WTF…..the malls and stores are insane! Christmas is exactly two months away and the elf shit has already hit the fan. Buy, buy, buy: Kids running around wild in parking lots, mom’s trying to find which kid is theirs, dad’s eye-fucking the cashier (male or female), Halloween candy mixed with Christmas lights, argh, it’s that joyous time of year. —Elf’d
This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2010.
ha. this is only the second in a series op. mr. more penned the first one in august…try to ignore it for the safety of you sanity
The xmas stuff is out now and it isn’t even halloween! cheesus christ!
I like it. Christmas is a fun holiday. I think people complain about shit like this around Christmas because it’s the cool thing to do. “I’m too hip for Christmas”
THat was August paingirl…this is a little closer to the big day for many of you.
But I would personally still like to see us get through Halloween & then go for the christmas madness !
I had plans to go to Jamaica over Christmas, with my girlfriend (yes its the same one…no I don’t pay her by the hour) but my mother has requested my presence for a christmas party as well as christmas day dinner. As she put it, We’re not going to be here much longer, as your dad & I are both over 70.”
So to respect my mother, I have agreed. I guess I’m not the complete asshole many of you think I am & I actually do care about what my family wants. Plus end of January or Febuary is when I usually get the winter blahhhhsss & going then will be great .
But OP do what I’ve done cancell christmas presents, unless they’re homemade or food & drink.
THat of course doesn’t include the little ones who actually believe in Santa…but for everyone else the Christmas shopping commercialization & ‘presents’… the bigger the better days are OVER.
I’m coming up on 6 years of it now & I couldn’t be happier .
deep breaths pk and then try screaming^^
I actually like the Christmas holiday… minus the music. Lol. I enjoy buying people gifts. *Shrugs*
i enjoy cooking/baking. i feel for the folks who toil away week after week, forced to listen to music they have no control over
I LOVE Christmas… I love the music, movies and seeing my family lol I’m such a dork. It’s the only time of year I get to go home. I love giving gifts to people too.
Sounds like the definition of hell, pain-sis…force-fed Christmas music…ugh! Sounds like a form of torture utilized at POW camps! The salary should include danger pay.
I have no problem with the Christmas holiday in and of itself, I just hate the commercialization of it. I think stores should be legally mandated to not mention Christmas or display any Christmas-related items until about a week after Remembrance Day.
except for fairy tale of new york and some marley tunes eh sis? the boy is coming home so everything else pales in comparison. my cup runneth over^^
I’m like you PF – I love Christmas – but I refuse to shop or step foot in a mall until about 2 weeks prior, that way I only have the minimal amount of commercialization shoved down my throat. I tend to shop in small stores though and stay away from the box store unless absolutely necessary.
I’m partial to Twisted Sister’s Christmas album myself.
still no email from you brendon195 🙁
lol I’ll probably get around to it eventually. I’ve been kind of busy lately getting ready for the big nerd convention. 🙂 Rawk!
i have a very eclectic mix of “holiday” music geek/nerd guy^^^
I agree that nothing should go up until after November 11th. Christmas and the entire holiday season is what you make of it. I love the music, {tasteful} decorations, spending time with family and the once a year treats that you can indulge in with abandon! But the commercialization thing is done for me. Hours in the mall or on line, trying to figure out what to get someone or remember if you bought it for them last year? Nope. Now, I make one donation for whatever amount my budget is, and everyone gets a card with a copy of the notice of donation in it.
As for Christmas music, yes I have Bing Crosby and Perry Como for the classics, but have any of you heard the cd ‘Winter Songs’ by Halford? Awesome!
Halford as in Rob Halford of Judas Priest?
Ever since I started doing all my shopping on-line, Christmas has become a very happy holiday for moi.
Usually the idea of pop musicians doing Christmas songs (traditional or their own “compostitions” is sufficient to motivate me to plunge carpentry awls through both eardrums simultaneously.
But The Skydiggers version of “Good King Wenceslas” is sublime.
Moi aussi, sister-girl! Some faves include: “Walking ‘Round In Women’s Underwear”, “23 decembre” and Joni Mitchell’s “River”.
What gets me is these so-called atheists that still celebrate CHRISTmas and wear gold crosses.
And let’s not forget the traditional: you’re not allowed to wish anyone Merry Christmas as it offends some, it’s a holiday tree not a Christmas tree, fake sincerity, crazy line-ups, toy rage, parking lot rage, Santa touched my wee-wee etc. etc.
