How are you NOT going to be celebrating Christmas?

Andrewf20 · 02-12-2013 12:51PM

Grumpy guide to Xmas, BBC2. Worth a watch...

I Heart Internet · 02-12-2013 12:53PM

hfallada wrote: »

Well christmas is about celebrating jesus' birth (well is supposed to be, buts its more about shopping now). Im not to go to mass this year. Last year there was a decent turn out in the church, so the priest scrapped the reading on the pamphlet and choose the longest reading in the bible. I honestly thought it was never going to end.

So Im going skip mass this year and for the foreseeable future.

Mmmmmm....really? There are a number of masses (and therefore readings) for Christmas Day - one vigil mass for Christmas eve, a midnight mass, a dawn mass (I think - this might be just easter) and then a "mass during the day." It's likely that the reading on the leaflet was for one of the other masses. It's very unlikely the priest went rougue and chose his own reading, totally unrelated to Christmas. In any case, how long was the reading? 3, 4, 5, 7 minutes?

Sure go back and give it a go - there most have been something you saw in it to say that you bothered going at all!

gobnaitolunacy · 02-12-2013 01:03PM

Can't stand Christmas Nazis...

eviltimeban · 02-12-2013 01:14PM

I've become less and less enthused by it the older I get. As a child, I loved Christmas, in crazy amounts - I used to not be able to eat I was so excited. Not only the presents, but the food and movies on TV and decorations and being off school and just the general air in the house was different. Magical you could say.

As I got older I still loved it, I loved the fire lighting and a few drinks and just chilling out, listening to new CDs and reading new books, my brother coming home from the States, and then going out and meeting friends and always, always having a great night out on Stephen's Day. Buying whatever girlfriend it was some little gift, and feeling like a real man.

Since I moved into my own house, the excitement has gradually declined over the years. I put that down to having to do more things for yourself - getting your own tree, pulling the decorations out of that bloody corner in the attic, planning your food, not having enough room for everything - and trying to decide who's house to go to, for a visit or for dinner? And its all about the kids now - traipsing around Smyth's at the weekend buying crap and then trying to get them to sit still at the table for dinner... and the dinner is never as nice.

I'll still celebrate it, but its more a relief when its over. When I was younger I never wanted the day to end.

Gokei · 02-12-2013 01:15PM

eviltimeban wrote: »

Since I moved into my own house, the excitement has gradually declined over the years. I put that down to having to do more things for yourself - getting your own tree, pulling the decorations out of that bloody corner in the attic, planning your food, not having enough room for everything - and trying to decide who's house to go to, for a visit or for dinner? And its all about the kids now - traipsing around Smyth's at the weekend buying crap and then trying to get them to sit still at the table for dinner... and the dinner is never as nice.

I'll still celebrate it, but its more a relief when its over.

Ah, jasus.

byronbay2 · 02-12-2013 01:17PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Time to get fat eating all the good stuff and drink myself stupids

Mission already accomplished - now you can just enjoy Christmas!

I Heart Internet · 02-12-2013 01:20PM

(Some) people's silly need/expectations for presents (adults now, not children) is a drag. Personally, I could leave the whole present thing out of it. It's become mechanised and "put-on" at this stage. In general, I end up giving presents begrudgingly because I pretty much have to rather than a spontaneous gift. It's not so much the cost (I'm lucky) it's more the picking out crap for people who already probably have these things, or if they don't they could get it themselves. And then getting a pile of stuff yourself, that you don't really want or need....

I sound like a right misery - but I actually love Christmas, pretty much all aspects of it. If we could just take the silly enforced gift giving/receiving out of it, that'd be great.

preston johnny · 02-12-2013 01:36PM

Christmas.

I hate this time of year. They should crucify that bloke who started it......

KTRIC · 02-12-2013 02:44PM

Christmas, the time of year when people celebrate a fictional zombie Jew that can walk on water, miraculously create food and turn water into wine and who was born to a virgin mother. Then they have the cheek to call me crazy for not wanting anything to do with it !! :rolleyes: