Topic: (It Is Much Too Early For) A Christmas Thread! (Read 30540 times)

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #50 on:** 09 Nov 2009, 18:03 »

EDIT: Christmas card Capybaras

Lunchbox · « **Reply #51 on:** 09 Nov 2009, 18:03 »

I have to organise Kris Kringle for my Big Nerdy Office.
Does anyone have any cool ideas?

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #52 on:** 09 Nov 2009, 20:12 »

ABC Family is doing some sort of Christmas Countdown to their 25 Days of Christmas

Lines · « **Reply #53 on:** 09 Nov 2009, 20:18 »

I didn't watch White Christmas yesterday. Nope, no I didn't.

(Actually yes I did because I told a friend I'd never seen it and she made me watch it and I am ok with that.)

calenlass · « **Reply #54 on:** 09 Nov 2009, 21:29 »

Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 09 Nov 2009, 04:58

The girl and I have discussed it and since this will be our first christmas together, well the first we're living through together, that we should decorate our flat accordingly. Given that we go to metal concerts and goth clubs and the like together we're going to do this christmas thing right. Silver and red tinsel? Yes. Black holly around the flat? Fuck yes. Black Christmas Tree? OH MY GOTH YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE IT!

Please do some sort of chain garland.

Reed · « **Reply #55 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 07:45 »

Bah Humbug!

syrupykeyboard · « **Reply #56 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 10:52 »

Quote from: Reed on 10 Nov 2009, 07:45

Bah Humbug!

My sentiments exactly.

EDIT: I like the Christmas season, but it's just so frikkin' depressing.
Don't need no more frikkin' depression.
Frikkin'.

P.S. Lol, frikkin' like the Dickens.

Something Witty · « **Reply #57 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 11:12 »

Christmas time is awesome. Even more awesome, though, is thanksgiving time. It is only nov 10, but my grandma is already starting on thanksgiving dinner ingredients. Which means soon the house will smell like thanksgiving for about a week before thanksgiving it's self. Then it will be christmas season and cookies and candies will be everywhere.

That said, fuck christmas music. I worked in the mall one christmas, and, irritatingly enough, I worked about twenty feet from the stage for the live, awful christmas performances. Nothing will make you hate christmas music like hearing it for 10 hours a day 6 days a week for three weeks.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #58 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 11:17 »

Melanie's Christmas album isn't too bad. And I still like Bing Crosby.

My grandmother is having me over tonight so I can help her bake Christmas cookies (translation: So I can do all the stirring that her arthritis keeps her from, but that's okay). Too early, you say?

Bah humbug back atcha.

(That being said, I really don't like Christmas, nor the family get-togethers and drama that always ends up happening, I just want to spend time with my grandmother because I don't think she has long left in this world)

michaelicious · « **Reply #59 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 11:22 »

I think Christmas is pretty cool. When I was 15 I moved quite a considerable portion of the province away from my extended family, and our annual family Christmas party is the only time I get to see them all.

I have a question: Am I a rare case in that I am not particularly fond of Christmas/Thanksgiving dinners? The food is just kind of boring to me. I have been trying to convince my mom to do something more interesting on Christmas for years but the turkey tradition has not released its stranglehold on holiday meals.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #60 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 11:27 »

I think that the dinners are pretty awesome, because (1) lots of stuff can be done with turkey (for Thanksgiving) and large roasting meat (for Christmas) and (2) I rarely eat turkey or a large roast, so it still maintains the deliciousness necessary.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #61 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 11:43 »

Quote from: michaelicious on 10 Nov 2009, 11:22

I have a question: Am I a rare case in that I am not particularly fond of Christmas/Thanksgiving dinners? The food is just kind of boring to me. I have been trying to convince my mom to do something more interesting on Christmas for years but the turkey tradition has not released its stranglehold on holiday meals.

This is the first year my grandmother won't be doing either.

My grandmother is an English woman. As such, she cooks like an English woman. Mm, boiled potatoes and steamed cabbage. It's nothing spectacular, trust me.

