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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So it's 30 days to Christmas. Are you going to be getting wasted to numb the horror of ten days with your family, hibernating to avoid it all or are you going to embrace it and spazz till the 25th like a coach full of mongs? With friends, family or alone with a bottle of Jack?

(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 19:25, 119 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
I'll be doing a bit of all the above. Will spazz out for a couple of days before I spend nearly 2 weeks of hibernation at my parents', while sorting out any IT issues they've concocted since I was last there.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 19:47, Reply)
I have 10 days' annual leave to take before the end of the year (do my parents know this? Do they fuck) so I foresee the day itself being spent with a lovely friend in Maidstone who has offered to cater for me, and perhaps a trip to see some school friends before New Year.
I refuse to go and see the parents, in part because my father hates me and in part because a) they use AOL and b) they have McAfee - it would be easier to torch the PC and give them the phone number for Dell's sales line.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 19:57, Reply)
it needs to be shot down by an orbiting satellite. My parents still use Windows 2000 so I might consider doing that myself.
BTW does this 10 days include the 2 week Xmas break?
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:16, Reply)
win2000? whyyyyyyyyy? the only good thing about it is its not windows Me
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:54, Reply)
And it will probably be up to poor old muggins to install Windows 7. Thankfully, their PC is only 4 years old.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:07, Reply)
is cool
Loads better than Me
marginally more stable than XP
Love it
CR
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:39, Reply)
But alas, to properly take advantage of multi-core machines, you need XP or above.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:48, Reply)
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:55, Reply)
If only companies would let you have a winter hibernation period that lasted for the duration of your daily commute being in darkness, I'd get all the sleep I need.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:09, Reply)
But I've learned if I have a distraction going on (Eg. 1st year of Uni or starting a new job in October/November), I'm too distracted to notice.
But yeah, everything's better with daylight.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:28, Reply)
the upside to SAD is that summer is like being continuously high
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:39, Reply)
And as this summer involved me going on a massive walking-spree, I suspect the comedown will be worse this year. Bugger!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:51, Reply)
hmm...well...christmas eve is spent at my mum's, christmas night at my aunt's, then after that I'll probably be on the sauce...it's going to be a tough one this year
I don't get into christmas that much, it just seems like a huge build up to a massive let down so boo to christmas
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 19:51, Reply)
The excuse is "can't get the time off work" when the real reason is "I will be comatose under the tree on Baileys, Toilet Duck and whatever is to hand shortly after the arrival of the extended family and it would make a terrible mess on the carpet". I'm not sure even my mother would email my boss to complain I never get any time off, but I may have to pre-warn him...
Christmas stopped being fun when I was 18 or so - the first year of uni I was expecting the spirit to hit me about this time, and it never did. It's never returned.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 19:59, Reply)
Kristiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:02, Reply)
Now I just need a word with lots of I's.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:12, Reply)
Alternatively, if using FireFox, select, right-click and "view selection source".
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:20, Reply)
Wheeeeeiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:37, Reply)
but can your stapler rewrite itself?
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:52, Reply)
although it could function as a rudimentary piercing gun*
* bring your own disinfectant
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:04, Reply)
I'm sure they'd look lovely.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:33, Reply)
*chases Spak with stapler* It's that or we use the staple remover as a rudimentary tattoo needle...
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Apologies for the third boob, but when I borrowed your nipple, a bit of * ahem * 'fertilisation' took place.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:27, Reply)
Just chilling, browsing and chatting on MSN, and sending off a few e-mails, and taking my brand new DVD_burner out for a spin.
Third boobs are pretty cool, but alas, you've not got a third hand.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:49, Reply)
still not really got the hang of this qotw stuff. This is me popping my home sweet home cherry right here.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:17, Reply)
So Christmas Eve I go
Christmas morning my mum's family pop in, then we visit my dad's family and come home for Christmas dinner. This is the only day of the year I get to to have roast dinner with just my parents. There are invaders every other Sunday of the year.
Christmas early evening we sleep.
Christmas night some more of my mum's relatives come round, we pretend we don't want them but then we have an alright time really and have cheeses and boozes.
Boxing Day morning we watch a funny film and me and my mum drink a hair of the dog while my dad tells me "If you want a lift home you'd better hurry the fuck up because I want to start drinking!"
