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dishonourableaccount t1_iz32w7m wrote

This is my gripe with the current commercialized Christmas season. Not for religious reasons or anything, but I never felt Christmassy until I was actually on vacation from school or off work, usually a couple days before Christmas. That's when I'd want to spend time with family, listen to music, and all that.

But nope, at December 26 at midnight all the radio stations that have been blaring holiday music since mid November go back to pop music. And the commercial calendar pushes New Year's Eve on us immediately.

I would love to see that shift back to celebrating a big holiday break.

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Spram2 t1_iz52fss wrote

Protestant vs. Catholic work ethic.

Protestant: Worry and prepare for Christmas and once it done, phew! It's finished, put the decorations in the box.

Catholic: Christmas is here! Let's get drunk for the next.. 2 months!

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NinjaCarcajou t1_iz4q4wr wrote

In Québec we play a lot of traditional music between Christmas Day and New Year which prolongs the festive ambiance.

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mgdraft t1_iz6b2to wrote

On a tangential note, the tiktok translating le ziguezon to English is some of the funniest shit I've ever seen, ngl.

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NinjaCarcajou t1_iz6h4ny wrote

Hahaa yeah I saw that. It doesn’t really make more sense in French to be honest.

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eairy t1_iz52ciz wrote

Yeah it's weird how the 'festival' of Christmas has somehow been reversed.

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seems_fishy t1_iz5ezkm wrote

It's no longer profitable to advertise Christmas after Christmas. They gotta make that quick switch to New Years before it's too late.

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asphalt_incline t1_iz6ci1f wrote

Guilty on the mid-November, but I scheduled our station's Christmas clocks out to December 31.

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herbw t1_iz6wggz wrote

We always celebrated mass on Jesus Christos Mass.

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