Taking the Christ out of Christmas

[Cooperman]

Tree and decs going up in my house this weekend. Can’t wait, it’s the best part of the year

Ours are up. One of the children is home from uni this weekend so my wife insisted on getting the decs up.

 

[Jack2jack]

That Tesco aren’t calling stuff ‘Christmas Trees’.

They have a range all marked Christmas Trees, and then within that, a variety of ‘Evergreen’, ‘Fir’, ‘Silver’, ‘decorated’ etc etc etc. there are dozens of them just inside the entrance of our Tesco, all with Christmas written all over them.

Rightio.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

What isnt true.

That “woke Tesco have renamed Christmas trees”. It’s not hard to find this stuff out.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

That “woke Tesco have renamed Christmas trees”. It’s not hard to find this stuff out.

They’ve ‘renamed Mince Pies’ as well.

Apparently they used to be called ‘Christmas Pies’. Quite where they were ever called that outside the fevered imaginations of the Mail and similar who knows. I’m in my late 50s and they’ve always been called Mince Pies everywhere I’ve ever been…

It’s like clockwork. We move from ‘x isn’t wearing a poppy’ straight into ‘they’ve taken Christmas away’. We’ll soon get moans about it being Sadiq Khan’s fault that the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree, gifted every year by the people of Norway and traditionally decorated in Norwegian style isn’t nice enough because he’s a Muslim taking the piss.

 

[PenlanJack]

They've always named Christmas trees.. why is Darran trying to get a reaction out of jack123 i don't know.. because he's the only one that goes against the grain on Planet Utopia.. it's like that Wesley Snipes film Demolition Man

 

[Jack2jack]

That “woke Tesco have renamed Christmas trees”. It’s not hard to find this stuff out.

Tidy

 

[Darran]

I’ve just got back from Spar and their Mince Pies are now called Fruity December Treats.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

I’ve just got back from Spar and their Mince Pies are now called Fruity December Treats.

That’s the first time you’ve actually made me laugh in months.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

I’ve just got back from Spar and their Mince Pies are now called Fruity December Treats.

That’s your excuse when ‘fruity December treat’ appears on your bank statement is it Darr?

 

[Darran]

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That’s your excuse when ‘fruity December treat’ appears on your bank statement is it Darr?

When my wife asks yes.

 

[Niigata Jack]

We’ve tended to do it the other way - leave the lights etc up for all of January for exactly the same reason. Makes it all a bit brighter. January is a long month!

Christmas is always special when there are young kids. The ‘kids’ in our family are late teens now so it’s different although my nephew still always sets a big quiz on Christmas evening for all of us which is great fun.

Im 65 in Jan and still love Christmas my boys are 32 and 29, but its still an occasion.

 

[Darran]

Im 65 in Jan and still love Christmas my boys are 32 and 29, but its still an occasion.

There’s nothing wrong with that Peter Pan.

 

[Niigata Jack]

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That’s your excuse when ‘fruity December treat’ appears on your bank statement is it Darr?

Can't beat a warm mince pie with a scoop of ice cream on the side, not as good as apple pie but still nice

 

[J_B]

I’ve just got back from Spar and their Mince Pies are now called Fruity December Treats.

It's illegal to sell fruity December treats in November.

 

[Neath_Jack]

It's illegal to sell fruity December treats in November.

Another consequence of brexit that