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Bah Humbug I say.
Yet another Pagan festival stolen by the religious zealots and then commercialised to death.
I'll be sending all day on the 25th in bed reading a good book, just like I have done for years
I bought my bah humbug tshirt just for christmas, but now find I wear it on many occasions.
Bluepete
16-12-08, 06:22 PM
Feck off ya misery guts! ;)
Just think of the children......:D :D :D :D
Dangerous Dave
16-12-08, 06:31 PM
Bah Humbug I say.
+ 1, can't stand it.
Every where you go are either carol singer or christmas music. :smt093:smt076
Mr Speirs
16-12-08, 06:41 PM
Christmas is AWESOME!!!!
Usually its the only time my family are all together and we all have a very nice jolly time and a few beers we me dad n uncle.
dizzyblonde
16-12-08, 06:46 PM
Just because i have a tree and lights up now doesn't mean i'm turning festive....grrrr
mister c
16-12-08, 07:02 PM
Christmas is now an over rated way of spending loads of money on your children & nothing else. I don't go to church, I don't believe in Jesus, so why celebrate?
This will be the 3rd year that I haven't put a tree or decs up. There is a lad at my work who has bought his son a WII, a Playstation 3, load of games for both & still buying stuff for him....... I just think that is so sad, buy him 1 present & he will be more thankful for it.
Balky001
16-12-08, 07:06 PM
Bah Humbug I say.
Yet another Pagan festival stolen by the religious zealots and then commercialised to death.
I'll be sending all day on the 25th in bed reading a good book, just like I have done for years
That must big one hell of a book mate ;-)
Nah, Christmas didn't do anything for me until my daughter was bon, now it's great. Mind you, I work through most if it as it's half days and free drinks most of the time ;-)
Shellywoozle
16-12-08, 07:07 PM
Thought you would be travelling on Xmas day Lozzo delivering a cage?
I'll be back by then Shelly. Setting off Monday very early, returning Wednesday by plane into Luton.
Christmas was ok when I was living with my kids, but nowadays I let them get on with it - maybe I'll pop round and say hello, but never see my eldest on xmas day because she's always abroad for it (she hates it as much as I do). I always buy each one of them something special, but I haven't bought a present for anyone else in ages. I try to work it so I'm single at Christmas and save myself a fortune.
Speedy Claire
16-12-08, 07:25 PM
You misery guts!
Yes it can be an expensive time of year and yes the real meaning of xmas is forgotten but i love christmas :santa:
Alpinestarhero
16-12-08, 07:32 PM
I always look forward to xmas because its time with my family. I hate the build up...next year, I won't be giving out any xmas lists when people ask what I want because its such a faff to think of anything. That way, I can spend more time thinking what to get people.
well your welcome down here loz me man!
well your welcome down here loz me man!
<makes note in little black book> ;)
ArtyLady
16-12-08, 08:14 PM
Bah Humbug I say.
Yet another Pagan festival stolen by the religious zealots and then commercialised to death.
I keep agreeing with you lately :confused: :lol:
ArtyLady
16-12-08, 08:18 PM
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Nah, Christmas didn't do anything for me until my daughter was bon, now it's great. ....
I enjoyed it when the kids were litte, but havent done it for the last 3 or so years.
Its great I have no stress when all about me everyone's panicking about Christmas! ;) All I have to do is buy a card for the kids and grandson, tokens for the kids and a toy or two for the grandson :cool:
We'll nip out at the weekend and buy a turkey crown and the ol man will cook the dinner on Christmas day while I put me feet up :lol:
Shellywoozle
16-12-08, 08:20 PM
I try to work it so I'm single at Christmas and save myself a fortune.
Ha ha ha funny I had this conversation with the other half, said we could fall out over Xmas and make up in January, his face was a picture :-D
I think he knew I meant it too !! Bless :mrgreen: wouldn't be without him over Xmas !! :smt008 (he is the dog sitter LOL ............. joke hun!)
shonadoll
16-12-08, 08:21 PM
I'm dreading it this year. Been off work after gallbladder op, then fell and broke 2 ribs so can't drive or go shopping. Have done a bit online but it's not the same -like getting lots of little things.
