Christmas is awesome and I don't want to hear goddamn otherwise.

Kadith

Rorus Raz wrote:

Kadith wrote:

except for the poor

Everyone

or brown people

Day of the Bear

I think my whole family is gonna be out of town this christmas

gonna christmas alone awww yeah

Lost Salient

Fuck. Yes.

I love me some Christmas.

I mean let's be honest, I love every single holiday that allows me to A) listen to thematically appropriate music, B) wear silly clothing and C) cook until everyone I know has to move up a pant size.

But Christmas... it is the best. It is even better than my birthday, and if any of you knew how much I love my birthday you would be impressed. (I really love my birthday.) It is also better than Halloween, and I managed to squeeze 31 individual dedicated Halloween posts out of that holiday.

If only I had some way to easily access holiday cheer to share with you all! Oh wait, I forgot, I'm listening to Christmas music right now.



"Aunt Bethany, does your cat eat jello?"

Grey Ghost

Dys wrote:

Rorus Raz wrote:

Dys wrote:

Rorus Raz wrote:

Dys wrote:

If I hear one more version of that godawful "last christmas I gave you my heart" song I swear to god I am going to sabotage the sound system there.

I hate the song so much.

Up there with the goddamn Christmas Shoes.

I have heard 3 different versions of this song, all sung by similar-sounding women.

It is driving me insane, hearing the same damn chorus repeated about five or six times consecutively for each (I think that's right, I'm annoyed and trying not to pay attention by the time it ends).

I did not even realize there were female versions until last year. I've just heard a male-sung version every year.

And I think it's JUST the chorus. The song is just the title repeated for three minutes or whatever.

I think one of the three versions I've heard in the store might be sung by a guy, now that you say that.

The memories of that song just blend together at this point I suppose, it is played way too much.

"Last Christmas" was originally sung by Wham!

Blake T

This year I want to make suspended rum caviar.

The alcohol free egg-nog.

Then to make it alcoholic you just add the tiny rum caviar.

It's genius I tells you!

BusterK

BusterK wrote:

Kadith wrote:

except for the poor

Seriously, every one, every year
Donate one, unwrapped toy because it is awesome to imagine even just one kid who didn't think they would get shit and picking out the most kick ass gift imaginable
It is a highlight of my year to pick out what I think will make this imaginary kid the envy of his peers

Re posting one more time so it is not drowned in a sea of cynicism and bitterness

Indie Winter

Muse Among Men wrote:

TOKYO GODFATHERS

put it in the OP

oh shit

what a great movie, completely slipped my mind

Blake T

I really like giving gifts at Christmas too.

But it ends up stressing me out a lot. Because I like to give good gifts. And my dad hates everything.

A couple of people that I have dated over the Christmas period (Vivienne included) have tried to suggest things. And I knock then down repeatedly and quickly. And then they get upset with me, but what I have to explain to them is that I'm just thinking about these ideas from my father's perspective.

BusterK

Blake T wrote:

I really like giving gifts at Christmas too.

But it ends up stressing me out a lot. Because I like to give good gifts. And my dad hates everything.

A couple of people that I have dated over the Christmas period (Vivienne included) have tried to suggest things. And I knock then down repeatedly and quickly. And then they get upset with me, but what I have to explain to them is that I'm just thinking about these ideas from my father's perspective.

Give your dad a gun so he can shoot gifts he doesn't like

FirmSkater

I'm getting my girlfriend a 3DS for christmas

I have no fuckin' clue what I want, though. I thought Kindle Fire but have since decided I have no idea what I would even use it for.

What do I want for Christmas, thread?

Blake T

Good idea buster but I'm not in America so I can't go down to the corner store and buy a gun.

Lost Salient

Oh man, Blake, I have that problem too.

My dad doesn't hate everything, he just refuses to ask for anything specific, and will obsess over a gift being too expensive for the buyer's budget, and say it isn't something he really needed... and then there are things I know he likes but he's so picky about everything that getting the right sort of thing he likes is virtually impossible.

Like, last year I scored big with the Criterion version of Two-Lane Blacktop, which is one of his favourite films. And for his birthday I gave him The Big Short, which he also loved, because it's about economics and is by the same guy who wrote Moneyball. So I'm on a roll. But this year I have no idea.

Blake T

FirmSkater wrote:

I'm getting my girlfriend a 3DS for christmas

I have no fuckin' clue what I want, though. I thought Kindle Fire but have since decided I have no idea what I would even use it for.

What do I want for Christmas, thread?

A surprise!

That's what I always ask for.

Then my mum tells me no, you're not getting that.

Then she tells me that she has already bought some things, then she won't tell me what.

The point of this story is that she lies.

BusterK

Blake T wrote:

Good idea buster but I'm not in America so I can't go down to the corner store and buy a gun.

I thought everyone in Australia owned a Winchester since everything around you is lethal

cabsy

Lost Salient wrote:

But Christmas... it is the best. It is even better than my birthday, and if any of you knew how much I love my birthday you would be impressed. (I really love my birthday.) It is also better than Halloween, and I managed to squeeze 31 individual dedicated Halloween posts out of that holiday.

You have no idea how much I want you to do this for Christmas!

Lost Salient

Like, I'd love to buy him a new model car, but I am 100% certain any model car I would select would be the wrong manufacturer or a car he did when he was 12 or a car he secretly hates or god-knows-what. Or I'd buy him Top Gear on DVD so I could secretly also watch Top Gear, but he'll just buy that for himself anyway.

