Only left the house to help my neighbor look for her escaped cat. It turned out to be in their basement. The cat gets it.
Yeah I went out, pretty much everything was open except for the street vendor I normally get my oranges from. I guess Christmas just isn’t as big a deal in China as it was back home - still saw Christmas decorations at a handful of stores and restaurants - my tea said on the cup “Merry Christmas” and had an explanation of what Christmas was on the back lol
Seriously, how many of us lemmies live somewhere else? I’m in Rabat atm, there’s zero assassinated pine trees covered in brightly coloured plastic shit in sight. And everything is Business As Usual here.
live somewhere else?
somewhere else in regards to where?
I checked all the replies before replying here, and but for this “here in China” one, nobody seems to live / be / exist outside the catholic sphere ?
I’m just curious where you think we all live.
Well, online English speaking communities are gonna have a bias towards native English speakers. Obviously some will browse these communities because they’re the largest, but while machine translation makes communication much easier, it’s still more difficult than with speakers of your own language. And most native English speakers who aren’t also native speakers of a language mutually intelligible with Hindi live in north America. (I’m excluding South Asia because a sizable fraction of the online South Asian communities communicate in the pre-colonization languages, mostly Hindi). Most such people have a shared cultural heritage that is largely European with a British slant.
When you think about it it’s not an unreasonable question, when you interpret it to be asking how many of us are outside of the cultural influence of the anglosphere
Oh so cool! Are you native Morocco, or just visiting? I hear people there are so nice
It’s complicated, but it looks like this season’s gonna be 60% Morocco 30% France. I’m Belgian. I have too many toothbrushes.
It is nice over here indeed, very safe and friendly.
Um, yesterday was Christmas day mate, get with it
Um, I posted that 6 hours ago which was yesterday in my time zone too mate, Get with it.
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Went to a del taco today for breakfast. Tipped the guy $20 for working today. Went to a bar this evening for a beer and also tipped the bartender $20.
The real Santa
Did not leave the house. Did not want to give bosses that forced close to minimum wage employees incentive to continue to do so. I believe minimum wage should at least double on holidays.
wow, were do you live? here in Mexico they pay triple on holidays, so it’s not so weird for people wanting to work holidays
haven’t left the house all day 💅
Saaaame. I just want someone to poke their periscope out there and tell me what’s going on please.
I took the dogs for a walk. Gas stations and 24/7 pubs were open.
Christmas day was yesterday for me.
I only left home for church. After that, it was back home to have lunch with family, then hosting Christmas dinner for a bunch of people.
Does going into my garage workshop count? If not, then no. I didn’t have anywhere to be and it was really cold out.
I stayed at home and cooked a turkey. I know the grocery store was open till 2pm (normally closes at 10pm) because sibling worked today. I know wawa was closed, they had signs.
Life is going as normal as if there’s no such thing as Christmas. In fact, the schools are open too, some folks are even taking their midterm exams.
Wow, which country are you in?
If it wasn’t obvious already from some of my previous comments, I’m from Morocco.
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okay. I didn’t realize we were supposed to be memorizing everybody’s usernames and every detail of demographic information they’ve ever mentioned.
I’m experiencing déjà vu. The same comment gets posted twice. I don’t know if this is a glitch in lemmy.world’s servers (or the servers of a different instance) or if it’s just a client problem.
It’s most likely a glitch on my end. Most everything I submit to Lemmy has been getting rejected with an error message “cannot connect to Lemmy” So I write the comment again and then later both comments appear.
But I just switched from Sync to Voyager so hopefully I will have a smoother experience with no more glitches.
This explains everything.
I’m just telling you that I’ve said that information elsewhere, incase there’s someone who looks through my old posts and comments.
We took the dogs to run around at a park before the festivities. We were definitely the only people there.
Christmas is inside time. It’s -12c outside and snowing.
Left the house for a walk in the rain with the wife. Lots of mountain bikers were out!
Alcohol. Open.
