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Angelina

Raziel (Link deleted)

so your hobby is to post links that don't work? 🤣

cool, i like card tricks 😉

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what is this advertisement doing here? @Laura is this allowed?

Raziel

Angelina
ezgif didn't save links, so I deleted the link. Anyway, the picture is from Donkey Kong 64, which I have not played, but wording used in that pic is what concerns me that this would be considered spam if its intentional to mean something else.

Laura

Angelina what is this advertisement doing here? @Laura is this allowed?

It's not spam yet

Angelina

Laura

i wasn't quite sure because i didn't quite understand the meaning of the post, thanks for your watchful eye 😉

Raziel

i would add choice 5: married and previously in chastity 😉

Vanessa

Laura It's not spam yet

Close to it,and the user he named have only posted once here,to put an ad.

Raziel

Based on the results of the poll presently,it seems unwed chastity is still right!😉

Raziel

I attempted to create a poll, but clicking submit made it disappear. Would making another one make it post 2 by mistake? Figured it'd help see how much as changed since the beginning of this site's creation. Not that I want the title to change or anything, but it'd be nice for an update on the numbers.

Title: Users, are you married or not, while in/out of chastity?
Choice 1: Married (while wearing chastity)
Choice 2: Married (without chastity)
Choice 3: Not married (but still using chastity)
Choice 4: Not married (without chastity)

Laura

Raziel Let me try

https://unwedchastity.org/d/633-users-are-you-married-or-not-while-inout-of-chastity

Laura

As requested by Raziel

Laura

Angelina i would add choice 5: married and previously in chastity

Added

Raziel

Vanessa
It's like you knew exactly why this poll was made. >.>

Angelina

Vanessa Based on the results of the poll presently,it seems unwed chastity is still right!😉

I have become so used to it that I don't want it to change either. 🙂

Vanessa

Raziel

You told it:

Raziel it'd help see how much as changed since the beginning of this site's creation. Not that I want the title to change or anything

😉

Vanessa

Angelina

Same for me.

Our name is good.

Avery

I have something off-topic about which I am curious and this forum is a good place to ask as we have people from many countries. Today, this is Friday 11/26, is a day known as Black Friday in the US. The fourth Thursday in November each year is the national Thanksgiving holiday. That was yesterday. Many people do not work today, thus giving them a 4 day weekend. So for many decades it has become traditional for most stores to open early and offer huge bargains to try to kick off the Christmas shopping season. People line up while it is still dark to be first in line when stores open to grab bargain things, often big things like TVs and computers. It is called black friday because in theory on this day stores sell enough so they make a profit for the year, often called being in the black as opposed to being in the red, or losing money.

So my question is do other countries have something similar? If so is it the same day as in the US? Perhaps not since I think this is only a good day since it follows Thanksgiving and folks are off work and ready to shop.

Joh

Avery We have Black Friday as well with lower price but not only on Friday. Is the whole week. But most selling is done via internet and because of the pandemic not so much in the shops.

Angelina

Avery So my question is do other countries have something similar?

unfortunately only a (in my opinion) badly made copy as it is in the USA. but with you it is always a really exciting event, i hope you can enjoy it. 🙂

Bryan

Avery I live in the US but happen to be traveling to Spain this week. I've been quite surprised to see "Black Friday" sales signs up (and impressive crowds at the department store today). The fact that the signs are in English and not translated suggests is quite a literal import of the holiday. If I spoke better Spanish I would be curious to learn how much folks here know what it means (other than an "imported US holiday for sales" :-)

Max9

Avery we have our "Erntedankfest" in Bavaria, the day we thank god for our food and the big crop our farmers have to supply us with food. We go to church and decorate it with sesional vegtables like pumplins. It's the 3rd October.
We also have the first of may, the day we celebrate the bavarian nation and culture. Every community gets a talll strsight tree and removes all benches. It's being psinted in tge traditionsl colours of our country, white and sky blue. It's also a tradition that one part of tge city or one village steals the pole tree of another one... then the gotta find it. but on first of may it's being put up vertically with pure manpower and tge first boy to climb it can choose the girl to start the public dancing with traditional music. After that we celebrate and have a nice ... independence day... or national day.

Vanessa

Avery

We've it in France too,but,generally,there is good promotions on many products during the week before the Black Friday.Then,the next Monday,it is Cyber Monday(similar to the offers on Black Friday,but more focused on high tech stuff),and it often last several days too.

In France,we've the French Days,too,twice a year,similar to Black Friday,and mainly done by websites,like FNAC,Amazon,Cdiscount,etc...even if physical shops can join it too.

Joh

Similar in France.

Avery

For Christmas tree and decorating the house,I don't know for sure,but I think it is mainly done during the first half of December in France.

