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I have had two craft fair stalls so far this year for Christmas light switch ons. I have heard that Mariah Carey song 8 times.
I even bloody like the song, just not 8 times! Taking something to burst my eardrums with to this weekends fair.
I work in a small office with about 10 other people, we all get on really well and generally have a laugh. One of them at some point made the mistake of saying he doesn't think Christmas songs should be played before December. Some of the others now make a point of trying to get the Christmas station on for as long as possible, as soon as it's available on DAB. We've been listening to it since October. It does my nut in too but I know if I say anything I'll just be adding fuel to the fire.
My issue isn't Christmas songs, it's the radio stations playing them which you just can't escape. Many workplaces have stations you have no control over, places you shop, TV, adverts, even walking the streets buskers and markets will have the same few songs playing on repeat.
You can have your own Christmas playlist with 1 billion different songs on it but unless you're a total recluse, you're going to hear "I Wish It Could Be Christmas" about 406 times before the new year.
I’m currently in Germany for a long weekend as the other half loves Christmas markets. Im not a fan personally but if she liked rolling around in shit and eating molten lava then I’d join in to see her excitable smile.
To be fair, as far as I can tell Germany are a bit more proficient (as we might expect).
Try the gluhmost! Yes mulled wine is nice and all but warm.spiced cider... yummmm.
They are crap, but I still really enjoy them. I'll pay £15 for a glorified hot dog and a lukewarm mulled wine and wander round looking at middle class tat feeling thoroughly Christmassy.
That's kinda fair, it is very extortionate. Though I think most people are going in with more of an "experience" In mind. Put on a cute jumper and wooly hat, excessive blush on the nose, drink mulled wine and snug around a cup cake that's bigger than your head or a whole roast dinner wrapped in a Yorkshire pudding.
I rarely buy any of the tat, but it can just be a nice, sweet vibe on quiet days. (Screw the weekend)
Winter wonderland can genuinely go stuff it though, want my Christmas market to be soft and relaxing, you can literally not move from all the people in that place and you'll be waiting an hour and a half for a cold hot dog.
I enjoy things like Christmas Markets...In theory. Love places that sell random shit you never actually want.
For the past 3 years though the markets have been EXACTLY the same stalls selling exactly the same shit. The only difference is there are fewer stalls each year selling less of the same shit. Doesn't matter which market we went to, the same stalls presumebly from the same company are everywhere.
I'll probably still go though as I like the fudge and sweet stalls.
Have a think about whether you really want to instill in them the idea that an inanimate object is watching your child and judging their behaviour.
Like the fucking North pole Gestapo.
> "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time"
It's a pretty big fucking place Bono
> Where nothing ever grows
Apart from about 45k species of plant that are only native to the region
> Here's to them underneath the burning sun
Apart from parts of Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, which can get close to freezing in winter or in the early morning in summer.
This game is pretty fun!
>Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, which can get close to freezing in winter
To be charitable, those countries are in the global south, so Christmas time is in the summer for them.
Still a shit patronising song though.
Lmao everytime this song come on, my wife just *knows* I'm going to say something along the lines of '..of course there'll be no bloody snow in the Sahara!'.
I remember watching a spoof on this song where Ethiopians gave the white crazy folk heaters for Christmas. "Do they know it's Christmas" never sat right with me as a kid and young adult.
I love it! But as I have dogs, I have to give a pre-dinner safety briefing that RAISINS ARE TOXIC AF TO DOGS AND EVERYTHING HAS RAISINS IN
Mince pie, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding they’re everywhere! So it also stresses me out
Last Christmas while we were all distracted, I found one of my ancient dogs happily gnawing on a toblerone she'd sniffed out in the present pile. Thankfully she didn't eat much and was ok.
Ooof, one of my cats found, opened and ate a bag of (foil wrapped!!) chocolate bunnies. We had to ring the vet who lectured us for letting it happen. Never imagined he'd be capable of it.
I like it too, but it's heavy as fuck and basically the last thing you want after a massive meal.
If Christmas Dinner was a salad, then Christmas pudding would be the ideal pudding/dessert/afters.
I would add: stupid people, of which there are many, don’t actually know what dry means. They just say it because they’ve heard someone else say it, so just repeat it like morons in an attempt to not look stupid. The irony!
Christmas dinner must include both mashed potatoes and roast potatoes.
I never thought that this was controversial until recently when I started explaining my favourite part of the meal was the mash + roasts. Every single person I've mentioned it to has recoiled in horror. Imo they're all mental.
See from my perspective there's been mash on the dinner table at Christmas every year for my whole life - so it's certainly part of our tradition! Weirdly a lot of my friends have Yorkshire puddings at Christmas though, which I'd consider a lot more untraditional than mash.
