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anti/pro holiday spirit (pg. 3)
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| Bidor |
| quote: | Originally posted by DarkAngel
Hate this in' time of year. Period. The sooner this in' ends the better. |
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| mezzir |
hate the commercialization, but i'm a sucker for the music
and none of this pop stars doing christmas songs and making their own, that
see these songs?
not yours.
george winston did an album a long time ago, got a buncha trans-siberian orchestra, and a few other odds and ends
rest of the holiday stuff's just become a consumer holiday, which is stupid, but hell, its america
try and think of a holiday we haven't bastardized the out of, seriously |
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| Frenchie |
| wow, who knew so many of you were Christmas Nazi's! |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
you should see some of the tacky in gardens here. Some people have had them out since october, it's sickeningly bad in places. There's some good ones, like a local one which an old lady has a ton of stuff out & collects donations for charity, and of course in the bigger town some areas with no lights at all, infact you can play "spot the christians" in one section as one house in 200 is lit up |
I had the neighbours about 5 doors down come up and whinge to me the other day that I'd not put up any lights on my house and everyone else in the street had. :mad:
I have no kids
I have no intention of falling off a ladder to do it
I have no intention of spending money on crap that has the potential to burn me alive in bed one night when it shorts out and catches fire. |
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| Pheobius |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
you should see some of the tacky in gardens here. Some people have had them out since october, it's sickeningly bad in places. There's some good ones, like a local one which an old lady has a ton of stuff out & collects donations for charity, and of course in the bigger town some areas with no lights at all, infact you can play "spot the christians" in one section as one house in 200 is lit up |
Being a Christian I don't know any christians that do the whole tacky uber decoration thing, the only people I know who do are non-christians.
p.s. I love christmas cos i'm still a kid at heart |
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| RapidFire |
| the holidays seem to bring out the hot chicks at malls so im not complaining but all that other commercial hallmark bull can off |
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| Moral Hazard |
| I'm a very big fan of both the religious and secullar celebratory aspects of Christmas. In fact, I quite enjoy all the winter solstice traditions. What I can't stand is the frenzied weeks and days leading up to Christmas... the shopping, the preparations, the tacky decorations (especially the house on my street with the 7' tall inflatable snow globe and wooden cut outs of Santa and his reindeer afixed to the roof and light up like the Griswald residence), etc. Thankfully, Mrs. Hazard takes care of most of the prep-work so I can just enjoy the peace of my religious obligations and the joy of spending time with those I love. |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Pheobius
Being a Christian I don't know any christians that do the whole tacky uber decoration thing, the only people I know who do are non-christians.
p.s. I love christmas cos i'm still a kid at heart |
wow, there must really be a lack of real christians then :tongue2
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
I had the neighbours about 5 doors down come up and whinge to me the other day that I'd not put up any lights on my house and everyone else in the street had. :mad:
I have no kids
I have no intention of falling off a ladder to do it
I have no intention of spending money on crap that has the potential to burn me alive in bed one night when it shorts out and catches fire. |
tell them that they can go buy some stuff & put it up for you then, plus foot the electricity bill generated! |
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| Lilith |
I've got no problem affording either, I do object to some yuppie 40year old woman staggering out her gin soaked haze long enough to accuse me of spoiling xmas for her gormless, hyperactive children by not putting up flashing lights.
Aside from the fact it's probably going to rain for the next week I really dont want to wake up with the outside of the house on fire because something shorted out.
(That and it attracts other doe-eyed idiots who like to drive around and look at flashing lights every year :rolleyes: ) |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Aside from the fact it's probably going to rain for the next week I really dont want to wake up with the outside of the house on fire because something shorted out. |
Um.... PRODUCTS LIABILITY CLAIM!!!! Jebus, you need to think ahead on these things, you could cash in! |
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| DarkAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
I had the neighbours about 5 doors down come up and whinge to me the other day that I'd not put up any lights on my house and everyone else in the street had. :mad: |
What the ? What business is it of theirs if you put up lights or not?
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
I have no intention of falling off a ladder to do it |
I fell off a ladder once. It was fun. :wtf:
And I didn't hurt at all. Not even a scratch.
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
I have no intention of spending money on crap that has the potential to burn me alive in bed one night when it shorts out and catches fire. |
Too true. Or have an equal disaster with all those lights like in the movie Just Friends. One wrong pull on a incorrectly seated power cable and you'll bring all that down, creating a mini World War III in your front lawn.
By the way, thanks again for checking out my mix! :) |
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| Lilith |
Stuff going through the insurance and liability rubbish, if I'm going to burn it down for cash I'll do it when I'm not in it and I really dont need the money :)
Last 5 or so years I've lived there I havent had a problem with people doing it but last three has turned into a 10kw/hr flashing nightmare of one-upsmanship when one guy went spastic up the corner and bought 5billion of the things, a chipboard santa and his sleigh on the roof and all the other cashed up bogans that seemed to have moved into the area (thats chavs and rednecks to you foreigners) decided to join in.
Course, the fact I've got dreads, 'not very white' and live in a decent neighbourhood, drive an $75,000 car must mean I'm either a drug wholesaler or up to some kind of no good hasn't eased the tensions.
Now the whole damn neighbourhood is in on the act and it looks like flashing neon arse.
F-ing trash the lot of them.
I'm getting a case of beer xmas eve, sitting on my veranda and I'm going to get drunk, flip people off, play your nasty f-xmas mix with some terrorcore techno and throw the empties at anyone stupid enough to sing carols.
And if they burn down....
Im gunna laugh! :haha: |
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