Bah humbug - the anti-christmas thread

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  • It's a blood sugar level experiment writ large.

  • secret santa present: a really nice design book. now i feel like a bit of a cunt for buying the bloke who i pulled out the hat 10 quids worth of Lidl chocolate.

    quantity before quality.

  • secret santa present: a really nice design book. now i feel like a bit of a cunt for buying the bloke who i pulled out the hat 10 quids worth of Lidl chocolate.

    quantity before quality.

    You are scum. Feel your shame. FEEL IT!

  • it gets worse. i took one of the 53 bars of cheap euro-chocolate home and ate the fucker in front of the telly once mrs hell had hit the hay.

    i'm going to hull aren't i?

  • Mostly, I hate xmas but VLC player's santa hat always make me smile.

  • I just heard "Fairytale of New York" for the first time this year.

    Merry babayjesubirthday, everyone

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q

  • ^ oh fuck has that started - thank fuck I don't work in a shop I'd go fucking postal

  • Last year I planned to skive off our team's xmas lunch; in the end I got fucking tonsillitis and was FOR REALZ off sick, feeling like shit in bed, rather than merrily skipping about enjoying my "day off".

    This year, in a moment of bizarre good fortune, I have an excuse that my colleagues can't argue with, that hopefully won't result in karmic germs: the Russian government needs me.

    AND in an extra moment of festive cheer, it's been announced that there's no secret santa in the office this year. That's my kinda xmas.

  • I love my work pissups. I'm puzzled about what to buy my secret santa though...

  • I just ignore the whole sorry affair.

    I'm sometimes working which is a great help but the Festive 500 has provided an excellent distraction at other times.

  • This year, in a moment of bizarre good fortune, I have an excuse that my colleagues can't argue with, that hopefully won't result in karmic germs: the Russian government needs me.

    AND in an extra moment of festive cheer, it's been announced that there's no secret santa in the office this year. That's my kinda xmas.

    Are you quite sure that the Russians haven't planted one? :)

  • Having been van driving up and down the country, monday was the trigger for all radio stations to start the christmas songs. But still not heard Slade.

  • The Christmas movie channels on the TiVo appeared a month ago..

  • Someone always bleats on about 'The true meaning of xmas'
    So here is an extract from Reality Asylum, by Crass

    I am no feeble Christ, not me
    He hangs in glib delight upon his cross, upon his cross,
    Above my body, lowly me
    Christ forgive, forgive?
    Holy He, He holy, He holy?
    Shit He forgives, Forgive? Forgive?
    I? I? Me? I? I vomit for you Jesu
    Christy Christus
    Puke upon your papal throne

  • Ignore the theist Christmas,
    and,
    instead celebrate the Solstice,
    (which the Theists tried to co-opt anyway),
    from a Guardian CiF btl thread:
    ' DorsetDuck

    21 December 2011 08:12PM
    Response to JazzTulip, 21 December 2011 05:27PM
    
        and probably explains why the powers that be (all those years ago) chose 25th December to be Christmas Day instead of, say, the 21st.
    
    Actually it's simpler (and more complicated) than that (well, according to Wikipedia.) Essentially, when they came to decide the date for Christmas at the Council of Nicea, they thought December 25 was the solstice:
    
        In 46 BCE, Julius Caesar in his Julian calendar established December 25 as the date of the winter solstice of Europe (Latin: Bruma). Since then, the difference between the calendar year (365.2500 days) and the tropical year (~365.2421897 days) moved the day associated with the actual astronomical solstice forward approximately three days every four centuries, arriving to December 12 during the 16th century. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decided to restore the exact correspondence between seasons and civil year but, doing so, he did not make reference to the age of the Roman dictator, but to the Council of Nicea of 325, as the period of definition of major Christian feasts. So, the Pope annulled the 10-day error accumulated between the 16th and the 4th century, but not the 3-day one between the 4th AD and the 1st BC century.'
    
  • Societal pressure led to this:

    and

    and a log and some time and poor manual skills led to:

  • While shephards washed their socks by niggt all watching I.t.v
    The angle of the lord came down and switched to b.b.c
    Sing to repeat
    That should cheer you up
    Cheered grumpy cat up

  • Cheered me up.

  • Time to roll this out again
    Kunt and the Gang - Jesus (Baby With A Beard): http://youtu.be/d_1nJPEs5SU

  • I'm working Christmas Eve and Day and on-call both days too. My prediction is I'll be dealing with death and misery on both these days which will be interesting, at least. It's the same every year, the consolation is it's double time for the 25th.

  • That's a Spanish thing, isn't it? They always have someone taking a dump in the background of Nativity scenes. Not usually 30ft tall tho.

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