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“Christmas is for children!”

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CleverLilViper · 19/12/2023 21:51

This seems festive.

it really grinds my gears when parents say that Christmas is just for children.

They use that to prioritise themselves at a time of year that is special to a lot of people- parents and non-parents alike- I’m sure of it.

It’s so hypocritical too. Did the people who trot out this nonsense get to 18 and stop celebrating Christmas until they had kids? I’m going to bet not.

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Eyesopenwideawake · 19/12/2023 21:54

Quite right. Christmas is all about not working, drinking spirits at breakfast, watching films all day and having drunken sex during the Kings speech, followed by Quality Street. Not at all suitable for children.

JenniferBooth · 19/12/2023 22:03

Totally agree OP If Xmas was just for kids there wouldnt be carol concerts in nursing homes. I hope fitzwilliamdarcy gets her Christmas off WITHOUT any more hassle after doing 8 in a row

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CleverLilViper · 19/12/2023 22:12

I hope she does, too.

Its that type of nonsense where this line gets trotted out year after year- when parents want to demand that non-parents sacrifice their Christmas because “won’t someone think of the children?”

It’s not that Christmas isn’t special or magical to kids- it is and it should be but it’s also special to adults as well.

Also what was that first comment? So, if you don’t have kids your Christmas consists of alcohol and drunken sex because of course all childfree people are hedonists and never more so than at Christmas.

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NeonSoda · 19/12/2023 22:38

I always reply to this nonsense with “that’s strange, I thought Christmas was for Christians” knowing that the vast majority of people who love Christmas are not practicing Christians.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 19/12/2023 22:38

Christmas (and Halloween/easter/birthdays etc etc) is whatever you want it to be, so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. Personally this year is going to all about painting the stairs and cleaning a polycarbonate roof.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 19/12/2023 22:40

@NeonSoda have said that too! ( didn’t go down well with the mums )

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 19/12/2023 23:01

Christmas for me is about spending time with the relatives on the other side of the country.

ColleenDonaghy · 19/12/2023 23:20

God I loved Christmas pre kids, it was brilliant.

Flatandhappy · 19/12/2023 23:34

@Eyesopenwideawake 😂😂😂

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 19/12/2023 23:40

Christmas is for Christians. The rest can have Winterval.

CeaselesslyIntoThePast · 19/12/2023 23:42

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 19/12/2023 23:40

Christmas is for Christians. The rest can have Winterval.

No. Christmas is for everyone. Biscuit

Doggymummar · 19/12/2023 23:42

No kids here. Christmas is three weeks of PJ's , eating too much, drinking too much and sleeping in. I would hate a child to spoil any of that.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 20/12/2023 00:04

@Allthegoodnamesarechosen at the latest diversity inclusivity training it was decided to be end of year break. Everything else was somehow exclusionary to someone, thing or place etc.

Justrolledmyeyesoutloud · 20/12/2023 00:11

I have a child but couldn't agree with you more op

LoobyDop · 20/12/2023 08:28

I don’t understand why it’s supposed to be more inclusive to talk about “winterval” or “the holidays”. Surely the inclusive thing is to invite people from other cultures to join in celebrating Christmas. It’s not like most of us from a nominally christian background give more than a passing thought to the religious bit.

LoobyDop · 20/12/2023 08:29

Of course it’s reasonable for Americans to call it “the holidays” because their crappy employment rights don’t get them any other time off work.

GrumpyPanda · 20/12/2023 08:33

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 20/12/2023 00:04

@Allthegoodnamesarechosen at the latest diversity inclusivity training it was decided to be end of year break. Everything else was somehow exclusionary to someone, thing or place etc.

That sounds very much communist East Germany. Sometime in the 70s or 80s they renamed Christmas angels to "end of year figurine with wings."

TheDandyLion · 20/12/2023 08:39

I am someone's child so I can have Christmas too.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 20/12/2023 12:15

@GrumpyPanda it feels like it at work.
everything you say is monitored. It doesn’t matter if someone over hears a snippet of conversation and takes it out of context eg hearing the word ‘black’ but it’s said in the context of ‘coffee black, please’, the person saying the word black is in the wrong and up for a verbal warning, if a third part reports them.
makes it a very uncomfortable place to be and now they wonder why people are not talking/being supportive/friendly etc ….

musixa · 20/12/2023 12:50

having drunken sex during the Kings speech

How can you bear to have sex with Charles waffling on in the background? Is he not a complete passion-killer? 😁

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 20/12/2023 14:33

musixa · 20/12/2023 12:50

having drunken sex during the Kings speech

How can you bear to have sex with Charles waffling on in the background? Is he not a complete passion-killer? 😁

😂And I don't want to be in the room if the only married couple left in my family decide to do that.

Sauerkrautsandwich · 20/12/2023 18:34

We went to a fun place today and they had Chrostmas bit there and I run up to Christmassy polar bear (guy in a costume) more excited than kids there...

I don't think some people relise how important the time is. It is closing off the year and preparing for new one. Doing traditions to ward off death and bad luck. It is also fun with festivities and food and even maybe presents. What's not to love.

Re name for it.
Christians spent lots of time fighting for that time to be Christmas. It's not easy work to take over one of the most popular established festivals and since I respect hard graft, I will call it Christmas. As they wanted us to.
Plus my pressies are brought by baby Jesus so... Can't offend him, can I with some winterfest

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 20/12/2023 18:46

don't think some people relise how important the time is. It is closing off the year and preparing for new one. Doing traditions to ward off death and bad luck. It is also fun with festivities and food and even maybe presents. What's not to love.

hmmm that’s originally winter solstice not Christmas .

Sauerkrautsandwich · 20/12/2023 18:55

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 20/12/2023 18:46

don't think some people relise how important the time is. It is closing off the year and preparing for new one. Doing traditions to ward off death and bad luck. It is also fun with festivities and food and even maybe presents. What's not to love.

hmmm that’s originally winter solstice not Christmas .

Considering how long ago Church took over that period of celebration, it can be safely said that these are Christmas traditions in many places. Pagan origins? Absolutely.

thistimelastweek · 20/12/2023 19:01

Christmas is about baby Jesus.

Up the road from us we've got a plastic inflated baby Jesus in a plastic inflated stable.

It's what he would have wanted.