Festive icks

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'With all the trimmings'

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

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

"It's gunna be a messy one" especially uttered by somebody old enough to know better, trying to appear youthful 🙄

Also

"Nice little haul" accompanied by a pile of massive presents.... just so grabby 😬

Has anyone mentioned Christmas movies ?

Not Christmas films per se, but the movies word, and the complete and utter LIE that “We always watch It’s a Wonderful Life.” It’s only be shown on tv (or streaming wotnots) relatively recently. It’s rubbish that you grew up watching it. I bet you’ve never watched it all the way through either.

Add into this the fact that people can only name Love Actually and two other Christmas offerings anyway. Really irritating!

Christ, why pick on me?! This entire thread is snobby 😂

People are free to do whatever they want. I am free to judge them for it.

This. It always sounds like they're eating their leprosy scabs.

Not this again.

Clean lounge wear does not make you weird if you are having no visitors. Lots of people do it.

I don't on Christmas day as we put something smart on. We go to the pub then home for dinner then in the evening put lounge wear on.

I was in Primark a few years ago and an elderly lady said she couldn’t imagine who bought the Christmas jumpers on display. They were spectacularly tacky. Two other women came over and one picked up four for her daughter to wear. She listed it out to her friend that one was for school Christmas jumper day, one was for Christmas Eve, one for Christmas Day and the other for Boxing Day. The elderly lady looked aghast.

I think the problem with social media posts about dead relatives is when you know the person didn’t give them the time of day when they were alive.

When did it become a competition for supermarket buffet food to become weirder and weirder?, and it never looks like it does on the packet.

My particular hate is people who have ‘tablescapes’

What's wrong with making your table look nice?

I was in Primark a few years ago and an elderly lady said she couldn’t imagine who bought the Christmas jumpers on display. They were spectacularly tacky.

They're supposed to be. That's the point of them.

It is vulgar and crass to post piles of presents though. If nothing else, it shows a lack of awareness of other's situations. By posting on social media, you are inviting judgement. Otherwise, why bother?

There are much worse things to think about.

I loathe it for all those reasons and the fact that it is said a lot by people who are being smug over the fact that they’re not spending any money on something.

It goes right along with ‘We (its always ‘we’) prefer experiences over things’.

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She’s got that from watching the OC!!

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“It’s your Christmas too” said by FIL every year if I do anything other than sit in a chair. It’s not my Christmas or anyone else’s in particular, I’m an adult so it’s not a lot different to any other day apart from having to have in-laws around and it’s no hardship to occasionally do something like wash a plate or dish up. If I didn’t do anything he’d also be moaning about that.

When people wear in pyjamas in the daytime you just know they haven’t showered… and probably smell of arse. Combine this with the scent of sprouts cooking and mulled wine. The smell of Christmas spirit.

Also, all the awful Christmas films which make Christmas out to be this magical experience (with of course no connection to the religious meaning) and the awful Christmas music that’s played non-stop everywhere (not carols).

Yes Americanised shit Elf on a shelf, Christmas Eve boxes, photos in matching PJ’s and bragging facebook posts and photos of obscenely large unnecessary piles of Christmas presents.

I hate all of it. But especially the number of sleeps. I stopped shopping at Asda because they had that on a notice board thing in their entrance counting down the num..... I couldn't take any more.

People who call Las Vegas just Vegas. I hate that more than anything in the world.

I realise that's not a Christmassy issue. There's another one - Christmassy. The one time I've felt vindicated with my annoyance with Christmas. Thank you OP! Time to get Rage Against The Machine back for Christmas number one.

Magical.

It's a joke.

Already started with people saying 3 more days in work then that’s me till 2023 , no one cares !!

Amen to that

This is gross. Do you shower properly? If you do you shouldn't smell of arse ever never mind in the mornings after sleeping. I imagine you both sleep alone if you reek so much in the mornings It's not a festive ick but my ick is people that come on forums and talk about how much they stink like they think it's normal. Learn to shower properly and change your sheets once in a while you smelly weirdos.

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Mingers.

Not an 'ick' (I hate that word as well 😂) but I can't stand breathy slow acoustic cover versions of songs, usually played over sickeningly sentimental adverts from companies trying way too hard to pull on the old heartstrings

Agreeing with blue Christmas lights too, they make my eyes go funny

YES!!!