The C word.

Has anyone even thought about it yet?

Oh yes Syl, started Xmas shopping ages ago

magica wrote:Oh yes Syl, started Xmas shopping ages ago

I thought I would win the lollypop for being the most organised Christmas shopper.
I am usually not interested in Christmas till December, but this year, due to a late holiday, I wont be here for the first two weeks of Dec, so to save myself a migraine and several panic attacks I started early.......and tonight, just to prove how very organised I am this year, I am even going to write some cards out.

I love Christmas time as we all are off an spend the holiday together

Only November 6th and I'm already sick of the sight of Christmas advertising and the imminent start (next week) of Christmas-themed films.

One company is even justifying the fact that "it's Christmas..." (no it effin' well isn't!) to sell its range of wired brasieres!

What next? Christmas nappies? Christmas incontinent pants? Christmas bog paper that makes kids feel as clean as a squid?

Commercialism has all but destroyed the meaning and magic of Christmas, turning it into a months long orgy of pester-powered sales pitching. It's one thing to purchase cards early and book a Christmas Day table at Ye Olde Frogge & Nightgowne, but to go into Tescos and find shelves full of "Christmas party food" with a sell-by date at the end of next week or to have to suffer endless renditions of "Jingle Bells" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas" is bloody ridiculous.

SEXY MAMA wrote:I love Christmas time as we all are off an spend the holiday together

It just seems to start so early, the shops and garden centres (especially) have been stocking Christmas items and even playing Christmas music since September....its overkill and just money grabbing imo.

I agree Sexy that actual Christmastime is a lovely time of year.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:Only November 6th and I'm already sick of the sight of Christmas advertising and the imminent start (next week) of Christmas-themed films.

One company is even justifying the fact that "it's Christmas..." (no it effin' well isn't!) to sell its range of wired brasieres!

What next? Christmas nappies? Christmas incontinent pants? Christmas bog paper that makes kids feel as clean as a squid?

Commercialism has all but destroyed the meaning and magic of Christmas, turning it into a months long orgy of pester-powered sales pitching. It's one thing to purchase cards early and book a Christmas Day table at Ye Olde Frogge & Nightgowne, but to go into Tescos and find shelves full of "Christmas party food" with a sell-by date at the end of next week or to have to suffer endless renditions of "Jingle Bells" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas" is bloody ridiculous.

Working on the assumption that a ladies bust line needs that extra bit of pampering around the festive season.

There is already Christmas toilet paper and paper rolls being marketed....I bought some last year.

Syl wrote:

SEXY MAMA wrote:I love Christmas time as we all are off an spend the holiday together

It just seems to start so early, the shops and garden centres (especially) have been stocking Christmas items and even playing Christmas music since September....its overkill and just money grabbing imo.

I agree Sexy that actual Christmastime is a lovely time of year.

Yeah I know what you mean! QVC start a whole bloody day of Christmas shopping in JULY!!!!!!!

One of the many things that pisses me off about Christmas is that it starts in fucking November.   It shouldn't even cross our minds til December.  By the time Christmas day rolls around, I'm sick to the death of it.

I dont celebrate dec 24th

i catch it a bit earlier and have a piss up dec 21st starting at 16:28....The REAL "holy day"

I remember one year I walked into a shop and they started their display of Xmas things.

I had to do a double check. Outside it was hot and the month was June!

It's not Christmas until Noddy Holder says so, [our overseas friends might not understand this]

Christmas? I haven't even sorted out what I'm doing tomorrow. What the fuck?

I like the parades on TV. We've usually opened all the presents and had breakfast. So it just passes time 'til the football games come on.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:Only November 6th and I'm already sick of the sight of Christmas advertising and the imminent start (next week) of Christmas-themed films.

One company is even justifying the fact that "it's Christmas..." (no it effin' well isn't!) to sell its range of wired brasieres!

What next? Christmas nappies? Christmas incontinent pants? Christmas bog paper that makes kids feel as clean as a squid?