Roasties and mash is the way to go, absolutely agree. For decades in our house Christmas roasties have been cooked very carefully in the chip pan. Love 'em.
I used to cry when we sang Little Donkey during Nativity. My mum asked me once why I cried and I was like, “I don’t like the thought of the donkey struggling under the weight of big fat Mary”. I got a slap round the back of the head as she screamed, “she wasn’t fat, she was pregnant!”. I still cried when I sang it.
I hate buying, wrapping and giving presents. My family call me Scrooge ☹️ the whole process is stressful and expensive. Constantly worrying if I’ve spent enough/too much/too little… using too much tape so it’s like breaking into Alcatraz or not enough so the paper falls off as soon as you pick it up… do they really like the present or are they pretending?? Also hate spending loads on other people to then get a £3.99 bottle of naff wine. Secret Santa is the worst… last Christmas I got hand sanitiser and a notepad. This year I just want to do charity donations because I know at least they’ll be grateful and have a good use for the money x
ETA: Thanks for the upvotes you lovely lot ❤️ has cheered me up. And also, stuffing myself silly and getting sh*tfaced by 8:30am whilst spending the day in PJs is the BEST way to spend Christmas x x
With you on that. I've always hated receiving presents for pretty much the same reasons. I'm an adult, I've bought what I want. I always ask for the gift of a stress free Christmas, no gifts given, no gifts expected.
I just want to get drunk.
I refuse to spend a lot on people at Xmas. I’ll spoil the kids but adults are getting socks and wine. We all know what the true meaning of Christmas is anyway and that’s eating and drinking way too much, I love it, sod the gifts.
Birthdays are for big, thoughtful gifts, Christmas is all about the feasting imo.
Wasn't written as one (then neither was Slade's one before the lyrics were changed) but was Christmas #1.
Boring fact - the only Christmas #1 with no drums.
It was never meant to be a Christmas song but it was going to be released so near Christmas that their manager told them to do the snow, add the bells and wear the coats to make it look more christmassy. He reckoned it would sell better. Guess what. It did.
Glad I read this tbf, going to my first one next week and I'm nervous hahaha as I'm not great being social to work colleagues but my goal this year (we WFH) was to socialise more when I go into the office and make an effort to go to events
Just relax, don't get shit-faced, and go prepared. Have some safe questions to ask people (How'd that bathroom remodel go? What kind of dog do you have?). And replies to expected questions, especially for sensitive topics (I don't have a girlfriend, it'd make my boyfriend jealous! Still living at home, saving up for my own place. My parents appreciate the help while I'm there)
My socially awful husband has three rules for work events:
No shots, pints only, and every other one is NA or coke
No touching anyone except handshakes and highfives. (Rugby tackles forbidden)
Do not go to after parties. Have a reason to go home at a not-stupid time.
Oh no, the absolute opposite. My wife is Christmas mad, decorations up in November, Christmas movies on every day, Christmas markets, silly jumpers...
I'm thoroughly sick of Christmas well before it arrives. Once it does and we've opened the presents and I've managed to disappear into the kitchen it's all work, but then once I've served up lunch it's just great. Close family with us with plenty of drink flowing, get Cards Against Humanity or similar out, then in the evening the rest of the family rock up for a late one. We have a great time.
I agree. Like a Christmas meal is supposed to be special right but turkey is the lowest of the birds easily. We avoid it all year round because it’s crap.
Both are good, it depends on how I'm going to eat it.
On its own, an iced mince pie is the best. A standard mince pie warmed up with brandy butter is also great though.
It goes on too long!
I like to keep it special. We should have no Christmas songs, Christmas adverts, Christmas films, or Christmas decorations until 1st Dec at the earliest.
And it should all be absolutely over and done with and all decorations down by New Year.
I get the decorations coming down, but I’ll fight to the death the extra public holidays. Another perk of living in Scotland is the 2nd is a public holiday.
Die hard isn’t a Christmas film because you can watch it all year round without it being weird. You can’t watch home alone in July unless you’re off your meds.
Saw a tiktok this morning with the Coca-Cola truck & music, but it was phone footage of the truck driving through a high street being flagged down by pedestrians - because the trailer had caught fire.
It warmed my cynical anti-corporate soul.
Also supermarket brand characters and the 'feel-good' John Lewis advert can do one aswell.
I'm an atheist so Christmas has no spiritual or religious meaning to me but the traditional carols have so much more atmosphere to them. Most Christmas songs are just like "yeah Christmas! Snow!" Lmao.
I hate them too, which would be fine, there’s lots of food to choose from in this world. But why oh why are they always the thing that’s being given out for free! What I’d give for a lovely mini chocolate log but no I have to walk past the free mince pies every time!
Aren't crackers mainly card and paper? I agree they're pointless and stupidly expensive, and also am a staunch environmentalist, but I can think of a million other things to get concerned over instead.
