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.

@dementedma

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

Yes!
Finally someone who understands!

@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

Erm - has nobody ever told you that Jesus almost certainly wasn't born around the winter solstice?

(I did read a blog post once arguing that it was probably mid-autumn, based both on Feast of Tabernacles and on the temple rota for Zechariah's duties... but I have no idea how much credence can be given to that)

Your right but thats not the point I was making. It was moved allegedly to clash with pagan festival

@SmileyClare

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.

This!

Find it odd that Christmas is celebrated even if not religious as the same way the northern countries do - when it was conflated with feasts of lights etc. Jesus, nearer to the equator and being jewish, would have been looking at Hannukah and later Pesach.

My pet hate is a scramble for presents and too many of them. Don't the Spanish leave it to the feast of kings? We did one on Christmas Eve and left the rest to the end of Christmas Day and even Boxing Day if DCs had been over gifted.

I have not yet met a single person who hates that song as much as me! I have a theory that people love it because its sweary and a little bit left of centre so they all feel edgy singing it ie, fairytale of New York aka Shittest Xmas Track Ever

Just what I was saying to DD the other day when we were discussing why daddy liked it, that it made him feel cool, even thought it was on the Heart FM playlist and ergo clearly far from cool

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 grin.

I particularly enjoy saying I haven't done anything yet but that we are highly relaxed about it and don't really do much organising, just enjoy letting it all rush past me. Then the asker feels all pressured to show that they, also, are supercool and chilled, despite having just detailed their 74 point organisation plan for the day.

I'm a "what we have for Christmas lunch is whatever is cheap in Waitrose on Christmas Eve" girl. This gives my SIL the heeby jeebies 😂

@HairyToity

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.

@HairyToity could you please tell my MIL that. DD is getting one present from us (well it's multiple Playmobil sets that make up one bigger one iyswim).

From my in-laws there are at least 30 presents

Thank you cards/letters. If you say thank you when you receive the gift why do you have to follow up with a card? Ridiculous waste if you ask me.

Meat should not be eaten.

Ludo I would never expect a thank you lettter for a gift handed over in person, but our family rarely gets together at Christmas so presents are posted and it is disappointing to not get any form of acknowledgment (doesn't matter if it's a text, email or phone call - but I would always make my DS write thank you letters).

@Meowchickameowmeow

Mince pies are an abomination.

Currently resisting the temptation to take a seventh mince pie from the freshly baked batch ..... following the five I ate yesterday

Brandy butter 🤢
Bread sauce 🤮
Parsnips 😱
Stuffing that's been up a bum 🤯

^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*

Jesus probably wasn't born in December; and even if He was, it's unlikely to have been snowing in Bethlehem.

While I don't expect Christmas in the UK to be modelled on the Middle East, I am always puzzled by the way in which we go to the other extreme and seem to want Scandinavian-type weather. I've heard that it's based on Prince Albert importing German customs.

..And of course Christmas lights would look rubbish in the summer as its not dark enough.

Ddl1 I have thought that the longing for snow etc might come in part from modern Christmases really being based on the Victorian age. Meaning they not only had the German influence but the UK was in a cold period so there was a lot more snow and ice around.

Christmas 2020 should be cancelled with immediate effect.

That Christmas is overrated when your children are grown up and it seems pointless buying stuff for them when they've got all they need and earn as much as you anyway.

@MrsExpo

Christmas 2020 should be cancelled with immediate effect.

Everyone where I work would agree with you - one reason being ‘it’ the other being the family arguments over who gets to see who and when etc etc

I can't believe all the turkey haters! I love it, far far superior to chicken! I don't waste leftover turkey in a pie or curry it is reserved for turkey and stuffing sandwiches that me and my husband will live on till it's all gone and then I look forward to it again all year (not sure why we don't just have roast turkey more but it is saved for Christmas!)
Hate mince pies and Christmas cake.

@louisejxxx

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).

Agree with you about the build up Im always too busy/skint/worried before Christmas so never enjoy it properly. Once presents are under the tree on Christmas Eve I start to relax and enjoy it, this new thing I've noticed where people their decs down on Boxing Day makes me sad because I've just started enjoying it!

I absolutely hate those little candle bridge things people put at their windows. Not menorahs, or anything with real candles, the triangular ones that are all really fake looking. I've never seen one I like the look of.

I can't stand any of it. The best part of 4 months gets tied up to a one day festival that has lost all connection to christianity or pagan solstice celebrations. It's a consumerist joke on everyone who is willing to still buy presents for fucking adults. I mean cop on ffs. Oh and this year in particular please stay the fuck at home. Not seeing a few people won't kill anyone. Seeing them could kill them or you. Or lead to long covid which affects 1 in 5 people who catch it. Mkay?

Has anyone shared this one yet?

@PrincessNutNutRoast Thanks for posting, I enjoyed that vid. I've always thought Christmas was a bit overrated, and find it puzzling that so many people are acting like it's the end of the world because their Christmas plans have been scuppered this year. That said, I came from a dysfunctional family where Christmas was a stressful time, featuring alcohol abuse, bad temper and arguments, so my unhappy memories have probably coloured my view on it all.

That said, I realise some people have been very isolated this year and were looking forward to seeing their families over the festive season, so I understand their disappointment, in a way, even though I never look forward to Christmas. Maybe there will be lots of Easter parties, once the elderly and vulnerable people have received their vaccinations. Roll on Easter!