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22 Dec 13 - 09:27 PM (#3585913) Subject: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Wesley S Well it looks like I'm going to have a head cold for Christmas. Not even the tomato soup and grilled cheese I had for dinner helping. What reason do you have to be pissed off or depressed this Christmas? |
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23 Dec 13 - 01:01 AM (#3585923) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST,Stim Well, aside from the rampant commercialism, most of our leaders aren't even paying lip service to the whole"Peace on Earth" thing. Now it's "Tactical Assaults, Good Will Toward Men." |
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23 Dec 13 - 02:30 AM (#3585930) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Sandra in Sydney I had minor surgery on Thursday & have a very bruised & ITCHY area around the scar! & I can't scratch it, merely rub my hand over the area. sandra (fingernails twitching, scar itching - how poetical, there must be a song in it, maybe we can move this thread out of BS into music!) oops, I forgot, I don't have enough pressies, but then I never do ... |
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23 Dec 13 - 02:36 AM (#3585931) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Dave Hanson A feckin cold. Dave H |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:11 AM (#3585933) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST,Eliza I too get a bit grumpy sometimes at Crimbo. There's so much to do, sort out and organise. And the weather's absolutely foul. BUT... At church there's a lady whose daughter (only in her thirties and with two young sons) has been diagnosed with an inoperable, malignant brain tumour. She has a maximum of one year to live. Her mum has prayed her socks off during the Advent services, hoping for a miracle. I can hardly see her without tears coming to my eyes. Knowing this, I don't feel I have any right to grumble... |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:12 AM (#3585934) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Ebbie Sandra in Sydney, try this: Scratch the opposite side, i.e. if it's on a leg, scratch the other leg. It works. Not as satisfying the real thing but it takes away the compulsion. |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:27 AM (#3585935) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Megan L I was brought up to look around me There is always someone worse of than yourself. |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:39 AM (#3585937) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: DMcG No reason at all. We will be visiting our son and his recent fiancée who live in a one bedroomed flat which is so small it doesn't even have a table. So four of us will be crammed in a room and eating Christmas dinner off plates balanced on laps with no space in the kitchen for all the foodstuffs - and it will be great! |
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23 Dec 13 - 06:43 AM (#3585963) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: gnu It's Kissmeass without kiddies around that gets me down. The adults don't need "presents". Like stim said, it's rampant commercialism. |
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23 Dec 13 - 07:59 AM (#3585974) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST,Mr Red Max must have wiped my cookie! Christmas presence? |
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23 Dec 13 - 08:04 AM (#3585975) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Nigel Parsons Gratuitous plug for a tasty Christmas Ale |
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23 Dec 13 - 08:05 AM (#3585976) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Sandra in Sydney thanks, Ebbie for the suggestion - I feel so much better after a good scratch on the opposite side sandra |
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23 Dec 13 - 08:52 AM (#3585987) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Leadfingers Mixed Feelings ! I DONT need to worry about a present for My Old Mum's Christmas Eve Birthday this year as she died in May ! |
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23 Dec 13 - 09:48 AM (#3585993) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST Thoughts and Prayers, T. |
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23 Dec 13 - 10:00 AM (#3585999) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST,sciencegeek know what you mean, Leadfingers Mom passed the week after Mother's Day... but with the dementia, she had been "gone" for quite some time already... her final week was coma like so that her passing was a relief. What's tough is how she loved the Christmas season & I keep seeing things that prompt a "oh, mom would have enjoyed this or that". |
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23 Dec 13 - 10:54 AM (#3586014) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: bubblyrat Earlier this year I didn't think I'd still be around at Christmas, but I am now a lot better than I was ! Still having check-ups ,blood tests and a very sore starboard oleo (right leg to you !) with daily dressings , creams ,bandages and and over-sized bedroom slipper , BUT at least I can walk (with a stick) and have already had a nice Christmas present from Nicola ; an amplifier for my guitar ! So ,a Very Happy Christmas to you all ! But don't try buying pork or wine /Scotch at Marks & Spencers !! |
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23 Dec 13 - 10:58 AM (#3586015) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST "What reason do you have to be pissed off or depressed this Christmas?" People who come to the door and want to visit. Fuck off. |
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23 Dec 13 - 11:00 AM (#3586017) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: SINSULL I miss my friend Chris. But I am enjoying getting his two kitties settled in with mine. Peace on earth! SINS |
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23 Dec 13 - 01:24 PM (#3586066) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Wesley S By the way - my problems all fall into the category of "First World" problems. Overall we've been very fortunate. |
