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.

Santa will visit you and bring gifts even if you’ve not been good.

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is the most depressing song ever recorded in the history of music.

Every Christmas film is mawkish pap.

Even Die Hard.

@ToffeeNotCoffee- I still remember the pictures from my childhood advent calendar. It was probably A4 size at most, and had glitter on it, but the glitter was very fine. The pictures were like fine art, not cartoon- like.

I looked forward to them every year.

Also, I am not the one buying your presents. I've reminded your son to do it and that's as far as my involvement goes, it's not my fault if he doesn't actually get on and do it

@LadyFlumpalot he sounds a lot like my brother! Every year my mum will say "John didn't know what to get me and didn't have time to shop so he's going to take me to the sales next week to choose something" and I think to myself that John has had plenty of bloody time, just like I did, to ask you what you wanted and either buy it or order it online. One year she said to me "I don't know why Jane (SIL, John's wife) doesn't just take charge of it all, you'd think she would now they're married". My face was so hard I was almost stuck that way forever.

I loathe my Mother and am delighted not to be able to see her this year because of Covid. This upsets some people because we are not allowed to hate our parents especially at Xmas.

Last time we hosted some of DH's family they were really rude. They didn't wait for DH or I to sit at the table before they started eating, upset the DC including telling autistic DS who has ARFID that if he didn't eat his dinner then Santa would take his toys away again, kept faffing on with things they had no need to be faffing on with like trying to retune the TV that did not need retuning, going into rooms they had no business in (if I go in my room its because I need five minutes alone for whatever reason, don't come knocking on my door trying to tell me about X Factor!), and were constantly on their phones which I don't really mind except they were doing it at the table and were reading out "highlights" from their SM feeds.

I'm so glad they can't come this year!

What sort of weirdo would have Yorkshires with anything other than beef?

Me, I eat them with jam 😄

Know that tinned black cherry pie filling you can buy? That inside a Yorkshire pudding...

Gifting is not a proper word! Makes me silently seethe every time I hear it. You can't gift someone something, you give it to them. Give=verb gift=noun

Each to his/her/their own but...

Flashing lights are irritating and a distraction. They are for traffic hazards, not Christmas decorations.

Coloured lights are OKish - white lights are much more pleasing.

Cluttered Christmas trees so full of decorations that the foliage isn't visible.

Some artificial trees are quite attractive but the silver/gold shiny varieties are definitely not.

Elf on the shelf? A little spy reporting back to FC - oh fun!

Christmas music (some of which I usually like) playing at distortion levels. The jiggling Santas blasting out the Jackson 5 version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" caused me to exit a garden centre PDQ this afternoon. Took my business elsewhere.

On the other hand, I love bread sauce and succulent, properly-cooked turkey (yes, it's possible). Roast parsnips are wonderful. Sprouts are delicious with bacon and garlic (but not if boiled to mush)

People who decorate the outside of their home and run lights in straight lines across the windows and roofs/gutters.

THEY"RE MEANT TO BE DRAPED SOFTLY not bloody outlined!

The only place a mince pie belongs is in a bin 🤮🤮

The only thing I hate about Christmas is the endless threads on Mumsnet moaning about it but they are strangely addictive to read

^

I am SO looking forward to the whinging Christmas threads

I've started a few myself (polishes halo)

Shit, Fortune, we did that

I'll tell DH to get the ladder

Fairytale of New York is a fucking dirge, and an unfunny gimmicky one at that.

Christmas movies are all terrible, with the honourable exception of Gremlins, but It’s a Wonderful Life stands out as just relentlessly mawkish and depressing. He should have another go at offing himself.

Grass

It might be down to taste but I think the draped are much prettier!

I can take or leave pics in blankets. I like sausage and bacon separate, there's often a bit of bacon thats not crispy enough and I like my sausage skin browned not pale under a layer of bacon.

@FlamedToACrisp

Advent calendars should NOT contain anything except Christmassy pictures!

No Lego figures, no perfume, definitely no bloody Disney crappy chocolate.

The best ones we had were Alphabet Advent Calendars. Lots of fun trying to guess what would be behind each door. Would the C be a Candle, Cake or Christmas Card? Would S be Santa, a Snowman or a Sleigh? What on earth could be Christmassy and begin with Q? The kids loved them so much I closed the doors again and saved them for next year!

Now I'm dying to know what the Q was!

Quackers?

Queen?

Stuffing is the best part of a turkey Christmas dinner

We now have beef so we have Yorkshire puddings (which I have with every roast dinner as they are so delicious)

And still have stuffing

Christmas pudding is horrible we often have chocolate pudding

I hate the commercialism and pushing that Christmas is a magical time of year. It isn’t. Plus all the stampedes to buy way too much food and drink in case we run out in one day. I still like getting the Xmas radio times and circling the (repeats) I want to watch though.

@Serendipity26

I hate the commercialism and pushing that Christmas is a magical time of year. It isn’t. Plus all the stampedes to buy way too much food and drink in case we run out in one day. I still like getting the Xmas radio times and circling the (repeats) I want to watch though.

I hope you've got a new pen-they all seem to be repeats this year.

My unpopular opinion as far as MN is concerned (this thread anyway) is that I LOVE Christmas music . All of it!

Between 1st December and 6th January.

@merryhouse

If you're into the Christian celebration, Easter has more meaning than Christmas.

Except that for me, the whole point of Christianity is the Incarnation.

The conquering death thing is good, obviously (I'm not a fan of the hell-and-divine-wrath-appeased and prefer the other viewpoint), but it can't happen without the actual death, which can't happen without the incarnation. And in a sense I consider it far more important that the divine knows what it is to be human.

So while I celebrate Easter whole-heartedly, I centre my faith around Christmas.

PLEASE tell me the other viewpoint to the conquering death thing? I have so many questions around Christianity but any time I've asked a vicar/rector they've failed to understand that being on the spectrum I take everything literally, so their explanations confuse me further.

My unpopular opinion is that it could be appropriate in any way to leap onto a lighthearted thread to ask genuine religious questions

Mariah Carey is very annoying. I manage to avoid her all year round but at Christmas I can't.

Much prefer the female singers such as Christina and Gaga.