if you argue on christmas and christmas eve, you should be banned. I think this is an important and necessary step to protect the spirit of christmas, and if you disagree, then perhaps you are the reason we need this rule in the first place. Public polls are enabled to name and shame. There will be no presents in this thread. No candy either. Merry christmas.
Where is the fun in that, if I cannot sit down to a traditional Italian family Christmas?
Come now, there must be some paisanos here who agree with me? We sit down at the table, say grace, then the shouting and yelling starts. If there isn’t someone who leaves the table angry as a wet cat before they finished their plate, well then you are not doing it right.
Bit late, but, I vote nay. Not everyone celebrates Christmas & it’s just another day for them. Banning people for having a contrary opinion on a particular day is just forcing your religious beliefs on others.
Merry 3rd day of Christmas… only 36 more calling birds to go! Do you know how hard it is to wrap a calling bird?
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I really do miss those Christmas diner fights. Mama would start off with my older brother looking down at her plate, you still working for the grocery store? Why don’t you get a real job?
He was the manager at the store.
Papa would rag on me about girls, that would result in mama talking about marriage and children.
To which, I would reply, I am in the army mama, I don’t have the time.
Then we started firing off the big guns at each other. At some point, my kid sister would be the one to break some glass or leap to her feet running up to her room. Not that she was upset, I think she did that to go talk to her friends on the phone.
The mental picture I had here involved .45s. Something out of a comedy movie, where everyone’s hurling insults and shooting at each other but no one is hitting anything but grandma’s “collectable” plates.