# More Christmas Irritation
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 4, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486 "2021-12-04T07:16:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/1 "2021-12-04T07:16:00Z")
Utterly mundane, completely pointless, and I’m not really certain why.
My neighbor has put up xmas decor in his yard. An inflatable santa and frosty the snowman among othe miscellaneous bits. Frosty is decked out in hunting garb (camouflage patterned vest, blaze orange ball cap) and Santa has a matching camouflage patterned outfit instead of his traditional red(he retained his traditional hat though).
This, irritates, me. I don’t know why, it’s not logical or rational, it just does.
Wish he’d left Frosty out of it and found an inflatable Santa in a [Panzer (video)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-KE_bkaa-s) instead. That I could appreciate.
What xmas decor do You wish they would make and mass market?
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### Author:  [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/2 "2021-12-04T12:45:44Z")
Check Amazon for “ceramic lighted christmas tree”. They have plastic “flames” that stick out at all angles, like a hedgehog. I wish someone would come out with one where all the flames stuck straight up - like a real flame.
Inflatables have just about covered every conceivable Christmas variation, but I haven’t seen “homeowner climbing a ladder to put lights on the eaves”, to be followed by “homeowner falling off of the ladder…”
(Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone makes an inflatable tree for indoor use.)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/3 "2021-12-04T12:50:28Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> Inflatables have just about covered every conceivable Christmas variation, but I haven’t seen “homeowner climbing a ladder to put lights on the eaves”, to be followed by **“homeowner falling off of the ladder…”** -
If you ever find that, there’s this…
[ ](https://sc04.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1BXpMHVXXXXb1XpXXq6xXFXXX0.jpg)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/4 "2021-12-04T14:33:24Z")
While we’re at it, the Christmas **Star Wars** stuff needs to go before I go bonkers and release my arsenal of nukes.
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### Author:  [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/5 "2021-12-04T14:35:35Z")
I agree. Remember the ET craze when it first came out? Christmas gift wrap with ET in a Santa Claus costume, ugh.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/6 "2021-12-04T14:38:14Z")
> [@DorkVader](#):
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> Santa has a matching camouflage patterned outfit instead of his traditional red(he retained his traditional hat though).
Somewhere out there over the past few seasons I’m sure there’ve been a few lawn Santas wearing MAGA caps.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/7 "2021-12-04T16:29:59Z")
> [@DorkVader](#):
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> inflatable Santa in a [Panzer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-KE_bkaa-s)
My irritation (not limited to Christmas) is folks who have links that go to videos, without warning.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/8 "2021-12-04T18:10:07Z")
Agreed. There should be a [video] tag, just like we used to do [pdf] tags.
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### Author:  [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/9 "2021-12-04T20:19:51Z")
I don’t go in for Christmas decorations, but if I found an inflatable Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, with a wild-eyed, murderous expression on his face, carrying an ax, and dressed as Santa Claus, I’d buy that sucker, put it in my front yard mid-October for Halloween, and leave it there until mid-January. The bigger the better.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/10 "2021-12-04T20:31:20Z")
> [@solost](#):
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> Somewhere out there over the past few seasons I’m sure there’ve been a few lawn Santas wearing MAGA caps.
And carrying assault rifles.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/11 "2021-12-04T20:41:52Z")
Spikey Covid virus Xmas tree ornaments.
This, among others: (with pics)
> **[10 COVID-19 Christmas Tree Ornaments To Top Off This Ridiculous Year](https://www.realtor.com/advice/home-improvement/covid-19-christmas-ornaments-you-need-this-holiday/)**
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> Combine Christmas with the coronavirus and what do you get? An array of hilarious COVID-19-themed ornaments you must get for your holiday tree.
[ ](https://na.rdcpix.com/779053549/061685021d64265f5a75955fc81c1f94w-c0xd-w826_h860_q80.jpg)
(I want to see some that light up.)
Santa Xmas tree ornament with mask:
(Sorry, I can’t get any kind of link to work for this. It’s an ornament of Santa’s nearly naked backside with face-mask over his ass.)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/12 "2021-12-04T22:40:37Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#):
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> Remember the ET craze when it first came out? Christmas gift wrap with ET in a Santa Claus costume, ugh.
Hey, thanks for reminding me: years back National Lampoon magazine had an op-ed(?) piece listing how E.T.'s story was similar to the Christ Child’s – strange lights in the sky, people in charge hated his existence, stuff like that. At the end, the author asked **Does that sound like someone you’ve heard of? Yes? You should! it’s the story of Frankenstein’s monster**.
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/14 "2021-12-05T02:07:03Z")
@Northern_Piper, @Roderick_Femm and everyone else, apologies for not putting a video warning on that, slipped my mind:
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/15 "2021-12-05T02:36:08Z")
[Clark Griswald hanging from the gutter](https://www.ksat.com/news/2018/12/02/realistic-christmas-decorations-fool-passerby-who-tries-to-save-dummy-hanging-from-roof/)???
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/16 "2021-12-05T06:11:17Z")
> [@DorkVader](#):
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> @Northern_Piper, @Roderick_Femm and everyone else, apologies for not putting a video warning on that, slipped my mind:
No biggie! 😉
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### Author:  [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/17 "2021-12-05T07:42:44Z")
> [@DorkVader](#):
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> My neighbor has put up xmas decor in his yard. An inflatable santa and frosty the snowman among othe miscellaneous bits. Frosty is decked out in hunting garb (camouflage patterned vest, blaze orange ball cap) and Santa has a matching camouflage patterned outfit instead of his traditional red(he retained his traditional hat though).
So in your yard, put up a Rudolph Reindeer aiming a shotgun at hunter Santa & Frosty.
Remember, in America we have the right to arm bears (and reindeers).
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/18 "2021-12-05T08:58:56Z")
**Moderator Note**
> [@DorkVader](#):
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> apologies for not putting a video warning on that, slipped my mind
I have added a video indication to the link, as requested.
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/19 "2021-12-05T14:52:51Z")
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/20 "2021-12-05T14:56:54Z")
My favorite part of all holidays is walking the 'hood afterwards (and sometimes before) and seeing all of the inflatables sitting in sad dejected heaps because the homeowners couldn’t be bothered to keep them inflated. Yes, I’m jaded.
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-christmas-irritation/955486/21 "2021-12-05T15:15:32Z")
Heh! I can sorta see that, and agree😁
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