When's your tree going up?

[fidelcastro]

Why celebrate Christmas at all?

People don't celebrate it for its supposed true meaning anyway.

[fidelcastro]

I agree, but you are supposed to make some sort of an effort if you have children get into the spirit of things, Xmas is for kids in the main I think it's magical to them.

It is for kids, which is why I don't understand why so many adults get so giddy.

[Rileybobs]

People don't celebrate it for its supposed true meaning anyway.

Exactly. I wouldn’t say that people who celebrated Christmas were sheep though.

[Jakubclaret]

It is for kids, which is why I don't understand why so many adults get so giddy.

It's a much needed break for some people time off work & the opportunity to spend precious time with their children. It's true kids grow up fast.

[fidelcastro]

Exactly. I wouldn’t say that people who celebrated Christmas were sheep though.

What would you call them?

[fidelcastro]

It's a much needed break for some people time off work & the opportunity to spend precious time with their children. It's true kids grow up fast.

That can happen at any time during the year for most people.

Christmas is an attempt at enforced fun.

[Rileybobs]

What would you call them?

I wouldn’t call them anything. Christmas is traditionally celebrated in this country and most people will have grown up celebrating Christmas and having a Christmas tree. It’s not like everyone is following a trend.

[fidelcastro]

I wouldn’t call them anything. Christmas is traditionally celebrated in this country and most people will have grown up celebrating Christmas and having a Christmas tree. It’s not like everyone is following a trend.

Yes. I remember them growing up too. It's something I just accepted, but as an adult I choose not to have one because I just don't see the point.

If that makes me weird, so be it.

[Bosscat]

"Bah Humbug" is rife tonight

[Rileybobs]

Yes. I remember them growing up too. It's something I just accepted, but as an adult I choose not to have one because I just don't see the point.

If that makes me weird, so be it.

Nobody said you’re weird. You’re free to do as you please, but it doesn’t make those who celebrate Christmas sheep. Most people use it as a chance to take some time off work and spend time with the family.

[fidelcastro]

Nobody said you’re weird. You’re free to do as you please, but it doesn’t make those who celebrate Christmas sheep. Most people use it as a chance to take some time off work and spend time with the family.

That's fine, but let's not pretend that Christmas is the only time that can happen.

Thanks to the trade union movement, employees are entitled to time off throughout the year, in order to spend time with their families if they so choose.

I just find adults who get excited about Christmas a bit strange at best and rather annoying at worst.

[Rileybobs]

That's fine, but let's not pretend that Christmas is the only time that can happen.

Thanks to the trade union movement, employees are entitled to time off throughout the year, in order to spend time with their families if they so choose.

I just find adults who get excited about Christmas a bit strange at best and rather annoying at worst.

Yeah, let’s all be sheep and take two weeks off in summer to go to Tenerife with the kids…

I know what you mean about giddy adults, and don’t like how Christmas is in your face from late October. But for many people it’s something to look forward to at a time of the year when the days are short and the weather is miserable so whatever makes them happy.

[fidelcastro]

Yeah, let’s all be sheep and take two weeks off in summer to go to Tenerife with the kids…

I know what you mean about giddy adults, and don’t like how Christmas is in your face from late October. But for many people it’s something to look forward to at a time of the year when the days are short and the weather is miserable so whatever makes them happy.

I don't really understand your first sentence, but I can't think of anything else but Christmas that is both simultaneously sentimental and commercial.

I hate it personally, but each to their own.

[Jakubclaret]

I don't really understand your first sentence, but I can't think of anything else but Christmas that is both simultaneously sentimental and commercial.

I hate it personally, but each to their own.

You circumstantially hate it perhaps retired with no young children or relatives but other people are entirely in a different boat.

[Rileybobs]

I don't really understand your first sentence, but I can't think of anything else but Christmas that is both simultaneously sentimental and commercial.

I hate it personally, but each to their own.

My first point was that by the same definition people who go on a holiday with the family are sheep.

[fidelcastro]

You circumstantially hate it perhaps retired with no young children or relatives but other people are entirely in a different boat.

Not really. I didn't like it as a child either.

[Bosscat]

I love Christmas am also Retired ... no kids of my own ... 2 married Step Grown ups and 7 wonderful step Grandkids ... its the commercialisation on TV (that starts in late September) that gets up my nose

[fidelcastro]

My first point was that by the same definition people who go on a holiday with the family are sheep.

Hmmm ... Not necessarily to Tenerife though

The thread seems to have digressed. It was supposed to be about Christmas trees.

I honestly believe so many people put them up because everyone else does.

I refuse to conform to something so mundane.

[ksrclaret]

I also love Christmas time. I love the vibes when you go out around town, I love the markets, I love the songs playing in the shops, I love the programmes on telly, I even like the adverts. Midnight mass is one of my favourite times in the year.

I'm totally happy if others would like to call me strange for that. I think it says far, far more about them.

[Woodleyclaret]

Christmas is a great time and growing up it meant 3 games .In the good times 9 points witb lots of local derbies.

[Clovius Boofus]

I don't mind Christmas Day, even though I'm the one doing all the cooking - TBH I don't mind doing the cooking. I also like Boxing Day. What I don't like is the over-commercialising aspect of Christmas. It's rammed at us for eight weeks or so - buy, buy, buy. I think this is why a lot of people feel the whole thing is an anticlimax.

[Volvoclaret]

Do Xmas sheep go Bah, Bah humbug?

[boatshed bill]

I haven't even stolen mine off the Forestry Commission yet

[Taffy on the wing]

I don't mind Christmas Day, even though I'm the one doing all the cooking - TBH I don't mind doing the cooking. I also like Boxing Day. What I don't like is the over-commercialising aspect of Christmas. It's rammed at us for eight weeks or so - buy, buy, buy. I think this is why a lot of people feel the whole thing is an anticlimax.

Eight weeks?....you were lucky!...... we've had it for that long already, yes, the shitty music too!

[jrgbfc]

I don't mind Christmas Day, even though I'm the one doing all the cooking - TBH I don't mind doing the cooking. I also like Boxing Day. What I don't like is the over-commercialising aspect of Christmas. It's rammed at us for eight weeks or so - buy, buy, buy. I think this is why a lot of people feel the whole thing is an anticlimax.

Agree with this, it's the over commercialisation and people feeling pressure to rush round buying crap that nobody needs that I hate. Social media has also made it worse, people showing off a mountain of presents under the tree or those family photos in matching pyjamas that really get on my nerves