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Is it just me or does Christmas not feel like Christmas any more, people making next to no effort with getting in the spirit of things. I suppose I never did before but the atmosphere just isn't there any more. P.S. It's my b-day Christmas Day. |
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its just you. |
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Oh well. :( |
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<---never had a christmas spirit... |
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The commerciality of christmas has reached new depths--it's depressing and hard to keep a hold of the Christmas spirit. |
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Not even as a child? |
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"its just you" get the stick out your arse dood You seem really negitive, my memory is a bad tough... but have you had a though month or something qrter? I dont like christmas for one reason, why should companies and scociaty tell me when I should give gifts to people? Its so rooted that if you dont buy gifts for people they think your an ass. Ill buy presents for people when I want to, not when the world tells me too. Presents aside, I like the holidays. |
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DJ Xammax's Christmas spirit R.I.P. 19??-2002 Too young, too soon... *Moment of silence* :( |
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"Not even as a child?" Nay...never believed in santa... And my family is not really conservative tradition wise... |
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I loved christmas as a child, but in part because I was greedy and selfish, and the media had a lock on my brain from age 3 - 10. It makes me sick that advertisers just advertise to kids, in a ruthless pirate fasion. Bull shit like: You HAVE to have this OR other kids WONT accept you! WARNING!. Corperate advertising twats, they are teh ones ruining christmas. Why if I had one of those advertising producers at my house and a rubber hose I would beat them so bad....... |
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Also when you think that christmas for me meant mostly family dinner with annoying cousins and stupid aunt you understand where that spirit went... |
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Hmm it's been gone since last Christmas. DaWeeze, in some strange probably indeliberate way, that has made me feel better. And Mick, that's a good way o' thinking, same goes for 'Why should we wait until Valentines Day to tell someone we love them?' |
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it pisses me off when people dub Christmas Day as Prezzie Day |
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St. valentine day is heinous... I always received useeless stuff... I hate it...next time some girl gives me something useless I'll break up with her =D |
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Christmas was a lot more fun when i was a little younger. when i wasn't really old enough to understand commercialization, and all the advertising bullshit. nowadays, i find it hard to enjoy all the holidays when i know it's this commercial. i still enjoy it, tho :) |
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That clown burns deeper into my thoughts with every post... |
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err...i hope it's a good burning like if you ate something spicy, and it filled you right up, and made you happy :) |
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Merry psychotic Christmas everyone...MUHAHAHAHAHOHOHOHO! ;) |
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Good? Burning? Nah ma friennnnd...those two don't mix. Merry Christmas to you to man. Don't know about the psychosis.. |
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Psychosis?? Shit.. ne'ermind.. Well I better get glowing, so bye bye until about....midday. |
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what the fuck is all this? xmas with darth vader? |
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get a life guys... you're all talking out of your asses if you don't like getting gifts, and don't like Christmas... so what if it's a commercial holiday, the gift giving and everything... does the promotion of giving, and peace on earth really hurt anyone? No... |
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The promotion of the facade of giving and peace of earth it does hurt... Pushing those ideals on others as our society does is useless...how useful are thiose ideals if tehy last one day per year? We should push them through awareness and knoweledge, by educating people...not by showing them off, and make them feel as obligatory...or ritualize them...because in thsi way they are truly meaningless... And besides that: I don`t like to receive presents... As I stated above I mostly receive useless stuff that I don`t like, and than I feel obligated to buy some useless stuff for the other person, because I care about them and I don`t want to offend them... the result is that at the end we both have useless stuff that we don`t like...when we could have bought ourselves something that we'd apreciate... |
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aha. so now I'm being negative by saying that someone else shouldn't be so negative. right. |
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ehhh, i like the gift giving/receiving and all that. i just wish it hadn't come to the point where it's being shoved down our throats.. |
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man you are one giant purple sucker Jon aka 'funkmaster' |
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shrug... I enjoy Christmas... it makes people happy... it makes me happy... I like getting gifts... I like giving gifts... what's wrong with having one day to celebrate this? and it just annoys me, all these people talking about how they hate Christmas... and then Christmas will come, and they'll get their video games, tvs, whatever, and eat their turkey dinner, and will be happy as ever... |
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When gift giving becomes a social obligation, it loses its meaning as a sign of altruism... |
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heh, I've been awfully hostile the last while... |
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I'm not getting anything for christmas, atmost I'll get a cd from my parents, so I have all the right to proclaim my dislike of it without feeling an hypocrite... |
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I love christmas, but I hate the commercialisation of Christmas--the pressure put on parents and partners to over-extend their budget--the incessent advertisements pretending to be full of the Christmas Cheer, yet really just a bunch of suited hustlers selling us all out for a profit--and all the hassled shop workers at christmas being treated like shit by ratchety customers--there's more to Christmas than being a little boy receiving gifts--and that's the bit I hate--Christmas sans the presents would be at least as good as Christmas with presents. |
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stop fighting it Paul.. RELENT! let yourself be swept away and away on the wave of commercialism.. |
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Luckily My Gag reflex is well primed Alex-maybe there should be brain doctors who can operate on people like me, so we can conform to thinking that Money is Good and Businessmen are our Friends and adverts are for our own Good...I have 10p to contribute towards this operation. |
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Average time for American family to pay off Christmas credit card debt: 4 months. |
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i fucking hate christmas |
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I like the holidays, it's about the only time when I get to see a lot of my family. But the religious aspect is meaningless to me and I purposely avoid the crass commercialization by buying most of my gifts by Halloween. |
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it's 8pm on the 22nd, and our family just got a tree scrawny 4 foot sucker, looks ill, I love holidays |
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we shall make a whole campaign of commercials, infomercials and adverts to convince/manipulate you in shoving more than 10p forward, even to let you pay the whole hog.. and you WILL succumb. |
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yeah.. i really dont like christmas anymore.. i probably did when i was a little greedy kid.. but now im pretty indifferent about getting gifts.. and i hate getting people stupid stuff its worse than usual this year.. my mom doesnt have enough money to get anyone anything.. and she feels awful about it.. and i hate that.. the whole holiday we're familiar with was created by corporations anyways.. what does a fat man in a red suit, travelling around the world in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, leaving toys under a cut down pine tree and oversize socks have to do with the birth of jesus? and a good portion of the people who celebrate christmas arent even religious.. another thing that bothers me is how this is supposedly the time of year for 'giving' and 'good will' and helping the homeless and whatnot... why cant people be nice to each other all year? why do they only care about the homeless for one month rather than all twelve? |
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"When gift giving becomes a social obligation, it loses its meaning as a sign of altruism... " that was a good nuggest of truth there. i like being out of school more than the whole christmas stuff. i mean yes giving\receiving is not always bad but when stuff is given to people "just because" is stupid. what i mean is that people are\have been buying people things that are either on sale or seem like good presents at the time but almost always without thought. if people must be buying things at christmas at least look for things that benefit each other for the long run and not just another meaningful gift to show that you can spend money on someone besides themselves. |
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"why cant people be nice to each other all year?" That's a good question... but the fact that people celebrate Christmas doesn't make people not be nice to others all year... in fact I'd hate to see the state of things without Christmas... at least we have one day, one season to celebrate these ideals, and to promote good will and peace and all that good stuff... |
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yes ok, so Christmas is over commercialized... but there are many great things about it as well... |
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heh, seems I'm always arguing with people... blah, I don't care... if you hate Christmas, it's fine with me!! :) |
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thats so true, people only give to charities (most people) during the holidays or when theyre "supposed to", if people would give all year, everyone lives would be better. |
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