Christmas - The thread (with polls, chat encouraged)

Christmas in my family is so regimented but I love it.

Christmas Eve - do it like the Latins and dress up nice for a three-course meal at home, open a couple of presents, drink until just after midnight.

Christmas Day - do it like the Brits and sit around in our pyjamas opening presents but verrryyyy sllloooooowwwllyyyy* until dinner at 2 on the dot, after which the over 40s fall asleep and the under 40s clear and tidy until pud/turkey sandwich time, then my mum drunkenly calls all the relatives.

*Under my mum’s orders. One time we still had presents to open on NYE, that was a fucking tedious year.

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Roses are well ITV. Quality Street is BBC.

Celebrations are BBC3 and Heroes are for cunts.

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STEAK. PIE.

How could anyone vote for NYE here.

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OOFT! Count me IN!!!

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No thanks!

send some to me, bounty is top

christmas dinner seating time is

  • a thing. has to be done at a specific time every year
  • whenever it is

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yeah, it is whenever it is, but also roughly will be the same time every year

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i doubt anyone has to have it at exactly 2:15 or whatever, but i know some people have to have it before / after the queen’s speech or something like that

I put tedious cause I have to split my day between two families (mine and my bfs - 40 min drive apart) which is always a chore
And my bfs family (which I go to in the evening) spend ALL DAY sitting up the table
I wanna go sit on the sofa of an evening but that’s not a thing

  • I am still aware of what is Christmas number 1
  • Mr Blobby is contemporary

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It’s when my mum says ‘get to the table, dinner will be ready in ten minutes’, and then ninety minutes later we are served dinner.

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killing in the name was like the year before last right? 2009 you say? fuck

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We have a working towards time, as it’s after lunch that we open ‘family’ presents - as opposed to Santa ones which are first thing. this takes hours, as does lunch, so it needs to be at a fairly set time - normally 2.30ish

This year we are going up to my Aunt’s at some point which is a 90 minute drive, so having to factor that in as well.

Basic Bitch Christmas Starter Pack:

‘Omg it’s December 1st, Happy Christmas’
‘Mariah Carey has the best Christmas song’
‘Let’s watch Elf’

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Best Christmas number 1 of the 90s

  • SAVIOUR’S DAY - Cliff Richard
  • BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY/THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES - Queen
  • I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - Whitney Houston
  • MR BLOBBY - Mr Blobby
  • STAY ANOTHER DAY - East 17
  • EARTH SONG - Michael Jackson
  • 2 Become 1 - Spice Girls
  • Too Much - Spice Girls
  • Goodbye - Spice Girls
  • I HAVE A DREAM/SEASONS IN THE SUN - Westlife (Really?)

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  • Christmas Day with family, Boxing Day with in-laws family
  • Christmas Day with in-laws, Boxing Day with family
  • Christmas Day with in-laws AND family
  • None of the above

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Really tough choice this.

Me with my lot, her with her lot.

We have the morning at one house and then dinner + rest of the day at the other. This year we begin at my parents and then head across to the in laws later.

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