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    Do you like Christmas? Do you hate Christmas? Do you dread Christmas?

    We are writing cards today and I have already decided not to bother sending as many this year.

    Personally I am ambivalent / dislike most of Christmas apart from filling my face on Christmas Day.

    I am sympathetic to those who have children as it should be an awesome time for them but very stressful and expensive for the parents.


    The huge consumerist event seems to roll in earlier and earlier each year and you sometimes feel steam rollered by the whole thing.

    Can't wait for it all to be over!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimbo View Post
    Do you like Christmas? Do you hate Christmas? Do you dread Christmas?

    We are writing cards today and I have already decided not to bother sending as many this year.

    Personally I am ambivalent / dislike most of Christmas apart from filling my face on Christmas Day.

    I am sympathetic to those who have children as it should be an awesome time for them but very stressful and expensive for the parents.


    The huge consumerist event seems to roll in earlier and earlier each year and you sometimes feel steam rollered by the whole thing.

    Can't wait for it all to be over!
    Bah, hum-bug, unless you are give me a present.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AJSki2fly View Post
    Bah, hum-bug, unless you are give me a present.
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    didnt send any last year as wasnt well enough. not sure this year. see how i feel. might go to daughters for dinner this year. wont eat much tho but nice to see them all having fun. i spend more time in bed than up doh
    Regards,
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    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

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    Christmas is for children (and by extension, their parents). As a child I loved Christmas; it was 'magic', but in those days preparations only started a week or ten days beforehand.

    My father would dig up the Christmas tree from the garden, plant it the barrel we had for that purpose and bring it into the house - where I was allowed to decorate it. On Christmas Eve I hung up the stocking and had to go to bed early, so on Christmas Day I would awake to find a heavy, full stocking awaiting me.

    These days Christmas is spoit by rampant commercialisation - and I now have a thoroughly cynical attitude to it all.

    That said we shall be spending Christmas this year away, staying with friends in Lyon, France.
    Barry

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    don't really care about the commercialism, I mean when we were young the pressies were the main thing not the baby Jesus so seems a bit hypocritical to frown on it now.

    Used to be the only time you would see my father drink alcohol in daylight hours.

    My main issue with it is that it now seems to extend from 26th November to 31st December. Just no need. I would bring back the death sentence for anyone putting up their decos before 15th Dec.
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    None of my family were church goers, so it was more a festival of the Winter, rather than anything to do with "the baby Jesus".

    Pressies were modest and simple.
    Barry

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    We weren't church goers but my parents were Christians and Christmas was partly about Jesus and all that. Is "not church goers" a euphemism for actively atheist?

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    parents were church goers originally and i got dragged along to sunday school until i was old enough to say no... seemed to catch on as they stopped going too; well dad did, then mum fell out with the'meanister'... lol she still paid her dues to the church but never went near til she got an appology and a new man in...
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    I’m just glad of the two weeks off work and time to spend with loved ones.
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