Boxing day evening I cook and eat two roast dinners, watch the On The Buses marathon, eat cheeses and meats, drink Bailey's, prosecco, Cherry B and port, and fall asleep on the sofa, making sure the phone is switched off. I do not go out on Boxing Night, it is shit.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 19:54, Reply)
I'm thinking this is the first year I can do it entirely my way and I like the sound of it.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:06, Reply)
They get annoying, so I drink more and then I end up singing Carly Simon songs with my mother on the karaoke and hating myself in the morning.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:08, Reply)
my father complains if he can't do and watch exactly what he wants (he despises Christmas because he has to see his family) and I just want to sleep and eat chocolate and play with presents.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:10, Reply)
We think that because we don't do it in the pub that we're respectable.
They are more hardcore than me though. I start to get annoyed.
DON'T MAKE ME SING FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION AGAIN!!!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:12, Reply)
Eastenders and Coronation Street omnibuses are as exciting as it gets and then my mother complains there is too much sexehtiem on TV now...
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:16, Reply)
"I'm not watching this, mother! Get it the fuck off!"
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:20, Reply)
Somewhere along the line I think I prefer them thinking I'm asexual.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:27, Reply)
Do an auto-bisection whenever the TV is showing something that's not sexy while your parents are in the room. As a bonus, you'll finally get to have a sibling of your own.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:35, Reply)
And before long, there'd be masses of you!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:52, Reply)
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:18, Reply)
and sneak off somewhere private to do your thing, while your 'twin' does another autobisection in front of your parents.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:32, Reply)
That way the twin has to stay with the parents and I don't!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:39, Reply)
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:54, Reply)
you come from a family of people with bendy necks?
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:33, Reply)
So do you spend the rest of the days after that in hibernation recovering? And would you have finally made it from the sofa to bed?
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:08, Reply)
I try to hibernate as much as possible.
I socialise in the run-up to Christmas, but Christmas and New Year are for hermitage.
I sleep on the sofa a lot so I can wake up in the night, smile at my Christmas lights and tell the cat I love him.
If I get Freeview in my bedrooms I might sleep in bed more this holiday...
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:11, Reply)
Keep your bedroom door open so that your cat can come in. That way, you'll have the best of both worlds.
So if you've got a telly in your bedroom, that's yet another reason for the bed to win.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:23, Reply)
He sleeps in my rooms but I rarely wake up and tell him I love him.
I get into a nice odd sleeping patter over the festive period.
And as there's been a digital switch over, my tellies will be useless without Freeview. Which reminds me, I'm off to check the aerials...
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:27, Reply)
with everyone (18 -20 people depending) and fucking enjoy it no matter fucking what by god!
(My 84 yr old mother is having some significant health issues so my oldest sister thinks a stress filled happy-fucking-dappy-doo insane family gathering is just the thing to cheer up our mother. Thankfully, none of us want to kill each other. Yet).
Oh for 3 days alone with my wife in a quiet house (OK, our daughters can visit Christmas eve and morning) with several bottles of good scotch. Sounds like heaven.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:23, Reply)
but if not, why confine yourselves to a small space for days at a time? I hope it cheers your mother up :)
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:32, Reply)
we all get along but we still need time away for the rest of the year
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:56, Reply)
quite looking forward to it. It's too long- I finish uni on the 5th December and don't go back until mid Jan, so there is such a thing as too much holiday. But I like Christmas dinner, and assorted Christmas paraphenalia. The only regret is they live in deepest darkest Ireland meaning I shall see no friends at all (I know no-one where they live.)
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:45, Reply)
I rang in 2008 on the phone to him and wishing I was with him and not with the parents...
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:01, Reply)
then I got teh fear from singstar
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:03, Reply)
is not necessarily symptomatic of being stoned. It is a natural reaction.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:07, Reply)
and the idea of it gives me Teh Fear... my neighbour keeps asking me round to have a go on theirs and I have to keep declining!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:18, Reply)
I'm looking at World Tour and its accoutrements right now!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:24, Reply)
an excellent idea. Except I've only been active (i.e. posting on b3ta) for about three months, though I've lurked for more. Therefore don't really have b3ta friends lol. I'll give it 30 days between now and Christmas to make some!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:25, Reply)
But i don't finish work until x-mas eve and I have a train ride straight after work to get home
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 20:51, Reply)
We all got a bit wasted and sang along tunelessly for hours!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:02, Reply)
This year I'm getting the fuck out of Dodge and spending the yule with my fiance. So I'll be having a really relaxing time, for a change.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:51, Reply)
Small select groups of people FTW.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:55, Reply)
I will be bashing before the day, so it's an excuse to get drunk and do silly things with/to B3tans.
