Why the hell would anybody want a White Christmas?(rant)

[Guava Jelly]

1) It's cold as Hell
2) Your kids can't go outside and play with their new toys.
3) The Cost of Heating your House/Apartment goes up during a time when you are already broke as hell
from buying your bratty rug-rats crap they don't deserve.
4) You have to shovel snow
5) You are stuck indoors with relatives who drive you apeshit..Many of them are Republicans.
Feel free to add to the list.
:popcorn:
:7

[MrCoffee]

1. 6) snow makes horrible sounds when you walk on it.

[Guava Jelly]

3. Thank you my brotha

See White Christmas's suck ass

[MrCoffee]

6. i'm feelin' it, dog.

white christmas's blow


Houston had the perfect christmas weather - one year we drove from college station to houston in t-shirts and shorts. hells yes.

[Sequoia]

65. I remember being on Santa Monica beach on Christmas at 80+ degrees.

However, snow is beautiful just to visit. Too many clothes to put on day in and day out. Only kids really really like snow. (yes, you kids at heart too!)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

77. Christmases.

Guys, apostrophes are for POSSESSION, not PLURALIZING.
That is my biggest pet peeve.
But I love you guys, so I will just remind you sweetly.
:hug:
Duckie

[China_cat]

2. The roads are icy

so you can't get to that family gathering and therefore miss all the shitheads. (And, conversely, they can't come to you, either)

Decorating palm trees is just the pits.

[Guava Jelly]

5. that sounds like a plus

You may have missed the point :)

[China_cat]

17. Well the question was

why WOULD someone want a white christmas.

[Guava Jelly]

21. oh you and your holiday cheer!!

:)
:hi:

[xmas74]

4. I want one.

It reminds me of home. And I used to get sleds or skis or snowshoes for Christmas so I needed the snow for my toys.

[Guava Jelly]

8. Hey neighbor..

yup this looks Fun
:)
:hi:

[xmas74]

11. One of the things I've missed the most about the North

is the pretty snow.

[Guava Jelly]

20. Its like really pretty

:sarcasm:

[Sequoia]

66. Party pooper!

[Zookeeper]

7. Well, my youngest son couldn't wait to go outside...

and play when he got home from school. He and his buddy are sledding as I write. :woohoo:

[Guava Jelly]

12. Kids geesh :o)

yup frostbite
Puts me in a jolly mood :)

[Zookeeper]

19. Heyyyyy...my boy's a native Minnesotan...

He's no dummy when it comes to dressing for the weather. :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

24. like this you mean?

Oh that looks fun.:sarcasm:

[Zookeeper]

85. Luckily for him, he's past the snowsuit stage...

but, that's pretty much how I dressed him when he was four. He thought it was fun, because he didn't know any better. Bwahaha!

[texas1928]

9. A white Christmas...

Gives you the ability to have a fire going and the tree, your SO next you, possibly making love in front of said fire and tree. Just a thought.

[Guava Jelly]

32. I can buy that logic

Anything that helps you score.
Well unless the tree catches fire and falls onto you and your lover killing both of you!!!!
woo hoo!! party!! :rofl:

[texas1928]

51. Take the good with the bad.

If it happens at the point of orgasm, hey you won't even notice.

[Guava Jelly]

54. That is a valid point.

You can go to your grave thinking "Hey this is a Killer O-----!"
:thumbsup:

[Conan_The_Barbarian]

63. I can't wait for that christmas

Young couple christmas must be a lot of fun.

[texas1928]

97. What do you mean young couple???

My wife and I have been married for 11 years. We just don't have kids.

[u4ic]

10. You're either

deprived or insane.

Maybe a bit of both. ;)

[Guava Jelly]

14. You got me pegged

:)
I hope the costume came out ok :hi:
Do they even celebrate christmas in canada :silly:

[u4ic]

31. Nah

damn commies round you up and ship you to Baffin Island if you do! :o

[Guava Jelly]

33. them damn pinkos

:7

[Broken_Hero]

13. one sentence...

"After xmas dinner snow ball fight!"....to work off those access calories, and let go of some tension....:D

[Guava Jelly]

16. Snow can kill you though!!

it's evil!!!

[Broken_Hero]

22. What doesnt' kill you,

only makes you stronger....:D I miss the snow, bring it on!...I fear, no snow dammit...:D

[Guava Jelly]

27. Yeah but didn't you live in alaska

you are acclimated to that stuff.
:7

[Broken_Hero]

29. yeah, I did...born/raised...:)

I do miss it...our last ice/snow storm a couple weeks back, brought back some memories, mostly good...:D

[Guava Jelly]

36. I guess you get a coupon to since you were forced to be born in a frozen wateland

:sarcasm: I bet was nice (I am playing Ebinezer Scrooge in case you havent guessed)

[Broken_Hero]

38. its a Frozen Paradise pal....

