[Octillus]

My holiday is already in full swing while I have finals and work to do.

Sucks being a jew.

[swervedriver]

The term "X-mas" doesn't sit right with me for some reason. That said, I like christmas as a time to spend with my family, as these days none of us are all in the same house very often anymore so that makes these kind of things special. Luckily a lot of shit from the past between one of my brothers and the others is in the past, so these get-togethers are truly enjoyable.

I like the lights, but in moderation. Unfortunately more and more people are going overboard and making everything look like a damn funfair. I'm not a religious person but I do feel this as a religious holiday, I really don't care for all the commercialized shit, least of all the Santa Claus figure. Perhaps that's also where my aversion for the term x-mas comes from.

read the first page or so of this and found myself yawning. Much 'too cool for Christmas' posturing and little in the way of wisdom (except Steph's mention of the Vince Guaraldi trio, which is on heavy rotation chez Rhomboid at this time of year - one of the very best things about Christmas).

It's all about money and materialism... oh rilly? Let he who has not crowed over his latest import Japanese Norwegian avant noise boxset in the Recent Purchases thread cast the first mince pie, otherwise, y'know, shut the fuck up.

Oh, my parents make us get together and pretend we're all a happy family... Oh the rotten fuckers! Perhaps that's because they remember when you were a kid (probably less than ten years ago for most of you) and got really excited about Christmas and really enjoyed it. Before you turned into existentialist post-modern Kevin the Moody Teenager.

No sex... Whut? Did someone really say that? You mean the rest of the year you are getting laid left right and centre but suddenly on Christmas your partner(s) clam up on you? You're too bloated with mince pies to get it up? Or you don't get any the rest of the year either? In which case try better personal hygiene - works a treat.

Too many flashing lights... uh-huh. Do you complain after metal shows that they have too many flashing lights as well? Be serious.

Tell you what, just hold your breath on the 24th/25th and then you can celebrate Kwanzaa for a whole week instead.

Xmas is awesome. Presents, good meal, and getting monged with your family. Good times.

With regards to the religious part, I guess it depends on where you come from. In the UK, the religious part is completely optional, and quite a lot of people (if not most) celebrate it as "secular getting presents, good meal, and getting monged with your family day". Good times.

I like Christmas. I don't like the time of the year running up to Christmas because school and now college work swamps me, but once I'm out of that, I love it. I love working at Christmas. It's always good craic and there's just a nice air about the place. Kinda diminished last year due to financial boo hoo across the country but I'm hoping for better this year.

Either way, I like Christmas. Sure the lights everywhar can be annoying and yeah it's all just the usual commercial materialism of the year before it times two, but still. The feeling of Christmas is usually great because of the sense of nostalgia, and it tends to just have a certain warm atmosphere, in spite of the cold... And if the music annoys you just turn your headphones up, or put on the Sinatra Christmas Album cos that shit is awesome.

Religious part has nothing to do with enjoying or disliking Christmas, in my eyes, unless obviously you're a religion that doesn't buy into those concepts...

[swervedriver]

One more thing to add to this thread:

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<3 Reuben

I work in HMV the only media shop in aberdeen, people at this time are greedy needy evil things.


that being said despite what retail can make you feel about christmas time i fucking LOVE christmas day, really i see most of my family (sister and mother live in other countries) but i see my dad the steps and the inlaws and i am deliriously happy... merry christmas everyone


p.s usually i get special christmas sex, so if i didn't get it i'd be pretty gutted

I went out to dinner at a lovely little Italian restaurant last night with my sister's family and a couple friends. Afterwards my sis, nephew and I drove to a local business called Senske, who specialize in lawn maintenance and exterior Christmas light decorating. They have the building, surrounding 30+ trees and other decor decked out with lights timed to music airing from their own radio station. We sat back and tuned in - all the lights were programmed and synced in time to the songs. It was NEAT! Lots of cars parked watching the show. They're doing this every night until the end of the month.

