Christmas time - who likes it?

[kingeri]

Who likes Christmas? And who doesn't? And why?

I have hated Christmas for the last few years, mainly because my first wife left me one Christmas day. Which was nice of her. However, I'm starting to come around a bit, after all I am remarried and have a small son to enjoy it with. Just wish I had more money to have a nicer time.

 

[Guest111]

I,m half and half as there is just me and the wife and we don,t get any visitors so there is nobody to have a laugh with, however we are going to see the grandkids christmas eve so that will be nice,first time in a few years so looking forward to it.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I,m half and half as there is just me and the wife and we don,t get any visitors so there is nobody to have a laugh with, however we are going to see the grandkids christmas eve so that will be nice,first time in a few years so looking forward to it.

Lucky!

Invite that miserable old sod Tony round.

 

[kingeri]

Lucky!

Invite that miserable old sod Tony round.

I think that would be enough to push anyone over the edge!

 

[Guest111]

I think Tony has had enough of me, especially as the police woke him up again yesterday looking for me with regards to an incident that happened when I was visiting him,and no I didn't start it I was just woken up by all the noise. lol

 

[Silly Sausage]

Heehee...sounds like fun!

 

[richy3333]

Love Christmas hols. We always have 3 weeks off to just chill good to catch up with friends and neighbours

 

[markc123]

My bank card especially loves christmas :77:

 

[Spoon]

You have to love xmas if you have small kids. Just the look on their face when they open the presents... its just great!!

 

[OWLelectrical]

Used to always have time off for Xmas spend time with family and chill out but working all over Xmas this year and been working 12 x 7 nights recently so doesn't feel like Xmas.

 

[telectrix]

Love Christmas hols. We always have 3 weeks off to just chill good to catch up with friends and neighbours

friends and neighbours? that's even worse than deadenders and constipation street.

 

[Octopus]

Its OK. Just this morning I was given a plucked pheasent as a thank you by a client. Shame the wife and kids won't eat it.

 

[markc123]

Its OK. Just this morning I was given a plucked pheasent as a thank you by a client. Shame the wife and kids won't eat it.

I was at a farm near malton a few years back, and on completion of the job the farmer offered to shoot a turkey there and then for me. I woulda happily obliged, but seen as the christmas food had already been arranged, i regretably declined the offer.....and thus, the turkey survived for yet another day.

 

[tidyboiler]

I love everything about Christmas except the daft buggers who stockpile food, stand blocking the supermarket aisles chatting and mad drivers who haven't a minute to live. I love the lights, music and general happy feeling it brings.

 

[SYKRAPS]

Good to have time off with the family but a glorified racket to line shop owners pockets IMHO.

 

[markc123]

I love everything about Christmas except the daft buggers who stockpile food, stand blocking the supermarket aisles chatting and mad drivers who haven't a minute to live. I love the lights, music and general happy feeling it brings.

You've just described the average woman haha.

Yes yes, im ready for your reply calling me a male chauvinist pig

 

[Lewiiss]

I enjoy Christmas brings out the cheer in most people that's missing the rest of the year.

 

[MDJ]

Who likes Christmas? And who doesn't? And why?

I have hated Christmas for the last few years, mainly because my first wife left me one Christmas day. Which was nice of her. However, I'm starting to come around a bit, after all I am remarried and have a small son to enjoy it with. Just wish I had more money to have a nicer time.

My Nan died on christmas day about 25 years ago which was devestating, we have got over that now of course, I actually like christmas because it is the only time of the year the whole building trade actually shut down for a week or 2 and I actually get a break and have a beer, always think of my nan bless her but really like the break.

 

[kingeri]

I am looking forward to seeing my son's reaction to the trampoline we've bought for him. He loves bouncing on the settee so I hope he likes the trampoline better - that sofa cost me a fortune!

 

[telectrix]

You've just described the average woman haha.

Yes yes, im ready for your reply calling me a male chauvinist pig

pig or not, you're right. worst is those women that bring their screaming brats in double buggies and expect everyone to get out of the way when they block a complete aisle gobbing off to likewise imbeciles.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

I love everything about Christmas except the daft buggers who stockpile food, stand blocking the supermarket aisles chatting and mad drivers who haven't a minute to live. I love the lights, music and general happy feeling it brings.

Cant understand why idiots stockpile food, the shops are only shut for 2 days.

 

[Octopus]

Cant understand why idiots stockpile food, the shops are only shut for 2 days.

2 days. Down my way its 1 day!

 

[gazzamikes]

Got to love Christmas first one this year with the little boy he's only 8 months but I can't wait!

