List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
Nov 20th 2009 | 4:52 am
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
1 Pubs being shut
2 xmas dinner
3 xmas tv
i could go on and on i hate it
2 xmas dinner
3 xmas tv
i could go on and on i hate it
Nov 20th 2009 | 5:42 am
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
Hmmm ...
1) The 'whose house' arguments that start in about August. Thought I'd escaped all that shite by emigrating, but no, the wanker inlaws insist on coming out reguarly around Xmas to **** everything up.
2) All the Christian bollocks. Yuletide was a pagan celebration long before the god-bothering idiots got hold of it.
3) Now that I live in Australia? All the deluded tools on this forum pissing and whining about some imaginary Christmas in blighty that exists only in their heads where it snows on Xmas Eve and all the family come together and there's no arguments and Clarence the guardian angel saves George Bailey and everyone stands up during the Queen's speech apart from dear old Uncle Pete who's had one too many dry sherrys bless him and the kids play happily with toys rather than actually spending the entire day texting their mates before regaling everyone with how shite the day was on Facebook and 'oh look, Only Fools and Horses is on and it's that one where DelBoy falls through the bar hatch' and '****ing hell did we miss the Snowman on Channel 4 again' and it doesn't drizzle endlessly and ruddy faced carol singers show up and sing 'I saw three ships' in perfect harmony rather than five crack-adled teenagers in hoodies who sing 'God bless ye merry gentlemen' with all the gusto of a double-lung transplant patient and then demand money with menaces and the five digit credit card statement that drops onto the doormatt in early January and the endless endless endless ****ing Xmas adverts for supermarkets starring various members of Top Gear and the gas companies celebrate the season by putting up their prices by 40% and you seek sanctuary in the pub only to discover it's been 'gastro-pubbed' and the Xmas edition of the Radio Times sports this ****ing great holiday supplement in the centre pages that serves only to remind you just how shite the British weather is and how many more months of it you have to endure before the sun comes out for two weeks in June and 'I'm a Celebrity' is on and **** it ... I'm next with the razor blade ...
1) The 'whose house' arguments that start in about August. Thought I'd escaped all that shite by emigrating, but no, the wanker inlaws insist on coming out reguarly around Xmas to **** everything up.
2) All the Christian bollocks. Yuletide was a pagan celebration long before the god-bothering idiots got hold of it.
3) Now that I live in Australia? All the deluded tools on this forum pissing and whining about some imaginary Christmas in blighty that exists only in their heads where it snows on Xmas Eve and all the family come together and there's no arguments and Clarence the guardian angel saves George Bailey and everyone stands up during the Queen's speech apart from dear old Uncle Pete who's had one too many dry sherrys bless him and the kids play happily with toys rather than actually spending the entire day texting their mates before regaling everyone with how shite the day was on Facebook and 'oh look, Only Fools and Horses is on and it's that one where DelBoy falls through the bar hatch' and '****ing hell did we miss the Snowman on Channel 4 again' and it doesn't drizzle endlessly and ruddy faced carol singers show up and sing 'I saw three ships' in perfect harmony rather than five crack-adled teenagers in hoodies who sing 'God bless ye merry gentlemen' with all the gusto of a double-lung transplant patient and then demand money with menaces and the five digit credit card statement that drops onto the doormatt in early January and the endless endless endless ****ing Xmas adverts for supermarkets starring various members of Top Gear and the gas companies celebrate the season by putting up their prices by 40% and you seek sanctuary in the pub only to discover it's been 'gastro-pubbed' and the Xmas edition of the Radio Times sports this ****ing great holiday supplement in the centre pages that serves only to remind you just how shite the British weather is and how many more months of it you have to endure before the sun comes out for two weeks in June and 'I'm a Celebrity' is on and **** it ... I'm next with the razor blade ...
I agree with 99.9 % of that but just to make a little correction I'm a celebrity is on now
You know you almsot described xmas's i'd dream about here.... LOL
But it's never been like that.
In South East it hasn't snowed on xmas day (bar a 5 minute flurry) for about 15 or so years, yes it's bloody cold normally xmas day, most xmas's are grey and miserable and up until last year we had to have my grandmother here - who just basically ruined xmas each year whinging at my kids and then when they got older would complain when they drifted upstairs to play with new toys and would eat about a mouthful of her lunch and then drool on my bloody sofa while she slept off her BIG meal) for the previous 9 years arghhhhh.
