Christmas 2006: Post what you got!

I have no doubts that Christ was a nice fellow, but the Church has over the past 1.800 years made the whole thing into a hollywood blockbuster and a thriving business!

 

Too old for Christmas, bah humbug...

We made sure our son had a good one tho.

We did the trick that Macwest suggested a while back i.e. got him to open all the 'small' presents first then slipped in the 'biggie' right at the end...it worked a treat and 'yes' I'm having fun boxing and cow jumping on, my, ooops! I mean his new Wii!!! lol

 

I bought myself a 360 3 days before xmas, then got to see my mom and gave all the family an Xbox with like 10 games for xmas. Got some clothes and stuff like that, then had to go to work....bleh. I don't think I would even mess with xmas if I didn't have a family or something.

 

since someone else brought it up...the roman catholics started the christmas tradition...christ mass or mass of christ literally translates into christs death sacrifice. somewhere along the way it went from an observance of christs death to a celebration of christs birth...to what we know today. some people take offense to 'merry christmas,' because they way they see it...you are mocking jesus's death. ...anyways...

 

Yes, it was celebrated as christ death origionally. However, there was an old Jewish beleif that said prophets died on the same day of the year they were born.

Also, Easter used to be the big catholic holiday, with christmas being of significantly lesser importance, but when England broke away from the vatican they decided to differenciate themselves by making christmas a major event. Ironically, when the US broke away from Britian christmas was no longer considered an important day, and not widely celebrated so we could could get rid of the English tradition.

Anyway, on christmas eve I was in walmart buying a 360 for my brother, and they had several PS3's in stock. Needless to say, I finally have a PS3. Other than that, I hate recieve gifts and am not disappointed on that front

 

a DVDiVX Player
Long Way Round DVD (absolutely amazin btw)
money
Wii Classic Controller
1GB SD Card
Card-Reader for PC
Tofu-cooking book
boxers
vegan sweets (which is quite cool since they're expensive as fuck)
3 t-shirts (code 13, ds-13 and vitamin x if anyone cares)
some vouchers

 

Some books by Dan Simmons and Glen Cook
a comics about the hidden life of one of our minister, the little nervous one
an old dvd player
the alien quadrilogy(the french post service/postman lost it/stole it)
a sweater

 

I'll PM you matey! ;-) Not yet sourced one, but the permission from wife bit is the important factor in this lol

 

some cloth
a toaster! (yay! ^^)
some cash for new shoes
a 2GB SD card for my Wii
a CD with the swedish chip-musicish band slagsmålsklubben

 

Can´t we just call them what they are, synthpop/Electro something in that genre , just like Page

 

yeah maybe would be easier to call them something like that even thought I personally see a difference ^^

 

sorry for going off topic in an off topic area, then Syntpopper is a great electro/synthpop song

I am a former Depeche Mode fan, who happens to be a synthmaniac.