Commercialism has all but destroyed the meaning and magic of Christmas, turning it into a months long orgy of pester-powered sales pitching. It's one thing to purchase cards early and book a Christmas Day table at Ye Olde Frogge & Nightgowne, but to go into Tescos and find shelves full of "Christmas party food" with a sell-by date at the end of next week or to have to suffer endless renditions of "Jingle Bells" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas" is bloody ridiculous.

YES YES YES!!!!!!

Over here we still have a major Holiday, Thanksgiving, to get through. Even my local grocery stores is full of Xmas crap. I shudder and pass by. Even the local hardware store is playing Last Christmas and putting bows on toilet plungers and wrenches. For the love of all that is sane, WHY???????

nicko wrote:It's not Christmas until Noddy Holder says so,    [our overseas friends might not understand this]

I get in the mood when I hear 'Fairy tale of New York'...its one of the best Christmas songs ever.
So far (thank God) I haven't heard any Christmas songs on the radio yet.....but the Christmas ads are already being shown on TV.

eddie wrote:

That tree is far to near the fire.

eddie wrote:

Preach it sister!!!!

nicko wrote:It's not Christmas until Noddy Holder says so,    [our overseas friends might not understand this]

Noddy can take a running jump...Bah Humbug.

At least over here, we don’t get to hear their dulcet tones every 3 minutes. A true Christmas miracle!

Someone I know actually facebooked that they had sat down to a Christmas dinner last week, complete with crackers and paper hats.
When someone asked her why, she said "Because I can".....I wanted to smack her.

SEXY MAMA wrote:I love Christmas time as we all are off an spend the holiday together

your god will not approve of you celebrating the infidels traditions

are you not committing shirk ??

Syl wrote:Someone I know actually facebooked that they had sat down to a Christmas dinner last week, complete with crackers and paper hats.
When someone asked her why, she said "Because I can".....I wanted to smack her.

Let’s form a line...

smelly-bandit wrote:

SEXY MAMA wrote:I love Christmas time as we all are off an spend the holiday together

your god will not approve of you celebrating the infidels traditions

are you not committing shirk ??

FGS....can someone tell him (he claims I'm on ignore) that it would be nice to have the occasional thread he doesn't spoil.

Cass wrote:

Syl wrote:Someone I know actually facebooked that they had sat down to a Christmas dinner last week, complete with crackers and paper hats.
When someone asked her why, she said "Because I can".....I wanted to smack her.

Let’s form a line...

Lol.....she is the type who probably facebooks when she farts.

Syl wrote:

smelly-bandit wrote:

your god will not approve of you celebrating the infidels traditions

are you not committing shirk ??

FGS....can someone tell him (he claims I'm on ignore) that it would be nice to have the occasional thread  he doesn't spoil.

He's not housebroken. He shits anywhere.

Read the thread title and thought it was about an appropriate description of Stench bandit!

♬♬..Peace on earth good will to (almost) all men, tra laaa......♬♬

pah! I dont so much "celebrate" christmas as avoid it...Bah HUMBUG and all that.

hopefully, if the weather permits we will spend a week up at the wood over christmas/new year, thus avoiding the drunks and morons partying to excess, and the sickening harping on about "peace and good will" in a world of strife and misery.

Lord Foul wrote:pah!   I dont so much "celebrate" christmas as avoid it...Bah HUMBUG and all that.

hopefully, if the weather permits we will spend a week up at the wood over christmas/new year, thus avoiding the drunks and morons partying to excess, and the sickening harping on about "peace and good will" in a world of strife and misery.

You are braver than us...its bloody freezing in Wales in the wintertime.
We wont be back there till spring has sprung.

Syl wrote:♬♬..Peace on earth good will to (almost) all men, tra laaa......♬♬

Shut up Syl...please!

