Anyone else abhor xmas?
 

Fucking thing sucks!

I don't want to go to the mall and buy a bunch of bullshit gifts and waste my only fucking day off dealing with shit that's going to make me consider doing something that will certainly show up on the news. This shit is ridiculously ghey and stupid. I'd rather just go eat dinner and drink a badass bottle of wine. God damn this is a waste of time and energy.

There are 3 factions in my family:
mom and step-father
father and step-mother
sister and bf

None of these factions talk to any other. My sister and her bf are the only reasonable ones. I have enough money to live reasonably, but I don't feel like spending a day in a mall figuring out what to buy my sister's bf's mother's husband for xmas.Oh yeah, and god is a fabrication which pretty much makes "the birth of jesus" thing a horseshit fairytale too.

My perfect xmas would be a lot like thanksgiving this year...a bunch of my friends (including sister and bf), a day of cooking and drinking fantastic wine. Instead, I'm supposed to buy a bunch of shit, put it in a box, wrap it, then put that in another box, and ship it in time for Xmas.

/psycho-therapy

I hear you on the gift stuff. Everyone in my family just buys what they want anyways. Also I hear you on the god is fabricated...but it makes some people happy, so what're you gonna do? I must say my family is easier to get along with than yours sounds, so I don't mind the visiting at all.

Hustler is the LAST person I ever thought I would agree with! Well, in part, anyway.

agree 10000%

luckily im only 20 and a broke college student so i can get away with just getting my parents something. even that is a pain in my ass.

Selfish? i dont think so, because i could really care less about people giving me gifts. i always feel guilty, especially when my parents spend too much money that i know they probably dont have.

Come on, dysfunctional-family hostility is one of the things that make the holidays special! When else is it so easy to piss somebody off by trying to be nice to them(except for the wife, which is always)?

At least we've come up with a gift procedure that keeps you out of the mall -

1 - Buy some good wine
2 - Drink it yourself
3 - Give left-over money to CT Food Bank

Unfortunately, can't do anything about the rest of the world losing its mind.

This is the first year I got everyone a present. I got everything offline and did it about a month ago. The past couple years I have neglected my nieces and nephews, as well as everyone else I know. This year I said fuck it and decided to take the time to be generous.

Vash-

not my favorite time of year. For the most part nothing but a pain in the ass

Even thought Hustler has a disfunctional family...I agree with him. This forum leads you to believe that Hustler is an asshole who will never turbo his car, but after this...I get it. Yeah, wtf is Christmas? Who here is Christian's anyway? Why is this a government regulated celebration to buy shit nobody needs to feel better about yourself? Fuck that...it's all a bunch of shit to me..."throw me in a ocean."

my car has positive manifold pressure now. lol

my answer to my mom when she asks what I want for xmas is "make some awesome food and burn something in teh fireplace" and that's about it.

we all buy what we want anyway. and the stuff we dont buy, we can't afford. and the stuff we cant afford, nobody's going to buy for us.

so lets make it about the fam and friends and stay away from the mall.

here's to not seeing my fundamentalist aunt and uncle while I'm in town!

somehow this thread has inspired a personal hope in humanity.
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I couldn't agree more. If my G/F wasn't practically a southern baptist with lots of family to visit, I'd tell her we are going to go see a movie on x-mas. I myself have my own family shenanigans to attend to. Like...oh I dunno...baking a freaking cake for jesus. God...how in the world did I let that tradition live on?

this year is like any other year. i didn't get anyone anything.

edit: actually, i bought myself a AR-15

I bought myself a ton of shit for xmas. I also graduated so i've gotten some money from that from people. Gift wise I don't normally get shit for gifts though. The gifts I give are usually well thought out and needed by the people I get them for. Not worthless knick-knacks to sit around the house such as in a drawer forever.

I want santa to bring me a Glock .40, too bad he voted for Obama and I won't be getting shit.

We have no:
Christmas Tree
Christmas Lights
Presents

It's GREAT! I just get a Honey Baked Ham and we're all set!

I've got kids, I like Christmas. I bought my 4 year old the Millennium Falcon, he's going to shit when he opens it. Then after he's passed out from the orgy of gluttony that is Christmas I'll get to play with it.

Christmas FTW, you heartless bunch of fucking robots.

One word Hustler, Amazon.

Its amazing, everyone sent me their wishlists, I clicked on a couple things, and I'm done. it was amazing.

Everyone but my immediate family is still on the east coast, thank fabgod!

this will be my first year without a christmas, my parents moved to california, nobody bought a tree and we bought the bare minimum gifts for the people we had to. we bought nothing for each other as we're making settlement on our house next month.

Things i don't like about christmas:
i can easily spend a shit ton of money on gifts and get useless garbage in return. (i'm hard to shop for because nobody has a clue about my interests). gift buying sucks. And the tree never made a whole lot sense to me either, you take a perfectly good tree and buy it so that you can watch it die in your house.

things i do like about christmas: it's fun for kids and it's nice to see family and eat like a king

This on a forum where a bunch of people wanted a Santa hat put in their avatar?

I was hoping someone sane would chime in,
Merry Christmas to you and your family Jay.
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I've been married for 18 years. My wife knows that I DO NOT celebrate:
bdays
xmas
anniversary

My wife puts a tree up and lights but I do not help. She buys presents for a few people for xmas and bdays but that is it. For me, every day is the same as the last. I don't celebrate shit...

Oh, for those of you who are not married yet - you MUST make your girl understand that she can have anything she wants any day of the year but nothing special for VD day, bday, etc. Love is love, all that other stuff is BS...

