Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Does anyone NOT do xmas..

Options
124»

Comments

  • Options
    #92
    rolliepoley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    All i want for Christmas is not to do xmas. :p


  • Options
    #93
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The big companies really love this time of the year. As a society we are sent into this spending frenzy every year and all because a few muppets are naive, gullible and stupid enough to believe the usual rhetoric. That this is a 'spiritual' time of the year, that its a season of goodwill :rolleyes: Yet in all this goodwill while one half of society stuffs itself silly and drinks like an ass on Christmas day, the other half is experiencing financial hardship, possibly homelessness and hunger this time of year.

    There is children out there that would kill for one of the mountain of presents that both my nieces received yesterday morning and my nieces are just one example of the several tiers of society that is out there. Their parents are not well off by any account but sadly common sense goes out the window this time of the year. Some children in Ireland in the upper echelons probably received presents that are off the scale in terms of ridiculousness while others are lucky to receive anything and anything in between are also too well off if you ask me.

    The muppets, not content with their own stupid opinions they inflict this societal pressure on the rest of us. Would Dickens approve of the mountain of toys the average child is receiving I wonder? The real Christmas is far removed from what he wrote about in a Christmas Carol, yet when people have the sense to object to what is going on we get the usual reply of 'Oh Mr Scrooge' with absolutely no supporting theory as to why their view image of Christmas is anything like the Christmas Dickens was trying to portray in his novel. If anything, Scrooge in reality is well able to over indulge himself in the season while Tiny Tim is left to go hungry. Thats the reality and it needs to change


  • Options
    #94
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Bit heavy ^^^^^^

    If people earn their money and pay their PAYE, PRSI, USC and whatever else Noonan demands, they don't need a guilt trip before they spend it on presents


  • Options
    #95
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I dont buy presents or anything and dont receive any presents. I do nothing out of the ordinary to what I do every day of the year bar visit my nanny and grand-dad for an hour or two. Its genuinely is just another day for me, so i dont really do xmas.


  • Options
    #96
    Ando's Saggy Bottom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Ando's Saggy Bottom


    tipp_Gunner wrote: »
    Would Dickens approve of the mountain of toys the average child is receiving I wonder? The real Christmas is far removed from what he wrote about in a Christmas Carol, yet when people have the sense to object to what is going on we get the usual reply of 'Oh Mr Scrooge' with absolutely no supporting theory as to why their view image of Christmas is anything like the Christmas Dickens was trying to portray in his novel. If anything, Scrooge in reality is well able to over indulge himself in the season while Tiny Tim is left to go hungry. Thats the reality and it needs to change
    Since when did anyone give a sh*te what Dickens would think?!


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #97
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Pete Campbell wrote: »
    Since when did anyone give a sh*te what Dickens would think?!

    Seeing as Christmas was dying out prior to the publication of 'A Christmas Carol', it would appear people care greatly about what Dickens thinks.


  • Options
    #98
    ashers22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭ashers22


    Took xmas tree down today and packed away the few bits and pieces. It's not that I don't do xmas, I like the run up to it, the festive spirit and the lighting up of the place during the darkest months more than the day itself. I buy gifts and partake in the celebrations but it's just me and the dog in it these days so I don't tend to linger once it's all done. I'll party at new year and then I'll get on with things at normal pace again.


  • Options
    #99
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Bit heavy ^^^^^^

    If people earn their money and pay their PAYE, PRSI, USC and whatever else Noonan demands, they don't need a guilt trip before they spend it on presents

    They have a right but those very people don't acknowledge others right not to celebrate it. We all have live a lie and suck up this commercialised bulls*it for the sake of peace and quiet.

    Look the time off is nice but to be honest everything else that goes with it is pure sugar coated crap. Children get so much these times its a wonder they even know who Santa Claus is anymore let alone believe in him


Advertisement