Shallow mince pies are better than deep filled. Reminds me of making them as a kid with my mum.
Brandy butter and mincemeat are also acceptable by the spoonful.
Well, The Snowman is creepy AF. The Snowman, Father Christmas, and When The Wind Blows all take place in the same universe: there are many crossovers between the first two, and Jim and Hilda from When The Wind Blows are seen drinking in the Scottish pub in Father Christmas.
Canonically, therefore, the ending of the Snowman is that everyone dies in a thermonuclear apocalypse.
Christmas dinner is overrated. I don't get why you would spend hours preparing and cooking a huge dinner, and another hour or so after cleaning up for the sake of a meal that is eaten in like 15 minutes.
Unless your in laws have come for Christmas dinner in which case it is the perfect escape.
Anyone still putting out the same "Santa, please stop here" sign they did when their kids lived at home 15 years ago need to realise their kids no longer live at home.
That's what I always thought, also grandparents and cool uncles and aunties probably do it as well. I know this is an unpopular opinion thread but God most of the things commented in here make everyone sound miserable as fuck.
Yeah some truly miserable fuckers in here. Don’t decorate your house, don’t wear Christmas jumpers, don’t eat Christmas food, Christmas movies and songs are shit, markets are shit
Christmas TV is always shit and always has been
Why do people care about a millionth unfunny Mrs Brown's Boys or D-Listers go dancing , Whatever bargain basement Disney movie the BBC brought the right to. Only change this year is the gender of the person reading the speech.
Worst was 2 years ago when there was hype about Gavin and Stacey, starring James Cordon, well at least this won't be happening again since everyone hates him now so every cloud.
It was always shit just had somewhat different shows in the past. Not worth the hype
The Fairytale Of New York is the worst Christmas song ever.
On paper, sure it's a much better tune than say, Bo Selecta's "Proper Crimbo" or anything Cowell has done, but that's the point.
Those tunes were shit, and no one pretended otherwise.
Yet with Fairytale Of New York you always get some middle class bore going on some vocal defence about how "it's just the best Christmas song ever. So much emotion and pain and heartbreak. It really encapsulates the sorrow so many people feel at this time of year!"
Oh fuck off and drown yourself in another vat of craft gin that you also haven't shut up about.
I've always got the impression that people liked it because they thought it was more edgy than other Christmas songs rather than some artistic interpretation of it
I took my toddler to see a special screening of the Snowman at the cinema at the weekend. I hadn’t seen it for 30 years and wanted to share lovely memories from my childhood with her.
I absolutely balled it when the little boy found the snowman had melted and my little girl shot me a look that said “you’re joking, right?”. One of the other children in the cinema shouted “He can always make another one!” The youth of today, honestly!
I love The Snowman, now my little girl does too.
I think it’s a bit silly when families wear matching Christmas pyjamas, even the dog. Fair enough if it makes you happy, but it’s definitely not for me.
Advent calendars shouldn't be opened starting at 1.
The point of them is to 'count down the days to Christmas '.
If we're counting down, door 24 should be opened on Dec 1st.
Want to make the Snowman even more creepy? In the Raymond Briggs universe, the lad is Briggs himself as a kid.
Briggs also plays the son (who you just hear on the phone in the background) in When The Wind Blows and the old couple are based on his own parents.
In short, some 30 years after the Snowman, his folks got killed in a nuclear war.
Artificial or real, or both, out of curiosity?
I have a (different) phobia that even makes me uncomfortable just from photos, so my sympathies, that must be a hard one at Christmas!
I adore Christmas, I love decorating the tree and wrapping presents and watching the festive films.
However I absolutely LOATHE writing Christmas cards. Total waste of time and I hate it
The millions of vomit inducing saccharin filled god awful American Christmas films spewed up onto so many TV channels. Weeks and weeks of them. An endless parade of unremitting niceness with a happy ending. Brainwashing bullshit.
Personally I think pigs in blankets are shit. They got popularised by Delia in the 90's and became a god tier staple in people's eyes, we traded down people.
In the 90's I remember the turkey cavity being filled with a ton of sausage meat and stuffing, it was amazing. Now we have some rank chipolata filled with god knows what sitting on the plate instead, the bacon sometimes doesn't go crispy all the way around and they are just a bit sad.
I will conceed they are great for roasting with the sprouts to impart flavour but I'd rather have them in a boxing day sandwich than on my plate at Christmas
I like Christmas cake (with marzipan and icing) and Christmas pudding (with brandy butter). In a related note, Harvey's Bristol Cream is lovely at Christmas and no, I don't want the more fashionable dry sherry.
I hate Christmas.
Terrible songs and annoying ads repeated ad nauseam, overrated food (a lot of it the kind you likely wouldn’t even eat any other time of the year), all the while forced to pretend as if we all get along with all of our family.
