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...

Those dreadful hologram things on houses.

people saying Xmas.

stuffing balls - make me feel sad.

The chocolate box idea of the Christmas Day festive walk where you bump into other families also out, red cheeked and happy - no one cba as they’re too full and too drunk.

magazines showing all the outfits their team “will be wearing this festive season” - bullshit, no one that many parties. Stop lying to me.

Elf on a shelf

Christmas bedding

Christmas trees stuffed with so much fabric you can't see any greenery ....tack!

Christmas markets selling the same old sh*t each year, people only there for the gram.

Over consumerism and greed.

People staying in their pyjamas all day, just grim.

"Christmas countdown"

Xmas was originally written with a Greek letter chi, the first letter of Christ in New-Testament Greek (ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ or Χρίστος). It was an official way of writing it in the early church.

Oops - my message directly above 😂

One of us Duh, one of them

STILL insist that saying Santa is a ghastly import

Maybe it is an import, though. It's just a Dutch import rather than an American one.

Also hate “happy holidays” -
it means nothing. It’s like saying “happy month!” Or wishing someone a merry week! Just generic nonsense that doesn’t make sense.

They're easily pleased! Most hot chocolate isn't even that nice when out, my dd2 does have it now and again though, with cream and marshmallows.

I just can't imagine many teenagers wanting to 'snuggle up' with their parents/siblings, drinking hc, and with younger children, I picture them wriggling around and spilling it everywhere.

Buying next year's presents in January. At my age I don't know if these people or even myself will be alive
next Christmas!

Feel free to leave.

Matching PJs 😷

To be fair I work in a school so tomorrow we're literally braking up for the Christmas holidays.

Treats

Honestly, it’s gone from icks to whining about anything unrelated to the thread! Ba- humbug hahahah

Im going to get slammed for this but... All of it. Partner's Jewish, so we celebrate Hanukkah. And we love it more than Christmas

Oh and people who say "Xmas" "Pressies" people who force their teenage kids to believe in Santa. I overheard a Mum telling her teenage sons, who I guess were roughly 17-19, that She'd send her presents back to Santa because they wanted to go to their Grandma's house so they could be treated like adults, had to hold back from telling her that she had infantilising issues

Ooooh and "Holibobs" Oh god that made me cringe just typing

Holibobs. Crimmy prezzies. The Fam or Fambo. Oooooooo I'm a grumpy cow.

I didn't know I had any until I saw this 😂 Bits in our house is genitals so that ones hilarious.

I've realised I hate people saying Christmas is ruined or cancelled because of a lack of turkeys or whatever. DPD have just failed to deliver a parcel with most of my Christmas presents in, including the Christmas stocking for them to go in. Christmas won't be cancelled or ruined, although the stocking part is a little sad.

I also grind me teeth at people who think Christmas ends on Christmas Day rather than begins. I have family who take down the tree on Boxing Day.

Anyone mentioned those awful front door chiffon bows?
Sooooo tacky

@justlliloleme My Mum tried to put one of them on my door a few weeks back. I burned it after she left and said someone stole it

People who serve cauliflower cheese with Christmas dinner. Actually include people who serve cauliflower cheese with any meal that includes gravy. Firstly they look horrible together on the plate because they mingle , remember how plasticine used to go that shade of sludge if you mixed the colours together? Same thing. Secondly the mingling causes ( and this is a genuine proved in a laboratory somewhere scientific fact) eating cheese sauce and gravy at the same time starts a chain reaction of molecular stress and agitation which can lead to your stomach exploding. Also they taste revolting together.

Very specifically the lovely person I’d bought something from on Etsy who suggested another page she ran for if I needed any ‘last minute Christmas gifts’. In November. I hadn’t even started and got palpitations 😂

adults on tv wearing Christmas jumpers/ reindeer antlers/elf hats , pretending to give each other presents, talking about family traditions that they made up ten minutes previously, sneaking in info about the book,album,film,tv series they are promoting and pretending that wasn’t why they were there in the first place.

It's used in lots of languages as a general way of referring to the various events at the end of the year, so Christmas, new year, epiphany, various other things in between. It's a handy term and a bit of a shame it hasn't really caught on in the UK.

People who say they eat a cooked breakfast and evening 'supper' as well as a massive Christmas lunch, chocolates and cheese in one day!