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Christmas plans

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  • #32
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    I'll be out campaigning for the banning of Christmas.


  • #33
    PARKHEAD67
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    Biscuits16 wrote: »
    Worst place EVER!
    Have you ever been to London? Its pretty much class.Apart from Buckingham Palace and all its inhabitants:D


  • #34
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    I'll be out campaigning for the banning of Christmas.
    Muslim?


  • #35
    Biscuits16
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    PARKHEAD67 wrote: »
    Have you ever been to London? Its pretty much class.Apart from Buckingham Palace and all its inhabitants:D
    Yes once, the people are very ignorant.


  • #36
    John Doe1
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    Your ma invited me to a shindig in her vagina


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  • #37
    PARKHEAD67
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    Biscuits16 wrote: »
    Yes once, the people are very ignorant.
    I will not disagree.;)


  • #38
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Your ma invited me to a shindig in her vagina
    Your words confuse me.


  • #39
    Abi
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    Biscuits16 wrote: »
    Yes once, the people are very ignorant.
    Have you met them all?
    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Your ma invited me to a shindig in her vagina

    Please jesus someone stick a ban on anyone that says another 'yore ma' thing.



    I get a fúcking crazy twitch seeing it now, it's so ridiculously over-used. It was never funny in the first place.


  • #40
    Latchy
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    Biscuits16 wrote: »
    Yes once, the people are very ignorant.
    All of those millions of people ? Phew ...you cover some ground


  • #41
    Biscuits16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Biscuits16


    Abi wrote: »
    Have you met them all?


    Please jesus someone stick a ban on anyone that says another 'yore ma' thing.



    I get a fúcking crazy twitch seeing it now, it's so ridiculously over-used. It was never funny in the first place.
    Yes I have met everyone of them, all very ignorant.

    Yore ma!


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  • #42
    amacca
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    Abi wrote: »


    Please jesus someone stick a ban on anyone that says another 'yore ma' thing.



    I get a fúcking crazy twitch seeing it now, it's so ridiculously over-used. It was never funny in the first place.

    yes its overused to the point of nausea....yes I'm completely immature but I still giggled when I read it

    +he said shindig in a vagina...thats funny in my book (the book of someone with the mental age of a 14 year old boy who steadfastly refuses to grow up admittedly)

    +I could almost see the hoe-down/line dancing competition that was going on in there!

    :o


  • #43
    KKkitty
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    At home with my fella and 2 boys :) last year did our own christmas dinner and the water totally boiled off the ham so I'll be keeping a closer eye on it this year.


  • #44
    Zebra3
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    PARKHEAD67 wrote: »
    Muslim?

    No. :confused: Are you?


  • #45
    Abi
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    Biscuits16 wrote: »
    Yes I have met everyone of them, all very ignorant.

    Yore ma    !
    Would you be English yourself then?
    amacca wrote: »
    yes its overused to the point of nausea....yes I'm completely immature but I still giggled when I read it

    +he said shindig in a vagina...thats funny in my book (the book of someone with the mental age of a 14 year old boy who steadfastly refuses to grow up admittedly)

    +I could almost see the hoe-down/line dancing competition that was going on in there!

    :o

    Whatever floats your boat and all that :)


  • #46
    denhaagenite
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    At home relaxing with Hubby and pooch. Haven't been back since we emigrated four years ago, too much hassle travelling with weather etc. Sometimes we go to a friend's house but this year we'll have a quiet one.

    We'll drive to the UK a week before to do a big shop in Tesco so we'll have all the luxuries tho, and to see friends and have a mock Christmas dinner :D.

    Maybe we'll go home next year but I doubt it.


  • #47
    jester77
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    Taking a family break this year, will be cruising down the Mekong


  • #48
    Duggy747
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    This is pretty much the annual buzz for me:
    1. Christmas Eve - Big piss up to welcome everyone back home.
    2. Christmas Day - Eat like a king and pan out to the annual viewing of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (The real one with Gene Wilder, that is :pac:)
    3. Stephen's Day - Mother of all piss-ups
    4. Ensuing days - Curl up in the corner, hiding from light, vowing never to touch drink again
    5. New Year's Eve - Emerge out into society once again for another piss-up, get free kisses off women
    6. Ensuing days - Curl up in the corner, hiding from light, vowing never to touch drink again

    Will be my 1st Xmas without my dog, though. Will be a bit strange not having her around bugging me for some turkey.


  • #49
    Witchie
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    Cooking for 24 people as my sons, siblings, their partners, 3 cousins and their partners & kids, 2 aunts, 1 uncle and my sisters future parents-in-law all descend on my parents house where my ma and I will be required to feed them all.

    Tis great craic though and when more arrive later in the evening we could end up with 25 to 30 people spending the night, joining in the sing song and game playing til the early hours of the morning.

    My favourite day of the year.

    Bliss.


  • #50
    dan1895
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    Hopefully not getting sick like last year


  • #51
    Rabies
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    I'll be sitting out on the back deck of the house with my house mates and a few christmas orphans.
    Dinner will be a combination of steak, sausages, burgers, prawns, veggies and all will be consumed in the expected sunshine :D


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  • #52
    podgemonster
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    December 23: Leave Work make the 4 hour drive (which will take 6 on the 23rd) home, all the while listening to relentless Christmas tunes and maneourving my rear wheel drive car on ice. Arrive home to find everyone in bed.

