What do you HATE about the Holidays?

[Chelle]

Just thinking about unpacking the lights and other decorations is making me break out in hives! UGH!

[Trinitis]

I hate the fact that I've never had a WHITE FUCKIN CHRISTMAS! ::grumbles::

-Adredrin

[Snapp]

I voted "insane shoppers," but on my end it's mostly "insane customers." Working retail during the holidays sucks.

[Back]

I hate when the party is over.

[Sean]

its okay .. you can come shovel my snow adredrin

[Stunseed]

Originally posted by Snapp
I voted "insane shoppers," but on my end it's mostly "insane customers." Working retail during the holidays sucks.

No kidding. In the hour of 7am to 8am this morning, we did more in sales than a normal day altogether. I hate retail, lots.

Love you Jolena!

[HarmNone]

Packed stores! All those Christmas shoppers are getting in the way of my self-indulgence! :mad:

HarmNone wants to shop without being tempted to resort to violence

[GSLeloo]

I like doing the trees and the decorations I simply hate BITCHY customers at the super market and lines at the stores.

[Trinitis]

Originally posted by Tijay
its okay .. you can come shovel my snow adredrin

Only if I can do this to your car.. :D

[Back]

Originally posted by LordAdredrin

Originally posted by Tijay
its okay .. you can come shovel my snow adredrin

Only if I can do this to your car.. :D

I now have a new project for my friends this winter.

[Chelle]

Insane shoppers. I remember when Cabbage Patch kids were THE thing and ppl would be all crazy or when Tickle me Elmo got everyone hot. I guess I just don't get how people can go NUTSO over things.

[Latrinsorm]

How everyone pretends to be nice. I mean, if you're not nice, that's cool, just don't pretend you're my pal because of an arbitrary date (unless, you know, you're one of those Solstice folks. It's less arbitrary in that case).

However, I do get to go home for the holidays with my family. That makes me happy. --> :) <--

[Adhara]

Packed stores. I don't do well with crowds. Constricted airways, racing heart, cold sweat... Ugh. I like to order gifts online or go to very specialized stores so I don't need to deal with the crowds and the irrational terror it induces in me.

[Myshel]

Heard on the news this morning a woman had a seisure while waiting in a crush to get into a store, fell to the ground. The doors opened and people stepped over her as she laying writhing, and went into the store. Merry Christmas.

[Betheny]

I hate everything about the holidays, pretty much. There's not much good left in them for me.

However, this christmas will rock, since I will be nowhere near home. I may even regain the christmas spirit.

[Edited on 11-29-2003 by Maimara]

[Tsa`ah]

I hate the assumption of "I celebrate Christmas, ergo, everyone celebrates Christmas".

I hate having to take the time off for a holiday I don't partake in, and I hate that I'm expected to work holidays that no one else celebrates.

I hate people that get offended when I reply "Happy Chanukah" the their "Merry Christmas".

I hate that some people feel the need to associate and rationalize my Jewish holiday and heritage to Christmas. I especially hate it when I'm handed literature about accepting my savior and all the other crap that goes along with it.

I hate the commercialism, the mass depression, the raise in the suicide rate, the traffic, the idiots, the fucking bells that just don't stop, the mother effers that put dings in my door because they don't know what the fucking yellow lines in the parking lot are for.

Few good things come from this holiday.
Egg nogg
Naughty elf outfits
Skimpy red lingerie
Snow
24 hours of the Christmas story on TBS or TNT

It's bad enough that Christianity took a crap atop a pagan symbol or ritual, but can we please not try to hawk some worthless crap as the next must have fad?

Can you tell I'm already irritated?

[Bewitchindryad25]

I love the holidays as it seems to bring others closer together.

The thing that drives me crazy is the rush of shopping or the day after Thanksgiving . I was dragged shopping by my aunt . Though I did get to watch two women fight over a Bratz doll literally they started swinging fists. :?:

My aunt mentioned my cousin liked to collect them so while they were having the doll brawl. I walked over picked it up off the shelf and walked off. I don't think they even noticed.

[Zeyrin]

This time of year really sucks. Seems to me most of the world has lost the meaning of these holidays. Think about it....it's thanksgiving and what was the main topic of coversation?

