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DaftFader

23-09-2009, 07:19 PM

i don't really like christmas too much .... same old shit over and over and over ... the idea of getting together with family is kinda nice ... but the comertial side isn't ... this yeah i only had to use 3 days of my holidays to get 9 days strait off work .. so i am happy .. gonna go on hols for a week i think

GiantMidget

23-09-2009, 07:21 PM

please do not remind me

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN TO TOWN

god that song on adverts pisses me off!!!!!!!!!!!

What this song?

xkx_8PqoIKk

General Lighting

23-09-2009, 07:29 PM

Christmas here always makes me think of cops, crime and dead prostitutes and always will do.. and so it fucking well should IMO, for everyone in this town...

Its the only way the memory of those girls can be remembered and maybe something done to stop others going down that road, and to try and to stop young men turning into angry controlling old men what commit such heinous crimes..

I will always remember riding back from work in Winter 2006 and thinking "fucking hell, its like being on the set of a ITV crime drama.." a bobby on every street corner literally - Suffolk, Essex, Metpol, Merseyside (who lent 10 mobile CCTV units and still had loads left over to watch the scousers!)

incidentally there was virtually no crime in Winter 2006/07 in that part of Ipswich - no houses got burgled, no one got robbed or mugged...

GiantMidget

23-09-2009, 07:36 PM

Geeze that's a bit of a mood killer. :laugh_at:

General Lighting

23-09-2009, 07:45 PM

the fact the crime dropped in '07 just shows how fucking dysfunctional society can be and I feel people must always be reminded of it - if you really need that many cops for people not to want to attack each other or rob each others property thats a sign of a sick society... but ironically I find life in Ipswich is actually far better than anywhere else I have ever lived in my life.

Its shit what happened and particularly the way the young girls fell into the gutter and lost their lives, but the can of worms it opened up (as well as the fallout from a shooting at a local club what happned around that time) has actually blown open the reality of the darkside the drugs/sex/nighttime economy has and made people round here genuinely think a bit about their lifestyles..

mishap

23-09-2009, 07:53 PM

lets be honest,

christmas sucks

joshd96320

23-09-2009, 09:16 PM

alright GL aka Scrooge!

but... i aint that much of a fan of christmas, too cold, too desolate, expensive and u have to do stuff that u dont wanna do. but the positives are good free cider and prezzies!

im more a summer lubber..

GiantMidget

23-09-2009, 09:26 PM

I don't mind winter time, As long as you wrap up warm it's all good. Plus the time off, the food, the excesses. Nice.

Buzz

23-09-2009, 09:38 PM

christmas is poo

p0ly

23-09-2009, 10:11 PM

last year and the christmas avatar contest!! we need a new contest i think

sweetntasty

23-09-2009, 11:04 PM

Would love to live in a house with a huge open fire at Christmas time....

General Lighting

24-09-2009, 12:09 AM

Would love to live in a house with a huge open fire at Christmas time....

I work out in the sticks and there is this couple what own the old farmhouse in the converted farm area I work in (my office is in the old stables)

this couple are a bit like that two out of the old telly show called "the good life" (which myself and sweetandtasty will probably remember but some younger people won't. (it was about a hippy couple trying to live a self-sufficient life etc)

anyway they tried to light their open fire around Autumn (as it was cold and pissing down with rain) - I was in my office at the time, next thing I know I heard nee-naws ( we still use them here) and there was blue flashing lights in the courtyard and Suffolk Fire and Rescue in attendance...

I ended up running out of my office in the rain, thinking we were all having to evacuate (at one point I thought the Gipping had burst its banks and we would all be flooded) and was gonna see if I could get enough time to shut down the servers cleanly and turn off the electric but the firemen said it was just a chimney fire.. the couple hadn't realised the chinmey needed to be swept and it was stopped up with a birds nest or other rubbish - leading to the house filling with smoke and the chimney catching fire....

I was glad that everyone was OK, that I wasn't going to have to stand on my desk in a darkend office with rising water levels and impressed with the quick action of the Fire Brigade but a but pissed off I had left my office and ended up out in the rain for a relatively minor incident.

sweetntasty

24-09-2009, 09:02 AM

this couple are a bit like that two out of the old telly show called "the good life" (which myself and sweetandtasty will probably remember but some younger people won't. (it was about a hippy couple trying to live a self-sufficient life etc)

Remember it well, my daughter has seen some of the re runs and loves it too although she's just 21.

I can dream about the log cabin with the big open fire, I have a good imagination.

