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Check out his goatee and shirt...
7 weeks till xmas
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I love Leo, he makes carols enjoyable for men too lol
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Huge fan of Leo's work..
I still reckon his best effort to date was either:
Rhianna's Umbrella
OR
Adele's Hello
I still reckon his best effort to date was either:
Rhianna's Umbrella
OR
Adele's Hello
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My kids love: -
Ghostbusters
Wheels on the bus
Despacito
My girl loves Barbie Girl and Mambo #5 too lol
I love his covers of Fire Starter and Killing in the name.
Lol missus hates it but I got her singing along to my favourite song metal cover, My Way by Frank Sinatra.
It's my funeral song lol might have to use Old Blue Eyes version for the Church lol
Ghostbusters
Wheels on the bus
Despacito
My girl loves Barbie Girl and Mambo #5 too lol
I love his covers of Fire Starter and Killing in the name.
Lol missus hates it but I got her singing along to my favourite song metal cover, My Way by Frank Sinatra.
It's my funeral song lol might have to use Old Blue Eyes version for the Church lol
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This is from the Economist... Christmas sounds like it uses to be quite fun...
The Economist explains
The Economist explainsHow Christmas evolved from raucous carnival to domestic holiday
19th-century urbanisation was central to the festival’s recasting as a family event
The Economist explains
Dec 22nd 2017
by K.W.
THERE were no neatly wrapped presents. Nor were there tinselled trees or Santa Claus. Christmas in preindustrial Europe and America looked very different from today’s iteration. Drunks, cross-dressers and rowdy carollers roamed the streets. The tavern, rather than the home or the church, was the place to celebrate. “Men dishonour Christ more in the twelve days of Christmas, than in all the twelve months besides,”—so despaired Hugh Latimer, chaplain to King Edward VI, in the mid-1500s. Some 200 years later, across the Atlantic, a Puritan minister decried the “lewd gaming” and “rude revelling” of Christmastime in the colonies. Those concerns seem irrelevant now. By the end of the 19th century, a rambunctious, freewheeling holiday had turned into the peaceable, family-centred one we know today. How?
In early modern Europe, between about 1500 and 1800, the Christmas season meant a lull in agricultural labour and a chance to indulge. The harvest had been gathered and the animals slaughtered (the cold weather meant they would not spoil). The celebration involved heavy eating, drinking and wassailing, in which peasants would arrive at the houses of the neighbouring gentry and demand to be fed. One drinking song captured the mood: “And if you don’t open up your door, / We will lay you flat upon the floor.” Mostly this was tolerated in good humour—a kind of ritualised disorder, when the social hierarchy was temporarily inverted. Some were less tolerant. In colonial Massachusetts, between 1659 and 1681, Puritans banned Christmas. They expunged the day from their almanacs, and offending revellers risked a five-shilling fine. The ban did not last, so efforts to tame the holiday picked up instead. Moderation was advised. One almanac-writer cautioned in 1761 that “The temperate man enjoys the most delight, / For riot dulls and palls the appetite.” Still, Christmas was a public ritual, enacted in the tavern or street and often fuelled by alcohol.
That soon changed. Cities had expanded at the turn of the 19th century to absorb the growing number of factory workers. Vagrancy and urban poverty were by now common. Rowdiness at Christmas could turn violent, with bands of drunken men roaming the streets. It’s little surprise that members of the upper classes saw a threat in the festivity. In his study of the holiday, Stephen Nissenbaum, a historian, credits a group of patrician writers and editorialists in America with recasting it as a domestic event. They refashioned European traditions, like Christmas trees from Germany and Christmas boxes from England, in which the wealthy would present cash or leftovers to their servants. St Nicholas, or Santa Claus, whose December name day coincided with the Christmas season, became the holiday’s mascot. Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “A Visit from St Nicholas”, first publised in 1823, helped popularise his image. In it, a jolly Santa descends via reindeer-pulled sleigh to surprise children with presents on Christmas Eve. Newspapers also played their part. “Let all avoid taverns and grog shops for a few days,” advised the New York Heraldin 1839. Better to focus on “the domestic hearth, the virtuous wife, the innocent, smiling, merry-hearted children.”
It was a triumph of middle-class values, and a coup for shop-owners. “Christmas is the merchant’s harvest time,” one industry magazine enthused in 1908. “It is up to him to garner in as big a crop of dollars as he can.” Soon this new Christmas would become a target of criticism in its own right: as commercialised and superficial. Nevertheless it lives on.
The Economist explains
The Economist explainsHow Christmas evolved from raucous carnival to domestic holiday
19th-century urbanisation was central to the festival’s recasting as a family event
The Economist explains
Dec 22nd 2017
by K.W.
