And NCSU is red and white because of Santa?!?!

http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/you-better-watch-out/view

12/14/2010 2:38:31 PM

maybe Santa is red and white because of State

12/14/2010 2:49:08 PM

What ever happened to separation of Church and State? ==> Saint and State? ==> Santa and State?

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 2:51 PM. Reason : .]

12/14/2010 2:51:33 PM

^^ That's not what Dr. Silverberg says!

12/14/2010 2:55:49 PM

the same thing that happened to your mom exactly X number of years you are alive before your next birthday...

12/14/2010 2:56:07 PM

I am going to hijack radio waves so that I can announce to all the children in the state that Santa isn't real and their parents are fucking liars.

12/14/2010 2:58:27 PM

Nobody likes a party pooper

12/14/2010 2:59:21 PM

Maybe it was the Noid, who should have avoided me

12/14/2010 2:59:40 PM

Quote :

"Nobody likes a party pooper"

Nobody likes a fucking hypocrite, either.

"Lying is WRONG, if I ever catch you doing it it's your ass!"

"We have crafted an elaborate series of lies over several years to trick you into believing in a person that not only does not exist, but can be proven not to exist. We have done this for our own amusement."

12/14/2010 3:02:55 PM

^Someone is grumpy.

12/14/2010 3:04:21 PM

He's just pissy because Santa always left him coal

12/14/2010 3:06:10 PM

Am I fucking wrong? Are parents somehow not being lying fucking hypocrites here?

Honest to God, this realization -- that people you trust implicitly might be fucking with you just for the hell of it -- is at the root of pretty much every bad thing I've ever done.

12/14/2010 3:11:29 PM

I'd talk to a psychiatrist about that if I were you. Did you start huffing paint when you found out the Easter bunny isn't real?

12/14/2010 3:12:40 PM

Why do I need to talk to a shrink? I've already broken down the entire process from childhood event through to deeper realization and then made the connection to my current behavior.

You people do what you want, I'm telling my kid right off the bat that there are no fat assholes sitting around in the most unforgiving environment on Earth making him toys, and I'm going to tell him to tell all your kids that.

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM. Reason : maybe I should take out some ad space during the Charlier Brown Christmas special]

12/14/2010 3:15:40 PM

you people

12/14/2010 3:16:40 PM

^^lol, so you think, when you have a kid i bet you'll be the biggest sap on the planet for them

12/14/2010 3:18:01 PM

I remember back when I worked in a children's store having a little girl about 6 years old come up to me and ask me who Santa was. I wouldn't have thought it strange except for the fact the girl's mother had told me she was in the store doing Christmas shopping. I just kind of left that one for her mother to answer.

12/14/2010 3:20:18 PM

^^I know I'll be a sap for them, that's why I can't bear the thought of lying to them and then seeing the look on their faces when they realize it.

Don't get me wrong, they're gonna get presents like a motherfucker, I'm just not gonna attribute them to some serial home invader, an army of midgets, and some mutant fucking reindeer.

12/14/2010 3:29:19 PM

I think it's kind of cool when kids finally figure it out. It's like seeing their brain has grown to the capacity to allow them to be detectives about the world around them.

Then again, I kind of remember when I figured it out being like, "Yeah that makes sense whatever," and not telling my parents I knew because I didn't want them to hold back on presents

12/14/2010 3:34:45 PM

I think Santa is suppose to represent giving a gift and wanting nothing in return. I think I would have felt guilty knowing my parents bought me all this stuff and got them nothing. When I found out about Santa, I gave my dad a bunch of fake money and some real money mixed in. He tried his best to give me back the real money, but I refused.

12/14/2010 3:45:56 PM

^ that is really really cute.

12/14/2010 3:49:06 PM

SINTERKLAAS

12/14/2010 4:16:51 PM

Quote :

"that's why I can't bear the thought of lying to them and then seeing the look on their faces when they realize it."

Quote :

"I think it's kind of cool when kids finally figure it out. It's like seeing their brain has grown to the capacity to allow them to be detectives about the world around them. Then again, I kind of remember when I figured it out being like, "Yeah that makes sense whatever," and not telling my parents I knew because I didn't want them to hold back on presents "

Same for me - at that point it became counter-deception. I needed to figure out how appear ignorant for as long as possible to keep the gifts rolling in.

I think grumpy's issue is that he is taking this a bit to seriously... you need to realize it's all a big game (like most things in life), and then learn to play the game to your advantage.

You will probably be doing your kid a disservice by not giving them the opportunity to reason out things like this for their self.

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 6:02 PM. Reason : .]

12/14/2010 6:01:15 PM

was anybody else told that santa left switches (as opposed to coal) for the bad kids?

12/14/2010 8:29:22 PM