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23 Dec 13 - 01:42 PM (#3586073) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST,Musket As irrational as I know it actually is, I am convinced that when you are busy, such ailments wait till you anticipate relaxation. I used to be fit as a butchers dog all year round, despite travelling on business, living in hotels and airport terminals, long hours back back at the office, out with the service engineers and reps 100 ft up a scaffold at 6.00am in the freezing cold despite having just flown in from a hot dry country yadda yadda. But once Xmas Eve came around and I was back at home, surrounded by my wife, kids and dogs.... Advanced Lergy. Every sodding year. But now I have backed off, Xmas is just fine. I tell you, you keep it at bay, and Mrs Musket, a doctor, says that's daft. I'm bloody daft, that's it. |
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23 Dec 13 - 03:26 PM (#3586102) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: JennieG One answer to the annual wails and moans about the commercialisation of Christmas: many many years ago midwinter was a pagan celebration then Christians came along and appropriated it. Now, the pagans are just trying to take it back...... Like Sandra I have recently had surgery, only mine was a shoulder op last month. One more week to wear the hot black synthetic fabric sling, just what one wants to wear against one's skin in the heatwave we've been having lately! But it will be left off when we go out to lunch on Christmas Day at a local restaurant, I'm wearing a pretty shirt and don't want it crushed, and that sling is not a fashion statement. It is possible to eat one-handed, even crimbo food. Happy Thingmas and Seasonal Whatevers to all! |
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23 Dec 13 - 05:54 PM (#3586134) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Acorn4 Come Back Ebenezer |
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23 Dec 13 - 07:41 PM (#3586150) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Joe_F As humbugs go, one could do worse. |
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23 Dec 13 - 07:42 PM (#3586151) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST,Ed T When I was a youngster, I was mostly excited with the coming of Christmas, but let down when it seemed much less than I expected it to be. I always have an expectation that this could reoccur. This Christmas period is turning out to be a fine one so far - with our son and daughter near home, and two young grand kids at the prime age for Christmas fun. I have completed my shopping (which is a chore). The weather (mostly rain)and local driving conditions over the past few days has even been decent. So, no "humbug" from me. All is fine. However, I realize many are not as fortunate as I currently am. My "good thoughts" go out to all those folks. |
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23 Dec 13 - 08:15 PM (#3586159) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Amergin Well, mine come from having a little one living elsewhere....though she's not so little anymore. The other is that once again...I am single on Christmas...holidays are kind of hard to be a single person, especially when you have so much love to give.... Oh well, at least I have family....blood family and spirit family. It makes it easier to deal with. I get a kick out of the little ones as they open their presents. It makes me wistful and wish for my blond blue eyed little beauty...one year. Enough whinging from me...there are people alot more worse off. |
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23 Dec 13 - 10:14 PM (#3586171) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Bill D If the worst I can come up with is the greedy pushiness of people waiting for parking places in shopping areas, I guess I don't need to say much. I have very general complaints about stores staying open too long and tacky decorations.... but so far (knock wood) so good. |
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24 Dec 13 - 03:51 AM (#3586210) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Nigel Parsons "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach." Little harm, and possibly much good, can be done by a re-reading Dickens' "Christmas Carol". Even watching film or tv adaptations tends to make people feel more charitable (at least for a while). I will probably watch Alistair Sim & Patrick Stewart play the role this year. In 2010 I was fortunate to see Tommy Steele in the stage version (Scrooge) at the New Theatre in Cardiff. So, even if I'm wearing a Wychwood brewery "Bah Humbug" T-Shirt, that is not my personal belief. So (again quoting Dickens) to all at Mudcat (even the curmudgeons) "God bless us, every one!" |
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24 Dec 13 - 03:53 AM (#3586211) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Nigel Parsons Another T-Shirt Baa Humbug |
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24 Dec 13 - 04:02 AM (#3586215) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: DMcG Talking Dicken's adaptations, my favourite is Northern Ballet's version of "A Christmas Carol". All the music is based on carols known at the time, the set is brilliant and was designed by Lez Brotherston, (who also designed the stage set of Les Miserables, so that may give you some idea of what it is like). Even if you have no experience of ballet the story is so well known that you will have no difficulty following what is going on; the story includes more of the pathos of the original than most adaptations and so on ... I like it. And, of course, the dancing is pretty good as well! |
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24 Dec 13 - 04:32 AM (#3586219) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: GUEST,Shimrod I'm staying at home this Christmas - mainly because I don't want to go to prison for murdering my sister-in-law! This will be the first Christmas that I have ever spent alone - but then this will be my 65th Christmas so I'm a bit bored with them now. In compensation, the 'most beautiful girl in the world' came round for a drink last night - unfortunately, I'm old enough to be her grand-dad! |
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24 Dec 13 - 05:25 AM (#3586233) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Pete Jennings I was the same, Musket, fit as a fiddle all year working my whatsits off and as soon as I finished for Christmas, bang! Heavy cold / man flu in a trice! Normal Christmas Day was spent with me semi-comatose on the settee and everyone else having a great time. Hasn't happened since I packed up the serious working life. Happy Humbugs! |
