....the Christmas commercials are like in the US which is weird given it’s not that long ago since I left really. I absolutely love Christmas - best time of the year for me with summer a close second - but nothing grinds my gears more than the insane perfume adverts that obliterate the TV during this period. Aaaaggghhhhh....just stop it. They get more insane and inane year after year 🤬 Get some ads on featuring men in undies rather than this shite!
Soooo....what grinds YOUR gears about Christmas?
I have a history of depression. I have also been homeless and alone. The season is relentlessly pushes ideas that aren't obtainable for most. When thing in life suck it makes those thing far worse. Being depressed or alone in made a 1000% worse by the holiday.
It teaches kids that come from poor parents or just plain bad parents that they aren't as good as rich kids as Santa rewards good kids with more toys and doesn't give as much or anything to bad ones. I do some volunteer work with the homeless. I seen a child cry because Santa didn't come. (This is despite the fact I bought gifts for the parents to give her. The sold them for fucking drugs.) Broke my heart. I seen some sad shit revolve around the holiday.
I hate you can't escape crappy christmas music. It is everywhere and most of it is garbage.
I hate christmas. I really do. Maybe it is because I am a humorless fuck but I think the grinch got it right, well at least until he had the change of heart at the end. I celebrate it because I have a son, and my wife likes the holiday. If it was up to me I would not even have a tree.
We were poor (but not dirt poor.) No matter how rich you are, if you compare toys to what other kids at your school got, they'd have about 30 times as many toys as you got.
Anyhow growing up and getting everything you want sets you up for an unhappy adulthood ... kind of like today's college kids.
If I were a dad, I'd get my kids only a few toys -- and toys that I could play with. ha ha
Here is a bigger surprise, I agree with you. I don't exactly hate Christmas, but It has no particular meaning to me, it usually interferes with other shit I have going on, and I don't like being "guilted" into anything, so most years I simply leave the country,
Personally, I quit celebrating Christmas decades ago, but I try not to piss on other people's parade at this time of year so when I am involved with someone who is really into Christmas I will go along with it (to a point) but truthfully, I would just as soon get it all over with and start the new year. As for a tree, I haven't had a Christmas tree in well over 25 years.
I do like ho ho ho's though, or even just one "ho" to spend the day/night with. lol
My feeling are the same as his. But that would change if Santa brought me the right toy to enjoy. Sorry, that’s not you... but a hot chick to unwrap and play with all day would work for me.
I will add if you were to visit DC and we both slut around the K girl scene or stripper clubs, that would be nice too and help with depression. But warning, need a designated driver, preferably a hot looking babe, a human size spatula to scrap my drunk ass off the ground, and I’m good to go.
Even worse, we have GaGa The Grinch spreading good cheer.
What fun.
Favorite? Maybe I should say most abhorred: The greedy hypocrites selling Charlie Brown Christmas trees.
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Draw your own conclusions.
With only one ball hanging from your branch.
celebrate Hanukka instead, we get 8 crazy nights, and get to light the menorah also.
We also get latkes, and I'll be making about a thousand of them this weekend.
But if you must celebrate Christmas, do it this way like John Prine suggests:
I always like the Giant Illuminated Dildos put up outside the McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan.
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Not my holiday. But, I do enjoy some of the really short Santa's helpers skirts with no underwear that some of the ladies wear.
here's a sampler. So many good ones.
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...but this Kenzo one showing in the UK is the pits!
It shows from 1:50 to 2:10 so a very small and nonsensical snapshot that is frankly hideous...
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