Some of us quite like Christmas, in a very secular winter-festival kind of way. Many people are working on Christmas Day, and yet more people are spending it alone or missing a family member who died this year.
So I'd be very grateful if you could take your first-world moaning about too many presents under the tree and shove the whole thing up your arse, lights and all. Might bring a bit of amusement to the rest of us.
I'll leave you with this.
I'm with the OP.
Christmas is the new Coldplay / Ed Sheeran / meat / booze. We get it, you want to spend Christmas eating vegetables, sober, alone in a cave. We get it, can you not just let us have a bit of a party rather than starting another morally superior thread about it?
Word!
I agree. I’m Christian and love Christmas for both religious and secular reasons, time to get together and spend quality time with each other. I don’t eat too much but love Christmas food. Love the Christmas trees we have in the house and buying presents for people I know.
Just found out a friend is at home alone on the 25th so going to pop round with a small gift and a Merry Christmas, trying to find out if there is anyone else we know in the same position.
Our church recently had a big collection for a food bank in our town - so many people can only dream of affording one of the “crap I don’t need” presents people on here complain about. I found out a close friend actually spent a couple of Christmases a while back sleeping rough when he was an homeless alcoholic. He certainly isn’t bah humbug in the slightest this year with his new wife and 2 lovely young daughters. Another friends dad died a few days ago and we just had the funeral. Their family is celebrating a Christmas in style this year as they know their dad would have loved it.
If you can’t make the slightest effort to be cheerful and get along with people then please just shut up. There’s enough negativity in this world without the entitled rich people adding to everyone’s misery for no good reason.
I'll raise a mince pie to the OP - Happy Christmas!
I’ll raise a mince pie to the OP
Just one? Bloody lightweight 😉
It'll just be my two boys and I at home for Xmas this year, wife is a nurse and working Xmas day this year, she's managed to dodge the last 9 so it's time to return the favour. We're a bit gutted but I've promised that as I'll be doing the dinner they can have as many pigs in blankets as they like and we'll spend the day doing exactly what they want, (I'm hoping it includes a wee bike ride)
Merry Christmas! 🙂
I hate religion, it's bad news for the world. But as a secular mid-winter party, I flipping love Christmas. My wife's American so we start with Thanksgiving then truck on having a great time until the glow of the New Year party is over and then that's the darkest bit of the winter dealt with and there's only a couple of months to ride out til the weather gets warm.
I eat food I like, get some nice suprises, enjoy giving gifts and, most importantly, have a riot of a time with friends I don't see as often as we'd like and spend a week relaxing, which never normally happens.
Merry Christmas!
*Applause*
Nope, love a traditional Christmas. I did 30 years where I could never be guaranteed Christmas off, and worked Christmas day for more than 20 of those years. As for presents, I can't think of the last time as a family we did anything other than get each something the other one needed, usually something reasonably expensive that we'd otherwise have saved up for, with a few fun but useful stocking fillers to open with each other.
Now that I'm not working shifts I've gone back to singing. I learnt the bass part of the Messiah and went along to a massed choirs rendition, the male voice choir I've joined had our Christmas concert with a really good swing band last weekend and we've spent this month singing in care homes, a couple of pubs, a carol train, some public carol singing and another concert this afternoon where I'm singing a solo. Really great to be able to do all that stuff instead of having to work or be on call.
Christmas day will be spent with the family, both kids back from Uni, and my disabled brother and MIL (advanced dementia) thrown into the mix to make it really special. A huge rib roast ordered, so listen out for contented groans and the sounds of snoring and farting from high up in the South Pennines from mid-afternoon onwards.
Big thumbs up from me 👍, just what I needed to read. Seeing lots of family and friends in the coming 2 weeks (and looking for our next house/town, yikes!), bit of bike riding to earn the scoffing, gonna be great.
Can I just mention that I have only had one mince pie so far. Disaster!
Can I just mention that I have only had one mince pie so far. Disaster!
Whut? I'm up to two to three a day depending on how intense my bike ride has been 😎
Yup, we love it here. This year will be more special as we have family coming over from Australia and LA - our two 10 yr old girls are more excited about that than getting presents. And in the new year we are all going on a huge family break (with three generations of family) by the sea before everyone has to fly home.
And I have just been to Aldi to get a huge turkey, pigs in blankets and pork stuffing tray today - fantastic value and every bit as good as the bloody expensive ones we have bought from local butchers' shops in the past.
Can I just mention that I have only had one mince pie so far. Disaster!
I've just had my second....
Today 😀
Christmas bores me. That makes no difference to anyone that loves it though but try seeing it from the other way around instead of just calling people morally superior or first world moaning.