THERE were no neatly wrapped presents. Nor were there tinselled trees or Santa Claus. Christmas in preindustrial Europe and America looked very different from today’s iteration. Drunks, cross-dressers and rowdy carollers roamed the streets. The tavern, rather than the home or the church, was the place to celebrate. “Men dishonour Christ more in the twelve days of Christmas, than in all the twelve months besides,”—so despaired Hugh Latimer, chaplain to King Edward VI, in the mid-1500s. Some 200 years later, across the Atlantic, a Puritan minister decried the “lewd gaming” and “rude revelling” of Christmastime in the colonies. Those concerns seem irrelevant now. By the end of the 19th century, a rambunctious, freewheeling holiday had turned into the peaceable, family-centred one we know today. How?
In early modern Europe, between about 1500 and 1800, the Christmas season meant a lull in agricultural labour and a chance to indulge. The harvest had been gathered and the animals slaughtered (the cold weather meant they would not spoil). The celebration involved heavy eating, drinking and wassailing, in which peasants would arrive at the houses of the neighbouring gentry and demand to be fed. One drinking song captured the mood: “And if you don’t open up your door, / We will lay you flat upon the floor.” Mostly this was tolerated in good humour—a kind of ritualised disorder, when the social hierarchy was temporarily inverted. Some were less tolerant. In colonial Massachusetts, between 1659 and 1681, Puritans banned Christmas. They expunged the day from their almanacs, and offending revellers risked a five-shilling fine. The ban did not last, so efforts to tame the holiday picked up instead. Moderation was advised. One almanac-writer cautioned in 1761 that “The temperate man enjoys the most delight, / For riot dulls and palls the appetite.” Still, Christmas was a public ritual, enacted in the tavern or street and often fuelled by alcohol.
That soon changed. Cities had expanded at the turn of the 19th century to absorb the growing number of factory workers. Vagrancy and urban poverty were by now common. Rowdiness at Christmas could turn violent, with bands of drunken men roaming the streets. It’s little surprise that members of the upper classes saw a threat in the festivity. In his study of the holiday, Stephen Nissenbaum, a historian, credits a group of patrician writers and editorialists in America with recasting it as a domestic event. They refashioned European traditions, like Christmas trees from Germany and Christmas boxes from England, in which the wealthy would present cash or leftovers to their servants. St Nicholas, or Santa Claus, whose December name day coincided with the Christmas season, became the holiday’s mascot. Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “A Visit from St Nicholas”, first publised in 1823, helped popularise his image. In it, a jolly Santa descends via reindeer-pulled sleigh to surprise children with presents on Christmas Eve. Newspapers also played their part. “Let all avoid taverns and grog shops for a few days,” advised the New York Heraldin 1839. Better to focus on “the domestic hearth, the virtuous wife, the innocent, smiling, merry-hearted children.”
It was a triumph of middle-class values, and a coup for shop-owners. “Christmas is the merchant’s harvest time,” one industry magazine enthused in 1908. “It is up to him to garner in as big a crop of dollars as he can.” Soon this new Christmas would become a target of criticism in its own right: as commercialised and superficial. Nevertheless it lives on.
Wahesh
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Is it 7 weeks already?
Wahesh
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Nah, we're about 9 weeks out.
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Walla hectic bro.
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Used to hate it until I had kids tbh
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I don’t have kids but enjoy it as a time to spend with family and give in any way—good weather as well.
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King oath! Especially for fishing.
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Christmas generally always spend with the family at home, then extended family at someone else's house. The lead up is always busy, running around and getting stuff ready. After Christmas, it's chill-mode just relaxing and doing nothing lol. Fishing, beach, staycations (day-trips) etc...
Christmas is amazing. People don’t like it coz they think Christmas is about family, drinking, presents etc.
it’s the birth of Christ hence Christ in Christmas and furthermore the birth of our saviour. People accept this and realise this will have much a better Christmas, and then family comes second. Everything else is societal garbage tbh.
it’s the birth of Christ hence Christ in Christmas and furthermore the birth of our saviour. People accept this and realise this will have much a better Christmas, and then family comes second. Everything else is societal garbage tbh.
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Just in case you forget lol
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Fuck yeah
... creepy Santa will be back this year as well. Possibly him and reindeer enjoying a beverage on the balcony Whilst budget constraints mean I can't go "all out" on much other stuff, I do have a few ideas up my sleeve including trying to get lights from Santas cantilever, across to the tree that's grown a bit since last year.
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Too cute. Santa is bringing us a little one for Christmas. Won't be coming until April next year, though.