Xmas Disasters thread

Stercus Accidit

So I found out my fathers apartment went on fire last night, luckily it didnt spread but has destroyed everything he owns with smoke, think clothes, bed, walls covered.

Sister bawling because her gimp boyfriend broke up with her on the phone today.

Friend of mine spending Xmas alone in Dublin.


Merry f*cking Xmas all, wheres the hallmark card for "sorry santa burned your house down"?

So hows everyone else's xmas going so far?

GLUEY

Broke up with her on Christmas Day? Harsh.

ANXIOUS

GLUEY wrote: »

Broke up with her on Christmas Day? Harsh.

Probablly got him socks.

alwaysadub

Not a disater as such but woke up this morning with tonsilitis and bad flu.
Gonna be spending most of today in bed i think-don't want to be giving my nephews and nieces an extra pressie of the flu!

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I burnt a hole in my A-Team slippers off the heater this morning.:mad:

ejmaztec

Booked a room at a Holiday Inn with my pregnant wife, and there was no room, so we had to spend the night in a stable - Jesus Christ, it was bad:mad:

BluesBerry

Sister secretly drinking since 9 am hyper, talking loudly wont let anyone get a word in ,everyone crammed in the house like sardines and kids acting like spoiled brats and fighting over toys grumpy auld wan telling everyone this will be her last christmas brother cracking very inaaprioate jokes, and Ive a hangover from hell.........sigh
So....Im hiding in bedroom to get some peace going to stay here to till they look for me *puts on dvd*

Proxy

My friend's house burned down on Christmas day about 10 years ago. He maintains that it was a tragedy, but it ultimately brought them closer together as a family. Nice thought really.

Archeron

St Mels Cathedral in Longford burning down on Christmas day. That really sucks.

Proxy

ejmaztec wrote: »

Booked a room at a Holiday Inn with my pregnant wife, and there was no room, so we had to spend the night in a stable - Jesus Christ, it was bad:mad:

I fear the worst is yet to come for you on that front buddy....

Let's just say she may have been playing away from home in a league out of yours...

peanuthead

Dad got hammered last night, leaving the car in pub with Christmas veggies and potatoes in the boot.

Car is now locked in the pub car park, dad still in bed and I've to go driving around to neighbours doing the St Vincent de Paul rounds for myself.

Could be worse I know, but how embarrassing!!

oppenheimer1

Archeron wrote: »

St Mels Cathedral in Longford burning down on Christmas day. That really sucks.

Too true, its an absolute disaster for the town and county. It was one of the few things to be really proud of.

OP, you think that's bad??

I lost a fiver yesterday..

myflipflops

GLUEY wrote: »

Broke up with her on Christmas Day? Harsh.

Why is this any harsher than on any other day of the year? I once dumped a girl in early December and got loads of sh*t off her firends for 'ruining her Christmas'.

Dump somebody on their birthday, harsh. Dump them at Christmas, meh.

On topic, I had the whole house fire thing before on Christmas Eve. It isn't fun.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Too true, its an absolute disaster for the town and county. It was one of the few things the only thing to be really proud of.

FYP.:P

ParkRunner

I have a trapped nerve in my shoulder which is amazingly painful but thank god there was an out of date deep heat patch lying around otherwise id have to use wine as a painkiller!

johnnyskeleton

Proxy wrote: »

I fear the worst is yet to come for you on that front buddy....

Let's just say she may have been playing away from home in a league out of yours...

...and to cap it all off, his son will probably end up a hippy.

GLUEY

myflipflops wrote: »

Why is this any harsher than on any other day of the year? I once dumped a girl in early December and got loads of sh*t off her firends for 'ruining her Christmas'.

Dump somebody on their birthday, harsh. Dump them at Christmas, meh.

On topic, I had the whole house fire thing before on Christmas Eve. It isn't fun.

Well it's true. If you dump someone on Christmas Day they're not not going to enjoy it half as much as they would.

ejmaztec

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

...and to cap it all off, his son will probably end up a hippy.

I'll crucify him if he does.

johnnyskeleton

ejmaztec wrote: »

I'll crucify him if he does.

Doesn't matter, little fecker will just keep coming back.

triple-M

my bro got a sweet looking remote control plane this morning,and as soon as i flew it i crashed it into the ground and a wing and propellor snapped off it,needless to say bro isnt impressed,have to replace 200 quids worth of a present now

Catari Jaguar

BluesBerry wrote: »

So....Im hiding in bedroom to get some peace going to stay here to till they look for me *puts on dvd*

Me too.. that's the spirit of christmas. Hide until it's an appropriate time to start drinking to take the edge off.

johnnyskeleton

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Me too.. that's the spirit of christmas. Hide until it's an appropriate time to start drinking to take the edge off.

It's always appropriate time to start drinking. It is not however always appropriate to stop.

peanuthead

peanuthead wrote: »

Dad got hammered last night, leaving the car in pub with Christmas veggies and potatoes in the boot.

Car is now locked in the pub car park, dad still in bed and I've to go driving around to neighbours doing the St Vincent de Paul rounds for myself.

Could be worse I know, but how embarrassing!!

Update : Fcuker forgot the crackers too!!

irish147

Archeron wrote: »

St Mels Cathedral in Longford burning down on Christmas day. That really sucks.

Sad to hear about St Mels

http://www.harryclarke.net/glass/st_mels_cathedral%20_longford-harry-clarke-studio.html

Rowley Birkin QC

Spending Xmas day on my own waiting to go to work at 6pm, not a happy bunny.