 

[Adam W]

I don't bother with Christmas nowadays, partly because when I was a teenager our Christmases seemed to turn into an episode of Eastenders, partly because I don't get invited to family Christmases any more, and partly because I just don't want to.
As an 'outsider' to Christmas it all seems to have got out of control - there seems to be too much emphasis on hosting the 'best', most extravagant event ever which I think is largely to blame for some of the stockpiling of food - better to waste it than the possibility of somebody thinking you've provided a poor spread.
I think it's got far too material now, when I think it should be a time for people to get together and get on in an amicable fashion. It doesn't help that it's rammed down everyone's throats from about October when Christmas doesn't even begin until Christmas day itself; by the end of Christmas day everyone is absolutely sick and tired of it, the shops move onto promoting the sales and move away from Christmas, which technically doesn't finish until 12 days later.

 

[tidyboiler]

You've just described the average woman haha.

Yes yes, im ready for your reply calling me a male chauvinist pig

No, not at all Mark. I'm not an average woman, so I've been told........:gorgeous: I get annoyed too. And as another poster said why do people buy enough food to feed a battalion when the shops are only closed for one day! Most bits and pieces can be bought from petrol stations anyway so I don't get it. Life won't end because we've forgotten the asparagus tips and salmon. :santa3:

 

[telectrix]

buy from petrol stations????????? a bloody sandwich there costs as much as a full pub meal with a pint!. and the greedy buggers add 40p to a packet of smokes. the only things i buy from petrol stations are fuel and newspapers ( they'd charge double for the papers if they hadn't got the price printed on them, robbing tw*ts)

 

[tidyboiler]

I mean bread or milk, or essentials. I wouldn't buy sarnies from petrol stations anyway. It's cheaper to make your own and at least you know where your hands have been! :gettree: smokes??? smokes??? How dare you use the F word! I have no vices.

 

[shagbite]

christ. i miss the days when you could go fill up without having to worry about all those ----ers doing their weekly shop. now i have to plan my trips to the petrol station.

 

[trev]

I went through a phase of hating it, there's an awful lot of phoniness kicking around at this time of year. Why should the person who just sold me a gift for someone actually give a damn whether I have a nice christmas or not they just earned the commission on the sale! Then the kids came along and I started to love it all over again (apart from the phoniness of course) then along come our grandson and I'm like a kid myself again.
All that said, I hate the crap lights on King Street (Tidyboiler, Geordie, Alarm Man and a few others know what I mean) I never ever want to hear another Cliff Bloody Richard song again as long as I live and if one more person TELLS me to have a nice christmas the reply will be "or else?"

 

[tidyboiler]

Well Trev, I think it's probably better to be told "Have a nice day/Christmas" by someone who doesn't mean it than "Pi$$ off" by someone who does. :rolleyes4:

 

[trev]

At least the second one is sincere

 

[telectrix]

I mean bread or milk, or essentials. I wouldn't buy sarnies from petrol stations anyway. It's cheaper to make your own and at least you know where your hands have been! :gettree: smokes??? smokes??? How dare you use the F word! I have no vices.[/QUOTE]

yes you do. you call him geordie or grumpy for short.. :behead:

 

[Adam W]

I wouldn't buy sarnies from petrol stations anyway. It's cheaper to make your own and at least you know where your hands have been! :gettree:

I may be able to guarantee that they were MADE to my hygiene standards, but I suspect they would be kept more hygienically in a petrol station or shop's fridge than sweltering away in a plastic box in the back of my car. Plus I don't have time to mess about making sandwiches in the morning, and if I did I know I would have eaten them by the time I get to work.

 

[tidyboiler]

Fair point Adam. I used to work in a cafe, and know what goes on behind the scenes! :21:

 

[telectrix]

so why do they make a half decent sandwich, say beef or ham with a bit of tomato on, the ruin it with rabbit food and donkey snot?

 

[tidyboiler]

so why do they make a half decent sandwich, say beef or ham with a bit of tomato on, the ruin it with rabbit food and donkey snot?

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[Adam W]

so why do they make a half decent sandwich, say beef or ham with a bit of tomato on, the ruin it with rabbit food and donkey snot?

LOL a guy I used to work with reckoned KFC don't use mayonnaise on their burgers, but every branch keep an elephant out the back with a migrant worker 'stimulating' the elephant to encourage it to secrete it's mayonnaise-like 'sauce'.

 

[Adam W]

Fair point Adam. I used to work in a cafe, and know what goes on behind the scenes! :21:

Same here - I really hate eating out at restaurants because I've seen how they prepare what ends up on your table and costs you a small fortune.
I would imagine pre-packaged sandwiches are made in suitable hygienic factories though, by people in hairnets and white coats...

 

[tidyboiler]

LOL a guy I used to work with reckoned KFC don't use mayonnaise on their burgers, but every branch keep an elephant out the back with a migrant worker 'stimulating' the elephant to encourage it to secrete it's mayonnaise-like 'sauce'.

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