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A thread for people who can't fucking stand Christmas

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just gotta clear these seven days...

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I got called a Scrooge for doing this in The Other Place.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

that's what they call people who can't fucking stand christmas

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi dere!

(I don't hate Christmas, I just don't make a big deal of it)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

fucking scrooge thread.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

fucking presents. fuck it!
fucking cards.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I often wonder what's going on with people who hate Christmas because I really, really love it. Then I run across things like this:

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2131/upsidedownxmastreesm1vz.jpg

A little part of me may understand now.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Enrique do you actually like anything? At all?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

How big is that upside-down tree? My mind is boggling.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i like presents - got an egg pan in sweet yankee swap action the other night.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

In the past I've mostly really hate xmas. This has less to do with the actual holiday though than with all of the family bullshit that surrounds. This year the hate is not so strong however. (that could be due to new pills).

One year, I was given a Grinch sweatshirt for xmas. It was nice.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got nothing against christmas, it's the people who try to force-feed the artificial happiness and "christmas cheer" to me that piss me off. the holiday itself seems to have lost any meaning for me, it's more of an orgy of rampant consumerism than anything else. plus events that transpired on christmas in my recent past have left a bad taste in my mouth.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Enrique do you actually like anything? At all?
-- Matt DC (runmd...), December 19th, 2006.

i like tv.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I have found Xmas fairly easy to avoid this year.

The only thing that really wound me up was my brother emailing me to ask what I wanted for Xmas (after already taking my mother to task because he did not politically approve of the present she requested (spanish learning tapes)).

I like the idea of a big winter festival. But it is supposed to cheer people up. Not wind them up. Which is what our Winter Consumerfest does.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It all depends where you are.

Xmas in the UK: watery brussel sprouts, overcooked oversized turkey with lumpy gravy, everybody drunk on lager by 11 o'clock in the morning, no public transport no nothing except crap 'xmas' tv...

Xmas in France: oysters, smoked salmon, champagne, public transport, everyone back to work the next day...

― G. Samsa (G. Samsa), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I've already bitched to Ed about the lack of public transport thing.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god yes public transport. having it -- and it's pretty fucked on 24th and 26th -- would solve me some problems.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Xmas in the UK: watery brussel sprouts, overcooked oversized turkey with lumpy gravy, everybody drunk on lager by 11 o'clock in the morning, no public transport no nothing except crap 'xmas' tv...

See, that also depends on where in the UK they are. Nothing like that in *my* house.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Or my house.

I don't get wound up by Christmas.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't say I like xmas very much.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Ach it's all the "and that's what I Get? And that's what you think of me? and that's why life is worth living?" subtext...

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

everybody drunk on lager by 11 o'clock in the morning

that would either be great or disastrous depending on which branch of the family I was visiting.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Xmas Eve - no transport because Thameslink no run on Sunday
Xmas - no transport
Boxing day - no transport

We were thinking of going to Herts to spend Xmas with family but being stuck there for four days was not our idea of a good time.

:-(

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

IF A BRUSSELS SPROUT SEE BOILING WATER FOR MORE THAN A MINUTE IT IS RUINED.

(My family are quite passionate about brassicas)

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I absolutely hate christmas shopping this year in the physical sense...i loved it in the past. but i really cant stand it this year. thats why i signed up for amazon prime. now i love christmas shopping again.

― thebingo (thebingo), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The way to get through it is to watch any version of A Christmas Carol and turn it off just before Marley's Ghost arrives (ditto when James Stewart is about to jump off the bridge).

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe for some of you, it's not that you hate "Christmas" as much as it is you hate "your friends, family and acquaintences"?

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

'amazon prime'?

oh fuck a christmas carol.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

except for one trip to target I've bought everything online. (or made it myself so I don't count trips to fabric/craft store as shopping.)

I only really shop for my nieces/nephew and boyfriend though so it's fun.

xpost. I hate my family Dan, this is true.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe for some of you, it's not that you hate "Christmas" as much as it is you hate "your friends, family and acquaintences"?
-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), December 19th, 2006.

ding ding ding!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, I thought I was going to get yelled at for suggesting that!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't buy or get presents. I like spending time with family and friends and eating nice food. I kind of don't like that I feel tied to doing it on a certain date, but then again I get time off work especially for that purpose, so that's kind of as good a reason as any to go visiting. And I don't do it *exclusively* at Christmas, so it's not like I am being forced into spending time with people I don't want to spend time with.

(xpost, Dan OTM)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll yell at you, Dan. The aggressive NECESSITY to "make merry" and play the world's worst music is what I hate. Unnatural.

Fortunately Sis will be a little less Mrs Santa this year while she rests up with her c-section scar (the Greatest Gift of All).

