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Re: Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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Post by jimminy »

This was making me feel like there was something wrong with my eyes. It took me about a minute to figure out it was the site and not me; I didn't figure it out until I spotted the article numbers.

The contrast in the bar is really low, so I can't wait until it's not Christmas any longer.

Re: Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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Post by CoffeeDregs »

dekz wrote: post #19

Merry Christmas from Down Under.

In re: "Christmas from Down Under" (and the southern hemisphere in general): I always think it's a trip that y'all are in the peak of summer at Christmas time. We have all kinds of songs, rituals, artifacts, whatever that derive from the fact that it's cold outside: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; tinsel on christmas trees to simulate icicles; drinking Eggnog.

Question: do you Christmas bits reflect that it's winter outside somewhere else or do you have a separate bunch of Christmas bits to reflect that it's summer during your Christmas?

Re: Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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Post by dekz »

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #24
dekz wrote: post #19

Merry Christmas from Down Under.

In re: "Christmas from Down Under" (and the southern hemisphere in general): I always think it's a trip that y'all are in the peak of summer at Christmas time. We have all kinds of songs, rituals, artifacts, whatever that derive from the fact that it's cold outside: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; tinsel on christmas trees to simulate icicles; drinking Eggnog. Question: do you Christmas bits reflect that it's wint…

I honestly cannot speak for everyone, of course we have our own Aussie Christmas carols with your reindeers replaced with kangaroos which to me seem more to be satire. But we have still been Nothern-hemispherized in the traditional christmas sense. Our decorations have snow, every figurine is rugged up etc. I could send you a picture of my christmas tree, it would be indistinguishable from your generic tree.

It surely doesn't snow in all parts of the Northern Hemispher and I guess you can draw similarities to that. The funny thing is, for more Christmas's then I can remember, it has actually been quite wet and stormy, today it is beautiful and sunny.

Re: Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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Post by CoffeeDregs »

dekz wrote: post #25
CoffeeDregs wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In re: "Christmas from Down Under" (and the southern hemisphere in general): I always think it's a trip that y'all are in the peak of summer at Christmas time. We have all kinds of songs, rituals, artifacts, whatever that derive from the fact that it's cold outside: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; tinsel on christmas trees to simulate icicles; drinking Eggnog. Question: do you Christmas bits reflect that it's wint…

I honestly cannot speak for everyone, of course we have our own Aussie Christmas carols with your reindeers replaced with kangaroos which to me seem more to be satire. But we have still been Nothern-hemispherized in the traditional christmas sense. Our decorations have snow, every figurine is rugged up etc. I could send you a picture of my christmas tree, it would be indistinguishable from your generic tree. It surel…

Interesting. I guess I'm not too surprised that your Christmas bits are much like ours. "Rudolph the red-nosed Kangaroo"? Awesome.

Re: Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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Post by timewasted »

resnamen wrote: post #17
aiscott wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ditto that. Most of the time I don't notice the effects of red-green color deficiency, but whenever someone wants to differentiate between A and B with colors, inevitably it's red/green. Not much to do about it with xmas colors though. Bah humbug to poinsettias.

Does it look like red and red? Or gray and gray?

At a glance it looks gray and gray. If I stare, I can make out the red and can see that the green is a different color, but I really only recognize that it's green because people mentioned it being green.

So, I concur with the bah humbug to colorblindness statements.

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