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"Christmas: Devoid of all meaning"

When you’re young you get excited over Christmas because a plump bearded man descends down your chimney, takes your peace offering of sherry and leaves you a gift before flying away on a gravity defying sleigh drawn by a red nosed, presumably due to alcohol abuse, reindeer. However you reach a point in life where your parents inform you that they have lied to you through infanthood and that Father Christmas is in fact a hoax, the sort of hoax you would be arrested for; and possibly probed, in America.

So if Christmas isn’t about a fat man being all happy and joyous and giving away 50 billion gifts in a time space as tight as Superman’s Speedos, what is it about? Well when you get older there is still the prospect of “hey, free stuff!” and so Christmas is a time of receiving and, to a certain extent, giving.

But again as you mature the chances are you will get a part time job and have some source of revenue and be able to buy stuff you want. So when it comes to the festive season it is harder to choose something to get bought for you and means the money I would have bought the things I want with is spent on presents for other people in exactly the same position as me.

I think that the only people who really gain anything from Christmas are children who, of course, enjoy the magical fairy-tale side of things before having their dreams crushed in one fell swoop by their deceitful parents, managers of shops who sell random festive crap such as novelty ties people will wear once a year or burn in a commercialised fit of anger, and finally the elderly who get those hampers from the local community centres. Lucky beggars.

What meaning does Christmas really have? I know it is allegedly the birth of Christ, who rose up, did a few miracles and saved us all, but that’s just another fairy tale that someone forgot to inform us wasn’t real. (That’s my view, sorry if you’re religious).

We eat turkey, why exactly? It’s just a silly tradition, just like a Christmas tree, a plasticy green monstrosity dressed garishly with sparkly crap and glittery do-da’s. What on earth is the point to it all? They’ll repeat the same old Christmas specials and play the same Cliff Richard crap on telly on a constant loop. We’ll all pretend we give a damn what the Queen has to say and watch her speech, before pulling crackers and getting cheap sugar-paper hats and poorly-moulded blobs on plastic.

We’ll make a mess, drink too much and end up kissing a neighbour, colleague or relative you didn’t realise you had. We’ll all lie to the children, knowing deep down inside they will someday mature to realise you polluted their impressionable minds with filthy lies.

What’s the point of Christmas?

Back in the 16th century kids got gum disease as a present as it was the funnest thing about.

===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> COCA COLA OWNS SANTA...

HO HO HO... here's gum disease kids!

:)

Ashley wrote:

> I cannot think of anyother circumstance where drinking malibu would
> be acceptable.

8. You make a bet to drink a pint of it neat, knowing that the bet is a winner ... then you lose.

===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> COCA COLA OWNS SANTA...
>
> No, really... until recent times, Christmas was celebrated all ove
> rthe world, but Santa only existed in Scandinavia - where he was
> depicted as a tall thin man wearing green or yellow, slipping down
> chimneys to deliver toys.
>

in britain we called him gary glitter

COCA COLA OWNS SANTA...

No, really... until recent times, Christmas was celebrated all ove rthe world, but Santa only existed in Scandinavia - where he was depicted as a tall thin man wearing green or yellow, slipping down chimneys to deliver toys.

Coca Cola caught onto this idea and had a Christmas marketting campaign one year with a big fat Coca-Cola Red Santa... and as a result that's how we all know him today...

Speaking of corporate slogans... you know McDonnalds actually own and get all the money from World Children's Day - the event sponsorred by the UN.

Sonic

morbo wrote:
> gamezfreak wrote:
>
> Christmas is about Vodka, Baileys and Malibu
>
> noooooo!!! not malibu!!! i puked last week cos of that crap!!

you both better be trannies! Its your body telling you not to drink lady booze. Drinking malibu is only acceptable in the following situations:

1. If its the only available booze
2. If the next highest % booze is below 10%
3. You are trying to impress a lovely lady, and show her you are in touch with your feminine side
4. It is part of some punch like concoction
5. You are Blind and accidentally picked up the bottle
6. You are gay
7. Have been forced at gunpoint to consume said beverage.

I cannot think of anyother circumstance where drinking malibu would be acceptable.

yes, they did change his colour from green to red.

COCA COLA OWNS SANTA...

If you don't see the point to christmas and don't believe in the birth of Christ then why do you celebrate it?

Obviously as a child you feel the magic that christmas has. Gifts and all the fun of santa and the letters and decorations etc.

When you get older though it changes, you realise its a time to get the family together, appreciate what you have and generally have a good time.

gamezfreak wrote:
>
> Christmas is about Vodka, Baileys and Malibu

noooooo!!! not malibu!!! i puked last week cos of that crap!!