Advent calender 19.12.22
Added 2022-12-19 17:00:07 +0000 UTCOriginal videos:
First video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2W3QR9WXdA Second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFyWMdQBQ8
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Thank you for trying to explain, where the word "Crimbo" originated from :) And also a big thank you, for sharing your christmas story with me. I enjoyed it so much :) Awww I love how you asked your mom to tell father christmas not to enter your room. That is so cute :D The hat story was strange to be honest. Why would somebody start crying just over wearing a hat? It´s kinda funny though :) I love brussels sprouts, too. My boyfriend really doesn´t like them, I don´t understand that at all. Haha I suppose Christmas with a newborn wasn´t a real "silent night" at all :D Thank you for the video about British pantomimes. I can´t react to it, with the advent calender anymore. because every episode is already planned and uploaded. But I do have some other plans about maybe creating a second channel, for shorter reactions like the christmas calender ones next year. So I´m putting the link on my list. :) Can´t tell you when I´ll be ready to react to it though. I didn´t know about Prince Albert. I just looked him up, and I´m very surprised that he is the actual reason why there are Christmas trees in the UK nowadays :)
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:50:02 +0000 UTCHahaha it´s a quiz you can´t lose, so just relax :) No prices to win :) Thank you for sharing your story about Christmas. I loved reading it very much :) Did you really have to watch the present lying under the christmas tree for days? I would have died of curiosity :D :D AAAAAAWWWWWWWWW Thank you so much for this surprise link. This made my day :) :) "A video of someone" :D :D :D You made me really happy with this one :)
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:35:08 +0000 UTCChildren eat the pudding, too? Wow, isn´t that way too much alcohol for them. Or do parents try to get them to sleep, so they can celebrate Christmas on their own :D :D Just kidding :)
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:24:05 +0000 UTCI would rally like to try those mince pies and also the christmas pudding. Maybe I´ll get the chance for it, one day :) I like Stollen, too. But actually I don´t really byuy it myself. We are more fans of christmas cookies in this household :D :D
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:22:34 +0000 UTCThank you for telling me about the lists and stockings :)
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:18:37 +0000 UTCIt´s really strange to imagine people just watching TV on Christmas. I´m glad younger people start changing to boardgames, as this is way more fun for the whole family :) :) For real`You only got a bag of onions? That wasn´t just a joke and you got the real present later? OMG I´m feel so sorry for your younger self :)
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:17:59 +0000 UTCThank you for the info about you Christmas trees. :) So I guess it´s not about good or bad luck either. It´s just about the fact, that you have to do it, or else you´ll be left with a tree that you can´t get rid of anymore :D
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:15:46 +0000 UTCYou´re welcome. I loved hearing about Christmas in the UK, and reading your comments to get an even better picture. :) I wish we had stockings in Germany. Actually, now that I think about it....We do have them, but not for Christmas only for Nikolaus (6th December) and not many people are using them anymore, unfortunately. I really like the idea. :) Thank you for letting me know about your family celebrating Christmas. I loved reading your story. :) I love Christmas, too. And I love sharing those stories with so many people this year. Feels really heartwarming :)
Nicologik
2022-12-21 12:14:13 +0000 UTCLoved hearing about Christmas is in Germany. Thank you. I remember doing the letter to Santa as a kid but it was always to send the letter up the chimney. As for stockings. That is one of the main things I miss about Christmas as an adult. The stocking was always laid on the bottom of the bed and then waking up the next morning and just prodding with your foot and feeling the weight of the full stocking. I use to really savour that moment. Of course we wasn't allowed to open them until we were allowed into our parents room to open the presents inside which were usually stationary, chocolates, little toys. Then after my father had gone and lit the fire we were allowed downstairs to where Santa had left all our big presents which we then took about an hour opening. Then we'd either have or go somewhere for Christmas dinner, usually with my one nan. Then a big family get together with my Mum's side of the family (although in later years this moved to Boxing Day as everyone found a big dinner followed by a buffet a few hours later a bit to much.) I'm not sure when the TV thing started creeping in. It's kind of mainly on in the background while people were talking unless it was some big special (Only Fools and Horses or Morecombe and Wise, apparently Doctor Who didn't count meaning i had to go off to another room if I wanted to watch it) I do wish the games thing had caught on more in my family, I have tried. I had a girlfriend once whose family always did this on family get together and it was so much fun. Nowadays Christmas Day is just me having dinner with my Mum and Dad although occasion my Brother and his family will join us, like this Christmas which is always more exciting. Presents are now opened after dinner. Yeah our main shops (supermarkets are usually back open the day after Christmas and opened till quite late Christmas Eve so really only shut one day. It's still usually packed and chaotic on Christmas Eve though so I try to avoid going on that day. I do Christmas cards for co workers and a few other people but mainly I'll use social media or texting to wish people happy Christmas. Sorry about the long post, I just love Christmas. The decs, getting presents for people, watching various versions of A Christmas Carol, currently re watching all the doctor Who Christmas specials.
Jade Ellis
2022-12-20 18:16:34 +0000 UTCCities have the same thing as you about trees. We take them down by 6th Jan and we have to put them out on the street for the Council to take them away. Crimbo is just shorthand for Christmas. But I've never met anyway who actually says that.
