I'm going to treat you all to my unpopular Christmas opinion.

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You CAN send Christmas cards AND donate money to charity. Anyone who says they're not sending cards so they can donate the money to charity is just a Scrooge.

What are your unpopular Christmas opinions? Share here.

Parsnips smell like medicine.

Get to fuck, have one massive bloody tree covered in gaudy shit. That’s the spirit of Christmas

Abso-fucking-lutely this! Reggie - well said, that poster!

rubs hands

Folk who go out of their way to tell everyone they have donated to charity instead of the card thing. Just do it.

Now this is REALLY grinch and I admit it but carol singers in supermarkets...I hate noise. I know IABU...!

Christmas markets. Lovely to look at. Horrific to walk through (unless quiet)

Another one for the flashing lights. No.

Card sending. I only send a card to my Granny who would get upset if I didn't.

Christmas drinks at Starbucks. Yuk.

Turkey is a shit meat. The moist leg meat is full of sinew and the breast is as dry as a desert despite drowning it in brine for 6 weeks. The poor birds die in vain. No crappy turkey for me.

Bread sauce is fabulous. I could eat a bowl of it all by itself and have done

I ducking hate Christmas cards. Unneccesary waste of paper time and effort. I don’t send them and I don’t donate to charity in lieu of cards

Don't eat any animals. There is enough death and killing in this world. They don't want to die.

I hate the way my inlaws do presents in the morning - then there's nothing to do or look forward to!

Stockings for the morning and presents after lunch.

Fine dont send a card, but don't email me a stupid one.
Aimed at well off lazy relative

sulking because someone didn’t wrote a personalised thank you letter in their own blood for a boots 3for2 shower gel set blah blah blah.

😂😂😂

Anything with mixed peel in is revolting.

So, basically ‘Waah, other people are not making the efforts I am, and I’m resentful that no one is blaming them for their laziness because they’re making it sound like an ethical decision’?

Any sickly dessert that Heston Bloomin Blumenthal over complicates and then tries to flog us as an overpriced Christmas treat. Stick your gold leaf where the sun don’t shine, Hest.

The phrase ‘dressing a table’. By the time the food and family are squidged round ours there is no space left for a hand crafted centrepiece consisting of fire hazard candles next to flammable pine cones and foliage (and which are designed give you third degree burns as you reach for the parsnips).

I want to say piccalilli because if it’s so fab why don’t we eat it for the other 11 months of the year? But a teeny part of me thinks that if it isn’t on the Boxing day lunch table then the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse will arrive and cancel Christmas forever.

You know what I hate?

Fucking electronic e-mail-y cards (whatever they're officially called). If i can't stick it on a shelf to shoe how incredibly popular I am, I DON'T FUCKING WANT IT!!!!!!

(I don't want your sodding "christmas round robin thingy either "I don't know which of my outstandingly good-looking and intelligent children is my favourite - Persephone, who has won every school prize for her year or, Gerontius, who received a personal invitation from the London Philharmonic to play solo violin its he cathedral this year. 'For heaven's sake!' I said to my darling husband, Mostyn, 'he's only 10! What's going to happen next year? New York? Paris? Rome?' " Fair enough you bastards, you've won Christmas, now sod off))

Suki piccalilli is the Devil's diarrhea.

*sow, not shoe - but you may have worked that out for yourself.

I'm not sending cards because they are a waste of my time. The tradition is less than 200 years old, so a blink in time.

My unpopular christmas opinion is that people should only send cards to people that send them back. People that don't send them either don't want to receive them or don't care either way. That way the people that send cards don't need to get quite so angsty about people that don't send them.

*SHOW, not sow - autocorrect, as God is my witness . . . . .

Heartily agree about Christmas cards. Don't send them if you don't want to, but don't send me an e-card telling me you have donated to charity. 9 times out of 10 I'm highly sceptical whether the donation has actually taken place. Like that ice bucket challenge where apparently the number of people who actually coughed up was depressingly small.

I do otoh think thank you notes are necessary. Even if someone has given you a 3for2 they have probably spent more on postage. Do you only write to thank someone who has given a suitably pricey gift?

Get to fuck, have one massive bloody tree covered in gaudy shit. That’s the spirit of Christmas

I want this printed on a Christmas jumper !!

It's like as if your stomach isn't stressed enough by bucketloads of dried fruits nuked in neat sugar, you must eat the world's most vinagery pickle.

Secret Santa is a pile of shite and should be banned. I say this as someone who participated in one last week and all gifts exchanged were lovely thoughtful ones but still...

No one needs a starter before Christmas lunch. That's just silly.

In my family we have a ceremonial reading of the round robin letters and roll around nearly wetting ourselves laughing. Just in case you were thinking of writing one....

I bloody hate receiving cards from people who know us well who either don’t write anything beyond scribbling their names or just write ‘Matilda and family’- you’re my bloody uncle you twat! I only have two children for you to waste your ink on.

And also old friends who I haven’t managed to see at all and don’t bother to write anything at all except ‘To Matilda love from Ebeneezer.’ FGS, one scrap of news or one written sentiment of good wishes or please let’s just not bother.

I send moonpigs (cards!!!) overseas it actually works out cheaper, nicer & quicker (so as I always forget to do it on time it doesn't matter) I have handwriting like a demented drunken spider so there clever printing & different colour inks make my cards look better.

My Dad's 91. Over the past few years, we have received fewer and fewer Christmas cards - partly because his friends are dying off, and partly because some people assume he's no longer with us. If anyone has a spare 2 mins and a stamp, please PM me for his address - he would love a card - has Alzheimer's, so he wouldn't know who it was from, just enjoy having it :)