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Is Christmas the most over hyped event in human history?

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  • 23-12-2010 7:01pm
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    ITguy2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭


    Ok, well before I get my word in here I will admit that I am an atheist – but that has nothing to do with my argument here. My main argument here is that I think Christmas has to be the most annoying, overrated event during the year between

    (1) Hours spent putting up tacky decorations and trees etc. Some have taken this concept to the max with outdoor lighting (snowmen / flashing lights etc) that airplanes could land to.
    (2) Shops that go on, and on, and on and on about Christmas. “Christmas”, “Christmas is here!”, “Our new xmas deal, don’t miss out!”……etc. as soon as Halloween is over.
    (3) This ties in with number 2, but every shop wherever you go playing the same ****ing cheesy Christmas songs, year in year out.
    (4) People who say “We have forgotten the real meaning of Christmas”. Whatever that’s supposed to mean, because I’m pretty sure there about 100 million religious advertisements around the place whether they be in the form of stables (both private and public), images of religious postcards, sermons on the television etc.
    (5) And just everything else about – in particular feeling forced to meet with family and friends that you honestly couldn’t be arsed with for the rest of the year, and listen to their boring conversations.

    I’m sorry about this rant, but all this Christmas malarkey (everything listed above and more) is really wrecking my head at this stage. Am I alone in sometimes thinking that this is the most overrated and annoying holiday during the year? The only good thing about it in my opinion, is the days off.

    Christmas is overrated? 121 votes

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    #2
    kc87
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭kc87


    yes it is


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    #3
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    No, Avatar was....


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    goat2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    christmas can be as hyped as you want it to be, i do love my decorations, a few swags with white lights and a bit of red and gold, and a christmas tree with the white lights and red and gold decs also, did my christmas shopping today, six of us for dinner, bought the lot and more beside for the dinner for one hundred and fifty, that is everything beer, wine, meat, dissert, veg, fire briquettes, a week worth of, plenty in that,


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    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Yes. Ironically, the biggest feastday in the Christian calendar is Easter, not Christmas.


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    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users Posts: 7,955 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    No, YK2 ,the millennium bug thing, was.


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    Thrill
    Registered Users Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    No.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,129 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I don#t go in for the whole decorations/tree/pressies for people I hardly know ****e, but in answer to your question, no. That honour goes to Valntine's Day.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    johnn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭johnn


    I think the day itself can be overrated if you look at it as only that, but then you have the build-up, work parties, 12 pubs with mates, xmas eve session, presents xmas morning, stuffing yourself all day with food and chocolate, beers, good session on stephen's day with family, off work the rest of the week, then new year's is always a decent session :cool:


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    Ruu_Old
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    Only as hyped as you make it yourself. No one is forcing you to go out and buy things or buy into the whole thing.


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    johnn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭johnn


    Ruu wrote: »
    Only as hyped as you make it yourself. No one is forcing you to go out and buy things or buy into the whole thing.

    Except the ball and chain lol


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    Mr. CooL ICE
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    Happy love day everybody!


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,990 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Well since I actually enjoy meeting my friends and family at Christmas and I like giving and receiving gifts, and find happiness in indulgent meals and find it soothing to relax over a long period, it most certainly isn't over hyped for me. I really enjoy the holiday.


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    BeerWolf
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    I enjoy Xmas for the whole family atmosphere of being together for a few days, once a year. Presents and such is just a perk.


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    galwayrush
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    The millenium bug beat it hands down,


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    El Guapo!
    Registered Users Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    No. The most over-hyped thing was either the Millenium bug or that whole Anthrax attack thing....


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    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    I'd vote for drink driving - I've done it many times and haven't killed anyone yet!


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    Pherekydes
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    No, the Ryder Cup is.


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    #19
    PeterIanStaker
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    Xmas is definitelty overhyped I really have no time for it commercial, tacky religous, trite, horse manure.

    That said, I have a feeling that World War III is going to be ridiculously overhyped.


