My wife kicks ass:

[Parkbandit]

Every year we do the same thing. The first weekend in December, I pull out the ladder.. climb up into the attic and bring down 3 boxes of exterior lights and decorations for Christmas. Carefully packed from last year, I gently pull out this gifuckinggantic ball of lights that somehow got all tangled up. I gingerly separate the light strings and plug them in. Every year, they somehow get fucked up and parts of the string don't work. I sit there and look at each light individually and piece together enough lights to put outside. This includes lights around the eaves, door, windows, garage door, palm trees and sidewalk.

I hate Christmas.

This year, my wife told me that this year is going to be different. ONE outside decoration. ONE. One thing to pull out of the box and set up. It's called the Light Show Mirror Ball. There must be a God. It shines little icons of snowflakes or Santas or wreaths or any one of 30 different pictures on the house. Voila. Done.

My decorating time goes from 2 days (If I am lucky) to 10 minutes.

Love the wife.

[AnticorRifling]

I love your wife too.

[Gan]

Clark Griswold has emerged upon us.

Its the Christmas disco ball of 2005.

[Jorddyn]

She's obviously up to something.

Has the mailman been spending extra time at your house? :)

Jorddyn

[4a6c1]

Awesome. I love those things.

Or the gigantic blow up snowmen that scare the children away.

Ahhh, the beauty of lazy people decorations.

:heart:

[fallenSaint]

And tomarrow she will tell you she actually ment you were supposed to do this:

http://forum.gsplayers.com/viewthread.php?tid=18864

[Wezas]

I'm glad you're finally home, PB.

I was exhausted and my wife was starting to wonder how long my "business trip" was going to be.

I'm going to try to get away with doing no outside lights, or if anything, just the wooden hand-rail at our front steps.

Also going to try to get reinforcements to help with the tree decorating, so I just need to put it up. We got one of those trees w/ the built-in lights last year, FTW.

[Snapp]

Screw untangling. Just go the lazy route like me and buy new ones every year.

[AnticorRifling]

Originally posted by Snapp
Screw untangling. Just go the lazy route like me and buy new ones every year.

Same here.

[Gan]

Ditto.

You can buy a strand of 100 lights for under 3 bucks at GardenRidge. Why would you want to do anything else?

[Skirmisher]

Originally posted by Ganalon
Ditto.

You can buy a strand of 100 lights for under 3 bucks at GardenRidge. Why would you want to do anything else?

And China loves you all.

[Skeeter]

Fuck that, if your wife wants the decorations so badly, have her put them up.

My wife spent all day yesterday putting up the christmas tree, and all the outside lights.

[Jazuela]

One of the perks of being in a mix-religion marriage - we don't -do- Christmas decorations. None. Hubby's going to South Carolina for the holiday to be with his family, and I get to sleep on ALL of the bed for the whole weekend instead of having my arm dangle off my side because he's taken over 3/4 of the mattress.

[Alfster]

I misread the title.

I read it as, "My wife licks ass"

far less entertaining than I thought it was gonna be

[Skirmisher]

And here I had assumed it was a coming clean thread where he admitted who really wore the pants in the family.

[ElanthianSiren]

Bah-humbug.

-M
make christmas every day, and you never have to have stressful holiday run ups.

[Gan]

Originally posted by Skirmisher

Originally posted by Ganalon
Ditto.

You can buy a strand of 100 lights for under 3 bucks at GardenRidge. Why would you want to do anything else?

And China loves you all.

Hey, if China wants the comparitive advantage of making disposable christmas lights for under 3 bucks then I'd rather give them my money than pay 3 times as much for some fat union slob in America three times as much for a product less reliable and something that would be advertised as reusable when it only has a realistic lifespan for 1 year.

[xtc]

Originally posted by Ganalon

Originally posted by Skirmisher

Originally posted by Ganalon
Ditto.

You can buy a strand of 100 lights for under 3 bucks at GardenRidge. Why would you want to do anything else?

And China loves you all.

Hey, if China wants the comparitive advantage of making disposable christmas lights for under 3 bucks then I'd rather give them my money than pay 3 times as much for some fat union slob in America three times as much for a product less reliable and something that would be advertised as reusable when it only has a realistic lifespan for 1 year.

Yeah fuck that it is killing our economy or that the Chinese don't trade fair or float their currency on the international market.......and human rights who gives a fuck about those? So what if they have secret labour camps, keep people in Chinese gulags that have 3x3x3 solitary cells. Free Speech who needs that either.

and China's rapid build up of their military funded by our dollars, nah no worries there.

