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Christmas time in Axis edition.

Anyone got funny family stories from fenerations back to share?
>Are there age differences or did you just not spend a lot of time together growing up?
Bit of both I'd say,but they just aren't very bright in general (and some of them are very spoiled)
>In Luxembourgish terms how abroad is abroad?
There is a south-French branch of my family and a P*latine one though only the frogs are visiting,not sure if Canada-kun is coming home for the holidays
>Eh varies
What do you dislike/like about them?
>Come back and post
Phoneposting perhaps?

>some of them are very spoiled
Spoiled by Lux standards? Are you related to the Trumps?
>Canada-kun
What his business plan again? A campsite or something?
>What do you dislike/like about them?
Different things about each of them. I'm not really in the mood to go deeper into it right now.
>Phoneposting perhaps?
I have more respect for the thread than that. Plus I find people that use their phones a lot while in others company to be quite rude and I wouldn't want to make a hypocrite of myself.

And I just noticed Lough Neagh is missing from the map in that picture. That's one hell of a sign.

>tfw my mother wasn't a great cook
She could cook far more meals than I can, so it's a bit rich coming from me. But her cooking was always very slapdash. Granted she was a working women, but even when she had time to invest in making a meal (like Christmas dinner), it was never as nice as what would be on offer at the houses of my cousins'. Hence why I'm not lamenting missing Christmas dinner this year.

I feel you on this. I mean my mother's a very nice woman but for someone who did tíos she has no cooking skills to speak of.

>ywn prepare your bf a nice dinner while wearing a cute apron

>tíos
What?

Home economics.

Men ae generally better at cooking.

I dunno, the best cook for regular day to day meals that I've ever encountered was my maternal grandmother (which makes my mother's comparative lack of cooking skills all the more strange).

>which makes my mother's comparative lack of cooking skills all the more strange
A lot of parents are bad at passing things down. Have your's taught you anything?

That's an actual subject?
Indeed, in most families where the parents did not take any additional cooking courses or are working in that field, the grandmothers are always the best cooks, but they were raised in a different time I guess,back when women didn't work
>bad at passing things down
What was your experience with this?

In terms of cooking? No. Yet I was somehow magically expected to learn these things when I went to college. Even now I can only cook very simple meals.

>That's an actual subject?
Very common in girls' and mixed schools, yes. Less so in boys schools. Do you not have something similar over there? It's not unique to Ireland.

I think you just learn more as time goes by normally.

I've been eating the same handful of meals for years. I'm not complaining though, because they're easy to cook.

>Do you not have something similar over there?
I could imagine that the technique schools have something like this but at least the classiques have nothing of the sorts,pretty sure that they expect you to have a housekeeper once you leave uni
Get a cooking book for Christmas?

Hey, if that works for you, great. I have trouble eating due to my shit appetite.

>That's an actual subject?
Yes, you learn how to cook, healthy living, etc. It's mostly girls that study it, in fact in my mother's time boys were forbidden from even entering the classroom, but lads get a taste of it in TY. IIRC the Leaving Cert project involves cooking a 7 course meal.
It's not in Luxembourg?
>they were raised in a different time I guess,back when women didn't work
That's a good point. My granny was always very proud of keeping a tidy house for instance while my mother only cleans when someone's coming over.
>What was your experience with this?
My mother didn't pass her fluent Irish onto me, but there were other issues at play there.
My parents don't really have many skills to pass on anyways.

>In terms of cooking?
I meant in general.
>I was somehow magically expected to learn these things when I went to college
That's a big problem in general in our society. You have 18 year olds in secondary who get treated like children and then a few months later they're expected to be complete adults.

My grandmother and mother are exactly the same. My grandmother vacuums/sweeps/etc regularly, and her house is spotless. My parents' house is piles and piles of shit with paths through rooms. My room is the only thing that resembles clean. I've tried to clean up shit, but it's right back how it was in 2 days.

What's everyone doing for Christmas?

>pic
What did they try?

>Less so in boys schools
A lot of the scumbags did it in my school. We used to laugh at how they did it show their sensitive side

Might do 12 pubs

>My granny was always very proud of keeping a tidy house for instance while my mother only cleans when someone's coming over.
>tfw that made panic to clean up the living room when somebody unexpectedly rings the doorbell

>I meant in general.
From an educational/academic perspective, both my parents were massively supportive and constantly passing teaching me new things. Apart from that, I learnt a lot of practical things from my father, but less so from my mother. That's merely a result of the fact that I was always the one working outside with my father when there were things to be done. My sister learnt plenty from my mother.