Iacchus

24-09-2009, 09:23 AM

christmas is just about getting together with the family and eating/drinking nowadays.. still really enjoy it. hate that slade song with every inch of my body

DaftFader

24-09-2009, 11:44 AM

Iacchus

24-09-2009, 11:59 AM

actually the only good christmas song is 'fairytale of new york'

joshd96320

24-09-2009, 05:52 PM

christmas is just about getting together with the family and eating/drinking nowadays.. still really enjoy it. hate that slade song with every inch of my body
this
i hate any chrismas song that's been played for more than 2-3 years in a row .. and tbh i'd probably hate any christmas song that has only been played once ... as there all gimics and normaly sound like some one with glass teeth chewing on a dremil drill bit with the drill on the full speed setting.

and this

uglyprettytrash

24-09-2009, 10:52 PM

i hate christmas.

the title of this post has definitly brought out the cynical side of me.

p0ly

24-09-2009, 11:15 PM

actually the only good christmas song is 'fairytale of new york'

true that

GiantMidget

25-09-2009, 03:50 PM

i hate any chrismas song that's been played for more than 2-3 years in a row .. and tbh i'd probably hate any christmas song that has only been played once ... as there all gimics and normaly sound like some one with glass teeth chewing on a dremil drill bit with the drill on the full speed setting.

Back when i did some seasonal temp work for a computer shop we had to listen to a xmas cd over and over again.

It was fucking well annoying. I even offered to buy a new cd but the manager wouldn't have it. He loved that cd and wouldn't change it.

Gave me so much satisfaction when i 'accidentally' broke it at the end of my contract.

mishap

25-09-2009, 07:31 PM

apparantly xmas chocolates have been seen in supermarkets already....:crazy:
its fuckin SEPTEMBER!!

joshd96320

25-09-2009, 09:01 PM

i saw christmas cards the other day..

Tank Girl

25-09-2009, 09:12 PM

I have requested xmas off for the first time in 12 years!!

usually work xmas day and all over as its a good way / excuse of avoiding the family! :wink:

but new plans this year :bounce_fl:bounce_fl

joshd96320

25-09-2009, 10:26 PM

12 years ago i was 4.

i recieved my favourite christmas gift to date on that year! flat eric!

wish i had a job to avoid being park round a small table with entire family!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamrogers/Images/Flat%20Eric.jpg

bad eric.

p0ly

26-09-2009, 03:41 AM

but ur family love u joshy

joshd96320

26-09-2009, 09:26 AM

ye but liberalities such as swearing your face off when stubbing a toe, or making stuff move with loud music, are restricted when in front of grandparents.

Angel

27-09-2009, 10:11 AM

joshd96320

27-09-2009, 10:55 AM

i hope it snows...

im tempted to set the rig up christmas eve, then about 6am christmas day, bang out some xmas anthems full blast

Tank Girl

27-09-2009, 07:53 PM

I'm really looking forward to Christmas this year... :shy:

Going to be with the people I love most of all :love:

Fcuk the presents, they are just a minor thing for me, my day is not going to be ruined if I don't get any :group_hug
:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl :bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl

*YAY*

:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl :bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl

My family do £5 per person,

it makes it fun and lessens the financial pressure on us all,
or we can make someone something -

GiantMidget

27-09-2009, 08:06 PM

These days i don't really like receiving presents. It might sound strange but i don't like people spending money on me.

One thing about xmas that annoys me is when people say 'oh you gotta buy me this', 'you gotta buy me that' and if you don't they get the arse over it.

Bit fucking greedy really when you think about it, folk should be happy that someone is actually prepared to spend money on them, not dictate what it is.

But i am actually looking forward to it all this year. I am going to be a cheesy motherfucker, Hopefully will have a lot of money saved up by then and about 3 weeks off work.

Nice!!

Digital-A

27-09-2009, 08:08 PM

Family, nice food, booze, warm house and bad telly .. how can people complain? I cant wait :)

Angel

27-09-2009, 08:19 PM

These days i don't really like receiving presents. It might sound strange but i don't like people spending money on me.

i feel the same way..

i did however get a birthday present that means more to me than any present i have ever gotten, was bought just for me, and i love it :love:

PhilKmorgan

27-09-2009, 08:23 PM

i feel the same way..

i did however get a birthday present that means more to me than any present i have ever gotten, was bought just for me, and i love it :love:

What did u get (if u don't mind me asking, don't want 2be rude)

Angel

27-09-2009, 08:26 PM

A ring :love: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and it's the most beautiful gift anybody have given me :cry:

Tank Girl

27-09-2009, 09:20 PM

A ring :love: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and it's the most beautiful gift anybody have given me :cry:
:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl :bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl

p0ly

27-09-2009, 09:59 PM

cliffy u better buy me a bike this christmas or i'm gonna get the arse with you

sweetntasty

27-09-2009, 10:05 PM

A ring :love: shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and it's the most beautiful gift anybody have given me :cry:

Ahhhh, that's lovely.

Last time I got a ring was 25 years ago when I got married.

Tank Girl

27-09-2009, 10:07 PM

A *cock* ring
:laugh_at::laugh_at:

Tank Girl

27-09-2009, 10:08 PM

Ahhhh, that's lovely.

Last time I got a ring was 25 years ago when I got married.
married at 20? wow, good for you!

I was far to fickle to make a decision like that at 20.. :group_hug

sweetntasty

27-09-2009, 10:15 PM

married at 20? wow, good for you!

