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Join Date: Jul 2003
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xmas
ive been away from the western world now for a year, and i am returning in 2 weeks back to toronto. It just occured to me that ill be coming back right in the height of xmas and it makes me want to puke.
after being away all the holidays for an entire year it made me realize just how trivial it is. Running around for the last few days before xmas looking for the perfect gift, reaching out and buying anything you can find. People pushing around shopping malls, traffic jams, shit music on the radio. I have no choice but to return on this date, but if i did i would make sure to come back well after the holiday season. sure its nice to spend time with your families but do you really need some lame ass holiday season to make up the excuse to do it? are we as a society really that lazy? boxing day sales, xmas eve presents, overpriced merchandise, millions of dollars on transportation going home for the holidays when you just had the last 364 days to do it without the excuse. gives me diarrea. the only thing that should be concentrated on this time of year in toronto is getting the homeless off the street during the coldest time of the year. having a perfectly cooked turkey and bad knitted sweaters somehow has bipassed priority. choke on it, saint nick. |
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IT IS NOT THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR It’s agonizing. Family gatherings are full of phony sentiment where you suppress the urge to slap mouthy relatives across the face (or at least perforate their abdomens with multiple stab wounds). the TV is full of sappy PG programming and your folks will mention how many people they know who have tumors of some kind. Then it’s time to open shiny gifts that some people think are badges of greatness simply because it lights up & has buttons.
since Christmas has started earlier this year, I will spend my time avoiding the mall, pissing on nativity scenes, accusing street-corner Santa’s of pedophilia & giving money to Salvation Army volunteers only if i can take away their fcking bell. |
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Houston
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I don't need an excuse to see my family. It's when I have time off.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Lollypop!
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: we are all made of stars
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I am going to go on a mini ski vacation for xmas! I am SO out of here!
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Join Date: Sep 2002
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i love the holidays.........does that make me a bad person??
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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JT.. you get funnier and funnier by the day..
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: just ducky
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mmmmmmmmmmm..... pfefferneusen.....
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Blue's Clues
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: on Yur Last Nerve, huh?
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We here at Scheitztreun Acres, on Green Boulevard, celebrate tha festivities of the holidays by initially pulling half the amps to the house with our absolutely disgusting display of lights, usually assisted by a rented cherry picker. We clean until we are exhaused, and revel in the fact that major holidays is the only reason there are no junked cars or trailers outside. Everybody within shouting distance comes over, and we put up a tree that reminds us of when we were little kids. Its a day that we still are little kids and now we get to be little kids with the Bink, who really is a liitle kid, cept that he can swear just like us and knows big words. ( he knows not to use them at school) We open presents christmas morning and laugh like hell that the Bink loves clothes too. He howls with delight at just about anything he gets. We usually aren't so lucky with mom, but any bit of thoughtfulness and insight and discrimination used in a purchase is usually rewarded with smiles.
To me, that is what it is, nothing more and nothing less. We live in a world barraged with commercialism, bad music, crap and crime. You gotta take this kind of thing back a notch or 18, and let someone do something thoughtful for you, do something like that for some other person, and just be nice to somebody for no good damn reason. You're overdosed in input. If the grace has gone from your life, and we run around looking for it in ugly places, where the hell do you think you're going to find it??? I don't personally see any grace in organized religion. I don't see grace in family gatherings where condescending and snippy people get together in a room. Pick your friends, you can't pick your family. There is so little class in the world, but it does exist. Find it, it's out there. Life's too short to be disgusted for so long. If you're older than 21, and nobody's said anything, I will. You're all grown up and can choose your life. Now you can choose your surroundings and feelings about just about anything. You can tell your family that you'd rather do something else, you can run a different show, you can just conveniently not be there. Whats goanna happen, they goanna die? No. You goanna die? no. It's just another holiday season and they'll get over it. Be with people you like that deserve the positive side of you. Negativity is like a disease. Sarcasm is its best friend. It's catching and totally farks up the good juju. If the inheritance depends on your compliance with family events, then i really feel sorry for you, it does happen. But I think that most of the people on this board have enough brains to make sure they can be independent. If you felt this disgusted about your work, I don't think you'd be doin this very long, and this is your life, its more important. |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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i swear i read this on the back of my fruitloops box last week
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there's so many reasons why i should say i'm sorry
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: dithyramb
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LAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY HEART
THE VERY NEXT DAY YOU GAVE IT AWAY |
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Blue's Clues
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: on Yur Last Nerve, huh?
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: dithyramb
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THIS YEAR TO SAVE ME FROM TEARS
I"LL GIVE IT TO SOMEONE SPECIAL |
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