[Wrg1405]

Let's try it again in American English.

One only speaks the Queens English

 

[JohnDB]

One only speaks the Queens English

Or what we call English English...
Different from Aussie English or Indian English, South African English, Irish English...

And then there is Canadian English eh?, And Californian English, North Eastern English, Southern English...

 

[jasonc]

One only speaks the Queens English

Que is not a common word.we don't call hoods, bonnets,cars, carriages,and biscuits ,cookies.a gas pump isn't a servo.

 

[jasonc]

Que is not a common word.we don't call hoods, bonnets,cars, carriages,and biscuits ,cookies.a gas pump isn't a servo.

Not only did I have to learn pashto,dari,but U.K English as well.

 

[Wrg1405]

Que is not a common word.we don't call hoods, bonnets,cars, carriages,and biscuits ,cookies.a gas pump isn't a servo.

As it would be over here,

Thine Master, wouldst thou care for thee to lift ones bonnet of your car to check the servo whilst thou has a hot cup of English tea and a nice biscuit?

 

[jasonc]

As it would be over here,

Thine Master, wouldst thou care for thee to lift ones bonnet of your car to check the servo whilst thou has a hot cup of English tea and a nice biscuit?

Lol,you don't speak Elizabethean English . American English is closer to that then your English .

We don't have too many full serve gas stat ions either .