glassruby ([info]glassruby) wrote in [info]livejournal_uk,
@ 2008-12-03 12:58:00
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I have The Stig advent calendar. ("Some say ... there is a new Stig-related fact behind each window." On Monday it was: when The Stig sees a Christmas wreath on a door, he thinks it means the house has won a race...) So I am a happy woman. But my daughter says it is not Christmassy. SHE has one with Santa and his reindeer flying over rooftops. But that's not really Christmassy either. It should really be a Three Kings / Shepherds picture, with a double window for the nativity on the 25th.

Is The Stig the thin end of a wedge that will divorce Christmas from its secular as well as its religious anchors? Is there any point in an advent calendar so completely adrift from what it is counting down to?

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[info]thechangingman
2008-12-03 01:11 pm UTC (link)
Be gone with all this philosphical nonsense and provide us with the important information with which to judge the advent calender.

Is there any chocolate?

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[info]glassruby
2008-12-03 01:34 pm UTC (link)
Yes, there is. Shaped like bells. It is absolutely the vilest chocolate ever, and I am not that particular when it comes to chocolate. Frankly, The Stig would be ashamed of the association.

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[info]supamunky
2008-12-03 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Does it taste like metal, fuel and tyres? If so I think it would be the only chocolate The Stig would like. :P

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[info]otilu
2008-12-03 01:16 pm UTC (link)
Personally I think having a Stig calender is awesome, and quite frankly advent calenders in general haven't been Christian for years now. They're just another part of the secular Christmas culture.

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[info]roguesolo
2008-12-03 01:20 pm UTC (link)
I think The Stig is a far better role model than a fat dumpy bloke in a red suit that always gets away with breaking and entering, trespass, and flying a sleigh obviously overloaded beyond its design limits. The Stig just gets on with it. He lets his skills do the talking. White Helmet is ace!

;)

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[info]dark_thought77
2008-12-03 01:33 pm UTC (link)
Haha awesome

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[info]glassruby
2008-12-03 01:39 pm UTC (link)
Santa is faster than The Stig, though. Has to be.

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[info]roguesolo
2008-12-03 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Santa only has to get up to 88mph. Rudolph cunningly disguises his Flux Capacitor as a red nose.

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[info]a_pawson
2008-12-03 02:01 pm UTC (link)
That's only because The Stig hasn't driven the sleigh yet.

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[info]refusion
2008-12-03 01:22 pm UTC (link)
Is there any point in an advent calendar so completely adrift from what it is counting down to?

Who cares? I'd honestly, if I were going to buy an advent calendar, rather have one with the The Stig on, as opposed to Father Christmas.

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[info]paraphernalia
2008-12-03 01:24 pm UTC (link)
Who cares? As long as there's crappy chocolate that tastes like a dead hairdresser!

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[info]glassruby
2008-12-03 01:37 pm UTC (link)
Hah! You've tried The Stig chocolate, then.

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[info]privatelyricist
2008-12-03 02:48 pm UTC (link)
crappy chocolate that tastes like a dead hairdresser = AMAZING

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[info]hils
2008-12-03 01:26 pm UTC (link)
I love Christmas but I would have absolutely bought a Stig advent calendar if I'd seen them anywhere

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[info]zoefruitcake
2008-12-03 01:31 pm UTC (link)
I've seen a lot of calendars that aren't even counting down to Christmas, they are counting down to the end of the year

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[info]oh_mumble
2008-12-03 01:32 pm UTC (link)
Where did you find such a wonderous thing?? Mine is a bog-standard box-type from M&S with the boxes flipping round to make a tree mosaic. Pretty, but not ~interesting~.

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[info]bopeepsheep
2008-12-03 01:40 pm UTC (link)
I guess it depends what you're using an advent calendar for - my five year old is using his as a way of counting down to Christmas without driving me loopy asking me what day it is and how many days to go (and a new bit of Lego every day keeps him from bothering me about what his presents might be). If you're using it just as a piece of Christmas decoration, then it probably should be more traditionally Christmassy. If you're using it as a source of chocolate, I reckon skip the calendar and go directly to a big bar of Dairy Milk or something - it's cheaper, much much nicer, and you can still break it into 24 pieces.

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[info]bomb_the_cherry
2008-12-03 02:17 pm UTC (link)
I've got a Bart Simpson one. If I'd found a Stig one I'd have had that instead. I just see them as "WOO, I get chocolate every day until Christmas!"

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[info]princesslia84
2008-12-03 02:36 pm UTC (link)
they're just a bit of fun in my opinion. But my xmas tree this year is my r/c dalek with baubles and tinsel. My daughters advent calendar is thomas the tank engine. Nothing to do with xmas either.

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[info]sherbetsprite
2008-12-03 03:14 pm UTC (link)
I have that Advent Calender too (check out my LJ for pix)!! =D

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[info]loki_fledermaus
2008-12-03 03:47 pm UTC (link)
My Dad's a plumber and was sent a plumbing-themed advent calendar from one of his suppliers. It has pictures of their products with Christmas decoration, it's pretty hilarious. Nothing says Christmas like a ballcock surrounded by holly.

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[info]glassruby
2008-12-03 05:06 pm UTC (link)
I love it!

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[info]__inbetweendays
2008-12-04 11:29 am UTC (link)
I NEED ONE! My boy is a plumber and I love getting him horrible stuff like that.

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[info]wolfpurplemoon
2008-12-03 04:31 pm UTC (link)
We aren't religious in any sense of the word so definitely wouldn't get a three kings one and have never ever had chocolate ones, but my Mum made a cross stitch advent calendar a few years ago and we put it up every year. It is a scene of Santa and a Xmas tree with presents around it and you put little gold charms onto various hooks distributed about the picture each day, culminating in the star on top of the tree. Considering most mid-winter celebrations pre-dated Christianity, I see no hypocrisy in counting down to the current day of gift giving and over eating with family in any way you see fit.

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[info]rosaryclips
2008-12-03 05:09 pm UTC (link)
where in god's name did you get such a brilliant thing?? :)

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[info]babyfood22
2008-12-03 06:30 pm UTC (link)
No, nothing about the Stig is ever unworthy. xx

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[info]doctor_frank
2008-12-03 06:38 pm UTC (link)
It always irks me slightly that Christianity ruined a perfectly good Winter Solstice festival by pretending that their saviour was born on that day. The same goes for Easter.

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