[Misc] Christmas pullovers/jumpers

[Zeberdi]

I went to a Christmas work lunch on Thursday and much to my surprise, half of my colleagues were wearing Christmas jumpers and I wondered if I’d missed a memo. I don’t have one myself - the closest I’ve come to buying them is for the dog over the years. Some Christmas jumpers are genuinely nicely designed or just fun tacky (which is the point of them imo, the tackier the better) but they are still not for me but I think they can look great and are real ice breakers - anyone wear one?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

 

[Diablo]

Father Christmas ??

 

[Greg Bobkin]

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These days, if you wear a Christmas jumper - even in the privacy of your own home - you get arrested and thrown in jail over Christmas.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

These days, if you wear a Christmas jumper - even in the privacy of your own home - you get arrested and thrown in jail over Christmas.

You’ll actually be thrown in jail? If you just wear a Christmas jumper?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

You’ll actually be thrown in jail? If you just wear a Christmas jumper?

These days.

 

[Albion my Albion]

You’ll actually be thrown in jail? If you just wear a Christmas jumper?

YES!! If it looks like this.

 

[B-right-on]

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I know. Utterly ridiculous that we're not supposed to say Merry Christmas but Happy Holidays because we might offend some idiot or other.

I've got a couple of Hindi friends and we can all wish them a Happy Diwali without someone getting offended.

Annoys me. Rant over.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I'll be wearing my Albion Christmas jumper on Christmas day and I'll be wishing people a merry Christmas. If they don't like it they can go f*** themselves.
Saying happy holidays is so american it makes me vomit

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'll be wearing my Albion Christmas jumper on Christmas day and I'll be wishing people a merry Christmas. If they don't like it they can go f*** themselves.
Saying happy holidays is so american it makes me vomit

I’ve had a couple of Christmases in New York; they do it so well over there.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Yule actually be thrown in jail? If you just wear a Christmas jumper?

Corrected for you

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Corrected for you

Good work.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Corrected for you

That correction was holly good. A cracker, some might say...

 

[cunning fergus]

I went to a Christmas work lunch on Thursday and much to my surprise, half of my colleagues were wearing Christmas jumpers and I wondered if I’d missed a memo. I don’t have one myself - the closest I’ve come to buying them is for the dog over the years. Some Christmas jumpers are genuinely nicely designed or just fun tacky (which is the point of them imo, the tackier the better) but they are still not for me but I think they can look great and are real ice breakers - anyone wear one?

It’s worse than that where I work, the HR team (or whatever they are called these days) sent out a circular encouraging staff to wear such garments during the “festive season”.

Given how obsessed they usually are about sustainability I fired an email back to their Director pointing out the hypocrisy of supporting the purchase of meaningless tat, likely made and shipped from China, to be worn for a few days before being binned for a new upgrade next year. The very worst kind of behaviour of morally bankrupt and corpulent west.

Like old football tops even if donated to charity it will only hamper local third world clothing enterprises from flourishing and worse still it is degrading enough for starving Africans to be seen on telly in tattered old Man U shirts with “Beckham” on the back, let us spare them even worse humiliation from wearing HO HO HO jumpers with flashing Christmas trees.

Personally I could care less, just as long as the environmental moralisers usually shitting the bed about the millions of polar bears aren’t doing so whilst wearing a Lidl Christmas jumper.

 

[Van Cleef]

Corrected for you

I wondered how long before the Christmas jokes would start to sprout.

 

[Dr. No]

- anyone wear one?

No.

 

[Bakero]

Personally I could care less, just as long as the environmental moralisers usually shitting the bed about the millions of polar bears aren’t doing so whilst wearing a Lidl Christmas jumper.

You could care less?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

You could care less?

Certainly giving the impression of somebody who could care a whole lot less, and would probably benefit themselves and everybody else by doing so.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I wore this lovely fleecy number to the Amex for a pre-xmas match a few years back. All was well until the train home. Some wag spotted it and I was serenaded all the way back to Brighton station by an entire carriage of fans of both clubs joining together for a hearty festive rendition of 'shit xmas jumper, it's just a shit xmas jumper' Sake!

 

[Norman Potting]

I know. Utterly ridiculous that we're not supposed to say Merry Christmas but Happy Holidays because we might offend some idiot or other.

I've got a couple of Hindi friends and we can all wish them a Happy Diwali without someone getting offended.

Annoys me. Rant over.

Wondered how long it would be for a comment like this to appear. Has it been officially sanctioned or has it emerged from imaginations of the ".....it's all because of political correctness gone mad...." brigade...." .