The 2011 "I hate Christmas, Bah Humbug" thread
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I'm in too.
Usually the time of year when a member of our family dies or ends up in hospital.
This year will be spending it with my folks as per normal, me and my old man are going to take advantage of quiet roads in the peak district. Although this has potential to add to the family tradition....
Usually the time of year when a member of our family dies or ends up in hospital.
This year will be spending it with my folks as per normal, me and my old man are going to take advantage of quiet roads in the peak district. Although this has potential to add to the family tradition....
No lights outide for me this years in saving money mode. I just love xmas day having the family round .I do all the shopping and cooking so the wife can do the washing up and looking after the parents needs all day.But this year the wife has nad enough we have f--ked the mothering law off and we are going out to be pampered.The wife has done all Xmas present shopping and rapped them all cards have been written .We are done no messing around nearer christmas
I’m in!
I bloody hate Christmas: false, self satisfied smugness and wellbeing, consumer greed, pubs are full of once-a-year drinkers getting leery, crap music, even crapper decorations adorning chav palaces, people panic buying bread and milk “’cos the shops are closed for a day and we don’t want to run out”, meeting up with halfwit relatives who couldn’t give a damn about you for the rest of the year, dire food, feeling obliged to buy worthless tat for people you don’t like very much who’ll buy you useless crap in return (yeah, great, I always felt that my life was incomplete, but now you’ve given me a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer socks n’ pants gift set I’ll be able to face the inevitability of death with a wry grin on my face), bloody carol singers at the door expecting you to give up some hard earned cash because they’ve mumbled half a chorus of some pathetic carol, the so-called magic of Christmas… (explain that one, please!), re-runs on the TV of ‘Christmas Specials’ that were crap 15 years ago and are now just dated and crap, bulls
t office parties and Wizzard plus Noddy fkING Holder (may his balls slowly rot)? No thanks, you can keep that st!
Bah! fking Humbug says I!
I bloody hate Christmas: false, self satisfied smugness and wellbeing, consumer greed, pubs are full of once-a-year drinkers getting leery, crap music, even crapper decorations adorning chav palaces, people panic buying bread and milk “’cos the shops are closed for a day and we don’t want to run out”, meeting up with halfwit relatives who couldn’t give a damn about you for the rest of the year, dire food, feeling obliged to buy worthless tat for people you don’t like very much who’ll buy you useless crap in return (yeah, great, I always felt that my life was incomplete, but now you’ve given me a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer socks n’ pants gift set I’ll be able to face the inevitability of death with a wry grin on my face), bloody carol singers at the door expecting you to give up some hard earned cash because they’ve mumbled half a chorus of some pathetic carol, the so-called magic of Christmas… (explain that one, please!), re-runs on the TV of ‘Christmas Specials’ that were crap 15 years ago and are now just dated and crap, bulls
t office parties and Wizzard plus Noddy fkING Holder (may his balls slowly rot)? No thanks, you can keep that st!Bah! f
king Humbug says I!
hollydog said:
No lights outide for me this years in saving money mode. I just love xmas day having the family round .I do all the shopping and cooking so the wife can do the washing up and looking after the parents needs all day.But this year the wife has nad enough we have f--ked the mothering law off and we are going out to be pampered.The wife has done all Xmas present shopping and rapped them all cards have been written .We are done no messing around nearer christmas
You too! Go on, OUT! 
christmas We are all dreading Christmas, but particularly 14 year old. Something dreadful always happens to us at Christmas, it started six years ago when my Father-in-law died, he was admitted to a hospice just after Christmas and much of the holiday was spent in the hospice. The year after was amazingly tense as it was the anniversary of that happening and it was just miserable. The year after Christmas was fine, but on Boxing Day we went for a walk in the park and a friend's dog ran into my mother in law and broke her ankle, so we spent most of the rest of the holiday in the Royal Free Hospital. So we decided to go away the after, two weeks on my in-laws boat in Barcelona.
A boat is not a luxurious place, it's a posh caravan than moves about a bit. Cramped quarters and family angst, combined with the kids revising for school exams meant we cut our losses after a week.
Then Christmas went into a massive decline. Just before Christmas 2009 my wife was diagnosed with Stage 4b cancer (stage 4 is as bad as it gets, there is no stage 5), we spent most of that Christmas in Hammersmith Hospital with her having emergency treatment and transfusions.
So last year we decided to break the jinx by going to the South of France - indeed we had an excellent time with great food and company, driving into the Alps to ski. It was wonderful all the way up until my wife had a stroke, and we had to call an ambulance in the middle of the night. The next day it transpired that it wasn't a stroke but a brain tumour - a secondary from the previous year. We spent a lot of that break in extraordinarily tatty hospitals in Nice.
So forgive me if I'm not looking forward to the next couple of months, indeed when I asked my son about getting a tree his face filled with horror and terror.
A boat is not a luxurious place, it's a posh caravan than moves about a bit. Cramped quarters and family angst, combined with the kids revising for school exams meant we cut our losses after a week.
Then Christmas went into a massive decline. Just before Christmas 2009 my wife was diagnosed with Stage 4b cancer (stage 4 is as bad as it gets, there is no stage 5), we spent most of that Christmas in Hammersmith Hospital with her having emergency treatment and transfusions.
So last year we decided to break the jinx by going to the South of France - indeed we had an excellent time with great food and company, driving into the Alps to ski. It was wonderful all the way up until my wife had a stroke, and we had to call an ambulance in the middle of the night. The next day it transpired that it wasn't a stroke but a brain tumour - a secondary from the previous year. We spent a lot of that break in extraordinarily tatty hospitals in Nice.
So forgive me if I'm not looking forward to the next couple of months, indeed when I asked my son about getting a tree his face filled with horror and terror.
was told once I have kids, it will change. I now have, it hasn't.
I like the food aspect (cooking it and eating), even the family aspect (to a degree).
I dislike the forced joviality, thes running about with santa hats on, the s who act like they will never see another shopping day in thier lives and the "oh, sure its christmas" catch-all excuse that people use.
Cocktards..
I like the food aspect (cooking it and eating), even the family aspect (to a degree).
I dislike the forced joviality, the
s running about with santa hats on, the s who act like they will never see another shopping day in thier lives and the "oh, sure its christmas" catch-all excuse that people use.Cocktards..
I point blankly refuse to help with any set-up with Christmas, actively change the channel on tv if a christmassy advert come on (quite hard to do at times) until at least mid December and push through Christmas shoppers who seem to enjoy it and clog up London streets. Why people don't shop online is beyond me.
It's the commercialism of it I suppose.
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.
God I must be a miserable sod to live with.
It's the commercialism of it I suppose.
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.
God I must be a miserable sod to live with.
Globs said:
Bit early for Christmas yet, I'll start on the 20th next month.
Jesus christ man, your still to early. For the past 3 years and this should be the 4th in a tradition. Ive left my christmas shopping and anything else to do with christmas untill Christmas Eve. Even last year I didnt leave the house to go shopping untill 3pm. Needless to say the shelves were rather bare and the decision of what to get for people was somewhat simpler due to the lack of choice 
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gonzales said:
mattviatura said:
If I hear, even once, that bellend song from that screeching, hairy, inbred tt from Lowestoft I am going to go postal in a very big way.
t from Lowestoft I am going to go postal in a very big way.
Christmas time, don't let the bells end......... Sorry
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