War on Christmas.

[Callan]

Grinches.

Grinchiness shouldn't be allowed.

[Rum]

I've only ready the OP and a few responses, but just to say that I have always disliked Christmas - until recently anyway. When I was a Chritian I believed it had become an abomination and just a commercial circus. Then when I was 'a searcher' I found it irrelevant and an annoyance of duties to be performed with relatives one didn't really want to see and gifts one really didn't want to buy.

Then I became an atheist! And have slowly and gratefully and also very recently started to enjoy it!

..but for what it mostly is - a great mid winter break from winter! Imagine nothing to look forward to from October to April !

I would go totally bonkers!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You forget two extant dates in that range already. Thanksgiving and my birthday.

[Rum]

You forget two extant dates in that range already. Thanksgiving and my birthday.

At least one of those is not celebrated this side of the pond. I will leave you to decide which!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You forget two extant dates in that range already. Thanksgiving and my birthday.

At least one of those is not celebrated this side of the pond. I will leave you to decide which!

Is Parliament given the day off on January 12th then?

[DaveDodo007]

The only good thing that happens in December is that it starts getting lighter from 21st onwards. If them three spirits visit me again this year they will get a punch in the nose just like they did last year. Bloody do gooders, poor Marley who new how to fuck christmas off big style.

[rachelbean]

Other good things that happen in December: baking, decorating...Oooooh, and turkey and potatoes and roasted this and that and friends visiting, and getting drunk with said friends, and lights and presents, and it all ends with Christmas, Pappa's birthday, and New Year's Eve

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pity Pappa wasn't born on the 25th.

[Coito ergo sum]

War on Christmas: Fuck yeah!

O.k., Ebeneezer.

It is the most shiteist time of the year.

It's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December, ay?

For a start it's fucking cold and always dark

Ermm...it'll be in the 70s and sunny here, and it will be light out until around dinner time.

(where I live at least)

I think you've identified a big part of the problem, Eb.

the music is particularly nauseating in a sugarly sweet kind of spewing fest.

Try wassailing sometime, with some some good, aged Port wine if you have no actual wassail.

You can't buy a cd or dvd without the queue stretching into another dimension.

What are these "CDs" and "DVDs" of which you speak? Are they the same CDs and DVDs of video and music lore? Methinks they are a myth devised to entertain little children, and bemuse them that music and video was, at one point, not streaming and downloadable on demand on ever iPhone, iPad, PC and television at their merest whim. Next you'll be telling us of a time when there was no Internet! Say what you want about Christmas, but, dear gods, man! What do you take us for?! Pshaw!

All the pubs/bars are full of knobhead amateur drinkers which make you want to realize your fantasy of being a serial killer come true, or is that just me.

Half of those amateur drinkers are women. Do a little cipherin' and you'll see how that can add up.

Snow on snow WTF so everything is fucking white so that makes you happy you fucking racist. You can't walk down the road without slipping on your arse ten times every other street.

Your inability to remain upright may well be based on your less than professional drinking ability.

Presents, presents WTF is that all about? Why do I have to spend my hard earned cash on some spoilt brats that are only related to me by chance. I choose to not increase my global footprint by not having brats ( and if anybody says it's because nobody will fuck me is a liar and probably knows me:-() I mean I have to buy presents for even the Jewish brats in my family, how the fuck does that work? Here Joseph have a Bob the builder toy tool kit for killing the Christians fucking saviour, how does that work exactly:-( Here Jess you spoilt jewish princess in waiting have a Harry Potter book and then fuck off to your synagogue which thanks you for not being a women or a goy.

It's all explained in the song --

I mean for fuck sake it is the dream of every breaded fat fuck, red costume wearing pedophile everywhere. I mean beat/rape the little fuckers by all means but don't come crying to me when you are moved on to a different location (I might be getting mixed up with the Catholic priesthood and Father Christmas/Santa Claus here though I have just drunk a full bottle of Jack Daniels here so you will have to forgive me.)

See! That's the spirit! Now go a' wassailing!

Xmas decorations must be a tool of the devil as there is nothing so tacky and a abomination to the eyesight as them. Yet they are displayed everywhere with a sense of pride. We are also reminded that the son of god got nailed to a tree or something, I mean WTF didn't he have a big fuck off hammer and lightening bolts or something?

You're mixing the Norse religion with the Christian one. Odin was nailed to a tree and Thor has the lightning bolts...

Don't turn on the TV or you will be fucked into a state of a coma. Repeats of family favourites or just cheap television, you would think all the money they have saved all year what with big brother, x factor dance and ice skating they would have saved enough money to make a decent program but you will be wrong because it's all repeats and some celebrity whore who would rather be working than spend time with his/her family.

Anyway where was I, Oh yes fuck xmas fuck it up its own arse and to hell with fox 'news.'

I can only say this:

[DaveDodo007]

Now it's fucking snowing outside, give me a fucking break:-(

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Now it's fucking snowing outside, give me a fucking break:-(

Have you tried prayer, my son?

[Horwood Beer-Master]

I've only ready the OP and a few responses, but just to say that I have always disliked Christmas - until recently anyway. When I was a Chritian I believed it had become an abomination and just a commercial circus. Then when I was 'a searcher' I found it irrelevant and an annoyance of duties to be performed with relatives one didn't really want to see and gifts one really didn't want to buy.

Then I became an atheist! And have slowly and gratefully and also very recently started to enjoy it!

..but for what it mostly is - a great mid winter break from winter! Imagine nothing to look forward to from October to April !

I would go totally bonkers!

Makes me all the gladder I've always been an atheist. Sounds like religion poisons christmas.

[Ronja]

... Sounds like religion poisons christmas.

IMO it does. Much preferable to just breathe a sigh of relief, seeing as solstice means that the days will finally start getting longer (dark IS depressing, there's no way around it). Enjoy the Yule log, good company, mulled wine and three days of generous helpings of lutfisk in béchamel sauce, mustard-coated ham, raw salted salmon and well stuffed turkey. Giving presents and seeing them received with joy is also not to frown upon. And having a full basket of fresh reading and viewing is wonderful (at my age people finally understand to give me books and films and little else).

So for the (nonviolent) pagan traditions of Yule, and for the newfangled xmas additions. I know which ones I prefer.