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Christmas - hates and loves

  • 20-11-2008 08:59PM
    #1
    lostinnappies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭


    So now that its nearing that time of year again I thought id ask everyones christmas hates and christmas loves

    I love waking up at 3am to put the prezzies under the tree (nutter i know)

    I hate the throngs of people jaming into every square inch in town when you go shopping.


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  • #2
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I absolutely love everything about Christmas, it kills the cynic in me :D My favourite thing I think has to be just the fact that the immediate family (me, parents, sister and brother) just spend the whole fcuking day together. from when I (the eldest child btw) wake the family up at about four, to the screwdrivers for brekkie, to when we finally acknowledge at about eleven pm that we're all too ****faced to keep playing Monoploy, to watching **** telly to staggering to bed about 5am, full of alcohol and platonic love. Gawd I love christmas. Five weeks today btw :D


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Love: wrapping presents for loved ones and seeing them open them.
    Hate: being away from Mam and Dad, maybe next year I can go home.


  • #4
    RxQueen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    i love EVERYTHING about christmas!!! i get soooo excited!


  • #5
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Love: going home and being able to stay there for an extended period, with everyone home and everyone really happy. And all the yummy yummy food :)

    Hate: the throngs in town also.


    Just love Christmas itself so so so much. Absolutely everything about it really, but I had to pick...


  • #6
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Feckin christmas carols on an endless loop for three frigging months.
    Humbug.


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  • #7
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    The only thing I don't like about Christmas is that I have had exams around then for the past 10+ years.

    Absolutely love having all the family together, etc.


  • #8
    dSTAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    I can't stand Christmas. I have to go to my doctor to be prescribed extra strong anti-depressants. Everything about it sucks from the rampant consumerism, the fake snow, silver crap everywhere, plastic santa's, the arguments and disappointments and just the sheer fakeness of it all. Doubly worse is Christmas in Australia where it all just seems so WRONG. Next year I am going to Pakistan or Iran to escape it all :mad:


  • #9
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    love - time off work, not a big fan of christmas just love the thought of not having to listen to an alarm clock for a few days

    hate - christmas songs, everyone going mad shopping


  • #10
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Love the smell of the christmas tree.. The happy faces on the kids as they open their presents.. The copious amounts of alcohol.

    Hate, the hangover.


  • #11
    funk-you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Hate: Having it rammed down my throat before December 1st. Xmas shopping too.

    Love: Everything else.

    -Funk


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  • #12
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    I love christmas. Its the one time of the year you can really just kick back and relax for a few days. Nowhere is open, there's no work to be done and its basically just enjoying some quality uninterupted time with the family.

    The only thing I hate about it, is the fact it starts so early. I swear if I hear a single christmas carol before December (I've avoided them so far \o/) I will unleash ****ing jihad on the store that plays it :D


  • #13
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    I hate how commercial the whole thing is. Happy birthday Santa.


  • #14
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Love : Kicking back with plenty food and drink in good company.

    Hate : Shopping for presents.


  • #15
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Hate the fact that Christmas now starts before Halloween.

    Love the fact that it distracts people a little bit from Halloween. Now that's one day I really hate.


  • #16
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Love: Loads of Premiership football and great sport over the christmas period.

    Hate: The fact that Christmas starts earlier and earlier, having to put the tree up, Christmas carol singers in shopping centres waving a bucket in front of me.


  • #17
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Love: being allowed be tipsy for three or four whole days straight.
    Hate: it's just an orgy of keeping up with the jones's style consumerism.


  • #18
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Loves: Pretty much everything about it! Decorations, tree, cold weather, presents, FOOD, Christmas music, the general Christmassy atmosphere around the place.

    Hates: Buying presents for people who are impossible to buy for. All my family are difficult to buy for, my Dad being the worst. He gets the same type of voucher every year because we can't think of anything else.


  • #19
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Zaph wrote: »
    Hate the fact that Christmas now starts before Halloween.

    Love the fact that it distracts people a little bit from Halloween. Now that's one day I really hate.

    Agreed on Halloween. Its no longer an event on my calender, I just ignore it. Christmas kicks the bollix off Halloween anyway....


  • #20
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Dave! wrote:
    The only thing I don't like about Christmas is that I have had exams around then for the past 10+ years.

    This.

    It always annoys me and makes me feel like I'm missing out on so much because it never feels like Christmas until the exams are over. Meanwhile everyone around you seems to be getting all excited about it and you're just stressed :(

    Don't have exams this year thankfully. Do have essays though but they're due a bit earlier than the date my exams normally would be over, so yay! :D


  • #21
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Hate: The ****ing vodafone christmas ad :mad:


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  • #22
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Zaph wrote: »
    Hate the fact that Christmas now starts before Halloween.

    Love the fact that it distracts people a little bit from Halloween. Now that's one day I really hate.

    ....nocturnal forum jihad


  • #23
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    I love the time off.

    I hate everything else.


  • #24
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Ooh ooh another love: the Coca-Cola ad! Saw it for the first time this year yesterday (or the day before?) and it made me so happy :)


  • #25
    NibNib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭NibNib


    Loves: Get to spend lots of time and getting presents for my love ones, atmosphere, children who still believe in Santie...:)

    Hates: When I don't know what to get for a family member, or cannot afford what I know they would definitely like...


  • #26
    chickenhawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭chickenhawk


    I love having all the family together and everyone in good spirits.:D Couldn't give a crap about the pressies!


  • #27
    dSTAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    chickenhawk wrote: »
    I love having all the family together and everyone in good spirits.:D Couldn't give a crap about the pressies!
    Haven't had a proper family reunion in over 10 years. My family are spread all over the world. I have my own family here which I get to see for half a day on Christmas Day. Whooopeee. Pour me another drink :(


  • #28
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    dSTAR wrote: »
    Haven't had a proper family reunion in over 10 years. My family are spread all over the world. I have my own family here which I get to see for half a day on Christmas Day. Whooopeee. Pour me another drink :(
    Get the man a drink :(


  • #29
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    lostinnappies wrote: »
    I hate the throngs of people jaming into every square inch in town when you go shopping.

    And da bleedin Poles steal our prezzies and wimmens.


  • #30
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Hate - People who won't **** off and wait until December before mentioning Christmas.

    Love - Food


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  • #31
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I hate christmas. I love stuffin the turkey


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