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.

I love my tree too. when the needles drop off use them as garden mulch to to protect roots of plants. The tree is the best part of Christmas

I get bored of Christmas pretty quickly.
I must admit I like it when the decorations are put away, the house is all clean and tidy and I can start looking forward to the most wonderful time of the year; the summer.

@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.

LOL! Loved your commentary, thanks for the chuckle! Does anyone know why it's Turkey? This year we're going with goose, better flavour methinks

I think turkey became popular because it's literally the biggest bird you can roast to feed a huge gathering of extended family and not too expensive for its size.

Nothing to do with its taste or anything

Fairy’s do not belong on trees, the three wise men did not follow a fairy to Bethlehem. Star or nothing.

Fucking stupid elf on the shelf and the fucking stupid social media pictures of it.

Yet more lookatme shit.

Fucking stupid elf on the shelf and the fucking stupid social media pictures of it.

Just block them 🤷‍♀️

My unpopular opinion is that I just don't really like Christmas that much.

Why do we fill the tiny houses full of extra shiny elf crap, tree, mantelpiece garlands etc when we have extra people in those houses taking up every inch of available space. Lights everywhere, I just want to be able to move! I want to be able to USE a bannister on the stairs, sit on a sofa with my feet up, under a blanket. Wath the crap I want to watch on the telly...

Getting there as we get older. Have now trained DH that what I want is EXACTLY what I say. Not a "Christmas version"... He now knows I will buy exactly what he says too - so no longer says "oh, nothing"

I hate Secret Santa. Hate school ones, hate work ones. Absolutely pointless waste of time and money, and the rubbish given is just depressing.

Bread should not be made into sauce. It looks like puke

People who ask, are you all ready for Christmas then

Ddot Oh yes! And I ALWAYS say "Oh no! No...got loads to do"

Next time I'm saying "Well I've just got the goose to kill and that's that. What about you?"

People who ask, are you all ready for Christmas then

😆

I’m going to start saying ‘gosh, is that happening this year’?

Even more irritating, someone asked me just 'Are you ready?' today, of course I knew what they meant but I thought it so trite I wanted to look puzzled and pretend I didn't know what they meant .

Kids (of course not all) in general expect and get far too many Christmas presents, not including the ridiculous Christmas Eve boxes ...

@ravensoaponarope PLEASE tell me the other viewpoint to the conquering death thing?

• no, sorry, I worded that ambiguously. The conquering death is the other viewpoint, as opposed to Divine Wrath Appeased.

I have a strong suspicion that my way of looking at things casts the divine in a slightly less omnipotent role - death is a natural consequence of life, rather than God's Punishment For Sin, and the Resurrection was the Divine/Human creating the method for overcoming death. Possibly because the Divine was apart from life/death so Emmanuel opened the possibility for all humanity to become apart from life/death. Maybe. I'm metaphysicking on the fly here.

I think this counts as an unpopular Christmas opinion, though

Oh, and I think that Secret Santa absolutely should be tins of sweets, chocolates and biscuits. So should gifts between most friends and neighbours.

That way you've given everyone a present and you've not had to buy any sweets and chocolates for yourself.

(My parents and their friends used to buy these for each other. Those were the days when you got Proper Christmas Tins, too)

Consumables are a great Christmas gift (assuming you aren't falling foul of allergies etc). They'll get used and enjoyed, they're in the spirit of the season, minimal waste and you'll look thin in comparison.

@PrincessNutNutRoast

Consumables are a great Christmas gift (assuming you aren't falling foul of allergies etc). They'll get used and enjoyed, they're in the spirit of the season, minimal waste and you'll look thin in comparison.

Only if you don't get given the same!

I am the opposite to a pp - hate the build up, love the actual day. I also prefer the chilled out bit between Christmas and New Year to beforehand.

I also prefer to have beef for Xmas dinner to turkey (along with lots of Yorkshire puds).

People buy far too much tat for their kids, and future landfill. Why the mountain of presents and not just a couple of items? If parents stuck to this, kids would never know any different. Bah humbug.

@fitflopqueen

Yorkshire pudding has no place alongside a traditional Turkey Xmas dinner.

Exactly.. Yorkshire Puddings should be served alone as a starter with onion gravy, never with the main course. - like in Yorkshire.

I overheard this are you sitting comfortably
Little girl, grandad why do we have Christmas in winter, why don't we have it in the summer when its warm.
Granddad, oh I dont know sweetie!
WTF
me, Jesus.................😱😱😱😱😱
Grandad, oh yer fgot

@Ddot

I overheard this are you sitting comfortably Little girl, grandad why do we have Christmas in winter, why don't we have it in the summer when its warm. Granddad, oh I dont know sweetie! WTF me, Jesus.................😱😱😱😱😱 Grandad, oh yer fgot

"Because we don't live in Australia, sweetheart".

The Grinch is a really boring film. Mariah Carey and Michael Buble should be banned. The worst Xmas song is Driving Home From Christmas. Flashing lights fill me with rage. When I ask people please don't get my children any gifts and they don't listen I could go on and on 😂