Teh unofficial "I hate Christmas" thread

[gomezcat]

I always have done. It reminds me of how I had to borrow a family, growing up, because I'd been in children's homes and then in long-term foster care (for the record, I was always well looked after in both, but I've always been an outsider).

Then's there's the crap time of year, when it's effectively always dark, there's the abysmal music (I am lover of Metal), the "enforced jollity" of parties and gatherings and so on.

Telly is also really, really crap, unless you like listening to a speechwriter scripted monologue from someone with huge amounts of inherited wealth (the Queen's speech).

Oh, and don't get me started on the blandness of Turkey. Why the F*** can't Lamb or Beef be traditional?

 

[tehrick67]

I thought you folks hated dentists

 

[king of kings]

I put up one thing for decorating. The only people I buy christmas presents for is my sister family. I wish people a merry Christmas not happy holidays that PC crap .
This will be the first year since my mom died I celebrated it. Since it was her favorite holiday. Only because I be at my sister house during Christmas.

 

[foley11]

I always have done. It reminds me of how I had to borrow a family, growing up, because I'd been in children's homes and then in long-term foster care (for the record, I was always well looked after in both, but I've always been an outsider).

Then's there's the crap time of year, when it's effectively always dark, there's the abysmal music (I am lover of Metal), the "enforced jollity" of parties and gatherings and so on.

Telly is also really, really crap, unless you like listening to a speechwriter scripted monologue from someone with huge amounts of inherited wealth (the Queen's speech).

Oh, and don't get me started on the blandness of Turkey. Why the F*** can't Lamb or Beef be traditional?

Nobody has a gun to your head making you shove turkey down your neck? By a ****ing roast beef for Christs sake. Oh, and while your at have a merry Christmas.

 

[mikiemo83]

I always have done. It reminds me of how I had to borrow a family, growing up, because I'd been in children's homes and then in long-term foster care (for the record, I was always well looked after in both, but I've always been an outsider).

Then's there's the crap time of year, when it's effectively always dark, there's the abysmal music (I am lover of Metal), the "enforced jollity" of parties and gatherings and so on.

Telly is also really, really crap, unless you like listening to a speechwriter scripted monologue from someone with huge amounts of inherited wealth (the Queen's speech).

Oh, and don't get me started on the blandness of Turkey. Why the F*** can't Lamb or Beef be traditional?

Rent some hardcore porn, cook a prime rib not a bloody turkey and listen to a Metal Christmas

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[mikiemo83]

I thought you folks hated dentists

Herby from Rudolph is the most hated dude in Great Britain!!

 

[Darth Despot]

Maybe because in the US Thanksgiving is the Turkey Holiday it opens up the Christmas menu. I don't remember the last time Turkey was on the Christmas table.

 

[bideau]

Maybe because in the US Thanksgiving is the Turkey Holiday it opens up the Christmas menu. I don't remember the last time Turkey was on the Christmas table.

We always have turkey and ham.

The only thing I hate about Christmas is the shopping. The interweb thingy has taken some of the sting out of that.

 

[chevss454]

I think you must be related to Scrooge. You come from the same place, you know. Ancestry.com may be of great help for understanding your displaced anger.

Meanwhile, have a full glass of Young's Double Chocolate Stout!



And a 6 rib Prime Rib and have a
Merry Christmas!

 

[tehrick67]

Maybe because in the US Thanksgiving is the Turkey Holiday it opens up the Christmas menu. I don't remember the last time Turkey was on the Christmas table.

For Christmas my mother usually makes a roast beef and baked stuffed shrimp. We've also had ham.

 

[Undertaker #59*]

You are going to need to be careful Gomez, you may summon the Krampus.

(saw this last night, was not bad)

 

[patsload]

I always have done. It reminds me of how I had to borrow a family, growing up, because I'd been in children's homes and then in long-term foster care (for the record, I was always well looked after in both, but I've always been an outsider).

Then's there's the crap time of year, when it's effectively always dark, there's the abysmal music (I am lover of Metal), the "enforced jollity" of parties and gatherings and so on.

Telly is also really, really crap, unless you like listening to a speechwriter scripted monologue from someone with huge amounts of inherited wealth (the Queen's speech).

Oh, and don't get me started on the blandness of Turkey. Why the F*** can't Lamb or Beef be traditional?

We have rack of lamb Christmas eve and prime rib roast Christmas day.

 

[tehrick67]

We have rack of lamb Christmas eve and prime rib roast Christmas day.

No poutine:shrug_n:

 

[patsload]

No poutine:shrug_n:

No, but I made some for one of the games this year there's a pic of it in the game day grub thread (was the Giants game)

 

[mikiemo83]

We always have turkey and ham.

