Every year I campaign for the same thing, and I will not rest until the day when November has its dignity and respect returned to him.
But still, sometimes even as early as October (and in some specially depressing cases, September) I start seeing Christmas trees through people’s windows, and holiday decorations on sale in stores all over the place.
I don’t worry about October, because while Halloween is still celebrated the month will remain powerful enough to keep Christmas at bay. And september is safe because October acts as its shield. People aren’t just gonna start Christmas, pause for Halloween and then go back to Christmas.
But November doesn’t have all that much going for it, just a couple of lesser holidays at the beginning and a big dinner later on. Sure, it might have big celebrations in specific countries, but as far as the global picture goes, November is – like the comic says – just an obstacle month on people’s way towards December.
There’s really not much more to say here, Abnormals. Just that if -like me- you think every single one of the 12 months deserves dignity and respect, please reject any and all December holiday decorations before November is over.
Feel free to use the image in the rant, if you want.
Good hunting;
O
NOTE: I moved the RPG comics to Wednesdays, in case anybody’s wondering.
That’s OK, there’s a celebration that’s much more worthy – the Movember event. Shave off your beard (Or clean shave) on the 1st, and grow a ‘Mo – a Moustache – throughout the month. Donate any monies you receive for this madness to the Movember charity (I’m taking part, and please donate to me – http://mobro.co/lazerfx!)
Where I live, The Netherlands, we have a custom called Sinterklaas. It’s pretty much the same as Christmas but without the tree and we celebrate it on December 5th. With Sinterklaas comes Sinterklaas candy. This year I spotted the candy first on September 17th. Almost 3 months ahead! It sickens me…
For more info on Sinterklaas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
Amen. It feels like this has gotten worse in recent years. Immediately after Halloween ends, there’s Christmas junk everywhere. I refuse to have anything to do with it until after December starts.
You know what. November is the coolest month ever with some of the best celebrations in the world!
It’s got Beardvember, Movember, Noshember and I’m sure there are some others as well.
The United States of America respects November. We’ve got Thanksgiving this month, which many Americans consider the best Holiday in the year… Because basically we sit around all day eating and watching (American) football.
You go, November.
that’s okay O, i’m sick of Christmas decorations, and almost abhor them entirely. Don’t get me wrong i love Christmas, and say Merry Christmas without remorse regardless of political correctness. However the decorations, the crazy people who leave them up year round makes me want to drag the ornaments out every year and put them out of their misery. Mostly by fire.
Love it!
November always struck me as a sad lonely drunk
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I agree wholeheartedly. I’ve started seeing Christmas decorations before Halloween has run its course, nobody is safe. And Christmas in July? What? I’ve begun to abhor the holiday.
But for me, November rocks still. Not for Thanksgiving… Football, food, and awkward silence as my family gathers somewhere isn’t my favorite idea. No, November still as the awesome and grueling task of National Novel Writing Month. 50,000 words of a story in a single month. I’ve been anticipating it for months. D< *geek*
While i am native to the US, I did live in the Philipines for a few years, and they don’t celebrate Halloween, thanksgiving, or any other significant November Hollidays. As a result, they usually started putting up Christmas decorations and singing Christmas carols as early as September. One of them even told me that any month whose name ended in “ber” was fair game for christmas celebrations.
Lol, so true, I’m sick of all the decorations in shops appearing so early. Luckily, many polish families still respect tradition saying that Christmas tree should be decorated on Christmas Eve
I like how “you” look in today’s comic – simply, yet greatly colored and detailed. That’s the look I like
Right now I fight the urge to commission the figure of the oh-god of hangovers from hogfather…
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ALL YEAR LONG!!1 Sorry, but this is my favorite holiday of the year and sometimes i live a decoration out the box in my room all year long! Seriously, I’ve been doing that since I lived with my mother. I gess I one of your arch-enenies!
My birthday is in November… You can celebrate that if you like
November has the best holiday in the year in my country, celebrated it a couple of says ago (Guy Fawkes Night).
Maybe New Years is better, it is a close contest.
I really don’t like Christmas at all.
Yay! More Dutchies!
Like Robbert, I too live in the Netherlands. (And no, thats not region of the underworld, though it would be cool.. People might also know it as Holland.)
Anyhow, I’d like to let you all know that the entire Dutch population under 10 is with you, O!Since ‘Sinterklaas’ (aka St. Nicolas; yes, real person, look him up) is very much a real, living person to all Dutch kids (despite being 300+), most people here don’t set up their Christmas stuff until AFTER December 5th.
Anyone who breaks this habit is sure to have every 2-to-10 year old berate them about how they’re bypassing the birthday of the children’s favorite saint. ^_^
Then again, it doesn’t prevent the stores from selling themed candy (Sinterklaas AND Christmas) about 3 months in advance..
For more info on Sinterklaas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas
Down in Panama (where the canal is), Christmas Decorations are put up and put on sale before Halloween or Dia de Los Muertos happen. It’s disgusting, and I never acknowledge the Christmas season until December 1st. Fuck Black Friday.
Remember, remember,
November is not december.
Aw my favorite month of the year looks all messed up. Though it’s true even my family starts talking about getting stuff for Christmas and I have to remind them that My Birthday (which is in November) comes first.
Nice comic strip, though I find complaints about the ever worsening commercialisation and expansion of Christmas a bit outdated. I mean, people were already lamenting all that when I was a child, so what? Some people just like it this way and apparently there’s money in it, too.
What I wanted to post here was a gem of an mp3 I stumbled upon on the web, called “I’m O”, which HAS to be about Obsidian: http://www.alternativetentacles.com/octopodes/623/p1xL6-cX9EW9M@ullO-/Black_Kali_Ma-Im_O.mp3. Good song, too. Maybe a candidate for the cheesecast?
Cheers, King Kraut.
November in the UK sees Bonfire Night on the 5th November, a celebration of how some idiot was too stupid to blow up the houses of parliament. We celebrate with weird food (Parkin and black peas being my favourites) a nice large fire to keep everybody warm, watching the neighbours fireworks and usually a fair amount of booze (also to keep us warm, honest).
Bonfire Night is far bigger a deal than halloween here, unfortunately the most people outside the UK know of it is the Guy Fawkes mask Anonymous uses, which is ironic as Guy Fawkes is a figure of ridicule not a hero.
up here in Canada, we have thanksgiving in october. so there’s no buffer between halloween and christmas. poor movember, too drunk to shave.
unfortunately Thanksgiving just doesn’t have the mojo to keep Christmas in its place :/
The “oldies” station in my city started playing xmas music some 4 weeks ago. or more.
I hate the “Christmas Race” too, but what would really help get the message through would be to get this comic on a T-shirt