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czc said:
Well hopefully everyone enjoys opening their presents tonight.

Good morning everyone.
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What is with people doing that?! I know it's a thing, I just don't understand it. Xmas is tomorrow!

My understanding is thus (if we are to believe the fairy tale); if Father Xmas delivers prezzies on xmas eve and while the good kiddies are sleeping, you would then only be able to open them on Xmas day. Oh, and realise the milk is gone and cookies have been eaten.

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Solitude said:
Hehe well I start work again on the 5th. So luckily a bit longer. Are you starting again on Monday?
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Yup, only weekends and public holidays off for me.
 
BeoTeK said:
What is with people doing that?! I know it's a thing, I just don't understand it. Xmas is tomorrow!

My understanding is thus (if we are to believe the fairy tale); if Father Xmas delivers prezzies on xmas eve and while the good kiddies are sleeping, you would then only be able to open them on Xmas day. Oh, and realise the milk is gone and cookies have been eaten.

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Yup, only weekends and public holidays off for me.
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From Wikipedia:

Gift giving

During the Reformation in 16th- and 17th-century Europe, many Protestants changed the gift bringer to the Christ Child or Christkindl, and the date of giving gifts changed from December 6 to Christmas Eve.[19] It is the night when Santa Claus makes his rounds delivering gifts to good children. Many trace the custom of giving gifts to the Magi who brought gifts for the Christ child in the manger.

In the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Hungary, where Saint Nicholas (sv. Mikuláš/szent Mikulás) gives his sweet gifts on December 6, the Christmas gift-giver is the Child Jesus (Ježíšek in Czech, Jézuska in Hungarian, Ježiško in Slovak and Isusek in Croatian).[20]

In most parts of Austria, Germany, Poland and Switzerland, presents are traditionally exchanged in the evening of December 24. Children are commonly told that presents were brought either by the Christkind (German for Christchild),[21] or the Weihnachtsmann. Both leave the gifts, but are in most families not seen doing so. In Germany, the gifts are also brought on 6 December by Knecht Ruprecht.


In Finland, Joulupukki, in Norway Julenissen and in Sweden Jultomten, personally meets children and gives presents in the evening of Christmas Eve.[22][23]

In Argentina, Austria, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Quebec, Romania, Uruguay, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, Christmas presents are opened mostly on the evening of the 24th — this is also the tradition among the British Royal Family, due to their mainly German ancestry[24] — while in Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, English Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, this occurs mostly on the morning of Christmas Day.

In other Latin American countries, people stay awake until midnight, when they open the presents.

In Spain, gifts are traditionally opened on the morning of January 6, Epiphany day ("Día de Los Tres Reyes Magos"),[25] though in some other countries, like Argentina and Uruguay, people receive presents both around Christmas and on the morning of Epiphany day.

In Belgium and the Netherlands they also celebrate Sinterklaas on December 5.[26]
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czc said:
Well hopefully everyone enjoys opening their presents tonight.

Good morning everyone.
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My brother and I already gifted who we wanted to gift.
I really don't expect anything for Christmas. Something must be wrong with me.
 
Hagan said:
My brother and I already gifted who we wanted to gift.
I really don't expect anything for Christmas. Something must be wrong with me.
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Same here, I've told everyone to not get anything for me as I haven't for them. I'm not much in the xmas spirit this year, despite it being a huge part of my life before. Told them to get for my son, as he is the only one I bought for.

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Solitude said:
I'm sorry to hear that BeoTeK. I hope you have a good Christmas though!
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Thanks Soli ;) o/
 
Morning everyone. Today is car wash day and starting to get the food ready for tomorrow. We also don't do the gift thing nor do we have any decorations up. My only gifts this year was the secret Santa event here and another one at a friends house.
 
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In the spirit of Christmas, here is a great little story. Taken from FB.

A Russian couple was walking down the street in St. Petersburg the other night, when the man felt a drop hit his nose. "I think it's raining," he said to his wife.

"No, that felt more like snow to me," she replied. "No, I'm sure it was just rain, he said." Well, as these things go, they were about to have a major argument about whether it was raining or snowing. Just then they saw a minor communist party official walking toward them. "Let's not fight about it," the man said, "let's ask Comrade Rudolph whether it's officially raining or snowing."

As the official approached, the man said, "Tell us, Comrade Rudolph, is it officially raining or snowing?"

"It's raining, of course," he answered and walked on. But the woman insisted: "I know that felt like snow!" To which the man quietly replied: "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!"
 
Hmmm. A Christmas gift to myself. 8 hours worth of CPE credits in 17 minutes.

Sometimes I wonder why we bother with it.
 
So I've just been to pick n pay with a random shopping list for my mom. While I'm waiting in the line I figured let's play a game.

Pick 3 items you would buy to freak out a teller.
 
Ike_009 said:
So I've just been to pick n pay with a random shopping list for my mom. While I'm waiting in the line I figured let's play a game.

Pick 3 items you would buy to freak out a teller.
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Slayer - Greatest Hits, 50 Gospel Classics & a box of ammunition.

Or must it be products sold at P&P?
 
GReeN_ORB said:
I just did the exam at the end of the course, to see how much I knew without reading the material (120 page PDF).

Turns out, enough to pass the course...
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Bwahahahaha that is awesome dude.

Unfortunately the architects don't get it that easy, they need to attend seminars and a whole day one gives them 2 CPD points!
 
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