Bonus Post

Christmas Traditions


In Italy they have no Christmas trees. Instead they decorate small wooden pyramids with fruit.

Ukrainians decorate their trees with an artificial spider and matching web. A spider web found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.

The citizens of Caracas, Venezuela block off the streets on Christmas eve so that people can roller-skate to God's house.

It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while mixing the Christmas pudding will come true only if the ingredients are stirred in a clockwise direction.

A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.

Sending red Christmas cards to anyone in Japan constitutes bad etiquette, since funeral notices there are customarily printed in red.

In Norway on Christmas Eve, all the brooms in the house are hidden because long ago it was believed that witches and mischievous spirits came out on Christmas Eve and would steal their brooms for riding.

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A man from East Bergholt, England, won a suit against his employer after he suffered an injury that he claims increased his sex drive and ruined his marriage. Stephen Tame said an incident when he fell from a gantry at the bicycle warehouse he worked at in 2002 caused severe sexual disinhibition that has strained his relationship with his wife, The Times of London reported Wednesday. Judge Michael Harris must decide how much is owed to Tame by Professional Cycling Marketing. Tame's legal team is asking the judge for about $6.9 million. Tame, who was married right months before the accident, claims the incident has caused him to become rude and physically aggressive. Tame, a devout Christian, said his sexual urges have caused him to use pornography and visit a prostitute. "Mr. Tame has a presentation which can be described as 'fatuous euphoria' and has been significantly disinhibited sexually and a significant question has arisen in relation to Mr. and Mrs. Tame's marriage," said Bill Braithwaite, Tame's lawyer. "The sexual side of their life is pretty troubled and unfortunately reveals a visit to a prostitute recently."