The Humbug Thread [Archive]

GoreBag

12-06-2006, 04:26

I can't be the only one in the Backroom who doesn't give a rat's rectum about the 'holy-days'. How about a show of solidarity for no good reason?

Red Peasant

12-06-2006, 04:27

Nothing wrong with a good holiday, I like a day off occasionally! :2thumbsup:

Csargo

12-06-2006, 04:28

Why do you hate Santa?

discovery1

12-06-2006, 05:06

YOu know, if you didn't mention it I probably would have let the holidays creep uo on me and surprise me the day off.

Lemur

12-06-2006, 05:14

This is clearly part of the War on Christmas, a covert operation funded by the Hillary Clinton, Scrooge and the Grinch!

GoreBag

12-06-2006, 05:32

, a covert operation funded by the Hillary Clinton,

I've always wanted a 'the' in my name.

Gregoshi

12-06-2006, 05:55

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go.
Take a look in a Backroom thread
Where Scrooges express their dread
"Bah Humbug!" to the Christmas lights and snow.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Joy abounds much more
But the queasiest sight I'll see
Is the happiness it brings
To the old dot Org.

I don't give a hoot
If I'm given the boot
'Cuz I swore in a post again.
Mods that won't balk
And say "go take a walk!"
When we engage in ad hominem.
Anything to make us forget
It's Christmas time again.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go.
Green Peace is in the Grand Hotel
To protest the tree there felled
A killing rite for Christmas lights to show.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon all hell will start.
People singing their Christmas songs
Make this time of year all wrong
In my old cold heart.

~D Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you Humbuggers out there. :santa:

Spetulhu

12-06-2006, 06:22

I like the holidays. Especially the part about extra pay for working on them. :beam:

BigTex

12-06-2006, 06:37

Why do you hate Mithra?

Strike For The South

12-06-2006, 06:43

Mithra is that a breakfast ceralel?

Crazed Rabbit

12-06-2006, 06:54

I can't be the only one in the Backroom who doesn't give a rat's rectum about the 'holy-days'. How about a show of solidarity for no good reason?

Oh, ya big ole scrooge, I'm sure you'll come around:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/rnrdist_1924_28162093

Crazed Rabbit

spmetla

12-06-2006, 07:59

I like the holidays, I just hate the constant bombardment of christmas music everywhere I go and the long lines at all stores when I just want to get something for a practical purpose.

I think Gorebag is just sore that the Backroom will probably be closed like it is everyyear for the holidays. Speaking of which I haven't seen the snow layout yet.

GoreBag

12-06-2006, 08:11

Not really, Spmguy.

In other Humbug news, I'll be breaking a rule of my own making and drinking English beer this season.

https://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6330/pumpclip2006festivespirxw6.gif

Festive Spirits - 4.8% ABV
Wychwood’s Anti-Christmas Brew, featuring Scrooge, for those who Don’t do Christmas!
Available: December 2006
Malt: Crystal, Black
Hops: Fuggles, Goldings

Rich roast malts and dark brown sugars are blended to provide full well-rounded flavour, reminiscent of dried fruits and Christmas cake. The balance of sweet and bitterness satisfies the palate with a huge array of flavours.

To Christmas, we say Bah Humbug!

Aenlic

12-06-2006, 08:17

Bah, humbug!

Maine bans boozy Santa beer label (http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/02/santa.beer.ap/index.html)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/LAW/12/02/santa.beer.ap/story.beerlabel.ap.jpg

Tribesman

12-06-2006, 08:36

Festive Spirits - 4.8% ABV
Wychwood’s Anti-Christmas Brew, featuring Scrooge, for those who Don’t do Christmas!
Available: December 2006
Malt: Crystal, Black
Hops: Fuggles, Goldings

Rich roast malts and dark brown sugars are blended to provide full well-rounded flavour, reminiscent of dried fruits and Christmas cake. The balance of sweet and bitterness satisfies the palate with a huge array of flavours.

To Christmas, we say Bah Humbug!
Hey hey , last years mid-winter brew from that brewery was called "bah humbug".
The old fella brought a crate of it with him for me last year when he came home for Christmas .
I wonder if I will get this one this year (along with the usual selection of British ales) . I certainly need plenty of alcohol to put up with him and his crazy dogs for 5 weeks .

