Christmas! Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh!

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Talk about overkill!
I went to a job last night, and the house we went to was already looking like Santa's grotto on crystal meth! When I asked why so early, I was told "We did it for the young 'un". The 'young un' is 3 months old!Mariah 'All I want for Christmas is a bigger ego and more cash' Carey on MTV and the radio! Ads for useless tat on the TV! Ads for sales and credit cards 'Buy it all on credit at over the top interest rates, forget about it for the next 11 months until we hit you again!'
It makes me went to run away and hide!

[muddyjames]

your not the only one.

People at work have been talking about xmas for the last few weeks now. Wish they would shut up about it and talk about it in December at least.

Xmas is just a huge comercial thing now and becoming more and more comercial each year. I just get presents for mum and brother and that is it.

[Eeyore]

Save some space in your hidey hole for a donkey!

There's a family around by us who have already made there house look like Las Vegas with reindeer.  :roll:

[V8MoneyPit]

LSP, I think you need to provide a big hidey hole for all of us. I think you know by now that I invented the phrase 'bah humbug'  :lol: Unfortunately, I get dragged up to Scottishland for the 'festivities' with the outlaws  :roll: Frankly, I'd rather spend the time off work in the workshop doing something productive  :lol:

I'm fine with people wanting to celebrate, but some people are single handedly killing the ozone layer. And that's just the emmisions after Christmas dinner, let alone all the electricity for lighting up their houses  :lol:

[LiftedDisco]

Grumpy old men is actually a factual documentary, the finer nuances of which are lost on the likes of my wife...

Still... let's stuff the reindeer (with elves, gnomes, tinsel and a blow up santa...) and be grateful that we don't live next to anyone offering public service broadcasts of said Mariah tracks...

'tis the season etc...  bah, humbug...

[bilge rat]

next village along theres a house thats been decorated and lit up for about 2 weeks. thought that was bad . but maybee its something to do with diwali ??.

[Bush Tucker Man]

Bring back the Grinch!,

That's before he got those no-good (story spoiling) chest pains!!

[Range Rover Blues]

The wife and I found a nice hidey-hole, for a couple of hours at least.  It's open regurlary but more so over the holidays, it's a very sturdy stone building at the heart of the village and whilst people there do talk about Christmas they are all very aware of the true meaning of the holiday, and none of them try to sell me anything.  They are all genuinley pleased to spend time with one another and always make us feel welcome.

BTW, We got married there too.

[wormster]

I have the perfect answer:

Move 100 miles away from ex wife and kids, then go to North Africa for the whole of the crimbly period.

It doesn't mean that the little worms won't have pressies under the tree from their Dad, just that I won't have to bother with the whole boiling of the season.

STUFF the turkey is all i have to offer, I'm off to look at camels, WW2 battlefields, Roman archetecture and Berbers!!

SEASONS GREETINGS - Naff off!!

[richo]

Santa reads the forums aswell you know.You lot will get no pressis.
Mind you who needs more socks and yet more old spice.

[wormster]

Santa reads the forums aswell you know.You lot will get no pressis.

NYAHHHH!!!!! don't want any [-X

what i want is unachevable: the end to world suffering, wars, national debt and 2 cheezeburgers.

[hobbit]

wanted 9mm for one shot :twisted:

some of the adverts that get blurted out through the tv does my head in :x


I want a tv that automatically shuts the volume off for adverts, save wearing out the mute button instead

[Bishops Finger]

Well as Santa won't bring my Crimble pressies - a 20K Jeep Commander and a years supply of Skullsplitter...and world peace  best mention good crimble location....

Certain cottage in Boscastle...looking out over the harbour....

[Skibum346]

Certain cottage in Boscastle...looking out over the harbour....

Me she and her mother will be in Portreath for the season... nice quite chalet overlooking the beach... some walks... get some pics taken... Probably a normal sized chrimbo dinner (rather than one fit for the five thousand!).

Bliss...

[Disco Matt]

Regarding the adverts, has anyone else noticed that they tend to be louder than the programme? So you can't escape by going to make a cuppa...

Decorations go up on or after 1st of December. Before that is daft. You've got a whole month to enjoy them!

[Boggert]

Guess what... I have got Christmas off! I'm So pleased!

