Christmas cheer

[Asthaloth]

Needs to be found and shot now.
Okay, no, I exaggerate, I'm just rather testy from the Light house that has it's beam aimed at my window.
By which I mean the "Decorations" (For I use the term lightly) that sit across the road from my house and keep me up til all hours + 1 (I'm usually up at all hours anyway)
Seriously, The moment we hit December 1st there are Christmas "decorations" Tastelessly sprawled across the entire estate (I'm sure the locals call it something else, but I'm a southerner, I know an estate when I see one) and you can guarantee the moment we hit January 1st we are going to get Easter decorations (For the handful that actually celebrate it I mean) not to mention the fact that the council has had decorations up in town since the beginning of November (Albeit because trying to put anything up in December is liable to lead to disaster, but that's a hate fuelled rant for another day)

Heck, the closest thing to cheer I've shown is a Christmas hat on my Avatars across the Interweb gulf (Usually Setekh with a hat. Or Unicron with a hat)

So, how do you people cope with all the gratuitous happiness and false cheer that springs up round this time?


Edit: There is a ten foot santa flashing at me through the window.
I have a feeling I will be explaining this to a therapist some day.

[Rissa]

I enjoy it thoroughly. Fake or not, it is nice for people to be a little happier and kinder to each other once in a while.

I think the Christmas lights are pretty. I'm also one of those people that starts listening to Christmas music right after Halloween and sings it constantly. Frankly I think that people who get annoyed with it ought to get over themselves, swallow their pride and give in to the spirit, because god knows they're probably the people who need it the most.

[Asthaloth]

I'd much prefer actual cheer to fake cheer once a year Personally.

[Tymaporer]

I don't experience as much holiday hype as people who celebrate Christmas, but I like to drive by and see all the pretty lights. I do think it's a bit ridiculous how the "holiday season" starts earlier each year, but it's a lot more amusing than annoying, really. They've already started playing Christmas songs everywhere, and I have to say, I like it better than most of the crap on the radio these days. Some of it is fake, some isn't. Sometimes these things can make people feel all spirity inside, and then it's real, just because they get caught up in it all.

That's how I see it, anyway. But if you're having problems with bright lights in your eyes all night, then I get what you're saying...I don't have that problem, because nobody in Newton is Christian, but last year, my mom took us all to see this house that has a massively extreme display of lights in all shapes, colors, patterns, and locations around the house. It was a pretty big attraction, actually...there were a ton of people there looking at it too. My mom said she'd heard that the person's neighbors were really angry...must've been bright as day behind their eyelids.

[Christopher]

Yeah, no Christmas lights unless you do something like this

HAs anyone noticed that Christmas tree decorations are getting tackier every year? They look so cheap and ugly these days.

[Asthaloth]

Yeah, no Christmas lights unless you do something like this

I wouldn't mind that myself...
The Insomnia would atleast be interesting.

[MarchingDuck]

Christmas always made be bitter as a kid. My birthday is the week before so I've always been fed the "here's your birthday/christmas gift". It made me feel jipped.

& sadless christmas cheer is hard to find at my house. We havent had a christmas tree in over 6 years because our dogs distroy it. We dont hang lights or stocking or anything. Its really a lonely christmas.

but my friends did pitch in and they got me thing signing Rudolph thingie. Its silly but I love it.

[Helena]

Tell me about it. In my estate, the house across from me have their Christmas stuff up October until Febuary, then Valentine's stuff, then Easter, and then somehing random, and then Christmas. It's SO annoying! Especially as they don't last 2 minutes with the riff-raff that is my neighbours

[Alex]

I HATE STORES THAT PLAY CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN NOVEMBER.

Actually, I'm surprised we don't have the christmas carols playing at my hotel's in-house music yet. Apparently they start them really early, but they haven't this year.

The metre high gingerbread house is up in the lobby, though. I WANT TO EAT IT.

Also, I cannot stand the people who come into work and have our christmas buffet lunch and OHGOD I HAVE THREE WEEKS OF THIS.

Plus I'm working on Christmas day. We're charging people $125 a pop to come eat lunch at my hotel. Amazingly, people are paying it o.O At least it gets me out of going to family friends'.

In conclusion = like christmas, hate the huge fuss that is made over it, especially when it either begins too early and/or directly impacts me.

[MarchingDuck]

I HATE STORES THAT PLAY CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN NOVEMBER.

Come to my mall. the usual radio station they play is now completely christmas music.

its slowly but surly driving me to madness. espically when its the same 4 songs over and over.

[Helena]

I HATE STORES THAT PLAY CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN NOVEMBER.

Come to my mall. the usual radio station they play is now completely christmas music.

its slowly but surly driving me to madness. espically when its the same 4 songs over and over.

All hail that, and everyone in my school is singing random christmas carols. :K

[Lee]

I HATE STORES THAT PLAY CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN NOVEMBER.

Come to my mall. the usual radio station they play is now completely christmas music.

its slowly but surly driving me to madness. espically when its the same 4 songs over and over.

All hail that, and everyone in my school is singing random christmas carols. :K

All I do is play in Tuba Christmas! It's a load of fun even if we freeze.

[Tymaporer]

I've had "Deck the Halls" stuck in my head almost consistently for the past few months...it's not that bad though, especially compared to other stuff that's gotten in there sometimes.

[Twinkle]

Bah, humbug!

[Twizzler0171]

I've had "Deck the Halls" stuck in my head almost consistently for the past few months...it's not that bad though, especially compared to other stuff that's gotten in there sometimes.

Random sentences of "Jingle Bells" and maybe one other song I can't name but I -know- it's a Christmas one. I think it might be a part of some rendition of Jingle Bells as well.

There's actually some pretty cool Christmas stuff where I live. The fanciest place I've seen this year is a block over -- we always drive past them when we're going into the main part of town just so we can see them. They have a lot of stuff, but it's beautifully done. We don't know them personally, but we call the person who owns it "Mr. Holiday" because they had awesome decorations Halloween as well (which is the only two fairly major holidays we've had in this house).

The school has some stuff, but mostly it's in the cafeteria. They always have fun decorations though. ^^ I haven't really heard that many people randomly singing Christmas songs -- except at lunch today one of my friends made a comment of how "Jingle Bells" was stuck in her head because she has to learn to play it on her flute, and so we were singing bits and snatches/humming it. It was actually quite fun. ^^

My English teacher also has a Tree in his room -- not a necessarily a Christmas one though. Our class had a discussion on it and we decided that it wasn't really a Christmas tree because other than lights, it didn't have any Christmas decorations on it. Instead, it had random medals on it that he had won in marathons. So we decided there was no way he could somehow get in trouble for it because it was a celebration of him and the "Festivus for the Restofus."