Though it is cheering to know that the Catholic Church in Longford has mastered the art of time travel...

RTE wrote:

St. Mel's Cathedral was built in the 1940s and opened in September of 1856.

G86

My Christmas was going great until about an hour ago when I realised I really am snowed in - the car slid left right and centre, so I can't get over to see my wee bro and sis and give them their Xmas presents

That_Guy

peanuthead wrote: »

Dad got hammered last night, leaving the car in pub with Christmas veggies and potatoes in the boot.

Car is now locked in the pub car park, dad still in bed and I've to go driving around to neighbours doing the St Vincent de Paul rounds for myself.

Could be worse I know, but how embarrassing!!

Where there's a will there's an ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170423909627

peanuthead

That_Guy wrote: »

Where there's a will there's an ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170423909627

ha!! now I've seen it all!

That_Guy

peanuthead wrote: »

ha!! now I've seen it all!

Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?

Archeron

irish147 wrote: »

Sad to hear about St Mels

http://www.harryclarke.net/glass/st_mels_cathedral%20_longford-harry-clarke-studio.html

aaah feck, thats even worse

ejmaztec

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Though it is cheering to know that the Catholic Church in Longford has mastered the art of time travel...

The fire was probably caused by a faulty flux capacitor.

donmeister

Car broke down yesterday, it's completely fucked!

Ah well..........

dimejinky99

My ma was found dead yesterday. She always kinda wrecked christmas, least she's consistent.

thebigcheese22

dimejinky99 wrote: »

My ma was found dead yesterday. She always kinda wrecked christmas, least she's consistent.

Hope you're joking... :eek:

When I was around 12 my dad's car was stolen on Christmas Eve...Guess where he decided to store all the presents?! That was a very frugal year...

This year is going well though

Closed ac

My brother got a new phone, put in the sim card the wrong way, its stuck and we cant get it out..

Shacklebolt

Oven broke this morning. Had to borrow a friends old cooker to get the dinner done. Not the worst thing that could have happened but pissed me off no-end at the time.

lindtee

Dad fell down the stairs and damaged his coccyx in the early hours of yesterday.

Skidded as I was just about to turn into my dad's house to get Santy presents yesterday .Went sliding towards the wall. Of course I did the wrong thing and rammed my foot on the break. Stopped about 6 inches from aforementioned wall, didn't think I was going to stop at all. Not quite a disaster but nearly.

dimejinky99

No i'm serious sadly.

G86

dimejinky99 wrote: »

No i'm serious sadly.

Really sorry to hear that:(

GLUEY

Uncle just tell and broke his shoulder...

Duggy747

Today felt like a bad Xmas TV comedy special.

1st - I find out that a relative who never stops talking utter shìt about nothing for years and years was going to be joining us for Xmas dinner for no apparent reason.

2nd - The gas cooker nearly exploded, litteraly. A loud hissing noise came from one of the hobs before a fùckin' gigantic fireball shot out...............luckily the dinner had been pretty much cooked so we backed the hell away from it.

3rd - My sister who's a veggie tried putting odd ingredients into the beloved dinner and ended up with terrible soup, terrible stuffing and just got the mammy in an insane mood.

4th - 5 minutes into our finally prepared dinner the pipes in the kitchen decide to burst and the ceiling is flooded. Cue me and the ol' lad up in the attic for a few hours to fix it.

Overall not really a fantastic Xmas, memorable though :pac:

EDIT: Oh, and I got 3 pairs of black socks for Xmas

Capt'n Midnight

Archeron wrote: »

St Mels Cathedral in Longford burning down on Christmas day. That really sucks.

Tell me all about it. Really gutted I was. Totally ruined my plans for Sunday.

I've been casing the joint all month and had a perfect alibi organised

MarkR

Water pipe burst in the inlaws, fortunately it was at the outside tap part, and a friend of theirs up the road is a plumber.

xw2lj9uspm1eyh

I broke my external hardrive (it slipped off the table) today serves me right for been stuck in front of the computer Xmas day :P(hope it can be repaired though).

Stench Blossoms

Duggy747 wrote: »

EDIT: Oh, and I got 3 pairs of black socks for Xmas

Are you sure they're black and not very very very very very very very dark blue?

Michellenman

Young lad across the road from us was taken off in an Ambulance this morning, poor thing. Looks like an injury to his arm, what a way to spend Christmas morning.

a-k-47

Im having a fcking great christmas

Daemos

I got Saw IV as a present when I asked for Saw V :rolleyes:

unklerosco

My mam just fell on the ice n is limping around the place badly... She's meant to be off on her holidays tomorrow....

Ahsurelookit

Ok posters way to spread the Christmas cheer.... I understand that Christmas can be difficult for people but personally I took today as a day of enjoying a rare time where friends and family come together and show some apprieciation to each other. (not just with the show of gifts and monetary objects but the fact that each person makes the effort to be there) Im usually a bit of a ba humbug but this year I was so, so, so thankful to not be working that everthing felt special. Dont get me wrong this time last yr I was on call, the year before sitting in casualty with my mam. To all you who have had a bit of a pants Christmas, log off, go downstairs n spend time with the people who have made you who you are. And to those who have had a series of unfortunate events today- be there, go home, have some rest and look forward to the year to come being better than the year just gone. Onwards and upwards and keep the faith! Happy Christmas x