Christmas-specific rants

[AllanB]

Bah Humbug and all that. Post up some Christmas specific rants.

Traffic - why does the driving skills of at least 50% of road users get worse at Christmas? Chill out, relax - you will still get there and if you are late to work, doctor or a anal bleaching appointment (must look ones best for Christmas) just blame the traffic.

Rebel Sports & Briscoes TV adverts - how many friggen sales can you have in the month before Xmas? Worst thing is that you just know the item(s) you purchased on sale pre-Xmas will be further discounted on boxing day.

Christmas Day and Family obligations - arrrrrrr juggling the day between two families (or more). Every year I state - NO MORE we are going away on holiday next year (and we never do). 7.00 pm on the 25th will find me nackered, probably annoyed and ranting on KB .......

[haydes55]

Too lazy to buy presents, no idea what to buy, hard to ship presents on the back of my bike.....

Problem solved, Donating money to charity instead of buying presents, friends and family are getting good karma for Xmas.

[caspernz]

Oh yeah, the retail sectors' enthusiasm for Christmas makes me wonder whether anyone still knows the meaning of Christmas

The traffic is annoying and amusing, the open road must be sooooo terrifying to some city slickers who never venture beyond the city limits for the rest of the year

And the amusement continues on petrol station forecourts. When I'm dropping a load of fuel into the servo tanks, it never ceases to amaze me the number of folks who pull up with the filler cap on the wrong side...then curse at the pump hose being too short. Nothing to do with them parking too far forward and far away from the pump island never mind on the wrong side to start with. Never gets old

Long given up doing Xmas prezzies. Now we just buy what we want, usually at the Boxing Day sales. Helps only having a few family members in this country though.

The worst part for me is that this time of year I have to book a table at the pub across the road. Still within 200 steps though

[bogan]

My main annoyance with christ-so-called-mas is that only the fat guys get dressed up, and not even in slutty outfits. Compared to halloween this is just a lot of hullaballo about nothing.

[awa355]

Friggin 'family xmas movies' on tv, Infact, anything on tv.

[AllanB]

Friggin 'family xmas movies' on tv, Infact, anything on tv.

I drag out 'Love Actually' each year. Best Xmas movie ever - even some boob in it. It's my movie guilty pleasure.

[Edbear]

Xmas is one of the biggest con jobs ever foisted on the world. I boycott it on principle. I don't need to be dictated to by commerce and fairy stories to have fun with friends and family.

[Akzle]

im offended that society has come so far from the reason for the season.



christmas is a pagan shrooming festival.

[SVboy]

Shorai are one of the biggest con jobs ever foisted on the world. I boycott it on principle. I don't need to be dictated to by commerce and fairy stories to have fun with friends and family.[/QUOTE]

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[neels]

I despair at the amount of xmas crap that adorns the retail parts of the world, which usually I actively avoid but at this time of the year I am seemingly obliged to share with the shopping zombie creatures.

Saddens me greatly the amount of the earths resources consumed to create stuff that's destined for the skip on boxing day, to be replaced with boxing day sale crap that is destined for the skip bin shortly after as well.

[mossy1200]

Half my motorbike has been built on xmas present ordering for myself from my wife sometimes without her knowledge. Bless her heart. Ill get her a card instead of making one this year.

[Virago]

Like most, the pre-Christmas hype annoys me - although we do the last minute present shopping and have to suffer the crowds. The TV ads are intolerable, and the inescapable Christmas jingle-jangle music really irritates.

Come Christmas day, the grumpiness is over, and it's all about family. We usually host an extended family (and also anyone else we know who might otherwise be alone) - we can have over 20 people for dinner sometimes - for a full traditional Christmas feast. We have large trestle tables butted together, that way we get everyone around a large makeshift table. Yes, we do the present thing, but mainly it's about all being together.

Christmas this year is especially important for us, with our youngest girl heading for England for two years minimum (probably longer) in three weeks time. We will be savouring this last family Christmas together.

[nodrog:Me]

Cheer up you sad cunts, when else can you swap items from The $2 shop for new clothes and alcohol.

[Edbear]

Shorai are one of the biggest con jobs ever foisted on the world. I boycott it on principle. I don't need to be dictated to by commerce and fairy stories to have fun with friends and family.

Sorry, couldn't resist.[/QUOTE]

Lol! The upside is that sales are booming!

[Gremlin]

Re traffic, it's all the idiots getting out doing things when the rest of us are trying to go about our regular business like any other time of the year... except for random car parks of cars on roads that are never that back logged.

Then it's the fact that Christmas (and Boxing Day) is the very best time of year if you want to shut down something critical and move it. No-one should be working... So being in IT, work will probably conclude Christmas Eve some time... then I'll work through Christmas Day and Boxing Day getting back end IT stuff done... *sigh*