Sex and Chicken at Christmas

[Mulboyne]

Straight.com: Sex and Chicken Make Christmas in Japan

Imagine this: your Christmas list is cut down to zero people. Instead of spending Christmas Eve arguing with your siblings about who qualifies as the true black sheep of the family, you go out on a date, eat a gourmet meal, and then toddle off to a nice hotel room for some cozy, romantic, Christmas sex.

Not a bad article, although this sentence is out-of-date

Nobody would buy a Christmas cake after the 25th--hence the phrase "Christmas cake" to describe a woman who remains unmarried by her 25th birthday.

[Captain Japan]

Not a bad article, although this sentence is out-of-date

Nobody would buy a Christmas cake after the 25th--hence the phrase "Christmas cake" to describe a woman who remains unmarried by her 25th birthday.

I can't imagine her ever having had a conversation close to this though:

Me: Christmas is a celebration of Christ's birth. That's why we call it Christmas: Christ Mass.

Japanese Friend: So, Christ is a fat man? And he wears a red suit?

Me: No, that's Santa. Christ was a little baby. You know, Jesus?

JF: And the fat man is his father? So he gives presents?

Me: No, Santa is not Jesus' father. He was a saint, called St. Nicholas, and he...gave stuff away. And I think he brought some dead kids back to life.

JF: He's very fat.

Me: In real life, he was skinny. The Coca-Cola company made him fat.

JF: American people are very fat.

Me (squirming uncomfortably): Not all of them.

JF: Yes, Brad Pitt is not fat. He is a handsome boy.

ME: Yes, he is very handsome.

JF: I would like to have romantic Christmas with him.

[FG Lurker]

I can certainly imagine having such a conversation... Things really do get messed up between cultures sometimes.

Me: In real life, he was skinny. The Coca-Cola company made him fat.

This actually isn't true, but is a popular urban legend. Check out this Snopes.com article: The Claus That Refreshes.

I noticed that my favorite Santa story is also up on Snopes: The Physics of Santa and His Reindeer. If anyone here hasn't seen this yet, I'm sure it will generate a Christmas chuckle or two.

Ian

[cstaylor]

JF: Yes, Brad Pitt is not fat. He is a handsome boy.

ME: Yes, he is very handsome.

JF: I would like to have romantic Christmas with him.

Keep wishing, daikon-ashi, because it ain't happening.

[Pencilslave]

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Nobody would buy a Christmas cake after the 25th--hence the phrase "Christmas cake" to describe a woman who remains unmarried by her 25th birthday.

Hmmm, I guess I'm being a scoundrel,but I wonder if I could use this as a pickup strategy on single Japanese women over 25.(Wink at her, smile and say) Watashi wa kurisumasu keiki o ai shiteru yo

[cstaylor]

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Nobody would buy a Christmas cake after the 25th--hence the phrase "Christmas cake" to describe a woman who remains unmarried by her 25th birthday.

Hmmm, I guess I'm being a scoundrel,but I wonder if I could use this as a pickup strategy on single Japanese women over 25.(Wink at her, smile and say) Watashi wa kurisumasu keiki o ai shiteru yo

I doubt that would work. How well would the following go over in the West? "I love to shag old hags like you".

[Pencilslave]

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Nobody would buy a Christmas cake after the 25th--hence the phrase "Christmas cake" to describe a woman who remains unmarried by her 25th birthday.

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I doubt that would work. How well would the following go over in the West? "I love to shag old hags like you".

You're right CS, that was rather stupid of me to say. My apologies to all women.