How about the fact that the Chinese economy is the second biggest in the world and still growing at a rate of around 8-9% per year? How long before they over take us?


and lastly our friends in China like to finance and help Al Qaeda:

LINK (http://www.chinasupport.net/site.php?page=news135)

This isn't a pro-union post, it is an anti-China one.



oh and PB your wife is the bomb:whistle:

[Edited on 11-22-2005 by xtc]

[Kainen]

I think it's cool that your wife spared you from the hell that is decorating for Christmas.

[Latrinsorm]

I don't know, the thought of PB spending days decorating his house for Christmas strikes me as amusingly ironic.

[Wezas]

Originally posted by Latrinsorm
I don't know, the thought of PB spending days decorating his house for Christmas strikes me as amusingly ironic.

I'm trying to figure out if you're calling him the Grinch or Scrooge.

[Chastittee]

My husband's uncle does the Clark Griswold bit every year. Spend an entire weekend lighting his house up. Roof, windows, shrubbery, trees..everything..So much that his wife's tulip bulbs end up sprouting from the heat.

My husband tried one year to do the same. He got one tree decorated and gave up.

I no longer allow outdoor Christmas lights.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Wezas
I'm trying to figure out if you're calling him the Grinch or Scrooge. Joe Areligious.

[Warriorbird]

Once again... for most normal people Christmas isn't a hyper religious holiday, Latrin. I understand it may be different for Ned Flanders types.

:saint:

[Atlanteax]

Originally posted by Skirmisher

Originally posted by Ganalon
Ditto.

You can buy a strand of 100 lights for under 3 bucks at GardenRidge. Why would you want to do anything else?

And China loves you all.

And Mother Earth is full of hate and depise.

[Back]

Recent Starbucks ad:

Men Decorate. It only happens once a year.

[TheRoseLady]

Originally posted by Skeeter
Fuck that, if your wife wants the decorations so badly, have her put them up.

My wife spent all day yesterday putting up the christmas tree, and all the outside lights.

ding ding ding! We have a winner. Actually we hire someone to decorate the outside of our home.

PB is whipped.

[Edited on 11-23-2005 by TheRoseLady]

[DCSL]

I loathe holiday decorating. I don't do it, I refuse!

Ever since the Christmas when I was eight years old and I desperately wanted to put a big Christmas tree up. My mother said no way, she didn't want to do all the work. I worked her over and finally she said that we could have one, provided I be the one to put it up AND take it down.

That Christmas tree stayed up until April, when my grandfather visited and HE took it down.

Never. Again.

[DeV]

Originally posted by DCSL
I loathe holiday decorating. I don't do it, I refuse!
My kinda woman. I am the same way. If any decorations are going up this year, my girl will be doing so without me.

I'll probably be playing WoW or something while she struggles needlessly to put up a decoration or two that "should" be removed within a month or two. Keyword: should.

[Jolena]

Teehee. Our last year christmas tree stayed up until March. :ducks:

[OreoElf]

Originally posted by JihnasSpirit
Awesome. I love those things.

Or the gigantic blow up snowmen that scare the children away.

Ahhh, the beauty of lazy people decorations.

:heart:

Awww I got a blow up snowman dressed up as a pagan hehe... to scare away the Christians /jk... but I did buy a blow up snowman thingy that lights up... I love to decorate though, but its all simple and easy to take up and put down... i got this self winding light thing and lots of gadgets... I never have to untangle them anymore :)

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Warriorbird
Once again... for most normal people Christmas isn't a hyper religious holiday, Latrin. I understand it may be different for Ned Flanders types.You (generic) can commercialize it all you want, but when someone's putting up decorations in celebration of Christ's birth you've got yourself a re-diddly-igious theme at the very least.

Of course, this is harder to apply to one of my uncles who literally never took down his Christmas lights. We go up there in mid-June and there they are, strung along the gutters pretty as you please. I'm pretty sure he only turned them on come Christmastime though.

[xtc]

Originally posted by Warriorbird
Once again... for most normal people Christmas isn't a hyper religious holiday, Latrin. I understand it may be different for Ned Flanders types.

:saint:

What is a normal person? On Christmas even the most lacking and wayward Christians go to church. Have you been to a church on Christmas? They are usually packed standing room only.

[Jorddyn]

Originally posted by xtc
What is a normal person? On Christmas even the most lacking and wayward Christians go to church. Have you been to a church on Christmas? They are usually packed standing room only.

As a (very) lapsed Catholic, I rarely attend, even on Christmas. Two years ago, I went with my grandparents and wound up seated next to the governor. It gave me a giggle anyhow.

