No interest in Christmas

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  • Posts: 10,821
    Cosmo wrote:
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    I like Christmas... I believe Christmas is for everyone, not just Christians... everyone. Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, Scientologists... everyone. To me, it isn't about one religion, it is about all people.

    You are just saying that so your non-Christian friends will be forced to buy you a gift!!
  • Posts: 7,206
    I generally enjoy Christmas time....

    but watching the holiday through the "eyes" of my children brings me the greatest of joy. I seem to go back to a time of innocence and the excitement that my kids bring seems to rub off onto me....

    I love the first snow fall,
    the smell of pine trees and baking cookies
    the christmas lights as I walk around my neighborhood
    those silly christmas songs that I seem to play for the entire month of Dec. :D
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  • Posts: 10,821
    chadwick wrote:
    how about stop worrying about what society does during christmas time and just worry about what you have going on?

    if little johnny down the street has parents w/ tons of money and they spoil little johnny something fierce, who really gives a shit? i don't. i will not lose any sleep over 13 million kids all getting shit loads of gifts they do not need and deserve. they're not my problem in regards to parenting. they may be my problem as a whole as how society is when they are grown and running things.

    i say mind your own damn business and have a good fucking time however that may be. light a fire. roast a turkey. eat grilled cheese. give a card and letter to someone. do nothing at all but fart and watch ren & stimpy's marathon. i don't know.

    i also feel many are scrooge. scrooge is a dick, that is true. but i do not give a shit as scrooge is not my family or friend. if i try being nice to scrooge and scrooge is a dickhead, i move on and stuff. mostly though i keep coming back to fuck w/ scrooge because he makes me laugh w/ his grouchy bullshit and i enjoy fucking w/ him.

    not giving a shit when it comes to certain things makes life bearable. so spend your gold, f' your neighbor's wife, drink and be merry. who really gives a damn? lighten the hell up folks.


    Scrooge is also a duck.
  • Posts: 21,855
    My favorite Christmas toy as a child... a stuffed Santa that plays 'Santa Claus is coming to Town'
    I received when I was about 5

    it sits upstairs on the sitting room couch today
    and is 51 years old this year.
    my Santa...a cheery rubber face, his nose chewed on a bit, with a soft beard,
    a little corduroy outfit and a shiny black belt and boots.
    Turn the key in the back to hear the tune which now works very slow
    but brings a tear each year.

    I think of my Uncle Tony ... who brought it to me
    a chubby Italian man who always gave us girls a dollar when he visited
    He dressed like Santa that year and brought my Santa toy.
    I love him.

    This is also Christmas .. memories from long long ago
    memories one can really hold, even a lifetime later

    God bless Uncle Tony ... God bless Christmas :D
  • Posts: 6,363
    Cosmo wrote:
    Well... now i feel... well, kinda bad.
    I mean, I like Christmas... but, I hate Hitler... even on Christmas.
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    Oh, well... Merry Christmas Everybody!!!
    except for you, Hitler...

    All those Catholic priests... should they be wished a Merry Giftmas? You know the ones... the pediphiles...
  • Posts: 12,225
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    You are just saying that so your non-Christian friends will be forced to buy you a gift!!
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    BUSTED!
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    I really wanted that ghutrah to wear on those windy days at Huntington Beach.
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    P.S. Camp Freddy? Chris Cornell? See you?
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • Redlands, CA Posts: 2,269
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Am I alone here?

    The older I get the less I like Christmas time. I don't get depressed or anything, I just see it as a diversion and an obligation to spend money. It's what it's become that bothers me; the need to go shopping, the obligation to giving lots of gifts which is usually a bunch of stuff that no one needs. The media shoving the commercialism down our throats. The radio stations playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving. I've resorted to calling the holiday "Giftmas" because that's how society has exploited the holiday.

    If we could just get back to the basics of being kind, respectful and peaceful; what the holiday is supposed to mean, I may be more in the spirit.

    I totally agree! :thumbup:
    I'm not a Jehova Witness either.
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  • Posts: 10,821
    Cosmo wrote:
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    BUSTED!
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    I really wanted that ghutrah to wear on those windy days at Huntington Beach.
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    P.S. Camp Freddy? Chris Cornell? See you?

    Not this year...none of the Friday nights worked for us. Billy Idol is gonna play with them tomorrow night!
  • Posts: 14,077
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Am I alone here?

