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BBB Members and Their Christmas Traditions

Connoisseur said:
'Christmas' (the commercialised 'Hallmark' secular version of it anyway) is so fucking tacky and fake. I hate putting on a facade and feigning interest in people and things that 364/365 (taking leap years into account) I would normally give a damn about; it's soul destroying actually. :pompus:
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Marry Me? :p
 
Frelard USA said:
What do people eat at Christmas ? It must be not for a heavy turkey dinner?
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Well up until the last 15 years Christmas was treated as though it was being celebrated in the middle of a European winter. My italian parents would bake lasagna and our Aussie neighbours would have a roast. Delicious but kind of ridiculous considering some Christmas days are scorching hot. However in the last 15 years a lot of people have started introducing sea food to the menu instead. You can buy it really fresh and on a hot summer day it's no where near as heavy. Although I can't see the traditional Christmas roast being fazed out completely.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Marry Me? :p
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Stop it, you're gonna make @Spock and @reepbot jealous. :shamefully:

I'm glad I'm not only know who has aversion to this time of year. That and the fact that metropolitan area and surrounding suburbs become practically ghost towns between 20th of December and the 1st of the New Year with almost the entire workforce taking time off.

I get especially annoyed at how difficult it is to make an appointment with doctors, people don't magically avoid becoming ill just 'cos this is the designated party festive season of the year. :rolleyes:
 
Connoisseur said:
Stop it, you're gonna make @Spock and @reepbot jealous. :shamefully:

I'm glad I'm not only know who has aversion to this time of year. That and the fact that metropolitan area and surrounding suburbs become practically ghost towns between 20th of December and the 1st of the New Year with almost the entire workforce taking time off.

I get especially annoyed at how difficult it is to make an appointment with doctors, people don't magically avoid becoming ill just 'cos this is the designated party festive season of the year. :rolleyes:
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Why would I be jealous?
 
Connoisseur said:
Stop it, you're gonna make @Spock and @reepbot jealous. :shamefully:

I'm glad I'm not only know who has aversion to this time of year. That and the fact that metropolitan area and surrounding suburbs become practically ghost towns between 20th of December and the 1st of the New Year with almost the entire workforce taking time off.

I get especially annoyed at how difficult it is to make an appointment with doctors, people don't magically avoid becoming ill just 'cos this is the designated party festive season of the year. :rolleyes:
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I agree now. Christmas was magical when we were kids because we had wonderful parents and a fabulous childhood.

We were quite poor and so appreciated everything we ever had and the need to work for what you wanted. Giving presents that you worked hard all year to earn the money for or to make yourself was incredible. This is the Christmas that I get misty and nostalgic about.

Now I really do rather loathe the whole season. It irritates me that it is a particularly busy time at work (end of month. Any other poor souls in finance will appreciate this!!) and we are forced to take the time off.

I hate that the buses get delayed by the traffic jams from people out shopping. The crowds jamming the shops and the sidewalks are the worst.

Bah fucking humbug to Christmas now! :mad:
 
I loathe people in general, but love them individually. I adore Christmas, but we've always just kept it in the family. I don't go to work functions if I can fake an illness or previous engagement. I'll meet up with very close friends some time over the holidays, but not because of the holidays. The day itself is for immediate family.

We always do a tree and a big lunch - seafood, salads, ham, ice cream cake and cheese and fruit. I adore buying gifts - I love trying to find the perfect something for someone I love.

We will put up the tree next weekend with the kids. It will be real pine and the house will smell wonderful for weeks. It will be covered in tack. Cheap baubles that I bought as a single mum, cheap baubles that I bought once I was earning decent money, cheap baubles that I bought with Mr Jam. I am not a minimalist at Christmas.
 
CaspersMum said:
I agree now. Christmas was magical when we were kids because we had wonderful parents and a fabulous childhood.

We were quite poor and so appreciated everything we ever had and the need to work for what you wanted. Giving presents that you worked hard all year to earn the money for or to make yourself was incredible. This is the Christmas that I get misty and nostalgic about.

Now I really do rather loathe the whole season. It irritates me that it is a particularly busy time at work (end of month. Any other poor souls in finance will appreciate this!!) and we are forced to take the time off.

I hate that the buses get delayed by the traffic jams from people out shopping. The crowds jamming the shops and the sidewalks are the worst.

Bah fucking humbug to Christmas now! :mad:
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Agreed. I'm going to have a whinge here - I come back from my holidays with my broken leg and I've got a letter saying I need to move out by the end of January and I think I have plenty of time, but no, 2 weeks are completely gone because of Christmas. To make matters worse, the storm has destroyed the unit block next to mine so I have to walk about 100m from my car to my unit just to go to the freaking shops. With a freaking broken leg. And now I am going to carry boxes, lounges, washing machines, beds etc. etc. 100m from my unit. WITH A FREAKING BROKEN LEG. Thanks Queensland for your shithouse bipolar Summer weather and 40 degree Christmas. BAH HUMBUG
 
delcan said:
Agreed. I'm going to have a whinge here - I come back from my holidays with my broken leg and I've got a letter saying I need to move out by the end of January and I think I have plenty of time, but no, 2 weeks are completely gone because of Christmas. To make matters worse, the storm has destroyed the unit block next to mine so I have to walk about 100m from my car to my unit just to go to the freaking shops. With a freaking broken leg. And now I am going to carry boxes, lounges, washing machines, beds etc. etc. 100m from my unit. WITH A FREAKING BROKEN LEG. Thanks Queensland for your shithouse bipolar Summer weather and 40 degree Christmas. BAH HUMBUG
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Oh gawd! Just don't turn all that into a Xmas tradition, Delcan!
 
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