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Feel sorry for my attitude, be angry with me or feel like I'm an idiot....you may certainly disagree with me...but this article illustrates perfectly to me what I truly believe Christmas now means to the majority of Americans...that's why I hate Christmas. Believe me, I'm not happy about it.

http://www.local6.com/news/2670095/detail.html

I was at the mall yesterday buying taking my son to get a birthday present and I saw a huge tangle of determined, rude, unhappy people jockeying for position and full of murder in their eyes for a parking space spending money with no sense of giving or loving spirit, only a sense of reluctant obligation.

I had two occasions to hold a door open for someone and smile at them, and my actions were genuinely shocking to them. (Not like I'm a saint, I just have it ingrained in me to behave that way in public by a heavy handed grandmother who was a presbyterian ministers daughter.)

It's ebay for everything else this year I can tell you.

Christmas sucks. It didn't used to.

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Have you noticed that even the drivers appear to be more frantic on the road. Everybody is in a rush.

A number of years ago, I was out driving right after Thanksgiving. A man was attempting to cross a busy street. He was laden with bags and boxes. Someone made a turn, and drove right into him, boxes and bags flying all over the place!

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I have been emailing all my friends and suggesting in a joking sort of way that they should shop at either me or squinney's ebay stores this year....it could save lives. Laughing

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I hear ya Bear. It's been ebay for me for the past few years. Very mean people in the malls at this time of year. No thanks. I also remember Christmas being such a happy time, but that was a looonnngggg time ago.

Phoenix
I am also afraid to drive these days. Rush, rush, rush.......

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Well, when the routine approach kills the essence of the festival. Being obsessed with shopping some people forget the reason of establishing the holiday: the birth of the Savior...

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Bear
If I knew who you guys were I'd check out your stuff.

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*World, not Welt. Why do my typos always seem Teutonic in nature.

Me, I go to France, take a train to a random town, and buy all my presents there. Presents, although they be a nice expression, are overrated.

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It's always about a rush, isn't it... a rush to buy other's attention for a day.

I don't care too much for the commercial side of Christmas; that is why, besides requests for dissertations, occasional loneliness and random idiots, I have a less-stressed Christmas.

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I don't think you'd be interested in my specialty merchandise Montana, but I'd be happy to pm you squinney's ebay site, except I wouldn't want to violate any TOS rules here about doing business.

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Yeah, PM me her site. I don't think that's against the rules.

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drom in addition to the obvious shopping frenzy, I think we have brought this world to a state in general that to celebrate the birth of Christ is just an insult to him and in fact Christ has nothing to do with Christmas. And that's whether you believe in Him or not.

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I agree. Seems that the true meaning is lost.

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I just realized that after I posted that my ebay store was a specialty site it sounded like i was running a porn store or something. I'm not, so no hate mail please. Laughing

I deal in pro music and dj gear.

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YES! You're right Bear. You know, in Birmingham, from where I am luckilly going to leave next year, Political Correctness has gone so far, one cannot use the word 'Christmas' in any Council celebration affiliated with the festive season, supposedly because it would 'offend' the Muslim minority. They call it 'Winterval.' I wrote in, challenging the council as to why one could not call Winterval Christmas, but /can/ call Santa Claus, Santa Claus. Shouldn't he be called PC Annual Gift Man? No, they replied in patronisingly nice tone saying that this would take away the magic of Christmas. Wouldn't taking away the affiliation with Christ take away the magic of Christmas, I asked them on the phone. They said, 'Go **** yourself with a lemon, you manbitch'- even though they don't know me- and slammed the phone down. The Spirit of Christmas lives on!

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Whoops, the rude PC brigade says that that should be 'Winterval.'

'Deck the halls with politically correct faunæ' just doesn't sound right to me.

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steissd- Long time, no see. Hope that all is well!

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I dj Chrismas parties all the time and even in the South, the last bastion of Christianity, we can no longer call them Christmas parties in most places and I have to carefully pick my holiday music. Grandma Got Run Over By A reindeer yes, The First Noel no, unless of course an R&B singer with big tits is tarting a religious song up...then it's okay. Rolling Eyes

One place last year called it a "Kick Off" party...like kicking off a new year... I had a great time telling everyone to help themselves to punch and kick off cookies....my wit was lost on most....or maybe it just wasn't funny? Very Happy

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As previously posted elsewhere, I have mild misgivings about expending sympathy for someone so sophisticated that she feels it is important to line up AT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING -- three hours before the store opens -- to purchase a DVD player.

Those misgivings are trumped, however, by the care and concern expressed for Ms. Van Lester's calamity by her fellow lemmings at the Wal-Mart in Orange City.

Should she expire, I nominate her for a Darwin award.

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No one can say that PDiddie isn't full of the Christmas spirit.... Laughing

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