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I'm so happy Christmas Commercials started again
- Thread starter BarryAllen
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I love christmas too, OP. I'm with you. I am not religious in any way, but I love christmas music (even the religious ones). I don't listen to it all year round, but only because it makes me sad waiting for the holiday season!
Also, not every country celebrates Thanksgiving (in November or even at all), so I'm gonna call shenanigans on people telling EVERYONE to "wait until after Thanksgiving."
Also, I worked retail (Best Buy) for 5 years during the holidays (yes, even black friday shifts), and even that did not dampen my love. I was so excited when it came time for all the christmas songs to be pumped throughout the store.
Also, not every country celebrates Thanksgiving (in November or even at all), so I'm gonna call shenanigans on people telling EVERYONE to "wait until after Thanksgiving."
Also, I worked retail (Best Buy) for 5 years during the holidays (yes, even black friday shifts), and even that did not dampen my love. I was so excited when it came time for all the christmas songs to be pumped throughout the store.
Christmas retail season...I remember it well. We were there at midnight, Black Friday, line for a mile out of the front entrance. Some of them had been waiting for hours. Waiting for us. The cold had driven them mad. I saw a man cook and eat a bat down by the JC pennies. Suddenly, the clock struck midnight, and we were thrown to the wolves. Poor Timmy, who lied about his age to join us sooner, was torn apart when we ran out of box sets of House of cards, for the only House of cards that day was the pretense of our shared humanity, knocked over and shattered into a thousand pieces, like a hammer through a $99 LCD TV. I don't know how I got away, but I'll never forget the screams, the screams of "Why don't you have any $10 microwave ovens? THE AD SAID YOU HAD MICROWAVE OVENS FOR $10!"
I'm one of those guys who doesn't regard Christmas until December. I'm c'mon guys, Halloween was JUST last week!
This so much. Especially when I see some glimpses of it before Halloween.
There's always at least 25 days of Xmas stuff after Thanksgiving.
Well the good thing about being in rural America (I assume, this is my 1st Christmas here) is black Friday isn't a big thing unless people are willing to drive 2 hours. Biggest store in town is a Fred Meyers. I mean, this is what I assume anyways.
I associate Christmas with winter, which to me means: cold, dark, miserable. I don't care at all about the holiday itself either, I've outgrown that as a child. Fake happiness and the celebration of commerce. I'm not even depressed or anything, I just really hate this season and time of the year. Thread is off to a good start, huh?
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas. But what I notice about Christmas is that for just those 1-2 weeks every year, people let their guards down. Rather than being closed off from one another, strangers relax and are openly happy and welcoming. That's enough of a reason for me to celebrate and enjoy the time.
Great, we'll get to see the annual commercial where the guy brings his wife outside to see her new car with a bow on it. I always like to imagine the wife becoming upset, telling her husband that they can't afford it and insisting they return it the following day. The whole rest of the day is spent with her telling him what poor judgement he has, and constantly speculating out loud about the negative effect it might have on their credit rating. She's also upset about the amount of deceit her husband had to engage in to purchase a car and have it delivered to their house with a bow on it on Christmas morning, all without her knowledge.
I love christmas. I don't care about the religious aspect, nor the commercial one.
What I like about christmas is the warm snuggly feeling I get when the room is filled with the smell of mulled wine, hot chocolate, nuts, cinnamon, oranges and all that stuff, and I'm spending time with my family (I don't live in the same town as them). Sure, I could just as well go and spend time with them any other time of the year, but we decided christmas seems like a time when nobody is doing anything else in particular. So we get together, eat good food, have some christmas beers, play around like we were young again and watch old classic christmas movies. And the dark winter nights are the perfect backdrop for candles, open fireplaces, glitter and tiny lamps in bright colors. Add to that some christmas music (both the cheesy new stuff and the really old classics works) and perhaps a new puzzle cube under the tree with my name on it and I'm a happy bunny.
I do however wait with everything christmas until december. October is halloween, november is birthday month (both my own, my dad's and my grandmother's birthday is in november so we're occupied with that), and december is christmas.
Also, I see christmas as a sort of a break from reality. I'm so very tired from dealing with reality all the time that a brief vacation from it all is pretty nice.
What I like about christmas is the warm snuggly feeling I get when the room is filled with the smell of mulled wine, hot chocolate, nuts, cinnamon, oranges and all that stuff, and I'm spending time with my family (I don't live in the same town as them). Sure, I could just as well go and spend time with them any other time of the year, but we decided christmas seems like a time when nobody is doing anything else in particular. So we get together, eat good food, have some christmas beers, play around like we were young again and watch old classic christmas movies. And the dark winter nights are the perfect backdrop for candles, open fireplaces, glitter and tiny lamps in bright colors. Add to that some christmas music (both the cheesy new stuff and the really old classics works) and perhaps a new puzzle cube under the tree with my name on it and I'm a happy bunny.
