Christmas is a damned nuisance.

[cumulus.james]

Right Christmas is a damned nuisance yeh.

I'm a single gay guy with no friends what do I care about Christmas. I spent most the year working out and having a healthy lifestyle and now it's gonna be severely disrupted for couple of weeks.

My parents have bought 4.5 tonnes of chocolates (you may have read about the price of chocolate set to soar due to cocoa shortage - well my parents did they as they have bought ALL THE ******* CHOCOLATE!!!!). There will be lots of large heavy meals with fat contents I dont even wanna think about. On top of that the gym will be hardly open, the buses will not be running very well (I live in the middle of nowhere)

Im gonna have to sit around putting on the 4 stone it took me a year to lose so everyone else can have a party. I know what your gonna say "you dont have to eat the food". What are you kidding? What normal person on earth can resist a bucket full of chocolate, Chinese take out, roast potatoes and Yorkshires, I am depressed I dont have the willpower for that!

Its bollocks I tell thee. Bollocks.

Christmas? I honeysuckle it.

 

[mountainorc]

It's honeysuckle I know. I live alone in an apartment and I always spend christmas and new years alone. Everytime my parents invite me over, I just pretend I'm elsewhere with my imaginary friends. They even tried coming over to my house, I just pretend I'm not home. As for christmas shopping, I only buy for myself. I was going to get a bigger HDD this year but due to the floods in Taiwan it's not going to happen. Not sure what I'll do for food during christmas and new year, probably stock up before hand and make some curry rice.

 

[Nolife Princess]

Finally! someone who agrees with me, that christmas is SHITTTTYYY!

My life is already stressful enough, without having a bunch of happy idiots around me, killing each other finding the 'right shitty gifts'! pushing, shoving , and holding up store wait out lines, all while their snot nosed kids cry, whine and beg for even more shitty toys. it makes me SICK!

Christmas USED to be nice, fun, enjoyable, and a time of year that people loved, with families that TRULY cared about each other, and MAKE (homemade) or buy gifts that they could actually afford, without begrudging the fact, only to give a shitty expensive that the receiver with undoubtedly not be grateful for, as they compare, to see who got the better/more expensive gift, not satisfied with the gift they have received.

I HATE WHAT CHRISTMAS HAS BECOME... SHITTY! SHITTY! SHITTY!!!

 

[cumulus.james]

It's honeysuckle I know. I live alone in an apartment and I always spend christmas and new years alone. Everytime my parents invite me over, I just pretend I'm elsewhere with my imaginary friends. They even tried coming over to my house, I just pretend I'm not home. As for christmas shopping, I only buy for myself. I was going to get a bigger HDD this year but due to the floods in Taiwan it's not going to happen. Not sure what I'll do for food during christmas and new year, probably stock up before hand and make some curry rice.

Your in the Netherlands though you can get high and forget about it lol

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Finally! someone who agrees with me, that christmas is SHITTTTYYY!

My life is already stressful enough, without having a bunch of happy idiots around me, killing each other finding the 'right shitty gifts'! pushing, shoving , and holding up store wait out lines, all while their snot nosed kids cry, whine and beg for even more shitty toys. it makes me SICK!

Christmas USED to be nice, fun, enjoyable, and a time of year that people loved, with families that TRULY cared about each other, and MAKE (homemade) or buy gifts that they could actually afford, without begrudging the fact, only to give a shitty expensive that the receiver with undoubtedly not be grateful for, as they compare, to see who got the better/more expensive gift, not satisfied with the gift they have received.

I HATE WHAT CHRISTMAS HAS BECOME... SHITTY! SHITTY! SHITTY!!!

My thoughts exactly.

Lets get married.

 

[mountainorc]

I don't smoke lol so no getting high for me.

 

[Equinox]

Christmas is what you make of it, and I've decided to make mine pretty **** awesome. I couldn't care less about expensive gifts, I only give to those who are special in my life, and I only give something I actually think they'll enjoy. I don't mind if my gifts are few or cheap; it really is the thought that counts. If stressing about gifts is what turns you into the grinch, then just don't buy them. Other people might be more materialistic and complain; ignore them. I do. I refuse to let people like that ruin the most magical time of the year.

