Will Christmas ever get back to normal?

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I agree with Nibble. Christmas is for about 3 days. I will even allow the start of December for adverts on tele. But NOT November. It can **** off.

 

[trueblue]

I agree with Nibble. Christmas is for about 3 days. I will even allow the start of December for adverts on tele. But NOT November. It can **** off.

Me too.

 

[portlock seagull]

I don't think it's being a scrooge. I love Christmas I just don't believe 8 weeks of build up to anything is healthy. I think I embrace the spirit of Christmas, I volunteer at a homeless shelter on Christmas Day, I spend time with friends and family and I love the atmosphere of it all, just don't like all this build up and selling and cannot see a time when it gets back to a few days of good will instead of this avalanche of twinkly lights, chocolate and spending hundreds on crap from Argos.

amen to this!

 

[Questions]

This threads reminds me. I haven't even begun to think about Easter eggs for next year yet.

 

[Brighton_Rose]

I felt cross the other day in a supermarket they were playing Wonderful Christmastime. It made me feel they just want us to buy buy buy spend spend spend for Christmas already.
I love the build up at home; family time, carol services, lights, Christmas films and the cosiness.... and of course a bit of choc/nice food and the time off work!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Too much religion creeping into Xmas nowadays

 

[Spider]

It's a shame that all this stuff is around at the moment, but in general I find it pretty easy to ignore it all until I'm ready to get excited. That said, you can't help feeling that the excitement that should build up from about 10th December is somewhat dampened by the fact that lights/christmas imagery etc. have been up for ages.

On a side note, how utterly utterly shit is the 'christmas market' they have outside Churchill Square?! Where do all these traders actually come from? I think I'm going to decorate a garden shed with some holly next year and start selling complete crap out of it, apparently there's quite a market for it!

 

[Pavilionaire]

If the calendar was a classroomful of kids then November would be the weedy boy that gets picked on. Hallowe'en and Christmas are whipping his sorry ass.

 

[edna krabappel]

On a side note, how utterly utterly shit is the 'christmas market' they have outside Churchill Square?! Where do all these traders actually come from? I think I'm going to decorate a garden shed with some holly next year and start selling complete crap out of it, apparently there's quite a market for it!

Hey, come on now: that Christmas market is bringing traditional hand crafted Christmas treats and gifts to us all, like pretzels, roasted chestnuts, gluhwein, and plastic Samsung Galaxy phone cases with Chelsea logos on.

 

[Mental Lental]

I think the Americans have got it about right by shoehorning Thanksgiving in between Halloween and Christmas. I'm off to a thanksgiving dinner this week with some yankee chums and it goes down a right treat. Postpones any talk of this Christmas nonsense until at least the last week of November. Which is just about acceptable.

 

[Justice]

I don't think it's being a scrooge. I love Christmas I just don't believe 8 weeks of build up to anything is healthy. I think I embrace the spirit of Christmas, I volunteer at a homeless shelter on Christmas Day, I spend time with friends and family and I love the atmosphere of it all, just don't like all this build up and selling and cannot see a time when it gets back to a few days of good will instead of this avalanche of twinkly lights, chocolate and spending hundreds on crap from Argos.

What about the rest of the year? Its not just at Christmas these folk need help.

 

[Gwylan]

It's a Wonderful Life.

It should be but that hasn't been on telly for years now

 

[Dick Head]

The best Christmas film ever is Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.

 

[sams dad]

One of my favourite Christmas films is "Scrooge" with Alistair Sim playing the title role.
And no Christmas would be complete without " The Snowman". No matter how many times I see it, I still find it enchanting.

 

[Canonman]

Xmas can be a nice time but not in this country. Scandinavia, Germany etc have far more traditional xmas's. I spent a couple of yuletides in Norway with friends a few years back and it was magical. Admittedly they were white xmas's so it was very atmospheric. No stress at all and there was far less money spent on pressies.

 

[The Spanish]

Xmas can be a nice time but not in this country. Scandinavia, Germany etc have far more traditional xmas's. I spent a couple of yuletides in Norway with friends a few years back and it was magical. Admittedly they were white xmas's so it was very atmospheric. No stress at all and there was far less money spent on pressies.

spot on. our north European neighbours do it much better than us. its dismal, Christmas in the UK, just an orgy of greed advertising and pissed up nause commuters.

 

[Badger]

Xmas can be a nice time but not in this country. Scandinavia, Germany etc have far more traditional xmas's. I spent a couple of yuletides in Norway with friends a few years back and it was magical. Admittedly they were white xmas's so it was very atmospheric. No stress at all and there was far less money spent on pressies.

In Germany (not sure about the other countries) they do everything on Christmas EVE, what's the point in that? Christmas Eve is all about having a few drinks and looking forward to the big day.

 

[BensGrandad]

In a large store last week and they had Christmas Carols playing on the music system, it is still only November what happened to the old idea that Christmas was for the 12 days of Christmas, Even the traditional Boxing Day games are now a no go for me as no trains and the risk of driving after drinking Christmas Day is too great.

 

[Nibble]

Christmas is a retail festival in this country. Nothing more.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Christmas is a retail festival in this country. Nothing more.

Im going to use that. Brilliant