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.

This is not an unpopular Christmas| opinion, but it is undoubtedly an unpopular opinion: I hate hate HAAATE the whole concept of my birthday and can't STAND it being treated as my 'special day'. My getting older is not something to be celebrated IMO! If other people want to celebrate their birthdays, fine; but please don't inflict mine on me! I do like getting Christmas presents, but I'd rather never get any presents at all than get one to remind me of my birthday.

Is it only me who has never heard of cheesy footballs? Are they posh? They don't sound posh. Or regional? I want to try them!

I've never heard of them either, but I want to try them now.

Arthur Christmas is turgid crap and hours too long.

They're literally just a globular wotsit kind of thing.

I like Yule and greenery and solstice and songs and a bit of nice nosh. I don't like Christmas very much. It was only ever meant to be 12 days long and about something ritual, meaningful and spiritual. Now it's six weeks (minimum) of plastic hype and disappointment.

Proper cheese footballs are like this sort of wafery type crispy shell filled with a foul powdery 'cheese' flavoured paste. Nauseating.

But it isn't. Even you know that it existed way before your religion arrived and stole it. You literally pretend that this supernatural event happened on 25th December when all you did was steal existing festivals to support your made-up beliefs! That's personally what I find weird about the whole thing...

@TheyreOnlyNoodlesMichael - you know you can't debate these things with the average CoE goer who mostly prefers to observe the birth and death, and forgets the hippy-woke years in-between.

I was just about to post this! Never heard of them till this thread.

They sound gross though.

But it's still originally a religious festival...?

Christmas cards are naff and stupid - I mean I get the principle of them - tell people who you love or like that you’re wishing them a very merry Christmas but when u get one from miserable Janet at work and it’s just got a name in it and she’s sending them to everyone then u feel obligated to send one back out of politeness 🤷‍♀️

The tastiest Christmas dinner I ever ate was made up from all frozen supermarket food - frozen parsnips, roast potatoes, pigs in baskets, the lot. Also the host had more time to spend with us and her children.

Christmas jumpers on adults are just awful. Really creepy.

We don't eat Turkey

No fairs, or fetes 🙄, no markets, no carols

Nobody needs to put on weight at Christmas, just moderate what you eat and get a lot of exercise.

Christmas jumpers should only be worn by children. Adults just look ridiculous in them. See also naff headwear such as fake reindeer antlers.

The wicker star with greenery on my door is not for Christmas. It is a pagan pentangle for the solstice. That might be very controversial to my Christian happy-clappy neighbours.

Is it only me who has never heard of cheesy footballs? Are they posh? They don't sound posh. Or regional? I want to try them!

I've only ever seen them as part of a cheesy biscuit selection but if you're desperate Amazon appallingly seem to have tubs of the things available for about £7.

Good luck

cheese footballs
Other shops sell similar products

Christmas jumpers should only be worn by children. Adults just look ridiculous in them.

To be fair, that is the point...

better get something for the teacher

I got the P1 teacher and assistants gift cards and out them in their cards; they seemed a bit taken aback; I was starting to wonder if it's not normal to give them something other than a small.boc of chocolates ur something (?)

pagan pentangle for the solstice

Pagan pentagle is just wonderful to enunciate.

the sound of children singing is like fingernails on a blackboard

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Christmas Eve boxes. Why do kids need presents before Christmas?!

Outing them probably isn't in the xmas spirit.

Santa is fun but once you're at the stage of elaborate lies and setups and even threats ("believe or you don't get gifts"), you're not "preserving the magic", you're being ridiculous and serving only yourself. Kids are supposed to grow up and question the world.

People saying Turkey is vile and dry aren’t cooking it right.
Pigs in blankets are delicious!
Sprouts are top tier vegetables and should be renamed the emerald jewels of Christmas!
Crispy roast potatoes are life!