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What chaps your ass most about the Holidays?

Christmas decorations going on display before Holloween

39% (31)

Shoppers who will litarally grab things out of your hand

7% (6)

The idea that you have to spend money to show you care

28% (22)

The look of fury on kids faces when they dont get the $300 toy

1% (1)

The family member who asks dinner be held until he arrives... at 2am

1% (1)

Those wonderful drunk drivers driving home after holiday parties

10% (8)

The perky girl at work that goes overboard with decorations

3% (3)

The sub that asks for a complete new wardrobe to stay in style

0% (0)

The boss that makes you work the holidays

6% (5)

Kids who wake you at 2 am christmas morning....

1% (1)

Total Votes : 78

(last vote on : 11/27/2008 8:26:26 AM)
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sirsholly -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 2:53:18 AM)
Putting up the outside decorations generally seems to have Jim and I ready to hang each other in the Christmas lights. And why is it that no matter how carefully you take the darn things down and pack them away, they are always a tangled mess the next year?

Darias -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 2:57:30 AM)
christmas elves .. Santa`s elves have downtime between say January first and about march ... with the thousands of elf workers needed to prepare toys for the millions of kids around the world thats alot of idle hands 50 years ago they instigated what became known as * Elvish Vacation raids * wherein gangs of rampant elves invaded homes and tangled xmas lights, raided fridges , confiscated the socks collected by the dryer pixies and basically wrecked havok on the land ... the Elvish Raid advice authority suggests throwing your old lights in the garbage and buying new ones in spetember when the elves are busy working ... thus avoiding the tangled lights issue

sirsholly -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 2:59:28 AM)
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SilverMark -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 4:41:47 AM)
I love the look of a Christmas tree....I hate putting them and taking them down!!!! Once my son is gone from the house I am getting one of those 3 ft, pre lit trees that folds up like an umbrella and I am done with it!!!!

KMsAngel -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 4:46:19 AM)
aw, c'mon, isn't part of the tradition of christmas fiddling with the lights, rearranging all the decorations and vacuuming up tinsel for months after? there are just some traditions you shouldn't do without [8D]

sirsholly -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 4:48:06 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SilverMark I love the look of a Christmas tree....I hate putting them and taking them down!!!! Once my son is gone from the house I am getting one of those 3 ft, pre lit trees that folds up like an umbrella and I am done with it!!!! why don't you just decorate an umbrella?

NormalOutside -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 4:48:30 AM)
I voted drunk drivers, because all the rest were pretty negative imo. My answer would have been: "What I hate most about the holidays is the people who complain so much about the holidays, which are an amazing time when many people get together and spread cheer and all that good stuff. Those who want to spend this 1/6th of the year whining about how bad it is deserve their unhappy plight" [:-]

michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 4:48:39 AM)
i have one you overlooked. locally, we have a radio station (Sunny 100.1 FM) that starts 24/7 Christmas tunes the day after Haloween. and doesn't stop until after New Years. THAT annoys me since it's the only station that plays the songs and genre i like.

SilverMark -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 5:45:13 AM)
michael, I was passing through Macon on Friday night, decided to search for a radio station and found 3 already playing Christmas music!....it was only Nov. 14th!!!! Needless to say I put a different cd in and continued on down 16 with some great oldies R&B!....

michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 5:48:23 AM)
i've had to resort to CDs also. not saying i don't like Christmas songs...just not 24/7

SilverMark -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 5:54:35 AM)
Ok, so I am not crazy about having to put up a Christmas tree, and I tire of Christmas music( should be regulated to Christmas Eve and Christmas morning) an umbrella would just be too Grinch like even for me!.... Although maybe a Golf Umbrella, you know one of those really large ones that is green and red?...a few lights, couple of ornaments and voila!....Almost a Christmas tree!

sirsholly -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 5:58:39 AM)
we have a fiberoptic tree. Just unfold the branches, plug it in and you are done. Sadly..i don't think it will make an appearance this year...we are doing the full size tree and all the BS that goes with it.[8\|]

KatyLied -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 5:59:43 AM)
I love my fiberoptic tree. It's two pieces. The tree and the stand. It's wonderful not to have to wrestle with lights.

Mercnbeth -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 6:24:11 AM)
You didn't include mine. Mandatory gift giving & receiving. I'm a great gift giver but I hate being 'Holiday Dom-ed' into it.

thishereboi -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 6:27:31 AM)
The Biltmore estate is awesome, make sure you take plenty of film. Oh and wear comfortable shoes...it's awesome and it's huge.

