What Christmas Trend you wish would go away?

Graces7 · 13-11-2019 2:24am

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Under American English from my understanding us and the UK,etc should be going with pyjamas.

How about simply " pj' s" for Christmas peace

I only wear nightdresses anyways!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-11-2019 11:32am

The twelve pubs of Christmas.

Spoiling a good gettogether in the pub with a gang of drunken young uns racing noisily in to grab a drink, cause some uproar and race out again.

jr86 · 13-11-2019 11:39am

Dilan Steep Mosquito wrote: »

The twelve pubs of Christmas.

Spoiling a good gettogether in the pub with a gang of drunken young uns racing noisily in to grab a drink, cause some uproar and race out again.

Yeah, I'm thinking of moving my Christmas nights (there won't be many anyway) to midweek this year or just weekend day sessions and finish up early

the crowds in pubs are just too much later on at the weekend, having to queue ages for a drink, people banging into you, skipping queue at the bar, roaring and shouting, etc. Impossible to get a taxi after then

getting too old for it :pac:

HildaOgdenx · 13-11-2019 11:41am

It's mentioned in the very first post, so just echoing - I wish all shops would stay closed on St Stephens Day, (and even the day after!) for the sake of the staff.

lawred2 · 13-11-2019 11:51am

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

It's mentioned in the very first post, so just echoing - I wish all shops would stay closed on St Stephens Day, (and even the day after!) for the sake of the staff.

I would imagine a fair sized cohort of retail staff on those days are students more than happy to make the money

Neyite · 13-11-2019 12:10pm

I do the Elf on the Shelf

I thumb my nose at the 'rules' for it though!

It wasn't my choice to get it but like Iguana's house, ours doesn't link day to day behaviour to Santa gifts as it was getting the youngster very stressed. So Elf isn't a spy and doesn't report to Santa and there's no rule about not touching it. It's basically just a doll that does pranks at night here and that's it. So it's a lot of fun.

I dislike when people say Christmas is over on the 27th. As far as I'm concerned Christmas is a few weeks of the end of December and right through until the 8th January. It's not just a day it's a season!

Not a fan of pub crawls, but that's probably because I'd never have the stamina or stomach for twelve pubs.

People who tell you what they got you before you open it. Or give it to you in November and get the hump because you want to keep it until Christmas day to open it. (same person in my family does both of these - usually at the same time)

Not strictly Christmas but Irish people with no North American connections whatsoever bar a two week holiday to the US celebrating Thanksgiving. Pure Notions.

And Black Friday can fcuk right off.

Toto Wolfcastle · 13-11-2019 12:17pm

Neyite wrote: »

Not strictly Christmas but Irish people with no North American connections whatsoever bar a two week holiday to the US celebrating Thanksgiving. Pure Notions.

I'm 100% on board with celebrating Thanksgiving if it involves The Square Ball's Thanksgiving feast. It looks delish.

odyssey06 · 13-11-2019 1:15pm

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

I'm 100% on board with celebrating Thanksgiving if it involves The Square Ball's Thanksgiving feast. It looks delish.

Menu looks great but ah Thursday Nov 22nd 2019 doesn't look right?

I will sometimes use Thanksgiving as a sign it is time\excuse to have a bit of a mini christmas and have some duck or turkey, some American wine and put on a cheesy christmassy movie...
That probably doesn't really count as celebrating Thanksgiving though.

Oasis1974 · 13-11-2019 1:18pm

Tiny Tim leaving on the streets on Christmas Day.

Loughc · 13-11-2019 10:06pm

lawred2 wrote: »

I would imagine a fair sized cohort of retail staff on those days are students more than happy to make the money

They’re actually not. Most students would want to be out drinking Stephens day. Rostering over Christmas is a nightmare for people in retail. They have my sympathy.

Loughc · 13-11-2019 10:10pm

Dilan Steep Mosquito wrote: »

The twelve pubs of Christmas.

Spoiling a good gettogether in the pub with a gang of drunken young uns racing noisily in to grab a drink, cause some uproar and race out again.

