Weird christmas traditions

>>34931045
We too bro ... iktf

>>34931045

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DBAv5GYyW0M#t=2974

Here's the entire thing, with the dub.
What weird-ass unexplainable traditions does your country have regarding christmas? Do you have any guess as to why you do them?

>>34931045
We set our Christmas tree on fire almost immediately after Christmas celebrations are over.

>>34931102
At least you won't have to listen to
>>34931107
for the entire thing

>>34931126
Obligatory "you don't shoot it?"-joke.

We wait until the new year to set the trees out around here, and then someone comes around and collects them. Not having set your tree out for more than (I think) 4 weeks means bad luck or something.

>>34931189
I shot it last year after I got some dragon's breath incendiary shells for Christmas. It worked.

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A lot of families have a game where the kids try to find a pickle hidden in the tree in order to win an extra present.

Every American family usually has at least one weird tradition...my family drinks a bunch of glug and this one beer called 'Edmund Fitzgerald' and then plays scattergories. My cousins make their 9 person family into a bluegrass band and play bluegrass versions of rock songs like shit by MGMT and Red Hot Chili Peppers. My girlfriend's family makes 100 tamales with some weirdass mexican shit and then goes to the movie theater on christmas day. My brother's girlfriend's family dumpster dives for broken snowmobiles, spends december repairing them, and then they race them on christmas day.

I know a couple of muslims who work 12 hour workdays on christmas eve and christmas day in order to make a bunch of overtime cash

>>34931408
So it's basically based on muh heritage?

>Casting lead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdumpZeO8Dk

Drinking until the cops get called. Someone ends up in the drunk tank and the tree gets set on fire and thrown down the elevator shaft.

>>34931126
is this how you cut it down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq9xKcn8_AQ

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>>34931045
Lol, germs watch this too.

That ones a holiday classic here aswell. I'm pretty sure it's actually an East German co-production. It's called "Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel" in German.

>>34931954
Lolno, we're real 'Murricans and only shoot our trees to weaken them before driving our mobility scooters into it to break it.

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We watch this.

>>34932168
based

Christmas in on the 24th.
Drinking glögg and watching donald duck.

>>34931645
No not at all. Where did you get that idea?

>>34931045
My family normally saves the previous years Christmas tree, and we burn it on Christmas eve after a few drinks.

This year idk

>>34932168

this

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We watch a Disney christmas special called "from all of us to all of you".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_All_of_Us_to_All_of_You

>>34932501
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_All_of_Us_to_All_of_You

Airs 15:00?

> Americans will never experience a Swedish Christmas

It's too bad Tomten är far till alla barnen don't have English subs.

>>34932501
Omfg.

You do it in Finland too?

>>34932934
>Tomten är far till alla barnen

Burst out laughing just thinking about it. Best Swedish movie there is.

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We watch this.
I'm sure fellow czechbros will attest that I am in fact not kidding.

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In Japan

>>34932305
Glug and Edmund Fitzgerald sounds very German. Being muslim and earning money sounds very middle eastern.

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The Great Escape is a big Christmas movie in the uk for some raisin

>>34931045

I only watch it because she's qt.

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An old dutch christmas classic.

IMDB description: Bumble the Bear (Olivier Bommel) finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dinosaur grows huge every time it is upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Ollie Bommel has to face a difficult dilemma.

Its Comfy to the max!

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We watch this.

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We watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubeVUnGQOIk

;__;

>>34933967
Based.

Hidden almond in the porridge anyone? Winner gets a marzipan pig.

>>34934545

Yupp.

>>34931107
That shit is hilarious. For some reason slavs dub like that.

>>34934545
We quiz it instead
The adults always win and the kids got whiny
Due to that I spent large amount of times reading about everything so I could win
I believe it's a secret family strategy to create autistic children

>>34932168
This.

We also watch Love Actually on Christmas Eve. There is also a game on Christmas Day after dinner where we have to guess the person we are designated as once another puts a piece of paper on our forehead with the name on it.

Before dinner we go to the pub.

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>>34931107

>>34932501
We watch the same here in Denmark. Fra alle os til alle jer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNWyPzYQ3HA

>>34933402
Liar. Nobody watches this.

>>34933402
What the fuck is that?

>>34931045
>tre notter til askepott
gold

>>34932168
we do too

>>34932168
Same, people were kind of pissed last year because they didn't air it, so now they're doing commercials about making up for last year and airin all three movies this year.

>>34933618
Edmund Fitzgerald was a cargo ship that sunk in Lake Superior a while back, and tons of Germans/Norwegians/Swedes settled around Superior, so it should sound German.

>>34933402
what
dude ur family is weird if pretty woman is a christmas tradition for you

TŘI OŘÍŠKY PRO POPELKU
MASTER RACE FAIRY TALE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMApxUPxjLI

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we used to watch "christmas holiday" on day before christmas, also watched home alone. three nuts to cinderella when I was younger.

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>celebrating holidays on the day of the holiday, not the eve of the holiday
>celebrating christmas on the 25th

>>34933402
lel what? how pleb your family is?

>>34937697
>three movies
>three

>>34941425
u wot m8

>>34933819
So is it a dragon or a dinosaur?

Czech TVs every year broadcast this
>>34931045
this
>>34932168
and Russian fairytale Jack Frost Морозко (Mrazík in Czech) although it's more related to our New Year lately for whatever reason (Russian Christmas?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw2DN4335hU

Some more that are on Czech TVs around every Christmas but not necessarily popular for majority
this one or both first and second
>>34933967
Jingle All the Way
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Bad Santa
Grinch
and Czech movie Pelíšky (Cosy Dens) which is comedy with bitter end.

But what's quite rare is that there is one ad for non-alcoholic beverage that everyone wants to see from 2004. The ad is so popular that people are begging the company to show it. The product is Czech alternative to CocaCola called Kofola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJivC81pRDA

There's nothing really special about it. It's just cute and contains subtle humor. When you see it for the first time you know the Christmas are coming.

>>34933402
Not really sure about this one. Never occurred to me. They broadcast a lot of romantic stuff around Christmas (Love Actually, ...) and this is not just on Christmas or it's not really connected with Christmas unlike Tři oříšky pro Popeplku, Sám doma and Mrazík.

>>34932065
Sure is.

Traditions:
this
>>34931701
as fortune telling
-Slicing apples. If your sliced apple has 5 points you'll be healthy and have luck in next year.
-Candles on nutshells as ships in water. The longer your ships stays afloat the longer and happier your life will be.
-Releasing the Christmas meal fish to give it a gift of life - effectively killing already half-dead carp (typical Czech Christmas fish species) by releasing it in cold river/pond instead of eating it. Some families buy two. One to kill and eat and one to just kill by the release.
-Parents having an huge argument - luckily our family was spared from this tradition but it's heavily popular

Few more and shitload of local and family-specific.

>>34943309
I somehow doubt we´ll se Ivan and Nastěnka this year

>>34943467
I'd rather not see one particular Ivan than see the all.

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>>34931045

We're pretty vanilla here.

Only thing we do that's out of the ordinary is set our pudding on fire.

>>34943814
Now why would you do such a thing? For dramatic effect?

>>34944141
caramelizes the sugars on the outside to make a tasty crust. same principle behind creme brulee.

>>34944141

We're hardcore.

>>34944202
Ah, I see. The only creme broiler I've ever had tasted like a sugary omelette, so I'm not terribly familiar with it.

>>34944291
That works as well.