Top 5 things that you associate with Christmas

1. The once-a-year experience of washing chocolates down with beer.
2. The apocalyptic stench of Boxing Day farts at the football (best ever Boxing Day game: Stoke 3-1 Man City, 1988).
3. Not leaving the house for 72 hours at a time and thinking nothing of it.
4. The faint but irremovable taste of stale jism at the back of your throat (though this might just be me - thanks, Uncle Dave).
5. Putting on half-a-stone in the space of a week and still being impressed with your self-restraint.

1. Spoiled kids
2. Drunk Santa
3. No snow this Christmas either
4. Mother in law on visit, yuck
5. No work for a couple of days, thank God!

Noel Edmunds Noel Edmunds Jumpers Noel Edmunds innane grin Noel Edmunds visiting kids in hospital (the kids are unfortuately poorly and he turns up, just what they need !!!) Noel Edmunds deal or no deal on xmas day (i hope it does not come to that )

Rian wrote:

1. Spoiled kids
2. Drunk Santa
3. No snow this Christmas either 4) Mother in law on visit, yuck
4. No work for a couple of days, thank God!

That is my number 1.

maybe this was about top 5 best things...

wait until you see my top 5 worse things..

Family listening to Chaz and Dave Arguments Getting pissed on Christmas Eve and paying through the nose to get home. Turkey forever People who hate each other all year pretending to be nice to each other.

I take it someones not a Noel Edmonds fan,couldn,t agree more hes a fuckin arsehole.

Baileys Mince Pies Hangovers Lie Ins Debt

Boxer shorts socks jumpers turkey laughing at work colleagues that are working Christmas day

Best things Lots of new things to play with nice food at the mother in laws (she's a much better cook than my mum and has a dishwasher!) Sinead O'Connor singing silent night The Phil Spector Christmas album laughing at the everyone in the silly paper hat from the crackers

Worst things Fireworks going off at 3:30 am getting up far too early Whigfields cover of last Christmas (the most appalling song ever made even worse) indigestion being laughed at for wearing the silly paper hat from the crackers

• Inedible cuisine

• The pilgrimage to Lakeside/Bluewater/Trafford Centre

• Outtake TV

• Del Boy falling over

• then Gym Membership/lots of diets/ocean finance/post festive bulimia

Did I imagine it, or did Ryan just post?

I fucking hate Christmas. It's a time when obligation and routine bites harder than any other time in the year and I miss everyone who I'm not with more than the rest of the year.

It does give you an excuse to go further down the wine list though.

Biginoil wrote: Did I imagine it, or did Ryan just post?

I did! :)

I must say that I also hate Christmas. But with 4 kids, there is no escape for me....

Hmmm

1. the feeling that it isnt like when you are a kid.
2. Phil Spector album (of course)
3. Spending all day at my in laws when i really want to be in my own house.
4. Having to sit and watch the jelly bean, because my brother in law loves to sit and watch some old bird read out someone elses speech to the nation.
5. Everyone being boringly cynical about everything, because to actually enjoy it would be soooo uncool. If you want to impress me, get the daft hat on and enter into the spirit of it, dont sit there thinking you are being original saying bah hum bug every two seconds.
6. My parish church with trees up out side, and the stain glass window illumiated.
7. Getting to give loads of girls kisses and not get battered.
8. Knocking off work, even though or maybe because i dont like most people i work with, i love saying goodbye and wishing them the best, knowing i wont see them for ages.
9. People moaning about the shops being shut, its one day, get over it.
10. Wishing i had more money to buy people what they really deserve.

1. My mum's cooking (chicken and stuffing)
2. Christmas cake (Japanese style)
3. Pretty illuminations
4. Christmas songs
5. Snow

The Food (cheese's, the pies, the cakes, even pringles) Drink/ being drunk/ being solidly drunk for the whole holidays and it being acceptable family visiting, family fuck up. the dog walk (often getting stupidly beyond lost) shiny new stuff to play with (wrapped up the clone theory for meself for xmas:D )

Trying to get off with girls you used to go to school with.

Failing.

Massive tax bills.

All mine are a bit cliche and only good things... I like Christmas, the Nativity scene, Santa Claus, lights and the whole bit... but wouldn't want to ruin the pissing about party so I'll leave my list for another day.

leather_girl wrote:

2. Christmas cake (Japanese style)

Lemme guess....seaweed instead of raisins :D

X Juliette Oh la la X wrote:

Noel Edmunds Jumpers

I have an Aunty who is a total fruit-loop but really nice and old now,Aunty Molly. Most years she'll knit me or one of the kids a really bad jumper,we sort of take it in turns from her....and these things sometimes have 3 arms in them,I'm not kidding,she's off it and blatantly a terrible knitter,but thoughtful and kind...

Even she doesn't knitt Noel Edmonds jumpers mind,bit of a niche market them blighters,one would assume

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noel%20Edmonds

A very apt description,and a knock on the Noely hurts like hell

Entered in the urban dictionary by one Colin T. Hmmm,who is that I wonder?

Boatraceface wrote:

Entered in the urban dictionary by one Colin T. Hmmm,who is that I wonder?

I think youre onto summit there Boaty,check out Colin T's other entry...the 'ladybum' one

Gazman wrote:

Boatraceface wrote:

Entered in the urban dictionary by one Colin T. Hmmm,who is that I wonder?

I think youre onto summit there Boaty,check out Colin T's other entry...the 'ladybum' one

It's Biggy alright

I planted the Edmonds seed,Col delivered it like Santa. Look at the entry date of 25th Dec 2007.

Brill.

My top 5 things I associate with Christmas are:

1. the smell of turkey as you take it out of the oven
2. open boxes of chocolates everywhere
3. being surrounded by cardboard toy boxes everywhere, not to mention wrapping paper
4. walking into someone's house & smelling their Xmas tree
5. listening to Christmas carols as you wait for Midnight mass to start.

Chris Nash wrote:

annmuin wrote:

4. walking into someone's house & smelling their Xmas tree

Is that a euphemism? Is it a fetish? Has anyone ever called the police when you've done that? Is it strangers' houses or just people you know?

Just curious...

NO,NO,NO & NO!

I pity you that you don't have a real Christmas tree to appreciate the scent of a real pine or douglas fir. You must live in a big city where real trees do not exist and cynicism abounds. Take a nature walk sometimes or find the nearest park and breathe in the fresh air...

Chris Nash wrote:

annmuin wrote:

4. walking into someone's house & smelling their Xmas tree

Is that a euphemism? Is it a fetish? Has anyone ever called the police when you've done that? Is it strangers' houses or just people you know?

Just curious...