By Coldstream’s Gonks do I hope people realise I use a lot of sarcasm on here 
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Maybe we should just learn to use the “/j” tag then, to avoid unnecessary confusion /g
Sarcasm is a difficult thing to master, even in spoken language, so it’s nearly impossible when written…
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Yes! It caught on! My plans to conquer TARDIS Guide roll along nicely!
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I think you and @deltaandthebannermen are both competing for that one XD
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And that’s why we are:
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Advent candles have long been a tradition in churches in the UK so there’s no way you can claim that one for Sweden, sorry. 
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That’s how the Swedes are! Always sticking their noses into other people’s business and claiming they are the first or the best at something /j 
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Did you mean one of those candles with 24 numbers on them and you burn one number each day? 
Or four candles, one for each Sunday of Advent.
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I think he meant the four candles, one for each Sunday of the Advent. That’s what’s shown on the picture at least 
Although the 24-day candle is also a fun thing. We almost bought such a candle that looked like a gonk when we were in Sweden
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This video pretty much sums up a typical Aussie Christmas
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Houdini and The Space Cuckoos - 5/10
A fun little story with some great art to go alongside it, but it’s nothing especially standout. The idea of Alien Cuckoos is a very fun one for this short of a story.
The pacing is a little odd, part four doesn’t really need to be there, and I could honestly see it being cut down to half the length, but hey, it’s fine, it’s still only a 20 min read, doesn’t exactly outstay its welcome.
As for British Christmas Traditions, there’s this great show that we watch every year on Christmas called Doctor Who /j
No but in all seriousness, I don’t think anyone’s mentioned Christmas Crackers yet and as far as I know they’re a British(/Commonwealth) thing
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Those Crackers, and the thin paper crowns are a New Year’s thing here in Denmark not a Christmas thing
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Crackers? Paper crowns?
Not words we have here in Finland!
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No of course not - you need to translate the words into Finnish first.
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I can’t believe this was a news story but apparently Americans were recently confused by the custom when they watched the Bluey Xmas episode
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I was in Australia once for Christmas and can confirm that is pretty accurate.
My wife is German so we tend to combine British and German traditions at Christmas time. So we usually celebrate Saint Nicholas Day on 6th December, which isn’t really a thing in the UK.
Christmas Eve is the main day in Germany and when they usually open all the presents. As a compromise,we tend to open half our presents on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas Day. Also, there’s sauerkraut and potato dumplings alongside the more traditional British veg and trimmings for Christmas dinner.
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The paper crowns are vital! They have to be so flimsy they fall off in your dinner and get covered in gravy!!
I don’t know about specific US traditions, but here with my friend, their family makes these knockoff lebkuchen (not that similar to the real German ones, idk why they call them that) but I have for the last few years helped their mother make them which is fun. Also I have a friend over here who looooves mince pies, but they’re not widely sold in the US so I often make him some which is fun
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We have both!
At churches is not the same thing. Almost every Swedish home has one. If it is only in churches I would give myself half a point 
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But okay this is a (strange) Swedish tradition. In the middle of Christmas Eve at 15:00 to 16:00 every Swedish home stops what they are doing and watches Donald Duck and friends celebrate Christmas. This has been shown on our public service channel every year since 1958. It is almost every year the most watched program during the whole year. The content is almost the same every year. The 2020 version is the most-seen television program in all of Swedish history with 4 519 000 viewers (our total population is around 10 000 000).
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We do the exact same thing 
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