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.

Mulled wine is disgusting and just people trying to palm shit red off on you.

Crackers, wrapping paper and Christmas cards are all incredibly wasteful.

The elf on the shelf is a twat and needs to fuck off back to the North Pole.

Bah, Humbug!

Mince pies, yuck.

Stockings are weird. Why not just put everything under the tree like normal people?

@FatCatThinCat

Stockings are weird. Why not just put everything under the tree like normal people?

The roots of that one are in the St Nicholas story.

You WILL put your tree and lights up early this year just because it's 2020. You WILL have a Christmas Eve box wtaf ?

Who told you that?

I love sprouts and would glady eat them all year round.

@namechangetheworld

I love sprouts and would glady eat them all year round.

Me too! I eat them regularly all winter and am sad when the season ends.

My unpopular opinions (most already voiced by others) are:

Goose fat roast potatoes are not better than ones done in sunflower oil.

Parsnips are horrible.

Tastefully colour co-ordinated trees are boring.

Bought mince pies are a waste of time.

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

I got a flaming a half recently on a Facebook page where the OP said she was "in tears and shaking" telling her child that Santa wasn't real (child was 11!!! And not even bothered). Tears were mainly because "it's the end of an era" as her child was all grown up. I commented saying I think that's a bit of an overreaction and my kids would be scared if I started crying at them over something as innocuous as Santa/them growing up.

I got called a cunt

OP I fear you're just a shit cook! That cranberry sauce fetish of yours is vile though!

[quote DuggeeBear]@ChestnutStuffing moose? What does that taste like?

@PyongyangKipperbang sorry you have to work. My friend works for a social club. She cried when she got her first Christmas off as it was so important to her to see her family and spend it with her baby. I feel for you. I also work Christmas but not every year thankfully.[/quote]
It's closes to beef, of the domestic meats, or venison.

Easter is better than Christmas.
Chocolate eggs are way better than heavy stollen, fruitcake, fruit pudding, setting fire to said fruit pudding, mince pies or mulled wine. I can happily live without ever consuming any one of these monstrosities again.
If you're into the Christian celebration, Easter has more meaning than Christmas.
The evenings are lighter, the flowers are coming out, and it's a nicer time of year.
Christmas takes a lot of work and effort whereas Easter is relaxing.
In my sector, Easter holidays are usually longer than Christmas.

Brussell's. Sprouts. Ugh.
Walkers Brussell's Sprouts flavoured crisps. What the FUCK were they thinking!

Oh gosh I love this! I hate Christmas dinner here in the UK, the turkey is dry and tasteless, at least in our family. In Africa where I'm from we have a braai (bbq). We have pork, T-bone steak, sausages, rice, coleslaw, potato salad, cake and lots of alcohol. I married a British guy and moved here and we go to his family for Christmas and Oh my! The food is bland and I've therefore decided we will be going home to Africa every other Christmas

Yeah most children over about 8years old are pretending they believe in father Christmas to humour their parents

NB Christmas music is usually horrific and you can't. get. rid. of. it. Every year November rolls around and the same old bilge is trotted out. I'd far rather have traditional carols than some of the sentimental, emotional schmaltz that passes for Christmas music (or failing that Gary Glitter, Elton and bloody Slade).

FGS supermarkets give us something with a bit of go! Lindsey Buckingham's 'Holiday Road' will do for starters (albeit I'm an unashamed fan of him and The Mac) - or how about a bit of Andy Williams? At least that sounds happy!

Turkey/sprouts and stuffing are lovely, Yorkshire puddings a big yes :-D
Fairytale of New York is a crap song

Gawd! I forgot about mulled wine it's bloody horrible

Love sprouts! Would eat them all year round.

Not really arsed about the full Christmas dinner, would rather have a buffet style party food and lots of booze instead.

Tinsel is tacky as hell, I refuse to have it in the house. Hate it.

Don't understand the need to spend exactly the same amount on all children. If one year eldest wants something that's more expensive than youngest, I'm not going to make up the difference out of fairness, how would they know.

Yes, I am one of these who gets my dog Christmas presents 😁

@GlummyMcGlummerson

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

I got a flaming a half recently on a Facebook page where the OP said she was "in tears and shaking" telling her child that Santa wasn't real (child was 11!!! And not even bothered). Tears were mainly because "it's the end of an era" as her child was all grown up. I commented saying I think that's a bit of an overreaction and my kids would be scared if I started crying at them over something as innocuous as Santa/them growing up.

I got called a cunt

This! This sort of insane overreaction drives me nuts! I don't remember having any genuine belief in Santa past the age of about 6 and guess what - Christmas was still every bit as fun. And the lengths people go to! I remember a few years ago a colleague printing off a 'letter from Santa' in work because she didn't want her kid to see it, saying Santa had bought him and two relatives tickets to see Manchester United play.

Leaving aside the astronomical cost of that for a second - the kid was 13!

Gawd! I forgot about mulled wine wine it's bloody horrible.

And I forgot eggnog! Heeeeeeewk!

Parents who say "If you don't believe, you don't get any presents" are ~keeping the magic alive~ for themselves and their own idea and don't care about how their kids feel about it.

Also, massive trees in homes - especially with dozens of photos of it -- have the same energy as middle age men with sports cars - overcompensation.

Actually my unpopular opinion is - Yuletide is a mid-winter pagan festival which was culturally appropriated by the early Christian church.

While forced conversion is large part of the decline of many holidays, it's not appropriation to pass on one's own cultural tradition within other holidays as those holidays gain popularity. It's pretty much the opposite.

Yule was celebrated as early as November and sometimes well into January, as were many winter festivals likely related to resources and when it because better to slaughter the animals on mass rather than keep caring for them through the winter (rather than anything to do with the solstice, that's more neopaganism). The church was actually pretty against a lot of it for a while (and many churches still have issues with it, but their ability to control that is more limited) and in many places, Christmas wasn't really enforced or a thing for centuries so wasn't really appropriating other holidays. Being loosely connected by a similar time and transitioning of cultural traditions which has happened with all holidays is not appropriation.

The John Lewis adverts are naff and boring and if they "bring a tear to your eye" you need to have a bloody word with yourself

Oh and families doing the whole mum dad and kids in matching Christmas PJs and posting on social media, is never not funny and never looks anything but shit and cult-like. I especially love how it's always macho men who post about man sports and man opinions and man cars and man issues - being totally emasculated in a pair or PJs with bells on to appease his OH 😂😂

My unpopular opinion is that despite being not actually being Catholic one of the things I'm going to miss most this year is going to midnight Mass with my gran and extended family and all of us cramming into the church and exchanging presents after.

I love the massive Christmas thing and will be very sad to have to stick to our teeny nuclear family this year without the hoards of kids, adults and mass catering required. Nothing quite like working out the logistics of hosting 30+ people to make it feel like Christmas.

Paxo sage and onion stuffing from a packet is better than any of your homemade sausage meat malarkey

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.