• 🐋 Color 🍁 ♀@lemm.ee
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    24 hours ago

    I often wonder if people who live in Australia feel a similar way considering how Christmas time is typically depicted.

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      23 hours ago

      Aussie here, to me xmas = summer time. Xmas movies always felt irrelevant, and the idea of Santa wearing all his gear is mental when it’s often 40C+ and humid af.

      Being cold would feel alien that time of year, even more so if it snowed because that doesn’t happen in 99% of the country regardless of the time of year.

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        3 hours ago

        also i’ve told some US friends about my new years plans: outdoors, festival, parties kinda thing… they’re blown away by how amazing it sounds for this particular period

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          2 hours ago

          Yeah. Sitting by the pool in 25c watching the kids have a swim

          I did spend 10 years in northern England from 2000 and a cold possibly white Christmas took ages to get used to

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        15 hours ago

        Lol yup, total opposite! Plus the prevalence of North American/Hollywood movies/shows usually depict snowy Christmas.