Bah Humbug!

[Chris Gibbs]

I hate this time of year.

Call me Mr Scrooge, but I've never enjoyed yuletide.

I think it starts with selection boxes in the shops in September, and the knowledge that some numpty on the radio or TV is going to tell me how many "shopping days" there are to Christmas.

I hate dragging round the shops for a month buying stuff for people you only ever see at weddings and funerals. What do you get back? Socks or aftershave. What is this is telling you? That your feet/you, stink. Ho Ho bloody Ho.

Most of all I can't stand the enforced jollity, if I want to sit with a face like a wet weekend then I will. Just because it happens to be the 25th day of the last month of the year I'm not going to automatically be in a good mood, in fact it's very unlikely.

I want to take tinsel, dry chrismas pud with a shilling in it (To choke you), Slade, trees with needles that you're still picking up in July, The great escape, Noel Edmonds, dates, carol singers, your mad uncle Bill, cranberry sauce, office parties, misteltoe (and wine), people saying "Happy Christmas" (it's MERRY Christmas), snow, the January credit card bill, walnuts, crepe paper party hats, the fat man in the red suit and all his reindeer, the fairytale of New York, and everything else that blights this time of year, put them in a big box and bury them at sea.

Maybe it's just me.

cheers

Chris ;)

[Bonzo]

That is why I am locking myself in the workshop for the next three weeks. ;)

"Oh" The credit card statement. " I have no idea who used it to buy components" Honest!!:o
"Coil overs" Never heard of them, "Are they somthing to do with birth control", I ask ?? :D

Ronnie :)

[delboy]

"Coil overs" Never heard of them, "Are they somthing to do with birth control", I ask ??

Too true they are, if my wife finds out how much I spent on them we won't need any other form of birth control.:D :o

[falcor]

Two years ago we decided to stop buying gifts to each other in my family, of course the kids get some but we adaults have agreed not to and since then Christmas is much more enjoyable. No stress about finding a good gift for someone.... just meeting the family (we live quite far apart), enjoying the company and eating good food. :)

[Bonzo]

"Coil overs" Never heard of them, "Are they something to do with birth control", I ask ??

Too true they are, if my wife finds out how much I spent on them we won't need any other form of birth control.:D :o


That is sheer class. :D

Ronnie :)

[tendoshingan]

I keep asking my wife "what tools does she want for Christmas?" :)
If I cut out the swear words she doesn't say a word in reply.

Also, I have been asked by various members of family what she wants for Christmas, on a similar note, I keep replying that there is a particular pillar drill she's been after for a while and if they can't get that then I am sure she wouldn't mind a gas plasma cutter.:p

No one seems to have bought them yet though?????? :confused:

Apologies to any female builders out there!!!! :D

[2hyper]

Here in the states I get inundated with Christmas music at the beginning of November, which is just flat out obnoxious, I mean what happened to Thanksgiving? The advertising on TV gets on my nerves, frankly I can't stand the commercialism of the season. Of course I have fond memories of my childhood Christmases, my parents never getting any sleep, me sleeping barely, but mostly I remember being together and for a few days the rest of the world didn't matter. Isn't that what Christmas is supposed to be about?

What really gets me is the car ads pushing for you to buy a $40,000 or more car as a gift. I mean a car usually isn't a impulse buy is it, at least I hope not.

I am not a party person, I spend the holidays with family and a some close friends, thankfully where I work doesn't have an office Christmas party or the secret santa nonsense.

My thoughts on Christmas, no Christmas music until the 22nd, a limit on ads, that can only start the week of Thanksgiving for "Black Friday". A man only goes shopping the day after Thanksgiving if he likes the idea of being stampeded and/or subjected to hours of waiting in line and fighting his way through the stores. It has gotten to the point where some stores are opening at midnight and some people apparently are shopping at that hour of the night. Talk about insane, and people think us a bit touched for building our own cars.

[UncleFista]

My 6-year-old son still believes in Santa, to see his face Christmas morning after "Santa" has been is worth all the commercialism, all the shopping all the expense etc.

So b**** to all you Scrooge's, the good points outweigh the bad for me :)

Merry Christmas all !!!!

;)

[Chris Gibbs]

Thanks for your Input Tony - you're wrong!

I'm ignoring it.

end of.

cheers

Chris:D

[Bonzo]

Thanks for your Input Tony - you're wrong!

I'm ignoring it.

end of.

cheers

Chris:D



:D :D :D


Ronnie

Seasons greeting to you all

[Matthew]

I mean a car usually isn't a impulse buy is it, at least I hope not.



Well not more than once or twice.

I nearly bid on a non-running Lotus Europa on eBay today that only had 20minutes to go, and there is the small matter of the donor Sierra that's sitting on my drive...

:)

Matthew

[Bonzo]

Ohhh I missed that one. Do you recall how much it sold for?? :(

One of my favorite cars. Yes I know. :rolleyes:

Strange but, True:D

Ronnie