Christmas Poll

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1503402]

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

False trichotomy in first question: xmas dinner *starts* at midday-ish, and continues until evening.

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Very true. We had a starter at 1.30pm, main course at 4pm and expecting pud at around 7pm. Timed it for just after Dr Who.

[andrewducker]

Good Lord. No wonder people have arguments. I'd get cranky from low-blood sugar alone, let alone being stuck at a table for over five hours!

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

Table? You've been to my house - where would we put a table? It's all about taking breaks... you know... pacing yourself.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

Likewise! We started at 11am this morning and finished about an hour ago with hot sticky toffee and ginger pudding with Cornish ice cream. Although, I might go forth and eat the cheese as it appears no one else is fit to :D

Eating small quantities wins.

[andrewducker]

10 hours of dinner around a table?

I'd have gone mad with an axe around hour 5...

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

False trichotomy

What, in an online poll? Inconceivable!

Additionally, I can't shift a belief that trichotomy is a medically-prescribed haircut.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I am responding based on the customs of this foreign country. In actuality Christmas dinner is at a Chinese restaurant, following the movie.

[andrewducker]

It's what you're actually doing that I want to know.

Because the habit of having lunch hours late fascinates and horrifies me.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Christmas lunch isn't lunch in my house, it's supper. Which means it's an evening meal and we eat actual lunch earlier.

Although, we would have had supper by now only someone (*look pointedly at Dad*) switched the cooker off at the wall.

[andrewducker]

Yup, so is ours. After presents at first star.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Well, what we did today was wake up late, start opening presents around 1030am, have something to eat, and then eat the big meal around 530pm. (This is not a Doctor Who household.) So we only had two meals.

Of course I have no idea whether this is typical for Scotland, so this is not much of a data point.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

And a fine, fine movie it is.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

Is there an 'I am avoiding EVERYBODY' option?

[andrewducker]

You'll have to leave a comment so that the people you're avoiding can leave snarky replies.

:-p

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

They'll only be here if they're also avoiding me, in which case snarky replies would defeat the purpose somewhat.

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

"Christmas Meal"

Yesterday evening.

[andrewducker]

So was mine :->

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

In earlier years, the timing was determined by the fact that Dad would have to go and do the milking at around 3.30pm, so we have always been in the habit of eating at actual lunchtime.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Yay DDR! Merry Christmas!

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

You need a box for I have to decompress because my daughter fell asleep at 5:30 and slept through Doctor Who and then woke up and had a psychotic screaming fit as a result and is only partly mollified by iPlayer.

[andrewducker]

Oh dear.

It's waiting for us on the Sky Player for when we've finished dinner and put Noah to bed.

DDR will be after that :->

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

The bread question is ill-posed. It depends on context: Brown bread for dipping in soup or olive oil, multigrain for toasted cheese, and soft white with ham and mustard.

[andrewducker]

I think any poll that fitted your requirements might get a tad unwieldy...

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Oh, and for bread - walnut bread or ciabatta, made by me. Hell yeah. We currently have walnut, but a loaf and a half has vanished since I made it, so there's only a bit left..

[neferet.livejournal.com]

Lunch today was mid-afternoon as breakfast was just before midday :)
If it wasn't plastered all over the TV I could easily forget about the christmas thing. I'm going to be very confused on Sunday, as we've just done our Saturday on a Friday, and tomorrow will follow the run of a normal Sunday...

[mair_in_grenderich]

your last question should have a tickybox!

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

While being A JEW and NOT DOING CHRISTMAS, I did make a good big roast dinner for two Goy friends this year and it was from about 4pm-7pm or so.

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Also, I remember last year the BBC running this stupid story about 'WHY ARE PEOPLE ONLINE ON CHRISTMAS DAY?!?!11! IS THE FAMILY/SOCIETY/COMMUNITY DYING?! and that was the only thing in a long time that had made me feel really quite excluded. I am pretty happy for everyone who's celebrating at this time of year, and I'm very very used to explaining that/why I'm not really doing it, but the BBC? Surely they're supposed to be in some way, y'know, representative and respect diversity and that? Dudes, I thought, some people aren't Christian. Get over it.