Bloody xmas day tv is shite, the Queens speech is predicatably crap, but now we're not made to watch it cause the old choock doesn't come over.
We do the xmas stuff with the kids in the morning, have lunch as a family and then they play with they're toys and if necessary the odd guest might drop in for a short time in the afternoon or for a buffet type help yourself meal at teatime.
All very low key and relaxed, have hardly ever had the traditional turkey at xmas.
An i've luckily not had to spend many xmas's with my inlaws (another good reason for moving as they won't come visit)
Not saying I won't miss some of it but I think it'll be more weird trying to celebrate xmas in the warm to begin with :$
Nov 20th 2009 | 9:40 am
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
One empty space at the dinner table this year,lost my brother yesterday so xmas is a washout but NYE cant come soon enough i've had a ******g shocking year
Nov 20th 2009 | 11:40 am
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Nov 20th 2009 | 2:45 pm
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Nov 21st 2009 | 7:53 pm
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
1. A hot Christmas. After the first one in Aus which was a novelty, the following 8 have all been decidedly 'un-Christmassy'.
2. All the religious stuff.
3. Missing family.
4. Only having my kids for half a day as I have to share the day with their dad.
2. All the religious stuff.
3. Missing family.
4. Only having my kids for half a day as I have to share the day with their dad.
Nov 21st 2009 | 8:01 pm
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
Christmas crackers. Such a swizz, I always end up with the small piece.
Dec 7th 2009 | 9:51 pm
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
1. Liquer (sp?) chocolates - why ruin a perfectly good chocolate with rum/whiskey/brandy??? On a par with my other nemesis - the coffee creme.
2. In a similar vein - sherry trifle. Yuck. Nice pudding ruined.
3. Feeling compelled to buy odd food that would never even look at the rest of the year 'in case people pop in' e.g. cashews, luxury nut assortment & ridiculous overpriced posh crackers. There's another $25 down the drain.
2. In a similar vein - sherry trifle. Yuck. Nice pudding ruined.
3. Feeling compelled to buy odd food that would never even look at the rest of the year 'in case people pop in' e.g. cashews, luxury nut assortment & ridiculous overpriced posh crackers. There's another $25 down the drain.
Dec 7th 2009 | 9:54 pm
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
1- Christmas is pants.
2- Christmas this year will be even bigger pants than normal.
3- Christmas next year is highly likely to be even bigger pants than this year.
2- Christmas this year will be even bigger pants than normal.
3- Christmas next year is highly likely to be even bigger pants than this year.
Dec 7th 2009 | 11:01 pm
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
1. I hate that Christmas just happens to occur the day after my birthday. I can blame that on the parents though, they really should have thought things through a bit better!
2. I hate that Christmas these days seems to revolve around exchanging gift lists. I give everyone my list and then pick something from theirs. It feels a bit pointless really, might as well exchange gift cards of the same value although that could degrade into exchanging equivalent cash amounts.
3. I hate Christmas shopping without a list as I never know what to get people, particularly those that live so far away. So really I'm not happy with a list or without! There's just no pleasing me!
2. I hate that Christmas these days seems to revolve around exchanging gift lists. I give everyone my list and then pick something from theirs. It feels a bit pointless really, might as well exchange gift cards of the same value although that could degrade into exchanging equivalent cash amounts.
3. I hate Christmas shopping without a list as I never know what to get people, particularly those that live so far away. So really I'm not happy with a list or without! There's just no pleasing me!
Dec 8th 2009 | 1:33 am
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Re: List 3 things you hate about Christmas...
1) all the fake smiles and good cheer which evaporates as soon as the alcohol does.
2) my mother whinging constantly that there's no atmosphere but at the same time not putting up a tree coz 'there's no point' and being invited to go to my sisters but not going coz then (perish the thought) she might enjoy herself and not be able to whinge about it.
3) spending the whole day on the phone wishing everyone ELSE a good christmas and so not getting to enjoy some peace and bloody quiet.
2) my mother whinging constantly that there's no atmosphere but at the same time not putting up a tree coz 'there's no point' and being invited to go to my sisters but not going coz then (perish the thought) she might enjoy herself and not be able to whinge about it.
3) spending the whole day on the phone wishing everyone ELSE a good christmas and so not getting to enjoy some peace and bloody quiet.