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24 Dec 13 - 05:32 AM (#3586234) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Dave the Gnome A very good beer too Bah Humbug Me and Mrs the Gnome both have the ague too, so we are feeling sorry for ourselves. Maybe some seasonal drinks... :-) DtG |
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24 Dec 13 - 06:15 AM (#3586251) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: gnu Nigel... love the tee! |
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24 Dec 13 - 07:04 AM (#3586257) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Sandra in Sydney my Christmas earrings are a pair of vintage (new when I bought them in the 70s) Boynton badges that I converted decades ago. Sandra returns from giggling over Boynton images - with a pic of one badge - Humbug = cat in striped box but not rth other - all I can find is a mug of Baaa, Humbug she is a brilliant artist sandra in Sydney where it is 11pm on Christmas Eve |
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24 Dec 13 - 07:23 AM (#3586261) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Tootler I always ended up exhausted at Christmas and just didn't feel to have the energy for all the preparations that were demanded of me. Even now I'm retired, I still seem to feel tired at Christmas, though not as bad. I'm not surprised some of you have come down with various lergies. I wrote a song about it. It's on You Tube http://youtu.be/A5uWDvHPVq0 Lyrics and chords below but also on You Tube Christmas Woes by: Geoff Walker Chorus [Dm]Christmas time and I'm [C]knackered I [F]Don't know how I'll make it [Dm]through [Dm]I don't want to get Christmas [Am]crackered I've just got [F]so much to [C]do …[G] [G]I woke up this morning feeling [C]tired I [Am]did not want to get out of [G]bed My [F]granddaughter called up from [C]downstairs Breakfast [G]time you sleepy [C]head. Chorus [G]It's the same every De[C]cember I [Am] say it'll be different this [G]year But [F]I am so easily dis[C]tracted I [G]somehow don't get into [C]gear Chorus [G]First it's a cancelled ap[C]pointment Which [Am]then has to be re[G]arranged Then [F]half of the tree light aren't [C]working And [G]all of the fittings have [C]changed. Chorus [G]So I go to my rearranged ap[C]pointment Then [Am]go for some replacement [G]lights Oh! and [F]while you're out can you just [C]fetch me.... But [G]when I get home none of it's [C]right Chorus [G]Well, Somehow we make it to [C]Christmas And [Am]eventually the great day [G]comes And [F]somehow everything [C]works out And [G]we all say Happy Christmas a[C]gain Chorus optional here. |
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24 Dec 13 - 08:27 AM (#3586275) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Nigel Parsons December the twenty fourth,Work half the day, Ready to sally forth, Off to our play. Into the pub for a couple of brews, It's already heaving, there's no time to lose. Home to the wife (if I've got no 'late pass') Some foood, some more drinking, and then Midnight Mass. View the Nativity scene in the byre. Into my robes, and then sing in the choir. Walk home from church, if there aren't any lifts. Wife goes to bed, I wrap last-minute gifts. Up bright and early to go once again, Christmas Day eucharist, quarter past ten. Good congregation, one hundred at least, And then home for dinner, the big Christmas Feast. Then finish the dishes,Leave everything clean. Sit down for the telly,And sleep through The Queen. Zzzzzz Zzzzzz Zzzzzz Zzzzzz ... |
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24 Dec 13 - 08:37 AM (#3586277) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: gnu BS: It's Christmas Day 2 24 Dec 13 - 08:32 AM Trace BS: Bah - Humbug Good one! |
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25 Dec 13 - 06:41 AM (#3586503) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: gnu Got my first Kissmeass pressie! It's snowing. Again. %^^&*%^$@&!!!!! HO Ho ho |
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25 Dec 13 - 06:48 AM (#3586506) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: kendall Well, let's see; It's colder than a dead witch's tit here. My wife left me three weeks ago, my dog died two years ago. On the upside, Jacqui said she would come back if I promise to leave the seat down, the weather will warm up by May, and I'll have dinner with my kids and grand kids. |
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25 Dec 13 - 06:49 AM (#3586507) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: gnu A little Christmas music to brighten your day. |
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25 Dec 13 - 09:17 PM (#3586638) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Elmore Somehow we got through it. |
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26 Dec 13 - 08:31 AM (#3586701) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: gnu Mum and I did the usual and went to the relatives' for dinner. Got some stuff for the spring yard sale and some to give away. The Red Cross box and the soup kitchen drop-off do not judge. We got thru it. |
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24 Dec 14 - 05:43 AM (#3688314) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Nigel Parsons "Merry Christmas to All, and to all a goodnight!" "God Bless us, every one!" |
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24 Dec 14 - 05:59 AM (#3688322) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: Rob Naylor Stim: Well, aside from the rampant commercialism, most of our leaders aren't even paying lip service to the whole"Peace on Earth" thing. Now it's "Tactical Assaults, Good Will Toward Men." I don't know where this "good will towards men" comes from. I'm an atheist myself, but have read the bible several times. The actual Latin version of Luke 2-14 is: "...et in terra pax hominibus, bonae voluntatis." Which, from my school Latin, has "bonae voluntatis" in the Genitive case, so the correct translation is: ".... and on earth peace to men of good will". ie peace will only be granted to people of good will. I don't have a KJV handy to look at here, but I believe the Latin was mis-translated there, which is where the "goodwill to (all) men " comes from. Makes no difference to me of course, but an interesting point for those who believe in the inerrancy of the KJV bible. |
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24 Dec 14 - 08:46 AM (#3688362) Subject: RE: BS: Bah - Humbug From: bubblyrat If I still lived in Bielefeld I would say "Bah ! Hamburg! " . Luckily, I don't !! |
