I feel your pain. I hate Christmas music. I especially hate being threatened with Christmas.
Where I work some 300 of us have just lost our jobs in a major job spill and downsizing, oddly enough, the Christmas spirit is a little lacking for many of us. An irritating (and still employed) colleague told me, when I responded with no enthusiasm at all to her plans to bring in a blow-up Christmas tree that “you’ll just HAVE to get the Christmas spirit”.
Well blow your Christmas tree up yer bum lady, but leave me alone.
On the other hand, I do have a partial antidote to the Christmas carol craziness. Learn this version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, sing it very loudly and call it a public service announcement…
I envy you Jews and Muslims and Miscellaneous. Our Founding Fathers gave you the Constitutionally-protected right to bitch about Christmas music. Me? I get called a “Scrooge.” :mad:
Much like Chastain86, one of my local radio stations switched in mid-fucking-October to all Christmas shit, all the damn time. I used to listen to that station on occasion. But not during this season.
Plus shortly after Halloween (or maybe before, and I didn’t notice), the grocery store and the regional malls fired up the Christmas Muzak.
It got me so overly irritated, that when I was in the grocery store yesterday, I nearly knocked over a singing snowman – I threw a side kick and elbow smash one foot off to the target’s side. (I know, I shouldn’t even do that, but if you saw the snowman, you’d probably say I was justified.)
This is the third anti Christmas music/musak thread I’ve seen, seems it does piss off a lot of people.
I’m gonna have to brave The Centre MK* to get the prezzys tonight and I’m gonna have to get drunk to stand it.
I shall be inflicted with bloody John Lennon “So this is Christmas…”** Aiee! Boney M :eek: (telling me that Jesus Christ was born on Chritmas day, WTF?) [gritted teeth]Slade[/gt] and so on, the same stuff over and over and over…
Do all the shops get their tapes/CDs from the same place? At what point does having to suffer this environment turn you into a psycho? It is a recognised brain washing/torture technique to play the same thing to your victim over and over, who the hell thinks this is a good idea?
Shall I crush your brain?, ba-rump-bum-bum-bum
And drive you quite insane?, ba-rump-bum-bum-bum
And send you screaming from the mall
to your car
straight to a bar
ba-rump-bum-bum-bum
Yea, cause nothing says Christmas like people going around shouting “Scrooge!” and “Grinch!” because someone doesn’t have a Christmas tree shoved up their ass. God, I hate those people. Not you, Dropzone, them people! After all, didn’t Jesus say, “To celebrate my birth, act like an asshole in a Santa hat and if anyone doesn’t like it, call em names!”?
Allow me to quote one of Blink 182’s songs:
It’s Christmas time, again
It’s time to be nice to the people that you can’t stand
All year
I’m growing tired of all this Christmas cheer
You people scare me
Please stay away from my home
If you don’t wanna get me down,
Just leave the presents and then leave me alone
danceswithcats: How about, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Syphilis? I can never hear the proper version of that song without getting a grin out of it.
My grandfather, who loves Christmas, used to be a DJ, way back in the late 40’s/early 50’s, before going in to television news.
He told me that even back then, he had a “No Christmas music until December 24th” policy. Nothing against the music itself, but yes, it does get tiresome. In a hurry.
I like Christmas music, myself. In small does. Really small doses. Except on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, when I do like to listen to more of it. But I swear, if I never hear Springsteen’s version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” again, it will be too soon. That song sucks so hard it made the baby Jesus call Santa and say “I don’t know what you think, man, but he’s totally off MY list.”
And what’s with all these Andy Williams songs? I haven’t heard him this much since 1963! Who disturbed his seemingly eternal nap in the necropolis of Branson? And WHY?!?!?
omg. I can so relate with you. All day at school, in the mall, in my parents car, its all Christmas music. Good god, at least turn it off during tests people!
Im jewish, I really don’t care about christmas music. In fact, up until thanksgiving this year, I somewhat enjoyed it. But thats when one of the local radio stations switched to 24/7 christmas music. Now its everywhere. I can’t even escape to starbucks most of the time, cause they turn on their christmas cd’s, and turn it up LOUD.
This is non-music related, but whats up with the lights? Christmas lights are pretty when used in moderation. Now, when you have lights crawling over the roof, a full set of reindeer (named, might I add!) and a moving, talking santa, then that qualifies as a bit excessive. You could probably spot this house from outer space, I can certainly see it through my dark curtains/blinds. Even worse is the fact that they leave the lights on TILL ONE IN THE MORNING.
You’re correct. The lyrics quoted were without credit, as I did not know their source, and included them in the post referentially as the genre was similar.
dungbeetle-I’m interested. Any good link is appreciated.
