Post B1byDAd5U5oqaXGm4u by coolcoder360@mastodon.gamedev.place
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(DIR) Post #B1bwGsda7Wnk2M8rQ0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-25T15:22:19Z
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"Here We Come A-wassailing"How do you use this song?
(DIR) Post #B1bwZHEBQtRnW02Bk0 by MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
2025-12-25T15:25:34Z
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@futurebird Second option messes up the incentive structure.
(DIR) Post #B1bxDRSSoeNupLrkhM by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T15:32:51Z
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@futurebird If you'e heard me sing, you'd know the answer!
(DIR) Post #B1bxEN2whgR3R0NBya by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-25T15:33:05Z
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It is important, I'm told, that when caroling for cash that you present an imposing and joyful sight when the target opens their door. You should creep on the house one by one and NOT be seen going along in a group on your way there. Then, when the target opens the door stun them: start singing *immediately* do not say hello or explain.Have some cheerful decorations to wave and try to fill the whole door frame with costumes and silly flags, ribbons and banners.The more people? The better.
(DIR) Post #B1bxY5oiTKjpn27b5k by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-12-25T15:36:38Z
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@futurebird only muppets are allowed to go caroling.
(DIR) Post #B1bxkQOxlTgh6gxKeu by JosephMeyer@c.im
2025-12-25T15:38:50Z
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@futurebird The last time I went caroling, many years ago when I was still religious, a homeowner answered his door and said, “we’re trying to have a party here and don’t want to be interrupted.” Bah, humbug!
(DIR) Post #B1by7nfNQumtvCmOum by jon@henshaw.social
2025-12-25T15:43:03Z
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@futurebird The only thing worse than carolers at my door is carolers at my door asking for money. Although I would pay them to go away, so from that perspective, it’s a good business model.
(DIR) Post #B1byDAd5U5oqaXGm4u by coolcoder360@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-12-25T15:44:02Z
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@futurebird never did caroling for cash or had anyone do it to us. When I was a kid we only did caroling at nursing homes for free/volunteer.I like to think it's better that way, but honestly hard to say... If I was in a nursing home I'd probably feel rather held captive with carolers singing at me, unable to escape.
(DIR) Post #B1byX7otdjGjfNJAiu by nessotropheion@glaceon.social
2025-12-25T15:47:34Z
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@futurebird in my family the things that are wassailed are trees, not neighbors' houses, and there's really no expectation that the trees will hand us cash
(DIR) Post #B1bzwB7GcZlb5EPY9I by TheOtterDragon@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-25T16:03:21Z
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@futurebird This is utterly terrifying.
(DIR) Post #B1c1aIvV6OiaqNbYuW by PizzaDemon@mastodon.online
2025-12-25T16:21:49Z
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@futurebird ... And if the door opener has on a hijab or kippah?
(DIR) Post #B1c48ZGh39mzHUz2Bs by Phosphenes@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T16:50:20Z
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@futurebird Holding baseball bats will increase your revenue even further.
(DIR) Post #B1c8WZTCLq5MfoX8zY by gdinwiddie@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T17:39:35Z
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@futurebird Marie goes to the next level:
(DIR) Post #B1cXvzUXEqWbTINPu4 by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T21:00:02Z
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@MaryAustinBooks @futurebird the 4th verse suggests it's option 2. Unclear whether the quality of singing gets "better" because the wassailers (wassailants?) then move on to the next house
(DIR) Post #B1cXw5Sz1Wqg0DhGJk by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T21:01:43Z
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@MaryAustinBooks @futurebird or maybe the wassailants are just deliberately out of tune & off beat until you give them beer, and then suddenly they start showing off genuine talent?
(DIR) Post #B1cXwBIZLA5E5es1uy by JamesWidman@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T21:03:55Z
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@MaryAustinBooks @futurebird wait a minute...is wassailing the original SantaCon?
(DIR) Post #B1cZ77Gol1ZkjipU00 by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-12-25T22:37:31Z
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@futurebird You sing loudly until you get the food and beer (and maybe money) and then you sing the blessing verses before you move to the next house.If you're being high church about it, the more verses you have to sing before you get the food and beer, the more kinds of food you've named, so there's a certain performative status in making the wassailers sing several versus; you can afford the good piece of beef as well as the beer to give the singers.
(DIR) Post #B1ipVPsRzd51bsngxM by dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-28T23:09:25Z
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@futurebird once you're actually wassailing your mouth should be too full of wassail to sing about wassail.