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[M'coli]

I'm about sick to death of Christmas being done to death on the telly, the media, at work, every-fg-where at the moment, I've even been so pissed off this evening that I went out for a drive at half 9 this evening (York had snow/sleet, and the new tyres on the front of the Cavalier have more grip than the ones on the back, great for a full turn of opposite on the A59 ringroad roundabout - 4.5 turns lock-to lock, mind)Anyone else had enough of it?

[mk1_4dr]

Im sick of Christmas, but its all we've heard about at work for the last couple of months. Ba$tards.

 

I was gonna say, if its snowing/sleeting in york i'l pop over for a little play in the car (im live in wakefield), but unfortunately im at work till 7am, and back at 7pm tomorrow night and Ive got to get some sleep in sometime. Oh and it wouldn't be the same sort of fun in the borrowed vectra as it would've been in my escRot but thats been VOSA'd off the road

 

But still, nevermind. Why don't you pop over to our West Yorkshire Meet tomorrow to take your mind off it all.

 

Clicky

 

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[VWPowered]

im more sick of not having a job and being skint than being miffed at christmas..

[M'coli]

But still, nevermind. Why don't you pop over to our West Yorkshire Meet tomorrow to take your mind off it all.ClickyD

Love to, but I've got an appointment to keep deep in the North Yorkshire hinterland with an MG Metro engine to go into my HLE so that it'll be on the road in time for the launch of the Metro owner's club on Feb 1st.VWPowered, I understand your problem and sympathise with you, you have more to worry about than me. I hope it sorts itself out soon.

[Guest]

I have had some flak for not putting up any Christmas decorations in my bit of the office, instead I just have a plain white noticeboard with nothing on it, which I consider to be festive because snow is also white. Really can't be bothered with Christmas nowadays, must be an age thing, once you stop getting half-decent presents it becomes an elaborate hassle.That and Christmas "do's". A situation where incredibly serious colleagues who work as accountants or something who have far too much to drink and perform a one day per annum transformation from dullard to cretin.

[VWPowered]

lol we have 2 sets of lights up and a small tree...second-hand presents... tough year but better than nowt... talking of nowt thats what the misses has atm M'coli - thanks dude i try not to let it bother me too much certainly when the girls are around, their my first priority hence why i HAVE to get myself a job..otherwise wouldn't give a monkeys and would wait :Pand why i'm up at this stupid hour still sending CV's and applications off

[Father Ted]

As a kid, I loved Crimbo. As a Yoof and young adult working first for Woolyworths then for the NHS I really couldn't be arsed with it all, Easter egs in the stockroom, preparing for the January sale and irate fucking customers who were so unorganised they left shopping till 4.45pm on the 24th and then complained that you didnt have any Teenage Ninja fuking Mutant Turdles, the dying peg it whatever the day, people shit the bed whatever the day and all your mates in jobs that entail shutting up shop for 2 weeks (ala British Aerospace) were out being sociable, getting pissed and complaining that I smelled of hospitals and vomit whilst I sipped at a diet coke thinking, yeah great and Im back on duty again in 5 hours. For years I got to work every Christmas and got every New Year off, oh what was the exception? Fucking Millennium New Year - that year the bint that did the off duty rostered me Christmas and then a fucking late New Years Eve and an Early new years day - as it happened I just didnt bother going to bed and was somewhat wasted on the early shift.But now I work on the district,, which means that I get Crimbo off, and I have 3 kids who think that Santa is real and is somehow going to get down the central heating duct with a big bag of prezzies, I have 2 really young kids who are enjoying wrecking the tree and I know that I can have a drink on xmas eve and not worry too much about bed pans or any of that shit and knowing full well that I dont have to worry about people missing their meth scripts (which they will have done despite being told and told to get to the chemist before it shuts on xmas eve) - sometimes I switch my mobile on and listen to the voice mails, most are along the line of " the chemist fucked up me script, I got there at 11pm and he were shut and hadn't left me meth on the doorstep". It keeps me amused for hours.Yes, I love Christmas. Bring it on.

[whitevanman]

I'm the original scrooge..................No decs, no tree, no prezzies....................sounds harsh? Not really, we dont celebrate Xmas for what its meant to be its now just a retail frenzy of greed and excess, it stops me buying bits for my cars and if I still had a TV set it stops you watching your normal programs..and for what ? so the greedy mass can pretend to be good people for a little while by buying affection etc rather than giving a flying F**k the other 364 days.....it also helps that I aint no Christian, so I aint got no qualms about missng out on the "big day"........I gave up on it all when I was about 13 and have no regrets, bring on the summer....

