Why is Christmas so Orky‽

[Shades of Eternity]

Well, why, for a species obsessed with warfare, do they seem to have an almost childlike innocence about Christmas?

 

[Mannahnin]

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Makes a compelling case.

 

[MGibster]

I don't know about the rest of Europe, but Christmas in the English speaking world has a long history of being a raucous affair full of drinking, feasting, and fighting. It is the orkiest of holidays.

 

[aco175]

They know the reason for the season.

 

[Mannahnin]

"I like to envision Jesus as like the lead singer of a Lynyrd Skynyrd style angel band- And I'm in the front row, hammered-drunk!"

 

[Ryujin]

I don't know about the rest of Europe, but Christmas in the English speaking world has a long history of being a raucous affair full of drinking, feasting, and fighting. It is the orkiest of holidays.

Ever since it was Saturnalia and Yule, before that.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

the Norse liked to hang out during that time.

 

[Mannahnin]

Lots of midwinter festivals. Saturnalia was celebrated a bit earlier (Dec 17, later expanded to the 17th-23rd) than Christmas, and Yule was normally celebrated in January- starting on the first full moon following the new moon after the winter solstice. It wasn't until the 10th century that King Hakon of Norway moved it to December 25th to coincide with Christmas.

 

[Ryujin]

the Norse liked to hang out during that time.

It was cold. In Scandinavia. What else could they do?