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Does it really have to friggin go on for 3 damned months!?
We're doing it different this year and having flamingo instead of turkey for xmas dinner. Trouble is there will only be one leg between seven of us.
No. Consider it cancelled. You're welcome.
It’s started with gusto in my house, I’m already fed up of it.
Ooft, in early with the annual “I don’t do Christmas” thread this year!
Has it started? Take control and make it what it could be
No, luckily it doesn't.
Crexit
We’re doing it different this year and having flamingo instead of turkey
Its over rated - tastes like Swan
Ooft, in early with the annual “I don’t do Christmas” thread this year!
They get earlier every year.
What's wrong Op, haven't you been a good boy this year?
Also, Halloween now seems to be the whole of October.
I remember the days when Halloween was just something Americans did and that John Carpenter movie (though a good movie).
Ooft, in early with the annual “I don’t do Christmas” thread this year!
It's about the third.
It’s about the third.
Typical. Nothing but repeats again!
The forum loop tape is getting shorter.
Newsflash: you're allowed to eat mince pies all year round while listening to Slade's song about robins & wine and boychilds.
Need a like button for the thread ... dislike Christmas with a passion 🙂
Don't worry it'll soon be easter!!
I can deal with Easter. Not so full on and as much as they try to push Easter cards as well as eggs i don't know anyone that gives out Easter cards. I take that as a small victory.lol
Christmas is just so bloody relentless, long and worst..... So damned cynical!
The music is sh*te too.
Christmas is just so bloody relentless,
Moaning about it is...
I was having this discussion with someone in the office here: The problem with the UK is there are no national holidays between the end of August and Christmas. Here in Canada we have Labor Day in September, Thanksgiving in October, Remembrance Day in November, and then Christmas in December.
I haven't noticed any nods towards Christmas here yet: Everything is all Helloweeny at the moment and it seems the regular holidays keep people's minds off Christmas; at lease for a while.
In short: The UK needs more statutory holidays.
Kids eat their last Easter egg yesterday, I found it in the cupboard while I was putting the Xmas chocolate away. Bit messed up!
I remember the days when Halloween was just something Americans did and that John Carpenter movie (though a good movie).
Every bloody year its the same.
Halloween
Is
Not
American.
Guysing predates america*
*Probably
Guysing predates america*
That's not Halloween.
Oh wait do you mean guising as not penny for the guy? I'm guessing so now.
Easter is the best!
Chocolate, 4 day weekend, Spring! What’s not to like!
Cheer up FFS
I can't wait for Christmas. I shall be on a plane as Christmas day arrives heading to Australia and not doing presents.
is it black friday yet? *ducks*
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.
Can't say it bothers me, just means 2 aisles of tat currently in my local supermarket (one for Halloween, one for Christmas - although some of the Christmas costumes look more appropriate for Halloween). On the plus side the mince pies are on sale now...
Of all the things it's possible to get annoyed about in this bad old world, the early onset of Christmas celebrations should be a low priority.
It's as inevitable as a trip to the throne after a chicken vindaloo.
We've booked our team Xmas lunch at work and some are already making menu choices. Yo-ho-tmesising-ho.
I'd like to suggest that we create a new thread every day "ONLY 99 MORE SLEEPS 'TIL CHRISTMAS" so that Poopscoop knows that it'll be over soon and can be reassured that we share his struggle.
so that Poopscoop knows that it’ll be over soon and can be reassured that we share his struggle.
He won’t see it. His TV is stuck on the Xmas film channel and he’s watching an endless repeat of ‘Christmas on 34th St’.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........mince pies
Passed a Costa yesterday that had someone in a Santa Suit complete with beard going round inside. Local garden centre has full-on Christmas section going including massive animated Christmas tableau - around 4m x 2m.
I'm looking forward to it. Almost 2 weeks off work, time with the family, good food, squeeze a couple of rides in.
🎶"and the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day"🎶
🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁
Where do people go or do to get so annoyed about Christmas?
Who knows, it's bizarre. The sort of folk that have a gammon all year round by the sounds of them.....
If it got earlier every year that someone said "it gets earlier every year," we'd be celebrating Christmas 2023 right now. My gran used to say that, and she's been dead for 20 years.
I'm not particularly looking forward to it this year because Reasons, so I'm going to do something radical and just mostly ignore it.
Local garden centre has full-on Christmas section going including massive animated Christmas tableau – around 4m x 2m.
Store selling merchandise for a big event just under ten weeks away. Nobody complains about adverts for summer holidays that appear just after new year.
I’m more puzzled that I saw a big roadside poster advertising bikinis and sun cream a few days ago.
Local garden centre has full-on Christmas section going including massive animated Christmas tableau – around 4m x 2m.
My mate owns a garden centre, and he has to go to Harrogate to a big convention order all his stuff in summer, so it's all bought and paid for just sitting there, hardly surprising they wanna get it out on sale tbh.
Great news for insomniacs.... only ten more sleeps till Christmas
I had my first (and second) mince pie yesterday, so it's not all bad.
he has to go to Harrogate to a big convention order all his stuff in summer
The Harrogate Christmas and Gift Fair is in January actually!
The Harrogate Christmas and Gift Fair is in January actually!
I knew it was early! 🙂
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??