"Hey get back to work!"
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Sublime, and succinct. Nice.
The song is about someone doing the things, and is catchy. Don't see it as a plan for activities over a period of time.
Christmas has been drilled in as a single day where we support commerce by buying stuff we don't need and giving it all on one morning. We don't really have week long holidays because that would cut into business, and business is all we are good at!
Seriously though, not having any expected time off beyond a single day per holiday really kills the incentive to celebrate holidays that last more than a single day.
Thought it was just a song...
We have 120 days of Christmas, and it starts in ~~September~~ August.
We do celebrate it. Or at least, everyone I know does. But the way we celebrate is simply having an Advent calendar, so you get a little chocolate treat every day for the 12 days leading up to Christmas.
I've never even heard of any 12 days thing. in my country it's mainly just the 24th.
I guess your true love never gave to you FIVE GOLDEN RINGS.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
A totally insufficient dowry
Honestly, I had no idea there was a related tradition. Song's a banger though, more than happy to have it.
It's bad enough I have to listen to christmas music in August, if it lasted until jan 6th I will become a domestic terrorist.
many folks keep the decorations up to three kings and then some do the advent calendar thing.
Aw, I was hoping for the comic strip about the true love not liking birds
Many of us don't experience white Christmases, tell scary ghost stories at Christmas, put presents "on" the tree, roast chestnuts, have any sort of fire, "rock" around the tree, dash through snow, or commonly hear silver bells in town.
Theres a lot of things which used to be part of american culture but have fallen out of fashion for one reason or another. For example, a lot of american christmas songs reference roasting chestnuts, which most americans have probably never seen in their lives because an infection brought over from japan on imported plants wiped out almost all of the chestnut trees, the dominant tree in the eastern US. Id say with the 12 days of Christmas its because of capitalism and endless work leading up to christmas and right back to work afterwards.