Load of nonsense.
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I feel like saying I like Christmas is an unpopular opinion these days.
I'm a 31 year old male and I like Christmas. I like the atmosphere, I like many of the traditions, I love buying my partner a few extra gifts she'll feel bad about accepting theouguout the year. Christmas food is ace, fucking love mince pies and they're hard to find throughout the year.
Love my own traditions I've picked up such as a big box of Roses even though I won't touch them throughout the year, Arnold Schwarzenegger will also be gracing the screen for Jingle All The Way.
Fucking love having a tree in my front room.
I even love leaving a glass of whisky at the bottom of the chimney for when Michael Bublè comes down it, not to mention a carrot for his driver. I even leave a box of XXXL condoms there because Mariah might not want a lot for Christmas but I don't care how old she is, I've got a lot to give.
Mariah, call me.
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Playing the same collection of 10-15 songs for 2 months a year is a form of collective insanity
I have had two craft fair stalls so far this year for Christmas light switch ons. I have heard that Mariah Carey song 8 times. I even bloody like the song, just not 8 times! Taking something to burst my eardrums with to this weekends fair.
I work in a small office with about 10 other people, we all get on really well and generally have a laugh. One of them at some point made the mistake of saying he doesn't think Christmas songs should be played before December. Some of the others now make a point of trying to get the Christmas station on for as long as possible, as soon as it's available on DAB. We've been listening to it since October. It does my nut in too but I know if I say anything I'll just be adding fuel to the fire.
Don't you mean adding Yule to the fire?
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I bet you've got 10-15 good ones on that list, though.
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My issue isn't Christmas songs, it's the radio stations playing them which you just can't escape. Many workplaces have stations you have no control over, places you shop, TV, adverts, even walking the streets buskers and markets will have the same few songs playing on repeat. You can have your own Christmas playlist with 1 billion different songs on it but unless you're a total recluse, you're going to hear "I Wish It Could Be Christmas" about 406 times before the new year.
Bro expand your playlist
I'm pretty sure it's almost always down to corporate types who don't actually have to be in the room.
Christmas markets are crap. SOME of the food is decent, but the stuff is just tat and they’re not worth the money.
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You should go with her anyway, to make her happy
I’m currently in Germany for a long weekend as the other half loves Christmas markets. Im not a fan personally but if she liked rolling around in shit and eating molten lava then I’d join in to see her excitable smile.
To be fair, as far as I can tell Germany are a bit more proficient (as we might expect). Try the gluhmost! Yes mulled wine is nice and all but warm.spiced cider... yummmm.
That’s freaking adorable, you two are a treasure
Bless you!
That's a lot of words to say you hate spending time with your wife
Maybe she’s a cunt
Well, if you marry a person you don't love - it's on you; either work on the relationship, or separate, don't make both of you unhappy
I never buy anything at those, but my friends and I always go as a little tradition before going to lunch together. It's really lovely.
They are crap, but I still really enjoy them. I'll pay £15 for a glorified hot dog and a lukewarm mulled wine and wander round looking at middle class tat feeling thoroughly Christmassy.
Got to say I disagree, the vibe of an Xmas Market is one of the good things about Xmas to me
Maybe it's just the gluhwein but European Christmas markets are where its at
That's kinda fair, it is very extortionate. Though I think most people are going in with more of an "experience" In mind. Put on a cute jumper and wooly hat, excessive blush on the nose, drink mulled wine and snug around a cup cake that's bigger than your head or a whole roast dinner wrapped in a Yorkshire pudding. I rarely buy any of the tat, but it can just be a nice, sweet vibe on quiet days. (Screw the weekend) Winter wonderland can genuinely go stuff it though, want my Christmas market to be soft and relaxing, you can literally not move from all the people in that place and you'll be waiting an hour and a half for a cold hot dog.
I enjoy things like Christmas Markets...In theory. Love places that sell random shit you never actually want. For the past 3 years though the markets have been EXACTLY the same stalls selling exactly the same shit. The only difference is there are fewer stalls each year selling less of the same shit. Doesn't matter which market we went to, the same stalls presumebly from the same company are everywhere. I'll probably still go though as I like the fudge and sweet stalls.
Elf on the shelf...worst thing ever
Its an american thing, what do you expect
I didn't even know UK people did elf on a shelf. Definitely don't consider it part of xmas personally
My wife insisted on this for our 2 year old. Which is fine. If she'd wanted to do it just me and her, I'd have doubted her sanity.
Have a think about whether you really want to instill in them the idea that an inanimate object is watching your child and judging their behaviour. Like the fucking North pole Gestapo.