[55bloke]

I'm hugely ambivalent about Christmas. Loved it as a kid, obviously, and now I love choosing gifts for people I care about and look forward to their reactions when they open them. BUT, I too am sick to the back teeth of the Piranna-like feeding frenzy in the shops and the media. Did the usual super-market trip yesterday afternoon, and it took almost as long to find a parking space as it did to do the week's shop! Why do people go insane at this time of year and spend 3 x as much as they normally do? It's not like the shops are shut for a month!!!

[VWPowered]

I have friends I'd rather spend time with, who actually appear to like me, than visit a family who definitely don't.

you know ive thought this way for 20 years....and didnt bother with my family for that same reason (bad history)but nice to see someone write that makes me feel im not the only one with that thought...+

[RedSparrow]

I hate it.Buying useless crap for people that they don't want, and recieving similar.Sitting round a table pretending to have a good time.Can't even get drunk because Im the one who has to do the driving round.I would rather stay at home alone watching TV and drinking Brandy, and just declare the day a write-off!I also think there shoould be a law that says people shouldn't be allowed to partake in religious festivals unless they are practicing in that religion. That should kill this annual 'Winterval shopping festival' crap!

[whitevanman]

Christmas, ah yes, the time of year spent making excuses to avoid members of the family who haven't bothered with you the other 364 days of the year. "We'd love to see you" (I'll send a photograph) "When are you coming down, we have a present for you" (Yes, something I neither want, nor need that will cost me £40 in petrol and take up a day of my life to collect and probably end up being given to a charity shop or fed to the dog.) "We haven't seen you all year" (Yes, I've been lucky I saw you first, however if you really wanted to see me the road works both ways and you could have made the effort when you were less than 5 miles away on a shopping trip.)I know that this makes me sound like an anti-social, ungrateful, grumpy old git (I am), but I'd rather be on my own than wish that I was. I have friends I'd rather spend time with, who actually appear to like me, than visit a family who definitely don't.I have no wish to be paraded as the poor relation in front of my brother's friends and if I just send a cheque to his children they won't need to thank me personally (Oh, they weren't going to).I think I'd better stop now, this is stuff for my analyst.

my sentiments exactly.......but put a bit better than I did

[j-j]

FT said stuff about nursing and Xmas

- my hat comes off to you - there is yet another job I couldn't do - the shifts would fcuk up my head and all the other stuff.

it stops me buying bits for my cars

-ha! I was wondering when this would be said! why does noone want to buy me bits of car? I mean that is actually a useful gift! there's a TV ad just now where the whole family are unwrapping wiper blades and shite hubcaps like it's a bad thing!My mum was like: "we're in town and wondered what you wanted for Xmas"? - " a new hydraulic pump for the BX" is what I wanted to say but I actually said "dunno" because i did not know.One thing I do like is all the eating and drinking crammed into one day while doing generally nothing - how christian is that?

[VWPowered]

you shoulda just asked for it..said 'at least i'll be grinning when i open me present'... dont ask dont get..

[VWPowered]

bingo...heres come religion tax... so he didnt get handcuff's then... bummer

[Father Ted]

FT said stuff about nursing and Xmas

- my hat comes off to you - there is yet another job I couldn't do - the shifts would fcuk up my head and all the other stuff.

Its not a bad job, the money aint bad (starting whack now about £20K - which is bloody good IMHO), the shifts allow some freedom, start at 7.30, finish at 3 - start at 1.30 finish at 9pm start at 8.30pm finish at 8am ( but only work 4 nights out of 7), so combine an early with a late and thats a trip to teh shops and a top night on the ale or clubbing before worrying about work again. I spent most of my ward based years working between A&E and Orthopods with a brief sting in Expensive Care (where I had to leave as I could not hear the ventilator alarms when patients stopped breathing) and to be honest I loved pretty much every minute. I left the wards when I had kids (well not me personally, the wife) as the nights really did bugger up the child care and what not. So now work in drug and alcohol rehab, which is lacking in bed pans, enemas and general bits of plastering people and suturing them up, but full of interesting people who occasionally threaten to knife me. What they dont realise is being married to someone who has smacked me over the head with a bottle of Newky Brown and also stabbed me in the past, these things fill me with little fear ( its all right, she got treatment and hasn't tried to knife me in about 10 years now).Anyway, Christmas good (but only because I have young kids).

[r.welfare]

Little 'un is too small to appreciate it, so I'm in the "meh" camp for Chrimbo this year - suspect it will be more enjoyable from next year when she can walk/talk etc.Anyway, I finish on Wednesday until the 5th of Jan, so I am looking forward to being able to change my glowplugs and rocker cover gasket, if nothing else.

[Albert Ross]

2 weeks to swap some glow plugs and a gasket!!!!! Bloody hell, I'm not paying your labour if you work in a garage..................