It's the case in my family,at least.

Avery no one seems to go out around the neighborhood and sing.

Not common in France too...

Tobbe

Avery Here in Sweden we also have "Black Friday", but no Thanksgiving holiday and this Thursday all works.
But many stores cheat and raise prices in August, so they can lower to the regular price on Black Friday! Therefore, it is important to look out and keep track of the price, if it is more expensive things to buy.

youdontknowme

Avery So my question is do other countries have something similar? If so is it the same day as in the US? Perhaps not since I think this is only a good day since it follows Thanksgiving and folks are off work and ready to shop.

We have multiple thursday holidays in Germany, and while the day after is popular choice for PTO ("Brückentag", literally bridge day), those are not major shopping days. Mainly because none of those holidays fall into the Christmas season. We do have harvest festivals (i.e. Thanksgiving equivalents), mostly in rural communities or churches, but they are usually held on sundays so any thanking God can take place during regular sunday service. They do not have the status of a big family get-together or something, that is done on Christmas which is a 3-day celebration from the evening of the 24th to the end of the 26th.

Black Friday itself has become a sort of sales event, mostly due to US-based multinationals like Amazon pioneering it, but it is neither ingrained in our culture nor the biggest sale of the year.

Avery

I'd like to thank everybody for their responses. Didn't respond individually because it can crowd the thread with excess posts. Also interested in Christmas because I understand from the popular felifromgermany postings on instagram and youtube that Germans don't put up the tree until 24 December. I mention this because Friday while out running in the neighborhood I could see in one house they had already put up their tree, on 26 November, and this weekend I saw cars coming home with the tree tied to the roof.

Angelina

Avery I understand from the popular felifromgermany postings on instagram and youtube that Germans don't put up the tree until 24 December

so i always do it on the 22nd or 23rd of december. not this year because i'm on holiday, but otherwise it would be too much stress for me because i concentrate a lot on the food on christmas days. but there are also people who have already decorated the whole house and yes some have the tree in the living room by mid december at the latest. 😉

carg

Avery

In the Netherlands we also have Black Friday. I've been aware of it for about 5 years, but it might have been here longer. It is one of the many things that some people decided was a good thing to take over from the US, probably mostly driven by commerce. Personally I dislike it, esp. the scenes where people's greed makes them behave rather undignified, to put it kindly. Because of Corona it was canceled last year, and this year spread over 5 days.

Christmas decorations are often put up here just after December, 5th: that is a separate celebration here called Sinterklaas The name is quite similar to Santa Claus, and it was the traditional time for the children to get gifts. But the background is different; Sinterklaas is supposed to be a saint from Spain, who comes over once a year on his steamboat to bring all the good children gifts. Christmas used to be just the celebration of Jesus's birth, without gifts. But of course nowadays that has changed. I guess most families either do a little bit of both, or choose one for the gifts. So once the Sinterklaas celebrations are over, people start decorating/preparing for Christmas. And the stores/supermarkets swap their assortment of treats, decorations, etc.

Max9

Avery Germans don't put up the tree until 24 December.

yes, we put up the tree and decorate it at the 24th in the morning or afternoon, just like the "Krippen"... that are miniature sheds that demonstrate Jesus birth and the arrival of the holy 3 kings - Kaspar, Melchior and Balthasar (that actually did happen on holy 3 kings day in jannuary)... in general germany you usually put away the Christmas tree about the day before new years or so, in Bavaria it's actually an old tradition (the way I know it) to keep the Christmas decoration till holy 3 kings day.
At Christmas eve you usually go to church in the evening, afterward you come home and have dinner. In Bavaria you usually eat "Krenfleisch", that's meat with horseradish sauce and bread or alternatively the bavarian white "Wollwürst" with white rolls and sour pickles; in Germany, you usually eat hot dog sausages with potato salad.
After that, you sing Christmas carols, and open the presents. In Bavaria, they are being brought to you by the "Christkind" (Christmas Child) in the shape of a white female angel with long blond hair in a special white dress, in Germany, it's the "Weihnachtsman" (Christmas man or Santa Claus"... and you eat special Christmas cookies and drink wassail or children's punch ... In Bavaria the figure of Santa Claus comes at the 6th of December as the saint Nikolaus, who fills the cleaned boots you put in front of the door with tangerines, nuts, and Saint Nikolaus figures made of chocolate - or, if you have been naughty, he brings your parents a birch to hit whip you on your butt (what hasn't practiced anymore due to child rights) And before that the Advent preseason begins with Saint Martins day at the 11.11. where you eat a stuffed goose and where the children go around town in groups with decorated lanterns and sing Saint Martins day songs (sort of like at Halloween in the us)

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