What’s your unpopular Christmas opinion?

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1. Die hard isn’t a Christmas film because you can watch it all year round without it being weird. You can’t watch home alone in July unless you’re off your meds.

2. Iced mince pies are in fact superior to their plain, dowdy brethren.

3. The majority of Christmas songs as just shite

4. Mince pies are horrible and I would rather eat any other kind of pie on Christmas.

5. I like Christmas pudding.

   Don’t know anyone else who does.

6. Shallow mince pies are better than deep filled. Reminds me of making them as a kid with my mum.

   Brandy butter and mincemeat are also acceptable by the spoonful.

7. Bucks fizz is the biz!

8. Playing the same collection of 10-15 songs for 2 months a year is a form of collective insanity

9. Stay Another Day by East 17 is not a Christmas song

10. Turkey is overrated, going chicken and duck this year.

11. Christmas jumpers aren’t funny or clever.

12. Christmas dinner must include both mashed potatoes and roast potatoes.

    I never thought that this was controversial until recently when I started explaining my favourite part of the meal was the mash + roasts. Every single person I’ve mentioned it to has recoiled in horror. Imo they’re all mental.

13. Crackers are a waste of time money and plastic and should be banned.

14. Hate the polar express film – it’s so boring I always fall asleep

15. Custard should be eaten cold, not hot.

    (Christmas is the only time I eat pudding, otherwise not strictly a Christmas opinion I realise!)

16. Christmas markets are crap. SOME of the food is decent, but the stuff is just tat and they’re not worth the money.

17. CHRISTMAS OFFICE PARTIES ARE THE BEST THING ABOUT CHRISTMAS. Yes I want to see my coworkers get drunk and chat shit about everyone.

18. I hate buying, wrapping and giving presents. My family call me Scrooge ☹️ the whole process is stressful and expensive. Constantly worrying if I’ve spent enough/too much/too little… using too much tape so it’s like breaking into Alcatraz or not enough so the paper falls off as soon as you pick it up… do they really like the present or are they pretending?? Also hate spending loads on other people to then get a £3.99 bottle of naff wine. Secret Santa is the worst… last Christmas I got hand sanitiser and a notepad. This year I just want to do charity donations because I know at least they’ll be grateful and have a good use for the money x

    ETA: Thanks for the upvotes you lovely lot ❤️ has cheered me up. And also, stuffing myself silly and getting sh*tfaced by 8:30am whilst spending the day in PJs is the BEST way to spend Christmas x x

19. Turkey is not dry, some people just don’t know how to cook it properly

20. “Do they know it’sChristmas?” Is one of the worst songs ever written

21. Well, The Snowman is creepy AF. The Snowman, Father Christmas, and When The Wind Blows all take place in the same universe: there are many crossovers between the first two, and Jim and Hilda from When The Wind Blows are seen drinking in the Scottish pub in Father Christmas.

    Canonically, therefore, the ending of the Snowman is that everyone dies in a thermonuclear apocalypse.

22. Cauliflower isn’t traditional

23. Christmas carols are better than Christmas songs

24. It goes on too long!

    I like to keep it special. We should have no Christmas songs, Christmas adverts, Christmas films, or Christmas decorations until 1st Dec at the earliest.

    And it should all be absolutely over and done with and all decorations down by New Year.

25. Elf on the shelf…worst thing ever

26. The build up is better than Christmas Day itself

27. I think elf on the shelf is a creepy little bastard that is just about parents getting attention on social media.

    I hate him, I hate you too lol!

28. Christmas dinner must include Yorkshire pudding

29. Elf is a rubbish film

30. Christmas adverts are not ‘heartwarming’. It’s an advert. For a supermarket ffs. Christmas does not begin when you see the Coca Cola advert.