Quote Originally Posted by Bill Paxtom View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
Modern Christmas is an excuse to indulge to credit damaging extremes. I merely posit that the excesses of Christmas spoil it and that a simple family meal would be more than enough for most without all the useless tat. Just enjoy your family and leave it at that would be my approach (though I never go home for Christmas as there isn't enough space for me anymore with all the children raising children in my family...I'm a bloody great Uncle at 35! It is one of the reasons I rail against children that breed.)
It sounds like you are one 'fun' Bastard at Christmas.

Hey, here comes Uncle Gandalf.

Aw Geez. I hate him.
I have never been home at Christmas. We adhere to my kind of thinking on the issue. The goal is not to be fun, but to stay true to your ideals.

I've no idea who the kids are. None of my business.

Christmas is fun by treating it as any other day and to not get lost in the foolish hallucinations of the general public.