List of Christmas pet peeves

[protege]

There's a few "advent" calendars down here that are themed around makeup or stationery.

Here, we have the Lego-themed ones. How I manage *not* to open all the little flaps at once, just to play with the toys...I have no idea. Those usually sell out around the week before Thanksgiving.

[fireheart]

Here, we have the Lego-themed ones. How I manage *not* to open all the little flaps at once, just to play with the toys...I have no idea. Those usually sell out around the week before Thanksgiving.

Lego Advent Calendars?! *drools*

[mathnerd]

Lego Advent Calendars?! *drools*

I nearly bought one for my son back in May, but figured I'd wait a while. Bad move. They were gone by June.

[Kagato]

Want a way to REALLY stick it to someone next time they claim their chrismas is ruined just because you can't fill X demand or pull item Y out of your ass when it has been out of stock for some time? Print out a copy of this news article and say "No, your christmas is NOT ruined. Here is an example of someone who's christmas is TRULY ruined."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11173782

(TL;DR: The family had been scraping together money for weeks so that they could give their 6 month old baby WHO HAS CANCER a decent christmas, only to find that their house was broken into while they were out of town getting chemotherapy done for their child, the gifts and food that they had been painstakingly gathering being stolen.)

[protege]

Lego Advent Calendars?! *drools*

Yep, Lego Advent calendars. I don't know about other areas, but here, Target usually sells all of them shortly after Thanksgiving

[Cooper]

I'm rather lacking in Christmas spirit. I have groaned at any second I've had to hear a holiday song, all my gifts (to and from) have already been opened, and I'm going a bit nuts from being on break from school.

Though I am appreciating Arkham Origins taking place on Christmas. That's how I celebrate. XP

Despite not really celebrating Christmas, I know better than to go out Christmas day. I know I just counted up my pills to make sure I wasn't going to run out until after New Years. I just assume all stores are closed.

[infinitemonkies]

I hate christmas. I hate everything about it. However, I don't believe that gives me the right to ruin anyone else's enjoyment of it.

I have 3 xmas traditions I've been doing for years:
1. On christmas day I get drunk and watch Die Hard, the greatest xmas movie ever made.
2. For the entire month of december I will not set foot in any store, except for groceries or alcohol.
3. If someone tells me "merry christmas" and it's still November, I assault them (verbally [usually])

[Jay 2K Winger]

1. On christmas day I get drunk and watch Die Hard, the greatest xmas movie ever made.

Try "one of the greatest movies ever."

What marks a great movie? If you're flipping channels, and you come across the movie, you stop and you watch the movie, no matter where it is in the film. It could be five minutes in, halfway in, or five minutes until credits roll, it doesn't matter. You stop and watch.

That's a great movie.

"Die Hard" is a great movie.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Want a way to REALLY stick it to someone next time they claim their chrismas is ruined just because you can't fill X demand or pull item Y out of your ass when it has been out of stock for some time? Print out a copy of this news article and say "No, your christmas is NOT ruined. Here is an example of someone who's christmas is TRULY ruined."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11173782

(TL;DR: The family had been scraping together money for weeks so that they could give their 6 month old baby WHO HAS CANCER a decent christmas, only to find that their house was broken into while they were out of town getting chemotherapy done for their child, the gifts and food that they had been painstakingly gathering being stolen.)

In a town near where I live, several people were without any electricity on Christmas Day cuz of flooding. Also, the Wetherspoons in my town, along with several other places, was flooded on Christmas Eve. The Spoons was going to host Christmas dinner for several people, who found out that wouldn't be possible and were left with the realisation that they were not going to get dinner on Christmas Day.

That's a ruined Christmas, not the fact that a store has sold out of an item on Christmas Eve.

[retro]

In a town near where I live, several people were without any electricity on Christmas Day cuz of flooding. Also, the Wetherspoons in my town, along with several other places, was flooded on Christmas Eve. The Spoons was going to host Christmas dinner for several people, who found out that wouldn't be possible and were left with the realisation that they were not going to get dinner on Christmas Day.