Cass wrote:

Syl wrote:♬♬..Peace on earth good will to (almost) all men, tra laaa......♬♬

Shut up Syl...please!

Shan't.

Aww...my mooning Santa wont show /\.

eddie wrote:

That's disgusting. Almost as disgusting as those 3, 4, and even 5 birds in a bird.

I sense that underneath it all, that Xmas-tin-dinner-filth, has got you dribbling. Admit it.

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:

That's disgusting. Almost as disgusting as those 3, 4, and even 5 birds in a bird.

Do you mean a turducken? My mum wanted one 2 years ago. I said no as it was expensive so she bought it and cooked it and brought it over. It was average. Thank goodness I did a ham!

Cass wrote:

Syl wrote:

That's disgusting. Almost as disgusting as those 3, 4, and even 5 birds in a bird.

Do you mean a turducken? My mum wanted one 2 years ago. I said no as it was expensive so she bought it and cooked it and brought it over.  It was average. Thank goodness I did a ham!

If the sheer greed of eating several birds stuffed into each other isn't enough to knock you sick, maybe the name turducken would do it.
When I see things like this for sale, and the tiny chickens (poussins) lined up ready to cook, it makes me think about turning back into a vegetarian again.

eddie wrote:I sense that underneath it all, that Xmas-tin-dinner-filth, has got you dribbling. Admit it.

It looks like the multi layered cake that the 'bakeoff' contestants were asked to make as their show stopper last week.

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:I sense that underneath it all, that Xmas-tin-dinner-filth, has got you dribbling. Admit it.

It looks like the multi layered cake that the 'bakeoff' contestants were asked to make as their show stopper  last week.

Send me your address. I'd like to package up a lovely ChristmasTinner and some Turdyduckshit as a special early birthday treat for you.

No need to thank me Syl.

eddie wrote:

A special word needs to be invented to use to react to pics like that. ''yuk'' and ''bleurghh'' don't quite cut it, a stronger word is needed.  

Btw is there a vomit smiley? There are many contexts where one would be very apt.

Get in the Christmas spirit Jules!

We sometimes lose sight of the fact that Yuletide is in week 52 - ie literally at the tail end of end the year. So I try to resist getting too excited too soon.

But I fully understand the commercial sector preparing early for it. Some retailers make more money in the Christmas period than they do in the rest of the year put together.

eddie wrote:Get in the Christmas spirit Jules!  

Haha I'm sitting here turning very green round the gills and you're making it worse, eddie. I didn't realise you had such a funny side.

Well on the positive side let's face it the dinner on the left looks like it's already pre-digested. The gut's digestive work has already been done for it!

Jules wrote:We sometimes lose sight of the fact that Yuletide is in week 52 - ie  literally at the tail end of end the year. So I try to resist getting too excited  too soon.

But I fully understand the commercial sector preparing early for it. Some retailers make more money in the Christmas period than they do in the rest of the year put together.

I was joking. I hate seeing Christmas stuff too early. Kinda ruins it all for me.

Ah we posted together, See above.

The Christmas tunes in the shops can ruin your resolve tho. The shops do it deliberately lol.

Ooops I meant the dinner on the right.

Jules wrote:Ooops I meant the dinner on the right.

Hahaha yeah I knew what you meant. I am so tempted to buy that dinner-shit-in-a-can and serve it up to someone, with a very straight face.

I'm sure I actually read an article about this where someone quite respectable ate it and said it was actually pretty good....

eddie wrote:

Jules wrote:Ooops I meant the dinner on the right.

Hahaha yeah I knew what you meant. I am so tempted to buy that dinner-shit-in-a-can and serve it up to someone, with a very straight face.  

I'm sure I actually read an article about this where someone quite respectable ate it and said it was actually pretty good....

How sporting!!
I doubt if astronauts millions of miles out in space would accept that stuff. They'd probably prefer those weird food pellets.

And what if you served that can-dinner upside down by mistake? You'd be eating your pudding first and that's just not classy.