Christmas traditions that are awesome

[Jonathan Capps]

1. Nigella Lawson’s Christmas Breasts

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[Mr Flibble]

2. Between Christmas and New Year at 1am repeats of Dwarf.

[Phil]

3. Spending Christmas Eve working on some writing project or other while listening to commercial-free Christmas radio, ever since I was a wee teen. I always end up creatively inspired on Christmas Eve (at least partly now that it’s become a habit) and the music’s a big (but importantly temporary) part of that.

[Jonathan Capps]

4. Shutting myself in my bedroom with my tiny TV, infuriated at the fact that my family just can’t SHUT THE FUCK UP during Doctor Who.

[Phil]

5. Playing Christmas Lemmings (http://noisetosignal.org/2008/12/my-month-with-christmas-lemmings)

[ChrisM]

6 FOOD! (Does that count as a tradition?) I miss turkey though. The cook in our household isn’t that into turkey (although she does a nice spread otherwise.)

EDIT- You guys are fast. Ok, I’ve nibbled it down to 1.

[pfm]

7. Watching/reading A Christmas Carol.

I don’t care how many times I’ve seen various Christmas Carol films OR read Dickens’s story (which I still love and next week I AM going to read it again) IMO it can never be enough. I can’t wait for Zemeckis’s Beowulf-style mocap version that’s out next year. Jim Carrey as Scrooge, Gary Oldman as Bob Cratchitt, Colin Firth as Fred (Scrooge’s nephew), Bob Hoskins as Fezziwig. Could it be the definitive version? Er no, probably not. The Alistair Simm version is the closest we’ll ever get, and that’s certainly not perfect, but yes still the best. Apart from the Muppet Christmas Carol, of course. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KBthi_An5qQ

[TheLeen]

8. Playing 3D-Tetris with my sister and my mum, listening to really bad music on the radio, in our pyjamas.

[hummingbird]

9. Movie/TV marathons – select the TV or movie series of your choice and watch for an unfeasible number of hours whilst consuming vast quantities of food and alcohol, until a) you fall asleep, or b) your brain melts.

[Dave]

10. My Dad shouting “Kill the Bitch” repeatedly during the Queen’s speech

[Pete Part Three]

11. The Muppet Christmas Carol. Followed by the pub.

[Jo]

12. Watching ‘The Snowman’ followed by ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ on Xmas Eve :o)

[Phil]

13. Watching SingingPotato1979 watch The Snowman followed by watching SingingPotato1979 watch It’s a Wonderful Life on Xmas Eve.

[Pete Part Three]

14. Watching BlackAdder’s Christmas Carol for the 327th time and still laughing like a loon.

[Andrew]

15. Bill Murray in Scrooged. On DVD. Every year.

[Joey TORDFC]

20. My Christmas breasts

[peas_and_corn]

21. Christmas Case Swap. That’s where a bunch of brewers go to someone’s house (usually the person is aware of this) with a case of their beer, and then everyone swaps so they walk away with a bottle of everyone else’s. Essentially everyone has a great time getting drunk and talking about beer. At this year’s swap there was 14 beer taps hooked up :)

[Jo]

>Bill Murray in Scrooged

Agreed! Ian we need to get this on DVD :o)

22. The big tins of Roses and/or Quality Street that only seem to appear in the shops near Xmas

[Pete Part Three]

23. The Christmas lights around the G+T header pic.

[Danny Stephenson]

24. Playing Christmas NiGHTS on Christmas Eve, then watching the League of Gentlemen Christmas Special.

[Pete Part Three]

(16. Home Alone
17. Home Alone 2
18. Die Hard
19. Die Hard 2)

[p2p_productions]

The S.S. Minnow, Andrew. “What was the name of the ship that brought them all to Gilligan’s Island?” The S.S. Minnow…

Feed me Seymour, feed me!

[pfm]

> watching the League of Gentlemen Christmas Special.

This. Can’t wait for Mark Gatiss’s Crooked House ghost story this year.

[Pete Part Three]

Frank Cross: I want to see her nipples.
Censor Lady: But this is a CHRISTMAS show.
Frank Cross: Well, I’m sure Charles Dickens would have wanted to see her nipples.
Carpenter: You can barely see them nipples.
Frank Cross: See? And these guys are REALLY looking.

