What was the most jaded, cynical thing you thought regarding Christmas

[Valerie5555]

For me it was things relating to "Santa Claus, Satan Claus"


Oops on edit :evilgrin:



On edit a cynical Easter thought is "Finally 1 of our local cat clubs "rabbitnapped" the Easter Bunny, and replaced him with a KITTEN, about time, MEOW......................"


On edit 2 more kitty related thoughts: Christmas kittens may grow up to have kittens of their own that would only end up in the SPCA. :( Socks as Arkansas "First Kitten," suddenly getting a case of feline ADHD and attacking the Clintons' Christmas tree. :D

On edit an American political oriented cynical thought: Santa must be A REPUBLICAN for he wears RED.

[arcane1]

1. Santa, hanging on a cross

:evilgrin:

[Valerie5555]

2. Or how about the baby Jesus

with a Santa hat?????????????????????? :evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

3. "Scrooge was RIGHT"

They SHOULD be boiled in their own pudding and a stake of Holly driven through their hearts....

[Valerie5555]

8. Here's what I would have thougt in relation to a certain song were I Penne

Laingen nearly 25 years ago, "I'll Be Home For Christmas?, yeah right"

On edit she should have thought that for her husband was one of the hostages in Iran at the time.

[mitchum]

4. a newborn can grow up to suffer a horrible agonizing death

beat you

[Valerie5555]

5. I can top that

like BURNING TO DEATH which could be a latter day form of crucifixion.


Pardon my thoughts of Desert 1 and what happened to the 8 men who died there.

[Erika]

6. A Child who we blew his arms off in Iraq.

Thanks to Bush and Haliburton. They evidently don't care about kids. It seems they aren't profitable donors.

[Valerie5555]

7. or some other kid who was burned and lost their legs or feet

like that Iraqi girl early on in the war.

[ClintonTyree]

9. Consumerism...........

it's nothing but a retailer's dream. The notion that Baby Jesus will look favorably upon a person if he/she buys everything they want for Christmas. I hate the holiday, I really do.

[Valerie5555]

10. I hate Christmas on account of that, and

3 words, or Christmas postal rush, too.

[gmoney]

11. That it is, in itself, a cynical exercise?

Or at least has become one... if I hear one more ad for diamonds, I'm going to puke.

It's nothing but a month of competitive consumption, in the guise of a celebration. Buy some crappy item for a friend because you know he's going to buy some crappy item for YOU, when you'd both be better off with less stuff and paying down the Visa bill a little more. Unfortunately, this decision has to be mutual -- I've been trying to convince my parents NOT to buy me anything, but they refuse to not participate, so I cave into the obligation to get them something, and we usually both go overboard on useless shit none of us really want. (My sister and I have managed to declare an amnesty at least.)

Christmas comes at the end of the year for inventory reduction purposes, nothing more. Say what you like about other religions, but none have come anywhere close to whoring out the spirit of their holidays the way "Christians" (especially American Christians) whore out Christmas and Easter.

Hardly a new observation, but anyone who pretends there's anything BUT cynicism left in X-mas is fooling themselves.

CHRISTMAS CAROL (excerpts) - by Tom Lehrer

Christmastime is here by golly,
Disapproval would be folly,
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cups and don't say when...

On Christmas Day you can't be sore,
Your fellow man you must adore,
There's time to rob him all the more,
The other three hundred and sixty-four...

Relations sparing no expense will
Send some useless old utensil,
Like a matching pen and pencil,
"Just the thing I need, how nice."

It doesn't matter how sincere it
Is or how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is THE PRICE.

[Valerie5555]

13. LOL Love that

eom. True how true. :D

[Military Brat]

12. Ebeneezer's Revenge

[Valerie5555]

14. LOL or proof "Virginia's "friends were right and there is no Santa Claus

eom

[toddzilla]

15. "why don't I...

save all the trouble and just buy myself 500 dollars worth of shit?

cynical to the end..

[Valerie5555]

16. or let your kitty get in a street fight with another kitty and spend the

money on vet bills for kitty's bloodied ears or sore limb infected with a boil instead.

[Valerie5555]

17. An Iran hostage related one I had was

wouldn't it be funny if Carter were to have left the NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE DARK in honor of the captives held in Iran and they all staged a MASS BREAKOUT and ESCAPED.

On edit I read that some of them tried to do just that.