The "Spirit of Christmas" or "Ho, Ho, Fucking Ho!" Thread

The "Spirit of Christmas" or "Ho, Ho, Fucking Ho!" Thread

  • Oooh, Christmas Pud and Pressies

    Votes: 40 42.6%

  • Wake me when it's New Year's Eve

    Votes: 31 33.0%

  • If I can that fat jolly bastard on MY roof I'll shoot the fucker!

    Votes: 23 24.5%
  • Total voters
    94
Christmas starts when they play Wham - last Christmas 10 times a Day, than it's time for me to get my Christmas Presents stuff together :p
 
What annoys me is the inevitable deluge of stories in the media about what toy will be the most popular 3 months in advance of Christmas. They are always wrong.
 
phoenixsac said:
"Your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile!"
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HAhahahaha, if TOW Missiles weren't prohibitively expensive I'd use them. But I can't afford that much per shot, I have to stick with the cheaper reindeer-seeking Stingers.


Maybe one of these days I should ask the fat bastard to bring me one for use the next year?
 
Bobele23 said:
Christmas starts when they play Wham - last Christmas 10 times a Day, than it's time for me to get my Christmas Presents stuff together :p
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I hate that song so much.
 
Lightning Count said:
I hate that song so much.
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Who doesn't , but it's an sure indicator for Christmas and getting your Sh*t together, that actually nobody wants.
But it's kinda rude when you give them money or the "no gifts" Christmases -> they never work !
Cause someone always gets something Crappy and make the others look like Idiots !!!!
 
There should be a poll option for "I'm dead inside and therefore indifferent to every single day of the year, even birthdays"
 
I love Christmas for what my immediate family makes of it. The commercialisation could really get on my nerves if I didn't mostly ignore it, e.g. my awesome parents are always supportive but usually nobody spends a lot on presents in my family. Plus, the only people we've had over every Christmas for years are quite interesting to talk to; not "have to invite them" relatives.
 
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I kinda' like Christmas, and winter is my favourite time of year. Although it does mean gift giving, which then ends with my parents comparing the value of what I got them to what they got their parents back when they were my age. :roll:

Don't like Christmas being advertised in September though, FFS its NOT Christmas time yet. At least give it 'till December... <_<
 
calvinhobbes said:
I love Christmas for what my immediate family makes of it. The commercialisation could really get on my nerves if I didn't mostly ignore it, e.g. my awesome parents are always supportive but usually nobody spends a lot on presents in my family. Plus, the only people we've had over every Christmas for years are quite interesting to talk to; not "have to invite them" relatives.
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See, that I think is the formula for having a happy Christmas: don't make gift giving a priority. Sometimes just the act of being there is the best gift for your parents, it is for mine.
 
I remember being annoyed as a kid because everyone would lump my christmas and birthday presents together and that just didn't seem fair. lol I enjoy Christmas itself because my family is pretty chill about it, and aside from exchanging presents and having a nice dinner, we don't really go all festive. And since none of our extended family lives in the states, we don't have to deal with crazy relatives, which is excellent.

I do, however, loathe the over-commercialization. Please, confine Christmas to the month of December at the very most. Also, holiday music is grating and horrid and drives me up the wall. Aside from the aforementioned 'Last Christmas' and 'Wonderful Christmastime,' I would like to add 'Santa Baby,' 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' and 'Grandma Got Run Over By A Raindeer' to the list of way overplayed songs.
 
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See, that I think is the formula for having a happy Christmas: don't make gift giving a priority. Sometimes just the act of being there is the best gift for your parents, it is for mine.
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that's why i always try to make the gifts i give to my family another occasion on which to spend some quality time together. usually it's me inviting them to go see some political cabaret with me or something, that always does the job :)
 
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phoenixsac said:
I almost sort of prefer it to "Wonderful Christmastime" Kind of.

Much the same way I prefer gonorrhea over syphilis, or the Insight over the Prius.
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I only like that song because one of my favorite bands covered it. And they add deep sick bass to it.


I used to like Christmas but, ever since I was about 13-14 the parents quit driving to the grandparents on moms side for eve, and dads side for day. Now we stay at home both times and everyone fights.
 
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I love Christmas. I suppose it's sort of a way to re-live my childhood (although I haven't traveled far from it since growing up :p ). I love the nostalgia of it all - the presents, the decorations, the traditions, getting to go home for a week or two... It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I also love Christmas music which most people seem to hate. Hell, I was in the mood day before yesterday and listened to some. Same sort of reason - nostalgia. I had a great childhood so I like looking back on it.

As for all the advertising crap that gets shoved on us, I'm not a fan either. However, I don't watch actual tv (don't even have any channels, cable or otherwise. I watch shows via torrenting), I don't listen to the radio, and I'm rarely exposed to any other form of advertising that isn't on the internet. So, all of it doesn't really affect me and thus doesn't ruin the season for me. Christmas starts soon after Thanksgiving for me (or more recently, it starts when I get to travel home for the holidays).
 
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RaptorJesus said:
I'm going to go on record as saying calling presents, "Pressies" makes you the biggest pussy in the world.
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Not understanding irony makes someone the biggest dickwad............



:clarkson: ..........in the world!
 
I miss my 2 brothers, dad, and me playing mahjongg under the Christmas tree. We would start after Christmas Eve dinner, and play until sunrise (or whenever mom got impatient and insisted on opening presents). And Christmas dinner, I miss giant Christmas dinners. Now, we live on different sides of the continent, and my brothers both have in-laws and their families to deal with, so all of us haven't spent a Christmas together in years. Also, both my brothers have become annoying twats, so...
 
phoenixsac said:
The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.

Gremlins, 1984
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Thats...... awful :(
 
Christmasses for me suck these days. If I feel like I want something, I buy it and call that my only Christmas present. I don't even think of it as that, I just see it as an expense. If I don't, then meh. I'm not going to spend ?25 on some crap just to get into "the spirit of Christmas" (which shouldn't about commercialism anyways, but the sad fact is; it is).

I know I should be glad that I come from a background which can afford spending ?25 on some crap at all whilst Bono tells us about how children are starving in Africa (and I am grateful), but that's beside my point. I don't hate Christmas, but it just doesn't feel special anymore (and I realise that some of that is my own fault). It's just like any other time of the year. I'd rather if I didn't know about it's existence.

I used to recieve presents as we visited other families and other families visited us, but that has stopped happening.

Christmas time, these days, just feels like any other part of the year. It's just a case of staying at home and watching TV. In fact, the films on TV are the best part of Christmas for me. And because Christmas is completely ordinary for me, and completely special for other people, the rest of it is pretty dreadful. I end up feeling miserable whilst everyone else seems to be enjoying themselves.

I can't wait for Christmas in 20 years time. :rolleyes: I'm going to spend it living alone and contemplating suicide.
 
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