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Nov 2016
3:06pm, 24 Nov 2016
327 posts
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ERM
i) (bit late with this I know) The fact that as soon as the Last Post dies away on Remembrance Sunday it is suddenly 'Countdown to Christmas' and everything/one goes a bit jingly/giddy with it all.
ii) Christmas. My Christmas list here would go on for ages, and I do have some things to do, but how about for starters; rampant consumerism, 'FairyTale of New York', queues, traffic problems and the feeling that you've not quite celebrated as much as everyone else so must be miserable?
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Nov 2016
3:17pm, 24 Nov 2016
14,914 posts
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The Teaboy
F**k Christmas. Hate all the fake jollity that goes with it.
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Nov 2016
3:18pm, 24 Nov 2016
1,546 posts
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Zorba
With you all the way down the line , ERM , and may I add....People who insist on donning Santa hats from this point on at every available opportunity ( including parkruns !! )
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Nov 2016
3:20pm, 24 Nov 2016
3,970 posts
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ChrisThePuma
[I love Christmas and everything to do with Christmas - November is far too late to start talking about it]
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Nov 2016
3:35pm, 24 Nov 2016
536 posts
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CharlieP
Christmas is great... when it isn't completely ruined by being dragged out and beaten to death like a thing that you beat to death. My girlfriend wants to "put the tree up" on 1 December - when I was a young 'un we always did it after finishing school for the term, which could be as late as Christmas Eve some years. I might manage to argue her down to the following weekend.
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Nov 2016
3:44pm, 24 Nov 2016
24,595 posts
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macca 53
I think traditionally it should be *up* for the 12 days of Christmas, so up on Christmas eve but not down until Jan 6 (which is 13 days).
I haven't seen ayone follow that for a long time mind........
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Nov 2016
4:11pm, 24 Nov 2016
6,077 posts
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Jambomo
We do 12 days before and 12 after. No idea why mind 
I love Christmas, I really love seeing peoples faces when I think that I've got them a present they'll love - this year we have all got mum and dad some tickets for Ascot racing weekend next July - I KNOW they'll be really happy to get them as they love their racing and have never been.
I fully understand that some people have genuine reason to not enjoy this time of year. It grinds my gears though, when people hate it for the sake of it. As though its fashionable to be miserable about Christmas and hate it all.
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Nov 2016
4:26pm, 24 Nov 2016
1,547 posts
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Zorba
Wooo..... Christmas fascism on Jambomo's part...
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Nov 2016
4:43pm, 24 Nov 2016
5,846 posts
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paul the builder
Very "post-fact" definition of fascism there...
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Nov 2016
4:55pm, 24 Nov 2016
31,647 posts
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NoFleecingAround
I like Christmas (it helps that my family all live a long way away), but what I fucking hate is when they try to stick mince pies in your fucking face in fucking October and the supermarket is FULL of people with groaning trolleys buying enough food for a billion people *every* fucking week in November and December. Has nobody heard of the obesity crisis? How many fucking extra calories do people need? I'm all for a nice blowout meal on the 25th, but why does it have to turn into 2 months of greed?
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