Roselaure -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 6:32:20 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: windchymes Organizations who prohibit their employees from saying "Merry Christmas" because it might offend somebody. Sometimes I say "Merry Christmas" and sometimes "Happy Holidays". I like to mix it up. Why people can't just accept the greetings that are offered them in good spirits and move on I cannot understand. Heck, I'm Jewish, and people wish me a Merry Christmas and ask me if I have all my Christmas shopping done all the time during the holdays. I always just smile and say "I've done as much shopping as I'm going to." I noticed last year the whole "Merrry Chritmas" backlash from Christmas celebrators who feel oppressed. I just don't think it's very polite to respond to a cheerful "Happy Holidays" with a lecture about why They say "Merry Christmas." Yeah? Ho Ho Ho to you too.

thishereboi -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 6:33:33 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: atypicalsub quote: ORIGINAL: jlf1961 However, to get technical, Jesus was most likely born in early to mid spring, since no shepherd in their right mind would be out in the fields at night during this time of the year. The the 25th of December was actually a high feast for the Roman Sun God, whom the Emperor Constantine followed. Christians had the holiday shoved down their throats by Constantine and so, bingo.... As for the Christmas tree, that comes from a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, as does the yule log. A feast was begun on december 21st and ended january 6th, a typical pagan party with drunken debauchery, lewd behavior, naked dancers, naked women falling into bed to be ravished....... Seems to me the pagans had the right idea...... My biggest peeve about Christmas was pretty much addressed by jlf here. I get ticked off by the overly-holy christians who say others are taking away from what Christmas is really about while being clueless to the fact that most of the traditions and symbols associated with Chistmas were taken from other winter celebrations that went on well before most Europeans had ever heard of Jesus. and for those who might be interested: In the early 1980s there was a conference of biblical scholars who spent two weeks just discussing and debate the question of the date of Jesus's birth. When it was all over the general agreement was that according to all the clues in the scripture the most likely date, by the calendar in current use, is March 28th, 0008. The traditions may have been copied from other groups, but they were not taken. The other groups are still free to celebrate anyway they choose. I hear this a lot, especially with the date. People whining and crying because they made Christmas the same day as another holiday. So what, you can't have 2 holidays on the same date? It reminds me of my neighbor who used to cry every year on his birthday. His baby brother had been born on the same day and he couldn't handle the fact that he had to share. Waaa Waaa

thishereboi -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 6:38:46 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: michaelOfGeorgia i have one you overlooked. locally, we have a radio station (Sunny 100.1 FM) that starts 24/7 Christmas tunes the day after Haloween. and doesn't stop until after New Years. THAT annoys me since it's the only station that plays the songs and genre i like. The one in Detroit is 100.3 WNIC, I don't have to worry about missing my usual music though, because I usually listen to 94.7 which is classic rock. But from Nov 1 to Jan 1, it's christmas music all the way.

Darias -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 6:45:39 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: thishereboi quote: ORIGINAL: atypicalsub quote: ORIGINAL: jlf1961 However, to get technical, Jesus was most likely born in early to mid spring, since no shepherd in their right mind would be out in the fields at night during this time of the year. The the 25th of December was actually a high feast for the Roman Sun God, whom the Emperor Constantine followed. Christians had the holiday shoved down their throats by Constantine and so, bingo.... As for the Christmas tree, that comes from a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, as does the yule log. A feast was begun on december 21st and ended january 6th, a typical pagan party with drunken debauchery, lewd behavior, naked dancers, naked women falling into bed to be ravished....... Seems to me the pagans had the right idea...... My biggest peeve about Christmas was pretty much addressed by jlf here. I get ticked off by the overly-holy christians who say others are taking away from what Christmas is really about while being clueless to the fact that most of the traditions and symbols associated with Chistmas were taken from other winter celebrations that went on well before most Europeans had ever heard of Jesus. and for those who might be interested: In the early 1980s there was a conference of biblical scholars who spent two weeks just discussing and debate the question of the date of Jesus's birth. When it was all over the general agreement was that according to all the clues in the scripture the most likely date, by the calendar in current use, is March 28th, 0008. The traditions may have been copied from other groups, but they were not taken. The other groups are still free to celebrate anyway they choose. I hear this a lot, especially with the date. People whining and crying because they made Christmas the same day as another holiday. So what, you can't have 2 holidays on the same date? It reminds me of my neighbor who used to cry every year on his birthday. His baby brother had been born on the same day and he couldn't handle the fact that he had to share. Waaa Waaa this was addressed in another thread in more detail round about halloween so im not getting completly into it Fact is Halloween Christmas ... these holidays .. the timing and some of the traditions .. were used by the roman catholic church to help " pagan" converts be more comfortable with the religion being forced down their throats ... they were also used as ways of quelling uprisings from barbaric hordes ... the pentegram .. a symbol of wicca and other " pagan" religions was instead associated with the devil ... leading to some rowdyness by locals in places like salem ... Im stopping here before i say something that will be offensive

thishereboi -> RE: What chaps your ass most about the Holidays? (11/16/2008 6:53:41 AM)
I had always heard that they made it on that date to hide the fact that they were celebrating, but I don't really see what difference it makes. That is the day it is celebrated, If you want to participate then have fun, if not that's your choice too. Just quit telling me how terrible it is that they picked that day to celebrate on.

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