Double_E Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 (edited) OK, it's my first CC.com poll. I'm curious as to why some people distaste Christmas so much. Select any two of the choices below. People who actually like Christmas, or who are ambivalent about it all... please dont vote. This poll is just for those who hate Christmas, or those who even just dislike it. Edited December 5, 2005 by minx Quote
Double_E Posted December 5, 2005 Author Posted December 5, 2005 PS... excerpt from an email I sent a friend about an hour ago, which will describe how I feel about Christmas ... well, in the context of my thoughts on the city of Bellevue. Can I just say.... .... that BELLEVUE GIVES ME THE FUCKIN *WILLIES*!?!?!?!?!? ugh. Marmot, the store I had to go to this evening, is right smack dab in downtown Bellevue. heart of the business and shopping district. Belleuve Square Mall and all the other big glitzy shit right next door. Xmas shoppers everywhere..... Xmas lights everywhere (more bulbs per cubic meter than I've probably seen, ANYwhere)... band on street corner playing soft-rock versions of motherfuckin Christmas carols (and loud, may I add... VERY loud.) ..... buncha guys dressed up as toy soldiers marching around, playing drums.... cheery-dressed men and wimmin stationed on streetcorners to smile and wave to motorists. eeaaghh. made my skin crawl. I mean, I'm not anti-Christmas at all, I do like the holidays .. so it wasn't exactly THAT. but just the whole scene, scenario, environment. Quote
Dave_Schuldt Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 I hate the cheesey music. I thought how nice it would be to shoot the speakers in Safeway today. Quote
foraker Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 I understand your sentiment but it's going to be what you allow it to be for youself. I hate the commercialism of it but I spend the time from T-day to NYD studiously avoiding shopping for anything other than food. The first Xmas I spent overseas, in Sweden, was beautiful. It was very quiet and serene. Quote
olyclimber Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 This one time I was in a convenience store, and guy came up and asked me, "What's the score?" and I said, "What is the game? If it's a competition between me and you, and the object is to ask the other guy questions he doesn't give a shit about, then you are winning, one to nothing." Quote
Squid Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 Oly has many anecdotes predictated on the one time he "went up to a guy and said blah blah blah." The said truth is that Oly is a terribly repressed recluse, and he gibbers and drools in the presence of women. Adult males make him wet himself in fear. He likes the company of small children ( >4). I still think he's' a stand-up kind of guy. Quote
Ireneo_Funes Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 I like Christmas, and I'm not even Christian. I guess that makes me really well-adjusted. Quote
olyclimber Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 anyway, I won't deny it. I drool in the presence of women. Its my secret, give it a try sometime. Quote
olyclimber Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 Clearly you're doing something wrong. Quote
Ireneo_Funes Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 This one time I was in a convenience store, and guy came up and asked me, "What's the score?" and I blushed and stammered something unintelligible. Finally he walked away. Later I thought it would have been really clever if I said "What is the game? If it's a competition between me and you, and the object is to ask the other guy questions he doesn't give a shit about, then you are winning, one to nothing." Quote
olyclimber Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 Actually, that wasn't the qoute. You got it wrong. Make sure your caplocks aren't on, and that your fingers are touching the correct keys. Quote
Squid Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 BTW- I'm enjoying my broadband with a nice 'Rex-Goliath' shiraz. It is pleasantly spicy, with a hint of fruit. You might enjoy it while reading "How to Pick Up Women over 20," Oly. Quote
olyclimber Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 Are there instructions for putting them back down as well? Quote
Ireneo_Funes Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 I polished off a bottle of shiraz earlier this evening myself...well, with help from a friend. A woman over 20, in fact. Quote
Squid Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 It only gets better. Try uncorking the bottle and drinking it before polishing, IF. Your friend will be impressed. Quote
Ireneo_Funes Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 I'll make a note of that. In other news, thumbs up on the Penfold's Koonunga Hill shiraz. Excellent bottle-polishing there. Quote
Squid Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 Excellent reporting, IF. If there were an icon of clapping hands, I'd surely honor your post. In the future, please keep all wine reviews to wines that cost less than $5/liter (up to $7 is acceptable for 1 gallon boxes). Quote
cj001f Posted December 5, 2005 Posted December 5, 2005 Are there instructions for putting them back down as well? They have self-esteem; they'll put you down. Quote
Double_E Posted December 15, 2005 Author Posted December 15, 2005 I hate the cheesey music. I know, a lot of people say that. But I gotta ask: is that hate a cause ... or a symptom ..... of the general comtempt for the whole holiday? One reason I've never hated Christmas music... when I was a kid, the most common Christmas music albums we listened to were: 1) Motown Christmas -- featuring Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Diana Ross, and others. 2) Mele Kalikimaka -- some Hawaiian band or bands, doing Xmas tunes. 3) John Denver with the Muppets doing Xmas. So I wasn't much exposed too much to the classic oh-so-whitey suburban accents of the Christmas Carols you hear crooned in stores. Quote
Dru Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 Cadaverous Commentary While some merrymakers deck the halls with boughs of holly, other holiday displays feature a blood-spattered Santa Claus gripping a severed head. Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos embraced a macabre approach to decorating the front of their Manhattan mansion as a form of social commentary. "It is a religious holiday, but they have turned it into a business," said Krupnik, who disdains the commercialization and secularization of Christmas. Their ornamentation includes a knife-wielding St. Nick, a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls, and an elf clutching a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets, the Associated Press reported. "Sick, sick, sick," griped one passerby. But another Manhattanite said the décor echoed how he felt when watching someone dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants promote products at Rockefeller Center. "This is brilliant," he said. -- Jenny McKeel for Wired News Quote
Cobra_Commander Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 it the most won-der-ful time of the year! I love getting ripped! Quote
Cobra_Commander Posted December 15, 2005 Posted December 15, 2005 yes but this is the only time you can get NOG (unless you have some strategic reserve). Quote
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