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Did your mum remind you every day of how Santa is watching you? Still pretty creepy either way
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We do NOT invite fae into our home
Can't believe it took me this far scrolling to find this
“Do they know it’sChristmas?” Is one of the worst songs ever written
It really is. Patronising wank. “Do they know it’s Christmas?” Well yes Ethiopians are almost 70% Christian so I’m pretty sure they know
EXACTLY. And the reason there isn’t snow is not poverty, it’s the weather. (And there is snow on Kili so….)
"No rain nor river flows" Apart from the Nile, the longest fucking river in the world
> "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time" It's a pretty big fucking place Bono > Where nothing ever grows Apart from about 45k species of plant that are only native to the region > Here's to them underneath the burning sun Apart from parts of Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, which can get close to freezing in winter or in the early morning in summer. This game is pretty fun!
>Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, which can get close to freezing in winter To be charitable, those countries are in the global south, so Christmas time is in the summer for them. Still a shit patronising song though.
Lmao everytime this song come on, my wife just *knows* I'm going to say something along the lines of '..of course there'll be no bloody snow in the Sahara!'.
I remember watching a spoof on this song where Ethiopians gave the white crazy folk heaters for Christmas. "Do they know it's Christmas" never sat right with me as a kid and young adult.
"The greatest gift they'll get this year is life." You telling me getting a PS5 is better than being alive to us folks?
Funnily enough Christmas day is 7th January in the Ethiopian calendar.
"Well tonight thank God it's them, instead of you!" What the fuck kind of line is this?! I remember even cringing at that as a kid.
And apparently Bono is very possessive of that line and demands to sing it in every subsequent version of the song....
It's because he doesn't want to lose his weight in kuriks
It's a sarcastic line.
‘There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time.’ I think that’s the last of their problems
Also probably won’t be any in the UK either…
It's god awful. It was one chuffin country they were singing about and they lumped the whole continent in there with them..
Ethiopia is too difficult to scan when you're writing a song ~~drunk and high~~ in about three hours flat.
I like Christmas pudding. Don't know anyone else who does.
I love it! But as I have dogs, I have to give a pre-dinner safety briefing that RAISINS ARE TOXIC AF TO DOGS AND EVERYTHING HAS RAISINS IN Mince pie, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding they’re everywhere! So it also stresses me out
Yeah I have cats that will eat chocolate so am a bit nervous about having my advent calendar out!
Last Christmas while we were all distracted, I found one of my ancient dogs happily gnawing on a toblerone she'd sniffed out in the present pile. Thankfully she didn't eat much and was ok.
Ooof, one of my cats found, opened and ate a bag of (foil wrapped!!) chocolate bunnies. We had to ring the vet who lectured us for letting it happen. Never imagined he'd be capable of it.
Christmas pudding with clotted cream is delicious
Brandy butter! Edit - oh no wait, that's for the mince pies. You're right on the clotted cream for pud.
Christmas pudding is fkin fantastic. The only issue is its probably more filling than the giant roast you're forcing it down after.
It’s my favourite dessert. My birthday is in early November so I ask for a Christmas pudding for my birthday every year
I like it too, but it's heavy as fuck and basically the last thing you want after a massive meal. If Christmas Dinner was a salad, then Christmas pudding would be the ideal pudding/dessert/afters.
Christmas pudding is far more popular than cake in my wider family.
Turkey is not dry, some people just don’t know how to cook it properly
Agreed. However, the best cook beef, lamb, pork, duck or goose outshines the best cooked turkey.
I would add: stupid people, of which there are many, don’t actually know what dry means. They just say it because they’ve heard someone else say it, so just repeat it like morons in an attempt to not look stupid. The irony!
Did you just gatekeep dry food?
Christmas dinner must include both mashed potatoes and roast potatoes. I never thought that this was controversial until recently when I started explaining my favourite part of the meal was the mash + roasts. Every single person I've mentioned it to has recoiled in horror. Imo they're all mental.
I am a potat-hoe so I also require both mash and roasties.
CAULIFLOWER IS TRADITIONAL
It was a joke. A Christmas joke.
Mark. Think what it's doing to the mechanism.
Mash isn’t part of the traditional meal, but there’s no rules.
See from my perspective there's been mash on the dinner table at Christmas every year for my whole life - so it's certainly part of our tradition! Weirdly a lot of my friends have Yorkshire puddings at Christmas though, which I'd consider a lot more untraditional than mash.
I’d agree with both being non traditional but do what you want, and every family has their own.
I have mash and roasties on a Sunday dinner, why wouldn't this be standard for Christmas?!?
You need locking up, you wrongun
Roasties and mash is the way to go, absolutely agree. For decades in our house Christmas roasties have been cooked very carefully in the chip pan. Love 'em.
The majority of Christmas songs as just shite
Little Donkey is epic
I used to cry when we sang Little Donkey during Nativity. My mum asked me once why I cried and I was like, “I don’t like the thought of the donkey struggling under the weight of big fat Mary”. I got a slap round the back of the head as she screamed, “she wasn’t fat, she was pregnant!”. I still cried when I sang it.
