Only 116 days to Christmas!

PH01

Well it's September 1st. It's back to school. The summer is over. Nothing to look forward to... except... Christmas! Oh CRÂP!

Reasons to dislike Christmas.
1 Those Christmas countdowns. "Hey, it's only 116 days to Christmas! Let's get planning and buying stuff!"


I must get a gold star for the first Christmas 2004 post

seamus

€10 a day until christmas, and I might just clear out the debt on my Credit Card in time to build it up again

SantaHoe

PH01 wrote:

Nothing to look forward to... except... Christmas! Oh CRÂP!

You could always look forward to the biggest non-event of the year, halloween.
People running around drunk, massive open fires and joyriding... just another night across Dublin really. :rolleyes:

leeroybrown

Someone always has to be the first one to bring up Christmas. Once the Autumn sales are over the shops will all be beginning their marketing campaigns. I far prefer the first half of the year is there is none of theis fake Christmas bullshít.

leeroybrown

SantaHoe wrote:

You could always look forward to the biggest non-event of the year, halloween.
People running around drunk, massive open fires and joyriding... just another night across Dublin really. :rolleyes:

The pets of Dublin are already living in fear of those firework suppository.

Kêrmêttê

YAY! Christmassssssssssss!! I can't wait!!!!!!!!!

My most favouritest time of the year. Although, I'm a bit slow this year... I usually have all my pressies bought already by now. This year, so far, I only have one bought (for my ikkle nephew)

/me waits for angry wailing and gnashing of teeth

climaxer

I Love Christmas - favourite time of the year. Our family are really close and we have a great time. Our office closes down for almost two weeks too which is a nice break. My little boy will be 2yrs 3mths this year so I can't wait to bring him to see santa and see his face on Christmas morning. Have to say though its really the kids that make it exciting and once there's no kids in the family that still believe its not the same.

SantaHoe

leeroybrown wrote:

I far prefer the first half of the year is there is none of theis fake Christmas bullshít.

Yeah I have my gripes about Christmas aswell... there's far too much focus on buying/selling and not enough about togetherness or just being a decent human being for one day of your miserable life.
(Yes, my boards name reflects this.)
Although I do enjoy the lively buzz in the air around Christmas time for some reason.

RE: halloween and fireworks... I've heard some going off in the distance already, in fact I've heard a mini-rocket going off as far back as two weeks ago.

ERR!

i adore christmas..how can u not?its such a great time..its also my bday the day before so that makes it extra special i love that time of year roll on xmas

Lainey

bah humbug......

ahh no, love christmas.. its a great familiy time.. no fights (well, only small ones)..
hate the present crap..

Lump

I get to work this christmas, in London alone..... boo hoo. 12 hours wandering around the BBC, I guess I could cause some "Issues"


John

spoon

christmas is annoying, its pretty much being forced/scammed into spending time with your family. Which will always lead to some argument.
Someone should make a new holiday, one where you have to avoid your family for a week. Thatd be great. And rather than giving each other presents, you could rob off each other. I've always wanted my brothers car.

monkeyfudge

Lump wrote:

I get to work this christmas, in London alone..... boo hoo. 12 hours wandering around the BBC, I guess I could cause some "Issues"


John

how about replacing the queens speach with hardcore porn?

Lump

He he, you may be missing BBC 1 and 2 for a period on christmas day, this is due to fat bastard irish man breaking things.


John

Flukey

Christmas is great, but theys should ban all mention of it and advertising for it until December 1st. The shops would still get all the shoppers and make their money. Most people don't do their shopping until the last few days, so starting advertising on December 1st would be more than adequate. Today is Wednesday the 1st of September. The next Wednesday the 1st is in December! It would be nice to think that we would not hear a mention of Christmas until then, but unfortunately, we will. :rolleyes:

By the way, it is actually 115 days to go!

smoke.me.a.kipper

Flukey wrote:

Christmas is great, but theys should ban all mention of it and advertising for it until December 1st. The shops would still get all the shoppers and make their money. Most people don't do their shopping until the last few days, so starting advertising on December 1st would be more than adequate.

i very much agree. i dont mind all the mumbo jumbo, to an extent. it just annoys me that it starts wayyyy to early.

PH01

Flukey wrote:

By the way, it is actually 115 days to go!

Feck!
Sorry about that. Should have used a calculator!

Ya I suppose Crimbo is great if your a kid or you have kids and that I'm neither.

114, and 6 hours to go!

weemcd

a ****, didnt they have christmas last year? NOT AGAIN

feylya

Kêrmêtt&#234 wrote:

My most favouritest time of the year. Although, I'm a bit slow this year... I usually have all my pressies bought already by now. This year, so far, I only have one bought (for my ikkle nephew)

Don't forget to buy a pressie for my 21st Bah, Christmas.

tman

ugh!
looked out my window half an hour ago and noticed that it was dark outside
winter is one sneaky mofo i tells you!

munkeehaven

ick.christmas..time to practice the "happy face".

Agent Smith

god i hate christmas.... all these people being happy and gay.....

munkeehaven

i hate the obligation you feel that you have to stuff yourself for 3 weeks full of biscuits and sweets and pudding.oh yes i hate that .oh and not moving off the couch except for dinner and alcohol.

angeldelight

Christmas is the best This one is gonna be especially great I'll finally be 18! Can't really go out on 25th but December 27th is gonna be a longgggggg night

seamus

angeldelight wrote:

Christmas is the best This one is gonna be especially great I'll finally be 18! Can't really go out on 25th but December 27th is gonna be a longgggggg night

Christmas Eve. Traditionally, everyone goes to the pub for "One or Two" on the 24th, but ultimately everyone ends up getting ratarsed, and struggling out of bed for breakfast the next morning.

I love Christmas. I'm going to make a concerted effort to do most of my shopping online this year. Our family does a Kris Kindle. So I have only two people to buy presents for (one family member, and my better half).