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Anyone else not celebrating Christmas? If so are you a reformed Christmas celebrator or did you grow up in a family that just never bothered celebrating the holiday?

Personally my wife and I gave up celebrating the holiday about 3 years ago. We looked at it and thought

Well we arnt Christian.
Our family like most treats this as a commercial holiday
No one really volunteers or works on the whole peace on earth good will towards men thing anymore
Most of the gifts we get are thoughtless
This costs us a ton of money

....so why the fuck are we doing this? I think the last straw was when we told my Christian mother in law we didnt want any gifts to just give to charity in our name and she pitched a fit. So now we go out Christmas eve when everyone else is busy wrapping presents and enjoy a dinner at a nice/expensive restaurant that is completely empty. We come home get drunk and play board games and have sex. Christmas day we sleep till noon then roll out of bed, take a shower(TOGETHER!), walk our dogs at a nice empty park and then head over to my inlaws so my wife can still see her family and we can still get our grub on.

So yeah. fuck Christmas, commercialism and o yeah, bahumbug! O and anyone thats going to complain to you I say Falalala go fuck yourself ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7GUy9XS7c
 
I'm not Christian, but Christmas is mighty fun. I guess it doesn't have to be Christmas though. The 'holiday season' in general gives me a warm feeling. But we generally don't go all out with Christmas. It's a small thing. In fact, I'd say I have more fun on Festivus Friday at my fraternity house than I do on Christmas day. :p
 
i dont like any holidays its all bullshit. hey lets be kind to others for a few days or weeks then when it ends lets go back to being assholes. i just like getting deals on shit, discount holiday candy ( especially easter love those cadburry eggs) egg nog and fruitcake. and being a kid of the 80s i really dig watching those old cartons if you can find them especially the claymation ones. used to be every network channel had them on now not so much.

oh yeah i hate xmas songs except for 2 ( santa claus was a black man and grandma got run over by a reindeer).
 
I love Christmas. I don't exchange gifts with the wife but it is great fun with the kids every year. Also, it is the one day a year where I can legitimately say I'm not going to work.
 
[quote name='lokizz']i dont like any holidays its all bullshit. hey lets be kind to others for a few days or weeks then when it ends lets go back to being assholes. i just like getting deals on shit, discount holiday candy ( especially easter love those cadburry eggs) egg nog and fruitcake. and being a kid of the 80s i really dig watching those old cartons if you can find them especially the claymation ones. used to be every network channel had them on now not so much.

oh yeah i hate xmas songs except for 2 ( santa claus was a black man and grandma got run over by a reindeer).[/QUOTE]

You should check out the Christmas song I posted in the OP, you may dig that one. As for other holidays I tend to be conflicted. I love the shit out of what Halloween is supposed to be...but its dying a low death. Thanksgiving again I love what its supposed to be about, but its not really about that anymore.
 
I love x mas. There is nothing religious to me about it because I choose not to affiliate christ with x mas. It's a hallmark holiday to me. I get the tree up and the shit I put on it are pretty whacky. I have the x mas balls or whatever but I also put up pictures, paper dragons, gummi bears, candy (not candy canes, fuck candy canes), bud, etc.. My best friend (muslim) is always down to hang out with me and the wife on xmas. x mas feels like you should just open presents with friends/family, get fucked up and have fun! The x mas cartoons are always the best, too.
 
yeah xmas is all fun and games until you wake up after a having a few too many to see your best friend with his candy cane deep in her mistletoe............its really the fakeness of it all that gets me just like after 9-11. everyone got on this whle hey were all americans kick and it was nice for a month or so then came the commemorative coins and wine and everyone went right back to being a selfish prick.

thats what makes alien invasion movies so funny if that shit really happened people wouldnt band together itd be more like that rowdy roddy piper movie those who could would screw over the majority of us just to live better.
 
If you want to find a reason to hate Christmas it's easy enough to find one (religion, commercialism, superficial gift-giving, etc.).

If you want to find a reason to love Christmas it's easy enough to find one (religion, giving/getting gifts, spending time with friends/family, time off).