"Damn, that was a dry ass turkey."

At Christmas time, the main topic will be....

"I can't believe that cheap bastard bought me that!!"

I refuse to get into the holiday cheer....well, unless I'm rather drunk.

Somehow, I feel.....optimistic!!!

:flamed::moon::mad::drunk:

[Bestatte]

What I hate: tacky plastic Santas on peoples' lawns.
Waiting in the express 12-and-under lane in the supermarket behind assholes with full carts of christmas food, who use coupons for each item and then call the manager to complain when their canned cranberries don't ring up at the advertised 3 cents off.

Christmas tunes, Muzak-style. The Little Drummer Boy by anyone except the London Boy's Choir (they totally rock and bring me to tears when they perform that!)
Parking lots.
Traffic on the highway.
People wishing me a Merry Christmas, but who only say it to be polite and don't really mean it.
Religious freaks trying to convince me the best Christmas present I can give myself is accepting Jesus into my life.
My mother reminding me that I have two Israel bonds so that I can always remember my heritage this time of year and that I shouldn't sell them even though they're a tax liability.
Dunkin Donuts being closed for Christmas.
Fast Food restaurants being closed for Christmas.
...and a whole shitload of other things.

[Weedmage Princess]

Why would someone get "offended" because you say "Happy Chanukah"? People need to get a friggin grip, geeze. For that reason, I usually just tend to say Happy Holidays...I'm all about the holiday season..so I'm just trying to pass on my cheer..not trying to offend them or anything...and if they say Happy Chanukah or Happy Kwanzaa or whatever they celebrate to me, it's all good, too.

As far as what I hate...I'm going to say the nutso drivers. I don't particularly care for the crowded stores with the rude people..but if you're smart, you can avoid it. (wake up early and be the first ones there if you can, you'll find you'll get what you need and relatively quick as well) ..but the asshole drivers...ugh. The exit off one of the main highways here where I live..is a dangerous one. It's also one that leads to a big mall here...a sharp curve that comes to a light..then goes onto another highway.. (I know, makes no sense..it's weird) so people are always jumping the median cause they're going to fast, running past the light, hitting people, etc. A couple of Christmases ago, someone got killed there..it's really horrible. I won't even get off at that exit anymore to come home...I get off a few exits up and take the long way to avoid that danger zone.

[Zeyrin]

So drink your gin and tonica

and smoke your marijuanica

Have a Happy Happy Hanukah!!!

[longshot]

In Japan, Christmas has no religious meaning whatsoever.

It's strictly a lover's holiday... couples spend the whole day fucking.

I like Japanese Christmas.

All my kids assume I'm Christian. Tsa'ah and I are on the same "team".... I feel pretty much the same way he does.

I find it really difficult not to laugh when my Christian family says, "Happy Hanukkah" to me... I don't think they realize that it's the most bullshit holiday on the planet.

It's well worth going to Christmas dinner just to hear how they pronounce Hannukkah that year though....

[Drew2]

HAHA TSA'AH SAID ERGO. HE IS THE ARCHITECT.

[Latrinsorm]

Oh yeah, I'm also offended when someone says Happy Holidays.

[Weedmage Princess]

Heh..well I didnt realize I was being offensive saying Happy Holidays. Shit, I'll just stick to have a nice day..damn..heh.

[Bestatte]

Originally posted by longshot
I find it really difficult not to laugh when my Christian family says, "Happy Hanukkah" to me... I don't think they realize that it's the most bullshit holiday on the planet.

It's well worth going to Christmas dinner just to hear how they pronounce Hannukkah that year though....

It's a bullshit holiday because it isn't a holiday. It's a festival, a feast..if you're italian you'd call it an Avest.

It's the celebration of a minor miracle that occurred when the Macabees were at war, and a bunch of people hid in a temple for safety. There was only enough oil in the temple's lamp to last a single day, but it lasted eight days instead. A minor miracle, but enough to warrant a celebration when the war ended.