Blake T

See sal, the difference is that my dad will literally say, "what's this for then?"

He quite literally dislikes everything but rum, ginger candy and jelly bellies and everyone in the family just can't buy that.

cabsy

Break out of the mold, buy him ginger rum?

Blake T

BusterK wrote:

Blake T wrote:

Good idea buster but I'm not in America so I can't go down to the corner store and buy a gun.

I thought everyone in Australia owned a Winchester since everything around you is lethal

Nah, we rely on our wits and quick reflexes.

It explains the low population here and why everyone lives in huge, walled off cities.

Flay

Blake T wrote:

See sal, the difference is that my dad will literally say, "what's this for then?"

He quite literally dislikes everything but rum, ginger candy and jelly bellies and everyone in the family just can't buy that.

Do it, maybe he'll stop complaining about the other gifts.

Lost Salient

cabsy wrote:

Lost Salient wrote:

But Christmas... it is the best. It is even better than my birthday, and if any of you knew how much I love my birthday you would be impressed. (I really love my birthday.) It is also better than Halloween, and I managed to squeeze 31 individual dedicated Halloween posts out of that holiday.

You have no idea how much I want you to do this for Christmas!

I totally would but I am not anywhere near as much a Christmas expert as I am a Halloween expert. There are less Christmas movies involving severed heads, for some reason?

Blake T

Oh! Also I got Vivienne and I baubles with our names on them!

It's like super lame! But yet still pretty cool!

I think our tree will go up tonight.

Lost Salient

Aww, I think that is cool and also adorable.

My mother buys me and my brother each a new Christmas ornament every year.

The ones with names on are pretty cool but now I've got a Death Star and a Star Trek Transporter and they both talk so I don't know what could possibly top that.

Blake T

When I think of Christmas movies I get to die hard and bad Santa and stop.

FirmSkater

Blake T wrote:

See sal, the difference is that my dad will literally say, "what's this for then?"

He quite literally dislikes everything but rum, ginger candy and jelly bellies and everyone in the family just can't buy that.

Why the fuck not

Blake T

FirmSkater wrote:

Blake T wrote:

See sal, the difference is that my dad will literally say, "what's this for then?"

He quite literally dislikes everything but rum, ginger candy and jelly bellies and everyone in the family just can't buy that.

Why the fuck not

Cause he will still complain!

My dad is a bit of a grinch. One year he actually refused to go to Christmas lunch! I had to talk to him (I was so angry I couldn't actually yell!) to make him come.

Munkus Beaver

Christmas music?

BusterK

So this year I'm gonna be in a stage version of A Charlie Brown Christmas
I have managed to stay jazzed even though the play is in a bit of shambles right now
I'm playing Linus and even though his big speech has already been posted I'm gonna post the end

Blake T

That's cool as buster, good luck with that!

Speed Racer

isn't it sort of fitting for a production of a charlie brown christmas to be in shambles

FirmSkater

My thing about holidays is that I fuckin' hate leaving the house.

I think this stems from the first 12 or 13 Christmas' of my childhood where after waking up at 6:00am to do gifts, we had to go to church at 9:00, Grandparent A's house immediately afterwards for brunch, then immediately to Grandparent B's for dinner/dessert. Usually got home around 8pm.

For a normal family that might be fine but I happen to have a family where everyone on all sides are either completely insane or just huge assholes. I hated every minute of it and when I got old enough to realize my parents couldn't literally drag me there anymore I just said no.

Then a few years later everyone realized they hated eachother and we haven't had any 'regular' family gatherings of that kind since then.

And I don't miss it at all! My one hope this Christmas is that I don't even have to change out of my pajamas all day - just sit around drinking punch and eating ham all day with my brother, sisters, mom and dad until I fall asleep again.

George Fornby Grill

I almost bought the MGS HD Collection for myself just now but decided that I should just save the money for gifts for my friends and family.

and if one of them doesn't get me the MGS HD collection I will be very cross.

Marth

I can't legally buy alcohol yet so I can't enjoy a few drinks with my (immediate) family. This saddens me somewhat.

Lost Salient

Marth... your family won't let you have a cocktail just with them?

Olivaw

Our Christmas tree is already up!

It's not decorated yet, but it's up

The beauty of the internet: a hundred bucks and a great freshly cut tree will be shipped right to your door

HallowedFaith

Well I just got an e-mail saying my Nintendo Coin Item is on its way.. I totally forgot about these and also all the random Nintendo shit I have unopened from the coinsplosion earlier this summer. So yeah, that's kind of Xmas. I'll probably sell them to!

EVERYTHING MUST GO. IT'S A FIRE SALE!

Also: (NSFW (swearing))

Marth

Lost Salient wrote:

Marth... your family won't let you have a cocktail just with them?

I mean, I guess I could. But my mom dropped a hint earlier this year, like "you shouldn't be doing that anyway." It doesn't help that my brother is an alcoholic, so they probably distrust it (regarding me, I'm 15 months younger).

Blake T

I have been trying to drink less lately, which has been working. But then I seem to be consuming small amounts often.

Tox

Kadith wrote:

Rorus Raz wrote:

Kadith wrote:

except for the poor

Everyone

or brown people

Speed Racer

my parents don't drink and most of my friends either drink very lightly or not at all

so it's never really been a Thing for me