Anyway , bugger Christmas . I told the kids last week that I had shot Santa and Rudolph is for dinner .:2thumbsup:

Hepcat

12-06-2006, 08:59

Anyway , bugger Christmas . I told the kids last week that I had shot Santa and Rudolph is for dinner .:2thumbsup:
:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

I don't know why I find this so funny.

Crazed Rabbit

12-06-2006, 09:02

I told the kids last week that I had shot Santa and Rudolph is for dinner .:2thumbsup:

You told your own kids, or just some random kids on the street?

Or both?

CR

Ser Clegane

12-06-2006, 09:19

I had shot Santa

I guess I'll know who to blame if I do not get any presents this year :stare:

macsen rufus

12-06-2006, 13:48

Shouldn't that be:

:gah: humbug

:clown:

Merry Excess-mess one and all :2thumbsup:

BDC

12-06-2006, 14:03

I prefer to think of Christmas as a celebration of midwinter.

There's no difference really. Even nativity scenes are allowed, birth of a new year etc.

More mead possibly.

Banquo's Ghost

12-06-2006, 14:32

More mead possibly.

Only possibly? Scrooge. :tongue:

~:cheers:

Vladimir

12-06-2006, 16:11

I can't be the only one in the Backroom who doesn't give a rat's rectum about the 'holy-days'. How about a show of solidarity for no good reason?

Hello, McFly :smash: :frog: ? Holiday = Party :balloon2: :balloon: :balloon3:

drone

12-06-2006, 17:13

Christmas sucks. My office is near a shopping mall, traffic is a nightmare, this time of year just plain blows.

Gah humbug!

Rameusb5

12-06-2006, 19:07

Christmas is simply yet another example of how Western Culture misses the point.

I'm not even religious and the amount of marketing/shopping/complaining that goes on this time of year drives me crazy.

I have only one rule for buying christmas gifts. If you don't believe in Santa, you get NOTHING from me.

Vladimir

12-06-2006, 19:22

Justiciar

12-06-2006, 20:05

Lemur

12-06-2006, 21:03

Here's a real humbug moment (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1205062xmas1.html):

Boy Arrested For Opening Xmas Gift Early

Mother has kid, 12, nabbed after Nintendo Game Boy is unwrapped

DECEMBER 5--A South Carolina boy, 12, was arrested Sunday morning after his mother called police to report that he had unwrapped a Christmas present without her permission. According to a Rock Hill Police Department report (a copy of which you'll find below), the child opened a Nintendo Game Boy, though he had been directed not to by family members. When the boy's mother learned that the $85 gift had been opened, she called cops, who charged the juvenile with petty larceny. In an interview with The Herald newspaper, the boy's mother, a 27-year-old single parent, described her son as a disruptive child, noting that she hoped his arrest would serve as a corrective to disorderly behavior at school and home.

doc_bean

12-06-2006, 21:09

If there is one thing religions got right, it's holidays.

Hooray for Holidays ! :medievalcheers:

Blodrast

12-06-2006, 23:46

I've inherrited my dad's utter contempt for Christmas. Presents are all well and good, but all the tat that comes with them is just silly. It should be a low-key, minimalist event for Christians to thank the lord, and for the rest of us to just shut up and carry on as normal. :yes:

It's not everywhere that Christmas is commercialized like it is in the West.
There are still parts of the world where the joy comes not from, or because, of the gifts (we're excluding kids here :) ), but because of the birth of Christ. And, believe it or not, people are happy and joyful because of that. Even if the commercialization is there, it can be ignored.
Don't mistake the true meaning of the holiday with what's being pushed by corporations whose only purpose is, naturally, to make money out of every possible opportunity.

In that spirit, I believe this is the perfect thread to wish you a Merry Christmas, GoreBag! :san_cheesy:

GoreBag

12-07-2006, 01:05

In that spirit, I hate you.

Blodrast

12-07-2006, 02:20

In that spirit, I hate you.

In the same spirit, I forgive you.
Hah! :laugh4:

Csargo

12-07-2006, 02:25

I hate hate haters.

BigTex

12-07-2006, 10:20

I hate hate haters.

