this will be the place for you to share your woes caused by the mass stupidity that christmas has becomethis shit starts earlier every year
11/18/2008 10:34:37 PM
went into Sam's Club yesterday to hear the worst renditions of xmas music everI can't stand christmas
11/18/2008 10:35:11 PM
actually this year i haven't noticed it quite as early. i remember last year some stupid station started playing christmas music 24/7 the day after halloweenhaven't noticed christmas songs on the radio until this week (and not the 24/7 kind. i only heard one mixed in). haven't noticed christmas specials on tv until this week. and no decorations up downtown yet. and next week is thanksgiving.i was just thinking about this the other day and it seemed better this year.
11/18/2008 10:35:59 PM
i like itI can pack on the pounds and go to work like thrice a week
11/18/2008 10:37:11 PM
11/18/2008 10:37:27 PM
This year's early Christmas is actually semi-justified by the shitty economy. The shitty stores need to sell their shitty products, and this year, they are doing it at (for them) shitty prices.Yay!
11/18/2008 10:38:23 PM
i am!! i see no decorations. i haven't heard christmas music. so i don't really get the fuss. i mean i guess if you hang out at the mall like a 15 year old girl, you'd notice. but yea, i haven't.
11/18/2008 10:38:38 PM
I'm so glad I'm not a 15 year old girl anymore. Thank God for being a 23 year old guy.
11/18/2008 10:42:28 PM
ooooh sick burnI haven't heard christmas music yet eithersince I only listen to kiss 95.1 and WPEG Power 98
11/18/2008 10:43:07 PM
11/19/2008 6:29:56 PM
I heard the music at the dentist's office for an hour. The stations shouldn't play it until Thanksgiving at the earliest.
11/19/2008 7:35:29 PM
i haven't even read this threadbut i approve of itmy mom calls me Scroogei get very little joy out of the Christmas season anymore
11/19/2008 7:41:35 PM
i started playing christmas music in septemberi got the jump on the early christmas people and the ones who complain about it starting too early
11/19/2008 7:42:11 PM
i was hoping for the duck tales version
11/19/2008 7:42:50 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...2012.
11/19/2008 7:43:23 PM
I fucking hate Christmas. I'd rather get punched in the face than celebrate Christmas.
11/19/2008 7:43:33 PM
you mean this?
11/19/2008 7:44:10 PM
that's the onegood old Scrooge McDuck[Edited on November 19, 2008 at 7:45 PM. Reason : ^^come over and let's don't celebrate Christmas together...i'll punch you in the face if you want ]
11/19/2008 7:45:04 PM
[Edited on November 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM. Reason : DAMN YOU MARKO , beat me to it]
11/19/2008 7:45:17 PM
apparently heineken can't come up with anything better than that damn "holiday 5-pack" commercial with fucking jingle bells in the backgroundbah humbug
11/20/2008 9:22:42 PM
i haven't seen any xmas paraphernalia yet either, except for Delirium Noel now on tap at the Saucer. But then again, I spend all my time at work/bars . . . so i avoid all typical locales of commercialism.
11/20/2008 9:33:53 PM
i agree w/ this sentimentfuck christmas
11/20/2008 9:38:29 PM
bah humbug
11/29/2008 9:19:57 PM
One of my favorite things to do at Christmas is to get a sandwich and a drink, sit on one of the benches in a central area of the mall, and watch people be idiots. People watching is A+++ at Christmastime.
11/29/2008 9:21:31 PM
One of my favorite things to do at Christmas is to get in the truck and pull the boat to the coast and go fishing. Fishing is A+++++ at Christmastime.when i crossed the overpass at new bern at 6 am friday morning, i saw the huge clusterfuck at some strip mall or whatever and went total carlface[Edited on November 29, 2008 at 9:25 PM. Reason : nt]
11/29/2008 9:24:58 PM
Agreed, it came later this year. I remember it coming up before it even got cold outside but stuff didn't happen til around Thanksgiving and thats the way it should be.
