[scotsboyuk]

Is anyone else fed up with Christmas?

[Mizzle]

Not I

[Ly]

Never!

[SnowiffiC]

Fed up = tired of? Then yes.

[WizaJ]

Why would you be fed up with Christmas Scots?

[photographer]

I'm not, I like it ^^ I like lights and snow for me it's not about religion or so cuz I'm not religious.

[WizaJ]

Down here it's quite a religious time though Photoman (can I call you that? sounds like a superhero), btw really nice sig!

[photographer]

The Netherlands is not that religious. There's "the bible belt", a region where about 90% is religious and in the rest of the country it's about 40% religious.

[MWEB1]

Scot's is a Scot, their miserable buggers at the best of times, but when at Xmas their put in a position to be jolly, and have to buy presents for people, well it all gets just a bit too much, that's why they hate xmas and just look FW to getting paralytic over new year

[WizaJ]

Bible belt? Slightly offensive term but nonetheless I don't think SE-NSE is the right place for a religion discussion so we best change the topic.

[WizaJ]

MWEB on se-nse, on 2008-12-14 21:47, said:

Scot's is a Scot, their miserable buggers at the best of times, but when at Xmas their put in a position to be jolly, and have to buy presents for people, well it all gets just a bit too much, that's why they hate xmas and just look FW to getting paralytic over new year

[scotsboyuk]

I dislike Christmas for the following reasons:

Despite not being Christian I find it hypocritical that the original meaning of Christmas is lost in a sea of marketing.

I dislike the whole material culture; I do NOT need another pair of gloves or another scarf or another book. All these items will sit in drawers for a year before being given to charity.

I detest Christmas music being played ad nauseum in shops.

I detest shops with the heating turned up full blast; packs of desperate men and women rampaging through them like wildebeest across the Serengeti and I loathe the plastered on smiles of people who would otherwise not give you a nod in the desert.

I do not enjoy sliding on my arse or freezing my plums off and being told that it is 'Christmas weather'; it is freezing is what it is!

I do not appreciate the panic that breaks out in my local supermarket on Christmas Eve because it will be shut for two days. There is no need to stock up on milk, bread or tinned goods because the shops will be shut for a couple of days; this is not wartime and there is no rationing.

I am fed up with having to duel with middle aged women with a crazed glint in their eye for a parking space at shopping centres.

I have played Santa Claus before and was extremely hot and uncomfortable having to wear a nylon beard and stuff a pillow underneath my jacket whilst spoiled little oiks demanded that I bring them horrendously expensive gifts.

[jock]

i like christmas but not for the religion i dont believe any religion. just listen to the bible who can walk on water? if jesus can why dont he come down and proove it? anyway everyone got their own thoughts

[Ishan Sardar]

[devilwasabi]

I wish i celebrate christmas and have lots of christmas present, sadly i dont' :/

[Ishan Sardar]

Don't worry wait for santa he sure have some gifts for u too

[WizaJ]

scotsboyuk, on 2008-12-15 02:15, said:

I dislike Christmas for the following reasons:

Despite not being Christian I find it hypocritical that the original meaning of Christmas is lost in a sea of marketing.

I dislike the whole material culture; I do NOT need another pair of gloves or another scarf or another book. All these items will sit in drawers for a year before being given to charity.

I detest Christmas music being played ad nauseum in shops.

I detest shops with the heating turned up full blast; packs of desperate men and women rampaging through them like wildebeest across the Serengeti and I loathe the plastered on smiles of people who would otherwise not give you a nod in the desert.

I do not enjoy sliding on my arse or freezing my plums off and being told that it is 'Christmas weather'; it is freezing is what it is!

I do not appreciate the panic that breaks out in my local supermarket on Christmas Eve because it will be shut for two days. There is no need to stock up on milk, bread or tinned goods because the shops will be shut for a couple of days; this is not wartime and there is no rationing.

I am fed up with having to duel with middle aged women with a crazed glint in their eye for a parking space at shopping centres.

I have played Santa Claus before and was extremely hot and uncomfortable having to wear a nylon beard and stuff a pillow underneath my jacket whilst spoiled little oiks demanded that I bring them horrendously expensive gifts.

I must definitely agree with you about some of those points, especially about the materialism and unnecessary hype, and if you meant fed up in that sense, then I too am quite fed up with it. You played Santa?

[se user]

i don't mind x-mas (even though i don't take part in it it, as i am not Cristian) i get time of college so i can catch up on work and relax but i hate the white crismus ideia in london "this year it will be xx% chance of a white crismus" and if by some mirical the weatherman/womwn is right the the next day the new is "roads/schools closed due to bad weather, stay in doors" ................ any one else seeing the oxymoron?

[photographer]

WizaJ, on 2008-12-14 20:48, said:

Bible belt? Slightly offensive term but nonetheless I don't think SE-NSE is the right place for a religion discussion so we best change the topic.

I can't help it's called like that. I don't see the offensive part in it anyway.

@ scots, I agree on the materialism part. My family just celebrates with small presents, some chocolate, a CD or something similar.

[MWEB1]

Hey, some of us oldies are grateful for a bit of free heat at this time of year, Scots