A Cup of Tea

[superdeath]

Whats everyones Holiday plans looking like?

[Charriu]

Celebrating Christmas with my wife and kids like every year, so not much has changed here. The only thing is that we won't go to church to see a nativity scene for the kids. By the way is that a thing in other countries? Here they do special events on Christmas, where children act out the birth of Jesus for other children.

Looking forward to new year without fireworks. Will be a pleasant event without children terrified of the loud fireworks. Still hoping that someday people recognize that pooling all your money for fireworks together to pay for a professional firework gives you a more beautiful firework.

[superdeath]

By the way is that a thing in other countries? Here they do special events on Christmas, where children act out the birth of Jesus for other children.

im sure there are plenty of people that do stuff like that here, more likely in the south though.

[Amicalola]

Our city is in the reverse situation to many countries right now and recently came out of lockdown, so I get to see my large extended family for the first time in ~9 months.

[Mjmd]

No candle Christmas eve service. Very sad.

[DaveV]

Looking forward to new year without fireworks. Will be a pleasant event without children terrified of the loud fireworks. Still hoping that someday people recognize that pooling all your money for fireworks together to pay for a professional firework gives you a more beautiful firework.

That's better than the US, where certain morons think the right way to celebrate is to fire a bullet into the air. No chance of it coming down and injuring someone, because gun rights.

[darrelljs]

Looking forward to new year without fireworks. Will be a pleasant event without children terrified of the loud fireworks. Still hoping that someday people recognize that pooling all your money for fireworks together to pay for a professional firework gives you a more beautiful firework.

That's better than the US, where certain morons think the right way to celebrate is to fire a bullet into the air. No chance of it coming down and injuring someone, because gun rights.

https://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5350a2.htm

Darrell

[Cyneheard]

The only thing is that we won't go to church to see a nativity scene for the kids. By the way is that a thing in other countries? Here they do special events on Christmas, where children act out the birth of Jesus for other children.

The churches I've been part of (United Methodist, USA) usually do a Nativity scene at a different time, like the Sunday before Christmas, depends partly on schedules.

Christmas Eve will have services, but Christmas Day won't unless it's also a Sunday.

This year, everything is different of course.

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

Hey, I grew up UMC, too!

[thestick]

Bump.

Chevalier, how have you been holding up? Have been wondering how you've been since you got back from South Korea...

Venting. Got results from a translation test for a freelance translation service back. Spent a lot of time trying to naturalize the content while keeping in mind differences between rhetoric in the source language and English. Got rejected for not translating literally enough, and for adding topic sentences.   Though to be fair, I suppose I overtranslated the text. Whee.