The southern hemisphere continues to blow my mind.

[Yamaneko]

In Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

[Captain Maxx Power]

The northern hemisphere rocks compared to the south. We have Britain, America, Japan, Russia, China. Who have you guys got? Buenos Ares and Australia. Plus your water goes down the wrong way.

[Reine]

Ah, but we have New Zealand which automatically wins

[bipper]

Prehaps the southern hemisphere is really the northern hemisphere and if gravity gave out it would be us that fell off!

oh noes!

[-N-]

Ah, but we have New Zealand which automatically wins

[bipper]

Ah, but we have New Zealand which automatically wins

But where is your Wisconsin?

[-N-]

Sunk to the bottom of the sea like it should be.

[bipper]

Ya'll brains are spinning the wrong way too, evidently

[Slade]

When your a student, there's four lots of holidays during the year. The Christmas ones are the longest (I'm an art student and my Christmas holidays this year consist of about 3 fecking months, how boring ) Then theres the other 3 two week long holidays that come up at the end of each term.

[NorthernChaosGod]

How do people in the southern hemisphere deal with summer holidays?

I think it's awesome. We have Christmas in summer! That means instead of snow, we spend it at the pool or beach, having BBQ's and fighting for the best spot under the Air con on Christmas day.

Living in Southern California, I can do that pretty much all year round.

[Mum]

A hot Christmas Day, opening presents, laughing, eating, swimming, playing tennis, drinking, eating some more (and none of this hot meals palava - a huge buffet of salads, cold cuts and lots of cold puddings like pavlova, pineapple puddings, trifles, ice cream, fruit salad, chocolate truffles, brandy snaps, jelly...mmm

As a kid, the Christmas holidays were 2 months of fun, relaxing, swimming, sunbathing, lying outside listening to music...ahh. The there are 3 more 2 week breaks to look foward to.
Who wants to have a long holiday in the freezing cold, huddled up inside?
Also, because its the Christmas holidays, the parents get time off and we all went away for our holidays. With the way the public holidays are in quick succession, you can go away for 2 weeks and only have to take 6 days holiday entitlement!

To satisfy the Northern foreigners, we sometimes have whats called a Mid Winter Christmas Party (which is what I'm throwing in 2 weeks time). Then we get together for a night, drink, exchange small presents and have a big 4 course hot meal with a steamed pudding etc. What I did at the beginning of this year was freeze down a Christmas Cake, Christmas Pudding, Christmas mince tarts etc especially for it.

So that way, my dears, we get TWO Christmas-type celebrations and get-togethers! So we down-under win both ways! (Bring on the heat I say - sunshine over snow any day!)