Now then.
Who pissed on your chips?
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:18, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I think you'll find my reaction to Christmas is perfectly resonable.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:19, Reply)

do one Pagan.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:19, Reply)

Ah, go shag some sheep!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:24, Reply)

I'm not even Welsh you canine canoodler.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:24, Reply)

Best name ever.

( girlinthehole, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:25, Reply)

Humbug!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:27, Reply)

Cheer up you miserable get
or Blousie will give you a kicking.
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:31, Reply)

And at this time of year
She'll probably charge me extra. :(
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:36, Reply)

*gives up*
*goes to bed*
( girlinthehole, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:37, Reply)

Why is it perfectly reasonable?
C'mon. Persuade me. I used to work at WHSmith for Christmas for about 6 years running and I have still retained festive cheer, so what's your problem with it?
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:23, Reply)

I don't need a cold december to remind me there are some people I should be spending time with.
Fucking gifts, fucking meals with people you don't care about, being forced to go to some god-awful nightclub at least once of the 'festive period' to watch a load of twats dancing to Slade... Need I go on?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:26, Reply)

Nobody is forcing you to do any of that stuff
if you don't want to do it... just pick the bits you enjoy and do them!
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:29, Reply)

He's a lost cause.

( girlinthehole, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:31, Reply)

Add to that
fucking sprouts.

(Not the act of fucking sprouts, but fucking sprouts)
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:32, Reply)

So? You don't have to eat them

(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:33, Reply)

Christmas pudding is also gash.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:37, Reply)

That's not compulsory either
I'm more or less with you on both the sprout thing and this. The presence of these things in the shops does not make Christmas shit, however.
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:40, Reply)

Okay.
What makes Christmas 'good'?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:42, Reply)

friends, presents, smells, telly, music, sexy time, christmas dinner, bond, quality street
snow, drugs, sexy time, christmas trees, lights etc etc
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:44, Reply)

If taken on my own terms
rather than having the commercialness of it all shoved down my throat, Christmas is lovely. I get to see family I don't often see, I get to cook stuff I don't often get to cook, I love the colours and smells and the crispy cold weather and twinkly lights and the excitement of getting presents, and thinking about what to buy people to make them happy even if I don't have a lot of cash. I agree completely that family time and generosity and whatnot shouldn't just happen once in a year just because 'it's Christmas' (like you shouldn't only show your partner you love them on Valentines day) but, I don't know...generally people seem a little happier and kinder and nicer.
I even quite like cheesy Christmas pop.
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:48, Reply)

Santa will bless you this year berk
you see, you hold christmas properly. I salute you.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:49, Reply)

Birmingham has the most incredible
Christmas market as well. I went at the weekend and went all 'eeep, christmas is coming!' bouncy giddy.
*salutes back*
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:59, Reply)

I fucking hate Valentines day as well.
And don't get me started on New Years Eve.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:52, Reply)

Kill yourself Jeff, It's the only way out.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:55, Reply)

Yes, but probably
only because they're both overhyped and overcommercialised. If you ignore all of that and just enjoy them on your own terms...gosh, you might even have fun!
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:56, Reply)

Enjoy them on my own terms?
Stay in and have a wank you mean?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 23:08, Reply)

I love sprouts.

( girlinthehole, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:34, Reply)

I'd rather such the puss out of Mother Teresa's piles than eat sprouts.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:38, Reply)

Sprouts are awesome if done correctly.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:34, Reply)

Sautéd with smoked bacon and chestnuts is a good way...
I still can't eat very many though.
(berk, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:37, Reply)

If by 'done correctly'
You mean, not bought, just left in the supermarket to fester away on a shelf, then yes.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:39, Reply)

But Jeff, sprouts are so now.
You can even pay more for them if they come attached to the stalk.

If sprouts were human they would read the Guardian.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:44, Reply)

Sprouts would read The Morning Star.
FACT.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:52, Reply)

We'll finish this in the morning.
G'night all.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:58, Reply)

The IRS

( girlinthehole, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 22:19, Reply)