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The Winter Bash site is located at http://winterba.sh/.

Only one problem:

So shouldn't it be the Summer Bash? Don't forget our Aussie/Kiwi/South African/Southern Brazilian/Argentine/Uruguayan/Zimbabwean/Swazi/Tokelauan/Tuvaluan/Pitcairn Islander/Spheniscid friends!

Australian slouch hat

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    sh hhhhh don't tell anyone.
    – ben is uǝq backwards
    Commented Dec 19, 2012 at 17:08
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    Are you saying the snowflakes on winterba.sh should move upwards?
    – balpha StaffMod
    Commented Dec 19, 2012 at 17:10
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    (: ¡ǝɹǝɥdsıɯǝɥ uɹǝɥʇnos ǝɥʇ oʇ ollǝH
    – ZombieSheep
    Commented Dec 19, 2012 at 17:14
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    @balpha: They should also melt.
    – Mechanical snail
    Commented Dec 19, 2012 at 17:32
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    Do we have any users from Saint Helena?
    – Benjol
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 9:48

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I can host a birthday bash for someone even if it's not my birthday. I don't see the problem here.

Now, if you wanted to revoke the hat privileges of users in the southern hemisphere that would make sense. Maybe in June there can be an upside-down winterbash for southern-hemisphere users, where the hat gets placed on the bottom of the avatar. Seems reasonable to me.

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Maybe. But, I have two counterarguments for you:

  1. Stack Overflow/Exchange is based in New York City, which is in the Northern hemisphere and is currently (theoretically) enjoying a nice, New Englandy winter.

  2. There's lots of hats that are summer (or at least non-winter) themed.

Are you saying that just because it's December, we shouldn't have a Mardi Gras mask? What kind of monster are you?! (Joking!)

We tried to balance our explicitly wintry hats against thematically-appropriate ones. :)

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    New York is decidedly not New Englandy. YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW. Signed, a Yankees and Giants fan.
    – LessPop_MoreFizz
    Commented Dec 19, 2012 at 17:36
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    Look, @LessPop_MoreFizz, I'm from Texas. As far as I'm concerned, Maine to Virginia is "damned Yankee Land" :P
    – Aarthi
    Commented Dec 19, 2012 at 17:37
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    I live more at north than Long Island. For me, New York is all south land. ;)
    – avpaderno
    Commented Dec 23, 2012 at 9:53
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    And those of us in Europe, if we use the word Yankee at all, usually mean all USAmericans.
    – TRiG
    Commented Jan 25, 2013 at 17:44
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I agree, and the answer isn't to prevent those in the Northern Hemisphere from "enjoying" their freezing cold winter, but to localise (yes, that's how its spelled where I come from) the system so that those of us that had winter 6 months ago don't feel like the party is somewhere else.

For those of us in the Southern Hemisphere it should be a summer bash.

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