Something Witty · « **Reply #62 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 13:33 »

Quote from: michaelicious on 10 Nov 2009, 11:22

I have a question: Am I a rare case in that I am not particularly fond of Christmas/Thanksgiving dinners? The food is just kind of boring to me. I have been trying to convince my mom to do something more interesting on Christmas for years but the turkey tradition has not released its stranglehold on holiday meals.

The trick is to have lots of other stuff as well. I for one am a sucker for turkey because the only time I eat it is during the holidays, and I always end up eating turkey for like a week after thanksgiving because there are always leftovers. It's awesome.

That said you can cook whatever you want, it'll all get eaten. So if you don't want turkey, learn to cook and get to work. Broaden everyone's horizons.

Liz · « **Reply #63 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 13:36 »

I've never had turkey on Christmas, that's saved for Thanksgiving. Christmas is the one time of year that my grandma goes crazy with the Norwegian food, and we have Norwegian sausage and lefse and flat bread and krumkake and tons of other stuff that is just full of nom nom nom.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #64 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 13:41 »

My family isn't much into the whole christmas thing because we're Belgian, so we don't have the big roast and stuff. Instead it's our 'everyone cooks a different part of the meal night'. So basically it usually ends up with my dad or mom cooking the main meal, and my brother or me preparing desert/appetizer. It's always really delicious, and lots of fun.

One year my dad made an icebox cake in the shape of a dragon's tail. It was pretty awesome.

Eris · « **Reply #65 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 15:12 »

My family used to cook a full hot lunch with ham and turkey and cabbage and roast potatoes and cauliflower, the whole shebang, when my (very Irish) Grandparents would visit. This is in the middle of Summer, remember, so my parents would be sweating in the kitchen while the oldies would sit in the air conditioned room and relax.

Once we moved 6 hours away from them we went the more logical route and had a cold Christmas lunch, With a small breakfast and leftovers for dinner. Oh, and prawns; lots and lots of prawns, with salt and lemon. Maybe my favourite part of Christmas was sitting down peeling and eating prawns all afternoon until you can't eat any more, then going and laying down for an hour to digest.

You haven't lived until you have experienced a summer Christmas.

Inlander · « **Reply #66 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 15:35 »

Man I love the Christmas siesta.

Sometimes my family has a salmon, but usually we do the traditional Christmas turkey etcetera, partly because my mum's from England.

Speaking of which, I ought to step in here and defend English food. I spent most of 2003 living with my grandparents in England. My grandmother did all the cooking, and she cooked very traditional English food, which meant that basically there weren't any spices in it. But she was a good cook and she took care to get good ingredients - especially meat - so all the food she cooked was delicious. I'd call it "subtle" rather than "boring".

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #67 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 15:38 »

so pretty much just like everything British?

England: subtley good, obviously boring

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #68 on:** 10 Nov 2009, 16:54 »

On Christmas Eve I'll be going to my Dad's place (it's a European thing apparently?) and I am expecting prawns, smoked salmon, lots of fish, various Hungarian foods and other such stuff. Then on Christmas Day I'll be at my mums where I am expecting turkey and shouting. I like Christmas Eve a lot but Christmas Day has been terrible ever since my mum decided she didn't want to go to the big family things that happen every year because she refuses to get over some minor argument she had with one of her sisters. The year my brother and I decided to have Christmas at our place (at which we cooked and did everything so that all mum had to do was show up and have a good time), she told us we'd ruined christmas and were terrible sons for doing so and that we're never having christmas anywhere but her place again. My mum's place is incredibly filthy and littered with useless junk (she's a hoarder so she has piles of magazines from when I was a child and because she has a bad back and knee she can't clean up after her cat which is not really litter-trained).

I kind of hate Christmas Day.

valley_parade · « **Reply #69 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 06:31 »

Jewelry store commercials at Christmas (which apparently now includes pre-Thanksgiving) pretty much make me want to hang myself for being single. Is that a normal sentiment?

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #70 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 10:22 »

As my aunt always tells me, "Homicide, not suicide."

