Crikey, It's Christmas (2014)!

[Ben X]

Hooray, it's very nearly the Christmas season!

 

If you don't join in you're a

 

 

and a 

 

 

So MAKE MERRY, MOTHERFUCKERS WOOOO!

 

Has anyone got their present list and shopping done yet?

[melmer]

Lol no. That's what Christmas eve's for.

[SecretAsianMan]

My refusal to change my avatar is paying off!

[tegan]

nooo you can't make me get rid of ~spoopy pumkin~ so soon

[Twig]

Luckily I'm already in Holiday Mode.

[Badfinger]

It is not Christmas.

[Smart Jason]

 

You made a million hand turkeys cry by omission.

[SuperBiasedMan]

  On 11/1/2014 at 5:06 PM, tegan said:

nooo you can't make me get rid of ~spoopy pumkin~ so soon

 

Just add a Christmas hat to it.

[Merus]

 

What a useful thread.

 

(Christmas appears to be a much bigger deal in the UK than in the US or Australia, where don't get me wrong it's still a big deal, but the entertainment industry doesn't seem to be quite so busy.)

[dibs]

Thanksgiving is pretty offensive since not all of us celebrate it. Please keep this topic on Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, how did you miss "Criminey It's CHRISTMAS!"?

[Badfinger]

  On 11/1/2014 at 10:30 PM, dibs said:

Thanksgiving is pretty offensive since not all of us celebrate it. Please keep this topic on Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, how did you miss "Criminey It's CHRISTMAS!"?

 

Not all of us celebrate Christmas.

[James]

  On 11/1/2014 at 8:43 PM, Badfinger said:

It is not Christmas.

Quite.

For a while at work people thought I hated Christmas, because I got so annoyed at people going on about it months in advance. In fact, the reverse is true. Christmas is my favourite time of year. But by that I mean actually Christmas, not the sixty-to-ninety days leading up to it. The time spent with family and the traditions from my childhood mean a lot to me. That's why I'd really rather not have it drawn out to the point of being fatiguing. If you spend more than a month each year anticipating Christmas, you're spending more than 10% of your life doing so. That seems mad to me.

Sorry for this spoilsport rant, but I really do find the multi-month prelude draining and kind of obscene.

God, how boring am I?

[Ben X]

Where were you lot when the Halloween thread got started six weeks early?

[dibs]

Hiding in his turkey costume i'd warrant.

[Badfinger]

Not posting in it because it was far too early for Halloween! Also that thread was about Halloween, not claiming it WAS Halloween.

 

 

 

I've made a couple of curt posts, so I want to say I don't have any negative feelings about Christmas. The fact that the "christmas season" begins the moment Halloween ends, and Halloween starts the first weekend kids are back in school is what I have negative feelings about. I enjoy the vibes I get from people about Christmas, and I understand why it's their favorite time of year. But it's so horribly commercialized, and so few people I know personally are engaged with it in any way beyond decorating and gift giving. I actively detest the music, though.

[Ben X]

There you go, fixed the thread title for you.

 

I think the way to solve the Christmas music problem would be to get 100 different contemporary artists and groups (of, say, Radiohead level of quality) to make one legitimately good Xmas-themed song each, so we wouldn't hear the same three songs over and over again.

 

That said, you can't argue with Wiz(z)ard:

 

[Twig]

Yeah Christmas music legitimately makes me wish Christmas was just over. It's the worst goddamn thing humanity's ever invented.

[Apelsin]

I love some of it, despise some of it.

 

My annoyance with the way christmas is handled fluctuates a bit from year to year it seems. I'm usually quite annoyed at how early the commercialism starts ramping up for its most sacred of holidays, but when I walked into my local Åhléns store to find it suddenly contained a section full of christmas-themed textiles, candles/candlesticks, ornaments, smellls... I was more amused than anything, and on subsequent visits I found it more nice than anything. 

 

I'll hate it once christmas rolls around again though.

[Reyturner]

[Twig]

When I got coffee on HALLOWEEN my cup was Christmas Decorated and I WAS SO MAD*.

 

*I don't actually give a shit.

[Ben X]

Actually, I decided not to take your word for it, Badfinger, and went and checked: the first thing said in that Halloween thread was "it's Halloween". So I've changed my thread title back.

 

IT'S CHRISTMAS EVERYONE WOOOO!

[Smart Jason]

The implicit assumption that everyone celebrates Thanksgiving is way less offensive than the assumption that people celebrate Christmas, because the latter takes for granted that you're part of some kooky co-opted solstice whereas the former does you the honor and privilege of including you in the trademark holiday of the Capital of Earth.

[SuperBiasedMan]

My birthday is at the end of November, so I just always assume that Americans are celebrating it when they talk about Thanksgiving. It's very nice of you all.

[Bjorn]

I listen to Christmas music year round, fuck y'all, I don't care!

 

[Reyturner]

  On 11/2/2014 at 4:29 PM, Smart Jason said:

The implicit assumption that everyone celebrates Thanksgiving is way less offensive than the assumption that people celebrate Christmas, because the latter takes for granted that you're part of some kooky co-opted solstice whereas the former does you the honor and privilege of including you in the trademark holiday of the Capital of Earth.