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  • Dimal
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    Good one mate...

    Mal.

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  • CafeLotta
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    Originally posted by Dimal View Post
    Good one CL...

    Seems to me that you are now on a roll.

    Mal.
    If only I could find a flatulent reindeer pic............

    Wait, what's that. Wouldn't you know it, someone's actually written a book...........

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    Maybe that's why Dingle didn't make that list...........


    Can you name all 10 Reindeer? No?


    There is Dasher (1), Dancer (2), Prancer (3), and Vixen (4). Comet (5), Cupid (6), Donner(7), and Blitzen(8). You can't forget Rudolf (9), He has a whole song about him. So the 10th reindeer must be Olive(10).


    You Don't remember Olive from the song? She was a huge jerk.


    You know... Olive the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names.


    For all the Dad's and Grandad's with young kid's about, a great Dad joke for Christmas. You can wind them up for ages naming the Reindeer until you reveal Olive the other Reindeer from the "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" song.
    Last edited by CafeLotta; 15 December 2019, 03:22 PM.

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  • Dimal
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    Good one CL...

    Seems to me that you are now on a roll.

    Mal.

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  • CafeLotta
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    OK, one more.

    The compromise was staring them in the face all the time -


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    Clean, wind powered travel. No more methane emissions from the reindeer being spread worldwide.

    Captain Claus, the alternative Sustainable Environment ambassador that keeps the joy in Christmas. Add a crew and there's fun for everyone.


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  • CafeLotta
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    Originally posted by Andy View Post
    ...so it's on now if anyone wants to go meet Sustainability Pirate, you only have a couple of hours to get there though.
    Apparently he went down really well.............

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    Originally posted by Dimal View Post
    Darn; I've just run out of pop-corn but maybe the discussion has run its course...


    Mal.
    Maybe now?

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  • OCD
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    I have a problem with impressionable children sitting on the laps of overly generous strangers.
    Besides, does anyone even know a kid who needs more toys?

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  • woodhouse
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    Originally posted by Andy View Post
    I find it interesting that a character known for theft, rape, pillage and murder is preferred to the fat bloke in a red suit though.
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    also the idea of materially rewarding children for behaving a certain way only institutionalises entitlement from a young age.

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  • Lyrebird
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    For those that aren't aware, the reference to pirates has a long history in debates concerning organised religion. It came to prominence when the organisation that is now the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster published a chart showing a negative correlation between the number of pirates and the global average temperature and drew the obvious conclusion that global warming was caused by the decline in pirate numbers. This was intended as a jibe against the bad science that abounds in creationist circles.

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  • Andy
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    Okay, so I goggled and found out it's both kinder and childcare:

    "We offer education and care to children from 6 weeks to school age as well as Sessional and Integrated Kindergarten programs. We are a 140 place centre with 50 dedicated staff"


    6 weeks old? Sheeze.


    I retract my above comment about their "end of year party" they have it in their own calendar as:

    Children’s Christmas and End of Year Celebration Friday 13 December 4pm – 7pm
    https://kccc.org.au/calendar-of-events/


    ...so it's on now if anyone wants to go meet Sustainability Pirate, you only have a couple of hours to get there though.

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  • Andy
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    Originally posted by Dimal View Post
    Darn; I've just run out of pop-corn but maybe the discussion has run its course.
    Don't poke the grumpy's with a stick Mal.
    I was just about to suggest deep breaths or counting to a hundred (backwards from one thousand in thirteens)

    Sustainability Pirate story broke on 3AW a couple of days ago and it's going viral/worldwide because I'm pretty sure most people think it's ridiculous regardless of your views on Jesus/Santa/Christmas.

    3AW didn't name the school but it's since come out in other reports as "Kensington Community Children’s Co-operative in Melbourne".

    The community co-op (is that a kinder or childcare?!?!?) doesn't have a Christmas party, they have an end of year party and the pirate will be there.
    I'm okay with that, they don't have to have a Christmas party although all my kids had one at kinder and loved it.

    I find it interesting that a character known for theft, rape, pillage and murder is preferred to the fat bloke in a red suit though.

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  • Dimal
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    Darn; I've just run out of pop-corn but maybe the discussion has run its course...

    Mal.

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  • robusto
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    I wasn't going to respond, but...
    Click on the link, and as well as Daily Mail you have 7 News with the story.

    Repeating a myth doesn't exculpate you.

    I don't feel as I really should be educating adults, but Saint
    Nicholas, Santa Claus, Father Christmas , Saint Nick....all one and the same.

    Santa Claus is a delightful, happy, Christmas tradition. Sustainability pirate is foisted hogwash.

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  • robusto
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    Originally posted by flynnaus View Post
    OK, Coke didn't invent Santa but it doesn't diminish my argument. Santa is a secular concept.
    Flynnaus, You keep digging a bigger hole for yourself.

    First of all you shoot the messenger (Daily Mail, 7News) as though you believe such a story couldn't possibly be true so it had to be an outright lie.

    Then you erroneously claim Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus/ Father Christmas is an invention of the coca cola company... What??

    Then you claim that while that wasn't the case Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus / Father Christmas is a secular figure. What??? Wrong again.

    I find it extraordinary how people rise to defend the indefensible each time a great tradition is turned on its head.

    Sustainability pirate? Bah humbug. What a freaking load of hot nonsense by deluded idiots who live in la la land.

    As CafeLotta said...virtue signalling by green left grinch greens.

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  • woodhouse
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    i’m all in favour of replacing saint nick with saint greta.

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  • Yelta
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    Originally posted by flynnaus View Post
    OK, Coke didn't invent Santa but it doesn't diminish my argument. Santa is a secular concept.
    We obviously have a different understanding of the term secular.

    "Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve (24 December) or during the early morning hours of Christmas Day (25 December).[1] The modern Santa Claus grew out of traditions surrounding the historical Saint Nicholas (a fourth-century Greek bishop and gift-giver of Myra), the British figure of Father Christmas, and the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas (himself also based on Saint Nicholas). Some maintain Santa Claus also absorbed elements of the Germanic god Wodan, who was associated with the pagan midwinter event of Yule and led the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus

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