Fast song came on and my nephew, who's 9, insisted on getting out of the car in 10 degree weather so he could jump up and down and...clog. He's a bit loony. Then he accidently slammed his hand into the side view mirror. It was great.

read the first page or so of this and found myself yawning. Much 'too cool for Christmas' posturing and little in the way of wisdom (except Steph's mention of the Vince Guaraldi trio, which is on heavy rotation chez Rhomboid at this time of year - one of the very best things about Christmas).

It's all about money and materialism... oh rilly? Let he who has not crowed over his latest import Japanese Norwegian avant noise boxset in the Recent Purchases thread cast the first mince pie, otherwise, y'know, shut the fuck up.

Oh, my parents make us get together and pretend we're all a happy family... Oh the rotten fuckers! Perhaps that's because they remember when you were a kid (probably less than ten years ago for most of you) and got really excited about Christmas and really enjoyed it. Before you turned into existentialist post-modern Kevin the Moody Teenager.

No sex... Whut? Did someone really say that? You mean the rest of the year you are getting laid left right and centre but suddenly on Christmas your partner(s) clam up on you? You're too bloated with mince pies to get it up? Or you don't get any the rest of the year either? In which case try better personal hygiene - works a treat.

Too many flashing lights... uh-huh. Do you complain after metal shows that they have too many flashing lights as well? Be serious.

Tell you what, just hold your breath on the 24th/25th and then you can celebrate Kwanzaa for a whole week instead.

It's always great when I can pretty fully agree with Billy on an issue.

It's very odd that so few people around where I live are actually putting lights up anymore. I think of it as a sign of the season. It's only once a year anyways. But very few people in my neighborhood(my street specifically) have been putting lights up.

I'm just hoping our Christmas this year will actually be cold (read: cool, to everyone north of Florida anywhere in the world, excluding you Aussies...I definitely feel for you on that problem)

A cold Christmas would SUCK! Christmas is for wearing shorts, havin' a barbie and a cold beer!

[Octillus]

read the first page or so of this and found myself yawning. Much 'too cool for Christmas' posturing and little in the way of wisdom (except Steph's mention of the Vince Guaraldi trio, which is on heavy rotation chez Rhomboid at this time of year - one of the very best things about Christmas).

It's all about money and materialism... oh rilly? Let he who has not crowed over his latest import Japanese Norwegian avant noise boxset in the Recent Purchases thread cast the first mince pie, otherwise, y'know, shut the fuck up.

Oh, my parents make us get together and pretend we're all a happy family... Oh the rotten fuckers! Perhaps that's because they remember when you were a kid (probably less than ten years ago for most of you) and got really excited about Christmas and really enjoyed it. Before you turned into existentialist post-modern Kevin the Moody Teenager.

No sex... Whut? Did someone really say that? You mean the rest of the year you are getting laid left right and centre but suddenly on Christmas your partner(s) clam up on you? You're too bloated with mince pies to get it up? Or you don't get any the rest of the year either? In which case try better personal hygiene - works a treat.

Too many flashing lights... uh-huh. Do you complain after metal shows that they have too many flashing lights as well? Be serious.

Tell you what, just hold your breath on the 24th/25th and then you can celebrate Kwanzaa for a whole week instead.

It's always great when I can pretty fully agree with Billy on an issue.

It's very odd that so few people around where I live are actually putting lights up anymore. I think of it as a sign of the season. It's only once a year anyways. But very few people in my neighborhood(my street specifically) have been putting lights up.

I'm just hoping our Christmas this year will actually be cold (read: cool, to everyone north of Florida anywhere in the world, excluding you Aussies...I definitely feel for you on that problem)

I absolutely agree on the holiday sentiment, but you know my holiday changes every year and some years it ends up in the middle of finals like this year. *SIGH* at least it's a relatively minor holiday for us.

I always get really depressed in winter time/Christmas time so it's hard for me to get into the spirit. I like spending time with family and having a vacation from work, but nothing else really excites me about the holiday anymore.

Maybe once I have kids things will change.

I just realized I resurrected this thread and listed nothing. Positive nor negative.

[Keeker]

And we forgot all about it this year.

The holidays are fine as long as you're with family, so long as you like them of course.
Otherwise it can kiss my hum-bug ridden ass.

But it's over now.