I was far to fickle to make a decision like that at 20.. :group_hug

I was actually 19, a month before my 20th birthday and then I had my first baby, the month after I was 21.....baby number 2 at 23 and number 3 at 29. Family complete. :love:

Tank Girl

27-09-2009, 10:18 PM

I was actually 19, a month before my 20th birthday and then I had my first baby, the month after I was 21.....baby number 2 at 23 and number 3 at 29. Family complete. :love:
quadruple wow!!

I really admire peeps who know what they want :love:

it taken me a such a long time to decide / act and am so very happy at the moment is all I can say :bounce_fl

sweetntasty

27-09-2009, 10:23 PM

quadruple wow!!

I really admire peeps who know what they want :love:

it taken me a such a long time to decide / act and am so very happy at the moment is all I can say :bounce_fl

That's lovely, as long as your happy nothing else matters.

I'm now divorced but am relatively happy.

Tank Girl

27-09-2009, 10:24 PM

That's lovely, as long as your happy nothing else matters.

I'm now divorced but am relatively happy.
:love:

Angel

28-09-2009, 04:24 AM

Ahhhh, that's lovely.

Last time I got a ring was 25 years ago when I got married.

I bought my own when I got married, never had a ring from a man before :love:

Angel

28-09-2009, 04:26 AM

A *cock* ring :laugh_at::laugh_at:

You're sooooooooooooooooooooo bad TG :laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:

bryonbond

28-09-2009, 05:08 PM

GiantMidget

28-09-2009, 06:18 PM

It will be the first anniversary of my Grandad's passing on the 23rd Dec.
He would probably want us to have a good time, but I'll never forget him, I will hold him in my heart and mind this year and forever.

I feel ya mate. I lost my grandpappy four years this December, Proper sucked as he was a proper diamond but it was his time, at least he led a long full life and because of him there are now about 200 of us.

Absolute legend. :wink:

Raise a pint to him on the anniversary and remember the good times you had together.

:group_hug

joshd96320

28-09-2009, 06:40 PM

new years for my one

i shall get trashed to that raaa raaa rip granpapaaaaaa

bryonbond

28-09-2009, 06:43 PM

I feel ya mate. I lost my grandpappy four years this December, Proper sucked as he was a proper diamond but it was his time, at least he led a long full life and because of him there are now about 200 of us.

Absolute legend. :wink:

Raise a pint to him on the anniversary and remember the good times you had together.

:group_hug

Thanks Cliffy that means a lot.
Love never dies.

GiantMidget

28-09-2009, 06:46 PM

Thanks Cliffy that means a lot.
Love never dies.

No worries mate. :love:

bryonbond

28-09-2009, 06:48 PM

How have you been, what's the PV been upto?

GiantMidget

28-09-2009, 08:44 PM

How have you been, what's the PV been upto?

Yeah i'm all good, Having a couple of chill out months in the run up to xmas!

How you doing geezer? :love:

sweetntasty

28-09-2009, 08:58 PM

I bought my own when I got married, never had a ring from a man before :love:

How come you bought your own........was he poor?:crazy_diz

Angel

29-09-2009, 04:22 AM

How come you bought your own........was he poor?:crazy_diz

Nahhh, he was just an ar**hol*..

Glad we got divorced now, I have never had so good a time in my life as I have now before :love:

MisterDuck

29-09-2009, 05:07 AM

its not the fact its christmas i like

its the gettin together with all the family and chillin out and laughin and jokin and aaaaah CHRISTMAS

joshd96320

29-09-2009, 02:29 PM

i prefer the family chilling when its summer in the gardeen with a BBQ :D

dont call me scrooge im just not a massive fan of traditional food i guess..

bryonbond

29-09-2009, 08:23 PM

I love xmas food

sweetntasty

29-09-2009, 08:35 PM

Nahhh, he was just an ar**hol*..

Glad we got divorced now, I have never had so good a time in my life as I have now before :love:

I thought the same when I divorced my ex.....vowed to never get married again but who knows.......maybe one day I might want to.

Angel

29-09-2009, 08:41 PM

I thought the same when I divorced my ex.....vowed to never get married again but who knows.......maybe one day I might want to.

You sound just like I used to :laugh_at:

But I think there's a special one for each of us out there somewhere..

I'm lucky, I found mine, my soul mate :love:

Marry again?

Why not :satisfied:satisfied:satisfied

sweetntasty

29-09-2009, 08:45 PM

You sound just like I used to :laugh_at:

But I think there's a special one for each of us out there somewhere..

I'm lucky, I found mine, my soul mate :love:

Marry again?

Why not :satisfied:satisfied:satisfied

I know you're right and with my ex boyfriend I used to think I wanted marriage again, glad I didn't though cos he was a control freak, hence the reason he's an ex.

With the one I'm with now, I've never even thought of marriage.
Maybe he's not the one and that when 'THE ONE' comes around I'll be ready.