Yule Shoot Your Eye Out

Ahh... 'Tis that time of year again. The time of year where people cover up their greed with a story that proves that abstinence is not quite as effective as we originally thought. I mean, come on. Virgin Mary? Aye fuckin' right. She's a total slag. No offence to you if you're very strictly Christian or anything...

But really? It's a pile of bollocks.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love Christmas. But I'm not one of the ones who lie about why they're celebrating it. Why do I celebrate Christmas?

I celebrate Christmas for the presents and the awesome food. That's why. I'm not going to sprout shite about Jesus and angels and all that rubbish. I'm not denying that Jesus existed. It's known fact that a man called Jesus did exist. But he wasn't born on December 25th...

Ah well, details. Let the Christians believe what they want. Christmas has lost all 'meaning' and is now all about commercialism and greed. Our greed at this time of year makes us vulnerable to the businesses who take advantage of this holiday season. It's quite sad really... I mean, they start selling Christmas decorations in October. You'd think they would at least have the decency to wait until Halloween had had a chance. The pumpkins and crappy fake spiders need their turn in the spotlight too! But unfortunately the shiny, shimmery decorations associated with Christmas out-shine them. Literally. They also sell the Christmas decorations for aboout 3 months before Christmas actually happens, which tempts us to buy a pile of useless crap that we're gonna use once, then let it gather dust for another 12 months in the attic, while we buy more useless junk next year before we get a chance to use last year's decorations again. It's an endless cycle that shows just how much we waste our money.

I think the thing that takes the biscuit in all of this is the fact that everyone knows that this is happening. We all know that Christmas is just about receiving presents from our loved ones. Without fail, otherwise tantrums ensue. Essentially, it's turned into everyone's second birthday (except for those unfortunate people who were born on Christmas Day. Tough shit). So, we all know. But we still enjoy it just as much as the next person. We don't care that this is the way it is. We accept it. Why do we accept it so easily? Simple.


If we didn't, we would be denying ourselves our presents.
And I, for one, like presents.
I'd choose presents over religion any day of the week.
:)

Anyhoo,
Peace out, fuckers :D