Richard Austen
2022-12-20 01:05:24 +0000 UTCYes it sounds weird but yes the whole family visits, we eat drink and watch TV. Its ridiculous and its changing. Today you'll usually find younger family members go off to play games while the old people watch TV. This is why there are Christmas Special TV programmes. They are designed to be watched when full of food, drunk and half asleep. When I was a kid I wouldn't sleep on 24th so on 25th the only present I got one year was a bag of onions because I wouldn't go to bed.
Richard Austen
2022-12-20 00:54:00 +0000 UTCIve never heard of throwing Santa's letters on the fire! Lol But our letters are the same as yours, its a wish list. Though it is written in letter form. Don't over think it. And yes stockings on the bed is a thing. Usually put normal oresents in them, the stockings can be huge to fit a box in, you can also put oranges or sweets in it.
Richard Austen
2022-12-20 00:42:53 +0000 UTCLove mince pies, I tend to like the ones made with cranberry. I think in the UK its probably Christmas food that's the most iconic and literally everywhere. Christmas food is very popular and traditional. But we like German food too. Stollen for example is really popular.
Richard Austen
2022-12-20 00:40:50 +0000 UTCI still make Christmas pudding using the family recipe. Its definitely alcoholic as its made of beer, and we add brandy before servicing. Then we always light it on fire (which burns some alcohol off) but then put brandy butter on it before eating. I love it! Children eat it too, I normally make it about 5 months before Christmas, it matures over time, you just leave it in a cupboard wrapped up. Its really nice, but most people buy supermarket versions which aren't as nice. We used to hide coins in the Christmas Pudding, but people don't do that anymore.
Richard Austen
2022-12-20 00:38:41 +0000 UTCThey never told me that I was going to be quizzed in 2022 about what we did at Christmas when I was growing up - I can't really remember much. I don't recall if I ever believed in Santa. I also don't remember there being a time when I knew there was no Santa while my younger sister did believe it. So I suspect we never did that at all in our family. There's a bit in Julia Sweeney's comedy show where she relates that after she found out there is no Santa and rushes to tell her younger brother. That never happend with me. I don't recall writing to Santa or leaving Santa a plate of snacks. We did have ... um ... er ... ok, I'll admit it ... pillow-cases at the bottom of our beds - not very Christmas themed. It wasn't like they were filled - it was just a convenient soft bag. The contents were just some smaller things - and as I recall, mostly similar items between my sister and myself. The important wrapped presents had been accumulating under the (fake) tree for the previous couple of days and would be opened in the late-morning on the 25th. Mince-pies are a thing here. Some people bake them - although they would probably buy the spiced fruit filling - other people would buy them pre-made and warm them up before serving. Why would you watch TV at Christmas? Well, otherwise the BBC wouldn't have Christmas specials! Here's a video of someone watching a Doctor Who Christmas special at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JOUHloqag Of course, Christmas happens in summer here. I go out and see friends and have a summer BBQ on Boxing Day (the 26th).
Andrew Vignaux
2022-12-19 23:21:01 +0000 UTC"Chrimbo" is one of the many strange abbreviations that started life in Liverpool and then spread across the country via television. I don't think the rest of us got it from The Beatles. It was probably a 1980s soap called Brookside that really popularised it. Along with "lecky" for the electricity supply and "I think "bevy" for and alcoholic drink started there too as it's short for beveridge, an English synonym for a drink. Almost nobody in Britain has a coal fire these days. But even when I was a child in the 1960s I don't remember writing to Father Christmas and then throwing the letter on the fire. Or writing a letter to him at all. In fact my parents never pretended that the main presents came from Father Christmas rather than themselves. He did fill a stocking with small inexpensive gifts though, including a tangerine but you wouldn't write e letter asking for them. They were small fun items not your real, presents. When I was old enough to worry about such things I insisted on hanging the stocking on the outside of the bedroom door and asked my mother to ask Father Christmas not to come into the room. This probably made things much easier for my parents! It was only the one stocking per child in our household and we never left anything for Santa to consume. I think that was probably the same for many homes.. My brother's Italian girlfriend came to our Christmas dinner one year. When he tried to get her to put on the paper hat from her cracker she began to cry and ran from the room. He did manage to persuade come back and assure her that she didn't have to wear the hat. I love Brussels sprouts but many people claim to hate them. They are all liars. In our house there used to be a ban on watching tv until long after the meal. Like you there was washing up for us to do and then presents to unwrap. and later board games. but many homes would watch the Queen's (now the King's!) Christmas speech at 3pm. and later the Christmas edition of the popular comedy programme Morecambe and Wise. Popular in the 60s and 70s that is. I don't think our Christmas puddings were quite so alcoholic and what there was was definitely boiled away. And yes, it is for children too. And sometimes people would put coins into the mixture before cooking it. Probably nowadays this would be considered a choking hazard. Boxing Day is also St Stephen's Day or "The Feast of Stephen", I was expected to be born then but I arrived a week early and probably ruined Christmas by crying and screaming all the time. Shops used to be closed on that day in Britain too in fact I think is was the law but nowadays every store wants to start its sales as soon as possible. We still get the mad buying of everything on Christmas Eve which is even more crazy. It would be great if you could react to a video about British pantomimes. This one is by a lady from Hong Kong where the tradition has spread but she explains almost everything about its history and weird traditions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtRTxVIl150 We only have Christmas trees because Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, was German and he missed the traditions of his home land. I think most people take them down by Twelfth Night. Some of the short video clips on that second video look American to me. The mailbox certainly isn't a British one.!
Stephen Males
2022-12-19 20:20:39 +0000 UTC
