Do we have a MN Christmas threads full house yet?

[CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind]

Another thread has made me realise there are so many threads/posts about Christmas stresses and angst, and the same things seem to pop up every year. Every single year! I think we need cards and a competition to see who wins Full House first...

DH went out for his works Christmas party and has not come home yet and it's 7am - where is he?

[tallulahhulah1]

So I'm recently new to MN and this is the most amazing thread. I legit read some of the AIBU threads and think has everyone gone crazy! I was assuming it must be the crazy Xmas air as no way are people having this many problems in the lead up. 🤣

[FlamingoAndJohn]

I realised a few years ago that most people (women) spend all Christmas fretting about stuff that makes other people happy not what makes them happy.

We decided fuck all that and have Christmas with friends, which is what makes us happy.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

This is a wonderful thread.

I haven't seen it this year but there's usually a heated debate about whether Love Actually is a classic for the ages or so dire it makes people want to chew their own leg off. Extensive comments about Andrew Lincoln going full stalker on Keira Knightley, Kris Marshall's creepy behaviour in the US, whether Emma Thompson's character was a doormat who let herself go and was therefore just asking to be cheated on or whether she was on a fast track to sainthood, etc etc. The only point most people agree about is how well she acted in that awful scene when she finds the CD/necklace. [makes mental note to find time for annual re-watching of LA in near future]

Also:

'Does anybody actually like mince pies/Christmas pudding/Christmas cake/stollen/panettone/trifle/turkey/bread sauce/gravy/Brussels sprouts? Nobody I know likes them because they're foul.' Cue 999 replies which basically come down to 'You're right, everybody hates those, the people that say they like them are just pretending because they're snobs' or 'You're wrong, everybody else loves all of those, you are a weirdo and have no taste buds'.

[CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind]

AIBU that MIL can only visit on Christmas Eve and wants the pleasure of seeing my DCs' smiling faces when they open the presents she has brought for them? But I want to make Christmas Day special and tell them Father Christmas brought them and they are nothing to do with MIL? AIBU to make her leave them here for a day so only we can see their little smiling faces?

Also, she bought them an Advent Calender this year which means they have two pieces of chocolate a day! DH says I was BU to take them off them but I said my children my rules and he should respect this?

I don't like her anyway because once she looked at me funny.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Go NC with her, OP! Nobody looks at me funny and gets away with it, not even my DC's granny.

Has anyone mentioned alcohol yet? I saw a post yesterday where the OP said she hardly drinks the rest of the year but on Christmas Day she likes a glass of Bucks Fizz at breakfast time, a glass of red with Christmas dinner and a Bailey's in the evening, all part of her Christmas traditions, and she'd be a bit disappointed if she didn't get them. Inevitably, up popped the killjoys saying that was starting to look like a dependence problem.

[SmuggyMcKnobson]

C'mon - everybody knows that if you so much as glance down the drinks aisle in the supermarket you must be a raging alcoholic.

[iklboodolphrednosedreindeer]

The posts that say:

'You should be grateful you've got a narcissistic, alcoholic, abusive and violent who ruins every single Christmas. One day they won't be here and you'll be sorry then'

[CloseEncountersOfTheTerfKind]

I really have to restrain myself and have failed recently from posting on the alcohol threads as I stopped drinking in 2012 (imagine a female version of the showbiz man from Father Ted who had a glass of Sherry and later had to be shot with a tranquiliser dart and make it worse I definitely could have been the subject of many MN threads )

[BrandoraPaithwaite]

I love this thread! How do you nominate for Classics?

[LaPufalina]

Report first post and say "nominate for classics" is how I do it

[VioletCharlotte]

This thread is so funny!

Have we had:
-The one about the competitive under-eating MIL who serves tiny portions at mealtimes (bonus points if OP is 39+5)

• MIL who lets her dog on the sofa/ lick the plates clean/ sleep in the beds (OPs DC have severe allergies)
• Christmas ruined by Ocado substitutions
• Relative staying at the OPs home (normally BIL/ FIL) who never washes or changes his clothes

[IceMagic177]

Best thread of the year...well done! I’m sat crying with laughter 🤣

[Alsohuman]

Yes, we’ve had the Ocado substitutes. Three bottles of Prosecco instead of Veuve, which OP obviously can’t serve to her guests, dahling. Christmas is totally fucked.

[Gfplux]

This is a classic thread. Thank you

[Crankybitch]

Not seen teachers gifts mentioned on this thread yet either

Or the card with collections - how much to put in and who to let sign the card....

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

The Ocado champagne thread was gold. 'You could serve the Prosecco to a guest who can't tell the difference' was a highlight.

[DoloresTheDonkey]

Thank you for the laugh. I do love a 'Christmas is ruined' pisstake thread.

[Callthemidwifeplease]

The Turkey is still frozen and lunch is due to he served... can I defrost it and cook it in 30 minutes without getting food poisoning?
What should we est on boxing day...for breakfast on Christmas day...for a snack on 29th december....need some inspiration!!

[LadyMonicaBaddingham]

This thread is GOLD!!

[PortiaCastis]

Do not under any under any circs wear your jim jams on Christmas Day as you must be a manky minx who is a seasonal slutbag .

[DoloresTheDonkey]

Portia I just read that thread

I'm not too sure why people get so wound up with what others wear on 'the BIG day'. I'm even less sure how pyjamas are manky unless you've been out for an early morning dip in the local slurry pit

[WeGoHigher]

Have we had a central heating Thermostat-Gate thread yet, where MiL either has it set at a tropical 40 or low enough to mimic an artic tundra?

Cue all the posters blathering on about woolly jumpers for goalposts and icicle-infested childhoods like we've never heard it before, or made the connections ourselves between quantity of clothing being worn and body temperature.

[PortiaCastis]

Well wearing pjs more than an hour in bed is quite diabolically grim and you must never wear your kecks under pj trousers as you'll perish I tell you even if your kecks are clean your bits will fester and drop off in the night !!!

[KatherineJaneway]

I love the threads about what does and does not belong on the Christmas dinner plate. So much indignation Don't get me started in the 'do you plate up or let guests help themselves' saga's.

[SmuggyMcKnobson]

@KatherineJaneway doesn't really matter, but HOW many sprouts should there be?