Bah Humbug

[Icy Gull]

Wall to wall Christmas for the next month.

Non stop xmas TV adverts, sweaty crowded shops,mobbed town centres and 1/2 hour plus to find a parking space, American style over the top house decorations.



Is the build up to Christmas fun for you?

 

[BrightonBird]

I always know when xmas is coming cause the Toys R Us advert gets played on TV all the time.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I hate the build. Even last weekend it took me ages to find a space to park in town, Ended up in Regency Car Park which is well expensive. Grrrr, I might even get my crimbo shopping done early this year.

Or off the internet.

 

[Braders]

xmas = overtime , 12 hour a day , 7 days a week work from hell !

 

[Kenhead]

i think that christams ads etc... should start on december the 1st, that gives 3 weeks till the acual day which i think is enough time to buy all the presents, yeah by all means satrt saveing in october and november but don't start haveing all the shops ramming it in our faces 8 weeks before the day!!!!

 

[alan partridge]

do all your christmas shopping on the net

http://www.cafeshops.com/totaltat

a ho ho ho

 

[Titanic]

I love Christmas - the commercial hype and nonsense is a bit of a drag, but I love all the family stuff, the kids Christmas shows, panto, winter, snow, etc...

 

[alan partridge]

snow!??

 

[Soton Seagull]

Oh the fake cheerfulness pisses me off. The 'where's your Chrsitmas spirit?' comments from any arsehole that wants you to do something that will make you look a cock

Massive commercial con, designed to make fat corporate whores even fatter. Top lunch though!

 

[tedebear]

I love Christmas here - beats it in Australia - how can you possibly have Santa and all that snow and big dinner and food when its 36 degrees outside....

so all the stuff in the shops reminds me of how lucky I am to be here!!

 

[Bozza]

I am amused that Google has thrown up an ad for "Classy Christmas Lights" !

 

[alan partridge]

Oh the fake cheerfulness pisses me off. The 'where's your Chrsitmas spirit?' comments from any arsehole that wants you to do something that will make you look a cock

Massive commercial con, designed to make fat corporate whores even fatter. Top lunch though!

where's your christmas spirit?

 

[Captain Pugwash]

I like the HEN. hat

 

[Jim Byrne]

i dont pay any attention to the christmas hype until after my birthday . . 11th dec, giving me 2 weeks to do my crimbo shopping etc . . plenty of time!

bit silly starting it all in flipping end of october beginning of november !

 

[Titanic]

Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special, Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special, Eastenders Christmas Knees-up, Coronation Street Tradtional Northern Christmas Special, Bargain Hunt Christmas Special, It'll be alright on the night XXIV, You've been framed Christmas special (with all those hilarious school nativity plays!)...

 

[Icy Gull]

Oh Feck, I'd forgotten about the (mostly) crap tv specials.

 

[Marc]

Xmas Eve my and 15+ of my mates dress up as Santa and go on a pub crawl in Hove then Brighton, been doing it 3 maybe 4 years now and its a great laugh!

 

[Zeitgeist]

I love Christmas here - beats it in Australia - how can you possibly have Santa and all that snow and big dinner and food when its 36 degrees outside....

so all the stuff in the shops reminds me of how lucky I am to be here!!

The best Christmas's I ever had was when I lived in Australia. Nothing beat a trip to the beach in the morning, then a b.b.q. back at the house, with the back yard covered in artificial snow. The build up plus Christmas day itself didn't have the commercial hype we have to suffer in this country.
Southampton Seagulls description of Christmas in this country echo my views exactly. I HATE Christmas day! Having to spend the whole day with relations trying to force feed too much rich n stodgy food down your neck. Christmas afternoon?.....The great escape?.....James Bond?.....The Queen?.... Christmas spirit??.....Poke it up ya arse!

 

[alan partridge]

Xmas Eve my and 15+ of my mates dress up as Santa and go on a pub crawl in Hove then Brighton, been doing it 3 maybe 4 years now and its a great laugh!

me and a friend used to have a good xmas eve tradition for a few years.

we would meet in the pub at about lunch time and have a few pints

neither of us would have bought ANY christmas presents. we casually chat about what we might get our families and then at about 4 o'clock we would wander into town half cut to buy everything in the last hour or so before the shops shut. and do you know what? it made it easier. it was also funny as f*** as we would try and convince each other that say, our mum would LOVE the table mats one of us would be clutching.

i almost wet myself in a&n in guildford once because i came so close to convincing my mate to buy a ladies brush set for his dad. he thought his dad would like a clothes brush and i said if he peeled off the 'for ladies' sticker his dad would never know (like fuk!) unfotuantely i couldn't control my mirth and he turned back at the cashier

i can recommend this form of present buying though. you are forced to make decisions

or you could shop at my shop

http://www.cafeshops.com/totaltat

 

[Juan Albion]

I always know when xmas is coming cause the Toys R Us advert gets played on TV all the time.

I always know when Christmas is coming because I remember it nearly always seems to be on December 25th.