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What X-mas themed things do people who hate X‐mas like? (lemmy.world)
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Searching for my people, I guess.

My partner hates it when I say that Die Hard is my favourite X-mas movie. Or, that I only want socks, underwear, and egg nog. She's lactose intolerant. Maybe I'm just X-mas intolerant.

Anyway, have at ye scallywags! Vent your frustrations! Build me an anti-X-mas list! I'm already celebrating New Year's over here.

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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Calling it X-mas has to be pretty high up there.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    It's been spelled like that for centuries. It comes from the Greek letter Chi, the first letter of the word Christós. The first English document (that we know of) using it is from around 1100 CE.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Who, the X-ians?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    No, I was checking whether you thought it was the ✝️-ians who were annoyed. Like, who the "their" was in your question:

    Do you feel like that lessens [✝️-ians] annoyance about it? (I assume the ✝️-ians are annoyed be virtually everything non-traditional at this point)

    Or

    Do you feel like that lessens [the Greeks] annoyance about it? (I didn't know the Greeks would be annoyed about it. But, hey, you live you learn.)

    Or

    Do you feel like that lessens [the English] annoyance about it? (I assume the English would be annoyed because of the aforementioned laziness in spelling)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I laughed pretty hard when Christina Aguilara started calling herself Xtina

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    You just helped a mildly infuriating puzzle piece finally slide into place for me. For years, I've internalized xbow as shorthand for crossbow, but couldn't for the life of me remember where I'd have picked that up. I played a lot of AoE2 back in the day, though, so that seems the likely origin.

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