For the past two years, it seems that every year when I decide to take my children on the subway to see the model trains at the train museum at Grand Central Station, we end up in the midst of SantaCon.
SantaCon, the time of year when fat, ugly white people ( yes, I have not seen any diversity in the participants) dress up as either Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, an elf, reindeer or some amalgamation of all of them. They meet up at some place in NYC and start drinking. Most have already started drinking before they hit public transit, so the are pretty loud and rude.
It is a good thing that my children belive that Santa Claus is a fictional character, can you imagine what it would be like to explain this debauchery to a young child who has his or her hopes pinned on the story of Santa? Actually, it is already quite difficult to explain the fat, ugly white people to my children and why they are so dressed up and loud.
SantaCon is one of those rare (and we are very thankful that it is rare) occasions that people feel the need to dress up as some fanatasy character. The other two occasions that I can think of are Halloween and ComiCon (or some variant like TrekCon or StarWarsCon). Those costumes are made for people who can wear them, and because the characters are cartoons, no living person is supposed to be wearing skin tight suits.
If I was to start the war on Christmas, I would start by eliminating SantaCon.
SantaCon, the time of year when fat, ugly white people ( yes, I have not seen any diversity in the participants) dress up as either Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, an elf, reindeer or some amalgamation of all of them. They meet up at some place in NYC and start drinking. Most have already started drinking before they hit public transit, so the are pretty loud and rude.
It is a good thing that my children belive that Santa Claus is a fictional character, can you imagine what it would be like to explain this debauchery to a young child who has his or her hopes pinned on the story of Santa? Actually, it is already quite difficult to explain the fat, ugly white people to my children and why they are so dressed up and loud.
SantaCon is one of those rare (and we are very thankful that it is rare) occasions that people feel the need to dress up as some fanatasy character. The other two occasions that I can think of are Halloween and ComiCon (or some variant like TrekCon or StarWarsCon). Those costumes are made for people who can wear them, and because the characters are cartoons, no living person is supposed to be wearing skin tight suits.
If I was to start the war on Christmas, I would start by eliminating SantaCon.
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