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.

Sprouts are disgusting
Decorations are a waste of time, space and money, except for maybe a bit of tinsel and a few cards.

Re Christmas songs - if you ever want to make your ears bleed then listen to Sam Smiths Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Awful, warbling prick he is

@GlummyMcGlummerson best description of Sam Smith ever 🤣🤣🤣

@riotlady

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

I agree with this! Always have my own little bit of cheapy stuffing alongside the fancy sausage meat stuff everyone else prefers.

Nobody likes turkey and I won’t cook it, and no, your assumption that I’m just not cooking properly is incorrect, it’s just not nice enough for anybody in my family to want to eat it.

Father Christmas is just a credit steeling fat bastard. The sooner DC find out he’s not real the better. Why would any parent want somebody else getting thanked for the presents they’ve bought, wrapped etc?

Christmas day is boring as fuck. It’s either spent in the kitchen cooking then clearing up, or if you’re lucky enough to go to someone else and they’re cooking, you’re trapped in a hot stuffy house with nowhere to go, crap on the telly you aren’t interested in and trying to make conversation when you’d rather just go home.

I hate present giving apart from for partners and kids. There’s nothing worse than trying to look pleased with an item of clothing you wouldn’t be caught dead in or inthusiastic about some smelliest you know will give you a rash.

Oh, and the flurry of inthusiasm in which the tree and decorations are put up does not translate to the job of taking the bloody stuff back down again, which is a job invariably left to muggins here, thank you very bloody much.

Apart from that I love christmas.

Nobody likes turkey

I love turkey

I don't posess a Christmas jumper and never will.

Me too. I purchased one last year. By coincidence that was the day I had a, 'have you got a minute' chat with my boss. Complete with independent witness in a vacant meeting room.

Whilst working for a previous company on (damn) Christmas Jumper day, it was about as festive. To say the atmosphere was flat was the least of it. Secret Santa was borderline grudging and not handed out on a social basis. The bring and share lunch was pretty much eaten in silence with no one know what to say or where to look. (Just like Christmas Day in most households before anyone says it !)

I do NOT want a white Christmas! It's all very well in places where it's supposed to be white at this time of year, but in southern England it's just horrible and slushy and icy and slippery and dangerous. And the original song 'White Christmas' is actually about wanting to be at home for Christmas (in the singer's case, in cold New England rather than warm California), but people take it as meaning that Christmas MUST be white.

I dislike the perfectionism and resulting anxiety that are increasingly associated with Christmas: the stress over making Christmas 'perfect' and 'magical'. For many people, it becomes more like an exam than an enjoyable holiday.

@riotlady

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

Totally agree!

That you’re a bit of a grinch to stop presents for anyone over 18 if you see them regularly. You don’t have to spend a fortune, a small token gift would suffice.

I love turkey
love mulled wine
love sprouts but on their own, no adding bacon etc
love tasteful tree's with warm white lights, red and gold decorations
don't agree one tree is better than another, artificial/real, whichever works for you.
love outdoor decorations but think they be turned off when you go to bed to not annoy neighbours/waste electricity
love pigs in blankets
HATE bread/cranberry sauce
will eat brandy butter with a spoon out of the tub
HATE roasted chesnuts
HATE fancy sausage meat stuffing's

The one expression I really dislike is 'Are you ready for Christmas?'

Oh YES! I don't care whether people say 'Merry Christmas', 'Happy Holidays' or 'Bah Humbug', so long as they don't use that particular 'greeting'. If you mean, 'Have you done all your Christmas shopping?', just say so!

I love Christmas. But my unpopular opinions are:

Christmas tree and decs should not come down until 12th night
So therefore: Christmas tree and decs should not go up until around 18 Dec
Christmas cards are great. I love sending and receiving them.
If you tell me you are not sending Christmas cards this year that's fine, but I am still sending you one.

Always the most straight laced tedious people like to claim it as "really speaking to them" as well. "Ooh me I'm such a cynic. How cool am I?"

It does speak to me, especially this verse;
"Him: I could have been someone

Her: Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you

Him: I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you"

I hate it. I was married to an alcoholic for years and this makes my skin crawl. He's a self-indulgent, emotionally abusive narcissist and when she sadly vocalises how awful the relationship has been for her, he fucking gaslights her with bullshit about how he's minding her dreams and needs her to survive. My ex used to play it just after mid-night every Christmas eve night and one year, when he was in a tentative "recovery" phase he played it and I asked him not to as it was two raw, two much like our real life for the last few years and suggested we start fresh with a new song and he just whiny baby-ed insisted it be this one, and sang the whole BS about keeping my dreams with his own.

As it turned out, his recovery was BS too, and we never danced to that shit on Christmas eve again. And as a happily single person, I've gotten my dreams back and then some. But I can't like that song.

That would be 'too raw, too much like our real life' I can't even blame autocorrect for those 'twos.'

Oh, and having RTFT, I know this will be REALLY unpopular: Fairytale of New York is almost the ONLY modern Christmas song that I like!

Hate the 4 gift rhyme for kids
Hate turkey
Hate stuffing

Fairytale of New York is crap.

Yorkshire puddings go with all roasts (I have never had complaints about this!).

Mince pies, Christmas pudding and Christmas cake are all rank.

Crackers should be made of fully-recyclable materials.

Token gifts feel pointless. Save your time and money!

This probably isn't actually an unpopular opinion, as I can't imagine for one minute that any sane individual could possibly disagree with me. Adults pretending that all presents come from Father Christmas, even when there are no children involved is just plain ridiculous.
My DH gets presents from his parents labelled "From Santa" and he is in his mid 50s FFS. Nobody is allowed to acknowledge that the gifts actually came from them and "spoil the magic" by saying "thank you". Nonsense.
I've just spotted some t shirts on Ebay that say "Santa isn't real". Seriously thinking of buying a matching set as family Christmas Day attire.....

I'm not from here so maybe that's why I also don't get what's so romantic and special about Fairytale of New York - a song about a couple of alcoholics exchanging 'affectionate' insults. Depressing.

I’m not British so I can’t get my head around the obsession with Christmas adverts

Like who fffkin cares what the John Lewis advert is? It’s just an advert for a shop! Crazy

@GADDay your cake looks wonderful!

@Amerimoon

To those who say Yorkshire pudding doesn’t belong with turkey - we love Yorkshire pudding with roast duck over here!!!

Frankly I'd have Yorkshire pudding with lasagna I live it so much. Fancy not having it with chicken!