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Fuck Xmas
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Can I have time for a little rant please.
Xmas. It's not what it used to be when I was a kid. I don't look forward to it in the same way I used to, even though the kids faces are a pleasure to watch on the morning.
Getting ready is stressful, buying the food and making sure all the presents are bought. The consumerism starts too bloody early now, so by the time December comes I'm already overdosing on Xmas songs and decorations.
Then there's the day itself. Seriously when did cooking, washing up and cooking again become enjoyable?
Rant over.
Xmas. It's not what it used to be when I was a kid. I don't look forward to it in the same way I used to, even though the kids faces are a pleasure to watch on the morning.
Getting ready is stressful, buying the food and making sure all the presents are bought. The consumerism starts too bloody early now, so by the time December comes I'm already overdosing on Xmas songs and decorations.
Then there's the day itself. Seriously when did cooking, washing up and cooking again become enjoyable?
Rant over.
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My parents, however, a generation to which you might pass belonging :razz: are always stressed the fuck out and grumpy too. It's probably a conditioning like Pawlow's dog. As soon as christmas rolls on you need to become depressive.
As a former worker for the ambulance I can attest that there are a lot of suicides and attempts too on christmas.
Anyway, merry Christmas to all of you anyway
Bloody kids can wash up this year, lazy buggers!
That's very decent of you. My missus would be told to buck her ideas up and sent on a Mrs Beeton-esque Household Management course.
And get down t'pit afterwards! :d
Tried that. Hospital food isn't that nice.
Only after they done the chimney.
I used to hate christmas when I was a teenager because of how stressed things got at home, exams at school, not having money and so on. Now that I'm grown up I found out I started enjoying it more, I just do things at my own pace. Then again, I don't know if the pressure will change once there's a kid and a half in play. In two or three years we need to start making up our minds whether to celebrate on the 24th or 25th since my bloke's kid is always with her mum on the 24th and us on the 25th.
Of course, I'm insanely chilled this year as I'm eating with my parents tomorrow and on christmas day as well as being pregnant on sick leave due to being an invalid when it comes to doing stuff. My bloke has mastered the line "you just stay still, let me do it" :d
And that, my love, is why you are single
I wish that was the reason I was single! Life would be a lot easier.
Just got to cook it now.
no fucking way im washing up though
I'm a man of routine and I hate little things like Christmas ruining my routines.
Or just don't celebrate, there's always that.
yea, agree. I never go out on christmas. This yea I've been with my family at our weekend wooden cabin. fireplace was on (we have no other means of heating there
goodness... almost as if people had been doing it for years until some jumped up religion decided to overlay it's origin story on top...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hRL-C-Thq8
:mad:
Nah, Saturnalia was replaced by Halloween.
The Christmas feast is a typical pragmatic midwinter event - they co-opted the feast of Sol(or Helios) Invictus (and stole the iconography too), but might as easily have gone for the solstice.
Without our principles Franki m'dear, where would we be?
Leader of the Lib Dems?