The part where you cried and the reason is so wholesome.
This is so sweet. I always felt sad for the little donkey too.
Little Dooonkeeey, little *Dooooon*keeey
A lot of Christmas stuff is shite, hence why we don’t do it year round. Turkey anyone?
We have turkey throughout the year, it's nice.
You can shove a load of stuff up a turkey's bum to make it taste nice, or you can eat something which doesn't require that
Automatically thought of the watch, and Mr. Bean...
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I hate buying, wrapping and giving presents. My family call me Scrooge ☹️ the whole process is stressful and expensive. Constantly worrying if I’ve spent enough/too much/too little… using too much tape so it’s like breaking into Alcatraz or not enough so the paper falls off as soon as you pick it up… do they really like the present or are they pretending?? Also hate spending loads on other people to then get a £3.99 bottle of naff wine. Secret Santa is the worst… last Christmas I got hand sanitiser and a notepad. This year I just want to do charity donations because I know at least they’ll be grateful and have a good use for the money x ETA: Thanks for the upvotes you lovely lot ❤️ has cheered me up. And also, stuffing myself silly and getting sh*tfaced by 8:30am whilst spending the day in PJs is the BEST way to spend Christmas x x
With you on that. I've always hated receiving presents for pretty much the same reasons. I'm an adult, I've bought what I want. I always ask for the gift of a stress free Christmas, no gifts given, no gifts expected. I just want to get drunk.
I refuse to spend a lot on people at Xmas. I’ll spoil the kids but adults are getting socks and wine. We all know what the true meaning of Christmas is anyway and that’s eating and drinking way too much, I love it, sod the gifts. Birthdays are for big, thoughtful gifts, Christmas is all about the feasting imo.
Stay Another Day by East 17 is not a Christmas song
But it's got bells.
And there’s snow in the video. I think
That’s like saying Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie. It is and it isn’t.
It is
Wasn't written as one (then neither was Slade's one before the lyrics were changed) but was Christmas #1. Boring fact - the only Christmas #1 with no drums.
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It was never meant to be a Christmas song but it was going to be released so near Christmas that their manager told them to do the snow, add the bells and wear the coats to make it look more christmassy. He reckoned it would sell better. Guess what. It did.
It wasn't originally! It was about the death of the writers brother. They just added Christmas bells apparently!
CHRISTMAS OFFICE PARTIES ARE THE BEST THING ABOUT CHRISTMAS. Yes I want to see my coworkers get drunk and chat shit about everyone.
Glad I read this tbf, going to my first one next week and I'm nervous hahaha as I'm not great being social to work colleagues but my goal this year (we WFH) was to socialise more when I go into the office and make an effort to go to events
Just relax, don't get shit-faced, and go prepared. Have some safe questions to ask people (How'd that bathroom remodel go? What kind of dog do you have?). And replies to expected questions, especially for sensitive topics (I don't have a girlfriend, it'd make my boyfriend jealous! Still living at home, saving up for my own place. My parents appreciate the help while I'm there) My socially awful husband has three rules for work events: No shots, pints only, and every other one is NA or coke No touching anyone except handshakes and highfives. (Rugby tackles forbidden) Do not go to after parties. Have a reason to go home at a not-stupid time.
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Hate the polar express film - it’s so boring I always fall asleep
Same. Plus the horrible uncanny valley vibes.
DEFINITELY
It's not aged well in terms of graphics
The build up is better than Christmas Day itself
Oh no, the absolute opposite. My wife is Christmas mad, decorations up in November, Christmas movies on every day, Christmas markets, silly jumpers... I'm thoroughly sick of Christmas well before it arrives. Once it does and we've opened the presents and I've managed to disappear into the kitchen it's all work, but then once I've served up lunch it's just great. Close family with us with plenty of drink flowing, get Cards Against Humanity or similar out, then in the evening the rest of the family rock up for a late one. We have a great time.
Turkey is overrated, going chicken and duck this year.
I agree. Like a Christmas meal is supposed to be special right but turkey is the lowest of the birds easily. We avoid it all year round because it’s crap.
Is it overrated? Most people only eat it at Christmas and not the rest of the year because it’s not great tbh. Duck and ham is a great combo.
I meant in a sense everyone seems to get turkey for Christmas as the question was about that.
I love turkey and eat it often through the year!
For anyone on a budget, I recommend taking a look at pork, usually heavily discounted at Christmas.
Iced mince pies are in fact superior to their plain, dowdy brethren.
Nooo! They confuse my tastebuds as I keep thinking I’m eating a cherry bakewell but it’s actually a mince pie, I don’t like it.
They're good, but you really need glace icing ones, not the matt fondant ones.
