Do You Do These Holiday Faux Pas
People are judgmental. You’re judgmental. I’m judgmental. If you think you’re not, then you’re oblivious or you haven’t lived long enough to become judgy. During the holidays you see a lot of people, you have large gatherings and dinners. You’re bound to see or commit some sort of holiday faux pas. A survey of 2000 people was done to see what percentage of us are guilty around the holidays. We’re going to look at a few of them. Maybe you’re only guilty of 1 or 2. That’s not bad. Some of them are worse than others though.
10. Not wrapping Christmas gifts – 7% of respondents do this. I don’t really have a problem with this. Yea wrapping is nice, but if it’s for your brother do they really care? My brother once wrapped my gift in duct tape. That was a pain in the ass to get open. I remember the duct tape, but not the gift.
8. Not Catering to vegetarians/vegans – 9% or respondents are right. Get this nonsense out of here! This list was obviously created by a vegan who has been burned at a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Do you know how much work goes into one of these large gatherings? If this is your choice of diet, that’s fine, but you can’t expect the host to take one eater into account to Bring your own tofu turkey or vegetables that an animal didn’t look at.
3. Undoing pants at the dinner table – 20% of respondents do this. Really? I thought this was a Christmas movie joke or myth. I eat a lot and have never had to unbuckle my belt or pants at the table. If you’re notorius for this, why not just wear something elastic.
4. Wearing a cheesy/ugly Christmas sweater – 26% of people have done this. A large number because this is fun. Now some sweaters aren’t really good for family gatherings. Someone once gifted me one that just says Balls on it and has 2 Christmas ornaments, not really what I’d wear to a dinner. I have and will wear my Clark Griswold christmas sweater though. Everyone has seen that holiday classic and gets the joke of the sweater.
For the whole list head on over to the Daily Mail.
Christmas Songs: 25 Classic Rock/Pop Tunes to Get into the Holiday Spirit
Now that it’s finally December, it’s time to fully embrace Christmas songs. (Sure, some may have started long ago, but many like to wait until Thanksgiving is in the rearview.)
There are a surprising number of Christmas songs recorded by some of music’s biggest icons. Many rockin’ holiday tunes tend to be covers, but many artists have tried to pen the next Christmas classic. If they don’t end up classics, they are often at least a lot of fun.
On one rare occasion, an original Christmas song inspired a theory that went viral. The song in question is the Paul McCarney hit “Wonderful Christmastime.” The theory started on X (formerly Twitter) via Canadian actor Ryan George, who wrote, “Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ is about friends practicing witchcraft but then someone walks in and they have to suddenly play it cool.”
McCartney was asked about the theory in a special Q&A about the song on his official website in December 2022. Sir Paul said when asked if the theory was true, “Oh yeah. Well, thank goodness they found me out. This is completely true, and in actual fact, I am the head wizard of a Liverpool coven. [Paul laughs] Either that… or it’s complete nonsense. And you know it’s the latter!”
Macca is then asked, “This theory may have come from people mishearing the lyrics. Could you confirm if the lyric is ‘the moon is right’ or ‘the mood is right’?” He responds, “It’s ‘the mood’! This is the mood; I’ve gathered together the witches and wizards… I’ve got ‘the mood’, which is what we in wizardry call it [laughs]. The thing is about this stuff, it’s so easy to convince half the people in the world. You do have to be a little bit careful! ”
McCartney added, “No, it’s ‘the mood’. And you know what, I’m thinking about Liverpool Christmas parties, that’s really all I’m doing with that song. ‘The mood is right, let’s raise a glass, the spirit’s up’ – you know, all the stuff you do at Christmas. Particularly with my old Liverpool family parties.”
To help fully get into the holiday spirit, consider adding these 25 songs to your Christmas playlist. Or you can try and see if Sir Paul has an opening in his coven.
Steve Vassalotti is co-host of “The Matt Cord Show with Steve Vassalotti” weekday mornings 6a-10a on 102.9 WMGK. He has been with the station since 2015. For WMGK he writes about inane nonsense that surrounds our daily lives, sports, food and other various topics. Steve writes about Philadelphia lifestyle content, the Philadelphia Eagles culture and trending topics.