# Christmas music ! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639 "2003-12-12T18:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/1 "2003-12-12T18:23:31Z")
Inspired by the Customer Service Rant and Holiday Mini-Rant already open, I had to share my customer-service-job-related and hardly-mini rant on Christmas Music. ARRGH ! I fucking hate Christmas music because of four years of working in malls. There is no more effective way to sap the joy of the season from the lives of badly-paid workers than by incessantly playing Christmas carols, over and over and over and over again. There’s only a limited number of carols, people - and the new ones that people write are CRAP (I do not want to hear an ‘original carol’ by Mariah Fucking Carey), the reason we have the same carols year after year is because they’re GOOD. The first time you hear it in the season, and the second, maybe up to the fifth. But twenty times in one day is much too many times to hear Alvin and the Chipmunks warbling O Holy Night. I still get nightmares about being in a mall in December. (This year was the worst in a while: I was in a coffee shop in a heavily Jewish area, in NOVEMBER, that was already off and running.) But, don’t lose heart: I read the best news in a long time this morning (from [here](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031212/FASS12/TPComment/Features)) > [@](#): > > This month in Austria, labour unions were pressing stores to stop the incessant playing of Christmas carols, denouncing the practice as “psychological terrorism” that grates on the ears of shop employees. “They become aggressive and develop an aversion to Christmas music,” said Gottfried Rieser, a leader of the campaign. “It gets to the point where on Christmas Eve, when they’re at home with their families, they can’t stand Silent Night or Jingle Bells one more time.” Sol-Sol-Sol ! Solidarity ! I have never had better reason to support a union. Global movement, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/2 "2003-12-12T19:24:22Z")
There are like, 3 good Christmas songs. The rest are dreck. I feel your pain **cowgirl** (I almost called you “cow” before I realized the implications! :eek: ), I feel your pain. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/3 "2003-12-12T19:31:18Z")
C’mon, I know you are both humming Christmas Shoes at this very moment. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/4 "2003-12-12T19:37:07Z")
Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing Ring ting tingle-ing too Come on, it’s lovely weather For a sleigh ride together with you * * * ooops … sorry 🙂 There is a local radio station here playing Christmas music that has been jazzed up, actually some of it is quite tolerable. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/5 "2003-12-12T19:51:59Z")
You know you’re in trouble when the best you can hope for is > [@](#): > > quite tolerable ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/6 "2003-12-12T19:56:42Z")
Actually I kinda like Christmas music. But I am sure if I had to listen to ANY music genre over, and over, and over again, I would get sick of it. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/7 "2003-12-12T20:00:24Z")
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Kenny Loggins sing _It’s Christmas Time in Santa Barbara._ Haj ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/8 "2003-12-12T20:04:43Z")
I hear you, **cowgirl**. I worked retail for five long, hellish Christmas Seasons. EVERY ONE OF THEM was right across the aisle from THE CHRISTMAS SECTION of our department store. I could deal with Bing warbling about White Christmases along with his Backup Whistlers, Madonna seducing Santa-Baby to Hurry Down The Chimney, and so forth…but when they put up an entire display to advertise their new Christmas Lights That Play Christmas Carols (really badly, I might add, and in a cheezy tinny HORRIBLE bad-midi kind of way) And Blink In Time With The Current Carol…I knew I couldn’t last another season of that crap. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/9 "2003-12-12T20:05:57Z")
I worked retail as a kid and had a 75 minute Christmas loop playing everyday throughout my shift. While I did somewhat tire of that specific tape, I didn’t lose my enthusiasm for any other Christmas music. To this day I can’t get enough of it. I listen to Christmas songs on my way to work, hum them in my head all day and then listen to them at night. You can take out your aggressions on me. I seem to be the polar opposite of your situation. Bubba [SIZE=1] Barking dog jingle bell **does** suck though. Bubba ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/10 "2003-12-12T20:07:06Z")
Carrolling hamsters ate my coding ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/11 "2003-12-12T20:12:17Z")
**Bubba** : > [@](#): > > Carrolling hamsters ate my coding It’s carolling karma. If it doesn’t get you via Bing Crosby in the malls, it’ll get you somehow … [evil Carolling laugh] mwa ha ha ha ho ho ho!! [/ecl] ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/12 "2003-12-12T21:50:15Z")
I love a few Christmas songs, but most are so sappy that they induce insulin shock. Having to be subjected to it for 8 hours a day should be considered a violation of human rights by OSHA. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/13 "2003-12-13T01:21:35Z")
I hate Holiday Music. I worked retail for two christmas, and now christmas music induces suicidal/homicidal tendencies, depending on what kind of mood i was in originally. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/14 "2003-12-13T01:59:05Z")
I currently have _Jingle Bells_ stuck in my head, and I didn’t even work today. I may commit violent acts if I hear _All I Want For Christmas Is You_ again. It was kind of funny- they were playing Christmas music in a couple of goth/punk stores I was in today. There’s something odd about listening to _All I want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth_ while surrounded by leather and chains. I used to love Christmas. I’m a Christian, and lots of traditional carols have great words and interesting theology, but in spite of that they’re still driving me nuts. I hate Mariah Carey, I hate Barbara Streisand sings Christmas, and I hate stupid cutesy annoying music! Sorry about that. Working tomorrow. Not looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/15 "2003-12-13T02:03:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BubbaDog \* > \*\* > Bubba > [SIZE=1] Barking dog jingle bell **does** suck though. > > Bubba \*\* Not necessarily:). My boss caught me barking along with them at work the other day and couldn’t stop laughing for fifteen minutes. I love Christmas music. I listen to it all day at work - it makes the days pass faster. Ava ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/16 "2003-12-13T05:09:53Z")
When I was a kid, my mother and I would only listen to Christmas music on Christmas day, and sometimes Christmas eve. I thought that this is what all families did until when one time, talking to her about it, she mentioned that a tradition that we did. This kind of pissed me off because I love Christmas music and found out that I was being deprived of listening to more of it because of something my mother made up. Well, that, and the fact I obviously was a stupid kid for thinking that that’s how everybody did it 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/17 "2003-12-13T05:11:34Z")
Oops “she mentioned that a tradition that we did.” should have read "she mentioned that a it was a tradition that only we did. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/18 "2003-12-13T05:16:55Z")
I guess no one wants to hear, “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas,”, then? I love that song. But the stores always play the really shitty Xmas music. What’s up with that? Oh, and I’m with you, **Lissla** -Mariah Carey must die. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/19 "2003-12-13T05:43:41Z")
Isn’t her music career pretty much over anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639/20 "2003-12-13T05:58:10Z")
We don’t have any figgy fucking pudding, fucktards, so stop asking for it. If we did have any, we’d only bring it to you to throw in your face. Now shut up and go away. Fucking moochers. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music/218639.md?page=2)