Chr***mas 2013 Bah Humbug Thread

I feel I have to register my concurrence with the tenet of this thread. Mrs Y and I have no apprentice Yellowbellies and, if the truth be known, we aren't the greatest social types, so C... will be the usual visit to the local hostelry, followed by stuffing our faces with a delicious goose and washing it down with lots of alcohol 'till we fall asleep.

And you know what, I'll love every second of it.:)
 
Cobra said:
Sheep (Baaaaaaaaaaaaaah) and boiled sweets (Humbugs) here too!

Its not so much I hate C....
BUT WHY does it have to start so friggin early?
Oh and of course what's with all the religious stuff too?
Religion always spoils a good public holiday :p
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I thought talking about "religion" on here was a NO NO :naughty:
 
Hey Cobra - are you not going to get out the Christmas Duvet? I hear they are easier to fit.........:runaway:
 
well even though i detest the commercialism of it, and bloody religion gets in the way nowadays, ;) I am going to enjoy it this year purely because Sam & Amelia at 15 months will have an idea about what it is all about... (Eating & drinking too much!!!)
 
MartynK said:
Oh well, I think there's a very good chance I'll be drinking white wine in the sun on Christmas Day. Should be about 30 C, with a huge, cloudless, blue sky; and it's a good way to pass the time until the Weber lamb and salads are ready. Christmas during a South Africa summer has a lot going for it. I've spent a couple in the bush too, and that's magical.
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awesome, have been in cape town in December... but never had xmas in the southerm hemisphere... a braai and a beach sounds idyllic...
 
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for the first time this year, we are not buying in to it all, we will be in our caravan, me, oh and the dogs up in Dumfries, sod the rest of it, will see my mum and dad the weekend before, but the rest of my family can't be bothered for the rest of the year so why bother just for Christmas, we will be having the usual dinner and stuff just on a smaller scale, we will mainly be enjoying lots of long walks and chill out time :-)
 
In past years, my wife has usually worked between commercialmas and the new year since we have no young family to pander to and she used to get time-and-a-half plus time in lieu for doing the unpopular days. Now though, she's purely self employed and hasn't yet decided what classes she'll be running over the period. Makes no difference to us really - extra classes = extra £ (or € for holiday!) and we get plenty of time together so won't miss a few hours.
Not cooking a dinner on the day - the MiL has booked a table at her favourite gstropub a few miles up the road from her home. If I have my license back by then, I'll be driving (can't be arsed with drinking these days so won't mind a J2O or similar instead of a glass of plonk!), otherwise my wife will - again, too old & wise to do the boozing thing!
Haven't yet seen the "festive" TV listing but there should be something worth watching - if not, we've got loads of DVDs to watch. If the weather's half decent we might even go out for a walk or 2 - maybe with a camera!!!
 
You know - Christmas was never intended to be something you had to "Buy into" But its become that way.

Christmas was the reason my family have gotten back together - spending more time with each other and genuinely enjoying each others company - presents are just token gestures But are well thought out gifts because we are now talking together! so know what each other likes. We are not in each others pockets but spend time several times throughout the year too
Christmas is a time for my wife being off her full time job for a week - very fortunate not everyone gets that week off! I am glad she does though.

I have a few debts of gratitude I like to pay near the Christmas period too - I drop in some gifts to the hospital ward that looked after me and the docs surgery that have served me over the year. Posty and the milkman who in all weathers have delivered get a little something too.....

Christmas is ....well what you want to make of it I suppose - it can go either way, but its up to you.
 
LASTOLITE said:
You know - Christmas was never intended to be something you had to "Buy into" But its become that way.

Christmas was the reason my family have gotten back together - spending more time with each other and genuinely enjoying each others company - presents are just token gestures But are well thought out gifts because we are now talking together! so know what each other likes. We are not in each others pockets but spend time several times throughout the year too
Christmas is a time for my wife being off her full time job for a week - very fortunate not everyone gets that week off! I am glad she does though.

I have a few debts of gratitude I like to pay near the Christmas period too - I drop in some gifts to the hospital ward that looked after me and the docs surgery that have served me over the year. Posty and the milkman who in all weathers have delivered get a little something too.....

Christmas is ....well what you want to make of it I suppose - it can go either way, but its up to you.
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Cant argue witrh any of that. But it is still November is my point really.(one of them anyway)
 
DorsetDude said:
Cant argue witrh any of that. But it is still November is my point really.(one of them anyway)
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Yep - Cant fault you there....It cant come early enough though for retailers....
 
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I am in the bah humbug camp,not looking forward to it :eek:,wish i could hide away,maybe i will sleep thought it all this year :D
 
I'm quite thankful for a couple of days off, spending time with my family and maybe getting a pressie or two but other than that it's a lot of hype about nothing!

I'm not religious so that aspect's out of the window. Why parents think their kids are going to behave like little angels for one day is beyond me and why women get so stressed over what is essentially a big roast dinner is a mystery.

Above all, what peeves me the most is that it's starts in frickin' SEPTEMBER!!! As soon as the kids go back to school, supermarkets start wheeling out the Xmas stuff. By October it's on the TV and even at the beginning of November some people around my way had their decorations up.

