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[martinuzz]

Christmas certainly is the most racist time of the year.
All over town, people are singing about dreaming of a white christmas.

[Frumple]

... for what it's worth, it's snow. This time it's actually talking about snow. There's a verse often left off that makes that more clear, placing the singer somewhere like... well, where I'm at, that hasn't seen snow since the early 90s.

There's pretty certainly some asshats that use it otherwise, but the intent is and was just talking about a snowy winter landscape in context of not being in one at christmas.

[Rolan7]

I'm pretty sure martinuzz was making a pun of sorts, let's be charitable!
I have a cold burning disgust and fear of Christmas which I'm doing my best to work through, but it's not because of racism.

It's me working through childhood trauma.  If it was something more than that, I'd be explaining that, but it isn't.  I have my problems with Christianity and other Abrahamic religions, but my problems with Christmas and ANY ritual of gift-giving are a separate thing.

As proof, I have a similar reaction to birthdays and long ago made a pact with my brother to not exchange gifts.

Edit:  I'm finally playing Outer Worlds and I can relate with Ellie a lot.  It's difficult to accept a gift as, well, a gift.  I learned that every gift comes with strings and expectations.

But that's just me.  It's a nice thought to imagine a lot of people just giving each other creative gifts.  I used to give my friends creative gifts.  That was nice. 

[Frumple]

I actually thought it was probably just a misaimed post, something for the terrible jokes thread or whatever, but... just in case, heh.

I hear you on the gifts thing, though. I've always been kinda' eh on it, and for the longest longest time I didn't really have the money or much in the way of interpersonal connections to give much, and haven't expected anything in... I'unno, ever or somethin'. Lately-ish I've been starting to dabble a little more. Gave a spice mix (plus recipe, for what little mixing together a couple different kinds of noodle seasoning counts as one) I'm fond of making to the person who taught me my current job, copy of the driving music to younger family, big ol' pile of OCRemix (32 gig flash drive, slam full -- pointedly, it's something with a copyright license usable in public work!) to a co-worker that'd lost a spouse and had to leave for elsewhere, stuff like that.

It's a weird thing to wrap your head around, and reciprocal gifting in general is just... no. Y'know? Gifting with an expectation to get something in return just feels off, same as being given something with the expectation to give something back. If there's strings and expectations and whatnot involved it's just not a gift anymore, yeah? "You don't have to give anything in return" was something emphasized a lot as I was growing up, both ways, and I guess it internalized really strongly. That feels right. You don't give with expectations or strings or when it's a financial/whatever burden, you give because you're able and you want to, and you give freely or you don't give.

[Rolan7]

Maybe you and I are coming at if from a simple exchange scenario. 
But that's never what I experienced.

[martinuzz]

Yeah, it was just my black uhm.. coloured sense of humor.

[Egan_BW]

You should keep the terrible jokes to the terrible jokes thread.

[itisnotlogical]

I am having the most horrific sweet tooth and designing the most unholy abominations in my head. Milkshakes with cake batter mixed in. A "pizza" where the crust is a cookie, the sauce is frosting and the toppings are all my favorite candies. Donut sticks with melted ice cream for dipping/drinking. Queen Anne's Cherries with Fireball whiskey added to the inside.

Basically, if it has sugar (especially chocolate,) I'm in the mood to combine it, no matter how little it makes sense or how childish it is.

The mildly upsetting part is I have no capacity to do any of this right now.

[Frumple]

I am having the most horrific sweet tooth and designing the most unholy abominations in my head. Milkshakes with cake batter mixed in. A "pizza" where the crust is a cookie, the sauce is frosting and the toppings are all my favorite candies. Donut sticks with melted ice cream for dipping/drinking. Queen Anne's Cherries with Fireball whiskey added to the inside.

Basically, if it has sugar (especially chocolate,) I'm in the mood to combine it, no matter how little it makes sense or how childish it is.

The mildly upsetting part is I have no capacity to do any of this right now.

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure all of those (except maybe the whisky infused cherries?*) are things you can just... buy. Cake batter/cookie dough milkshakes are definitely a thing, cookie pizzas they literally sell at pizza hut, donut sticks with what amounts to milkshakes for dipping is pretty easy to get, etc. You're still making enough sense major fast food chains produce it

*e: nope you can apparently buy some kinds off amazon lol

[Dunamisdeos]

Yeah all of that exists in the US. We have sausages wrapped in pancakes on a stick.

[Superdorf]

Yeah all of that exists in the US. We have sausages wrapped in pancakes on a stick.

Man, I did that myself with chocolate-chip waffles just this morning.

[Frumple]

It's just really tasty breakfast food, tbh. Like, it even makes sense if you think about it, as sausages are delicious with sweet things and go great with breadstuff, and pancakes are sweet breadstuff, so. You wrap one in the other. Usually the sausage in the pancake but the other way actually works fine, too.

[King Zultan]

How do you rap a sausage around a pancake?

[wierd]

Ask epic rap battles.

How you would do it without sexual innuendos popping up like mushrooms after a rain is anyone's guess though.

[Frumple]

How do you rap a sausage around a pancake?

Use the sausage patties, mostly.

... the easiest way isn't so much wrap like a sausage dog as just use a couple sausage patties as the bread of a pancake sandwich. Least trouble is with mini pancake setups, they generally fit perfectly between a couple of sausage patties. It's pretty nice if you're feeling like more sausage than pancake.