Festive icks

[crispsandnuts]

'With all the trimmings'

I couldn't even type that without my teeth itching.

I'm sure they'll be plenty more...

Yes! Perfect.
Love this post. 😀

I find the phrase, 'naughty or nice' and that whole aspect of Christmas is a massive ick. I am also so sick of 'the elf on the shelf is watching!'

Being offered a mince pie a week or two beforehand - I've really gone off them, though I accept out of politeness to avoid hurt feelings.

After writing in a card (sent early to pre-empt ...) "Let's just exchange cards this year") they mention it but "We saw this and thought of you" ... in other words we'll do what we want, so there. I smile politely so as not to be ungracious but I wish they wouldn't do it.

Mistletoe - Clock where it is when I enter a room and try to ensure I'm nowhere near it.

I'm not a Grinch, so Merry Christmas.

Stollen. In fact anything tainted by fucking marzipan.
Christmas bedding, Christmas cushions.
The surprise Christmas present from a friend (who has never bought you a present before)when it’s too late to reciprocate.

Yes to “pigs in blankets” We managed quite well for the first 40 odd years of my life when they were just sausages rolled in bacon.

God yes!!
It's attention seeking performative social media griefwanking that I'm icked by, not people remembering and talking about loved ones.

What a snarky comment. You sound bitter and jealous. A lot of posters on this thread do actually. Some really rude and unpleasant comments on here. Urgh. Vile thread.

I've had 50+ years of being patronised (even now I still get "Oooooh a Christmas Day baby, how special and other such bollocks), so I'll fucking rant if I want to.

WTF have I just read?

For me, with grown up children it’s the Christmas Eve boxes, so glad it wasnt a thing back in the day then they just some new pj’s a Christmas book , sweets, hot chocolate, socks etc etc glad we waited for presents on actual Christmas morning.
I was in a shop recently that sold boxes and a v harassed young mum was trying to chose the nicest Christmas Eve box and then going shopping to fill it!
Each to their own (but to me this way madness lies)

Yaaay, even the traditional Christmas fighting has started!! 🎉

Loving this thread.

What a snarky comment. You sound bitter and jealous.

Ah yes of course. If you disagree with anything, ever, for any reason it always has to be jealousy. No other motive is possible.

elf on the fucking shelf

Yes this! You have triggered me

People who share a photo of all of their or their kids presents on social media.

And its cousin: ‘Picky Tea’ 😱

Loving this thread! 🤣

I’m not on social media but you can’t even escape it in some supermarkets. There’s that inescapable smell/flavour of fake clove, cinnamon & orange from November onwards and ear-bleeding warbles and crooners.

My mother died at Christmas & I have a quiet little cry every year but I am told that my dysfunctional siblings are going into their annual missing-you-everyday-but-more-now histrionics.

Everyone becomes an inflated, baubles, bacon-covered, luxuriated, glitter-covered, pickled, emotional mess every year, and for what? Hardly anyone believes in Christ. Happy winter solitude, everyone! 😁

Thank you for saying this. I call them 'chipolatas in bacon' and I don't think I ever ate one until I was a teenager.

Were they invented in the 1970s?

My Christmas ick is annoying clients thinking the world is going to end if stuff doesn't happen before Christmas, chasing you to a frazzle and ruining the run up to Christmas.

Yes this too.

Every year I have a client who does something boneheaded and totally unnecessary in the period between Christmas and NY which is always "urgent" and it always happens when almost every person on the client team is incommunicado. I've started taking bets on which one it will be.

I had a client one year who emailed one team with something "VERY URGENT" at 8am on New Year's Day. It turned out to pertain to something happening in March.

Mine is my DP who always hovers over everyone with a black bin bag to retrieve the wrapping paper immediately.

Oh God, this is my dad to a tee. I wouldn’t mind so much if he was a neat freak (as annoying as that would be), but he doesn’t so much as carry up a cup to the dishwasher for the rest of the year. For 25 years his mother cleared up after him; then my mother took over for the next 45 years and counting. Yet once a year he becomes a demon about potential mess. Why?!

Solstice! My autocorrect put solitude — how apt 🤣

Forgot to add my ick.

I have ASD so mine seem to be sensory - I hate the way everything has thef horrible jingle bell sound added to it.

arghhhhh! Back to hibernation!

Hot chocolate stations.

You find grief at Christmas ick? Do you suffer from lack of empathy the rest of the year too?

Only one thing bothers me. Social media full of pictures and "I must have been good this year. Thank you Santa". People can't keep anything to themselves.

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