Shellywoozle
16-12-08, 08:25 PM
I'm dreading it this year. Been off work after gallbladder op, then fell and broke 2 ribs so can't drive or go shopping. Have done a bit online but it's not the same -like getting lots of little things.
I was the same last year, one arm good and one broken, a boyfriend that walked out on me and I really was christmassy at all.
It is the thought that counts and as I found last year, everyone was happy I had managed to make the effort on the net and I felt OK about pressies.
You will just have to spend double on next years pressies LOL xx sure it will be brill
christmas is $hite
the only good thing about it ........ its an excuse to get pi$$ed
although, i dont realy need an excuse
Me and drew have got a token gift for everybody in the family, however having gone round to my parents on the weekend, I was told that all the presents wrapped in snowman paper where Eden's (my 7 week old niece)..........
That's all you could see was snowman paper!!!!!!!! My parents haven't gone this crazy over christmas since me and my sister where young. Even my sister things they have gone stupid!!!
I'm not really looking forward to christmas this year!
I'm going away, I managed to stop seeing family at Christmas years ago. Mum still has a dig now about it. For goodness sake, I've got a brother and sister so it's not like it should be down to me to entertain them.
But I'm planning on going away every year now, only to Wales, but peace and quiet with just me and Evie. Mr Lou is staying at home to cat sit, he hates Christmas and would prefer to be on his own.
I kicked my ex-wife out and told her I wanted a divorce on 23rd of Decemeber so I'd have a good excuse not to buy her a chrstmas present.
Sod waiting til afterwards having spent loads of dosh on someone I didn't care about any more.
That was the best Christmas day I ever had. I sat at home and watched videos with my best mate and we got royally smashed off our faces on vodka and collapsed on the front room floor til Boxing day evening.
BanannaMan
17-12-08, 04:16 AM
Scrooges... the lot of you are.
I love Christmas and everything about it but then I am celebrating the true meaning of Christmas. The birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. :D
Ok get ready to be sickened...
Christmas at my house begins the last weekend of Nov. and ends Jan. 1st. We have 4 Christmas trees at home and decorations in every room. We had my hot rod pickup in the local parade with another lighted tree in the back.
We go to parades, parties, concerts, plays, family get togethers, Church and more!!!
I have Chistmas lights up and another tree at work with Christmas music playing in the lobby/office... and even Christmas lights in the shop.
And yes ..The gift giving thing is only a small part of it.
And yes...It IS just the thought that counts.
But for you who absolutely hate the season (you know who you are) I would say....
Christmas..... like life and everything else in life (jobs, relationships, etc.) is what you make out of it.
You can choose to have a good time or not ..or choose to let comercialism, fussy relatives, etc. spoil it for you. Whatever..
Whether you have a good time or not ....It's really all up to you!
True if you're not a Christian there is no reason to celebrate...
but no need to be resentful of others if they are having a good time reguardless of their reasons for celebrating.
Lighten up a bit .org'ers and a have good time. Tis the season! http://cenvachristiansportbike.homestead.com/files/xmastre3.gif
I'll be getting me coat now!!! :p
Bah - Christmas is just another of those lifetime hipocrisies to ease people's conscience and make them feel unjustifiably self-rightous and smug.
This so-called 'spirit of Christmas' is just like a dog y'know - it should be for life, not just until Boxing Day.
Oi. Too many on here saying they enjoyed it when the kids were small and now rubbish everyone who does enjoy it. I have a 10 year old daughter and we have bought her quite a bit and I will enjoy it with her and wifey. We will go to church, we will enjoy opening prezzies and we will enjoy having a few drinkies - and above all, we will enjoy having a rest.