    The older I get the less I like Christmas time. I don't get depressed or anything, I just see it as a diversion and an obligation to spend money. It's what it's become that bothers me; the need to go shopping, the obligation to giving lots of gifts which is usually a bunch of stuff that no one needs. The media shoving the commercialism down our throats. The radio stations playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving. I've resorted to calling the holiday "Giftmas" because that's how society has exploited the holiday.

    If we could just get back to the basics of being kind, respectful and peaceful; what the holiday is supposed to mean, I may be more in the spirit.
    :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap: :thumbup: :thumbup:
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • Asia Posts: 4,528
    Christmas is the most phony time of the year....


    It is a microcosim of America
  • Posts: 10,821
    The more I get used to "doing" Christmas, I realize how stressful it is! Seems as if everyone is "just trying to get through" the holiday. Doesn't sound like fun!
  • Posts: 21,855
    I am shocked by the negativity ... not! :lol:

    They say the grinch's heart grew how many times its size?

    fill your hearts with love and kindness ... join the fun

    there is a lesson there we all learned when we were small but perhaps some have forgotten
  • Posts: 29,003
    i love xmas... i go to my ex's and drink all day whilst the kids try get me to sing the theme song to h r pufnstuf. 8-)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Posts: 10,821
    catefrances wrote:
    i love xmas... i go to my ex's and drink all day whilst the kids try get me to sing the theme song to h r pufnstuf. 8-)

    isn't that what you do everyday?
  • Posts: 12,225
    edited December 2011
    Jeanwah wrote:
    That's all I hear...

    Blah blah blah...
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    One year... I was going to hang my Christmas lights (like I always did)... I run the extension cord to the outlet first to make sure there is enough slack so the first bulb is on the corner of the eave. Then, toss the ball of lights up on the roof so I can string them along the roof line, right?
    Well, I forgot that I lent my ladder to my friend who lives up in Pasadena... which is a ways away... for a lazy guy like me, he might as well been living in Egypt. So, I went and did other stuff instead.
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    About a week later... my neighbor came by and asked with a sense of concern in her eyes, "Cosmo. Are you all right?". "Sure. Why?"
    "Well, your Christmas lights...".
    Turns out... i totally forgot about the tangled ball of lights on the corner of my roof. I had the extension cord plugged into an outlet with a timer on, so every night... this tangled ball of lights lit up. I never saw them because I come from work around the far corner.
    Anyway, i kinda like how punk rock they looked so that's how I decorate my home for Christmas.
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    Merry Christmas!!!
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    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • Posts: 29,003
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
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    isn't that what you do everyday?


    no. usually i sing the happy days theme. :P :mrgreen:
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Posts: 10,821
    catefrances wrote:
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    no. usually i sing the happy days theme. :P :mrgreen:


    which one...there were 2!
  • Posts: 21,855
    Cosmo wrote:
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    One year... I was going to hang my Christmas lights (like I always did)... I run the extension cord to the outlet first to make sure there is enough slack so the first bulb is on the corner of the eave. Then, toss the ball of lights up on the roof so I can string them along the roof line, right?
    Well, I forgot that I lent my ladder to my friend who lives up in Pasadena... which is a ways away... for a lazy guy like me, he might as well been living in Egypt. So, I went and did other stuff instead.
    ...
    About a week later... my neighbor came by and asked with a sense of concern in her eyes, "Cosmo. Are you all right?". "Sure. Why?"
    "Well, your Christmas lights...".
    Turns out... i totally forgot about the tangled ball of lights on the corner of my roof. I had the extension cord plugged into an outlet with a timer on, so every night... this tangled ball of lights lit up. I never saw them because I come from work around the far corner.
    Anyway, i kinda like how punk rock they looked so that's how I decorate my home for Christmas.
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    Merry Christmas!!!
    your name is Cosmo in real life ... that is so cool!

    You must have had very cool parents :D

    I liked your story a lot

    I also love Christmas stories well if they are not too scary
  • Posts: 29,003
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
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    which one...there were 2!


    well it wasnt rock around the clock.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Posts: 12,225
    pandora wrote:
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    your name is Cosmo in real life ... that is so cool!

    You must have had very cool parents :D

    I liked your story a lot

    I also love Christmas stories well if they are not too scary
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    Sorry. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!

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