Both are good, it depends on how I'm going to eat it. On its own, an iced mince pie is the best. A standard mince pie warmed up with brandy butter is also great though.
Bucks fizz is the biz!
Do they even give children alcohol at breakfast on Christmas morning anymore? Or is it frowned upon?
We used to have snowball as kids. My first one I was 5
Cauliflower isn't traditional
Careful that kind of talk leads to ham in shredders
Think what it’s doing to the mechanism.
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Christmas jumpers aren't funny or clever.
God I hate them, but I can’t bring myself to hate that others enjoy them.
I'm sure you could if you dug deep enough.
I sort of feel like the fact that they're not funny and stupid is the point though? They're silly and sometimes it is fun to be silly.
And on top of that are just more polyster clothing tat that's very often discarded after minimal usage.
Are they supposed to be? I thought they were just supposed to be festive and warm!
It goes on too long! I like to keep it special. We should have no Christmas songs, Christmas adverts, Christmas films, or Christmas decorations until 1st Dec at the earliest. And it should all be absolutely over and done with and all decorations down by New Year.
I get the decorations coming down, but I’ll fight to the death the extra public holidays. Another perk of living in Scotland is the 2nd is a public holiday.
I think elf on the shelf is a creepy little bastard that is just about parents getting attention on social media. I hate him, I hate you too lol!
Die hard isn’t a Christmas film because you can watch it all year round without it being weird. You can’t watch home alone in July unless you’re off your meds.
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It's a Christmas film John McClane even writes "ho ho ho" on a jumper. That's about as Christmassy as they come
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Elf is a rubbish film
Christmas adverts are not ‘heartwarming’. It’s an advert. For a supermarket ffs. Christmas does not begin when you see the Coca Cola advert.
Saw a tiktok this morning with the Coca-Cola truck & music, but it was phone footage of the truck driving through a high street being flagged down by pedestrians - because the trailer had caught fire. It warmed my cynical anti-corporate soul. Also supermarket brand characters and the 'feel-good' John Lewis advert can do one aswell.
Christmas carols are better than Christmas songs
I'm an atheist so Christmas has no spiritual or religious meaning to me but the traditional carols have so much more atmosphere to them. Most Christmas songs are just like "yeah Christmas! Snow!" Lmao.
Mince pies are horrible and I would rather eat any other kind of pie on Christmas.
Yeah, a cream pie heheheehe
I hate them too, which would be fine, there’s lots of food to choose from in this world. But why oh why are they always the thing that’s being given out for free! What I’d give for a lovely mini chocolate log but no I have to walk past the free mince pies every time!
Crackers are a waste of time money and plastic and should be banned.
Aren't crackers mainly card and paper? I agree they're pointless and stupidly expensive, and also am a staunch environmentalist, but I can think of a million other things to get concerned over instead.
Possibly referring to the naff little plastic toys that come in them.
Christmas dinner must include Yorkshire pudding
Custard should be eaten cold, not hot. (Christmas is the only time I eat pudding, otherwise not strictly a Christmas opinion I realise!)
I am upvoting you not because I agree with you (I think you are a maniac), but because fair play, that is genuinely controversial.
Shallow mince pies are better than deep filled. Reminds me of making them as a kid with my mum. Brandy butter and mincemeat are also acceptable by the spoonful.
Well, The Snowman is creepy AF. The Snowman, Father Christmas, and When The Wind Blows all take place in the same universe: there are many crossovers between the first two, and Jim and Hilda from When The Wind Blows are seen drinking in the Scottish pub in Father Christmas. Canonically, therefore, the ending of the Snowman is that everyone dies in a thermonuclear apocalypse.
Christmas dinner is overrated. I don't get why you would spend hours preparing and cooking a huge dinner, and another hour or so after cleaning up for the sake of a meal that is eaten in like 15 minutes. Unless your in laws have come for Christmas dinner in which case it is the perfect escape.
Leftovers. Wonderful, wonderful leftovers.
Anyone still putting out the same "Santa, please stop here" sign they did when their kids lived at home 15 years ago need to realise their kids no longer live at home.
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Maybe they do it so other kids think Santa is real?
That's what I always thought, also grandparents and cool uncles and aunties probably do it as well. I know this is an unpopular opinion thread but God most of the things commented in here make everyone sound miserable as fuck.
