Ah well it's just christmas.

[AntiochusIII]

How many times have we fought the War on Christmas anyway? When will the specters of Christmas ever die?

It's like a frickin' hydra. We cut off its tin-hatted head this December, and it comes back next year, same day same time, like a bloody insurgent. I'm tired of this war, really. It's an unwinnable quagmire that we can't get out of.

[Sigurd]

I say we take back Yule and celebrate it as it should. The church took it from us way back when.

If the Christians want to celebrate the birth of Christ, then they should be allowed to. But here is an idea… why not celebrate a little closer to the actual day He was born, say around April.

Christmas today, at least here, is called Jul (see the connection?). We feast on pork, drink Juleøl (Yule beer) or Julebrus (Yule soda). We go to Julebord (Yule feasts) and eat and drink ourselves to stupor. We decorate trees; we decorate with mistletoe and holly and burn Yule logs. Much like we did pre-Christianity.

Let the Christians have their own holyday… We want ours back.

[Husar]

The only problem I have with Christmas is that we don't seem to get snow anymore. Thank you global warming you destroyed my romantic christmas winters.

Yes, it's actually true, while I played in snow half the winter as a kid, we now get hardly any snow and probably soon now snow at all in winter.

Maybe the weather is a multicultist? It wants to turn good old Germania into a new Africa.

[macsen rufus]

I'm with Sigurd! Let's reclaim our pagan heritage, we've been suppressed by this imported eastern mystery religion for too long! I mean who do they think they are, bringing their middle-eastern personality cults to upset the lives of decent law-abiding, beer-swilling, virgin-sacrificing, pig-eating, sheep-bothering pagan peoples?!!

So I demand days off for: Imbolc, Beltaine, Oestre, Samhain, Lughnasad, vernal and autumnal equinoxes, summer and winter solstices, and any "Saint's" day that can be identified as a gloss of a pre-existing pagan deity.

I think that should cut my work days down to about three per year.... cool

[Husar]

I think that should cut my work days down to about three per year.... cool

Not if your pay is cut accordingly.

[HoreTore]

We go to Julebord (Yule feasts) and eat and drink ourselves to stupor.

Never really thought about it; but is that a thing we invented? Hmm...

Anyway, you forgot the bit about "cheating with a co-worker after getting drunk" though.