Oh, how sick & tired of carols!
Posted on: December 2, 2009 - 8:53am
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Oh, how sick & tired of carols!
Not another month of them, please!...
Sorry; it’s just me.
Will you forgive me?
Every years the same antics & theatrics to endure.
Atheist supermarkets play the stuff day & night; how come?!...
Could we protest?
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I was just thinking about this last night as I was at work. Our 'Muzak' system is programmed to play our normal set of music and intersperse Christmas music every fifth, fourth, third and second song (reliant on how close to December 25th it is, the closer the more Christmas music we hear).
Here is the thing: I LOVE most Christmas music! My favorite song ~ Have yourself a Merry little Christmas... Judy Garland does it best
I have gone a car-ol-ing and thoroughly enjoyed it!
For me, this time of year, and the songs I hear take me back to being a child ~protected ~ innocent ~ wide-eyed and curioust ~ being able to recapture that feeling each year is something I anticipate and embrace. And to enjoy it, knowing that I am doing so completely without a faith, trust, or reverence to some god ~ even sweeter the reward!
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It is during the christmas season that I am sooo glad I don't own a TV. No Christmas specials for me
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.
I just love listening to people get angry at being told "happy holidays". The "war on christmas" has me laughing every year.
Last year I was all mock offended at a wal-mart greeter that mistakenly told me merry christmas. The woman didn't look like she knew what to do, I think she felt proud to be "sticking it to the war on christmas" until that. Fun times
Oh, life is just theatre for my amusement these times of the year.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
I like the crisp air and a break from school. Some of the music's okay...
like the Dr. Demento album (circa 1971, I believe...)
... why limit yourself such, Clock?
What Would Kharn Do?
Please, invent earplugs to counter Xmas carols; any time one carol comes up the earplugs switch on automatically !!
I don't, believe me. I was just trying not to appear so indifferent to the plight of others. :3
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
I actually didn't have that bolded part at first. I edited it before anyone saw it. Now you all know :<
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
Hey! Maybe you would enjoy what Gallowsbait suggested ~ Try Dr Demento!! OR better yet, find the lyrics to some of those songs and re-write them as you wish....come on , you are poetic in your verse
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If only you were a woman, Clock... or maybe a really hot android with machine gun jumblies...
What Would Kharn Do?
Once you've worked in a mall over the season, you don't need to hear them ever again.
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
You have no idea how many people have told me this.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
"Atheist supermarkets" huh?
It has nothing to do with atheism, it has to do with making a buck.
But in any case. Try working for a radio station that played non stop Christmas music from Thanksgiving to Christmas and having to play that crap every day wanting to vomit. I tried to stick to the generic Rudolph stuff, but my station manager constantly insisted, not that she herself bought it, but insisted and demanded that I put more Jesus music in with it. It sold, and my duty was not to Jesus or Rudolph, but to putting food on my table.
I get the after taste of vomit when I go into an OVERDONE business, but I am glad I am not the poor smuck having to work there every day. I wouldn't work at Disney World or Disney Land either, for that same reason.
I am fine with holidays as a concept and even a marketing ploy. But when it becomes egocentric and blunt force, then I get sick. Marketing is something humans do, and have to do, to survive. I get that. But when it is overdone and overblown , yea, it gets to me too.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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I like people named Carol, and shall never tire of 'em.
For instance, from a Mad Magazine of many years ago:
IT HANGS DOWN FROM OUR CHANDELIER
(sung to the tune of "It Came Upon The Midnight Clear"
It hangs down from our chandelier,
We have no idea what it does.
It's shape is weird, and it drips with goo
And lets off a high-sounding buzz
It grows a couple of feet, each day
And wiggles with kind of a twitch
We keep it, 'cause it's a present from
A visiting uncle, who's rich!
WE THREE CLODS (to the tune of "We Three Kings"
We three clods, from Omaha are
Spending Christmas Eve in a car
Driving, drinking, glasses clinking,
Who needs a lousy bar?