That's a ruined Christmas, not the fact that a store has sold out of an item on Christmas Eve.

There's a local community near me that had could have had a ruined Christmas. A single member of the community was running a Christmas club. Collecting money towards a Christmas fund which would sort out presents, food, the whole lot.

October rolled around and... the guy fucked off. Took all of the money with him. Tens of thousands of pounds gone. Fortunately other communities rallied around and helped, along with numerous stores in the area. Even after all that, their Christmas wasn't ruined.

[Faetouched]

YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED. Not all persons celebrate Christmas in the stereotypical Norman Rockwell fashion. There are persons, who for what ever reason, are alone or the like during the holidays.

And remember not all people in whatever locale even celebrate Christmas. I know that I can get some great Chinese food (if I were so inclined) on Christmas Day.

When I worked at the gas station, you know what the biggest selling item was that day???? (hint it was NOT beer or booze or chips or soda)

Frozen pizza

Dude, I have no family, I always spend the holidays alone. I don't celebrate Christmas specifically (I'm Pagan, I celebrate the Solstice more than anything else.) So, no need to get all offended and RAAARGH over it.

My thing is...most places are going to be closed on Christmas. I can't imagine why food delivery services would be open at all, as they'd probably get substantially less customers that particular day or two days, and in a lot of places the roads would be rather dangerous.

I'm more partial to red bean buns and possibly tuna or a simple stew, myself...I actually can't stand pizza. Just the smell makes me sick.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'm glad I don't work retail - I can't ruin anyone's Christmas by not having some material object they want on 12/24.

I'm told this happened. The scene: Christmas Eve at the swamp, about half an hour before closing. Store is full of very last-minute shoppers buying their very last-minute Christmas necessities.

An outside call comes in for electronics. "My son wants a PS4 or Xbox One for Christmas; do you have any?"



Oh wait, you were serious.

And why couldn't I work in electronics this year? Those assholes get all the Christmas-ruining fun.

Exactly. Corporate is the opposite of Cooter - they may be dumb, but they ain't crazy. If they go over the stats for Thanksgiving and see that due to low sales, profits were substantially less than labour costs (and even "skeleton" labour costs of the minimum number of peons needed to keep the store open), you can be damn sure they'd be closed on Thanksgiving next year.

Back when Black Friday took place on Friday, Thanksgiving Day was actually a pretty big sales day for us for a couple years. We gave away free pumpkin pies with a $25 (I think) purchase.

Now with the big sales happening Thanksgiving night, there isn't much going on during the day.

Yep, Lego Advent calendars. I don't know about other areas, but here, Target usually sells all of them shortly after Thanksgiving

The swamp had those a couple Christmases ago. They sold out very quickly, so naturally we haven't gotten them since.

[eltf177]

There's a local community near me that had could have had a ruined Christmas. A single member of the community was running a Christmas club. Collecting money towards a Christmas fund which would sort out presents, food, the whole lot.

October rolled around and... the guy fucked off. Took all of the money with him. Tens of thousands of pounds gone. Fortunately other communities rallied around and helped, along with numerous stores in the area. Even after all that, their Christmas wasn't ruined.

That is some kind of evil, and when caught this person needs to be tarred and feathered!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Try "one of the greatest movies ever."

What marks a great movie? If you're flipping channels, and you come across the movie, you stop and you watch the movie, no matter where it is in the film. It could be five minutes in, halfway in, or five minutes until credits roll, it doesn't matter. You stop and watch.

That's a great movie.

"Die Hard" is a great movie.

That happened to me with Die Hard With A Vengeance. At about 12:30 one night I had finished watching a movie and was just flipping around the channels before going to bed. I caught DHWAV about 10 minutes into the movie and kept watching it to see what happens, not realizing it was the beginning of the movie. Fortunately it was the weekend and I got to sleep in the next morning.