>You have 18 year olds in secondary who get treated like children and then a few months later they're expected to be complete adults.
Couldn't agree more.

*mad panic

To win and failed miserably.

stay at home, feel like shit, try to not fuck things up with my new friend

>It's not in Luxembourg?
As I said, I can only speak for Classique lycées where we focus a lot more on theoretical knowledge and uni studies than any practical knowledge
>but there were other issues at play there.
I suppose that you don't wish to talk about this although I'd be very interested
>My granny was always very proud of keeping a tidy house
Like my mother, although she works a lot but that has different reasons.
>My parents don't really have many skills to pass on anyways
My father has this little obsession with being self-reliant so he would always have me do things around the house ever since I was very young and I absolutely despised it, all the other kids would be out playing and I'd have to help build something again but in the end I'm very glad that he did this
I don't think that you can expect your parents to teach you all the specialised things though when you are so young,would you have liked to be taught something?

>big family meet-up
Cant' wait to see all the drunk relatives who show up to my house desu.

>having a doorbell
Well lah-dee-dah Mr. Once-Lived-In-France Man.
>From an educational/academic perspective, both my parents were massively supportive and constantly passing teaching me new things
Must've been nice to have parents to help you with homework. Mine were useless for that after primary with the exception of Irish.

>with the exception of Irish
Were they from the Gaeltacht?
>Mine were useless for that after primary
Did they not visit secondary school or did you take those higher-level test? (I'm still not sure if this is how the Irish system works)

>As I said, I can only speak for Classique lycées where we focus a lot more on theoretical knowledge and uni studies than any practical knowledge
Still surprised you haven't heard of it from TV or something.
>I suppose that you don't wish to talk about this although I'd be very interested
Well it's mainly that we didn't live in a very Irish speaking area. One of my biggest complaints about this country is how lax it is with letting places keep their Gaeltacht status when they shouldn't have. My primary was officially classed as a Gaelscoil yet I got given out to for speaking Irish like that scene in The Wind That Shakes The Barley. By the time I went to an actual Gaelscoil in secondary I was well out of my element.
My mother's also quite nice and timid so even if she wanted to she wasn't able to force the language on me, in secondary she'd often say something like "from now on we'll only speak Irish and you'll be líofa in no time" but she'd have forgotten about that by dinnertime.
>would you have liked to be taught something?
I wish my father taught me how to hurl properly. I don't know how good he was at hurling but Jesus I struggled with that sliotar and the coach would only give out to me or tell me to practice off in a corner.

>Were they from the Gaeltacht?
Mammy is yes.
>Did they not visit secondary school or did you take those higher-level test?
Both of them went to secondary but the courses have advanced a lot since their time. Plus you forget these things being out of school for years.

>I don't know how good he was at hurling but Jesus I struggled with that sliotar and the coach would only give out to me or tell me to practice off in a corner.
My father and grandfather tried, but eventually we all realised that I was hopeless at Hurling. It didn't bother me at the time, but it annoys me now as my love of the sport has grown substantially in the last 10 years or so.

Irish girls are for ...

That is a very unpleasant image on many different levels.

>Gaelscoil
Ah yes I remember that part
>I got given out to for speaking Irish like that scene in The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Did they bully you or just refuse to speak Irish to you?
Did you speak Irish before you went to primary?
>I wish my father taught me how to hurl properly
Oh,we all had that, reminds me of the football(soccer) escapades my and my father had, but in the end, I'm glad that he didn't force it on me

Didn't you play in a GAA team when you were little or am I mixing things up?

>those pudgy faces
Everyday I wonder how Brits and Irish people can reproduce.

>It didn't bother me at the time
It sure as hell bothered me back then. There was nothing worse than being made to look a fool in front of everyone for not being able to do something everyone else could. I could manage with any other sport but for hurling the most I could do was knock the sliotar around like I was playing hockey.
>it annoys me now as my love of the sport has grown substantially in the last 10 years or so
I feel the same, it's a great sport to watch but I'm useless at playing.

>cutting off the bottom of the socks so they could pull them up that far

>Didn't you play in a GAA team when you were little or am I mixing things up?
Yes. My family has a strong association with the local GAA club.

>It sure as hell bothered me back then
I didn't really care about sport for most of my youth strangely. I only developed a proper interest in GAA and Rugby when I went to college. I've no idea what caused such a drastic shift in my interests.

god I didn't even see that
JUST GET LONGER SOCKS

>Did they bully you or just refuse to speak Irish to you?
If I answered a question in Irish the múinteoir would give out to me for being "smart". And yes they wouldn't speak Irish to me, even if they wanted none of them could speak a word without the book in front of them. And even then they'd manage to mispronounce something.
>Did you speak Irish before you went to primary?
No, unless I wanting to make mammy happy so I'd say tá or níl or some other basic word.

