Controversial Christmas Opinions

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Here's mine:

1. Elf isn't that good. Engaging at the beginning, but once he's in the US it gets pretty boring

2. Turkey has an awful after taste

The office party is one of the highlights of my year and a fucking massive flirtathon. I actually diet for it. And buy a maximum projection bra.

Love Actually is rubbish
Work Christmas parties can be fun
A traditional Scottish New Years Day dinner is much better than a Christmas dinner

We love turkey. We buy the biggest one possible and eat leftover turkey for days. It’s beautiful. And sprouts. Boiled to within an inch of their life, so there’s no hint of any nutritional value. I often have a big bowl of them, then fry the rest up with bubble and squeak. They’re beautiful and I can’t think why I used to hate them as a child. And we usually have a couple of puddings to choose from, but nothing tastes better than a bit of Vienetta.

Also, I don’t really understand why people think they’ll have a boring day if they don’t spend it with every relative they’ve ever met. Our families are pretty brilliant really but our very best Christmases are when it’s just DH and I.

Those excessively tacky bows people put on their front door I don’t necessarily think they’re tacky (just not my cup of tea) but I do feel sorry for the poor post people who have to wangle your mail through an assault course just to get it through your letterbox. They must curse those people.

I do really dislike blue lights though. They remind me of police and ambulance lights. Nothing says Christmas quite like the emergency services.

Not doing Santa Claus/Father Christmas doesnt mean DCs have a miserable Christmas.

I like Christmas carols.

I like a 3/2 Boots gift set.

I love Boots at Christmas. I'm all over the 3 for 2. .

Sprouts have been made to taste sweeter thats why they are nicer now than when we were kids!

• Christmas starts on Christmas eve and keeps going till after New Year, it's not just "one day" but a whole festive chilled out period.
• Christmas isn't just "for the kids", its for grownups too! At least in our house/ family.
• Christmas gifts aren't worth getting into debt for- either save through the year or cut your coat to fit your cloth, and buy what you can afford
• Judging others Christmas choices just makes your Christmas less joyful, concentrating on celebrating your own way is the main thing
• Christmas is the best time of year, and more fun than birthdays (My kids agree too! Winning.)

stuffing is just waste of space

You take that back

Yorkshire puddings and/or cauliflower cheese have no place at a traditional turkey lunch.

Christmas morning Mass is a highlight.

Except Jesus, who has the barefaced cheek to make it all harder and be born, early, on Christmas day ds.

Christmas cards are wonderful to send and receive.

There is nothing wrong with shop bought gravy, pigs, stuffing, and red cabbage but the best cranberry sauce comes in a jar (tarted up with juice of a satsuma and a splodge of brandy or red wine or port).

Opening presents is brilliant.

The west end is brilliant in December, at about 4/5ish as dark falls, the workers are going home and the revellers aren't too revellery.

I don't think people should tell their children that Father Christmas buys their presents. I think it should be that adults have bought the presents and sent them to Father Christmas to bring.

Traditional Xmas dinner is horrible - especially turkey.
Relatives are best avoided at Xmas.
In fact, all of the so-called traditional Xmas stuff is best avoided, so book a holiday & ignore the whole thing!

I love tinsel! Its look, its feel and its smell. It’s the best!

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Sprouts have been made to taste sweeter thats why they are nicer now than when we were kids!

@hellosunshineagainxxx I didn’t know that! Mind you, I could dip them in chocolate and DH would still refuse to have anything to do with them.

Why do people spend hours making a 'cripsy' roast potato to make it soggy and soft with gravy?????

Hate this new obsession with the John Lewis/marks and Spencer's Christmas adverts, they're always crap

Pigs in blankets are revolting

Something to wear
Something to read
Something you want
Something you need

Is the most joyless poem or rule I've ever heard of

Christmas is best without small children.

The run up to Christmas is horrendous and Boxing Day is the best day of the year.

Best comment on the thread

Christmas TV specials are crap.

Listen to the song midnight mass murder by half man half biscuit, it's very funny 😂

If we were little pigs then we'd sing piggy wiggy wiggy wiggy woo

Only a nob would do that