The Bah-Humbug thread!

[Deleted User]

I was going to leave this thread alone this year ... but ...

Did anyone else see the Christmas Carole from the BBC on FX? It was rather dark and they took a lot of liberties with Dicken's story. Still I found it oddly compelling and totally absurd.

Yes. That was an interesting re-telling of the classic story. Very well written, and Guy Pearce was brilliant as Scrooge.
A different set of events that turned him around, but not overly sentimental, and a convincing story of how someone can choose humanity over pure self interest and greed.
Very well done (IMO).

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Snow in May. Bah-Humbug

 

[lunatic59]

Well, here we are again ... only this year is 2020 and I'm sure everyone can relate.

I've come to the conclusion that Christmas is a pandemic. It doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, it affects everyone, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

When they stopped making space-age aluminum Xmas trees they destroyed yule cheer. BAH-Humbug!

 

[codesplice]

Going to the dentist isn't one of my favorite activities, but it was straight torture today.

 

[lunatic59]

I would have asked for ear Novocain.

 

[MoodyBlues]

When they stopped making space-age aluminum Xmas trees they destroyed yule cheer. BAH-Humbug!

Oh, gosh! We had one of those when I was a kid. AND a rotating color-wheel light-bulb thingy placed nearby, which continuously changed its colors! So very cool.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

^^^That's the one^^^ Bring it back. It's the only fake tree I can tolerate.

 

[lunatic59]

^^^ They recycled those into beer cans. A much better use, if you ask me.

I am truly amazed (no, I'm not, really ) how many people are viewing the restrictions that interfere with Christmas as a true hardship, but others dying from the pandemic as a minor inconvenience. People suck almost as much as the holiday.

 

[olbriar]

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I want a small one this year only 3 or for feet. I've got a hallway table to put it on.

Without any children, no Sweetie and a grinchy nephew I see no reason to reach for the sky.

 

[olbriar]

We've put up a tabletop tree for the past decade or so. At first it seemed weird but now we are quite comfortable with it. The best part of the tree is the cat ignores it.

 

[olbriar]

I'm at the age where I tell stories... so here you go. When I was a kid there was no such thing as an artificial tree. After Christmas, everyone tossed their trees in the alley and the trash man would pick them up. One year my buddy and I had the scathingly brilliant idea to drag all the trees to my back yard and arrange them into a fort. When my father came home he was livid when he saw a couple of dozen trees in our yard. It's a beating that I still vividly recall.

 

[lunatic59]

Well, if it's story time, let me regale you with all my humorous holiday anecdotes ...

um.

err.

give me a minute.

*crickets*

I know there must be one.

*frozen crickets*

Nope.

 

[MoodyBlues]

When I was a kid there was no such thing as an artificial tree.

Oh, puh-leeze!!! You're not that much older than me, and artificial trees were quite a thing when I was a child.

By the way, do you remember when we used to talk to each other via smoke signals? You're pretty far away, but we made it work somehow!

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I'm getting mushrooms for Christmas.

 

[MoodyBlues]

I'm getting mushrooms for Christmas.

Magic?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Pizza

 

[lunatic59]

I just heard Neil Diamond's "Yesterday's Songs" on the radio and it got me to thinking about the "good old days" and why people think they were better when we were young ... especially Christmas. Not to (deliberately) draw any political similarities but imagine being lied to so often and so adamantly that you believe things that are clearly not true. (Santa) Then imagine the shock and disappointment when the truth becomes undeniable. You either accept reality with the understanding that a major trust was broken, or you continue to delude yourself and defend the lie.

Now, I've always held this opinion about Santa Claus as told in stories and department stores. The story of St. Nicolas is quite another thing.

Anyway, it's just a thought.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Oh Xmas shrub, Oh Xmas shrub...
You sit upon my table.
Humbug?

 

[Milo Willamson]

Magic?

I think of everything we do so in the level of clear unconsciously is magic.
Either that or there is something floating in the air.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

It's just cold out here now. BAH-HUMBUG!
It used to have fluffy snow.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

They stopped selling Christmas Trees on street corners. BAH-Humbug!

 

[lunatic59]

They stopped selling Christmas Trees on street corners. BAH-Humbug!

We always got ours from the fire company, because it supports the local. They are still selling them here.

 

[olbriar]

With vivid memories of my youth and trying to do my good deed daily, I always bought from the scouts.