While on a stroll through Tokyo once, I came across a local festival celebrating… something. I had no idea what, but there were pretty lights, fanciful decorations, local foods, and hordes of happy people, so I just rolled with it and had a blast.
It’s not hard.
Unless, well, you’re the Washington Post.
I wonder when eating Chinese on Christmas became a Jewish tradition.
What a good idea! I’m ordering out.
TV Funhouse: Christmastime For The Jews (sung by Darlene Love) – SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzO1ghRKp4&t=8s
1850, because the first time it isn’t a tradition yet.
Oy vey, those people are all gristle
The other secular thing to do on Christmas Day in Southern CA? Yeah, you could find a Vietnamese restaurant serving your favorite Pho and see a movie premiere of the latest eco-scold film. Or … you could go
to Disneyland! Where you will notice the crowds are heavily skewed to: Chinese, Gays, Lesbians, and Joos. How do I know this? Because I went to Disneyland on Thanksgiving Day once … and that was the crowd makeup on that decidedly American family holiday.
The Vietnamese I know would be at Christmas Mass.
I’d like to go here in Tokyo, I know I’m easily entertained:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ppS7C_5fcSc
and buy a beer from a vending machine.
They DO celebrate Christmas in Japan and have been doing so since the first Christmas Mass in 1522.
Merry Christmas.
If you don’t celebrate Christmas, Dec.25th is just another day in your life.
Why would you bother to do anything out of the ordinary on a day that means nothing to you?
Do your laundry or vacuum the house, wash the cat or dog, clean the bird cage. Maybe have a beer and watch reruns of last week’s football games. It’s just another day.
Hahaha … wash your hair.
Tried to read it. But too many pop-up, advertisements and bullshit.
L – Separating Dec. 25th from every other day in (3.50), testing 1, 2, 3, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ONn4T0_30A
Washington monument?
Washington was a slave owner. Time to tear down the Washington monument, and the Jefferson memorial.
And time to rename the city. Nancyville anyone?
Sarc (sort of)
DC is offensive too.
Need something people can really get behind.
Something that cries “hope” and change.
I suggest Obama, RC. Rainbow City
Yah can bee a secularist and still go with the flow. Some years ago, a Muslim, a Joo, and an atheist (me) in the Muslim’s office around Christmas time, and there were Merry Christmas greeting all round. Nobody got offended , only a$$holes get offended by something so traditional!
The only people who are offended about anything have degrees from a university where whack job professors with tenure can inculcate their student drones in correct speak by telling them what their mark will be if they don’t comply.
Wait a minute. I’m not allowed to say “boo!” About being forced to celebrate all things gay all summer, but one day of a Christian holiday is offensive?
Great point Lucy! They went from meekly stepping out of the closet, to demanding we notice, accept and celebrate them….or else. If everyone could just agree to live and let live, our world would be a much nicer place.
Christmas carols rewritten by Church of England vicar to be ‘more inclusive’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzJ-0R_aY64