# What's your Christmas Music Threshold? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929 "2009-12-04T01:27:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/41 "2009-12-07T04:33:20Z")
I voted two weeks. Unfortunately, I’ve been subjected to it since the second week of November at work. No, I don’t work in retail. I work at a bank. My boss is psycho. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/42 "2009-12-07T19:26:21Z")
Try this, it’ll cheer you right up! [http://www.sundog.net/carolofthechins/flash/card.swf](http://www.sundog.net/carolofthechins/flash/card.swf) Try typing in a naughty word, or “Jingle Bell Rock”. I think this is very adorable. Can’t wait to share with my kids! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/43 "2009-12-07T20:55:06Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > Christmas music is omnipresent this time of year. How much is enough for you? I’ve been hearing it since Labor Day. It should be made illegal. The ears, they bleed!!!.. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/44 "2009-12-07T21:02:23Z")
We’ve been known to have our iTunes play Christmas songs in July. Fortunately, A.C. has yet to have Grandma repeatedly run over that reindeer this year. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/45 "2009-12-07T21:11:41Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Try this, it’ll cheer you right up! > > [http://www.sundog.net/carolofthechins/flash/card.swf](http://www.sundog.net/carolofthechins/flash/card.swf) > > Try typing in a naughty word, or “Jingle Bell Rock”. > > I think this is very adorable. Can’t wait to share with my kids! > > 🙂 Try “Sleigh Ride”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/46 "2009-12-07T21:43:53Z")
Amusingly, the chins seem to think that “Santa Baby” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” are the same. Which is probably just as well… I’m not sure I really wanted to see two inverted chins doing an Eartha Kitt impression. They also don’t know Latin or German. Neither “Adeste Fideles” nor “O Taunnenbaum” works. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/47 "2009-12-07T23:15:06Z")
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#): > > Being Dutch I think anything to do with Christmas should never precede the 5th of December, which is when we celebrate the lovely feast of St. Nicholas, on the subject of which I can bore the pants off anyone wanting to know. There were presents in my shoes yesterday! That’s all I have to say. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/48 "2009-12-08T00:58:21Z")
All-year 'round. Love it. And yes, I fully realize that this almost completely annoys the SHIT out of some of you, and relish that realization. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/49 "2009-12-08T01:41:35Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > There were presents in my shoes yesterday! Keep your Christmas shoes to yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/50 "2009-12-08T05:54:09Z")
Those aren’t Christmas shoes; they’re Sinterclaus shoes. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/51 "2009-12-08T06:49:00Z")
I love Christmas music and can listen to it at any time of year. There’s one proviso though. I can’t stand Christmas songs sung by annoying people. I will turn the radio off if I ever hear Jessica Simpson singing a Christmas song. Same goes for Mariah Carey and most other current popular singers. Songs like Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer and such - those I can listen to at any time. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/52 "2009-12-08T10:46:42Z")
I have a play list for my itunes that alternates classical music [I have a liking for Mozart and Vivaldi with a bit of Greig] with medieval carols, and about 10% modern christmas carols, and about every 10th modern carol is a parody/novelty christmas tune. Makes it way more palatable that straight carols. You can only hear Silent Night a certain number of times before ones ears start to leak brain matter. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/53 "2009-12-08T20:02:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Those aren’t Christmas shoes; they’re Sinterclaus shoes. [Close enough.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PthNHQbxyWg) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929/54 "2009-12-08T20:15:12Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I can take it for six or eight weeks, provided that it’s good stuff. Unfortunately, most of the Christmas music out there isn’t good stuff. My threshold for, say, “Feliz Navidad” is as long as it takes me to change the channel. Sums up my feelings perfectly. I can hear “Lo How A Rose E’er Bloming” any time at all as often as possible. My tolerance for “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” was exceeded the first time I heard it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-christmas-music-threshold/519929.md?page=2)