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Great news for insomniacs…. only ten more sleeps till Christmas
One of the great Christmas gags. Now we know it's really on it's way
Where do people go or do to get so annoyed about Christmas? I’ve seen one advert for Disneyland and noticed that the supermarkets have a seasonal aisle (and chocolates are displayed prominently) but it’s not like I’m hearing Slade or Wizzard every few minutes. And stores aren’t covered in tinsel yet.
For me, the only way I can describe it is this.
Imagine you've got to do to the dentist, you don't really hate it, but it's not exactly the highlight of your year. It's going to be uncomfortable for a number of reasons, and cost more money than you think possible (assuming private dental care here) but you quite like that feeling post clean and polish, but it's not exactly worth the pain it causes.
Then imagine for 3 to 4 months before you have to go, you're completely and utterly bombarded with reminders of your dental appointment, every time you go to the pub, there's a little model of a dentist chair front and centre by the door, reminding you of your appointment, every time you go near a shop it's plastered with posters reminding you of you appointment and they play terrible music saying how wonderful dentists are, you turn on the TV and it's dentists, dentists, dentists.
What makes it worse is that the most most fierce marketing campaign tells you, or rather people who've drank the Dentist cool-aid that you can't just go to the dentist, oh no, that would be madness and make you a terrible person, no you have to celebrate it the day before, and day after, no actually, this isn't the 60s, no make it a week before and week afterwards, oh, btw this 2 week dental extravaganza is going to cost you the price of a nice holiday somewhere, but you can't do that instead lest you're negatively judged by others, in fact if you do plan think for yourself and do it your own way, you HAVE to tell everyone you know that's what you're doing and why, so they can judge you, and you'll still do 80% of it anyway, because reasons.
After a couple of years of this annual event you start to resent it, but if you dare say anything negative about dentists, your friends and co-workers, really turn on you, saying how people like you ruin dentists for others, people will actively go out of their way to berate you for not being completely giddy at the idea of going to the dentist - because there's only one thing worse than an anti-dentist moaner, it's a anti-dentist moaner moaner.
That's how I think of Christmas.
If you want an easier to accept reason, because 'Crimbo' people cannot accept it's just "not your thing" when I was a child, Christmas meant domestic violence, not presents, my Dad actually left us for his other family on Christmas morning leaving my Mum and younger Brother black and blue, 30 years later it doesn't bother me, but I've never really enjoyed Christmas, I don't have the same giddy association others have with it, but it's hellish to even be indifferent to it when you're being bombarded by marketing and idiots about it.
Ah dentists... teeth, another annoyance. That advert, almost every bloody ad break.
Then imagine for 3 to 4 months before you have to go, you’re completely and utterly bombarded with reminders of your dental appointment, every time you go to the pub, there’s a little model of a dentist chair front and centre by the door, reminding you of your appointment,
You are living in a completely different world to me, never mind a different country.
(Sad stories - my mother died over Xmas, so did her mother. Well, new year actually. They both hated NYE and I’ve always been convinced they both aimed to die on it to spoil everyone else’s day. They both missed by a few hours. Nevertheless, a couple of Xmases visiting terminally ill loved ones. Should I have spent the last decade (more for my gran) shouting at tinsel in shops? 🤔 )
That’s how I think of Christmas.
For me you've pretty much just described football.
Sympathy for the final paragraph there though, that's truly shit.
I’ve not see anything to do with Christmas apart from this thread. Where do some of you live, Lapland?
Right, seen my first full on Christmas ads today. ASDA was one of them.
It's the friggin 2nd of November!
Christmas can go #=ck itself already!
My first Xmas ad was in a Fullers pub for Xmas dinner.......in the 1st week of September!
I know Fullers are shite but they hit a new low with that little stunt!
Yeah that dentist analogy hit the spot.
I personally don’t like christmas because it’s shite. 🤮
Aside from those with genuine Xmas based trauma, how many hate it simply because they are tight arses and can’t stand spending money?
Im guessing some that feel they can’t opt out or ignore it, are unable to do so because those around them (family, kids) enjoy, and look forward to it? Is that not worth something you joyless, dour old men 😜?
Love it, 16 days off with the family, bit of biking, bit of hillwalking, and a few days over on the east neuk for new year.
What's not to love?. 😊
Oh, and the boxing day leftovers. Can't forget that!...
Christmas to me means nearly two weeks off work, so I say, I wish it could be christmas every day.
While two weeks off work is good, wouldn't you rather have the time off in the Summer?
I'll have 3 weeks off in summer.
It starts Chez Slowoldman around 23rd December and ends when the food and booze is gone.
I'm looking forward to it this year. I'll be in the air when it arrives on the way to see family in Oz. We don't do presents or anything over the top any more just nice food and good company. What's not to like?
Last few years I have managed to almost completely ignore it, it can be done.
Don't have a telly so no stuid averts, avoid most major retail places, quick in and out to Tescos now and again to remind me how crap christmas music is, sometimes spot the lights in town but I don't go into town much and a few lights aren't the end of the world. Avoid most of the build up and pop down to my parents for a really nice dinner.
Generaly hate christmas, apart from the food, and so does MrsH, if you decide to ignore it it can mostly go away, it's not like, for example, nights drawing in which happens regardless of your attitude. .Not much in the way of presents, last year I spent my time off work renovating the kitchen, bought the wife a fridge for her pressie, she got me a freezer.
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On the other hand, worked in a supermarket many years ago, drove me absolutely mental for months, just the endless, endless crap music over and over and over. So pleased I don't have to endure that any more. I now make a point of filing in those little suggestion things they give you with TURN THE ****ING MUSIC OFF!, trying to do my bit for the staff, could everyone else please do the same, maybe one day they'll get the message, the staff complaining about it clearly hasn't got through. You only get 10mins of it now and again, they get hours and hours and hours day after day after day
Let's not forget the horror of non stop christmas music for shop workers.
Been for a walk round the village tonight. Two houses got bloody Xmas lights out already.
Christmas lights are going up round here this weekend.
Mostly because it'll be sub zero soon, and minus 15 by Christmas so it's all about not slipping off your roof apparently
viva Canada 🙂
Skipton put their christmas lights up two weeks ago! WTAF!
A lot of the christmas stuff appearing in shops is so that just before the day they can cut the prices because "it's been on sale x days"
@andrewh - Morrison's were playing "Sweet Home Alabama" the other day 🙂 (Not all day, just the once)
3 month build up? Only just started here so its a 8-9 week build up and i love it..........3 months would be great, where do you live??