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Post by 😎 on Nov 14, 2022 15:53:44 GMT
We’ve preordered a BBQ platter for our thanksgiving, and for Christmas dinner we will be ordering Chinese.
We’re super traditional here.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Nov 14, 2022 15:57:31 GMT
Actually, I tell a lie, I may eat turkey this year. Since Im in the US, I might get one of those big, weird, leathery turkey drum sticks rednecks like to knaw on like a chew toy as they are shambling around a theme park.
I had one in universal last time I was there and felt like Cletus The Eighth
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Post by elstoof on Nov 14, 2022 16:30:33 GMT
Can’t remember the last time I had turkey, must be 15 years. Did a roast chicken last year, the kids won’t eat anything like that so it was just the two of us to cook for. Roast beef the year before that. Did a goose one year, waste of time really
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Post by mrpon on Nov 14, 2022 16:32:25 GMT
I'm doing a ham.
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Post by EMarkM on Nov 14, 2022 16:39:17 GMT
It’ll be my first gluten-and-alcohol-free Christmas as an adult. I won’t miss the drink at all, but stuffing, mince pies, Christmas cake and pudding, Stollen…I’m actually crying now  |
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Post by 😎 on Nov 14, 2022 16:50:27 GMT
One Christmas we had all my family over and I went hog wild with a smorgasbord. Roast duck, flank steak, glazed ham, range of sides, cheese plate, several hand made desserts, and I did the entire thing myself while everyone else went off to see the Christmas lights. Simultaneously the most stressful but most satisfying meal I’ve cooked.
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Post by Danno on Nov 14, 2022 17:56:50 GMT
It’ll be my first gluten-and-alcohol-free Christmas as an adult. I won’t miss the drink at all, but stuffing, mince pies, Christmas cake and pudding, Stollen…I’m actually crying now Lebkuchen, gingerbread, panetone... |
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Post by EMarkM on Nov 14, 2022 18:53:23 GMT
It’ll be my first gluten-and-alcohol-free Christmas as an adult. I won’t miss the drink at all, but stuffing, mince pies, Christmas cake and pudding, Stollen…I’m actually crying now Lebkuchen, gingerbread, panetone... Shut the fucking fuck up.  |
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Post by elstoof on Nov 14, 2022 20:13:02 GMT
Enjoy not being one of these fat greasy knackers on the 1st of January
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Post by EMarkM on Nov 14, 2022 22:44:52 GMT
Enjoy not being one of these fat greasy knackers on the 1st of January I have genuinely not felt fitter than this in about fifteen years. |
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Post by Nitrous on Nov 14, 2022 23:34:22 GMT
Speaking of spending the day with family, how do people feel about being guilt tripped into spending the day with your partner’s family? Mrs Shark’s parents are very nice - if a bit Daily Mail - but I don’t want to spend four days with them and her creepy uncle in the arse end of nowhere. Sounds delightful. I hadn't even thought about it but I believe the plans are that the in-laws will have something to eat with us before Christmas day. On the actual day I'll probably get forced to go and visit them for a few hours and I assume my mother will make an appearance at some point. Could be worse I guess. |
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Post by deebs on Nov 15, 2022 3:36:04 GMT
Die Hard is an xmo movie.
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Post by mrharvest on Nov 15, 2022 8:39:23 GMT
I don't like Christmas.
I always had pretty awful Christmases as a kid. I'm the only child of a single mother and we never had any money. But our extended family is fairly large and wealthy. So every Christmas eve (East European tradition) we'd get taken to the rich aunt's house where all their kids got nice presents and I didn't. And there's that tension of everyone having to "be nice" for Christmas, so everyone is just pretending to be something they aren't and it was all like really fake and annoying.
I also don't like how the idea of a Christmas has become all about eating too much and buying unnecessary crap and it just seems so stupid. And I don't think I really like secular culture co-opting religious holidays. It would feel really weird to me if people decided Eid is the time to get together and get wasted because there was the fasting before it. I mean, I totally get why Muslims who do Ramadan celebrate Eid, and I think that's totally cool. But plain old atheists? How many of you here who celebrate Christmas identify yourselves as Christian?
So fuck enduring your family, fuck your turkey, fuck your consumerist present giving culture. I'll cook a curry and invite a couple of friends over, maybe.
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Post by elstoof on Nov 15, 2022 8:43:14 GMT
Fuck your curry and fuck your friends too, for balance
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Post by lordofthedunce on Nov 15, 2022 9:26:38 GMT
Good we're keeping the right tone for the thread!
I'm working a day shift at a&e then going to me ex to celebrate with the kids. Luckily the ex and I get on well enough, and the kids love having us all together. It's weird, when I was growing up we did huge xmases at my uncle's restaurant with 40 or so cousins, uncles, aunties, friends etc it was epic. I took it for granted until I grew up and had to start organising that shit myself.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 15, 2022 9:36:11 GMT
We shouldn't celebrate anything so every year just bleeds into the next until we eventually die. Life is meaningless anyway. What's the point
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Post by lordofthedunce on Nov 15, 2022 9:42:19 GMT
We shouldn't celebrate anything so every year just bleeds into the next until we eventually die. Life is meaningless anyway. What's the point That's what I'm teaching the kids |
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Post by rawshark on Nov 15, 2022 10:13:08 GMT
“Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people and now you're gonna hear about it.”
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Post by mrharvest on Nov 16, 2022 8:31:45 GMT
We shouldn't celebrate anything so every year just bleeds into the next until we eventually die. Life is meaningless anyway. What's the point  |
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Post by Lizard on Nov 16, 2022 8:57:35 GMT
People getting all teary over those awful, manipulative Christmas adverts show how pathetic and decrepit society has become. Embarrassing.
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Post by nexus6 on Nov 16, 2022 9:14:49 GMT
I enjoy Christmas well enough. It's a bit of a faff but we have a small family with only the 4 of us and my mum for the day. That in itself means I have to drive her home before I can have a drink, but no problem.
What I really enjoy though is the warm cozy feelings coming over me from reading this thread - its lovely!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2022 9:18:17 GMT
This place has been extra miserable recently.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 16, 2022 9:21:17 GMT
He complained
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Post by KD on Nov 16, 2022 9:46:31 GMT
My ex made last Xmas a misery so looking forward to doing fuck all this year and just visiting my parents for a few hours.
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Post by dogbot on Nov 16, 2022 9:51:02 GMT
Meta-misery. Not like Zuck has, though. |
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