Holiday haters

You know why you never attack Thanksgiving, Halloween, or Easter?

Because you're miserable insecure fucks trying to ruin other people's fun on the two holidays that are about love.

Fuck blaming commercialism, whole businesses are based off of Halloween - lots and lots of businesses of every type.

The holidays are over, Santa's gone to bed, so I can take this time to give the naughty what they really need to hear. Stop pretending.

 

Some folks need a reason to validate there miserableness I guess.

 

First of all, stop generalizing people. Second, accussing people of "pretending" is fucking stupid, and a dick thing to do. (whether they're "pretending" to be religious, not religious, gay, or whatever). I can't stand it when people do that.

I personally am not a fan of Christmas. Not because it's commercialized, but because people pretend that it's not. Living in fundy-land, there are a few things that piss me the fuck off, and make me dislike Christmas.

-The god awful fucking music. Everywhere. All the time.

-Stupid bitching about "happy holidays" being part of a war against Christmas. I've never heard anyone actually get offended upon hearing "merry Christmas" despite Christians' claims that it's become taboo. They honestly need to just shut the fuck up and stop having an angry, paranoid spaz attack whenever someone wishes them a nice day.

-"reason for the season" nonsense. Christmas is a cooperate holiday, it's not about love. But people try to pretend it's about Jesus. Religiously speaking, Easter is far more important than Christmas, and celebrating the day he was born is a nice thought, but is essentially meaningless. I'm happy that some people pitch in a little extra in December, (though I bet it's out of guilt more than love) but most people don't.

-It's cold

-I very much dislike my extended family, and being with them for a week is not something I look forward too.


.....That said, if you have the right family, Christmas is probably cool for you. I don't hate the day itself, but all the stupid rituals surrounding that day and all the stupid babbling about religion that I hear nonstop does not tickle my funny bone. In my opinion, July is the most wonderful time of the year.

 

Then it should be done on the day he was actually born on right?

What gets me is the degree and frequency of anxiety attacks the folks where I'm at here seem to go through for preparing dinner let alone the holiday, let alone burnt out light bulbs really,,, but yea, it's just me man, do your thing, go have yer fun with your lil tree and those cute lil songs and the cookies. My thinking Christmas is just a big shaft to blind consumers does not in any way stop you from enjoying that candy cane.

For your sake, Merry Christmas!
Did that help?

 

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I think you've misunderstood who I mean by holiday haters; I apologize if it's because I was unclear.

I'm talking about those who attack the shit out of Christmas and Valentine's Day like they are vile, evil schemes the whole world is in on.

But I totally hear you on the fundies. It makes me wanna call it Xmas, but I don't, cause that's gay.

 

You would think so

 

Yeah, I know what you're talking about.


I don't actually mind Valentine's Day. Honestly, I'm surprised more people don't see the irony in thanksgiving. While it is one of the only holidays I actually enjoy, I find it hilarious that on the day of thanks....all people can talk about is what they're going to buy on black friday. Hell, I knew several people who camped out in front of stores all day this thanksgiving (missing family gatherings). If there's one holiday that drives me batshit insane, (though I don't often rant about it) it's black friday, not Christmas.:cuss:


EDIT:
I'm pretty sure the X in xmas actually does have religious symbolism behind it.

 

Hey, theres an angle I dont think hallmark has hit yet have they?

Ohhh I'm sure they will once I hit enter...

 

Thanksgiving is a day of celebration of being invited over to your neighbors for a feast instead of starving to death, right before murdering him and stealing his land of tens of thousands of years.

Halloween is a sick commercialization of a pagan holiday, a perfectly legitimate holiday, until you throw in the thousands of tons of plastic shit, a costume don't mean shit if you buy it in blister-packs at the dollar store.

Easter is just another christian sham holiday, and is used to sell massive amounts of sickeningly pastel coloured plastic shit that nobody even likes. I think it's also a stolen pagan one, uses pagan fertility symbols, amirite?

