Was never a massive fan of Christmas (well, all the commercial b*ll*cks, the shitty music, the false bonhomie etc etc) but one year was brought up short when I spent Christmas week away with a bunch of like-minded Christmas avoiders doing voluntary work on a nature reserve in the wilds of North Yorkshire. A very surreal experience, living and working with 14 other frankly very odd souls (and yes, I'm sure they thought the same of me! ) all there because they didn't have a better plan for Christmas (and nor did I). These days I'm married, have a family and am lucky to have some absolutely fantastic inlaws who have us over for Christmas every year. That's what is good about Christmas; the company. All the rest is just embellishment.....
(12-12-17, 11:12 PM)darrsi link Wrote: Every Christmas I'd come running downstairs to the big pile of presents and start unwrapping them as fast as I could. Sometimes there would be fights over who had the best toys but we would all make up later and sit down to have a three hour lunch before watching TV for the rest of the day.
I really miss working at the Royal Mail sorting office. :lol
I'm all for people having a holiday during the long winter months, I remember Birmingham city council had 'Winterval' in the late 90's maybe that's the way forward :lol
Anyway, I've bought the son in law a fridge for Christmas- I can't wait to see his face light up when he opens it.
Treat everything in life the way a dog would- if you can't eat it or foc it, forget it.
Another one what is it with Christmas food they just cant help themselves adding fruit to every focking thing, pork pie - nope not good enough, got to add cranberry's on the top, sausage rolls -same, cheese they do it too, perfectly good gammon joints fooked up with fruit,NO Stop putting fruit in meh dinner. Its even in my BEER !!!!!!! (although I have to say I do like the fruity ones )
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
(12-12-17, 07:45 PM)Grayo link Wrote: [quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=23555.msg272366#msg272366 date=1513102096]
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Some of the shittest music known to man has been produced for the season and even stuff I liked when it first came out is now unlistenable. Who the foc wants to hear Slade’s “Merry Christmas Everybody” for the 30,000th time? Or Wizzard? But turn the radio or TV on and soon enough I’ll be hurling whatever is to hand at it in an effort to silence Mariah Carey or Bing Crosby or Paul foccing McCartney as fast as possible.
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:lol
I used to like it when a really Un-Christmassy song made it to number one for Christmas (in the days when the charts actually meant something).
Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall' was just perfect :thumbup
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Ah yes...
Non Christmassy No.1 songs...............
Bohemian Rhapsody, Ernie (The fastest milkman in the west), Long haired lover from Liverpool...............
And who could forget...................Mr Blobby....??
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Ah, the fastest milkman in the west...but have you googled the alternative lyrics?..?
(12-12-17, 11:07 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=23555.msg272389#msg272389 date=1513116030]
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If i remember rightly, Iron Maidens "Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter" was around Xmas 1990 :lol
Yes at number 3. Shame it didn't get to number 1 lol
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Think it did the week after, but no bugger would play it on the radio or barely even mention it.
I remember it because a week or two before my brother was at their concert and they told the crowd they were gonna try for the Xmas number 1 record.
They released it on Xmas Eve.
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Yep. Just checked my Guinness book of hit singles and it got to No.1 on 5th January 1991.
I could change my opinion, but then we'd both be wrong.
13-12-17, 04:46 PM (This post was last modified: 13-12-17, 04:46 PM by darrsi.)
(13-12-17, 04:08 PM)Grayo link Wrote: [quote author=darrsi link=topic=23555.msg272390#msg272390 date=1513116451]
[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=23555.msg272389#msg272389 date=1513116030]
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If i remember rightly, Iron Maidens "Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter" was around Xmas 1990 :lol
Yes at number 3. Shame it didn't get to number 1 lol
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Think it did the week after, but no bugger would play it on the radio or barely even mention it.
I remember it because a week or two before my brother was at their concert and they told the crowd they were gonna try for the Xmas number 1 record.
They released it on Xmas Eve.
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Yep. Just checked my Guinness book of hit singles and it got to No.1 on 5th January 1991.
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Shame it never took off, it would've been a great singalong tune every Xmas......or even at weddings :rollin
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
(13-12-17, 10:30 PM)red98 link Wrote: Nothing cracking about crackers :thumbdown
Crackers are crappers these days - how many times do you see it where people have to resort to just pulling the brown "bang tab" on its own after the cracker failed to go bang
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
Oh here's a good one for you aldi smoked salmon look at the size of the package and the size of what is actually inside. Its tantamount to focing fraud.
At least when you open your cornflakes and find a half empty box they legitimately say "some settling of the product may of occurred during transport"
Where's meh salmon gone - has it fecked off to spawn or something
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
People in supermarkets moaning "how stupid it is people going mad buying stuff - and the shops are only shut for one day"
And yet THEY are there doing exactly the same :wall
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
(13-12-17, 10:51 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: Oh here's a good one for you aldi smoked salmon look at the size of the package and the size of what is actually inside. Its tantamount to focing fraud.
At least when you open your cornflakes and find a half empty box they legitimately say "some settling of the product may of occurred during transport"
Where's meh salmon gone - has it fecked off to spawn or something
Serves yourself right for going to Aldi yer tight foccer! :pokefun
) all there because they didn't have a better plan for Christmas (and nor did I). 