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #71 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 10:24 »

So...because I'm single, I should go on a murderous rampage every time I see a jewellery advert? Awesome

Inlander · « **Reply #72 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 18:55 »

Oh also, Christmas Eve is my dad's birthday so, you know, that's a thing.

Hey, everyone: what date is Christmas? This year I swear I'm gonig to remember! I know it's the 20-something-in-the-middleth. I don't know why I always forget.

tania · « **Reply #73 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 20:23 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 13 Nov 2009, 06:31

Jewelry store commercials at Christmas (which apparently now includes pre-Thanksgiving) pretty much make me want to hang myself for being single. Is that a normal sentiment?

so basically life isn't worth living unless you're in a relationship and the girl you're in a relationship with is uncreative enough to ask for anything for christmas other than expensive jewelry she sees in commercials on television?

dang man i am sorry if this sounds bitter but in an incredibly superficial capitalist society like this one you have basically got to realize major industries at christmastime profit immensely from this kind of thinking. forget about this nonsense, be happy, life is actually pretty cool.

SWOON! at My Gravitas · « **Reply #74 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 21:55 »

While I do enjoy myself some anti-capitalist rhetoric, I believe I speak for all single-jewelry-store-commercial-watchers when I say that it's less about crass commercialism and more about the bitter, crushing lonliness.

Edit: Life is still pretty cool, though. I agree there.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #75 on:** 13 Nov 2009, 23:23 »

Eh, I feel pretty okay watching those adverts, and I'm a lonely motherfucker.

Ballard · « **Reply #76 on:** 14 Nov 2009, 01:45 »

Quote from: greenMonkey on 08 Nov 2009, 18:13

I actually really enjoy Christmas. This year I am really looking forward to caroling! Apparently, my a cappella group has one night every year where we consume lots of alcohol and go caroling, and I could not be more excited for it.

Doing it wrong.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #77 on:** 14 Nov 2009, 04:15 »

Quote from: greenMonkey on 08 Nov 2009, 18:13

where we consume lots of alcohol and go caroling

Nah man, doing it right.

sean · « **Reply #78 on:** 14 Nov 2009, 16:47 »

guys we trying to secret santa this year?

i mean yeah its early but are we?

Eris · « **Reply #79 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 16:25 »

I just remembered something! This song is the only Christmas Carol I don't immediately hate. Too bad I can't just play it over and over again, because that would be really boring.

JD · « **Reply #80 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 16:34 »

Did our first Christmas Shopping yesterday. woo

phooey · « **Reply #81 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 16:50 »

I was in a record store yesterday and tried to buy someone the Low Christmas album. She thought I was kidding about it being good and then confessed the only Christmas album she owns is the Soof-yawn one.

Should I stop speaking to her?

(yes)

JD · « **Reply #82 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 16:52 »

0bsessions · « **Reply #83 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 16:55 »

Best Christmas song ever, guys.

jmrz · « **Reply #84 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 17:22 »

Christmas is kind of a Big Deal in my house. My mum love love loves it, we have a ridiculously large Christmas tree (we can't have a real one, mum is allergic) and it's 10' tall. It takes about five or six hours to put it up and get it decorate, it's an effort.

We generally do a big lunch with a baked dinner and prawns and whatnot. But mum does a mixture of things, so there's the roast, prawns and cold meats as well. Because I have a sister and step-siblings who do attend their other parent's houses for Christmas as well, it gets a bit mixed up and basically, whoever is there is there. It makes it more complicated with we have boyfriends involved or whatever and we need to attend their parent's Christmas festivities.

My favourite part of Christmas is finding presents for people. I love finding perfect gifts and things that I know people will like. It's lots of fun.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #85 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 18:03 »

Do you have an incredibly tall house, or do you have it outside? Ten feet seems kind of high to me, although I might be misjudging.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #86 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 18:04 »

I want to Glasgow this evening and it was packed full of people who had just attended the 'switching on of the christmas lights event'.

10 ft. is about the height of an average roof. It's a bit more than three meters?

Eris · « **Reply #87 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 18:13 »

a 3m tree is huge, it wouldn't fit in my house, so I am guessing she has high ceilings in her house.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #88 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 18:41 »

She does.