[Justin Case]

I'm actually looking forward to Christmas, even though we haven't got any small children in the family. You can enjoy Christmas without any of the commercialism, and catch up with family and friends. Other than small presents for the family, the Sainsbury's voucher that my employers give me for Christmas is enough to cover the cost of the eats, so I'm not paying it off until the following November. It is the little treats that I look forward to most; telling people who say that a toy, gadget, or article of clothing is a 'must-have' to depart and self-fornicate, destroying any penguins in displays with a blunt instrument (Father Christmas comes from the NORTH Pole you pillocks) and imagining Noddy Holder being stuffed in a way that would bring tears to the eyes of a turkey So a happy Christmas to all of you, and especially VWpowered, I hope that you are able to get a job that you really want.

[Mash]

Humbug, sir. Humbug!For me Christmas means 1984 when I was nine opening cool presents, living in our old house with coal fire that my dad lit every day at this period, Wham "Last Christmas" video on the telly, going to grandparents each year for tea on Boxing Day.Now I avoid it at all costs. True I may be a bit hypocritical because I feel it only right to send cards to people I haven't seen for ages - really I should make more effort to contact them through the rest of the year (and so should they for that matter!).Don't buy me crap for Christmas - I'll get the stuff I want when it takes my fancy and I'll buy you summat I think you'd like when I see it which might be in May or August.On the other hand it's nice to have a fortnight off at the end of the year to recharge and eat chocs and mince pies in front of the telly, but those two weeks would be much more useful to me in the summer when I can actually go out in my Datsuns without fear of them dissolving round me.Shouldn't this be tagged onto the Grumpy Old Man thread....?

[pompei]

I always hated Christmas for all the reasons above. A few years ago, newly divorced, I had a bloody marvellous time at home on my own - cooked meself something nice, had a good drink watched a bit of TV, read a bit, listened to a couple of cds, totally undisturbed

 

People kept ringing up "are you sure you're all right?" Nice sentiment, but too bloody right I was!

 

This year, we've got a two year old nipper, and that'll make a difference. Plus two stepkids, and the Fuhrer's parents, who I get on with really well. I'm in charge of catering (which I enjoy) so I'm really looking forward to it. Never thought I'd ever hear myself saying that ...

[VWPowered]

VWpowered, I hope that you are able to get a job that you really want.

thank you kind sir, just lucky my girls dont understand the concept of christmas just yet...and check this the french schools teach the kids that from an early age that santas not real, tight gits and and the french won the war with the help of the english.....(although its not spoke about often, nor is the fact that the Gendarmerie sold out their own to save themselves...the more im here the more im turning away from the place.. sad on my part proberley ...

[mk1_4dr]

and check this the french schools teach the kids that from an early age that santas not real, tight gits

A teahcer over here has just been laid off for telling the kids thats santas not real. Basically, getting fired for telling the kids the truth. This countries mad D

[VWPowered]

pretty harsh that

[whitevanman]

VWpowered, I hope that you are able to get a job that you really want.

and and the french won the war with the help of the english.....(although its not spoke about often, nor is the fact that the Gendarmerie sold out their own to save themselves...:

Its best you dont go to far with this topic........unless you bar me from posting about it, My father was one of those Scots (52 HD) that Churchill sacrifised and damn near died trying to save them !!!......and my other half G/father was captured defending them...........I have rather strong views about the French..........None of which are good

[j-j]

I have rather strong views about the French..........None of which are good

- but presumably you've got even stronger views on the Germans, Italians and the Japanese?

[whitevanman]

I have rather strong views about the French..........None of which are good

- but presumably you've got even stronger views on the Germans, Italians and the Japanese?

In certain respects YES.....however I openly admit my rather jaundiced views stem from my dad when I was growing up, and he disliked only the Japanese as much the French........Unlike my Uncle who hated the Japanese as was held as a POW by them......I'll openly discuss it if you wish, but I accept my view will be in the minority......based on family bias, historical bias and a personal persepective that is tainted with the blight of the previous two reasons.DUNC

[VWPowered]

i understand where your coming from chap, but not a convo for this thread...i think most on this forum somewhere would be affected by the war..so back to christmas are we depressed enough yet... votes 20 to 5

[M'coli]

Indeed! Remember, this isn't a thread condemning the date of the supposed birth of Christ, that's an entirely different thing, as are whether you like Christmas day or not, it's really "are you tired of the hype", that with 10 days to go before the 25th and probably 3 weeks before people stop asking about it, I'm sick of the sound/sight/inference. It's like nothing else is happening in the world.

[Albert Ross]

Indeed. I'm off sick, and I reckon when I get back to work on Wednesday, I get asked "Are you all set?" Well, no, for these reasons. I am off sick and going outside makes my lungs itch...........I don't get paid until the 24th, so it's madness at 3 am to go shopping..........Those and the fact it's just another day, and my wife seems to think that buying my eldest Daughter a camcorder at 150 quid is not expensive!!!!! (I know she's 23 and has 3 kids, but it's more than I spent on my last 2 bangers.......They total 120 quid!)