Your unpopular Christmas opinions

[LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet]

Yorkshire puddings belong on a Christmas dinner

Christmas dinner - other than Yorkshires and pigs in blankets - is fucking disgusting, and that goes for every course

Elf is a crap movie.

Too many parents get over invested in their child believing in Santa. The reason they love Santa is because he brings a shit load of toys. As long as they’re still getting the toys they’re happy.

If you don’t even know what Christmas is meant to be about then you shouldn’t really be celebrating. It’s a religious festival, not a present grabbing opportunity.

(Oh bore off. People need a winter festival to break up the long, dark months. If it hadn't been hijacked by Christians faking it as Jesus birthday, it would have remained a celebration of returning light. People can do what the fuck they like you know.*

^This. Stop pretending there's anyone who 'doesn't know' about what you think Christmas is supposed to be about. Throughout human history people have been continuing to enjoy popular festivals and traditions long after the popularity of the relevant god or gods has waned. And hijacking festivals for their new favourite deities. Christmas ticks both of those boxes!

For me I do not understand why grown adults get giddy at Christmas. Please tell me I understand if you have young children as when mine were little it was lovely visiting Santa and Christmas Eve putting the gifts out . I enjoy the day itself but getting giddy weeks before for what a roast dinner and a couple of gifts!!

<sigh> There's precious little to be giddy about at the moment. If you think that there's something wrong with adults feeling a bit excited about ennoying a festival of light, conviviality and feasting once a year in the middle of the cold, gloomy winter, then I feel a bit sorry for you.

Maybe your Christmas is just a roast dinner and a couple of gifts. That doesn't mean everyone's is. For me it's multiple days over Christmas and New Year with extended family I don't often get to see. Games, presents, great food, good wine, a lot of laughter, wintry walks, family traditions. I have teenage dc and we all enjoy it just as much as when they were little.

😀 it is meant to be an unpopular opinion thread! Also, it’s only winter in the Northern Hemisphere fyi.

Ok, let me fix that for you.

People in the northern hemisphere need a winter festival to break up the long, dark months. If it hadn't been hijacked by Christians faking it as Jesus birthday, it would have remained a celebration of returning light. People can do what the fuck they like you know.

Again, it’s meant to be an unpopular opinion thread. I personally don’t care about what people believe or not. I’m not into it at all, I do find adults that get overly excited about it a bit odd. And from lots of discussion on here over the last few weeks or more, it seems to be a very stressful time for many.

On that one I'll agree. I posted much earlier in the thread to say as much. It has become a stressful event masquerading as a celebration. Huge social pressure.

I think a lot of these opinions are popular!

DOWN WITH CHEESY FOOTBALLS

Yorkies are essential

Christmas pudding gross

Elf is awful

What a wonderful life is not great to watch around Christmas

And, most importantly, it's about the kids, not traipsing to grandparents' houses. Nuclear family Christmases are most important! Grandparents can see at other days in the run up.

I LOVE tinsel on my tree

Because no believer was ever grabby. . .

Yorkies... if it's made in a muffin tin and you can get more than one on a plate then it's an Abomination unto Nuggan.

Yorkshire pudding is made in a roasting tin, and you get a slice served with gravy as a starter.

penguins are not Christmas animals.

Christmas is not just for children. All those saying gifts end at 21, taking it to the extreme do you neither give nor receive gifts if you have adult children? According to the children only brigade I need to buy one gift for my 13yo niece and forget about everyone else.

No
But he is an amalgamation of a saint and an ancient winter god. And a focus of belief - if only for children these days.

Ssssshhh....

I'm a complete Christmas snob. I like everything very traditional and try to pretend the last 100 years (in terms of taste, I mean, not developments in medicine and social policy...) haven't happened.

I can't stand tinny piped supermarket carols, the unspeakably awful TV we're subjected to (don't watch any of it except for King's Carol Service and some old films). I like to have a really quiet Christmas with music of my choice (classical or traditional carols), nice food and log fires. A walk on Christmas EVe and Boxing Day and very modest presents.

Some people's idea of hell, I'm sure - but each to our own!

I love Christmas!

Of course absolutely they can be! I’m not religious (extremely lapsed catholic). I have no admiration for anyone simply because they say they are christian or any other religion. Some of the most terrible things have been done in the name of religion.

Having a good laugh at the posts that state "I hate (insert long list of Christmas traditions)
But I really do like Christmas though."

Um... you sure about that? 🤣

Couldn't agree more. I was saying the same to DH last night.

The commercial aspects: why do we do it to ourselves? I just can't be arsed with it all. It's like a silly dance. I'd rather go away on holiday and pretend it's not time to act bizarrely. Haven't seen each other all year? No problem, let's grind out an agonising couple of hours in the presence of each other. That's what the alcohol is for.

From the religious perspective: I like the Jesus bit. I love the carols and get excited about carol's at Kings (not ashamed to admit it). I like going to Christmas Mass.

The best part is having some time off.

I can't stand turkey, or doing unspeakable things to Brussel sprouts like adding balsamic vinegar or bacon. It's like we have fallen over and banged our heads and start doing weird things to a Sunday roast. Don't get me started on Christmas eve boxes.

Wake me up when it's over. Thank you for the thread OP.

Real Christmas trees smell horrible and look shit. Lopsided with bare patches. Yeah looks fab!

And only wanky middle class pillocks wang on about loving a tree all covered in random crap collected over the last seven generations.
Most people want their tree to actually look nice.

I eat turkey weekly. It isn't any drier than any other meat.
People just talk crap.

There's nothing wrong with Christmas Eve boxes. They aren't new; people have been doing them for decades. And they aren't wasteful; they're reusable boxes with a few consumables and textiles, maybe a book.

The opprobrium they generate is far more ridiculous than they are. It is usually just masked classism from people who have no objection to expensive tech, foreign holidays, large Christmas trees with blinking warm white fairy lights or anything else that is deemed suffuciently middle class.

Turkey is dry if you overcook it.

Christmas is not just for children. All those saying gifts end at 21, taking it to the extreme do you neither give nor receive gifts if you have adult children? According to the children only brigade I need to buy one gift for my 13yo niece and forget about everyone else

I said the 21 thing. And it's because my family is a largely adult family who will not stop buying for absolutely everyone. It's stressful, expensive, wasteful and unnecessary. I've happily bought for my cousins' children and enjoyed choosing things. But everyone else - I don't see the point. The day would be just as fun without receiving a pile of things i don't need or want in the knowledge that, in return, I've spent a load of money on a pile of things other people don't need or want. I think it should just be about enjoying being together and (for us) marking the Christian holiday.

I guess I get giddy at Christmas because I never quite grew up? I'm like the boy in Polar Express who can hear Santa's sleigh bell all his life. On the outside I'm a middle aged Mum with DC at university, but inside I'm still an excited 9 year old.

That it's a really shit time to have a birthday ,my poor boy is 16 on boxing day😭
being induced on Xmas day was also.a crap experience.