Your own Christmas and New Year rituals

Welsh Megaman

Having different flavours of Baileys in coffee instead of milk

Picking decent holly from a tree not too far from the beach, about 30 seconds from my house

Going to aforementioned beach on New Year's Eve afternoon to watch the sunset on another year

Watching the Alan Partridge xmas special, 'Knowing Me, Knowing Yule'

cantdecide

Getting sick of my dad's cack jokes and heading for a drive with me bro in the afternoon. Been doing that since we were teenagers!

Mr Benevolent

Sex, food, precious liquor of Bacchus, presents, repeat.

Duggy747

Watching Die Hard.

krudler

Christmas eve: feet up, heating on, box of sweets open, beers beside me, Die Hard on tv.

Deedsie

I back an 18 to 1 horse... From the lyric in Fairytale of New York... Not won yet, Maybe this year :-)

OneArt

Virgin sacrifice on Christmas Day.

Eat leftovers on New Years' in a Holy Feast of Blood. Also, Blessing of the Untamable Three-Tentacled Squid.

seven_eleven

Eating a shíteload of chocolate.

R.I.P Celebrations truffle.

DundalkDuffman

24th, 2 hour mountain walk followed by huge fy up and Fr Ted Christmas special
25th morning mountain hike followed by 10 hours of eating like a boss!

branie

Opening presents after Mass on Christmas Eve, relaxing throughout the week, going for a meal on New Year's eve and ringing in the New Year at home

ScumLord

Game of 25.

RidleyRider

seven_eleven wrote: »

Eating a shíteload of chocolate.

R.I.P Celebrations truffle.

Don't tell me the truffle has left the celebrations?:eek:

Max Power

The darts on Sky. Can't beat it!

emeraldstar

RidleyRider wrote: »

Don't tell me the truffle has left the celebrations?:eek:

It's okay, you're obviously not that big a fan. It's been gone for a couple of years now.

RidleyRider

emeraldstar wrote: »

It's okay, you're obviously not that big a fan. It's been gone for a couple of years.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT:eek: I never took much heed of it being gone. Awh that's a genuine disappointment.

Saying that we never got celebrations last year.

ScumLord

RidleyRider wrote: »

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT:eek: I never took much heed of it being gone. Awh that's a genuine disappointment.

Saying that we never got celebrations last year.

Your local petrol station is probably still selling off the boxes they got in 7 years ago.

emeraldstar

RidleyRider wrote: »

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT:eek: I never took much heed of it being gone. Awh that's a genuine disappointment.

Saying that we never got celebrations last year.

Yup, they replaced it with the Twix early in 2011. Celebrations haven't been destroyed as much as Cadbury's Roses have in the past few years though. The dregs that now comprise the Roses selection is genuinely a tragic mess.

dark crystal

emeraldstar wrote: »

Yup, they replaced it with the Twix early in 2011. Celebrations haven't been destroyed as much as Cadbury's Roses have in the past few years though. The dregs that now comprise the Roses selection is genuinely a tragic mess.

So true. We stopped buying Roses two years ago after most of the sweets were left with no-one wanting to eat them. The nicest ones are the purple caramel ones with the nut in the middle, but they only put like two of those in the whole tin

RidleyRider

Well that's my Christmas ruined..

RosyLily

emeraldstar wrote: »

Yup, they replaced it with the Twix early in 2011. Celebrations haven't been destroyed as much as Cadbury's Roses have in the past few years though. The dregs that now comprise the Roses selection is genuinely a tragic mess.

I fuppin' hate Twixeseses!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

First time in years we bought Celebrations I opened the box earlier to find millions* of teeny Twixes staring back at me!!:mad:

We usually head to first mass Christmas morning and back home after for a fry. A box of Tayto is always bought. We're allowed Coke with Christmas dinner...always felt like a treat when I was small.:)


*might be an exaggeration

branie

Remember the selection boxes when you were younger?

The Jammy dodger

as we say in Dundalk SALECTION BAWXES

x43r0

23rd: Meal with friends who are home, followed by rakes of drink and telling people you used to hate in school that they're 'sound'.

24th: Visting family and going down to the local with parents and siblings to get ****faced.

25th: Eating

26th: Drunk beyond belief

McTigs

Christmas morning dip in the ocean at salthill with a few thousand other freaks.

Other than that, the wife is due our second any day now so all bets are off once that kicks off.

lounakin

Having castrated chicken for christmas with one side of the family and then watching the naked ladies dance in Crazy Horse cabaret on french TV with the other side of the family for new year's, drinking champagne and making my grandma laugh with all our sex stories.

Ethan Edwards

Into the pub about 2 pm Christmas Eve for a few pints with friends followed by a couple of quick ones with the folks in the local then home to get the ham out of the oven and give it a good taste testing to make sure its done before passing out about 9.30 watching movie. Every Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember has been like this and long may it continue.

branie

I also like a nice glass of Bailey in the evenings during the season

24th: into down with my parents and sisters in the early afternoon for a walk around to soak up the atmosphere.

Mass around 8pm and then into the local with dad for a few pints. Home and have a big dinner and then exchange presents, we always did out presents and Santa etc on Christmas Eve.

25th. Sleep in a bit, big fry quick check on the farm with dad then just tv eat and drink for the day and usually head across the road to my aunts for a drink or two in the evening.