11/29/2008 9:27:21 PM
my gf went to her company christmas party alone tonightfuck christmas and your forced social functions
12/21/2008 12:17:30 AM
there too much "Geez, ugh"and not enough "Jesus"
12/21/2008 12:19:01 AM
there was originally no jesus in this pagan ritual
12/21/2008 12:20:11 AM
how was there no jesus in the celebration of the birth of jesus
12/21/2008 12:21:14 AM
def agree w/ this thread
12/21/2008 12:21:32 AM
this is a thread after my own heart
12/21/2008 12:22:07 AM
^^^pagan festival associated with the winter solstice. the church, as it did with most pagan festivals, claimed it for their own and associated some religious event with it.the bible even says something to the effect of "don't bring trees in your house like those infidels"
12/21/2008 12:26:31 AM
i feel the same way about halloween too...now i realize why there are people that dont let their kids celebrate it...we should be thanking those people
12/21/2008 12:27:38 AM
i mostly hate the wastefulness and overcommercializationthe only reason santa's suit is red is because of coca fucking cola[Edited on December 21, 2008 at 12:30 AM. Reason : jafd;lkjfds]
12/21/2008 12:30:11 AM
asside for the coporporate/consumerism whoring, lets not forget the huge drama that family gathers bring, the drama in relationships that pop up, and the overly fake/annoyingly pushy christmas "cheer" people take on.Then you can add in the fact that christmas is really kind of a fake religious holiday..........[Edited on December 21, 2008 at 12:34 AM. Reason : a fake christian holiday, that most of its followers don't really take to heart/focus on]
12/21/2008 12:33:21 AM
12/21/2008 12:35:04 AM
iits not meant to be jesus actual birthdate but the celebration of his birthyou can celebrate whatever the hell you want, but if you are going to call it "christmas" it better be about christ and not coca cola or furby or christmas trees and shit[Edited on December 21, 2008 at 12:36 AM. Reason : d]
12/21/2008 12:36:34 AM
^i know. that doesn't change the fact that the time around the winter solstice was a pagan festival first.they didn't randomly choose dec. 25th.
12/21/2008 12:38:43 AM
saturnalia
12/21/2008 12:39:06 AM
and i'd prefer to get rid of it altogether and call it get your ass to work day
12/21/2008 12:39:28 AM
I hate that since I'm Wiccan, I'm expected to jump in on the "It's originally a pagan holiday" bitch-fest and get up in arms about every "Merry Christmas" or manger scene every fucking year. I like Christians, most of my best friends and family are Christian, and I'm not gonna expend energy raining on their parade. My religion is only about 50 years old, and I'm cool with that.
12/21/2008 12:39:42 AM
id rather do away with about 50% of the population then people celebrating how they want to celebrate wouldnt be such a hinderance to me[Edited on December 21, 2008 at 12:41 AM. Reason : dafoe]
12/21/2008 12:40:35 AM
^we are in agreement, good sir
12/21/2008 12:42:21 AM
the wind is causing the stupid fucking plastic greenery and bow thing my dad stuck on my window to continuously bang on the window
12/22/2008 2:27:41 AM
why cant it just be fucking march all year long
12/22/2008 2:30:32 AM
i want it to alternate march and octobermy two favorite fishing months
12/22/2008 2:32:46 AM
I'd be ok with just skipping straight from Halloween and right to New Year's. Thanksgiving and Christmas can both suck my taint.
12/22/2008 2:42:22 AM
i'd be fine with getting rid of all holidays altogether.let me decide when i want to take my days off work.[Edited on December 22, 2008 at 2:43 AM. Reason : and why the fuck is new years a holiday?]
12/22/2008 2:43:21 AM
months i like: march, april, may except mothers day, june except fathers day, july, septemberdont really care too much for the others
12/22/2008 2:45:30 AM