BAH! Humbug!

[Contun]

I like the holidays, but the hype that engulfs all the months around it is unnecessary and a bit hectic.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Isn't this the 7th Humbug thread this week? I'm getting tired of explaining what I dislike about Christmas.

Hmm so maybe Christma's killed the creativity of people??

DAMN YOU SANTACHRIST!

 

[orangebandguy]

Christmas sweaters. You only wear them once and they itch like hell.

 

[caveman665]

When you stress out about getting some one a gift but you dont know if theyre gona get you one.

PS: WTF Yahtzee? I wanted a borderlands review for Christmas, not a 10second clip about you taking a vacation.

 

[AvsJoe]

Gotta go with the music. And the hectic shopping. And the annoying PC extremists that clog the airwaves and are trying to remove any and all religion from the season. And pretty much everything else. Christmas? Humbug I say!

 

[Pielikey]

I would say music, but I'm usually sick of it waaaay before Christmas. I would have to go with myself. I am extraordinarily difficult person to shop for according to my brother.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Probably the way people like you keep trying to kill my Christmas spirit.

Don't worry, the Christmas spirit is nigh on indestructible.

 

[benbenthegamerman]

people who kill or hurt other people for, say, buying the last PS3 in the store.

 

[Aesir23]

The way people go nuts in shopping centres. Trust me, I love Christmas itself, but I hate shopping for it.

 

[Caliostro]

The dipshits who (I swear this is true) keep trying to complain that the "Christians are hijacking Christmas and trying to make it about them!"

Faggots.

Christians DID hijack christmas, from the Pagan Malkh [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malkh-Festival]. That's what religion do. Steal, assimilate, brainwash, convert. Like the Borg, but not nearly as cool.

That said, the entire season makes me both joyful, because it's the one time of the year where people more or less cease being the biggest douchebags they can to each other and actually act like real people, and depressed, because it's a giant hypocritical egotistical and financial jerkfest.

If people weren't massive exploitative fucks the rest of the year we wouldn't need christmas as a time to be nice... We'd just be nice the whole year. The extra depressing part is, we know what we're supposed to do, we fake it very well during the season, we just choose to be pricks to each other by default...

 

[MasterStratus]

The way people just complain about stress/annoyance/hatred etc.
Listen, you're stressed because you don't plan ahead.
Oh, you had to go shopping on Christmas Eve? I finished three weeks ago.
You spent too much money? Funny, I spent no more than I needed to.
Oh, and of course, you hate Christmas music. Listen to your iPod, turn off the radio, or just deal with it.

So basically, I hate people who try to ruin everyone else's mood.
Which they have succeeded to do with mine.

 

[Summermute]

I think people hate Christmas because they know they are supposed to be happy. It amplifies our misery knowing that we should be having a good time. Suicide and depression ratings both go up at Christmas. I'm personally not a huge fan myself, and I have had bad luck for the last 6 years over the Christmas period, breakups, deaths, crushing depression and abandonment being the main themes, but it seems to be enjoyable so far this year.
Although the music is killer. I work in a restaurant, and we have the same twenty songs over, and over, and OVER again. For two months. I love the Pogues, but now Fairytale of New York makes me want to hit people. To be fair though, that's work's fault, not Christmas.

And as much as I hate Christmas, watching my Mum open her presents from me always makes me happy that it exists. Girlfriends come and go, nieces and nephews grow up and become as jaded with the whole thing as myself, but a Mum is for life.

Besides, you can always just get really drunk.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Probably the music. They play it repeatedly over the tannoy at work. Whether it is Slade, or the soundtrack of 'The Snowman' it just goes on and on.

I hate those same thirty or so songs that play every...fuckin'...year. We've know Deck the Halls, Rudolph, White Christmas, Jingle Bells and all those other songs since we were three, that doesn't mean you should play them every facking Christmas.

I think of this when I read this:

Spoiler

 

[Fish and Chips]

When people act spoilt about 'stuff', and completely forget they have a roof and food. Most have family as well.
People who have nobody... I feel depressed when I think about how they must feel over Christmas. Especially elderly widows. OH GOD.

 

[SkullCap]

Lets cut the crap people, despite what facade we may put out there's something about the Christmas season that drives us bonkers and leaves us only one tiny thing away from slaughtering everyone within eyesight.

So, what do you hate about this season? What makes you want to exclaim, "BAH HUMBUG!"

This helps me remember the Christmas spirit. Hope it helps you, Merry Christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk9rv2hUfA

 

[Gaderael]

When I was younger I refused to celebrate it at all. now I embrace I the nice things about Christmas. The giving of gifts, spending time with friends and family. Taking a few hours to make the apartment look pretty and decorating the Christmas Tree. Ooh, and singing silly carols while driving around town looking at all the lights. Yeah, I love Christmas.

 

[minidevil921]

All the music and how I have to danve around the cgristmas tree but I sure do like my Dad's egg nog yum yum.

 

[Spiner909]

When new 'hip' artists remix good Christmas songs. I hate those fancy remixes! They're an insult to traditional music!

 

[DannyFree]

I could probably think of a few to add, but the main one for me?

Those insipid, pretentious, black-and-white-filtered-shot-of-topless-overpaid-prick fragrance adverts.

 

[Robert632]

i hate that i get forced to christmas shop for my older brother, as he can induce murderous rampages in me within about 30 seconds of being in a store.