However have been truley stiched up for christmas eve :doh: hey ho you win some you loose some! :lol:

[discowoman]

More time NOT to get dragged into the hyped up media event that is xmas.....yes that is the Correct spelling - Christmas is a religous celebration - Xmas - is one for the Chavs!

[mike142sl]

The wife and I found a nice hidey-hole, for a couple of hours at least.  It's open regurlary but more so over the holidays, it's a very sturdy stone building at the heart of the village and whilst people there do talk about Christmas they are all very aware of the true meaning of the holiday, and none of them try to sell me anything.  They are all genuinley pleased to spend time with one another and always make us feel welcome.

BTW, We got married there too.

I was walking down Fargate (For those that don't know - main shopping centre in Sheffield before Meadowhell was built) where the council had built a nativity scene a couple of years ago, where I overheard a woman moaning "Look at that, they're even trying to bring religion into Christmas now" !!!

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Christmas as sung about by that great American anti-folk hero, Tom Lehrer. It sums it up for me :(

Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly.
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say when.

Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens.
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.

On Christmas Day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore.
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.

Relations, sparing no expense, 'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
("Just the thing I need, how nice!")

It doesn't matter how sincere it is,
Nor how heart felt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry merchants,
May ye make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high,
Tell us to go out and buy!

So let the raucous sleighbells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend Kriss Kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.

Actually, I did rather well myself this past Christmas. The nicest present I received was a gift certificate good at any hospital for a lobotomy... rather thoughtful.





As for working, I'm like Boggert. I've been pinged with Christmas Eve as my last night shift before leave. Oh what joy I shall have picking up the festive drunks, dealing with the merry Yuletide domestics, and mopping up the 'Season of Good Will' stabbings.
Roll on retirement, when I plan to go to the Italian Alps and become a recluse!

[Frankie-Boy]

I shall also be working on Christmas eve through to 8am on Christmas day, fortunately I wont have to get involved with the drunks etc but I'll be dealing with the aftermath of breakdowns and accidents by getting vehicles recovered and repaired, oh joy.

 ;) :roll:

[Llanigraham]

Another one working Christmas Eve, until after the last train on the Welsh Marches line, probably just after midnight, then it will be home, off shift for 7 days.
Noen of the kids are coming this year so we have been invited to a friends for Christmas Day, so no cooking and plenty to drink, then off to the son's in Cardiff on Boxing Day.

And the decorations don't go up in our house until the 10th!!

[marjan]

There is only 1 good thing about Christmas and that's getting time off work. I have 11 days off - YIPPEE !!!!

[burgerman]

 I am also working lates crimbo eve  :(   But i get to run the very last train out of waterloo  :dance:  Sounded a nightmare - but did the very same train last fall and had a blast  :lol:  For a nice/rare change it was full of geniune happy drunk people, i was probally offered over 50 beers and a few bottles of something to drink "later on"
  I thanked them for there kind offer and refused, As i dont drink at all and would be taken off track for investigation even seen carrying the stuff
   Lets hope its as jolly this year  :-k

[Saffy]

I am also working lates crimbo eve  :(   

But i get to run the very last train out of waterloo  :dance:  Sounded a nightmare
   
Lets hope its as jolly this year  :-k

but it might be that haunted train 

[gtomo2]

I am working christmas eve unless everyone stops buying stuff before then so i dont have to deliver it all to the shops. As for the decks they go up here next weekend.

[tack43]

It must be me working Christmas Day and Boxing Day then!   

[burgerman]

I am also working lates crimbo eve  :(   

But i get to run the very last train out of waterloo  :dance:  Sounded a nightmare
   
Lets hope its as jolly this year  :-k

but it might be that haunted train 

  If it is i bet we can find a fault with it BEFORE we leave on our journey and get a different one  :lol:

[Terranger]

That happened a few days ago?

When out on a private hire, on a Saturday night, I saw the local Council had "Lux" hired in, at the back end of October, for hanging the Christmas lights!!!

[Yoshi]

Bettyblue22 is working christmas day as well :(

But then she is off new years so she can get trollied then, just means i get a head start til she gets home late on christmas day!

[carbore]

Iv got two weeks off  :lol:

However im self employed so thats half wages for December them  :'(

Off the the barn to play with my Tractor!!!!