The Christmas 'Humbug' thread...

[threebikesmcginty]

 

[Wolf04]

Pete, I would thoroughly recommend the film Bad Santa, if you haven't seen it treat yourself.

+1 Having remembered this, I'm now looking forward to the festivities!

 

[Andy in Sig]

I can't stand Christmas. I've come to the conclusion that this is because normal daily life is pretty good and I hate sprouts.

 

[jimboalee]

Just like the Queen, Jesus has two birthdays.
An 'official' day - 25th December, and a 'real' birthday.

The jury is still out as to the precise 'real' date, but it could be late September on the Gregorian calendar.

It coincided with the census, which was arranged at the New Year in Hebrew, not Gregorian.

The 'official' day was set in late December to suppress the pagan 'Solstice festivities' when their New Year began.


I don't celebrate the 'official' day.

 

[XmisterIS]

Couldn't have put it better myself....maybe....probably....

My friend babelfish said it meant this -

'But gibt' s something Elves or annuitant there?! That could be dangerous'

Cleared that one up!

Lol! I will leave it to Andy in Sig to translate my bad German ... and perhaps re-write it more fluently, complete with the jibe aimed in my general direction ...

Gibt's is a contraction that babelfish doesn't understand, or so it would seem! I am surprised it doesn't understand Rentier! I am unsure of my use of etwas in that sentence; I think I am translating litterally from the English and it doesn't read right in German. I do that sometimes, just to give my German friends a good laugh!

 

[Hilldodger]

I love christmas time me

I go home, unplug the phone, make sure I've got plenty of tea, coffee and grub in and then spend the whole period reading books and playing music.

It's taken me a good ten years for people to understand that it's what I WANT to do after spending the whole year working 6 or 7 days a week running Cyclemagic and organising events/other people.

Last year I was pleased not to get a single card or present

 

[Over The Hill]

I dont mind Christmas day too much* but it is the fact that the whole thing is the focus of attention for three whole months of the year that spoils it. Nothing else seems to require so much planning and attention as Christmas.

* I really hate it when we go to the inlaws and they have put the same decorations up in exactly the same place as they have for the last 20 years, I have a bit of a Groundhog Day moment.

 

[Keith Oates]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thread title is Bah Humbug, get your happy thoughts out of here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just thought I'd brighten the thread up a bit and you can stop stealing my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!it's not Christmas yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Good for you Keith!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Andy in Sig]

Lol! I will leave it to Andy in Sig to translate my bad German ... and perhaps re-write it more fluently, complete with the jibe aimed in my general direction ...

Gibt's is a contraction that babelfish doesn't understand, or so it would seem! I am surprised it doesn't understand Rentier! I am unsure of my use of etwas in that sentence; I think I am translating litterally from the English and it doesn't read right in German. I do that sometimes, just to give my German friends a good laugh!

Well it does depend on exactly what you're trying to say:

Aber gibt's etwas Elves oder Rentier da?! Das koennte gefaehrlich sein!

could be:

Aber gibt's doch Elfen oder Rentiere da? Das könnte gefährlich sein!

(But are there elves or reindeer there? That could be dangerous!)

Rentier also translates as "person of independent means".

 

[Crankarm]

I hate Christmas !

 

[fuzzy290]

Lot's of parties, a day at the horse races, some mid-week cycle rides and lots of good food. Yes, Christmas is rubbish!!!!

 

[redjedi]

I'm now surrounded by happy little elves co-workers putting up the office decorations and untangling fairy lights.

I refuse to help, until December 15th at the earliest.

 

[jonny jeez]

Lot's of parties, a day at the horse races, some mid-week cycle rides and lots of good food. Yes, Christmas is rubbish!!!!

Two whole weeks without work, eating and drinking as much as I like without a single feeling of guilt, being able to wake up with and tuck my kids in every single morning/night, doing the special Xmas pub quiz at the local with my pals, looking forward to the annual skiing trip with 20 other mates, winter walks in the wood's, leaving food/ nuts out for the squirrels and watching them bury it all in the back of the garden, Sprinkling flour over my shoes on Christmas eve and making Santa foot-prints through the house!! no DIY, No congsetion, No Blackberry,

Pfft....I can't wait till its all over...........

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Two whole weeks without work, eating and drinking as much as I like without a single feeling of guilt, being able to wake up with and tuck my kids in every single morning/night, doing the special Xmas pub quiz at the local with my pals, looking forward to the annual skiing trip with 20 other mates, winter walks in the wood's, leaving food/ nuts out for the squirrels and watching them bury it all in the back of the garden, Sprinkling flour over my shoes on Christmas eve and making Santa foot-prints through the house!! no DIY, No congsetion, No Blackberry

I haven't got a Blackberry and I don't ski but apart from that +1