You can ban one thing from Christmas for everyone forever

[iCod]

What is it going to be?
Mine would be the phrase "picky bits"
you're not cute, it's shit.

omg we love a smug round robin here!!

‘Christmas music’ droning on in all retail outlets.
Please have nothing - or traditional carols playing quietly.
Paul McCartney ‘simply having a wonderful Christmastime’ seems to follow me wherever I go.

Elf on the shelf, Christmas eve boxes, matching pj’s and all that shite.
Social media ‘look at me! Look at me! type photos/posts.
Candy canes.
Grinch themed rubbish.

All the angst about having to do this or that, or having to have a certain relative round, etc. It’s a time to relax and enjoy, just do what works for you and your nearest and dearest FFS.

I don't even know what "picky bits" means.

Work Christmas parties

Endless Christmas songs in the supermarket from November.

Flashing lights left on overnight so see them driving to work in the morning.

People giving you really nice chocolates knowing full well that you don’t eat chocolate.

Chris Rea

Aw poor Chris. RIP

Really??

How very ... edgy of you.

feels a bit wrong since he has sadly died today...

Omg I honestly had no idea 😬 apologies

Thank you!!!

Ooh, I thought you'd carefully hidden a really rude cryptic acrostic there, but then it suddenly stopped after the first three lines

The only perfume adverts that I would allow would be the ones that actually give you some remote indication of what the perfume actually smells like - and not just somebody dressed in gold and looking moody, or Natalie Portman jumping off a pier 'for love' - so that leaves... none of them.

I would love to know how they expect people watching to actually choose which perfume they want to buy or ask to receive as a present. Is it really just assumed that they will go on which advert, celebrity or quirky bottle shape they like best?!

The word “haul” with anything to do with Christmas. “Christmas haul” or “present haul” just smacks of greed. To me it says a load of stuff that was only bought to make the pile seem bigger. Dudley Dursley rings a bell.

This year I found a lovely Brambly Hedge advent calendar that just has pics in it!

This made me laugh. I have a feeling he'd have been amused. Spent today chatting about him with my Northern family, turns out some of our relatives knew him in the early days... Family staple. And yet, I chuckled.

For bringing back - I really love the Kate Bush song December Will Be Magic Again. I'd like the version with the bongo drums to be available please. And old style lights that heat the tree up and make it, and the tinsel, smell nice. (With no fire risk though.) I hate LED lights. Even the 'warm' ones.

I hate that word too.

It smacks of greed and showing off.

I agree if butter under skin and cooked for correct time it's delicious but if over cooked or no butter under skin can become a bit dry.

Edible candy canes.
They taste awful and are ridiculous choking hazards. Little bits of them end up everywhere. I never buy them but you can bet one of the relatives will decide they are cute to put in one of the kids gifts and off we go.
Elf on the Shelf can also fuck right off. I've never engaged with it but one year a relative sent one in a gift for the kids and I just grabbed it and put it straight in the bin. The kids tell this story over and over now. They had never even heard if elf on the shelf before that, but they like to pretend I upset them lol.

Oh yes its awful!
How Christmassy to feel like you are being bluelit to A&E on deaths door, or the police have come for your husband/son/mother

Prince Albert was a great bloke in many ways. However this idea he introduced of chopping down natural trees and throwing them out 2 weeks later was not a good one. Jesus never said anything about killing trees.

The Little Drummer Boy

actually no, all the school Christmas shit