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DoctaSax

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DoctaSax

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So... 5 weeks or so from Xmas. People putting up the fecking tacky lights already. Commercials on TV getting into overdrive: buy, buy, buy! Oh, & a bunch of people dressing up as a fat old bloke dealing candy to kids that climb on their laps. In this day & age, with all the pedo scandals, you'd think they'd think it over. :P

 

I'll probably be shoehorned into spending *that day* with all my relatives again, and half of 'em are gonna be drunk, loud and racist again. Spending the entire day eating crap and doing nothing whatsoever that interests me... Groan, grumble, groan. Joy to the fecking world. :dodgy:

 

I'm opening this thread well in advance, so that everybody who feels like a good grumble during the run-up to X-mas & new year can have a go. Don't hold back.

srayesmanll

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So... 5 weeks or so from Xmas. People putting up the fecking tacky lights already. Commercials on TV getting into overdrive: buy' date=' buy, buy! Oh, & a bunch of people dressing up as a fat old bloke dealing candy to kids that climb on their laps. In this day & age, with all the pedo scandals, you'd think they'd think it over. :P

 

I'll probably be shoehorned into spending *that day* with all my relatives again, and half of 'em are gonna be drunk, loud and racist again. Spending the entire day eating crap and doing nothing whatsoever that interests me... Groan, grumble, groan. Joy to the fecking world. :dodgy:

 

I'm opening this thread well in advance, so that everybody who feels like a good grumble during the run-up to X-mas & new year can have a go. Don't hold back.

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Geez, couldn't you at least wait til after Thanksgiving like all the stores do in the US :P ?

 

Oh wait, let me rephrase it: Why didn't you post this before Halloween like all of the stores in the US do :D ?

Kamen Rider Kuuga

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I find it funny how a holiday that was originally a pagan festival, stolen to help convert the heathens, has turned into an orgy of commercialism, excess and worship of a magical fat man.

 

All the while, the people who stole a holiday are trying so hard to make it about their own magical man once again.

 

Really, if not for A Christmas Story, I wouldn't give a flying FUCK about this time of year.

DoctaSax

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I bet his relatives are great people' date=' and he only calls them racist as a way of explaining to himself how their views diverge politically from his.

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Nope. I call 'em racist because they say a lot of racist shit. That's what calling somebody a racist is for.

In the same way that I call people a troll if they bring up something entirely unrelated to the thread just to annoy me.

 

Geez' date=' couldn't you at least wait til after Thanksgiving like all the stores do in the US :P ?

 

Oh wait, let me rephrase it: Why didn't you post this before Halloween like all of the stores in the US do :D ?

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Ha! Well, there's never a perfect time to start a thread like this. Should've started it in summer, what with all those Xmas special reruns on TV then. Oh oh! Xmas specials on TV! I feel a stomach bug coming on...

Kashiwaba Tomoe

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Nope. I call 'em racist because they say a lot of racist shit. That's what calling somebody a racist is for.

In the same way that I call people a troll if they bring up something entirely unrelated to the thread just to annoy me.

 

Or I could have been thinking it's the holidays, and thinking slaging for family during them was kinda fucked up.

DoctaSax

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Or I could have been thinking it's the holidays' date=' and thinking slaging for family during them was kinda fucked up.

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Fuck the holidays and everything about them, including the family we have to spend it with. That's what this thread is all about.

 

Feel free to create your own "I just LOVE all that phony crap & can't wait to go decorate a slowly dying tree or something" thread.

BruceWayne

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I feel with you. I'm already signed up for three - more or less mandatory - christmas parties (work, family, etc.). Joy all around... And that's not even inlcuding the holidays itself... Getting drunk seems like a good option (racial slurs not included):D

 

Where I'm from, christmas season usually starts in mid september! Super markets stocking up on chocolate santas and all the other candy crap you can buy and makes you fat. I mean seriously, it's still late summer! Who in their right minds would buy christmas candy in september?!

ChancellorKremlin

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I don't really have a problem with Christmas. Its a fun time of the year, plenty of snow around, nice cold wintery weather, beautiful landscapes, and I have a pretty nuclear family, so big family reunions are never really a problem for me.

 

I'm a single child, so I quite enjoy spending xmas with my mum and dad, really nice christmassy food all round, good booze, warm cackle of the fire, all that jazz. We used to have really big family gatherings, back when my grandma was alive (she was pretty much the glue of my dad's side of the family) and I didn't really care for those meetings, but since she passed away that has rarely been a problem - the family has kind of drifted apart and now we're lucky if we spend a Halloween together! The closest we have these days is a get together my girlfriend's mum organised every boxing day over hers, which is always fun and full of games and funny events.