+1 for this. And I was once the organiser of a 12 pubs for 5 years but it’s ran it’s course and I am far too old for that muck now. I would give anything to go back to Christmas drinks pre the 12 pubs era.

Where the pub had the fire lighting, sports on the telly and Christmas music playing and loads of chat.

Strumms · 13-11-2019 10:18pm

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

It's mentioned in the very first post, so just echoing - I wish all shops would stay closed on St Stephens Day, (and even the day after!) for the sake of the staff.

Anyone working in retail is up to their eyes right up to Christmas, it’s a pity they can’t get to have a reasonable break with their family and friends... a couple of days even... as usual though you have the selfish attention seeking fûckwits Qing outside the shops before they open even just so they can leave all starry eyed and dumb faced with their 50% off X bottle of perfume / aftershave, 20% off a nice kettle or whatever and spend about six weeks regaling everyone in earshot as to how great ‘they’ are at shopping. Ughhhhhh people...:(

NSAman · 14-11-2019 12:36am

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

I'm 100% on board with celebrating Thanksgiving if it involves The Square Ball's Thanksgiving feast. It looks delish.

Not looking forward to a "day off" next week.

Have to cook the bloody dinner for 30 coming over. A mans work is never done!

Graces7 · 14-11-2019 6:38am

Strumms wrote: »

Anyone working in retail is up to their eyes right up to Christmas, it’s a pity they can’t get to have a reasonable break with their family and friends... a couple of days even... as usual though you have the selfish attention seeking fûckwits Qing outside the shops before they open even just so they can leave all starry eyed and dumb faced with their 50% off X bottle of perfume / aftershave, 20% off a nice kettle or whatever and spend about six weeks regaling everyone in earshot as to how great ‘they’ are at shopping. Ughhhhhh people...:(

It is the panic buying that is truly crazy. Worse than the "sliced pan" thing. Leads to so much waste.

As if the shops were going to be closed for weeks..

Graces7 · 14-11-2019 6:39am

Loughc wrote: »

+1 for this. And I was once the organiser of a 12 pubs for 5 years but it’s ran it’s course and I am far too old for that muck now. I would give anything to go back to Christmas drinks pre the 12 pubs era.

Where the pub had the fire lighting, sports on the telly and Christmas music playing and loads of chat.

Sounds so cosy! Lovely! Thank you

homersimpson · 22-11-2019 1:03am

12 pubs. Drunken fools everywhere

Blue Christmas Lights

Elf on the Shelf

DvB · 22-11-2019 10:15am

DvB wrote: »

This thread may as well be written just for me....

I am incredibly old fashioned/old school/whatever about Christmas and the modern day evolution of christmas is in the vast majority of instances not good... most of the follwoing items I'll have mentioned on here previously as little things that bug me, generally I accept them as simply being thats the way it is nowadays & get over yourself but I still bemoan the fact they're not what they used to be.... hope that makes sense & I dont sound too grinchy!!

Anyway, my gripes...

1. Christmas music stopping at midnight on the 25th.... why? When I were a kid it was christmas tunes & jolly stuff right up until Jan 2nd... why has this stopped? Why have such a build up to chuck it all the bin the minute the clock hits midnight!?

2. Shops opening on Christmas day... no, no, no, no, no!!! People have 364/365 days to prepare for one day without the luxury of havuing somewhere spending more money... One of the greatest things in my memories of christmas growing up was the fact the whole country came to stop & allowed families spend time together, in todays world were we rush around constantly its never been more important to acknowledge family & friends IMO & not just 'head to the shops'

3. 12 pubs.... no! I'm at an age where I want to find one nice pub, cosy corner & chat with my mates. Partaking in such an event involving the chugging of large quantities of alcohol in a rammed sweltering hot pub whilst wearing an outrageous wooly jumper and then moving to another 11 just like it... no, just no! Having my quiet chat & pint ruined by an endless stream of these people is also less than enjoyable.... and fighting my way to the bar through them & their 'its all bants innit' is just, well, no!