[Phil]

Frank Cross: I am going to hunt down that shark, or whatever it is, and, hopefully, kill it. I’m not sure how, yet…maybe dynamite.

[Andrew]

> The S.S. Minnow, Andrew. ?What was the name of the ship that brought them all to Gilligan?s Island?? The S.S. Minnow?

If I knew who you were, I’d embrace you.

[Jo]

That’s never stopped you before… :oP

[Tarka Dal]

20. Watching The Great Escape on DVD because it’s not been on Terrestial over xmas since the 80s.

21. Die Hard III

22. Snow

[Andrew]

> That?s never stopped you before? :oP

I resent that accurate statement!

[ChrisM]

>watching The Great Escape on DVD because it?s not been on Terrestial over xmas since the 80s.

Heh. I’m selling that on e-bay now actually. I ordered my dad a box-set of WW2 war films for his birthday, then realized one of them was a film I’d already bought for him on a previous birthday/Christmas.

When you star duplicating presents…. not good. Not much point in having 2 so, hence the e-bay.

[Tarka Dal]

I ordered something from HMV on November 30th. It still hasn’t arrived.

23. Telling yourself you’ll watch the Xmas lectures. 23a – Giving up after you miss the first couple after oversleeping.

[Seb Patrick]

24. Trading Places
25. All I Want For Christmas Is You

[TheLeen]

26. Decorating potted plants with christmas decoration.

[Phil]

David Cross: I’m afraid I just blue myself.

[John Hoare]

25. All I Want For Christmas Is You

Which gives me yet another excuse to link to one of my favourite music videos ever (which is fast becoming my own Christmas tradition):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pA8UHeoYHQM

Take your fucking sappy Christmas “home video” and fuck off. Why the hell they didn’t use this one everywhere instead is an utter mystery.

[pfm]

> Why the hell they didn?t use this one everywhere instead is an utter mystery.

Probably because not much happens in it and someone obviously wanted a bit of colour. But oh em fucking gee she looks gorgeous hot in that video.

[Jonathan Capps]

> But oh em fucking gee she looks gorgeous hot in that video.

You’re a sick man.

[John Hoare]

I don’t especially fancy her at all… APART from in that video.

But Jesus, the go-go dancers…

[ChrisM]

Which gives me yet another excuse to link to one of my favourite music videos ever (which is fast becoming my own Christmas tradition):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pA8UHeoYHQM

Ha, ha! That’s great. I particularly liked the outrageous dancing girls in the background. Look at ’em go!

[Tarka Dal]

> >Bill Murray in Scrooged
> Agreed! Ian we need to get this on DVD :o)

No neeeeeeeeeeeeeed. It’s on Channel 4 on Xmas day. Sky+ it.

[Pete Part Three]

I can never understand them putting on Christmas Carol adaptations after Christmas Eve. Same with stuff featuring Santa.

[Phil]

Well, Christmas Day is excusable for A Christmas Carol, I think…nearly all (if not all) of the adaptations retain the, “Today? Why, it’s Christmas Day!” scene, which sort of advances the story to the day on which you’re watching it. So I can understand that.

The Santa Claus stuff, though…yeah. Agreed.

[TheLeen]

27. Trying not to read any discussion about certain christmas specials I’ll have to miss out on

[Seb Patrick]

28. Joey’s Christmas breasts
29. Father “Better Than The Snowman” Christmas on Christmas Eve
30. Going out for a drink on the 23rd, staying in on the 24th

[Seb Patrick]

31. Karl getting the sequence wrong

[Tarka Dal]

32 What? Where? Oh you mean with the A?

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

33? Stuffing, ham, nice fluffy dinner rolls, au gratin potatoes, and that nice cream cheese and salsa dip that tastes so good with tortilla chips. (And probably some kind of cheesecake, this year.) And leftovers for days…

[Seb Patrick]

We’d had 24, then Pete went and threw in the Die Hard films in brackets with lower numbers, and you picked it up from there ;-)

NOT THAT IT MATTERS I HAVE NO LIFE

[pfm]

34. Enjoying a big Christmas dump.

[hummingbird]

Class. Pure class.

[pfm]

35. Listening to this.

[Author]

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