In Judaism, there are no "holidays." There are Holy Days and there are Festivals. Many of the festivals coincide with old pagan rituals - such as Succot and the Harvest. Rites of fertility, rites of entrance as a member of the community (confirmation), rites of adulthood (Bar Mitzvot)...

None of these are holidays. They're festivals and events that are significant in a Jewish individual's life. Holy days are the Sabbath, among others..and the High Holy days, such as Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur are not celebrated as much as experienced with great solemnity.

We mark the passage of time and our cultural heritage with all of these days. And some of us watch Christians turn what we always thought of as the most holy Christian day of the year into an excuse for children to demand toys from their parents and employees to demand a day off with pay, or overtime.

It's sad, really. Christmas should be experienced with joy, but also with serious and solemn prayer and thanksgiving. I'd love to see the various Christian sects return to Latin Mass. Hell, I'd even go to one of those. There's just something awe-inspiring about Latin Mass, no matter what religion you practice.

[peam]

I'm too poor to go shopping, so that's marked off the list.

My biggest peeve is probably my extended family, especially on my Dad's side. That side of the family is considerably... Appalachian.. I am not.

I've a total flake for a cousin who sponges money off my grandparents to start these ridiculous business ventures.. a tow-truck, a used tractor/animal feed store. His latest venture was sponging around $800 to buy two corgies to breed. He's big into the whole pretending like he's a cowboy too.

Kid's a total fucking flake, and my grandparents eat the shit up. So, whenever I have to go over there, all we hear is a few hours of how great he is... it gets tiring.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Weedmage Princess
Heh..well I didnt realize I was being offensive saying Happy Holidays. Shit, I'll just stick to have a nice day..damn..heh.

Well, if I'm not allowed to offend anyone with my religion, I'll be damned if someone offends me with their lack of religion.

I hope you have a nice day as well! :)

[Tsa`ah]

Wishing someone a merry Christmas, a happy holiday, or whatever else isn't offensive in the least. In fact, I like holiday cheer. I just abhor people that can't see out of their own little world. The people who think "it's Christmas, nothing else!"

I don't think I should be catered to, but damn, there are 4,000 Jews in my area and not one store has more than a small "ethnic" section of an isle where everything non-caucasion and non-gentile gets lumped into.

Do you happen to carry kosher sea salt?

We have those cracker things in the ethnic section of isle 4, those work?

No, I'm looking for kosher sea salt.

We have Hebrew Nation hot dogs in between the bacon and bologna!

Never mind.

My wife recorded a local Babtist minister on one of the local spotlight programs going into a near tirade on how secular the Jewish community is locally. You think? We have to frickin travel to Chicago to shop for groceries during our holidays. The local businesses don't sell candles that fit the menorah. The local community makes it that way.

My irritations stem from small-minded people that affect the larger population. Idiots that take to the road in mass. Morons that swallow the commercialism of it all.

The use of "holiday" is generic in today's society. I'll call festivals and all days Shabbat (except Shabbat) "holidays". Arguing semantics is pointless. These are days to be with family or community. That's not bullshit, it's tradition, it's the original intent. Lecturing someone on semantics is BS, especially when one takes into account the ignorance you displayed pertaining to the pass-over.

P.S. Thanks Daina, you dirty slut! :P

[Edited on 11-29-2003 by Tsa`ah]

[Edited on 11-29-2003 by Tsa`ah]

[peam]

Open a Jew store! You'll have 5,999 guaranteed customers.

Edit - Is there a proper name for a Jewish store? Asking for directions to the "Jew store" seems a bit crass.

[Edited on 11-29-2003 by peam]

[Sweets]

Materialism, materialism, materialism.

I haven't "bought" alot of christmas gifts for many years. I would rather bake cookies and give out my famous grape jellies. Even though I can't this year, nothing puts me more in the spirit of the season than bustling about my tackily decorated kitchen filling jars and tins with tasty treats for everyone.

I can't stand the malls and shopping at this time of year. All I see are grasping, whining people complaining about how expensive everything is. As if that's all there is to the whole season. Blah. Morons.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Tsa`ah
Wishing someone a merry Christmas, a happy holiday, or whatever else isn't offensive in the least.

To you, apparently. I would disagree.