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd love to work a 'no gifts' angle a la larry david but i don't think it'd go down so well with everyone else.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

...in that what I hate about Christmas is people who feel they have to be or do something that isn't in keeping with the rest of the year just because it's what people do at Christmas (spend lots of money, eat food they aren't that keen on, visit relatives they dislike, etc etc)

(xxpost to myself about why Dan = OTM)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

actually i love my friends and family but i won't be seeing them this season.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i do get a bit overwhelmed at christmas time because there is always some sort of family drama, but its usually nothing some ale cant fix. and a couple mutton ribs.

― thebingo (thebingo), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm seeing mine the week after xmas. it's my concession.

from a site I'm working on:
http://www.utexas.edu/childcenter/gallery/2006holiday/benjamin_kwanza.jpg

a child's kwanzza bowl. I wonder if he thought of this on his own or if he was prompted.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

So far when Christmas Shopping this year, I have spent more on me than anyone else.

(OK, that's because I couldn't find the present I was going to get Mum, but still)

For me Christmas isn't that much different to the rest of the year, because we don't go anywhere and we don't have relatives over. By Tuesday night, though, I can assure you I'll be very bored of spending time with the parents.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Christmas music, particularly the first part of "The Messiah", "I Wonder As I Wander", "Personet Hodie", "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", "Coventry Carol", "Tomrrow Shall Be My Dancing Day", "Joy To The World", "Adeste Fidelis", "In Dulci Jubilo" and "God Rest, Ye Merry Gentlemen".

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I do love the song "Just Like Christmas" by Low.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

otto otm upthread

― v (sleep), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

that picture upthread clearly isn't an upside-down tree but an especially festive merkin...

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of Dan's playlist (and Low! must remember to bring it to Connecticut) is fine with me, but all the ez-lisnin stuff is what I tend to be tortured with.

Otto otm, enforced jollity = bummer.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate:
1- The fact that my wife is depressed, likely as not, during the holidays;
2 - The fact that my work keeps me insanely busy from about Nov. 20 to Dec. 15 every year, after which I can be guaranteed that everything I want to order from a catalogue is on backorder;
3 - The consumerist orgy that compels my wife to self-medicate by trying to shop her way into a better mood;
4 - the consumerist orgy, period.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Sparkly!

Are those lights? In that case, I hope they don't run hot...

(xxpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone create a Venn diagram incorporating posters' contribution to ILM and their hatred of Christmas. I'm curious.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

it's odd i was all like 'oh SO WHAT if it's a big ol' consumerfest' but now i'm back at 'fuck a consumerfest you crazy 19% interest rate credit card motherfuckers'.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

1- The fact that my wife is depressed, likely as not, during the holidays;

I feel sad for my bf. :(

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark Kozeleks "Little Drummer Boy"...all time fav Christmas song.

― thebingo (thebingo), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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I *LUUURRRRRVVVE* New Years. I'd have it every month if I could.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

...but then again, I am just a big Pagan hippie.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i love christmas! and i'm jewish! and i think that's why--growing up we didn't have many non-jewish friends and yet i was still in the middle of this insanely xmas-fetishizing culture so i felt like i was pressed up against the glass watching everyone else have fun. i never got to have "bad" xmas experiences so my only associations are holiday specials and pretty lights and all that jazz. xmas rules.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm too old for fun new years. it's sort of amateur night. BUT - they drop something from the top (two stories) of the pub in the middle of my small town at midnight, and I've never seen it, and thus don't know what they drop. So i feel that i should wander down and see it.
The police put barriers up so everyone can gather. i shall report back and let you know what, exactly, falls down for new years. Hopefully not a government. or the baby jesus.
What shall i sing?
Oh, yeah.
Should Auld acquaintance be forgot...and never brought to mind?
There's my Rabbie Burns!


― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

aimurchie, the tune is a Gaelic air yes, but it didn't become Morning Has Broken until someone put the words of Morning Has Broken to it. The link I posted (and other googleable references) show that that someone was not Robert Burns (it's a bit twee for Burns, for a start) but an English woman (Eleanor Farjeon) in 1931.

If i ever get married, I want that to be part of the wedding.

There are wedding songs written to the same tune. I had one at my wedding. (this one, in fact)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

My capacity for actually enjoying Christmas ended when I left home. Too many bad memories of my nutjobby Mom at her nutjobbiest. (Sorry, Mom, love you dearly, but you're a little crazy, and I'm grateful for the distance.)

The only thing I really give a toss about anymore is buying prezzies for Ms. Cat. It's especially significant this year as we're still replacing some things of hers that were taken in the robbery.

