fear of flippin festivals
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
September 19, 2009 7:29am CST
obviously christmas has got to be cancelled - the stabwound filled arguments, the awful food, the rampant consumerism, the shops filling up with noel based tat in april, the people suddenly becoming religious for one day of the year. it's truly awful. i wouldn't stop there though - easter is going (britain's children are well fed enough as it is), the school holidays (streets filled with the little blighters all day) and st patrick's day (got to infuriate the dog somehow). what holidays or festivals would you scrap? or do you actually like some of them?
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@gracefuldove (1668)
• Malaysia
19 Sep 09
To me, scrap some of the unnecessary holidays as national holidays. Some ,you can keep as provincial ones. Then the others you may have the merriment but not declare them as holidays. These festivals are getting too commercial these days. Celebrate for the spirit of it.
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@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
20 Sep 09
I would scrap Christmas because of my husband's family LOL They really make Christmas icky.
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
20 Sep 09
Oh, the women in the in law family are control freaks and the men are very passive. They demand that we go to the mother's house for Christmas and it's so boring. No one talks, they don't play games or anything, and the food well lets just say my dog wouldn't eat it nor would my brother's goats 
Oh and the big thing they think that one can buy love with gifts at Christmas. Now, mind you, I would not be so against spending Christmas with this "close" family but, they don't talk any other time of the year except this day. My husband's mother calls when she needs or wants something but, no other time. His sister and brother never call at all.
Oh and the big thing they think that one can buy love with gifts at Christmas. Now, mind you, I would not be so against spending Christmas with this "close" family but, they don't talk any other time of the year except this day. My husband's mother calls when she needs or wants something but, no other time. His sister and brother never call at all.1 person likes this
@dreamr802 (985)
• United States
20 Sep 09
I love Christmas, it's one of my favorite holidays. I do agree that it's very commercialized...but it's the only time of the year that everyone gets together for 2 days in a row...not like we don't spend time with one another during the year, but not everyone is there...I like valentines day but then again I do have a boyfriend...I don't know if I would get rid of any major holidays...
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Sep 09
Let's scrap all the ones where I don't get time off of work. :-)
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
19 Sep 09
I like the fourth of July (US), St. Patrick's day (I'm Irish), and Christmas best. Halloween is fun too. I have little kids and it's fun to watch them enjoy the holidays. HOWEVER, I HATE the rabid commercialization of them! They started selling Halloween stuff here in JULY, and the Christmas stuff will probably go up three weeks before Halloween! As soon as Christmas is over they start pushing Valentine's day and Easter.
Oh yeah, I'd do away with Valentine's day, it only serves to make single people miserable and make couples realize what crappy partners they have because their partner never lives up to Valentine's day expectations.
@jb78000 (15139)
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19 Sep 09
valentines day is rubbish. and if a boyfriend ever buys me chocolates again he will get shot. festival gumph goes up in the shops many months before the even here to, what drives me up the wall even more is the sodding christmas music that starts getting played in march. if santa is coming to town he will get shot too. i know that some of these festivals are fun for children, used to enjoy christmas myself when little (r).
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