And this is not new, I have no problem hatin' at those times of year, and frequently do.... My hatred doesn't require christmas to show :2thumbsup:. I have no problem with togetherness, celebration, good foods or festive decorations, spirited costuming or fertility symbols, but the modern versions of these holidays are downright sickening, and I will spout off to any militant pseudo-christian soccer moms who have a problem with my not buying into the sick commercialization and general cheapening of these occasions. You can't buy celebration.

:daisy:

 

The main trouble with Christmas is that you're stuck with a bunch of crusty bitchy old people and other members of extended family you only really see that day every year and otherwise wouldn't. Christmas is the most family orientated holiday, then Easter but not so much.

So basically if you have a cool family, Christmas is great, why is everyone else so negative? But if your family are all assholes that just bitch,whine and fight all the time, then Christmas is fucked

 

Are you saying I don't hate all holidays equally?

 

As a matter of fact, I do. Anything that closes down the closest grocery store is bad business, IMHO. Commercialism is the best aspect of Christmas; it's all the turkey love syrup makes my cock go limp.

Just so you don`t accuse me of being inconsistent in my insecurity, I attack Sundays for the same reason. Too much family, not nearly enough whoring.

 

i suppose if i had to spend a whole week with extended family, i'd hate the hell out of it too.

that would make sense, if anyone knew when that was.

i was really struggling to figure out what other day you were talking about.

 

Yep, I don't have a particular dislike for Christmas that I don't extend to other commercial, annual festivities. They're all just as bad. And Christmas isn't about love at all, or if it is, it's a very shallow, benign version of it. I've never got why people say be kind and good to people on Christmas, as if it's okay to not be like that the rest of the year. Why not be kind and good to people all year round? Now that, would that would be a festival of love worth celebrating.

 

From what I recall reading, they had it all rather well documented via astronomy and star charts back then and judging by all the astronomy related temples which still accurately mark occourances in the heavens built by ancient cultures around the world I'd have to think we have a fairly spot on idea or at least someone does.

I need to get to the Vatican!!

 

Yeah, Well I didn't see any youz dressed up for either holiday..

 

I don't really like Christmas. I don't hate it, but I don't particularly care for it. I don't think its because I'm insecure or because I hate love or whatever - I always have plenty of family to spend Christmas with. And I don't hate my family or anything. Its kind of weird seeing my extended family on Christmas Eve because I don't speak to anyone except my family and my mom's sisters's family, and I don't really know anyones name and its weird that we have to spend time together every year like we love each other when we don't even know each other, but I don't really hate that aspect of Christmas.

I do hate the commercialism. I can ignore that part about Halloween because I don't feel forced to buy anyone gifts on Halloween and I make my own costume. So I feel validated in hating the commercialism. However, we don't really buy a lot of gifts in my family for Christmas. I had to buy 3 gifts this year, and it stressed me the hell out.

I guess that sums up what I hate about Christmas. Its supposed to be a holiday celebrating family and love and 6 lb baby Jesus or whatever, and yet it ends up being about a bunch of pissed off people stuck in traffic, trying to get to the store before it closes.

I took a walk last night after the family festivities. The streets were deserted. It was quiet and peaceful and lonely as hell and it was my favorite part of the whole day.

Now, Valentines day can suck my nonexistent dick. Seriously....that day is NOT about love. Back when I used to try to celebrate Valentines day one of two things happened: I would expect too much and end up disappointed or I would try to make it what I expected it to be and end up stressed.

V-Day is only good when you completely ignore the fact that its Valentines Day. Forced love, thats all Valentines Day is. I don't need someone to book a fancy dinner 3 months in advance and buy me flowers and chocolate if they've been doing things all year that show me how much they love me.

 

Can you not see how that could be your fault, for the pressures that you've put onto your Valentine's Days?

All 5 of my Valentine's Days with my girl have been light, easy going, inexpensive and stress-free.

I made her chocolate fondue and put candles and fake rose petals around the room one year; I generally make sure I have a great playlist; other than that though, sometimes we'll buy each other something, we always avoid going out, and always have a really great (usually a little naughty) day together.