Xmas Dalek-orate

It’s 23rd December, folks, which means today is properly when Christmas decorations are traditionally put up (or put up with).

DE-COR-ATE OR EXTERMINATE!
EXTERMIN-COR-RATE!
DE-COR-MINATE!
MASTUR-DECOR-TERMIN-BATE!

Would you like a cup of tea instead?

EFFIN’ LAG YOU ARE, MATE!
We’d started and done it WEEKS ago!

Now pull up your panties and go play with the power socket.

Images via Imgur (top) and c4c (bottom).

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D’you not know your own traditions?

EVERYONE is desperate for money and looking for all sorts of crass ways to generate some moolah.

You’re tempting fate, mate
(hat tip to M.K.L.)

I hate to break the latest news to some of you, but just sayin’:—

Traditionally, the ‘Yule tree’ is put up on the 23rd December, or no earlier than the 20th December.

For Catholics, particularly those in Italy and Latin America, it can be put up earlier on Immaculate Conception (1st December), mainly on the entertaining idea that Catholics are considered more ‘devout’ than any other version of Christians.

(We’ll leave the meaning of ‘devout’ to our respective personal definitions. Your opinion requires self-assembly, just as IKEA furniture does.)

Not very interestingly, the Christmas tree was originally a German tradition dating back to the 16th century, and brought to the English-speaking world in the late 19th century by Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort to Queen Victoria of Great Britain. All the other Europeans wondered why it took 300 years for the Christmas tree to sink into English heads.

This version of Father Christmas will come visiting if you don’t listen
… if your credit-card debt hasn’t taken you down first
(artwork by R-Clifford at DeviantArt)

It is taken down on 6th January, Old Christmas Day, the day after Twelfth Night (5th January a.k.a. Epiphany Eve), which is the formal end of seasonal credit-card warfare … ahem … I mean, Yuletide.

To have a Christmas tree up before or after these dates is considered bad luck. No wonder everything is a friggin’ shambles nowadays.

Which is why John Connor was ‘terminated’ on 4th July 2032 by the Terminator Model T101.

You have been told, saps.

“Blrrrbbb” (via m4f)

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