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Today is Twelfth Night - so the Christmas decorations come down today (and Herself will start complaining how bare the house looks).
And Dij the Cat has decided that he doesn't want to go out today ... I don't need a furry assistant, it'll just make putting them up next year a load harder, so I'll have to postpone that job for a while.
But it got me thinking. What kind of "undecorator" are you? I know people who pull 'em down, stuff 'em in a box, and either have a Gordian Knot to unravel next December, or who look at the Knot and buy all new every year. But me, I take 'em down carefully, wind strings of beads, card holders, lights, ... carefully onto tubes so I can undo them easily next year.
So what's your approach? "I'll deal with it next time" or "Plan ahead"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I didn't decorate, so there's nothing to clean up 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Ah. An unmarried man ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Happily divorced
No matter how carefully you package it, the next year one of those damned lights would always be broken.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Christmas lights are like your coworkers. At least one doesn't work and the rest are dim.
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obermd wrote: Christmas lights are like your coworkers. At least one doesn't work and the rest are dim
Does one not working prevent everybody else from doing any work too?
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I'm married but the wife doesn't care dusting year old useless junk every year, so we don't have any.
If anyone cares to get into christmas mood, five minutes outside give us enough christmas lights to last for another year.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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The servants have got the morning off. I'll ask them, when they get back.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Decoration un-decoration and the creation of the decorations are belong to the kids...
Including to buy raw-material or ready-made...
Including to remind me to take them to buy those...
However I guided them to carefully remove those they want to preserve - any other goes by the fire!!!
(obviously we have no Christmas tree but have Sukkot  )
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Typically I'd celebrate at other people's houses. Of course, that didn't work this last year as I've become quite averse to people. Oh well.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'm with you, and so is my wife. Take things down carefully and pack them away in boxes. Redecorating next Christmas then takes a lot less time than it otherwise might.
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I use the Decorator pattern 
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I am allowed to construct the tree and take the tree down, but her indoors is in charge of the decorations and I am only allowed to take them to and from the cupboard. 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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We've not done xmas decorations for years. No tree for over a decade
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That is a job for Herself, I am allowed to get the tree and plant it in a bucket and am then excluded from the process thank Ghu. I expect this to be the last tree we get, the lights did not even get turned on this year.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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"Stuff it, I may not be alive to deal with it next time anyway."
Save time _now_ when I know I can use it.
Plus, I dropped my treasured Tinkerbell tree topper and she broke her leg. I'm unsure any amount of clapping can help.
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Last year we had a friend who was in hospital over Xmas so we delayed putting everything away until he was better and could come over and have a Xmas with us (just a bit late). With his new job and stress at home he finally came over for Xmas in August! We actually still had the tree up - although we had turned off the lights until he came over.
That was the weirdest Xmas we had had until this year. The whole family got some sort of stomach flu and spent the entire two weeks vacation either in bed or in the bathroom. No tree, no other decorations, no Xmas dinner, no nothing! Got better on Saturday, Rested Sunday and back to work early this morning. Bah! Humbug! Oh, and we felt well enough in the middle of it to go out to eat - my wife ended up in hospital with food poisoning! What fun we had!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A: Mom, why boys have to love girls?
M: It is not exactly *have to*, but is is good so do not be afraid...
A: It is not that, but they love they have to merry at the end...
M: So? Don't you want merry?
A: It is not that, but I do not like the wedding part.
M: Why is that so?
A: All those guest are coming...
M: Only who you invite will come, don't be afraid!
A: But there is all that noise and shouting and the music...
M: Same there, you pick the music and how and when to play...
A: ...and I do not like the food...I like only F's food...
M: F will cook for your wedding I'm sure of it...
A: You know what M? F will cook, Y and N will provide music and entertainment and M will look after the decorations and quests...
M: Sound good... But what will I do?
A: Keep me calm?
A is 6.75 years old...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
modified 5-Jan-20 4:02am.
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Is he saving for his retirement yet?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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From the Internet, so it has to be true:
A handful of 7 year old children were asked "what they thought of beer'.
7 year old Tim: I think beer must be good. My Dad says the more beer he drinks the prettier my Mom gets.
7 year old Melanie: Beer makes my Dad sleepy and we get to watch what we want on TV when he is asleep, so beer is nice
7 year old Grady: My Mom and Dad both drink beer. My Mom gets funny when she drinks it and takes her top off at parties, but Dad doesn't think this is funny.
7 year old Toby: My Mom and Dad talk funny when they drink beer and the more they drink the more they give kisses to each other which is a good thing.
7 year old Sarah: My Dad gets funny on beer. He is funny. He also wets his pants sometimes, so he shouldn't have too much.
7 year old Lilly: My Dad loves beer. The more he drinks the better he dances. One time he danced right into the pool.
7 year old Ethan: I don't like beer very much. Every time Dad drinks it he burns the burgers on the barbecue and they taste disgusting.
7 year old Shirley: I give Dad's beer to the dog and he goes to sleep.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I do not know about the internet, but that one happened in my house, me sitting at the table... I had to walk out not to laugh in his face, as it was obvious how serious he is about the subject...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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My daughter was five, or maybe just turned six (here, kids don't start school until the year they turn six), when she came home from kindergarten declaring "Today I broke up with Bjørn Tore!". (Bjørn Tore was half a year younger.)
Later she denied having said that, but in this case my memory is better than hers.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: A is 6.75 years old...
I clearly remember telling my folks at the age of 7 I wasn't going to get married. People thought I was being cute. I was pretty serious.
4 decades later I still have no doubt that was the right choice. Especially the more I talk to my divorced friends, and those who are still together but really ought not to be. I can't count the number of times I've heard "I envy you"--often coming from the very same people who used to refer to me as "that loner kid who prefers to be on his own".
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Well, I'm back from a short cruise over the Christmas break. Well okay, I traveled half way around the world to see the annular solar eclipse on Dec 26 on a cruise out of Singapore. Never mind that. One day at breakfast, I saw something I'd never seen before in North America, called "Vegemite". I saw some other people putting it on either bread or toast or an English muffin. I'm adventurous. I tried a little bit on some bread and Holy @#$% :gag: :choke: :spurtle:! What a way to ruin my day!
Where did this stuff come from? The Wikipedia article claims that millions of people eat the stuff every day. I just can't fathom that.
Can somebody please explain a few things
- How did something this awful make it to a commercial product in the first place?
- Who buys this stuff? (On purpose I mean)
- How did it get popular enough that it made money and got sold to several companies that each made a profit on it?
- Why is it still a product now?
- Does it have any other unstated non-food uses? For example, making turpentine taste worse? Keeping rabbits out of your lettuce patch? Keeping the neighbor's dog from urinating on your shrubs? Insect repellent? Rust prevention? Shoe polish? Floor cleaner?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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