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Yup. We’re enjoying the to and fro. Feel free to participate in other threads more to your liking.

Look, my other options are inserting myself into whatever crafting event my spouse has decided is critical to the holiday this year...

I have an English degree and this kind of debate is now hard-wired into me.

It’s just a fun pretend argument. Don’t sweat it!

Not as well known, I think (and not been on TV at Christmas in the era when most of us only had 3-4 channels). But if you want to...

Not a lot of Puritans there, many of them are OK with celebrating Christmas (also: playing cards, plays, popular entertainment...

I don’t think there were a lot of people who’d have called themselves Puritans in England in the 1840s, though many Christians would...

It's a brief mention, but Scrooge also attends church on Christmas morning before going to see Bob Cratchit. He's definitely Christian...

Do we have any reason to believe he’s Jewish? It probably would have been mentioned in the book by one of the characters. He was left at...

It is a classic, but watching it again recently made me realise how much histrionic screaming is in it (Hordern and Sim) and that’s less...

Best of luck, mate, have a great few days off and look after yourself.

I’m taking a few days off - the general site level of irony and cynicism got me down, and I need my emotions free for other things. I...

“Hey kids, do you want to watch four ghosts brutally traumatise a rich guy into sharing? Also, the question that you always wanted...

I love the echo from the beginning and end: “What am I gonna do? Spend the rest of my life in this tiny town? Surrounded by crazy...