The Christmas Thread

[CanadianStraps]

[Vincent Vega]

Yippee kiy yi ahhh...

[meijlinder]

Well in Sweden you watch Disney cartoons at Christmas. At 3pm on the 24th (we celebrate a day earlier than the British and American) it is more or less mandatory.

This article gives a very good description of the tradition. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/c...dic_quack.html

And I ensure you, everything in that article is accurate. You will be considered a nut by anyone above the age of 25 if you miss it. The kids are not as amused anymore. But they are still forced to watch by their parents. Because at 3 you watch "Kalle"

[Donf]

Well in Sweden you watch Disney cartoons at Christmas. At 3pm on the 24th (we celebrate a day earlier than the British and American) it is more or less mandatory.

This article gives a very good description of the tradition. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/c...dic_quack.html

And I ensure you, everything in that article is accurate. You will be considered a nut by anyone above the age of 25 if you miss it. The kids are not as amused anymore. But they are still forced to watch by their parents. Because at 3 you watch "Kalle"

I had no idea. Odd though I'm sure that like most traditions there was a logical progression from a random airing in the '50;s to todays mandatory watching.

Kalle

[meijlinder]

I had no idea. Odd though I'm sure that like most traditions there was a logical progression from a random airing in the '50;s to todays mandatory watching.

Kalle

Well if it is the only hour of American cartoons you can watch during a year I can see why people sat there every year. And now it's second nature. You don't really think about it anymore. It's just the way it is.
So fairly logically progression I guess.