I have to say that I hate xmas, I'm not christian so to me it's another co-opted festival that the christians stole!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 21:58, Reply)
Maybe you should carry on the tradition, and steal it from the Capitalists.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:02, Reply)
Steal it back.
Pagan is such a misnomer, it implies no religious belief at all. Would you call the ancient romans or Egyptians pagans?
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:04, Reply)
Paganism was a generic term used by Early Christians to describe non-Christians. Xmas must have been stolen from the Winter Solstice festivities.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:21, Reply)
I'm not Christian, and like only the receiving of spangly things and time off work.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:06, Reply)
How much crap is there on TV at this time of year. I'm just glad I have a very expansive DVD collection, I could watch them all day over the break and still have plenty to watch for the rest of the year.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:08, Reply)
I forgot till he left that Red Dwarf and Star Trek: TNG weren't actually mine. Woe.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:24, Reply)
the amazon 'used or new' section. You can get some really good bargains- got Cambridge Spies for £3 with free postage
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:26, Reply)
Just waiting to get paid on Friday...
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:46, Reply)
amazon wishlists are torture and bliss at the same time. Are you looking for some TV suggestions? In my large amount of procrastination I've come across a lot!
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 23:02, Reply)
but will enjoy most things (so long as they're not very bloody or Twilight-related).
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 23:24, Reply)
If I never see another Facebook status/tweet/blog entry about OMG NEW MOON WAS AMAZING!!!11 TEAM EDWARD!!!11 it'll be too soon. Fuck Twilight up the arse with a rusty chainsaw.
This keeps me sane at the moment.
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 0:00, Reply)
agree. I don't give a monkeys about whether people are Team Edward/Jacob/Bella or whatever. If you have time to spare and want a laugh, then this is one of the funniest things ever stoney321.livejournal.com/317176.html
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 0:23, Reply)
Dude, that is fucking epic. I love you.
This is also brilliant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9uYjILnsPk
"Bellaaaaaaaaaa! He faaaaaaaaaaaaaarted in my faaaaaaaaaaaaace!"
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 0:36, Reply)
Made me lol. Have you seen the Twilight parody set to Hot and Cold? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MKz0gkcgAo
*sunbathes in internet love*
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 0:54, Reply)
and this is another example of win! Have moar internet love!
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 1:08, Reply)
seems to bring out the hater in people. I can't understand that though- it's so full of excellent morals, perfectly written characters and carefully woven plots.
*is getting sunburnt in love*
Plus what is this RPattz weirdness. Who is RPattz?
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 1:18, Reply)
It makes me rage, when there are books so much more deserving of the level of attention this tripe is getting; it just reads like bad fanfiction. My Immortal level of bad fanfiction (and I like neither fanfiction nor Harry Potter). I'm almost tempted to write a book just to knock this craze into oblivion...
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 1:22, Reply)
don't have words to express the level of smile I got when I saw the My Immortal reference. Because that is what Twilght is 'OMG
Write the book! I would definitely buy it
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 1:41, Reply)
I shall get on the writing as soon as possible :D
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 2:28, Reply)
forward to it. Make sure it contains gofficness, and remember ice cold bodies and blood is sexy, while caring, loving relationships are sick and twisted!
(, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 2:34, Reply)
I do have the original series and all of Red Dwarf though, and a lot of DR Who, among other things.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:29, Reply)
TNG is the only series I like o.O I've still got the movies as Flatmate has decided he wants them on blu-ray instead.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:50, Reply)
I did get into Stargate recently-ish. Have Torrented all of SG1 and about 3 or so seasons of Atlantis.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:52, Reply)
but it must have been iffy because some of the episodes won't render. Bugger.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:54, Reply)
you may just as well shite in a fish-tank and stare at that all Christmas.
(, Wed 25 Nov 2009, 22:36, Reply)
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