I do however wait with everything christmas until december. October is halloween, november is birthday month (both my own, my dad's and my grandmother's birthday is in november so we're occupied with that), and december is christmas.
Also, I see christmas as a sort of a break from reality. I'm so very tired from dealing with reality all the time that a brief vacation from it all is pretty nice.
Call me a Scrooge, but I think the earlier one starts holiday celebrations the impact lessens tremendously. I knew folks who started celebrating Halloween in early September and guess what? MY Halloween was ruined because of them. I was sick of it all.
I think a big chunk of early holiday folks are people trying desperately to recapture that nostalgic feeling the holidays gave them in their youth and we all suffer because of it.
I think a big chunk of early holiday folks are people trying desperately to recapture that nostalgic feeling the holidays gave them in their youth and we all suffer because of it.
Xmas can be a great three or four days spending time with family and stuffing yourself. Why people want it to last a month or two us beyond me. Its just shitty xmas songs and capitalism going into overdrive. Again, its great for a week or so but this fuckin long drived me insane. I much prefer halloween anyway.
It's a play on the words "It's the happiest/greatest time of the year." And I am just not a fan of the holidays.
There really should be a soft start date for Christmas season.
The moment you finish Thanksgiving dinner, go ahead and start playing Christmas music and put up the tree.
Every year Christmas creep gets earlier and earlier - if retailers had their way it would be Christmas season all year long.
The moment you finish Thanksgiving dinner, go ahead and start playing Christmas music and put up the tree.
Every year Christmas creep gets earlier and earlier - if retailers had their way it would be Christmas season all year long.
Since november started I've been blasting "All I want for Christmas is you" and "Last Christmas" by Wham! on repeat 24/7; and no one, I said NO ONE, will ever stop me
I'm with you, OP. I consider October through December all one big holiday season, but the problem with November is that thanksgiving is kind of lame and doesn't have much in the way of feel good movies/music. So I secretly don't mind when December's holiday bleeds into November a bit.
Thanksgiving needs to step its game up if it doesn't want to be over taken by christmas.
Thanksgiving needs to step its game up if it doesn't want to be over taken by christmas.
Roommate watching college football. First commercial I see comes on mentions 'holidays' and I'm ready to nope out till December 24th. I use to love Christmas as a kid too until retail reminded me that humans can be real shitbags and marketing would just love to throw holiday stuff in our faces 24/7/365.
Why though? You don't have to be religious and be buying tons of shit you don't need in order to enjoy the holidays.
My entire family are atheists, and we don't really buy a lot of stuff for Christmas. It's basically time to spend with your family and enjoy the little things in life.
That's sacrilige man. John Lewis Christmas ads are great and I'm not even in the UK.
That's fair. My answer would be we don't need a holiday to do that and try our best to focus on friends, family and the important things in life on a daily basis.
I'm also an academic so I have a lot of flexibility for traveling various times throughout the year, so I get that holidays are more meaningful to less fortunate people with less vacation days/time off and less money to travel as often. I also have a small family and not all that many non-local people I care about visiting anyway.
But is religious. Specially in countries outside the US.
I celebrate the birth of Christ and rock that Jingles all the way in Blu Ray every year.
Also, it can be religious and commercialized.
OP
OP
Add 'So This is Christmas' by John Lennon and we have a Christmas party!
It's the beginning of November but its still like 70-80 degrees out. Sure doesn't feel like Christmas is coming soon.
As long as we stay away from the rapey undertones of "Let It snow" that Christmas Party will be dope
I heard a Christmas ad the other day. I was not pleased; too early for that nonsense
Anyhow, it's not Christmas for me until I see someone post some discriminatory meme on social media about how "Happy Holidays" is literally the worst. Or some "controversy" about Starbucks cups. Whichever comes first
Anyhow, it's not Christmas for me until I see someone post some discriminatory meme on social media about how "Happy Holidays" is literally the worst. Or some "controversy" about Starbucks cups. Whichever comes first
I had to google the lyrics but i couldn't see the offending lines. It's actually one of my favourite songs - I love all that big band era christmas music ;_;
You can ban it if I can also ban The Fairy-tale of New York ;)
Some people do that everyday though. I always try to keep a sense of perspective and cherish time with my family. Yeah Christmas is great, but a week of the holiday is enough.
...January?? Nobody wants January. January is merely tolerated.
Don't even get me started on February.
Let's not forget 'O Holy Night', the best Christmas song of all time