Tomato soup
marmite sandwich

definitely christmas. forget the religious bollocks, it's pleasant time with family and presents, and good food. The Christmas morning ham on toast ritual is one of my favourite things.

I fucking hate christmas music though. Really fucking hate it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:31, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I love christmas songs
and the only acceptable breakfast on christmas morning is a tangerine and or a chocolate orange followed by smoked salmon on scramble eggs on toast.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:36, Reply)

Some christmas songs are dreadful
'Wonderful Christmastime' by Paul McCartney makes me despair.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:43, Reply)

Honestly it doesn't matter how shit they are
I just like the songs, I like everything about Christmas apart from the people. I like the shit adverts, the shit songs, crap presents, tacky bollocks. It just makes me smile lots.

I think my particular favourites are Elton Johns Christmas song and Stevie Wonders, can't remember either of the names they are on my Christmas playlist (112 songs)
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:47, Reply)

There's some crazy talk going on here.
Selection boxes are the only acceptable thing to be consumed on Christmas morning.
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:48, Reply)

See I save them til boxing day
OOO I'm a bit peckish, oh look a sockful of chocolate. NOM NOM. And me and my dad always buy each other a box of Thorntons special toffee.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:50, Reply)

I'm sorry Bobby but that's just wrong. I'm afraid I shall be having words with the Queen and suggesting that, as Defender of the Faith, she casts you out of Christendom.
I know it seems harsh, but you must learn the error of your ways.
(Cave Duck, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:56, Reply)

I also open one present on Christmas Eve like the Germans!

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:59, Reply)

^ euphemism?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:56, Reply)

hahaha
No but if it was here is some more info for you to cringe over. I get him the Thorntons Special Toffee Nut variety and he gets me the raisin one.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:58, Reply)

no way
my mum has a tradition of cooking a ham on christmas eve, which we tuck into on toast with mustard on christmas morning.

Then it is irish coffee and present opening time.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:54, Reply)

you can tell no children in your family :)
younger siblings are up by five, downstairs ripping open their presents and as Cave Duck knowledgably pointed out stuffing their faces with selection boxes. Then it's time for the big Christmas breakfast
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:55, Reply)

I've got a 1ish year old niece
that's it. I'm next youngest.

My eldest brother is the one who gets most excited though. He's 36.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 13:57, Reply)

Thanks to insomnia
I'm generally awake by five on Christmas morning anyway. But over the years I decline to dash downstairs and open my presents.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:05, Reply)

God there was none of that when I was a child.
1. 7am: children into parents' room with stockings.
2. Open stockings
3. Breakfast
4. Church (until old enough to stay at home on our own) to see father 'live'
5. Help prep lunch/lay table/sherry (after age 14)
6. Lunch
7. 'Big' presents
8. Film on television - usually The Snowman accompanied by howls of derision from brother and me
9. Argument
10. Cheeky joint out of bedroom window (after age 14)
11. Kip
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:00, Reply)

with in
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:01, Reply)

ha!

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:01, Reply)

You are an ill, ill man.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:02, Reply)

Admirable restraint
I doubt you could make my siblings not open their presents until the afternoon. Apart from that your day is almost identical. Church for those who didn't go to Midnight Mass, prepping lunch, The Snowman.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:03, Reply)

We had no choice.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:08, Reply)

unlucky
but then I do have a large family, I imagine yours was not. More difficult to control
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 14:11, Reply)