The 2011 "I hate Christmas, Bah Humbug" thread

[croyde]

As mentioned before, why are the Supermarkets like mental asylums on the run up to Christmas. I know when I was a kid everything shut for a few days but Christmas Day appears to be the one day that all the main shops are closed and yet there are still smaller places that are open.

Madness I tell thee.

[WazzaL]

LeeThr said:

WazzaL said:

I simply do not enjoy it and to boot have to use 3 days holiday that would be better suited to when I want it because the office is closed.

:O So they make you take your paid holidays over christmas? Thats a bit unfair.

Seems it. But certainly not uncommon. Its 3 days between the Christmas and new year bank holidays. Technically not bank holidays are they so they can. But very irritating none-the-less.

[snowy slopes]

croyde said:

As mentioned before, why are the Supermarkets like mental asylums on the run up to Christmas. I know when I was a kid everything shut for a few days but Christmas Day appears to be the one day that all the main shops are closed and yet there are still smaller places that are open.

Madness I tell thee.

But they are like that for bank holidays at any time of the year. The local Asbo was manic last bank holiday, shelves cleared of bread etc, all because the store was closed for 2 days

[LeeThr]

WazzaL said:

LeeThr said:

WazzaL said:

I simply do not enjoy it and to boot have to use 3 days holiday that would be better suited to when I want it because the office is closed.

:O So they make you take your paid holidays over christmas? Thats a bit unfair.

Seems it. But certainly not uncommon. Its 3 days between the Christmas and new year bank holidays. Technically not bank holidays are they so they can. But very irritating none-the-less.

Ouch Ask them if you go sit in the office all day for those 3 days can you have your holidays back

[STW2010]

I live very near to Milton Keynes, and every member of my family (and most friends) seems to think that MK is the best place ever to go Christmas shopping. It is fking rammed every weekend, even more so from November- so naturally I hate the place, and avoid going unless absolutely necessary.

So family seem to think it's ok to come and stay over at my house and then drag me Christmas shopping, just so that they can go to MK. Does my fking head in!!

I also have a 3 month old daughter. So that also means that relatives will be buying her loads of massive toys, which come in massive boxes. Meaning that my house gets full of st, and I will have to make 2-3 trips to the dump just to get rid of these boxes.

Yes. I fking hate Christmas. Even the films that they put on TV are st, and no doubt my wife will want to watch all of the Christmas special shows, so that sucks big time. Oh, and fking X factor with their annual Christmas number 1 which will be played over and over and over and over.... Load of bks

[croyde]

If it wasn't for my kids, I would rent a little cottage somewhere, take a load of books and DVDs and lie low until it was all over.

Some of my best Christmases were the ones that I spent alone.

[0a]

OP here is an image with a cat and Christmas:

[Cotty]

Bah Humbug

I don't even put up decorations at home. How many of you "Bah Humbug's" on this thread put up decorations?

[Faust66]

Cotty said:

Bah Humbug

I don't even put up decorations at home. How many of you "Bah Humbug's" on this thread put up decorations?

Good man!

I won't have the damn things in the house either.

[Ahhh Moneypenny]

It's full of false sentiment and expectations that you can not meet, everyone wants the 'Bing Crosby' perfect Christmas in reality it has the highest suicide rate of any month and family brutality.

BAH HUMBUG

[snowy slopes]

Cotty said:

Bah Humbug

I don't even put up decorations at home. How many of you "Bah Humbug's" on this thread put up decorations?

I don't, but sadly i live with people who love christmas and everything that goes with it. I live in purgatory

[obscene]

omgus said:

Yep, i am hoping to work xmas day. Double pay and no fkers around to annoy me.

If I could get some work I'd be all over it for double pay. Winning.

[simonrockman]

slippery said:

Sorry to hear that Simon. I hope all remains incident free for you this year.

thanks, posting that was quite cathartic

[Spitfire2]

Thought I had a result this year with just me and the wife in the house all on our own on Xmas day.

But she's now decided we need to visit her mum and dad for a couple of hours.

Great - u know the kind of Mother in Law whose only topic of conversation is the ailments of people she knows but you've never even heard of? Thats my MIL that is.

Mrs X has had a heart attack; Mrs Y is suffering from itchy eyeballs; Mrs Z's head fell clean off etc etc.

Bah!!!!!

[New POD]

Just need some idea of what to get the wife. And then it's sorted !!!

[Dixie68]

I'd normally be in: I've definitely been of the Bah Humbug persuasion for the last 20+ years. But my new girlfriend loves it and it's hard not to get swept up in her excitement, so I'm making the effort this year and I'm now actually looking forward to it. We're off for a Christmas meal on a steam-train, overnighting in a hotel (sans kids!), she'll be putting lights up outside her house and decorations inside, and her birthday is the 24th December. We're going to be visiting her (huge) family (I only have one relative in the UK), and then I'll be spending the New Year at my folks home in Spain.
We're both in our 40s btw.
So this year ahm oot!

Edited by Dixie68 on Monday 14th November 20:53

[GTIR]

Usually I quite like Christmas.

This year (and subsequent years) I'm in the bah humbug camp. I'm going to burn my decorations and I'm fking off for Xmas to SF where it's just party central anyway and girls will want random sex with a balding middle aged transsexual (not me, just in case you are one) and I'm giving money to everyone of my fker family. (But not nan. She's senile and thinks its 1945 and I'm her brother).

And fk new year too.

fk Santa.
fk Rudolph.
fk little people (who make toys)
fk John Lewis
fk Macauley Culkin.
fk Google

[V8mate]

Fun Bus said:

Well there is no denying it's here is there? There is a house near me with it's outdoor lights up, my local was trimmed up like Santa's grotto about 2 weeks ago and it's all over the television (Stacey Soloman needs a bullet in the new Iceland advert. Makes me cringe everytime I see it.) On the other hand, I think the new John Lewis Christmas advert is wonderful.
There are of course elements of 'the season' I enjoy, but a lot of it is contrived, commercialised rubbish.

So, fellow PHers who have a dislike for the season, vent here and let us unite with crys of 'Bah Humbug'.

Yours,

Bah Humbug Bus.

Hang on a minute. You watch commercial television?

Council.

[Cotty]

New POD said:

Just need some idea of what to get the wife. And then it's sorted !!!

I had a total brain fade one year and just bought all the females I had to buy for a pashmina. Gifts were given on different days in diferent locations so none of them realised they all got the same gift. I was very popular that year.

Molton Brown always goes down well. Sometimes its not the thought thats behind the gift its the fact you spent £36 on shower gel.

http://www.moltonbrown.co.uk/store/bath-body/bath-...

[MGZRod]

My pub is dressed like santas grotto. 3 trees and tinsel everywhere. The music doesn't start until dec 1st at 5pm at least.