4. New age christmas jumpers... no. Either retro or not at all IMO, the link between the newer outrageous (& tacky) ones worn as outlined in 3. above is no.

5. Christmas being 'earlier every year' ... eh, no! Its the same every year for as long as I can remember & I'll start talking about it when I want to. I listen to you talk cr*p about all sorts all year so I'll talk about crimbo from September if i want to. And maybe if you planned for it better you wouldnt be whinging about the having to go to the shops on christmas day to pick up batteries or suchlike (I'll refer you back to 2. above for that one)

6. The reference to christmas as 'the holidays' & 'happy holidays' & suchlike & the removal of the use of the word christmas...NO!!! Its christmas in this part of the world, always was & always will be, its not some heathen, muslim or jewish festival, & thats fine, but the country you live in (ireland) is predominantly christian and likes to refer to the festival at that time of year as christmas... so we'll actually use the name christmas if thats okay with you, so deal with it!

7... I'll need to continue this in another post, have to do some work!!:D

I'll just bump my post from last year... nothings changed.

Paddy Cow · 22-11-2019 7:52pm

homersimpson wrote: »

12 pubs. Drunken fools everywhere

Blue Christmas Lights

Elf on the Shelf

I listen to classic hits when I'm getting ready in the morning and they've introduced "Elf on the Shelf". It's some guy who's voice is put through one of those distortion things and it's the most annoying thing ever.

jr86 · 23-11-2019 8:43am

Crusades against lyrics that were written in a completely different time and era

Mainly from Twitter and really coming to prominence in the last couple of years

freshpopcorn · 25-11-2019 4:32pm

I don't like the cover of the Christmas Guide ever since they started making it animated!

Paddy Cow · 25-11-2019 7:39pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I don't like the cover of the Christmas Guide ever since they started making it animated!

Not being funny but what is the Christmas Guide? Is it the RTE guide? I haven't had a tv in years so I'm kinda out of the loop. The last guide I bought at Christmas was probably the ones you got in primary school. I think they used to be called Siamsa (I know I got that completely wrong

). Are they still a thing?

freshpopcorn · 25-11-2019 7:44pm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Not being funny but what is the Christmas Guide? Is it the RTE guide? I haven't had a tv in years so I'm kinda out of the loop. The last guide I bought at Christmas was probably the ones you got in primary school. I think they used to be called Siamsa (I know I got that completely wrong ). Are they still a thing?

In Ireland there's a weekly magazine called the RTE Guide.
It is essentially the TV listings for the week. It also includes recipes, fashion, puzzles, reviews, interviews etc.
During Christmas they do a bumper two week special that takes in Christmas and the New Year. The cover includes various RTE celebrities.

beertons · 25-11-2019 7:53pm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Not being funny but what is the Christmas Guide? Is it the RTE guide? I haven't had a tv in years so I'm kinda out of the loop. The last guide I bought at Christmas was probably the ones you got in primary school. I think they used to be called Siamsa (I know I got that completely wrong ). Are they still a thing?

Be the hokey Paddy, I haven't seen nor heard of Siamsa in years.

L1011 · 25-11-2019 9:21pm

homersimpson wrote: »

12 pubs. Drunken fools everywhere

Blue Christmas Lights

Elf on the Shelf

This is the same three I was going to post.

Taking those as read I can think of some more

* People obsessing over the John Lewis ad, seeing as most of us never see it on TV anyway
* One that's not likely to be popular - Christmas FM - I'm sure retail staff are already driven demented enough with the same songs on a loop without having all the unemployed radio presenters in Ireland yammering between them

Loughc · 25-11-2019 9:30pm

L1011 wrote: »

One that's not likely to be popular - Christmas FM - I'm sure retail staff are already driven demented enough with the same songs on a loop without having all the unemployed radio presenters in Ireland yammering between them

Couple of things here.

1. ChristmasFM have a large rotation of songs some Christmas songs I only came across and never heard of until Christmas FM.