 

As for the holiday itself, so what? We live in a sad, capitalist, consumerist orientated society, so what if people spend and buy more at this time of the year? Its but the sympton of a larger problem. At the end of the day, its two days of the whole year, big whoop. I've had worse times at the office for a lot longer!

Kamen Rider Kuuga

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I cannot stand October 1 to December 31; it's nothing but one fucking holiday after another. And they all bleed together.

 

I hate horror movies, so fuck Halloween. I don't care about Thanksgiving, and neither did most of the US, considering it only became a real holiday in 1863, and it's become nothing more than a day for fat people to get fatter. Being a fat fuck myself, I don't need to get fatter.

 

And I've already talked about Christmas.

Emily

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The best way to profit from Christmas is to shop AFTER Christmas is over when the price are sinking Rock hard.

 

You get various finest product at wholesale rates.

 

Then You sell the item back on the next Christmas on your own retail prices. Works for Emily every years. If that doesn't works she bakes up cookies and rainbow sweetrolls with lot of meringue, sells them or eat them with her strange family.

 

Ah... assuming the world not ending on 121212. that is.

 

At least we got something to celebrates.

Queen Bee

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I'm having a difficult time responding to this thread. On the one hand, I want to be respectful to your attitudes regarding what is obviously a sensitive topic for you, and I sympathize with your position. On the other hand, I'm one of those people who are determined to see the good in everything (and I'm terrible at keeping my nose out of other people's business).

 

I don't like the holidays much. My family celebrates Christmas, a close friend's family celebrates Hanukkah, and then there's those who celebrate the jolly old fatman and the crass consumerism he's come to represent. Meanwhile, I'm a slightly cynical atheist with a distaste for mushy crap.

 

That said, as I get older and I grow more and more distant from my family, I cling to those times when I can get together with them and really enjoy myself with them. I realize not everyone had good relationships with their folks, but then neither do I. We don't talk much, we don't have much in common, and I don't get along with a few of them. But no one said your family had to be your blood relations. My family is my parents, especially my father, but also people near and dear to my heart whom I love like brothers and sisters.

 

It's so easy to grow a huge thick callous over the holidays, and for the most part I think it's justified. It's overhyped and over emphasized. Christmas alone is the only holiday that had thousands of songs about it (go ahead and try to find a widely celebrated holiday with as many songs), and it feels like the only holiday people can get mad at you for not enjoying. "What's wrong with you? You need to get in the holiday spirit!" Yeah, I get in the holiday spirit...for Halloween. That's my Christmas. No one is allowed to tell me which holiday I'm going to love the most, so if that's your response, go fuck yourself. That kind of mentality says "there's something wrong with you if you don't enjoy Christmas as much as we tell you to", and that's wrong. How would these people respond if I got mad at them for not getting in the Halloween spirit?

 

The key, I think, is to find what you and your family (whoever that is) care about most. If none of you care about any of the numerous holidays coming up, then great! Hell, I only ever cared about the free swag and parties anyway. Don't let people tell you how to feel or what to celebrate. And if anyone gives you shit for it, remind them that Christmas is one fucking day, not the entire month, which includes a fuckton of other holidays that I'm sure they care about as much as you do about Christmas. And if they still give you shit, look em square in the eye and say, "not everyone celebrates the same thing, and I won't be bullied into feeling otherwise".

 

And if they still give you shit after that, kick em where it counts and tell them I said merry fucking Christmas.

DoctaSax

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For as long as I can remember Xmas day means a family gettogether with my father's side, all uncles/aunts/cousins etc. Things I learned after 34 of them:

 

- Nobody in my family enjoys them. Nobody. Still, we keep on doing it to ourselves and each other. If you miss one, there's gonna be complaining. Probably out of envy.

- It'll only last until my grandfather dies. After that, we're done. How cynical is that?

- An afternoon of sitting at a table with people shouting at each other is more tiring than any physical activity I've ever had. It takes half a week minimum to recoup from that and become somewhat functional again.

- The in-laws are the worst. Proper scumbags.

- It's fecking cold outside. But what are pneumonia and frostbite compared to not nipping outside for a smoke and a minute of rest?

- Things might've been better if we swapped all the booze for weed. At least it gives ya an appetite ;)

Guest flingingfeces

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Honestly the only thing I hate about the holidays is that my eyes make a bigger plate of food than my stomach can eat. :)

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