Oh, and I like egg nog. And Toblerone, which I only really eat around this time of year. The rest of the holiday can take a flying leap.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks for the link, Ailsa!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I just ask for socks, Sharpies, unlined Moleskines, and Pilot thin felt-tip pens every year, and I NEVER GET THEM. They are seriously all I want. My family gets me ugly Old Navy ribbed sweaters. My sisters-in-law get me weird ass unwearable crocheted fishnetty socks from Anthropologie. My mom-in-law has caught on tho, and is getting me my true desires except for the socks. Plus some jewelry she stole from upscale shops! Yay!

I have $0.00 so I'm getting people all my favorite sci-fi paperbacks from the used book store, which lets you have a tab of up to $30. I'm painting the boy an awesome triptych about house tools. I also got him a bunch of old Dr. Who young adult novels at the bookstore.

I'm making Archie comics covers for my sisters in law. I'm making my mom-in-law a hagiography about her life, which has been hard and insane. I'm burning warez for my birth family.

I guess that's what I like about Xmas, it kicks my ass into gear to make fun creative projects. I am proud how the only thing I've really had to pay for is shipping.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Every year I get to console my best friend for hours because it reminds her of times w/her schizophrenic mom. She can't even see stills from Christmas Story w/out tearing up. So, that's a very bittersweet Xmas tradition for 7 yrs plus now. :{

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I love almost all Xmas hymns too. I've watched a ton in English & Spanish on the local UHF channels. I like also how all the signs on city streetlights have a big CHILI that says "Feliz Navidad" next to it. Better than the family tradition of going to the Mormon temple visitor's center every year.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I may be missing the spirit of this thread.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I love when people just sing the first verse of Good King Wenceslas because then it's just a song about a guy looking out a window.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

not that i'm ignoring you, Abbott, but i'm cooking dinner and NEEd a link to "Do they Know It's Christmas." because ALL I'm getting is the 20 year sludge.
On the feast of Steven.

― alison murchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Movies for Grinches (comments great):

http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2006/12/5-for-day-countering-christmas-cheer.html

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, fuck the link.
Abbott - I wish I had someone like you in my Christmas life! Archie comic presents? Rock on! all of your gifts sound amazing. And well thought out.
I like that Good King Wencelaus was just looking out the window as well.
Nobody has really commented on the three ships. Maybe he was looking for the three ships.


― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Good King Wenceslaus has derailed the thread.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 21 December 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I am now embracing my inner scrooge and here are the things I fucking hate about Christmas:
the sugarplum fairy music.
And random people wearing random santa hats.
But mostly the sugarplum fairy music. Who died and left the nutcracker fan boss?
Jesus?

― alison murchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 21 December 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I hate Xmas playboy issues bcz it's just secretaries & wives getting it on with gross, naked Santas & the punchlines are all, "Santa COMES but one a year." Humiliating.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 21 December 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

let's get back to caroling. And hating/loving Xmas.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 21 December 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Our Alice came up with an extra verse for "We wish you a merry christmas" this morning:

"We get stressed when we go shopping
We get stressed when we go shopping
We get stressed when we go shopping
There's nothing to get!"


(she swears she wrote it anyway)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the chorus - she's going to have to struggle with the verse. But well done Alice!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I hate Xmas playboy issues bcz it's just secretaries & wives getting it on with gross, naked Santas & the punchlines are all, "Santa COMES but one a year." Humiliating.

hahaha, yes you can only see cartoons of santa getting head so many times . . .

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a converstion with the Indian/Hindu owner of the liquour store. Last night. About his singing christmas tree.
I said "You know, that would drive me crazy. because i know all of the songs. I'd have to unplug it or something."
We then had a long converstion about the calendar, and holidays, and birthdays, and I haven't reached any conclusion except that we're both in the business of liquor.
IF the singing christmas tree played the sugarplum fairy song, i would probably have unplugged the tree/killed a nice person who wanted, only wanted to buy some cheap beer. Just because.
fortunately, the singing christmas tree plays gentle, soothing carols.
"Away In The Manger", "Silent Night", and... "Joy To the World." But only the first two measures.
It does not, as far as I can tell, sing "Oh Christmas Tree".

― alison murchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the bar I used to work in had this stupid, maddening tree that would grow a face and start singing when you walked by. I freaking hated that thing.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Soz, can't fully research right now but I think "Three Ships" is a Renaissance-era-ish thing from when there was a famine in a major city and the ships bearing new supplies arrived right around Christmas...? Sketchy, I know, but I have to go downstairs and play lushly arranged, sort of English-renaissance-y Christmas carols on piano. Vacation, what hey!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I am now hating Christmas too. My family is angry and depressed, and I was really looking forward to cooking exciting things for them but actually they're really picky and just live off chips and won't eat anything I make even if it's really unexciting. It's just an oppressively unhappy atmosphere, and now that I can't even try to cook to cheer people up, I'm unhappy too. GREAT.