But I have to work at it, because as a child Christmas was not so fun, my miserable father liked spoiling it for everyone - he would get blind drunk, refuse to eat dinner, and get in a filthy violent mood and it always would end in tears. Try as I might, I still can't forget what he did 40 years ago and as I type this I feel my eyes p/ricking cos he was such a b*stard. I just typed and deleted something else about him cos I decided that it wasn't in the spirit of Christmas but I will try my best to bury it in the interest of Sophie having Christmases that she remembers fondly when she's older:D
plowsie
17-12-08, 09:23 AM
I enjoy the festive period, mainly down to being able to sit down with the family, see people happy, have some decent grub, get drunk by 3, then go down the pub and do the pub quiz :D And I come out of it with something which is a bonus :)
EDIT: Oh and the Queens speech will have to be fitted in.
Humbug
You not buying PJ any prezzies then?
i enjoy christmas, you can moan all you like it'll not go away.
what's happened to sadden you all so much and dislike it? as mentioned by Ed i'm guessing you all loved Christmas as a kid, is it now that its YOUR turn to give the presents you dont want to anymore? happy to receive but not give?
whats that sound? the sound of nails being hit on head?
*grintypethingtoshowimnothavingagojustpointingoutp otentialaccuracies*
I wasn't keen on christmas as a kid either, for much the same reasons as Ed stated - only my old man wasnt a boozer, he could be a total pr1ck without resorting to alcohol.
i love christmas i get really excited, i love watching the christmas films in the run up to christmas eve and wrapping presents i just love this time of year.
i guess i was lucky then. my dad was a bit of a **** but he reserved that for later life when i was grown up, so begrudgingly i'll nod to him on that....
but growing up, christmas was awesome. we were by no means wealthy but my 2 sisters and i never went without a truck load of presents, and i still look back happily laying in bed "trying" to sleep, always slept with the curtains open christmas eve so the moment it was daylight i'd be up and racing around...
very happy memories for this old boy
You not buying PJ any prezzies then?
He's getting loads... still humbug though.
He's getting loads... still humbug though.
but come christmas day you'll have the biggest smile on your cheeky chubby face watching PJ getting all excited opening his pressies...the Christmas Grinch will disappear....:smt040
I know... I still feel hum bug though. Its in my nature.
wyrdness
17-12-08, 10:32 AM
Bah Humbug I say.
Yet another Pagan festival
Sounds like a good reason to celebrate it, to me :cheers:
I'm usually a bit bah-humbug, but it's Baby Wyrdness's first yule this year. Mrs Wyrdness also loves Christmas, but missed out on it last year because she was very ill. So she wants a really good family Christmas this year.
BernardBikerchick
17-12-08, 10:58 AM
i love christmas i love the snowman and mary poppins and the decorations and ice skating and blue skies and all the lovely crunchy christmas things !! heee i loves it !!!
i love christmas i love the snowman and mary poppins and the decorations and ice skating and blue skies and all the lovely crunchy christmas things !! heee i loves it !!!
Somehow, I just thought you might :D
SantaClaus
17-12-08, 01:42 PM
I had such a hard job before they invented internet forums.
Hohoho! :mrgreen: :laughat:
454697819
17-12-08, 08:21 PM
christmas is great, however it annoys me that the reall meaning of christmas has been lost,
it wasnt comercialised by christians but funilly enough the comercial persons -
Dont get me wrong I enjoy the christmas hype but hate xmas and that sort of slang, and I like presents, and its the one time of year I actually get to treat myself, or have other people treat me and its its nice
i like christmas i dont see why people go over the top though and feel they have to spend loads i don't and i don't expect my family to either usually i just get everyone a main present summat good but not massively expensive but good and loads of little bits chocolate and stuff and it's time off work whats to complain about brilliant.
slark01
17-12-08, 11:15 PM
One thing I hear over the xmas period is " be good to people ",
Well I like that idea, but why only xmas?
As for the rest of xmas
BAH HUMBUG!
BanannaMan
18-12-08, 12:16 AM
Just found out today!!!
My business won first place in the town's annual Christmas Decorating Contest!!!!
:cheers:
I thought I was the only one feeling lousy this time of the year. Loads of unwanted presents, people comparing and checking how much to spend on the basis of how much he spent on me last year...