I love Christmas. I don't necessarily agree with how the holiday has become a huge commercial affair (although to be honest I might just be more alert to it now that I'm older) but I think most of us can find something to enjoy about it, whether it's friends and family or eating at an empty restaurant and having drunk sex after. Focus on what aspects you do enjoy about the event, tune out what you don't agree with, and just enjoy it while it lasts.
 
@lokizz - I agree

@captainfrizo - I agree

You both make good points. I hate all the things lokizz mentioned including the non Christmas stuff. But at the same time I recognize that Christmas does still have some people that celebrate it the right way and I do recognize what it means to some people. I dont HATE Christmas, I just dont want to celebrate it anymore because of the way most people seem to treat it. My wife went to her Christmas party at work last night to just have a good time with coworkers. As I also said before we do go spend time with the family Christmas day. We have just given up on giving gifts, going to church(which was just to appease the mother in law)or anything else that relates to the holiday outside getting together with friends and family. And again it does feel like far too many Christmas fans attempt to wage a war with those of us that dont celebrate Christmas. As John Stewart said on the daily show too many people take saying happy holidays as "fuck you and your baby jesus.
 
its cool when little kids still believe and get excited for it though. i can remember , sort of, what it was like those first few years. that is cool but i doubt it lasts that long these days. and real soft gingerbread fuckin hell that shit is crack.especially if its made with molasses.
 
[quote name='MSI Magus']As John Stewart said on the daily show too many people take saying happy holidays as "fuck you and your baby jesus.[/QUOTE]

But what if that is what we actually mean by it? :p

All kidding aside, I am not a huge fan of Christmas either. I will admit, I like looking at the lights people hang (oooooh shinies), and the occasional Christmas special from my childhood but otherwise I can't stand it. The wife and I will exchange a gift on christmas, but more because (at least from my point of view) it's because I like to get her stuff and its just an excuse... But honestly Christmas has zero meaning to me. Maybe it will change since we now have a 8 month old son... Once again, I can see me using it as an excuse to get him fun stuff... but it's still meaningless even after that.

Oh and I HATE Christmas music, except for two songs. The song in the OP is one, and Christmas in Sarajevo is the other.
 
[quote name='Sycowulf']But what if that is what we actually mean by it? :p

All kidding aside, I am not a huge fan of Christmas either. I will admit, I like looking at the lights people hang (oooooh shinies), and the occasional Christmas special from my childhood but otherwise I can't stand it. The wife and I will exchange a gift on christmas, but more because (at least from my point of view) it's because I like to get her stuff and its just an excuse... But honestly Christmas has zero meaning to me. Maybe it will change since we now have a 8 month old son... Once again, I can see me using it as an excuse to get him fun stuff... but it's still meaningless even after that.

Oh and I HATE Christmas music, except for two songs. The song in the OP is one, and Christmas in Sarajevo is the other.[/QUOTE]

Thing is though that to me it means more to get someone a gift because you want to then because the month of December demands it. Id rather someone have bought me Uncharted 3 last month because they know me well enough to know I loved the first 2 but would never buy myself a $60 game then because "hey its December I had to get you this". And hell really I dont think I ever got but one or two gifts ever that showed that someone knew me that well, usually it was either because they just flat out asked what I want or it was some random thing that got returned or put in the closet because it proved how little they knew me ;(
 
It does mean more to give a gift because you want to instead of because you have to... But the gifts that I am giving are not because I have to in any way shape or form (Hell if I HAD to, I probably wouldn't because that's how I operate for some reason), its just an excuse to give them, nothing more.
 
[quote name='Sycowulf']It does mean more to give a gift because you want to instead of because you have to... But the gifts that I am giving are not because I have to in any way shape or form (Hell if I HAD to, I probably wouldn't because that's how I operate for some reason), its just an excuse to give them, nothing more.[/QUOTE]

If thats true of you thats fine/cool. Problem is that I hear this from people all the time but yet I never see it practiced. It is an amazingly rare thing that I receive a gift from someone when its not my birthday/Christmas/graduation or some other major life event where you get/give gifts anyways. I have heard it from my mom, aunts, friends and so many others....yet I can think of on one hand the number of times someone has just done something out of love/the goodness of their heart randomly and not on a holiday.

Again not judging you, just speaking from my experience.
 
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