The Scrooge Poll! What Do You Hate Most About Christmas(TM)?

[Plaid Adder]

Poll question: The Scrooge Poll! What Do You Hate Most About Christmas(TM)?

I'm not talking about the religious holiday, I'm talking about the beast that American commercialism has turned it into. Which aspect of Christmas(TM) pisses you off most?

[coloradodem2005]

1. Holiday music. Not all holiday music.

But some of it just annoys me. Why do they have to play it constantly?

[NashVegas]

2. Overcrowding and Flashing Everything Traumatized Me

I went into a mall and left within 3 minutes, couldn't hack it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I voted for the bad music,

but then I remembered those gawdawful ads for beribboned luxury cars. Christmas, we are told, is a wonderful time to run out and buy a Lexus or a Jaguar for our sweetie.

What would Jesus drive?

:puke:

[Straight Shooter]

5. Jesus drives a donkey.

Jesus knew if he wanted to get his message to the people, he could depend on a donkey :D

[seaj11]

16. or he would

ride a bike. Bikes are clean-air vehicles! :D

[Plaid Adder]

9. Yeah, there's a BMW radio commercial that I hate the hell out of

partly because it's a DESCRIPTION of a supposed TV commercial showing a couple kissing under mistletoe...except it's really the keys to a new BMW.

Are there people out there who really do get hot for money? Cause I dont' get that. GLad I can pay for stuff, but cannot imagine getting hot and bothered over a new car.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[mcscajun]

4. Endless TV promos for the movie "A Christmas Story"

"Ho, Ho, Ho!" over and over and over and over

[NightTrain]

6. You know, there's plenty of great Christmas music.

Unfortunately, you're not going to hear 99% of it on the fucking radio. Aside from Nat "King" Cole's "The Christmas Song" and a few tracks from the Phil Spector Christmas album, almost every holiday tune on the radio is pure crap!

Now, if you want to hear some kick-ass holiday tunes, check out my college radio show, THE SOUL EXPRESS, this Saturday evening from 9:00-midnight EST. You can get to the webcast via my website:

http://www.soulexpressradio.com

[ClintonTyree]

7. Other.................

Everything. I hate everything about this bullshit season starting with "the baby jeebus" all the way to after Xmas sales. They turned a myth into a reason to act like total assholes, spend obscene amounts of money and to make everyone who doesn't fit into these pigeonholed expectations feel like a failure.
In the words of my personal fictitious hero, Ebeneezer Scrooge, "every fool who goes about with "Merry Christmas" upon his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and have a stake of holly driven through his heart".
Humbug!

[bigwillq]

8. Not just overcrowded stores but rude, disrespectful shoppers

At our local walmart, cops had to be called due to 12 different fights.

'Tis the season to be jolly.'

[Plaid Adder]

10. Excellent! Just added that one. n/t

[bigwillq]

11. Cool!

:hi:

[baldguy]

12. Holiday music

Starting the day after Halloween and continuing through the first week of January. It's even blaring in the men's room at work.

[jonnyblitz]

13. "being expected to celebrate though you are not a christian"

EXACTLY that.

[laheina]

14. All the worst things

about capitalism--and hypocrisy--magnified ten fold.

[seaj11]

15. Other.

Just that people make the winter holiday out to be a big shopping opportunity.

[WoodrowFan]

17. why was every Christmas song recorded in the late 1940s?

It seems like every Christmas song I ever hear was recorded between WWII and Korea. Was nothing else recorded before 1945 and after 1950????