I'll mostly be alone for christmas, either at work or home. That's okay. I'll bake, enjoy good meals, light candles, watch christmas films and sing along to christmas songs - all by myself. And I'll enoy it, because I want to. Christmas hasn't "become" anything; christmas is what you want it to be.

Honestly, the things people complain about ... Too much sweets and good food? Getting invitations from family? Gifts? Oh the horror of it all! Just for this one month, how about taking an advice from Monty Python and look on the bright side of life?

 

[Ak5]

I lol'ed.

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[Nolife Princess]

........!

 

[Sci-Fi]

Honestly, the things people complain about ... Too much sweets and good food? Getting invitations from family? Gifts? Oh the horror of it all! Just for this one month, how about taking an advice from Monty Python and look on the bright side of life?

+1

My family doesn't get along very well, so Christmas is usually just my brother and mother, that's it. We keep it simple. I like that, I'm not big on gathering together with family. Anyway, if there is one time a year people are allowed to cheat on their diets it's Christmas time. That's why most of these gyms offer special rates after the holidays and run huge advertising campaign blitzes.

It's what you make of it. I'm actually feeling the stress of the holidays this year, mostly because I'm having a hard time finding gifts for my mom and brother. Plus this time of year brings some sadness with it. Really though, why hate Christmas? Hate the spectacle people make of it. People need to learn to keep it simple, you don't have to be the house with the most lights on it, you don't have to be the family with the most expensive presents under the tree.

Remember it's the thought put into it. Sometimes a simple gift can mean the most to someone. My brother and I always pick over cards for our mom, we're very picky about it. We usually end up getting one that makes our mom cry, I think it means more to her then any gift we get her.

LOL The guy on the radio just made the comment that it's the pressure we put on the holiday.

 

[blackdot]

I've always hated Christmas. All the commercialism.
As a kid, my parents would have to drag me out of bed and into the den so I could see the gifts and I would sit there complaining.
People want gifts but they won't tell me what to get them.
People want to get me gifts but I don't need anything.

As a kid once, I once asked my mom what she wanted for Christmas. She said it didn't matter because it was the thought that counts. I then replied, "So I can just say I thought about you and I don't have to get you a gift?". She didn't like that response. But she still wouldn't tell me what to get her.

Luckily my mom has finally figured it all out.
1.) She lets me sleep in late when I stay at her place for Christmas. My brother has to just put up with waiting till later in the morning to open gifts.
2.) She buys gifts for me to wrap and give other people. On the flip side, I always tell the person that I give the gift that I didn't pick it out but only wrapped. it. *laughs*

 

[Sci-Fi]

As a kid once, I once asked my mom what she wanted for Christmas. She said it didn't matter because it was the thought that counts. I then replied, "So I can just say I thought about you and I don't have to get you a gift?". She didn't like that response. But she still wouldn't tell me what to get her.

ROFLMAO!!

That is like my mom, never tells us what she wants. When she does it is usually just a new appliance or glass ware, she's bad for breaking those. We bought her a set of unbreakable dishes one year, cost a little extra but **** at least the dish breaking has stopped. My brother has been the same way this year too, I've run out of things to think of to buy. The only thing I've gotten him this year is a Marilyn Monroe calendar. :-/ Everything is way too commercial anymore, too many Walmarts and not enough gift shops.

 

[Bread]

....Christmas hasn't "become" anything; christmas is what you want it to be.

Honestly, the things people complain about ... Too much sweets and good food? Getting invitations from family? Gifts? Oh the horror of it all! Just for this one month, how about taking an advice from Monty Python and look on the bright side of life?

My thoughts exactly. Moreso on the path of the Python zen.

As for myself, I don't really care much for christmas, as I don't care much for any holiday in particular, but I like the arrangement we've made in the family to just bloody well tell each other what we want, within reason. It's a satisfactory arrangement, and there's no grumbling over cheap gifts since we know we're all short on cash anyhow.

 

[floffyschneeman]

Do you really need the gym to exercise? If you're that keen on keeping with your healthy life style, then you can always jog.

and + a hundred points to what Equinox had just said.

 

[LoneKiller]

Right Christmas is a damned nuisance yeh.

I'm a single gay guy with no friends what do I care about Christmas. I spent most the year working out and having a healthy lifestyle and now it's gonna be severely disrupted for couple of weeks.

