Think about the Children!

[AFK]

Okay, this Christmas has convinced me that a significant sector of our Society hates children.

We tout this holiday as one for the children.  Is it really?

I say, hell no!  It's about us.

It's about US getting the "right" gift.  The gift, so we feel good about OURselves.
We stack up the gifts to the ceiling.  It is encouraged.  If not you = bad parent.
Then, WE dress em up in the stiffest, most uncomfortable monkey suit we can possibly find, plop them on the lap of some strange old man with a smelly white beard, so we can get the PERFECT picture to mount above the mantle over their stockings.  Because, after all, it must be Picture Perfect. 

Here you have a day when Mommy and Daddy both have the day off (if their lucky) and get to be together as a family.  And yet, we royally fuck it up by putting huge amounts of stress on everyone involved.  Things have to be just so. 

It's all commercial bullshit and it gets reinforced year after year.  And if YOU don't want to be a part of it, another part of your family will want to hold true to "tradition."  And so you are torn between making the old people happy before they die or allowing the children to actually enjoy the rare day off with the whole family together. 

So, yes, I believe this Holy Daze Season is yet another example of how much certain parts of our Society could care less about chldren and see them solely as a tool for self-gratfication. 

I think next year we are just going to buy some Chinese food and turn off the fucking lights!

[LMNO]

WU TANG IS FOR THE CHILDREN!
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[Thurnez Isa]

So, yes, I believe this Holy Daze Season is yet another example of how much certain parts of our Society could care less about chldren and see them solely as a tool for self-gratfication. 

[AFK]

In case anyone hasn't figured it out, (because I'm trying so hard to mask it) I had a less than stellar Christmas with the family.  It was great having the time with my wife and daughter, but some people take this whole thing way too seriously.  I find it absolutely hilarious how some Christians complain about the commercialism of the Holiday, yet, they are right there with their face plastered to the doors of Wal-Mart at 5:00 A.M. just so they can get something the kid is going to throw in their closet and forget about within 10 minutes of opening it. 

[vexaph0d]

RWHN, i had the same thought this xmas.  it's ridiculous how everybody has to put on so much stress and worry so much about having the perfect christmas, that by the time it's over everyone is in a sour mood and hasn't had any fun at all the whole time.  we keep the kids out too late, we cook the 'whats in this year' food for the so-called "feast" (you know, the one where you're not allowed to eat til you're full because that's uncouth), we snap pictures of fake smiles and fake comaradarie while everyone is wishing they could have just stayed in bed.

that isnt christmas.

[LHX]

its epidemic Rev

it shouldnt be that way



but be careful tho - youre liable to have a n00b to come by and tell you to 'tough it up'



we are schizophrenic in these parts right now

boards cant decide whether we hate everybody or whether we are sad that the ones we love are difficult to deal with at times

[Jenne]

In case anyone hasn't figured it out, (because I'm trying so hard to mask it) I had a less than stellar Christmas with the family. It was great having the time with my wife and daughter, but some people take this whole thing way too seriously. I find it absolutely hilarious how some Christians complain about the commercialism of the Holiday, yet, they are right there with their face plastered to the doors of Wal-Mart at 5:00 A.M. just so they can get something the kid is going to throw in their closet and forget about within 10 minutes of opening it.

So it wasn't just me who had the "holly daze" ruined or at least tainted with a shmear of shit by relatives who just can't get over their fucking selves.

RWHN.  I'm thinking of just going on fucking vacation next year for the 24th and 25th.

[Jenne]

RWHN, i had the same thought this xmas. it's ridiculous how everybody has to put on so much stress and worry so much about having the perfect christmas, that by the time it's over everyone is in a sour mood and hasn't had any fun at all the whole time. we keep the kids out too late, we cook the 'whats in this year' food for the so-called "feast" (you know, the one where you're not allowed to eat til you're full because that's uncouth), we snap pictures of fake smiles and fake comaradarie while everyone is wishing they could have just stayed in bed.

that isnt christmas.

Troof!

And I don't want my kids to think it is, either.  We had Xmas with two sets of relatives this year--one with the Xtians at MY house, one with the beer-drinking, cussin', shit-talkin' heathens at my aunt's.

Guess which one was more like Xmas, and guess which one stank like the sewer?

[Jenne]

its epidemic Rev

it shouldnt be that way



but be careful tho - youre liable to have a n00b to come by and tell you to 'tough it up'



we are schizophrenic in these parts right now

boards cant decide whether we hate everybody or whether we are sad that the ones we love are difficult to deal with at times

Shit, I get told that by people IRL all the time--just recently, in fact.  I just mildly say STFU (it was my mom, after all, I try not to say STFU to HER of all people) and that we are all responsible for our own fucking behaviors.  I don't want to see adults getting away with behaviors I'd punish my sons for.  Putting up with it just means more of the same year after year.  Fuck that.

[AFK]

Seriously.  

Next year.

Chinese Food + Lights Out + Doors Locked = Merry Christmas

I'm not doing it anymore.  

[Jenne]

I said that elsewhere. 

[Suu]

Seriously. 

Next year.

Chinese Food + Lights Out + Doors Locked = Merry Christmas

I'm not doing it anymore. 

By the by...Chinese food on Christmas is a family tradition for us on Christmas Eve.  Fuck 7 Fishes, I say! Let's give the awesome Chinese people down the street our business, because they deserve it, and we make sure that they have a damn good time with us too!

They may not celebrate the holiday, and I may get pissed come February when they are closed for their New Year when I want Chinese, but for Christmas Eve, I make sure that the Chinese combo plate I get with my Scorpion Bowl is a feast all its own, and since we're the only table in the entire restaurant, that they are welcome to join us with the entire kitchen staff if they want and celebrate.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

WU TANG IS FOR THE CHILDREN!
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Beat me to it. 

[LMNO]

Hey, I gotta be me.

[PeregrineBF]

Some days I'm glad my family is Jewish.
Christians have a happy holiday with a strange old man who dresses funny, has no legal address, invites kids to sit on his lap, gives them candy, learns their desires, slides down their chimneys, sneaks into their houses at night, and has them unwrap his package. Jews have a holiday remembering the Maccabees going out and slaughtering romans.

I'll take slaughtering romans over a crazy type 2 diabetic any day. Bugger might keel over from the milk and cookies, and then where would I be? Have to haul his fat ass to a goddamn hospital, totally ruin the evening.