2. The radio presenters are not unemployed they are either regional DJs or in some cases executives in radio/media who selflessly give up their spare time and arrange to work around their day to give up spare time to the charitable ChristmasFM.

L1011 · 25-11-2019 9:49pm

Loughc wrote: »

Couple of things here.

1. ChristmasFM have a large rotation of songs some Christmas songs I only came across and never heard of until Christmas FM.

2. The radio presenters are not unemployed they are either regional DJs or in some cases executives in radio/media who selflessly give up their spare time and arrange to work around their day to give up spare time to the charitable ChristmasFM.

Looking at the list I'd say there's more that are unemployed (in a radio sense - I'm sure they're not signing on) than not; with obvious exceptions not outweighing the rest.

Basically I find the entire thing twee and forced. Said it was going to be an unpopular suggestion!

Posy · 26-11-2019 12:32pm

2008: ISPCC. – €35.000

2009: Simon – €70,000

2010: Barnardos – €86,000

2011: Focus – €117,000

2012: ISPCC – €100,000

2013: Aware – €85,000

2014: Age Action – €107,000

2015: Make A Wish – €278,000

2016: Focus Ireland – €365,000

2017: Sightsavers – €214,000

2018: Temple Street Hospital- €404,551

Just sayin'. :pac:

joebloggs123 · 26-11-2019 2:28pm

Fibre optic trees
Elf on the shelf

Couldn't disagree more with Christmas FM. Think it's a great addition and raises a lot of money for charity.

pc7 · 26-11-2019 2:33pm

Love, love, love Christmas FM its the start of Christmas for me, really cannot wait until it starts.

I'd get rid of shops opening St Stephens day too, the likes of Next, some of their staff will be working until 10pm Christmas Eve and back in 4am Stephens morning to prep for the 6am start, its disgusting.

Wanderer78 · 26-11-2019 2:35pm

Loughc wrote:

What is a Christmas trend you're glad is gone? What's one you wish would go away?

Mass consumerisation would be a good start, our planet badly needs it, hence so do we

Loughc · 26-11-2019 3:17pm

pc7 wrote: »

I'd get rid of shops opening St Stephens day too, the likes of Next, some of their staff will be working until 10pm Christmas Eve and back in 4am Stephens morning to prep for the 6am start, its disgusting.

Just quoting this as it's Still my biggest gripe. If a store clearly cared about it staff it would close on Stephens Day and just have an online sale and offer even larger discounts as they'd be saving on staff costs and light heat,etc.

That was if the someone wants to buy into a sale they can do so online.

tscul32 · 26-11-2019 7:04pm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Not being funny but what is the Christmas Guide? Is it the RTE guide? I haven't had a tv in years so I'm kinda out of the loop. The last guide I bought at Christmas was probably the ones you got in primary school. I think they used to be called Siamsa (I know I got that completely wrong ). Are they still a thing?

Sonas, siamsa, spraoi, súgradh - still alive and kicking, my primary school kids get them every year. I used to love them.

Postgrad10 · 26-11-2019 7:10pm

Blue led tree lights. We’ve got them in the town we live in and they look absolutely terrible.

Postgrad10 · 26-11-2019 7:11pm

tscul32 wrote: »

Sonas, siamsa, spraoi, súgradh - still alive and kicking, my primary school kids get them every year. I used to love them.

Oh the treat to get working our spraoi once we’d our class work done.

NIMAN · 26-11-2019 7:17pm

If we all stopped going shopping on the 26th, the shops would soon get the message.

Unfortunately so many of us are crazy to keep buying.

neris · 26-11-2019 7:20pm

christmas ads in october

Plumbthedepths · 26-11-2019 7:26pm

NIMAN wrote: »

If we all stopped going shopping on the 26th, the shops would soon get the message.

Unfortunately so many of us are crazy to keep buying.

This.
My son whilst in college worked part-time for a well known high street fashion store. The sale started on 4am Stephens morning, he had to be in at 3am. I cannot put into words how pathetic I believe people to be that they would sacrifice a major part of Christmas day so that they can queue for rubbish at any other time of the year.
No demand ,no shops open.