My parents have bought 4.5 tonnes of chocolates (you may have read about the price of chocolate set to soar due to cocoa shortage - well my parents did they as they have bought ALL THE ******* CHOCOLATE!!!!). There will be lots of large heavy meals with fat contents I dont even wanna think about. On top of that the gym will be hardly open, the buses will not be running very well (I live in the middle of nowhere)

Im gonna have to sit around putting on the 4 stone it took me a year to lose so everyone else can have a party. I know what your gonna say "you dont have to eat the food". What are you kidding? What normal person on earth can resist a bucket full of chocolate, Chinese take out, roast potatoes and Yorkshires, I am depressed I dont have the willpower for that!

Its bollocks I tell thee. Bollocks.

Christmas? I honeysuckle it.

Don't forget to leave out some cookies and some of those chocolates along with a glass of milk for Santa. Otherwise, you leave him no other choice but to fill your sock with charcoal briquettes.

 

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[theSmokingRabbit]

Yep that's gonna suck sitting with your family eating good food.

**** the holidays!


I'll be home alone with a takeout menu like all my previous holiday seasons.

 

[Bones]

*Please note: The following is NOT directed to the ALLf or anyone in it - it is a generalization.*

People deserve free will and I have no problem with other people celebrating it; but please, respect others who do not and not forcibly shove it down our throats as a whole in life concerning work, family, friends, etc.

For instance, everyone at work knows that I do not celebrate Christmas and year after year they try to pressure me to attend a Christmas lunch, give money for purchasing a gift for the boss, put up decorations in my personal office space, etc.

If people want a Christmas tree in the office or in public, it is ok with me, but why do people get pissed if you put something up for Yule (even though I do not celebrate Yule) or want to celebrate a different belief system during this time of year?

If people want to put up something related to Jesus in the office (which they do) or in public, it is ok with me, but why do people get pissed if you want to put something up for the Goddess (or nothing at all) during this time of year?

It is the double standard that pisses me off and our forefathers where smart enough to put in the no establishment of religion clause which is conveniently ignored a lot of times.

(One good example of this is Blue Laws which is unconstitutional and my state still has it for hunting or purchasing alcohol on Sundays.)

Thus, Christmas is a damned nuisancefor those who do not celebrate it (at least in my county of residence) and want peace or to celebrate a different belief system around this time of year without being judge by the majority.

Is peace or respecting other's belief systems to much to ask for nowadays?


Sorry for the rant, but I had to go toe to toe with my employer last week after nine seasons asking to be excluded from any and all activities related to Christmas. They finally backed off and removed the Christmas decoration that they put up in my own office space.

 

[Sci-Fi]

No, you're right Bones it shouldn't be forced upon others if they have different beliefs. They should show you the same respect as you show them.

There is one slight thing I'd like to bring up though. Nothing I've experienced in the past but it kind of works as a double standard too. A place my mom worked at a few of the guys where Jehovah Witnesses, they would never contribute to the bosses Christmas gift, since it was against their beliefs, but were the first ones with their hands out for a Christmas bonus. It annoyed the hell of her when they'd be asking for their bonus before she's even had a chance to make them up. Of course she got her own revenge on them by writing "Christmas Bonus" in the memo line of the cheque. To her if they were going to expect a bonus for a holiday they don't believe in then they should be pitching in to get a gift for the boss.

So some people have forced that double standard upon themselves by acting in that kind of way. One bad apple spoils the whole bunch. What I've noticed over the years though is that people have become more accepting of other beliefs.

 

[LoneKiller]

Even though I posted a joke about chocolate and cookies, I agree in part with Sci-Fi. Thinking about it now, this thread does have a tint of religion to it I guess. Making it uncomfortable to some. I do doubt that those who celebrate mean any disrespect to those who don't though. It's just the way a lot of people grow up. It becomes a tradition which is difficult to ignore.

I've always liked this video. It sings about those who have nothing this time of year. It's a reminder that not every person is as fortunate and as merry as some people this time of year .While we are laughing and enjoying the holidays with tons of food and loved ones surrounding us, it's a "Downer" to think of some poor homeless people or those who don't have family, so sometimes we forget just how fortunate we really are. Not so much for celebrating Christmas, but for the things in life we have and may take for granted.

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