It's all the crass commercialism of Christmas but without the veneer of festive legitimacy.
Basically all the stores have big discount sales and it's a mad shopping spree everywhere. Some stores are even extending the sales all the way to New Year's day and calling it "boxing week." You have to hunt around, but there are definitely some good bargains to be had.
I'm surprised the U.S. hasn't picked up on it yet.
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New Canadian here...What is Boxing Day all about?
by Saoirse incan someone please explain to me what you are supposed to do on boxing day?
i keep hearing different things.
one person told me that i'm supposed to give baked goods to the neighbors, another told me to re-gift and another told me that i'm supposed to give presents to the mailman.
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What's the big deal with Jesus' "sacrifice"?
by bluesapphire inwhat was the big deal with that dam tree to begin with!
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I'm sure Hungary's tourism industry is doing quite well but I doubt billions are going every year.
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What's the big deal with Jesus' "sacrifice"?
by bluesapphire inwhat was the big deal with that dam tree to begin with!
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BA, the problem with that reasoning is that he (supposedly) already had 100% confirmed foreknowledge that he would be resurrected, not just nebulous "faith", so what exactly did he sacrifice?
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White Man build big fire.....sit far back......
by oompa inapache build little fire....sit real close.
i have no idea why i felt like posting this.
it reminds me of early enviromentalism..........oompa.
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That's because Apaches are pussies. :P
We Mohawks build bigass bonfires. ;) Had one so big at my brother's place it consumed an entire queen size mattress, rendering it to fine ash and wire in twenty minutes. -
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Otters are the cutest animals on the face of the earth. They're like swimming kittens that never grow out of the cute kitten phase.
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Satan gets Credit for Everything...Even the Bible/New World Translation!!!
by oompa inthis thread subject starts after a few posts helping me get it on wordpad from word....thanks guys!...darn i lost all my highlights...geeze this took an hour...i thought the site was down!
the first few post can help you post easier, then i hope sombody finds subject info.
interesting!.
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I had coffee with my rabidly devout witness friend the other night and it was sad listening to him talk. Everything and I do mean EVERYTHING in life has either Satan or Jehovah behind it, according to him.
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But WHY don't they disfellowship bloodtakers ?
by aligot ripounsous inany jw knows that one of the very bad things that a christian must not do is accepting a blood transfusion.
respect for the sanctity of blood ranks highest, in jw theology, on the scale of christian standards, along with not being a murderer, an adulterer, a robber, etc.
in fact, it is the identifying feature of jws for the onlooker.
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BFD - you'll be booted alright, only it will be because you "chose to longer be one of Jehovah's Witnesses" and not because you were put on front of a committee. It's just a technicality but the result is the same in that you would be shunned.
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Even Catholic nuns are being busted for being molesters
by MegaDude inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/us/13nun.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin.
nun pleads no contest in sex abuse .
by catrin einhornpublished: november 13, 2007a roman catholic nun pleaded no contest yesterday to two counts of indecent behavior with a child in connection with accusations from the 1960s when she was a principal and teacher at a catholic school in milwaukee.. the nun, norma giannini, 79, faces up to 20 years in prison for what prosecutors say was sexual abuse of two male students.
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"I think this is the tip of the iceburg," Ms Fox said.
hmmmmmm .......
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Recipes for Pig Tails
by snowbird inwhen i was a child, my mother used to cook pig tails a lot.. she would stew them down in onions, peppers, and other spices.
then she would dust them lightly with flour and brown them in the oven.
they were simply delicious.. i haven't had any for a while now due to blood pressure problems.
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There's a lot of immigrants from the West Indies in my part of Montreal and I can vouch that PrimitiveGenius's story is true. The REAL way to eat that is to supposedly let it sit in a bucket overnight till it congeals.
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Recipes for Pig Tails
by snowbird inwhen i was a child, my mother used to cook pig tails a lot.. she would stew them down in onions, peppers, and other spices.
then she would dust them lightly with flour and brown them in the oven.
they were simply delicious.. i haven't had any for a while now due to blood pressure problems.
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Uh, they're pig tails. You know, curly things on the back of critters that go "oink".
My grandmother used to cook them in a big pot with pole beans, carrots, potatoes, cabbage and turnips. The saltiness of the pig tails seasoned the vegetables and it made for some heavy-duty comfort food.
I can't seem to find them anywhere though. I tried asking the girl at the butcher counter of the local supermarket and she looked at me as if I was nuts.