I don't mind Chirstmas but I hate the whole having to give gifts to everyone. I would rather just send a nice card and get something for close friends and family. And not worthless junk but something with meaning. Chirstmas is more about showing people that are close to you thank you and to get all together and hang out and drink. It about saying thank you to a friend for holding that tranmission while I feed the bolt in or for letting me load the motor in the back of your car. I am sorry 95% of the holiday has nothing to do with the son of god but more based off the pagan winter holiday.

I would rather hang out with some good friends and have a nice dinner and drank. Which is what I am doing since the whole family is going out of town.

I agree with everyone here. I'm a scrooge. I'd also rather eat and spend time together then worry about who I might offend if I don't get them something and what the hell they would want in the first place and how to practice my smile for a present I don't want. I like Thanksgiving the best. The GF gets stuff from me all year. I also don't like having to give things on a specified holiday. What I want is minimal and generally more money then I want someone else to ever spend on me. And on top of that I'm not religious so it's a meaningless day to me. It's good for kids but once everyone in the family is a grown up who fucking cares anymore?


And this made me laugh out loud at work right now. The image of you on christmas with an assault rifle and no presents makes me smile. I'd like to buy you a drink if I could.

hahahaha, good stuff

Ever notice that pagans, like myself, like to have a good time. However fundementalists are total squares?

You asked wtf is Christmas

technically Christmas is a sacred Catholic Church tradition which originated around the year 250A.D in Egypt by a bishop. The English language did not always exist. The word "Christmas", means "Christ's-Mass" from old English Christes Maesse first found in 1038 A.D. & Christes-Misse in 1131 A.D. French is Noel, Dutch is Kerst-Misse. The Catholic Church set December 25 as the date on which Christmas or Christ Mass is to be celebrated to fit the Catholic Church liturgical calendar. If you are not Catholic & do not go to Mass you do not have to worry about Christmas which means Christ’s Mass just as you do not have to worry about the sacred tradition of hanukkah if you are not Jewish or just as you do not have to worry about the sacred tradition of Ramadan if you are not Muslim.

So there you have it now you know wtf Christmas is. :)

As twisted as this is...Mom recently passed in September...her side of the family is leaving us alone for the most part...so only gift I had to buy...Surround Sound for Pops...and help him model the house (in my name of course) for a new TV/Movie room...kinda nice - spend time together and no Christmas BS.

Hustler...hope it works out for you!

BTW - the "Christmas tree" is a Pagan belief...not Christian or Catholic...

yes like many christian practices it incorporates the pagan beliefs of the native people being converted.

I'm Jewish, we only celebrate the death of christ.

But most of all, I hate all the christmas music thats on EVERY radio station. I'm driving my other car now, and dont have Sirius in it, so im stuck listening to the shit.

Shalom Aleichem:)

Aleichem Shalom ;)


Amazing how similar this is to - Salam Aleykum. Which is a Muslim saying.

I like Christmas, not the commercialism of it all. I have a 9yo, so we do the tree, put lights on the house, and have an open house for friends and family. We do not do any gift exchange for the adults in the family that's lame. We can always get what we want when we want it. My wife and I never do gift exchange, ever. However, we do purchase gifts for our two nieces and one nephew, and we set a price limit on that as well. We also purchase gifts for a foster child that is on an Angel tree. Even if you are a heartless bastard, you can always do that for a child for Christmas.

Actually, Christmas is a blend of Christian beliefs and the Roman holiday Saturnalia. It is a blend of pagan beliefs and the early church trying to conform to the rituals of the people in the region. Halloween is the exact same thing.

Christmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who gives a fuck? Buy me something you scrooge ass bastards!

Vash-

What is more amazing that the three religions are from the same region. Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim. Muslim and the Old Testament stories mirror each other except the names are different. Even the Epic of Gilgamesh(sp) mirrors some of the earliest of the Old Testament stories, except the Sumarians wrote it a few hundred years before the earliest known Old Testament documents. Go figure. Even the early Christian church rituals is a blend of both Judaism and Roman traditions.

Oh, quit your whining. One day of family will not kill you. Just take lots of wine. :)
Stephanie

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the baptists don't like wine too much, lol. My mother quit drinking after her 5th marriage. lol However, I have a bottle of 2004 Giacosa Borolo for Xmas. I'm going to break it out with some friends well after dinner...I want to let the amateurs fade away before I break out the corked-bat, steroid enriched power-hitter. Hopefully the 3-hour ride in my tighly-sprung miata didn't mute the nose.

If you're gonna copy, gotta copy from the best.

I like the christmas season. The food is great. I've got great family and it's good to see them at least once a year. I shop early and online, so I don't have to deal with bullshit malls. I like all the houses lit up in my neighborhood. I like eggnog and cider.

Christmas eve is for hanging out with family, and exchanging gifts. Christmas day is for staying home with the girlfriend and watching kung fu movies.

my holiday is going to involve heineken and call of duty.

No doubt.

Merry Christhanukaeidmas!

Dinner with family on 12/24. I am going to see Valkyrie on 12/25.

Nazi movie+Christmas=FAIL

I guess I fail.

no no no, like this...

I like Christmas. This evening we'll be having Chicken Enchiladas and then opening presents. After a nap, we'll be attending Midnight Mass. Tomorrow we'll be going over to have lunch with my wife's cousin and his family (if it's not snowing excessively).

I guess I just look to the reason that we are celebrating not at the commercialism that has been piled on it. We sat down with our kids and talked reality. Mom and Dad aren't going into debt for the next year to push a bunch of useless things for them. They gave us a list of things that they really wanted. My wife and I decided what we could afford and bought most of it online. We strive to go nowhere near the malls if we can avoid it.

Since you do nothing for her, where does she go to get laid? :)

Frank