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It should not be lost on anyone that this holiday comes immediately after the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. The future is hopeful, and the days
by blhack 4y ago
It should not be lost on anyone that this holiday comes immediately after the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year.
The future is hopeful, and the days have already started getting brighter.
Merry Christmas, HN!
- osullip 4y agoExcept in the southern hemisphere.
- ARandomerDude 4y agoThe northern hemisphere has 90% of the world’s population. It was a pretty safe general statement.
- dgwight 4y agoThis is my first summer Christmas (down in Chile), it feels quite different! They also celebrate more today on the 24th and do presents at midnight
- osullip 4y agoWe also do a lot of beach going. It still feels crazy for me to be in shorts and putting the barbie on to cook some steaks. While the northern hemisphere have a celebration in the middle of winter, the young here are preparing for festival season and are on summer school holidays until end of January. It's a topsy turvy world. //Plus we can see the Milky Way and far too many satellites to feel truely comfortable looking up at night.
- kortilla 4y ago+1 to the better view of the Milky Way. Sat visibility is roughly the same though.
- toyg 4y agoChristmas celebrations in the Southern Emisphere are a curious legacy of colonialism. In the same way we still celebrate Saturn every week because the Romans conquered the whole of Europe and North-Africa, people over there will celebrate Christ in the middle of summer probably forever - just because Europeans planted their flags in every nook and cranny.
- sundvor 4y agoOver twenty years in Australia and I still haven't gotten used to it (being 32C / 89.6F) on Christmas. So I do miss that, to be honest. The difference to my family's place in Norway right now (-21C/-5.8F) is stark. As a child, coming out of summer, it would get colder and colder, you'd start seeing the snow .. and then soon after there'd be the magic of Christmas. In the southern hemisphere, there's just nothing of the same. Oh well, no need to clear the driveway to drive in the morning at least. Merry Christmas to everyone here. My first as a fully separated man after a two decade marriage/relationship fell through a year ago. Split custody of kids, I had them on Xmas Eve (the main one for me as a Norwegian) and also in the morning today Sunday / Christmas Day. House is going to be very quiet when they're gone for the day, but the peace in the house has made it all worth it. It's funny when you finally realise that the best thing you can do for them is to stop fighting for something that can't be saved - and you know everyone will come out stronger/ better as a result.
- Aperocky 4y agoDoes snow related theme seep down there as most of the largest economy are above the equator?
- bigDinosaur 4y agoYes. Snow-related imagery is the way Christmas is represented in Australia.
- 40amxn40 4y agoSummer* solstice Southern hemisfere masterrace reporting in