Boxing Day rituals in Canberra

Any updates on the boxing day rituals?

So now you show your true colours Captain KKK.

Not only do they come to steal our jobs. They’re now coming to steal our cheap toasters.

‘@ The captain

In case you hadn’t noticed the white australia policy was ditched about 50 odd years ago.

Who gives a toss what they looked like’

I wonder if you will be so quick to come to thier defence when the language is changed so that these people and thier families from across the sea can read and speak it?

Dance, dance while you can as the empire burns around you. I live in hope that the 500,000 irish settlers tipped to come to our shores in the next few years will be enough to save our cultural heritage because what’s coming here now doesn’t give a toss for it!

I spent most of boxing day watching that comedy on WIN TV.

Australia’s first innings I think it was called.

“Boxing Day” is just another day, except a lot of the shops (except for the ones doing the “sales”, and the grocery shops) are closed, and the media is full of shit about this yacht race they keep starting on this particular day every year. It’s the “day after Christmas”, the first day after the total and complete shutdown.

@ The captain

In case you hadn’t noticed the white australia policy was ditched about 50 odd years ago.

Who gives a toss what they looked like.

@ Captain RAAF: ummmmm 2br unit with 20 people in it….. $ $ $ ….. need I say more …..

Cricket, plus more drinking and eating, plus avoiding going near shops.

BBQ with the family 🙂 Except it was raining. So we had an indoor BBQ… kinda.

Destruction of the gingerbread house by the lake – mind you a lake full of dead trees this year instead of the usual canoing on the lake! followed by a few hours of shopping in Civic while parking is cheaper today – +1 Captain RAAF re who was there.

Eat leftovers from Christmas Day.

We did family Christmas today. I’ve never seen so many Hello Kitty presents at one time!!!

Dinner is about to come out of the oven and I’m resting in front of The Simpsons.

Today’s the day we all have one thing on our mind.
“I wonder how much this piece of shit would make on Ebay?”

Decluttering. Boxing Day is for putting stuff in boxes to take to Revolve/op shops/dump when they re-open, to make room for all the stuff the kids were given by parents and extended family.

Working until 6:30am, sleeping until 5pm, consuming more Christmas food, being taken for a walk by the dog, and going to work again at 8:30pm. I wouldn’t call it a ritual or tradition, but it’s an enjoyable enough way to spend Boxing Day.

Question without notice, why does all the media footage of the crowds streaming into the Boxing day sales look like it was filmed in Hong Kong/China/Tokyo? The wife went to Civic this morning for the sales and she observed the same demographic in obvious majority!

No, I didn’t, Holditz. But, jogging is preferable, IMO. And that’s saying something.

You forgot heading to the shopping malls for the Boxing Day sales!

Breda, if I didn’t know any better I’d swear your now at my house!!!! Exactly the same here.

Having just blistered through Civic and Belconnen, credit cards between the teeth and ready, we’re kicking back and enjoying a wonderful afternoon ahead. If the weather boffins are anywhere correct today (and let’s face it, why the hell should they be), then we may have a nice little storm to top the afternoon off with!

My sort of day………………………..or perhaps I’m just getting old!

Going to see “The King’s Speech” – Geoffrey Rush as an Australian speech therapist operating in London in the 1930w, Colin Firth as the reluctant king, Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen Mum & Guy Pearce playing the abdicating Edward VIII. It’s getting rave reviews, and hey, it’s one in the eye for Madonna – who is bringing out a bad movie soon, glorifying Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson – who were Nazi collaborators.