Edited to add: For me, Easter is the only really religious holiday. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and Labor Day are time to spend with family (moreso the first 2). Halloween, July 4, and St. Patrick's day are party holidays :)

Jorddyn

[Edited on 11-23-2005 by Jorddyn]

[DeV]

Originally posted by xtc
On Christmas even the most lacking and wayward Christians go to church. That's usually the case with Easter/Passover from my experiences. Church suddenly becomes the most popular place on earth for some mysterious reason. Hmm.
Have you been to a church on Christmas? They are usually packed standing room only. I think people that do this are seriously fooling themselves. No offense to people that only go to Church on Christmas after not going at any other time during the year besides Passover. Real Christianlike.

Edited to add that sometimes family is the primary factor in people going those two times a year. Understandable. Though, Jesus should be celebrated everyday and not just twice a year. Hence me saying people that do so without family prodding are fooling themselves.

[Edited on 11-23-2005 by DeV]

[Shari]

He puts lights on the house. I decorate the entire tree.

He takes lights off the house. I take down the entire tree.

We DO go out EVERY YEAR with his family, drive three hours north and cut our tree down. Sounds hokey, but I LOVE it, and it signifies to me the start of the Christmas season.

I am the one that usually has to initiate the taking out of all these decorations before anything gets down, however.

[Jorddyn]

Originally posted by DeV
No offense to people that only go to Church on Christmas after not going at any other time during the year besides Passover. Real Christianlike.

How often/when people attend church is really irrelevant, though.

I know people who are true assholes who go to church every Sunday.

I know people who never attend (or only attend on Christmas/Easter) who are incredibly kind, giving people.

Of course the reverse is true as well, but my point stands. When or whether one goes to church does not determine one's Christianity in my eyes.

Jorddyn

[Gan]

Originally posted by DeV
I think people that do this are seriously fooling themselves. No offense to people that only go to Church on Christmas after not going at any other time during the year besides Passover. Real Christianlike.

For those that only attend during those times (Christmas and Easter) you pretty much explained it. Attendance is motivated for those to go see people who have returned home, or are visiting during those holiday times. A friendly/family reunion of sorts. Of course the message is one of advent which is pretty standard, so no undue pressure is delivered from the pulpit for saving or losing ones soul. And the hymns are historical and standard as well (for the most part).

[DeV]

Originally posted by Jorddyn
How often/when people attend church is really irrelevant, though. For some, possibly most, but it is very relevant for me for very personal reasons. I understand your position nonetheless.


I know people who are true assholes who go to church every Sunday.We must know some of the same people then.


I know people who never attend (or only attend on Christmas/Easter) who are incredibly kind, giving people."Edited to add that sometimes family is the primary factor in people going those two times a year. Understandable. Though, Jesus should be celebrated everyday and not just twice a year. Hence me saying people that do so without family prodding are fooling themselves."


Of course the reverse is true as well, but my point stands. When or whether one goes to church does not determine one's Christianity in my eyes.

Jorddyn You have a point. And in my eyes, when people tend to judge others based on specific social issues with only the use of religious undertones to back their viewpoints, taking into account their Church attendance, I find it hypocritical. On many occasions I have debated Christianity with people who do this very thing. I find it ridiculous, personally. I edited my post so as not to judge everyone who does this as I do understand many people do this because of family commitments. See above. Also, it is why I used Christianlike instead of Christian.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by DeV
No offense to people that only go to Church on Christmas after not going at any other time during the year besides Passover. Real Christianlike. Passover is the Jewish holiday, Easter is the Christian holiday. They're *supposed* to roughly coincide chronologically but usually don't.

[Warriorbird]

I hate to say it...but I don't find Christmas churchgoing terribly spiritual for the most part. People usually go for the choral music and such.

[Jadewolff]

I just think it's funny that a thread about PB's wife kicking ass has turned into a discussion about religion. This is why other message boards don't compare to PC :)

[DeV]

Originally posted by Latrinsorm

Originally posted by DeV
No offense to people that only go to Church on Christmas after not going at any other time during the year besides Passover. Real Christianlike. Passover is the Jewish holiday, Easter is the Christian holiday. They're *supposed* to roughly coincide chronologically but usually don't. Correct. I meant the Christian one.

[xtc]

Originally posted by Warriorbird
I hate to say it...but I don't find Christmas churchgoing terribly spiritual for the most part. People usually go for the choral music and such.

I find the midnight service on Christmas Eve the most spiritual. Of course it varies from Church to church. The local Lutherans do a nice Christmas Eve candle light service, not that I attend a Lutheran church at any other time of the year. To be honest I rarely go to church or mosque anymore.

[Killer Kitten]

I go to church every week. I like going.

Never decorate for Christmas, or even really celebrate it, though, except for going to Christmas services at church. Again just because I like going.

I'm so glad I married a nice Jewish boy, no getting in a tizzy about holidays. We generally celebrate Halloween. And, since he works for a fireworks company, we love 4th of July. <g>