The only thing I hate about Christmas is the shopping. The interweb thingy has taken some of the sting out of that.

I miss the shopping with my late brother, it was buy a gift, get a beer, buy a gift, get a beer and repeat until finished.

 

[16-0patsfan]

I do not do the Christmas thing..32 years ago on Christmas eve my ex wife decided to do the partying thing went out drinking with my 6 month old daughter she hat a car head on..my daughter was killed.
Only if I didn't let my daughter go she was to be with me for the holiday eve and I would have taken her to her moms in next day....
Since that day I got remarried...and divorced again but my kids spent the holidays with their mom...I have nothing to do with all the gift buying and tree crap...as far as the holiday I I do what I have to do for the birth of Christ with out all the glamour................

 

[mikiemo83]

I put up one thing for decorating. The only people I buy christmas presents for is my sister family. I wish people a merry Christmas not happy holidays that PC crap .
This will be the first year since my mom died I celebrated it. Since it was her favorite holiday. Only because I be at my sister house during Christmas.

yeah hard day, I always decorated for my Mother. I would have friends come over and string popcorn while having a beer with her as18-19 year old kid.


For me Christmas is tough, as a kid a neighbor passed at the Christmas table and I never got the thought of that out of my head, poor kids Mother passed at Christmas Dinner.

Flash forward many years and IT happens to us. Christmas Day, at the dinner table my Mom's body started to quit on her, I took her home, she shot me up with her insulin (thought it was a reaction) and off to the Hospital. They kept her alive for a couple more days, but she never moved, until I made the decision no one else would.

She came too with a bit of clarity to talk to my sister on the phone, smiled at her 4 boys all around her, stuck her tongue out at me and passed.


Thing is I look at the positive of the experience, like ripping on my dad who thought he was rubbing my mom's back, only it is not my Mom, it was some lady in the room she was in after they moved her upstairs. I told him the next day that the hospital had posters up looking for a pervert who was last seen in the Emergency Room. My kids laugh at the story because my Dad ended up living with us and they know him, the never met my mom.


*Reading this it seems sad but truth is she lived 22 months we were told she most likely would not after her surgery, and of those 22 month, 16 were great. After the surgery/radiation/chemo for pancreatic Cancer she did awesome until the last two weeks, but even then she never stopped living until her body shut down. She went to plays, concerts, visited Europe, even made it to Poland so in actuality it was an enjoyable time until 4 o'clock that December 25th.

 

[tehrick67]

I do not do the Christmas thing..32 years ago on Christmas eve my ex wife decided to do the partying thing went out drinking with my 6 month old daughter she hat a car head on..my daughter was killed.
Only if I didn't let my daughter go she was to be with me for the holiday eve and I would have taken her to her moms in next day....
Since that day I got remarried...and divorced again but my kids spent the holidays with their mom...I have nothing to do with all the gift buying and tree crap...as far as the holiday I I do what I have to do for the birth of Christ with out all the glamour................

That's awful, sorry this happened to you. I don't blame you for not being into Christmas. Hopefully this season passes quickly for you.

 

[bideau]

I do not do the Christmas thing..32 years ago on Christmas eve my ex wife decided to do the partying thing went out drinking with my 6 month old daughter she hat a car head on..my daughter was killed.
Only if I didn't let my daughter go she was to be with me for the holiday eve and I would have taken her to her moms in next day....
Since that day I got remarried...and divorced again but my kids spent the holidays with their mom...I have nothing to do with all the gift buying and tree crap...as far as the holiday I I do what I have to do for the birth of Christ with out all the glamour................

I'm pretty sure most of us would have an issue with the holiday if we went through what you did. I just can't imagine.....

 

[Dwight Schrute]

I always have done. It reminds me of how I had to borrow a family, growing up, because I'd been in children's homes and then in long-term foster care (for the record, I was always well looked after in both, but I've always been an outsider).

Christmas was stressful in my house many times as a kid. Fighting would ramp up.

Now having kids definitely brings better times.

Maybe going back to those types of places and contributing to kids in your same situation you experienced would make you feel good.

Then's there's the crap time of year, when it's effectively always dark, there's the abysmal music (I am lover of Metal), the "enforced jollity" of parties and gatherings and so on.

Yeah, parties suck.

Rock Trans Siberian for a few weeks.

Telly is also really, really crap, unless you like listening to a speechwriter scripted monologue from someone with huge amounts of inherited wealth (the Queen's speech).

You have the clicker. There's always something.

Oh, and don't get me started on the blandness of Turkey. Why the F*** can't Lamb or Beef be traditional?

Stop F'ng the sheep and eat it! Or by some roast or fish. F sakes!