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...

The worst is after Christmas when everyone you speak to for the first few weeks asks “did you have a nice Christmas”

...and the awkwardness when I invariably reply, "No."

Families who have present opening rules - like one at a time and everyone watches.

@Aftersevens

Oh also those unbelievably annoying indie voices pronouncing Christmas as Kwismoi in various ghastly remakes of classic songs.

This made me laugh so much

Oh god, that’s what we do 🥴

Yes never understood present opening rules, all sitting around, scared of opening a gift in the non allocated time.
If you are so kind to buy me something then I'm opening it as soon as it lands in my hands

Christmas jumpers - refuse to buy one. Could be because I was a teenager in the 70s and they were worn by people like Val Doonican and Andy Williams in their (equally awful) Xmas TV specials

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

The kids are not even allowed to put a shred on the floor. Like Chill out! Let people enjoy opening a gift and savour the moment rather than looming over them with your baggy dressing gown hanging open and flapping round them!

We laughed our heads off the other day when I told him about it and he's promised not to do it this year. We'll see!

I didn't realise this also gave me the ick but it really does.

Also 'centrepiece' as in 'Christmas centrepiece' (turkey, beef, nut roast, etc).

Not necessarily festive but bandied about alot...

Love you to the moon and back. ...barf

What I find 'ick' is the annual gleeful sneering at anyone who doesn't do Christmas in the 'proper' way, or use the right middle class Christmas vocabulary, or buy the right kind and the right amount of presents (plastic seems to be fine as long as it's not 'tat') or, god forbid, do anything that might have the slightest whiff of Americanness about it. And if you can't pick on someone for any of those things, then there's always the possibility you can spot something in their spelling and grammar to mock, eh?

Christmas really brings out the worst in some people.

Laughing at the flapping dressing gown, I can imagine that's a scene for many!

Oh and people who clap when a turkey appears on a platter (that word is bad enough) , they probably clap when a plane lands... in fact, the word 'clap' is annoying me too today.

All present opening is ultimate ick and horror for me, I wish I never had to do it. I cannot act at all, I can't "put on" a face, so I dread getting something I don't like or don't understand what it is etc. I do ask for things I want but even then it's a minefield. I wish the tradition was for everyone to go off to a quiet room to open their presents alone. Then psych themselves up for a conversation about it after a decent interval.

All the trimmings, "Brussels" and "gifts" and even worse "gifting" all made me want to scream.

Also, not just everything being "luxury" but the ridiculous extremes of the luxury foods that appear in the shops. I don't want a "luxury" christmas dessert with 15 layers of organic poncery hand-finished with real gold leaf and personally caressed by Heston himself, or whatever. There's only so much luxury I can take.

100% it's so fake. You don't have to make memories, they happen five minutes after the thing naturally.

We're go ing to Lapland to make some memories. Err no you are going to make some Instagram pictures and show off. otherwise just go do it quietly with your family.

This thread is great 😄

The sheer frenzy people go in to, for a month, for one day

'washed down with'

People getting tickets and queueing to stand next to a branded lorry.

‘Snuggled up in pjs with hot chocolate’

cheese overload 🤮😡

Christmas Eve boxes
Some of the festive tv specials, especially Mrs Browns Boys.

This thread is great, it like to add my support for:

Our little family
Making memories
Creating traditions
It's our tradition (no, it's an Instagram trend)
Boy done good
Awwww, this one
Spoiled wifey/girly
Sentimental/depressing Christmas songs
It's not really Christmas if you don't xyz (yes, yes it is).
Present piles and the handwringing about them
Plastic tat, see above
Wrapping any old shite to boost the pile, see above
Boxing Day sales (I resented every single person who walked through the door when I worked in retail).

I do actually enjoy Christmas!

That bloody elf. Creepy af. Major ick.

'Chrimbo'

'But it wouldn't be Christmas if it wasn't cold/ one didn't do X!'

And most of all: any sentimentality about 'White Christmas'. As someone with some physical disabilities, I hate snow and its resulting slipperiness, which confines me to the house worse than lockdown. White Christmas is all very well in places where it's supposed to be white at this time of year, but snow is not an essential part of Christmas as such: I very much doubt that it was snowing in Bethlehem!

Trifle. It makes me want to gag just typing that! 🤢

It strikes me that 99% of these complaints stem from people following people on social media who don't think like them. I'm curious why you do that - to see family photos I guess?

I avoid all the sentiment and phrasing that gives me the ick by making sure that all my social media is an echo chamber of like-minded folks and denying the existence of anyone who doesn't speak and think exactly like I do. I also fast forward the ads and only watch television that has been pre-vetted for me by the Guardian.

Works a treat

@Fairislefandango you beat me to it!

What happened to the season of goodwill?

What's wrong with little family ffs !!

Do you assume everyone has loads of family to share Christmas with??

The American ‘fixins’ is just as bad. 😁

Most of the social media created nonsense gives me the ick:

Christmas Eve boxes

Matching outfits/pyjamas

Elf on the Shelf

Kids dressed in Father Christmas outfits