War on Christmas? Please?

[sigma7]

Okay. I tried to tolerate the Christmas ads before November. The occasional Christmas carol on the radio. The inevitable influx of Christmas merchandise before the Halloween candy's cleaned from the shelves.

But sweet Cylon Baby Jesus (™ norabombay), what is How the Grinch Stole Christmas doing on TV on TBS on November 12? Is it any wonder how a holiday spirit can be so diluted and inconsequential when it's celebrated for 1/6th of the entire year? With Thanksgiving so close to Christmas, it serves as a perfect buffer and milepost from which the actual festivity could start -- if anything, you could argue that a month of pre-holiday mirth is still erring on the side of overkill.

And if it's this distressing to me, I can hardly imagine how pleasant it is for my friends either from or now in non-Christian households. I feel yuir pain. Christmas and I have never really been on talking terms, but right now, if I see Christmas in a crosswalk in front of me, I won't even brake.

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[dvandom.livejournal.com]

What it's doing is being run for at least the second time this month. I saw it on last night.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

But at least "Grinch" is somewhat redeeming. I mean, it's a great movie, right up until the end when the Grinch has his change of heart. (After that it's all downhill, and not just literally.)

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

I'm hauling out my lone christmas icon.

Its not my holiday. Nominally, I celebrate it. Jesus=not a bad dude. But.

The idea of it in early novmeber, the whole hoopla?

NO. I'm done. I don't need it or care. Personally, I may go celebrate diwali this year.

And as for the people in my office? The ones who don't know why it can't just be the christmas party? PTTTTHHHHH. I call shenanigans.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Ack. And I thought it was just the lack of a late November holiday that had full-fledged xmas displays up in the Australia/NZ stores since I've gotten down here on Nov. 2nd.

[iamstillthemoon.livejournal.com]

Actually, Society has demolished Thanksgiving. It's now Christmas Part I with a slice of Turkey.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

BTW, I'd suggest braking. Have you ever tried to get Christmas guts out of your wheelwells? And that's a smell that doesn't go away.