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 will definitely be our last year of FC.

It will be absolutely liberating, no more different wrapping or label's from FC ....it will be absolutely wonderful.
. definitely thourghly enjoyed it but done now

Buckets of chocolates is wasteful, expensive and unnecessary. It also contributes to obesity. We have had no chocolate this holiday, nobody misses it, we are having a great time and not getting that bloated, lazy feeling.

The way to save money is to not actually buy anything you do not need. Forget that “they might grow into it” “they will need it for next winter” etc reasoning. Just don’t buy. I’ve just Vinted £300 of unworn clothes that I thought we “might need.”

“I don’t really feel that it’s appropriate for people who aren’t Christians to celebrate Christmas.”

When Christians surrender all the pieces of the holiday that they nicked from other religions, eg the idea of exchanging presents in December (which is from the Roman festival of Saturnalia), and the celebration of 25 Dec (which is a Mithras’ birthday thing, nothing to do with Jesus) and the whole Santa thing (which is Norse pagan origin re. Odin’s hunt through the sky), then absolutely Christians can have whatever is left. I think it would just be a church service? Which most people don’t bother with anyway.

Why do we lie to our children by telling them fantastic tales of a bearded man riding through the sky on a sleigh, coming into their bedrooms and leaving presents? In any other context, encouraging little children to hope that some old bloke would come and empty his sack in their room would be considered bordeline abusive!

Furthermore, this year, I have seen more glum faces and stressed parents than ever before. I hope that, very soon, people will learn that Christmas does not mean spending a small fortune, being a slave to the kitchen, coping with highly excited and almost inevitably disappointed children and feeling like they've failed when they do not emulate the happy families seen on Christmas ads.

We really need to rethink the whole Christmas experience, especially in a country where the majority of people do not consider themselves to be Christian.

Why do we lie to our children by telling them fantastic tales of a bearded man riding through the sky on a sleigh, coming into their bedrooms and leaving presents?

Folklore. Culture. People have managed to weave stories about mythical characters into their lives for thousands of years without the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching about 'lying to their children'. I think for most people, the transition between believing they are or might be real to regarding them fondly as a fictional tradition is not remotely traumatic. Father Christmas is a very benign one compared with some of the characters in other countries' traditions!

There's storytelling and there is actively lying for years...

Santa is the kind of lie that's fine as long as you don't try to fight it when your children naturally start questioning it. We've always talked about him in an exaggerated, comic way that they took completely at face value when they were very little and realised was a joke as they got older.

It's fine when all taken in the right spirit and accepting the shelf life is very short. It drives me nuts when parents start setting up elaborate ruses to try to stop children's natural development on the issue, threatening them with no presents if they don't believe, etc etc. They always blather about "the magic" but it's not for the kids at all, it's for themselves.

There's a thread now about a child who's so scared of Santa that she's not sleeping and being sick and the OP is still on about not wanting to spoil "the magic" while posters suggest writing letters or telling her Dad will meet Santa outside etc etc. The lie is harmful in this instance, just tell her the truth ffs!

Mine have had two sets each, very nice of the gifters but never going to be used, horrible stuff

Santa is the kind of lie that's fine as long as you don't try to fight it when your children naturally start questioning it. We've always talked about him in an exaggerated, comic way that they took completely at face value when they were very little and realised was a joke as they got older.

Yes, i think it should be a 'Santa's coming tonight wink' kind of thing. Not 'im heartbroken because my child suspects it's really me who fills the stocking.'

Christmas chocolates are a waste of money, I end up throwing half of them away (same with Easter Eggs). I'd rather have a large bar of Dairy Milk or a multi pack of Twirls.

The Christmas biscuits that have been regifted so many times before they get to you

Most supermarket Christmas food is crap. You don’t have to do all these things but can still make a nice meal.

That a roast turkey is rank.

I'll stick with my chicken ta. Takes less time and faff and tasted much nicer. YUM

I really like blue Christmas lights.

99% of xmas dramas posted to MN can be attributed to adults that have forgotten how to adult.

Die hard is not a Xmas movie!!!

Of course it is. The writer said so, as if it needed any confirming.

I knew it'd be controversial! But Erm Bruce Willis says it isn't an Xmas movie so I'm taking a stance with Bruce!

I'm going along lines that Xmas films should be feel good movies, not blowy uppy movies where people launch themselves out of buildings!

What he actually said was "It's not a Christmas movie, it's a Bruce Willis movie." And anyway, the writer outranks the actor on this issue.

It's set at Christmas, based around a Christmas party with a tree and decorations, has Christmas songs in its soundtrack, is a story of personal redemption, family reunion and love over capitalism (there's your feelgood factor), the wife is called Holly and it has Christmas jokes ("now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho", complete with Santa hat). Of course it's a Christmas movie, just not a bland typical one.

Who's Coventry Carol?

Omg that made me laugh 😂😂

Elf is a fucking awful film, as is anything Will Ferrell does.

It's not just me then. No way would Zooey Deschanel have got with him.

This is blasphemy. Elf is ace.

Agree. Elf is dreadful rubbish.