Do you like Christmas?

[Oh Buoy]

The part that really hits it for me is when everyone puts on the shite message from the Queen. 

 

The build up is anxiety provoking. Sorting out your hours at work and trying to juggle everything about. Trying to shop and getting overwhelmed by the crowds trying to stock up on shite presents. The sudden introduction of Black Friday as a pre-sale Christmas event. Then the whole wrapping presents for people wondering if they've spent the same on you. 

 

Then the day happens and you're too busy visiting people and so you're the only fucker sober. Food is great but again by around 2-3pm you're sat on your arse watching shite TV and seeing who can pass out first. Or, browsing the sales that started on Christmas Eve. 

 

Boxing day is just a fucking Sunday that's been rebranded with a rancid hangover but football covers for that and that's why it's probably the better day of the bunch. 

 

I should probably note that I hate/cba with the majority of my family. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Boxing Day is ace, my birthday. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Just been to see Santa, actually. Followed by a trip to Tesco where my youngest chose presents for her mum, brother and sister with minimal fuss. The tree/decorations are up, the chocolate and biscuits are out. Only got a bit of present wrapping to do and Christmas is virtually done and dusted. I asked Santa for a new dressing gown. Fingers crossed.  

 

The only thing im dreading is the mess in the kitchen after Mrs Turdseye has finished cooking, but it’s the same feeling I have whenever she does a roast. It’s the main reason I’ve gone off roast dinners. 

[Tony Moanero]

48 minutes ago, Seasons said:

The part that really hits it for me is when everyone puts on the shite message from the Queen. 

 

The build up is anxiety provoking. Sorting out your hours at work and trying to juggle everything about. Trying to shop and getting overwhelmed by the crowds trying to stock up on shite presents. The sudden introduction of Black Friday as a pre-sale Christmas event. Then the whole wrapping presents for people wondering if they've spent the same on you. 

 

Then the day happens and you're too busy visiting people and so you're the only fucker sober. Food is great but again by around 2-3pm you're sat on your arse watching shite TV and seeing who can pass out first. Or, browsing the sales that started on Christmas Eve. 

 

Boxing day is just a fucking Sunday that's been rebranded with a rancid hangover but football covers for that and that's why it's probably the better day of the bunch. 

 

I should probably note that I hate/cba with the majority of my family. 

I’ve never watched the Queen on Christmas Day, not as a kid, not as an adult.

 

Giving presents is boss. They don’t necessarily have to be of great monetary value, just things that you know the recipients will appreciate and enjoy. I’m not sure if you are serious about being arsed about what others have spent on you. That’s arlarse. It’s not a competition!

 

Playing board games > shite telly

[Creator Supreme]

Christmas sucks more crevice than a gay porn star!

[littletedwest]

I work in retail so I hate it. Goes with the territory obviously working all over Xmas.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

26 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Christmas sucks more crevice than a gay porn star!

As predictable as ever mate. 

[Bjornebye]

I love it but only in December. I am one of those cunts who moan when they see an xmas advert/sign as soon as Halloween is done. Go full blooded overload santa fuck fest in December by all means. 

 

It was the only time of year I didn't run the strong risk of getting filled in by my arl-fella for nothing so xmas was always a happy time in our house. I get quite emotional about it. The Snowman is on right now and I had to turn it off because I nearly started crying. 

 

Can't stand my birthday though. Birthdays can fuck off. I like other peoples birthdays mind. 

 

Merry Christmas everyone , 16 sleeps yay! 

[Sugar Ape]

Christmas is boss. Time off work, loads of nice food and ale over it, a few decent nights out with my mates and best of all getting to see my kid open her presents.

[manwiththestick]

Loved it as a kid, liked it between 18-24 when it was all about going out with mates. Since then I find it a bit of a nuisance, too long, people fretting over meanless shite and unless you are religious it's a just a massive commercial shitfest.

 

Being off work, presents for the kids, catch up drinks with the lads and the football are the only plus points.

[Captain Turdseye]

3 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

Christmas is boss. Time off work, loads of nice food and ale over it, a few decent nights out with my mates and best of all getting to see my kid open her presents.

 

Mine have asked for a Nintendo Switch this year. The surprise will be the new telly for the bedroom we’ve bought to go with it. 

 

The rest is board games and other little bits and pieces they’ve specifically asked for. No arsing about assembling stuff like bikes/scooters, hardly any toys that need batteries putting in, etc. It’s gonna be chilled as fuck. Helped by the in-laws that live over the road being away this year and no other family members coming round to ours. It’s just me and mine at home all day, stuffing our faces and playing with all the new stuff. 

 

If I remember rightly, last year the kids didn’t wake up until later than we normally get up on weekdays. More of the same please. 

 

Haven’t been drinking lately but I’ve been getting into the Christmas spirit this weekend and now I’m thinking maybe just some Baileys and a bottle of red for later on Christmas Day.

[Sugar Ape]

We do a big family quiz every year, doing it on the 30th this year and we all chip in and put some nice food out, cheeses from Woolton cheese shop, cakes from Costco etc... 