:D Yeah, I know you are trying to be funny....

Emphasis, on "trying"



:hide:

I kid, I kid...:D

[Guava Jelly]

39. Hey I can handle the truth

I am more like "Punny"

[buddhamama]

15. me !

it doesn't feel like x-mas to me without the white stuff.

when i was a kid the best gifts were those you could play in the snow with such as sleds or ice skates for the pond.

my name is buddhamama i like my seasons and i like snow.

[Guava Jelly]

18. You are lucky i like you!!

:)


looks like a party!!
weee i am all having fun now!!
Oops my nose just fell off
:rofl: :hi:

[buddhamama]

23. hehehe

don't talk to me about cold until you have camped in below zero temperatures ( wind chill factor) and have washed in a semi-frozen stream.

not joke, i was born during a blizzard. the snow and cold are in my blood. :hug: :hi: :pals:

[Guava Jelly]

25. Ok you get a coupon.

:hug: :pals: cuz yer my bud

[Sequoia]

67. Ice, ice baby.

How many people can claim that? Where?

[youthere]

26. But you forgot one important thing about a white Christmas..

The day AFTER Christmas:

"Sorry boss, I'm not going to be able to make it in today..I can't get out of my drive" (even though you can)

[Guava Jelly]

28. Ok that is a valid point!

You done stumpt the chump :)

[S n o w b a l l]

40. And ....

I couldn't do my Christmas shopping so...sorry, no presents!

[Guava Jelly]

41. Hey good thinking

Thats using the ol noggen

[skygazer]

30. I miss those white Christmases

1. It's a lot colder when there's no snow to insulate.
2. Bundle 'em up and send 'em out - they won't melt. I was always outdoors all winter.
3. You have a valid point here.
4. That's what the kids are for.
5. If it's white enough, the relatives can't get there and you can sit around and drink eggnog while the kids try out their new snow shovels.

[Guava Jelly]

35. I can buy the getting liquored up argument

:)

[xmas74]

43. I was raised in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.

Snow shovels were a pretty common present w/ my family, as were ice scrapers and snowshoes (when I lived in the UP).

[skygazer]

47. Vermont here

If my family had thought I couldn't go out in the snow, I would have been inside all winter. We used to build snow caves in the big drifts the plow made (we had a long driveway and hired a neighbor to plow) and my dad would send my brother and I up on the roof to shovel it - we used to push each other off into the snowbanks. Great fun (single story house).

Sometimes there'd be a bit of a thaw then a freeze and we'd be able to ice skate on the driveway. And we'd bring large cardboard boxes way the hell up on the mountain behind our house and slide down in them - no control whatsoever, rocks and trees and obstacles all over the place but somehow we never got killed.

I remember getting sleds and skis and skates and toboggans and those flying saucer things that were almost as dangerous as the cardboard boxes for Christmas presents. And there were plenty of snow shovels and ice scrapers under our tree, too.

[xmas74]

48. We loved cardboard boxes.

They were the best-even better than the saucers!

I can remember climbing out of the attic window onto the roof and sledding off. The drifts were so high in the UP that on one side they almost reached the roof. And I lived way out in the country so we'd take our toboggans and our saucers and run them down the country roads, which were quite hilly and never plowed unless a farmer took pity on everyone.

I had permanently chapped lips and cheeks in the winter from staying outside all day.

[S n o w b a l l]

55. I have those same memories...

they were the best!! How lucky we were to experience those childhood moments. I'm forever grateful.

[xmas74]

59. My daughter used a sled for the first time a

few weeks ago. She's six and it's the first time we've had enough snow for one to be used.

[Sequoia]

69. Just call Mr. Plow

[Zookeeper]

86. One of my presents last year from Mr. Z.

was a really deluxe ice scraper and brush, a thoughtful gift in my opinion. I was happy....my kids looked at me like I was nuts.

[xmas74]

103. I did that one year.

I purchased an ice scraper, gas treatment and a keychain w/ one of those heated things (yep, tired today-can't think!) that melt the ice on your car door lock.

My coworkers thought I was crazy-except for the coworker I gave it to. She thought it was one of the best gifts she'd had-things she'd never buy for herself but were practical in the winter.

[sarge43]

34. Wintah Fun - Country Style

1. Good possibility you'll die of a heart attack while shoveling snow and you won't be found until spring thaw.

2. You'll slip on some black ice and bust your ass. (She holds up paw)

3. Some jerk will always ask "Cold enough for ya?" To which you'd like to answer, "Oh hell no. I really like it cold enough to flash freeze my eyeballs and crack my teeth."

