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Do you get a real or artificial Christmas tree?

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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #50 on: December 02, 2020, 07:46:23 AM »
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #51 on: December 02, 2020, 08:05:58 AM »
"Epic thread drift. "
Bet those Amish didn’t use artificial trees.

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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #52 on: December 02, 2020, 08:26:00 AM »
Bet those Amish didn’t use artificial trees.

Neither do the Pennsylvania Dutch.

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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #53 on: December 02, 2020, 08:29:42 AM »
Baal and Asherah are happy with either real or artificial  :angel:

Pretty sure the Amish don't celebrate with Christmas trees.
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #54 on: December 02, 2020, 08:32:20 AM »
"I'm a foolish old man that has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop."

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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #55 on: December 02, 2020, 09:44:08 AM »
That pole needs to be in the center of the room, needs to be brass, and needs to have someone hanging off it...
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #56 on: December 02, 2020, 09:55:47 AM »
"Pretty sure the Amish don't celebrate with Christmas trees."

Yes, no, maybe, it depends. There's no easy answer, because Amish is a catch-all term for people who have the same set of core beliefs but differ pretty substantially in how they observe them. In other words, not unlike Jewish, Baptist, or Mennonite.

It all depends on how strict that particular sect is and often what part of the country they live in as to how they observe Christmas. My family has gotten Christmas cards from the Amish in years past. My Father and Grandfather had a lot of contact with the Amish in Mifflin and Juniata counties in Pennsylvania over the years because of their engineering professions, and that led to holiday exchanges and the like.

It's generally true, however, that the Amish don't go all out on commercialized celebrations like most of us do. Their celebrations generally tend to be more family and community oriented, but they do tend to go big on the food, just like most of the rest of us.
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #57 on: December 02, 2020, 09:57:59 AM »
That pole needs to be in the center of the room, needs to be brass, and needs to have someone hanging off it...

Jeffrey Epstein?
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #58 on: December 02, 2020, 10:00:04 AM »
Jeffrey Epstein?

 :rofl: :rofl:


Jeffrey Epstein didn't hang himself by the chimney with care...
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #59 on: December 02, 2020, 10:04:28 AM »
:rofl: :rofl:


Jeffrey Epstein didn't hang himself by the chimney with care...

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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #60 on: December 02, 2020, 10:08:39 AM »
If the choice is between Hillary and Krampus...

I'll pick Krampus, please.
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #61 on: December 02, 2020, 10:13:20 AM »
If the choice is between Hillary and Krampus...

I'll pick Krampus, please.

Or Jason, Michael Myers, Alien.............
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #62 on: December 02, 2020, 12:19:40 PM »
… You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Hillary Clinton is coming to town

She's making a list,
She's checking it twice,
She's gonna find out who's naughty or nice
Hillary Clinton is coming to town

She sees you when you're sleeping
And she knows when you're awake
She knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

Very  good!  :lol:  Why'd you leave off "You better watch out"?
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #63 on: December 02, 2020, 12:36:45 PM »
Very  good!  :lol:  Why'd you leave off "You better watch out"?

What difference at this point does it make?
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #64 on: December 02, 2020, 06:52:17 PM »
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #65 on: December 04, 2020, 09:46:57 AM »
*expletive deleted*it, I do the Bruce McClain prep for Christmas EVERY year...

And the AR-15 was hung by the chimney with care, on the chance that some Democrats may soon be there...
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #66 on: December 04, 2020, 10:06:02 AM »
*expletive deleted*it, I do the Bruce McClain prep for Christmas EVERY year...

And the AR-15 was hung by the chimney with care, on the chance that some Democrats may soon be there...

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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #67 on: December 04, 2020, 10:16:30 AM »
Time for Ralphie to get even for Santa's foot to the face...
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #68 on: December 05, 2020, 09:44:57 PM »
Real trees are very environmental. One they it takes 7-20 years to grow a Christmas tree, depending upon the species and desired height, so that ground isn't being disturbed by a plow. This stores carbon. Grass is usually grown between the rows, so there is soil being saved and not lost to wind or water erosion. Real trees provide wildlife habitat while they are growing. Real trees after Christmas can be recycled into fish habbit, goat food, wild life habitat, composed, etc. If it wasn't for my dog, I'd have a real tree and sink the old one every year into my lake.

Super late to this thread,  but reading this was worth commenting on.  We use old christmas trees to mark the safe ice between the lake Erie islands and mainland.  They just end up on the bottom come march.
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #69 on: December 05, 2020, 09:49:53 PM »

We finally stopped decorating with outdoor lights because there were a bunch of ahole kids in our town who thought that it was the height of great fun to go up to houses, unscrew the bulbs, and smash them on the porch. They were the same aholes who thought smashing pumpkins on cars was great fun, as well.

One guy caught one of the kids (he was 17 or 18 at the time, so not really a kid) smashing a pumpkin on his car and beat the hell out of him -- REALLY beat the hell out of him. Broke a couple of bones in his face, a couple of his ribs, I think his arm... really felony assault. Only, when the police arrived, the kid had a knife (never really clear whether the homeowner planted the blade or what), but it was enough that kid got arrested for attempted robbery, homeowner was backed up by a neighbor who supposedly saw the whole robbery attempt...

Since the kid already had an extensive juvenile sheet, you can imagine how it went down. Homeowner got off scott free, kid got some time in county jail and, oddly enough, a lot of petty crime and vandalism in town.... stopped. And most people in town were of the opinion that it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

The Law and justice seldom look the same these days.  I'm calling this one a righteous beatdown.
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Re: Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
« Reply #70 on: December 07, 2020, 12:22:44 AM »
"And real trees are firebombs."

Years ago we had a friend who had a small Christmas Tree farm and we would get fresh cut trees, our choice, pick it, cut it, for CHEAP!
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