    24th: Told to get up by old fella. Feed cattle, chop wood for fire, fill the coal buckets, feed donkeys, head to town to collect things that were listed on the kitchen table for me at breakfast (mainly boxes of Roses or USA biscuits). Meet up with GF, swap presents, give parents box of roses to her parents. Watch tv, get dressed up and then head to midnight mass, (same show every year!) stand in the cold talking to people your parents know but you don't. Head home open presents which will consist of a dvd boxset of movies i could have downloaded for free, a book I wont read and a jumper i will wear for whenever I am in the company of the person who gave it to me and bodywash.

    25th: Sleep in, have Turkey of dinner, watch television for a sold 8 hours. Head to Grandmothers house, see all the loud and noisey toys my little cousins got, watch them fight over them. Have a few beers, play guitar and sing.

    26th: Same as day before but replace Grandmothers house with 12 pubs of Christmas with extremely harsh rules for every pub, see friends i havnt seen in months, rip the píss out of each other. Eat chips out on the street, call parents at 4am as the bus home was trashed by locals.

    Cant wait.


  • #53
    Wompa1
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    Arrive at my parents around 8pm Christmas Eve to find everyone either passed out or hammered. Go to bed around 10pm to get away from the yelling.

    Sleep in on X-mas Day. Eat dinner. Watch my nephew play with his toys for a while and meet some of the cousins and other relatives. Say goodbye to my family and drive back to my apartment and play video games until late in the night against the kids who got an Xbox for christmas.

    Hopefully this year when I get back to my apartment there won't be a stream of water flowing by my door from burst water pipes

    Usually just walk around Galway city on Stephens Day, get an early night and work on the 27th. I don't really have friends in the town I grew up in and my parents are usually at each others throats so I get out of the house as quickly as possible...


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
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    Finish work on the 16th and head home but for the main days over the christmas my plans will be.

    23rd: Serious p*ss up with all the friends in Galway.

    24th: Always go into Galway city in the afternoon with the family to soak up the christmas atmosphere, then head for a few pints with my father. Then head to christmas eve mass. Then home and open some presents (its tradition in our house to open presents christmas eve)

    25th: Sleep in a bit, quick look around the farm to make sure everything is in order then armchair for the day, dinner back to the armchair and maybe call across the road to my aunts house for a few drinks late in the evening.

    26th: sleep in. bookies for the afternoon followed by another evening and night consuming large amounts of alcoholic beverages in various pubs and clubs.

    ....... 27th to 30th mix of doing nothing maybe a few more nights out watching sport etc etc.

    31st: dinner at home with the family and some of their friends then into town with my friends for another session.

    3rd Jan: back to work.


  • #55
    Mint Sauce
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    Biscuits16 wrote: »
    Yes once, the people are very ignorant.

    In what way? Were you there as tourist or seeing friends and family?

    If you were travelling around the underground, or in centre london, then people just keep to them selfs, avoid eye contact, etc etc.

    I was brought up in London though, and love the buzz, the fact that you can go around and no one knows your business, I catch up with friends and family, theres always something different to do and see.


  • #56
    u_c_thesecond
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    dec 23rd - sisters birthday dinner and piss up
    dec 24th - me and hubby go for lunch, small bit of shopping, meet family in pub for drink or 2, grab chinise and eat it in front of fire at home
    dec 25th - Go visit mothers grave, go up to visit dad and stepmother, head out to sisters for dinner and drinks, stay overnight, get drunk and crack the windows tryn to do karoke

    Those are my plans :)


  • #57
    Brazzer
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    mackg wrote: »
    Bit of a different Christmas day planned this year, going out for dinner, should be interesting as we have never done it before. Might leave opening the presents off til after since the dinner is booked for early and there will be no kids around this year. Remainder of the day will be spent eating ham sandwiches and drinking.

    Lovin the idea of going out, any places I found online were looking for 120 a head and 85 for kids, was going to be my treat so I wouldn't have to cook but for 7 adults and 2 kids it would cost me a grand!!!

    Mind me asking what price you got it for??


  • #58
    kfallon
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    Home on Christmas Eve, hopefully to be greeted by a warm ham sandwich :D

    Will spend Xmas day with the family til about 7ish when I will slope off to check out the racing for St Stephen's day. I very rarely drink on Xmas day now but will prob eat double my bodyweight in grub!

    Out on the lash all day Stephen's Day, usually happens tho numbers have been dwindling in recent years due to pesky kids getting in the way :P

    Anyone know if there is a Christmas Royle Family on this year???


  • #59
    foxyboxer
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    Off from the 16th to the 3rd January. :cool:

    Christmas Eve 7.30am with brothers ritual walk into town and get a full irish at 8am. Walk around cork city and savour the christmas atmosphere (i.e. lot's of people packed into shops for last minute panic buying).
    Few pints in the evening at the local.

    Christmas Day, dinner with the family. The only time of year we sit down at the kitchen table and use it for what it's for :)

    Then spend the rest of the time bored watching crap on the tv i've seen before, eating too many pringles and ferrero rochers and secretly pining to get back to 'normality'. :eek:


  • #60
    Da Shins Kelly
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    Sleeping, cooking, stuffing my face, watching sh*t movies with my dad, getting drunk. In that order.


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  • #61
    HalloweenJack
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    23rd, back to Ireland and get pissed with my best mate.

    24th & 25th, hang out with my family, it'll be the first time in years that all my siblings will be home for Christmas so should be good.

    26th til 31st, hang out with friends and get drunk.

    1st, fly back here and prepare for work on the 2nd.


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