Abel Ruiz · 26-11-2019 8:11pm

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

No demand ,no shops open.

That's it.
How do people blame the shops??? Its the customers that dictate retailers.

Go Home Paddy Cat!! · 26-11-2019 8:12pm

Loughc wrote: »

What is a Christmas trend you're glad is gone? What's one you wish would go away?

For me I wish the shops would stop opening on Stephens Day. Christmas should be spent with loved ones not in the shops.

And as for shops opening on Christmas Day... no. It’s really not fair on the staff either they are put under so much pressure to work those days.

For me, I would do away with the taking down of the tree.

Mezzotint · 26-11-2019 8:16pm

Mainly the fact that Christmas festivities now start in about July. I like it in December and January as it really cheers up what would be an otherwise miserable part of the year. However, pushing it back into early autumn and even summer is just ruining it.

Obviously it has a religious significance in Christianity, but the origin of most of the symbolism and festivity would appear to be pagan and traditional mid-winter Northern European winter/solstice festivals. So, I'd sort of rather it stayed in that general part of the year. It's really nice to have something warm, bright and cheerful in winter but not August (cough.. Brown Thomas!)

Loughc · 26-11-2019 8:47pm

neris wrote: »

christmas ads in october

Doesn’t actually happen by law Christmas ads can’t start until November 1st. DFS don’t count as you’re only ordering for December

Postgrad10 · 26-11-2019 9:03pm

Those sales are such a farce. They bring in rubbish stock they didn’t even have in store especially for the sale. Saw this in Next especially.

freshpopcorn · 26-11-2019 9:04pm

People who have an over active imagination about when Christmas stuff starts.

Peatys · 26-11-2019 11:21pm

Postgrad10 wrote: »

Those sales are such a farce. They bring in rubbish stock they didn’t even have in store especially for the sale. Saw this in Next especially.

I worked in Debenhams warehouse in Ballymount during college. There were racks kept that were sent to store for sales.. more often than not the same racks came back and kept for the next sale

Aglomerado · 27-11-2019 12:28am

Antlers and reindeer noses on cars.
Especially when they are sad, faded and broken in mid-February because the lazy prats couldn't be bothered to take them off when Christmas was over.

meeeeh · 27-11-2019 12:41am

We go to panto in Gaiety on 26th. Five years ago Dublin was almost deserted and it was hard to get a sandwich before the show. Now it's busier and busier and every year there are more people on Grafton Street shopping and more places open. I don't think that will be reversed.

As for trends I would like to go away: Christmas jumpers and mountain of cheap plastic throw away decorations. I suspect that will change if environmentalists have anything to do with it, I mostly object on aesthetic grounds.

The one I actually cancelled was visiting Santa, kids don't care about it and I don't to need stand in line and yawn so they can see fake Santa (their description not mine).

freshpopcorn · 27-11-2019 12:45am

meeeeh wrote: »

As for trends I would like to go away: Christmas jumpers and mountain of cheap plastic throw away decorations. I suspect that will change if environmentalists have anything to do with it, I mostly object on aesthetic grounds.

When I saw meeeeh was the last poster. I knew this was going to be here!

meeeeh · 27-11-2019 12:46am

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When I saw meeeeh was the last poster. I knew this was going to be here!

They are vile and infantile.

CheerLouth · 28-11-2019 11:17am

Black Friday & Cyber Monday.....I don't get the hype of wanting to kill other shoppers to get a better deal. Plus most of the shops spend October/November hiking the prices so they can have a "massive" discount sale. Bring back the January sales that were actually sales!

Scarinae · 28-11-2019 10:21pm

Black Friday and Cyber Monday suit me quite well as that's when I get a lot of my Christmas shopping done!

I agree with everyone saying there shouldn't be sales on the 26th December. I never understood why anyone would want to go shopping the day after Christmas, and I hated having to work on the 26th when I worked in retail. I have to say I'm glad I never worked in Next, that sale starts so early and people queue in the middle of the night for it!

What Christmas Trend you wish would go away?

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