[font=comic sans ms]Commercialism. Ah yes, the least great accomplishment of man, it slowly seeps into everything that used to have meaning and puts a price tag on it. Christmas is a prime example of how this leecherous little pain in my bum keeps spreading. Always you see kids WANTING more and more, never ASKING. They look forward to Christmas as the time of presents and things as such, but it\'s all really in the magic of the season. At least, it used to be. I can\'t say anything for now, though.

Anyone else out there hate this oh-so fake season that used to hold special meaning?[/font]

Ugh, Kill off the ads on TV and I\'ll be happy..

See, commercials are like REALLY bad virus you can\'t get rid of. The virus is always pop-ups. You can\'t stop it.

Hey Doc, what is your religion (sp?) anyways? And you must not watch a lot of TV, do you?

What doc saids,gift second.And I like getting up at 4 to head tp Walmart for 3 hours!Maybe I\'m weird.And like Zera said,the commercials is just like Sigma!They never die!!!Greedy lil kids...although,there are some nice people out there,don\'t forget.

Though i don\'t know much about Christmas(I live in Israel), I know what you mean because i once visited the US on December
The Commercials are indeed, VERY Annoying, and the Presents idea is kinda childish if you ask me unless you see the real point of being together with the family and all(We have Passover here in April, we meet with the whole family and share a great time )

I don\'t like Christmas itself, and I certainly don\'t like what commercialism has done to the holiday either. Christmas has just become something it wasn\'t intended to be. Personally, I don\'t feel it is correct for myself to celebrate christmas seeing as I\'m not a christian. Others have asked me what about the family aspect of christmas before. I\'m not a family or celebrating type of person. I\'m a \"leave me the hell alone\" type.

Anyways.

Yes, I find the commercialism of christmas disgusting. But the human race is terrible for exploiting things for money. =P

Aw, stop being such a Grinch Phatman. j/k

But yeah the ads are annoying with all the cheery-sappy stuff. XP

I\'m not bothered by giving gifts. I am bothered not being able to! My friend wanted a Love Hina doll but they are all sold out so I can\'t get him one...

(Don\'t ask why he wants one XP)

[font=comic sans ms]Another thing that ticks me off is those damn Hess Trucks. Who collects those things, anyways?

I like Christmas as the holiday it was meant to be, a time of seeing non-annoying family members. Especially my little cousin and my baby nephew. They\'re what makes christmas special, not some silly game console.

*tosses paper ads out and burns them*[/font]

I like christmas, myself. It\'s a season when my family isn\'t at each others throats.. My parents seem happier, my brother seems happier..people just seem happier in general even though the suicide rates go up.. Maybe that\'s why people are happy.

But yeah..I think christmas is cute. Reindeer and decorated trees and birdies out in the snow.. And snowmen and candycanes and the many christmas shows.. I do admit that little bratty kids get me mad around this time, but they always make me mad so it\'s no different.

\"Mommy I know you don\'t make much money and you spent most of it on clothes for me so I\'ll stay warm this winter but I need the entire collection of Trigun on DVD and the whole manga series of it too and the imported Naruto game or else I\'ll hate you forever. :)\" Just want to bitchslap those brats.

[font=comic sans ms]YES! YOU\'VE GOT IT! IT\'S THOSE DAMN KIDS THAT DRIVE ME NUTS! >0<

See, my parents don\'t make a lot of money. So, I don\'t ask for much of anything. And I try to give back about twice as much because they\'re too damn caring. I can get anything I want on my own, all I have to do is earn a little bit of money first. Hollow...I commend you. Your family has captured the spirit of Christmas.

And I don\'t want to bitchslap them, I want them to play crappy videogames until their head pops. Just a nice slow death, you know? X.x[/font]

Yeah, lets make them play Home Alone 2, E.T. and Bebes Kids..oldskool horrible games.

Or make them play Barbie Horse Rescue or whatever that new one is for the PS2.

[font=comic sans ms]Or we could make them play truly horrible ones. You know, like E.T. and Custer\'s Revenge for the old Atari. X3

Oh and Doc, a Hess Truck is this recurring nightmare of mine...It\'s a friggen gasoline truck replica they sell. How stupid is that? X.x[/font]

Yes yes, kids have forgotton the true meaning of Cristmas (How do I know? I have friends, you know). All they think is about the gifts and crap. The true meaning of Cristmas is going around the fireplace and tree, and have a good time spending time together and bonding. Thats what it is about.

Meh, it\'s so easy to forget the true meaning of christmas because:

Presents! Personally, I don\'t think I\'ll really get anything for christmas but money for me to spend on myself. =P Right now, the present aspect of Christmas lost all meaning because well, I can buy stuff I want.