Wouldn't that also mean you hate yourself?:inquisitive: Self hatred is a horrible thing Csar.:skull:

Hepcat

12-07-2006, 11:28

I think he meant that he hates people who hate people who hate stuff. :inquisitive:
If that makes any more sense. So since he hates something he therefore hates the people who hate him for hating something.

But anyway, as for me. I only hate Christmas when my little brother keeps setting off all of the robot santas and snow men who keep playing their annoying songs and then when they are done he starts them again. Otherwise I don't mind Christmas.

naut

12-07-2006, 11:39

Who can hate 8 weeks off.

Goofball

12-07-2006, 22:17

Sung to the tune of "Winter Wonderland" (this is for all you Brits, whose national sense of humor seems to rate crossdressing as the pinacle of chuckles):

Lacy things, the wife is missin'
Didn't ask, her permission
I'm wearin' her clothes
Her silk pantyhose
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

In the store, there's a teddy
Little straps, like spaghetti
It holds me so tight
Like handcuffs at night
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

In the office there's a guy named Melvin,
He pretends that I am Murphy Brown
He'll say, "Are you ready?" I'll say, "Whoa Man!"
"Let's wait until our wives are out of town!"

Later on, if you wanna
We can dress, like Madonna
Put on some eyeshade
And join the parade
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

Lacy things- the wife is missin'
Didn't ask- her permission
Wearin' her clothes
Her silk pantyhose
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

~:santa:

MSB

12-15-2006, 08:31

Humbug, who said Humbug. Are you all giving out mint sweets for Christmas :san_laugh:

Sorry, awful joke :san_sad:

Samurai Waki

12-15-2006, 08:49

...I'm really not loving Christmas this year.

I mean honestly. My Fiancee is pissed off because we were supposed to go Christmas shopping this weekend. But I have to do my fafsa forms now, or else I'll never get it done. She doesn't understand.

I hate Christmas so much. :furious3:

I'm converting to Buddhism. I've had it with Christianity and it's sickening Materialistic Holidays.

/End Rant.

Ironside

12-15-2006, 19:22

I'm converting to Buddhism. I've had it with Christianity and it's sickening Materialistic Holidays.

/End Rant.

You know I got a nice laughing Buddha here, it's yours for only $4,99. And a statue of Gautama Buddha for noly $5,99, a real bargain. And if you buy both (yours for only $9,99), I'll even throw in a copy of "The Noble Eightfold Path - Your own way into Nirvana". :deal2:

John86

12-20-2006, 02:53

If I said "To Hanukkah, Humbug!" Im guessing I'd get banned. Silly Liberals, Trixs are for Kids.

Reverend Joe

12-20-2006, 04:16

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or suprise, the end
I'll never look into your
Eyes again.

Can you picture what will be,
So limitless and free,
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand,
In a desperate land?

Lost in a Roman wilderness of Pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane,
Waiting for a white Christmas, yeah.

There's danger on the edge of town.
Ride the King's highway, baby.
Wierd scenes at the North Pole...
Ride the highway west, baby.

Ride the snake
Ride the snake
To the lake
The ancient lake
The snake, he is long;
Seven miles
Ride the snake
He is old
And his skin is cold.

The red sleigh is calling us...
The red sleigh is calling us...
Santa, where you taking us?

[Morrison's meaningless ramblings here]

Come on, baby, take a chance with us.

Come on, baby, take a chance with us.

Come on, baby, take a chance with us,
And meet me at the back of the
Red sleigh, doing a
Red rock , on the
Red sleigh, doing a
Red rock- COME ON, YEAH!

KILL
KILL
KILL
KILL
KILL
KILL
KILL
KILL

This is the end, beautiful friend.
This is the end, my only friend, the end.
It hurts to set you free,
But you'll never follow me.
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end

I'm going to make a horrible father.

Big King Sanctaphrax

12-20-2006, 04:36

I'll be breaking a rule of my own making and drinking English beer this season.

This is a bloody stupid rule, if you don't mind me saying.

What's wrong with materialism anyway? Expensive things are good and make you happy, in my experience.

Vladimir

12-20-2006, 20:40

MSB

12-20-2006, 20:42

You people really all are grumpy arn't you :san_angry: