The Humbug Thread

[GoreBag]

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]

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

[Csargo]

Why do you hate Santa?

[discovery1]

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]

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

[GoreBag]

, a covert operation funded by the Hillary Clinton,

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

[Gregoshi]

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.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you Humbuggers out there.

[Spetulhu]

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

[BigTex]

Why do you hate Mithra?

[Strike For The South]

Mithra is that a breakfast ceralel?

[Crazed Rabbit]

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:


Crazed Rabbit

[spmetla]

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]

Not really, Spmguy.

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

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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]

Bah, humbug!

Maine bans boozy Santa beer label

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Tribesman]

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 .

[Hepcat]

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

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

[Crazed Rabbit]

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

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

Or both?

CR

[Ser Clegane]

I had shot Santa

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

[macsen rufus]

Shouldn't that be:

humbug



Merry Excess-mess one and all

[BDC]

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]

More mead possibly.

Only possibly? Scrooge.

[Vladimir]

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 ? Holiday = Party

[drone]

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

Gah humbug!

[Rameusb5]

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]

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.

Rameusb5 = Western Culture

Do you think the gift giving tradition started with Santa?

[Justiciar]

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.

[Lemur]

Here's a real humbug moment:

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]

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

Hooray for Holidays !

[Blodrast]

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.

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!

[GoreBag]

In that spirit, I hate you.