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Your unpopular Christmas opinions

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 22/12/2022 19:27

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.

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KillingLoneliness · 22/12/2022 20:17

Turkey is disgusting

stayathomer · 22/12/2022 20:17

The cost of Christmas dinner is an abomination. This year we’re having a beef roast.

BellePeppa · 22/12/2022 20:18

I wish people would stop sending cards. Every time I get a card I feel like I should send one in return (but I don’t). I stopped sending cards a few years ago but it’s annoying that I have to text acknowledgement and an explanation (again) that I don’t send cards anymore. So unfortunately I feel a slight irritation at getting them especially when it’s from people I see regularly anyway.

BarrelOfOtters · 22/12/2022 20:18

It’s weird everyone, almost, eating the same meal across the country.

I like the time off work, Christmas Eve, Boxing Day and the cheese. But not cheese footballs. They are awful.

ForeverTeach · 22/12/2022 20:18

Let me tell you that bird in a bird in a bird just tastes like crap. My nails however are very classy I’ll have you know!!

Your unpopular Christmas opinions
DogInATent · 22/12/2022 20:20

Christmas is the worst time of year to travel. Stay at home. You can visit family any other time of the year.

Competitive gifting is conspicuous consumption.

Traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings is an unnecessary martyrdom.

Not only is Die Hard a Christmas movie, but so is The Negotiator and The Long Kiss Goodnight (haven't seen that one on tv in ages).

Sunnytwobridges · 22/12/2022 20:20

dolor · 22/12/2022 19:28

The whole thing is shite.

😂This. Definitely this.

NippyWoowoo · 22/12/2022 20:20

Would a poem written on parchment and sealed with wax do?

Thereisnolight · 22/12/2022 20:20

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 22/12/2022 19:35

The films 'Elf' and 'Home Alone' are a bag of shite.
Pigs in blankets are an abomination.
Turkey is bland
'Fairytale of New York' is ghastly
Christmas pudding is not particularly nice
Brandy butter can fuck right off
The best place for Baileys is down the kitchen sink

How dare you speak like that about Baileys.

July70 · 22/12/2022 20:21

Pretending to be nice makes me want to throw up on the culprits.

I's love to watch secret recordings of what the hosts were saying about you and you about them

Merry Christmas, lol

RoseMartha · 22/12/2022 20:21

It is important that your children see you or other adults opening a gift that they have given because Christmas is not just about the kids getting gifts, it is also about giving to others.

Userno3636273737273 · 22/12/2022 20:21

families in matching pjs give me the ick.

I hate Christmas pudding

KillingLoneliness · 22/12/2022 20:22

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A lot of Christmas traditions came from Pagan roots to convert them over to Christianity, it was never really a thing before that, just as celebrating a persons birthday is also a pagan tradition.

Rinatinabina · 22/12/2022 20:22

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I’m actually celebrating saturnalia, but I get why you would be confused.

Thereisnolight · 22/12/2022 20:22

ColdHandsHotHead · 22/12/2022 19:54

NO! It's my favourite.

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Mine too.

bigbluebus · 22/12/2022 20:22

Cauliflower cheese has no place on a Christmas dinner plate with gravy. Carrots, parsnips, sprouts and even red cabbage are just fine but Cauliflower cheese is just wrong.

user764329056 · 22/12/2022 20:23

All the consumerist overload is grotesque, as if the planet needs all the excess global waste packaging, etc, once a year, the Earth is weeping

Facefail · 22/12/2022 20:23

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

1000, billion percent this! Extremely astute analysis and well articulated.

Thereisnolight · 22/12/2022 20:23

Burgoo · 22/12/2022 20:04

Not sure if it is unpopular but I believe most people dislike Christmas and do it just because we "should". Its the same with present giving, its just one giant obligation. I'd prefer to bin it and create another tradition where we aren't made to do this nonsense. A bit like thanksgiving but without the present buying, fake good will and drama. Just sitting down being thankful for things we have, without all the nonsense that makes it tedious.

I agree. We have Ukrainians staying with us this year and they have commented on how commercial it seems.

Dallidalli · 22/12/2022 20:24
  1. Getting loads of presents makes me feel awkward as hell. I'm just happy being fed and watered.
  1. Shopping centre Santa creeps me out.
  1. Power of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood is my favourite Christmas song
  1. People asking what I got my one year old DS and me replying fuck all as he is 1!! He got presents from grandparents and other people and so many toys lying about already.
Kids get way too overstimulated with all the gifts of which half they will not play with/ wear anyway.
  1. Any sort of cream or soap gift set is just crap for my skin.
  1. Christmas should be renamed STUFFmas as it's just about the stuff you get. Or WASTEmas with the amount of wrapping paper going to landfill
  1. People don't bake their own christmas biscuits and its sad.
BellePeppa · 22/12/2022 20:24

AnneTwackie · 22/12/2022 20:16

The Holiday is bullshit.
Single dad Jude Law wakes up at the cottage without his kids and hundreds of people go to an awards night ON CHRISTMAS DAY. Did they just forget it’s Christmas?

But the clothes are swoon worthy 😊

SaveMeCheezus · 22/12/2022 20:25

This thread is giving me a hankering for Baileys Blush

ThirtyThreeTrees · 22/12/2022 20:25

Christmas songs should only be playes between the 15th and 31st December.

Christmas stock should only be in the shops from December, not straight after Hallowe'en.

HideousKinky · 22/12/2022 20:25

I saw "Elf" for the first time ever about a month ago on a long haul flight and actually rather enjoyed it....

Daisiesunderblueskies · 22/12/2022 20:25

The school events - Christmas jumper day, Eldridge’s (everyone brings in a present which the PTA then sell back to the kids for £2 a pop), Christmas party, Christmas show, panto, carols, crafts…all needing a donation, a Santa hat, snacks, gifts… the whole thing is relentless, I can barely keep up and feel like shit because I am not cheerily investing in the Christmas ‘festivities’.
Aside from Christmas morning watching the kids open their presents, I find Christmas as an adult soul suckingly shit.