1st Christmas thread of the year! woop woop!

[tanman]

MERRY ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!
now does everyone want for Christmas?

[pianochick93]

Merry Christmas everyone, and best of luck for the new year.

For Christmas I'm getting a trip to Melbourne for the archery championships, but apart from that I wouldn't mind books. Lots of books.

[morningstar]

Merry Christmas everyone, and best of luck for the new year.

For Christmas I'm getting a trip to Melbourne for the archery championships, but apart from that I wouldn't mind books. Lots of books.

Ja, Joyeux Noel! Just to annoy G.W.K...
Mad. I'm just staying home...
Anything in particular? If I get another job I'll send you the whole bloody series!

[pianochick93]

Ja, Joyeux Noel! Just to annoy G.W.K...
Mad. I'm just staying home...
Anything in particular? If I get another job I'll send you the whole bloody series!

Lol, I read anything and everything...at work I cut my break off early because I ran out of things to read in the staff room.

[pianowolfi]

Merry Christmas everybody

[furtwaengler]

I have this feeling the world's gonna shut down for a day, and happiness will abound, and then it will pick up again like a machine...but we'll new toys to think about while the machine gets cranking.

p.s. Woop woop!

[morningstar]

Lol, I read anything and everything...at work I cut my break off early because I ran out of things to read in the staff room.

I mean normally, like at home. I know you like fantasy books...anything in particular?

[pianochick93]

I mean normally, like at home. I know you like fantasy books...anything in particular?

Not really, as I said, everything.

[thalbergmad]

Christmas arrived today for me, when postie arrived with my concertos.

I actually detest Christmas and try to avoid it at all costs. Having worked for a Bank for 20 years, you get to see the aftermath and have to do your best to help people. The amount of people who get themselves into unpayable debt is absurd and the stress and suffering it causes in this repsect has put me off Christmas for life.

My workmates think i am a miserable git (which could be true ), since i will not even open Christmas cards and refuse to have my name included on the company card.

I feel that over the years Christmas has lost its original meaning and is just an excuse for excess that cannot always be afforded.

To hell with it.

Thal

PS Happy Christmas

[G.W.K]

Christmas arrived today for me, when postie arrived with my concertos.

I actually detest Christmas and try to avoid it at all costs. Having worked for a Bank for 20 years, you get to see the aftermath and have to do your best to help people. The amount of people who get themselves into unpayable debt is absurd and the stress and suffering it causes in this repsect has put me off Christmas for life.

My workmates think i am a miserable git (which could be true ), since i will not even open Christmas cards and refuse to have my name included on the company card.

I feel that over the years Christmas has lost its original meaning and is just an excuse for excess that cannot always be afforded.

To hell with it.

Thal

PS Happy Christmas

Always a little ray of sunshine.

I have to go to my grandparents house up in Glasgow for "Christmas Dinner".

G.W.K

[pianochick93]

I'm visiting my relatives in Port Pirie. There will be about 50 of them, and at least 10 will be frowning upon me for not wearing a skirt or dress, and if I do wear a skirt or dress, having it too short and without petticoats.
The food is good though, and after dinner I plan to hide in the loungeroom and watch the ballroom dancing on tv.

Oh, and over here, as of 9 minutes ago, it is Christmas!

Have a great day all!

[morningstar]

I am going to church, followed by an awkward present-opening with my family followed by an awkward lunch with my family.

[tanman]

it's officially Christmas here! woop woop!
I know who's gonna get coal on their stocking!
*turns and looks at gwk and lucy

[shortyshort]

I will be at my sister-in-law's house tomorrow for lunch and drinks, and will be returning home on Boxing Day.

When I lived at home, we used to go up to the the local church on Christmas Eve.
But now I go to the Pub instead.

[arensky]

Christmas arrived today for me, when postie arrived with my concertos.

I actually detest Christmas and try to avoid it at all costs. Having worked for a Bank for 20 years, you get to see the aftermath and have to do your best to help people. The amount of people who get themselves into unpayable debt is absurd and the stress and suffering it causes in this repsect has put me off Christmas for life.

My workmates think i am a miserable git (which could be true ), since i will not even open Christmas cards and refuse to have my name included on the company card.

I feel that over the years Christmas has lost its original meaning and is just an excuse for excess that cannot always be afforded.

To hell with it.

Thal

PS Happy Christmas

I can relate to a lot of what you say. For many people who are alone or in hopeless situations this is an awful time, all the messages of joy and happiness must cut them like a knife. And the commercialization and materialism are quite sickening. But that's why we need to focus on the real meaning of the holiday; the friendship and giving.

Merry Christmas everyone, and to you too Thal  

[arensky]

Merry Christmas everybody

 

[concerto_love]

Ah, merry x'mas everybody!! ^_^

Selamat Hari Natal!! XD

[G.W.K]

No you'd just give haggis now.

Yet again, another stereotypical approach to the Scottish. It's like assuming all Australians talk like Rolf Harris and constantly eat crocodile and kangeroo and have panic attacks over the possibility of sharks attacking you on the beach. Or that your national animal is "Skippy the Bush Kangeroo".

Unlikely to get anything from a scotsman.

I knew one once that took his hair home from the barbers so he could stuff his pillows.

Thal

Just because you have met some weird people (which you get everywhere) doesn't mean everyone in that entire country is the same. I wouldn't assume all English are stuck-up, ignorant b******s...just the majority of them.

G.W.K

[thalbergmad]

Ho Ho Ho, very witty

Back to me tatties.

[G.W.K]

Ho Ho Ho, very witty

Back to me tatties.

 

G.W.K

[thalbergmad]

Dinna be marrdd, uts Chrismuss

[G.W.K]

Dinna be marrdd, uts Chrismuss

Oi, ye wee bairn...hauld yer wheest! I'm no "marrdd" the day, I'm right braw and bonney!

G.W.K

[thalbergmad]

Och na tweischt, tis yusself tobesure.

Thuts me

[G.W.K]

Och na tweischt, tis yusself tobesure.

Thuts me

You even lost me there...lol

It's amazing how different it all sounds when you change it back into proper English. Even worst when you use Shakespearian English.

G.W.K

[pianochick93]

I got a camera for Christmas! Yay!

[morningstar]

I got a gym 10-visit pass. Must be some kind of hint...

[concerto_love]

Got PSP and cellphone... XD

[G.W.K]

I got a gym 10-visit pass. Must be some kind of hint...

If somebody gave me that, I'd hit them with it and tell them where they can stick it. Mind you...I wouldn't need it. Perhaps it is a hint...

Got PSP and cellphone... XD

"cellphone"? That's just another (usually American) way of saying "a mobile" isn't it?

G.W.K

[morningstar]

If somebody gave me that, I'd hit them with it and tell them where they can stick it. Mind you...I wouldn't need it. Perhaps it is a hint...

Well I don't think I need it but apparently Mum thinks otherwise...

"cellphone"? That's just another (usually American) way of saying "a mobile" isn't it?

G.W.K

Yes.

[G.W.K]

Well I don't think I need it but apparently Mum thinks otherwise...Yes.

I've seen a picture of you. And if you really want into the army, you'll need it (using your own words there)!

G.W.K