10 Reason I hate Xmas!

[kayos]

1. Review of the year letters. Typed, copied and sent out with the sole purpose of boasting about how wonderful your year has been!

2. Christmas cards. Complete waste of money. If you see someone regularly there is no need to send them a card. If you don't see them, there is a reason for that!

3. Food shopping. Total nightmare. Supermarkets are shut for 2 days tops. People buy as if there is an imminent nuclear war. Half the food gets thrown out, while children starve all over the world.

4. Xmas shopping. Overcrowded shops, high prices and dreadful choice of tat.

5. Family get togethers. Always ends in fights.

6. Crap presents Which you take to charity shops the following week or palm off to a family member for their birthday.

7. Office parties. Get drunk, make a fool of yourself in front of your boss, or worse still, snog a colleague.

8. Festive TV. Speaks for itself!

9. Xmas songs. Pure wallpaper music.

10. "Merry Christmas" or "Happy New Year." The insincerity makes me want to boak!

Will add more as I think of them. Feel free to add your own to the list!

[regpude]

well im pleased im a OLD MAN.its only once a year.ok its stretfull,so what.its all about the bairns.ps,list no.11,make sure your better half has a nice presant.

[g.ordon]

what about Turkey, yuck

[kayos]

what about Turkey, yuck

Yup, dry and tasteless.............................Well at least the way I cook it!

[BillQuay]

What about the fishing present you get, bought by someone that knows nothing about fishing, but the man in the shop said .......
Its supposedly the thought that counts.

[kayos]

My friends and I gave up giving each other presents 20 odd years ago, not because we are tight Scots gits, but because Xmas is a totally manufactured experience created by the retail industry. As Reg said it is maybe ok for kids or the devoutly religous. For people like me, who don't have kids and are true atheists, is just total nonsense!

[pop39]

I love Xmas, get time off work to get fishing full stop ��

[topbanana]

Talk about being a Scrooge lol. I've always loved Xmas and now I have my own kids it's even better. For me it's about spending time with family and enjoying the festivities. The only thing that sort of bugs me is the fact it's grossly over commercialised but I suppose it's just the world we now live in.

Merry Xmas everyone and all the best !

[Bob C]

1. Review of the year letters. Typed, copied and sent out with the sole purpose of boasting about how wonderful your year has been!

2. Christmas cards. Complete waste of money. If you see someone regularly there is no need to send them a card. If you don't see them, there is a reason for that!

3. Food shopping. Total nightmare. Supermarkets are shut for 2 days tops. People buy as if there is an imminent nuclear war. Half the food gets thrown out, while children starve all over the world.

4. Xmas shopping. Overcrowded shops, high prices and dreadful choice of tat.

5. Family get togethers. Always ends in fights.

6. Crap presents Which you take to charity shops the following week or palm off to a family member for their birthday.

7. Office parties. Get drunk, make a fool of yourself in front of your boss, or worse still, snog a colleague.

8. Festive TV. Speaks for itself!

9. Xmas songs. Pure wallpaper music.

10. "Merry Christmas" or "Happy New Year." The insincerity makes me want to boak!

Will add more as I think of them. Feel free to add your own to the list!

What a load of "Bah Humbug" Right miserable bugger lol. Majority of folk love Christmas & if it lifts their spirits for a while in the dark Winter days then cant be a bad thing.

[tonybax]

totally agree mark its a load of bull+++t,

[spongebob]

What a load of "Bah Humbug" Right miserable bugger lol. Majority of folk love Christmas & if it lifts their spirits for a while in the dark Winter days then cant be a bad thing.

Second that bob mate. Mark you cant appreciate Christmas fully until you see the look on your children's faces in the morning. Its up to you what you get from it .. I think it's because your on the naughty list and you know your not getting nowt lol. Merry xmas and goodwill to most men lol

[kayos]

Haha, I'm not on the naughty list Bob! I am being the good samaritan this year, doing all the stuff I can't stand doing.

Indeed it does lift the spirits for a lot of people, however it deepens the gloom for the lonely, especially the older lonely people, the disadvantaged, the poor and the dispossed. I wish ordinary people would do more for those folk at Xmas and not leave it to the Salavation Army, after all it is supposed to be the time of "goodwill to all men!" I think that is my main gripe, it is all about giving/receiving goodies and over indulging in everything and that is not what it was orginally meant to be.

Community spirit is almost dead in our society and we don't even know who lives in our own immediate neighbourhood these days.

[eno]

Its not about presents and who gets what it's about our lord Jesus and have you realised that he was born on a bank holiday and died on a bank holiday !
merry Christmas everyone and tight lines