I used to own a bunch of christmas decorations and a sparkly tree but it got lost/stolen in the big move/breakup.
I'd buy a whole bunch for this year but I'm saving my money and nobody ever sees my apartment anyway

Maybe I should just decorate my desk at work.

Bibliophile · « **Reply #89 on:** 15 Nov 2009, 21:59 »

Eris, I love the Fabian song too! You = made of win for reminding me of that one.

Last year we couldn't afford a tree but we hung up all three strands of tinsel and some gold gift shaped present ornaments that we have. It was my first Christmas ever without a tree and I got super sad when I realised we couldn't get one and cried a little bit, but not in front of Jesse because I didn't want to make him feel bad. Then my parents in law invited us over to help decorate their tree and we all had egg nog and sang carols and I felt better. I love Christmas.

This year I get two Christmases. I will have the regular one here in Canada, and then Jesse and I will be going to Australia to visit my family. It will be new years eve when we arrive, but I will insist everyone pretend it's still Christmas or else.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #90 on:** 16 Nov 2009, 04:11 »

Quote from: 0bsessions on 15 Nov 2009, 16:55

Best Christmas song ever, guys.

Fixed.

allison · « **Reply #91 on:** 16 Nov 2009, 04:42 »

I am super excited for Christmas, because my mom and I go Martha Stewart all over the holidays.
We rarely Christmas shop (for presents) at the mall; instead we go to the One of a Kind show, which is this huge expo in this huuuuge convention centre, and a zillion artists bring their wares and we can usually find something for almost everyone. It takes about 8 hours to really shop this craft show. It's great.

Then we pick a colour scheme for the dining room table and begin preparations for the centrepiece! This was the table in 2007, and this was the table in 2008. Seriously, we go nuts.

The only thing I'm not happy about is working retail. The Christmas music has begun already, and Santa arrives at the mall TOMORROW. Ugh.

valley_parade · « **Reply #92 on:** 16 Nov 2009, 09:23 »

Quote from: 0bsessions on 15 Nov 2009, 16:55

Best Christmas song ever, guys.

Whatever happened to your karaoke video of that?

Quote from: tania on 13 Nov 2009, 20:23

dang man i am sorry if this sounds bitter but in an incredibly superficial capitalist society like this one you have basically got to realize major industries at christmastime profit immensely from this kind of thinking. forget about this nonsense, be happy, life is actually pretty cool.

It's more "wahhhhhh I don't have anyone to snuggle with", honestly.

nobo · « **Reply #93 on:** 16 Nov 2009, 19:40 »

Quote from: allison on 16 Nov 2009, 04:42

wow. how do you fit food on those tables? or do you serve buffet style?

allison · « **Reply #94 on:** 18 Nov 2009, 11:36 »

We keep all the dishes of food in the kitchen, then pass them around one by one, let everyone serve themselves, then they go back in the kitchen!

Jace · « **Reply #95 on:** 18 Nov 2009, 12:02 »

That would probably keep me from eating seconds. Honestly, when I am eating, if I have to get up again to get food I won't. My body either eats tons of food or moves around, but rarely both. That being said, I love that my family has a big dining room table, and I am looking forward to thanksgiving so much this year because it will be the last feast I have for a while.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #96 on:** 18 Nov 2009, 15:12 »

Quote from: allison on 18 Nov 2009, 11:36

We keep all the dishes of food in the kitchen, then pass them around one by one, let everyone serve themselves, then they go back in the kitchen!

Oh man. That would not fly with my family. The food must be the focus, because that's where we are as a family.

Liz · « **Reply #97 on:** 18 Nov 2009, 15:14 »

Yeah, we keep our food on the table because we're all basically just a bunch of Fatty McFatPantses. I love my family.

allison · « **Reply #98 on:** 19 Nov 2009, 05:19 »

My mom just serves everyone when they want seconds... put the women to work guys, durr.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #99 on:** 19 Nov 2009, 07:56 »

No way! The women drink while the men do the work.

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