View Poll Results: What's your favorite Easter tradition?

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  • Watching Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ while eating steak

    1 4.35%
  • Taking the kids out on an Easter egg hunt

    1 4.35%
  • Going to Sunday Mass

    2 8.70%
  • Watching It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!

    0 0%
  • Big family get-together

    2 8.70%
  • Sipping wine and tweeting that Martin Scorsese is going to hell

    0 0%
  • Trolling Yahoo! Comments sections with like your typical Sunday morning

    0 0%
  • Pigging out on chocolates and watching totally unrelated Easter TV

    5 21.74%
  • Other

    12 52.17%
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    What is your favorite Easter tradition?

    So the next relevant date aside from St. Patrick's (I don't drink and I'm not Irish so I don't celebrate it) is Easter, so do you have a favorite Easter pastime or tradition?

    I still celebrate it even though I'm not a Catholic practitioner (raised by a big Catholic family though) and I love all the Christian/Catholic holidays and their traditions, which I still practice. My favorite's watching Mel Gibson's The Passion (IMO the definitive movie about Jesus), accompanied by a nice lunch with the family, usually a good rare roast beef with codfish cakes on the side, then lots of Easter chocolates for desert, and we usually take my niece on Easter egg hunts too in the morning where there's something scheduled by the church or the community.

    Do you have any favorites to share? I made a poll for some fun listing some common, and maybe to other, more outlandish traditions that come to mind when I think of Easter.

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    We don't really do it for Easter but more because we have the friday and monday off. My Dad, brother (he's in australia this year)and I go skiing at Big White every Easter weekend.

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    Traveling somewhere warm enough and with a beach to go for a swim.

    This year it's Havana after a 3 days layover in Cancun.

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    Crucifying people that cause public scenes at the Temple.
    Quote Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
    The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

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    Being faithless and getting an extra day off from work.

    Is this the one the people walk around with dirt crosses on thier faces?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Low Hanging Fruit View Post
    Being faithless and getting an extra day off from work.

    Is this the one the people walk around with dirt crosses on thier faces?
    That's Ash Wednesday and that's a Lent thing. Comes before Easter.
    Quote Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
    The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

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    All holidays is really just about getting drunk and fewer people complain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiac View Post
    Crucifying people that cause public scenes at the Temple.
    Lol that would have been a fine addition to the poll.

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    The ability to ignore it.

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    Since its a pagan fertility celebration of spring and life...Sex?

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    I don't do western easter.

    I'm Orthodox, so it's Pascha.

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    The decorations!

    Purple, yellow, pink, bright green, the eggs, the chickens, the bunnies, the hens, the roosters, the twigs with feathers on them!!!

    I love Easter decoration.

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    No special Easter specific tradition, so, no favorite Easter tradition.
    Last edited by callipygoustp; 2020-02-28 at 02:48 AM.

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    the hunting of the easter bunny.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stelio Kontos View Post
    I don't do western easter.

    I'm Orthodox, so it's Pascha.
    Christos Anesti. <3
    Quote Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
    The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

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    Eat a nice dinner with family.
    Do you hear the voices too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    Easter baskets for the kids and we’ll make an Easter dinner.
    That's how it was for me...and a large ham dinner.

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    Gorging on Cadbury Creme Eggs. *bokmeow*
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    I didn't mind going to dressing up and going to church for Easter as a kid. Crowds suck.

    Nobody likes Lent? Anyone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PACOX View Post
    I didn't mind going to dressing up and going to church for Easter as a kid. Crowds suck.

    Nobody likes Lent? Anyone?
    don't remind me
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