Do you care about Christmas?

amanda11

amanda11

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For me, Christmas is like any other day; except there's more assholes at the mall, pushing and shoving each other so they can buy some shinny new gadget. Maybe a salad shooter, or a SHAMWOW! Or some small computer that allows them to "tweet" while they're taking a shit.

Besides -- Christmas lost its meaning. It used to mean happy family dinner with everybody. Nowadays it's just an excuse to beg and plead for something new and shinny.

Asshole over-privileged kids kicking and screaming in the mall because their soccer mom couldn't get them a wii. Ask the starving Ethiopia family what they want for Christmas -- it probably involves a bowl of rice and meat.

Now that I think of it, I like Christmas! Every year some old lady always get crush from a human stampede because these arrogant assholes are in a rush to buy a $400 computer (cause it's 50 percent off), but the manufactoring cost was only $45 anyways.

And why is it, that during every major "video game" launch there are assholes lining up overnight to get their hands on a new video game -- can't these mother fuckers just wait for a week to get them? Imagine that -- grown men waiting in line to buy video games, a industry that was initially targetted at prepubescent.

Comes boxing day, I won't be lining up at Bestbuy to get myself a laptop. No, I'll be shopping after that, browsing leisurely.

On the side note, I got my girlfriend a $1 greeting card and a teddy bear from the dollar store for Christmas. Cheap? Fuck yeah. :smilie_weihn_winki:

* I'm not anti-consumerist BTW, I got a laptop fetish.
 
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Christmas has always been a mixture of tradition (family, giving for the true joy of giving, etc) and commercialism. I watch the balance keep moving more and more to commercialism as each year passes.

Life: it is what it is.

On a side note, xmas is still a great excuse for my entire (or at least most, depending on weather) family to get together once a year.

And my conversions go up during december...
 
Depends on what it means to you I guess. For me it's a celebration of love/family and hope/joy(hope for the future, and the new year). It's very important to me. Americans don't have as many traditional cultural rituals as the older societies, so this is it!
 
I think it has a special meaning to some. For me it means sitting down with my mother and father and watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!

It's also the time that my family talks about the next year goals, etc. Mostly it consists of my parents asking me about my online endeavors and me asking my mom why she hasn't retired yet. I'll keep you updated, but I'm almost positive this is what will happen tomorrow.
 
Bofu2U said:
I think it has a special meaning to some. For me it means sitting down with my mother and father and watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!

It's also the time that my family talks about the next year goals, etc. Mostly it consists of my parents asking me about my online endeavors and me asking my mom why she hasn't retired yet. I'll keep you updated, but I'm almost positive this is what will happen tomorrow.
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SQUIRRRELLL!!!!!!!!!! Best christmas movie ever :)
 
It always makes me smile when the Church goes on about commercialism usurping Christmas. They nicked our Winter Solstice celebrations for their new fangled religion!

Personally, I've always loved Midwinter/Yule/Christmas... it's a time when everything goes quiet and the cycle of the year starts again. When our daughter is a little older I'm going to take her to Stonehenge or Avebury for the Solstice to see where it all began.

Re: commercialism - I've found, the less I care about expensive presents, the more I enjoy this time of year. Spent a bit of time getting my OH lots of little presents with an average value of about $3 each this year. I know she'll have great fun with them tomorrow.

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I find myself disliking Christmas more and more as each year passes. This year is kind of cool though in that my 11-year-old, instead of being fixated on what *he's* going to get, can't wait for Christmas so he can give me the gift he got me.

Otherwise family, food, mimosas in the morning are all great. The whole "go into debt buying shit no one needs/wants" has worn completely thin for me though.
 
I just find Christmas to be a lot of hard work. The food and drink is nice, and so is the company usually, but it's tiring. We eat and drink pretty good all year round and socialize fairly regularly, so that's nothing extraordinary really. It's really just another day with a lot of baggage attached to it.

ChrisS said:
Good shit, Amanda. Maybe I should add to my old Christmas vent and repost it.

http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/46121-i-fucking-hate-christmas.html
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I was going to post a Christmas hate thread about a week ago but I didn't 'cause I fully expected you to follow up on last year's tirade.
 
I really dislike Christmas, but having said that I really do enjoy the time off I get during the holidays.

My family is pretty tight as it is, so we don't really need an excuse to get together and get drunk.

What I really hate about Christmas is Christmas songs. I played in multiple community band for years, and during the Christmas concert we'd play all the same songs over and over and again. I can still remember how the 3rd Trumpet part in Rudolph the red nosed reindeer goes..

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^^ This is my favorite Christmas song.
 
I've been conditioned that christmas is a time of stress where family freaks out over the stupidest shit. One day I'm going to start going to some south american beach and relaxing drinking mojitos for christmas.
 
Nope i dont care, just another day...but people makes a big deal out of it. Rather spend my night with my family (mom) and have a good time at the dinner table.
 
kingfish said:
I've been conditioned that christmas is a time of stress where family freaks out over the stupidest shit. One day I'm going to start going to some south american beach and relaxing drinking mojitos for christmas.
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EXACTLY what i was thinking too lol. Stress like Christmas is bad stress, Stressing over scaling a campaign is good stress :)
 
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