Now that there are gift cards and on-line shopping I’m like TTFN more content with the lovely Christmas Holiday.
it’s sad when people come to blows over a blow-me-elmo doll…heehaw
Not allowed to say Merry Christmas? When did that happen? I must be behind the times ‘cos I still do it.
i think some of the major soul-sucking corps. have mandated the happy holidays. feckers take the joy out of everything
I say Merry Christmas all the time. If someone is going to begrudge me my well wishes, then they have more problems than I do. And I’m just sad for them.
Christmas belongs to the Christians not the corporations! How dare they take what isn’t theirs and replace it with something else!
fuck christmas and all the bullshit sales come ons. give me the holiday, that used to was. when you would be home with your families and enjoy the simple pleasures of that time of year. to fuck and back with this new themed bullshit they call christmas. they should call it what it really is, rip off day. don’t get me wrong, i love the real idea of this time of year, peace and all that shit, but do you fucking stores have to start conning in fucking july and august, like a certain furniture store does with hold, hold the payments crap. and don’t even get me started on the religeous aspect of this shit, this is none anymore. christ, the person is dead, and so is the meaning for this december day. which by the way, is not when he died at all. so, take this fucking shit, you now call christmas, and shove it up your asses.bah fucking humbug.
Firstly, yes Christmas is over-commercialized. It is not a time to shower everyone with gifts, but rather, to celebrate the gift of family, love and being together.
If it wasn’t for the recent dip in the temperatures, I would be equally as grouchy as the OP. Getting out my winter jacket has gotten me excited for the holiday season.
On a completely different note, however, the best commercial part about Christmas is Starbuck’s Christmas Blend Coffee. <3
skinny, i’d rather have the rum laced eggnog that ss sells, man that is good fucking stuff, get some everyone, and have a blast. i brought 6 cases of the stuff, just in case they recall it.
Brendon195… I like your anti commercialization stance & agree whole heartedly.
But those who want to go nuts at Christmas, go for it & as long as your happy who am I to tell you what to do …just as long as I get the same treatment.
ONE of my favorite xmas video’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZjR7xyyWE
This one isn’t bad either !
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZdKUi3QC8&…
hopefully the links work !!
I’ve always said that the best Christmas movie ever was the original Die Hard. 🙂 And PF, I finally got around to sending you an email. Sorry for the delay. *bows humbly*
the first one worked mr. more-very funny…an excellent choice brendon i would include a christmas story as well
…and the life of brian^^
Hi brendon195 – Yes, Rob Halford of Judas Priest.
Not for everyone, I’m sure, but its one of my faves.
Ask yourself, what would Jesus do?
I shall have to look that up when I get home. It sounds epic.
A very metal christmas is what goes in the ol’ car player in Dec….
as long as I never have to listen to fucking ‘boney m’ ever again I’ll be content.
I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!! I’ve already got half of my shopping done because I spend all year figuring out what someone really wants and I love surprising people I love!. I love listening to Alabama Christmas…I love the snow and the decorations and I love baking….I love that there’s always a get-together at friends or families or a work Christmas party. I love the look on my little guys face….this year will be awesome cause he’s 3 and everyday asks for Santa to bring him Lego. I love the smell of Christmas trees and the lights on all the houses. I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!
(and Purple fire we are so meant to be friends!!)
it is much better to love than loathe rc. with a three year old in the house it’s pure joy…leggo rawked our home for many years and thomas the tank engine too
It is PG…..I won’t have him first thing in the morning but his dad brings him back pretty early. I had him last year. 🙁
Screw it. Just leave the damn Christmas decorations up all year round.
We can forever walk in a shambling stupor, drooling like Pavlov’s dog at the thought of purchasing cheap, unnecessary junk while bemoaning the offshoring of western manufacturing.
Merry Christmas
RealChick, as soon as I started reading your post I was thinking that we were definitely meant to be friends… then I kept reading and you had said the exact same thing!!! You should really email me at OliviaKox@hotmail.com and I’ll give you my real contact info 🙂
or you can just meet up @ lasertag on Sunday….
who all is comin’?
Who’s playing laser tag??
but the nerd/geek convention is rolling in to town
Are you seriously planning the laser tag thing? You mentioned that months ago so we could all keep our anonymity….lol. I love ya Z. That would be so much fun but my Halloween is dedicated to taking my little guy to all my family and friends houses in the day and then some mad trick-or-treatin between 6-7:30pm (bath time). I’m so excited though…it’s his first real Halloween where he’ll go door to door.
Yeah Sunday is all booked up for me.
DAMN IT.
well I’m hardly going to go just to shoot myself.
the little ones sure are cute when the come to our door, the surly teenagers with no costumes-not so much. they get treats anyway ’cause eggs are hard to wash off
I wish, it’s my NB weekend – but I’d be up for lasertag another weekend!! 🙂
Nov 13th @ noon.
over two weeks away….
keep it open.
Sounds like a plan.