To ask for your unpopular Christmas opinions?

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

Mine is that a traditional Christmas dinner is horrible
Turkey - bleurgh, so dry
Sprouts - farts posing as leaves
Parsnips - how can anyone put them in their mouth?!
Stuffing - like eating sand
Christmas pudding - sour booze disguised as cake
Christmas cake - way too dry and that much fruit does not belong in a sponge

I'd honestly be happy with a plate of pigs in blankets, a jar of cranberry sauce and a spoon to eat the sauce straight from the jar.

Two for me:

Christmas jumpers - don't think I ever saw one in the wild until about 10 years ago, when it became obligatory for everyone to buy an 'amusing' nylon Tesco number.

The poor tree in my local park that has been half-heartedly festooned with tat (cheap and nasty, not cheap and cheerful). I guess nobody will remove all the plastic crap now as it would look very killjoy, but it looks horrendous and there is a certain arrogance in taking it upon yourself to decorate trees in a public park. Whoever it was obviously couldn't reach very high, and they kindly left a plastic bag with baubles hanging on a branch

-Bright cold blueish lights you could see from Mars, I hate these damn bright light pollution things with a passion
-Elf on a Shelf, "he watches you"
-Pigs in Blankets, sorry
-Matching tree baubles

-Too much talk of the Father Christmas deceit
-Fairy Tale of New York song,
-Still gets dark at 3.30pm, (but a plus is that the days are getting longer by now)
-Hyper sugar overload, especially for young children who then won't eat good food all day and get upset
-Women end up doing everything
-Increasing consumerism and advertising gimmicks, especially from the USA
-Cards that say "Happy holidays" instead of Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
-Missing older traditions and more relaxed day

@Flaxmeadow Ah yes, "Happy Holidays". Remember also when some crusader told us were supposed to call it "Winterval"? When I was at primary school in 1990, it changed from "Welcome to the Christmas concert" to "Welcome to the winter celebration concert". They never told us why. There were also festively decorated slides for the overhead projector which said to the parents afterwards "The children are not ready yet, please wait here". Goodness knows what they might say this year (not that there would be a concert anyway).

I loathe crackers. As a child, I was afraid of the bangs; and of course the contents are mostly rubbish.

Christmas dinner is just a fancy Sunday roast.

Gift giving is utter dog shit. Stressful, expensive, meaningless, waste of everyone’s time.

That the whole meaning of it completely goes against what I believe so I am a fucking hypocrite because the whole baby Jesus thing is a made up fairy story that I am actually going along with.
Year in year out. That grits my shit.

I absolutely love Fairytale of New York 🤷‍♀️ Love the line "I coulda been someone...Well so could anyone!"

Christmas stuff I hate:

• Controversial but I dont like traditional christmas dinner. I would rather have a curry!
• I find Boxing Day incredibly depressing. I would prefer us to just abolish boxing day and have that as a "back to real life" day, and instead make a bigger deal out of the 24th, maybe a late evening meal or something. Boxing Day is awful. All the fun and magic is over and you're just sitting around listlessly.
• I dont like doing the rounds of phone calls. Ring ring... ring ring.... "MEEEEERRY CHRISTMAS! What are you up to then? Did you get anything nice?" It just sucks the fun out of the here and now of christmas day. This should be moved to "boxing day"

Turkey breast is OK although we aren’t having it this year, but the legs etc are minging

@user1481840227

I will never get sick of fairytale of New York ever

Unpopular Christmas opinion - It's weird to be devastated that your child doesn't believe in Santa anymore

Yes I totally agree on the Santa thing. What’s that all about? I stopped believing when I was in p3 (so 7) and I told my 2 kids in p6 as I didn’t want them having the piss taken out of them at school. I really don’t get why people make such a big deal of it or even worse lie to them when they ask about it. Why set them up for other kids to take the mick out of them? Kids grow up, yes I always have a pang for times past with them too but that’s life, things change.

And people with kids 11/12 who claim they still believe. They really don’t love. They are just worried that if they say anything they won’t get presents, after you’ve filled their head with “don’t believe, you don’t receive” stuff

That Robbie Williams new Christmas song is an absolute pile of wank.

That people who get so stressed about Christmas need a life.

That people who have their Christmas shopping ‘done’ in August need to get a life.

That people who spends hours posing that fucking elf and then posting pictures on FB EVERY SINGLE DAY need to get a life. Nobody apart from your freaked out 5 year old cares.

