Holiday Traditions
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Not many in my group of RL friends knows who HPL is. They mostly wouldn’t appreciate cosmic horror or dwelling on our abject insignificance. One of those things some people struggle to accept, so they lock it away with whatever other demons they keep in their closets.
Love y’all for being dark nihilistic smartass fuckers!
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Isn’t abject insignificance what Xmas is all about?
I might take a different position (but I won’t stray into forbidden territory). I actually love the chance to meet people on here with views I rarely come across in my own little pocket of real life. I’m glad my naïve question (a purely aesthetic response) seems to have sparked something today.
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@steelworker I may have exaggerated a little, and it’s not that bad…
Have you watched National Lampoon’s Christmas with Chevy Chase? I feel like Clark most of the time during the holidays. Trying to make everyone happy, things not quite working out how I thought it would, but at the end of it all it really wasn’t that bad.
…and thankfully the police don’t show up at the end and the sewer doesn’t explode.
Oh, I know precisely what you mean @goosehd . A holiday spent with my blood relations makes me long for the peace of the grave.
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@steelworker just do what I did. When family gatherings become too overwhelming just move 2000 miles away and change your phone number. Now instead of family drama I can watch A Very Murray Christmas on Netflix with extra rummy eggnog in the comfort of my own home.
For me Xmas is all about the 3 C’s. Couch, coffee and close the bedroom door kids with you on the other side of it.
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funny you say that, Matt. In our case it was 400 miles but it did the trick.
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Problem is I’m only 15 minutes to the in-laws. Wife’s brothers I love, the spouses and girlfriends……(mom also said if you don’t have anything nice to say :))
I prefer to believe if you don't have anything rotten to add to the conversation you should keep your fucking piehole shut and let the adults talk.
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Right. This is a safe place for general misanthropy and light trolling.
My father in law is coming to visit for the long weekend next week which is totally fine. Of course his is the only will of any consequence that I’m receiving a bequeathment from so that helps. He’s bringing his dumbass girlfriend but that’s nothing a gummy and some bourbon can’t fix.
Other than that it’s just going to be me, my dog and the Nintendo Switch I got for
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The worst Christmas ever: My wife's dad had passed away after a long illness the year before and my mother in law promptly remarried. So quickly that we realized most of the business trips she had been taking for a period of years were actually trips to visit her boyfriend…
She brought the new husband to the family Christmas dinner a few years later and it was an absolute shitshow...
They are both older and he was already dealing with the signs of Dementia and dealing with bowel incontinence. During dinner not knowing he should excuse himself from the table and go to the bathroom (dementia), he relieved himself at the dinner table. My sister in law who was quite intoxicated at this point could not hold back any comments. He was embarrassed and excused himself to go get cleaned up.
While in the bathroom he took off his underwear and proceeded to flush them down the toilet to get rid of the evidence. This as one could imagine, clogged the toilet. After some time, my mother in law went in to check if he was alright. She opened the door to the bathroom to discover him pant-less standing in the middle of the bathroom with water covering the floor. He was trying to unclog the toilet without any success.
My brother in law walked in to see if he could help, only to discover that his bathroom was now a disaster zone.
I could go on, but you can only imaging how the rest of the evening went...
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Man, what a Xmas dinner. I can't help but feel bad for the ole fella. And for everyone impacted by his issues. Hell, the whole story is sad, if darkly humorous @goosehd Hopefully none of that will become tradition
We got a ski in / ski out cabin for the family as our present to all of them (each of our parents and siblings, and my sister's family) but we couldn't do it ON Xmas, so it'll be more of a post-Xmas thru NYE deal. But in addition to my daughter's (first) birthday in a week, each of my nieces and nephew have birthdays within a couple of weeks of one another. So it will be a post Xmas / birthday party for the 4 younguns extravaganza for our families. I would like for this to become a tradition–we will see!