26th pub in the late afternoon and consume large amounts of drink!

emeraldstar

dark crystal wrote: »

So true. We stopped buying Roses two years ago after most of the sweets were left with no-one wanting to eat them. The nicest ones are the purple caramel ones with the nut in the middle, but they only put like two of those in the whole tin

Yep, the box is packed to the brim with the crappy creme-filled/toffee ones now; most of the actual chocolate sweets have been removed. I stopped buying Roses completely several years ago, as they're just beyond shit now.

Plus, even the one or two remaining nice varieties are so scantily represented in the box that it's beyond a joke. That issue isn't just limited to Roses though. It so got to me last Christmas that I reached the stage where on a few occasions I counted the quantity of each variety of sweet in just-opened boxes of Celebrations and Heroes (I know I'm sad). Invariably, the least popular, cheaper varieties (say Milky Way/Bounty in Celebrations, Fudge in Heroes) each had maybe twenty-odd sweets in the tin, whereas for the nicer, more chocolatey, varieties there were maybe five or six of each. The ratios are similar for the smaller cartons as well as the tins.

The evil corporate baxtards have ruined Christmas

Staff Infection

Go for the annual mass on Christmas Eve. Smile my way through all the bits where me and the family forget whether to stand, sit or kneel then join in (badly) with any hymns. After mass we head back to the aunts for the warm up to Christmas dinner.

Baileys instead of milk with the cereal on Christmas morning, and seeing as it's Christmas I'll get real crunchy nut and real Baileys not the Tesco versions

After Christmas dinner has been assaulted I put on one of those wee crowns you get in the Christmas crackers and have a tiger snooze on the couch by the fire, bliss

emeraldstar

Staff Infection wrote: »

Baileys instead of milk with the cereal on Christmas morning, and seeing as it's Christmas I'll get real crunchy nut and real Baileys not the Tesco versions

Seriously? :eek:

I'm at least assuming that the cereal concerned is Coco Pops or similar rather than, say, All-Bran?

Staff Infection

emeraldstar wrote: »

Seriously? :eek:

I'm at least assuming that the cereal concerned is Coco Pops or similar rather than, say, All-Bran?

Yep being doing it the last few years now, a tip top way to start the day

Em never tried coco pops....... yet. I can confirm, however, that it goes well on frosties and crunchy nut but maybe this year I'll try it with coco pops, cheers for the suggestion

(oh and a top tip is to put the baileys in the fridge the night before and take it out about a half hour before you use it, does the trick for me anyway)

emeraldstar

Staff Infection wrote: »

Yep being doing it the last few years now, a tip top way to start the day

Em never tried coco pops....... yet. I can confirm, however, that it goes well on frosties and crunchy nut but maybe this year I'll try it with coco pops, cheers for the suggestion

(oh and a top tip is to put the baileys in the fridge the night before and take it out about a half hour before you use it, does the trick for me anyway)

My god, I am totally trying this now.

And from a quick Google it looks like you're not the only one who does this. Interesting...

Staff Infection

emeraldstar wrote: »

My god, I am totally trying this now.

And from a quick Google it looks like you're not the only one who does this. Interesting...

Enjoy, you can even make homemade Baileys to help justify having it with breakfast Recipe here

keano_afc

24th: breakfast with my best mate. Been doing this for years now. Myself and the wife make chocolate truffles in the evening and exchange one present.

25th: up around 8am, breakfast and present opening. Church at 10 and then straight to the inlaws for the day. Huge dinner and a few drinks in the evening. The wife is working this year on Christmas evening so it'll be an early night once our 2 year old goes down.

LivelineDipso

This year I intend to summon up Satan for the family and kill a puppy in front of the christmas tree on christmas morning while I play White Christmas 25% slower in order for it sound even more demonic.

I'm Pat Rabbitte BTW.

Celly Smunt

LivelineDipso wrote: »

This year I intend to summon up Satan for the family and kill a puppy in front of the christmas tree on christmas morning while I play White Christmas 25% slower in order for it sound even more demonic.

I'm Pat Rabbitte BTW.

heh rat pabbite.

branie

keano_afc wrote: »

24th: breakfast with my best mate. Been doing this for years now. Myself and the wife make chocolate truffles in the evening and exchange one present.

25th: up around 8am, breakfast and present opening. Church at 10 and then straight to the inlaws for the day. Huge dinner and a few drinks in the evening. The wife is working this year on Christmas evening so it'll be an early night once our 2 year old goes down.

Is your wife a nurse, by any chance?

Nailin4Whales

23rd or 24th. Put up Christmas tree to have it ready for the big day.

25th. Stroll up a hill, not even 5 miles in total i'd say. First have a row about who is going to go, then have another row half way up about turning back. I want to walk to the top and I might convince one other person to but everyone else will want to go back after about half an hour of walking. They aren't a bit hardcore at all.

26th. Used know this salt of the earth lad who would come over to spend the day chatting, playing board games and he would bring us a salad with spuds and a full litre of hellmans (at least) but he died an unfortunate death there a few years ago

Welsh Megaman

Nailin4Whales wrote: »

23rd or 24th. Put up Christmas tree to have it ready for the big day.

25th. Stroll up a hill, not even 5 miles in total i'd say. First have a row about who is going to go, then have another row half way up about turning back. I want to walk to the top and I might convince one other person to but everyone else will want to go back after about half an hour of walking. They aren't a bit hardcore at all.

26th. Used know this salt of the earth lad who would come over to spend the day chatting, playing board games and he would bring us a salad with spuds and a full litre of hellmans (at least) but he died an unfortunate death there a few years ago

Death by mayonnaise!