Stupid live Christmas tree

[Zaphod Q. IX]

I set up my Christmas tree tonight (better late than never).

After going to get the thing from the tree people, hoisting the thing to the top of my van, driving home, wrestling it down from the top of the van, dragging it inside, and setting it up...I noticed a rash on my arm. No big deal, Just a little rash. I helped my significant other put the lights and ornaments on it and the whole while, the itch seemed to be progressing up my arm. After finishing with the tree,I pulled up my sleeve, and the stupid rash is all the way up to my shoulder, and spreading across my chest and up my neck. It itches horribly. I'm going to take a shower and put on calomine lotion now.

THIS SUCKS!

:mad:

[MasterSwordUltima]

What the fuck kind of tree did you get?

[Breaker]

You got tree aids.

[Gleeok]

Umm, did the christmas tree have three leaves or four?

[Zaphod Q. IX]

You got tree aids.
That's nice, Breaker...nice. ;)


What the fuck kind of tree did you get?
A regular Christmas tree from the Christmas tree lot.
:shrug:

After my shower, I feel one hundred percent better. Apparently I have an allergy to evergreen spores, or the sap from the tree, or something. The rash is going away (slowly), and the itching isn't as bad now. Everywhere the tree touched me, it's still there though. Ugh. I hope the itching doesn't keep me up all night.

[AlexMax]

My mother never had an allergy in her life, but a couple of years ago she somehow got a newfound allergy to pine trees, as she found out that christmas when putting up our tree. It doesn't sound as bad as yours, because I was helping her string up the lights around the tree this morning and she seemed okay, but she says she allergic to them now.

[SuperLink]

Yeah, i reacted to our tree kinda like that. Not nearly as bad though. Only problem with ours now is that it is a white spruce (i think its called that anyways), and it reeks if you water it. Thats what I get for letting my roommates go out into the woods and chop one down.

[Gerudo]

This is exactly the reason you should buy fake and spray pine tree scent on it. No watering, cleaning, pruning, or painful disposal.

:O

[moocow]

We've had more problems with real trees than they're worth. Fake all the way, yo yo yo.

[Pineconn]

Artificial FTW! They eliminate the need to hunt for the perfect evergreen or spruce. And of course, they are a heck of a lot easier to set up and take down.

And for some total randomnicity™:


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[Modus Ponens]

You got tree aids.

Come on, Breaker. You can't get tree AIDS from casual contact.

...Unless...there's more to this story than Zaphod is telling us...

[erm2003]

One year my parents got a tree that had a whole bunch of spiders living in it.

Yeah, fake is OK for me.

[moocow]

One year my parents got a tree that had a whole bunch of spiders living in it.

Yeah, fake is OK for me.

The last time we got a real tree... we left for the weekend... came home to a million baby praying mantis'...

[Aegix Drakan]

XD

My mom will not accept any tree that isn't a real one.

But when I get my own place, Fake all the way.

Why? Because then, a living tree will not have to be chopped down for me! And there's no maintenence.

Yay, fake!

[phattonez]

Fake pine needles fall down (not as much as real trees, but they fall).
They don't look or smell as good.

Get me a real tree.

[Dracula]

*gasp* Cutting down a living tree to display it as a decoration on a yearly basis? Man, this global warming thing is gonna kill us... :rolleyes:

Yeah, we have a fake tree in our living room, as usual. My biggest concern is keeping the damn cat out of it. If I had my own place, I would be content with just a twig duct-taped to cardboard.

[Pineconn]

^^ I'm surprised that Gore and the other eco-nuts haven't blamed Christmas for "global warming." :p

[phattonez]

^^Actually, Christmas is terrible for the environment, but I'm not a global warming nut.

I've heard that some Christmas trees are getting some people sick. My girlfriend told me that she heard about this, and she just got a tree, and she got sick. I've managed to fight it off so far, but I have a pretty good immune system.

[ShadowTiger]

Being Jewish, I don't really have this problem. You'd be hard-pressed to find a living Menorah lying around that can give you ... aids. O.o

[The_Amaster]

*glares at all the fake tree proponents*

Did the message of a Charlie Brown Christmas go right over you peoples heads? heads? It's not at all about commercialism, or children, or religion, or any of that stuff. The one message of CBC is the evil of fake trees and the pity we should feel for the few real left.

Off my pseudo-satire-rant, I still love real trees. Something about the plasticly feel and intuition that something just isn't right.

[DarkDragoonX]

Being Jewish, I don't really have this problem. You'd be hard-pressed to find a living Menorah lying around that can give you ... aids. O.o

Depends on what people have been using the Menorah for.

[Dracula]

Depends on what people have been using the Menorah for.

9 people at once... *shudders*

Maybe 10 if it has a base... :odd:

[Imprisoned]

When are they going to make a plastic tree which looks more like a real tree and sprays pine scent?

BTW: I haven't even touched my tree. My brothers set it up -_-