Would you abolish Christmas?

Shrobbs · 23-12-2013 06:05PM

It should be once every 4 years like the world cup

bop1977 · 23-12-2013 06:06PM

Yes I like the idea of going all olly Cromwell on Christmas's ass. Shame it got revived after a few years.

Cian92 · 23-12-2013 06:23PM

MadsL wrote: »

Few?

The wife is working Christmas Eve, and is back to work on the 26th.

Lets not take exceptions to the rule, most in offices will take at least 5 workdays off, obviously those in lifesaving professions, caring and retail will not have that luxury.

wretcheddomain · 23-12-2013 06:26PM

Would anyone support moving it to Summer? :-)

Red Nissan · 23-12-2013 06:28PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Just think of all the money pulled out of the Economy if you got rid of Xmas..... All them seasonal jobs too

But on the other hand it show the government just HOW MUCH MONEY we have outside the economy and it gives them the impetus to tax us to within an inch of our lives as they don't believe we are broke.

Christmas always trips us up when we spend so much of the money we claim we don't have.

Mr. CooL ICE · 23-12-2013 06:30PM

anncoates wrote: »

So basically you like it but still feel duty bound to deliver a hipster caveat that nobody really requires.

Yes.

tinkerbell · 23-12-2013 06:33PM

What's not to love about Christmas? Great food (hello delicious turkey and ham!), time off work, spending time with your nearest and dearest, the great stuff on telly, presents!

Cancel Christmas?!! Back in your corner Scrooge.

LOSTfan57 · 23-12-2013 06:39PM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

...and instead of the current hoo-hah we'd have a normal working week.

It would have the effect of saving a lot of money for many people!

I would.

Howya Ebenezer!

Mr. G · 23-12-2013 06:39PM

God no. Worth too much to the economy in my opinion.

Rubberchikken · 23-12-2013 06:43PM

Christmas is only as painful/difficult as a person makes it.
it's a lovely thing to look forward to at such a dark/dreary time of year.

Christmas day is good, but I really like Christmas Eve. 6 oclock Christmas Eve, everything is done, no more shops/fussing, I find it really peaceful.

So in answer to your question. no.
Think Christmas is here to stay.:)

wretcheddomain · 23-12-2013 06:44PM

tinkerbell wrote: »

What's not to love about Christmas? Great food (hello delicious turkey and ham!), time off work, spending time with your nearest and dearest, the great stuff on telly, presents!

Cancel Christmas?!! Back in your corner Scrooge.

You lost me at that point.

Red Nissan · 23-12-2013 06:47PM

Mr. G wrote: »

God no. Worth too much to the economy in my opinion.

I truly wonder on that one in fact. Christmas sucks the living blood out of people, January is as quiet as the grave, February we test if there is life in the patient by injecting a Valentine's Day love potion. And in March we promise little children chocolate eggs and tell them their parent's don't love them unless they buy ten eggs per child.

By April a modicum of sustainable business has returned for those who have survived the famine months.

MRnotlob606 · 23-12-2013 06:47PM

i would abolish selection boxes for their cheap crappy chocolate content.

Riddle101 · 23-12-2013 06:48PM

Christmas always seems to be a merry sort of year, but it also brings out the scrooges as well. While I'm not really one of those christmassy type people, I wouldn't abolish it.

hatrickpatrick · 23-12-2013 06:49PM

I adore Christmas and everything about it, but as an aside there are so many in here talking about Christmas being a break/distraction from "the gloomy winter time of year" that I have to ask - am I the only one who absolutely loves winter? Don't get me wrong, summer is epic too, but this time of year is just associated with so many good times for me that when it starts getting dark in te evenings once the clocks change I'm thinking "sweet, it's that time of year again"

Anyone else? Or am I even more of a weirdo than previously assumed?

Red Nissan · 23-12-2013 06:54PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Anyone else? Or am I even more of a weirdo than previously assumed?

Here am I sitting watching the approaching storm, really exciting. I'm still on a high from the winter of 2009 or 2010 ~ the one that started with snow in November and it lasted all through Christmas and then we got a spring in spring [must have been a first for Ireland]

Mint Sauce · 23-12-2013 07:11PM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

...and instead of the current hoo-hah we'd have a normal working week.

It would have the effect of saving a lot of money for many people!

I would.

For alot, it pretty much is a normal working week, with the added bonus of double pay, and catching up with family and friends.

astonaidan · 23-12-2013 07:54PM

What Ive gleamed from this thread is I dont make enough threads with views that are well wrong.
How do people forget that many people get work at christmas when they try play the sure arent we losing a load off money not working card

MadsL · 24-12-2013 12:03AM

Cian92 wrote: »

Lets not take exceptions to the rule, most in offices will take at least 5 workdays off, obviously those in lifesaving professions, caring and retail will not have that luxury.

She is in non-critical healthcare, not lifesaving nor caring nor retail. She had a full day of 5 meetings today. Most are in tomorrow too.

zenno · 24-12-2013 12:17AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

...and instead of the current hoo-hah we'd have a normal working week.

It would have the effect of saving a lot of money for many people!

I would.

Work work work. There's more to life than work. I wouldn't like to see the abolishment of Christmas because it's a great time to relax fully and be with the family and a laugh, and of course a few glasses of Benedictine. :cool:

And not forgetting the Christmas dinner made for a king, oh yeah.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 24-12-2013 12:25AM

It's my favourite time of the year.I've been looking forward to having a few days off for the last couple of months.

