Christmas Crackers
There are a couple of things that the wider world should make itself aware of re: Christmas. And by wider world we don't mean the Commonwealth because they already get it.
1. Christmas crackers. Rolled up shiny paper, not unlike a loo roll holder wrapped in tin foil, which when pulled between two celebrants breaks in two and emits a loud SNAP. Contained therein are an hilarious 1970's (crap) joke, a (crap) toy for children and animals to get stuck in their throats, and a jolly paper party hat that is to be worn throughout the duration of the Christmas meal, with no exceptions. Not that difficult is it?
2. Boxing Day. Civilised societies do not go to work on the day after Christmas Day. This is not a religious dictum, it is social. Boxing Day is the day when families box up possessions that have been superseded by the previous day's gifts and pass these cast-offs onto the less fortunate. Furthermore Christmas Day can sometimes present the kind of challenge that can only be overcome by copious consumption of electric soup, a Chap needs a day to get over this.