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 like the office Christmas party too. I like my colleagues and I like drinking with them with tinsel on my head.

Yorkshire puddings and peas do not belong on a Christmas dinner plate. My DC had a Christmas dinner at school yesterday and it had both peas and Yorkshire puds- total abomination.

English Christmas 'traditions' are really tacky and boring.

Traditional turkey lunch/dinner isn't traditional and it's dull and tasteless.

Christmas jumpers and -hats on grown-ups are naff and twee.

All Christmas adverts are tacky and people actually waiting for and debating something like the John Lewis annual ad is idiotic,

Christmas Eve boxes and elf on the shelf are ridiculous.

Parents obsessed with their kids believing in Father Christmas is moronic.

People spend way too much on presents for their kids.

I really object to tech gifts as the norm - so expensive and endless upgrading of products. Children don't need so many (if any) gadgets. Really unimaginative.

One- colour Christmas trees are tacky as hell. Most people's Christmas trees are tacky as hell.

I love Christmas though!

Christmas lights and decorations all over the exterior of your house and in the garden are tacky as hell.

I only like white Christmas lights and silently judge people whose houses are covered in blue ones. Old neighbours used to do this, I kept thinking the police were outside.

Debating whether or not we're going to PIL's for Christmas dinner because last time we only got 1 roastie each- would it be offensive to take a tray of my own?

Hate mince pies, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, brandy butter, cranberry sauce and parsnips.

Don't like pigs in blankets, too salt and when did they even become a "thing" it was chipolatas growing up, no bacon involved.

@enigma16 🤣 would you like to see a picture of my house, there's lots of lights!

All Christmas songs are shit. And by all, I mean there's only like 10 of them anyone ever knows, and I'm including Mariah Carey in that. I'm glad I'm working from home this year because I have heard NONE and can quite easily win Whamaggeddon

The only good Christmas films are Home Alone, Muppet Christmas Carol and Die Hard.

Children spoil Christmas. A wonderful day of lazing, eating and booze ruined by having to make everything revolve around kids.
Goose fat potatoes are rubbish, they taste funny.
Socks and pyjamas are the best Christmas gifts.

I don't like wish lists. ILs always expect us to come up with a long list of presents to buy the kids. Have you tried talking to them? Asking about their interests? Of course not. It's all got to be in an easily clickable Amazon wish list.

Marzipan is lovely

Oh and Spanish here, Christmas eve is a far superior celebration.

I think ppl spend way too much and buy way too much food-I always wonder how much ends up in the bin/charity shop in January. Loads of ppl get into massive debt which just seems madness. There's too much pressure to overspend.

External Christmas lights not organised by the government look messy.

This really made me laugh @sergeilavrov

There should be strict guidelines on what is and isn't acceptable outdoor lighting displays! Some attempt at symmetry would help. Bet Switzerland and Austria have government issued manuals

I don't like turkey, Christmas pudding or stuffing with meat in it. I like everything else on the list. We nearly always have chicken (as did my parents) and I make up a packet of veggie stuffing with some extra ingredients, like port and/or redcurrant jelly.

I don't really see the point of the whole concept of Christmas if you're not religious, and would happily not do it at all if I was on my own. I would dearly love to spend Christmas Day entirely alone at least once in my life, probably out in nature somewhere. I quite enjoy the run-up to Christmas, the lights and smells and food and music, but I'm usually bored with it by the day itself and would happily take down my decorations on Boxing Day, if other members of my family didn't like them so much.

I much prefer presents to be inexpensive, preferably second-hand or home-made, and thoughtfully chosen to suit the person rather than just large amounts of money spent on something valuable but impersonal.

I think Christmas cards are a complete waste of money and would only send them to people I had no other means of contacting if I had my way. Yesterday I got one from someone high up in the organisation I work for. I assume everybody else did too. There are hundreds of us altogether and he'll be wishing us all Happy Christmas in an e-mail anyway.

I don't get why so many people feel obliged to get together with their extended family, especially if some or all of them find it stressful. I've been married for over 30 years and in that time we've spent one Christmas Day with my parents, one with my in-laws, and once my MIL came to us because FIL was working away. The rest of the time, we've all respected each other's preference to do things in our own way, and nobody has been stuck with an enormous meal to cook. (Oh, and one year some friends of ours decided to invite about 14 of us to lunch, but that was their choice, no pressure, and they had 4 people working on the food in different locations.)

I’m glad I’m not the only one who can’t stand Fairytale of New York. I especially love the fact that it makes one poster want to firebomb Santa

I think this is a hangover from working in retail and having to hear Christmas songs repeated all day every day FOREVER. I can only tolerate Slade and Wizard as it reminds me of the cheaper Xmas of the past, with crepe paper chains, proper non led multi coloured fairy lights, selection boxes and dinner at my Nans.

@Pukkatea I agree about Christmas Eve, I think it's the anticipation. We also used to enjoy the Reyes parade in early Jan when we lived in Spain, the atmosphere was always amazing.

Oh, and Die Hard 2 is better than Die Hard 1 (but I think that's because I saw Die Hard 2 first).

I'll go one step further and say I don't like roasts. One of the most overrated meals ever.

@PyongyangKipperbang and @SinisterBumFacedCat i am irish and i absouletly detest that song "fairy tale of new york". It is played on the radio like 50 times a day here plus when your out in pubs etc ( pre covid ) it played consistently with a singalong. People are shocked when i say i cant stand it . I hate the over comerlisation of xmas, xmas jumper, xmas pyjamas and duvet sets etc. I am loving that this year covid will mean its a much calmer xmas and less pressure is on people. I am looking forward to the xmas break this year

Having said all that 'good taste' is overrated. And 'getting everything right' is stress-inducing.

@AfterSchoolWorry

Christmas is a thundering bore of drudge work and repetition and I wouldn't care if it was cancelled forever.

I'll never understand why adults get excited by it.

You can't understand how people like different things to you?

@Porseb

That it's way too much fuss for one day - just call me gringe

Is that a cross between a grinch and a minge?

That it’s not uncool to love it all! That you don’t have to go into debt- I’ve had very frugal Christmases with second hand toys for young children and they’ve loved it). That it’s about the warmth and the feeling of Christmas, not a perfectly symmetrical tree.
I love it all!!