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Post by bigbear67 on Nov 14, 2019 10:54:05 GMT
I used to look forward to xmas, but then it turned into a fuckin media/advertising frenzy & just ended up as a money leaching bastard present fest. All the joy & warmth replaced by a dread feeling of having to compete with every other family member for the best & biggest etc. Worse still, the bastards got to my boy when he was young & now it just means prezzy time. Fuckin hate it with a passion now, just want to fuck off & hide till its all over but can't cos as usual I'm everybody's designated fuckin driver! So no festive spirit for me, just get to run round with the taxi drivers on Xmas day...😕 Bah Humbug, fuckin right...
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Post by cornishharry on Nov 14, 2019 11:41:00 GMT
reminds me of the time when a mate decorated his house for xmas one year with inflatable animals until one of his kids asked, daddy why have they all got bum holes ?
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Post by cricket on Nov 14, 2019 12:18:09 GMT
I used to look forward to xmas, but then it turned into a fuckin media/advertising frenzy & just ended up as a money leaching bastard present fest. All the joy & warmth replaced by a dread feeling of having to compete with every other family member for the best & biggest etc. Worse still, the bastards got to my boy when he was young & now it just means prezzy time. Fuckin hate it with a passion now, just want to fuck off & hide till its all over but can't cos as usual I'm everybody's designated fuckin driver! So no festive spirit for me, just get to run round with the taxi drivers on Xmas day...😕 Bah Humbug, fuckin right... Exactly the same for me. They swamped my offspring with the whole frenzy.To escape and ignore caused much upset ,mind games ,emotional pressure and upset kids.Schools too with "secret santa"for teacher...most of which were stolen by kids.  .Secret santa at work too ,being coerced into spending money on strangers you do not like and getting crap you do not want.I got fed up of being coerced into spending money I could not afford on those who were just totting up.The worst two things were a relatives child who threw the fiver I gave her on the floor and saying "is that all" and an old relative I caught preaching" jesus loves you come to jesus its his birthday "to my offspring when they thought I was out of earshot.After that we "got flu" every year,curtains shut,tree for solstice,snuggled by the fire, fairy lights,feast and films just us.The kids grew up and saw the consumer fakery for themselves.Sitting under a tree in the snow waiting for the longest night to pass is what we celebrate and decorate a wild tree, except last year some deer ate the solar fairy lights at the end shorting them out. |
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Post by cornishharry on Nov 14, 2019 12:48:34 GMT
have never really celebrated xmas except when the kids were young, for the past few years have spent it on a quiet beach or up a mountain just me and the dog an ideal xmas for me is, a frosty day a driftwood fire coffee pot bubbling radio on with no bloody carols and no people, just a normal day really.
this year will be different though, in bricks with a tele which i'm about to buy, no dog as not found one yet.
by end of day tele will have gone through window, cast will be cut off and the bottle of brandy will be severely diminished
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Post by cricket on Nov 14, 2019 12:56:57 GMT
Xmas in hospital with all the churchies roaming about praying and ministering to the afflicted and sally army bands rampaging the corridors,banners and chocs and nice nurses.Good luck with that.  |
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Post by cornishharry on Nov 14, 2019 13:02:20 GMT
should be out by the 23rd, correction, will be out
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Post by givingitsomethought on Nov 14, 2019 13:35:52 GMT
I used to look forward to xmas, but then it turned into a fuckin media/advertising frenzy & just ended up as a money leaching bastard present fest. All the joy & warmth replaced by a dread feeling of having to compete with every other family member for the best & biggest etc. Worse still, the bastards got to my boy when he was young & now it just means prezzy time. Fuckin hate it with a passion now, just want to fuck off & hide till its all over but can't cos as usual I'm everybody's designated fuckin driver! So no festive spirit for me, just get to run round with the taxi drivers on Xmas day...😕 Bah Humbug, fuckin right... Yep, it's too much, and I know people who get into debt buying presents for all and sundry and spend months shopping beforehand. I get something for my boy and I've a couple of friends who don't have any family so I get them a little something to put under the tree but the whole thing just does my head in. I've fallen out with lots of people over their insistence on visiting over Christmas. It's generally people who are too busy the rest of the year and don't make any effort to get together but for some reason they can't get through Christmas week without us meeting up and it's caused big rows when I've pointed out there's another 51 weeks in the year when we could get together. I just don't get it. Don't envy you doing all the driving, BigBear! |
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Post by fenrisulfr on Nov 14, 2019 16:19:56 GMT
I can easily beat the hippo,
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Post by bigbear67 on Nov 14, 2019 16:35:21 GMT
That's gotta be the best fuckin Disney merchandise I ever did see....👍😝
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Post by bernie on Nov 14, 2019 17:25:03 GMT
I can easily beat the hippo,
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 17:42:15 GMT
Oh deer!...i do hope thats a pyjama case😊
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Post by cornishharry on Nov 14, 2019 17:48:25 GMT
get yer mind outta the gutter pixie hahahaha
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2019 18:10:41 GMT
But its comfy down there in the gutter harry
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Post by VanWoman84 on Nov 14, 2019 21:07:48 GMT
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Post by cricket on Nov 14, 2019 21:49:51 GMT
Best not enquire too much about what it is for, where he got it, or what he does with it.As for pyjamas I find that very doubtful.It is very tactful to point out that it is not a xmas decoration hence getting it off thread and away from our sight. |
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.Secret santa at work too ,being coerced into spending money on strangers you do not like and getting crap you do not want.I got fed up of being coerced into spending money I could not afford on those who were just totting up.The worst two things were a relatives child who threw the fiver I gave her on the floor and saying "is that all" and an old relative I caught preaching" jesus loves you come to jesus its his birthday "to my offspring when they thought I was out of earshot.After that we "got flu" every year,curtains shut,tree for solstice,snuggled by the fire, fairy lights,feast and films just us.The kids grew up and saw the consumer fakery for themselves.Sitting under a tree in the snow waiting for the longest night to pass is what we celebrate and decorate a wild tree, except last year some deer ate the solar fairy lights at the end shorting them out. 
