Has anyone else had a f*cking disastrous Christmas recently?

Lord Trollington

I suppose it all started on the 20th when the heating in the house packed in.
Have since learned that the Boiler is now leaking from the thaw, probably the pips are fupped.

Had a tip in the car on the 22nd.

Chest infection and bed bound on the 24th, 7 days of Antibiotics and Steroids. Cant have a hooch.

Tonight o2 signal around the area has packed it for the night and the Sky + is acting the pr*ck also coming and going.

All in all its been a fu*king **** christmas 2010.

What is your christmas horror story from now or christmas past?

JONJO THE MISER

knocked the xmas three over earlier.

Lumen

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

knocked the xmas three over earlier.

Jesus, Santa and Rudolf?

AnonoBoy

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

knocked the xmas three over earlier.

Are they those lads that were wrongly convicted of that Christmas bombing in 1972?

Suspiria79

Yeah, mine was terrible. I live around terrible Irish personalities that only look out for their own crowd. Terrible stuff, altogether

flutered

me, i must have put up with about of 50 of the feckers, you guys are only starting

fergiesfolly

Was having a great Christmas and then I read your story...and now I feel even better. Cheers!

mink_man

no was grand. nice quiet christmas. a nice quiet christmas when nobody came to visit. wait there's the doorbell.

Zebra3

whycliff wrote: »

Has anyone else had a f*cking disastrous Christmas recently?

Yeah, about 3 months ago. It was shyte.

plein de force

mine was nice
good food, good company, good drinks and good presents

Not that bad, OP. I pretty much had all those things and considered it an OK Christmas because they happen almost every year, how sad is that? Also was on anti b's for a week, still on 3 types of meds now, phone broken for 2 weeks, no water in the house for last 2 days so can't shower or flush toilets etc, took me hours and a lot of money to get home for Xmas, wasn't able to visit relatives cos of snow, grandparents couldn't come over as planned due to flight cancellations, deliveries delayed so most of my Xmas pressies didn't arrive. Still, could have been a lot worse, so meh. Just grateful to be home, really.

admiralofthefleet

mine went like clockwork

Nonoperational

Have a booze you'll be grand...

benj

Mine was going grand till about 8pm Christmas night,the only night i had off, decided to sit down and watch boxset of the shield when my 5 year old came down stairs with a sore throat and headache and high temp,
I then went to make him a hot honey drink and the f*****g tap was frozen so no water.
Had to drive 2 miles to get water then put him to bed after his honey drink,calpol etc,
He wanted me to sleep in with him so that meant no sleep last night so had to sleep most of the day today so i could stay awake for work tonght
all in all i suppose it could have been worse,at least he is better now,
it's just things always seem to go wrong when you have limited time to relax
Happy 2011 everyone!

Pherekydes

Car battery died on Christmas morning, so I had to leave half the family behind when visiting my son.

Dishwasher wouldn't work because the water pipes in the utility room were frozen. (They've since thawed out)

Plus I didn't get what I wanted on Christmas night, if you know what I mean...

Sky digital went on the blink, but it turned out that the feedhorn (on the dish) was covered in snow, so I had to crawl out on the garage roof (pitched, not flat, and covered with 6 inches of snow) and brush the snow off the feedhorn.

Bill G

I was made redundant 2 days before Christmas.

bodice ripper

two christmases ago I had the joy of spending it with my dad's new Mail Order Russian bride who was three years younger than I, his eldest daughter.

"oh honey be nice, she is lonely"
"lonely for people her own age, yeah?"

Mom was in the mad house at the time, grandmother went spontaneously blind. not even kidding



to be fair, grandmother got her sight back - that is how hard she is.

anniehoo

Pherekydes wrote: »

Plus I didn't get what I wanted on Christmas night, if you know what I mean...

NO..nooo, we dont know what ye mean.Santa didnt fill that stocking??

I mean stocking really...:D

Pherekydes

anniehoo wrote: »

NO..nooo, we dont know what ye mean.

Well, lemme tell ya:

Hang on, on second thoughts, I won't.

:P

orourkeda

Our lecky went on christmas day for three hours

orourkeda

Pherekydes wrote: »

Car battery died on Christmas morning, so I had to leave half the family behind when visiting my son.

Dishwasher wouldn't work because the water pipes in the utility room were frozen. (They've since thawed out)

Plus I didn't get what I wanted on Christmas night, if you know what I mean...

Sky digital went on the blink, but it turned out that the feedhorn (on the dish) was covered in snow, so I had to crawl out on the garage roof (pitched, not flat, and covered with 6 inches of snow) and brush the snow off the feedhorn.

Youre not the only one. The fanny shortage over christmas has been a nightmare.

starbelgrade

Bill G wrote: »

I was made redundant 2 days before Christmas.

Look on the bright side - at least you don't have to work over the holidays.

