Things that annoy you about Xmas

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-12-2015 09:37PM

The only things that annoy me about Christmas are the Christmas jumpers. And the Christmas songs. And the shoppers. And wrapping presents. And getting Christmas cards (only one so far this year.

). And family members trying to keep me prisoner in their house, trying to convince me that I won't have a better (less head-wrecking) time at home alone.

libelula wrote: »

"Are you all set?"

"Are you all ready for Santa?"

"When do you finish up?"

*twitch*

RayM wrote: »

"Did you have a good Christmas?"

"Ah, it was quiet enough"

Oh yeah, this stuff too...

deex · 19-12-2015 10:22PM

The fact that out of ALL the different boxes of chocolates out there... delicious Heroes, Celebrations, Roses, Quality Street etc, my mother insists on spending her money on LEMONS every single year of my life.

Lemons!
Sucking on literal lemons would be an improvement on those f*cking disgusting sweets.

CarrickMcJoe · 19-12-2015 10:28PM

deex wrote: »

The fact that out of ALL the different boxes of chocolates out there... delicious Heroes, Celebrations, Roses, Quality Street etc, my mother insists on spending her money on LEMONS every single year of my life.

Lemons!
Sucking on literal lemons would be an improvement on those f*cking disgusting sweets.

Are you a 50 yr old still living with mammy?

B17G · 19-12-2015 10:42PM

Whyohwhy? wrote: »

Yeah, anyone who purposely pays money for the a horrible geansi that can only be worn maybe once or twice a year should be shot with balls of their own shoite.Twice for d!ckheads in a group, all in the same poxy jumper...

Actually banned out of the front bar of the pub I was in on Thursday evening. Proper order too. Pint supping could be done in peace.

Bellerstring · 19-12-2015 10:49PM

**** who have reindeer antlers stickin out of their car windows and a red furry nose stuck to the front grille.
Since the middle of November.
:-(

L.Jenkins · 19-12-2015 10:52PM

In short, everything about Christmas pisses me off. The crowds, the last minute shopping, the music and this 12 pubs of Christmas shite.

foxy farmer · 19-12-2015 10:59PM

Hour long christmas day episodes of the soaps. Christmas Day with the relations isn't too bad till around 7.00 when all talk must cease and you can't watch anything else but Fair City Eastenders Corrie and Emmerdale. Death murder fire weddings births and general chaos and misery.
Luckily i bring my dog with me and we get a nice walk in. Work off some of the dinner and then return to half eaten boxes of biscuits or sweets full of wrappers with all the nice ones gone. Aaaaarrrgggh.

Ol' Donie · 19-12-2015 11:03PM

Corpus Twisty wrote: »

The crowds. Hell is other people..

The crowds are one thing...but the socialising...

Ugh, if I liked being with people, I'd do it more than just for this single week of the year.

castletownman · 19-12-2015 11:05PM

The fact that there is such an onus put on "family time" watching christmas tv, particularly when the majority of what is on is pure hogwash.

RTE have an Al Porter Variety Show, a Mrs.Brown's Boys marathon and a show dedicated to Panti Bliss this festive period. I really hope Santa brings me a box set.

storker · 19-12-2015 11:06PM

Bloody Fairytale of New York...again and again and again...everywhere...

RhubarbCrumble · 19-12-2015 11:18PM

Relatives

Spanish Eyes · 19-12-2015 11:30PM

Do you have dinner/meet with family now and then? YES

Do you get on with your family/outlaws? YES

Do you ever spend a day with them watching cra[ on the TV bored out of your little skull? NOOOOOO.

That is why I dislike Christmas.

It goes on for too long and there is NO escape!!

I'm sure the visitors think the same thing often, lol.

Can be done any weekend.

Whitewinged · 20-12-2015 12:04AM

It is a bit annoying the way you are so full after dinner but you keep picking at food even though you are not even enjoying it just because "it's Christmas".

Also last year I lost way too many games of Connect Four. Usually no one can beat me. Whatever, I'll take it back this year

Son Of A Vidic · 20-12-2015 02:41PM

Naos wrote: »

People who say 'Chrimbo'.

And if Facekicker was still around, he probably give them a well deserved kick in the face for coming out with that shyte.

DeanAustin · 20-12-2015 02:48PM

Whyohwhy? wrote: »

The whole fcukin lead up to it, it's grand on the day, and the days after, but the **** before is a load of me bollix tbh

I completely disagree. Christmas is like sex for me.

The build up is fantastic. It's a whole load of magic and mystery and I am excited that this one will be so much better than the others. The anticipation is wonderful.

The day itself is a bit of an anticlimax. Great fun, I enjoy it but it is never quite as good as I'd built it up to be in my head.

Once the day is over, I have no interest.

JupiterKid · 20-12-2015 02:49PM

The endless crowds at the shops in the run up to Christmas.

Spending the day with people you rather wouldn't. Everyone trying too hard to be merry and jolly.

The anti-climax that is St. Stephens Day.

Whyohwhy? · 20-12-2015 02:57PM

DeanAustin wrote: »

I completely disagree. Christmas is like sex for me.

The build up is fantastic. It's a whole load of magic and mystery and I am excited that this one will be so much better than the others. The anticipation is wonderful.

The day itself is a bit of an anticlimax. Great fun, I enjoy it but it is never quite as good as I'd built it up to be in my head.

