1st of December!
Yay I can now officially act like a silly kid and get all Christmassy. I have a child so I have an excuse. I love Christmas and the food and games and lights and sparkly things and even the awful music! Since having a child of my own I've got the tinge back that I used to get when I was a kid.

So are you a christmas lover or hater? What do you love/hate about it.

Jingle bells batman smells! WooYay
( Peej, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 7:57, 23 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Bah bumhugs!
A friend of mine, a right Mr Grumpy, won a raffle at the theatre on Sunday night. He never wins raffles, I do. His first prize, a box set of 4 CDs and a DVD. 100 Christmas songs. He was more than gutted, and we encouraged his woe.

I give into Christmas about the 23rd. Then I'm all for it, silly hats, the lot.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 8:06, Reply)

I'm sorry, but you're not allowed to talk about Christmas until after my birthday
which is on Friday. Until then I have no choice but to put you on ignore.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 8:49, Reply)

I've never been on ignore before
how exciting
( Peej, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:00, Reply)

Who said that?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:00, Reply)

Lulz its funny cos you can't see me cos you have me on ignore
I can call you a pooface and you will never know! But then you also won't know about my free booze and fags Christmas initiative
( Peej, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:04, Reply)

I'm not a Christmas man.
The forced jollity and 'all join in' atmosphere don't sit well with my character. Amusingly, whilst all that ghastly commercial bollocks is going on, throughout the nation drunken violence and interspousal savagery levels hit an annual high, the streets of provincial towns are awash with blood and vomit, and burglary & theft go through the roof (rather than Father Christmas through the chimney). Everything that is unpleasant about modern society comes to a head and I think it's repulsive.

People of limited means get caught in the media-stirred frenzy of retail, and the pressure to smother your friends and families in an ever-growing mountain of unneeded and barely wanted gifts is unbearable for many. Children are bullied by their horrible peers and consequently bully their parents, the implication being that if you don't succumb to this shit you don't love your children enough. Children barely old enough to know what's going on are buried under mountains of vulgar plastic shit big enough to last them for years...most of it forgotten or broken in days.

Luckily for me my family are a restrained and genteel bunch. We've never gone in for the gaudy crassness of high street Christmas. We all just meet up and have a nice meal with a few drinks and exchange small presents. I'm not being smug about this - it's actually enormously dull but at least the first six months of next year won't be a struggle because we've ruined ourselves trying to create a mythical 'good time' for a couple of days. My daughter will be appreciating next year's Christmas more keenly but this year I can guarantee you that my ex's pikey family will be inundating her with armfuls of cheap and nasty tat better off in landfill. She already has more toys at 16 months than I'd acquired by the age of about 7 and I do not approve.

BAH FUCKING HUMBUG.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:00, Reply)

I don't watch television
and I don't have very much money. I have a George Bailey Christmas and I bloody love it.
( Peej, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:01, Reply)

So,
what's not to like?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:08, Reply)

I quite like getting things for my family
don't go outside our means though

mostly it is a meet up for a good meal and a drink and the opportunity to get something you would like but wouldn't buy for yourself.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:08, Reply)

alright vipros

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:11, Reply)

alright No3L
what's up?

a present I ordered for my bro just turned up. the box is twice the size it needed to be to hold the item. stupid fucking companies.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:16, Reply)

I'm fly, honky.
Sup with that packaging beeyatch? And how goes your musical masterpiece?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:18, Reply)

it's still almost finished
there are a couple of minor tweaks. need to remove some phaser that my mate inexplicably put on the drums, and fade the whole thing to static.

then it needs the levels all sorting, bouncing down, and then mastering. unfortunately this means listening to it all through 3 times in a row, which will take over an hour and a half...

going round tonight to listen to the progress on part 2 though :-D
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:20, Reply)

Sweet.
You'll have to bung a copy in the post when it's done.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:24, Reply)

yeah I will do

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:25, Reply)

Woo
I love Christmas!
It's all about being a hermit and eating loads for me.
I want to put my tree up early this year but I don't think I'll get a chance until at least next week.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:32, Reply)

I qiute like christmas
apart from the fucking music

no christmas song has any merit as a song, and yet this is overlooked for that hint of sleigh bells and sheer fucking annoyingness that people seem to lap up.

I don't like shit music for most of the year, why am I going to behave differently at christmas?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:34, Reply)

Festive spirit?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:36, Reply)

I have plenty
doesn't change my core beliefs though.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:36, Reply)

Oh, I agree with you.
I was just being a git.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:40, Reply)

I know ;-)

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:40, Reply)

The Phil Spector Christmas album is the sexy

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 9:38, Reply)

Baubles!



( Peej, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 10:42, Reply)