Manic Moran

Not christmas, but I rang in the new year last year locked in a facility with about 500 other people, one of whom had just stabbed another to death, but we hadn't yet figured out who. Celebrations were obviously canceled and we were searching the place in buddy pairs looking either for enemy or the weapon used for evidence.

From that point on, any time I was alone at night, one hand was testing on my sidearm.

Rang in new year 2005 sitting in a motor pool waiting for a truck, but that wasn't so bad.

NTM

pickarooney

bodice ripper wrote: »

two christmases ago I had the joy of spending it with my dad's new Mail Order Russian bride who was three years younger than I, his eldest daughter.

"oh honey be nice, she is lonely"
"lonely for people her own age, yeah?"

Mom was in the mad house at the time, grandmother went spontaneously blind. not even kidding



to be fair, grandmother got her sight back - that is how hard she is.

I think moonshine may be the cause of and the solution to all your problems.

Amber Lamps

Manic Moran wrote: »

Not christmas, but I rang in the new year last year locked in a facility with about 500 other people, one of whom had just stabbed another to death, but we hadn't yet figured out who. Celebrations were obviously canceled and we were searching the place in buddy pairs looking either for enemy or the weapon used for evidence.


NTM

so what happened, did youse figure out who done it?

mine was brutal. thousands of miles from home. besides tv i haven't seen an other person in 3 days. talked to my ma and da on christmas day for 10 minutes. other than that just drinkin, sleepin, tv and listening to irish music

pickarooney

Amber Lamps wrote: »

so what happened, did youse figure out who done it?

mine was brutal. thousands of miles from home. besides tv i haven't seen an other person in 3 days. talked to my ma and da on christmas day for 10 minutes. other than that just drinkin, sleepin, tv and listening to irish music

That sounds like heaven to be honest.

Amber Lamps

pickarooney wrote: »

That sounds like heaven to be honest.

on paper yeah. climbing the walls tbh

Mint Sauce

I saw Mummy kissing Santa Claus.

pickarooney

I mistakenly ordered a Santa Klaus Barbie doll for my daughter.

Hyperbullet

irish-stew wrote: »

I saw Mummy kissing Santa Claus.

Santa seems to shift a lot of mothers it seems. Beginning to wonder if he's actually Pat Mustard.

Manic Moran

Amber Lamps wrote: »

so what happened, did youse figure out who done it?

We think so, but we couldn't prove it.

mine was brutal. thousands of miles from home. besides tv i haven't seen an other person in 3 days. talked to my ma and da on christmas day for 10 minutes. other than that just drinkin, sleepin, tv and listening to irish music

Where are you, the Antarctic?

NTM

arybvtcw0eolkf

Manic Moran wrote: »

Rang in new year 2005 sitting in a motor pool waiting for a truck, but that wasn't so bad.

NTM

Rang in the New Year of 2000 singing (to the tune of Old McDonald had a farm) "There's a flair in the air, there's a body in the wadi... e.i.e.i.o"..

All other's since have been anti climatic.

beanie.

Water went so had to hit neighbours for water Christmas day, drove car down with milk churn in back of car, stayed for a while and came out to find car dead as a maggot, so had to push the car through the snow and into a ditch. Dragged water home with neighbourly help.
Went this evening and went to rescue car, car is sicker than first though and is still in the ditch (only now with the windows open in the rain).

FreudianSlippers

I've had a ****ty Christmas tbh. Just expecting things to get worse too.

Flying home on Thursday and half expecting delays followed by the house being robbed for flooded or some shíte.

gbee

whycliff wrote: »

I suppose it all started on the 20th when the heating in the house packed in.

You didn't wish some a happy Christmas in the "I hate Christmas" thread, by any chance, did you?

mel.b

Christmas day was fine, but I cant say the same for Christmas eve.

Manage to lock myself out of the house with no phone, hat, coat, gloves or scarf. because the phone was inside i couldnt call my landlord or anyone i knew to try and get me back into the house. Headed into work to call a locksmith and left the lights on in the car

Managed to get someone to jump start my car and the locksmith arrived after about 2hours. it took him all of 2sec to get into the house and cost me 95euro

I'm still waiting for the 3rd thing to happen (although the house pipes are now frozen, so maybe that is it?)

michael999999

I came home after christmas day dinner at my parents, to find a burst pipe in the attic. The water was pissin down through the ceilings and light fittings.

Spent stephens day taking sopping wet rockwool out of the attic.
ill be spending tomorrow ripping up carpets and wooden floors. :mad:

Waterfordlass

michael999999 wrote: »

I came home after christmas day dinner at my parents, to find a burst pipe in the attic. The water was pissin down through the ceilings and light fittings.

Spent stephens day taking sopping wet rockwool out of the attic.
ill be spending tomorrow ripping up carpets and wooden floors. :mad:

It happened to us yesterday, tank overflowed in attic and poured down the walls and light fittings. It was like the Amityville Horror with water instead of blood..thankfully the damage was nothing like you've had, just one night of candle light.