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    KnifeWRENCH
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    I don't think it'd overrated, though having said that I'm not feeling at all Christmassy this year. But that's due to personal circumstances. Christmas can be a really wonderful time if you're in the right spirit. The commercial aspect of it can be a bit annoying, but I try not to focus on that too much.


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    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    Dionysus wrote: »
    Yes. Ironically, the biggest feastday in the Christian calendar is Easter, not Christmas.

    Why is that ironic?


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    DOC09UNAM
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    Dionysus wrote: »
    Yes. Ironically, the biggest feastday in the Christian calendar is Easter, not Christmas.
    If they wanted it to be obvious, they should have called it fEaster.


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    _Whimsical_
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    How about an underhyped winter celebration then...I give you festivus :
    (or rather the guy who wrote Seinfeld does)

    Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as "another way" to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism[1]. It was created by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a screenwriter for the TV show Seinfeld,[2][1] as part of a comical storyline on the show. The holiday's celebration, as shown on Seinfeld, includes an unadorned aluminum "Festivus pole," practices such as the "Airing of Grievances" and "Feats of Strength," and the labelling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles".
    Celebrants of the holiday sometimes refer to it as "Festivus for the rest of us," a saying taken from the O'Keefe family traditions and popularized in the Seinfeld episode to describe Festivus' non-commerical aspect.
    The name "Festivus" has also begun to be used as a general term for any type of December party not affiliated with the season's other events


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    xoxyx
    Registered Users Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    I agree that Christmas has become a bigger, more commercial event that it should be.

    But, there's no other holiday that is treated so seriously. Christmas, for many people, is the one holdiay that people come together to spend time with their loved ones.

    It's the holiday where far away relatives make the journey back home to have a typical Irish Christmas (loads of food, drink, lovely warm feeling, and Monopoly!)

    IMHO, I think all the messing and the commercialism is worth it for the end result.


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    #25
    Forest Master
    Registered Users Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    ITguy2 wrote: »
    Is Christmas the most over hyped event in human history?

    Eh, your poll doesn't ask this question. Your poll only asks if it's overrated. So which is it? :confused:


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    Colpriz
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    Absolutely, since Nov 1st each year we are bombarded with stores stocking their shelves with xmas related items, TV adds etc etc. Everywhere u go u r reminded, buy buy buy!

    People say they want to do something different, but they dont and will do exactly the same as they have always done and will eat exactly the same..ham & turkey etc

    And then u r told you are scrooge/ humbug, No..I dont impinge on anybody's happiness if thats what they want to do..but leave me the f*ck alone!

    They'll also tell you about the true meaning of xmas but Ironically Xmas tress & present giving are Pagan traditions coming before the birth of Jesus!

    White Christmas's are fine and dandy but most of it are sick of the snow by now as it just impedes everyday life..

    I cant wait for Christmas to end!


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    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
    Registered Users Posts: 7,776 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    No, it's not, but seriously, who the fcuk cares?? Its an opportunity to spend time with the one's you love. Stop giving out about Christmas and just enjoy it like...


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    1qTour
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭1qTour


    its a holiday... (nearly)everyone is off work n school and that. Meet up with some friends you havent seen in a while, have a few drinks. Dont care what they call it its good craic to me. it is what you make of it.... Roll on the good times.


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    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    THFC wrote: »
    No, it's not, but seriously, who the fcuk cares?? Its an opportunity to spend time with the one's you love. Stop giving out about Christmas and just enjoy it like...
    Valid point tbh.

    How many times a year do a family as a whole gather around the table to have dinner with each other, and a bitta craic?


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    paky
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    adults crying at an airpot because they cant get home for christmas says it all for me.


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    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    paky wrote: »
    adults crying at an airpot because they cant get home for christmas says it all for me.

    Says what? Christmas is often the only time people living abroad get to go home and see their families, it's very easy for people who live just down the road from everyone they know to roll their eyes and expect everyone to act like androids.


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