You is angry dude.

Yeah I get angry being called a sheep by someone who doesn’t know me, when I put a great deal of effort into thinking objectively.

You could quite happily drop all elements of religion from crimbo (can even give it a new name, fatmass if you like) and it’d make **** all difference.

At least to my little world, it’s just a fancy holiday. Like New Years with less vomit. Although I’m aware of the hypocrisy/irony whatever of the religious element, I ain’t complaining coz its a time off work.

Incarnation. Although i don’t subscribe to the orthodox stories. Mark and John summed up all i need to know about Christmas.

If you want it to be about the birth of Jesus celebrate on the 6th of January .
25 December is all about what was the winter solstice and what at the time was a much more popular religion.

Sweet FA….

Spend money on things that people don’t need. Receive shit you don’t want. Sit around the table eating crap you wouldn’t choose to eat at any other time of the year.

Why?

Would rather be at home smoking green on the sofa.

It’s the same every year….

I now have the real answer, sit round the table with your 86 year old mother and older brothers and have her tell you how material things don’t matter to her after living through her house being the recipient of a “direct hit ” by a German bomb . She then told me off because her bad time milk was not warm enough.

Religion-Pah.. no thanks.
Winter hibernation- the heatings barely on here in the SE.
Feasting- Too much food is just as bad in December as June.
Gifts- haven’t we all already got too much.
Goodwill to all- its ok to be **** for the rest of the year then?
Booze- as per feasting.
Get togethers- combine with booze, for more trouble.
TV- you are battered with ads.

I quite like the idea of a mutual holiday, but would like to get rid of all the Christmas nonsense so we can get straight into enjoying the time off work.

crankboy – Member
I now have the real answer, sit round the table with your 86 year old mother and older brothers and have her tell you how material things don’t matter to her after living through her house being the recipient of a “direct hit ” by a German bomb . She then told me off because her bad time milk was not warm enough.

Errrrr what? 😯

Spend money on things that people don’t need. Receive shit you don’t want. Sit around the table eating crap

I didn’t do any of those things 🙂 They aren’t mandatory.

Loneliness! Well this year anyway.

Oldboy

+1

Peace and goodwill
Enjoyed the company of those present and missed those missing
Wonderful organ and choral music, food and wine

(And a bonus “short break” thrown in too 😉 )