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Since my smarty pants friend isn't online I thought I'd share my thoughts on the ideal christmas.

The ideal christmas we all know. Dinner with the family, presents, the queens speech, great escape, sharades ect ect.

However, in my experience it mostly tollerating people for the sake of politness, few people enjoy it, and those that do tend to be people on their own. Take me today for example. Christmas was basicly a family shouting match. , ungreatful brats, and I didn't even to get to pull a cracker. Even as I type this, I'm paper crown-less.

It's not just me, other people seem to have had similar experiences this year. Much like monogomous couples before, I think the Christmas is done soley because of whats expencted rather then what people actually enjoy. For example, we have enough food to survive a nuclear winter, and what have people had? A turkey and a bit of cake. We are buried under a mountain of sausage rolls, snacks, sweets and treats, none of which are being eaten.

My opinion is that we should kick Christmas in the head and start over. Keep the crackers and good will stuff, but ditch the turkey and christmas pud. I put my vote in for sauage and chips, followed by trifull.

Christmas comes but once a year, so shouldn't we enjoy it instead of suffering through it?

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I do agree with that people shouldn't be spending Christmas in a bad mood, but we don't live in a perfect world. Heck, this year was the first Christmas in my family where we didn't spend it arguing over something stupid. But not all families are like that though, and that's good for them, but for the rest of us, all we can do is brave through it and hope next year is better.

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I vote for keeping the turkey. It is a heck of a lot better than one of the most common traditional Christmas meals we have here in Norway.  There is no english word for it, but here, it is called lutefisk.

Think of a common whitefish, most often cod. Which undergoes a chemical preparation that gives it sort of a jelly-like concistence. It is the most foul-tasting food one can imagine. And I would deem it more suitable to lubricate heavy machinery than to be consumed by human beings.

About 20 % of the population eats it at least once a year, as even most of us thick-headed norwegians have gotten it into their head that it is uneatable. Trouble is, my family belong among those 20 %. And acording to traditions, we eat it three times a year. No skipping it what so ever.

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I find that ANY family event is stressful, just because different people are together. Realizing this, I account for it and make sure to mellow myself out before they arrive. Life's not fair, and it never will be. Expecting an ideal Christmas is an exercise in futility. Go with the flow when dealing with travel, family, and holidays.

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Christmas shouldn't be a time full of expectations. Some families enjoy doing all the traditional things, and some don't. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that the same traditions should be forced on everybody.

As for those who don't enjoy it whatsoever, at least you can now take refuge in the fact that it's over.

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Indeed. It's over. Shops will go on about it until fabuary, but that's a different issue.

As for Mr Ks idea of simply mellowing out, that doesn't really work. Personally, I hid in my room until 'tradition' or necesity requires me to be with family, at which point I sat in silence as everyone tried to burst eardrums. I'm not a catalist, but collateral.

I vote for keeping the turkey. It is a heck of a lot better than one of the most common traditional Christmas meals we have here in Norway.  There is no english word for it, but here, it is called lutefisk.

Think of a common whitefish, most often cod. Which undergoes a chemical preparation that gives it sort of a jelly-like concistence. It is the most foul-tasting food one can imagine. And I would deem it more suitable to lubricate heavy machinery than to be consumed by human beings.

About 20 % of the population eats it at least once a year, as even most of us thick-headed norwegians have gotten it into their head that it is uneatable. Trouble is, my family belong among those 20 %. And acording to traditions, we eat it three times a year. No skipping it what so ever.

lol, at least I don't have that, but again, if no one likes it why bother? It's like sprouts here. Off topic, the standard of living means we don't have to eat sea boggies (it's some kind of horrible shellfish, I forget the name. mollesc? anyway-) in this day and age everyone can offord chips and eggs and the like, but posh people have claimed the nasty creatures as a delacasy not fit for us commoners. We spent centuries getting away from that crap, and they claim it's devine. :)

but for the rest of us, all we can do is brave through it and hope next year is better.

My point is we shouldn't have to. Not only that, but tradition means we will go through the exact same motions next year, and the year after, and the year after that...

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my family sucks, I'd sooner just leave town and party in Vegas for the holidays if I had the $$$

xD  :P

Vegas is overrated, trust me!

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my family sucks, I'd sooner just leave town and party in Vegas for the holidays if I had the $$$

xD  :P

Go to Atlantic City instead. I know it's a bit of a distance for you (and a lot more $$$), but you'd be gambling by the beach :).

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I once had the same views Mr Krystal pointed out, but after spending the holidays away for 2 consecutive years, I have changed my mind a lot, and as a matter of fact, for me, there's nothing better than spending these holidays with my family and their way of celebrating it, I'm sure I'll go back to my family tradition for the next year, I really do miss it.

Being far away from home can sometimes change one's way to see things, specially around these important dates.

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I once had the same views Mr Krystal pointed out, but after spending the holidays away for 2 consecutive years, I have changed my mind a lot, and as a matter of fact, for me, there's nothing better than spending these holidays with my family and their way of celebrating it, I'm sure I'll go back to my family tradition for the next year, I really do miss it.

Being far away from home can sometimes change one's way to see things, specially around these important dates.

I didn't mean to say I don't enjoy being with my family. There are lots of good times to be had with the bad. I just don't let the bad times overpower the good. I definitely appreciate the holidays.

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I once had the same views Mr Krystal pointed out, but after spending the holidays away for 2 consecutive years, I have changed my mind a lot, and as a matter of fact, for me, there's nothing better than spending these holidays with my family and their way of celebrating it, I'm sure I'll go back to my family tradition for the next year, I really do miss it.

Being far away from home can sometimes change one's way to see things, specially around these important dates.

*vomits* :P

I didn't mean to say I don't enjoy being with my family. There are lots of good times to be had with the bad. I just don't let the bad times overpower the good. I definitely appreciate the holidays.

"Brought to you by Cola, Fast Food, and Beer Conglomerates" [/sarcasm]  :P

For me, the bad outweighed the good, and has done that for some time now (15 years).

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I didn't mean to be that literal either  :P more like "even tho I know I'm utterly different , compared to my family, I found out I really miss the awkward moments together" or something like that

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