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...

"Hot choc"

"Bits"

Yes, lol 😆 I think it was started by The Beatles in the 1960’s. It was Merry Chrimbo and a Gear New Year.

That was "Crimble". Just as ick, but not "Chrimbo".

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Make your peace with "Fayre" by pronouncing it "Fay-Rie". It takes the edge off I find.

See also "Olde Worlde" ("Oldy Worldy")

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TV ads which attempt to mimic ‘T’was the Night Before Christmas’ by delivering their message entirely in naff rhyming couplets, narrated by a voiceover artist with a mock Father Christmas accent… For instance (entirely made-up by me):

”T’was a merry December,
All shiny and bright,
When Mum discovered ALDI’s prawn ring,
And Nan declared it alright”.

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”T’was a merry December,
All shiny and bright,
When Mum discovered ALDI’s prawn ring,
And Nan declared it alright”.

Genius. All spoken by a Richard Burton impersonator.

Make your peace with "Fayre" by pronouncing it "Fay-Rie". It takes the edge off I find.

Years of saying "bee-bee-queue" when people are too lazy to write "barbecue" hasn't taken the edge off my irritation.

@FatOaf

And "Facks" instead of FAQs

A mix of cool and warm lights together - makes me feel nauseous!
Poorly decorated trees
Christmas Eve boxes
Social media influencers and their perfect Christmas
Any friend tagging pictures with #makingmemories #holibobs #famalam etc

So funny how divisive the issue of fairy light colour is! 😂Another vote here for multi-coloured!

And another for white. 😂

Cool white and blue LED fairy lights should be banned. The light beams give me a headache.

Agree with it ALl.

Will MN ever introduce an edit button.

Don’t know what happened there. That was meant to read

Agree with it all.

Warm white ONLY outside. Blue is an abomination.

Multi-coloured acceptable on a Christmas tree so long as all the decorations are multi-coloured too.

Hot chocolate stations

The whole family snuggling together on the settee drinking hot chocolate as a suggested 'activity'.

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A friend of mine takes her 15 year old and 10 year old out for a hot chocolate on each single ‘family day’ outing. They drive for an hour to a scenic location and seemingly have a wonderful time drinking hot chocolate before heading back into the car to drive home. But it was amazing because they had a lovely hot chocolate. Every single time.

My kids are younger and would either say no thanks I will have a water/sweets/sandwich. I’ve never yet managed to persuade them that ‘a lovely hot chocolate’ is some sort of wonderful treat.

I'm neither but I don't like bacon or meat sausages.

Without any hesitation or doubt :
Elf on the Shelf.

How do the 'pigs in blankets' haters feel about 'kilted sausages' which is what we say in Scotland?

My festive gripe is people on MN who after years of the same fucking conversation STILL insist that saying Santa is a ghastly import

Lol but I fully get it.

‘Xmas’ blood boils just typing it and I've no idea why, other than i hate abbreviations of things, predictive text etc… and please, no one reply with ‘Lol’ thats a whole other thread 🤣

Unlikely diabetes will develop from one Christmas blowout. Those of us with T1 don’t really have much choice in dealing with it in January and tbf best to avoid the casual ableism

☝️ This our neighbours are lovely, but one of us asked my DH if we were all ready the other day. She was just being friendly, so he was sweet to her and played along as I would have done. It makes me cringe though because so many adults do become manic and stressed “getting ready for Christmas”. It’s just bad for them isn’t it? Other than that, it pisses me off when people rant about others saying “happy holiday’ instead of of “merry Christmas” because “we are a Christian country”. No we’re not anymore and to most people it is just a midwinter festival/holiday. Call it whatever you like and let others do the same I say.

Otherwise, I’m surprisingly chilled about the other stuff, even though many of the terms, I would never use myself (pressies, crimbo etc)