My Birthday's in February, I'm thinking of starting the build up to is now...... at least my family would be celebrating the birth of a real person :lol:

Admittedly, *if* I can find the right tree it'll be going up on Sunday. I'm all for people going nuts about Xmas but for the love of whatever entity you believe in... wait til December!

Oh yeah, just to add that there are 7 family Birthdays too!!

Cousin 6th
Bro-in-law 15th
Brother 19th
Mum 24th
Niece 25th
Sister 28th
Sis-in-law 2nd Jan..... OK not strictly December but near enough!
 
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Well i never get into the Xmas doom :( until December 1st so expect to see me contributing regularly to this thread, Mrs B does her best to make it as painful as possible every year.
 
Its December so the commercial efforts kick up a gear, if thats possible. Brace yourself for all the bloody xmas songs on commercial radio now and the DJ's getting all mock excited about it and generally acting like children. I might have to listen to radio 2 for a few weeks to try and avoid it.
 
You really think that Radio 2 won't be playing commercialmas songs?
 
I record everything so I don't see any of the adverts to be annoyed by them.

I did find the brass band they had in the supermarket last week irritating in the extreme mainly because they were so rubbish. I have no idea what carols they were meant to be playing as they all sounded like they were playing independently. I'm going to start keeping a set of headphones with me so I can at least drown them out in future visits.
 
I got told I was a christmas hater this morning.
One of my workmates received one of those singing xmas trees and opened to show people, jeez are they bloody annoying:bang:
One of the other girls came round later and asked to play with the tree, I said she could as long as she took up her
end of the office, she walked off in a huff
 
Is it just me,but is it always the men who "bah,Humbug" and the (ahem!) ladies who want to party-and then moan about the washing up and the mess and the extra calohiccups have to go on a diet for new year etc.
On a more personal note I find it difficult to be "Cheery and full of Christmas spirit" given the amount of misery that is prevalent around the World at the moment. I,d rather see the Christmas moniker replaced with something else to celebrate the transition to yet another year.

eddie

Just in case he's looking.......Dear Santa can I have............?
 
I 'king hate xmas (just brings back less than pleasant memories I'd rather forget) - unfortunately my missus loves it, and as I love her I generally try not to be too scroogey, however as I'm the boss I like work to be a refuge from all the xmas [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] so I'm in the 'no we can't have xmas decorations, we're supposed to be proffesionals' school
 
big soft moose said:
I 'king hate xmas (just brings back less than pleasant memories I'd rather forget) - unfortunately my missus loves it, and as I love her I generally try not to be too scroogey, however as I'm the boss I like work to be a refuge from all the xmas [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] so I'm in the 'no we can't have xmas decorations, we're supposed to be proffesionals' school
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Love the fact that there is a big 'SECRET SANTA SIGN UP NOW' banner below this
 
Bobby uk said:
Love the fact that there is a big 'SECRET SANTA SIGN UP NOW' banner below this
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fair point well made - I don't mind secret satan , because its for the forum community - its all the forced oh tis the season to be jolly crap that does my head in, I don't want to be flipping well jolly so I'm not going to spend money on pointless tat, get some random tart from accounts under the miseltoe , or get drunk and photocopy my arse , and that's my choice , I don't want to hear slade telling me that is Cwishmash on December 3 either
 
big soft moose said:
I 'king hate xmas (just brings back less than pleasant memories I'd rather forget) - unfortunately my missus loves it, and as I love her I generally try not to be too scroogey, however as I'm the boss I like work to be a refuge from all the xmas [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] so I'm in the 'no we can't have xmas decorations, we're supposed to be proffesionals' school
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Got any vacancies?
 
The boss is a ....! ;)
 
big soft moose said:
fair point well made - I don't mind secret satan , because its for the forum community - its all the forced oh tis the season to be jolly crap that does my head in, I don't want to be flipping well jolly so I'm not going to spend money on pointless tat, get some random tart from accounts under the miseltoe , or get drunk and photocopy my arse , and that's my choice , I don't want to hear slade telling me that is Cwishmash on December 3 either
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Is that because you'd do all that whether it was xmas or not?!:p
 
Well, he IS the random TUTM!!!
 
tart under the miseltoe (nod is making the mistake of judging me by his own low standards) ;)

actuaslly i don't do any of that - I don't drink, I've never felt the need to phocopy my arse ( i know it looks good, why would i need to copy it), and I love my missus so i'm not up for snogging randomers - even when i was single, ill advised work place liaison was not on the cards ( I told you about the time my (very attractive and female) boss suggested we go to a hotel room after the xmas do... nuhuh, not happening. ( I told her i was gay as i recall , as a get out, although i rather blew my cover by then getting married 6 months later)

so , sorry if you were thinking of popping round with some miseltoe T, but I will be restraining muyself to a chaste peck on the cheek ;)
 
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big soft moose said:
( I told her i was gay as i recall , as a get out, although i rather blew my cover by then getting married 6 months later)
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Maybe she just assumed your new wife was a "beard". Not that the rest of us here think that obviously.
 
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