Anyone else hate christmas day ?

Malevolence said:
I know what you mean OP. This is my first 'dry' Christmas and it's been ******* awful. All my mates are out getting drunk and having fun and I'm stuck there drinking pop and feeling like the spare dick at a whore convention. Then on Christmas Day all my family are enjoying a nice few tipples and getting merry whilst, yet again, I'm stuck on tea and pop again.


Expects someone to go through the horrendous process of upending their entire life and moving house simply because one day of the year happens to be ****. GD never fails to deliver.
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I see sobriety isn't agreeing with you.....

The 'move somewhere better' was tongue in cheek. I feel sorry for you if a lack of smiley means you couldn't get that. Nothing like getting the wrong end of the stick then getting twisted panties about it...but to quite you GD never fails to deliver.
 
I don’t normally go a lot on Christmas Day, but it was great yesterday. Got some lovely gifts, had an amazing 3 meat roast and a nice drink last night with members of my family who I rarely see. One highlight being my 57 year old mother dancing like a maniac to JX - There’s nothing I won’t do. Didn’t know she had the energy. Not looking so good this morning though lol.

Today is chill day with football, horse racing, cold meat sandwiches and beer. Are Indian takeaways open Boxing Day?
 
LeeUK said:
I like Christmas mostly because it's the one day of the year that the country truly mostly shuts down. What with Sunday's being an ordinary day same with all other bank/public holidays.
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If only that was true, not sure where you live or reside but here in London quite a few places were open and lots of traffic on the roads etc.

I do miss those days when everything and I mean everything was closed on Xmas day.

I mean ffs even McDonald’s is open now on Xmas day when it was always closed.
 
It's all a bit pointless, I see my close family every week so it's not like us all being together for a meal is anything we don't normally do, buying presents is awkward because lets face it, there is nothing you can buy them that they haven't already got or can easily buy themselves.

For kids it's a lot of fun of course, for everyone is just a waste of money. Can we just limit the whole present thing to children? adults buying adults presents that are is inexpensive and available in every shop within a 5 minute walk is just so stupid.

Add to the fact I'm atheist it's probably my least favourite time of year.
 
Hate this time of year. As I'm nearly always single at Christmas I go and spend a few days visiting the parents and family then head back to Nottingham.

I'm a strong believer that Christmas is for families with young kids and as i don't meet either of those requirements its of no real interest to me and is all just hype.

I enjoy the time off work but the commitments to family, present buying, binging on everything just cos it's Christmas is just a ballache
 
Instead of visiting family I had a couple of friends over that would have been on their own otherwise. Had some beers, did a nice dinner and had a laugh listening to Kevin Wilson and other silly Christmas music. :D

Bloody knackered today though. The whole getting up early to prep everything and rushing around routine is tiring.

I don't particularly like Christmas but it's what you make it.
 
I do not hate it but I don't particularly like it and never have, well least for most of my adult life. Made worse these past 9 years as I can no longer swallow solid food so no Christmas dinner for me and rarely drink because if the double whammy of having very little sense of tastes so much so that beer tastes absolutely foul and I did love my beer.
So I pack her off to her sons and I mooch around trying to find something on the TV that has not been on a multitude of times before and failing miserable.
For me yesterday was a bottle of vodka and music videos until too drunk to stand, oh joy.
 
My main complaint about Xmas day is I wish my stomach was bigger. Just can't handle the big meals like I could when younger. Have to take a break between main meal and desert. Don't even have a starter like we used to.
 
jsmoke said:
My main complaint about Xmas day is I wish my stomach was bigger. Just can't handle the big meals like I could when younger. Have to take a break between main meal and desert. Don't even have a starter like we used to.
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I can handle a big Christmas dinner, but I can’t continually eat non stop like some seem to do over the Christmas period. Piling their faces with sandwiches, crisps, chocolates, cakes, cheese, nuts, crackers and god knows what else they’ve loaded their huge American fridges up with.
 
Swedish Xmas means nothing to me, I basically have to sit through it smiling.
No one has kids so it's basically a bigger meal where most of the foods rank and peasants stuff.
Deffo gonna try get back to the UK next year and have a my family Xmas... Gonna eat mince pies till I puke.

I opted to work as many shifts as possible, so I'll buy myself some electronic consumer Xmas cheer at the end of January.
 
Malevolence said:
I know what you mean OP. This is my first 'dry' Christmas and it's been ******* awful. All my mates are out getting drunk and having fun and I'm stuck there drinking pop and feeling like the spare dick at a whore convention. Then on Christmas Day all my family are enjoying a nice few tipples and getting merry whilst, yet again, I'm stuck on tea and pop again.


Expects someone to go through the horrendous process of upending their entire life and moving house simply because one day of the year happens to be ****. GD never fails to deliver.
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I'm not sure why your Christmas was dry, but this was my third sober chirstmas and it was great fun. They do get easier. I spent my Christmas with other sober people. I helped out at a soup kitchen which was both distracting, interesting, and a good reminder that actually I don't have it too bad. Then I went to a sober friends house and we had a lovely dinner of our own. It was great, plenty of company, no drunks, and no pressure or expectations since it was a Christmas very unlike others I've had.

Im single, live hundreds of miles from my family, and could have spent Christmas alone and feeling sorry for myself but I chose not to do that. I'm sure you and the OP, with a little creativeness, could do the same.
 
jsmoke said:
My main complaint about Xmas day is I wish my stomach was bigger. Just can't handle the big meals like I could when younger. Have to take a break between main meal and desert. Don't even have a starter like we used to.
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Yep - Yep and Yep :( Old age sucks.
 
Efour said:
Swedish Xmas means nothing to me, I basically have to sit through it smiling.
No one has kids so it's basically a bigger meal where most of the foods rank and peasants stuff.
Deffo gonna try get back to the UK next year and have a my family Xmas... Gonna eat mince pies till I puke.

I opted to work as many shifts as possible, so I'll buy myself some electronic consumer Xmas cheer at the end of January.
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Slovak Christmas was interesting, but enjoyable. I brought a Christmas pudding and some mince pies over for them to try, which went down like a pork pie at a Bar Mitzvah to be honest.
 
Yas786 said:
If only that was true, not sure where you live or reside but here in London quite a few places were open and lots of traffic on the roads etc.

I do miss those days when everything and I mean everything was closed on Xmas day.

I mean ffs even McDonald’s is open now on Xmas day when it was always closed.
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Even the multitude of local takeaways that are all usually open all day every day were closed here yesterday. Also the local owned asian/indian/sikh corner shops where only open limited hours.

That's one of the benefits of living in a normal run of the mill ex mining town. As like I say, it's nice having everything shut down for a day. No buses, no trains, no newspapers, no commercialisation. It's the only day of the year all this happens.

Yes people still work who have to work but that is a completely different subject.
 
I like Christmas, but find there's too much pressure on the day itself (the 25th), and I much prefer the general Christmas period
 
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