I have to put up with it for 2 months of the year and that period seems to be getting longer each year, I expect preparation for Christmas will soon be starting in January.
Theres always people living rough or in shitty relationships they can't break away from or choose not to for some reason or other.
Good Will to All Men (and Women) should be all year round and not just for Christmas. But we've lost that, the trajectory is secular and singular.
Enjoy what ever you are doing, blame/don't blame anyone for your situation we've heard enough already.
Tim Minchin! Never really cared about him before, but 'Upright' has been brilliant. Last one (well, 2 actually) tonight (Sky Atlantic)
Good Will to All Men (and Women) should be all year round and not just for Christmas. But we’ve lost that, the trajectory is secular and singular.
No we haven’t there’s lots of goodwill goes on all year.
That makes no difference to anyone that loves it though but try seeing it from the other way around instead of just calling people morally superior or first world moaning.
You want the moaning about Christmas thread.
I have to put up with it for 2 months of the year and that period seems to be getting longer each year, I expect preparation for Christmas will soon be starting in January.
Rubbish people have prepared for Xmas in advance for decades.
Am I alone in disliking mince pies?
Tim Minchin! Never really cared about him before, but ‘Upright’ has been brilliant. Last one (well, 2 actually) tonight (Sky Atlantic)
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Am I alone in disliking mince pies?
Nope, but that's where people like me come in 🙂
Am I alone in disliking mince pies?
No, you are not.
I'm the OP of the offending thread. I love Christmas. I over-consume at Christmas just as enthusiastically as the next man. My rant was was not about Xmas overconsumption in general but poorly targeted over consumption.
Here's Slade:
Drac
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Video in the thread opener?
Oh yeah! 😳😂
Christmas bores me. That makes no difference to anyone that loves it though but try seeing it from the other way around instead of just calling people morally superior or first world moaning.
I have to put up with it for 2 months of the year and that period seems to be getting longer each year, I expect preparation for Christmas will soon be starting in January.
That.
If it was just one day, maybe three if you count christmas eve and boxing day it would be tolerable, but i'm fed up of it by the end of September. People make such a fuss about it.
A really nice dinner and a chinwag with family I've not seen for ages? Fine. All the other stuff that goes with it, no.
Christmas tree up the arse?
Fairy nuff.
This is one (of not very many) reasons Christmas is not to be taken too seriously.
I hate Christmas because it just makes me think of domestic violence and our Dad leaving us (after giving Mum a beating) on Xmas Eve, but I try not to spoil it for others, well except those ****s who get all giddy about in in September when the weather is still nice.
Tim Minching can get in the ****ing sea though, prick.
If it was just one day, maybe three if you count christmas eve and boxing day it would be tolerable, but i’m fed up of it by the end of September.
Why are you celebrating it so early?
I value the time off work with fewer-than-normal nagging emails building up for when I return. Respect to those that have to work, but I'm sure most get time off elsewhere.
Respect to those that have to work, but I’m sure most get time off elsewhere.
Yeah just like those who don’t work Christmas. It’s part of the job but it’s still a pisser when it comes around.
No one likes them in our Warehouse, so I've had to eat 8 so far this week! I'm bloody knackered 🙂
Tim Minching can get in the **** sea though, prick.
Bit harsh, I bloody love him.
Not so keen on Xmas but I do enjoy it more now I have a son who loves having the family round, just wish more of mine had survived to see how great he is aged 9.
Bit harsh, I bloody love him.
He wasn’t the Friar Tuck I hoped for.
I love Christmas (hubby doesn't).
We have the traditional festive tree, food and walk to the country pub on Christmas day. Then watching the Queen on telly box, eating the full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
However it starts too early (October) and we need to be more environmentally aware when buying stuff.
Also I never understood why most people need to stuff their faces and do little or no exercise for 7 days.
Also I never understood why most people need to stuff their faces and do little or no exercise for 7 days.
Because we can.
Tim Minching
Never 'eard of 'im
Christmas is good: Days off work. And! A double edition of the TV guide. Who doesn't love a double edition?! 😆
The winter festival hasn't evolved though and is now a disgusting celebration of modern life rather than resembling anything I would call progressive.
Looking down from my high horse I feel sadness and pity for the followers but I still smile and allow the lemmings their 'fun' with no ill feeling intended because I understand it really isn't your fault. Merry winterchrimbodaysoffworkfamilytime to all.
Never ‘eard of ‘im
Have a look on youtube, he's very funny imo.
Met him briefly at Edinburgh festival years ago, seemed a genuinely likeable guy.
Looking down from my high horse I feel sadness and pity for the followers but I still smile and allow the lemmings their ‘fun’ with no ill feeling intended because I understand it really isn’t your fault.