I like watching the kids enjoying their presents mind, and to me that's what christmas is all about, but as for the rest, humbug! Only a selling ploy.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/zunkus/zunkusgrinch.jpg
Just found out today!!!
My business won first place in the town's annual Christmas Decorating Contest!!!!
:cheers:
Congratulations!!!!
I don't enjoy Christmas nowadays but i really can't think why, i would love to enjoy it as i used to years ago especially when my son was little but i just can't get into it now, don't get me wrong i'm not tight or begrudge the spending or the work involved & would willingly spend my last pound on anyone in the family, I used to enjoy everything, the planning, shopping, wrapping, giving, peeling the veg with a bevy or three, cooking etc etc but that has all disapeared & i can't think why, we still have a family get together but it's not the same, maybe it's just me.
Dear Santa, how do i get to enjoy Christmas again?????
Ceri JC
18-12-08, 10:28 AM
I kicked my ex-wife out and told her I wanted a divorce on 23rd of Decemeber so I'd have a good excuse not to buy her a chrstmas present.
Nowt wrong with the relationship then, the divorce was just a money-saving exercise? :)
Ceri JC
18-12-08, 10:36 AM
Agenda for my xmas: Wake up, go through christmas stockings with gf and her cousin (who will be staying with us). Nice light breakfast, then gf drops me at my church and then she and her cousin to her churchs. Meet mum at church, who gives me a lift back to my parents' place. Alcoholic Coffee and presents there, then lunch. More drinking with the family till about 5.00, when my gf will come and pick me and my parents up and take them over to her parents' house. Exchange of presents, more food, lots more drink and some games (call my bluff, etc.) then gf takes my parents home and returns me and her cousin back to our house.
Gf is tea-total hence her doing all the driving. :D
Nowt wrong with the relationship then, the divorce was just a money-saving exercise? :)
She was on the way out anyway, I just saved myself some dosh by doing it prior to buying her a xmas present
She was on the way out anyway, I just saved myself some dosh by doing it prior to buying her a xmas present
LOL heartless
LOL heartless
I call it sensible.
i see the real reason you dislike christmas now lozzo...you'll not be getting any secksy times now you've been dumped...!!!!:smt040
i see the real reason you dislike christmas now lozzo...you'll not be getting any secksy times now you've been dumped...!!!!:smt040
he he :smt044
;)
I'll have you know I am now free to have shecksy (I've gone Dutch) times with as many or as few lucky victi^H^H^ladies as I like now that I am single and unattached*. And, I maintain it is as easy for a single bloke to get laid as it is any woman, especially if you look as good as I do and are not hung like a wasp**.
* That ladies, is a hint - not something like "I've lost my purse, I'll have to go cos I can't buy any drinks now?". Be a bit more subtle.
** This ladies, is not a hint, I have no more time or energy and I'm fighting them off with a snotty stick
prize for incoherant post of the day goes to.....
the above
We went to 'Carols in The Square' in Shrewsbury last night - very atmospheric amidst the medieval and tudor buildings (you can see a black and white house behind the stage in the pic below), it was broadcast live on BBC Radio Shropshire. Lots of Victorian carol schmaltz!! Here's my daughter Sophie singing - she's a member of Shrewsbury Young Performers' Choir. She's in the red top, second in (from the left) on the front row:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/SophieCarols.jpg
prize for incoherant post of the day goes to.....
the above
What's incoherent about it?
What's incoherent about it?
too many asterix's, brackets, broken sentences and bizzarre analogies!!
apart from that, it was great :smt040
Here's my daughter Sophie singing. She's in the red hat
That narrows it down then Edward.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/SophieCarols.jpg
Some of Ed's daughters look like middle aged men - I'm scared now.
too many asterix's, brackets, broken sentences and bizzarre analogies!!
apart from that, it was great :smt040
I'm on one, I ran out of decaff coffee and resorted to the full strength whizzbang variety. My head is buzzing like crazy after just two cups.
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