Tradition, le what?

Tradition is something that should not be followed for its own sake. I really don’t have much more to say on the matter. Some traditions are bad, some are good. You shouldn’t follow them because they are there. You shouldn’t not follow them because they are there.
There is the pope, one of the world’s most [...]

It’s strange… it feels… nostalgic.

‘Tradition’, to me, implies the doing of something for the sole reason that it is always done. Not because it is enjoyable, or practical, but just because it always has been. This strikes me as silly; if something is enjoyable, and even if it is done annually, or every decade, or at the funeral of [...]

It shouldn’t hurt me to be free

Take me somewhere new.

Here comes Santa Claus…

I haven’t had time to get into the Christmas spirit yet. Working at a deli, bagging kilo after kilo of king prawns surprisingly doesn’t conjure up fond memories of Christmas past.
I do have one thing I hope will not become a tradition: last Christmas Eve, I got fired. Seeing as I’m rostered on til NYE [...]

Tradition; the Good, the Bad and Some Other Stuff

Tradition.
Say it in a grammatically-incorrect-one-word-sentence like that and I will straight away jump to some hard-arsed old father figure who fought in the war, smoking a pipe and lecturing his children who clearly don’t like him. Why? I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s because in many cases, tradition can be a very rigid thing. For example, [...]

Traditions get boring after a while

No Pamplemousse Collaboration would be complete without an irregular contribution from everyone’s favourite Antho. Ladies and gentleman, here I am!
Assuming that we all have the reading comprehension and general knowledge equal or greater than that of a first grader I will forgo the usual unpleasant quoting of the dictionary meaning of the term ‘tradition’ and [...]

Chatawax’s thoughts on tradition

Urgh, tradition. We’ve all been affected by it, embarrassed by it, had to put up with it. Whether it be incarnated into Uncle Bert’s terrible 70s dancing or a barely tolerable weekend with the in-laws, tradition rears its head like an unpleasant punch to the babymaker.
My family luckily does not have many traditions, and of [...]

Family stories

Now, why we didn’t just have Christmas as a weekly theme, I’ll never know.
Christmas means a lot of things to different people, and a lot of people deride it for it’s consumerist aspect, and a lot of others deride it for it’s Religious aspect. Sometimes these are the same people, too. how bitter would you [...]

Back In My Day

There are two traditions I need to keep to every year. They are: going up to the river for just over a week in January and going to the Flinders Ranges over the October long weekend. In 2008 I got to do both, but in 2009 I’m not so sure my year is going to [...]

Merry Onslaught

Tradition.
It’s not inherently good.  Just because a practice is continued, it is wrong to assume it has merit, or is better than things which have been abandoned or even things not yet realised.
But if it’s sensible and good, it’s not really called a tradition though, is it.  Brushing your teeth is rarely called a tradition, [...]