4. Your furnace will crap out at 2am on the coldest, windiest night of year and the bill for the emergency repair will put the repairman's kids through college. (She holds up paw again)

5. You don't have sex between November and April because by the time you peel off each other's multiple layers of clothing you flat aren't interested anymore.

6. The water pump will crap out around midnight on the second coldest, windiest night of year.

7. Ski nazis. If you live in or around mountains, you'll understand. If not, you won't understand.

8. Dead car batteries

9. That crunch as the drunken snow plow driver hits your mail box for the eighth time this season. (Yes, it's far enough back from the road. The guy's an asshole; it's a job requirement.)

10. On the first beautiful spring day, the sure and certain knowledge you'll go through all this bullshit again in about six months.

[Guava Jelly]

37. Finally Someone who gets it!!

Preach on Reverend!!

[xmas74]

44. But there is money to be won, if you are a young woman.

One of my aunts won the dorm jackpot that winter-enough to pay for a semester of school.

The contest? Who has the longest underarm hair. You stop shaving on October 1st and measure in April. (Yep, pretty far north so the shorts won't be dragged out too soon.)

[sarge43]

53. Snerk.

Well yes, that's summer in New England. The men have shaved their beards and the women, their legs and pits.

[xmas74]

58. So I take it both regions have the same signs that

summer is coming?

[sarge43]

61. I'm sorry xmas74, but I don't understand. What two regions? n/t

[xmas74]

62. One person referred to New England

while I grew up in the Northern Midwestern states. Either way I guess that first sign of spring is when women finally dig out the razors in anticipation of wearing shorts.

[sarge43]

68. That was me.

Like you I grew up in the Midwest, Michigan to be exact. I now live in New Hampshire. The climates are very similar, except New England doesn't get quite as hot in the summer. We wait to shave until Memorial Day because we have no spring here, just Mud Season, the six weeks between the final Nor'easterly and Memorial Day.

[xmas74]

73. Ahh...

I live in Missouri now. I used to live in WI and in the UP.

Missouri weather is nothing like anything I saw growing up. It really is the idea of "If you don't like the weather right now, wait two hours." Weather here changes on a dime.

[sarge43]

75. It does here, too.

"Wait 5 minutes and move over five feet." It's the mountains, valleys and lots of rivers and lakes - makes for micro-climates.

Missouri is right on ground zero between the moist warm air coming up from the Gulf, the hot or cold dry air coming from the west and whatever our Canadian neighbors send our way, usually cold and moist. It gets lively.

[xmas74]

76. Don't remind me!

March through October always holds a number of lovely surprises-either drought or flood. And you're just silly if you're not prepared for tornado season.

[sarge43]

78. Don't remind me of tornadoes.

I lived in Texas and Nebraska for some time. Those things are frightful.

[xmas74]

80. I live in an area of Missouri that seems to

suck them in. We're like a tornado vacuum. I don't know how many times we've had to do repairs to the fairgrounds.

[usaftmo]

52. Ski Nazis? Please explain!

Actually here in Biloxi a white Christmas would be awesome! It's so warm down here I haven't turned the heat on in 2 weeks...yesterday turned the A/C on for awhile!

[sarge43]

56. That fraction of visiting skiers who think the locals have no other purpose

or life except to serve their needs. Oh yeah, they also act like we're all deaf and have a double digit IQs.

[usaftmo]

79. No problem with ski nazis here...

it's 68 degrees right now! I just turned on the A/C again. I would open the windows, but mosquitos are a year round problem here.

[Zookeeper]

87. 'Hope I'm not intruding, but....

it finally snowed today way up in Minnesota and I was so excited I went outside (in the dark) and put up Christmas lights, brushed the snow off of the Mothership (my van), mulched some new shrubs with wood chips and shoveled my driveway, all the while thinking how nice it was to be outside at night without mosquitoes. THAT is probably the best thing about winter!

[melliyna]

42. Is Quietly Smiling

I have no experience with white christmas as I live in Australia which means that I have had christmas on the beach in thirty degree heat (we also have Christmas lunch outside on my front lawn complete with water fights) and have often wondered what a proper northern hemisphere christmas would be like.

[S n o w b a l l]

45. Hi Melliyna!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

I wish you could experience Christmas in the snow...it's magical. :)

[Guava Jelly]

46. see thats what i'm talking about!!

sun and warmth :7

[Sequoia]

70. Well, considering you guys are running out of water down under

You might want to plan on moving to, say Vermont, in the future.

[sarge43]

81. Welcome to DU, melliyna

If it's available Down Under, get the movie A Christmas Story. There's a scene of a perfect northern Christmas morning, a blanket of fresh snow and the added magic of a glitter of hoar frost covering everything. Plus, it's a hoot to watch.