After we had mopped up, we got as drunk as skunks, thank Jebus for Lidl booze

Captain Slow IRL

Christmas day was, thankfully, uneventful although we woke up to a flooded kitchen yesterday morning - the plumber found 4 punctures in the pipes, caused by ice. We spent ages mopping up the water in the kitchen and trying to dry out some of the stuff sprayed by the water. We were too tired to go out for any drinks last night.

I went down this morning, with the intention of putting everything back in it's place to find another leak:mad: The plumber won't be here until the morning, hopefully that'll be the last we see of him. Still too pissed off to go out for a pint:(

I also spent a large portion of today and yesterday lugging a 5 gallon drum into the parents and mum-in-laws attic tank:mad::mad:

Dionysus

This is perhaps a bit off-topic here but worthy of posting.

A friend works in a very good hotel in Dublin. I was speaking with him yesterday and he said that no less than five elderly people were dropped off in his hotel on Christmas Eve by their families so that they wouldn't be alone on Christmas Day.

{{{Shudder}}}. :mad:

GTE

Having the family over was the first mistake.

Bootsy.

Had a serious falling out with the OH on Christmas eve (and we almost never fight, never mind seriously). To make matters worse, I didn't see her again until tonight. That kinda wrecked my Christmas.

I've had man-flu/Columbian-flu/common cold since xmas eve.

Then my aunt died this morning.

Crappest Christmas ever!

Pdfile

i went to a party at a friends house....

drank enough whiskey straight to kill a horse.

destroyed the jacks and got carried home.

Merry merry times

Bootsy.

^^^ I did same as Pdfile above Stephens' night Don't remember a damn thing.

I'll never forget one Christmas I won a litre bottle of whiskey in a raffle. At the time I didn't drink whiskey (drinking it now as I type though!... sensibly!). I gave it to my friend at the time, we're from the same street and his family are still neighbors of my family. The d*ckhead drank the whole lot. His sister came banging on my parents' door screaming and crying, my father ran up and found yer man with his own mother pinned to ground by the throat! :eek: My father had to drag him off and knock some sense into him.

I've since had to drag this same chap off of friends of ours on more than one occasion (and he's strong as an ox). He even went for me one night. Needless to say, we're not friends anymore.

Whiskey is the devil!

Bought a bottle of vodka nd drank it.. Quality Christmas.

The airports are currently full of people having really crap christmases this year, flights cancelled to places in the EU and Moskow was closed for some time too and worse.

In the end on Friday night I realised that my house and my goose was too big to be sitting around just spending christmas with the girls and the baby.

I drove to the airport and picked up the most distraught looking people I could fit into my car and took them for christmas in our house. 2 Guys from russia and 2 girls from france stranded by cancelled flights.

Best christmas ever. Really felt some what smug and good about myself in all the right ways, got the girls back to the airport on sunday morning, the russians and I polished off a crazy amount of vodka on sunday night before I stuck them in a taxi back to the airport Monday midday with a breakfast in their gut.

Christmas should not be something that happens to you in a good or a bad way I have learned this weekend I think. Christmas is something you do.

I think I speak for everyone here when I say fair fuks to ya.

gbee

Deleted User wrote: »

The airports are currently full of people having.

St Nick is dead, long live St. taxAHcruel

Ah hardly. It just seemed the right thing to do really. Massive big goose sitting there in the house, too much for three people, and the news showing picture after picture of miserable people who were facing Christmas looking at Ryanair and Aer Lingus staff running around being characteristically helpless.

Hardly a drop in the ocean in terms of stemming the tide of misery the airport contained but it felt good to do something and now I myself have avoided eating goose sandwiches for the rest of winter.

Yakult

whycliff wrote: »

I suppose it all started on the 20th when the heating in the house packed in.
Have since learned that the Boiler is now leaking from the thaw, probably the pips are fupped.

Had a tip in the car on the 22nd.

Chest infection and bed bound on the 24th, 7 days of Antibiotics and Steroids. Cant have a hooch.

Tonight o2 signal around the area has packed it for the night and the Sky + is acting the pr*ck also coming and going.

All in all its been a fu*king **** christmas 2010.

What is your christmas horror story from now or christmas past?

Aw you poor thing...

You have it way worse than people who cant afford to put food on their table and gifts under their tree's for young kids. Nevermind the homeless..

Just because a few materialistic crap ceases to function in extream cold you have a bad xmas? boo hoo.
Theres people out there with real issues who dont moan as much.

FreudianSlippers

Waterfordlass wrote: »

It happened to us yesterday, tank overflowed in attic and poured down the walls and light fittings. It was like the Amityville Horror with water instead of blood..thankfully the damage was nothing like you've had, just one night of candle light.

After we had mopped up, we got as drunk as skunks, thank Jebus for Lidl booze

Ugh, this is why I am not looking forward to seeing my gaff on Thursday