BBDBB · 24-12-2013 12:29AM

abolish it? no

I'd move it to the summer when theres more daylight

looking_around · 24-12-2013 12:46AM

I just dislike the materialisness about xmas.

I enjoy the spending time with friends and family, but the desperate need for gifts is something that should be done away with.

Somnus · 24-12-2013 12:52AM

Christmas may be hard on the wallet but it's one of the few times in the year when people are so openly charitable and in good spirits.

I am a completely irreligious and somewhat of a cynic but even I can see the good spirits many people are in around this time of year. Just take a look in the Santa Strike Force thread! Incredible generosity.

So no I would not do away with it. You don't need to spend a fortune to show people you care!

zenno · 24-12-2013 12:54AM

Red Nissan wrote: »

Should be, work should be your life, and work should provide your life.

The only way to break that is to be the Chairman of Board Gas, CRC and so on, or not work, in which case social welfare is your life and no work.

Jezz, there is a world out there to explore, work within it, but never let work take over your life. Work for most folk is a way to earn monies to allow you a decent living, but working just to exist is depression. Unless you work in a job that you love.

Fizzlesque · 24-12-2013 02:34AM

wretcheddomain wrote: »

...and instead of the current hoo-hah we'd have a normal working week.

It would have the effect of saving a lot of money for many people!

I would.

No, I wouldn't abolish Christmas even though there have been years I've felt it to be a cumbersome demand. That demand being that you don't spend Christmas alone; that you find a gathering of people, family or otherwise, to pass Christmas hours with. That's all fine and well, but if you don't have a family base, after a good many years it becomes tiresome finding places to go or creating 'the place' and inviting other 'no place to go' people. Both have been wonderful and all my Christmases have been different for the last twenty years, some with family, some with friends, one on a yoga retreat on Clare Island (that was great, arrived hungover to hell, sick as a dog from the boat journey and left feeling like I was WonderWoman. Long, possibly boring, story, I'll spare y'all) and some I've spent alone. Being alone for Christmas suits me - I still enjoy other people's excitement, and enjoy meeting friends for Christmas lunches and drinks and making time to make sure we see each other before a new year starts galloping away with alarming speed.

I wouldn't abolish Christmas but I do enjoy the freedom to just let it drift on by, with little to mark it as a different type of day to the one before or the one following. I like Christmas eve more than Christmas Day - some remnant of the child I once was lurks within and she brings me good cheer on Christmas Eve.

So, what have I said in answer to your question? A long winded no. I wouldn't abolish Christmas.

[I was at one of those parties this night, this is a drunken post party ramble, thank you for reading, those that did. There will be no TL:DR in my posts. It would be like a Malteser trying to fit into an already full container]

zenno · 24-12-2013 03:47AM

Fizzlesque wrote: »

No, I wouldn't abolish Christmas even though there have been years I've felt it to be a cumbersome demand. That demand being that you don't spend Christmas alone; that you find a gathering of people, family or otherwise, to pass Christmas hours with. That's all fine and well, but if you don't have a family base, after a good many years it becomes tiresome finding places to go or creating 'the place' and inviting other 'no place to go' people. Both have been wonderful and all my Christmases have been different for the last twenty years, some with family, some with friends, one on a yoga retreat on Clare Island (that was great, arrived hungover to hell, sick as a dog from the boat journey and left feeling like I was WonderWoman. Long, possibly boring, story, I'll spare y'all) and some I've spent alone. Being alone for Christmas suits me - I still enjoy other people's excitement, and enjoy meeting friends for Christmas lunches and drinks and making time to make sure we see each other before a new year starts galloping away with alarming speed.

I wouldn't abolish Christmas but I do enjoy the freedom to just let it drift on by, with little to mark it as a different type of day to the one before or the one following. I like Christmas eve more than Christmas Day - some remnant of the child I once was lurks within and she brings me good cheer on Christmas Eve.

So, what have I said in answer to your question? A long winded no. I wouldn't abolish Christmas.

[I was at one of those parties this night, this is a drunken post party ramble, thank you for reading, those that did. There will be no TL:DR in my posts. It would be like a Malteser trying to fit into an already full container]

No. It's an intelligent post. Excellently explained.

zenno · 24-12-2013 04:04AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I adore Christmas and everything about it, but as an aside there are so many in here talking about Christmas being a break/distraction from "the gloomy winter time of year" that I have to ask - am I the only one who absolutely loves winter? Don't get me wrong, summer is epic too, but this time of year is just associated with so many good times for me that when it starts getting dark in te evenings once the clocks change I'm thinking "sweet, it's that time of year again"

Anyone else? Or am I even more of a weirdo than previously assumed?

Nope. You are perfectly sane. I love the same relaxing feeling of winter when it gets dark early and the mysterious feeling of winter weather...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPJGEMW8Vc

orchidsrpretty · 24-12-2013 04:39AM

Are you saying not everyone has this sort of christmas experience?

zenno · 24-12-2013 05:15AM

orchidsrpretty wrote: »

Are you saying not everyone has this sort of christmas experience?

Quicktime, Pift.

Would you abolish Christmas?

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