Once the day is over, I have no interest.

Yep, sounds exactly like sex the way you described it.

Bad sex...

Bellerstring · 20-12-2015 04:03PM

DeanAustin wrote: »

I completely disagree. Christmas is like sex for me.

The build up is fantastic. It's a whole load of magic and mystery and I am excited that this one will be so much better than the others. The anticipation is wonderful.

The day itself is a bit of an anticlimax. Great fun, I enjoy it but it is never quite as good as I'd built it up to be in my head.

Once the day is over, I have no interest.

A whole load of magic and mystery.....?
What's so mysterious???
Is it like Hobbiton or Rivendell or....Helms Deep?
Perhaps Hogwarts?
Please share!

bodhrandude · 20-12-2015 04:05PM

Playing a session early December in Taaffe's Bar in Shop St Galway, fine jigs and reels from the West of Galway blasting out and an amiable crowd enjoying. Half an hour in, 12 pubs of Xmas crowd walks in, all female and roaring drunk. WAHAAY!, drunk dancing WOOOPHEE! No one can work out what the hell the other musician is playing because no one can hear over the din. One musician says to the other WTF! are we playing, other musician says I dunno? Twenty five minutes later, 12 pubs of Xmas leaves. Phew!

Ally Dick · 20-12-2015 04:10PM

I hate the way Shane MacGowan will be forever immortalised because of that Christmas song. The most overrated song of all time, and not one of my favourite human beings. Has he no respect for his body?

MRnotlob606 · 20-12-2015 04:17PM

What I hate about Christmas people's absolute lack of manners and etiquette with regards to walking, Go into shops and people will be standing in your way, walking slowly, running into you. Just an overall lack of consideration for others, which is a little ironic given the time period.

Samaris · 20-12-2015 04:30PM

- Xmas, Chrimbo and all the other idiotic shorts.
- Any song with the words replaced for a christmas advertisement, I'm looking at you, Aldi and your demented Sound of Music torture.
- About half the popular tongue-in-cheek flirty "Christmas" songs; if I hear Mariah Carey or Baby, it's Cold Outside one more time, I'm going to bite that bus radio. Also Slade. Shut up, Slade. Oddly enough, I don't mind Lennon's one. I take mild scientific exception to some of the dumber lyrics, but I like the tune.
- This Twelve Pubs ****e can go drown itself.
- Black Friday
- The attempt to create Panic Saturday after Black Friday didn't make as much money as hoped.
- The ceaseless bombardment of guilt-trip advertising that makes Christmas a miserable and anxious time for a lot of people.
- Turkey. Fortunately, turkey was never really a Thing in our house.
- The frustration of the One Person who is Impossible to Buy For.

HUMBUG!

To lighten my moaning up a bit, here's what I like;
- Sprogs at Christmas. Should always be sproglings. Seeing them unwrap presents and play with the boxes. Always remember the batteries.
- The general excitement.
- Crackers, the bad jokes, the paper crowns, the swapping of the dud cracker gift for the more entertaining hopping frog.
- Trying to rescue the hopping frog from the sweetcorn before anyone notices.
- The subsequent hopping frog race around the platters.
- The Christmas lights and the trees.
- The general feeling of goodwill and optimism.
- People welcoming each other home from faraway places, the happy scenes in the airport.
- That it is a day about giving and family and love and y'know, things actually being pretty nice.
- Oh, while religion has become less and less important to me, I do like seeing the Advent candles being lit week by week, and the nativity scene in the church. The singing of Christmas carols before Midnight Mass. Everyone really meaning the "Peace be with you" with the handshake.

rubadub · 20-12-2015 04:53PM

Forced to take annual leave at a time when there are 3 public holidays. Even worse is those who do not recognise it as annual leave, asking you when you got off and when you are back and saying "ohhh, you lucky bastard".

-ehh, I had no fcuking choice in the matter. If your company shut down on paddys day and forced you to take off and additional 5 days of your annual leave would you consider yourself fcuking lucky? especially if there was somehow another couple of public holidays in close succession.

I hate most christmas food too, turkey -money that could have got a decent steak, christmas cake with marzipan contaminated with vile synthetic almond essence. Mince pies, seems at one time they did had actual meat in them.

Samaris · 20-12-2015 05:05PM

Oh, and the January sales starting the day before yesterday. AAAAAAAAAAARGH.

Fine, let's have the Christmas shopping in August, the January sales in December, the Halloween in September and Valantine's Day in January. By the time the actual day/holiday/whatever actually comes around, the advertising people will be hoarse and we'll all get a bit of peace.

Sam Kade · 20-12-2015 05:09PM

weldoninhio wrote: »

Tis the season to be jolly, but what really annoys you about Xmas??

For me it's John Lennons song War is Over. "And so this is Christmas, And what have you done?, Another year over, A new one just begun"

There's still another week left John, catch a grip of yourself.

Here's a tip, turn off the fcuking radio.

PringleDemon · 20-12-2015 05:15PM

The onslaught of staff Xmas parties

ie.......The wife's staff Xmas party. She spends two days getting ready , new shoes and party dress, gets blind drunk and makes a show of herself every year. Then has a massive hangover for two days afterwards.
Thinks she's still 18.

Can't see the logic in that.

Things that annoy you about Xmas

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