Ohh...drink to Charlie, drink to Paul
Drink to friends we can't recall
Swerving, speeding, signs unheeding
Drink to anything at all
We three clods are feeling no pain
Drunk as skunks, with booze on the brain
Senses losing, 'till we're cruising
Into a wrong-way lane
Ohh...drink to Melvin, drink to Fred
Drink to those two trucks ahead
Headlights flashing, screeching, crashing,
Drink 'till they pronounce us dead.
Conor
Honestly, I hated christmas carols since jump street. I remember being in elementary school and wanting to scream when we had to sing all of the songs (as early as the beginning of December, no less)
I wouldn't hate them so much if they were only played for a week or two, but I heard Xmas songs in CVS the day before thanksgiving... which is just brutal.
Despite wanting to stab myself in the ears, I really like the holiday time. Some people who are typically apathetic and self centered actually give a shit about other people for a month. It's a nice change.
Andrea Bocelli has a wonderful Christmas special out there. I don't like a lot of Christmas music but the stuff like Renee posted makes me swoon.
I never thought there were corners in my mind until I was told to stand in one.
I have learned so much, thanks for keeping it real RRS.
I've caroled before too.
I love Christmas music, and I'm never going to grow tired of it. It makes me feel all warm inside.
Edit: Unfortunately, some of the carols were of the Christian kind........but I sang them anyways.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Signature ? How ?
i love bob dylan's new christmas album, just for the random fact that he did a christmas album. check it out.
it seems like every year someone posts something like this. i personally love old american folk christmas music, i.e., songs and music for ring dances, etc. i also love the tradition of wassailing here in slovakia, especially on three kings day, december 6, which is the orthodox christmas or what is sometimes called "old christmas" in appalachia.
on this night young men from the village go from house to house dressed as the three kings, singing traditional songs and drinking shots of slivovica (plum brandy) in each house. sometimes they and other characters act out a rather obscure archaic christmas drama, no doubt with pagan origins.
people often accompany them, and that includes me. i love weaving through the snowy streets, drunk as a lord on slivovica, and belting out "good king wenceslas" in baritone as the rest of the guys sing their traditional slovak songs.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Who should we blame for this eternal farce?
Any time you purchase a Xmas CD or DVD you're committing a gross misdemeanour in supporting the annual menace!
STOP IT!
I think you have the wrong attitude. It is not a matter of not fighting absurdity, but TACTIC.
If you have seen the movie "The Waterboy", the coach was so afraid of confrontation he became a doormat. Finally, instead of avoiding the confrontation, he imagined his opponent as a baby and imagined the baby's head on the adult.
Religion is not going away, Christmas is not going away. But it can be marginalized by ridicule, not boycotts, not outlawing anything, just the mere treatment it deserves as the myth it is. Once you do that, you can treat it a secular excuse to spend time with family and have a party, without turning it into a culture war.
Before you go demanding the outlaw or boycott of Christmas, keep in mind that the Jesus fans who treat it as a Christian holiday are promoting the absurd claim of a baby being born without two sets of DNA via a magical being with no penis. Do you really need to fight Christmas with anything else but the truth?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Never! Muhuhahahahahaha!
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
This has been me and I totally agree. If you've got the sort of brain prone to obsessive repugnant thoughts endless carolling
while stacking cans on shelves in a mall will bring out the very worst in you.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Screw basic training. If you want to turn people into killers, force them to answer the phone on a busy Friday night at a national pizza chain when the caller spends 20 minutes asking the people behind them what they want on the pizza, during a snow storm and college bowl game.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
Sympathy...
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
community church. Because it's hot here at christmas the doors and windows of the church are open and so are the windows of my house. The choir is in the second week of
carolling mightily and horribly for the lord. What shits me the worst is this carol they have now done three times in a row in which is the line that goes something along the lines of "baby
jesus came to given them second birth". Second birth. What a crock of shit. If they sing it one more time I'm going over there with the hose.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
Go for it! I support you!!
Given them a strong shower with the coldest water you can find!!!
Amen.
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