>I didn't really care about sport for most of my youth
I didn't like sports but when it's the only thing the other lads talk about and the only thing you're allowed do at break then it really gets to you when you're not good at it.
>I only developed a proper interest in GAA and Rugby when I went to college
I became interested in the GAA after I was sent to turn on the match for my granny once and ended up staying until the end. I had made the mistake of thinking all sports were as boring to watch as soccer is.
I don't really watch the rugby now but I did like playing it for the week in primary before it got banned.

Did any of you ever have significant success in a sports team?
Did you play anything except GAA?
>My family has a strong association with the local club
I see,I can relate to that very well

>I didn't like sports but when it's the only thing the other lads talk about and the only thing you're allowed do at break then it really gets to you when you're not good at it.
Yeah, I was lucky to fall in with a crowd who shared a similar disinterest in sport.

>Did any of you ever have significant success in a sports team?
No.

>Did you play anything except GAA?
Outside of PE at school, no.

>Did any of you ever have significant success in a sports team?
Nope. I was never good at scoring goals which was all that everyone seemed to care about. Anytime we were playing a proper match I was usually benched except for maybe five minutes near the end so they could say I participated. For the rest of the time I'd wander around the stands of local pitches around the county until I was called or someone would join me.
>Did you play anything except GAA?
Is handball GAA? I did basketball for a year, and karate for a month.

>Separatist parties set for majority in Catalan vote
Well, this should be interesting.

They already had a vote and nothing happened. Why will this one do anything different?

>any of you ever have significant success in a sports team
Won a few county regional titles at underage level.
>play anything except GAA
No, I'm not a foreigner.

>karate
I did karate as well for a couple of years. Completely forgotten all of it.

And here I was afraid the dream was dead.

Spain was hoping people would fall for the "only a small amount of people wanted independence" line and hoped that all those businesses moving away and no one giving Catalonia support would scare off the soft separatists.

>Man with alcohol problems rubbing his hands together
>>play anything except GAA
>No, I'm not a foreigner.
>>karate
>I did karate as well for a couple of years. Completely forgotten all of it.
Getting confusing messages here,must be a sign

>Getting confusing messages here
I wouldn't put karate and a team sport like hurling in the same category. Would be like putting walking and swimming in there as well.
Just my take on it I guess.

>swimming
Oh I did that as well.

>Man with alcohol problems rubbing his hands together
I don't get it.

Did any of you ever go to some sort of summer camp?
Juncker used to have this strategy of throwing himself at every new smaller European nation back in the day

>Juncker used to have this strategy of throwing himself at every new smaller European nation back in the day
Classic Daddy Lux.

Those eyes are unnerving.

d-don't you think that's a bit lewd for a blue board?

>daddy

It's within any and all rules.

Juncker = Lux's father.

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It's fine as long as you stay in your room and keep quiet when Santy comes.

>Santy

Dumb bitch just gets ridiculed the entire show and even blasted by Gabriel.

>veggies
You yanks are much worse for the infantilisation of normal words.

Christmas really is odd, once you think about it. The whole "red and white" colour scheme is because of Coca-Cola, they're the ones that invented the image of Santa wearing the red and white in the first place. Every single time you post an image of an anime girl wearing a red-and-white Christmas hat, you're advertising Coca-Cola.

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Back up about four levels. You're probably right, but I don't think people associate that stuff with coca cola anymore.

Don't bully Satania or I will clobber you.
Only little kids or weird white liberals say this.
Gotta sell those diabetes and kidney stone soft drinks, senpai.
You don't want this battle, Constanze.

I will stake my life on the right to say Santy.

behind the lens is a poison picture you paiiint

Godammit, now I want a coke.

>Only little kids or weird white liberals say this.
Every yank I see in American media and any Yank who who posts online says "veggies". Seeing an American say "vegetables in a non-formal context is exceptionally rare in my experience.

Maybe if you're gay, sure.
Then they are retarded, and probably the same people who use acronyms and Ebonics all the time..

>Then they are retarded
Well obviously, they're American.

For what it's worth I'm sorry for the hurt I'll be the first to say, I made my own mistakes

Merry Christmas.

Happy Christmas to you too lyrics user

Fuck, I should have been in bed hours ago. Night.

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