Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
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Always found that to be a very strange coincidence that Jesus's birthday and xmas are on the same day.
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At what age did you stop having an advent calendar?
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Always found that to be a very strange coincidence that Jesus's birthday and xmas are on the same day.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
I put Advent Calendars in the same category as Halloween activities.
Being an old git, neither happened when I was a kid. So they don't happen now.
The thing I don't understand, though, is why they start on 1 December? The first day of Advent this year was 27 November. If your Advent Calendar didn't start then, surely it's WRONG, isn't it?
Being an old git, neither happened when I was a kid. So they don't happen now.
The thing I don't understand, though, is why they start on 1 December? The first day of Advent this year was 27 November. If your Advent Calendar didn't start then, surely it's WRONG, isn't it?
Spiros
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I'm 46 and still have one. originally it was the same one every year with just pictures behind each door, no chocolates. Then after a few years with Mrs Spiros that one disappeared and the chocolate treat variety started appearing. Milky Bar this year
zeetha
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- Apr 11, 2011
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Mine too, and I agree its great! Though I don't always know what each days is... *bad nerd* Oh, and I'm 42 - you're never too old for Lego!
TheBlueAndWhiteStrips
Active member
Talking of Advent Calenders I found this patent:
UK Patent Application No. GB2328762. An adults' version of the chocolate Advent calendar. It has 25 doors for each day leading up to Christmas. When opened, each door reveals a different condom, with different colours, flavours and styles for each day in December. Behind each door there is a picture of a new sexual position to try for the day. On Christmas Eve a Santa Claus condom is presented. This is red with a white rim and a white bobble on top.
UK Patent Application No. GB2328762. An adults' version of the chocolate Advent calendar. It has 25 doors for each day leading up to Christmas. When opened, each door reveals a different condom, with different colours, flavours and styles for each day in December. Behind each door there is a picture of a new sexual position to try for the day. On Christmas Eve a Santa Claus condom is presented. This is red with a white rim and a white bobble on top.
You think that's strange - the year is 2011 and guess how many years ago Jesus was born. You couldn't make it up.
Poyetry In Motion
Pooetry Motions
Stop? Why, that's crazy talk...
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
f***ing advent calendar! some rich bastards on here
might of got some orange peel
might of got some orange peel
Seagull Steve
SWC
Pack it up you two, you have me in stitches.lol.
I haven't had an advent calender since I was 15. But my two daughters who live with me have them, which pissed my boy off, as he has left home and we didn't buy him one.
SeagullSongs
And it's all gone quiet..
We've got a cloth one downstairs with chocolate coins in, and I got a Thomas the Tank Engine one today in the Secret Santa
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
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Now I'm thinking that is a trick question, wasn't it something like 200 BC ?
Lindfield by the Pond
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As soon as I got to seven - after that I realised that their days were numbered!!!!!
Marc1901
Peace out.
I'm 17 and don't feel the need to have one..
HastingsSeagull
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28 and got bought 2 this year (don't think ever happened before). Parents and gf both bought me 1 and nice gesture but wouldn't have missed it tbh
Quite. We didn't have advent calendars when we were kids - it's a new-fangled thing isn't it? Probably American.
And I don't understand why they begin on the 1st either. I assume it's because they don't have to change the design every year to cope with the different number of days.
sir albion
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In my 30's and i still get one
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Originally (19th century) a German Lutheran thing. Started up in America in the 1950s. Reached the UK ... when?
Don't know. 1970s? 1980s? It's an interesting Christmas tradition that appears to have emerged from nowhere.
We had them in the 1960s, I literally don't remember a Christmas without one. I must admit I much preferred the old ones, there was no chocolate just a nice picture of a Christmas scene, usually with glitter on the snowy bits.
I can believe they started in America because I know some of the early ones we had we American as my Aunt (who lived in Florida) used to bring them over.