Christmas 2016
 

A thread for this years Christmas related things.
Dump your thoughts, pics, vids, hatred of, and/or disgust
of this years holiday season.

This country is too obsessed with Christmas.

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I agree. Obsessed over the thought of missing out on something is more like it. The actual spirit of giving, and the original meaning of it is lost in the mass hysteria of buying that new flat screen 4k tv for six hundred bucks.

The start of winter and the impending crippling depression from having SAD would suck a little harder without it though.

That's why I put the little Grinch down there. For people like you.

Nothing makes my grandma insanely happier than when she sees all the traditional Christmas decorations up, except for maybe all the other holiday traditions surrounding Christmas. I wish I had Alzheimer's. This all just bores me.

the best part of winter is finally getting home after a long ass day or being out in the cold. at the very least it's the coziest season for being inside and sitting on your ass all evening.

I like the spirit of Christmas. I just think it's vastly overdone. We got our Christmas music to play in our store the second week in f*cking November.

I love Christmas. it's my favorite holiday after maybe Thanksgiving. But the vast over saturation of the holiday irritates me. Stores shouldn't play Christmas music til the day after Thanksgiving at the least.

But Thanksgiving is in October...?

... oh right

I usually ignore the over saturation. I can do this because I don't work in an industry that caters to the masses. I guess I got lucky like that. lol I try to focus on the good things about it rather than waste my time thinking about the negativity that has seeped it's way into the minds of the miserable.

This is what I try to do. But it's hard when it's a incessant nuisance. I love the holiday but fuck the industry. Anyway, this is a played out conversation so I'm done.

Anyway, here's a video of my place all decked out, which is the reason I made this thread. Hey, I got a new phone. Don't hate.

http://planktonsodyssey.com/resource...Pats_House.mp4

needs more guitar

I concur.

I want the year to end. The events that took place in 2016 are not something to be celebrated.

You mean like that thing they call New Years Eve, where everyone reflects on the past year's events?

Ok then.

Guy in the back kind of looks like Harrison Ford.

Actually, no. Even most of the Christians in America are obsessed with "Jesus of Suburbia", which is "a lie".

That's also what I thought. :laughing:

I ****ing love Christmas. Probably because I have just one person in my family, so there's no bull****, just the two of us enjoying our time together.

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. Living in a family cult as I do, we don't go out and engage in society at large, so we're not inundated with all the crap. We get to choose the music, and any shopping we do for Xmas is usually through amazon and whatnot, thus avoiding all the bull**** of going out and fighting the crowds. Besides, it's the celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing could be more joyous....except His Resurrection!

On the 24th a bunch of my most ****ed up friends meet at one friends house and we do a ****ton of booze and drugs.
On the 25th I go to my mom's, eat the incredibly delicious stuff she cooks and then go back home after an hour or so.
I don't get any presents and I don't give any either.
I love christmas time.

Cultural appropriation much? You make me sick, Santa.

mad ting

Ja mon.

I'm ****in' jealous. Christmas is nothing without decorations. No atmosphere otherwise. Even just a Christmas tree in the living room brings a little bit of magic into your home.

Oh, and cause I have to...

Come on guys, let's not forget the true meaning of Christmas: the birth of Santa Claus! :laughing:

Two things that bug the hell out of me: people saying "Happy Holidays". WTF? It's Christmas dude! Nobody says "Happy Holidays" about Thanksgiving or Easter, do they? Why can't people just say "Happy/Merry Christmas"???

Also, "this holiday season"...? **** right off pal!

and now...

Not everyone is a God fearing Christian like you, TH. That's why.

I tend to stick with "Merry Christmas and God is dead!"

I don't fear God. He fears me. (Trollheart ducks; thunderbolt hits Frown instead, who was too busy working out how to use the sound in his music)

No but it should be this way: if you're a muslim you celebrate the Haj or Ramadan or whatever, if you're not you don't. If Christians or others suddenly decided to celebrate it do you think they'd change the name of the festival? So I'm not saying only Christians can celebrate Christmas, but if non-Christians like me do, then they should accept that it is a Christian festival and does not need to be blurred into "happy ****ing holidays". After all, if you're uncomfortable with Christmas, Xmas does just as well. I just don't see why of all the religious celebrations it's the only one that has to be tippy-toed about in this annoyingly PC-let's-not-offend-anyone way. It's annoying. If you don't want to celebrate Christmas, don't. If you do, call it what it ****ing is!
Rant over.
For now.

It's a stupid ass issue to be upset about. Someone is wishing you a nice day, sit the **** down and don't worry about the specific nomenclature they use. You do realize that there's more than just Christmas going on right now, right? I don't even think it's a "PC issue," it's just a change on common language to adapt to the world which is becoming markedly less Christian than it used to be.

If you grew up hearing Happy Holidays, you would give absolutely zero ****s about it.

sounds like the devil's work to me

Happy holidays is a synonym for "I spit it Christmas's face."

Seriously though, there are more people telling you not to say Happy Holidays (like, twenty five) than there are people telling you not to say Merry Christmas (bloody zero). Maybe this is a PC issue, just not in the way that TH meant.

I recently saw a commercial that said both and I wanted to high five their marketing team.

As far as I can tell Christians are mad at Walmart and that's pretty much the whole issue.

And this my friends is why other countries laugh at America.