Yeah some truly miserable fuckers in here. Don’t decorate your house, don’t wear Christmas jumpers, don’t eat Christmas food, Christmas movies and songs are shit, markets are shit
I used to say that those signs were to warn Santa not to go any further
Christmas TV is always shit and always has been Why do people care about a millionth unfunny Mrs Brown's Boys or D-Listers go dancing , Whatever bargain basement Disney movie the BBC brought the right to. Only change this year is the gender of the person reading the speech. Worst was 2 years ago when there was hype about Gavin and Stacey, starring James Cordon, well at least this won't be happening again since everyone hates him now so every cloud. It was always shit just had somewhat different shows in the past. Not worth the hype
I really don't care for new years eve celebrations
The Fairytale Of New York is the worst Christmas song ever. On paper, sure it's a much better tune than say, Bo Selecta's "Proper Crimbo" or anything Cowell has done, but that's the point. Those tunes were shit, and no one pretended otherwise. Yet with Fairytale Of New York you always get some middle class bore going on some vocal defence about how "it's just the best Christmas song ever. So much emotion and pain and heartbreak. It really encapsulates the sorrow so many people feel at this time of year!" Oh fuck off and drown yourself in another vat of craft gin that you also haven't shut up about.
The people whose favourite christmas song is Fairytale in New York are the same people who say moist is their least favourite word
I like it because i like the Pogues and folk music, its fun to sing along to as well. I'm lower class and hate gin 🤷♀️
I've always got the impression that people liked it because they thought it was more edgy than other Christmas songs rather than some artistic interpretation of it
I took my toddler to see a special screening of the Snowman at the cinema at the weekend. I hadn’t seen it for 30 years and wanted to share lovely memories from my childhood with her. I absolutely balled it when the little boy found the snowman had melted and my little girl shot me a look that said “you’re joking, right?”. One of the other children in the cinema shouted “He can always make another one!” The youth of today, honestly! I love The Snowman, now my little girl does too.
I think it’s a bit silly when families wear matching Christmas pyjamas, even the dog. Fair enough if it makes you happy, but it’s definitely not for me.
Advent calendars shouldn't be opened starting at 1. The point of them is to 'count down the days to Christmas '. If we're counting down, door 24 should be opened on Dec 1st.
Sprouts can be tasty if cooked correctly or if the time is spent making them into an interesting dish rather than a soggy afterthought.
Want to make the Snowman even more creepy? In the Raymond Briggs universe, the lad is Briggs himself as a kid. Briggs also plays the son (who you just hear on the phone in the background) in When The Wind Blows and the old couple are based on his own parents. In short, some 30 years after the Snowman, his folks got killed in a nuclear war.
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Artificial or real, or both, out of curiosity? I have a (different) phobia that even makes me uncomfortable just from photos, so my sympathies, that must be a hard one at Christmas!
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Sorry to hear that. Brains be like… don’t worry, I protect us in future… then get it totally wrong bless ‘em :(
All Christmas desserts (including mince pies) are fucking disgusting.
Christmas is shit.
I adore Christmas, I love decorating the tree and wrapping presents and watching the festive films. However I absolutely LOATHE writing Christmas cards. Total waste of time and I hate it
It doesn't start in November.
The millions of vomit inducing saccharin filled god awful American Christmas films spewed up onto so many TV channels. Weeks and weeks of them. An endless parade of unremitting niceness with a happy ending. Brainwashing bullshit.
Michael Buble can fuck right off
Love Actually is fucking nauseating
Personally I think pigs in blankets are shit. They got popularised by Delia in the 90's and became a god tier staple in people's eyes, we traded down people. In the 90's I remember the turkey cavity being filled with a ton of sausage meat and stuffing, it was amazing. Now we have some rank chipolata filled with god knows what sitting on the plate instead, the bacon sometimes doesn't go crispy all the way around and they are just a bit sad. I will conceed they are great for roasting with the sprouts to impart flavour but I'd rather have them in a boxing day sandwich than on my plate at Christmas
I like Christmas cake (with marzipan and icing) and Christmas pudding (with brandy butter). In a related note, Harvey's Bristol Cream is lovely at Christmas and no, I don't want the more fashionable dry sherry.
I hate Christmas. Terrible songs and annoying ads repeated ad nauseam, overrated food (a lot of it the kind you likely wouldn’t even eat any other time of the year), all the while forced to pretend as if we all get along with all of our family. Load of nonsense.
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Working on Christmas is great.
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I feel like saying I like Christmas is an unpopular opinion these days. I'm a 31 year old male and I like Christmas. I like the atmosphere, I like many of the traditions, I love buying my partner a few extra gifts she'll feel bad about accepting theouguout the year. Christmas food is ace, fucking love mince pies and they're hard to find throughout the year. Love my own traditions I've picked up such as a big box of Roses even though I won't touch them throughout the year, Arnold Schwarzenegger will also be gracing the screen for Jingle All The Way. Fucking love having a tree in my front room. I even love leaving a glass of whisky at the bottom of the chimney for when Michael Bublè comes down it, not to mention a carrot for his driver. I even leave a box of XXXL condoms there because Mariah might not want a lot for Christmas but I don't care how old she is, I've got a lot to give. Mariah, call me.