Bumping this thread so people can bitch about this particular year.

Main only real peeve this year is the fact I don't get to work on Xmas day. But at least it will be 22 and raining on the day.

[Octillus]

Running a chocolate warehouse, mostly by myself. It's a good job with great people, but hooooooly shit do people want their chocolate in time for X-fest. I'm wiped out every day. I'm also somehow writing my column still, and somewhere in there co-directing a feature length film.

Just put me out of my misery.

[Keeker]

Running a chocolate warehouse, mostly by myself. It's a good job with great people, but hooooooly shit do people want their chocolate in time for X-fest. I'm wiped out every day. I'm also somehow writing my column still, and somewhere in there co-directing a feature length film.

Just put me out of my misery.

I'll buy you some chocolate.

Aite... gonna debunk this one this year:

1. True, but some of it isn't. My strategy is to find nice Christmas music to play when other people want to put on horrible shit
2. WHICH IS WHY WE NEED A HOLIDAY! We need an excuse to party when it's dark and cold as shit.
3. That's a shitty reason, and you know it. Spotlights hurt way moar.
4. Did Biert srlsly say that? Woah. It's true. One point to Biert.
5. You get a half point here. Some of us actually put into a shitload of effort and research into getting the exactly right thing for a person. IT'S A SCIENCE!
6. We celebrate Jul in Scandinavia. Jesus is like a later addition that is strictly optional.
7. No presents? Sucks to be Dutch :p
8. Shitty reason, Biert. Tasty food is tasty, and you get to eat it. Win win.
9. None of that pretending business here. We're acting like dicks all year around.
10. Not much doorbell ringing here actually. But charities are good anyway.
11. You tree-hugging tree-homophobe! (okay, you are right about that one)
12. Isn't that the same point as #9?
13. Your tree, your problem
14. Your job, your problem
15. OK, THAT'S IT! CANCEL CHRISTMAS!

15 AWESOME THINGS
1. I get to be home for a month with my friends, pets and family.
2. We get an excuse to celebrate while it's dark and shitty.
3. Presents. Giving and receiving.
4. FOOD.
5. I like the feeling, the smell, some of the decorations, the sounds...
6. BAKING.
7. Our ridiculous "who has an almond in their rice porridge" contest. Don't ask.
8. All the awesome stuff on TV that runs every year
9. People who bitch about Christmas
10. The Christmas market down town. It's almost like a time travel.
11. All those nice Astrid Lindgren stories I indulge in every year.
12. Christmas cards!

Your 3 additional reasons were just silly, so I don't need to come up with more either.

[swervedriver]

I just realised this thread is still missing one statement:

Fuck you biert, and merry christmas to the rest of you.

I think adolescents hating Christmas is a reaction to the fact taht they loved it so much when they were little kids, and anything you loved as a little kid has to be uncool.

ANd yes, almost all of you fall into the category I would define as 'adolescents'. Except Keeks. Who is in her prime.

[Keeker]

I think adolescents hating Christmas is a reaction to the fact taht they loved it so much when they were little kids, and anything you loved as a little kid has to be uncool.

ANd yes, almost all of you fall into the category I would define as 'adolescents'. Except Keeks. Who is in her prime.

Sometimes I think I'm entering my second childhood. Therefore, apart from all the nasty work, I really enjoy shiny, coloured lights quite a lot.

Santa probably won't fill my stocking though. Boooooooo!