 

I’m doing the quiz so I’ll bring a few bottles of Erdinger and a bottle of Jameson’s down and get progressively drunk as I proceed. Can’t wait.

[Jairzinho]

Looking forward to not working, eating a lot, and lounging around watching shit films.

[Champ]

15 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

We do a big family quiz every year, doing it on the 30th this year and we all chip in and put some nice food out, cheeses from Woolton cheese shop, cakes from Costco etc... 

 

I’m doing the quiz so I’ll bring a few bottles of Erdinger and a bottle of Jameson’s down and get progressively drunk as I proceed. Can’t wait.

We like a good quiz but it tends to get forgotten about with everything else going on. Do you make the quiz up or might you be able to point me in the direction of some decent general knowledge type quizzes?

[Sugar Ape]

4 minutes ago, Champ said:

We like a good quiz but it tends to get forgotten about with everything else going on. Do you make the quiz up or might you be able to point me in the direction of some decent general knowledge type quizzes?

 

I complied it myself and it took me ages. I try to make every question at least one you can have a guess at so the less able people aren’t sat there moaning at me for it being too hard. I’ll PM you what I’ve got so far if you want it?

[Elite]

Pro's

Sharing the kids excitement

Watching the kids open their presents

Drinking 

Eating

 

Cons

Having to get up at 5am

Having to socialise with extended family

Having more cardboard boxes than Skid row

 

 

 

[KMD7]

FORMER Boyzone General Ronan Keating was in defiant mood this morning as he arrived at The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity surrounding his year 2000 butchering of The Pogues’ classic Christmas hit, Fairytale of New York.

The vicious assault launched on the ears of festive music fans was short-lived, but the damage done that year can still be felt almost 17 years later, with Spotify playlists and Apple Music searches sometimes throwing up the Keating version instead of the original.

Keating, speaking through an interpreter who speaks fluent shhhh, remained emotionless in the dock as the charges were read against him, confident that if they didn’t nail him for ‘When You Say Nothing At All’, they’d never convict him for this.

“We will find today, with the evidence available to us, that Mr. Keating did purposefully and deliberately record and distribute a horrendous version of Fairytale Of New York onto an unsuspecting public,” read the statement from the prosecution.

“This was a senseless, cruel attack on people, at Christmas time no less. There are children who heard the Ronan Keating version before any other, and are still dealing with their feelings about it today. Mr. Keating, you have shown no remorse for your actions up to this point, and it is the duty of this court to ensure that humanity finally receives the justice it deserves”.

Meanwhile, original Fairytale singer Shane McGowan has testified that the Keating version is what turned him to a life of alcoholism, having never touched a drop before he heard it.

[tokyojoe]

2 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

Christmas sucks more crevice than a gay porn star!

Is correct. It will be a fucking nightmare this year as I have to tolerate a fucking invasion. Vile niece will be here with chav supporting twat boyfriend who I think I will kill to try and derive some pleasure. Then there will be Her Indoor's brother in law who will keep us entertained laughing at his own jokes until about fucking midnight. .

 

I keep getting all these emails from the Yanks saying happy holidays.

 

What fucking holiday? A holiday to me is when you can relax and enjoy yourself. I have zero chance of that.

 

Fuck christmas.

[Harry Squatter]

If you ever worry about Christmas being too expensive just fall out with your entire family. 

 

I did and it saves me a fucking fortune every year. No pressure about visiting the cunts on Christmas day either.

[tokyojoe]

4 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

If you ever worry about Christmas being too expensive just fall out with your entire family. 

 

I did and it saves me a fucking fortune every year. No pressure about visiting the cunts on Christmas day either.

Wisdom. Pure wisdom. Repped mate.

[Bjornebye]

If anyone is struggling to get into the Christmas spirt then watch The Christmas Chronicles on Netflix with Kurt Russell. Ive just laughed and cried for the last 2 hours. Merry Christmas all. 

[Mook]

None of the adults in our family get each other presents, total waste of time & money. Christmas should be for the bairns.

 

I fucking despise it with every fibre of my being but will put a smile on it for my two boys. I especially hate how the geeky shite like Christmas jumpers is now omni-present, I think I'm going to start up a lynch mob to go Luca Brazi on the cunts.

 

Far too many Christmas threads on the GF as well, it's over two weeks away for fucks sake.

[Chip Butty]

Festive fuckers

[Elite]

Just now, Mook said:

None of the adults in our family get each other presents, total waste of time & money. Christmas should be for the bairns.

 

I fucking despise it with every fibre of my being but will put a smile on it for my two boys. I especially hate how the geeky shite like Christmas jumpers is now omni-present, I think I'm going to start up a lynch mob to go Luca Brazi on the cunts.

Yeah all that faddy stuff is incredibly tedious. The Elf on the Shelf thing is annoying as well, I know kids love it but most of the parents do it so they can get likes on facebook, then you now have Christmas Eve boxes as an appetizer to all the hundreds of pounds worth of stuff they'll be opening literally 8 hours later.

[Tony Moanero]

What is Elf on the Shelf?