Pigs in blankets look like tiny circumcised cocks.

We just get the mini sausages, I’m sure they used to be more common?l am not sure why or when they morphed into pigs in blankets. My kids don’t like bacon and I find PiB too salty with dinner.

@Peanutbutterblood

Fruit doesn't go in trifle...mine goes, sponge and jelly layer, milk jelly layer, custard, cream then hundreds and thousands or chocolate shavings

Sounds revolting sorry . but then I hate jelly, soggy sponge, and custard, so trifle is never going to be my bag

Cold custard I mean.

‘Milk jelly’

some people do seem to have an awful lot of money to spend at christmas, with the christmas eve boxes and matching pyjamas, duvet covers,
i dont criticise ice skating/pantomine because that is a treat but the matching pyjamas, for one night only culture is excessive, and a waste of material.

My youngest DD aged 9 confessed this year that she no longer believes in Santa. I’m glad I no longer have to keep up the pretense of it. If you think your DC still believe past 10yrs old you’re sadly deluded!

i hate the christmas tunes in the shops,
i hate songs in shops anyway,

it is a stressful time and you want to ramp up the stress to 110%?

Die Hard only exists so men can say they have a favourite xmas movie without damaging their fragile masculinity

@CoronaIsWatching

Die Hard only exists so men can say they have a favourite xmas movie without damaging their fragile masculinity

Apparently Bruce Willis says it's not a Christmas film! That's a whole other debate for unpopular opinions!

www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2018-07-16/bruce-willis-just-confirmed-whether-die-hard-is-a-christmas-movie/

I think it is a Christmas film; the Christmas event is what sparks off the plot (if memory serves, it's been a while). I actually like there being a popular Christmas film that breaks the mould a bit as a classic Bruce Willis action thriller.

Christmas is all about the shops getting the tat on the shelves in September and sitting around a table for a twenty minute meal

Four month build up for a twenty minute meal

@Skipsurvey

some people do seem to have an awful lot of money to spend at christmas, with the christmas eve boxes and matching pyjamas, duvet covers, i dont criticise ice skating/pantomine because that is a treat but the matching pyjamas, for one night only culture is excessive, and a waste of material.

I still wear my Christmas pjs in July. Di you really think that people throw them away on Boxing day

It is ok to go a bit over the top and treat you DC. It doesn't spoil them - it models generosity.

It is also ok to spread the treats out throughout the season. Some MNetters would have a heart attack at everything I do for my children - yet I'm on a low income so spend less than many I just prefer to spread it out. So my DC have:
Christmas breakfast and advent calendars on 1st
St. Nicholas on 6th
Christmas Eve boxes on 24th
Stockings and under tree presents from us (main presents) and extended family on 25th
Sack of little gifts on 26th
3 Kings day on 6th January

@Skipsurvey - duvet sets come out every year, pjs are worn all year round til outgrown and are both necessities. Ice skating/pantomime are expensive and many on a low income can't afford it so grt their Christmas fun in a cheaper way.

My unpopular Christmas opinion (judging by this thread) is that I just love it all. Every year, always have. My parents always made it lovely for me when I was a kid and as an adult I enjoy every aspect of it. Christmas specials, Secret Santa with my friends, the food, seeing family. I love Christmas shopping and wrapping. I never receive crap presents. Christmas Eve is my favourite day of the year as everything just feels so special.
I appreciate that I’ve got a brilliant, close and very loving family though so I imagine that makes a huge difference especially at times like Christmas. I feel for people who have difficult families/are alone, it must be very hard.

I still wear my Christmas pjs in July. Di you really think that people throw them away on Boxing day

This appears to be exactly what the anti Christmas Eve boxers believe and it really doesn't matter how often they're told it's not the case.

Weirdly, some of them think it's ok to give someone pyjamas on Christmas Day as a present, but to present them in a box the night before is excessively wasteful.

I do hate crap advent calendars though. I don’t want a Cadbury’s one with a cartoon Santa. They should be a nativity scene! Oh, and why bother putting up a tree and decorations only to tear it all down on Boxing Day? I understand if people don’t want stuff up til Jan (even though we keep ours up til then) but Boxing Day is still right in the middle of the festivities.

That it's nicer to open your Christmas presents after lunch. Even my hedonistic children agree and vote to stick to that when we've given them the option to do it "normally". We do have stocking presents first thing, I'm not a total grinch.

Christmas day feels a bit "over" once the presents have been opened so it's nice to stretch out the day a bit.