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It's October - I don't think it's too early to start a christmas thread

Thanksgiving!

And class points for you!

LOVE that movie. I was an Au Pair in Chicago in the Suburbs where Steve Martin's home was (from the movie) for a bit in the early 90's. Lots of the John Hughes movies were filmed in the same area.

John Candy ...

JOHN CANDY - MESS AROUND from Planes, Trains ...
 
badandwicked said:
lolol sorry Kok! :D Of course I remember the pizzas, stupid me. Why is it the people who can actually cook never post in the food thread? Next time you create, post a pic :)
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I will, I took loads of pictures of pizzas back in the day (July?) I have been thinking about doing some DIY Indian stuff soon, though, as I spotted a couple of decent recipe books in the recent "Big Book Binning". So expect some pakora porn or lentil lewdness soon enough!

Marmalade said:
And class points for you!
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what's "class points"? I tried a marxist analysis without result.
LOVE that movie. I was an Au Pair in Chicago in the Suburbs where Steve Martin's home was (from the movie) for a bit in the early 90's. Lots of the John Hughes movies were filmed in the same area.

John Candy ...

JOHN CANDY - MESS AROUND from Planes, Trains ...
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You were an au pair? Is the stereotype true? I thought half the fun was the language "difficulties"! :D

My brother and his wife have a constant flow of European (german, swiss and italian mostly) ladies visiting as his wife's sister runs an English for Foreigners school and they put up the guests. They vary in age from 16-50, but they're usually on the younger side.

He has MS and is, by and large, stuck in a wheelchair. I wonder if his wife is playing a cruel joke.
 
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I knew back in October last year that I would be working christmas day, so that was out of the question anyway last year, also, not sure why people think that they need an excuse to have a family meal, seems silly, family meals can be any day of the whole year, why wait until christmas for it??
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Don't need an excuse but it's not often you'll find a time when everyone in your extended family is off work, not busy and can come round for dinner and get pissed all day. Christmas is a good as an excuse as any. I don't see the point in being all scrooge and bah humbug about it, just enjoy it for what it is even if you don't like the meaning behind it.
 
TheSpade said:
I don't see the point in being all scrooge and bah humbug about it, just enjoy it for what it is even if you don't like the meaning behind it.
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But everyone's at different phases in life, with different shit going on aren't they?

I've had many years when I've hated & dreaded it, and I may again in the future depending on what life's got in store for me.

This could happen to you too Spade, believe it or not :) and probability dictates it will, I'm not wishing bad times on you but they happen to us all. S'life innit.
 
The only things I actively dislike about Christmas are cards and presents. Everything else I want in quantity, but fuck those bits of paper and things I don't want / hours spent buying things other people don't want.
 
Christmas cards are one of the biggest scams going.

I can't be fucked with christmas day, hate trying to sit about & listen to my family's shit chat without getting too drunk & then offending people (happens every year - been told "it's time for you to go to the pub now" on more than one occasion), although the weeks surrounding it are always good. The majority of folk are off work, or at least don't give two fucks about going in with a stinking hangover, it's perfectly acceptable to get blazing drunk on a Tuesday etc. Two weeks or so of solid partying. New Year is where it's at though. Always a belter of a 3 day party. Then a 12 month comedown.
 
how do i edit a thread heading? i want to change the name to winterville. i will make a christmas cake next thursday. by next thursday i will have made my christmas plan and be following it rigidly. i do love it.. need to get all the pretty things and presents. just love coloured lights and sparkly things
 
Sooo jealous of all you Brits right now because of the country you're in. You guys are the damn kings of this fine tradition! Wanna go to Cotswalds and snuggle up by the fire, and hope that they'll be broadcasting M.R. James ghost stories off the telly so I don't have to watch it in shitty quality on youtube haha. But nah, no money to go to UK this year it seems like, tho I've always wanted to go in the Xmas December,
 
well i'm afraid it's not like that in the inner city of birmingham...here we call it winterville... i always thought the scandanavians have it all with christmas, the reindeer, the snow, father christmas, the real trees...we have the germans over for christmas at the market.
 
pinkpapaver said:
well i'm afraid it's not like that in the inner city of birmingham...here we call it winterville... i always thought the scandanavians have it all with christmas, the reindeer, the snow, father christmas, the real trees...we have the germans over for christmas at the market.
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Surely Birmingham has its ups too? Back when I was a kid at international school, my teacher was from there...I recall him saying that as a kid growing up in Birmingham, there wasn't much to do other than to roam around old abandoned factories and throw stones at windows, shattering as many as possible. But the guy was like 50 so I'm sure it's changed since then ;-) So I know that, and the fact that Black Sabbath is from there also. I still don't get why you get the Germans tho?

Nah, that's Sweden you're thinking of. Denmark is called PanCake country because it's flat as well, a pancake and we lack all the other Scandinavian essentials such as reindeer etc. But speaking of Germans, I hear they love to visit Sweden as tourists, and when they do they actually steal the roadsigns warning of elks crossing the road as some kind of souvenir.

Christ man, only 7 weeks? That's nothing. Amazing how time flies when you spend most of your days sedated in a Youtube stupor...
 
pinkpapaver said:
well i'm afraid it's not like that in the inner city of birmingham...here we call it winterville... i always thought the scandanavians have it all with christmas, the reindeer, the snow, father christmas, the real trees...we have the germans over for christmas at the market.
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What is the script with that? One rocks up in Glasgow every year as well. Why does a German market turn up around Christmas time? It's not like it sells particularly Christmasy things, just sausages & shit.
 
They are everywhere. Edinburgh. Dundee. Glasgow and probably every other city in the UK. They usually have an outdoor heated beer garden selling nice beers and mulled wine which is good.
 
I fucking love German markets, was working in York a few Christmases back and would always stop in on me way home for some mulled wine or unpronounceable sausage or whatever. Really hope Hull has one cos I'm only looking to be home for the few days before and after Christmas before I'm back here.

Also very happy that Lidl has it's Christmas stuff in, spiced chocolate almonds and Stollen, get in. Our tree is already in the house but has so far been located in the kitchen, in my mate's room, at the top of the stairs and is currently residing in the hall way next to the bathroom. And I have tinsel on my radiator :3
 
We always have a german market in manchester, went for a bit last year. So its basically just a market but you have to stand outside in the cold drinking beer and buying the odd sausage? It was alright for a bit of a pre drink before heading out, nice big glasses

The big curly sausage is WURST or something isnt it?
 
Sorry PinkP but think its way too early for xmas thread.
I hate Xmas at the best of times, all false happiness, families getting together for the first time since last xmas and pretending that they all love each other when really the couldn't give a shit.
Especially dreading it this year now I'm jobless. Last year I could afford to buy my son a laptop and other goodies.Fuck knows how I am gonna be able to get him anything this year.
Xmas for sure is my worst time of the year.
 
mattnotrik said:
We always have a german market in manchester, went for a bit last year. So its basically just a market but you have to stand outside in the cold drinking beer and buying the odd sausage? It was alright for a bit of a pre drink before heading out, nice big glasses

The big curly sausage is WURST or something isnt it?
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Aye. Edinburgh has a German Market sometimes. Bratwursts are fucking amazing! Cheap as chips too. £3
 
I thought it was Winterval, not Winterville?

Anyway pink, think yourself lucky, I lived in Coventry till i was 18 :( , used to love going to glitzy Brum <3
 
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