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1. about 3 hours ago on FurBabies

   Yay!

2. about 3 hours ago on Red and Rover

   What’s going on up there?

3. about 4 hours ago on Reality Check

   Lego makes a set that’s a tuxedo cat. Lego also makes Sauron’s tower. One fan realized that he could put the cat’s head atop the tower. He called it, “Barad Purr”. :D

4. about 8 hours ago on FurBabies

   “On the shedding day of Crispness, my poodle gave to meeee”

5. about 8 hours ago on Day by Dave

   I was at a holiday luncheon/ornament exchange party earlier today. The ornaments were wrapped, and we played a game during which the ornaments weren’t opened until the end, but swapped around along the way. I ended up getting a blown glass ugly sweater! :D

6. about 9 hours ago on Brevity

   It’s Paul about the bass.

7. 1 day ago on Red and Rover

   I am in my young 40s, and have a good friend who’s in his mid-60s. When I mentioned that song recently, he said he’d never heard of it. It’s older than he is! We had a good laugh, and chalked it up to cultural differences in our upbringings!

8. 1 day ago on Close to Home

   One of my former coworkers wouldn’t use the term “brain-fart” because of the second word.

9. 1 day ago on Buni

   It’s a little more complicated than that. Protestant Christians in Central Europe (including, but not exclusively, Germany) began bringing trees indoors and decorating them in the 16th century, around the time of the Reformation. Prior to the Christianisation of the Germanic people, the Pagans did indeed decorate trees in winter. They were celebrating Yule. Many customs from previous religions were incorporated into Christian holidays to make the transition more familiar and “easy”. Catholics continued to view the “Christmas” tree as pagan. It wasn’t until the 1980s, (over 400 years after the first recorded Christmas tree!) that The Vatican put up a Christmas tree.

10. 1 day ago on Speed Bump

    Americans still hold on to very conservative opinions about the body and nudity. Because of the Puritans (religious group) who settled here in the 1600s, nudity is viewed as sexual. In movies, television, printed advertising, etc, most of the people don’t have “flaws” like cellulite, saggy skin, wrinkles, hair, etc. There are many companies that “fix” these perceived flaws, so they have made it so the natural body is seen as ugly, so they can sell the product.