Christmas unpopular opinions.

[malificent7]

I love my Bayliss and Harding gift sets and if you dont like yours send them to meeee!
Any other different festive unpopular opinions?

It certainly is an odd opinion . You seem to be ascribing a bunch of sinister motives, blame and horrible personality traits to a benign and cheery made-up character.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist

I love getting cheap smellies. Shower gel or bubble bath is brilliant for keeping loo fresh, quick squirt every morning and a swish round with the loo brush keeps things cleanish! (When I remember. Although this year I have received no cheap smellies at all so my loo will be rank all year.)

Oh and midnight mass is shiiiiiit

Not a lovely festive ringing in of Christmas
It's dour and dull and not celebratory in any way

(Or at least my local church was like this. Even singing the hits was slow and uncheery)

Change your church, I'd suggest @RobertClementHughes, there are lots of midnight masses that are uplifting and celebratory. It varies.

I LOVE bread sauce and have it with any roast chicken dinner throughout the year. When I have a roast with my sister, we revert to being like children and moan if one gets more than the other 😂

These are the midnight masses I’ve been to as well. It did surprise me, I must say. Now I have children I’m not able to go but maybe when they’re older and can be left alone at night I’ll get a chance to go again.

@RobertClementHughes

Oh and midnight mass is shiiiiiit

Not a lovely festive ringing in of Christmas
It's dour and dull and not celebratory in any way

(Or at least my local church was like this. Even singing the hits was slow and uncheery)

My comment above about midnight mass is in reply to this 👆

We went to Midnight Mass at the church nearest to my in laws. A lot of the service seemed to be taken up by berating the congregation for not coming to the church the rest of the year. We never went back when down there for Christmas.

Ferrero chocolates! Calendars!
Keep them away from me!

My (thankfully, now ex) husband knew full well that I couldn't stand those chocolates but insisted on buying them for me every birthday, mother's day, easter and xmas for 5 years. When he gave me them the final time I went to the cupboard where I'd put all the others he'd previously given me and I threw them at him, along with my house key, I walked out and left him!

Everyone I know knows that I not only never use a calendar but that I hate them. I have 2 friends who persist in buying them for me despite my having made it clear every November that I know I'm going to have at least 2 calendars for crimbo that I'll never use, so they will get shoved in a drawer or sent straight to the charity shop.

Why do people persist in giving 'gifts' that we clearly don't want?

Tubs of roses miniature heroes absolutely vile give me a box of something else

😂

Overpriced advent calendar’s never have and never will be buying one

ditto for Christmas crackers unless they contain the freehold to a mansion I will not be paying more than a fiver they all contain the same tat

My partner bought me a leather bumbag one year said it was somewhere to put my cigarettes bearing in mind I was 19 at the time and wear 1950s clothing (still do) 😂 money every year after that

@Ibane

You sound deeply confused about the history and development of Christianity, *@keffie12,. Then again, @baffledbunny*’s ‘Santa is Satan’ take seems to unaware of early Christianity borrowing the Roman solstice celebrations and that Christmas in the Middle Ages was a drunken, raucous carnival.

I am not confused at all! Thank you for your concern though.

My relationship with God (being a word) is personal. God is meant to be personal to each person. God is not a belief system created by man nor was ever meant to be

It perhaps comes across that way of being confused as it is unusual to hear someone write/speak like I have, as you dont know me and the written word is not always heard in the way that it is meant to be.

I suggest if you wish too, you start by listening to Fr Richard Rohr (YouTube) who is a much regarded, respected worldwide known and celebrated of the order of St Francis. He is a Franciscan Friar

You can learn alot from him on The Christian faith and the real truth of it. It was through his teaching I learnt that it was OK to validate my own beliefs. I didn't need to feel guilty about them

This is a link about him cac.org/about/richard-rohr/

Happy New Year to you and yours

We all love Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, I don’t have a problem with receiving any appliances for Christmas presents if that’s what have asked for,

@RobertClementHughes

Oh and midnight mass is shiiiiiit

Not a lovely festive ringing in of Christmas
It's dour and dull and not celebratory in any way

(Or at least my local church was like this. Even singing the hits was slow and uncheery)

Ours is utterly joyful. I have been to some that are dreadful but that is absolutely not the universal experience

I like buying, sending and receiving Christmas cards. I recycle them as gift tags the next year.

I might be 51 but I absolutely want several, nicely wrapped presents under the tree for me.

I love Christmas songs. My absolute favourite is Gaudete by Steeleye Span. It sends shivers down my spine.

I unabashedly spoil our DDs rotten at Christmas and I couldn't care less if their big piles of presents is tacky or tasteless. I love buying presents, it's one of my favourite things.

I really dislike a traditional Christmas lunch. This year we went out for Christmas lunch and my Beef Wellington was Heaven On A Plate.

I absolutely refuse to have a stressful Christmas Day. I have only ever hosted Christmas Day twice and both times I had everything delivered from Waitrose, even the napkins & crackers.

I don't do traditional xmas dinner, especially being on my own. This year it was the beef stew I'd thrown together in my electric pressure cooker on 24th, and extremely nice it was, even though I do say so myself.

That MIL's do not believe that they stink like fish after 3 days.

I do have a shower, just no one uses it apart from me.

@Ibane

You sound deeply confused about the history and development of Christianity, *@keffie12,. Then again, @baffledbunny*’s ‘Santa is Satan’ take seems to unaware of early Christianity borrowing the Roman solstice celebrations and that Christmas in the Middle Ages was a drunken, raucous carnival.

Sorry for the late response, the quote options weren't showing for me for some reason.

Yeah I'm aware that Christmas has paganistic beginnings and Santa came a bit later but it doesn't matter really, it was just a half-baked opinion I probably should have kept to myself lol.

@crazyjinglist

Or, as *@SmellyOldPartridgeinaPearTree* rather more succinctly put it...

Did you get weed for Christmas?

Lol I wish! Does gin count?

Sorry can't seem to quote you @smellyoldpartridgeinapeartree - not sure why!

Lol I wish! Does gin count?

Definitely!

Christmas, new yr is shite.
Pita from the beginning to the end.
Watching bro in law drink a bottle of Captain Morgans in an hr was a dour highlight.
Next up ten of Mrs. Hrs relatives round to celebrate New yr.

Next yr and from now on, the Caribbean.
It's like 2 weeks of torture at home.

I'm getting increasingly reminded of the anecdote in Nigel Rees' 'Babes and Sucklings ' (1983), about a child asking her older sister, 'Do you believe in the Devil?' The reply was, 'Of course not! It's like Santa Claus - it's Daddy.'