― Maria e (Maria), Friday, 22 December 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

maria e - surely you can go somewhere and "sing"? Even if it's the pub? or the bathroom? (Good acoustics!)
Singing doesn't mean you have to sing carols - if your throat can't sing maybe your soul can do it for you.
if your family can't sing, sing for them.
You should make what YOU want to make, and hand it over as a gift. Food included.

or, alternatively, exchange presents and feel weird for years because of the lack of music, for you. IMHO.


― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 23 December 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, let me amend that post. Because it was obnoxious.
I'm getting to be a bit too enthusiastic on the singing part.
Apologies, maria-e.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 23 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It sounds horrible to have your kindness rejected. I am sorry that you have to deal with that.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I ended up crying last night because I was so frustrated that everyone else was so unceasingly and contagiously unhappy. Of course, that made it worse, and I feel really, really guilty now. At least everyone is a little calmer today. Only 3 more days to survive!

I don't know about singing, but playing some happy music (Christmas or not) really couldn't hurt! So that's not a bad idea. Thanks.

― Maria e (Maria), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Does a lot of the trouble that people have with Christmas have to do with not getting on well with their families? I get on really well with mine, and I like exchanging good presents (and I hardly have to do any outside of immediate family), and I love love love the excuse to spend loads of time cooking/eating great food, which makes the whole thing pretty great.

Also, I guess I somehow miss out on this relentless commercialism. Where does it manifest itself? TV? High street shops? I guess I hardly encounter either of these, which is maybe why I don't really notice it.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit why is not Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol" on youtube?
----
Relations, sparing no expense,'ll
Send some useless old utensil --
Or a matching pen and pencil!
"Just the thing I need, how nice!"

It doesn't matter how sincere it
Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.
---
I wuvs Tom.

― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Toby as alluded upthread (somewhere) it may often be not so much a case of not getting on with the family but just experiences with relatives being duller or more boring than perhaps they ought to be (more awkwardness/sense of inadequacy than hostility).

― sede vacante (blueski), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

for me, it is definitely a case of...well, not so much me not getting on with my family, but certain members of the family not getting on so that the whole house becomes tense and sad. happens every christmas. and i think the expectations for getting along and being happy are higher at christmas than at other times, which makes it worse. commercialism is not a big problem, i think.

― Maria e (Maria), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Are there any contract killers available who would like to come round and murder my parents for me? I'm that fucking pissed off right now.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 24 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, how I fucking loathe most of my family. Grrrrargh.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 24 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

It's 9am and I'm already the sous-chef.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Sunday, 24 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

count yourself lucky... i've been cheffing for four days already.

― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 24 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

my favorite christmas carols:

children go where i send thee*
somerset wassail
friendly beasts
while shepherds watched their flocks


*mostly cuz I get to scream 'children go where i send thee!' every refrain.

i dislike:
frosty, rudolph, jingle bells, all that standard crap.

― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 24 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm beginning to hate xmas due to the fact that i traveled 800 miles to get into family arguments that i could have very well had on the phone. but this one involved more screaming, hysteria and tears. yay, christmas!

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 25 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Here it is. I spend Boxing Day with my neighbours every year since time began and my mom is trying to make me babysit my cousins instead. NO they cannot come to the BD party as both have colds and best friend is newly preggers but in reality NO FUCKING WAY I HAVE JUST SPENT TWO DAYS WITH THESE PEOPLE AND I WANT TO USE WORDS OF MORE THAN TWO SYLLABLES AND NOT HAVE TO HEAR ABOUT HOW IMMIGRANTS ARE RUINING AMERICA FROM THE GRANDCHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 25 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

after the really disturbing display of hysterics by other members of the fams, we're all now sitting around awkwardly, not really talking and avoiding eye contact, while my ancient grandmother complains about teh chicken livers. 2 1/2 more days. i think i can make it.

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 25 December 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm watching the national spelling bee on ESPN - which is providing all of the pain and pathos of the holidays for me.
Otherwise I ate a lot of food and saw my nieces and nephew, so it's all good.
Nothing too horrible/crazy happened this year - much to everyone's surprise.
We're old, and I can concentrate on the kids!
I', going to start a spelling bee thread.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i got insulted by my drunk mother in law this year. i wanted to shove a mutton rib down her throat. maybe im starting to not like christmas.

― thebingo (thebingo), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i got insulted by my sober mother more times than i can count this year. xmas = not so fun. can't this shit just be phoned in?

― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Parents always call you stupid when it suits them and it never has anything to do with reality, so chin-up. Still sucks, but next time she hits you with it feel free to point out that nothing is more stupid than a mother who insults her own children.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys need to put some more rum in your eggnog and turn up the Slade.
It sure as hell can't make it any worse, is all I'm saying.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/1024/slade.jpg

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

new. desktop.

― remy bean (bean), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/800/mott_the_hoople.jpg

― remy bean (bean), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/800/wizzard.jpg

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link


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