[ThatsMyBarack]

49. When you hire a snow shoveler....

....who doesn't show up so you've got to do the job yourself, that would make a White Xmas really suck! :grr:

[Guava Jelly]

50. Uh hugh!!!

And than youthrow your back out scooping up dirty snow!!
Damn you white christmas!!!!

[Zookeeper]

88. If you have enough snow to shovel, you can cancel....

your gym membership. (I like staying strong, so shoveling snow is ok with me.)

[bullwinkle428]

57. I heard Michael Richards was really hoping for one...

:hide:

[Guava Jelly]

60. Why it gotta be all white?

:silly:

[NMDemDist2]

64. I have to physically carry the youngest dog outside to avoid "accidents"

she's terrified of the stuff :shrug:

[malta blue]

71. so my kid can use this....

http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=48136&from=GM&noDept=1&guideId=7412&moduleId=7416&parentCategory=7416&feat=7416-dg

:hi:

[Zookeeper]

89. Ooooh, FUN! n/t

[malta blue]

91. Isn't it though? n/t

[Taverner]

72. Hypothermia's a bitch

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

74. 7 & 8...

7) Some people in some places still have to go to work no matter how deep the snow is because their job didn't close.
8) And if there are people out there like me, you have to catch the bus in that shit!

[dropkickpa]

100. Amen to that!!!

Nothing worse than standing at a bus stop for 45 minutes cuz the roads aren't plowed yet (after slipping/falling/etc because no one shoveled their walks yet either) but you gotta go anyway.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

104. not just that...

waiting 45 minutes in the freezing cold period. Especially if it is snowing and raining.

[VelmaD]

82. Because some of us almost never get one

I grew up in Texas and have lived here all my life. I'm 36 and I think I can only remember having 2 white christmases in all that time.

[Generic Brad]

83. They're racist?

:shrug:

[Redstone]

84. And you bitch and whine, and people get sick of hearing it.

Redstone

[Guava Jelly]

90. You do realize This thread is a joke don't you?

:wtf:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

92. Ummm...sorry GOPSux...I would love to experience a White Christmas

Having lived in SE Asia and also Australia for all of my life, I've only ever known a very hot Christmas (it is summer in Australia during Christmas). While it's nice and pleasant and I enjoy it, summer also means that at least one Christmas has been spent worrying over the possibility of bushfires in our area.

I've love to experience Christmas in a different climate -I'm not complaining about what I've got (far from it) but a change is always good

[Guava Jelly]

93. I am in a less sarcastic mood today

:)
A White christmas can be nice surrounded by those you love.
I hope someday you do

[Love Bug]

94. Because Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby told us to?

[Guava Jelly]

95. It could be just that simple!

Good thinking!

[miss_american_pie]

96. I love snow

It's pretty. You can ski in it. And make snowmen and have snowball fights.

And I can pretend it's a compliment when I get called "ice princess." ;)

[Guava Jelly]

105. Oh you would!!

:sarcasm:
Yeah great!! It's nice to ruin everybodys holiday with several feet of snow just so "miss pie" can be called "Ice Princess" :eyes: geeze!! :7

[Canadian Socialist]

98. I hate snow...

and I hate driving out to the 'rents (thru the Rockies) in the winter. We'll be doing that tonight (thru the mountains, in the dark, up into Rogers Pass :scared: ) I need good thoughts...

White Christmas. bah humbug.

[Dukkha]

99. i'll take snow any day

over the non-stop depressing ugly rain we've had here :-(

[MorningGlow]

101. You shall not deter me!

I am a snow bunny, of hearty western New York stock, and I loves me my winter weather! (Which, by the by, is sorely lacking this year--pout.) In any case, no Scrooging or Grinching by Mr. GoPsUx will convince me that the fluffy white stuff is anything other than essential for a happy holiday season!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

:* :* :* :* :* :*

[Guava Jelly]

107. Oh you and your happy fluffy snow!

:rofl:
I hope you have a Merry Xmas

[MorningGlow]

110. And a Merry Christmas to you too!

May yours be as balmy as you wish! :D

[Guava Jelly]

111. Thank you!

:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

102. White christmas is only nice if

1) It's only about two inches that sticks to the grass and trees and leaves the roads alone.

The end.

Blizzards are bad. Especially a few days before. Leaves you with dirty snow.

[Guava Jelly]

108. Ditto

:hi: Merry Xmas Triple R. may it be as beautiful as you are :*

[LaraMN]

106. Actually, it feels warmer when there's snow on the ground.

(As opposed to just cold temps)
The snow has insulative properties around the foundation of the house, and it reflects sunlight.

Not that I'm crying over the fact that we don't have any. I get sick of looking at it, by March.

[Guava Jelly]

109. oh you and your fancy School-en!!

Posting facts and such :eyes:
Merry Christmas to you and yours.