Forget The Presents, Read These Christmas Web Comics Instead!

Oh Christmas stress, oh Christmas stress, why do our families argue? Why do they make the holidays feel like a time full of malaise? Oh Christmas stress, oh Christmas stress, you're worse than most Mondays.

(Comic Via Lonnie Milsap)

If you're done with the family stress fest and you're looking to relax with some illustrated fun then you should lock yourself in a room with your laptop or tablet and take a gander at this collection of Christmas themed web comics.

It's chock full of irreverent Christmas themed fun that will fill you with joy when the other folks in your life are busy filling your mental stockings with coal.

(Comic via For Lack Of A Better Comic)

Take it from someone who knows how annoying the holidays can be- reading comics is way more productive than fist fighting with your family!

(Comic via The Odd 1s Out)

See more Christmas themed webcomics here

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Well in this case, I will not be doing as the romans do

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Not just the Romans! Urine use for tanning and fulling (cleaning wool) was widespread. Starting around the Renaissance, urine was used to make saltpeter, essential for the gunpower used in centuries of wars. For example, saltpetermen would come to dig saltpeter from under the barn where the animals peed (and everywhere else with nitrated earth, under protection of the crown). Urine from beer and wine drinkers was in demand because it was thought to produce better yields. There's even a story during the US Civil war when Jonathan Haralson, Agent Nitre and Mining Bureau, asked the "ladies of Selma ... to preserve the chamber lye to be collected for the purpose of making nitre. A barrel will be sent around daily to collect it." Leading Northerners to write a ditty to the tune of "O Tannenbaum": "Jon Haralson, Jon Haralson—you are a wretched creature; You’ve added to this bloody war a new and useful feature. / You’d have us think, while every man is bound to be a fighter, / The Ladies, bless the pretty dears, should save their pee for nitre."

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